“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can
work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those
acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from
numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is
shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the
lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny
ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different
centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can
sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ” --RFK
“Happiness is not amusement. It is good activity.” –Aristotle
“The Whistleblower is a political person in an apolitical world.” – C. Fred Alford
Yeah,
I'm a patriot and I borrowed these quotes from an online magazine bio
of Dr. Jamey Hecht. He is one of the contributing writers of the
website I am now going to link you to:
click
it for a complete breakdown of why no matter if it was Bush or Kerry in
the white house it would still be more of the the same- conquest of
America... oh, the first part is a little too much conjector for even
me, the meat of the article (warning lengthy, but you can kinda skim
and get some good parts, and read later) gets into cold hard facts of
the matter, evidence to back up conjector really.
Also, for
those thinking this is just conspriracy theory check out the editor of
the magazine at the "About Michael C. Ruppert" section and the
contributing writer bio's at the "Our writers" section- basically these
are people on the inside of some aspect of the leading areas of our
society, whether it is journalism, the government, the military,
academia, science, or others.
Also, did you know that six
corporations own 90% of all media, leaving a mere 10% as independent.
No wonder it's easy to call alternative news "conspiracy theory".
current mood: busy current music: NPR- Democracy Now!
Another good video about our current situation, looks like I'm not the only one asking questions and getting angry... Vote!
I'm
currently listening to NPR. They are talking about expatriates and
active duty soldiers who are the six million voters who can sway the
election. The interesting part of the program is how the world is
encouraging expatriates to vote. They are quite interested in the
outcome considering our current course of action as a country.
current mood: anxious current music: NPR- absentee ballots
Lawsuit Duex, do I here three?... anyone?
And then there were two, another lawsuit against Bush & Co:
US
WTC Rescue Hero Sues Bush and Others under RICO Statute
Author: Philip J. Berg, Margaret Atheling Rowe
Published on Oct 23, 2004, 07:41
On
September 11, 2001, William Rodriguez, a maintenance worker at the
World Trade Center in Manhattan, single-handedly rescued fifteen
people. The only employee with the master key to the North Tower
staircases, he led firefighters up the stairs, unlocking doors as he
went, aiding in the evacuation of hundreds of additional people who,
but for his efforts, might have perished. Although his job description
did not include saving lives, Rodriguez re-entered the building three
times after the first plane struck, and was the last person to exit the
North Tower alive. He survived the collapse of the North Tower by
diving beneath a fire truck to avoid the avalanche of concrete and
steel. After onsite treatment for his injuries, Rodriguez plunged right
back into rescue efforts at the site. At dawn the next morning,
Rodriguez returned to Ground Zero from his home in Jersey City, to
continue to aid in rescue efforts.
Later,
Rodriguez became an unofficial spokesman for survivors, among other
things helping to secure an amnesty for undocumented aliens, many of
them Latinos, and in the creation of the World Trade Center Memorial
Fund. Although he lost his job of 19 years and his means of livelihood
(even falling into homelessness for a time) Rodriguez has continued in
the three years since 9-11 to continue his work in honor of the heroes
and the victims of that awful day, as president of the Hispanic Victims
Group, Director of the 9/11 United Services Group, and member of the
Family Advisory Council of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Now,
this native of Puerto Rico and remarkable American hero is taking his
9-11 activism to an even higher level. He has commenced, as Plaintiff,
a federal court lawsuit against George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney,
Donald H. Rumsfeld and others alleging that they and others were
complicit in the 9-11 attacks, and either planned the attacks, or had
foreknowledge of the attacks and permitted them to succeed, in order to
exploit a "New Pearl Harbor" to launch wars against Afghanistan and
Iraq. (The phrase "New Pearl Harbor" comes from a declaration of
principles by the neo-conservative "Project for the New American
Century", in which it is proposed as an event needed to steal American
public opinion to support the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and U.S.
military domination of the Middle East.)
Attorney Berg
acknowledges that Rodriguez's action will shock and offend many
Americans. But he urges critics to read the detailed complaint, posted
on the internet at www.911forthetruth.com, before forming conclusions.
