• What deficiency enabled four groups of terrorists on 9/11 to hijack four airliners and kill 3,000 people, and set the stage for an invasion of Iraq that has so far killed several hundred thousand people, with no end in sight?
   
  • Failure of FAA management to order the known preventative measures to halt the years of worldwide airline hijackings. These include:
     
    • (a) possession of the keys to the cockpit doors by female flight attendants, who can be easily overpowered by terrorists and access gained to the cockpit (indications are that this was how the terrorists on each of the four aircraft gained entry to the cockpit). With the almost daily warnings received by the FAA of the plans by terrorists to hijack four airliners, the FAA could have ordered the airlines to immediately remove those cockpit door keys from the cabin flight attendants.
       
    • (b) permission to carry knives on board the aircraft, that can be used to incapacitate crewmembers; After the hijackings, passengers were allowed to carry knives onto the aircraft that were up to four inches long. Even a two-inch-long razor blade is a lethal instrument.
       
    • (c) failure to order the cockpit doors strengthened (although it is highly improbable that the cockpit doors were broken down. Most airline pilots would have put the aircraft into an unusual position to halt anyone working to break down the door to the cockpit.
       
• Was the knowledge of this deficiency known?
   
  • This and many other safety deficiencies were known and repeatedly reported by the few competent FAA inspectors. Even FAA inspector Rodney Stich, among the many written and oral reports on major safety problems and safety violations that he made, were reports on the need to order changes to prevent airline hijackings. In his book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries (which is the fourth edition of the original book), he details and documents these problems).
     
• Was the danger of airliners being hijacked generally known?
   
  • Airliners had been hijacked for years, often with fatal results. The U.S. government received numerous reports during the two years prior to the 9/11 hijackings that airliners were to be hijacked by terrorists. The FAA had received almost daily notices during the final few months prior to 9/11.
     
•  What people had the direct responsibility for ordering the known preventative actions for the expected airline hijackings?
   
  • People within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with additional responsibility by the political board members of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTS.
     
• What people, or who, sought to report and correct these problems that would shortly kill thousands of people?
   
  • Although several FAA inspectors addressed the serious cultural problems in the FAA management system, the longest attempts were made by Rodney Stich, starting after he was given the assignment to correct the conditions that at that time were resulting in the worst series of airline disasters in the nation's history.
     
• What airline crashes had already resulted from these problems?
   
  • The book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, details many of the airline disasters made possible by the conduct of FAA management that retaliated against those inspectors who reported serious safety problems. Further, worldwide, there were a constant stream of airline hijackings occurring, some of them ending fatally.
     
• What were some of the efforts that were taken to correct these deadly problems?
   
  • Making numerous written and verbal reports on a broad range of serious safety problems that were at that time resulting in a continuing series of airline disasters every few months. These reports included the hijacking problems.
     
  • In desperation, using the law in such a manner that Stich acted similar to an independent prosecutor, conducting several weeks of hearings, similar to a court trial, with reporter and hearing officer, bringing in FAA management and having they testify. Stich's closing brief warned of the deadly consequences (which did occur) if the hearings resulted in a cover-up. During the hearings, three additional airline disasters occurred, each one due to the very same problems that Stich had repeatedly reported in writing, and for which he suffered retaliation.
     
  • Made numerous reports to members of Congress, who admitted the gravity of the problems and did nothing,
     
  • Contacting members of the political board of the NTSB (at that time called the CAB Bureau of Aviation Safety), informing them of the problem, and being told they already knew of them. They did nothing.
     
  • Reported the criminal aspects of the safety problems to various U.S. Department of Justice personnel, who engaged in a cover-up.
     
  • Contacted media people, who showed no interest. This lack of interest and cover-ups would continue for the next 40 years as Stich acquired other information about criminal and subversive activities involving key people in government.
     
  • Stich left government and started a publishing company to publish books revealing the corruption, thereby circumventing the blocks in government and by media people. The first of many books was the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, published in 1978
     
  • Started appearing as guests and expert on hundreds of radio and television shows in 1978, which totals over 3,000 at this time. As a result of these appearances, a continuing series of other government agents started contacting Stich with information and evidence of corruption in other entities and government operations that were inflicting great harm upon the country. Stich then wrote books based upon this considerable information.
     
• As the airline disasters resulting from the problems within the government's aviation safety offices continued to occur (in 1978, the frequency of crashes greatly decreased), Stich then started filing federal lawsuits seeking to report the criminal activities. The authority for these attempts were the federal crime reporting statute that requires anyone who knows of a federal crime to report the crime to a federal judge or other federal officer. Since members of Congress and DOJ personnel covered up and refused to receive the information, Stich exercise the requirement to report the crimes to a federal judge, who then was required to receive the information as part of his administrative (not judicial) duties. Other authority was the statute that permits any citizen to file a lawsuit seeking an order requiring a government official to perform his mandatory duty and to halt unlawful conduct.
   
