Anatomy of Terror
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representative government, freedom, peace, equality, human brotherhood,
quality of life, culture and happiness -- it puts Nazism, Communism,
Fascism in the shade, while, in fact, nourishing all three.
Proof? Just look at the news:
Canadian House of Commons Bill C-2 will treat as serious criminals those who
watch Arabic language channels to be outlawed.
The Canadian government is reviewing a new bill in the House of Commons
called Bill C-2, An act to ammend the Radiocommunications Act. Bill C-2
will make it illegal for anyone to watch Al Jazeera, ART Global, ART
movies, Dubai Satellite Channel, ESC-1, Future TV, LBC, MBC, Nile Dram even
if you pay for a subscription by a non- Canadian provider. Anyone caught
watching these channels will be liable to a $25, 000 fine or a year in jail
under the new proposed law. Bill C-2 will treat as criminals those who
watch Arabic language channels.
MPs Carolyn Parrish and Alexa McDonough have been active and vocal about
this problematic bill. Make your opposition heard by writing to the chair
and vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, MP
Brent St. Denis at St.De...@parl.gc.ca. Marlene Jennings is the
Vice-Chair and she can be reached at Jenni...@parl.gc.ca.
Please be sure to cc. your own Member of Parliament and the Canadian
Arab Federation at communi...@caf.ca.
Points to be raised:
* This bill criminalizes those who enjoy cultural programming that is not
made available by Canadian providers
* The bill fails to distinguish between those who steal satellite signals
and those who pay for it legitimately
* There are over 500, 000 Arabs in Canada who are being deprived of their
right to programming that maintains their links to language, culture and
religion
* This is a violation of freedom of expression and the targetting of
specific communities and their civil liberties
* Clause 5 of the bill is very problematic in that it allows extraordinary
powers to inspectors who can enter any place where these channels are being
recieved and to remove or copy any item or document.
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Former Mossad Chief: Yassin Offered Israel 30-Year Truce
JERUSALEM - Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, assassinated in an Israeli air
strike, offered Israel a 30-year truce in 1997, the mediator who arranged
Yassin's release from prison said Tuesday.
Efraim Halevy, a former Mossad operative who was called in to resolve an
Israel-Jordan crisis after a botched assassination attempt against a Hamas
leader in Jordan in 1997, made the disclosure in an interview on Israel TV.
Halevy was a confidant of Jordan's King Hussein, and he suggested releasing
Yassin from Israeli prison as the price for freedom for six Mossad agents
captured in the abortive attempt to kill Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. Yassin
was imprisoned in 1989.
http://tinyurl.com/2442z
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Israeli security sources say that defence chiefs have decided to kill all
Hamas leaders without waiting for the organisation to carry out its threats
of bloody retaliation for Sheikh Yassin's death. (Wasn't that the whole idea
of killing Yassin in such an rage-inflaming way the first place???)
We'll wipe out entire Hamas leadership, says Israel
-Chris McGreal in Gaza City and Ewen MacAskill in Jerusalem
The Israeli government has approved the elimination of the entire leadership
of Hamas and other militant groups following the assassination of the
Islamic resistance movement's founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin.
Among the targets is the uncompromising new Hamas leader named by the
organisation yesterday, Abdel Aziz al Rantissi, who has opposed tentative
political concessions and a ceasefire by the group.
Israel's internal security minister, Tsahi Hanegbi, said the government had
given a green light to the army to kill "the worst terrorists".
"Anyone who is involved in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank or anywhere else
in leading a terror group knows from yesterday there is no immunity.
Everyone is in our sights," he said.
Israeli security sources say that defence chiefs have decided to kill all
Hamas leaders without waiting for the organisation to carry out its threats
of bloody retaliation for Sheikh Yassin's death.
The defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, said the strategy would ultimately curb
suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis.
"If we will continue, in a determined way, with our strikes against Hamas
and other terror groups ... including action against those leaders, we will
bring more security to Israeli citizens," he said.
The Israeli army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, hinted
that the targets could now include Yasser Arafat, even though Ariel Sharon
has given a personal assurance to President George Bush that the Palestinian
leader will not be harmed. He also suggested Israel could attack the leader
of the Lebanese-based group Hizbullah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
"I think that judging by their [Arafat's and Nasrallah's] hysterical
responses yesterday they understand that it is nearing them. In the long
term, I hope that this will be a sign to all those who choose to hurt us
that this will be their end," said Gen Yaalon.
A government spokesman later sought to clarify this, saying that while
Sheikh Nasrallah was a target because he was committed to the destruction of
Israel, this did not apply to Mr Arafat.
But another government source said the promise given by Mr Sharon not to
harm Mr Arafat applied only to the run-up to the war in Iraq last year. The
government has so far considered exiling, but not killing, the Palestinian
leader.
Israeli firepower was resounding at both ends of the country last night.
Tanks rolled into a Gaza refugee camp under covering gunfire to clear an
area that Israel suspects militants use to fire on Israeli settlements. In
the north, meanwhile, helicopters attacked and killed two Palestinian
militants in south Lebanon who Israel said were preparing to fire rockets
over the border.
Tensions were heightened earlier in Gaza after Palestinians fired an
anti-tank rocket at an Israeli army position near a Jewish settlement,
prompting a gun battle.
Also in Gaza, Hamas named Dr Rantissi as its temporary leader after a ballot
among senior figures in the organisation. The announcement, at a memorial
rally for Sheikh Yassin in a Gaza City stadium, was greeted enthusiastically
by the crowd.
At the stadium, Dr Rantissi pledged to escalate attacks on Israel. "We will
be unified in the trenches of resistance. We will not surrender, we will
never surrender to Israeli terror," he said.
Among those attending the ceremony was the Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed
Qureia, who called the assassination of Sheikh Yassin an "ugly crime
committed by the government of murderers".
Many businesses were shut in Gaza and the West Bank as a mark of respect for
the quadriplegic Hamas founder, who was killed by a helicopter missile
strike as his bodyguards pushed him in a wheelchair after prayers at a
mosque.
Mr Hanegbi made it clear that Dr Rantissi was an early focus for the Israeli
military after saying the men targeted for death include "those who appear
on television", a veiled reference to the new Hamas leader and his deputy,
Mahmoud Zahar.
Gen Yaalon said that part of the motive for targeting Dr Rantissi and his
associates is to prevent Hamas seizing political control in Gaza.
"Even if in the short term the assassination increases the motivation to
carry out terror attacks, in the long run, the assassination is likely to
calm the situation in the Gaza Strip and encourage moderate forces to
prevent the founding of 'Hamas-land' in the [Gaza] strip," he said.
Israel remained on high alert yesterday. Its parliament announced that
personal security for its members is to be beefed up, and its foreign
ministry ordered diplomats abroad to increase security.
Crowds in central Jerusalem were thinner than usual, and there were fewer
people travelling by bus.
The US has warned its citizens in the Middle East that they could become
targets after Dr Rantissi called on Muslims worldwide to "shake the ground
of these Zionists and Americans who stand behind them".
Last night, in his first response to the assassination, President Bush said
that Israel had the right to defend itself against Hamas but urged the
Israeli government to keep "the consequences in mind". He said that he hoped
to send a delegation to Israel next week to try to revive a stalled
US-backed peace plan.
Meanwhile, the US blocked a draft security council condemnation of the
killing of Sheikh Yassin because it made no mention of Hamas terrorism.
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Croatia Backs Off Iraq Troops, International Court
ZAGREB, Croatia (Reuters) - Croatia drew back Tuesday from previous
indications it would send troops to Iraq and sign a deal with Washington
exempting U.S. troops from prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
http://tinyurl.com/2blaz
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Families of Sept. 11, 2001, victims were furious yesterday as they watched
aides to Presidents Bush and Bill Clinton say they couldn't go after Osama
Bin Laden until after the attacks that killed almost
3,000.
Top officials from the two administrations told the federal 9/11 commission
they were ready and willing to kill Bin Laden, but faulty intelligence,
inadequate attack plans, fears of collateral damage and political fallout if
the attack failed kept them from pulling the trigger.
Instead, they spent years in diplomatic offensives that failed to smoke Bin
Laden out and into the hands of the U.S.
And Clinton and Bush officials said an invasion of Afghanistan to get Bin
Laden was not an option before the shock of the Sept. 11 attack mobilized
the world into a coalition.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/8259959.htm
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U.S. Criminal Oligarchs and Fake Patriot Toady Polticians Guilty of 9-11
Inside-Job Mass-Murder Frame-up -- Cautious Public Not Yet Ready to
Outwardly Display their Outrage and Determination for Remedy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
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According to Dan Rather, CBS, Bin Laden was in a Pakistani military Hospital
at Pak Army's Headquarters in Rawalpindi, one day before the 9/11 attacks,
on September 10.
Needless to say, the CBS report is a crucial piece of information in the
9/11 jigsaw. It refutes the administration's claim that the whereabouts of
bin Laden are unknown. It points to a Pakistan connection, it suggests a
cover-up at the highest levels of the Bush administration.
details: http://globalresearch.ca/globaloutlook/truth911.html
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The September 11 commission insisted that Condoleezza Rice appear at today's
session, even though the Bush administration has warned that a public
grilling of a member of presidential staff would breach constitutional
protocol.
The White House was facing a crisis in confidence yesterday over its
handling of the al-Qaida threat prior to September 11, as a public inquiry
into the attacks demanded to question George Bush's national security
adviser.
The September 11 commission insisted that Condoleezza Rice appear at today's
session, even though the Bush administration has warned that a public
grilling of a member of presidential staff would breach constitutional
protocol.
The standoff with the inquiry could damage the White House's popularity in a
tightly contested presidential campaign, in which President Bush is
concentrating on his reputation as a decisive wartime leader.
The commission is due to submit its final report on July 26, just before the
Democratic party's convention.
Ms Rice has become a lightning rod for criticism of the administration after
the publication of a White House memoir by the president's former top
counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clarke.
Mr Clarke portrayed Ms Rice as ill-informed about the seriousness of the
threat posed by al-Qaida. He said she "gave me the impression she had never
heard the term before".
He said that in an early meeting in January 2001, in which he tried to make
her realise the extent of the danger, she changed the subject and later
decided to exclude Mr Clarke from top level meetings and downgrade his
counter-terrorism security group.
The White House has launched a media counter- offensive to rebut Mr Clarke's
claims, with Ms Rice appearing on five talkshows. In one interview, Ms Rice
said: "Dick Clarke was counter-terrorism tsar for a long time with a lot of
attacks on the United States.
"What he was doing was - what they were doing apparently was not working. We
wanted to do something different."
Speaking during a cabinet meeting, President Bush denied that he ignored the
threat from al-Qaida.
"The facts are these: [CIA director] George Tenet briefed me on a regular
basis about the terrorist threats to the United States of America and had my
administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New
York City on September 11, we would have acted," he said.
However, members of the September 11 commission, formally known as the
national commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States, were
furious that Ms Rice had taken such a high public profile after refusing to
appear before a public session of the inquiry. Timothy Roemer, a Democratic
commissioner, held up a copy of Mr Clarke's book at one point, saying: "I
would hope that this discussion would not be for the airwaves ... but
belongs in this hearing room tomorrow."
Such demands were greeted by applause from relatives of victims of September
11. The White House is already under fire from relatives for using scenes
from Ground Zero in its political campaign advertising.
It has also had a run-in with the commission before over sharing
information.
The disputes have led to the commission issuing two subpoenas and
threatening several more.
An initial offer by the president to spend an hour with senior members of
the commission behind closed doors also provoked outrage and the White House
has since signalled it might be flexible over the duration of the interview.
The commission yesterday closely questioned officials from the Clinton and
Bush administrations over their failure to take decisive measures against
al-Qaida after the 1998 bombing of US embassies in east Africa and the 2000
attack on the USS Cole.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1176591,00.html
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Widow of Soldier in Jessica Lynch Unit Blasts Bush
Tue Mar 23, 2004
By Jim Forsyth
CENTER POINT, Texas (Reuters) - At a ceremony on Tuesday marking the
one-year anniversary of the Iraqi attack on Pvt. Jessica Lynch's Army unit,
the widow of a soldier who died in the fight blasted President Bush for
"lying to America" to justify the Iraq war.
In bitter comments beside the grave of Army Specialist James Kiehl, widow
Jill Kiehl accused Bush of fabricating reasons to launch the invasion that
toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"The evidence that's starting to come out now feels like he (Bush) was
misleading us," Kiehl said, holding the couple's 10-month-old son Nathaniel,
born seven weeks after his father died.
"It's almost as though he had things fixed so it would look like he needed
to go to war," she said.
James Kiehl, a 22-year-old computer engineer, was one of 11 members of the
507th Maintenance Company killed when their convoy took a wrong turn at
Nassiriya in southern Iraq on March 23, 2003 and were attacked by Iraqi
fighters.
Seven others were captured, including Lynch, who was held for nine days
before U.S. troops rescued her from a hospital.
Several members of the unit, not including Lynch, attended the ceremony in
Center Point, 35 miles northwest of San Antonio.
Jill Kiehl described herself as "bitter" about Bush's decision to declare
war on Iraq.
"It's upsetting that he (Bush) would have lied to America to get what he
wanted," Kiehl said.
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Groups call for the resignation of Sept. 11 commission director
Public interest groups are demanding the immediate resignation of the
director of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, just as the commission prepares to hold high-profile hearings this
week with senior officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations.
The 9-11 Family Steering Committee and 9-11 Citizens Watch, two separate
groups, are demanding the resignation of Philip Zelikow, executive director
of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States,
after information surfaced over the weekend that he participated in Bush
administration briefings prior to Sept. 11 on the threat al Qaeda posed to
the country.
"We believe that the very integrity of the commission is at stake here, and
that he should resign immediately," Kyle Hence, co-founder of Citizens
Watch, said Monday.
On Saturday, the Family Steering Committee wrote a letter to the commission
arguing that Zelikow has a conflict of interest because he could potentially
be held culpable for failing to heed warnings about al Qaeda prior to Sept.
11.
"It is clear that [Zelikow] should never have been permitted to be a member
of the commission, since it is the mandate of the commission to identify the
source of failures," the committee wrote. "It is now apparent why there has
been so little effort to assign individual culpability. We now can see that
trail would lead directly to the staff director himself."
Zelikow was a member of the team that helped with the Bush administration
transition to office. When he became executive director of the commission,
he recused himself from participating in any part of the investigation that
dealt with the time he served on the Bush transition team.
Critics have previously called for Zelikow to resign because they believed
he had at least an appearance of a conflict of interest. He co-wrote a book
in 1995 with Condoleezza Rice, who is now Bush's national security adviser.
Additionally, only Zelikow and commission member Jamie Gorelick are
permitted to read classified intelligence reports known as the presidential
daily briefs in their entirety.
Information that Zelikow participated in intelligence briefings on al Qaeda
before Sept. 11 surfaced over the weekend in interviews with the
government's former counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, who resigned last
summer after 30 years of public service. Clarke served in four
administrations as part of the National Security Council. He was the
counterterrorism czar for former President Clinton, served on the transition
team when Bush came into office and remained as a senior counterterrorism
official under the Bush administration.
On Saturday, Clarke told the New York Times that he gave briefings on the
threat posed by al Qaeda to Rice; Stephen Hadley, now Rice's deputy; and
Zelikow when he was part of the transition team from December 2000 to
January 2001.
Clarke told CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that the Bush administration failed
to heed his warnings in the months leading up to Sept. 11, and then eagerly
tried to blame Iraq for the attacks in the aftermath when no connection
existed.
On Monday, Clarke's new book, Against All Enemies: Inside the White House's
War on Terror--What Really Happened, was released. In it he forcefully
criticizes the Bush administration's efforts to defend the country from
terrorist attacks.
Al Felzenberg, spokesman for the 9-11 commission, said Monday that no new
charges have been leveled that would cause the commission to ask Zelikow to
resign. Felzenberg reiterated that Zelikow recused himself from parts of the
investigation that deal with the time he served on the transition team.
"The commission finds the director's recusal sufficient," Felzenberg said.
"I don't see a single charge that has been made that would cause the
commission to change its view."
Felzenberg said Zelikow was not responsible for making policy decisions or
implementing recommendations during his time on the transition team. He
added that the commission has a policy regarding conflicts of interest and a
process in which complaints should be vetted.
The commission is planning two days of public hearings starting Tuesday. The
hearings will consist of testimony from high-level officials from the Bush
and Clinton administrations, with a focus on counterterrorism.
Scheduled to testify on Tuesday are Secretary of State Colin Powell and
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, as well as their counterparts in the
Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and William Cohen. Scheduled to
testify on Wednesday are CIA Director George Tenet; Samuel Berger, former
assistant to Clinton for national security affairs; and Clarke. The
commission announced Monday that Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage
also will testify Wednesday to beef up the administration's position on
counterterrorism.
