9/11 Victim Accused of Defrauding Victim Compensation Fund by 9/11 Victimâ„¢-Haters!!

LIHOPopotamus's picture

ACTION ALERT!! This 9/11 Victim needs OUR HELP!!  After becoming disabled when the Bush cabal Let 9/11 Happen On Purpose, this noble 9/11 Victim™ and his Family rightly collected their share of the victim compensation funds and tried to put their lives back together.  Now because he is doing better the evil Bush regime is persecuting him.  Mr. Mastellone, who I like to call "Super Mario", lived up to his part of the bargain by suffering an injury when jets swollen with fuel and piloted by kamikaze Arab Muslims were allowed to crash into his office building lovingly cared for by Silverstein Properties, and by subsequently agreeing not to sue anyone.  As truthers we must pledge support to ALL those claiming to be 9/11 Victims™ or their family members!  Truthers are asked to buy 20 copies of Steve Alten's first book (the one about the killer shark) in support of Super Mario and his herniated disk.  Steve says he will consider donating 1% of the after tax royalties to the Alten Foundation for Spinal Disk Research.

9/11 con man Mario Mastellone filmed doing limbo - feds - New York Daily News  

The feds subpoenaed the wedding tape from the videographer and are using it to show Mastellone should be locked up for three years for scamming the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund out of nearly $1.1 million.

They said the Port Authority painter masterminded the largest fraud on a compensation fund created to repay those seriously injured in the attacks.

"Mastellone effectively took for himself monies that would have been used for the benefit of others, purely as a result of his own greed," Dabbs wrote.

Mastellone convinced fund overseers that on 9/11 he suffered a severe herniated disc in his spine which rendered him incapable of doing household chores like mowing the lawn or cleaning the pool at his East Windsor, N.J., home.

Prosecutors say his back troubles started during a 1994 car accident. They say Mastellone wasn't even tossed across the floor of a 43rd-floor cafeteria when the plane hit the north tower as he claimed.

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Chico Haupt's picture

stupid truthling!!

LIHOPopotamus, you ah krazy like the fox news!! you ah steel supporteeng ze outmoded LIHOP seeory while ignoring ze obvious no-plane and video-fakery evidence!!! YOU ARE MAKEENG ME INNNSAAAAAANE!!!!!!

gretavo's picture

Chico stop being so divisive!

There is room under the big-top tent of 9/11 truth for everyone except holocaust revisionists and moon hoaxers. See Kevin Barrett's latest call for unity--even Uncle Fetzer is trying to act sane these days--why can't YOU??

ps to Larry Horse--looks like Kevin is bringing you a gurrrlfrend--Rocinante is of course Don Quixote's horse, which I guess makes Uncle Fetzer into "Tio Sancho Panza" and Judy Wood into his unnamed donkey...

Kevin's latest Truth Jihadâ„¢ newsletter follows....

Greetings!


I'll soon be riding Rocinante to Chicago, where I introduce Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth tonight at the University of Illinois-Chicago (see http://www.dupage911truth for details). If you're within striking distance, please join us. Richard is the most effective and hard-working speaker the 9/11 truth movement has ever had.  Sort of like the Beatles in 1964, Richard may not be able to keep up his frenetic touring schedule forever, so catch him now before he takes a much-deserved rest. If you haven't seen his site - possibly the best 9/11 information site around - check it out at http://www.ae911truth.org


Speaking of great 9/11 truth communicators, check out Jim Fetzer's brilliant two-hour interview with Governor Jesse Ventura, broadcast Wednesday 5/30 and still available in podcast form at http://www.gcnlive.com/pubpod/d_duo/pcast.php.  Click on the two one-hour segments dated 0528081 and 0528082. Or you can listen to the rebroadcast today, 4-6 pm CT , at http://www.gcnlive.com Network 4. In the whole history of the 9/11 truth movement, this is the most extensive interview of the biggest name - and I think it's one of the most successful interviews as well. What's more, Jesse Ventura isn't just a big name, he's the biggest independent thinker and shaker-upper in American politics today - the guy who took on the two-party system and won!  His potential candidacy for Senator from Minnesota, which is right next door to my district in Wisconsin, could turn out to be the most important political event of 2008.


Immediately after issuing my recent call for unity in the 9/11 truth movement, I interviewed physicist Steven Jones of http://www.stj911.org. You can listen at http://mp3.wtprn.com/Barrett/0805/20080527_Tue_Barrett2.mp3.  Steve is a terrific guy as well as a great researcher - I think his recent work is the best we've got in terms of WTC demolition evidence that will hold up in court, and I greatly appreciate his supporting the call to unity.


In response to the call to unity (soon to be archived at http://www.barrettforcongress.us/unity.htm) Jim and I were contacted by several people who had gotten the erroneous impression that Jim used to "side with Judy Wood" and now he's "siding with Steven Jones."  The whole point of my call for unity was to get past the childish tendency to take sides in playground battles. 


