Ellen Mariani, the 9/11 widow who turned down the "hush money" the government offered to the families, has her lawsuit coming up in September. The following website makes the criticism that the lawyer is "fixing" the case so she is held up to ridicule and the case dismissed.

""http://www.public-action.com/911/suit.html

Mariani/Berg Suit — In A Nutshell

Mrs. Mariani's late husband, Louis Neil Mariani, was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175, the airplane that is alleged to have crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

As a 911 widow, Mrs. Mariani was entitled to receive money from the government's 911 Victims Compensation Fund. Families who accepted money from the fund were required to waive their rights to sue for damages, and with that, of course, the right to conduct discovery. It is through the discovery and subpoena process that the real facts about 9-11 might be brought to light.

Mrs. Mariani, a 65-year-old grandmother who lives on Social Security, refused to participate in what she called the government's "hush fund." Instead, she is suing. "I am a person who wants to know what happened," said told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Money is great, but not when it comes to a loved one being murdered." (1)

On September 12, 2003, lawyer Philip Berg filed a RICO suit on behalf of Mrs. Mariani in the federal court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. (3)

A RICO suit like Mrs. Mariani's is always an allegation of nefarious conspiracy. Lawyer Berg alleges that George Bush and a number of others knew about an impending attack and failed "to act and prevent" it to benefit financially from the follow-up wars. Berg also charges that Bush et al. have failed to cooperate with the Bush-appointed 911 Commission and are obstructing justice.

The following critique will show that Philip Berg has contrived a legal complaint that flagrantly betrays Mrs. Mariani's stated goals. Berg's Complaint is a booby trap set up for ulterior purposes.

What Berg Is Really Doing

* It is the responsibility of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to keep U.S. and Canadian skies safe from wayward airplanes and enemy missiles. NORAD's failure to perform on 9-11 enabled the terror to take place. Berg blames NORAD with one hand, but slyly lets them off the hook with the other. (1)

*Berg makes a weak case against the Bush Administration by using inferior evidence. He shuns first-hand evidence and witnesses, and relies upon third, fourth, and fifth-hand evidence and witnesses instead. This inferior evidence would never stand up in a real courtroom.

* While naming ten defendants — including big headline-grabbers like President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney — Berg fails to name two lesser-known men who are more directly accountable and responsible for the death of Louis Neil Mariani and the 911 terror. Those two men are NORAD Commander Ralph E. Eberhart and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard B. Myers.

* Berg paints a psychological profile of Bush: He is a man who makes war on other nations to satisfy his personal greed. But Berg neglects to mention this aspect of Bush's psychology: He is a Judeo, a religious zombie devoted to Israel.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, describes President Bush thus: "I have never heard any American president, from Reagan to Clinton, ally himself so closely with the Israeli position." So while Berg focuses on the private wallet in Bush's pocket, he ignores the very public yarmulke on Bush's head. See actual unretouched photo from Simon Wiesenthal Center, taken during Bush's presidential campaign. (47)

* Berg proclaims that desire for monetary and political benefit is the motive behind the 911 wars. But he fails to mention that the greatest beneficiary of the 911 wars is the state of Israel. Israel had the motive, means, and opportunity.

* Berg would have us believe that even though Bush et al. helped murder 3,000 Americans and are lying to cover up their crime, they are telling the Gospel truth concerning the basics: Muslims hijackers and suicide pilots did the job. Berg never presents a serious analysis of the events of 9-11.

Berg is casting the suicide-pilots story in court-record concrete. Whether his speculations about greed are accepted or rejected, whether Mrs. Mariani wins damages or loses the case, Berg's suit will leave the official 9-11 cover story undisturbed.

* A growing number of Americans suspect that Israel and Israeli agents within the US, not Muslims, were responsible for 911. People like Berg realize that repeating calumnies against the Muslims is even more important now. Berg's Complaint contains approximately 20,300 words. Almost half of his text (approximately 9,000 words) is spent presenting government disinformation described as intelligence reports that repeat the same mantra: "The Muslims did it, the Muslims did it!"

For Berg, no story is too ludicrous or too lurid. He includes a story about "al-Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion," and another story of an FBI informant being recruited as a suicide bomber while a second FBI employee captures the drama with a camcorder. Despite the huge populations of allegedly fanatical Muslims living in the Middle East, this recruitment session takes place in — would you believe — Phoenix, Arizona! These knee-slappers deserve to be included in Saturday Night Live, not a serious legal filing.

