Crash Victims

Crash Victims
by Ted Lang, Associate Editor

September 18, 2002

Columnist Ted Lang The question of Americans trusting their government is once again at the forefront of several critical issues in the news. Shortly after the downing of Flight TWA 800, an Air National Guard pilot who was in the air when the Stinger-type missile hit the Boeing 747 reported exactly what he saw. So did hundreds of witnesses - their testimony was captured on TV, and their stories were 100% identical. Then the FBI took over, and these people were never heard from again.

When two different eyewitnesses on two different TV channels during the live coverage of the crash of American Airlines 587 started describing what they saw, miraculously both live interviews developed technical problems and lost both audio and video transmission. No other live coverage segments were so completely garbled and destroyed. The only explanation is deliberate interference by an organization motivated to block actual eyewitness accounts of this event.

What organization could be so quickly deployed to the scene of the Rockaway, Queens crash so as to be there at virtually the same time TV news crews arrived and set up their equipment? What organization would be large enough to put an operative close to each news unit? What organization would have both the resources and the equipment to coordinate such destruction of electronic eyewitness accounts? Both a retired New York City fireman and policeman gave their accounts of what they saw happen to Flight 587. Both have been summarily ignored by the mainstream establishment media, and the FBI.

The common denominator in both cases: the FBI. It can therefore be readily concluded that the FBI lied and suppressed evidence in both cases. It can be concluded, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the FBI lied concerning the events surrounding 9-11. It was evident that the FBI, specifically its J. Edgar Hoover, lied and deliberately imprisoned an innocent man for most of his adult life to protect organized crime figures who helped them convict mobsters they were targeting. The FBI, once one of American Government's most austere and venerated organizations, is now closing in on the same level of notoriety once the domain of Nazi Germany's SS and the old Soviet Union's KGB.

Recently, Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, a Clinton appointee, decreed that airline pilots were not to be armed. Mineta argued it was preferable for US Air Force fighters to shoot down hijacked airliners thereby killing all aboard and those unfortunate citizens on the ground where the huge planes would crash. When the Senate overruled Mineta's lunacy by a vote of 87 to 6, Mineta lied and offered it would cost $900 million to $1 billion to arm the pilots.

Sure Mineta lied, but the Senate and Congress bought it! Now one of the stumbling blocks to the implementation of this life and airline-saving practice is overcoming the outrageous price tag Mineta lied into existence. Many options are available to put this best of safety measures into place immediately, which can be implemented at a cost at least 80% below that offered by Mineta.

So now the question no longer turns on what motivates government liars - all that is really necessary to conclude from all this is that American Government lies to its people! Now questions concerning the circumstances surrounding the crash of Flight 93 of "Lets roll!" fame are sprouting up. A three-minute lapse on the Cockpit Voice Reporter tape is attracting attention, bringing up the question again of both FBI manipulation and what was previously ascribed to false reports from Pennsylvania that had indicated initially that the fourth airliner was shot down by an Air Force fighter.

In light of the foregoing, and the lies, fraud and wagging-the-dog warfare redolent of the Clinton administration, and Bush's executive order and cites of "executive privilege" along with Ashcroft's manipulations to protect Bill Clinton, we are now supposed to accept unequivocally that Iraq should be preemptively attacked and Saddam Hussein removed. Didn't American Government once consider Saddam a friend? Didn't they encourage Saddam to attack Kuwait in the first place?

In 1998, Democrats insisted that we ignore Monica and pay attention to Osama, even though they did nothing. Now Republicans are telling us to ignore Osama and support doing something to Saddam in Iraq. But of what value are regime changes anyway? Haven't we had a regime change in this country? And what good did that do us? Do we have more honesty in government? More freedoms? Less corruption? Perhaps we need another change, a cherry tree and a hatchet! ***

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