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Gold9472
05-22-2006, 03:46 PM
New Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation

http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060522/bs_prweb/prweb388743_4

Mon May 22, 8:00 AM ET

(PRWEB) - Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated.

911Truth.org Urges 2006 Reform Candidates to Recognize a Powerful New Constituency

The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with 8% unsure). The poll of American residents was conducted from Friday, May 12 through Tuesday, May 16, 2004. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/- 2.9. All inquiries about questions, responses and demographics should be directed to Zogby International.

According to Janice Matthews, executive director of 911truth.org, "To those who have followed the mounting evidence for US government involvement in 9/11, these results are both heartening and frankly quite amazing, given the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to cover the most critical questions of that day. Our August 2004 Zogby poll of New Yorkers showed nearly half believe certain US officials 'consciously' allowed the attacks to happen and 66% want a fresh investigation, but these were people closest to the tragedy and most familiar with facts refuting the official account. This revelation that so many millions nationwide now also recognize a 9/11 cover up and the need for a new inquiry should be a wake up call for all 2006 political candidates hoping to turn this country around. We think it also indicates Americans are awakening to the larger pattern of deceit that led us into Constitutional twilight and endless war, and that our independent media may have finally come of age."

Poll co-author, W. David Kubiak concurs, saying: "Despite years of relentless media promotion, whitewash and 9/11 Commission propaganda, the official 9/11 story still can't even muster 50% popular support. Since this myth has been the administration's primary source of political and war-making power, this level of distrust has revolutionary implications for everyone working for peace, justice and civil liberties. If we ever hope to reclaim this country, end aggression and restore international respect, we all must finally scrutinize that day when things started to go so terribly wrong. The media and movement leaders ignore this call at their peril, because tens of millions are clearly telling us here they are ready for 9/11 truth."

SCOPE: The poll covered five related areas: 1) Iraq - do Americans think the Bush administration exploited 9/11 to attack Iraq? (44% do, 44% don't); 2) Cover up - did the government and its 9/11 Commission conceal or refuse to investigate evidence that contradicts their official story? (only 48% said no); 3) the collapse of WTC 7, which was not even mentioned by the 9/11 Commission and has seldom been reported in the media---had respondents been aware of this collapse and, if so, did they think it should be investigated (only 52% had known about it, but over 70% of this group believe it should have been investigated); 4) new investigation of official complicity - do respondents think we need one? (only 48% said no); and 5) mass media - how do people rate its performance, including its coverage of alternative 9/11 theories, unanswered questions and inquiry issues? (43% rate it positively, 55% negatively).

(The poll sponsors see knowledge of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 as a bellwether issue, because if people do not know this elementary fact, they have probably not been exposed to any independent 9/11 research at all. Because the number of respondents who support a new investigation of 9/11 (45%)) is roughly the same as the number who knew about the collapse of Building 7 (52%), it can reasonably be extrapolated that if the entire public were exposed to independent 9/11 research, about 90 percent would support a new investigation of the events of that fateful day.)

SPONSOR: 911truth.org is a coalition of researchers, journalists and victim family members working to expose and answer the hundreds of still unresolved questions concerning 9/11, especially the nearly 400 questions that the Family Steering Committee filed with the 9/11 Commission. Initially welcomed by the commissioners as their "road map," these queries cut to the heart of 9/11 crimes and accountability, specifically raising the central issues of motive, means and cui bono (who profited?). The Commission ultimately ignored 80% of these issues, however, opting only to explore system failures, miscommunications and incompetence. The victim families' most incisive questions remain unaddressed to this day.

For more information on the Chicago "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming our Future" conference and other developments, see http://www.911truth.org and http://911revealingthetruth.org or contact our media coordinator, Michael Berger, at 314-308-4893.

* Numerical computations conservatively based on 2000 Census data citing 174 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64.

Survey Methodology: Zogby America, 5/12/06 through 5/16/06

This is a telephone survey of adults nationwide conducted by Zogby International. The target sample is 1,200 interviews with approximately 81 questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone cd’s of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. As many as six calls are made to reach a sampled phone number. Cooperation rates are calculated using one of AAPOR’s approved methodologies1 and are comparable to other professional public-opinion surveys conducted using similar sampling strategies.2 Weighting by region, party, age, race, religion, and gender is used to adjust for non-response. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

Zogby International’s sampling and weighting procedures also have been validated through its political polling: more than 95% of the firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.