Berg's Complaint seems to attack Bush, but Berg is actually pulling Israel's chestnuts out of the fire.
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Berg misrepresents the post-911 deception. On September 11, 2001, an appropriate government investigatory body, already staffed and possessing subpoena powers, was in existence: The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich). Levin's Committee not only failed to investigate 911, it praised and promoted the military officers who allowed it to happen.
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By use of the class action statute and other legal mechanisms, Berg's suit effectively guarantees that the big 911 secrets will never be revealed through civil litigation — any place, any time, by any person.

As you read this critique, please refer to the Complaint and do your own searches.


How Berg Protects NORAD Commander Eberhart

Berg claims "… plaintiff asserts perhaps the single most damning indictment of Defendant GWB and all Defendants who failed to protect our nation on '911' was the failure of Defendants DOD/NORAD to follow normal military protocol …" (5) It is undeniable: In the real world, NORAD was a more immediate and proximate cause of Louis Neil Mariani's death than any of the named defendants.

NORAD Commander Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart
On 9-11, the commander of NORAD was Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart. Yet look at the caption of the Complaint. You will find that Berg has not named Eberhart as a defendant. Instead, Berg names "Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (DOD), Officially and Individually." In Footnote (5) we learn that "… NORAD under DOD and FAA under DOT jurisdiction respectively are key Defendants in this matter …"

What is the effect of omitting Eberhart from the list of named defendants while indirectly naming NORAD, the organization, as a defendant? NORAD is a US-Canada treaty organization. The US Department of Defense does not have jurisdiction over organizations formed by treaties between the US and other counties.

NORAD could voluntarily send some slick mouthpiece to answer any questions Berg might submit. But Eberhart and his entire command chain on duty on 9-11-01 could be kept safely out of reach. Had Berg named Eberhart individually, that dodge would have been impossible; Eberhart is a US citizen.

Later in the Complaint, Berg tells us that Eberhart "admitted that NORAD had practiced responding to such a scenario where terrorists hijack a plane and attempt to crash it into a target in the US." (6) Hidden in Footnote 20 is this lament: "To date, no NORAD member has been official [sic] charged with dereliction of duty, a court martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice." Berg seems to be wringing his hands that they have escaped justice.

Well, all right! If Berg thinks Eberhart & Company have escaped justice and should answer for their actions, why isn't Berg administering justice with this RICO suit? Bring on Justice, Mr. Berg. Name Gen. Eberhart as a defendant "Officially and Individually" right in the caption of your Complaint. Use the discovery process to unravel the mysteries of the NORAD no-show.

But Berg obviously doesn't want to go there …
Berg Shuns First-Hand Evidence Against NORAD

Real lawyers arguing real cases for real clients observe the rule of "best evidence" to convince the jury or judge. Best evidence is first-hand evidence. If Berg wants to establish the facts concerning NORAD's failure to perform on 911, he should subpoena:

The NORAD commander on 9-11, Those advising the NORAD commander on 9-11, Officers in the chain of command on 9-11, Dispatchers on duty on 9-11, Officers responsible for routine NORAD interception drills, NORAD pilots and officers who had successfully intercepted wayward jets, etc.

A real lawyer arguing a real case would also subpoena: The original NORAD 9-11 logs and records.

But according to Berg's Complaint, he has no plans to do any of this. Nor does he plan to subpoena FAA workers who communicated with NORAD that day, nor air traffic controllers who interacted with the "suicide pilots" and watched the blips on the radar.
State Your Name

Now here's a person we'd like to see on the witness stand, examined and cross-examined: Berg describes this FAA employee as "an unidentified employee at this time" who, at 8:24 a.m., heard a terrorist say over Flight 11's radio: "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move." (7)

From context, it seems the terrorist is addressing the passengers in the cabin, in perfect Hollywood idiom. Yet these are the very terrorists whose English was so weak they had to use Arabic-language flight manuals. (8) Inquiring minds are puzzled by this.

Realize that the intercom system, not the radio, is used to address passengers. How could Berg's "unidentified employee" hear the terrorist speaking these words on the radio? It seems unlikely that the suicide pilots, mindful enough to turn off the transponders, were not mindful enough to turn off the radio. Such terrorists risked being overheard in the air traffic control center and intercepted by the ever-watchful NORAD. Inquiring minds are puzzled by this, too. They begin to suspect the "Nobody move" remarks were not mouthed by real people but scripted during a "Wag the Dog" bull session.

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Not true Bush pushed for a two state relationship with Israel and Palestine...two nations living next to each other with Israel giving up territory won in it's wars against Syria, and Egypt.

Good post WichitaKid. I'm surprised you haven't been subjected to ridicule and scorn. I thought for certain you would be branded a vile antisemite. The very fact that we will never learn the truth concerning those responsible for 9-11 speaks volumes about who controls the US government, the media, the purse strings, and the "so-called" educational system in this country. It's interesting that few have mentioned Israel and Ben Gurion relative to JFK's assassination. Ben Gurion was furious at JFK because he vowed to prevent Israel from building a nuclear arsenal and because of JFK's sympathy to the Palestinians plight. We are a nation of Orwellian serfs.

