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7. The Perpetrators
The person who, shortly after the
attacks on the WTC, was announced as "the prime suspect" (without any
evidence), and quickly promoted to "the mastermind behind the attacks",
was Usama bin Laden, who has made no secret of his animosity toward the
U.S. for its support and funding of Israel's brutality toward the
Palestinians, for what he sees as the Americans' defilement of Saudi
Arabia (the location of two of the three holiest Islamic sites), the
continued bombing of Iraq and the Americans' support of the (as he sees
them) apostate regimes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The contempt with which
the U.S. is regarded by many Arab organizations (not to mention many
non-Arab organizations), and the involvement of Arabs in the ineffective
bombing of the WTC in 1993, means that Arabs are automatically suspected
in any terrorist attack against the U.S. (as they were in the Oklahoma
City Bombing until the government announced that Timothy McVeigh was the
culprit).
Within hours of the attacks on the
Twin Towers and the Pentagon Dan Rather and other mainstream media whores
were quoting unidentified "government sources" as stating that Usama bin
Laden was the culprit. As the WTC bombers intended, most Americans
immediately believed this claim and continue to regard him as the
perpetrator of this atrocity and the entire Arab world as their enemy (a
reaction welcomed by many in Israel). Many people in Arab countries also
believe he did it because for them Usama bin Laden personifies the
resentment against American exploitation of the Third World which they
themselves feel. But Usama bin Laden has never said that he was behind the
September 11th attack, and, indeed, has explicitly denied this.
I have already said that I am not
involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I
try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks,
nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans
as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent
women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the
course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every
maltreatment on women, children and common people ... — Usama bin Laden,
Interview with Pakistani newspaper Ummat (Karachi), September 28, 2001.
After one of the video broadcasts from
the Al-Jazeera TV station in Qatar (which, as has been pointed out
elsewhere, may have been a Western-concocted forgery, since Usama bin
Laden, or someone impersonating him, is shown wearing a U.S. Army jacket —
much as if Churchill had delivered his wartime speeches wearing a swastika
armband and the uniform of a Luftwaffe colonel) Condoleeza Rice declared
that this was an "admission" by Usama bin Laden of responsibility for the
September 11th attack. It was not, but by claiming it was she maintains
the official line of blaming "Arab terrorists" and draws attention away
from the true perpetrators of this atrocity.
Since the Twin Towers could be brought
down by the use of explosives, why bother to crash commercial jets into
them? The reason is that the demolition expertise required is certainly
beyond the capabilities of any Arab terrorists (especially if nuclear
devices were used). Had the Twin Towers simply been demolished in the way
that they were then many questions would have been asked as to how this
happened. A story that Arab terrorists detonated explosives which
completely destroyed the buildings would not withstand criticism, so some
other "plausible" explanation for the collapse of the towers had to be
provided and this was done in the form of the plane impacts and subsequent
fires. This "explanation" had an initial plausibility, and it was
immediately broadcast by the mainstream media, and immediately accepted by
a public in a state of shock. Only a careful examination of this story,
such as has been done in J. McMichael's article, reveals that it is full
of holes.
The aim all along was to place the
blame on "Arab terrorists". It would have been difficult to explain how a
band of men "of Middle-Eastern appearance" had gained the necessary access
to many levels of the Twin Towers to plant the required explosives and had
acquired the demolition expertise to demolish the Twin Towers in a
professional manner. But many people would readily believe a story that
Arab "terrorists" had hijacked commercial jetliners and flown them into
the Twin Towers on a "suicide mission". So that was the story that was put
out, with the help of the many "journalists" in the mainstream media who
are tools of the CIA, lying to the American people whenever requested to
do so.
The attacks against the WTC and the
Pentagon were brought to us by the same group of people (though "human"
may not be the correct term for them) who gave us the 1993 World Trade
Center Bombing and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
There is evidence that the former was
actually planned and directed, not by Arab terrorists (who were merely the
operatives), but by the FBI.
