>Thank goodnes not everyone is asleep!
> UQ Wire: 9/11 In Never-Neverland
> Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 10:59 am
> Opinion: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
>
> Widow's Bush Treason Suit Vanishes in Blink of Media Eye
>
> by W. David Kubiak
>
> "The decision 'not to do the story' appears to be multiplying all over
> the nation." -- Fred Powledge, ACLU
> "Whoever said `no news is good news,' was BADLY misinformed." -- Dan
> Rather
>
> Think you're already amazed, alarmed or appalled enough by the state of
> US journalism today? Chew on this a while and think again.
>
> Grieving New Hampshire widow who lost her man on 9/11 refuses the
> government's million dollar hush money payoff, studies the facts of the
> day for nearly two years, and comes to believe the White House
> "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen" to launch a so-called "War on
> Terrorism" for personal and political gain.
>
> She retains a prominent lawyer, a former Deputy Attorney General of
> Pennsylvania, who served with distinction under both Democrats and
> Republicans and was once a strong candidate for the governor's seat.
>
> The attorney files a 62-page complaint in federal district court
> (including 40 pages of prima facie evidence) charging that "President
> Bush and officials including, but not limited to Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice,
> Ashcroft and Tenet":
> 1.) had adequate foreknowledge of 911 yet failed to warn the county or
> attempt to prevent it;
> 2.) have since been covering up the truth of that day;
> 3.) have therefore abetted the murder of plaintiff's husband and violated
> the Constitution and multiple laws of the United States; and
> 4.) are thus being sued under the Civil RICO (Racketeering, Influence,
> and Corrupt Organization) Act for malfeasant conspiracy, obstruction of
> justice and wrongful death.
>
> The suit text goes on to document the detailed forewarnings from foreign
>
> governments and FBI agents; the unprecedented delinquency of our air
> defense; the inexplicable half hour dawdle of our Commander in Chief at a
> primary school after hearing the nation was under deadly attack; the
> incessant invocation of national security and executive privilege to
> suppress the facts; and the obstruction of all subsequent efforts to
> investigate the disaster. It concludes that "compelling evidence will be
>
> presented in this case through discovery, subpoena power, and testimony
> [that] Defendants failed to act and prevent 9/11 knowing the attacks
> would lead toâ?| an 'International War on Terror' which would benefit
> Defendants both financially and politically."
>
> Press releases detailing these explosive allegations are sent out to 3000
> journalists in the print and broadcast media, and a press conference to
> announce the filing is held in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia
> on November 26th (commemorating the end of the first futile year of the
> independent National 9/11 Commission).
>
> Imagine the world-churning implications of these charges. Imagine the
> furor if just one was proved true. Imagine the courage of this bribe-
> shunning widow and an eminent attorney with his rep on the line. Then
> imagine a press conference to which nobody came.
>
> (Well, more precisely, imagine a press conference at which only FOX News
> appears, tapes for 40 minutes, and never airs an inch.)
>
> Now imagine the air time, column inches and talk show hysteria that same
> night devoted to the legal hassles of Michael, Kobe, and Scott Peterson,
> and divide that by the attention paid to our little case of mass murder,
> war profiteering and treason. (OK, this is really a trick question
> because no number divided by zero yields any answers whatsoever, which
> evidently in this case is the result preferred.)
>
> When you present documented charges of official treachery behind the
> greatest national security disaster in modern history and the press
> doesn't show, doesn't listen, doesn't write - just what in fact is really
> being communicated? That despite all the deaths, lies, wars, and bizarre
> official actions that flowed from 9/11 there's actually nothing there to
> be investigated at all? That addressing desperate victim families' still
> unanswered cries for truth is not a legitimate journalistic concern? That
> news will now be what the corporate media say it will be, so drink your
> infotainment Kool-Aid and kindly shut up?
>
> (While the 9/11 blackout is the most flagrant sign of current media
> dysfunction, it hardly stands alone. Where, for example, was our free and
> fearless press when Pentagon powerbroker Richard Perle confessed to a
> London audience last month that yes indeed, our war on Iraq was illegal
> as hell? He calmly explained that "in this case international law stood
> in the way of doing the right thingâ?| [it] would have required us to
> leave
>
> Saddam Hussein alone, and this would have been morally unacceptable."
> (Guardian/UK, 11/20/03) And what news have we seen of the thousands of
> Depleted Uranium deaths and birth defects now desolating Afghanis, Iraqis
> and our own Gulf War troops? And whose looking into the $1.2 trillion the
> Pentagon admits is "missing" or the half trillion in laundered funds now
> propping up our banks? And how many times have you seen it reported that
> unbid Iraq contracts have pushed the worth of VP Cheney's 433,333
> Halliburton stock options to $26 million plus? But to return to 9/11, the
> funny business has just begun. If you thought press performance after
> JFK's death was a cynical farce, you ain't seen nothing yet.)
>
> A few years back Harold Evans of the London Sunday Times, observed that
> the challenge facing American newspapers "is not to stay in business --
> it is to stay in journalism.'' As corporations' authoritarian,
> profit-driven consciousness comes to dominate both media and governance,
> you can expect a lot more serial celebrity scandals and even less news on
> the way things work or anything that really counts.
>
> There is a clear method and message in this obscurantist madness. All
> this media consolidation and tightening control is strategically aligned
> with deregulation, privatization, social program-gutting deficits and
> free trade regimes. They are all convergent tactics to enforce
> corporations' full spectrum dominance over democratic humankind. If your
> progressive or conservative instincts bid you to arise against this coup,
> standing with our 9/11 widow is a good place to start. Her name is Ellen
> Mariani, her lawyer is Phillip Berg and their complaint is now online at
> http://www.nancho.net/911/mariani.html &
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0311/S00224.htm . Read it and
> weep, wail, or whack out a dozen letters to the editors around your town,
> but for god's sake make some noise. When 9/11 bombshells fall silent in
> the corporate media's forest it's up to us to make them resound.
>
> - End -
>
> - W. David Kubiak is director of Big Medicine, a research and education
> institute studying the corporate takeover of our country, culture and
> consciousness. His email is bigmed@....
>
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