[CitizensTruth] details on 9/11 Ballot in NY, plus more

[Connie Smith]

NEWS break from NYC CAN !!! Connie please read and forward




Important update from Sander Hicks and announcement of New York's September 11th events this year.

And below this message -- a heartfelt appeal from a  NY firefighter, plus the story of a politically conservative firefighter who has changed his mind about the official story and works daily now for 9/11 Truth.

 


    NYC CAN Tackle the 9/11 Question At the Ballot Box!
    Citizens Group Joins Victims Families to Ask for New Investigation
    by Sander Hicks


    New York -- On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now ("NYC CAN") filed petitions for a referendum to create an independent investigation of 9/11/01.


    The group, led by Victims' Families, submitted 52,000 signatures to the City of New York. The new Commission would be independently funded, yet have legal authority from the City Council. If approved, New York City voters will be able to vote on this in the City-wide elections this November.


    "Now that we have delivered this petition to City Council, we have taken the first step towards a real investigation into the death of our family members and friends," said Brooklyn's Manny Badillo, who lost his uncle and mentor Thomas Joseph Sgroi on 9/11. As Badillo left the City Clerk's office, he told supporters, "Every family member, survivor and first responder should be encouraged--accountability will come."


    Badillo was joined by 9/11 Family Member Maureen Hunt, as well as First Responders Charlie Giles and Bill Gleason of the World Trade Center Rescuers Foundation.


    City Council now has until August 24 to approve the placement of the referendum on the November 3 ballot. NYC CAN is prepared to deliver an additional 30,000 signatures on August 24, if City Council does not approve putting the referendum on the ballot. Recent legal precedents show that NYC CAN faces an uphill battle in the NYC Courts.


    In front of the City Clerk's office, NYC CAN Executive Director Ted Walter said, "Now more than ever, we must all raise our voices and demand an investigation untainted by partisan politics. We want an investigation interested only in facts and accountability."


    Without endorsing any specific explanation for what did happen on 9/11, NYC CAN simply asks for a new, unprejudiced investigation. Critics of the 9/11 Commission point out conflicts of interest and possible manipulation by the Bush/Cheney White House. 

    As the New York Times' Philip Shenon (author of The Commission) pointed out last year, former Bush National Security advisor Phil Zelikow ran the "independent" 9/11 Commission. "Executive Director" Zelikow ignored calls from Victims' Family members to step down. 

    Zelikow drafted the 9/11 Commission Report which chose not to "assign individual blame" (accountability) for the intelligence failures on 9/11. The Report claimed to be unable to investigate who financed the attacks, and concluded that terrorist financing was of "little practical significance."


    In 2006, a Zogby poll showed that 66% of New Yorkers want a new investigation. Will the NYC courts and electoral system allow voters to vote on it in November? On July 20, NYC CAN issued a call for supporters to contact their City Council representatives, and urge support.


    First responder Charlie Giles suffered severe health damage from working on the "pile" at Ground Zero. At NYC CAN's filing of the petition, he asked, " Why do we still go untreated? Why do the families still call out for justice?"
    For More Information:
    The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now
    http://www.nyccan.org/


    Every family member, first responder, and survivor can sign a Statement of Support on http://www.NYCCAN.ORG./
    Sander Hicks
    Canvass Director
    NYC Coalition for Accountability Now
    347 446 4461 cell
                347 627 4705 office
    http://nyccan.org
    vote for 9/11 answers!


    Coming up:  "Real Change and Transparency" -- a concert and conference
    to create real US government transparency, in economics and intelligence
    9/11/09 - 9/13/09
    St. Marks-in-The Bowery, E. 10th and 2nd Ave, NYC
        http://changeandtransparency.blogspot.com/
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>From a firefighter:

Fellow Firefighters, A great tragedy befell our community on September 11, 2001, an unprecedented 343 deaths in the line of duty. As horrible as that toll is, if there were a rational explanation for it, we could accept it and mourn. We all understood the risk we accepted when we took the oath of office, that chance might cut short our lives when we placed ourselves in harm's way in the public's service. This is what we are paid for and it is our honor. 

However, in short, the official explanation of the events of that day are not only insufficient, they are fantastic and cannot bear rational examination. We are asked to believe that on that day three structural steel buildings, which have never before in history collapsed because of fire, fell neatly into their basements at the speed of gravity, their concrete reduced to dust. 

We are asked to believe that jet fuel (kerosene) can melt steel. We are asked to believe that the most sophisticated air defense system in the world, that responded to sixty-eight emergencies in the year prior to 9-11 in less than twenty minutes allowed aircraft to wander about for up to an hour and a half. 

We are asked to believe that the steel and titanium components of an aircraft that supposedly hit the Pentagon "evaporated". There is much, much more if anyone cares to look into it. 

Trade Tower #7 by itself is the "smoking gun". Not hit by an aircraft, with only a few relatively small fires, it came down in a classic crimp and implosion, going straight into its basement, something only very precise demolition can accomplish, which takes days if not weeks to prepare. The 9-11 Commission actually stated the they DIDN'T KNOW WHY IT COLLAPSED AND LEFT IT AT THAT. 

Brothers, I know that the implications of the above are hard, almost unthinkable, but the official explanation is utter nonsense, and three hundred and forty three murdered brothers are crying out for justice. Demand a genuine investigation into the events of September 11! 
-Anton Vodvarka, Lt. FDNY (ret)

Lt. Vodvarka served on FDNY Ladder Co 26, Rescue Co. 3, Rescue Co. 1, Engine Co. 92, Ladder 82 and Ladder 101. He was awarded the Merit Class 1 award, the Prentice Medal.

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Here is the personal story of a firefighter and political conservative:  Why he changed his mind and is now working night and day for 9/11 Truth.  

Send this to your skeptical friends and relatives!

http://firefightersfor911truth.org/?p=300








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