Jim is honestly struggling to control his natural tendency to get carried away when engaged in "the battle of ideas" and he deserves credit for that. He agrees with me that (as Nixon said) mistakes have been made - by people on all sides of the various 9/11 truth disputes - and that we need to focus on the issues, not on clashes of personalities. Here is his attempt to correct the misimpression that he is somehow "switching sides":
Since a few points in Kevin's latest newsletter may have left the wrong impression, some clarifications may be in order.  I stand by my past critique of Steve's work, under "The Science of 9/11" on 911scholars.org.  But I am enthusiastic about the "Fourteen Points" paper he co-authored and wanted to say so.  His laboratory research also appears very productive.  Similarly, I have not abandoned Judy Wood, whose path-breaking research on the destruction of the World Trade Center seems to me to be an indispensable resource.  My recent reservations only concern her alliance with John Hutchison, in whose work I have less confidence.  When I think Steve is wrong I say so, and when I think Judy is wrong I say so.  I don't know of any other way to proceed.  They have both made very important contributions. Even when we may take exception to aspects of each other's research, that does not dictate abandoning their good work.  A similar case, for example, could be made about Jim Hoffman's work, where we would not toss his early studies of the Twin Towers based upon his later views about the Pentagon.  We can reject some aspects of someone's research without rejecting it all, as these three cases exemplify.   -Jim Fetzer, 5/29/08

I salute Jim, Steve, and all those who are willing to put the past behind them and move forward toward the full revelation of the truth about 9/11 - a truth that will change history for the better in ways we can hardly imagine.


Kevin Barrett 


PS I'll be covering the Media Reform Conference in the Twin Cities next weekend, June 6th-8th for http://www.noliesradio.org  Hope to see you there!


Please note my new email address: kbarrett@merr.com

Complete radio schedule (next week's schedule should be up this weekend):
Note next week's great guests, include Richard Cook, whose groundbreaking article Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A. is archived at http://www.barrettforcongress.us/mustread.htm; leading social critic Eric Larsen, http://www.ericlarsen.net; and finally our two leading Chomsky critics, Michael Morrissey and Barrie Zwicker, to discuss my publication of my email correspondence with Chomsky: http://www.barrettforcongress.us/chomsky.htm

News Headline Show: No Lies News! http://noliesradio.org/ This is radio news with an attitude! Catch it before the FCC hears it and sends me to Guantanamo. Sample show: http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20080326_kevinbarrett_nolies.mp3   Below are transcripts from this week.

No Lies News Transcripts for the Week Ending 5/29/08

Thursday 5/29

In al-CIA-duh news, NBC News is reporting that intelligence and law enforcement sources are "expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West."  "There have been several reports that al Qaeda will release a new message calling for the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against civilians," claims FBI spokesman Richard Kolko. Since Islam clearly prohibits any attacks on civilians, and since the FBI knows exactly when they will release their videotapes and what the topics will be, informed sources wonder just who these so-called "al Qaeda supporters" really are.

Meanwhile, the recent flurry of bogus "al Qaeda" and "Bin Laden" tapes has refocused attention on the likelihood that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 and died as long ago as December, 2001. Bloggers are posting reminders that the FBI says Bin Laden is "not wanted" for 9/11 because there is "no hard evidence" against him. They are posting his repeated denials of involvement in 9/11, including one published in the Pakistani newspaper Ummat in September, 2001: "I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle." That was Osama Bin Laden, not only denying any involvement, but actually deploring the biggest terrorist attack in history.

In a story headlined Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq, the Washington Post reports that "'Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush and aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'" The Post's sudden discovery that Bush was lying about the reasons for invading Iraq amuses informed observers, who expect the Post to also report that the Pope is Catholic, bears do defecate in the woods, and Copernicus has recently revealed that the earth actually revolves around the sun.

Bush's lies will cost the world six trillion dollars in higher energy costs alone, according to a leading oil economist. Dr Mamdouh Salameh, a World Bank advisor, has told the UK newspaper The Independent that the price of oil would now be under $40 a barrel, instead of $135 a barrel, if the US had not invaded Iraq. That would translate to two dollar a gallon gas at the pump, instead of the current four dollars. Unfortunately, far from learning from his mistakes, Bush now apparently intends to usher in $10-a-gallon gasoline by lying to invade Iran.

Finally, in women's fashion meets Dunkin' Donuts news...racist Fox propagandist Michelle Malkin has successfully pressured Dunkin' Donuts to pull an add featuring a donut-eating woman wearing a scarf. Why? Because the scarf looks too much like the keffiyeh, the traditional Arab scarf. Anti-Arab racist Michelle Malkin apparently sees the beautiful donut-eating woman as a fanatical terrorist just because she's wearing a scarf that's sort of Arab looking.

This is Kevin Barrett, saying watch out, if you ever see a beautiful woman in a scarf eating a donut, please call 9-1-1 immediately, because she has got to be a femme fatale. (Velvet Underground, "Femme Fatale")

  

Wednesday 5/28

In today's 9/11 truth news...former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura will be appearing on the Dynamic Duo radio show with Jim Fetzer of Scholars for 9/11 truth for a full two hours, today, Wednesday, May 28th on http://www.gcnlive.com network 4.   This will be Governor Ventura's most extensive interview ever on a 9/11 truth radio program. Jesse Ventura is expected to discuss his impending candidacy for the Senate as well as the unresolved questions of 9/11 and related issues.

