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10/03/06 at the Department of State

   
Leafletting in Washington, DCToday, October 3, my mother's 85th birthday, Erin Myers and I went down to the State Department and gave out around 300 leaflets. I made 200 originally, had 20 left over, and went to Kinkos at GWU to make 80 more. I believe it's possible to give out 500 plus at the locations we did.

I used the greeting, "State department workers preserve the nations honor."

One man said, "That's what I'm trying to do." As he declined to accept the leaflet.

One woman made disapproving faces, but did not cross into incivility.

I went to get more leaflets. I'm glad I did. In the second batch was my favorite.
A man responded to my laudatory comments on preserving the nation's honor. He said,"It's too late!" I said, "No, No! That's what this is about." He took the leaflet. He could be the jackpot right there!

THE PEOPLE ON THE EDGE OF POWER ARE EVERYDAY WORKING PEOPLE LIKE YOU. REACH OUT TO THEM ABOUT 9/11.

Another man asked me to tell him why he should take the leaflet. I said, "There are over 50 former government officials saying we should have a real investigation of 9/11. Some of them even say it's an inside job." He took the leaflet. I asked one and only one woman if she'd heard of Ed Peck. She had.

One idea is to go to each of the federal agencies that have anyone previously at that agency to quote.

I discussed race in the DOJ/FBI post. I'll attempt to do it again here.

I don't think it's reasonable to talk of dealing with good sized numbers of humans in the DC area without some respect paid to race. Cornel West emphasizes the depth of the problem. Any white person needs to think twice or more before they claim to fully aware of racism.

There were more black faces than white ones coming from State. It surprised me. It could be there are a lot of automobile commuters I was missing. The willingness to take a leaflet seemed not to be correlated with race. Most people took leaflets. It was a little better response than DOJ.

People need to consider doing this at home. You know how video presentations of dangerous feats include a warning: Don't do this at home. I'm offering a different warning: IF you DON'T do this at home NOW, we'll have fascism with police arbitrarily brutalizing innocent people.

Next Up (or soon at least): the NTSB and/or the FAA

Dave Slesinger
Rockville, Maryland
 

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