SCOOP.CO.NZ, November 2003
Title: “911 Victim’s Wife Files RICO Case
Against GW Bush”
Author: Philip J. Berg
SCOOP.CO.NZ, December 2003
Title: “Widow’s Bush Treason Suit Vanishes”
Author: W. David Kubiak
Faculty Evaluator: Andy Merrifield, Ph.D.
Student Researcher: Amelia Strommen
Ellen Mariani lost her husband, Louis Neil Mariani, on
9/11 and is refusing the government’s million-dollar
settlement offer. Louis Neil Mariani, a passenger, died
when United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South
Tower of the World Trade Center.
Ellen Mariani has studied the facts of the day for nearly
two years and has come to believe that the White House
“intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen” in
order to launch the “War on Terrorism.” Her
lawyer, Phillip Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of
Pennsylvania, who filed a 62-page complaint in federal
district court charging that President Bush and officials,
including but not limited to, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and
Ashcroft: (1) had adequate foreknowledge of 911, yet failed
to warn the country or attempt to prevent it; (2) have
since been covering up the truth of that day; (3) have
therefore abetted the murder of plaintiff’s husband
and violated the Constitution and multiple laws of the
United States; and (4) are thus being sued under the Civil
Racketeering, Influences, and Corrupt Organization (RICO)
Act for malfeasant conspiracy, obstruction of justice
and wrongful death.
Berg plans to call former federal employees with firsthand
knowledge and expertise in military intelligence to provide
a foundation for the RICO Act charge. Mariani intends
to prove that the defendants have engaged in a “pattern
of criminal activity and obstruction of justice”
in violation of the public trust and laws of the United
States, thrusting our nation into an endless war on terror
in order to achieve personal and financial gains.
The suit documents the detailed forewarnings from foreign
governments and FBI agents; the unprecedented delinquency
of our air defense; the inexplicable half hour dawdle
of our Commander in Chief at a primary school after hearing
the nation was under deadly attack; the incessant invocation
of national security and executive privilege to suppress
the facts; and the obstruction of all subsequent efforts
to investigate the disaster. It concludes that compelling
evidence will be presented in this case, through discovery,
subpoena power and testimony, that defendants failed to
act to prevent 9/11, knowing the attacks would lead to
an international war on terror.
Berg believes that Defendant Bush is invoking a long
standard operating procedure of national security and
executive privilege claims to suppress the basis of this
lawsuit.
On November 26, 2003, a press conference was set up to
discuss the full implications of these charges. Only FOX
News attended the conference and taped 40 minutes, however,
the film was never aired. W. David Kubiak asks, “When
you present documented charges of official treachery behind
the greatest national security disaster in modern history,
and the press doesn’t show, doesn’t listen,
and doesn’t write, what is being communicated?”
UPDATE BY W. DAVID KUBIAK: Three thousand
unresolved deaths, strong evidence of treason, and a horizon
of endless war still remain matters of capital concern.
To this date, the scenario of complicity alleged in Ellen
Mariani's landmark RICO suit remains the most cogent and
credible 9/11 narrative ever offered to an America raised
on Court TV.
Her case lays out the facts and logic so clearly that
even ordinary folks can "get it" and start waking
up their own. That is this story's unique and mortal danger,
and the reason Big Media still shun it to this day.
The 9/11 Commission's maximal presumption of "failure"
and "incompetence" spawns wildly more trivial
questions than an inquest that does not rule out foreknowledge
or complicity. The commission perforce dithers over policy
issues, miscommunications, organizational defects, and
a tragic litany of regrettable (but blameless!) bureaucratic
mistakes.
Examining those same 9/11 facts from a detective's point
of view — as an unsolved and as yet quite successful
crime —exposes far deeper concerns. The prime questions
now become prosecutorial and focus attention on the critical
issues of Motive, Opportunity and Means. Who ultimately
gained most from the attacks? Who had the power to commit,
permit or abet them? Who spotted or created the chance
for them to occur?
Ellen's case is historic simply because it was the first
to apply these obvious questions, especially "cui
bono?" —who really profited? — to all
the 9/11 news of recent years. Last summer her reading
of the official story's lies and contradictions sparked
an unprecedented "racketeering!" shazam, but
given her elemental Law & Order approach to the facts
at hand, any country sheriff might have made the same
call.
Today in light of this year's revelations from Paul O'Neill,
Richard Clark and Sibel Edmonds, Ellen's early attempts
at connecting the dots — between the war-hungry
neocons' public longing (in September 2000) for "some
catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor"
and the subsequent ignored warnings, quashed inquiries
and crippled air defenses that finally made their dream
come true — all appear pattern perfect thus far.
