Stanley Hilton

Stanley G. Hilton is a San Francisco, California, based attorney, political scientist, and former chief of staff for Bob Dole.Fact|date=February 2008

Hilton gained notoriety and condemnation as a conspiracy theorist for filing a $7 billion class action lawsuit, in 2002, against United States President George W. Bush, members of his administration (including Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld) and others. The lawsuit supposedly had 400 plaintiffs including 14 families of 9/11 victims [cite news|title=Bush's Shadowy Regime Hides Saudi Connections |author=Moliver, Nina |date=2002, June 27 |publisher=The Jewish Advocate] , with only two named plaintiffs. [cite web|url=http://911review.org/Wiki/StanleyHiltonLawsuit.shtml |title=Stanley Hilton Lawsuit, Plaintiffs' Status Conference Statement] cite web|url=http://www.oilempire.us/hilton.html |title=Stanley Hilton's phony 9/11 lawsuit] The lawsuit alleged Bush administration complicity in allowing the September 11, 2001 attacks. The case was dismissed on Dec. 30, 2004, the judge [http://www.indymedia.nl/en/2006/04/35339.shtml ruling] that US citizens do not have any right to sue a sitting President, based on the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity; that the lawsuit "presents a non-justicable political question;" that the plaintiffs "lack standing to sue on behalf of all taxpayers;" that the plaintiffs "failed to establish the required causal connection between [their] alleged injuries and these defendants' conduct;" and that "deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment."

Education and early life

Hilton is a native San Franciscan who graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, University of Chicago, Duke University School of Law (JD 1975), John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MA), University of North Carolina School of Journalism (MA), and Harvard Business School (MBA 1979). Growing up "on the cable cars and waters of San Francisco Bay," he has stated a preference for "Terra Aqua" over "Terra Firma."

Background

Stanley G. Hilton is the father of triplets born in 2002 (Geli, Karmen and Loucas Goumas). These triplets appeared on the first page of the New York Times on January 20, 2006, in a story concerning releasing the identity of fertility donors.

Hilton is known as 'Le Docteur' ("The Doctor") in some northern California circles, where he has been politically active since the late 1970s. He has been particularly critical of the court system, calling courts "little more than glorified gambling casinos."

Hilton ran for a seat on the Hillsborough, California school board in the November, 2005 election. Hilton's unsuccessful platform included the teaching of creationism Fact|date=May 2008, the building of a new local public high school (the wealthy town of Hillsborough has no public high school, as the parents of most students there are can easily afford to send their children to private schools), and criticism of the School Board for allowing Hillsborough property tax funds to be diverted to school districts in other cities. Hilton has also been an advocate for saving and preserving the famous Carolands Gate House in Hillsborough.

Hilton worked for former US Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) as a Senate Minority Counsel and aide in Washington, D.C. in 1979–1980 and for California State Senator Dan O'Keefe in California in 1980–1981. He served as alternate delegate to San Mateo County (Calif.) Democratic Central Committee, 2002-2005.

Stanley Hilton is also a published author, and has written four books, including an unauthorized biography [cite news|title=Dole: A Lone Wolf |publisher=Newsweek |date=1988, February 22 |author=Warner, Margaret Garrard] , "Bob Dole, American Political Phoenix" (1988); "Senator for Sale" (1995), another biography which purports to reflect Hilton's deep animus towards Dole [cite news|title=Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography of Bob Dole by Stanley G. Hilton |author=Goodrich, Chris, |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=1995, November 1] , "Glass Houses" (1998), about congressional sex scandals; and "To Pay or Not to Pay" (2003), a book championing debtors' rights against predatory creditors. He is currently working on a book about Bush's role in "orchestrating" the 9/11 and Iraq War disasters, entitled "Bush's Folly: Why America Slept."

Hilton is a professional public speaker and a member of Toastmasters International. He is an advocate of classical rhetoric.

Hilton tutored Harvard undergraduate students from 1978 to 1979, and later taught political science as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco from 1991 to 1996. While a student at Duke Law School in 1974 and 1975 Hilton challenged the administration of the university that was endowed by the Duke Family's tobacco fortune to eliminate smoking from classrooms and public places.

Hilton maintains a strong scholarly interest in fascist and totalitarian social systems, particularly that of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, and in charismatic political leaders. On August 20, 1981, Hilton interviewed Albert Speer, the armaments minister and chief architect of Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler. Speer acted as the latter's confidante and armaments minister. Hilton was the last person to interview Speer. In the interview, Speer praised Der Fuhrer as "brilliant and clever except when 'The Demons' got to him."

Hilton has been an ardent supporter of animal rights and maintains that animal rights should be officially recognized in law courts, that killing any animal should be permanently banned by law, and that owners and sponsors of neglected and abused animals, and lawyers representing such creatures, should be given legal standing to sue perpetrators of animal abuse in a court of law, and to ban any killing of any animal under any circumstances. He has called meat eating "more noxious than tobacco smoking" and has called for a total ban on all meat products.Fact|date=May 2008

Hilton has also called for a total ban on all tobacco products.