The mastermind [of the 1993 WTC
bombing] is the government of the United States. It was a phony,
government-engineered conspiracy to begin with. It would never have
amounted to anything had the government not planned it. — Ron Kuby,
defense attorney, quoted in Troubling Questions in Troubling Times
In the Oklahoma City Bombing
explosives were placed by the structural supports of the Murrah Federal
Building, demolishing it and killing hundreds of people. The psy-war
propaganda experts then succeeded in convincing the more gullible among
the American people that this was the work of one or two men using a truck
full of ammonium nitrate. (Some of the high-explosive devices planted
within the building did not explode, were seen by four witnesses after the
attack, and were removed by the FBI but were never officially mentioned.)
Within a few days of the bombing the Counter-Terrorism Bill was passed by
Congress, a piece of legislation which provided for secret trials and
seizure of assets without due process of law, and which foreshadowed the
so-called Patriot Act passed by Congress one month after the events of
September 11th.
An examination of the evidence, as
above and as done in other websites, shows that (i) the Twin Towers were
not brought down by the plane impacts and the fires but rather by massive
explosions and (ii) what caused the damage to the Pentagon was certainly
not a Boeing 757 but more likely an F-16 jet or a cruise missile. This
excludes "Arab terrorists" as the perpetrators because (i) only a small
number of American demolition companies have the expertise to demolish
tall buildings in the way that the Twin Towers collapsed and (ii) only the
American military has and can use F-16s and cruise missiles (at least,
within U.S. airspace). The perpetrators of these atrocities were
Americans, and they must have occupied (and continue to occupy) high
positions within the U.S. government and the U.S. military to have been
able to do what they did and (so far) get away with it.
The enormity of the atrocity of the
attack on the Twin Towers is made worse by its being perpetrated, not by
external enemies of America, but from within — by a secret group of
traitors who may be American-born but who care nothing for American
national pride since for them control of the U.S. is just a means toward
total control of the planet. For at least forty years this group of
traitors (most of whom are present or former occupants of the White House
or are working or have worked in those U.S. government organizations whose
activities are hidden behind a cloak of "national security", or are
high-level military officers) has controlled the U.S. government by
subversion of its democratic institutions, has manipulated a gullible
American population and the political leadership of other countries by the
skillful use of propaganda (with the help of shamelessly compliant — and
Jewish-dominated — "news" organizations), has ruthlessly exploited the
economic resources of the Earth for its own profit, and must now be
laughing and congratulating itself that its lies appear to have been
believed by almost everyone and that its plans for complete economic and
military conquest of the entire planet are coming along so nicely — thanks
to the stupidity of the American people, who appear to be mostly incapable
of thinking about anything except their own amusement (if they are
well-off, or their own economic survival if they are not) and who are
willing to believe whatever their lying government tells them.
But just as the attempt by the
predecessors of these traitors to establish a "Thousand-Year Reich"
resulted in complete and ignominious defeat, their plans also may yet come
to naught, though at what cost to the American people and the rest of the
world remains to be seen.
The situation may actually be much
worse than this. The evil which has been perpetrated by these traitors,
acting through the U.S. government, its military and its multinationals,
the IMF and other institutions, over many years, is sufficiently great
that one has to wonder whether the instigators have any concern at all for
the welfare and dignity of the human species. The ultimate instigators of
this atrocity (and of the larger drive to enslave, or perhaps exterminate,
the entire population of the planet) may actually not be human at all. If
so, we have a real problem.
8. The "War on Terrorism"
We cannot let terrorists and rogue
nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. — George W.
Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
In a speech to a joint session of
Congress on September 17th, 2001, Bush announced that America was embarked
upon a "War on Terrorism" (in that speech he used the words "terror",
"terrorist" and "terrorism" a total of 32 times, and "war" twelve times,
so no-one would fail to get the message). But before the U.S. retaliated
by bombing Afghanistan day and night for weeks it should first have
established exactly who instigated, planned and directed the terrorist
attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. Despite the attempt to blame nineteen
Arabs, allegedly the hijackers of the four planes, this was not done. Such
evidence, if it were ever produced (and, of course, it will never be
produced), must be such as to convince third parties such as the
Europeans, and the evidence must be made public (not every last detail,
but enough to establish the case). Insiders such as the U.S. President,
the British Prime Minister and the NATO Secretary-General declaring
themselves "convinced" is insufficient. Such declarations will fool some
people, but these officials are literally warmongers and will do anything
to justify their waging of war, including lying to the public about the
convincingness of the alleged evidence. Only when convincing evidence has
been made public, and the identity of the attackers established, would it
be possible to declare "war" without misuse of language. Until then the
"War on Terrorism" will be a propaganda campaign like the "War on Drugs" —
a way of disguising the true aims and motivations of those waging this
"war", which in this case is that age-old motivation: territorial and
economic conquest.
