9/11 Event Update
I just had to update the website today in order for people not to think that the DEA found drugs at my house or that perhaps something even worse happened to me. I’ve been very busy preparing for the 9/11 event I am organizing this weekend and didn’t have much time to do updates. The truth is that I also didn’t feel like it. I’ve constantly been thinking about the recent stuff I’ve been finding out and trying to make sense of everything. And I’m making good progress too, which depending on your perspective, might be good or bad. Maybe even both.
Anyway, about 2 weeks ago the hotel where I was initially going to do the event, called “Residence Inn”, cancelled my reservations. I was told through the phone that they had people calling them who were asking them why they were allowing such an event to take place there and if they were not concerned with the safety of their guests. I was then told that the decision was made at the highest levels of management to cancel the reservations. This is a typical example of what’s wrong with the world today. Why is it that today people get afraid of something as normal as being open minded and talking about a certain subject? How did humanity get here exactly?
And so I just accepted their request to cancel the reservations, making clear to them that although I understand their arguments, I do not agree with them. In the following days a story about this was published in a local newspaper called “De Ware Tijd”. A few days before that they had called me to interview me on what had happened. It appears they also called up the hotel and had a chance to talk to the director about this. According to the director, they cancelled my reservations because they did not want to hurt their relationship with the US Embassy in Suriname. He also said that playing the movies at the event would not be good for US – Suriname relations.
This clearly shows how bad things are with the world today. It shows exactly how things work. It’s all about everyone wanting to protect their own interests even at the expense of others, often the majority. And they fail to see that the long term results are always going to be negative, if not for them, certainly for their families and future generations. But at least the guy was honest, right? You have to give him credit for that. He could have just said that they cancelled my reservations because Santa Claus needed the location on the same days, for example. So I do admire his honesty.
I had to look for another location quickly, and found another much better one within a day or two. The new location is much better, but also a little more expensive. It was still within our budget so I decided to just do it there. I think everyone is going to have a much better experience at the new location. It looks really nice and they have some really expensive equipment there.
This Friday is the start of the event, late in the afternoon, and I can’t really say I’m looking forward to it. And the main reason for this is that while I’m a very quiet and shy person, I’ll have to give a speech during the introduction and talk in front of all those people. That’s like a scene out of my worst nightmare, which, by the way, is the scene right before the one where my computer breaks and I am left without Internet access for a day. I’m sure you can imagine the horror.
But there’s no other way, unfortunately, and I’ll just have to go through it. I really want to share all this information and if it means I have to go through all of that, I’ll just have to do it. In addition most other people I talked to seem to be afraid to do this because of the consequences it may have for them. So someone has to do this, and it looks like it’s going to have to be me.
Let’s hope everything goes well.
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