Woman files RICO suit against Bush : AZ IMC

This is amazing. I was wondering how long before this happened. On top is her letter and below the article about the suit.

911 Victim Ellen Mariani Open Letter To The POTUS
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 1:36 pm
Press Release: Ellen Mariani Lawsuit

Open Letter To The President Of The United States
Mr. Bush,

This ''open letter'' is coming from my heart. I want you to know that I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat and that this is not an attempt to ''bash the Government''.

You Mr. Bush should be held responsible and liable for any and all acts that were committed to aid in any "cover up" of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. As President you have a duty to protect the American people. On September 11th you did not instruct your staff to issue a nationwide emergency warning/alert to advise us of the attack on America. We had to receive the news of the attacks via the news networks.

In the months leading up to the attacks you were repeatedly advised of a possible attack on American soil. During your daily intelligence briefings you were given information that had been uncovered that the very real possibility existed that certain undesirable elements would use commercial aircraft to destroy certain "target" buildings. You never warned the American people of this possible threat. Who were you protecting?

When you took no responsibility towards protecting the general public from the possibility of attack, you were certainly not upholding the oath you spoke when you took office. In that oath you pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

On the morning of the attack, you and members of your staff were fully aware of the unfolding events yet you chose to continue on to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School to proceed with a scheduled event and "photo op". While our nation was under attack you did not appear to blink an eye or shed a tear. You continued on as if everything was "business as usual".

In the days following the attacks all air traffic was grounded and Americans, including myself, were stranded wherever they had been when the flight ban was imposed. I was stranded at Midway Airport in Chicago, unable to continue on to California for my daughter's wedding. Imagine my surprise when I later found out that during this "no fly" period a number of people were flown out of the country on a 747 with Arabic lettering on the fuselage. None of these people were interviewed or questioned by any local, State or Federal agencies. Why were they allowed to leave and who exactly was on that flight. We know for a fact that some of the people on the flight were members of (or related to) the royal family of Saudi Arabia and members of the Bin Laden family. Were these people allowed to leave because of the long-standing relationships that your family has with both families?

It is my belief that you intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen to gather public support for a "war on terrorism". These wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, have not accomplished what you stated were your goals. Why have you not captured Osama Bin Laden? Where are Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? All that has happened is a bill that is passed before Congress for 87 billion dollars to rebuild what you ordered blown to bits. As an American who lost a loved one in the "war on terror" I do pray and support our troops who were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq by you. These troops have and will continue to die for your lies. As an American I can make this statement as it appears that associates of your family may stand to prosper from the rebuilding of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr. Bush the time has come for you to stop your control over us. Stop blocking the release of certain evidence and documents that were discovered by the 9/11 Investigation Commission if you have nothing to hide proving you did not fail to act and prevent the attacks of 9/11. Your reason for not releasing this material is that it is a matter of "national security". When in fact I believe that it is your personal credibility/security that you are concerned with. You do not want the public to know the full extent of your responsibility and involvement.

After 9/11 the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act were passed. Both of these allow the government to tap your telephone, search your home, and seize whatever they feel they need to do on a whim. They can do this without a judge's review or a warrant. I feel that this is in direct conflict with our rights as stated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

We the families of 9/11 victims need to have answers to the following questions:

1. Why were 29 pages of the 9/11committee report personally censored at your request?

2. Where are the "black boxes" from Flight 11 and Flight 175?

3. Where are the "voice recorders" from Flight 11 and Flight 175?

4. Why can't we gain access to the complete air traffic control records for Flight 11 and Flight 175?

5. Where are the airport surveillance tapes that show the passengers boarding the doomed flights?

6. When will complete passenger lists for all of the flights be released?

7. Why did your brother Jeb (the Governor of Florida) go to the offices of the Hoffman Aviation School and order that flight records and files be removed? These files were then put on a C130 government cargo plane and flown out of the country. Where were they taken and who ordered it done?

It has been over two years since hundreds of our lost loved ones "remains" have still yet to be identified and their remains placed in a landfill at Fresh Kill. We want our heroes brought back and given a public and proud resting place where we all can pay our respects and honor them. These innocent people never had a chance as they were taken from us on that sad September Day.

