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The denial by Israel of the human
rights of the Palestinians, and its decades-long intransigent refusal to
address their legitimate grievances, is just the most visible of the many
evils resulting from morally bankrupt U.S. policies. The U.S. (at the
urging of American Jews and acting through the United Nations at a time
when most Arab states were not yet members) created Israel in 1947 against
the wishes of the people of the Middle East. (The U.S. basically stole the
land from the Palestinians and gave it to the Zionists, and then gave the
state of Israel money currently three billion dollars per year for all
the police and military hardware the tanks, the attack helicopters, the
missiles, the grenades it needed to hold onto that stolen territory and
to steal, or "annex", even more.) Now the U.S. has to deal with the
consequences (and it is interesting to note that just prior to the WTC
attack the U.S. was preparing to announce its support for a Palestinian
state mandated by the U.N. in 1947 anyway much to the displeasure of
Israel).
Another thing which many people find
galling is the shocking hypocrisy and double standards characteristic of
the American attitude to the rest of the world. Why is it "terrorism" when
Palestinians defend themselves against Israeli brutality but what Israel
does is not "terrorism"? How can the U.S. call for the trial of the Khmer
Rouge leaders while denying the right of the recently-established
International Criminal Court to try Americans?
Less visible are the many ways in
which U.S. multinational corporations conspire with the U.S. government
(which does its best to coerce other governments to follow it), the IMF,
the World Bank and other organizations whose undeclared purpose is to make
the rich richer and to maximize their profits regardless of the widespread
impoverishment this brings to many people not only in developing countries
but also to those people in modern industrial societies who do not belong
to the moneyed and ruling class.
The facts have long been available to
any U.S. resident who cares to read The Nation, Z Magazine, or the thirty
or so books of Noam Chomsky (rarely mentioned in the mainstream media).
I have often thought that if a
rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the
American system. Noam Chomsky, Language and Responsibility
Or any of the many audiotapes, videos,
CD-ROMS, books and magazine articles exposing the immoralities of the CIA
(a terrorist organization which richly deserves to be eliminated as soon
as possible, preferably by an act of Congress, with its headquarters at
Langley demolished and the land ploughed over). But no most Americans
couldn't care less about the sufferings of people outside America, being
too busy either trying to survive as wage-slaves in a corporate capitalist
society or (for the more fortunate) constantly scanning their immediate
environment for ways to "enrich" their lives. Now they know what death,
destruction, fear and dread are, what people in other countries have long
known (over long periods) as a result of the actions and policies of the
U.S. government and those of the corrupt regimes it has installed to serve
its purposes.
So how have they responded to this
revelation? Mostly with mindless demands on their government to seek
revenge and further death and destruction, and George W. Bush has pandered
to this desire for revenge, declaring that he wants the alleged culprit
Usama bin Laden "dead or alive". Seems he's changed his views on revenge
since the 2000 Presidential campaign:
... you cannot lead America to a
positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly
negative. George W. Bush, Interview with the Washington Post, March 23,
2000
The attack on the Twin Towers was not
the work of Arab terrorists but rather was the work of terrorists within
the U.S. government itself who seek to gain control of Central Asian and
Middle Eastern oil and to impose a fascist dictatorship not only upon the
United States but also upon the entire world. What is to be done? The
answer is that those traitors (prominent among whom is the Bush crime
family) must be exposed, their crimes revealed, and they themselves
removed from the positions of power they presently hold. Furthermore,
government in the U.S. must be cleansed of corruption and restored to
conformity with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights: a restoration of
the American Republic. The "anti-terrorist" legislation of October 2001
(and that of April 1995 and Britain's Terrorism Act of 2000), intended to
facilitate government surveillance and control of the people so as to
stifle free speech and dissent, must be repealed.
The Bill of Rights is a literal and
absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to
speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring
the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep
and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment
doesn't say you have a right to be secure from search and seizure unless
some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government
has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any
circumstances.
Harry Browne: Harry Browne on
Anti-terrorist Proposals
America must also end its long history
of the practice of genocide, honor the principles expressed in the United
Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and cease its ruthless
exploitation (mainly for the benefit of a capitalist ruling class) of the
world's economic resources and the world's people. This means that
better-off Americans will have to give up some of the luxuries they've
taken for granted, but perhaps they can make the sacrifice more readily if
they remind themselves that nearly half the people on this planet (2.8
billion) currently live (if you can call it living) on less than US$2 a
day.
Examples of genocide within U.S.
history are common enough not to be considered remarkable or even
genocide. Among historic crimes which are not commonly called genocide:
the destruction of North American Indian peoples, the liquidation of six
million Brazilian Indians through the policies of multi-national
corporations, effects of U.S. economic and military policies on the poor
throughout the Americas, the Euro-American slave trade and subsequent
treatment of black Americans, and the fate of the American poor. ...
Corporate capitalism may simply be
legitimized genocide by economic means. ... Those without ethics no longer
sell beads to the Indians, but rockets and missiles to "underdeveloped
countries," where the arms kill off as many poor people as possible.