The Family Steering Committee and Citizens Watch want Bush and Clinton, Vice
President Dick Cheney and former Vice President Al Gore, and Rice to testify
publicly under oath. Rice testified in February before a closed session of
the commission.
Citizens Watch and family members of Sept. 11 victims held a press
conference Monday to demand the commission provide transparency,
accountability and sworn public testimony from the highest government
officials.
Hence said the commission has so far experienced "a pattern of stonewalling
and slow walking" by the White House and federal agencies, such as the
Federal Aviation Administration and North American Aerospace Defense
Command.
"To date, no one in government--not a single government official--has been
held directly accountable for the apparent and as yet unexplained
simultaneous, massive, across-the-board failure of every single defensive
and intelligence measure this country had established," Hence said.
Citizens Watch also launched an advertising campaign Monday demanding that
Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Gore and Rice testify publicly under oath before the
commission. The group is running billboard advertisements in the Washington
metro rail system for four weeks, as well as quarter-page ads in The
Washington Post.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0304/032204c1.htm
Assassinations - or what the Western media due to Zionist pressure now
ridiculously refer to as "targeted killings" - are nothing new for the
Israelis. They have been going on for years.
The assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was everywhere in the Arab media
yesterday. Arabs from all over the world are mourning his death and Saudis
are no different from their brethren. The murder has become the main topic
of conversation. Moreover, the photographs of the Sheikh with his head split
in half and parts of his brain spilling out were forwarded to hundreds of
thousands of people on the Internet.
Assassinations - or what the Western media due to Zionist pressure now
ridiculously refer to as "targeted killings" - are nothing new for the
Israelis. They have been going on for years. What is new is that this time
the assassinated person was an elderly wheel-chair-bound individual whom the
US alleged is a terrorist and "a person who has been personally involved in
terrorist attacks."
What is just as sad is that people in the US will look at the assassination
as something that was necessary for Israel's security. American networks
will start producing reports about how the late Sheikh inspired people to
commit suicide attacks in Israel under the banner of Hamas. They will
portray him as an evil person, personally responsible for the deaths of
Israeli men, women and children in suicide attacks, some of which have taken
place in Jewish settlements. What Americans will not see on their networks
or read in their newspapers is that the Sheikh was a spiritual leader. A
person who inspired thousands of Palestinians to continue their resistance
to the ongoing occupation of their lands; someone who constantly reminded
them to fight to the death and not to surrender their usurped rights. For
the state of Israel, his inspiration had to be eliminated. Like other
spiritual leaders, such as Marwan Barghouti, he was too much trouble for the
state of Israel and had to be removed.
For a person who reads American newspapers and watches American news
networks on a daily basis, I often find it shocking how news reports from
the Middle East are reported. In most cases, the reports are biased and have
only one perspective. In other cases, the reports are truthful but fail to
get the attention they deserve - simply because the killings happened on the
Palestinian side. An example of that is when a Palestinian suicide bomber
blows himself up and kills scores of people in a bus or local area. The
report is blown up. In addition, the most heart-rending photographs are
used: a weeping mother mourning the death of her loved one, beside the
coffin at the funeral. The report itself is surely biased since all the
interviews and comments come from Israeli police sources or Israeli
officials. Terrorism is the word used. However, when Israeli bulldozers
destroy Palestinian homes, pictures of weeping Palestinian mothers at the
remains of what used to be home are not printed. And the story of course is
not blown up. Not only that but in most cases, the story itself does not get
more than a news brief somewhere in the inside pages.
One day I made a comparison of how American media outlets were biased. A
report carried on CNN about a suicide bombing lasted a good 10 minutes and
included interviews with several people talking about the incident and the
terrorist act. Sometime later, when an Israeli bulldozer knocked down
several Palestinian houses, CNN gave it no more than 30 seconds, And of
course no interviews were done in which people denounced the demolishing and
described it as a terrorist act.
So according to American standards, terrorism is only described when
something happens to Israelis and not to Palestinian. When a suicide bomber
kills several Israelis, it is a cowardly, heinous, terrorist act that is
denounced by the Bush himself. However, when Palestinian homes are
demolished by Israeli bulldozers, silence prevails. When an Israeli toddler
is killed by a Palestinian sniper, it is a terrorist act and the story
appears in The New York Times and other newspapers. However, when Iman
Hejou, a Palestinian baby dies from a bullet in her chest from an Israeli
gun, she is nowhere to be found in the American media. Even the word
"occupation" is no longer to be found in the American media reports of
incursions of Israeli tanks into Palestinian areas.
One thing is for sure. Yesterday's comment from the White House only reminds
the Arab world that Israel will always be America's best friend and will go
unpunished and even rewarded with comforting words - such as "has the right
to defend itself." And once again, the truth will prevail that America and
Israel are two sides of the same coin.
http://tinyurl.com/24mt5
Hollywood Jews have one hell of a nerve -- News article from 1998
[Have you heard about the effort by Jews in Hollywood to have Mel Gibson
indicted for hate crimes -- because his motion picture about the last days
of Jesus of Nazareth, a literal verson of the Christian scriptures which are
still widely read in portions of the American mid-west I understand,
although Gibson did remove the part when the Jews call out to Pilate
"Crucify Him!" and "Let his blood be upon our heads!" and so forth. Yes,
the monopolists of movie making -- (of course, no one else is interested in
making movies or being in them anywhere else in the country, right?) -- are
moving heaven and earth to shut up this harmless actor with typical
middle-class Roman Catholic outlook - because he is promoting hatred of
Jews -- BUT WAIT! -- look at this old newspaper article from my the
garage:
Yakima Herald-Republic Friday, August 28, 1998 p. 2E
Under siege
Arab, Muslim groups protest depiction of terrorists in new film
By Ron Givens (New York Daily News)
New York -- Arab and Muslim anti-defamation goups are going public about
their unhappiness with a new Denzel Washington/Bruce Willis movei, "The
Seige," in which terrorists set off bombs in Brooklyn.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee, both based in Washington, are among several
groups that held a news conference Wednesday in Los Angeles to air their
concerns about depictions of Arab Muslims in the movie directed by Edward
Zwick ("Courage Under Fire," "Glory").
"The Siege" is scheduled to be released by 20th Century-Fox on Nov. 6.
"Nerves are raw from the recent terrorist bombings," says Ibrahim Hooper,
national communications director for the American-Islamic council. "It's
another reason to be deliberate and careful on these issues, not just feed
into them to increase the box office.."
Hooper says his organization would prefer the movie be redone so that the
bombers are neither Muslim nor Arab. That is unlikely, since the filming of
the movie has been completed for months and editing is under way.
WHile deleting references in the movie to the faith of Islam or adding a
disclaimer might be alternatives, Hooper says his group was not happy with a
statement attached to the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "True Lies,"
which also involved Arab-Muslim terrorists.
The disclaimer came afer the disclaimer about how no animals were harmed
during the taking of the movie," says Hooper. "I had a hard time seeing it,
and I wrote it."
Ironically, Zwick and the film's producer, Lynda Obst, want "The Seige" to
change sterotypical attitudes about Arabs and Muslims. One of the good
guys, an FBI agent portrayed by Lebanese-American actor Tony Shalhoub, is a
Muslim Arab-American. And in a pointed comparison to the internment of
Asian-Americans during World War II, the polot also involves the rounding up
of Muslims and Arabs for detention.
Until now, the American-Islamic council and the anti-discrimination
committee have been working behind the scenes to express their objections to
Zwick, Obst and Fox. In an April meeting, the counmcil gave Zwick and Obst
a six-page memo detailing 60 specific objections.
The two filmmakers responded April 30 with their own six-page letter,
making it clear that some changes would be made, but the basic plot --
bombing by Muslim terrorists would stay.
Fox seems to have become involved after a letter was sent in mid-August
to Mill Mechanic, chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
In a written statement released Monday, the studio said that "Within the
framework of an action-adventure, the film deals seriously with and
sensitively with timely and important themes, such as prejudice and
persecution, the price of our personal freedoms, and the protection of those
freedoms -- for all Americans."
Hooper says his organization became aware of "The Seige" when members saw
Arabi graffiti early this year on the movie's Brooklyn set. Recently,
members have objected to the movies coming-attractions trailer, which
juxtaposes scenes of Muslims praying with shots of bombing.
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The gloves are off in terror war, and everyone is at risk
INDEPENDENT (London) March 23, 2004
By Robert Fisk
It doesn't take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a
wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of
the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin yesterday.
Yes, he enthusiastically endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of
Israeli children. Yes, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword, in a
wheelchair or not. But something went wrong with the narrative of the news
story yesterday, and something infinitely more dangerous - another sinister
precedent - was set for our brave new world.
Take the old man himself. From the start, the Israeli line was simple.
Yassin was the "head of the snake" - to use the words of the Israeli
ambassador to London - the head of Hamas, "one of the world's most dangerous
terrorist organisations".
But then came obfuscation from the world's media. Yassin, BBC World Service
Television told us at lunchtime, was originally freed by the Israelis in a
"prisoner exchange". Then, later in the day, the BBC told us that he had
been freed "following a deal brokered by King Hussein".
Which was all very strange. He was a prisoner of the Israelis. This "head of
the snake" was in an Israeli prison. And then - bingo - this supposed
monster was let go because of a "deal". So let's remember what the "deal"
was.
Yassin was set free by no less than Benjamin Netanyahu when he was prime
minister of Israel. King Hussein wasn't a "broker" between two sides.
Two Israeli Mossad agents had tried to murder a Hamas official in Amman, the
capital of an Arab nation which had a peace agreement with Israel.
They had injected the Hamas man with poison, and the late King Hussein
called the US president in fury and threatened to put the captured Mossad
men on trial if he wasn't given the antidote to the poison and if Yassin
wasn't released.
Netanyahu immediately gave in. Yassin was freed and the Mossad lads went
safely home to Israel.
So the "head of the snake" was let loose by Israel itself, courtesy of the
then Israeli prime minister - a chapter in the narrative of history which
was conveniently forgotten yesterday. Which is all very odd.
If the elderly cleric really was worthy of state murder, why did Netanyahu
let him go in the first place? It was not a question that anyone wanted to
ask yesterday.
But there was something infinitely more dangerous in all this. Yet another
Arab had been assassinated. The Americans want to kill Bin Laden. They want
to kill Mullah Omar. They killed Saddam's sons. Just as they killed three
al-Qaeda men in Yemen.
The Israelis repeatedly threaten to murder Yasser Arafat. It's getting to be
a habit.
No one has begun to work out the implications of all this. For years, there
has been an unwritten rule in the cruel war of government-versus-guerrilla.
You can kill the men on the street, the bomb-makers and gunmen, but the
leadership was allowed to survive.
Now all has changed utterly. Anyone who advocates violence - even if they
are palpably incapable of committing it - are now on a death list. So who
can be surprised if the rules are broken by the other side?
The top guys are now in the firing line. Let us not say we didn't know.
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=381027
--
Hyenas in Washington
by Karen Kwiatkowski
On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=51531;title=APFN
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win."~ Mahatma Gandhi
Conservatives and liberals alike are critical of neoconservative foreign
policy, a creature crowned with empire envy and war-lust yet starkly naked
of caution, conservatism or respect for sovereignty or human rights. We
stand together in awe at the "creative destruction" invoked by the American
Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen when no other rationale for the
occupation of Iraq survives.
With black humor, we call them neo-conmen, neandra-cons, neo-Jacobins or
neo-fascists, searching for a title that matches the philosophy. We agree
that new conservatives they've never been. Liberals won't claim them either.
It can be amusing and educational to analyze and criticize the neo-conmen -
on their good days. They have names like Max Boot - crisp with his highbrow
contempt for American traditionalism and entertaining with his Orwellian
name. Or Joel Mowbray, David Frum or Jonah Goldberg whose collective prose
once waded through reveals naďve youngsters trying on maturity like long
pants for the first time, and giggling about it. Not yet at home in the
world of adults, but no doubt earnest hopefuls.
The older crowd of neoconservatives can be almost as much fun. Or at least
they used to be before they got worried about the upcoming U.S. election,
invasions of Syria and Iran slipping like sand between manicured fingers and
the outrageous treachery of Spaniards. These days, the experience of
watching Charles Krauthammer grouse on Sunday morning that "the next big war
is Iran" - while even FOX's Brit Hume looks on in amazement - is surpassed
only by observing the ignominious Defense Policy Board departure of the
grubby Richard Perle in a last ditch attempt to maximize consulting profits
before it's too late. George Will, whose recent column attacked even little
old me, has gone so far downhill as an essayist that one thinks perhaps he
should retire and make way for new blood. Bill Safire seems grumpier than
ever, and even the charm of Grandpa Don Rumsfeld is getting strained and
tense.
Teasing these advocates of silly yet deadly foreign policies is all in good
fun. We should do so mercilessly, Bush-free-speech-zones notwithstanding.
With all due respect, we might even explain that imperial mass
democracy/geo-strategic global militarism is incompatible with a
constitutionally constrained Republic or traditions of sovereignty and
international law.
But the fun is evaporating. It's becoming downright painful to watch the
political organs of neo-conservatism in America metastasize. Seven months
from the election, we observe this Frankensteinian political phenomenon -
abstract idealism implemented through stamping boots, forever - morph into
something that is even more outwardly ugly, transparently self-consuming,
and doomed.
What proof can I offer that a withering away of the neoconservative grip on
policy is coming? Certainly our next President, John F. Kerry, is already
familiar with the neoconservative domestic and foreign policy playbook, and
does not reject it. But there are some promising signs.
Their reaction to criticism is broadening in scope and hideousness. Last
summer, neocon contempt for me after my first mainstream commentary was
limited to a mild attack by bench-warmer and Center for Security Policy head
Frank Gaffney, calling me simply an antiwar activist, likely to be a closet
Democrat and uninformed. Later, after the American Conservative series,
Richard Perle and others took to telling reporters privately that I was a
follower of Lyndon LaRouche. Again, a mild attack, as unfounded as the
charges of uninformed Democratic peace-activist. More recently, however,
following the Salon.com publicity, I have been named anarchist and dangerous
person, according to the nationally televised discussion on March 10th
between Foundation for the Defense of Democracies President Clifford May and
FOX's John Gibson. This was followed by a Max Boot declaration of my
flakiness and the recent George Will intimation that I am anti-Semitic. Will
deserved a response of course, and he got one.
The good news is that neoconservative attacks on truth tellers are becoming
so shrill that soon only our dogs will be able to hear them.
Until that happens, one gains understanding of strange noises by looking for
trends or patterns. Neoconservatives are nothing if not predictable, and
their pattern is to discount, then disparage, and then vilify. I suspect we
are nearing Ghandi's early winning stages, at least in the game for 2004.
My own neoconservative critics have increased in rank, their critiques in
stridency. These two measures of neoconservative hysteria comprise a
working-man's truth-meter, and it is starting to peg.
Like bats and mushrooms, neoconservative reaction to light is inverted. This
inversion goes beyond the rejection of common sense with their advocacy of a
U.S. empire of ideas, or the chronic misreading of the nature of both war
and terrorism. Neoconservatives also despise truth when embodied by their
own. It is not clear whether the unpleasant Mr. Perle left the Defense
Policy Board in order to make more money, or rather was asked to leave due
to his inability to sit through a media interview without losing his cool.
However, it is clear that some of the more moral and well-liked defense
staffers are looking for, or being pushed towards, the nearest exit.
As in Plato's cave, once this country turns away from the shadow and into
the light, there will be no going back. Senior and long-time public servants
in the Bush administration involved in diplomacy, state finance,
intelligence and counter-terrorism - people like Ambassador Joe Wilson, Paul
O'Neill, Greg Thielmann, and Richard Clarke - have turned away from the
shadow and are reporting what they saw.
At times like these, nervous neoconservatives, like hungry hyenas, become
irritable, aggressive and cannibalistic. My Mom always said you should say
something nice, and it is true. I bet they were cute when they were puppies!
March 24, 2004
Karen Kwiatkowski [send her mail] is a retired USAF lieutenant colonel, who
spent her final four and a half years in uniform working at the Pentagon.
She now lives with her freedom-loving family in the Shenandoah Valley, and
writes a bi-weekly column on defense issues with a libertarian perspective
for militaryweek.com.
Copyright Š 2004 LewRockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski68.html
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For Wednesday, March 23, 2004
My Palestinian Wife
by Charley Reese
http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040324/index.php
Every now and then, the rumor arises that I have a Palestinian wife. Some of
my kin were highly amused by a debate on that subject that was being
conducted by letters to the editor in their local paper recently.
Apparently, it does not occur to anyone simply to ask me. As a matter of
fact, I don't have a wife. I'm a widower, and the one wife I had was a sweet
Midwestern girl of Methodist, German and Swedish extraction. I don't have a
Palestinian mistress or girlfriend. I don't even have a Palestinian bowling
pal.