In the court of public opinion Mr. Bush, your lies are being uncovered each day. My husband, all of the other victims and their families and our nation as a whole, has been victimized by your failed leadership prior to and after 9/11!

I will prove this in a court of law!

Ellen M. Mariani

AND SHE HAS FILED A COMPLAINT

911 Victim’s Wife, Ellen Mariani, files RICO Act
[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]
Federal Court Complaint against President Bush
and Cabinet Members
(Philadelphia, PA – 11/26/03) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, announced today that he, attorney for Ellen Mariani, wife of Louis Neil Mariani, who died when United Air Lines flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11 at a news conference regarding the filing of a detailed Amended Complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on 11/26/03 in the case of Mariani vs. Bush et al that he is alleging President Bush and officials including, but not limited to Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Feinberg that they:

1. had knowledge/warnings of 911 and failed to warn or take steps to prevent;

2. have been covering up the truth of 911; and

3. have therefore violated the laws of the United States; and

4. are being sued under the Civil RICO Act.

Berg stated: “I will be detailing the charges against Bush and others and handing out copies of the:

1. Amended Complaint;

2. a Letter from Ellen Mariani to President Bush that sets forth her beliefs that President Bush knowingly and willfully failed to act and prevent the murder of her husband on 911 and the ongoing obstruction of justice; and

3. a Sworn Affidavit that the United States government twenty-eight [28] years ago undertook a study to prevent the very events of 911.

Mrs. Mariani was the first victim family member to bring civil action regarding the events of 911 against United Airlines. Since then, the “truth” of 911 has not been forthcoming and Mrs. Mariani, for the good of her country, now seeks the truth via this courageous action under the RICO Act.

Berg said: “The events surrounding "911" to date have yet to be uncovered.

While America was under attack, for approximately the next seven (7) to eighteen (18) minutes Defendant GWB continues to listen to the goat story while Plaintiff's husband was just murdered and does not immediately assume his duties as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.

Plaintiff, with her amended complaint intends to expose the truth to remember the dead and to prevent continued deaths of American military personnel due to President Bush's "failure to act and prevent" the worst attacks on our nation since Pearl Harbor.

Plaintiff hereby asserts Defendants, officially and individually are exclusively liable to answer the Counts in this Complaint under the United States Constitution and provisions of the 18 U.S.C. § 1964(a) and (c), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (hereinafter "RICO Act") for "failing to act and prevent" the murder of Plaintiff's husband, Louis Neil Mariani, for financial and political reasons and have "obstructed justice" in the aftermath of said criminal acts and omissions.

Defendant GWB has purported to the American People and the Plaintiff that the infamous attacks of "911" were directly masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda Network terrorists (hereinafter "OBL"), almost immediately after the attacks. Yet, Defendant GWB has not been forthright and honest with regard to his administration's pre-knowledge of the potential of the "911" attacks and Plaintiff seeks to compel Defendant GWB to justify why her husband Louis Neil Mariani died on "911.'

Plaintiff believes Defendant GWB is invoking a long standard operating procedure of invoking national security and executive privilege claims to suppress the basis of this lawsuit that Defendant GWB, et al., failed to act and prevent the "911" attacks.

Plaintiff asserts, contrary to Defendant GWB's assertion that OBL is responsible for "911," the compelling evidence that will be presented in this case through discovery, subpoena power by this Court and testimony at trial will lead to one undisputed fact, Defendant GWB failed to act and prevent "911" knowing the attacks would lead to our nation having to engage in an "International War on Terror (IWOT)" which would benefit Defendants both financially and for political reasons.

There are significant business ties that will be proven between Defendants and OBL's family which raise serious conflict of interest and other matters wherein "failing to act and prevent" the "911" attacks have benefited Defendants.

Reports have emerged and will be confirmed through discovery that the Carlyle Group, the giant U.S. defense contractor until recently employed Defendant and former President GHB. Hence, the "Bush Family" and other Defendants financial profiting by war goes to the heart of Plaintiff's RICO Act claim.

Plaintiff asserts, in the late 1970's and throughout the 1980's, Defendants were allies with OBL and Saddam Hussein during the former Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and Iran-Iraq war respectively, wherein, personal and political deals were made and it is believed upon discovery, these dealings hold the truth about "911."

