Boston Herald Covers 9/11 Victim Families efforts to go to Trial in Page 4 Article
Dec 15, 2008
Todays (12/15) Boston Herald article brings to light the plight of the 9/11 families who have not yet been silenced by the victims compensation settlement (hush) money, acceptance of which would have prohibited them from ever seeking damages for their loss.
The courage of Mike Low, and the families of the late Mark Bavis, and Barbara Keating should be commended and supported for their courageous stand. The issues they seek answers to should be brought to light.
Since no proper criminal investigation was ever done, no charges were filed, no indictments were issued, and no persons were even fired from their jobs at Massport, the FAA, or the Pentagon, the gapping questions of who should be held accountable and punished for criminal negligence or outright conspiracy should still be perused. Apparently the FBI says Bin Laden is NOT their man. According to FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex Tomb said, “The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” Why not? Isn't this the premise of the Governments own Official Theory?
19 Arab terrorist, of whom at least six were found alive after 9/11 as reported by the UK Guardian newspaper, indicates big problems. If the FBI got their identities wrong, what else did they get wrong?
The questions are endless, and lack of any serious explanation from official channels that goes beyond the 9/11 Commissions white wash is apparently never going to happen, unless perhaps Mike Low and Families get their day in court.
There are many other family members of 9/11 victims who are also not satisfied, and whose questions have not been answered to this day. Bob McLlviane has been saying for years "How would you feel if your son was murdered, and there was NEVER a criminal investigation into his death?"
As well the Jersey Girls themselves, who instigated the very creation of the 9/11 Commission, were very unhappy with the commission, they got Kissinger to back off as Commission director when they asked him if he might have any clients by the family name of Bin Laden. They also called for the resignation of executive director Philip Zelikow, and are now calling for a new investigation after the revelations of the 9/11 Commissions White House ties.
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The author of the story is Joe Dwinnell you can reach him at joed@bostonherald.com or send letters to: letterstotheeditor@bostonherald.com
Comments to the article can be made here
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3 victims’ kin demand 9/11 justice
By Joe Dwinell
Monday, December 15, 2008 -
Three families whose loved ones died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks learn today if their years of refusing to quit will finally pay off in a trial date so they can expose airline security failures that allowed mass murderers to bring a nation to its knees.
“I would like some truth and accountability, and I want the public to hear it,” said Mike Low, father of Sara Low, a flight attendant on American Airlines [AMR] Flight 11, the first jet to hit the twin towers.
The families of the late Mark Bavis, 31, Barbara Keating, 72, and Low, 28, will plead with Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in Federal District Court in Manhattan today to allow an open trial against Massport, the airlines and security companies in Boston.
To date, nearly 3,000 families have agreed to more than $7 billion in private settlements that averaged $2 million each from the federal Victims Compensation Fund. Another 96 families initially held out for trial but have since settled.
Low said he won’t give in because he believes a courtroom trial will expose fatal mistakes made at Logan International Airport, where American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 left with hijackers on board.
“These three families are focused and adamant to tell their stories,” said Donald A. Migliori, the lead attorney on the case.
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New England Strategy Session for 9/11 Truth
November 15, 2008 - 9-5pm Keene Public Library, Keene NH
November 1, 2008
9/11 Truth activists of New England are cordially invited and encouraged to attend a one-day Strategy Session to be held in Keene, NH on Saturday November 15, 2008 from 9am to 5pm. This day-long Strategy Session of open discussion among New England 9/11 Truth activists is designed to strengthen our existing activities, evaluate our resources, and develop new plans that we can immediately implement locally and as a region. Everyone is encouraged to bring your ideas. RSVP would be helpful, but is not required.
This is going to be the most important organizing and planning discussion we've had since the first strategy session at the Democracy Center at the original Boston 9/11 Truth Tea Party in 2006. Important ideas were hatched then like, Truth Squads and campaigns like the 11th of the month were inspired from it. Don't miss it!
To RSVP or for further information contact :Boston or: Keene NH
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Boston 9/11 Truth joins Anti-war Stop the Wars Rally
October 11, 2008
Boston 9/11 Truth joined over 20 other anti-war organizations at the Stop the Wars rally on Saturday 10/11/08 on the Boston Common. The rally included music and a parade, with thousands of peace loving people. The Truth tent was very busy distributing information and answering questions for the many interested attendees.
