This woman died in the plane crash in Buffalo last night...

My Silence Cannot Be Bought

I've chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.
I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.
The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgement by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires still smoldered.
And this liability cap protects not just the airlines, but also World Trade Center builders, safety engineers and other defendants.
The caps on liability have consequences for those who want to sue to shed light on the mistakes of 9/11. It means the playing field is tilted steeply in favor of those who need to be held accountable. With the financial consequences other than insurance proceeds removed, there is no incentive for those whose negligence contributed to the death toll to acknowledge their failings or implement reforms. They can afford to deny culpability and play a waiting game.
By suing, I've forfeited the "$1.8 million average award" for a death claim I could have collected under the fund. Nor do I have any illusions about winning money in my suit. What I do know is I owe it to my husband, whose death I believe could have been avoided, to see that all of those responsible are held accountable. If we don't get answers to what went wrong, there will be a next time. And instead of 3,000 dead, it will be 10,000. What will Congress do then?
So I say to Congress, big business and everyone who conspired to divert attention from government and private-sector failures: My husband's life was priceless, and I will not let his death be meaningless. My silence cannot be bought.

 

So you think she was permanently silenced by some secret covert organization within the government

If they did they probably sabotaged the attitude indicator




Hotwater

 

That is really strange.

 

It's not out of the question, but I doubt it.

 

Definitely not out of the question I suppose...

One would almost be inclined to think there was something larger than all of us afoot in the greater scheme of things. A dark cloud hanging about, perhaps... Or something in the air... All things 9-11 seem to be some of the worlds greatest mysteries.

 

I had a strange feeling about it last night and mentioned it to my dad as we watched it.. I'm glad I'm not the only one questioning official stories, for me it would be a mighty strange coincidence if it wasn't allowed to happen(a.k.a. they still aren't sure if the anti-icing equipment was working....why the hell wouldn't they know that? it seems pretty obvious...if there's ice, then it's not working....if the ice melts, its on)... just like 9/11 the smallest measure can decide the fate of many, "pull back security for a couple hours?" "sure"... "oh shit"..... ..."turn off the de-icing mechanisms?" "sure".... "oh shit"....

with a national media, anything can happen

 

The crash had absolutely nothing to do with Beverly Eckert. Gerry Niewood, a sax player, and Coleman Mellett, a guitarist, both of Chuck Mangione's backup band were on the flight and were also killed when it crashed.

This is obviously a justified conspiracy to stop the spread of really, really, bad jazz music.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hi22Tp-uBg

 

B flat just got a new meaning.

 

Actually I kinda like that


Hotwater

 

Matt's obviously prejudiced because Mangione and Niewood both grew up in our hometown.

 

"I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited."

Thats because we let them, mang. How else would we be able to justify beefing up/reinstating our empire in the middle east? Isreal can't do EVERYTHING for us now. . .

I'm saddened by how the 9/11 truth movement just kind of died out. How the hell did that happen? Why are SO many people just absolutely unwilling and unable to believe that the people who are supposed to be on our side were capable of this? I think if we revived the movement it might get a much bigger following today - people are much, much more aware of the dishonesty, the self-serving nature, the staggering accumulation of evidence that the official 9/11 story was a sham - hell, its all there except perhaps for a photograph of Cheney winking and giving a thumbs up as he activates the detonator.

its painfully obvious nowadays we didn't send thousands of troops to kill and be killed in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction or to spread democracy (hell, the only reason we had elections there was because the Shi'ite religious leader threatened to have his followers riot en-masse if we didn't hold them, because he knew the Shi'ite majority in that country would elect a Shi'ite government).

And so on and so forth.

I sense that its floating around in most people's heads now (at least the heads of the thinkers, the open-minded people) - that is, the idea that 9/11 was perhaps an inside job. I don't know many people anymore who won't acknowledge just about every other thing the Bush administration has done wrong - but for some reason they just can't quite bring themselves to consider the possibility that 9/11 was anything more than a well-coordinated attack by some religious fanatics - some of whom are still alive, by the way, and pissed that they've been accused of crashing planes into the trade centers. I guess the possibility that our own government could kill a few thousand of its own people for a large payoff without batting an eye is too horrifying to entertain.

Except we've killed more of our own in Iraq, and even more innocent Iraqi civilians, than died on 9/11. And we already know that Iraq boils down to money (or if you want to look at it more broadly, control of the middle east - but for the Bush administration probably mostly money). If you think of things that way, you'll see that the idea behind the 9/11 truth movement isn't all that far-fetched at all.

 

Chuck Mangione never said that. Mang.

 

Shit. I kinda like jazz...

 

Me too. Good Jazz. Like Chuck E. Weiss and Miles Davis. Not commercial production soundtrack crap...

 

True. However, he did once say

" Jack and Jill are hard at work
Helping children dream awhile,
And Snoopys making smiles
For grown-ups."

Which clearly proves my point just as well.

 

Got me there...

 

Really? Name one.

Oh and one extra request: please rely on current information, not a news report from two days after the attacks.

 

Define current information.

 

You folks can't prove that the Continental flight was crashed in order to silence Bev Eckert any more than I can prove it was crashed to silence Chuck Mangione's band even though that's twice as likely.

But it'd be entertaining as hell to see you try.