The recurring Palestinian wife rumor, I believe, is a result of some people
finding it impossible to believe that an American would have any sympathy
for the Palestinian people without an ulterior motive. That is a credit to
the effectiveness of the Israeli propaganda machine, which has, for more
than 50 years, stereotyped Palestinians as a wild, violent people. It is a
stereotype helped greatly by the news media, which rarely reports in depth
on anything foreign, and by Hollywood, where lately the venerable Nazi has
been replaced as the chief villain by the Arab terrorist.
Actually, Palestinians are a gentle people. If you get to know some and hear
their side of the story, you will feel sympathy for them, too, unless you
have a flint heart. The Palestinians were run over by history. I know that
various ethnic groups in the United States fiercely contend for the title of
victim, but the Palestinians had it imposed on them.
There was nothing they could do when the Ottoman Empire absorbed their land.
There was nothing they could do when the British Empire took their land away
from the Ottoman Turks at the end of World War I. There was nothing they
could do when the British Empire created the Palestine Mandate. There was
nothing they could do when the British Cabinet, for reasons historians still
argue about, decided Palestine would make a nice national home for European
Jews when and if the British Empire ever decided to give up its occupation
of Palestine.
That it did in 1947, after considerable encouragement by Jewish terrorist
organizations - the Irgun, led by Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang, led by
Yitzhak Shamir. Yes, Jews used terrorist tactics against the British
occupation, and now Palestinians are using terrorist tactics against the
Israeli occupation.
In 1948, about 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees and then told they
could not return to their homes. Their homes, land and businesses were
eventually confiscated. In 1967, Israel seized the West Bank and East
Jerusalem from Jordan, the Golan Heights from Syria and the Gaza Strip from
Egypt. These are now the "occupied territories." The state of Israel has no
legal claim to even 1 square inch of any of this territory, but with the
backing of the United States it has been able to tell the rest of the world
to go stuff it.
Palestinians appreciate the irony of the fact that the United States went to
war allegedly to get Albanian refugees back into Kosovo and went to war
twice against Iraq allegedly to enforce United Nations resolutions. Of
course, we've done nothing for the return of the Palestinian refugees, and
we've ignored the fact that Israel is in open defiance of more than 60
United Nations resolutions. We've also ignored the fact that Israel is the
only country in the Middle East that really does have weapons of mass
destruction, including nuclear bombs.
For us, it's all about domestic politics. I've never heard of a Palestinian
donor invited to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom.
All Americans should feel a great deal of sympathy for the younger
generations of both Palestinians and Israeli Jews. These young people were
born into a conflict started by people long dead or now in their dotage. The
issue is simple: It's land. Both sides are dying over land.
You don't need a Palestinian wife to feel sympathy for these people. All you
need is to know the facts. Learn the truth, and you will feel sympathy for
Palestinians - but not very proud of American Middle East policy, which is a
continuing failure driven by greed and cowardice on the part of American
politicians. The hypocrisy of it has poisoned our image around the world.
Š 2004 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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senhor san
To: Senhor San
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:37 AM
Subject: IF THE 9-11 COMMISSION WON'T HEAR EASTMAN THE COMMISSION IS
BULLSHIT (AND CULPABLE IN OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE)
A Zionist Jew is in overall charge of the 9-11 Commission.
An awful thing to say, right?
But it is also true and it is also essential to exploring and breaking up
an obstruction of justice in the 9-11 high-government-crime mass-murder
case.
Another Zionist Jew, Al Felzenberg, is the Commission's information
gatekeeper whose primary function has been to keep out -- by directing
Pentagon photo-evidence presentations to "black holes" where they never
again emerge to light of day -- everything necessary for a REAL
INVESTIGATION OF WHO ACTUALLY DID 9-11 -- because in particular Zionist
Neo-conservatives running the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Perle, Kissinger,
Rumsfeld, Gingrich) were the architects of the inside-job false-flag
mass-murder black-up as established by exposure of an operation that had to
have the intimate involvement of top Pentagon power, as, in turn,
established by by multiple photo evdience proving that the Pentagon was
hit by missiles fired by a jet fighter as the Boeing 757, seen by most
witnesses in its approach, actually overflew the Pentagon and, concealed
from the witnesses to the west, by flash and smoke and low morning sun,
was, within 3 seconds, closer to Reagan National Airport, only a mile
beyond, than to the crash.
No one can shake this evidence. The professor who has edited the super-hard
brain twisters for Scientific American, A.K. Dewdney, says that the photo
evidence proves the "small-plane" and "Boeing overfly" thesis, as do other
men of science. Cf.,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
The lines of proof are multiple -- six separate independent proofs that the
Pentagon attack was carefully planned high-tech "smoke and mirrors"
black-op "wet" (people get killed) operation to attain criminal ends.
Only two responses to "TRUTHBAZOOKA 5" conclusive evidence are being
offered:
1) Silence and censorship -- Felzenberg turning TRUTHBAZOOKA 5 away at the
door -- the monopoly media specifically forbidding any mention of the
"small-plane" evidence or the fact that the entire internet has either
accepted or given up trying to discredit the conclusions derived from this
established unimpeachable evidence.
2) Ad Hominem -- Since the perpetrators at the Pentagon and the people
blocking the emergence of the evidence into the light of public-awareness
and official-recognition day are all Jewish, then the people seeking to
present the information and pointing out the ZIonist Jew background of the
evidence-implicated perpetrators and coverup, then anyone holding or
introducing the 'small-plane" findings must be anti-ZIonist and a "hate"
criminal allied with terrorists who are also anti-Zionist hate criminals
etc. -- even though the small-plane findings imply that no terrorists really
existed, apart from the false-flag black ops of the true 9-11 perpetrators.
But this can't last forever -- either the multi-billionaires will be caught
by the people or the people will be crushed entirely by the
multi-billionaires (Zionism being the ideology of the merchant bankers who,
on paper, own the world.)
Meanwhile, you who have not been to bright, STOP GOING ALONG WITH THE
CHARADE -- THE COMMISSION IS WHITEWASH -- THE 9-11 FAMILIES WILL ONLY GET
TOKEN REVELATIONS OF MERELY THE SECONDARY OFFENSES -- THE OLIGARCHY WILL
NOT ALLOW THE BLOOD ON ITS HANDS TO BE KNOWN -- THE OLIGARCHY MUST BE
OVERTHROWN BY THE PEOPLE COMING TO THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS FROM THE
EVIDENCE -- WITHOUT ANY WHITEWASH COMMISSION -- AND THEN BY SHEAR WEIGHT OF
PUBLIC AND WORLD OPINION TEARING THESE CRIMINALS FROM POWER (ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL) ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
Tell a friend.
Dick Eastman
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington
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Hamas has distributed playing cards carrying the names of Israeli officials
that would be targeted, in an apparent move to imitate the American deck of
cards of "wanted" former Iraqi officials of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Khaled Mashaal, Hamas political bureau head, told the movement's website
that Hamas' response to Yassin's assassination would be "of the same size
and impact," meaning it would be targeting high-level Israeli officials and
that Hamas does not intend to carry out attacks against "international"
targets, saying the movement would focus its attacks exclusively against
Israel until the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territories. "Sharon has become targeted by Palestinian resistance men and
Al-Qassam Brigades, in retaliation for the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin,"
REMEMBER, IT WAS ZIONIST JEWS -- THE SO-CALLED 'NEO-CONS' AT THE PENTAGON
WHO WERE BEHIND THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 MASS-MURDER KILLINGS OF OVER 2000
PEOPLE IN NEW YORK AND ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA. REMEMBER TOO THAT AL QA'EDA IS
A CIA-MOSSAD-MI6 ENTITY INTENDED FOR BLACK-OPS TO UNITED THE WORLD AGAINST
THE (INNOCENT) MOSLEM WORLD AND TO GARNER MORE MILITARY AND ECONOMIC AID FOR
ISRAEL FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND AMERICAN JEWS (MANY OF WHOM ARE AMONG
THE MOST HATEFUL AND PARANOID AND DYSFUNCTIONAL-TRADITION -BRAINWASHED
PEOPLE ON EARTH.) THE MOSLEMS ARE BEING FRAMED BY THE ZIONISTS AND IT TOOK
OVER 2000 AMERICAN LIVES FOR THEM TO DO IT PROPERLY -- OR SO THEY THOUGHT.
Dick Eastman
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Liberal Democrat (i.e. British populist) leader in Parliament, Shirely
Williams writes:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel has chosen to escalate still further
the unending conflict with his Palestinian neighbors by assassinating their
revered spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Sharon has always been a
risk-taker. By escalating the conflict he increases the pressure on his
strongest ally, the United States. The next 10 days may determine the fate
of the region - whether that be ever-growing violence or a massive effort to
bring about a negotiated peace.
Sharon has been trying to convince his fragmented and divided coalition
cabinet to back his proposal for a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and a few
settlements on the West Bank. In return he seeks to exact a high price from
Washington: endorsement of a major incursion into the West Bank amounting to
the annexation of 8 percent of the territory - a territory already reduced
to 22 percent of what was Palestine in 1948, when the state of Israel was
founded.
Eight percent sounds rather modest. But anyone who has travelled recently in
the West Bank, as I have done for the past week with two parliamentary
colleagues, knows it is not. Much of the West Bank, starved of water, is
arid. It is criss-crossed with handsome modern highways, linking one Israeli
settlement to another. Palestinians are not allowed to use them. Access to
Palestinian villages along the route of the roads is blocked by huge stones
and often by checkpoints manned by Israeli soldiers. Palestinian cars and
trucks cannot get through. Palestinians spend hours trying to cross these
lines to tend their fields or to meet family members.
The West Bank is not poorer than Gaza, a crowded enclave where unemployment
is more than 60 percent, which depends on the United Nations or busy
nongovernment organizations for food. But it is even more wretched. It is
almost impossible for a Palestinian anywhere near Jerusalem or any other
Israeli city get a license to build a house.
Since the second intifada began in September 2000, more than 1,000
Palestinian houses have been destroyed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
for breaching planning laws. These laws appear to have been waived for the
new Israeli settlements on the West Bank, where thousands of white houses
march in regiments over hill after hill, dominating the scattered
Palestinian villages.
Security fences and outposts mark areas for future development, four times
the area of the existing settlements. In between, Palestinian farmers watch
their traditional olive groves and grazing land gradually swallowed up.
Thousands of acres of citrus orchards and olive trees have been uprooted and
destroyed, some by the Israeli military on security grounds. Palestinians
have little left to live on.
What Sharon is seeking from the United States is the legitimization of this
conquest-by-stealth. Sharon's unilateral plan for the West Bank is illegal
in international law and ignores the road map, the peace plan backed by the
international community. If Washington supports Sharon's proposal, the
so-called "two states" solution - a secure and sovereign Israel alongside a
secure and safe Palestine - will be dead in the water.
Israel has the energy, the education and the commitment to be a wonderful
country. It has great achievements to its credit. Sickened by the suicide
bombers that kill innocent Israeli civilians, a majority of the population
longs for a lasting peace.
Israel is also a vibrant democracy. Nongovernment organizations are
flourishing, many of them engaged in helping Palestinians. Physicians for
Human Rights, for example, mobilizes scores of Israeli doctors who give up
their weekends to attend makeshift clinics in Palestinian villages jammed
with desperate parents and sick children. Defiant Israelis rush to defend
Palestinian homes about to be demolished. The newspapers reflect the deeply
divided opinions of Israel's Jewish citizens. But with large areas of the
West Bank off-limits to Israelis, many do not know what is being done in
their name.
Israel's democracy could be the source of a much wider democratic movement
among her neighbors, if only the cycle of revenge and retaliation were
brought to an end. The most promising candidate for democratization is,
paradoxically, Palestine. We parliamentarians, on an all-party visit
sponsored by Christian Aid, encountered a lively civic society in Gaza and
the West Bank, where nonviolent activists run health centers, human rights
groups, and agricultural and environmental projects, each a victory of the
human spirit over despair. These men and women, not the backward-looking and
impotent Palestinian Authority, offer hope for the future, and could become
the partners whom Israel claims to want.
If President George W. Bush blesses Sharon's unilateral plan, and if he
condones a wall that splits farms and families and requisitions large new
areas of Palestinian land, without negotiating a solution acceptable to both
sides, the cancer of this conflict will claim new victims and create an army
of new terrorists.
===========
Dick Eastman recommends:
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
Thomas Jefferson
Bush's most avid supporters are a puritanical bunch. They attend church.
They pray on streetcorners. They bludgeon the unwitting with their
sanctimonious talk of God, Family, and the American Way. So convinced are
they of their moral superiority, they have no qualms about marching toward
even greater material gluttony over a pavement of charred corpses. In fact,
they seem to see this as a divine quest. You don't need a doctorate in
Theology to know that if Hell is real, its inmost pit has got to be reserved
for hypocrites such as these.
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ANALYSIS OF 9-11
Hijackers?
What makes you think you actually KNOW what happened on those planes? All
four were obliterated, along with everyone on board, remember? No crime
scene, no direct evidence, no recognizable remains, no witnesses
whatsoever -- it's a blank canvas. How convenient for any party intent on
launching a new era of global imperialism, and willing to spin this tragedy
into a viable excuse. Indeed, all of the attack's consequences are far
better explained by this agenda than by Bin Laden's purported death wish.
Those presuming to examine this matter, i.e. ALL OF US, need to recognize
that such trickery is a timeless specialty of governments.
And yet from that very day we have allowed the government-media complex to
focus all attention on one rather thin explanation: Crazy Arabs did it!
George W. Bush and his cabinet have made it known to us, in the most
arrogant terms, that they will brook no discussion of other possibilities --
an edict most Americans, in their desperation to believe in this man, seem
to have embraced. The Bush Administration even withholds its "proof" of Al
Qa'eda's guilt; clearly, it considers mere citizens too unimportant to
require full explanations, and once again, we're just rolling over and
taking it.
The phrases 'spiritually broken' and 'morally adrift' come to mind...
Until the full case against Al Qa'eda is made available for public review,
we have absolutely no assurance that this "proof" isn't exactly like the
"proof" of Iraq's weapons programs -- i.e., a big fat lie from top to
bottom. On these terms, wholesale acceptance of the hijacker scenario will
continue to be what it has always been: a pathetic display of blind faith in
this administration's utterances, and in those of its media accomplices. At
present, it is astonishing that anyone places faith of any kind in either
party: by means of the "WMD" debacle, both have proven themselves amoral,
duplicitous, and utterly devoid of humanity. Indeed, why do we give them so
much as a moment of our attention? No one with a lick of sense would do
this.
A rigorous civilian investigation of 9-11 would help resolve such doubts. If
Bush and the rest were standing on firm ground, they would fully support
such a thing. Instead, they have worked to thwart both its formation and its
progress, using every resource within their reach. Some time last year, they
seem to have realized they were only fueling suspicions this way, so Bush
grudgingly approved an "independent" investigation. The arrogance of this
bunch is so disabling, however, that they actually damaged their credibility
even further by naming Henry Kissinger to lead it. This is a man whose
dedication to "US interests" verges on homicidal psychosis (see his
treatment of Cambodians 1970, Chileans 1973, East Timorese and Kurds 1975,
MUCH more). He could only be expected to skew this investigation accordingly
, i. e., to omit and cover up any issue not conducive to empire building.
Ironically, even Henry had the sense to admit he was an inappropriate
choice, thus resigning from this duty, whereupon Bush immediately returned
to his original tactic of stonewalling (1). Could the man possibly have
something to hide?
To appreciate the ugliest possibilities of the 9-11 attack, one must first
become aware of the continuous practice of such manipulations by the entire
progression of American politicians. The need to cultivate this awareness is
itself an enigma: if you have the honesty to see this pattern at all, its
full enormity, emerging over time, will at some point cause your previous
ignorance to amaze you. Imagine living your entire life with an 800-pound
gorilla, then realizing one day it's not a sofa, after all. At the same
time, finding this enlightenment is challenging, because the relevant facts
are usually withheld from the public for decades, seldom appearing in
mainstream discourse even after they become common knowledge -- not because
of some grand conspiracy, but because legions of 'America Firsters,'
including most of the famous and powerful, simply don't want to hear it. The
telling of these facts is an affront to their most cherished political
assumptions. Invariably, they respond with hostile apologetics, ranging from
simple denial and ridicule to the claim that such incidents are random and
unrelated "mistakes." That they can sincerely believe this 'unrelated' claim
is remarkable, given the way it crushes into dust under any burden of
historical proof: America's state crimes have been ethically monstrous, vast
in both scale and number, unilateral in their aggression, virtually
uninterrupted in their chronology, and very coherent in both motive and
method. Certain themes just keep popping up:
1) Greed, particularly for territory;
2) Supremacism, driven only partly by race, perhaps more so by delusions of
national grandeur allowed to ramify without limit;
3) An enthusiasm for "total war" -- i. e., the indiscriminate butchery of
entire populations. This seems most likely to happen when "strategic"
territories, resources, or victories are at stake. That is, when those in
authority feel they "must win," and so discard principle to whatever extent
is necessary;
4) The systemic corruption and antidemocratic functioning of every level of
American government, made abundantly clear by its relations with sworn
enemies of the public interest, namely corporations;
5) The bid for global empire that has all but defined the American agenda
since W.W.II, in flagrant violation of democratic principle.
