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At
the same time the Rev. Jerry Falwell was accusing
pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the
ACLU and People For the American Way of sharing
responsibility for the 9/11 attack the televangelist
owed over one million dollars in unpaid loans to the
owner of the terror flight school in Florida which
trained Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, the
MadCowMorningNews has
learned.
In
the days after terrorist hijackers murdered almost
3000 people, almost the entire American nation was
numb and speechless with shock and horror.
Not Jerry Falwell.
The
Baptist minister from Lynchburg, VA wasted no time in
pointing a finger of blame for the attack. He said, “I
point the finger in their face and say, 'You
helped this happen.'”
Falwell made no mention, then or ever, of his curious
debt to secretive Green Bay financier Wallace J.
Hilliard, whose flight school abetted, if unwittingly,
the terrorist presence in the United States.
Strangely, this is not Jerry Falwell’s
only link to covert activity at the tiny Venice, FL
airport.
Working in mysterious ways
We
first learned of terror flight school owner Hilliard’s
loan to Falwell from Stuart Burchill, Hilliard’s
former accountant.
At
one time Hilliard had assigned him the task, Burchill
stated, of dunning deadbeat Falwell, the founder of
Liberty University and Pastor of the Thomas Road
Baptist Church, to repay the million bucks Falwell
owed his boss.
In
the course of trying to get Falwell to address the
unpaid debt Burchill learned details of the Reverend’s
accounting practices upon which the Almighty Himself
would presumably frown.
“The
Falwell note was an outstanding receivable I was
assigned to collect,” Burchill explained.
“I
talked to Falwell’s accountant, who was very
apologetic. He said there was plenty of money to pay
off the loan, except that any time there was money
left in the account at the end of the month,
Jerry always stripped it out.”
Clearly, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Pastoral image suffers 'a
blemish'

"Falwell’s accountant told me, ‘if I can
pay you in chunks off the books so Jerry doesn’t see
it, I can get it handled,’ Burchill said.
“So
we worked out a payment schedule. After that checks
drawn on Liberty University came
in for a few months, until Falwell figured out what
was going on and put a stop to it.”
That
the avuncular Southern Baptist minister was
“stripping out” his church’s bank account at
the end of the month is no doubt news to his
supporters. Picture him trying to peddle forgiveness
for that down the aisles at Liberty
Baptist.
At
the very least, the Rev. Falwell’s pastoral image
might have suffered.
"Who are those guys?"

The
Rev. Falwell’s second curious association at the
Venice Airport involves a dummy front company working
at terror flight school Huffman Aviation in Venice
Florida which moved, amid great controversy, to the
Baptist minister’s hometown of Lynchburg VA., where
the firm was mysteriously awarded a five-year contract
to run a large regional maintenance facility at the
airport, beating out a respected and successful local
firm with 40 employees and a multi-million dollar
balance sheet.
Britannia Aviation from Venice Florida, in contrast,
had two employees, no corporate history, did not
possess the necessary FAA license to perform the
aircraft maintenance services for which it had been
contracted, and was worth less than $750.
"There was some sentiment that there might be
something suspicious about Britannia Aviation," stated
a business reporter at the Lynchburg News-Advance.
"There was a clear feeling that nobody knew who these
guys were, or where they were coming from."
The
uneasiness wasn’t helped by a revelation from
Britannia's chief executive Paul Martens during a
Lynchburg City Council meeting. Attempting to reassure
the city that his firm was substantial, Martens said
his company had for some time been successfully
providing aviation maintenance services for a
Caribbean air carrier called Caribe Air.
Huh. Another drug
smuggling airline.
Caribe
Air is a notorious CIA proprietary air carrier with a
particularly checkered past, including 'blemishes'
like being accused by government prosecutors of using
as many as 20 planes to ship drugs worth billions of
dollars into the U.S., as well as having its aircraft
seized by federal officials at the infamous Mena
Arkansas airport.
Moreover it was run by a German national and longtime
CIA asset named Dietrich Reinhardt, who also was
partners at the Charlotte County Florida Airport,
frequented by Mohamed Atta and friends, with a man
suspected of stealing as many as 23 helicopters from
Charlotte County Sheriff’s Dept.
One
wag in Charlotte County told us the helicopters hadn’t
been stolen, exactly. They’d merely been
“released on their own recognizance.”
When
details of the Lynchburg controversy first reached
Venice, aviation executives there had professed
amazement. "No one here had ever heard of Britannia
Aviation before," one told us. "And this is a very
small airport."
After our inquiry, this aviation exec called a DEA
source he knew to ask what he knew about Britannia
Aviation.
A green light at the end
of the runway