J. B. Gerald: Is the U.S. Really a
Signatory to the U.N. Convention on Genocide?
If the people of the United States do
not themselves cleanse their government of its current corruption, and
return the nation to conformity with the principles of a republic, upon
which it was founded, then disaster will ensue: Either a global fascist
dictatorship will result or the U.S. government will be destroyed by the
cooperation of the other countries of the world (using whatever means
necessary, military and non-military). Either of these possibilities could
produce such damage on a global scale that the survival of the human
species would be in doubt.
Those who think that the description
of the U.S.A. as "a terrorist state" is too extreme should inform
themselves of the nature of the American CIA, which is an international
terrorist organization. The CIA implements the policies of the President
of the United States. The CIA carries out unofficial U.S. government
policy. This means that the United States is a terrorist state.
On October 12th [2001], a couple of
days after the bombing [of Afghanistan] started, [George W.] Bush publicly
announced to the Afghan people that we will continue to bomb you, unless
your leadership turns over to us the people who we suspect of carrying out
crimes, although we refuse to give you any evidence. ...
Notice that is a textbook illustration
of international terrorism, by the US official definition. That is the use
of the threat of force or violence, in this case extreme violence, to
obtain political ends through intimidation, fear and so on. That's the
official definition, a textbook illustration of it.
Three weeks later, by the end of
October, the war aims had changed. They were first announced as far as I
can find out, by the British Defense Minister, Sir Admiral Boyce. Admiral
Boyce informed the Afghan population that we will continue to bomb you
until you change your leadership. Well, that's an even more dramatic
illustration of international terrorism ...
Noam Chomsky: Is the U.S. a
Terrorist State?
And now in September 2002 the United
States is threatening to bomb Iraq (no doubt killing many thousands of
civilians and destroying much of the civilian infrastructure as it did in
1991) unless its leader resigns his position or the people of Iraq somehow
manage to remove him (and allow a regime to be installed which is
acceptable to Washington). Is it not glaringly obvious that the U.S.A. is
a terrorist state?
Several thousand civilians died in the
collapse of the WTC towers, and hundreds of military personnel were killed
in the attack on the Pentagon though the numbers are small compared to
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the hundreds of thousands of
civilians incinerated in the U.S. fire bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and
Tokyo, and in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
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the two to five million
post-World-War-II refugees from the Soviet Union who were forcibly
returned to Stalin, to face either immediate execution or a slow death
in the Gulag, on the orders of Roosevelt and Eisenhower in Operation
Keelhaul;
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the millions of civilians who died
from hunger and disease as a result of U.S.-instigated mass starvation
of Germans during 1945-1950 under the Morgenthau Plan;
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the millions of Native Americans
killed by soldiers and occupiers of their land in the 19th Century or
allowed to starve to death by the U.S. government in the 20th (a clear
case of genocide);
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the thousands of Iranians tortured
and murdered by SAVAK, the secret police of the regime installed in 1953
as a result of a CIA-led coup which overthrew the popular Iranian
Premier, Mossadegh);
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the murder of between 20,000 and
40,000 Vietnamese from 1968 to 1971 by the CIA in their political
assassination program Operation Phoenix;
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the million or so Vietnamese,
Laotians and Cambodians killed by the American military in the 1960s and
70s whilst defending their countries from American domination (or simply
because they happened to be where the Americans carried out their carpet
bombings);
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the tens of thousands of civilians
who were tortured and murdered by CIA-installed dictatorships in Central
and South America;
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the 200,000 people (all civilians)
killed (using U.S.-supplied equipment) as a result of Indonesia's
invasion of East Timor in 1975 for which prior approval was given by the
then U.S. President and U.S. Secretary of State (Ford and Kissinger);
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the six million Brazilian Indians
who have died as a result of the policies of multinational corporations;
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the 10,000 to 20,000 people, mostly
civilians, killed in the U.S.-supported 1982 invasion of Lebanon by
Israel;
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the 300,000 Iranians killed in the
Iran/Iraq war, which was started by Iraq at the instigation of the U.S.
(which supplied Iraq with the weapons it used);
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the 180,000 civilians killed by
Reagan's CIA-cocaine-funded Contras in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the
1980s;
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the 6,000 (perhaps as many as
20,000) Iraqi civilians killed during the 41 days and nights of bombing
by the British and the Americans in 1991 (during which time the civilian
infrastructure was targeted, a war crime), including: the 500 civilians
(including whole families) burnt alive and turned into cinders when
American missiles penetrated a shelter in Baghdad;
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the tens of thousands of Iraqi
conscripts slaughtered on the "Highway of Death" by U.S. Navy pilots
during their attempted retreat from Kuwait in 1991 (another war crime
because the soldiers killed were not in a combat situation);
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the tens of thousands of Kurdish
civilians killed in South-East Turkey during the 1990s by Turkish
government soldiers using weapons and equipment supplied to them by the
U.S. (which knew exactly what they were doing with them);
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the tens of thousands of civilians
in Sudan who have died due to the absence of medicines resulting from
the destruction of the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant by American cruise
missiles in 1998 and from the economic sanctions imposed on Sudan;
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the one to two million Iraqi
civilians, two-thirds of them children, who have died in the last ten
years as a result of the effects of the hundreds of tons of
cancer-causing depleted uranium left over from the million or so
exploded rounds of DU ammunition used in attacks by American warplanes
in the 1991 American/British 6-week terrorist campaign against Iraq and
from the subsequent U.S./British-imposed economic blockade and
criminally punitive sanctions (not to mention those killed by the
bombing raids which occur every week);
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and the tens of millions of
civilians who die every year in Third World countries from starvation,
disease and despair because their countries are mired in poverty and
corruption as a result of economic exploitation by American
multinationals acting with the support and approval of the American
government.
