David Ray Griffin on NYC CAN

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03 August 2009 |

David Ray Griffin on NYC CAN

Dear Fellow Advocates for 9/11 Truth,

For nearly eight long years, the 9/11 Truth Movement has been seeking to discover and publicize the truth behind the events of September 11, 2001. Although the obstacles have been formidable, more than enough has been discovered to show the official story to be false, and the awareness of this fact, polls show, has been spread over much of the planet.

The time is now ripe to convert this awareness into tangible, political results.

Today, our best opportunity to take this step forward is represented in the efforts of NYC CAN (the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now). It has been working long and hard to get a referendum on the NYC ballot to authorize the City’s own investigation into 9/11. A petition to put such a referendum on the ballot must be supported by 30,000 valid signatures.

On June 24, 2008, NYC CAN submitted a petition with 52,000 signatures. The 22,000 extra signatures were to provide a comfortable cushion in case some of them were deemed invalid.

Last week, however, the city clerk validated only 26,003 of them (calling 24,664 invalid and leaving 1,333 undetermined). This left NYC CAN 3,997 signatures short of what is needed to put the petition before the City Council.

Having anticipated that this would happen—that no matter how many signatures it submitted, the city clerk would declare a sufficient number of them invalid to prevent the 30,000 number from being reached—NYC CAN was prepared to go to court, if necessary.

NYC CAN will go to court this Monday, August 3, for its first hearing. But its formal plaintiffs—four 9/11 family members and one survivor—are proceeding without the aid of an experienced election lawyer.

It is essential that, as soon as possible after this first hearing, NYC CAN is able to enlist NYC’s most experienced lawyer on referendums.

The good news here is that NYC CAN, I am told, has already raised almost enough to hire this lawyer. But several thousand dollars more are still needed.

Please consider donating right away to NYC CAN’s legal defense fund (http://nyccan.org/donate.php).

With outstanding legal representation, NYC CAN and its plaintiffs may be able to win, which would mean that on November 3, the voters of New York City would have the opportunity to vote for a new 9/11 investigation. And we know from polls that, if New Yorkers are given this chance, they almost certainly will vote for it.

This will mean that we will finally have that for which so many of us have worked so hard: a truly independent investigation with subpoena power.

So I would encourage everyone to donate what they can to NYC CAN, which has done such heroic work and deserves our support (http://nyccan.org/donate.php).

—David Ray Griffin

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christof litz (zuerich)

I don’t understand the numbers. 30’000 neccecary, only 26’000 confirmed by the Clerc, but 72’748 on the NYCCAN-counter?
Once I believe to have read, that 75’000 are neccecary, and to be on the save side, the goal is to reach 85’000?
Can somebody explain, please?
http://w9t.org JF Ranger

They now have over 70,000 signatures, that’s true, the they had to submit the petition before a certain date to try to get it on the ballot, and at that time they had 52,000. They kept on accumulating signatures to back the petition up. I’m not sure if they can use it or not, but I would think so.
christof litz (zuerich)

If they had to deliver before a cerain date, than this could as well be the date that counts. You write about 52’000, the text above talks about 30’000 submitted, and 26’000 of them valid. So still some contradicting numbers.
If it would not make its way on the ballot, could 85’000 call for an independent investigation outside of the ballot?
Well, as many signatures as possibel help anyway, I was just wondering about the still different numbers.
greetings Christof
http://w9t.org JF Ranger

Christof, let me put it simple, I know it’s a lot of different numbers. They needed 30,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot. They have submitted 52,000 around July 3rd, which was the last day to submit the petition. They had 52,000 signatures at the time. Since then, they have accumulated more signatures and they are over 70,000. But amongst the 52,000 submitted signatures, the city clerk said that only 26,003 were valid, so he refused the petition.
christof litz (zuerich)

Thank You very much, now I understand all the numbers.
And I read, that they already went to court, to check all the votes, which where pointed out to be unvalid, so I hope very much, they can get the neccecary 30’000 that way.
John Ardolina III

Looks like we’re going to need an independant investigation to investigate the clerk. It so dirty.

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