- William Rodriguez given national media attention about
his ignored 9/11 testimony.
- Rally draws hundreds of 9/11 truth supporters but mainstream
media again ignores event.
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- Gutless politicians still continue to avoid the truth
about 9/11, as this week in New York former 9/11 commissioner and Congressman,
Timothy Roemer, avoided answering questions, running away like a scared
rabbit when confronted by William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who heard
explosions in the North Tower basement and wanted to know why his testimony
was omitted in the final report..
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- NEW YORK CITY -- The 9/11 truth will be told. Bush and
Cheney will be indicted for treason and murder. And immediately stop the
killing and illegal war in Iraq.
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- These were the strong and poignant words ringing through
the streets of New York Sunday as more than 250 9/11 truth protestors marched
carrying "Impeach Bush" and "9/11 Inside Job" signs,
the rally starting at the New York Times building and ending at the United
Nations.
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- Organized by members of www.ny911truth.org, the rally
was called to vent anger and make the public aware of the concerted effort
by the mainstream media and the government to keep the truth about what
really happened on 9/11 from the American people.
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- Although the corporate-elite media came out earlier in
the day in force to cover the Ground Zero activities in honor of the 9/11
victims on the fourth anniversary of the tragedy, the media was predictably
absent from protest rally just like it has been purposely absent for four
years in covering compelling stories that contradict the flimsy government
official account..
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- Protestors picked the New York Times building for a starting
point, passing by the FOX, CNN and NBC buildings, to emphasize their feelings
that media suppression has been primarily responsible for keeping the America
from the truth about 9/11 and largely responsible for allowing government
officials to get away with the murder of 3,000 fellow citizens at Ground
Zero.
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- At the Sunday rally, William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor
and last survivor of the North Tower, told the crowd his story about hearing
and feeling explosions emanating from the sub level basement of the tower,
prior to the plane striking the upper floors, has been systematically suppressed
by the government, mainstream media and 9/11 Commission,
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- "They have done everything in their power to ignore
my statements which directly contradict the government story," said
Rodriguez as the crowd chanted "let the truth be told."
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- "I have at least 27 other people who are ready to
testify that they also heard explosions, all who have been completely ignored
by the 9/11 Commission. Also, the last drop of water fell from the glass
and I realized all hope was lost to get at the truth when, the testimony
I gave the commission behind closed doors last year, was omitted from the
final report."
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- This weekend, however, Rodriguez and his compelling story
showing a controlled demolition took down the towers broke new ground as
for the first time in four years a major news outlet carried his story.
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- Although he still hasn't broken the television network
barriers, his story aired on a one hour pre-recorded special for ABC radio
and its nationwide affiliates. The story aired on the east coast Sunday
evening at 7pm along with comments made by author David Ray Griffin who
has written a scathing report about at least 101 lies presented in the
final 9/11 Commission report.
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- Griffin, who also has been relegated for years to the
alternative press, finally received a national audience for his scholarly
efforts at revealing the truth about 9/11. Previously, Griffin, who has
written two books about government lies and its cover-up of 9/11, said
the 9/11 Commission report that received a national book award should have
been declared a ""national disgrace."
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- After Rodriguez finished speaking, former Lt. Col. USAF
Dr. Robert Bowman gave the crowd a rousing political speech, calling for
the immediate removal of Bush, Cheney and their cronies on charges of treason
and murder.
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- The former fighter pilot who flew over 100 Vietnam combat
missions and directed the Star Wars program under President Ford and Carter,
said he took a solemn oath to protect his country from enemies both foreign
and domestic, including defending against a rogue President like Bush.
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- "9/11 is based on a pack of lies. It wasn't misjudgment,
it was treason," said Dr. Bowman as he called from the immediate removal
of what he called the mob and crooks in the White.
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- Saying he received a kiss on the cheek by a family member
who lost a loved one at 9/11 while walking in the march, Dr. Bowman reassured
the audience those seeking truth about 9/11 and the illegal war in Iraq
were "doing the right thing."
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- "The entire Bush administration is based on deception
and lies. They are needlessly killing off the youth of this country in
the name of freedom and democracy when it is really for nothing but oil
and greed."
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- One of the final speakers at the rally, Donna Marsh,
a mother who lost her pregnant daughter at Ground Zero, gave the most heart-felt
emotional appeal, as tears came to her eyes and the eyes of many in the
crowd, when she recalled how her daughter perished at the hands of what
she called "criminals in the White House."
