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Lisa Fithian wrote a letter to her dead friend Abbie Hoffman in a reprint of Hoffman's "Steal This Book." Parts of her imaginary letter to Hoffman reveal her excited approval of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Quotation from a her preface in a review of this book follows:

Cutting edge publishing house Four Walls Eight Windows' edition of Hoffman's survival guide contains introductions by activists Al Giordano and Lisa Fithian.

This is more than pop culture. This is not a nostalgic walk through time to Lisa Fithian. Fithian, friend of Hoffman, union organizer, and "non-violent activist" who was "arrested, searched, and detained while preparing protests for the G-20 summit in Ottawa", writes a letter to the dead Abbie as the foreword to this edition. She tells him, "Planes turned into bombs. The Twin Towers collapsed. The Pentagon in flames. Two of the most powerful symbols of capitalism and militarism left gaping and destroyed in a matter of moments. The foundations of the old order were cracked open." She continues:

Meanwhile the Government Inc. propaganda machine is in full-tilt boogie and the right-wing is doing everything it can to consolidate its power. Our democratic system is a joke. Would you believe the Supreme Court actually chose the last President? You know when his wife's nickname for him is STUPID, we're in trouble. Yup, baby George W., son of the ex-CIA director drug dealer and oil man, George Bush, is now the Prez. He can barely articulate a coherent sentence. Just makes you sick. Now he gets to wage a war in the name of fighting terrorism.
In reality this war is just another front in the capitalists' efforts to expand and control world markets, keep the rich, white boys in charge and squash an intensely amazing, growing resistance movement. A movement that captured the attention of the world on your birthday! November 30, 1999 over fifty thousand people swarmed the streets with song and dance to shut down the Millennial Rounds of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
This movement arose from the fact that corporations with the support of elected officials are selling our water, endless polluting our air, genetically modifying our food, clear cutting our forests. For them, "developing" means "destroying."
…same shit, different generation…

Al Giordano sees the release of this issue of Steal This Book differently. The biographical blurb about Giordano says he is ". . . a free speech defendant currently being sued by billionaires in the Drug War on Trial case in New York City." A longtime friend of Hoffman, Giodarno describes him as a man who thought ". . . a task was either worth going to jail for, worth dying for, or it was not worth doing." While admitting that, of all Hoffman's seven published works, Steal This Book is the most widely read and notorious, Giordano claims much of the book is obsolete.

"Planes turned into bombs. The Twin Towers collapsed. The Pentagon in flames. Two of the most powerful symbols of capitalism and militarism left gaping and destroyed in a matter of moments. The foundations of the old order were cracked open."

So Cindy Sheehan's pet anarchist is just overjoyed at the carnage and destruction wrought by the 911 terrorists. Like Ward Churchill, the extreme-left loons around Cindy Sheehan think they are on the cutting edge of a 'revolution' -- however idiotic and incoherent their "common wet-dreams" of a new revolutionary order may be. The left has loved to wail about "guilt by association" but when you have someone like Lisa Fithian as one of your main organizers for your activities it is entirely appropriate for the public to know that you (Cindy Sheehan) are working on behalf of anti-American lunatics. Of course, Cindy Sheehan has already affirmed ideas very similar to those of Lisa Fithian so it is no stretch to say they are "birds of a feather."