But, of course, the U.S. government
will never reveal who exactly planned and directed these attacks, firstly
because it was an inside job, and secondly because blame must be laid upon
"Arab terrorists" in order to "justify" the "War on Terrorism" and the
military assaults upon Arab countries (recently and, as the U.S. and
Britain plan at least, for years to come; indeed, in the words of one
Pentagon official, possibly "for the rest of our lives").
The "War on Terrorism" has three major
components:
(1) A propaganda war waged firstly
against the American people and secondly against the rest of the people on
this planet who have access to TV and newspapers.
(2) A large increase in the powers of
surveillance and control exercised by the U.S. federal government over
U.S. citizens and residents and in the ability of the government to impose
censorship.
(3) The use of American military force
(with help mainly from the British), to whatever extent necessary, to gain
control of the oil reserves of the Caspian Basin, the mineral wealth of
Central Asia and whatever other economic resources in other parts of Asia
that the U.S. wishes to control.
The purpose of (1) is to disguise the
true nature of (3) by presenting it as the use of military force to
protect Americans against future terrorist attacks. The purpose of (2) is
to stifle any protest and dissent from those Americans who are not fooled
by (1) and who object to (3). Bush, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft & Co. know from the
1960s demonstrations against the Vietnam War that domestic opposition to
military aggression abroad can bring that aggression to an end, and they
wish to make sure in advance that the same thing will not happen this
time.
The American government says that
America is "at war" (as if that justifies anything the government wishes
to do). But a war requires an identifiable enemy. A war is a war between
two or more opposing sides. A "war" in which one side is invisible is a
fantasy — a pretext to restrict civil liberties, to impose censorship and
to deny rights guaranteed to American citizens under the U.S.
Constitution. It is a tool for psychological operations directed against
both domestic and foreign populations, for deceiving the American people
and others and persuading them to submit willingly to violations of their
human rights. (Though one might say that if they do submit then they
deserve the enslavement that will come to them.) And in this case, as
noted above, the purpose is to suppress any domestic opposition to U.S.
military action abroad. And at home; remember that the U.S. military has
been used against American citizens before — at Waco.
What is too shocking for many
Americans to contemplate is that the terrorist attacks, from which the
people of the U.S. are supposed to be protected by the "War on Terrorism",
are themselves part of the propaganda war. In order to "justify" to the
American people the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan and the deaths of Afghan
civilians, the violent overthrow of the (admittedly reprehensible) Taliban
government, the deployment of U.S. ground troops to seize territory in
Afghanistan and in other countries, and the use of whatever weapons of
death the Pentagon plans to use (including "low yield" nuclear weapons),
the U.S. must present its actions as being morally good and noble (as in
World War II), specifically, as motivated by the desire to protect decent,
innocent American citizens from the evil of terrorist attacks.
Thus the American people are presented
with staged photo ops such as that of the firemen raising the American
flag (this was filmed by the NYPD video team), which most people would
(subconsciously at least) associate with the raising of the American flag
on Iwo Jima in World War II in the noble fight against the evil fascist
forces of Imperialist Japan.
Without terrorist attacks there is no
justification for the military action, so terrorist attacks there must be
(or at least, the perpetual fear of such). The attacks on the WTC and the
Pentagon were the first (unless we count the Waco Massacre and the
Oklahoma City Bombing), brought to you by those people who are directing
the propaganda campaign and, indeed, scripting this entire "War on
Terrorism". And (as the CIA informed members of Congress in early October
2001) it is certain that there will be more terrorist attacks (how did
they know?) — most of them far less spectacular than the destruction of
the Twin Towers, but sufficient (such as the controlled release of anthrax
bacteria, probably by the CIA itself) to induce in the American public a
state of constant fear — made worse by their not knowing who is really
behind these attacks.