To those in the higher echelons of a
government of a terrorist state which, by means of its military and its
CIA, has killed tens of millions of civilians in foreign countries, the
killing of a few thousand of their fellow citizens is simply another
exercise in mass murder, needing a little more planning, but not much
different to what they and their predecessors have done before.
When asked about the number of Iraqis
who died in the war [the 1991 Gulf Slaughter], US General Colin Powell
[current US Secretary of State] replied: "It's really not a number I'm
terribly interested in." The Allied Genocide of Iraq [link expired]
12. The Corruption of the Republic
The BBC's George Arney reported on
September 18, 2001, that Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary,
had stated that he had been informed by senior American officials at a
Berlin UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan in mid-July
that Pentagon plans for a military assault on Afghanistan had already been
completed. (This was the meeting in which a U.S. representative threatened
the Taliban representatives with a carpet of bombs.) The assault on
Afghanistan had to be carried out before snow begins to fall in the
mountain passes, which is around mid-October and, indeed, it began on
October 7th, 2001. The timing of the WTC attack was thus very convenient.
The Pentagon was clearly delighted at
the opportunity of trying out all the new-fangled lethal technology it had
developed in the ten years since it last demonstrated its capability for
mass slaughter in its 1991 terrorist campaign in the Gulf (this was in
part a demonstration of its weapons systems for the benefit of potential
purchasers, and the same happened again in Afghanistan).
The AC-130 [gunship, which began to be
deployed in Afghanistan in mid-October 2001] is one of the most lethal
American warplanes in terms of its ability to chew up ground forces. ...
[and] because of its fearsome firepower. It circles a target and saturates
it with automatic fire from three computer-controlled guns, including
cannon and heavy machine guns capable of firing 1,800 rounds a minute. The
plane's guns can cover an area the size of eight football fields with a
round in each square yard ... [and] has banks of electronic sensors on
board capable of detecting ground targets normally elusive from the air."
International Herald Tribune, October 17, 2001, p.1
It was an AC-130 gunship which
attacked a compound in the village of Kakarak, Afghanistan, on July 1st,
2002, resulting in the deaths of 48 people, mainly women and children, and
the injury of another 117. Such weapons are just the latest in a long line
of devices invented in the United States for efficient slaughter on a
large scale, from the Gatling gun (invented about 1862) to the atomic bomb
(the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused more than a
quarter of a million deaths and injuries) to the hydrogen bomb (whose
capability to cause death and destruction is almost unlimited) to cluster
bombs and fuel-air bombs.
The [fuel-air] bomb works thus: there
are two detonations; the first spreads a fine mist of fuel into the air,
turning the area [about the size of a football field] into an explosive
mix of vast proportion; then a second detonation ignites the mixture,
causing an awesome explosion. The explosion is about the most powerful
"conventional" explosion we know of. At a pressure shock of up to 200
pounds per square inch (PSI), people in its detonation zone are often
killed by the sheer compression of the air around them. Human beings can
typically withstand up to about a 40-PSI shock. The bomb sucks oxygen out
of the air, and can apparently even suck the lungs out through the mouths
of people unfortunate enough to be in the detonation zone. Our military
used it on helpless people [in the 1991 Gulf Slaughter]. Wade Frazier:
My Experiences in America Regarding Iraq
A soldier who is prepared to risk his
own life when attempting to kill enemy soldiers is a brave man. Such a man
is not to be despised. But the design, development, deployment and use of
this sort of highly efficient lethal technology is done, not by brave men,
but by cowards by those willing to slaughter other humans only if their
own lives are not placed in danger. It can only be done by people who are
either mentally ill, morally depraved or too stupid to understand what
they are really doing. And as well they do it for the money so they are
basically hired killers.
In early November the Americans began
to drop "daisy cutter" bombs on troops in the Taliban front lines. This
"daisy cutter" is the fuel-air bomb as described above. Only a nation sunk
in depravity could descend to the use of such diabolic devices against
human beings, soldiers or otherwise. The United States thus shows itself
to be depraved and barbaric. And any nation which, by providing military
support to the American war machine, condones this barbarity forfeits (as
the United States has already forfeited) any claim it might have to be
regarded as a civilized nation in the eyes of the world. A barbarian
nation drags its allies into barbarity also.
