January 3, 2008
"The Shell Game," from NY Times Best Selling Author - Sparks 9/11 Truth
Controversy,
Lights Fire in Publi****ng Industry!
By Bill Douglas
“. . . they [the majority of Americans] shall come to realize what I now
realize… that the
9/11 Truth Movement are the real patriots in 21st century America!" --
Steve Alten, New
York Times Best Selling Novelist (author of “The Shell Game”)
Commercial fiction and 9/11 truth have formed a strange marriage, and a
mutually
beneficial relation****p. The original 40,000 book print run of “The Shell
Game” is almost
sold out even before the book has even hit the bookstores. A big part of
that success may
be from the growing sup****t of the 9/11 truth community who has come to
largely
enthusiastically realize, although for a few some times begrudgingly, that
“The Shell
Game” will, in the end, help draw a much larger audience to the 9/11
truth movement.
Using fiction to fight for factual truth, was a stretch for some 9/11
activists, but the
tide is quickly changing. For example, within one day, one prominent 9/11
truth activist
went from condemning use of “The Shell Game” as a 9/11 truth spreading
tool, . . . to
wholly and enthusiastically endorsing it to help open the public mind to
9/11 truth. This
is a growing pattern. The more 9/11 truth activists learn about this
upcoming blockbuster
book, the more excited they become.
“I’m changing my vote to Thumbs Up on Shell Game . . .” said the above
activist.
What had changed his mind was that when he’d only read clips of the novel
he saw a neo-con
demonization-of-Arabs perspective that he feared because it fell into
line with the
cor****ate media propaganda that has deceived Americans into two illegal
wars.
HOWEVER, as he learned more about “The Shell Game,” he realized that the
author begins the
novel from the neo-con perspective, and from the perspective of the
average citizen spoon
fed a distorted reality by cor****ate media daily. THEN, the novel
proceeds to
dis-assemble that “reality” taking the reader on a journey that shows the
ugly underbelly
of false flag terrorism, dimini****ng civil and human rights, and the lies
that led into
past wars, and ****tend to lead us all into future wars.
Yet, even more brilliant is that the novel is peppered with REAL 9/11
truth research used
as chapter introductions, leaving the action fiction reader educated as
well as entertained.
Dr. Robert Bowman (rtd. Air Force Colonel), and Director of ThePatriot.us
a 9/11 truth
seeking organization, was an early advocate of “The Shell Game,” as was
renowned 9/11
researcher and author, David Ray Griffin, and Kevin Ryan (a UL NIST re****t
whistleblower),
and many other major voices for 9/11 truth. But, there was resistance in
some activists
of using “fiction” to push “truth.”
So some early 9/11 truth sup****ters of “The Shell Game,” are now enjoying
a breath of
relief as the activists out there, are now seeing the potential of “The
Shell Game,” and
embracing it’s success as a possibility to dramatically expand 9/11 truth.
Robert Bowman,
after seeing such activist’s turn around, wrote:
“Glad to see a turn-around. Fortunately, I started at the beginning and
read through the
whole book carefully. It is a riveting page-turner, with characters you
can really care
about, and plenty of plot twists. Along the way, it educates the reader
on all sorts of
issues related to the neocon danger to our republic and our people. (9/11
is just one of
them.) I wholeheartedly endorse this book. Read it ... and start at the
beginning.
You'll be glad you did.”
Dr. Bowman gained 9/11 truth notoriety early on, when he analyzed the US
Air Force
behavior on 9/11 and as a former fighter pilot knew that if standard
procedures would have
been followed on 9/11 the 2nd WTC tower, the Pentagon, and likely even the
first WTC tower
would never have been taken down. Dr. Bowman spoke out with a soul force
as he said,
“Some call it treason!”
In the last week, the ad hoc coalition of 9/11 truth seekers advocating
“The Shell Game”
has grown more, adding Professor Steven Jones (whose research found the
official story of
the WTC collapses defies the laws of physics), Pilots for 9/11 Truth, and
Visibility911
have also joined into the growing coalition for this edu-tainment novel,
and its value to
expand the 9/11 truth movement’s audience.
With the original print run of “The Shell Game,” almost sold out already,
nearly three
weeks before official release . . . the 9/11 truth movement may take a
well deserved bow
for doing what they could to expand “The Shell Game” out into the public
eye. There is
more to do. Our sights should be set on “The Shell Game” breaking as many
sales records
as possible, thereby making it impossible for the cor****ate media to
ignore the novel, its
author, or the book’s website which will provide links to 9/11 truth
seeking organizations
and information.
2008 is beginning to look like a very hopeful year. Thanks to the 9/11
truth movement
leaders with the vision to see that a work of fiction could be a jet fuel
to in the long
run launch facts into the public mind over time, and to Steve Alten, the
courageous
successful author who laid his career on the line, when he produced, “The
Shell Game,”
because he cared about truth and justice.
By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent – A Book
on Life, Death,
War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest
columnist for the
Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His
past essays
include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the
9-11 Truth
Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck -
WMD, NIST,
Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish
Community Should Demand
9/11 Truth."
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