Update: There was some interest in putting the screening all into one video. That is now posted:
Or scroll down to watch the speakers individually.
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On February 20, 2011 (Muhammad's birthday), approximately 200 people came to Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's New York Premiere of their seminal, groundbreaking documentary.
This powerful film exposed the shameful media biases regarding the proposed Ground Zero Mosque; Imam Rauf and wife Daisy Kahn can do no wrong in their eyes. But, now the truth is out in this amazing documentary.
Also on hand were 911 Family members, who revealed the even more outrageous treatment they have suffered under Mayor Bloomberg and his commissions.
They have pleaded to deaf ears that this mosque not be built on the graves of their loved ones. They do NOT want a Ripley's believe it or not memorial SEVEN floors underground.
The house was packed. Many stood. It was a deeply moving presentation and the audience was riveted, and after the screening, after the Q and A
They left even more committed to stopping this outrage.
Part 1 Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Opening remarks before the screening.
Part 2 After the screening, Pamela Geller introduced the 9/11 family members who were present. Nelly Braginskaya, whose son Alex was murdered that day, spoke first. As always, she speaks with simple honesty about Daisy Khan, Imam Rauf, Obama, Mayor Bloomberg and the loss of her only son.
Part 3 Rosaleen Tallon spoke of her brother Shawn, who was murdered that day. She also introduced their mother, an Irish immigrant who is proud to be an American, passing that same joy and pride on to her children.
Part 4 Rosaleen Tallon, Sally Regenhard, Rosemary Cain and Rosa Leonetti. 9/11 Family members. All spoke and took questions from the audience. Powerful testimony from them all.
Part 5 Rosaleen Tallon, Sally Regenhard, Rosemary Cain and Rosa P. Leonetti, respond to more questions from the audience : Ted Hayes from Los Angeles, a woman from Bucks County Pennsylvania and a woman who is an ex-Muslim. And thn Pamela Geller gave a rousing wrap-up to the discussion.
What follows is from their Fakestinian flyer, announcing a protest of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra’s NYC performance from 5:30 – 7:15 pm outside Carnegie Hall in Manhattan:
"The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s (IPO) performance is part of its annual national tour, which will be protested in other cities as well. The protests respond to the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott institutions that .... oppress Palestinians in Israel, the territories, and in exile.
The orchestra actively participates in whitewashing Israel’s apartheid policies. By serving as cultural ambassadors for Israel, the Israel Philharmonic is supporting the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” initiative, an effort to divert public attention from Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people...The goodwill created by these tours…is of enormous value to the State of Israel.
People throughout the Middle East are mobilizing to challenge repressive governments. The people will not tolerate dictatorships or occupations. Join us in the street for a peaceful, meaningful, timely protest against the art-washing of apartheid."
VSB:
Of course, we saw all the same old Leftist/Commie/Progressive... Fakestinians that show up at all their anti-America /anti-Israel protests.
But looking at the list of supposed supporters co-sponsors: Adalah-NY, Artists Against Apartheid – NYC, Al Awda-NY, Hunter Collage SJP, Jews Say No!, Middle East Crisis Response, Palestinian Club of Brooklyn College, NYU – SJP, War Resisters League New York Local, WESPAC, Women in Black-Union Square, Women of a Certain Age......
Perhaps their smallish turnout was because the cold was a bit too much for these reptilian Jew-Haters.
Or because they were protesting Wisconsin (outside Fox) and Bahrain outside their mission....all at the same time ....they wound up spreading their cold-weather storm-troops a bit thin.
Passers-by were more perplexed rather than offended and in good NY fashion....not interested in taking their hateful propaganda flyers.
Other than singing a few LOUD hootnanny folk songs, they weren't making much of an impression.
Not a raging success. Just a blip on the map of Lefty propaganda hate-fest. with the usual anti-Semitism and lies ...
And from what I saw, the press had no interest in their repetitive speeches and 1930's folk songs. For once the press got something right.
A lovely sight to see was this valiant turnout standing tall in support of Israel
It was the World Premiere of the seminal ground-breaking documentary,"The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks".
Produced by Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) and Robert Spencer ( Jihad Watch) this was the World Premiere of a powerful documentary. Day One was a riveting panel. Day Two was the the screening.