This last "US interest," discussed openly by flacks and shills only since
9-11 suspended all moral judgment on such matters, actually represents the
driving passion of our ruling elite, going all the way back to the
Revolution. Indeed, grasping the means of power, beginning with sovereign
domain, was their main motive for pursuing revolution at all. Starting then
and continuing ever since, they have whipped the people up to support their
warped appetites, even as they have misrepresented them spectacularly. EVERY
SINGLE TIME we as a people have committed to a war of expansion, we have
been duped into doing so by their twin handservants, American politics and
American media:
1776 to 1890
Innumerable 'Indian wars'
In which the western frontier was pushed through the territories of one
Indian confederation after another, all the way to the Pacific. An early and
definitive example is George Washington's post-revolutionary conquest of the
Ohio Valley, where the Washington Family held deeds to immense tracts of
prime real estate never actually ceded by the Indians. The lore that George
was a "surveyor" is a populist distortion; he was no blue collar grunt,
laying out property lines to earn a living. He was in fact the most
ambitious of an elite family of 'land speculators' -- the colonial
equivalent of venture capitalists -- and his toils were in the service of
his own family fortune. Already one of the richest people in
post-revolutionary America, he was determined to get even richer through the
sale of his Ohio holdings, and wasn't about to be stopped by 'two-legged
vermin' like the Shawnees and Miamis. To this end, he abused his dominance
of the early federal government, arranging for Revolutionary War veterans (a
battle-hardened militia) to be compensated with "land warrants" deep in
Ohio's wilderness, far beyond his own holdings. He also encouraged the
issuance of large bounties, equivalent to several months' income, for Indian
scalps along the upper Ohio River. These were essentially open murder
contracts that targeted ALL Indians, regardless of age, gender, or tribal
affiliation. By this means, genocide was openly subsidized for decades
wherever intact Indian cultures presented an obstacle to "progress."
Primitive as media was, its role in all this was crude but sufficient:
posting the bounties while inflaming the settlers' hatred with tales of
Indian atrocities, real and imagined. In the Ohio Territory, these tactics
rapidly progressed to open war, orchestrated by Washington against
Tecumseh's Shawnee Confederation, and then to the total extermination and
westward displacement of the Ohio tribes (2).
1846 to '48
The Mexican War:
Beginning in 1818, when the Oregon Territory was acquired, American
imperialists developed an intense interest in California. Simply adding it
piecemeal to their territorial inventory wouldn't have worked, however: it
was too isolated, too defensible by the Mexicans. To take California, all of
northern Mexico -- what is now California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas, and portions of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado -- would have
to be taken, requiring the invention of some PRETEXT for doing so. In 1836,
American "adventurers" (freelance political operatives) instigated a
regional coup in the Mexican province of Texas, splitting it off to form an
independent country, the Republic of Texas. Nine years later, this nation
was annexed as the 28th state. Immediately afterward, President Polk made
the predictable move of sending belligerent military incursions into
disputed lands along the new border with Mexico. The Mexicans replied with
patrols of their own, and then clashes developed, leading to the "spilling
of American blood on American soil." Or so the press told it (their bias
could be summed up in a phrase they coined around this time: "Manifest
Destiny"). In fact, the soil in question was situated between the Nueces and
Rio Grande rivers, an area both governments held equal claim to. But no
matter -- the people eagerly accepted this distortion, Polk got his dirty
little war, and then proceeded to steal something like 650,000 square miles
of territory from our next-door neighbor. Add to this the previous criminal
acquisition of territory from Mexico, i.e. the "Lone Star State," and the
area usurped approaches one-third of the contiguous 48 states, or HALF of
what was originally Mexico (3).
Some years later, a fantastic mineral strike in this stolen territory -- the
Comstock Lode -- would provide the Hearst Family with an immense fortune,
soon parlayed by William Randolph into an infamous media empire.
1898 to '99
The Spanish-American War/Philippine Campaign:
Though still a colonial client of Spain during the 1880s and '90s, Cuba was
also a hotbed of insurrection, thanks to the efforts of Jose Marti and
others. By 1898, the Cuban independence movement had Spain's colonial
government on the ropes. The prominence of blacks among the rebels made this
situation alarming for fin de siecle American royalists, among whom
"Darwinist" (i.e. proto-Nazi) political thought was at the height of its
popularity. Also, having just recently subdued the last free-roaming Indian
tribes back home, their passion for grabbing other people's land could now
be expanded into the Caribbean, Central America, and Pacific, via expanded
activities of that handy agency, the US military. So in the fall and winter
of 1897-98, the Hearst syndicate and other news organizations were blasting
Americans with "yellow journalism" on the subject of Cuba -- sensational and
often ludicrous accounts, custom made to induce support of US military
intervention. The public thus primed, the sinking of the battleship USS
Maine in Havana Harbor gave McKinley all the excuse needed to commence
grabbing up not only Cuba, but also Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
It was in the Philippines that the US military took "total war" beyond North
America for the first time. Encouraged by the Filipino's uncanny resemblance
to Native Americans, US troops mass-murdered something like 25% of the
civilian population. As imperial outrages go, this was the equal of anything
that's happened since (4).
A 1975 investigation led by Admiral Rickover determined that the Maine's
hull was breached by an explosion originating INSIDE the ship. This could
have been a spontaneous "coal-bin explosion," or it could have been a bomb
placed by an imperialist traitor. As with 9-11, this catastrophe neatly
erased any inconvenient witnesses to its real mechanics.
1917 to '18
World War I:
Three years into the "Great War," it looked as though Germany would defeat
Britain and France, our primary capitalist hosts in Europe. Big financiers
like J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, who between them had billions
invested "over there," weren't about to just sit back and watch this happen.
They barked orders to their underling, Woodrow Wilson, who then declared
war, using German interference with US shipping activities as a feeble
pretext. Leading up to this, the media minions whipped the public into a war
frenzy, basing their wildly manipulative propaganda on incidents such as the
sinking of the Lusitania, two years earlier. Funny thing about the
Lusitania: it's hold contained a secret, illegal, and massive cargo of
ammunition and other materiel bound for Liverpool, and its passengers were
used as unwitting human shields for this cargo by the US government, which
is why they died. Neither Wilson nor the media of the day ever admitted any
of this (5).
The dynamics behind America's entry into World War II were virtually
identical. Over 500,000 Americans died in these two wars, with 875,000 more
wounded, and an additional and unknown number emotionally shattered, all of
which brought untold misery to their families and communities. Given the
choice between destroying all those lives or allowing the likes of Morgan
and Rockefeller to suffer the tragedy of somewhat less obscene wealth, our
"representatives" chose the former as the lesser sacrifice.
1941 to '45
World War II:
France already lying crushed beneath Hitler's war machine, and Britain under
a devastating siege, the White House was once again compelled to intervene
on behalf of its capitalist masters, whose European investments had grown
two magnitudes since the close of W.W.I. Unlike Wilson, however, FDR did a
truly brilliant job of constructing a pretext. in September of 1940,
Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, a treaty committing
all three countries to counterattack against new foes faced by any one of
them. This gave Roosevelt a back door into Europe via the Pacific. Beginning
one month later, and fourteen months prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, he
launched secret military and economic operations against the Japanese
Empire, obstructing its only access to oil, rubber, and other strategic
resources. The Japanese response to this blockade -- open hostilities
against the United States, beginning with a crippling preemptive attack on
the Pacific Fleet -- was entirely predictable. In fact, it was Roosevelt's
whole purpose in setting up the blockade: Nearly unanimous "isolationist"
sentiment at home was his first military target, and precipitating a
"vicious sneak attack on US soil" was his deliberate design for destroying
that sentiment. For this reason, he concentrated the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii
as never before, where it would be seen as an imminent threat by Japanese
generals. He then withheld intelligence of Japan's attack preparations from
Pearl's top officers, continuing to exclude them even when radio intercepts
revealed the movement of a Japanese carrier group toward Hawaii (6).
From 1941 to '46, and again in 1995, Congress investigated "the intelligence
lapses that made this sneak attack possible" no less than NINE TIMES. On all
of these occasions, officials of the Roosevelt Administration and the Office
of Naval Intelligence perjured themselves and concealed vast amounts of
evidence to preserve the historical fictions surrounding the Pearl Harbor
attack. To this day, the NSA claims "national security" as its basis for
withholding relevant material from the public. "National security" stands
revealed, then, as a euphemism for this government's ruthless grip on
power -- a thing that certainly would be threatened, were we to become fully
aware of the treacheries it spawns. This context radically transforms
"national security" rhetoric into an ideal excuse for all sorts of betrayals
and deceits, and this seems to be it's actual interpretation among those who
"safeguard" it.
The agonies of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, etc. under Hitler, not to mention those
of the Chinese and Koreans under the Japanese Empire, were incidental at
best to US motives for pursuing W.W.II, both before and during. It was only
afterward that the camps were seized upon as a full-blown "pretext in
retrospect" to maximize America's apparent heroism. With each year that has
passed since, this myth has been more shamelessly advanced, so that now some
stunning percentage of Americans believe that "halting genocide" was their
government's main motive for waging war at all.
1945 to '89
The Cold War (a.k.a. W.W.III):
was launched by the closing episode of W.W.II, i.e., the atomic bombing of
Japan. President Truman's official rationalization for the bombing,
trumpeted ad nauseum by the media of the day, was that it was the only way
to end the war quickly, thus avoiding a horrific house-by-house assault of
the entire Japanese Archipelago. In fact, the Japanese were already making
conditional surrender overtures. Accepting their terms, however, would have
made Truman's victory conditional as well, and he was determined to
humiliate them. Even the total surrender he insisted on was only a few
months away, by all signs. Meanwhile, the war in Europe having ended in May,
the Russians were now free to join the allied fight against this old enemy
of theirs, and were preparing to do exactly that. Given enough time to enter
the Pacific War, they would have claimed a portion of Japan upon its
surrender, just as they had recently claimed the eastern half of Europe. To
keep the Soviets from horning in on this pending crown jewel of America's
Pacific Empire, Truman needed his total victory immediately, and The Bomb
gave him an irresistible means by which to secure it. As an early devotee of
anti-Communist paranoia, he was also confronting the Russians with a
demonstration of America's 'invincible technological prowess.' Finally, his
decision to vaporize 200,000 Japanese civilians was made easier by his
avowed hatred of the entire race (7).
The cover provided by the Cold War enabled the United States to pursue its
largest campaign of expansion by far, extending its economic and strategic
tentacles into every corner of the planet and even into space by means of
literally hundreds of "anti-Communist" initiatives, interventions, and proxy
wars. Our present "global hegemony," a source of endless glee for Bush and
other miscreants, didn't "just happen" -- it was the overarching and
unspoken goal of US Cold War politics.
Another important thing to understand about the Cold War: the "War on
Terrorism" is directly adapted from it, just as the Cold War itself
developed directly from W.W.II, which was in turn a direct consequence of
W.W.I, which was Germany and Britain vying with one another for world
domination -- a contest America ended up winning. What an epic of
greed-crazed murderous lunacy! One that the present regime seeks only to
perpetuate, and for the same reasons as always: expansion and consolidation
of empire.
1950 to '53
The Korean War:
To coerce public support for this war, the press and the Truman
Administration whipped up public hysteria about the "Red Menace!" that was
then "swallowing up" obscure Far Eastern precincts. No mention, of course,
that the mounting anti-US sentiment in those precincts resulted entirely
from collaboration between US occupation forces and the Japanese fascists
they were supposedly there to remove. This collaboration ranks as one of the
most arrogant foreign policy blunders in US history. For people throughout
the Far East, it was an unbearable betrayal, as it effectively prolonged
what had already been one of the most gruesome and protracted military
occupations EVER. Similar dynamics had already developed in mainland China,
a hornet's nest so immense that withdrawal quickly resolved as our only sane
option. And also in the Philippines, where US troops and Huk rebels started
out fighting side by side to expel the Japanese. Indigenous sovereignty
being the Huk's ultimate goal, the Americans began killing them, too, as the
Japanese were subdued. Two thousand miles from all these places, in French
Indochina, the exact tensions seen in Korea arose AGAIN in response to
brutal French/Japanese collaboration -- abetted by American field agents,
naturally (8).
In all four places, revolutionary leaders greatly admired America's
political tradition of anti-colonialism and self-determination, and sought
to claim these values for their own countries. They even made earnest
attempts to form friendships with the US; they thought colonialism was a
'european thing,' so that we must therefore be 'the good guys.' For
strategic planners back in Washington, all this was at odds with their grand
design for the Far East: now being vacated by its previous colonial tenants,
it was seen as a "power vacuum," fairly begging for RE-colonization
according to America's obfuscated formula of puppet politics and corporate
infiltration.
American society has yet to recover from the "Red Menace!" propaganda
barrage, which soon became a constant theme of international news coverage,
and remained so for the next 40 years. As a means of inducing mass paranoia
and public consent to limitless militarization, the "Red Menace" lost its
punch following the collapse of the Soviet Union, necessitating its
replacement with a more robust methodology -- the "Terrorist Menace!" Nazi
Germany and Israel being the great innovators of this second method, America
owes a great debt to both of them.
1965 to '73
The Vietnam War:
By way of manipulating Congress into granting him war powers, LBJ reprised
the "vicious sneak attack" gambit with his brazen lies regarding such action
by the North Vietnamese against US Navy vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Beginning in 1969, Nixon and Kissinger expanded on this crime enormously,
adding Laos and Cambodia to North Vietnam as targets of a redoubled 'total
war' initiative. Several million tons of cluster bombs were then used to
totally destroy vast civilian districts in all three countries (districts
simply crawling, mind you, with subsistence farmers bent on global
domination). All of which exactly repeated the pattern of the Korean War --
right down to America not winning (9).
As huge as the American effort against Vietnam was, it was just one element
of a yet more enormous strategy of military encirclement (a.k.a.
"containment") directed against mainland China. Other elements were: the
permanent and massive U.S. military presence in Japan; a similar presence in
Thailand; unlimited military and economic support to Chiang Kai-Shek's exile
government on Formosa (Taiwan); the Korean War and subsequent permanent U.S.
military presence in Korea; a strong strategic interest in India, including
covert support of an otherwise preposterous nuclear weapons program; also, a
U.S.-equipped and -trained covert army of Chinese "nationalists" in eastern
Burma, within what became known as the "Golden Triangle." It was here that
the CIA first learned of the marvels of the international heroin trade.
To advance its "interests," the U.S. government has manipulated the affairs
of every region of the planet on this same incredible scale, and continues
to do so. Other hotspots include Europe, the Middle East, Central Africa,
and all of Latin America and the Pacific.
1991 to 2003
The Gulf War / "No-fly Zones" / Sanctions:
To con Americans into backing this outrage, Daddy Bush and his media
bed-buddies told a couple real whoppers. First there was the one about the
satellite photographs of a massive Iraqi invasion force assembling on the
northern border of Saudi Arabia (10). Then there was the Kuwait Incubator
Hoax, an inventive revival of the childish "babies on bayonets" propaganda
of World War I -- as told by a child, no less (11). As it turned out,
Operation "Desert Storm" was merely the opening episode of a ruthless
destabilization program, aimed primarily at hapless civilians, that would
continue for over a decade, killing no less than 500,000 Iraqis in a fairly
obvious attempt to turn them against their head of state. This fulfills any
sane definition of terrorism, and is probably the most grandiose recent
example of the state-sponsored variety. It was maintained with enthusiasm by
the Clinton Administration.
2001 to present
The "War on Terror" (a.k.a. W.W.IV):
Pretexts include: 1) the 9-11 attack; 2) this Administration's single-minded
incrimination of Al Qa'eda (a CIA proxy), backed up with such things as; 3)
an obviously fraudulent videotape of Osama "confessing;" 4) the conceit that
Al Qa'eda's guilt justified a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan (the
combined strike force for which began building up at least six months prior
to 9-11, disguised as a "war game"); 5) an implied equation between Al
Qa'eda and Iraq's Ba'athite regime, and; 6) the absurd fantasy that Iraq, a
country left all but helpless by the previous campaign, might pose a real
threat to the world's deadliest strategic power.
By rights, I should have included the Civil War in this run-down: all the
ingredients are there, with antidemocratic preservation of domain being
equivalent to expansion. Also, the fable that 'freeing the slaves' was its
entire purpose has to rank among the wildest disinformation campaigns ever
perpetrated upon Americans by our "free press."