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- "My daughter called after the first plane hit at
8:46a.m and said she was told not to leave the South Tower because it was
safe. In fact she was told not to leave or she would be fired," said
Marsh to the crowd as well as repeating her statements on a Monday morning
radio show called The Power Hour on Genesis Broadcasting Network..
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- "Where was NORAD? What really happened in those
buildings? Why did they collapse so quickly like a controlled demolition?
There are just so many unanswered questions the government refuses to answer,
what other conclusion can be made other than our own government was involved
in killing my daughter and 3,000 other Americans.
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- "I want George W. Bush as of this day forward he
can no longer use my daughter's name to spread war and killing throughout
the world. From this day forward, I want my daughter's name removed permanently
from the official 9/11 victim's list."
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- After the rally lasting two hours, protestors doubled
in size as they congregated at St. Marks Church where more speakers, including
Pastor Frank Morales, attorney Phil Berg, who has filed a federal RICO
conspiracy lawsuit against Bush, and attorney Mimi Rosenberg of WBAI radio,
assured listeners they were in the movement "for the long haul, adding
no longer can we as a people live in fear of our government.
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- They added that the 9/11 truth movement is just as important
as the Revolutionary War in terms of preserving American freedoms and protecting
against a tyrannical dictatorship bent on the ultimate destruction of America.
- "As Americans we can no longer live in fear of
George W. Bush and his band of criminals who all belong behind bars in
jail," said Berg, as he promised to work for people like Donna Marsh,
who lost her daughter and William Rodriguez, a true American hero, adding
he wouldn't stop fighting for their freedoms until he put the entire neo-con
gang behind bars.
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- "I promise I will never stop searching for the truth
and one day the truth will be told."
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- Earlier Saturday, 9/11 family members, survivors and
victims held their own rally outside Ground Zero in what they called "Take
Back the Memorial" in order to block government plans to build the
International Freedom Center on the WTC site.
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- Family members say the government proposal seeks to honor
America's freedoms in general, including remembering such things as the
holocaust and other wars, which minimizes the significance and long term
remembrance of the victims who lost their lives at Ground Zero.
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- "All of those who were killed on 9/11 need to be
remembered at a place that will pay homage to their story and show reverence
to their memory," said James Slevin, vice president of Legislative
and Political Affairs of the 22,000 strong Uniformed Firefighters Association.
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- Although he wasn't opposed to memorializing the great
story of American freedom, he said Ground Zero wasn't the appropriate place
and should be left solely for the memory of those who perished on 9/11.
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- "We owe to all of the lives lost and to future generations,
who will seek to learn of the day's events (9/11), to have a memorial that
conveys homage, without the revisionist history that cultural institutions
like the International Freedom Center will attempt to portray."
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- Other family members placed the blame for the government's
misguided idea of a memorial squarely on the shoulders of New York Gov.
George Pataki.
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- "Governor, you have lost your way, you have lost
sight of what is most important at Ground Zero and if you think your advisors
including Tom Bernstein know better than the American people, think again,"
said Patricia Riley, who lost her sister Lorraine Lee on 9/11, to the group
of more than 1,000 family members and survivors gathered for the Saturday
rally.
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- Other family members, many carrying pictures of their
lost loved ones, openly denounced the Bush administration, calling them
a criminal gang of thugs who needed to be removed from office.
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- "Many of us know that the government was involved
in 9/11 and that they have never told us the truth from day one,"
said Eileen Torres, who lost family member and firefighter Manuel Del Valle
when the North Tower collapsed. "All we ever wanted was the truth
regarding how our loved ones died and it's something even four years later
we have never heard."
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- After the rally family members took their protest to
an organized day of conferences and discussions about the proposed family-backed
memorial and other 9/11 related issues regarding the fourth anniversary.
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- During the conference, former 9/11 commissioner and Congressman,
Timothy Roemer, addressed family members, saying his goal despite criticism
was to get at the real truth behind 9/11.
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- However, after the meeting, he appeared to immediately
contradict himself when he skirted questions posed by William Rodriguez,
the WTC Janitor, who asked him point blank why hoi story regarding explosions
in the North Tower was ignored by the Commission.
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- When Rodriguez attempted to push the issue, Roemer made
a quick exit to the elevators in the Marriot Hotel hallway, looking like
a scared rabbit in a den of foxes and again showing the true gutless quality
of politicians running our country today.
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- "You see, even after four years," said Rodriguez,
"they still won't answer my questions or deal with the truth of how
the towers really collapsed."
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