CBC: Group behind 9/11 bus ad responds to criticism

[JohnyCanuck]

The group behind an ad campaign questioning the official explanation of 9/11, which is running on OC Transpo buses, says its message should be protected as free speech.

The group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth have launched a global ad campaign called "ReThink911," which is running in other cities including New York and Toronto.

The campaign takes aim at the U.S. government's explanation that World Trade Centre 7 — the "third tower" — fell as the result of fire.

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Carleton University student Andres Acero first spotted one of the group's ads aboard an OC Transpo bus earlier this week. A volunteer with a campus first responders group, Acero said he thinks the ads are disrespectful to the first responders who lost their lives during the 9/11 terrorist attack.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/09/11/ottawa-rethink-911-ad-on-oc-transpo-bus.html

Here's the response by the ReThink911 campaign as issued in the form a press release:

ReThink911 Statement Regarding Ads on Ottawa OC Transpo Buses
September 12, 2013

Today the ReThink911 campaign released this statement in response to the controversy in
Ottawa, Canada surrounding ReThink911’s ads on OC Transpo buses
:
ReThink911 is a global public awareness campaign launched on September 1, 2013 in an effort
to spark a new investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Sponsored by the group
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, as well as the New York City Coalition for Accountability
Now, an organization representing over 100 victims’ family members, ReThink911 is running
outdoor and transit advertising in 12 major cities around the world this September. The
ReThink911 ads pose the simple question, “Did you know a third tower fell on 9/11? – in
reference to the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7, which collapsed into its footprint at
around 5:20pm on 9/11.

ReThink911 has sparked controversy in Ottawa, Canada,where the campaign is running
ads on 300 buses in the OC Transpo system . While we welcome discussion on the substance of our ads — namely the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 and the 2,000 architects and engineers calling for a new investigation — we are disappointed that statements by some have questioned our moral legitimacy and free speech right to place such ads around the anniversary of 9/11.

In articles published by the CBC News and Ottawa Citizenon September 11, 2013, the Chair of
the Ottawa Transit Commission, Diane Deans, called our ads “insensitive” and indicated she would ask for a review of OC Transpo’s advertising policy at the Transit Commission’s next
meeting.

To Councillor Deans and to all who question our sensitivity and legal right to run the ReThink911 ads, we would like to make clear: the ReThink911 coalition includes 9/11
victims’ family members who want nothing more than an accurate and unbiased accounting of the death of their loved ones. To these surviving family members, seeking the truth is the most profound way to honor their loved ones. Your words ignore their search for truth and cause more pain. With regard to our legal right to run these ads, every statement contained in the ad — with the exception of “The evidence might surprise you” — is factually uncontroversial . If free speech does not protect the right to make factually uncontroversial statements in public, what does it protect? Any effort to remove the ReThink911 ads or curtail free speech on OC Transpo would likely be ruled unconstitutional in a court of law .

The ReThink911 campaign thanks OC Transpo and Pattison Outdoor for rightfully approving our
ads.
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http://rethink911.org/docs/ReThink911_Ottawa_OC_Transpo_Statement_9.12.13.pdf

[xfundy]

1. The "official version" stunk then

and still stinks.

Call me a truther, I don't care. We've not been told the whole story, and why won't the Pentagon release the video, even now?

[Politicalboi]

2. I think it's a great idea

These assholes who say it's disrespectful to get the "real" terrorist is just plain crazy. If someone I knew got murdered, I would WANT the guilty person to be tried for it, not someone who had no involvement. And even though I knew no one who died on 9/11, it still effects me. Our laws were changed over it. Our rights taken away over it. The "official" story wouldn't make sense in a CSI episode. A lot of missing evidence, impossibilities that couldn't be done by the "terrorist". Like make the Pentagon sit there for 40 minutes since the second tower was hit to do NOTHING to protect themselves and DC.

I hope this goes somewhere, and doesn't end up like this November where we're told a lone gunman who must have requested no Secret Service guys on the Presidents car, shot and killed JFK 50 years ago.