Though they never precipitated the full-scale wars their authors had in
mind, a few other nasty episodes are especially relevant to 9-11:
Operation "Northwoods"
A Pentagon plan for a massive "false flag" terror campaign against American
citizens, the purpose being to provide pretext for a full-scale invasion of
Cuba. If approved, it would have entailed such things as sniper attacks on
random US citizens (a la the DC sniper), terrorist bombings, and a bogus
missile attack on an unmanned, remote-controlled US airliner in the
Caribbean, the plane's fictitious passengers to be reported as "entirely
lost." All of this was to be carried out by US intelligence agents posing as
Cuban operatives, whose dirty work would translate directly into the sort of
massive public manipulation campaign this government always launches when it
sees profit in war. The Northwoods plan was called off by Robert McNamara
only when it was submitted for executive approval, having already been
approved by every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (12).
Northwoods would never amount to anything more than a glimmer in some agency
psychopath's eye. In Europe, however, the CIA's most deranged anti-leftist
terror tactics were actually implemented ...
Operation "Stay Behind"; Operation "Gladio"
As part of a larger US withdrawal strategy following W.W.II, the CIA created
underground right-wing militias throughout Western Europe, to be activated
as guerilla armies in the event of invasion by the Soviets. These were known
as "Stay Behind" forces; they were a rogue's gallery of mercenary scum,
dominated by devout ex-Nazis recruited by SS-cum-CIA agent Reinhard Gehlen.
As the years passed and the Soviets failed to provide the anticipated
invasion, the Stay Behinds resorted to other means of justifying their CIA
paychecks. All across Europe, beginning in the 1950s, they morphed into
right-wing hit squads and terrorist groups. They participated in massive
CIA-NATO destabilization efforts against the Soviet Bloc countries,
assassinating Soviet officials, sabotaging industrial plants and public
infrastructure, and generally terrorizing civilian populations. The pattern
should be familiar from similar terror campaigns against Cuba and Nicaragua.
In East Berlin, the activities of Stay Behind units were the primary reason
for the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Stay Behinds did not limit
their mayhem to the Soviet Bloc, however; as time passed, their attention
turned more and more to equivalent activities within their NATO home
countries. Throughout Western Europe, particularly in Italy, leftist
politics had a stronger following than it has seen in the U.S. since the
1930s, and the Stay Behinds were the CIA's primary footsoldiers in its
"dirty tricks" campaign against this percieved enemy. In a psy-war effort to
alienate the public from the political left, they launched bogus left-wing
terror outfits (the "Baader-Meinhof Gang") or framed real leftist
undergrounds (the "Red Brigades") for atrocities they committed themselves.
In Italy, where the Stay Behind operation was code-named "Gladio," agents
posing as left-wing extremists perpetrated many public bombings during the
'70s, killing at least 300 people. These culminated in the August 1980
Bologna Train Station Bombing, which killed 86. The 1978 kidnapping and
murder of Aldo Moro was another Gladio exploit. These activities had one
purpose: to portray the political left as public enemy number one, thus
isolating it domestically while building consent for military escalation and
NATO aggression against the Soviets (13).
* * * * * * * * *
So what's it all about, anyway, all this intrigue and stomping of jackboots
on distant shores? Thanks to its unrivaled military strength and exceptional
geographic isolation (oceans make bitchin' moats), this country is all but
perfectly invulnerable to invasion, and repelling invaders would seem to be
the only defensible function of armies. No one's invaded this country since
the War of 1812, when British expeditions came out of Canada, Florida, and
the Gulf of Mexico. Don't expect a repeat anytime soon. Although a massive
one, the Pearl Harbor Attack was still just a raid, on what at the time was
this country's farthest-flung primary military base.
To keep the entire planet under its thumb, our government burdens us with
the gargantuan cost of the world's largest military, which it mostly uses to
crush pitiful rebellions in the remotest and poorest corners of the world,
places we truly have no business being in. This is exactly like a bully
swaggering around a schoolyard, shaking down all the little kids. Is that
really how you want your government representing you to the rest of the
world? Shouldn't DOMESTIC policy take priority instead? Things like adequate
health care and effective primary education -- programs that would serve the
wants and needs of YOU, their citizen, whom they claim to be their master.
But this is not their priority, and never has been. The geometric growth of
this economy, by various forms of conquest, is their abiding passion, with
domestic policy being attended to almost as an afterthought. To force our
consent, they hypnotize us with lurid visions of one boogeyman after
another, maintaining childish fear as our primary political sensibility,
keeping us dependent, trusting, stupid, distracting us from our own
self-interests...
Why is that?
WHO BENEFITS??
The average American, who spends his or her life chained to the machinery of
wealth production, watching their share of its output dwindle steadily, sure
as hell doesn't. The stratum of society that truly gains from all this just
happens to be the same one that finds employment in high-level intelligence
positions: big-time spooks like Kermit Roosevelt, the Dulles brothers,
Nelson Rockefeller, George H. W. Bush -- i. e. America's ruling families. In
their parlance, "U.S. Interests" is just doublespeak for global empire and
corporate colonialism, and these have always been the real purposes behind
their warmongering.
All told, these wars killed over a million US soldiers, along with many
times this number of civilians and combatants in the lands invaded, and this
isn't even touching on the dozens of proxy wars that have been the American
Empire's main battle front for going on sixty years. All of these millions
of people, American and foreign alike, were MURDERED by a government intent
on advancing the interests of a tiny minority while betraying the rest of
humanity; a government willing to wield its power in their service in any
manner, including technological and economic terror campaigns waged against
entire national populations. And yet this government has the audacity to
call itself a "beacon of hope to the world!" And the majority BELIEVE THEM!!
It simply amazes.
America's shadowy patricians were already too powerful before the Cold War.
And then decades of public hysteria borne of imminent nuclear annihilation
delivered them into the fabled realm of "absolute power." This has been
pretty obvious. Americans have avoided realizing it only by actively
pursuing a mental state of utter denial on this subject, sort of like the
three monkey icons of Shinto. Thanks to this determined ignorance, keeping
the rest of us in the dark has been childishly easy for people like the
Bushes. They can even be incredibly brazen and sloppy and get caught
red-handed, as with Watergate. No biggy: just tell all the boobs it was
Nixon acting alone, assisted by his best buddies, who just happened to be,
um, CIA agents. Yah. They'll never notice this story's unbelievable stench;
they'll be too relieved at having any sort of excuse to NOT think about it.
You know, just like when the Warren Commission's whitewash came out.
One hypothesis is particularly good for sending 'America Firsters' into an
apoplexy of denial: that the political culture now emerging in Washington is
actually a product of 40 years of covert penetration into the Executive
Branch. To substantiate this, one need look no further than the lineage of
our present "leader." His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a military spy
during W.W.I, a key financial collaborator with the Nazis, and a US Senator.
His father, George H. W. Bush, was heir to the CIA realm under our most
infamous presidential regime, a fixture in presidential politics for 20
years, and all in all one of the creepiest figures ever to darken the
American political stage. The 'quiet coup' that brought this man to power
traces back to the Eisenhower Administration, when the utterly creepy
"National Security" underworld first became a secret and malevolent force in
national politics -- a force whose power is still nearly impossible to
measure. There are ominous glimpses, though: in 1960, Eisenhower's VP and
political heir, Richard M. Nixon, was shouldered aside by John F. Kennedy,
who over the next three years developed grave misgivings about this
underworld and its power. Then he ended up dead, and yes, his assassination
DID stink of black ops, as did the similar jobs on Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King, and his kid brother "Bobby," who would have been the SECOND Kennedy to
sour Nixon's presidential hopes, had he lived to see the 1968 election...
Though the CIA denies it, several independent sources identify George H. W.
Bush as a high-ranking agent during the Kennedy Administration, commanding
covert operations against Cuba. The ships used in Operation "Zapata" (the
"Bay of Pigs" invasion) were named by him, it is said, after members of his
family. Those names indeed correspond with those of his wife and children.
Among the most conclusive sources is an official memorandum from J. Edgar
Hoover, dated November 29, 1963, which refers to a "Mr. George Bush of the
Central Intelligence Agency" (14). The memo refers to Bush's evaluation of
emotional reactions to Kennedy's assassination among Cuban exiles under his
watch.
From here, Bush the Elder went on to become a protege of Richard Nixon's,
was a mid-echelon member of his cabinet beginning in 1971, had very
interesting connections to CREEP, and somehow eluded Congress's Watergate
dragnet.
Watergate and a few other incidents proved that Nixon had a most unwholesome
relationship with the CIA. Once this scandal had hemorrhaged to the point
that Congress could no longer avoid taking action, containing the damage
could be seen as the main theme of its response -- a hallmark of
Congressional investigations. There was far too much eagerness to examine
this matter only in terms narrowly relating to impeachment, thus leaving
larger questions wholly unexplored: did the Watergate break-in really happen
on Nixon's orders, or was the intelligence underworld acting on its own,
using 'dirty tricks' to prop up their man in the White House, exactly as it
has on countless occasions for entire puppet governments all over the world?
In the latter case, letting Nixon take the fall would have been an extreme
measure, but possibly the only sure way to divert attention from an
abhorrent and illegal power structure, thus preserving it. Nixon himself
would have been a likely author of this tactic, as it was he who trumped
Congress' investigation by resigning, whence the entire matter was eagerly
dropped.
Bone-tired of Watergate in any case, the public was predisposed to accept
Nixon's implied guilt as the final answer: "responsibility can't go any
higher than the President, right? Harry 'the buck stops here' Truman said
so." In reaching this conclusion, we were assisted by major media organs,
which immediately began spinning this as Watergate's "final resolution." In
fact, this conclusion resolved nothing -- it left the most crucial questions
hanging in mid-air, soon to be shrouded in rhetoric by professional
apologists from all quarters. Its only definite outcome was the softening of
a renewed public spirit of scrutiny and resistance, which in turn allowed a
deadly authoritarian cancer to resume its march throughout our body politic.
After going underground for seven years, this cancer emerged in full force
as the Reagan Administration.
Dubya's announcement last April of another bogus 'conclusion' -- that of his
Hitlerian conquest of Iraq -- had a strikingly similar effect. Once again,
mounting vigilance was undone by a well-timed lie, universally disseminated.
Following Nixon's resignation, Poppy finally hit the big-time when Gerald
Ford named him Director of the CIA. After toppling Carter, he became VP
himself, and for the next twelve years was at the center of the Reagan era's
continuous parade of treasonous covert operations. A few highlights: 1) the
campaign to prevent an "October Surprise," in which Bush & Co. induced the
Iranians to delay release of the American embassy hostages, thus undermining
Carter's re-election bid; 2) an inhuman terror campaign against the people
and government of Nicaragua, even after Congress declared it illegal, at
which point the CIA was forced to devise covert funding arrangements such as
3) "Iran-Contra" and 4) operation "Watchtower." This last episode, which was
going on around the time of Bush Senior's succession, is easily the most
incredible: the CIA was a major domestic smuggler and distributor of "Crack"
cocaine during the late '80s, when this drug became an inner-city plague
(15).
At this point, the CIA was contemptuously wiping its ass with the
Constitution, and got completely away with it. If this were truly the
America the Boy Scouts taught you to believe in, the exposure of operation
"Watchtower" would have destroyed the CIA.
Late in Reagan's second term, 60 minutes was granted a horrifying personal
interview with Ronnie and Nancy in the Oval Office. Horrifying because, even
though Reagan's Alzheimer's wasn't disclosed for several more years, it was
perfectly obvious the man was totally gone. Faced with a steady stream of
unscripted questions from Mike Wallace, Reagan's usual patter rapidly
degenerated into stark senile mumblings. Desperate to conceal her husband's
incoherence, Nancy kept practically thrusting her face into the cameras.
This is consistent with puzzled accounts of writers and artists of the time,
who, as dinner guests of the Reagans, were mystified as to how such an oaf
could present himself so effectively on television.
All of which implies a striking parallel between the Reagan Presidency and
that of Bush II: in both cases, Bush Senior can be discerned as the man
behind the curtain, while the "president" is a mere speech reader, whose
real job is to keep the public distracted with his amiable, vacuous,
universally televised performances. Dubya's main puppeteers -- Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Powell -- are all Poppy's cronies, going all the way
back to the Nixon Administration. The five Supreme Court Justices who put
Junior in power are also Nixon/Reagan/Bush cronies, and their cancellation
of democratic process was a classic "installation," reminiscent of the CIA's
long-running antidemocratic escapades throughout the world.
It has Poppy's pawprints all over it.
If not for daddy's influence, Silver Coke-spoon Boy would be lucky to find
work fishing golf balls out of water hazards at the local country club. This
is obvious, and widely acknowledged. Most Americans, however, aren't willing
to examine the enormously sinister ramifications, given Poppy's background,
of the Bush Family's dynastic grip on American politics. Most Americans,
after all, are a weak-minded lot -- though harassed by apparitions of
unprecedented corruption, they lack the courage needed to fix their gaze
upon them.
Which brings us to 9-11...
The most venerable means of transmitting control inputs from a plane's
cockpit to its various aerodynamic control surfaces (rudder, ailerons, etc.)
is via a system of cables, i.e. "aircraft cables." With the introduction of
huge planes during and after W.W.II, unassisted human arms could no longer
provide the force needed to actuate proportionately huge control surfaces,
and so hydraulic assist devices and fully hydraulic control systems were
developed. The introduction of autopilots and landing guidance systems over
the next three decades layered yet another 'control system' over this one,
an electronic layer capable of manipulating the hydraulics directly and thus
flying the plane on its own. In the 757- and 767-series planes boarded by
"the hijackers," Boeing expanded this layer enormously, making it much more
sophisticated and integral to the continuous operation of these planes. For
one thing, it continuously monitors such things as attitude, acceleration,
turn rates, etc., and if necessary can assert exclusive control of the
hydraulics at any time, modifying or even overriding pilot decisions that
would otherwise result in drastic maneuvers, inappropriate for passenger
service. Though meant to provide an added margin of safety in the event of
gross pilot error, this arrangement introduces an ominous new dimension: in
a very real sense, the humans on the flight deck have only tenuous control
of flaps, rudder, etc.; the computer, the arbiter between the two, allows
them direct control only on it's own immutable terms. If the computer can
override the pilot some of the time, a potential exists for it to override
the pilot ALL of the time. This is a vulnerable arrangement, as anyone who
has dealt with a virus should know. In other words, the advancing dependency
on avionic interfaces has brought with it an advancing potential for the
total electronic co-optation of those interfaces. As they have grown
exponentially in complexity, so too has the number of entry points by which
such co-optation might be effected. All that was needed was for
technologists to devise a "back door"...
Enter the U.S. government and its defense contractors, who began joint
development of remote flight control and flight circumvention technology at
least two decades ago, using the full force of their virtually infinite R&D
resources. The existence of these programs, and of the resulting technology,
was verified soon after 9-11 by a panel of commercial and military pilots
participating in an independent inquiry (16).
The existence of such technology IN ANY FORM raises intriguing
questions/possibilities about 9-11: 1) could the planes have been hijacked
via this technology alone? 2) Were they? 3) Remote hijacking and on-board
hijacking are not mutually exclusive scenarios; if there were actual human
hijackers on those planes, their plot may have been remotely co-opted by
another party they knew nothing about, leaving them as horrified as anyone
when the planes took control of themselves and banked straight into
buildings.
Photographic evidence and eye-witness accounts support the idea that the
override functionality of the planes' computers was somehow defeated,
allowing "the hijackers" to make prohibited maneuvers. For example, there
are multiple photographs and video clips showing AA Flight 175 making an
outrageously hard turn into the second tower. According to official
information, the plane that hit the Pentagon also made aerobatic descent
maneuvers worthy of a fighter pilot. To have flown the planes in this
manner, Atta and the rest would have needed 1) advanced large plane skills,
and 2) a way to defeat the planes' avionic systems. Since that flight school
they attended in Venice, Fla. probably didn't offer a course titled "Hot-dog
Maneuvers with Airliners 101," they must have possessed these abilities
already, so why would they have bothered with flight lessons at all? Any
benefit they realized in terms of understanding new control layouts would
have been at the cost of increased exposure, thus endangering their mission.
On the other hand, if they were as inexperienced as the presstitutes tell us
("I just want to learn how to steer"), they couldn't possibly have flown the
planes this way at all, which means someone else must have.
