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Our successful 2011 AE911Truth Europe Tour began in a humble way – the way many other speaking engagements take shape. In this case, Lizzy Rigney of Dublin sent a message to our Facebook page saying “You should come to Ireland! The Irish are hungry about 9/11.” What did Richard Gage, AIA, say in response? “Does Ireland really need us?” Affirming the obvious, Rigney introduced us to the famed European rock band The Corrs, whose lead guitarist Jim Corr has been publicly advocating a re-examination of the World Trade Center evidence for quite some time.

Jim Corr of The famous rock band “The Corrs” was adamant that AE911Truth speak to the Irish directly

If the Corrs could sell 30 million recordings, then maybe we can learn something from them. After all, spreading awareness of the World Trade Center demolitions is an uphill climb in Ireland – just like everywhere else. And, in fact, we may have partially succeeded: about 85% to 95% of the Irish who didn’t agree with us before the presentations, or who were unsure, ended up convinced by the evidence.

Ian Crilly and Jim Corr, along with Dave Derby and Peter are at the heart of 9/11 Truth in Ireland

Jim, together with Ian Crilly and Dave Derby, publishes The Sovereign Independent, which delves into important issues facing the Irish people. These gentlemen succeeded in organizing very large numbers of Irish last year to show up in the streets about the banking scandals. So, Jim and Ian said “of course we need to bring AE911Truth to Ireland.” But, hardworking Irish that they are, they set up not one but four speaking engagements, with not just one but half a dozen well-known speakers in a series of conferences arranged around the AE911Truth trip – in Dublin, Dundalk, and Cork – as well as in Edinburgh, Scotland – speakers such as Alan Watt, Walter Graham, William Engdahl, and many others.

Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange was also flown to the island to show the Irish how 9/11 Truth is done in the streets of New York City – and all around the world. WeAreChange's motto? "Be the change you wish to see in the world" - from Mahatma Gandhi.

As the Ireland tour began to take shape, England got wind of it, and decided that AE911Truth must also hop islands and come back again. Soon we were booked at Cambridge University, in Cardiff, Wales, in Bristol, and in London.

Not to be left behind was the dedicated AE911Truth Action Group in Delft, the Netherlands, who set up speaking engagements for us in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Ireland

Dublin

This break-through Irish TV3 interview on June 9 paved the way for the successful Dublin conference

We started out in Dublin with great TV exposure on the popular TV3 mainstream show “Ireland:AM.” The hosts presented AE911Truth with a few tough questions during the nine-minute interview – which Gage used to bring out yet more evidence. In an unprecedented opportunity, the producer played most of the info-packed trailer for the AE911Truth flagship DVD 9/11: Blueprint for Truth just before the actual interview. The show and a lot of hard work publicizing the Dublin event brought about 147 attendees to the conference. Before the AE911Truth presentation one person believed that planes and jet fuel fires brought the Twin Towers down and 18 were unsure. Afterward none believed the official conspiracy theory and just three were unsure. The remainder remained convinced or were newly convinced by the scientific evidence. So, as we do with American audiences, we moved almost all the Irish off of their original positions where they were skeptical of us. If only a thousand people had come! One woman said to us, “They should be fighting to get into this conference!”

The conferences included information on economics, health, and related matters facing Ireland. There were two architects and seven engineers in attendance, and six in total who were unaware of WTC 7. The remaining conferences carried similar percentages.

Gage demonstrates that a free-falling object can do no other work during its fall – like for instance crush even one of the 80 columns in its path. Of course those columns had to have been removed by some other force – synchronistically timed – which would then have been the only way to account for the amazing symmetry of the WTC 7 collapse.

Ireland has been invaded by almost every surrounding group of peoples. Architecturally rich Dublin has been the center of English colonial rule. In 1922 much of Ireland became independent. Today just the North half of Ireland remains in the UK with its currency in pounds while the Republic of Ireland to the South joined the European Union and uses Euros. We had to carry both in our travels. According to analyses by some of the conference speakers, both currencies are in jeopardy.

We visited the crypt underneath Dublin’s famous bridged Christ Church, built in the 1180s, which houses the tomb of “Strongbow” (Richard de Claire). He led the Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1170 – just the first of dozens of invasions the Irish have suffered. 9/11 Truth might not be able to remedy all the injustices suffered by the Irish, but it just might expose more on an international scale than can be imagined

We interviewed Ian Crilly, the energizing force and Irish contact for AE911Truth, so that we could gain an understanding of why we were brought to Ireland.

“AE911Truth’s speaking engagements and the other supporting speakers are extremely important for the Irish people because most of them don’t know what is going on in the world around them and yet their very minds are shaped by these unseen events and forces,” Crilly says.

“That most things that we hold dear in our lives are actually under attack – in many ways – and 9/11 was one of those attacks. The floor the size of an acre falling on top of another floor through 80 columns at free-fall speed just doesn’t make any sense. But I can’t explain that as well as the architects and engineers can. I reviewed the evidence on your website and realized that everyone has to see this. This evidence should be ’mainstream’! People should be supporting your call for a new investigation. Plus – there’s 50 million Irish descendants in the US, with many ties and roots to Ireland. If people over here start listening, the idea will be getting back to the US, too.”

Jim Corr introduces Gage at each event after a look at the eerie parallels of London’s 7/7 bombing and the attacks of September 11

Mr. Crilly concluded the mid-tour interview by noting that “AE911Truth delivered the goods in Dublin and Dundalk – without a shadow of a doubt!” However, we believe that the Sovereign Independent was the party delivering the goods. Well done, guys!