On Day One, we heard painful testimonies from families whose loved ones were murdered that day by Muslim terrorists. We also heard from NYC Councilman, Dan Halloran (the only member of the City Council willing to speak out against the Ground Zero mosque) And recent candidate for office in South Carolina, Ilario Pantano. He spoke briefly from the audience.
They promoted it themselves (not CPAC) and the room was PACKED. And on Day Two, for the screening, the roomwas PACKED.
CPAC didmanage to list the documentary on the poster for the screening room. (see below)
TAKE NOTE: Geller and Spencer have done events at CPAC three times now; offering up important panels with speakers and topics that CPAC should embrace, and CPAC, instead, ignores.
See links below for previous events:
(2010 AFDI Panel is here>> and 2009 Geert Wilders at CPAC s here>>)
The Day One Panel 2011: (from left to right) Councilman Dan Halloran, Rosa P. Leonetti, Sally Regenhard, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer (speaking), Nelly Braginskaya, Joyce Boland, Rosaleen Tallon and Ilene Walsh. (Photo by Migom)
There are 11 videos from Day 1. All are powerful ( including the Q and A) but if you have time for only one, then choose this recap of Sally Regenhard and you will see :
Why this film HAD to be made
Why the building of the mosque is a disgrace
Why we must no longer be silent.
The first video from Day One is Robert Spencer's opening remarks
Pamela Geller introduces the panel followed by an emotionally powerful trailer of the documentary
Rosaleen Tallon's brother, Shawn (a firefighter), was murdered on 9/11. She read the coroner's report that her mother had received for the first time in public.
Sally Regenhard's only son, Christian (a firefighter) was murdered on 9/11.
Joyce Boland, whose husband Vince was in the audience, spoke of their son Vincent who was murdered on 9/11.
Ilene Walsh whose son, Michael Brennan (a firefighter), was murdered on 9/11. She too mentioned the devastation have finding so little (if any) remains of their murdered loved ones . His sister Patricia Walsh was in the audience.
NYC Councilman Daniel Halloran, the only one out of 49 council members to stand up for America and the 911 families.
Nelly Braginskaya spoke about the proposed mosque at Park51 (Ground Zero), Daisy Kahn , and her only son, Alex, who was murdered on 9/11. Her accented English may be difficult at times, but even so, Nelly delivers an endearing, very touching and feisty speech .
Rosa P. Leonetti whose brother-in-law, Joseph ( a firefighter) was murdered on 9/11
Next is the Q and A with 9/11 Families and Geller and Spencer:
There were questions about Sharia law, the Islamist infiltration of CPAC and the proposed mosque at Park51 (Ground Zero).
At approximately 7:49 you will hear the remarks that Pamela Geller made regarding the infiltration of CPAC that was picked-up by Glenn Beck.
We had younger members in attendance at CPAC who have never seen the truth about who attacked us that day. Of what really happened to those who were murdered that day.
DAY Two: February 12, 2011. Before the screening: Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller's opening remarks
After the screening 9/11 Family Members, Rosa P. Leonetti and Nelly Braginskaya spoke of their murdered loved ones , reminding us of WHY this film HAD to be made.
This is a film that must be seen. We must never forget.
If you are in the New York area, you can see it NOW. The New York City Premiere of the Ground Zero Mosque documentary film is on Muhammad's birthday, February 20th, 2011 at 7:30 PM
St. Lukes Theatre, 308 W 46th Street, New York City
**You must RSVP to GroundZeroMosque@aol.com.**
There is just a bit more : pictures with a report on CPAC to follow, so please check back.
Wal-Mart vs the Ground Zero Mosque? No surprises with these Fascists in charge.
February 3, 2011. The New York City Council (at 1 PM) finally held it's public committee hearing on whether to allow a Wal-Mart to build in New York City.
There are K-Marts .... but "NO Wal-Marts Allowed".
The Council canceled this meeting three times due to Acts of God, we wondered would they ever meet. But the meeting was ON with a pre-ordained decision of "No to Wal-mart".
This was not to be a fair and balanced hearing.
Arrived at approximately 12:15 and the LONG block from Broadway to the Municipal Building was already jammed with union members; yelling and walking slowly. They took up the whole sidewalk in front and around the building on to the side street.