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HodorEinstein
05-22-2006, 04:52 PM
This is huge - I've already emailed the story to the few people I've talked to who are still on the fence. The next few months are going to be verrrry interesting. Congrats on the interview and the meeting with Weldon. Jon do good!

Gold9472
05-22-2006, 04:54 PM
Thanks!

Tonya
05-22-2006, 06:06 PM
Hey, I sent the press release to our local newspaper, our university paper and our NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox news stations. I hope at least one of them covers it. If they, do, I bet it is brief.

I am really hoping for the national nightly news programs to discuss it.

We'll see.

Gold9472
05-22-2006, 06:07 PM
Here are the actual results...

http://www.911truth.org/images/911TruthZogbyPollFinalReport.htm

Tonya
05-22-2006, 06:13 PM
Thanks Jon!
Nice to have our hands on this!!!!!!!

Gold9472
05-22-2006, 06:15 PM
Zogby Questions/Results

Some people have said that the Bush Administration exploited the September 11th attacks to justify the invasion of Iraq. Others say that Bush acted correctly by going into Iraq because Saddam Hussein supported terrorism. Who are you more likely to agree with?

Bush exploited Sept. 11th attacks: 44%
Bush justified an attack on Iraq: 44
Neither/Not sure: 11

Some people believe that the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up. Others say that the 9/11 Commission was a bi-partisan group of honest and well-respected people and that there is no reason they would want to cover-up anything. Who are you more likely to agree with?

US government and 9/11 Commission are NOT covering up: 48%
US government and 9/11 Commission are covering up: 42
Not sure: 10

World Trade Center Building 7 is the 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any planes during the September 11th attacks, but still totally collapsed later the same day. This collapse was not investigated by the 9/11 Commission. Are you aware of this skyscraper's collapse, and if so do you believe that the Commission should have also investigated it? Or do you believe that the Commission was right to only investigate the collapse of the buildings which were directly hit by airplanes?

I am not aware of World Trade Center Building 7's collapse: 43%
I am aware of it and think the Commission should have investigated it: 38
I am aware of it and think the Commission was right to investigate just the Twin Towers' collapse: 14
Neither/Not sure: 5

Some people say that so many unanswered questions about 9/11 remain that Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success. Other people say the 9/11 attacks were thoroughly investigated and that any speculation about US government involvement is nonsense. Who are you more likely to agree with?

The attacks were thoroughly investigated: 47%
Reinvestigate the attacks: 45
Not sure: 8

How would you rate the US media's performance regarding 9/11, including their coverage of victim families' unanswered questions, theories that challenged the official account, and how the attacks were investigated?

Good: 33
Fair: 36
Poor: 19

Positive: 43%
Negative: 55

James Redford
05-22-2006, 06:23 PM
This idea being pushed by some in the 9/11 Truth movement to have more official hearings or "investigations" into the the 9/11 attacks is a bad idea. It promulgates the notion that peope need authority figures to tell them what to do and what to believe. In other words, that people can't come to the conclusion that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job unless they're told that it's "official."

At best, the most good that could likely come out of such hearings or "investigations" is that the U.S. government perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks get caught in more lies and contradictions. But it's bad because it fosters the notion that people have to be told by people from on high what to think, which isn't conducive to the cause of truth.

Those who genuinely investigate the 9/11 attacks in-depth already know the U.S. government staged the attacks from beginning to end. The amount of publicly available hardcore evidence demonstrating this is truly staggering. People don't need to be told by some panel or commission what the claimed "truth" is. This worship of "authority figures" to tell us what is and isn't okay to believe is one of the main things that the 9/11 Truth movement is fighting against.

Our task is to educate our countrymen, neighbors, friends, and family as to what the truth is. Genuine change isn't going to come about by voting, or "working within the system," as it is a rigged system designed from the start to keep the ruling elite in power.

Genuine change will come about when enough people know the truth and simply fail to support the system anymore. Then voting will be irrelevant because there will be nothing to vote for, or to vote against.

What if the government held a war and no one showed up? That's the stage we need to reach, where the ruling elite simply lose their chain of command and are abandoned because the masses fail to follow them. The stage where their own soldiers and police no longer follow their orders.