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Boston Premiere of “Zero – An Investigation Into 9-11”
Thursday September 11, 2008 at 7:00pm
Boston911Truth.org proudly and respectfully presents the Boston Premiere of the new Italian film “ZERO - INCHIESTA SULL'11 SETTEMBRE” [“ZERO – AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9-11”].
“ZERO” will be exclusively screened at the Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington Center on Thursday September 11, 2008 at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $10 at the door, $9 in advance. Free Parking.
“ZERO”, featuring intellectual heavyweights Gore Vidal and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, includes shocking new evidence exposing the truth of the 9-11-01 crimes!
“ZERO” was a sensation at the 2007 Rome Film Festival last Fall.
“ZERO” has one central thesis - that the official version of events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This new documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, directly conflicting with the US Government's account.
"What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps and omissions of stunning gravity". (Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere de la Sera)
“The importance of this film can not be overstated, if its thesis is correct, the justification for declaring the war on terror is built on a series of outrageous lies.” -La Repubblica
“The bomb at the Festa del Cinema di Roma is called Zero. An incendiary documentary. The rhythm is breathtaking. The filmmakers entertain and inform with the same dramatic force”. -Il Messaggerro
You can read more about “ZERO” and view trailers at these links: “ZERO - INCHIESTA SULL'11 SETTEMBRE”.
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'DJ Waldo' Truths up the Mix
Peace 2008 Hip Hop Festival welcomes Truth message to City Hall Plaza
August 3, 2008
jayseverin.org
Boston 9-11 Truth is seemingly everywhere these days. Hot off their successful "Patriots Question 9-11" canvassing party on Boston's Esplanade this July 4th, the group took their message this past Saturday to Boston's City Hall Plaza where they distributed over 1,000
"Revolutionary HipHop" CDs to a highly receptive crowd.
The peace festival, the City's fifth annual, went off without a hitch despite a soggy start, with this year's headliner, legendary Long Island duo EPMD, powerfully broadcasting the peace message to a roaring crowd of about 2,500. "There is something almost organic about the rap/hiphop scene that jives perfectly with our truth and peace message," said Mike "Waldo" Alexander. "We just knew we had to be here this year."
The group was easily able to distribute its entire inventory of revolutionary hiphop disks, a compilation assembled by Alexander, which questions the official account of 9-11, the "war on terror," globalization and other man-made impediments to peace and prosperity. Included on the disk were underground smashes like "Death March" by Immortal Technique and Paris' "Truth Song."
"We saw this same level of receptiveness on July 4th," said volunteer Jonny Rys. "People are more open to dicussing 9-11 than ever before (because) they're realizing their freedoms are on the line."
Until recently, the group says they sometimes encountered resistance when pointing out that 9-11 is an unsolved crime. But they say 2008 has seen a big shift their way. "It's as if someone suddenly flipped a swit ch here in the Boston area," said volunteer Susan Allen. "Most peoplewe talk to are now accepting of the fact that we never got a true investigation into the 9-11 crime, and that we need to have one now."
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Boston Helps NY/911 Truth Collect Signatures
July 25, 2008
Greetings from our Truth group in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire.
The enclosed song, music attached, was recently sung in Central Square, Keene, NH by our group when we hosted Bob Bowman (The Patriots), and was well received by the public. This was part of our effort to bring music into our activities. Please use freely if you see fit. Sheet music here.
On Thursday 5 intrepid members of Boston 9/11 Truth went to NYC in the early morning to help New York members collect signatures to get a referendum on the ballot in November which would re-open the seriously flawed 9/11 commission.
The trip down itself was not without incident: a flat-tire going AND returning, heavy downpours and the predictable heavily congested traffic on I-95 near NYC. Nevertheless, the group arrived by 11 am at Union Square park where the petitioning was taking place that day. They joined other NY chapter members who were stationed through the park, at subway entrances and speaking to many New Yorkers sitting on the park benches to take in the sun.
It was not difficult to collect signatures, as many New Yorkers are well-informed about 9/11 and like to engage in political discussions. At least half of those asked to sign were not NYC registered voters and so were ineligible to sign. Of those eligible perhaps one in four would agree to sign.
