New York 9/11 truth activists called terrorists
Follows disturbing trends toward choking tyranny

Old-thinker news | April 27, 2007

By Daniel Taylor

Luke Rudkowski, founder of We Are Change, along with Tom Foti were recently confronted by thuggish New York security guards and police while outside the new World Trade Center #7 building as they were holding 9/11 truth signs and handing out DVD's. Dressed in suits and trench coats, several guards walked up to Luke and Tom, attempting to intimidate them, cackling about their arrest, and calling them possible terrorists. "Take that camera out of my face," said one. Another makes a bizarre comment, "I think he has a bomb in his bag... I saw wires comin outa there." "We're not terrorists" said Luke. "You're right, but by the time the government figures it out, you'll be in the hole for 30 days," the suited man said. As the police are arriving, the same man states again that he thinks that Luke has a bomb in his bag, saying "You look like a terrorist might look like... you might be a terrorist for all I know."

Free speech and the right to peaceably assemble has been increasingly met with intimidation, and censorship in America. "Free speech zones", areas where individuals voicing dissent could do so free from police harassment were put up during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York city. The old Pier 57 bus housing facility was also used to hold protestors.

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Pier 57 photographs:

Last year, Steve Howards got a chance to voice his opinion on the war in Iraq in Vice President Dick Cheney's presence. In Howards' words, “He was walking through the area shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, ‘I can’t in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.’ So I approached him, I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.” Soon after these comments, the Secret Service approached him in the public mall which he and his son were visiting. “About ten minutes later, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son... and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exact words were, ‘Did you assault the Vice President?’” said Howards. "He grabbed me and cuffed my hands behind my back in the presence of my eight-year-old son and told me I was being charged with assault of the Vice President."

Will paranoia over terrorism squelch one of our fundamental rights? Maybe you don't agree with what Luke is saying, or with Steve Howards comments? If they lose their free speech, you're next to lose yours, and the life spring of liberty is snuffed out. “If tyranny and oppression come to this land," said our 4th president, James Madison, "it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”