Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Marc Sasseville should be courmartialed 

Now I have found frank statements showing there were no orders for them to commit suicide. 

Heather Penney said neither of them had second thoughts about flying their F-16s into the plane. "As the military, we don't send our service members on suicide missions. But it was clear what needed to be done that morning," she said.

That order did not come through the chain of command — the pilots had taken it upon themselves. "We didn't have any other choice. And we weren't going to be caught on the ground watching America get hit again," Sasseville said.

RC: So, despite vague references to it being an order, and the media reporting it that way, this is a frank statement showing that it was their idea: Sasseville and Penney. 

The order did not come through the chain of command. So, why is the media saying that it did?

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According to Sasseville, he ordered Penney on the suicide mission. He just went up to her and said. “Lucky, you’re coming with me,” barked Col. Marc Sasseville.

RC: Now, who would order anyone on a suicide mission like that? And why did he pick her, a young woman. Were'n't any of his old flying buddies around? 

They were gearing up in the pre-flight life-support area when Sasseville, struggling into his flight suit, met her eye.

“I’m going to go for the cockpit,” Sasseville said.

She replied without hesitating.

“I’ll take the tail.”

RC: Who implies suicide? Who talks around it? Who leaves it up to chance whether the person undertands that you mean suicide?

So, with no authority whatsoever- and you can't cite me any statue by which he was authorized to order someone on a suicide mission,- he decided that her life was worth ending.  But, wouldn't he be direct with her about it?  Didn't he owe her that much?

The way they have recalled the conversation, there is no way to assume that they talked directly about suicide. 

This is the most unAmerican thing I have ever heard. We are supposed to be a country that values life and the right to life. It's bad enough that we have a long history of a military draft that cost men their lives- by the millions.  Yet, there is a big difference between putting a person in combat, which is very dangerous, but where they have a chance to survive, and ordeing them to die; telling them that "It's your time to die. We need something from you- your life." That is unAmerican. It was Imperial Japanese. It's Talibanese. But, it is not American.  And we should not be celebrating it. 

So, despite the many headlines saying that it was an assignment, I am absolutely sure now that if you nailed it down with them, that they will admit, as they have, that NOBODY ordered them to die. 

So, it was a self-directed mission, but there are no self-directed missions in the Military. It's a top-down organization. Nobody just does what they want. Everybody follows orders. And I don't know how high up Sasseville was at the time, but I know damn well that he did not have the authority to order anyone on a suicide mission.

According to this statement, he did directly speak to her about suicide.

Sasseville told Lieutenant Penney Garcia that it could cost both of their lives to bring down Flight 93. 

But, that's bull shit too because there was no "could" about it. It was definitely going to cost them their lives. If you crash your plane into another plane, you're dead. 

And in absolutely none of the media reports about this, and I've read dozens, have they mentioned the fact that they would have killed all the passengers and crew on the plane. How smart do you have to be to realize that those people were going to die too? So, what gave Sasseville the right and the authority to decide that it was worth it to kill all those people? What gave him the legal right to do it? 

He had no such right. It wasn't his decision. And as I said, nobody is talking about the fact that they would have killed all those people. 

And frankly, I don't think they're even thinking about it. They're too fucking stupid to think about it.  You might say that they just forgot about that aspect of it. 

Those passenger and crew were innocent civilians. He had no right to take it on himself to decide to kill innocent civillians. He needs to be courtmartialed.