" 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."
When you read the article, you'll understand why it would provoke any
clear-headed reader to feel and express a deep sadness and a sense of
futility. These are not welcome feelings, and as the article's author, Jon
Phelan, makes clear, most of us tend to ignore the facts that disturb our
normal perceptions and learned concepts and beliefs.
In an exceptionally long article (below), taking the reader through a
history of US government manipultion, serving the ends of its fascist
politics and corporate economics, Phelan discloses just how a govenment
organized plot could have facilitated the 911 catastrophe. He reveals,
beyond doubt, that the long history of comparable US government schemes
establishes an unmistakeable pattern and history of deception, malice and
disregard for human life.
If you want to know why it's possible to believe that the US government
itself had a hand in the malevolence of 911, Jon Phelan's article is a must
read from beginning to end. Be prepared: it's very long. It's also
necessary reading for anyone who wants to know where America's coming from,
and perhaps heading. It's not surprising that John Kaminsky forsees the
arrival of Armageddon at times between his laudable efforts to wake us up
and forestall the end.
Paul Balles
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http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=82574&group=webcast
JFK, 9-11, and the REAL America: Tying It All Together
An organic reconsideration of US history and major "conspiracy theories" of
the past 40 years, including those pertaining to the 9-11 attack, and how
they shed light on America's present drift into fascism.
by Jon Phalen
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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 US 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 US
military presence in Korea; a strong strategic interest in India, including
covert support of an otherwise preposterous nuclear weapons program; also, a
US-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 US 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 US 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, "US 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 US 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.
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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.
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Israel's anti-Semitism
The Israeli right stands guilty of more than hypocrisy when they accuse
others of being anti-Semitic, writes Ibrahim Nafie
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/op1.htm
Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent upon
the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon. Individuals and
organisations, indeed entire nations and societies, have found themselves so
besmirched.
Anti-Semitism has a very precise definition. It refers to remarks or acts
targeting the ethnic group termed Semites, which comprises both Jews and
Arabs. Israeli and Zionist media and political forces have warped this
definition in several ways. Above all they have manipulated the concept of
Semitic ethnicity so as to apply to Jews alone, thereby enabling them to
level the allegation of anti-Semitism against the Arabs in spite of the fact
that they constitute the majority of the Semitic peoples. In addition, they
have stretched the definition of anti-Semitism to include any criticism of
Israel and Israeli policy. Thus, anyone who speaks out against the
aggression and inhumane practices inflicted against the Palestinian people
by Israeli occupation forces risks being branded "anti-Semitic".
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A massive demonstration against George Bush drew up to 200,000
marchers on the streets of London today. Organisers of the march, ending in
a rally at Trafalgar Square, said the number was a record for any weekday
protest in Britain.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13645118_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-200-000-MARCH-AGAINST-BUSH-IN-LONDON-name_page.html
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Bush and Blair are trying to conquer, colonize, and redraw the Mid East maps
in their nation building -- the British Empire are still upset about their
embarrassing loss, will get revenge, and profit to boot. It's a win-win for
everybody, but the Iraqis and our troops!
British companies expected to win large share of Iraqi contracts
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-11/22/content_1192612.htm
The UK and US have been bombing Iraq for the last 12 years, and their
children have died at 4,000/month from the resulting Leukemia. You see what
Bush did after the 9-11 hoax when only 3016 innocent victims died in America
in a one time attack by the Al-CIA-Qaeda, and it's been lies ever since.
When he lies people die! A riveting video -- takes a while to load
http://2trak.com/remindus.swf
Arafat is there by consent US/UK/UN. He's a pawn to keep the shi* stirred
up. Peres murdered Rabin to stop the peace process. Had it come to
fruition, it would have changed history, and we wouldn't be fighting a
guerrilla war in Afghanistan (another flop just like it was for the
Russians), or Iraq. Russia was sucked into that war by us, to collapse
their economy, while we covertly funded and trained the resisters, headed by
our CIA asset Osama trained at the CIA "terrorist" School of the Americas in
GA. When Bush picked his Daddy's war cabinet, I smelled a war coming.
Today, Perle said, "The invasion was right, but illegal."
These wars will destroy our economy too, but that is the purpose, making us
be dependent on the UN's (military), One World Government, One World
Monetary System, and a One World Religion. They must destroy the old world
order first before the new world order takes over - out of the ashes raises
the Phoenix.
In the meantime, millions will suffer and die here and abroad at the hands
of the Globalist. Blix comments is what I am most afraid of an have been
warning everyone about since the invasion, and confirmed my worse
suspicions. All anyone has to do is look at a map. It's not necessary to
be a military strategist, just common sense. Our soldiers are surrounded by
hostile angry Muslims made angrier by Bush's Operation Iron Hammer, and I'm
afraid, and many may get massacred and never return. The UN wants to reduce
our military by 2/3rd. They are being set up! Coalition forces have moved
out their troops and are not sending anymore -- their officers probably saw
right through it:
Bleak Outlook for U.S. in Iraq, Says Blix STOCKHOLM - "There's a hatred
against the United States and you have 130,000 American troops sitting there
as a big target," said Hans Blix as he leaned forward to make his point
about the future of Iraq and its military occupation. "The borders, although
guarded, are not watertight. Weapons of mass destruction may not be there
but conventional weapons are and the U.S. does not have the capacity to
guard it all," Blix added. "The outlook is bad."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112203B.shtml
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