9/11 First Responders Barred From This Year's Ground Zero Ceremony

This year, if you can believe it, 9/11 first responders WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to attend the 9/11 memorial ceremony in NYC ... perhaps because they will talk about explosions, not being covered for health issues ...etc?

New York City police officers attend last year's September 11 memorial ceremony. First responders are not invited this year.

New York (CNN) -- When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled.

Yet now, after all the wreckage has been cleared and the rebuilding has begun, their path is again blocked -- not by flying chunks of smoldering rubble, but by space constraints.

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The first responders are not invited to this year's September 11 memorial ceremony at ground zero, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office confirmed Monday.

It's a painful insult for many of the approximately 3,000 men and women who risked their lives, limbs and lungs on that monumental day, puncturing another hole in a still searing wound.

In a statement, Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent said the commemoration ceremony is for the victims' families.

"While we are again focused on accommodating victims' family members, given the space constraints, we're working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times," Brent said.

But first responder John Feal, founder of an advocacy group for the police officers, firefighters, civilian volunteers and others who worked at ground zero, assailed Brent's response, saying Bloomberg "lives in his own world."

"The best of the best that this country offered 10 years ago are being neglected and denied their rightful place," Feal said.
Denise Villamia, a first responder who worked at ground zero for several months, cried over the phone as she recalled her "totally heartbroken" reaction to the news that she could not attend the memorial service.

"I'm crying because it's really a big betrayal on the part of the city, to rob me from my way to pay homage and to find that comfort and healing," she said. "I feel that I have been robbed of my way to pay tribute."

Obama Warns Of Norway Style Lone Wolf Shooting In American On Or Near Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

The Intel Hub

President Obama, with the help of the corporate controlled media, has warned/threatened a Jared Loughner or Oslo Norway style attack on the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to be carried out by a so-called lone wolf terrorist.

Wolf Blitzer: I’ve covered the middle east for a long time, covered terrorism for a long time and i have to tell you I’m worried that on the tenth anniversary that al Qaeda or whats left of al Qaeda will try to do something to seek revenge for your killing of Bin Laden. 

President Obama: The biggest concern we have right now is not the launching of a major terror operation although that risk is alwaysthere, the risk we are especially worried about right now is the lone wolf terrorist. Somebody with a single weapon being able to carry out wide scale massacres of the sort we saw in Norway.

Considering the fact that it is documented history that lone wolf terrorists are usually mentally unstable patsies for some larger operation, this warning from Obama should send up red flags throughout the country.

As the corporate media feeds the terrorism fear without so much as questioning the official line, the people of America are slowly losing their most fundamental rights all in the name of security.

Governments From Around the World ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag Terror

Preface: Please skip to the end of this essay (entitled "Why Should I Care?") if you want to see why this issue is important to the economy, civil rights, and the political causes which are most important to you.

Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror:

• A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that - under orders from the chief of the Gestapo - he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson

• The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

• Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)

Police Say They Can Detain Photographers If Their Photographs Have 'No Apparent Esthetic Value'

Photography, being judged as art or not by cops, reminds me of the much missed Bill Hicks and a quote of his, "Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts; that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm. . . . Sounds like . . . every commercial on television, doesn't it?" - Rn

TechDirt

Apparently the police in Long Beach, California, have a policy that says if a police officer determines that a photographer is taking photos of something with "no apparent esthetic value,"they can detain them. This revelation came after photographer Sander Roscoe Wolff was taking the following photo:

The police officer somehow determined that there couldn't be esthetic value there, and thus, the photographer had to be detained and checked out. The police are defending this policy, saying that while officers don't have any specific training in what qualifies as "apparent esthetic value," they will stop anyone photographing things they don't consider to be something a "regular tourist" would photograph. I actually have to go down to Long Beach next month for a speaking engagement, and I'm now tempted to take a bunch of photographs that have "no apparent esthetic value."