However distasteful, there is a real possibility that remote circumvention
occurred on those planes, a possibility that any credible investigation
would hardly ignore. All the more so because the necessary hardware isn't
just a cockamamie theory: a fully developed, totally programmable remote
flight control platform actually exists. Suggestively named the "Flight
Termination System," it is manufactured by Systems Planning Corporation of
Rosslyn, Virginia, which maintains web pages devoted to the FTS and various
subsystems:
A system overview:
http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/FTS
The transmitter hardware:
http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/CTS
Related software:
http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/MkVSW
The CEO of Systems Planning's international division, Dov Zakheim, is a
long-time DoD and Republican Party insider, and a founding member of the
Neoconservative cult. While Bush was still Governor of Texas, Zakheim became
one of his closest advisers, counseling him on defense technology and
strategic aspects of Middle Eastern affairs. After the 2000 "election,"
Rummy rewarded Zakheim with a low-profile but strategically important
position -- Comptroller, i.e. head money man, of the Defense Department.
Zakheim also co-authored the Heritage Foundation's infamous tract,
"Rebuilding America's Defenses," in which the Bush Administration's entire
design for renewed global conquest was laid down a full year prior to 9-11.
On page 63, the authors note that timely implementation of their ideas would
require "some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
See for yourself:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
To identify the expansionist motive behind the "9-11 Wars," one need look no
further than this document. Echoing Ziggy Brzezinski's thoughts in "The
Grand Chessboard," the authors identify the Persian Gulf / Central Asian
region as the world's greatest geopolitical prize, and recommend that
decisive control of this region be made a top strategic priority.
The remote control scenario also neatly punctures the 'yada-yada objection'
always employed by conspiracy theory critics: "It couldn't have happened
that way, because too many people would have known, and someone would
blab..." In fact, the most sensitive part of this plot would be that of
anticipating or enabling nineteen flesh-and-blood "hijackers," and yet this
part of the scenario is all but universally accepted. Nineteen men backed by
a larger organization schemed to get on those planes and take control of
them, and then they did; everyone knows they did because CNN has stated this
"fact" about ten thousand times and counting. As for exactly WHICH
organization did the backing, well, there's a saying about 'dead men' ...
Once the patsies were in position, the rest of this scenario -- the "really
unbelievable part" -- could have been carried off in its entirety by a tiny
team wielding extravagant technical skills and multimillion-dollar
equipment. No larger conspiracy is necessary. As for the apparent complicity
of the entire government and media, this is mostly just cynical opportunism
and jello-brained obedience rising to the occasion -- a response easily
anticipated by the real conspirators, for whom history provides a
never-ending parade of examples on which to base such expectations.
Mind you, this is not to say that remote circumvention is definitely what
happened. On its face, this scenario is wildly improbable. Speaking of
improbable, what about four airliners being taken over simultaneously and
used as missiles? Since this actually happened, we have no choice but to
consider fantastic scenarios, and since the official scenario is itself an
unsubstantiated "conspiracy theory," competing scenarios should also receive
serious attention. Our reluctance to question official doctrine on this
matter is a symptom of the societal role most of us have been bred and
trained for: to be ever-faithful hounds, tails thumping the floor as we
contentedly slorp the hand of class authority. Such credulity also becomes
inevitable when the alternative is so unbearable: if someone in Bush's
position is capable of lying to us about something as huge, as
gut-wrenchingly horrible as 9-11, then everything we believe about this
country -- about the nature of civilization itself -- might just be childish
nonsense...
Most people simply don't have the guts to go there.
Given a desperate enough need to sustain the childish belief in
government-as-benevolent-father, a person will adapt that belief to any
circumstance. The behavioral end result can resemble courage; indeed, we are
taught to regard it as the DEFINITION of courage. Actually, it's one of
cowardice's darkest moments. Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany,
where this phenomenon was rampant, will drive this point home.
It's almost funny, the way people readily see the threat of technological
circumvention presented by Diebold's electronic voting machines, yet when
the subject switches to the "Flight Termination System," which is every bit
as real, and to the exactly parallel possibilities it represents vis-a-vis
9-11, they suddenly retreat into profound and combative denial. It's as if a
threshold has been crossed into a realm of possibilities too vile to
entertain, so they simply don't. Never mind that this country's operatives
have been traveling the world, perpetrating similar horrors, for all of the
past century. Rather than acknowledge the possibility of a unifying pattern,
Joe Average would much rather 'shoot the messenger.'
Every so often, such people establish a new high-water mark for cowardice
and facultative stupidity, and the present is definitely one of those times.
After all, the official 9-11 scenario they cling to with such desperate
faith comes from only one source: the Western "intelligence community" --
the most brazen, systematic, resourceful, and interlocked association of
habitual liars this world has ever seen. As should have been made clear by
the 'British dossier' scandal of last winter, the credibility of this bunch
goes past zero into the negative: pending airtight proof, anything they say
should be reflexively deemed a lie. You may remember that MI5 also provided
the identities of "the 19 hijackers" -- information that soon also became
quite suspect. At least six of the hijackers, possibly as many as nine, are
still alive in the Middle East -- a pretty good alibi, considering. Several
of these ex-suspects had their passports or other IDs stolen from them over
the years, and it's entirely possible that all 19 hijackers had stolen
identities, meaning they could have come from anywhere, or been absent
altogether. The US media was pretty slack about acknowledging this at the
time, and since then has dropped this ball entirely (17).
Rather than allow the "intelligence community" to render every detail of our
comprehension on this matter, we would be much wiser to carefully identify
and discard every assumption they hand us.
Far from being a source of independent corroboration, our "free press" is
more like a public relations contractor for the spooks. This is because the
entire fourth estate AND the governments of the West, including their
intelligence services, are essentially employees of a single entity: the
US-dominated coalition of international corporations -- by several
magnitudes the largest concentration of wealth in human history.
The subjugation of governments by such an entity is hardly unprecedented.
The Twentieth Century saw several extremely unsavory examples. It's called
Fascism. You don't need to take my word for this -- just peruse the opinions
of acknowledged experts:
Benito Mussolini:
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism
because it is a merger of State and corporate power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate
the growth of private power to the point where it becomes
stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence
is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a
group or any controlling private power. Among us today
a concentration of private power without equal in history is
growing.
For many Americans, the word 'fascist' instantly evokes jackbooted Germans
wearing Swastikas and stuffing Jews into ovens. In fact, that representation
is a cardboard diorama, empty of nuance and historically specific almost to
the point of meaninglessness, which is why the closet fascists who own the
media keep force-feeding it to you.
Fascism is certainly a violation of every noble and enlightened political
impulse. To advance their agenda, fascists must bring about a mass rejection
of egalitarian and democratic ideals, and seem to get the best results by
inflaming and feeding upon common fears and popular bigotries -- racist,
nationalist, classist, religious, political, etc. ANY set of bigotries,
suitably stimulated, will provide fertile soil for fascism, and the
incurably ignorant, always a majority, are easily swayed by such methods --
fascism is a dictator's fantasy formula for subverting democracy. Bigotry,
however, isn't fascism's whole essence; it's simply an expedient means by
which fascism's agents, classic political pragmatists, consolidate the
monolithic pattern of government corruption that is their true calling -- a
syndrome America has been sliding into deeper and deeper throughout its
history. Just look at the consistent warnings from all the presidents who
noticed this trajectory and tried to alert a nation of groveling
candy-asses:
Thomas Jefferson:
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our
moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge
our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to
the laws of our country.
Abraham Lincoln:
The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace
and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more
despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy
and more selfish than a bureaucracy. It denounces,
as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw
light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern
Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two,
the one at the rear is my greatest foe.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned .....
An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money
power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the
prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few
hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
Theodore Roosevelt:
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no
responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible
government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt
business and corrupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know,
that a financial element in the large centers has owned
the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address, 1961:
In the councils of government, we must guard against
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for
the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
John Kennedy took Eisenhower's warning to heart, apparently. During the last
year of his life, as he contemplated a second term and his own final
contribution to history, he resolved to reverse America's moral and civic
death-spiral, a.k.a. "the Cold War." His ideas included: ending the CIA's
freedom from oversight; abandoning the country's rabid anticommunist stance,
beginning with de-escalation in Vietnam; normalizing relations with Cuba and
Moscow; by doing these things, redirecting Washington's immense weapons
budget into sweeping domestic reforms (18). What's more, Kennedy's popular
mandate was strong enough by this time that he probably would have
succeeded.
From the viewpoint of the corporate capos that truly rule this country, one
aspect of the Cold War was all-important: it was a pork barrel straight out
of their wildest dreams of avarice. Watching Kennedy plant his feet and
reach for its plug, these 'absolute power' addicts would have been sorely
tempted to seek his removal by any means. As it just so happens, several of
them were also supreme civilian commanders of the 'National Security'
apparatus, meaning they had direct control of the most suspect means of
effecting that removal (19).
Since Kennedy's death, dire warnings about corporate power have been
conspicuously absent from the pronouncements of American presidents. Funny,
huh? By daring to stand on his conviction that it was he, not them, who held
the reins of American society, Kennedy quite possibly forced the financial
elite to make an example of him. Since that time, their supremacy has been
unchallenged by politicians.
It's as if democracy itself 'got whacked' by the Corleones and Gambinos!
Fortunately for them, Americans are kept too delusional to notice.
* * * * * * * * *
On the strength of the fear-driven and essentially mindless popular mandate
that followed the 9-11 attack, the Bushes and their kind are now concluding
a plan they began formulating long before 1963: transforming this country
into an abomination, a clinically exact violation of everything their core
public THINKS it believes in. The situation is a three-ring circus of
ironies: People like the Bushes, Ashcroft, etc., don't operate in a vacuum;
they don't suddenly and magically "seize power," any more than Hitler did.
The history of the Nazis holds many lessons of great value to present-day
Americans. Among the more important: political lunatics become dangerous
only when whole populations lose their marbles enough to deliver them into
real power. Truly, it's absurd to blame amoral monsters who insinuate
themselves into high places. OF COURSE they're going to do that; it's why
they were born. The sensible object of that disgust is 'The People' who
allow them to stay there; who idly watch as other groups suffer, too stupid
to realize that tomorrow the guns will turn on them; The People, who hand
these scumbags ALL of their power by becoming eager footsoldiers in the
global mafias they create. Helen Keller knew this:
"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of
murder!
Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human
beings!
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction!"
So did Emma Goldman:
"How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass
to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen."
No matter what label a government assigns itself -- democratic, communist,
etc. -- The People who live under that government, who are its real
repository of power, have an uncanny way of getting exactly what they
deserve. If a government has descended into utter moral dissolution, and its
people actually deserve better, they will summon the courage to do what's
right for themselves, as did the French, the Russians, the Cubans. If a
government is basically sound, but its people are grotesque petulant infants
gobbling at giant tits of material excess, then it won't be long before that
government sees its opportunity to build jail cells around them. Why not?
Frantic tit-suckers aren't likely to notice, and if they do, a jail cell
isn't so unlike a womb. If by some bizarre chance they should actually
protest, they can simply be told it's for their own safety. Infants are
easily duped with such talk, which they will regard as irrefutable when
backed up with lurid cartoons showing "The Enemy In Action!!"
This was the context in which Jefferson used terms like 'inalienable' and
'self-evident.' People determined to discover their own power will find a
way. So will those determined to live as slaves. The role of government is
secondary. If the American people didn't deserve this buffoon president and
his panel of corporate handlers... if this were other than a land of selfish
tit-feeders, spoiled insane... if "The Home of the Brave" didn't ring quite
so false... then the outrage of the 2000 "election" would have unleashed a
nationwide tsunami of riots, martial law would have been declared, and the
ruling class would have hastily dumped him before things REALLY heated up.
As it stands, Dubya's sickening success is owed primarily to a curious
"political awareness," shared by a decisive majority of Americans:
intuitively, they know they're on the sugar-dumpling end of the global
economy. If staying there means everyone else gets hurled at birth into a
fuming acid bath, well that's okay, too -- just don't ask them to notice.
Just as rampant corruption is symptomatic of fascist governments, this 'let
them eat cake' mindset is also typical of the national populations that
sustain those governments through their complicity and inaction. Corruption
isn't just a disease of governments, elites, etc. -- it's a creeping
contagion that infects whole societies, eventually reducing them to colonies
of moral bacteria. If the wealth of a society is large enough that this
degeneracy can progress long enough, its members become so drained of the
essentials of character that whatever 'Great Things' they've accomplished
become like marble temples built on a lake of pus.
America, for example, once had a heroic reputation among freedom-seekers
around the world. Starting many years ago, the keepers of that legacy grew
so arrogant, so artless, that their attempts to disguise their selfish
motives became transparent to the average ten-year-old, so now America finds
itself becoming an object of generalized hatred. And deservedly: when an
elite cult of villains and cowards waylays all the governments of the world
by holding a nuclear gun to their heads, they SHOULD be hated, and that's
exactly what this government did while its subjects snoozed at the Big Boob
these past five decades. The aggrieved parties will of course be deemed
"just jealous" by the press, whose pronouncements are both source and
product of the tit-feeder mentality.
With Buffoon & Co., the pretenses are now so tissue-thin that even Americans
should have no trouble seeing through them. The one thing stopping them is
all-determining: they don't want to. This sort of delusion even extends to
self-described "liberals," who love to vomit the platitude that "America's
PEOPLE can't be held responsible for the excesses of their GOVERNMENT."
I wish one of these nutless wonders would explain to me exactly how this
works; from where I sit, ultimate responsibility for the criminal conduct of
this government belongs to THEM. After all, thirty years ago most of them
were intensely aware of this government's capacity for evil. Since then,
they've been seduced by accumulations of property, privilege, and mental
lethargy, thereby settling into America's most selfish middle class
generation EVER. Watching them recite fatuous denials to themselves, I'm
reminded of the French Court under Louis XVI. Their stock concept of
'political involvement' -- filling in a ballot once a year -- hardly seems
likely to fix a goddamn thing, since the forces of wealth clearly have both
major parties in their pocket. By all indications, they don't even care; the
interests of wealth have become their own. If Bush's 2000 installation left
any doubt about collusion between the two parties, Schwarzenegger's triumph
in California just removed it. The California Democratic Party simply HAD TO
KNOW that Gray Davis was history, so why did they fail to put all their
marbles behind ONE potent alternative candidate? They can't strategize on
their own behalf worth a damn, but they sure do a bang-up job for the
repugs. Is it insane to wonder if they both get their marching orders from
the same place?
Voting should certainly be part of a larger strategy -- it may not mean as
much as we're told, but at least it's something. Real change, however, would
seem to require much more from us: open dissent and resistance, civil
disobedience, total rejection of bourgeois sensibilities, including
careerism, as this is the path taken by most on their journey into apathy
and selfishness. It's no wonder, then, that causing each of us to nurture
dreams of professional glory has long been this country's most lavish
"philanthropic" project. Our unprecedented university system -- is it really
about giving us all a leg up, or is it a clever and utterly cynical social
engineering program? As they hand out huge endowments, what do the bloodless
billionaires really mean with all their malarkey about "investing in the
future." The working class is the true home of the political left.
Demographically and politically, it once dominated this country, and
thoughtful people didn't always have reason to flee from it. Now it's a
defeated mass of Bush-boosting, TV-mesmerized morons. When class assignment
at birth is an immutable life sentence, intelligent members of an exploited
class tend to become revolutionaries. By its very nature, the "classless"
careerist ethic solves this problem by identifying the gifted among them as
young as possible and reassigning them to a separate social order, where
they're supplied with selfish reasons for staying quiet. Added together,
their class defections and betrayals make up the aforementioned
billionaires' "return on investment." Divide and conquer, divide and
conquer...
In so many ways, the true genius of American politics has been in making
sure the average slob has far too much to lose by rejecting bourgeois
temptations. The tragedy of this design is that it makes us all full
partners in the prevailing order of plunder and corruption. During the Great
Depression, poverty was so rampant here that this formula began to unravel,
prompting our keepers to feign benevolence with an improvised Head
Amputation Prevention System, otherwise known as "the New Deal." Given the
power of the information technology now at their disposal, they seem to be
preparing to let it unravel again, this time to be replaced with an
all-seeing electronic security state. This is probably the real reason
behind the USAPATRIOT Act, rampant domestic spying, mounting repressive
tactics and nationalist propaganda, vast enlargements of prison
infrastructure, and so on. Kudos to all the technological utopians out
there; far be it from them to realize that those in power always pervert
emerging technology into a means of grabbing even more power.
The American political scene is now becoming so ominous that many Americans
are finally waking up, achieving real political awareness for the first time
in their lives. As they discover reality, they are finding themselves in a
horrifying predicament: this country is but a few steps away from becoming
an overt dictatorship, and the Neo-cons seem determined to go the distance.
All they need to do at this point is arrange another "Pearl Harbor."
Anything short of massive, uncompromising civil disobedience seems unlikely
to stop them, and the vast majority of Americans are unlikely to engage in
any such thing. Incapable of even noticing how bountiful their lives are,
what could possibly induce them to reflect on the malevolent work by which
that bounty has been concentrated, or to acknowledge the rights of people
and other beings, living and dead, from whom it has been stolen? The
hopelessness of the situation is deepened by the relentless and all but
inescapable onslaught of commercial media, whose role of promoting this
exact selfishness and civic apathy is now performed with incredible
audacity. Most of these "Good Americans" just trudge along mindlessly in the
rut indicated by their message, willfully oblivious to its subtexts.
