Stop perpetual war -- expose the 9/11 Lie!

Ed Asner urges peace and justice activists to get involved in 9-11 visibility project saying it is the most pressing issue of the day. If we want to stop perpetual war we must stop the lie of 9/11 which is being used by both major parties to further police state repression and justify the "War on Terror".

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[ed] . . ." 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 Extremists 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 http://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 http://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