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler
the German nation sank also into barbarity (from which it emerged after
1945). One of the defining characteristics of the German Nazis was their
willingness to use violence to achieve their ends not just their
willingness to use violence but their willingness to use unlimited
violence. As for them, for those who now control the American military
juggernaut, there is no limit to the degree of death and destruction that
they are willing to use to achieve their ends. This is one reason why they
may properly, truly and without exaggeration, be described as "Nazis".
Are these the sort of "leaders" that
the American people really want? These calculating, cold-blooded, racist
mass murderers? Are they representative of what America stands for?
Perhaps so. The worship of violence,
death and destruction has in recent decades become a defining
characteristic of contemporary American society. It appears in its
television shows, its video games and its Hollywood-produced films. It
manifests itself in the willingness of its multinational corporations to
rape the Earth. America is by far the largest manufacturer and
merchandiser on the planet of lethal hardware, of military and police
equipment, of machines for the production of death and destruction. This
is a sign of a profoundly sick society.
This state of affairs has not come
about because the American people are inherently violent and psychopathic.
As with all social matters of this scale the historical causes are
complex. But one of them is the dominance in American society of corporate
capitalism, which elevates shareholder profit above all other concerns,
and which has created the social conditions where evil men can attain
great power and influence, both within government and without. The
American people tend to trust their government and their political leaders
(though there have always been those who could recognize corruption in
individual politicians when they saw it). This trust is given partly
because of the indoctrination Americans receive as children in school but
also partly because their government was in fact founded on republican
principles designed to ensure their liberty and happiness. But this trust
has now been betrayed. When evil men become leaders of the nation this
corruption percolates down and sickens all levels of society.
Since the end of World War II, and
partly due to the absorption then into the American "security and
intelligence" agencies of so many former Nazis (Gestapo, SS and Wehrmacht
intelligence), the entire political structure of the United States has
been infected with evil. There have, of course, been men of outstanding
moral stature, for example, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr,
U.S. Senator George Mitchell and President John F. Kennedy (whose
assassination in 1961, probably involving the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia,
military intelligence, American supporters of Israel and two future U.S.
Presidents, Nixon and Bush Sr., was the first coup d'etat in the history
of the U.S., the second being the coup which began with the 2000
usurpation of the Presidency by George W. Bush, a coup which is still
being implemented in 2002 under cover of the "War on Terrorism" and has
not yet been completed).
But there have also been corrupt
Supreme Court Justices (Rehnquist and Scalia), primitive, blatantly racist
U.S. Senators (Jesse Helms), a transvestite head of the FBI who was
blackmailed into ignoring organized crime (J. Edgar Hoover), a scumbag
President (Nixon) succeeded by a series of traitors possessing only
contempt for the U.S. Constitution (Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.), along
with a multitude of elected and unelected officials (including many judges
at all levels) whose only concern was and has been their own power,
prestige and material wealth, who were and are ready to support genocidal
foreign and domestic policies (targeted at the expendable and the
non-white both within and without the U.S.) as long as there is something
in it for them.
But we should not blame only the
leaders and official functionaries, corrupt and in same cases evil, though
they may be. It is not fundamentally the government which is at fault it
is the mass of the people themselves, who seem to lack the moral sense
required of a people who are to restrain their government from descent
into depravity.
Many Americans have consciously
prostituted themselves, realizing that the CIA and gang are creating
immense death and destruction throughout the world, but as long as they
enjoy cheap gasoline, coffee, bananas and tennis shoes, they think it is
great. ... Many in the upper classes think that the CIA, FBI and NSA are
great institutions, keeping the chips flowing their way. Those who condone
bloodshed and exploitation in the service of their lifestyles, often
coming up with highly strained rationales, will create future
circumstances where they will find the shoe on the other foot. They will
experience what living like a slave is like, barely surviving while their
masters live in opulence.
Wade Frazier: Investigating Possible Conspiracies
Actually democracy itself, when
implemented so that every adult (however stupid) is given a right to vote,
is inherently flawed, since it inevitably becomes the tyranny of the
majority. As noted 200 years ago by A. F Tyler, democracy leads to the
corruption of the financial system of any nation, because voters (in
particular the stupid and self-interested ones) sooner or later discover
that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury, by
electing whichever politician promises to give it to them. In order to
fulfill that promise (to some extent at least, so as to be re-elected)
that politician must connive in the acquisition of government wealth by
any means available, which in the case of the United States, is mainly the
economic exploitation of third-world countries and of the economic
resources of the planet (partly to manufacture weapons of death to sell to
those and other third-world countries for financial gain).
A U.S. politician remains in office
basically by stealing (together with his fellow politicians) from the rest
of the world to finance the comparatively comfortable (and generally
self-indulgent) lifestyle of the middle-class American voter (whether
Democrat or Republican). George W. Bush's "War on Terrorism" is a
campaign, not against terrorism, but to gain total control of the Earth's
economic resources so as to maintain this system of global theft. Without
continued capitalist exploitation of the planet's resources the American
social and financial system will collapse. But if it persists then we face
global tyranny and probably global eco-death once the fifty billion
barrels of oil in the Caspian Basin (following a similar amount from
already-exploited resources) has been extracted, refined and burned, with
the major risk of producing irreversible atmospheric heating.