"This guy got all excited as soon as I asked," the
executive told us later. "He wanted to know why I was
interested in Britannia. Finally he told me Britannia
had a 'green light' from the DEA at the Venice
Airport, whatever that means. And he said the local
police had been warned to leave them alone.”
When
we dropped in unannounced at his office in a Huffman
Aviation hangar, Paul Martens had no comment on this
report.
He
was just an honest British businessman, he told us. He
had ties to Lynchburg Virginia. He had met his wife
there, while she was a student at Jerry Falwell's
Liberty University.
Her
father was a pastor for the Reverend Falwell. 
Why
did Wally Hilliard loan Falwell a cool million bucks?
When we briefly interviewed Wally Hilliard several
years ago we brought the subject up. “You loaned money
to Jerry Falwell. How much?” we asked.
“More than I want to tell you about,” Hilliard
replied.
“Did
Falwell pay you back?”
“He
paid some of it back.”
The
question remains puzzling.
"Helping World Help helps you."

Terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard wasn’t
even a Baptist. He later became a Mormon deacon, and
even owned a Lear jet busted with 43 pounds of heroin
onboard during July of 2000, the same month Mohamed
Atta arrived to attend his flight school.
The
only conclusion which can be drawn is that there must
be some other, secret association between the two men.
Perhaps Falwell’s association with the so-called
“Committee of 100” which steered Republican propaganda
efforts during the 1990’s is the answer.
Falwell produced The Clinton Chronicles
“documentary” in 1994, seeking to implicate
then-President Clinton in the Mena cocaine-smuggling
conspiracy.
It
later emerged that "an investigative reporter"
featured in silhouette in the trailer for the
documentary, who claimed President Clinton was
organizing the assassination of journalists, had been
the film's producer.
“Jerry Falwell got bailed out in the early ‘90’s by a
local Lynchburg businessman with interesting
associations,” one Lynchburg observer told us. “Since
then Falwell runs a missionary service called
World Help, which flies all over the world.”
Must be the end times for
sure
Then,
too, there is Falwell’s association with leading
televangelist, Pat Robertson, who eulogized him,
saying, "Jerry's courage and strength of convictions
will be sadly missed in this time of increasing moral
relativism."
“Islamic fundamentalist” Osama bin laden reportedly
cloaked covert activities under the cover of religious
charities. Did U.S. intelligence use the same ruse?
One
of the flight trainers who trained Atta in Venice
moonlighted flying missionary flights for
televangelist Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing.
During the 1980s Falwell— at the same time Robertson
was involved a bizarre sideline for a preacher,
diamond mining in West Africa— had been an
outspoken supporter of apartheid in South Africa.
And
a Caribe Air C130 had been shot down over Angola with
the loss of everyone aboard, including a US
Congressman’s nephew. The plane was on a mission for
the Angolan government, it was discovered, laden with
a cargo of swag, including whiskey and cigarettes.
More
recently, terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard
incorporated a “charity”
called the “West African Children’s Lifeline, Inc.”
Perhaps the men just share a mutual interest in
Africa. Or maybe it’s a clue.
We
vote for clue