In sum, Plaintiff will call to trial former federal employees with firsthand knowledge and expertise with military intelligence and other duties to support the underlying RICO Act foundational basis to prove 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 for personal and financial gains.

Plaintiff will prove, Defendants have engaged our nation in an endless war on terror to achieve their personal goals and agendas.

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** Copy of sixty-one [61] page Amended Complaint available by e-mail” – contact Phil Berg at PJBLAW@aol.com

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[Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for Governor and U.S. Senate; an attorney with offices in Montgomery County and an active practice in Philadelphia, PA.]
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This is awesome! More power to those who stand up themselves against the hypocrisy rule of the Bush administration, whom did'nt even win the election but cheated it's way into authority.
"Shame on you Mr. Bush, Shame on you!"

You know,it is the four women from Jersey that is running the show of exposing the truth of why 9-11 happened to the Towers.Better them,since Congress is still sitting on their asses to try to uncover the truth of 9-11/Bush Dynasty.

Just knowing that she took no side and that she was not concerned about politics but with the truth, made the letter that much more heartfelt.

I flew in Europe on the tenth of september in 2003 and while I abhor the melodrama, hype, and exploitation of the 11th, I must write.

I have not experience before or after such a heightened level of alert. I flew a familiar route which was anything but familiar. Normally either airport had planes constantly taxiing, taking off, or landing. However, on the 10th, it appeared that only one plane at a time was allowed at all in the airports space. Instead of circling up on takeoff and circling down on landing, both were straight shots, up at the steepest manageable incline at nearly full throttle up to near max altitude for that model. Likewise, landing was from max altitude down like brick in a straight line. Instead of flying the normal, low altitude, overland route, the flight was far out over the water, where other flights could be seen as well.

Because of changes to my itinerary, I had to wait several hours plus several extra delay hours at the airport. The longer I waited and observed the changes to normal operation, the more worried I was that an attack or hijacking had already occured in Europe. Again, that was on the 10trh.

Osama Bin Ladin's modus operandi has been to call his shots. My speculation is that it was a safe bet for Bush -- do nothing and if nothing happens, then fine or -- do nothing and if there is a catastrophy, then there is carte blanche for all manner of polictical favors, abuse of the constitution and everyone forgets the economy.

If Europe was on such high alert, why did U.S. airports choose not to go on alert as well?

This matter should haunt Bush whether he wins or loses the 2004 election. Mrs. Mariani has a very strong case and should be heard. The media to this point has been a strong Bush ally. If nothing is done, as was the case of Iran-Contra, then it will be evident that our legal system is compromised and the average citizen has no redress against the privileged and powerful.

i am not saying your idea could not be right, there is always the chance you are correct, but it is a very, very, small chance. there are many different reasons why bush took the course of action he did. the information he recieved, he probably gets stuff like that so many times its not even worth looking at anymore. if he responded with the actions necessary to prevent each possibile threat he gets people would stop paying attention, and therefore it wouldn't have helped with 9/11 anyway. lets say he randomly decided to pay attention to this one though, what if he was wrong? he would have plunged the country into panic for no reason. think of the press too, they would have loved it for bush to say we're under attack and be wrong. there goes his rep. also, even if he did pay attention to that peticular one, he woudln't have caught anyone. they simply would have postponed the attacks to another day. oh yay, now we has simply have confused our citizens with an alert that turned out to be (as far as they can tell) nothing and postponed the deaths a year or two.

also. no man that would willing sacrific lives to get into a war where more souls will be taken would be able to get into office. we're not germany, hitler is gone lady. people make mistakes, his just happen to include the lives of hundreds upon hundreds of americans. you can be sure he had a damn good reason to ignore the information he recieved, and he will use this incident to help him and other presidents in the future against terriorest attacks.

moving on... about the tapes being flow out? he also had i reason to do that, and i'd bet my life on that. one might be, someone want something. what is the best way to make sure they don't get it, hide it! he probably immidently copied the tapes and sent them scurry out of the country for safekeeping. if he truly wanted no evidence, he would have sabotagued this at the source and made sure there was no tapes to begin with. not looking at them without a reason would just get him shit, where as he could blame the glitch on other terriorist activities inside the airport.