Contrary to the widespread belief
among Americans that the U.S. is a constitutional democracy, the words
"democracy" and "democratic" are nowhere used in the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution of the United States does not establish a democracy; it
establishes a republic.
... democracies have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible
with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general
been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James Madison, as quoted in Robert Welch's Republics and Democracies
Democracy in the United States (in
which the votes of dim-witted uneducated manipulatable illiterates count
as much as the votes of those of above-average intelligence who can
understand what is best for society as a whole and not just for
themselves) has finally produced a tyranny, with power concentrated in the
executive branch of the U.S. federal government and denied to the states
and to the people. The other two branches of the government, the
legislative and the judicial, have largely become willing tools of the
executive, exactly as happened in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Everything
the German Nazis did was legal, either because they appointed corrupt
judges to interpret existing law as the Nazis wished or because they
enacted laws to allow them to do what they wished to do (as has again
occurred in the U.S. Congress with the October 2001 passage of the grossly
misnamed "Patriot Act" those congress critters really have a perverted
sense of humor).
The evils we experience flow from the
excess of democracy. The people do not want [that is, do not lack] virtue;
but are the dupes of pretended patriots. Elbridge Gerry, delegate to the
1787 Constitutional Convention, as quoted in Republics and Democracies
But actually the executive branch no
longer requires a compliant legislative branch to enact laws because it
can do so itself, by means of executive orders. The President can
stipulate that something is the case and if no-one in Congress raises any
objection within a few weeks (and no congress critter has ever raised any
objection to the thousands of executive orders which have been
promulgated) then whatever the President has stipulated becomes part of
the law of the land. This mechanism of executive orders provides
near-dictatorial powers to the U.S. President.
And George W. Bush has now issued an
executive order giving him the legal right to order the killing of anyone
deemed to be a terrorist (Bush Gives Green Light to CIA for Assassination
of Named Terrorists). Interestingly, it seems that although the executive
order is presented as applying to foreign "terrorists" there is nothing to
prevent it from being applied to domestic "terrorists". A "terrorist" is a
"terrorist" whether he is within the borders of the U.S. or beyond. And
who's to say a "terrorist" cannot be an American citizen? Thus George W.
Bush has now given himself the legal right to order the killing of any
American citizen that he chooses to label as a "terrorist". The American
Republic has indeed fallen upon grim times.
A tyrannical executive branch of the
U.S. federal government, arrogating all rights and powers to itself in
blatant disregard of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
has now embarked on a war of aggression against the rest of the world
(particularly against any countries whose actions may threaten American
economic dominance), having cynically duped the American people (by
carrying out a fake terrorist attack which took the lives of thousands of
them and then blaming "Arab terrorists") into believing that this is a
just and moral war. It is an administration that is dominated by men who
have no moral scruples, who seek only to increase their own power and
wealth, who have only contempt for the principles upon which the United
States was founded, who are in fact traitors to the American Republic, and
who deserve to receive the penalty for treason and that soon, before
they succeed in extending the tyranny which now exists in the United
States to encompass the entire planet (or else produce by their actions
the enormous death and destruction resulting from another world war, with
large-scale use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons).
13. Questions About the Events of
September 11th
1. In view of the $30 billion given
annually to the FBI, the CIA and other U.S. "intelligence" agencies, why
were these agencies completely unaware (or so they say) of this conspiracy
before they saw its results on CNN? And why has this (apparent)
incompetence been rewarded with yet more billions?
2. The four AA and UA jets took off
with an average occupancy rate of 27%. That four airliners from major
airlines leaving from the East Coast around 9 a.m. on a weekday for the
West Coast would all have such low occupancy rates is highly unlikely. Was
the booking system tampered with in order to ensure such low occupancy
rates (so that the passengers from all four planes could eventually be
loaded onto UA Flight 93 for elimination)?
3. Why would hijackers intending to
crash planes into the WTC hijack jets taking off from Boston rather than
from someplace closer such as JFK Airport in New York?
4. Why would hijackers intending to
crash a plane into the Pentagon hijack a jet from Dulles Airport near
Washington DC (and thus close to the Pentagon) and allow it to fly for 40
minutes away from its target before turning around and flying another 40
minutes back to it (knowing that interception by military jets during this
time would in normal circumstances have been very likely)?
5. AA Flight 77 (the jet which
allegedly crashed into the Pentagon) was allegedly hijacked at about 9
a.m., at about the same time as the Twin Tower impacts, and its change of
course back toward Washington, or its transponder having been turned off,
would have been known to flight controllers, who were aware of the
impacts; why, then, were U.S. Air Force jets not scrambled to intercept AA
Flight 77 forty minutes before it (allegedly) hit the Pentagon, when there
were U.S. Air Force jets at seven locations normally ready to take off at
ten minutes' notice?
6. Why are the FAA, the FBI, the CIA
and the NSA refusing to release any transcripts of communications from the
four doomed Boeings on September 11th or any records at all relating to
signals of any form transmitted by those jets?
7. Where are the black boxes (the
flight data recorders and the cockpit voice recorders) from all four jets?