  • In the first two lawsuits against the FAA and NTSB, federal district and appellate judges stated during oral argument that the charges were very serious, but then refused to receive the information. At one point judges held that these were issues for Congress to investigate (but Stich was only seeking to report the criminal acts, as he was required to do by criminal statute, and the judges were required to receive the information as part of their administrative (not judicial) duties. DOJ lawyers filed papers to dismiss the actions, thereby obstructing justice.
     
  • Later, as Stich learned from his numerous sources of criminal activities in other areas of government, in 1986, Stich again attempted to report the crimes against the United States to a federal judge. At the first hearing in that action filed in the U.S. district courts at Sacramento, California, U.S. District Judge Milton Schwartz admitted the gravity of the charges. But a week later, violating the requirements for a hearing, he dismissed the action and issued the first of over half a dozen orders that permanently barred Stich from filing any papers in any federal district or appellate court.
     
  • Subsequently, as Stich learned of criminal activities in matters of national security from CIA assets that were part of the activities, Stich again sought to report these matters to a federal judge. In response, U.S. Attorney David Levi and several judges (including Raul Ramirez and Milton Schwartz) charged Stich with criminal contempt of court, denied him a jury trial, and sentenced him to six months in federal prison, shortly after leaving the hospital for multiple coronary bypass surgery. Stich was 67 at that time.
     
  • While in prison, federal judges, working closely with a CIA-front law firm and lawyers, unlawfully and unconstitutionally seized Stich's $10 million in real estate assets and liquidate them, converting Stich from a multi-millionaire to a state of poverty. the intent was to seize the assets that funded Stich's "foolish" David vs. Goliath activities attempting to expose and halt the deadly corruption that he and a group of other former government agents had discovered during their official and professional duties.
     
  • Shortly before the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2007, Stich made one last attempt to report the corrupt activities that would shortly made possible the hijackings of four airliners and kill 3,000 people. That lawsuit was filed in the federal courts at Reno, Nevada. Again, the federal judge blocked Stich from reporting the criminal activities.
     
  • After 9/11, the last and final attempt to meet the obligations under the federal crime reporting statute was made by filing a federal lawsuit at New York City, where most of the 9/11 lawsuits were filed. Again, federal district and appellate judges, the U.S. attorney, and every Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, blocked that lawsuit from proceeding, thereby preventing the American people from learning about this widespread corruption and the related catastrophic consequences made possible by the cover-ups.
     
• Where were the American people, who knew about these serious charges that were in the aviation arena resulting in many deaths, and in the other areas showed widespread corruption affecting national security?  Probably many of the relatives of those who perished in fraud-related airline crashes heard Stich on his several thousand radio and television appearances or who read his books, and probably even some killed as a result of the 9/11 hijackings heard him. But none showed any outrage, or any patriotism that needed they to help expose the crimes. They all played a small role in the events that happened on 9/11, and many of the other tragic events resulting from the corruption.
   
• What are some of the ramifications for America, it's government institutions, and its people, from these cultures?
   
  • In the aviation arena, the deaths of many people and the peripheral tragedies associated with their deaths. That includes the 3,000 killed on 9/11, and the hundreds of thousands of other deaths that resulted from the corrupt reaction to 9/11.
     
  • The various offices of the government of the United States have been corrupted to the degree that there is virtually no one that can expose the guilty, making the checks and balances almost meaningless.
     
  • Media people who kept the lid on these scandals over many years are now so heavily implicated that they cannot possibly expose what they helped to cover up. The result is that certain media personnel and political pundits can openly and repeatedly lie to the people, knowing that most are too ignorant of the true state of affairs to know they are taken for fools.
     
  • The United States, and Americans, are hated throughout the world, and their conduct had bred people who want to kill Americans all over the world, which the American people have yet to experience.
     
  • The United States is spending itself into financial bankruptcy, which will make the financial depression of the 1930s child's play, and will be associated with widespread riots and anarchy.

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As people in the Department of Justice and federal judges were repeatedly blocking the reports (obstruction of justice), a series of legal actions were taken against Stich, first by a CIA front law firm and their lawyers, and eventually by others, requiring over 50 lawyers and law firms, all trying to halt Stich's exposure activities. These activities started in 1982 by the San Francisco law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross, and focused on stripping Stich of the assets that funded his exposure activities.
 

Starting in 2001, law firms and lawyers then focused on seizing the books that exposed the corruption. Gratzer role. Guierrini role. These efforts continue to this day.

These lawyers are heavily implicated in the conditions resulting in the 9/11 hijackings, the immediate 3,000 deaths, and the tragedies made possible by those aviation disasters.

Despite all the courageous former government agents who suffered so greatly by speaking out, to protect national interests, and lives, by speaking out, the number of people who offered to help could probably be counted on the fingers of two hands. No wonder a book was written called, The Ugly Americans: 20th & 21st Centuries. By their conduct, they asked for it, and they are getting it!

America's true heroes are ignored, while eulogizing ball players and other trivial matters. The American public shows no shame.