What
forced us, with some reluctance, to ignore the
proscription to speak only good about the dead is the
fact that what passes for political discourse in
America today is so far removed from reality as to
constitute some kind of special circumstance.
Take
the Rev. Al Sharpton testifying to the essential
goodness of the Rev. Falwell on Chris Matthews’
Hardball.
“Reverend Falwell and I didn't agree on anything, but
we got along personally," Rev. Al told Matthews.
"He
personally was genuinely a nice guy, and I would find
him to be one of the few people in the public light
who was genuine.”
Matthews was quick to praise Sharpton’s comments about
a former political foe as “surprisingly generous.”
Nixon and Franco: Together
in eternity
Al
Sharpton being “deeply saddened” by the
death of the Rev. Falwell is only surprising if you
had also been shocked to discover that Richard
Nixon mourned the passing of General
Francisco Franco.
The
disconnect from reality was breathtaking. And the
bonhomie was so overwhelming that we were
left feeling slightly nauseous.
It
felt like being trapped in an elevator with a guy
wearing enough Old Spice to set off biological weapons
detectors.
Matthews paid no attention to the uncomfortable fact
that the Rev. Al’s recent 2004 bid for the Democratic
Presidential nomination was financed and run by a
Republican dirty trickster named Roger
Stone.
"I
helped Sharpton because I like him," said Stone when
confronted later about steering $288,000 to Sharpton's
campaign.
A right-wing firecracker
in leather

Stone and his wife Nikki, a fiery Cuban-born
right-winger, arranged for a mob of thugs, GOP
operatives, and Cuban rightists to riot and shut down
the recount in the Gore-Bush Presidential contest in
Miami-Dade County after the 2000 election to come down
to the Miami courthouse, stealing the election for
George W. Bush in 2000.
Ironically, big-time political strategist Roger Stone
was one of the GOP’s top strategists urging Republican
politicians to emphasize family values and
integrity... until he was exposed in a story in the
National Enquirer revealing that he and his
wife were swingers.
The
duo frequented group sex clubs and engaged in group
sex orgies.
“Roger and Nikki were our customers for a long time,"
said the owner of a Miami swing club called The
Vault. “"Roger looked like a Ken doll. He was tall,
blond, handsome and muscular.”
“And
his wife was curvaceous and very sexy. She would wear
leather bras and tantalizing outfits and he would wear
collars, chaps and a leather vest with no shirt
underneath.”
Name the Bush Mega-Scandal

Not
the image you'd want on a poster for “Republican
family values.”
And
all this would have been a bit of a sticky wicket for
the party that’s attempted to commandeer God for the
past twenty years…but it was barely mentioned in the
major media.
What
makes this story worth dredging up is its relevance to
the current and as yet unnamed Bush Administration
Mega-Scandal.
Roger Stone was a key operative helping Jack Abramoff
create a GOP influence-peddling juggernaut used to
exploit the $13 billion Indian gaming industry.
The
Village Voice said Stone’s Indian deals made him (or
somebody) as much as $13 million.
Predictably Chris Matthews never asked the Rev. Al
about his Republican-funded campaign for the
Democratic Presidential nomination, managed by his
swinger buddy Roger Stone.
And
no one has publicized Jerry Falwell’s links to Wally
Hilliard, owner of two terror flights schools in
Venice used in a still-unrevealed covert operation
which spectacularly backfired.
The
kids from Homeland Security High
Recently
we learned that Wally Hilliard’s former accountant,
Stuart Burchill, is today the CEO of a company called
Industrial Nanotech, a company working closely with
Sandia National Laboratories.
"Working with Sandia is truly a rewarding opportunity
and we are honored to share laboratory space and
scientific expertise with such a world-class
organization,” says Burchill in a recent press
release.
“Sandia is a national security laboratory involved in
a variety of research and development programs
sponsored by the Department of Energy's National
Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of
Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security to
provide technology solutions that protect nearly 300
million Americans from global threats.”
Homeland Security is everywhere you are.
SUNDAY: RETURN
OF THE NARCO-REPUBLICANS
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