Ed Asner Letter -- 9-11 Action Requested

[Kanary]

http://www.septembereleventh.org/alerts/asner.php

Mon, 26 Apr 2004

Dear Peace & Justice Leader(s),

I am Ed Asner. As you may know, I've dedicated much of my life to promoting peace &
justice issues in America.

I would like to suggest to you emphatically that the 9-11 truth movement is the most
pressing issue of the peace & justice movement today. Here is why. 9-11 has been used
to justify "endless war" and a continual rollback in civil liberties that seems to have no end
in sight. Yet, 9-11 remains the least examined tragedy in modern American history.

Americans would have never agreed to the last two wars and the Patriot Act's disturbing
policy . . . had it not been for 9-11.

There are many disturbing issues around 9-11 that have yet to be examined in any
meaningful way by our media, Congress, and even by the 9-11 Commission. These
include accountability for the massive breakdown of air defense and plane intercept
procedures as described in FAA and DOD regulations, which were violated on 9-11...

This breakdown and astounding unpreparedness by U.S. domestic defense agencies is
puzzling to say the least, given the detailed reports our government had of the coming
attacks, that were bizarrely suppressed by key officials.

For example, FBI Agent Coleen Rowley suggested that her offices' attempts to alert
higher ups in the FBI of the pre 9-11 activities of Zacharias Moussaoui "seemed to have
been consistently, almost DELIBERATELY thwart . . ." While George Tenet, Director
of the CIA, had recieved a memo in August of 2001 (one month before the attacks of
9-11) on this report entitled, "Islamic Extermists Learn to Fly." Yet, Tenet took no action on
this memo. The FBI agents responsible for the now famous "Phoenix Memo" regarding
Osama Bin Laden sending students to the U.S. to attend civil aviation schools, also
struggled to get their higher ups to act on this information.

To date, no one has been held accountable for the massive defense failures on 9-11, nor
for the bizarre suppression of critical warnings prior to 9-11. Furthermore, we still have no
explanation for why the head of Pakistani intelligence, who was meeting with top Bush
Administration officials in Washington on 9-11-2001, had wired lead hijacker Mohammed
Atta $100,000.00 weeks before 9-11. We still do not know who made the insider stock
trades in weeks and days leading up to 9-11, by betting "against" United and American
Airlines stocks (the aircraft used as missiles on 9-11).

What we DO KNOW is that $5 million of those insider stock trade "winnings" apparently
by someone who had foreknowledge of the coming attacks, were made the day before
9-11 at AB Brown Trust. AB Brown Trust was headed until his induction into the CIA by
Buzzy Krongard, who is now the Executive Director of the CIA. We also know that the
current head of AB Brown Trust quietly resigned his position on 9-11, with no media
scrutiny nor apparently government scrutiny. Lastly, and perhaps most bizarre is the fact
that $2.5 million of those stock "winnings" against these airlines made at AB Brown Trust .
. . remain unclaimed.

We deserve to know why no one has been held accountable, and who made those insider
stock trades. We also deserve to know why the Bush Administration allowed members of
the Bin Laden family to quietly leave the U.S. after 9-11, with virtually no questioning by the
FBI, and at a time when other Americans were not allowed to fly.

There are many other profound, and bizarrely "unasked" questions around 9-11. I urge all
to read "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and
9/11" by David Ray Griffin, and endorsed by Howard Zinn, and to view "The Great
Deception" documentary by acclaimed Canadian television journalist Barry Zwicker.
Peace & justice leaders and activists will find these works a great resource for getting
current on the 9-11 truth issue, and can be great organizing tools to educate others.

I fear that if the underlying issues of 9-11 truth are not demanded, that Iraq may be but a
flame on an ocean of gasoline that may be used to ignite war after war after war. We
cannot, as a peace & justice movement only address the flames. We must look at the fuel
being used to justify the flames of war and repression at home and abroad. We must look
deeply at the events leading up to, on and since 9-11. We must demand full 9-11 truth.