9/11 class action suit

On May 22, 2002, Hilton filed a federal lawsuit against President George W. Bush and members of the Administration on behalf of victims of the September 11th attacks.

The lawsuit alleges Mr. Bush personally gave his imprimatur to execute the 9/11 plot; intentionally and knowingly caused and allowed the events of 9/11 to proceed "in absentia"; that Bush Administration officials, for political reasons, willfully and/or negligently ignored a plethora of warnings shortly before 9/11/01, from multiple foreign intelligence sources and heads of state, e.g., Egypt, Russia, Libya, et.al., regarding an imminent "Bojinka"-style plot to attack American landmarks using hijacked airliners. (The Bush Administration has denied receiving warnings containing any specific information about the impending attacks, and Hilton offered no evidence of complicity by U.S. officials in the 9/11 attacks.)

The Hilton-9/11 case was summarily dismissed by a federal court in late 2004 on grounds that a sitting president and his cabinet officers are immune from any civil lawsuits for any acts done in office. Hilton maintains he was not allowed to do any discovery by the court despite the "supposed right of every citizen to use the courts as a tool to determine Truth, Justice and The American Way."

Hilton maintains that Bush "orchestrated the events of 9/11 in order to justify a pointless war in Iraq and Afghanistan." He has also sharply criticized the government's official account of the killing of Pat Tillman, the former NFL football star who joined the Army to fight for Bush, and has maintained that the government deliberately "covered up the intentional murder of Tillman by 'friendly fire' in order to create a Poster Boy for Bush's Folly." He has also ridiculed the government's "inexhaustible repertoire of propaganda fairy tale" about other celebrity "pseudo-heroes and foot soldiers for Bush's Folly."

Hilton has maintained that "political appointee judges" appointed by Bush have conspired to "keep the lid on the real story of what really happened on 9/11," by routinely banning and dismissing any anti-Bush lawsuit aimed at ferreting out "true facts about 9/11 and Bush's phony wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." He is currently working on a book about Bush's role in "orchestrating" the 9/11 and Afghani-Iraq War disasters, entitled "Bush's Folly: Why America Slept."

Alleged harassment and criticism

Stanley Hilton alleges that he has been unduly harassed by governmental and non-governmental personnel since the inception of his lawsuit against President Bush.

Perspective

Hilton admires only a handful of political leaders and has called the "noxious national culture of political correctness" a "handmaiden of McCarthyite witchhunting." He has been particularly critical of the "hounding out of office" of former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers for "daring to criticize the abilities and roles of women as scholars."

Hilton has sharply criticized the American court and jury system and is particularly critical of its "unpredictable and unreliable, arbitrary nature." Although exceptional as a trial lawyer himself, he has condemned the "Newtonian System of American Law, in which 'For every judicial opinion on a given subject, there is an equal and opposite opinion."

Hilton has also criticized professional sports heroes and policemen as "icons of a national madness of misguided idolatry and misplaced search for heroes in a hero-less society."

Quote

Regarding the 9/11 suit against the Bush administration, Stanley Hilton allegedly declared that "No president or his mindless myrmidons should be absolutely immune from law and accountability in court to citizens victimized by his incompetence, malfeasance and/or misfeasance." Ridiculing the war in Iraq as "Bush's Folly," he has argued that "If the courts had allowed the Truth come out as to what really happened on 9/11, we would not be fighting our own shadows mindlessly in Iraq today." He has called the War in Iraq "genocide against Arabs and a fig leaf for setting up permanent US military bases in the Middle East, primarily because of Oil and Israel."

ee also

* U.S. government response to the September 11, 2001 attacks
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* Sibel Edmonds
* Patrick Briley
* Scott Fry
* David Ray Griffin
* David Kelly
* Executive Order 13233
* Don Paul
* Webster G. Tarpley
* 9/11 conspiracy theories
* World Trade Center

References

External links

* [http://www.indymedia.nl/en/2006/04/35339.shtml Stanley Hilton case - US district court decision Dec. 30, 2004] (case dismissed)
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051101013521/http://www.hiltonforhillsborough.com/ HiltonForHillsborough.com] - 'A Voice, not an Echo! A Choice, not an Echo!: Candidate Statement for Stanley G. Hilton, Candidate for Hillsborough School District Governing Board, November 8, 2005 Election' (retrieved Nov. 1, 2005)
* [http://www.meria.net/subscribers/interviews/stanley_hilton_9-11_lawsuit.html Meria.net] - 'Meria With Stanley Hilton - 911 Lawsuit' (September 20, 2004)
* [http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/911-in-courts-sort-of-almost_19.html RigoursIntuition.blogspot.com] - '9/11 in the Courts. Sort of. Almost', Jeff Wells (January 19, 2005)