Since Ellen's charges imply not just criminal conspiracy,
but also literal treason, they are fast reviving a long
ailing impeachment debate. An April 2004 national Retro
poll showed that 39% of the public favored a Bush impeachment
if only for his Iraq war lies. This growth of popular
outrage was remarkable but hardly actionable since Impeachment
Articles must issue from the same feckless House of Reps
that signed off on the war. However, as Bush's polls and
credibility continued to plummet and GOP solons watched
his coattails turn to lead, it became more plausible that
a survivalist few might recognize that in 9/11 at least,
they shared no collective guilt, and be more willing to
swap doomed leaders for their own electoral skins.
By May 2004 such intuitions were starting to bubble up
in the anti-war zeitgeist, partially inspired by loud
9/11 truth demands from Ed Asner, Howard Zinn, the US
Green Party, theologian David Ray Griffin, and Commission-disillusioned
victim family groups. These lofty calls were further reinforced
by rather amazing facts on the ground. On May 26th the
Toronto Star reported on a national poll showing that
63 per cent of Canadians believed the U.S. government
had "prior knowledge of the plans for September 11th,
and failed to take appropriate action."
To galvanize this awareness into action, movement leaders
turned to Ellen's RICO suit as an ideal impeachment template
because it could flush the entire puppeteer crew and not
just Howdy Dubya from the stage. It also held the promise
of a national "teachable moment" as the whole
military-petro-industrial backdrop of the crime at last
heaved into view. Finally, 9/11 impeachment offered progressives
a far more energizing course of Bush-lethal action than
half-hearted huzzahs for the stay-the-course mantra and
globalization banzais of the Kerry campaign.
All of this ferment will doubtless be peaking as Project
Censored 2005 hits the stands. If you want to join in
and help remake history, first read Griffin's "The
New Pearl Harbor," or Nafeez Ahmed's, "War on
Freedom." Then check in at <http://www.911Truth.org/>,
and find something patriotic (in the old sense) to do.
UPDATE BY PHILIP J. BERG, ESQ.: The
tragedy of “911” is the most significant event
of our lifetimes. It is a great honor for this story to
be selected. It is our firm belief that the RICO lawsuit
we filed is one of the most significant cases in our history.
To date, the Bush Administration has done more to diminish
individual rights than any other administration in 225
years. With the enactment of the Stabilization Act and
Patriot Act I, the attempted enactment of Patriot Act
II, the photographing and fingerprinting of individuals
entering the United States from certain countries and
the planned “color coding” of everyone in
the United States by the summer of 2004, “1984”
is becoming a reality today, twenty years after the date
it was projected. “911” has provided the pretext
for the global military expansion we are seeing today,
with its enormous costs in lives, federal funding and
environmental damage.
After speaking around the country, we have found that
people are amazed at the lack of media coverage of the
RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]
lawsuit filed on behalf of Ellen Mariani and all law-abiding
citizens of the United States and the world. The mainstream
press has ignored our RICO lawsuit as well as most aspects
of “911” until recently. But Bush’s
arrogance in placing pictures of “911” in
his re-election ads, along with the continued stonewalling
of the “911 Commission” and the ineffectiveness
of the “911 Commission,” has now brought this
story to the forefront.
RICO was created in the 1960s by Congress to go after
the mafia, the mob. It is our position that there is a
“mob” in the Bush White House. When the events
of “911” are investigated and when the “right”
questions are posed, there is no way to avoid the conclusion
that “911” occurred with the complicity of
Bush and his administration.
The RICO lawsuit is the best available vehicle for bringing
all of the overwhelming, independent research concerning
“911” to the point where the “truth
of 911” will be revealed.
During the six months since the RICO lawsuit was filed,
we have been involved in procedural issues. We have therefore
withdrawn the case from Philadelphia and re-filed it in
Federal Court in Washington, DC, so that the events of
“911” can be in front of the Court as soon
as possible.
Our updated website <http://www.911forthetruth.com/>
can be reviewed daily for developments in the RICO lawsuit.
Our petition, available on the website, is important for
two reasons: 1) signing it shows support for the “truth
of 911;” and 2) more important, reading the comments
from the hearts of individuals around the world serves
– like the writings of Anne Frank - to help people
realize the actual effects of “911.” We feel
it is essential for the mainstream and independent media
to report the “truth of 911,” the most important
event of our lifetimes. It must be reveled now, not for
forty years from now, as has occurred with other major
events in history.
Other pro-active groups where the RICO lawsuit is referenced,
include:
www.truth.org, www.visibility.org,
www.septembereleventh.org,
www.digitalstylecreations.com,
www.tomflocco.com,
www.cooperativeresearch.org,
www.911citizenswatch.org,
www.911independentcommission.org,
www.fromthewilderness.com,
www.unansweredquestions.org,
www.askquestions.org,
www.scoop.co.nz.
INSIDE JOB: Unmasking the Myth of 9/11, by Jim Marrs
Preface by Ellen Mariani
With major excerpts from the Mariani RICO filing in the
Appendix
www.InsideJob-911.com
The New Pearl Harbor, by David Ray
-Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and
9/11