These black boxes are designed to survive any crash. Have they been
examined by experts from the National Transportation Safety Board, the
agency which normally investigates airplane crashes? If not, why not?
8. In particular, what is on the FDR
and the CVR from UA Flight 93, the jet which crashed in Pennsylvania? Why,
exactly, did this jet crash? Was it shot down?
9. "Workers at Indian Lake Marina [six
miles from the place where UA Flight 93 crashed] said that they saw a
cloud of confetti-like debris descend on the lake and nearby farms minutes
after hearing the explosion that signaled the crash [or the attack on the
jet] at 10:06 a.m. Tuesday." (Pittsburg Post Gazette, Sept. 13, 2001) If
this plane was not shot down, but rather remained intact until hitting the
ground, how could this debris travel the six miles from the crash site to
Indian Lake in minutes when there was only a 10 mph wind blowing? (For
wind-borne debris to travel six miles in, say, six minutes requires a 60
mph wind.)
10. Were the conversations between the
pilots of the other three hijacked planes and air traffic controllers
recorded? If so, what did those pilots say? Were those recordings seized
by the FBI? Were (alleged) transcripts given by the FBI to the mainstream
media? Were those transcripts fabricated to provide false evidence in
support of the "Arab hijackers" story?
11. Does the Fireman's Video show that
the plane which hit the North Tower did not have engines attached to the
wings and thus was not a Boeing 767? Does it reveal that missiles were
fired from this plane just before it hit?
12. Since no public TV cameras were
trained on the North Tower at the time of impact, what was the source of
the transmission of the North Tower impact which George W. Bush says he
saw before he went into the classroom in Florida? Why did he do nothing
(except continue listening to a little girl's story about a goat) for half
an hour after he was informed that the second jet hit the South Tower (and
that America was "under attack")? Did Bush have prior knowledge of the WTC
attack?
13. Considering that all persons on
board all four planes died, how did the FBI come up so quickly with a list
of names of the alleged nineteen Arab hijackers including aliases used
by fourteen of them, in some cases seven aliases (see the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, 2001-09-27)? Why were there no Arab names on the
passenger lists at all? Did the FBI prepare in advance a list of the names
(and aliases) of the (alleged) "Arab hijackers" on those flights?
14. Why did the South Tower collapse
first, 56 minutes after it was hit, rather than the North Tower (which was
hit first and collapsed 1 hour and 44 minutes after being hit), even
though the fire in the North Tower (the alleged cause of the collapse) was
more intense?
15. If the outer perimeter walls of
the Twin Towers were connected to the central cores only by lightweight
trusses, how was wind load on the towers transmitted to the central core
(as it must have been because the floors did not buckle in a strong wind)?
16. What exactly was the nature of the
structural connections between the outer perimeter wall and the central
core of the two towers? Is it not false that this consisted only of
lightweight flimsy trusses? Is it not the case that the connection was
actually made with 32,000 tons of steel beams?
17. Why are the architect's plans of
the Twin Towers not publicly available?
18. Would jet fuel burning in an
enclosed space (with little oxygen available for combustion) actually
produce temperatures high enough (1538°C, i.e. 2800°F) to melt massive
steel beams (and all the steel beams, since steel conducts heat
efficiently) enclosed in concrete in just 56 minutes? If so, wouldn't the
Twin Towers have buckled and bent, and toppled over onto the surrounding
buildings in the Lower Manhattan financial district, rather than
collapsing neatly upon themselves in the manner of a controlled
demolition?
19. Were the Twin Towers re-engineered
in the mid-1990s to make possible a collapse-on-demand if that were judged
necessary? Was FEMA aware of this? Do blueprints of the Twin Towers in the
possession of the past owners reveal any evidence of this?
20. Why were such huge quantities of
ash and dust produced? How could fire convert concrete into dust? Has the
ash been chemically analysed to determine what it really is and how it
might have been produced?
21. Were any tests done on the debris
for the presence of radioactivity?
22. Is it not the case that the Twin
Towers collapsed, not because of airliner impacts and fires, but because
they were expertly demolished (even though we do not yet know exactly how
this was accomplished)?
23. Who stood to benefit from the
complete destruction of the Twin Towers?
24. What was the actual size of the
entrance hole made by the object which hit the Pentagon? Is it not the
case that photographic evidence reveals that it was in fact at most just a
few meters in diameter, much too small to have been made by a Boeing 757
jet, but just the right size for a missile?
25. Why were no aircraft fragments,
identifiable as coming from a Boeing 757, recovered from the Pentagon
crash site?
26. Why were no remains of the
approximately sixty passengers and crew on the jet which allegedly hit the
Pentagon returned to relatives for burial?
27. Why was the debris from the
collapsed Twin Towers removed from the site with no forensic examination?
Why was almost all of it sold to scrap merchants and shipped abroad where
it would not be available for scientific examination?
28. In September the Securities and
Exchange Commission initiated an inquiry to establish who benefited from
the unusually high numbers of put options purchased prior to September 11
for shares in companies whose stock prices subsequently plummeted, on the
supposition that whoever was behind the hijacking was also behind most of
the purchases of these put options. Why has this inquiry stalled? Why have
those who benefited from the purchases of these put options not been
identified (or at least, not publicly)?