The Boston group, though exhausted after the long one-day trip, were happy because they had collected many signatures and because they had given a strong morale boost to the NY 9/11 members. The goal of obtaining 30,000 signatures by the end of July seemed reachable.
Greg Flynn
Newton Chapter, Boston 9/11 Truth
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New England Activists head to NYC to support the NYC 911 Ballot Initiative
Boston 9/11 Truth activists join NYC 9/11 Truth 7/24-27
July 23, 2008
As of July 10th 20,000 signatures have been collected for the NYC 911 Ballot Initiative. By July 29th 35,000 signatures must be collected for review by the New York City Council. If the Council challenges the petition to place this initiative on the fall ballot, an additional 15,000 signatures must be gathered to override that challenge. What this all means is that a lot of hard fast work must be done over the next 10 days.
The good news is that many volunteers are heading to NYC this coming week to help gather signatures (you do not have to be a NYC resident to collect signatures.) Also in the good news department, a donor has given the project $25,000 to hire canvassers to help complete this effort! So between paid canvassers and volunteers there is every reason to believe we can pull this off, if we all do our part!
Many local 911 Truth activists will go down early on Thursday 7/24 and return late Thursday evening. Contact Chris if you want to go down with us on Thursday or contact Doug Wight to make arrangements to go down to NYC to help out on another day. Go here for NH ridshares.We hope to have a huge turnout of volunteers this coming weekend 7/26 and 27.
Here's the weekend schedule:
Arrive NYC: Friday, 25 July and check in - lodging arranged, talk over process for Saturday
Petitioning: Saturday, 26 July, 10 AM
Party: Saturday, 26 July in the PM to celebrate reaching the 30,000 goal.
If you would like to learn more about NYC 911 Ballot Initiative, details are at http://www.nyc911initiative.org.
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Boston Activists Blast 4th of July Celebration with the Truth
Boston 9/11 Truth activists hit the pavement at Boston’s 4th of July
July 4, 2008
It wasn’t the flashiest Truth action ever, nor did it make the evening news, but 20 or more dedicated Boston911Truth activists hit the pavement at Boston’s 4th of July Pops concert and fireworks display and accomplished something just short of miraculous, for us anyway. Armed with only a smile, new Patriots Question 911 postcards and WeAreChange informational flyers, our hearty “Info Warriors” were able to distribute 7,000 pieces of literature at a rate of 1,000 per hour for seven hours among the crowds lining the Charles River waiting for the festivities to begin.
This was a unique experiment for us. Each year on the 4th, Boston’s Charles River Esplanade attracts 500,000 people to listen to the Boston Pops and watch the spectacular fireworks display. Our primary goal was to get as much solid literature as we could into the hands of the captive audience who come hours early to claim a good spot.
Two weeks prior, we ran a 48-hour email fund drive to raise the money to buy 10,000 pieces of literature. We hit our mark in less than 36 hours. We purchased 4,000 of the new PatriotsQuestion911 postcards created by 911Truth.org and 6,000 WeAreChange tri-fold flyers.
Our next strategy was to blend in with the crowd – meeting them where they are at, as opposed to creating some sort of scene to get noticed. We had virtually no signs (though we did put up an ae911truth.org sign about half way through) and most of us wore Red Sox apparel, t-shirts that just said “Boston,” our local t-shirts with a red, white, and blue peace symbol or just a regular top. No “Inside Job” and very little “Investigate 911” garb could be found. We flew an American flag and the Flag of New England at our home base. It’s become increasingly important for many of us to show the public that we’re normal people just like them, with real concerns about America. We discouraged, almost forbid any confrontation. As one activist put it, “The best line to use to get someone to take a handout was “How y’all doing today – with a smile.”
We established a home base, which ironically was right beside a State Police outpost. We passed out material to those who passed by and complimented that with teams of two or three truthers each, who got out there and worked the crowd on both sides of the river.
Beginning around 10:30 am, truthers went blanket to blanket among the early arrivals and politely asked if they wanted something important to read while they were sitting around waiting for the festivities to begin. We mapped out the whole area carefully so that we wouldn’t hit the same area twice in a row and bother people who had already been approached. Early in the day, almost half of everyone we asked took our literature. We taped postcards inside the “port-a-pottys,” and on light posts.