Does the WTC attack feel like a movie?
It does? Well of course it does! It has been specifically written as a
movie script. ... This entire sequence of: hijack; first plane; second
plane; Pentagon ;WTC collapse; phone calls from the planes; copy of the
Koran; more attempted hijackings; arrests; plucky passengers; etc., etc.,
has been scripted by a crew of cynical planners who could care less that
REAL people died in the Twin Towers. — Tall Tales of the Wag Movie
In March 2002 U.S. Vice-President Dick
Cheney toured the Middle East trying to drum up Arab support for a second
American-led war against Iraq. He was politely informed by Arab leaders to
crawl back into his hole. So the Bush administration now needs another Big
Catastrophe on American soil to justify the war they want to wage against
Iraq.
"I think that the prospects of a
future [terrorist] attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty." — Dick
Cheney, speaking on Fox News, 2002-05-19
Look for something like a low-yield
nuclear explosion in the vicinity of Washington D.C. (downwind from the
White House and far enough away from Langley that the spooks won't have to
evacuate), sufficient to scare the congress critters into going into the
underground bunkers that have been prepared for them, after which America
will be entirely in the hands of George W. Bush's "shadow government".
In the meantime, and just in time for
the mid-term Congressional elections, we have the 2002-10-12 terrorist
bombing at Kuta in Bali. It seems likely that this was the work of the
same people who carried out the attacks of September 11th. It was a
psychological operation directed mainly against the people of Australia,
most of whom are opposed to their government's support of America's plans
to wage war on Iraq. For a fuller consideration of this matter see:
The Meaning of the Kuta Bombing
Wars end when one of the opposing
sides is beaten into submission and can no longer fight. But if one side
is invisible then the war can never end, because there is no way to know
that the opposing side has been defeated. Indeed, if the American people
begin to believe that perhaps the "terrorist threat" has begun to recede
you can be sure that another "terrorist attack" will occur, courtesy of
those scripting the "War on Terrorism", which will return them to their
former state of fear and dread, which is just where the perpetrators want
them to be. The "enemy" will remain an invisible, diabolical presence,
unseen except for its evil effects when "the terrorists" attack again. The
American people have entered what may be a long, drawn-out, nightmare, in
which nothing will be what it seems. It is The Towering Inferno,
Armageddon and The X-Files suddenly emerging into daily life.
The "War on Terrorism" is the psy-war
successor to the "War on Drugs". It has been clear to almost everyone for
quite some time that the "War on Drugs" is totally discredited, and those
who are informed know that it is basically a component in a huge and
long-running scam whereby the U.S. government finances its covert
operations and (in part) its military by means of its profits from its
international drug trafficking (see Prohibition: The So-Called War on
Drugs for details). It became clear to the U.S. government, especially in
view of the tolerance and regulation of drug use adopted in recent years
in many European countries, that it can no longer maintain its "War on
Drugs" with any degree of credibility. Thus the people of the U.S. had to
be hoodwinked into supporting a new "War", and the bogeyman of "militant
Arab fundamentalists" (helped greatly by a Jewish-dominated mainstream
media and terrorist attacks on the WTC in 1993, probably provoked by the
FBI, and on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which US Army
explosives had reportedly been used) provided a useful target.
This "War on Terrorism", like the "War
on Drugs", will involve the usual propaganda techniques such as lies,
deception, misrepresentation of opposition viewpoints, disinformation,
fake opposition and media emphasis on what is irrelevant (for example,
that Mohammed Atta may have contacted an Iraqi intelligence agent in
Prague — of only minor interest since there were no on-board hijackers and
he and the other Arabs on board were set up to take the blame). The
propaganda campaign will continue until the instigators and scripters of
this "War" believe they have finally gained domination over all countries
and have attained control of the entire planet and all its economic
resources — or until they themselves have been defeated.