1. Why were 29 pages of the 9/11committee report personally censored at your request? you said. sigh... do you people ever take anything in stride? he probably censored those reports because they would cause mass chaos while helping nothing. the public is one big idiot, made up of many small idiots. if he told us everything as it was, we'd act with what we think is right (something that would most likely end up in a large amount of wasted time, resources, and patience). believe it or not, we do not know everything. it takes a leader to control the people and act against what is wrong and reward what is right. guess what, WE HAVE THAT LEADER. bush is our president, we voted for him (actually i should say you, because im only 14 and cant vote) and that must mean we saw somethign we liked. truthfully, i don't even like him myself. i am simply defending what i think is right. just because i don't like something doesn't mean it isn't right, im leaving that immatureity to my peers.

one of my friends (also a 14-year-old, and a rather intelligent one at that) mentioned, and i quote her: "well, you know, he may not have needed to publicy announce the threats, just upped security and other things, depending on what information he had." this thought may have past through your heads at one point or another and id like to put an end to it. his information was most likely very sketchy, nothing to base any positions on. therefore, in order to "up" the security the necessary amount, the manpower used would not be worht it. think of all our airports, think of what we would need to do to stop that attacks. and even if he had decided it was worth, think of the time frame. not enough. not nearly enough.

unfortently it is getting rather late, and i must end this letter, after these closing comments:

1)keep in mind that i am a 14yearold male from minnesota, but don't hold it against me. you have no idea how many adults think i don't know what i am talking about just because i am younger then them. i have already earned my position as a political marvel to those who care to listen, and debating my point is a hobby i have toned well.

2)please email me. my address is powerlust14@yahoo.com state you opinions, what you think about the letter and what you think about my comments on it. leave your own address too, for then you'll be able to recieve my opinions on your opinions, and if you aren't like the stubborn people i usually come across (who refuse to admit they've been out-debated by a 14-year-old) you might even learn something.

3)i realize my opinion has flaws in it, but then again, im writing this in my spare time and not trying to make a case out of it so naturally ive left some minor points missing. don't go yelling to me how i forgot-about-this or didn't-know-about-that... if i took the time i would seal up those holes and put a barrier around them even you wouldn't try to break.

4)id like to mention that i am sorry to hear about your husband. death is something no one should have to endure. also, although i completely disagree with your opinion i would like you mention you have earned my respect through striking back at what you think is wrong. i bow to your courage, motivation, and knowledge of the law.

that is all. i will most likely post more, but for now i must leave.

Pieter James Gagnon

I don't understand why everyone blames Bush. The information he was receiving was nothing new that Clinton hadn't received for years before. Also, the airlines had been warned of the need for tighter security and improved cockpit protection for years. But because Bush was in the office of President at the moment it happened - suddenly everyone's pointing fingers that it's all his fault!!

9/11 would never have happened if Clinton had had the courage to apprehend Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity during his administration. But he was too busy with Monica and trying to distract the country from his indiscretions. And talk about a President sending our troops into harms way for personal gain, do you recall an incident in Somalia? Clinton intentionally sent our brave soldiers in to certain death in an attempt to move the focus off his affair with Monica. The men who’s bodies were mutilated and paraded down the streets like a prize after they were savagely murdered.

It is sad that so many people in this world cannot be satisfied that events happen that are beyond control. They feel they MUST blame someone. They truly believe someone had to cause it. Perhaps 9/11 would not have happened if the airlines had spent money necessary to make the cockpit doors more secure. Perhaps this would not have happened if we did not live in such a free society. Perhaps this would not have happened if Clinton had paid as much attention to the affairs of the Presidency as he did to his affair with Monica. Or, perhaps it would have happened regardless of efforts made to prevent it.

There are evil people in the world with nothing but evil on their mind and in their plans and we can’t stop the bad guys all the time. Look at the overcrowded prisons. It’s life and shit happens.

As for the lady who’s filing the lawsuit and claims she missed her daughter’s wedding. I’m curious as to why if her daughter was getting married, the woman and her husband weren’t already in California. I know when I got married, my mom arrived a week ahead of time to help me. Also, I’m confused why she and her husband were in different locations and not flying together. And finally, I find it unconscionable that the daughter would proceed with her wedding without her parents in attendance and especially after one had been killed in such a horrific incident. The lady claims she is neither Republican nor Democrat, but she obviously has personal gain in mind.