9/11 kin: Answers just raise questions (the usual suspects)

NY Daily News ^ | 4/9/4 | JAMES GORDON MEEK CORKY SIEMASZKO

[finnman69]

At least a few of the families in the end were suportive of Condi but the press sure has managed to let a few individuals like Breitweiser drive all the press.

[finnman69]

now compare to the NY Post

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[veronica]

FISHY IN A BARREL (background on the Bush-dissing 9-11 widows...)

[MEG33]

I didn't read it and I did not listen to NBC.They are in their defeat the President mode and have been for weeks.I am boycotting Hardball and will watch MSNBC only if there is breaking news and I'm cruising channels.

[Poodlebrain]

"'It's her job to know about national security threats facing the nation. If she doesn't know that, than who does? Who else is responsible?' Breitweiser asked."

I guess some people can't accept the fact that most future events can never be known with certainty.

[Solson]

Terry McGovern - HA!

Terry McGovern lost her mother on September 11th who worked at AON in the WTC. She is on leave from her position as an Associate Professor of Clinical Health and Director of the Women's Health Advocacy Project at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Ms. McGovern cares for her father, who lives in Long Island, and resides in Manhattan with her 10-year old son. Source: http://www.9-11usg.org/article.asp?id=688&page=ADVISOR

She's a fully grown liberal with an agenda.

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Theresa M. McGovern, founder The HIV Law Project, Inc., was its Executive Director for ten years. She is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of Public Health and is an Individual Project Fellow at the Open Society Institute. Source:http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/vol68/issue681.htm

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And what is the "HIV Law Project"?

The HIV Law Project seeks to redress discrimination and protect the rights of people living with HIV through a four-tiered strategy: free direct legal services; large-scale impact litigation; public policy advocacy and advocacy training; community organizing and leadership development.

Source:http://www.hivlawproject.org/AboutHLP.htm

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So, what we have are a number of issue advocates who also lost family members in the attacks of 9/11. However, these folks have specific issues they are trying to support. Moreover they are not a representative sample of ALL 9/11 families.

I intend to research every single one of these people and make sure the press knows who they are.

[frost]

These people (McGovern and Breitweister have an agenda that they have been pushing since 2002. While I can understand their pain, they should at least get the facts before they make up their mind on who is at fault.
It is my view that we, the American people, are just as much at fault as most of us, would not have let Bush do anything anyway. Look what he is doing in Iraq and getting persecuted for it.

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'Kristen Breitwieser and Stephen Push, both of whom had family members who died in the attack and have founded victims' advocacy groups, added a less detached and less forgiving viewpoint. "If the intelligence community had been doing its job, my wife would be alive today," Push, who represented Families of Sept. 11 Inc., declared. Breitwieser shared an equally raw anger. "Our intelligence agencies suffered an utter collapse in their duties and responsibilities leading up to and on Sept. 11," she said. She also suggested a blue-ribbon panel would be the "appropriate means" to ascertain who should be held accountable.' - from Interim Report Released on 9/11 Intelligence Failures, posted Sept. 19, 2002

[sgtbono2002]

Am I the only one getting sick and tired of hearing from the relatives of 911 victims?

[cwb]

E-gads...do you actually mean that some of these family members are actually using the deaths of their own loved ones to advance a political agenda? Disgusting!

[cwb]

Nope! I've actually fired off some very critical emails to Kristen.

[finnman69]

See this article today

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114414/posts
NBC Trumps Rice With Anti-Bush Widows

[finnman69]

I encourage ALL of the 9/11 families to speack out. But to just hear from the same four partisan hags who have a vendetta are seriously jeapordizing the safety of this country by trying to make the hearings political.

[hobson]

No, you are not. I have absolutely NO sympathy for them. NONE!

[MEG33]

Don't blame all of them.This is a relatively small group.I am sick of hearing about them..I quit listening to them long ago.

[Solson]

Finman, please see my posts on your other thread. I've gotten into the background of McGovern and Breitweiser. They're both very interesting. We shouldn't be surprised at all.

[Solson]

Kristen Breitweiser

"At 32, with a head of unruly, sun-tinged curls and a shy smile that can instantly grow wide as the surf, Breitweiser still appears very much the beach rat she was while growing up in the Shore town of Manasquan. Though her father, John L. Winterstella, got involved in local government when she was a toddler and has been the town's mayor since 1984, it would be a mistake to assume his daughter inherited his civic-mindedness; too many interrupted family events over the years had soured Kristen on politics and government. After graduating from Rutgers, she earned a B average and a law degree from Seton Hall Law School in 1996, with an eye toward doing criminal work. But she wound up getting sidetracked into family law, and just three days into her career at a firm specializing in divorce, she quit the profession, finding it corrosive to her psyche. She needed to find a new direction, and, fortunately, she could take her time finding it. The summer of her bar exam, she'd started dating Ron Breitweiser, a rising money manager from Rutherford, and five months later they eloped to a secluded Caribbean island. By the time Kristen quit her job, she and Ron had settled into a spacious house in a verdant corner of Monmouth County near Sandy Hook, where she tended a garden and indulged her sartorial preference for blue jeans and baggy sweaters. Her new mission in life arrived in the form of a strawberry blonde daughter, Caroline, now four years old. After that, being with Ron and Caroline, taking care of the house, and planning for holidays was all Kristen wanted in the way of worldly responsibilities.

Source: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:bR9hB5qzNBkJ:www.njmonthly.com/issues/Mar03/widows.html+Kristen+Breitweiser+Seton+Law&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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Kristen's maiden name is 'Winterstella.' Her father is 'John Winterstella.' Here is his information:

"He went on to say that there is no dispute that Mr. Winterstella, a Democrat, has contributed enormously to the community over the last 20 years, but the council was divided, so that is why he chose to deny him the honorary title of Mayor Emeritus."

Source: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:f8oM7I_GCkIJ:www.thecoaststar.com/weekly/2004/03.04.04/denies.html+John+Winterstella&hl=en&ie=UTF-8.

[VOA]

So, what we have are a number of issue advocates who also lost family members in the attacks of 9/11.

This is probably partly about "the money".
They think they should get about a billion dollars each for their loss...and to
earn secular sainthood by donating heavily to MoveOn.Org.

[Solson]

Of course it's about the money. It's also about fame. It's also about retribution - misguided and misdirected - but retribution.

I've lost all respect for them. The downside of their antics is the public will quickly lose respect for these 'victims' of 9/11 and thus, lump in all 9/11 victims.

Unless other 9/11 families start to speak out against these partisan hacks, their entire base of support and sympathy will go away...fast.

[jess35]

Part of this is about the money. Some of the family members of 911 victims want to sue the government and they need the hearings. There is no way they could get this kind of access in the discovery process of a civil trial.