“Impeach
the Terrorists!” Review of Events in San
Francisco 9/6- 9/11
by
Carol Brouillet
While
the number of 9-11 skeptics continues to grow worldwide, in the
Bay Area, efforts to draw attention to the failures in the official
narrative and to reveal the truth about 9-11 have become more
diffuse than concentrated. Small events, screenings, forums continue
to abound over a wide geographic area, a strong, concentrated
alliance of committed activists has yet to emerge. Last year the
All People’s Coalition organized rallies and marches under the
theme “Bush Did It!” and a large, lively contingent of people,
complete with the incomparable Brass Liberation Orchestra marched
from the Panhandle down Haight Street to the 9-11 Power to the
Peaceful Concert in Golden Gate Park. This year’s “Impeach the
Terrorists!” marches and rallies drew fewer people and almost
no organizational support- except for the 9-11 Truth Alliance,
and the Center for Democratic Change.
On September
6th, at the monument dedicated to President McKinley (and budding
U.S. Imperialism in 1903, just over one hundred years ago), the
statue of an enormous woman wielding a leaf and a sword was the
backdrop to the Deception Dollar banner, emblazoned with the new
graffiti “Impeach the Terrorists!” About thirty people, many mothers
with babies and small children gathered, and in a very friendly,
cooperative manner, figured out the logistics of their two mile
march, up Baker Street, to Haight Street, and across Golden Gate
Park. Loudly they chanted “Hey ho, hey, ho, the Bush Regime has
got to go!” “Whose the biggest terrorists in the world today?
Bush, Cheney and the C.I.A.” “Impeach the Terrorists, Impeach
Bush!” passing out flyers and Deception Dollars to the supportive
observers along the way. At the 5th annual 9-11 Power to the Peaceful
Free Concert and Social Justice Rally, over 30,000 people attended
and the 9-11 activists passed out thousands of flyers, the 9-11
table was very popular and the issues championed were finally
echoed by the main speakers on stage.
On September
11, 2003, the first of the million Deception Dollar Issue #6 were
picked up from the printer, to be distributed at the rally at
the Federal Building, about fifty people came (unfortunately the
sound system didn’t quite make it), there were lots of conversations,
but speeches were mercifully short within the limits of blowhorns;
there were lots of signs, and enough energy to turn the rally
into a march, and carry the message through the streets, to the
public, and elected officials at Senator Feinstein’s office. The
Deception Dollars were especially popular with the employees at
the Federal Building and unsolicited handfuls of money were offered
to those passing out the bills. The “unpermitted march” took a
lane on Turk Street before a policewoman persuaded us to opt for
the sidewalks, which actually probably was safer. The police presence
was greatest at Feinstein’s building, where we couldn’t even go
inside, a staff member met with us on the sidewalk and gave us
a couple of press releases which reflected Feinstein’s “public
positions.” We passed on to her our statements, as well as a sample
of the petitions for impeachment we have been collecting, and
the open letter to the U.S. embassy in Berlin, to the members
of the U.S. government, to the German Chancellery and to officers
of the European Union that came out of the “Unanswered Questions
Demanding Answers” conference held in Berlin, September 7, 2003.
I have
marched on Feinstein’s office on many occasions and have never
held great hopes that she would ever come around to sharing my
points of view. She did sign on to a bill on September 9th requiring
the White House to submit a detailed report to Congress on the
situation in Iraq within 60 days. While that was, perhaps, a move
in a better direction ( though frankly given a choice between
national facism or transnational facism, I would choose neither),
her speech on 9-11 was infuriating to me. She praised the PATRIOT
Act (we have passed local resolutions to repeal it). She went
along with the official “narrative,” the myth about the 19 hijackers,
and went on to push for new legislation in the areas of bioterrorism,
border security, visa entry provisions, port security, echoing
the “terrorist threat” to justify ever greater powers to the state
and push for the creation of a Director of National Intelligence.
She also said,
“I am
pleased that the joint inquiry report included the creation of
a Director of National Intelligence as one of its recommendations.
I am also pleased that Senator Graham of Florida has made this
one of the provisions in his bill implementing the report’s major
recommendations.”
Here is
the letter I wrote for Senator Feinstein-