29. Is it not the case that this
atrocity was planned and carried out by elements at high levels of command
in the U.S. Air Force, the CIA, the Justice Department and FEMA (possibly
with the involvement of well-placed civilians outside the government),
acting under orders from, or with the approval of, high officials within
the U.S. Administration, and that those same elements are now directing a
propaganda campaign against the American people to justify a war of
aggression in Asia and the Middle East aimed at controlling the oil and
mineral wealth of those regions?
30. Why is the U.S. mainstream media
ignoring questions like these?
14. The American Drive for World
Domination
In August 2002 George W. Bush (whose
public utterances have finally demonstrated that he is mentally deranged,
unhinged, demented and a lunatic) and his crony Tony Blair were talking up
their intention to attack Iraq, going on like a broken record about its
"efforts to create weapons of mass destruction", hypocritically ignoring
the facts that (a) it is the U.S. which leads the world in the manufacture
and use of such weapons (Germany and Japan 1945, Vietnam and Cambodia
1960s and 70s, Iraq 1991, Kosovo 1999 and Afghanistan 2001 not all
weapons of mass destruction are nuclear) and (b) it is Israel, America's
client state in the Middle East, which already possesses "weapons of mass
destruction" and is entirely willing to use them against its neighbours.
Iraq's immediate neighbours do not
consider Iraq a military threat, so why should the U.S.? Iraq's missiles
can reach parts of Europe and Russia but neither Europe nor Russia
considers Iraq a threat; indeed, in mid-2002 Russia signed a multi-billion
dollar trade deal with Iraq. Only Israel considers Iraq a threat
(consistent with the pan-Arab hatred of Israel for its brutality toward
the Palestinians), and in the U.S. Congress and in the Bush Administration
what Israel wants Israel gets.
As British elder statesman Tony Benn
has said, the American desire for a war against Iraq is based not on any
concern over what weapons Saddam Hussein might possess but springs from
the desire of the U.S. to grab Iraq's oil.
'Crude lies' used to justify war on
Saddam
Bush's "War on Terrorism" is not about
terrorism (except insofar as staged terrorist acts are an important part
of the propaganda campaign) it's about control of all of the Earth's
economic resources, not just oil.
The United States government wants
economic control and exploitation of the vast oil and mineral wealth of
Central Asia, and if a pan-Asian war is required to achieve this then so
be it. American foreign policy makers believe that American military power
will enable them to win such a war and that (a) a war would enable them to
remain in power indefinitely (elections will become a thing of the past or
will be rigged), (b) would be good for American (and British) weapons
manufacturers and (c) would avert the looming economic depression in the
U.S. (since, many believe, it worked before in the 1930s military build-up
to World War II).
He [Bush] wants to divert attention
from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It was used by Hitler.
German Justice Minister Herta Dδubler-Gmelin, 2002-09-20. (For other
similarities see Perils of Cocaine Abuse.)
If Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are
allowed to proceed with their plan to attack Iraq it will lead to the
overthrow of those Arab regimes whose leaders are in the pay of the
Americans (in the case of Egypt, to the extent of a good chunk of the two
billion dollars per year military "aid"). Will Middle Eastern oil continue
to flow to the Western industrial societies and to Japan and to China?
What might be the consequences for those countries (especially as regards
feeding their people and keeping them warm in winter) if oil supplies are
cut off for an extended period of time?
World War III will involve the
nuclear- and CBW-armed countries of India, Pakistan, Russia, China,
Britain, France, Israel and the U.S. itself, and it will mean that
millions of soldiers and civilians will die: shot, burnt, blasted,
asphyxiated, crushed, incinerated, poisoned. Nor will all these civilians
be Asian; this war will also extend to the U.S. mainland and probably to
Europe, despite what the Pentagon planners intend. Violence will lead to
more violence, and wars will escalate (remember "escalation"?) until
eventually nuclear weapons are used first "low-yield", later the big
ones, in the megaton range, whose detonations (if there are enough of
them, and we don't know how many will be used) will produce high levels of
radiation in the atmosphere of (mainly) the Northern Hemisphere, leading
to millions of cases of cancer among the populations of Western countries.
And what if the U.S. warmongers
achieve their aims of gaining control of all sources of oil in Asia (and
the Middle East and North Africa), and of the mineral wealth of Central
Asia? Will the Europeans, Japanese and Chinese feel secure in the
knowledge that the United States will surely sell them whatever they need
to maintain their industrial economies and their military capabilities?
(The Russian and Chinese leaders surely understand the long-term threat to
their national sovereignty, and are acting accordingly.)
Or is there something even more
sinister going on? Is the goal "at the highest level" the extinction of
the human species? If so, will the American people prove to be "useful
idiots" facilitating the attainment of this goal? Or, on the contrary,
might they yet awaken from their ignorance, their stupidity, their greed
and their egoism, take a hard look at themselves, understand what their
lying, vicious, rapacious, hypocritical government is doing in the name of
"freedom and democracy", and rein in and reform that government,
reconstitute their nation as a republic as the authors of the Constitution
intended, and save the world, as they believe (or used to believe) is
their manifest destiny?
