Half Century of Retaliation For Exposing
Tragedy-Related Endemic Corruption in U.S.
After years as a Naval aviation and then international airline captain, Rodney Stich became a federal airline safety inspector-investigator in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). From about 1950 to about 1980 there were a continuous series of preventable airline disasters. It was during this time that the federal government asked Stich to accept an assignment to correct the primary area of blame for these major aviation tragedies.
In this position he discovered a culture of incompetence, arrogance, indifference, and corruption. He sought to attack the corruption, and then became targeted. He left government and started exposing what he had discovered, while the preventable aviation disasters continued to occur. These activities included:
Publishing the first edition of Unfriendly Skies, which is now in the fourth edition, called Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, and shows the extension of the early corruption-enabled airline disasters to the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001.
Repeatedly reported the corruption that he and his coalition of other insiders had discovered, to employees of the U.S. Department of Justice, to members of Congress, and to media people and media corporations, encountering repeated cover-ups.
Reporting the corruption to federal judges, that constituted federal crimes, as required by the federal crime reporting statute, only to be repeatedly blocked from providing evidence.
Appearing on hundreds of radio and televisions shows as guest and expert, starting in 1978 and continuing to this date.
Federal Judges and DOJ Personnel Seizing
Assets That Funded Exposure Activities
Federal judges, lawyers, and Justice Department personnel became involved in corruptly seizing and liquidating the $10 million in real estate assets that funded his exposure of the high level corruption. These assets included the following:
Tahitian Gardens Motel, 60 units, Yuba City, California. This motel was free and clear of any debt. View 1; View 2; View 3; View 4.
Highway 99 Truck Stop, Yuba City, California. This was free and clear. View 1.
160 Acres, Pleasanton, California. This was free and clear. View 1.
Tahitian Apartments, 58 unites, Concord, California. View of one of the 58 units. These were almost totally paid off. View 1.
4 Houses, Concord, California.
Mountain-top home, Fairfield, California. Mortgage was 1/3 of market value. View 1.
Executive 4500-sqft home in Alamo, California. Mortgage was 1/3 of market value. View 1.
Four-unit condominium building at Lake Tahoe, California. View 1.
Four-unit building and three condominiums in Las Vegas.
Four condominiums in Reno.
Two Twin-Engine aircraft. These were free and clear. View 1.
Various other remaining assets.
Total value of the properties, when seized in 1987, was about $10 million, and had only about $4 million in loans, which were being easily paid off every month. The sham legal actions, including those started by the CIA-front law firm of Friedman, Sloan and Ross and their lawyers, created financial havoc. Today, these properties would be worth approximately $20 million, and be free and clear of any indebtedness. Heavy price to pay seeking to protect the public from the corruption that he was attempting to expose.
The intent, and obvious effect, of seizing the assets was to strip the former federal agent from continuing to expose the worsening corruption and financial and other consequences. These corrupt actions, taken by federal employees through misuse of government offices and power, were taken with the knowledge of dozens of other federal judges and each of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, by dozens of members of Congress, by many media personnel, and hundreds of lawyers. Despite the use of federal offices as a racketeering enterprise, and subverting the laws and constitution of the United States, and knowing that the acts were to cover up for sometimes deadly ripple effects from the underlying corruption, not a single person or group spoke out. They all became enablers to a series of successful terrorist attacks, including 9/11, that made them more guilty than anyone other than the actual terrorists themselves for the murders that occurred.
Continuing Series of Catastrophic
Aviation Disasters Enabled to
Occur
All of the participants knew of the prior harm resulting from the corruption that Stich sought to expose and obvious knew of the great tragedies that their corrupt actions would enable to occur.
The below pictures are only a sampling of the consequences from the documented corruption that are able to be portrayed graphically. The tragedies in other areas resulting from the corruption, cover-ups, and public indifference, are not shown here.
These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people.
In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences.
Correct Actions Taken to Halt
Exposure of High Level Corruption
Included in the actions to prevent further exposure of the corruption responsible for many American tragedies, including preventable aviation disasters—and which would include the 9/11 hijackings were the following:
Continuous series of sham lawsuits against Stich that involved over 50 lawyers and law firms, acting in parallel with the cover-ups by federal judges and Department of Justice personnel.
Federal judges voiding for the former federal agent the protections under the laws and Constitution of the United States by denying him the right to file any papers in any federal district or appellate court. The intent and the effect of these unlawful and unconstitutional orders was to block his reporting of the high-level federal crimes to a federal judge under the federal crime reporting statute, and deny him the federal defenses against the great harm arising from the sham lawsuits that constituted violations of numerous federally protected rights.
Federal judges and Justice Department prosecutors charged the former federal agent and witness to several major federal crimes with criminal contempt of court for filing papers reporting the criminal acts in which federal judges and Department of Justice employees were complicit through cover-ups. They then denied him a jury trial, and in a self-protective act sentenced Stich to six months in federal prison. An irony of that sentencing was that the same corruption that Stich sought to report, and for which he was sentenced to prisons, was the same corruption that made it easy for terrorists to subsequently hijack four airliners, kill nearly 3,000 people, and set in motion even more deaths and tragedies.
Email address for the author and activist against corruption in
government: stich@unfriendlyskies.com.
For more information relating to the author and his activities put "Rodney
Stich" into a search engine
such as Google or yahoo.com. The links run into many tens of thousands.
Information on the books by former government agent Rodney StichThree Primary Not-For-Profit Books Related To Widespread Internal Corruption
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Sampling of early books reviews
Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich.
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