9. Wars for Oil
If we neglect the fact that in the
19th Century the U.S. stole what has become the continental United States
from its original inhabitants, the Native American Indians (killing
millions of them in the process), we have to say that the U.S. began its
imperialist program in 1898 when it annexed the Philippines to benefit
American companies wanting to exploit the land and the people. Since then
it has maintained the same predatory attitude to the rest of the world.
Skipping over a long history of U.S.
imperialist aggression against other countries, we may note that the U.S.
did not go to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 to liberate Kuwait from
Iraqi aggression (to which its ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had
given a green light) but rather to move military forces into the area and
to establish military bases so as to exercise greater control over the
area's oil. Talk of removing "that evil dictator Saddam Hussein" is simple
obfuscation. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are lying to the American people
when they pretend to be outraged at the actions of the Iraqi dictator
(whom the U.S. supported right up until 1991, including Saddam's use of
chemical weapons against the Kurds). In fact it is control of Middle
Eastern oil which is the primary motivation for U.S. military plans for
that area.
Even before assuming the office of
President it was announced by George W. Bush that war was planned.
And so one of Secretary [of Defense]
Rumsfeld's first tasks will be ... to develop a strategy necessary to have
a force equipped for warfare of the 21st century. — George W. Bush,
Washington DC, December 28, 2000
And, conveniently enough, the attacks
of September 11th provided just the excuse needed for a yet greater
military build up (and justification for Bush's $344 billion war budget) —
in particular the already-planned development of "defensive" missiles,
allegedly to foil attacks by "international terrorists" (even though they
neither possess nor need intercontinental nuclear-tipped ballistic
missiles), but which might also prove quite useful in defending the U.S.
from retaliation by any nation which it chooses to attack.
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS
DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind ... — Preamble
to the Charter of the United Nations
As a member of the United Nations the
U.S. has committed itself to the principles expressed in the Charter.
Since 1980, however, the U.S. has consistently flouted these principles,
abrogating treaties and attacking other nations without international
consent.
Indeed, the U.S. government, in
violation of the United Nations charter and international law, has now
given itself permission — in the form of a congressional resolution — to
attack whoever it wants to, to engage openly in political assassinations
in the manner of Israel, and generally to wage war upon whoever it chooses
to label as its enemy. Already the number of innocent civilians who have
died as a result of U.S. military action (in Afghanistan) is greater than
the number of those who died in the WTC attack. But, of course, since
those killed were not Americans, British or Australians, this is of no
concern, except insofar as it might result in international condemnation,
making it difficult to maintain the "international coalition" that the
U.S. seeks to provide a fig-leaf for its planned military aggression
against those countries which decline to accede to its demands. And, by
the way, such aggression and the collateral regional wars that it will
cause in various parts of Asia will, of course, be good for U.S. arms
manufacturers, and other American companies with friends in the U.S.
government, which profit from war.
Not only did Bush announce a "War on
Terrorism", he even spoke stupidly of a "crusade", invoking memories of
the medieval Christian crusades against Islam to recover "the Holy Land"
(conveniently forgetting that the Crusaders held Palestine for a
comparatively brief period before they were defeated by Muslim forces
under Saladin on July 4th, 1187, and subsequently driven into the sea).
These days, for some people, oil is the holy grail, and recovery of the
Holy Land means gaining control of the oil fields, the primary reason why
America has given itself permission to invade whatever countries it
chooses to.
And it's not just Middle Eastern oil —
there are huge oil deposits in the Caspian Basin (larger than in Saudia
Arabia). In 1998 Unocal testified before the House Subcommittee on Asia
and the Pacific that a pipeline across Afghanistan was crucial to
transport Caspian Basin oil to the Indian Ocean. Bush and the American oil
companies would dearly like to lay such a pipeline across Afghanistan but
they could not do so while the Taliban ruled Afghanistan because the
Taliban demanded too large a percentage as their cut for allowing the
pipeline project to proceed. Hence, the oil monopoly needs to overthrow
the Kabul government, install their own government, and proceed with the
pipeline project. — Sherman H. Skolnick, The Overthrow of the American
Republic, Part 2
In fact from February to August 2001
the Bush administration conducted detailed negotiations with the Taliban
to lay this hoped-for pipeline across Afghanistan and Pakistan so as to
profit from lucrative sales to oil-hungry Asian countries. In August the
negotiations broke down, after a U.S. negotiator threatened military
action against the Taliban, saying, accept our offer of a carpet of gold
or you will get a carpet of bombs (see Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth).
