[lbo-talk] Bush RICO Lawsuit

Joseph Wanzala jwanzala at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 15 14:14:45 PST 2003


This general topic has come up on this list before. The last time it somehow devolved into a discussion about the well-trodden grassy knoll and ended with a series of mocking haikus contra 'conspiracy theory'. I think that some of the questions raised by this RICO lawsuit, after being ignored for some time by progressive journalists, are now being raised even by the likes of Eric Alterman, David Corn and Salim Muwakill. Whether the answers to these questions implicate the Bush administration or not remains to be seen.....

http://www.blogsforbush.com/archives/000186.html

Howard Dean, Conspiracy Theorist James Taranto in his Best of the Web Today over at OpinionJournal.com brings to our attention this little snippet from the Dr. of Disaster:

"Caller: Once we get you in the White House, would you please make sure that there is a thorough investigation of 9/11, and not stonewall it?

Dean: Yes. There is a report, which the president is suppressing evidence for, which is a thorough investigation of 9/11.

Rehm: Why do you think he's suppressing that report?

Dean: I don't know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I've heard so far--which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved--is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is? But the trouble is, by suppressing that kind of information, you lead to those kinds of theories, whether they have any truth to them or not. And eventually they get repeated as fact. So I think the president is taking a great risk by suppressing the key information that should go to the Kean commission. "

So, there ya have it - Dean is propagating a hate-Bush, anti-American conspiracy theory. This sort of theory, it should be pointed out, was first spun by the apologists for terrorists shortly after 9/11. I remember them clearly - the one theory, of course, was that the Israeli Mossad did it, with the Jews of New York being warned to make themselves scarce on the deadly day - the other theory was that President Bush knew it was coming and allowed it to happen so that he could reap political benefit from the resultant war.

Needless to say, such sick theories have no place in rational discussion - but they apparantly have a place in Dean's heart. Taranto, in his report on the interview, points out that if a GOP Presidential candidate back in 1996 had said "The Clinton's may have murdered Vince Foster....but its only a theory", then the media would have (rightly) jumped all over them. So degraded have the Democrats become, and so expectant we all are of their degradation, that a remark like Dean's here raises nary an eyebrow.

Democrats - honestly, you really need to do something to take back your party from the kooks like Dean. We GOPers want to win, and want to win big - but its better when both major parties have serious things to say.


>From: "Steven" <mailinglist at navari.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Bush RICO Lawsuit
>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:46:36 -0800
>
>While this might be old news, I don't recall seeing any discussion of this
>item in the LBO archives. Please excuse me if this is a dup.
>
>It is interesting to note that the plaintiff has secured well respected
>legal representation: 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.
>
>"(Philadelphia, PA - 11/26/03) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, announced today
>that he, attorney for Ellen Mariani, wife of Louis Neil Mariani, who died
>when United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the
>World
>Trade Center on 9-11 at a news conference regarding the filing of a
>detailed
>Amended Complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern
>District of Pennsylvania on 11/26/03 in the case of Mariani vs. Bush et al
>that he is alleging President Bush and officials including, but not limited
>to Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Feinberg that they:
>
>1. had knowledge/warnings of 911 and failed to warn or take steps to
>prevent;
>
>2. have been covering up the truth of 911; and
>
>3. have therefore violated the laws of the United States; and
>
>4. are being sued under the Civil RICO Act."
>
>
>See press release at:
>http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0311/S00261.htm
>
>See Complaint at:
>http://www.nancho.net/911/mariani.html
>
>
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