(Please scroll down for video)
They're not supposed to block a sidewalk but the police just stood back and watched. So I shoved my way through, which didn't go over very well. I got quite a few heavy-handed "taps" on the shoulder all the way up the block. But, there was no way I intended to walk along with them, making their crowd look even larger by one person. No Way.
Once in front of the entrance, it was obvious that some are "more equal than others". Saw the guards let in many who were clearly NOT press. Union 'chums', for sure.
Waiting to enter, the UNION crowd chanted on, often in Spanish. So, I managed to slip in a brief, "Say that in English" and they choked, went SILENT (ever so briefly) when they heard that SHOCKING challenge. And then, they chanted on... in Spanish.
Not sure what some of these people were going to get out of this meeting since there was no translator. Although the guard inside did make his announcement in English and Spanish about "no clapping, no shouting, no cheering, no hooting and NO SIGNS."
Bodies in the seats. That's all they were.
And yes, somehow the seats were already miraculously filled, even though there were still LOTS of people waiting to get in.
The New York City Council Fascists, those 'fair-minded people-pleasers", Alinskied the meeting. If you were NOT bussed in by a union then you were
A- Lucky you if got IN at all
B- You can BET you will never get to speak.
Many came to speak to the City Council in favor of free-enterprise and were shut out, physically and figuratively. Such was the case with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. If you came to support the FREEDOM to CHOOSE, to expose the hypocrisy of this City Council, you were NEVER going to get the chance to speak.
At the entrance, I also noticed this pile of signs (where we were scanned.)
Supposedly no signs were permitted inside. But I observed a row of 'paids' sitting with their small 8 by 10's they had sneaked in,and the guards ignored them.
Guess these protestors got BORED because their whole row emptied out early (maybe they didn't speak English. )
The meeting started late but many of the City Council members dragged in even later and once in their seats, they were often way too BUSY reading their phones.
Guess it was torture for them to look up and make like they were interested.
It was torture for all of us, this pretense of a Public Meeting. Two and a half hours of tedium which began with Speaker Quinn. Like a spoiled child, she spent way too much time reprimanding Wal-Mart for not showing up. She was definitely offended (which was fun to watch)
Actually, it was a smart move, on Wal-Mart's part. They now have a deal with union crews to build and are challenging this City Council's continued attempt to shut them out of the 5 boroughs.
We also heard from racist, He-just-wants-to-slap-a-white-person-in-the-face, Black Panther: Charles Barron. He did his usual smug presentation. Held up a booklet that he said described his East New York business community. Claims they don't need jobs, at least not Wal-Mart jobs. Said with a even more smug mafioso-like flare, that despite Wal-Mart's claims, they will NEVER build in East New York.
(Is that a threat, Mr. Barron?)
Another Council member, Melissa Mark Viverito, who was quite late, gave a speech that started out calmly enough but then she jammed in a bunch of ad hominem attacks against WalMart; her favorite being "UNION BUSTING-Job-Killing" store that she says is not welcomed in New York City.
The Council presented two VERY long-winded academics (via tele-feeds) who took many questions from the Council.
Pretend you'll take questions from the public, bore everyone with long-winded speeches til people have to leave or just plain give-up. (works every time)
Even Speaker QUINN seemed bored.
The only live people I saw testify (at about 3 PM) were shilling for the Unions anyway, so I guess all could leave feeling quite good about having shut out any supporters of Wal-Mart. And leave they did.
Speaker Quinn, along with many others on the Council, started disappearing.
WHERE in the f-ing world do these people have to be? Elected officials, Quinn, Barron, Jackson...far too many of them... slowly peeled out, til there was but a skeletal crew. Guess they must have drawn the short-straw.
I threw in the towel at about 3:30. Nothing good was going to happen. After all, this is the City Council that just passed a ridiculous law that says "No smoking in Times Square". We already have "No salt in your food" and now they are determined to hold on to "No Wal-Mart in NYC".
BUT, they eagerly (with very little vetting) said "YES to a Ground Zero Mosque" and "Yes to Sharia Law."
Outside, I found a few citizens who were still protesting across the street, revealing to anyone who's interested that the Union- Financed Marxist-Fascist City Council has no interest in what the public wants.
The outrage must stop. It's up to free-citizens to demand an HONEST hearing. We've yet to get one.