The way to reach that stage is to simply speak the truth to people. When others learn the truth, they will be in a position to speak the truth to others. With more people speaking the truth, even more will join in because they see that they're not alone and isolated in holding this position. And so on, until just about everyone and their grandmother is talking about the fact that the U.S. government staged the 9/11 attacks.

As it is now, we're not all that very far from that stage.

For more on this process, see Étienne de La Boétie, Discours sur la servitude volontaire; ou Contr'un, likely written in 1552 or 1553, first published in full in 1576. An English translation by Harry Kurz with an introduction by Murray N. Rothbard, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (New York: Free Life Editions, 1975), is available at http://www.mises.org/rothbard/boetie.pdf .

Gold9472
05-22-2006, 06:28 PM
I don't think anyone expects a "new" investigation. I think what people expect is that those responsible, are held accountable. However, news that 70,000,000 Americans want a new investigation shows that they don't believe the old investigation, which shows that they are obviously untrusting of what the Government told them. That is what this message says. I'm not going to debate how good this poll is for the movement.

James Redford
05-22-2006, 06:38 PM
I don't think anyone expects a "new" investigation. I think what people expect is that those responsible, are held accountable. However, news that 70,000,000 Americans want a new investigation shows that they don't believe the old investigation, which shows that they are obviously untrusting of what the Government told them. That is what this message says. I'm not going to debate how good this poll is for the movement.

I never mentioned a poll. What I said was, in part, "This idea being pushed by some in the 9/11 Truth movement to have more official hearings or 'investigations' into the the 9/11 attacks is a bad idea."

James Redford
05-22-2006, 06:57 PM
I should also add that I'm not much interested in seeing those responsible for the 9/11 attacks "held accountable," if it means the system they used to make it happen stays in place.

I'd much rather that the political system which made the 9/11 attacks possible and probable didn't exist.

It's not personalities I'm mainly against, it's the structure of the system I'm against. You can put in all the new faces you want and nothing will fundamentally change for the better if it means that the structure of rulership is still in place. The question isn't who should rule, but whether anyone should rule.

Gold9472
05-22-2006, 10:35 PM
Americans Ponder Truth in 9/11 Commission

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11974

May 23, 2006

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Adults in the United States are divided over the findings of a group assembled specifically to investigate the country’s deadliest terrorist attack, according to a poll by Zogby International. 47.8 per cent of respondents trust in the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission, while 42.3 per cent suggest a cover-up.

Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked and crashed four airplanes in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people. In July 2004, the federal commission that investigated the events of 9/11 concluded that "none of the measures adopted by the U.S. government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al-Qaeda plot" and pointed out government failures of "imagination, policy, capabilities, and management."

Last September, U.S. president George W. Bush paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, declaring, "One way our nation can honour their sacrifice is to win the war on terror. On September the 11th, 2001, we saw the future that terrorists intend for us. And I made a decision: America will not wait to be attacked again. We will take the fight to the enemy, and we’ll defend our freedom."

In June 2004, the 9/11 Commission stated that there had been "no collaborative relationship" between the deposed Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in the planning and carrying out of the attacks. 44.4 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration acted correctly in attacking Iraq because Hussein supported terrorism, while 44.3 per cent think the federal government exploited the 9/11 attacks to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Polling Data
Some people believe that the U.S. government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up. Others say that the 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan group of honest and well-respected people and that there is no reason they would want to cover-up anything. Who are you more likely to agree with?

U.S. and Commission not covering up: 47.8%
U.S. and Commission covering up: 42.3%
Neither / Not sure: 9.9%

Some people have said that the Bush administration exploited the September 11th attacks to justify the invasion of Iraq. Others say that Bush acted correctly by going into Iraq because Saddam Hussein supported terrorism. Who are you more likely to agree with?

Bush exploited 9/11: 44.3%
Bush acted correctly: 44.4%
Neither / Not sure: 11.3%

Source: Zogby International
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,200 American adults, conducted from May 12 to May 16, 2006. Margin of error is 2.9 per cent.

Gold9472
05-23-2006, 11:46 AM
Less than half of Americans satisfied with 9/11 investigations

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Less_than_half_of_Americans_satisfied_0523.html

Published: Tuesday May 23, 2006

According to a new Zogby poll, less than half of Americans are convinced that that the events of September 11 have been thoroughly investigated, RAW STORY has learned.