"The "Official Story" of what actually took place on 9-11 is a lie,"
Berg flatly maintains. "We do not pretend to have put together a full
and definitive account of how, and by whom, the attacks were carried
out. But information reported in mainstream media, and viewed in the
light of common sense and the laws of physics, demonstrate that the
"Official Story", examined closely, is not credible. The "Official
Story" contains an alarming number of inconsistencies and
implausibilities. The major media have reported many of the raw facts,
but have studiously avoided analysis, because doing so would reveal
that the government is lying to us. The 9-11 Commission, a suspect
collection of government and intelligence insiders, restated without
question or examination all essential elements of the "Official Story"
of the actual events of 9-11. It failed almost completely to refute, or
even to mention, the great body of evidence that suggests the "Official
Story" cannot be true, and it failed completely to hold anyone
accountable. From the foregoing facts, it ought to be obvious that a
cover-up, or a "limited hang-out" admitting only bureaucratic mistakes
for which no one is to be held accountable, has taken place and is
continuing."
Berg maintains that many prominent figures in
politics, the military and the mass media consider the "Official Story"
of 9-11 to be untrue. But while the truth is emerging bit by bit,
thanks to anonymous whistleblowers and researchers posting on the
internet, to date no one with the stake in being a Senator, a
Presidential candidate, or a media celebrity has found the courage to
risk being ridiculed as a "tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist".
Berg points out that the only Senator who has dared to publicly
question even parts of the "Official Story", Senator Mark Dayton of
Minnesota, has received threats ominous enough to impel him to shut
down his Washington, D.C. office until after the coming election.
"Some
facts cannot be denied," says Berg. "Clearly, 9-11 was carried out by
more than one person. Therefore, by definition there was a conspiracy.
What we're arguing is that the true conspirators have abused their
enormous power and the trust of the American people to concoct and to
sell to the world a false conspiracy theory, to justify war and mass
murder for economic and political gain. Since the neo-cons, allied with
the President, said in almost so many words that they wished for a New
Pearl Harbor, why dismiss out of hand an allegation that they used
their undeniably sufficient power to actually bring it about? Why has
there been no full and transparent investigation? Indeed, isn't it
shocking that the federal government grabbed up all of the physical
evidence, and that no police authority has conducted a true criminal
investigation into 3,000 homicides? Instead of due process of law,
government officials and the mass media convicted Osama bin Laden, and
had names and photos of his 19 accomplices on the internet, literally
within hours of the attacks. The truth is that there is no definitive
evidence that there were any Arabs on those planes, and even less proof
concerning the supposed identities of the alleged hijackers." Berg
notes too that a poll taken by the respected Zogby organization in
August 2004 disclosed that half the population of New York, including
such unlikely "conspiracy theorists" as those who identify themselves
as "very conservative" and as Evangelical Christians, believe the
federal government had foreknowledge of the attacks, and knowingly
failed to prevent them.
Asked why he decided to bring this
controversial lawsuit, Rodriguez explains that, having survived the
World Trade Center disaster when so many did not, he feels he must
learn the truth of what happened on that day. "If what the government
has told us about 9-11 is a lie," he says, "somebody has to take
action to reveal the truth. Since that plane hit the North Tower on
9-11, like it or not my life's meaning has become to reduce the number
of victims, and the amount of suffering from those attacks. If suing
President Bush is what I have to do to accomplish that, so be it."
Rodriguez notes that the events of 9-11 are directly related to the
deaths of thousands of people in two ongoing wars, attacks on
Constitutional liberties in the United States, the abuse and torture of
detainees around the world, and the use by the United States of
depleted uranium and other weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Admitting
the obvious, that his client's legal fight against powerful government
figures is of the 'David versus Goliath' variety, Berg, a former
deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania, invites both financial support
for his efforts, as well as assistance from volunteer attorneys.
The
action, filed in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on 10/22/04,
is Rodriguez v. Bush, et al., Civil Action No. _04 CV 4952_.
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