One month later the rationale for the carpet-bombing was provided by the
destruction of the WTC.
And, sure enough, in September 2002
plans for this pipeline were being implemented.
Oil ministers from Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Turkmenistan [were] to meet in the Afghan capital Kabul
Monday [2002-09-16] to review progress on the 1,500-kilometer, $2billion
Afghan-Pakistan-Turkmenistan gas pipeline, officials said. ... The
pipeline is to carry gas from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad-Donmez field to
Afghanistan and Multan, Pakistan. It is supported by the United States. —
Islamic Republic News Agency
As is obvious, the modern West (and
those countries which have followed its lead) have been built on a
ruthless exploitation of the Earth's resources, particularly oil. For
these countries oil is an addiction, and there is no political will to
break the habit. The hyperactivity of the global economy during the last
century is like the hyperactivity of a speed freak, and in the end both
will crash. If the dominance of the oil industry over government is not
broken then in the near future of the human race global famine and disease
are a certainty (and don't think Americans, Europeans or Australians will
be spared).
The System may or may not understand
that it's only buying time. And that time is an artificial resource to
begin with, of no value to anyone other than the System, which must sooner
or later crash to its death, when its addiction to energy has become more
than the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it innocent souls all
along the chain of life. — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
And, by the way, there's something in
Central Asia that's a lot more profitable than oil. This region has the
main transit routes for Afghani heroin being smuggled to Western
countries. When one recalls that American military cargo planes were
returning from Central America in the 1980s loaded with cocaine for
distribution in the U.S. by the CIA and the Mafia one has to wonder what
might be in American military cargo planes currently flying out of
recently-established U.S. bases and airports in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
10. The Demise of Liberty
Immediately after the events of
September 11th there were calls for greatly increased security at airports
and on planes, and many millions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars were spent on
this. Troops with automatic rifles stand around at airports, waiting for
the next gang of Arab terrorists to burst into the departure lounge
shouting "God is great!" in Arabic and threatening everyone with box
cutters. Airport check-in now takes hours, passengers are subjected to
invasive searches before boarding planes, women are fondled under the
pretext of searching for weapons hidden in bras, and if you look Middle
Eastern then you may not be allowed to fly at all. Indeed, you do not even
have to look Middle Eastern; numerous people have been prevented from
boarding their domestic flights because they are on a "watch list" of
political or environomental activists suspected of holding views opposed
to those of the U.S. government (a way to prevent them from visiting
friends and colleagues and from traveling to conferences).
All this is insulting, offensive,
useless, irrelevant and in some cases illegal, and is a major disruption
in the lives of ordinary Americans, because, as noted above, there were no
suicide pilots. No hijackers boarded the four doomed planes carrying
knives and box cutters, so installing expensive security equipment at
airports and treating every passenger as a potential hijacker is not only
an insult but is also a complete waste of time and money (though it is
sure to make a lot of money for the manufacturers of airport security
equipment).
Those who planned the attacks on the
WTC and the Pentagon would have realized that, although it was possible to
crash planes into the Twin Towers under remote control, this would in
itself have produced only huge damage, with perhaps hundreds of lives
lost, which was not enough. What they needed was the destruction of both
towers completely, for maximum psychological effect upon the people of the
U.S. and the world and for the provocation of a hysterical reaction from
the American people directed against Arabs and the Islamic world. Thus
they needed to arrange for the demolition and total collapse of the Twin
Towers following the plane impacts. This was accomplished by the use of
explosives, as discussed in Section 5.