America's malaise isn't entirely a product of conscious effort, but on the
other hand, none of it is accidental. How is this possible? The main thing
people use "logic" for is to conceal even from themselves the mediocre
nature of their true motives. America's corruption, like that of all
nations, is an organic phenomenon, i. e. it is neither orchestrated nor
needs to be. It has been advanced not by the lurking efforts of secret
circles so much as by the main thrust of American culture. Those
frontiersmen in Ohio, for example, scarcely needed the inducements
Washington offered them; they were eager to exterminate the Indians and
steal their land. And so it goes. By such means, the corruption of our
entire civic culture has been advanced by all of us, through habits of
thought that lie beneath the level of consciousness -- for example, in the
sane and humane alternatives we consistently choose to NOT consider. Again,
media's leadership in this area has been inestimable.
My gratitude to those who have protested and been civilly disobedient over
the years is beyond measure -- they are the true bearers of Liberty's
flame -- but I am doubly contemptuous of those among them, seduced by
privilege, who have ended up swinging to the other side. They are the very
soul of corruption, and traitors even to their own dreams.
Here's the richest irony of all: Bush's most avid supporters are a
puritanical bunch. They attend church. They pray on streetcorners. They
bludgeon the unwitting with their sanctimonious talk of God, Family, and the
American Way. So convinced are they of their moral superiority, they have no
qualms about marching toward even greater material gluttony over a pavement
of charred corpses. In fact, they seem to see this as a divine quest. You
don't need a doctorate in Theology to know that if Hell is real, its inmost
pit has got to be reserved for hypocrites such as these.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Notes:
1) Even now, the "independent commission" is shot through with incredible
conflicts of interest, exemplified by the present chairman's financial ties
to members of the Bin Laden Family. Such a panel can hardly be expected to
deviate from the gutless pattern of past "investigative commissions": the
Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, the Iran-Contra hearings,
etc.
Chossudovsky, Michel. Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission.
see http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
2) Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the
Americas, 1492 to the Present. (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997) pp.
209 - 214
3) Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, 1492 - Present.
(New York: Harper Collins, 1999) pp. 149-169
4) ibid, pp. 297-320
5) ibid, pp. 359-376
6) Stinnett, Robert. Day of Deceit: the Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor.
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000) See ALL
7) many historical documents support this analysis, including:
United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Summary Report (Pacific War)
(Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1946) p.26:
"Nevertheless, it seems clear that, even without the atomic bombing attacks,
air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring
about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion... Based on
a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of
the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that
certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1
November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not
been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no
invasion had been planned or contemplated."
8) Blum, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since
World War II. (Monroe, Maine, USA: Common Courage Press, 1995) pp. 21-23,
39-43, 50, 51, 122-127
9) ibid, pp. 129-145
10) Heller, Jean. Public Doesn't Get Picture With Gulf Satellite Photos. St.
Petersburg Times, 1/6/1991
11) MacArthur, John R. Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf
War. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1992) pp. 37-77.
12) Bamford, James. Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National
Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century. (New
York: Doubleday, 2001) pp. 82-91
13) Blum. Killing Hope. pp. 106-108
14) A scanned copy of this memo can be seen in
http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm -- scroll down
15) Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance. San Jose mercury News, 9/18/1996
available online at:
http://home.attbi.com/~gary.webb/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
16) de Grand Pre, Donn; Col. US Army (Ret.). The Enemy is inside the Gates
available online at
http://scribblguy.50megs.com/evidence.htm#THE%20ENEMY%20IS%20INSIDE%20THE%20GATES
17) multiple sources:
Kennedy, Dominic. Suicide Hijackers Hid Behind Stolen Arab Identities.
London Times, 9/20/01
MacFarquhar, Neil. A Nation Challenged: The Hijackers; Confusion Over Names
Clouds Identities of Attackers on Jets. New York Times, 9/21/01
available online at
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/international/middleeast/21IDEN.html
Jeffery, Simon. Special Report: Terrorism in the US. The Guardian, 9/21/01
available online at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,601550,00.html
Harrison, David. Revealed: the men with stolen identities. The Daily
Telegraph, 9/23/01
available online at
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml
Author unknown. Hijack 'Suspects' Alive and Well. British Broadcasting
Corporation, 9/23/01
available online at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1559000/1559151.stm
18) Hepburn, James. Farewell America. (Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Frontiers
Publishing, 1968) see ALL.
Available online at http://www.voxfux.com/Kennedy/farewell/farewell00.html
19) The most suspect parties here are Nelson Rockefeller and his demonic
lackeys, the Dulles brothers. The threads implicating Rockefeller in
Kennedy's death are explored rigorously in:
Colby, Gerard and Charlotte Dennett. Thy Will Be Done -- The Conquest of the
Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. (New York, USA:
HarperCollins, 1995)
Approaching this matter from different directions and supporting their
arguments with extraordinary historical documentation, the authors of
'Farewell America' and 'Thy Will Be Done' arrive independently at strikingly
similar conclusions.
senhor san
Perry in successful Chinese PLA penetration of Pentagon/military
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Sun Tse the Chinese Clauzowitz wrote of defeating enemy states by
corrupting and gaining control of their princes and having them destroy the
enemy from within. Another strategy -- get the states you would conquer to
first fight among themselves -- Like Islam and the West. Zhou Enlai and Mao
thought of themselves as going beyond Sun Tse in their methods of
subversion -- and Zhou Enlai's plans have never been repudiated or
officially discontinued by the current Chinese (criminal Triad princeling)
leadership.
Remember too that Red China and Israel where born at the same dime (1948-49)
and where among the first to recognize each other. Remember too that Israel
and China are both parasites on the US -- Israel through Jewish Americans
driven to irrational paranoia by the ADL and Bnai Brith so that massive
gifts are given and taxpayers milked to bankroll the likes of Ariel
haron -- China through the heroin and other drug connections (through
Columbia, Haiti, Cuba, Guantanamo (CIA) etc.--DE -- which has provided the
capital (laundered through Rockefeller ,Morgan and other Anglo-American
merchant banking interests etc.) for Chinese industrialization which fills
US Wal Mart stores etc. -- and China needed the Taliban decimated to
re-open the opium flows which are the key factor of production in the
Chinese heroin trade world wide of over $2 trillion per year!
And remember too that Zionism (Israel under Likud) gave China all US
military secrets including that of the neutron bomb.
9-11 was Wall Street (CIA, NSA, Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz Pentagon, FBI, FEMA,
White House, top Dems, top GOP in Congress etc. etc.)and the City of London
(MI5 and MI6) and Israel (Mossad)-- but also China (PLA, Triad crime
families.)
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
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Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2001
The Chinese Army Spy and Condoleezza Rice
By: Charles R. Smith
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Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser to President Bush, has recently
granted an interview to virtually every reporter but me. Perhaps it is
because I keep asking her questions about the Chinese spy in her past.
Rice has impeccable credentials. She worked for the elder George Bush in the
White House, handling Russian issues. She is a distinguished fellow at the
Hoover Institution and former provost of Stanford University. Rice is very
close to former Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry. Rice worked with
Perry and the Clinton administration during her term at Stanford. The
Clinton White House once mentioned her as being on the short list for
secretary of state.
Yet it is her years at Stanford working with Perry that have rendered Rice
silent. While working at Stanford, she became involved in the most
successful Chinese army penetration of the Clinton Defense Department. She
will not answer questions about her relationship with Chinese spy Hua Di.
Hua Di was born into a family of prominent Communist officials. He studied
missiles in Russia and worked for the Chinese army missile program for 24
years. In 1984, he went to work for the China International Trust and
Investment Co. (CITIC), a firm then part-owned by the Chinese army.
Hua defected to the United States in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square
crackdown on student democracy demonstrators. He went to work as a
researcher at Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control.
There he met Rice and the Stanford Center co-directors, former Secretary of
Defense William Perry and political science professor John Lewis.
In 1994, Hua used his contacts at Stanford, in Beijing and inside the
Clinton Defense Department with then-Secretary Perry to obtain a secure
fiber-optic communication system for the Chinese army. In 1994, Hua
contacted an old friend in the Chinese army then working for Gen. Ding
Henggao, a close friend of Perry.
In fact, Perry and Ding's relationship spans three administrations. Perry
reportedly met Gen. Ding in the late 1970s during the Carter administration.
By 1994, Perry ran the U.S. Defense Department, and Ding had risen to
command the Chinese army military research bureau COSTIND, or the Commission
on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense. COSTIND, according
to the General Accounting Office, "oversees development of China's weapon
systems and is responsible for identifying and acquiring telecommunications
technology applicable for military use."
Hua Di teamed in 1994 with Stanford Dr. John Lewis, Secretary of Defense
Perry, and Gen. Ding of the Chinese Army to buy an advanced AT&T fiber-optic
communications system for "civilian" use inside China. The
communications system slipped past U.S. exports laws as a joint U.S.-Chinese
commercial venture called Hua Mei. The Chinese part of the venture was run
by a newly formed firm named Galaxy New Technology.
Hua Di described himself as the "matchmaker" between the Chinese Army and
Lewis during an interview for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Hua arranged
for Gen. Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li, to head the joint project as the Chinese
co-chairman.
Stanford's Lewis, himself a board member of the project, located Adlai
Stevenson III, the former Democrat senator from Illinois, to lead the
American side. According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Lewis had
Defense Secretary Perry write a personal letter on his behalf to U.S.
government officials, favoring the export to China.
With Perry's blessing, Hua Di and Lewis contracted AT&T to ship the secure
communication systems directly to a Chinese Army unit using Galaxy New
Technology as a front. AT&T officials who sold most of the equipment and
software were adamant that there was no need to check the Chinese firm since
the "civilian" Madam Nie Lie led it.
Yet, the so-called "civilian" firm was actually packed with Chinese army
officers and experts. Madam Nie Lie was not only the wife of Gen. Ding
Henggao; she was actually Lt. Gen. Nie Lie of the Chinese Army.
Another member of New Galaxy Technology, according to a Defense Department
document, was Director and President "Mr. Deng Changru." Deng is also known
as Lt. Col. Deng Changru of the People's Liberation Army, head of the PLA
communications corps. Still another Chinese army officer on the Galaxy New
Technology staff was Co-General Manager "Mr. Xie Zhichao," better known in
military circles as Lt. Col. Xie Zhichao, director of the Chinese Army
Electronics Design Bureau.
In fact, the evidence shows that Lewis worked not only for Stanford and the
Chinese army during this time period. Documents obtained from the Department
of Defense using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show that he also
worked for the U.S. Defense Department.
In August 1994, Lewis and Secretary of Defense Perry traveled to Beijing to
meet with Gen. Ding Henggao. According to the official list of attendees,
Lewis accompanied Perry as his "personal" consultant. Lewis, then a paid
consultant of the U.S. Defense Department, met in Beijing with Ding, who was
also then Lewis's partner inside a joint U.S. Chinese
"commercial venture" for military communications systems.
In 1997, Stanford professor Lewis was charged with using university funding
and equipment to set up the deal with Galaxy New Technology. Stanford
Provost Condoleeza Rice announced that Lewis faced an investigation because
he had used iniversity stationery and his office to run the joint
U.S-Chinese business. In the 1997 investigation, Rice issued a statement to
the university press.
"We'll follow what is a normal process under these circumstances," said Rice
in the 1997 interview. "Similar issues arise quite frequently. It's not all
that unusual that issues arise concerning conflict of interest."
Yet, no formal charges were filed, and Rice quietly dropped the
investigation against Lewis and Hua Di. To this day, Ms. Rice will not
answer why she stopped the investigation.
The General Accounting Office also documented the New Galaxy Technology
scandal (GAO report GAO/NSIAD-97-5). According to the GAO, the scandal
involved the "transfer of broadband telecommunications equipment to Hua Mei,
a joint venture between SCM Brooks Telecommunications, a U.S. limited
partnership, and Galaxy New Technology, a Chinese company primarily owned by
an agency of the Chinese military."
In 1997, Rep. Henry Hyde pressed Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate
the Galaxy New Technology scandal in a letter outlining his concerns.
According to Hyde, "in 1994, sophisticated telecommunications technology was
transferred to a U.S.-Chinese joint venture called HUA MEI, in which the
Chinese partner is an entity controlled by the Chinese military. This
particular transfer included fiber-optic communications equipment, which is
used for high-speed, secure communications over long distances. Also
included in the package was advanced encryption software."
By the end of 1997 the scandal was drawing too much heat for Hua Di to
remain in the United States. In an article curiously released in October
1998, the New York Times announced that Hua Di had returned to China in
December 1997.
According to the New York Times, Hua met with Chinese security officials in
late 1997 and was assured that he would not be prosecuted. On Dec. 31, 1997,
he returned to China. On Jan. 6, 1998, he was arrested and charged
with passing state secrets to U.S. officials. In 1999, according to the
official Chinese news service, Chinese defector and missile scientist Hua Di
was sentenced in a people's court to 15 years for passing state secrets to
the United States.
The end of this story is not very pretty. Stanford officials, including Rice
and Lewis, have openly appealed to the Chinese government for Hua's release.
Rice also continues to defend Hua.
Rice stated in a New York Times interview that Lewis "provided evidence to
the fact that the source materials for publications written by him and Mr.
Hua were provided by approved Chinese authorities or already were available
through the Stanford University library."
Yet, Rice will not talk about Hua Di and the Galaxy New Technology deal.
There was more than profit for Hua and the Chinese Army company packed with
electronics experts. The secure fiber optic communication system delivered
by Hua to his People's Liberation Army general buddies was modified in 1998
and now serves as a secure air-defense system exported to Iraq.
The current Iraqi air defense network, NATO code-named "Tiger Song," is made
of U.S. and French fiber optic parts modified and re-exported by the
People's Liberation Army. Tiger Song is based on the original secure AT&T
system obtained by Hua Di in 1994. Iraqi missiles guided by Tiger Song have
repeatedly attacked U.S. fighter jets.
According to an August 2000 Washington Times interview, Rice asserted,
"China is not a threat."
Tiger Song is considered a lethal threat to American and allied armed
forces. Such sweet irony that we now face our own weapons and they are not a
threat.
Still, all seems to be well between Beijing and Bush. Condoleeza Rice is
national security adviser to the president, and the Chinese Army again has a
"matchmaker" inside the White House. Just don't ask her about Chinese army
spy Hua Di.
senhor san
Reveals Full 9/11 Plan
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Al-Qaeda chief reveals full 9/11 plan By Christina Lamb 29mar04 (see below
for the article)
My response:
Reading this "confession" and mindful of the two phony bin Laden videos, so
thoroughly exposed by yours truly and by others -- I read this monstrous
fiction -- written by a really sharp young Ivy League women journalist etc.
At any rate:
The World Trade Center is not a target that would be selected after "leafing
through pictures of US skyscrapers."
The Pentagon, because it is low-profile, would not be an obvious target, as
a building -- only as a symbol -- and it is very doubtful that men in
hiding in central asia would know of the existence of the control group led
by Richard Perle under the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Wolfowitz) that
included Kissinger, Gingrich etc. Apart from the fact that we know the
Boeing, although there, was not the killer missile-firing jet.
Note to that this confession does not discuss the mans ideology, his reasons
for picking the World Trade Center as the symbol of godless Zionist economic
imperialist global enslavement etc.
I am especially alarmed that they have this man captured at the home of a
microbiologist -- an item within the fiction that is not there by
caprice -- the fiction -- like the fake call from "al Qa'eda" following
the mass-murder bombing of a train station in Madrid, points to a coming
biological attack -- which we know (from all the microbiologists murdered
recently, the anthrax attack that closed down Congress after 9-11 with the
anthrax subsequently traced to US military sources, and from the
prepartations by the US for responding to bio-chemical attack with FEMA
takeover) that the our organized crime (hostile merchant-banker, Zionist,
Chinese Triad princeling all at war with the middile classes of the world
because middle classes stand for justice and the hated common man)
government is planning another frame-up more horrible and pervasive that
localized 9-11 -- the event that will result in the instant shut-down of
the internet, the only remaining souce of real information and honest
informed opinion remaining to Americans.
Note that we are seeing "interrogation reports" from a man in an
organization that is known to be affiliated with the CIA, an asset of the
CIA -- a report released from a US government that has stonewalled on every
investigation and has released nothing from any of its islolated prisoners
since the first detainees were sent to Guantanamo.
And notice how this man takes credit for exactly everything that the
evidence is now showing were frame-up operations, including the Bali attack.
Where is the decentralized structure that al Qa'eda was supposed to have
ad -- no we have the central mastermind -- hidden by all -- only
transcripts released by the wolfowitz-rumsfeld pentagon -- admitting
everything exactly as needed by an administration already proven guilty by a
hundred citizen investigations of the existing data!!!!
