[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE HERO SUES BUSH AND OTHERS UNDER RICO STATUTE,

Wed Nov 3 23:45:43 PST 2004

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>WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE HERO SUES BUSH AND OTHERS UNDER RICO 
>STATUTE, ALLEGES WILLFUL COMPLICITY IN ATTACKS THAT KILLED 3,000.
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>By Margaret Atheling Rowe
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>PHILADELPHIA, PA, OCTOBER __22,_ 2004.  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 steel 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. __________.
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>Read the Complaint in Rodriguez v. Bush on the Internet at
>www.911forthetruth.com
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>For further information contact:
>Philip J. Berg, Esq.
>706 Ridge Pike
>Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania 19444 USA
>Telephone: (610) 825-3134
>Cell phone:  (610) 662-3005
>Telefax:  (610) 834-7659
>PJBLAW at AOL.COM
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>--
>Peter Phillips Ph.D.
>Sociology Department/Project Censored
>Sonoma State University
>1801 East Cotati Ave.
>Rohnert Park, CA 94928
>707-664-2588
>http://www.projectcensored.org/


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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand
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