The experiment was to see how well kindness and a smile would work. We were totally confident in the materials produced by 911truth.org and WeAreChange and we felt that the extremes of brash signage and slogans that mean little to passers-by would detract rather than help our effort. And we were so right.
It literally brought tears to our eyes to see blanket after blanket with people READING our handouts – not just glancing at them, but actually reading them all the way through. On a return trip to our home base to re-supply, it was not unusual to be passed by people coming toward us carrying or reading our handouts while walking, flanked on either side by people sitting quietly and reading our message. At times it felt like the biggest 911 truth festival one could imagine.
The police, National Guard and Park Rangers were great. We shared a spot with the State Police and they left us completely alone. Early in the day two Park Rangers came by and told us they got a littering complaint. We told them that we would go clean up whatever people dropped, but they said “no worries” and never bothered us with that again, because actually, we found very few on the ground. But the Rangers did come back because one of them was really interested in our message, and to the chagrin of his partner, lingered for about 20 minutes to learn as much as he could.
Out of the thousands of people we approached and who took our handouts, the number of people who challenged us or were angered could be counted on one hand. Parents seeing us passing out literature sent their kids over to get one for themselves. We had an encounter with the son of a Sept 11 first responder whose dad was still sick and getting no help from the government – a young student pointed to us and with a smile screamed at his friends enthusiastically, “See, that’s what I’m talking about” -- and an older couple stopped a couple of us to tell us of the great 911truth work being done in Spain. These are just a few of the dozens of great encounters we had. And we learned a very important lesson – that being kind and respecting where people are coming from goes a long way in getting people to listen.
The action did not go completely without a glitch, however. Toward the end of the day, a couple of our more rambunctious WeAreChangers decided to crank the volume up, so to speak, which got the immediate attention of the State Police. To diffuse what up until then had been an incident-free public action that showed amazing results, one of our organizers walked up to one of the officers to apologize for the outburst. The officer thanked him for coming over, shook his hand and said, “You guys give protesting a good name.”
This was an amazing action for us and it was so easy to do.
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When we put together this summary of our event, we mistakenly credited
911truth.org for creating the PatriotsQuestion911 postcard, when in fact,
the card was the brainchild of a California-based graphic designer named
Camille and the coordination for the printing was handled by the great folks
at the Northern California 911 Truth Alliance, who went out of their way to
accommodate our tight time schedule.
To get cards of your own, you can contact sf911truth.org or 911sharethetruth.com.
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WBZ Radio Interview with Gage, Bowman and O'Connor
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Dan Rae WBZ Radio Interview 12/14/2007 |
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Listen to this archived in-studio interview, with Host Dan Rae who graciously and respectfully spoke with Bob Bowman, Richard Gage and Donna Marsh O'Connor, regarding their skepticism of the official 9/11 theory on December 14, 2007. Download the (32mb) file directly here.
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Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report
by Alan Miller
http://www.opednews.com
Official Account of 9/11 a "Joke" and a "Cover-up"
September 24, 2007 – Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation. "I think at simplest terms, there's a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke," said Raymond McGovern, former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and 27-year veteran of the CIA. "There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. And the reason they're unanswered is because this administration will not answer the questions," he said. McGovern, who is also the founder of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), is one of many signers of a petition to reinvestigate 9/11.[1]
During his 27-year CIA career, McGovern personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials. Upon retirement in 1990, McGovern was awarded the CIA's Intelligence Commendation Medallion and received a letter of appreciation from then President George H. W. Bush. However, McGovern returned the award[2] in 2006 in protest of the current George W. Bush Administration's advocacy and use of torture...
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9/11 First Responder Support
Please consider helping these dedicated First Responder Foundations (Gear Up Foundation , Fealgood Foundation ) with whatever financial support you can. Our government assured the Fire Fighters, Police and EMT's that the choking cloud of dust and smoke at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. They did not even issue paper masks. Over 70% of the 40,000 have contracted serious respritory illnesses, and hundreds have already died as a direct result. The government that lied to them has now callously ignored and abandoned them.
All donations to these Foundations are 100% tax deductible. ~ Thank You
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Timeline to Tyranny
Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States
Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet
The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program.