Over a month ago I had the honor of being named the recipient of the 1st Annual Liberty Internet Award, for which I am well and truly grateful.
I’m announcing it now because it’s taken this long to overcome embarrassment and innate Midwestern shyness.
Sheesh.
“Daniel Hopsicker, author of 'Welcome to Terrorland' and 'Barry and the Boys' has been awarded the Liberty Internet Award for 2007,” read the press release from Douglas Herman.
I’m well aware that there’s a contradiction here… That for someone who shuns the spotlight I’ve sure picked a curious career… That being an investigative journalist and poking a rake into the huge pile of leaves labeled “Taboo” in America is not for the fainthearted, or the squeamish.
"Hopsicker has a lot of cojones,” Herman stated. “He lives in south Florida and tries to do what the highly paid reporters who work for the huge dailies–should be doing but don’t."
Still, I’m mildly uncomfortable calling attention to myself, and prefer the focus be on the amazing stories we’ve uncovered, and the evidence we continue to unearth about the current state of our massively corrupt Republic.
America's Secret History Doesn't Have To Be
The truth, like virtue, is its own reward. It’s addictive. Its better than any drug. The first time I discovered something truly amazing that had been completely overlooked, or censored, by more cautious investigators, I was hooked.
Four bestsellers, for example, had already been written about the man who the Wall Street Journal called “the ghost haunting Whitewater,” drug smuggler Barry Seal, by the time I arrived in Louisiana to write “Barry & ‘the boys.’”
But I’m justly proud to have been the person who unearthed evidence which revealed that Barry Seal was a life-long CIA pilot who was already famous, in some circles, well before he ever flew the first load of cocaine into Mena Arkansas to inaugurate the operation for which he will be forever known.
I unearthed the picture, or rather, grasped its significance, that proved that 16-year old Seal was recruited into the CIA along with fellow cadet Lee Harvey Oswald by CIA pilot and pedophile David Ferrie at a 2-week summer camp of the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol at Barksdale Air Force Base in the summer of 1955.
So I won’t plead false modesty. When the Sarasota Herald Tribune goes to great lengths to discredit the revelations in “Welcome to TERRORLAND,” I can tell I’m doing work that will stand the test of time.
Stupidity: no threat to the ruling elite
One of the biggest discoveries we made while researching the book, for example, was that several of terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta’s closest associates while he was in Venice and Southwest Florida weren’t Arabs, but German or Swiss.
When the Associated Press reported last Fall that the FBI had issued a terror alert in the South Pacific for one of these men, Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot with whom Atta was “inseparable” during Bohringer’s frequent visits to Southwest Florida, it was sweet revenge.
It was probably too much to hope that the hacks at the Sarasota Herald Tribune would have the good grace to issue a retraction.
Maybe if and when newspapers in America once again begin to do what newspapers are supposed to do–report what happens every day—things will change.
As you can probably tell, none of this comes easy, or cheap. The game is pretty simple. Railing about the New World Order, or explosives at the World Trade Center, will get you on Fox News by sundown.
What's Wolfgang Bohringer doing in Belgrade?
But unearthing startling evidence about Mohamed Atta’s closest associates in Venice Florida, the biggest Sept 11 crime scene that wasn’t reduced to rubble, gets you nothing but a cold shoulder.
Except from you. We want to thank you for your support, which was instrumental in allowing us to get an extensive deposition from the German pilot who recently sued us for libel.
We’ve now settled that suit, and apologized to the person involved for stating he knew and was an associate of Mohamed Atta. In the deposition we learned we had been in error.
But we did learn some crucial new facts about the subject of that terror alert in the South Pacific: the German pilot who was an associate of Mohamed Atta… Wolfgang Bohringer.
Someday the name Wolfgang Bohringer, who’s rumored to be in Yugoslavia currently, will be as well-known in the story of the September 11th attack as David Ferrie is in that of the JFK assassination.
The Real Deal
We have only one lawsuit pending; its another an opportunity to learn more about America’s secret history. Its already yielded crucial new information which we will be reporting soon.
We have also just printed paperback editions of “Barry & the boys and Welcome to Terrorland, with several new chapters in each.
I need your help to continue the investigation, and to publicize its findings. Increasingly, I realize I need the active support of people who want to the same things I do: answers to questions about America’s Secret History.
History has proven Jim Garrison right. It will also someday show the importance of our seemingly-quixotic quest in Venice, Florida to bring to account people like Wally Hilliard, Rudi Dekkers and Wolfgang Bohringer.
Our goal is to eventually be instrumental in forcing them to provide testimony, under oath, before the American people, about the intrigue that was swirling while terrorists roamed Florida as freely as if they’d been listening to Tom Petty albums all their lives.
Please make a generous donation using Paypal, or send a check to the address below, or help spread the word.
Daniel Hopsicker
PO 314
Venice FL 34284
