Hysterical Patriotism (Conason)
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Subject: Hysterical Patriotism (Conason)
Date: Nov 20, 2009 4:39 AM
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Um, I would like to get a little hysterical
about the AIG-fraud, where they could not
support the insurance they sold (see Krugman,
NYT, Nov 20th). And I would like to get
somewhat hysterical about how Brookesly
Born tried to investigate the "black" paperwork
that Greenspan et al wanted to remain
hidden:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
And as for hysteria, it makes me *crazy*
that AIG and other insurance companies
participated in the biggest medical crime
in human hystery:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYME_DISEASE.htm
and as re all the dead people who occurred
as a result of Allen Steere working for these
bigs.
And it makes me hysterical to think WTC7
came down at the acceleration due to
gravity on a day it wasn't hit by a plane
and that Afghanistan is about pipelines
and that the Iraq war was meant to plant
Wolfowitz as the Viceroy of IMF/Petrodollar-Iraq.
Lastly, it makes me crazy to have been
called the crazy one for having solved
the biggest medical crime in human hystery
while sick with multiple diseases and
infections and nerve damage and brain
fog:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
Study my brain scans^^^
Compare to the date (Jan 2001) when I told the FDA
exactly how LYMErix and "Lyme Disease" was
a hoax:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/ac/01/slides/3680s2.htm
and the last time I had a demented/relapsed
case of Lymebrain (July 2001).
It also makes me a little crazy that neither
the NYT nor any of the MSM ever reports on the
Blumenthal investigation, and what made
IDSA cave (congenital Lyme):
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/080430_RICO_CABAL_CAVES.htm
Rights?
You're talking about rights?
You haven't met DCF:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
"Under USC Title 18, secs 241, 242, 245, such
color of law abuses could bring life in
prison or even the death penalty."
Rights?
How about the failed HIV/Tuberculosis triacyl
lipopeptide vaccines for Lyme, when that
very thing is the cause of most major
diseases?
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
We can put a man on the moon, and we can
read someone else's newspaper from a satellite,
but "WE-DON'T-KNOW" what "Lyme Disease" is.
In fact, "We haven't even been able to
figure out how organisms are related to
each other:"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=138
In fact, "We don't even know what a patent
*is,* much less how to file for one"
http://www.actionlyme.org/CENTRAL_LYME_RICO_PATENTS.htm
"Couldn't find a patent office or a patent
attorney if they was an elephant in our
living rooms."
"We couldn't find a dead body if it that
skeleton in our closets cut in front of us
on line at the bank..."
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALSLYME47.htm
Me? No. Doesn't bother me a bit to
be jailed for being a "terrorist" for
having solved the biggest medical crime
AND the biggest medical mystery in all
of human health and my kids given to
a certifiable maniac:
http://www.actionlyme.org/THE_REAL_DON_DICKSON.htm
Especially the one with Congenital Lyme
*and* Ehrlichiosis, because since her
kidnapping in 2003, she's never gone back
to school:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DIANE_ON_DCF_KIDNAPPING_TRAUMA.htm
"Dear Judge,
My heart is burning..."
Nope.
No threats to life or liberty here.
Evveh buddeh good.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_is_so_patriotic_about_hysteria_20091118/
Posted on Nov 18, 2009
By Joe Conason
The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are
the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our
system, the strongest defenders of our Constitution, the most upbeat,
bold and courageous Americans anywhere. But now that the government is
finally prepared to put the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror
attacks on trial, these same patriots are the first to spread doubt,
instigate anxiety and abandon constitutional principles.
When did fear-mongering in a time of war become an act of patriotism?
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try al-Qaida strategist
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other residents of the Guantanamo prison in
American civilian courts has provoked angry criticism from all the
usual sources, from the Wall Street Journal editorial page to the Fox
News airwaves. While some of the complaints are thoughtful, many are
nothing more than demagogic appeals that seek to undermine the
foundations of justice in a democratic society.
When Holder’s critics say that Mohammed doesn’t “deserve” an open and
adversarial trial, they are misunderstanding the spirit of our laws.
The right to a trial—indeed, all the rights afforded to criminal
defendants under the Constitution—is not apportioned according to what
the defendants supposedly deserve. What they deserve is, in fact,
precisely what a fair trial is designed to determine.
The nation’s founders despised the passions of the lynch mob and the
arbitrary penalties handed down by kings and despots. They were
particularly appalled by the tortures and abuse inflicted on American
Revolutionary soldiers by the British oppressor—and vowed never to do
the same to America’s enemies.
When Holder’s critics say that we don’t dare try a criminal like
Mohammed on the soil of the United States, in a New York City federal
courthouse, that is a terrible concession to the terrorists. The same
is true when those critics protest against incarcerating a figure such
as Mohammed in an American prison, rather than Gitmo. Essentially,
those arguments exaggerate the power of al-Qaida—which conservatives
usually claim has been profoundly weakened over the past several years—
and underestimates the strength of the American justice system.
In fact, we have been trying dangerous terrorists in American courts
for many years, and then incarcerating them in American prisons.
According to a new study by the Center for Law and Security at New
York University, the U.S. government has indicted 828 defendants on
terrorism-related charges since 2001. Of those indictments, trials are
still pending against 235 defendants—and of the remaining 539
defendants, 523 were convicted either at trial or via plea.
The single-largest venue for terrorism trials is New York City, where
145 terrorism indictments have been filed. The center found in a
previous study that the conviction rate in New York is higher than in
the rest of the nation and that sentencing in New York is also
tougher. That is understandable—and may help to explain why the
attorney general chose the Southern District of New York for the
Mohammed prosecution. In the city’s federal courts, the conviction
rate of individuals charged with terrorism involving a U.S. target is
100 percent.
When Mohammed is convicted (or pleads guilty, as he has previously
vowed to do), the U.S. federal prison system is ideally equipped to
inflict suitable punishment on him and his cohort. Better than
providing him with martyrdom via execution, he should be buried in a
“supermax” prison, from which nobody has ever escaped, and left to
rot.
The most basic challenge of the terror campaign waged by jihadi
extremists is to preserve the differences between us and them—a
challenge that the American government has failed at in far too many
instances over the past eight years, through the use of torture,
extrajudicial detentions, renditions to other countries, and various
other violations of U.S. law and treaty obligations. Our own courts
found that these acts by the previous administration were lawless and
required them to be reversed.
As a nation, we should have the confidence to make the case against
these murderers according to our laws and Constitution, without fear
of their propaganda or violence. Every precaution should be taken to
protect national security and public safety—and then our system will
prevail over their perverse ideology.
Joe Conason writes for The New York Observer.
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