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Originally posted by Misanthrope2:
Good post WichitaKid. I'm surprised you haven't been subjected to ridicule and scorn. I thought for certain you would be branded a vile antisemite. The very fact that we will never learn the truth concerning those responsible for 9-11 speaks volumes about who controls the US government, the media, the purse strings, and the "so-called" educational system in this country. It's interesting that few have mentioned Israel and Ben Gurion relative to JFK's assassination. Ben Gurion was furious at JFK because he vowed to prevent Israel from building a nuclear arsenal and because of JFK's sympathy to the Palestinians plight. We are a nation of Orwellian serfs.

I agree! It's a wonderful post and thank you so much for sharing it. I honestly mean that.

This only goes to show (prove?) that our Government is capable of conspiring against it's citizens for personal or monetary gain as well as power grabs.

Is there anything those in power wouldn't do to further their agenda?

You know something, I sure would like to know more about 9/11 myself. Bush and Cheney had no time to set up such a operation. So it came from someone(s) else.

I bet Clinton is buried up to his eyeballs in it or lack of intell to prevent it. Berger did not steal that classify info for Clinton for nothing, I bet it had to do with 9/11.

Bush and Cheney na, Bush wasn't in office long enough to plan such an operation, it took a few yrs to plan and put into play...Not unless Bush and Cheney just knew yrs ahead of time Bush and Cheney were to be President and Vice..

I will say look Saudi's way..I believe almost all of the hijackers were from there.

OBL involved? You know I kind of doubt it..he never said at first that he did. It wasn't until way after did he and by then we were blaming him so why not take the credit, it would make him famous, Plus I thought we have the "Master Mind" of 9/11 in GITMO already.

OBL...Na....

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Originally posted by dman1948:
You know something, I sure would like to know more about 9/11 myself. Bush and Cheney had no time to set up such a operation. So it came from someone(s) else.

I bet Clinton is buried up to his eyeballs in it or lack of intell to prevent it. Berger did not steal that classify info for Clinton for nothing, I bet it had to do with 9/11.

Bush and Cheney na, Bush wasn't in office long enough to plan such an operation, it took a few yrs to plan and put into play...Not unless Bush and Cheney just knew yrs ahead of time Bush and Cheney were to be President and Vice..

I will say look Saudi's way..I believe almost all of the hijackers were from there.

OBL involved? You know I kind of doubt it..he never said at first that he did. It wasn't until way after did he and by then we were blaming him so why not take the credit, it would make him famous, Plus I thought we have the "Master Mind" of 9/11 in GITMO already.

OBL...Na....

The outline for the attack was in place for over fifty years. The Northwoods documents and just needed some slight modifications to pull off. who Would know better than bush senior former CIA director. It was just a matter of getting his boob son in office and his former stoodges. A refreshed agenda from the Prescott Bush failed agenda of the thirties for a NWO.

When we forget history were doomed to repeat it.

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Later in the Complaint, Berg tells us that Eberhart "admitted that NORAD had practiced responding to such a scenario where terrorists hijack a plane and attempt to crash it into a target in the US." (6) Hidden in Footnote 20 is this lament: "To date, no NORAD member has been official [sic] charged with dereliction of duty, a court martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice." Berg seems to be wringing his hands that they have escaped justice.

In the case of the General and all others at NORAD, is it POSSIBLE that they were merely following orders from the CiC? It's not a crime for an Officer to follow orders, it's a crime for them NOT to. The orders (if there were any) themselves may not have been enough to 'question' until it was to late.


Just a thought.

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Originally posted by Marine5711:

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Later in the Complaint, Berg tells us that Eberhart "admitted that NORAD had practiced responding to such a scenario where terrorists hijack a plane and attempt to crash it into a target in the US." (6) Hidden in Footnote 20 is this lament: "To date, no NORAD member has been official [sic] charged with dereliction of duty, a court martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice." Berg seems to be wringing his hands that they have escaped justice.

In the case of the General and all others at NORAD, is it POSSIBLE that they were merely following orders from the CiC? It's not a crime for an Officer to follow orders, it's a crime for them NOT to. The orders (if there were any) themselves may not have been enough to 'question' until it was to late.


Just a thought.

Squardron and field commanders dont take any orders from the CIC lightly and evaluate them throughly before executing them which is thier job to do. They have thier own protocal method of questioning orders they dont agree with. They send them back for verification and that covers thier azz from being part of any incompetence in the case of charges since they questioned the orders. To just claim I was following orders puts them in the same category
as the german officers at Nuremburg with no defense.