It has not been answered by any current members of AE911. While that's certainly the impression they give, I think many of their members may see it differently.
Gerry and Tony are active and celebrated members of AE911, and I suspect they actually would like some money to be spent on research as well as marketing. However I also suspect they wish to show a united front for the organization, and they probably feel I'm just trying to sow dissent in the ranks.
Mick, regardless of your attempt to deny it, it would be naïve to not think you are trying to sow some sort of dissent.
Rather than evading things I will tell you just what AE911's approximate expenses were in the last year that I know of
- $260,000 for billboards and the Rethink 911 campaign
- $85,000 for CEO/spokesman salary
- $40,000 for office manager salary
Richard Gage and his office manager are the only people paid a full time wage and Richard is the spokesman and CEO of the organization and handles all day to day operations with his office manager.
The above amounts to $385,000 out of about $465,000 raised this past year and does not include the overhead of the office or travel for Richard Gage for presentations, speeches, fund raising etc. They have also helped out with funding for legal efforts when necessary. So there is very little left over for doing other things and there is not a lot of sustaining membership donations. It is usually a result of a given campaign such as Rethink 911 in a boom or bust sort of way.
If you already know this then you are being
disingenuous. If you didn't I would think that you would now understand that it is a hand to mouth operation and not very capable of "funding research" in the way you imply it should.
I also do have to say that regardless of whether or not you truly understood AE911's financial situation, I find your trying to put the onus on AE911 and take it off of government somewhat disgusting. The NIST report has been shown to be a fraud and it is also disgusting that some here are not insisting on a new investigation. Even though it is left unsaid, it is kind of obvious what is going on.