<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4">For immediate release</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4">September 18th, 2013</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4">Controversy stalks Sunday's 9/11 Truth Conference</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
12px;"><font size="4">Contact: Jim Fetzer, Scholars for 9/11 Truth</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jfetzer@d.umn.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:jfetzer@d.umn.edu" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">jfetzer@d.umn.edu</a> </span><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;" href="">608-835-2707</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">A conference scheduled for this Sunday at the Urbana Free Library is generating controversy - and threats to protest or
even disrupt the event.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">The Midwest 9/11 Truth Conference is scheduled for this Sunday, September 22nd from 1:30 to 5 pm in the Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St. Featured speakers include Philosophy of Science Professor Jim Fetzer, former National Security Agency agent turned muckraking journalist Wayne Madsen, and Arabic and Islamic Studies scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">Protesters are
threatening to disrupt the event with such tactics as:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">*Using the Freedom of Information Act to force the Free Library to turn over all paperwork related to the event</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">*Harassing the sponsoring organizations</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">*Flooding the event with protestors to disrupt proceedings</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">(The above proposals and more are from the comments at the News Gazette article: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-09-16/sunday-conference-focus-911-attacks.html" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-09-16/sunday-conference-focus-911-attacks.html</a> . )</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font
size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">Opponents of the event claim that the speakers are "conspiracy theorists" and have even raised charges of anti-Semitism.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">The event organizers have responded to the charges in detail, explaining that their only interested is the truth, no matter how politically-incorrect it may be. They add that the insulting term "conspiracy theorist" was launched into circulation by the CIA's Operation Mockingbird program as part of a mind-control effort designed to prevent Americans from questioning such obvious insider crimes as
the JFK assassination.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4">For more details about the event and the controversy it has triggered, contact:</font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><font size="4"><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4">Jim Fetzer, Scholars for 9/11 Truth</font></div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="4"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica;"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jfetzer@d.umn.edu" target="_blank"
href="mailto:jfetzer@d.umn.edu" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">jfetzer@d.umn.edu</a> </span><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;" href="">608-835-2707</a></font></div></font></div></div></body></html>