Time Mag: From Housewife to Outspoken "Jersey Girl"(K. Breitweiser)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532959,00.html

In the five years since Kristin Breitweiser watched her husband die in the World Trade Center on television, the onetime New Jersey housewife has transformed herself into a vocal political activist. In Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow, a new book out this week, Breitweiser, 35, recounts her work to establish the 9/11 Commission, taking on Henry Kissinger and being serenaded by Bruce Springsteen. She recently spoke to TIME's Kathleen Kingsbury on why the U.S. isn't safer five years after September 11, 2001, what we should do about it and why Ann Coulter isn't helping.

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TIME: In her own book Godless released in June, conservative commentator Ann Coulter calls you and your fellow Jersey Girls various names — "harpies," "witches" — saying some "9/11 victims turned themselves into the arbiters of what anyone could say about 9/11."

KB: I don't believe in name-calling and hysterics. This country is in a place right now where we need respectful educated debate versus screaming, ranting and raving. That's not fruitful. Tell me why the airline system shouldn't be secure. Tell me why port security shouldn't be better. Tell me why border security shouldn't be our first priority. Tell me why I shouldn't care that the FBI still has an inoperable computer system. If Ms. Coulter can give me an argument to dissuade me those things aren't of paramount importance, I'll listen.

TIME: Coulter went on to lambaste you for attracting media attention and "reveling in status as celebrities."

KB: Regardless of who you are — whether you're a 9/11 family member, an Iraqi war veteran, whether you lost a child in a hot tub drain, whether your child was abducted — if you're an American citizen, you have every right to open your mouth and partake in democracy. I have every right to voice my opinion.

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1. The Jersey Girls along with the Paul Thompson time-line

...is featured here in the video of the film:

9/11: Press For Truth

google has it up

networks should run this also and let everyone see the republican stone-walling of all the the warnings they got in the months and weeks prior to 9/11.

excellent film!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-10167206415364...

[mother earth]

2. I purchased the DVD. This is one fantastic video on all the

reasons why we need to re-open the 9/11 investigation. Those Jersey girls rock! I'm loving them! I intend to buy the book, Wake up Call too. Paul Thompson brings out an incredible and overlooked simple fact, there was a 2 hour span between the strike at the twin towers & the Pentagon hit & still there was no military response. They give a number of just how many times air space was violated in the prior year (?249, don't remember exact number)and just how many "minutes", not hours it took for military response. This by itself is just an incredible eye-opener.

For all of the researching and reading I've done myself I also did not know about Zelikow's role as head of the 9/11 Commission and his past conflicts of interest....incredible stuff...I highly recommend this to everyone. He was a pre-war planner & co-authored a book with Condi, he's a Rovian mind gamer. They voiced their concerns & he was appointed anyway. However, they did stop Kissinger who has Saudi ties from participating on the 9/11 Commission. Kissinger did not see it coming either.

No matter what you feel about 9/11, you must agree we have only been given a slice of what actually happened that day. There's far too many things that conflict, there's no doubt of a cover-up & until we expose the truth, there truly can be no way to ensure it does not happen again. Bush & Co. have been monumental failures at "homeland" security. It could be for no other reason than deliberate intent. The lies are just starting to unfold.

I hope GW keeps blabbing about 9/11, cuz the more he brings up the subject, the more it is brought into question. This whole claim to nat'l security is going to backfire in their faces. We are just beginning to have our eyes opened.

[whistle]

3. Thanks, Zelikow is one evil SOB

[mother earth]

4. How could we get the networks to air it? That would be huge!

[mother earth]

5. That's a great idea, I think I'm going to zip off an email to

Olbermann for starters.

[whistle]

6. Let them know by email

[Vidar]

7. Bravo.