By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Opinion
Thursday, 20 June, 2002
Stanley Hilton, a San Francisco attorney and former aide to Senator Bob
Dole, filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3rd. The
class-action suit names ten defendants, among whom are George W. Bush, Dick
Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Norman Mineta.
Hilton's suit charges Bush and his administration with allowing the
September 11th attacks to take place so as to reap political benefits from
the catastrophe. Hilton alleges that Osama bin Laden is being used as a
scapegoat by an administration that ignored pressing warnings of the attack
and refused to round up suspected terrorists beforehand. Hilton alleges the
ultimate motivation behind these acts was achieved when the Taliban were
replaced by American military forces with a regime friendly to America and
its oil interests in the region.
Hilton's plaintiffs in this case are the families of 14 victims of 9/11,
numbering 400 people nationwide. These are the same families that rallied in
Washington recently to advocate for an independent investigation into the
attacks. The current 9/11 hearings are being conducted by Congress behind
closed doors, a situation these families find unacceptable.
Mr. Hilton, by filing his lawsuit, has joined the ranks of an
ever-increasing body of Americans who subscribe to what they call the LIHOP
Theory. LIHOP stands for Let It Happen On Purpose. The LIHOP Theory puts
forward the accusation that Bush and his people allowed the September 11th
attacks to take place, despite the fact that they had been repeatedly warned
of an impending strike...
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...Even the most hardened political observer must admit the dismal truth -
September 11th was the greatest thing ever to happen to the Bush
administration. Attorney Stanley Hilton has brought LIHOP Theory into the
federal court system with his class-action suit, and with the families of
9/11 victims he represents. It will be interesting to see what transpires
when these two facts collide in an American courtroom. Given the current
climate, it does not seem likely that much will come of it. After all, these
conspiracy theorists are just a bunch of nuts.
Right?
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William Rivers Pitt is a teacher from Boston, MA. His new book, 'The
Greatest Sedition is Silence,' will be published soon by Pluto Press.
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