I encourage all local and national peace & justice activists and organizations to join
Philadelphia Peace Action and other peace & justice organizations nationwide who are
now beginning to work with and becoming involved with the National 9-11Visibility Project
at www.septembereleventh.org and to list your local efforts contact information there, so
9-11 truth activists across the nation can get involved with you to demand full 9-11 truth.

The National 9-11 Visibility Project has worked with 9-11 family members, and become a
media source conducting interviews and linking media with 9-11 family members,
including BBC World Wide Radio Network, The O'Reilly Factor, and others. By listing your
local contact information for your local 9-11 truth activities at www.septembereleventh.org
media visiting the site can find your contact information as well as local activists who want
to join your efforts.

Sincerely,



Ed Asner

[NMDemDist2]

1. wow! powerful stuff eom

[sce56]

2. Way to go Ed

Lets get out the truth not another Lame Warren Commision !


<>
A WIN WIN SITUATION FOR SKULL'N'BONES! <>
< PHOTO C-17>

[DieboldMustDie]

3. Why did you post that Bush/Kerry '04 logo?

It clearly serves Republican ends, not ours. Freeper mole perhaps? :shrug:

[sce56]

5. No just one pissed off citizen that sees two of the same

In Bush & Kerry! I voted for Edwards but got stuck with a choice tween two Skull & Boners!

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/03-08-2004/bonesmen.htm
Bipartisan Bonesmen
by William F. Jasper

The two leading contenders for the U.S. presidency are both members of Skull and Bones, one of the oldest secret societies in America. Why is this not a major election-year issue?

Mr. Russert: You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?

Senator Kerry: Not much, because it’s a secret.

— Meet the Press, August 31, 2003

Mr. Russert: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.

President Bush: It’s so secret we can’t talk about it.

— Meet the Press, Taped on February 7, 2004


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=skull+and+bones+AND+Kerry+AND+Bush&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-b8&q=skull+and+bones+AND+Kerry+AND+Bush&btnG=Search

Published on Thursday, January 22, 2004 by Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!
Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush

Listen | Watch

A little-known fact unites Democratic frontrunner John Kerry and President Bush: they are both members of Yale's secret society Skull and Bones. We speak with the author of "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power" that reveals details about the secret society and its members.

The New Hampshire primary is just a few days away and Howard Dean's status as the frontrunner has almost totally dissipated. The latest Boston Herald poll now shows that John Kerry holds a 10 point lead - a major surge for the Massachusetts Senator. Still reeling from his victory in Iowa, Kerry is starting to act like the frontrunner, shifting his focus from comparing himself to the other Democrats to putting his record up against President George W. Bush, saying he is the only candidate who can beat Bush and who represents a real difference from the current occupant of the White House.

But there is a fact about Kerry's past that brings him closer to Bush than any of the other candidates. Both Bush and Kerry are members of a secretive society dating back to their respective days at Yale University - Skull and Bones. This fact has not been widely reported but when Kerry's campaign spokesperson was asked about it, she said, "John Kerry has absolutely nothing to say on that subject. Sorry."


Alexandra Robbins, is the New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power who was formerly on the Washington, DC staff of The New Yorker magazine. She is a 1998 graduate of Yale and was the first reporter to publish George W Bush's transcript from Yale when he was a student there.


That is why I post that! Any more ?'s
<>
]

[lindashaw]

4. I'm copying my reply to the other duplicate post.

Robert Baer (former CIA) was just on CNN, talking about the 9/11 commission report -- what he would like to see on it. Now, I've liked Baer, what little I've known about him, but he contributed almost nothing to the interview.

He certainly didn't raise any of the issues that Ed Asner has raised. The interview was awkward and completely generic. He brushed off what was known pre-9/11 and said we should focus on what we could learn about dealing with the future. Puzzling...

[G_j]

6. I always liked Ed

he's still on top of thinks I see!
thanks for posting this

[symbolman]

7. Should send them this

link below

[Christ was Socialist]

8. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America

just so all you leftists haters know.