The demolition of the WTC was part of
an ongoing plan (in effect since the Kennedy assassination if not before)
to destroy the American Republic (what's left of it anyway) and replace it
by a de facto dictatorship (as part of the drive toward a global
dictatorship in the form of a world government).
Just as the Oklahoma City Bombing
created a situation conducive to the government's rushing through
"anti-terrorist" legislation this "Attack on America" provided a further
nice justification for eliminating whatever civil liberties the American
people had up to now managed to hold on to. In the name of "safety" and
"security" the "authorities" now have a "legal" right (the appropriate
legislation has already been passed by a compliant and corrupt Congress
under the guise of "an emergency anti-terrorist package") to do whatever
they want to monitor and control the entire population. Anyone accused of
being "a threat to the safety and security of the American people" (in
reality, to the state and those who control it) will find themselves
imprisoned without benefit of trial (if they do not "disappear" completely
as did many of the victims of Chile's DINA secret police). Already in
mid-October 2001 the FBI announced the arrest of more than 600 people,
"refusing to identify most of the detainees and offering few details about
why the government wanted them behind bars." (International Herald
Tribune, October 15, 2001) By December the number had grown to over 1,200,
with only about a dozen of those persons charged with a crime, and with
only one of them, Zacharias Moussaoui, charged with a crime related to the
attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. Torture was being considered for
those who are "uncooperative". (Let's hope no-one in your family gets
arrested, by mistake, and information is demanded from them which they
don't have.)
Bush has as good as told the American
people that they have to sacrifice their civil liberties and their rights
under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in support of his
"war", which most people seem willing, sheep-like, to do (such amazing
stupidity! or is half the population on Prozac?). Attorney General John
Ashcroft urged Congress to pass proposed "anti-terrorist" legislation
without even considering what it stipulated. The legislation was hastily
rushed through (the same day it was introduced) over the objections of
civil rights advocates by a corrupt and compliant Congress in the second
week of October 2001. This, the so-called Patriot Act, consisted of 342
pages, and those who voted for it could not possibly have read it.
The Patriot Act is a blatant denial of
the Bill of Rights and as such is grossly unconstitutional and therefore
illegal. According to this disgraceful legislation:
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The FBI can now spy on your email,
fax and telephone communications without even bothering to get a court
order, and can demand access to your medical, employment, travel,
library and bank and credit card records, simply on the grounds that you
are a "suspected terrorist".
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Police may obtain a warrant to
search your home (if you live on U.S. territory) on the grounds that you
are a "suspected terrorist" and they may then enter your home when you
are away and search through your papers and copy your computer files,
and they are not obliged to inform you for another 90 days (if then).
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The Attorney General can strip any
U.S. citizen of all his constitutional rights simply by declaring him or
her to be a "suspected terrorist" or "enemy combatant"; no evidence is
required and there is no appeal or recourse to a court of law.
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A person so designated (whether or
not a U.S. citizen), or a person who provides aid (even food or shelter)
to such a person, may be imprisoned without trial indefinitely.
Ashcroft announced in August 2002
plans to open camps for the incarceration of "suspected terrorists".
Anyone who opposes the policies of the U.S. government may now be
designated a "suspected terrorist" and may be stripped of their
constitutional rights and locked up indefinitely. Clearly Ashcroft is
following the example of the Nazis who lost no time after coming to power
in 1933 in establishing the Dachau concentration camp for the
incarceration of anyone suspected of opposing the Nazi government.
The Patriot Act is such a blatant
contradiction of the Bill of Rights that all senators who voted for it are
unworthy of their office, since either they read it and understood it (in
which case they are guilty of treason) or they did not (in which case they
failed to fulfill their responsibility as elected representatives of the
people).
Moreover, the Patriot Act was not
drafted in response to the events of September 11th — it was drafted well
before that date, and the events of September 11th were the excuse for its
introduction.