Speaking of Jim Fetzer, the professor emeritus of scientific reasoning is winning applause from 9/11 truth supporters for his efforts to bury the hatchet with physics professor Steven Jones. Fetzer and Jones were formerly co-chairs of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which split into two groups in early 2007 after the co-chairs had a falling out. Yesterday Fetzer put out a statement applauding Steven Jones' recent work:  "I have tremendous admiration for Steve's recent paper 'Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction,' co-authored by Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, and James R. Gourley. I think it is brilliant the way the authors made their points by 'agreeing' with NIST and FEMA." Fetzer also said he welcomes Steven Jones' thermate research, while remaining convinced that other mechanisms along with thermate would have been necessary to produce the full range of effects witnessed during the destruction of the World Trade Center. Shortly after Fetzer issued his statement, physicist Steven Jones appeared on Kevin Barrett's 9/11 and Empire radio show and welcomed Fetzer's remarks. Jones has never denied that mechanisms other than thermate may have been involved in the destruction of the World Trade Center. He simply argues that positive proof of the use of thermate, which his laboratory work appears to have provided, represents the kind of scientific evidence that is likely to hold up in court; while he and other scientists associated with Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice have argued that thus far, no equally strong evidence for other causal mechanisms has been produced.

 In war-on-Iran news, the Asia Times quotes an informed source as saying the Bush-Cheney regime intends to launch airs strikes on Iran within the next two months. According to the source, US senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Lugar were briefed on the attack, and planned to try to avert the strike by publishing an op-ed in the New York Times. But that editorial has yet to appear.

In war-on-freedom news, the Guardian has reported that a graduate student in England was arrested, jailed for six days, and subjected to "psychological torture" for conducting academic research on the internet.  Twenty-two-year-old Rizwaan Sabir was held under the Terrorism Act for downloading material on al-Qaida from a US government website. Informed sources point out that if Mr. Sabir considered the US government, which is by far the world's largest and most murderous terrorist organization, a reliable source, he might conceivably be considered at least vaguely complicit in the acts of US government terrorism that have murdered millions of people around the world, described by William Blum as "the American holocaust." But according to those same informed sources, academic freedom IS supposed to protect even those who trust such murderous terrorist organizations as the US government.

Finally, in al-CIA-duh news, the Associated Press reports that the CIA is interested in those jockeying to replace bin Laden in a predicted 'succession crisis.' It sounds like the CIA is having a casting call to see who they can promote as the next great super-villain. Interested applicants should send a headshot along with a resume and a statement of why they hate our freedom, and how they plan to destroy civilization, to the following address: The Central Intelligence Agency, 8280 Greensboro Drive, Suite 900 McLean, VA 22102.

This is Kevin Barrett for No Lies Headlines, reminding you that all the world's a stage. (Shakespeare, "All the World's a Stage")

larry horse's picture

barrett's horse ride to chicago

i can't make it to see richard gage's presentation or kevin's fine steed tonight. too bad really, but i hastily arranged for a stranger from overseas to come stay with me w/o realizing gage was coming to town. http://www.couchsurfing.com/
in fact, i've got strangers from overseas painting my place right now in preparation. albanians, actually.

gretavo's picture

look, LP, this is NOT the "Victim's Compensation Movement"

If you're not careful you're going to start getting voted down... you don't want to end up like this guy!

Might be time for another purge over at 911Blogger--Gold goes through credibility like Larry Silverstein goes through highrises!

whitey's picture

There are some problems with

There are some problems with your post.

1) "As truthers we must pledge support to ALL those claiming to be 9/11 Victimsâ„¢ or their family members!"

No actually I don't have to support anything because someone else says so. You're asking blind support for those CLAIMING to be a victim. Zug zug?

2)"Truthers are asked to buy 20 copies of Steve Alten's first book (the one about the killer shark) in support of Super Mario and his herniated disk. Steve says he will consider donating 1% of the after tax royalties to the Alten Foundation for Spinal Disk Research."

Why not donate directly to this person instead of through an intermediary who is only going to CONSIDER donating 1% which means the rest goes into the author's pocket? As far as I'm concerned this author can go @#$% himself at this point. The manner in which he has been promoted is sleazy.

Is this post of yours cynical/sarcastic or are you posting it in seriousness?

LIHOPopotamus's picture

i'm sorry, i meant we must all pledge our BLIND support, yes.

1) We can't risk offending the real victims' families by implying in any way that anyone claiming to be a victim's family member is being dishonest. I for one find the cost to you taxpayers to be worth the peace of mind.

2) Steve Alten is not only a New York Times Bestelling Authorâ„¢ but also a beautiful person. Apparently you're one of those Alten-haterz who think his Shill Game doesn't tithe enough to the church of controlled demolition. You know what your problem is? You prefer to tear people apart for doing SOMEthing to promote LIHOP than to promote LIHOP yourself!

And Whitey, my friend, yes, I am a satirical character. :)