In the telephone survey of 1200 individuals, just 47% agreed that "the 9/11 attacks were thoroughly investigated and that any speculation about US government involvement is nonsense." Almost as many, 45%, indicated they were more likely to agree "that so many unanswered questions about 9/11 remain that Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success."

The poll is the first survey that has attempted to gauge the level of Americans' doubts about 9/11 and was carried out for the "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference to be held in Chicago in June.

Not surprisingly, Republicans as a group were the most supportive of existing investigations, with 70% expressing their satisfaction -- about the same percentage that has expressed approval of Bush's performance in recent polls. Sixty-four percent of those earning over $75,000 were also skeptical of doubts about 9/11. The groups most likely to want the attacks re-investigated were Hispanics at 67% and African-Americans at 64%.

Other groups also skewed one way or another, but with the majority position generally not above 58%. Overall, the breakdown on the question closely followed the usual political divisions in the country: Republicans vs. Democrats and independents, whites vs. minorities, the wealthier and better-educated vs. the poorer and less educated, people over fifty vs. those under fifty, men vs. women.

This rough balance in opinions is itself a striking finding. It suggests that doubts about the officials accounts of 9/11, far from representing an extreme fringe position, have become a standard component of anti-establishment attitudes.

When asked specificially if they thought there had been a government coverup of evidence that contradicts the official story, the results were again not far from an even split, with 48% rejecting the idea of a deliberate coverup and 42% supporting it. Belief in a coverup was the majority position among Democrats, 18-29 year olds, and a few other groups.

In an attempt to focus more specifically on the attitudes of those who were best informed about the events of 9/11, the poll asked its responders if they were aware of WTC Building 7, whose collapse on September 11 for no obvious reason was not investigated by the 9/11 Commission. Only 52% answered that they were aware of the collapse of Building 7, but out of that subgroup, 73% believed it should have been investigated.

On a related topic, those polled were asked if they felt the Bush Administration had exploited the September 11th attacks to justify the invasion of Iraq or if Bush had been right to go into Iraq because Saddam Hussein supported terrorism. Here the country was divided exactly, 44% to 44%, with the answers following party lines more closely than those to the 9/11 questions. Among Republicans, 72% felt the invasion was appropriate, while among Democrats 69% felt it was not.

A final question asked about the media's performance regarding 9/11, including coverage of victims' families, unanswered questions, theories that challenged the official account, and how the attacks were investigated. A majority of 55% rated the media as only fair or poor, while only 33% rated it as good.

Surprisingly, the groups most likely to rate the media positively tended to be those that were also most skeptical about official accounts of 9/11, including African-Americans, progressives, and those with lower incomes. The media were rated poorly by roughly 60% of Republicans, conservatives, and the more affluent and better educated. Libertarians and extreme conservatives, at 74% and 67% respectively, were the most negative of all.

Gold9472
05-23-2006, 11:51 AM
Wow... good article from Rawstory.

Uber Commandante
05-23-2006, 12:43 PM
Wow... good article from Rawstory.

Yea, I thought so to. I also wrote this email to msnbc:



Hello!

I was wondering where the story could be found that nearly half of all Americans believe there was a 9/11 coverup? A recently released Zogby poll provides more info, and the story can also be found on a much smaller news outlet here:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Less_than_half_of_Americans_satisfied_0523.html

Cheers, and looking forward to reading complete coverage!



Not that I expect much, but if people keep writing in, then maybe.

Gold9472
05-23-2006, 12:48 PM
Yea, I thought so to. I also wrote this email to msnbc:


Not that I expect much, but if people keep writing in, then maybe.

Hey man... you did your part.

People who "lurk" on this site... I have a question for you... is this poll "newsworthy"?

If your answer is yes, then why (http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml) isn't the media covering it?

Gold9472
05-24-2006, 09:10 PM
From dz...

"Just got word that the Zogby poll results will not be posted on zogby's site as 911truth could not afford the cost for them to post it on their site, so the official results posted on 911truth.org are the final results from zogby, and wont be published on their site.

takes money to do those things, and apparently the extra price for that was too exhorbatant for them to afford - sorry for the confusion."

Gold9472
05-26-2006, 12:48 PM
http://www.zogby.com/features/features.dbm?ID=231