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– and threats to protest or even disrupt the event.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">The <a href="http://midwest911truth.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 156);">Midwest 9/11 Truth Conference</a> is scheduled for this Sunday, September 22nd from 1:30 to 5 pm in the Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois. 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.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height:
17.15625px;">Protesters are threatening to disrupt the event with such tactics as:</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">*Using the Freedom of Information Act to force the Free Library to turn over all paperwork related to the event</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">*Harassing the sponsoring organizations</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">*Flooding the event with protestors to disrupt proceedings</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">(The above proposals and
more are from the comments at the News Gazette article: <a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-09-16/sunday-conference-focus-911-attacks.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 156);">http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2013-09-16/sunday-conference-focus-911-attacks.html</a> . )</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">Opponents of the event claim that the speakers are “conspiracy theorists” and have even raised charges of anti-Semitism.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">The event organizers have responded to the charges in detail, explaining that their
only interest 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.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">Jim Fetzer and Kevin Barrett are the subjects of a new book by Mike Palecek called <a href="http://cwgpress.com/the-dynamic-duo/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 101, 156);">Dynamic Duo: White Rose Blooms in Wisconsin</a>.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">For more details about the event and the controversy it has triggered, contact:</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.15625px;">Jim Fetzer, Scholars for 9/11 Truth<br>jfetzer@d.umn.edu</div></div></body></html>