U.S. government officials would have
us believe that this 342-page, complexly nuanced document was allegedly
crafted after September 11 in the time span of a little over a month. To
accomplish this feat would have required the in-depth study [within a
month] of fifteen other lengthy acts and statutes which it modifies and
amends. — Doreen Miller: High Treason in the U.S. Government
The instigators and scripters of the
"War on Terrorism", who place their trust in modern technology (and
propaganda), believe themselves invincible in their drive to enslave
everyone, American and non-American alike. But they overlook the fact that
those Americans who have not prostituted themselves to the national
security state and who, as true Americans, hold liberty among their
highest values (and there are a lot of them) are unlikely to submit
without a fight when they understand what is really going on.
11. The U.S.A: a Terrorist State
Many still believe that the attacks on
the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were the work of Arab terrorists who hate
America. George W. Bush has even suggested in his usual idiotic fashion
that they hate America because "America is free", "America is a
democracy", etc. No. America used to be admired for these qualities. Where
America is now hated it is because of its long-standing and intolerable
interference and domination of other countries and its impoverishment of
the people of those countries.
The initiators of the attacks decided
to implement their plan after America has provoked immense hatred
throughout the world. Not because of its might, but because of the way it
uses its might. It is hated by the enemies of globalization, who blame it
for the terrible gap between rich and poor in the world. It is hated by
millions of Arabs, because of its support for the Israeli occupation and
the suffering of the Palestinian people. It is hated by multitudes of
Muslims, because of what looks like its support for the Jewish domination
of the Islamic holy shrines in Jerusalem. And there are many more angry
peoples who believe that America supports their tormentors.
Until September 11, 2001 ... Americans
could entertain the illusion that all this concerns only others, in
far-away places beyond the seas, that it does not touch their sheltered
lives at home. No more.
— Uri Avnery: Twin Towers
Americans are largely unaware of the
enormity of the crimes committed by their politicians. But in a
representative democracy, such as allegedly exists in the U.S.A., can the
people deny responsibility for the actions and policies of their
government? How long can they allow their government, whose leaders they
elect, to commit one atrocity after another and at the same time pretend
that they themselves are innocent of any wrong-doing?
Like the Four Riders of the
Apocalypse, the unknown kamikaze rode their giant crafts into the two
visible symbols of American world domination, Wall Street and the
Pentagon. ... They could be practically anybody: ... anybody who rejects
the twin gods of the dollar and the M-16, who hates the stock market and
interventions overseas, who dreams of America for Americans, who does not
want to support the drive for world domination. ... Germans can remember
the fiery holocaust of Dresden with its hundreds of thousands of peaceful
refugees incinerated by the US Air Force. Japanese will not forget the
nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima. the Arab world still feels the creeping
holocaust of Iraq and Palestine. Russians and East Europeans feel the
shame of Belgrade avenged. ... Asians count their dead of Vietnam war,
Cambodia bombings, Laos CIA operations in millions. ...
The Riders could be anybody who lost
his house to the bank, who was squeezed from his work and made permanently
unemployed, who was declared an Untermensch by the new Herrenvolk. ...
America could see this painful strike
at her Wall Street and her Pentagon, as the last call to repent. She
should change her advisers, and build her relations with the world afresh,
on equal footing. Probably she should rein in the domination-obsessed
Jewish supremacist elites of Wall Street and media, part company with
Israeli apartheid. She could become again the universally loved, rather
parochial America of Walt Whitman and Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Abe
Lincoln.
— Israel Shamir: Orient Express
"Repent" is an apt term. Today the
United States of America is morally bankrupt. During the coming months, or
while there is still time, America (and to some extent Europe) must engage
in some deep self-examination. Americans have willfully ignored the
reality that exists beyond their borders (other than sporting events and
vacation destinations), often preferring to "create their own" so as to
avoid acknowledging what they don't wish to see. Americans have been
completely self-absorbed, not knowing and not wanting to know the effects
of their government's policies and actions on billions of people who live
outside the U.S. Those policies and actions have resulted in millions of
deaths through widespread malnutrition and the persistence of eradicable
diseases (such as malaria); in economic, social and educational
impoverishment for the majority of the world's population; and in the
denial of human rights for all those who live under tyrannical regimes
supported by the U.S. That is why the U.S.A. is so hated. (And insofar as
other governments — in particular, the British government — have
supported, and continue to support, U.S. policies they too deserve moral
condemnation.)
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