The dramatic ruins of Dunluce Castle in Northern Ireland, served in the Middle Ages as the ancestral home of the clan MacDonnell – almost impossible to conquer – before the time of gunpowder… and controlled demolition

Sean McGuire, local Irish poet, enlightened the conferees with a recitation of his piece “The War on Terror.”

He also stated that “9/11 must be revealed to people as that which it really was – a manipulation – designed from the beginning to deceive. And AE911Truth I believe to be the most credible source of 9/11 truth information out there. You’ve got the evidence and professional opinion that no other organization has. We wanted AE911Truth to come to Ireland because you present the information in a well-laid out, informative way.”

Even the sheep take to the streets in Ireland to speak the truth about 9/11

The Dundalk, Ireland event drew world class speakers and very dedicated volunteers

Sean continues: “I don’t think anyone can watch you guys put forward the thought-provoking evidence and still believe what the mainstream media says [about 9/11 ]. And that’s why you had eight unsure before last night and zero unsure afterwards. Without this information people will automatically believe whatever the mainstream media believes – whatever they are told.”

Cork

The way was certainly prepared for us in Cork with a full-page spread “Events of 9/11 to be discussed in Cork” inside the regional newspaper The Cork News. Media breakthroughs like these happen only through consistent efforts by very dedicated 9/11 Truth activists. They quoted Gage in the big drop-quote “Most people are shocked when they have to wrestle with the implications of this.” The article was truly fair and balanced – for a change! The paper’s curious readers helped to fill every seat in the cozy Montenotte Hotel conference room.

Ian Crilly introduces Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange in Cork. Luke crosses paths several times with AE911Truth on this cross-country tour of Europe

Peter McKendrick, one of the Sovereign Independent stalwarts, told us, “We wanted to bring AE911Truth to Cork because you have the truth that the media never told us – that the buildings did not come down by airplanes and fires that day but by controlled explosives. We put up as many fliers as we could. We called the Cork News, a mainstream newspaper serving southern Ireland and encouraged them to call Richard Gage in the USA for an exclusive interview – and they did! [The article] was very well received.” Another attendee from Cork, Ms. O’Sullivan, spoke to numerous relatives about this event and brought several, but said that the presentation was so well delivered that she wished that there had been more architects and engineers in attendance. All the architects and engineers in the Cork area were personally invited.

“I’m going to spread this news to as many people as I can in my own limited way,” O’Sullivan said. “I’m going to refer several of them to the AE911Truth website. Anyone with a high school education would be able to follow the presentation.” In fact, if the Cork residents can navigate winding their way through those treacherous hillside ten-foot wide two-way roads, while driving on the wrong side of the road, then they should also be able to navigate the fallacious path of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.

Gage joins the millions who have kissed the precariously placed Blarney Stone, hundreds of feet below the Blarney Castle in Cork. This feat is said to bestow the gift of eloquence – a much needed gift by anyone challenging a society in almost ten years of denial about 9/11.

Scotland

Edinburgh

On June 16, our final, rainy but very green day in Ireland, we flew over the Irish Sea to the nearest of several neighbors to have laid claims to Ireland – Scotland, where a turn of events was long in order. The Sovereign Independent again amassed a host of top-level speakers to the Edinburgh event which challenged many Scots to re-examine what they thought to be true about the destruction of the World Trade Center. Gage headlined the edgy event with his 200th delivery of AE911Truth’s flagship lecture “9/11: Blueprint for Truth.”

Scottish AE911Truth petition signer Robert Wolfenden, Engineer, remarked that of the evidence that bothered him most, “Building 7 was the pretext… We’ve got to have an investigation – at the Twin Towers as well. Everyone here is living in a bubble. Until that bubble bursts they won’t wake up…. I actually fear for my future and for my kids’ future if we can’t make people listen. It’s really quite alarming. Talking to other engineers… I’ll certainly persevere and pursue it and continue to fight for the cause.”

Robert Wolfenden came from Glasgow and noted that the official story from the administration and the media simply didn’t add up. He found out about AE911Truth three years ago and signed our petition as an engineer

Richard Gage said, “One of the greatest joys I have in my travels is meeting the few architects and engineers around the world that are willing to think for themselves, outside the box of what they’ve been fed about the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers and who have sat down and listened to, and responded to the actual evidence. They almost always end up agreeing with us that we’ve got to have a new investigation. Will it come from Scotland?

"Our next trip is to Canada, in September 2011, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 – the Toronto Hearings. Here we will lay out all the evidence and present it formally to Canadian authorities.”

Touring: Roslyn Chapel, Big Castle

Gerry Burns of Scotland is a PalTalk Video Chat Room supporter

Michael Heenan from Edinburgh, Scotland notes: “There is apathy in politicians… All events lead to 9/11…”

Gerry Burns showed us the world-famous medieval Edinburgh Castle and, now, Scotland’s well-known jewel, Roslyn Chapel. Burns notes that “9/11 was a global event, Scottish people were killed in Manhattan – an unsolved murder for people from my country. It’s a global issue – not just an American issue. It’s very important that AE911Truth is over here speaking the truth. AE911Truth is the vehicle for credibility for the truth about 9/11”.

Edinburgh hosts a world-famous castle rich with history and immune to the ravages of even modern military devices such as thermite incendiaries

Michael Heenan, a soldier who served in Afghanistan, told us “I was in a Forward Operating Base in the UK as part of NATO… I’ve followed AE911Truth for quite a while on the Internet and I’m very comfortable with your material. I’m very skeptical by nature, but your model definitely makes sense. The 9/11 Commission Report model does not make any sense whatsoever…. [The authorities] keep hiding behind National Security… There’s got to be more transparency and AE911Truth’s role is central in achieving that.”

For highlights on the England/Wales portion of the tour click here

For highlights on The Netherlands portion of the tour click here