Note that Ms. Lamb -- so innocent -- plays her part well: "Although the
interrogation transcripts are prefaced with the warning that "the detainee
has been known to withhold information or deliberately mislead", it is clear
that he is talking - and that the September 11 conspiracy was much more
extensive than has previously been revealed." And then the planted seed: "
'Osama had said the second wave should focus on the west coast,' he said."
{NOTE TO READER: THIS IS WHERE MY LAST "SAVE" WAS MADE THE FIRST TIME I
WROTE THIS -- WHEN A QUICK SHUT OFF OF ENERGY AT MY HOME ERASED ABOUT SIX
PARAGRAPHS I HAD WRITTEN -- NORMALLY I AM WRITE AND FOREGET IT TYPE --
BUT YOU KNOW THE FRUSTRATION, GRIEF AND SUSPICION THAT FOLLOWS -- ANYWAY I
JUST MENTION IT FISHING FOR THE COMMISERATION OF MY FRIENDS (ALL THREE OF
THEM). NOW, UP AGAIN AND AT 'EM.}
To me it is very significant that the people who wrote this disinformation
document chose to include these suggestions of major attacks on the West
Coast -- where the Eastern Establishment does not live. California has had
it bad from oil corporations and clandestine weather modification -- but
we have here the indication of worse to come -- the preparation of public
mind for a new frameup -- the laying of a "we saw it coming" groundwork --
to make the next mass-murder frame-up more believable than it would be
otherwise.
Note how all the players mentioned are conveniently known to the US and are
in fact already embroiled in "our-word-against-their's public controversy
reflecting heavily on the integrity of the US Administration.
We know the al Qa'eda is a CIA front and we know that those being held
extra-legally at CIA drug-base Guantanamo are mostly innocent me who know
too much or else men being psycologically modified to become the next
"frame-up" terrorists -- using the technology that was used on kids to
shoot up their high-schools (e.g., Columbine) to provide incentive for the
disarming of the US middle-class, and by Israeli to provide the needed
"Palestinian 'genocide' bomber.
"To date, Khalid is the most senior al-Qaeda member to have been caught.
Until now there has been no word of where he is being held or what, if
anything, he is saying. "
BUT REMEMBER THE EXPOSED FRAUD OF THE TWO EARLIER "BIN LADEN" VIDEOS. On
the very day that it was released I presented demonstration of the
interview's deceit. I have no doubt that this piece of creative fiction was
the work of the unified CIA/Pentagon/Mossad/MI6 organization, their
Pakistani accomplices -- working with, I am also convinced, the Chinese PLA
and probably the secret scum of the criminal elite in India's government as
well.
At any rate, here is my analysis, exposing the first "bin Laden video"
disinformation op, produced the day the fraud was released. You can't see
the obviousness of this fraud and not be certain that the "confession" of
"operations chief" Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -- ( btw, do you really thing an
Islamic organization would have an "operations chief"-style organization?
Especially when the decentralization of the organization was so well
publicized, and made so much sense given the risks such an organization
would face if it existed.
Analysis of the "bin Laden" video -- tells us all we need to know to suspect
the source and motives and oddities of the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
confession.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message/5
So far we are seeing a pattern of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed "confession"
helping the Bush Administration in each of the specific areas where their
standing in world opinion, and remaining informed opinion within the United
States has been totally without credibility.
And now we come to the part about Zacarias Moussaoui.
Moussaoui is the innocent Moslem who was set up by the frame-up planners to
take some of the wrap for 9-11. Here is a man who really and truly did hate
the US for its foreign policy, its Zionist policies supporting Jewsih
supremacist murder and land theft in Israel and injustice against the entire
Moslem world -- and yes, I'll even grant that Moussaoui had talked about
doing violence in some way to the United States -- as many 1960's
adical -- now in boardrooms all along the Atlantic Seaboard, also planned
murderous mayhem at coffee tables at Harvard, Columbia etc. etc. -- but
what is that? How many "good" people that we know, against whom great
injustice has been done (very common these days) -- while alone in the
shower have plotted murders or acts of sabotage against the untouchable
power of injustice, only to have the thoughts dispelled as soon as the
shower curtain is drawn back and the towel is grabbed. And the poorer and
less educated someone is the more this form of compensatory big-thinking
fantasy gets -- the big talk -- like all the poor blacks caught up in
impotent "black power" talk in the 1960's and early '70's. So Moussaoui
was perfect to be set up by the Frame-up for 9-11 -- he was perfect as
someone the FBI could "catch" to look good after the false-flag killing of
over 2000 people needed by the Oligarcy for its geopolitical and economic
ambitions.
BUT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS EMBARASSED THAT MOUSSAOUI WAS NOT LOOKING
GUILTY -- THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE TO PIN ON HIM -- AND THE
ADMINISTRATION (WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MASTERMINDS, PERLE, WOLFOWITZ,
KISSINGER AND MAYBE CHENEY HERE) WAS TAKING HEAT, BECAUSE IF THERE WAS
NOTHING SOLID AGAINST MOUSSAOUI, THEN HOW CREDIBLE WAS THE CLAIM THAT ANY OF
THE DETAINEES HELD WITHOUT CHARGES AT GUANTANAMO OR THE BRITISH GULAGS WERE
ANYTHING BUT VICTIMS OF ARBITRARY TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT LOCKING AWAY
PEOPLE WITH EMBARRASSING THINGS TO SAY.
AND SO NOW WE HAVE THIS WHOLLY IMPROBABLE "CONFESSION" LINKING MOUSSAOUI TO
EVERYTHING -- JUST LIKE THE CIA AND FBI "KNEW" ALL ALONG, JUST LIKE THEY
KNEW ALL ALONG BUT HAD NEVER GIVEN ONE SHRED OF INDICATION AS TO WHY OR HOW
THEY "KNEW."
And so once again a patsy -- a big black man (Moussaoui looks like any
young black American you would meet at McDonalds -- not a hostile face by
any means ) -- is being sent up by a fraud psy-op disinfo
"confession" -- not a claim that Administration officials will have to take
credit for -- after all it is not the "good guys" who are saying it, but
the "evil mastermind" himself, right? (I can see the top corporation lawyer
who came up with this plan affording maximum alibi with minimum legal
exposure for misstatement and obstruction of justice.)
And note this: " Khalid said: 'Osama declared (British Prime Minister Tony)
Blair our principal enemy and London a target.' " Does this mean that Tony
Blair is not a liability, soon to be knocked off in such a way as to derive
the maximum political boost for the Anglo-American-Israeli "war on terror?"
ANd last but not least we have this fraudulent disinfo-op covering the
Administration from the growing world awareness that the evidence proving
their (Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, CIA, Sharon, Blair etc.) guilt in planning
and perpetrating the 9-11 mass-murder frameup and subsequent coverup
operations like this one.
We know from the following that the Administration is guilty of 9-11:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRUTHBAZOOKA/message/5
And we know from about 50 different 9-11 investigation sites (Hopsicker's
Mad Cow is the best) that there is more than a little that is screwy about
the alleged "hijackers" and their whereabouts (an apartment right next door
to CIA headquareters at Langley etc.) and connections and flight training
etc. before the attack.
And yet, HOW MARVELLOUSLY FORTUITOUS THAT KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED in
Afganistan should know all the minute incidentals of the whereabout and
doings of "the hijackers" as though he was micro-managing the whole 9-11
operation from Afganistan -- sending all those orders, having all of the
progress reports sent to him regardless of the risk of interception etc.
Give me a massive break.
This document is yet another nail in the coffin of the Great 9-11 Frameup
and Coverup -- or else I underestimate the intelligence of my fellow
countrymen.
Like all my essays this is a mess -- but it is important to get out a
rational analysis before the disinformation analysis of the Administration
sets in cement.
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.
recent articles related to bi-partisan Oligarchy state treason
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/?yguid=141292515
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [Quigs_Fight] Fwd: Al-Qaeda Chief Reveals Full 9/11 Plan
Al-Qaeda chief reveals full 9/11 plan
By Christina Lamb
29mar04
IT makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks
has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through
almanacs of US skyscrapers when planning the operation.
Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles - which was "blown
up" in the film Independence Day - were both potential targets, according to
transcripts of interrogations of al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his
captors.
He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf, his nephew by
marriage, who was the man behind the first World Trade Centre bombing in
1993. In that attack Yusuf succeeded only in ripping a crater into the
foundations with a van bomb.
"We knew from that experience that explosives could be problematic," Khalid
said, "so we started thinking about using planes."
When he was captured last March in the house of a microbiologist in
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the paunchy 37-year-old was unshaven and wearing a
baggy vest. He looked more like a down-and-out than one of the most
dangerous men in the world.
The interrogation reports make clear, however, that he was not only the
chief planner for September 11 but also introduced Osama bin Laden to
Hambali, the Indonesian militant accused of orchestrating the Bali bombing
13 months later.
To date, Khalid is the most senior al-Qaeda member to have been caught.
Until now there has been no word of where he is being held or what, if
anything, he is saying.
Although the interrogation transcripts are prefaced with the warning that
"the detainee has been known to withhold information or deliberately
mislead", it is clear that he is talking - and that the September 11
conspiracy was much more extensive than has previously been revealed.
The confessions reveal planning for the atrocity started much earlier than
anyone had realised and was intended to be even more devastating.
"The original plan was for a two-pronged attack with five targets on the
east coast of America and five on the west coast," he told interrogators.
"We talked about hitting California as it was America's richest state and
bin Laden had talked about economic targets."
Bin Laden, who like Khalid had studied engineering, vetoed simultaneous
coast-to-coast attacks, arguing that "it would be too difficult to
synchronise".
Khalid switched to two waves: hitting the east coast first and following up
with a second attack. "Osama had said the second wave should focus on the
west coast," he said.
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan who had lived in London, was sent to
the Pan Am international flight school in Minnesota to train for the west
coast attack, according to Khalid. His instructor alerted the FBI, however,
after the Moroccan showed no interest in landing planes - only in steering
them. He was arrested in August 2001.
Until now it had been widely believed that Moussaoui was meant to have been
the 20th hijacker on September 11. The revelation by Khalid that he was part
of a "second wave" is lent weight by the FBI's recent arrest of two other
men who were allegedly part of the west coast conspiracy.
Despite the setbacks, Khalid described the September 11 attack as "far more
successful than we had ever imagined".
Khalid, whose family came from Pakistan, was born in 1965 in Kuwait City,
where his father was a preacher. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a
teenager and went to the US to study engineering in North Carolina.
At that time the Afghan jihad against the Russians was in full flow. After
graduating, Khalid headed for one of bin Laden's guesthouses in the
Pakistani frontier town of Peshawar. He has told interrogators it was there
that he first met Hambali.
In 1992 Khalid moved south to Karachi. Posing as a businessman importing
holy water from Mecca, he acted as a fundraiser and intermediary between
young militants and wealthy sponsors in the Gulf.
Yusuf's attempt to blow up the World Trade Centre inspired him to conceive
his own operations. The first was a plot to blow up 12 American airliners
over the Pacific. Both Yusuf and Hambali were involved. It failed after
their Manila bomb factory caught fire. The men fled to Pakistan where Yusuf
was arrested.
Undeterred, Khalid decided to start working on something "far more
spectacular" for which he "hoped to persuade bin Laden to give him money and
operatives". He also decided to introduce Hambali to bin Laden.
-Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, was believed to have been plotting
a wider wave of attacks on the US west coast before he was arrested / AP
Hambali headed Jemaah Islamiah, which wanted to unite Southeast Asia under
an Islamic banner.
Khalid told interrogators: "I was impressed by JI's ability to operate
regionally and by Hambali's connections with the Malaysian government. He
told me that his group had a training camp in The Philippines and a madrasah
(religious teaching) program in Malaysia on the border with Singapore.
"In 1996 I invited Hambali to Afghanistan to meet Osama. He spent three or
four days with him and it was agreed that al-Qaeda and Hambali's
organisation would work together on 'targets of mutual interest'."
Hambali, who had been operating on a shoestring, was provided with a new
car, mobile phones and computers.
Bin Laden was apparently impressed by Khalid's networking and ideas and made
him head of al-Qaeda's military committee. From then on he was a key planner
in almost every attack, including the simultaneous bombings of the US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1988. Bin Laden dubbed him The Brain.
The big challenge was to attack Americans on their own soil. Initially
Khalid proposed leasing a charter plane, filling it with explosives and
crashing it into the CIA headquarters. But the plan expanded.
Bin Laden pointed out that on a visit to the US in 1982 he had been to the
Empire State Building in New York and was astonished by how unprotected such
key landmarks were.
A committee, known as the shura, was formed comprising bin Laden, Khalid and
four others. It met at what was known as the war room in bin Laden's camp
outside Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The plan for a two-pronged attack was
formed. "We had scores of volunteers to die for Allah but the problem was
finding those familiar with the West who could blend in as well as get US
visas," Khalid told his interrogators.
Two Yemenis and two Saudi pilots, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, were
selected and given commando training in Afghanistan. "All four operatives
only knew that they had volunteered for a martyrdom operation involving
planes," Khalid said.
In 1999 the two Yemenis were refused US visas; but a few months later four
jihad recruits from Hamburg arrived in Quetta, Pakistan. Led by Mohammed
Atta, an Egyptian, they had originally planned to go to Chechnya to fight
the Russians, but a former mujaheddin in Germany had given them an
introduction to bin Laden.
After meeting the al-Qaeda leader in Kandahar, they delivered the baia, the
oath of allegiance required to gain access to his inner circle, and were
invited to his Ramadan feast. He told them that they had been selected for a
top-secret mission and promised that they would enter paradise as martyrs.
They were instructed to go home and destroy their passports so their trip to
Pakistan would be undetected. They were then to shave off their beards, go
to the US and obtain pilot's licences.
Khalid told interrogators he had provided them with a special training
manual which included information on how to find flight schools and study
timetables.
Three of the four were granted US visas and travelled to the US. The fourth,
Ramzi Binalshibh, failed and returned to Afghanistan, where he communicated
with them through internet chat rooms.
In the spring of 2000, after a planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur, bin Laden
scaled back the plan from two-prong to two-wave because they had been unable
to get enough potential pilots into the US. Moussaoui succeeded in entering
the US, but the order went out for potential recruits who were not Arab,
Khalid told his captors.
A date was set for the first-wave attack, codenamed Porsche 911, and a
message went around the world for followers to return to Afghanistan by
September 10.
The messages were intercepted by several Western intelligence agencies but
none apparently realised their significance.
When the suicide planes struck on September 11, al-Qaeda seems to have been
taken by surprise - both by the success of the attacks and by the US
reaction.
"Afterwards we never got time to catch our breath, we were immediately on
the run," Khalid said.
"Osama declared Tony Blair our principal enemy and London a target."
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,
to US interrogators
He said the war on terrorism and the US bombing of Afghanistan completely
disrupted their communications network. Operatives could no longer use
satellite phones and had to rely on couriers, although they still used
internet chat rooms.
"Before September 11 we could dispatch operatives with the expectation of
follow-up contact but after October 7 (when the bombing started) that
changed 180 degrees. There was no longer a war room or shura and operatives
had more autonomy."
He told interrogators that he remained in Pakistan for 10 days after
September 11, then went to Afghanistan to find bin Laden: "I went to
Jalalabad, Tora Bora, looking for him and then eventually met him in Kabul."
The al-Qaeda leader instructed him to continue operations - with Britain as
the next target.
"It was at this time we discussed the Heathrow operation," Khalid said.
"Osama declared (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair our principal enemy and
London a target."
He arranged for operatives to be sent from Pakistan and Afghanistan to
London, where surveillance of Heathrow airport and the surrounding areas
began. However, he claimed, the operation never got beyond the planning
stages. "There was a lot of confusion," he said. "I would say my performance
at that time was sloppy."
One priority was to get Hambali out of Afghanistan. In November 2001, Khalid
arranged for him to go to Karachi. There he gave him $US20,000 and a false
Indonesian passport with which he could travel to Sri Lanka and on to
Thailand, from where he would help to organise the Bali nightclub bombing
the following year. They kept in touch through Hambali's younger brother,
who was in Karachi.
The net was closing in around Khalid. Another shura member, Abu Zubayda, was
arrested in Faisalabad in March 2002. Six months later Binalshibh was seized
in a Karachi apartment he shared with Khalid.
Khalid escaped, but his flight came to an end in the early hours of March 2
last year in Rawalpindi.
Questioned for two days by Pakistan's military intelligence, who say he did
nothing but pray repeatedly, he was flown blindfolded to Bagram, the US base
in the mountains above Kabul.
It is not clear how long he was held there, nor what methods were used to
make him talk. Afghans freed from Bagram claim to have been subjected to
sleep deprivation and extremes of hot and cold. There have also been reports
of truth drugs.
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peace,
Tom