After September 11th revenge was
uppermost in the minds of most Americans and few of them were inclined to
look at what brought this catastrophe to their land. Were they to look for
the causes of the events of September 11th they might eventually be led to
ask themselves whether their government is not so hypocritical, vicious,
ignoble and immoral, so much the opposite of that ideal of government
expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
Constitution, that it must be reformed completely, with most of its
current office holders, in particular, the President, the Vice-President,
the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary, the Secretary of State,
the Attorney-General and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff removed
in disgrace, before they can again think of themselves as Americans with
any degree of self-respect.
Their mindlessness is willful, and at
least partly conscious. They do not know what is really happening because
they do not want to know what is really happening. Why? As far as I have
seen, it is because they benefit from the current arrangement (at least in
the short term), and denial helps protect their flickering consciences.
...
All those institutions that we have
given our power away to corporations, governments, churches, etc. have
largely enslaved us with our own power. The only path to true freedom is
by reclaiming our power, responsibility and sovereignty, and doing it
lovingly.
Wade Frazier: The Things We Do Not
Want To Know
For most of their short history
Americans have been adolescents. Brash, ignorant, naοve, overconfident and
infatuated with power. And, like adolescents, they have never understood
or believed in evil. As a result of September 11th they have lost their
innocence. They now know what evil is, at first hand. But many Americans
(encouraged by their warmongering politicians) insist on projecting that
evil "out there" onto Arabs and Muslims and insist on hating "them".
But the evil of September 11th did not have its origin "out there". It is
an evil at the heart, not of America, but of a corrupt and depraved
American government. If and when Americans acknowledge this (before their
warmongering politicians take them into World War III) then maybe (just
maybe) they can save their country, themselves and the rest of the world.
But this is probably too much to expect from a country in which 49% of the
voters (or of those whose votes were counted anyway) in the 2000
Presidential election were so stupid as to vote for someone who even then
was obviously a moron who cared only for himself and his cronies in big
business (and secretly for his pals in Skull and Bones).
Have America's geopolitical
strategists really thought through the consequences of an attack on Iraq
and of what they plan thereafter? Perhaps they have, and see advantage to
themselves in the form of the eventual realization of the goal that the
Nazis set for themselves in the 1930s: a global fascist dictatorship
achieved by the use of military force, and the consequent enslavement of
all humans (with those unfit to work being eliminated).
We ordinary Americans are being led,
step by step, down the road to a dictatorship more evil and all-pervasive
than that of the late Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party of the German
aristocracy. Sherman H. Skolnick: The Overthrow of the American
Republic, Part 2
Writing to your Congress critter will
do no good (they do not represent the interests of the people and in any
case are almost all spineless traitors). Political action within the
system might (just possibly) have some effect. Demonstrating against
America's criminal foreign policy especially if you do this in the U.S.
will get you tear gas and rubber bullets (which could be useful if this
appears on the news night after night, as the Vietnam War did in the
1960s).
To the American aristocracy, the true
enemy has always been, and still is, the American common people. Sherman
H. Skolnick: The Overthrow of the American Republic, Part 14
Although this section is entitled "The
American Drive for World Domination" those who are planning and
implementing this drive are not all American. Those at the top of the
human chain of command are to be found in the political and corporate
elites of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union
also, as it happens, the very parties orchestrating the global war on
terrorism. Chaim Kupferberg, The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11
The machinery of the New World Order
is already in place. The Office of Homeland Security (and its Stasi-plan
for making 5% of the American population informers upon the rest) is only
the most public manifestation of it. Have you heard of the Executive
Secretariat, the Joint Task Force Civil Support and Phase III? No? Well,
you're not supposed to until such time as the cryptofascist government
of the United States no longer cares whether or not its "citizens" know
they are living in a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. By then, according
to the plan, all countries will be under the threat of annihilation by a
supposedly invincible American military superiority. In the meantime the
U.S. secret government, the prototype for a global dictatorship, will have
extended its Satanic legal system (including civil asset forfeiture laws)
to the entire world either by forcing all other countries to sign
"treaties" committing them to (in effect) submit themselves to American
legal jurisdiction or by ensuring the dominance of fascist elements within
other governments. And with control of Middle Eastern and Central Asian
oil all other countries will have to submit to American demands or see
their people go hungry (like much of the world already does) and cold in
winter (with rioting in the streets put down by the usual brutal methods).
Welcome to the New World Order what they used to call "The Thousand-Year
Reich". Like it? No? Then what are you going to do about it?
Their world government is based on
lies, supported by the power of money; but now the lies are beginning to
unravel. It is time to withdraw our support, challenge their legitimacy,
and push their lies toward collapse. There is no Constitution. There is no
Bill of Rights. There is no legitimate government. There is no America
left to restore. We shall welcome the ensuing chaos as a return of
liberty.
Grugyn Silverbristle: Team Bush Betrays America
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