Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- ARMAGEDDON IS THEIR PLAN by snowshoefilms 6:28am Tue Jul 20 '04 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Rumsfeld, Cheney et al., after 2 decades of planning for a dictatorship (The Armageddon Plan), appear to be now putting that plan into effect. Ralph Schoenman, life-long activist and author, addresses THE POPULAR RESPONSE. 12 min. video on snowshoefilms (part 3 of 4 interview conducted in Toronto, May 27, 2004 at the Intl. Citizens' Inquiry into 9-11) OUR PEOPLE Ralph Schoenman: We make a mistake in underestimating the public in this country. The New York Times, again, has documented that something like 84% of the people in the United States reject the two political parties. Now how does that compute? Well, in a national election roughly 48-49 percent of the eligible electorate participates. Pardon me, let me correct myself -- of the registered electorate. It¹s the opposite point I want to make. But the registered electorate is no more than 50 to 60 percent of the eligible electorate. So in reality about half of the eligible electorate is registered and participates in a national election. That¹s at the time of a national election. So you¹re really talking about 24 or 25 percent. You cut it between the two parties and it¹s about 12 percent and most of those hold their nose when they go in to those polling booths because they have no confidence that anything of any benefit to them will emerge. THEY¹RE ALL CROOKS The great majority of our people working people look at these two parties and politicians and their basic response to them is, ŒThey¹re all crooks. They all lie to us. It¹s the same-old same-old. No matter which one of them gets in, they wage war against our daily interests.¹ This is the feeling, the gut feeling. ŒThere¹s nothing out there for us.¹ They¹re deeply, deeply cynical about the lies that are being told to our people on a continuing basis. If you have a primary election where the turn out is even less, 19-20-21-22-percent of the registered electorate. Cut that in half. Be generous. Call it 12 or 13 percent. Between the two parties, it¹s half of that -- for each of those two party primaries. And then you have a plethora of candidates. These fakers are getting one-and-a-half and two percent of the vote of people, and they then translate into acquiescence and support of the population in what they do. PISSING IN THE MACHINERY No, it isn¹t like that. It¹s that people feel excluded. People are alienated. People are disaffected. People are profoundly distrustful of the lies that are being told to them on a daily basis. But they feel, for the most part, our people, atomized, isolated, unable to affect events. It doesn¹t reconcile them to that. People are pissing in the machinery and not tightening nuts and bolts and finding ways to survive within the interstices of a system which is visiting upon them constant assault on our health care, on our job security, on our housing, on our university education and our public school education. A constant assault upon things for which people have struggled for over a hundred years. That doesn¹t fail to register on people¹s consciousness. But they¹re deprived of an effective means of responding. That is the basic impediment to a challenge to the rulers as they exist today. Not some fictive stupidity or acquiescence on the part of the population. No, quite the contrary. MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON: OCTOBER 16 The initiative by the Longshore workers union Local 10 in which I am deeply involved since I¹m a co-chair and chair of the publicity committee for what is called the Million Worker March on Washington on October 16 [2004] with its mission statement and its list of demands is reaching out to mass of our people for precisely a response to a war upon our interests, the class war that is waged daily by a degenerating system incapable of addressing the most elementary needs of the great mass of our people and of people outside of our national frontiers as well. So I don¹t subscribe to the notion that the great power that we are describing in the hands of such a small number of people is so all-encompassing that there¹s nuttin¹ we can do about it. The next 9-11-like adventure that they undertake, which requires of them massive repression and they¹re very frank and open in describing it because they think they can terrorize people by so doing. I¹m referring here to the orchestrated theme of the article in Cigar Aficionado by Tommy Franks, the war criminal who was involved in the unfolding of the slaughter in Iraq. And the call in that piece for martial law in the aftermath of the inevitable next terror event and the suspension of the Constitution. And then we have that, as I mentioned,* picked up in all of the major media, by David Rothkopf in the Washington Post anticipating the cancellation of the 2004 elections and culminating, if you like, in the article by James Mann in Atlantic Monthly in March [2004] called ³The Armageddon Plan² which tells us that since 1980, every successive administration has had in place a plan an operational plan -- for the suspension of the Constitution, for the canceling of Congress and for the implementation of military and martial law rule in the United States. REHEARSALS FOR DICTATORIAL RULE They have had bi-annual rehearsals. And interestingly, two of the point people in this operation were, since that time, since that time 24 years ago, Rumsfeld and Cheney. Two of the key figures. Not elected officials at that time. Appointees, but part of the national security apparatus. On a regular basis, with military and intelligence officials departing to bunkers in various locations in the United States to run the American polity in our society with a suspended Congress, with a dispensed with Constitution on a martial law or proto-fascist basis. ³The Armageddon Plan² article in the March Atlantic Monthly concludes by saying ŒPresidents and administrations come and go but the national security apparatus is continuous and outlasts and overrides and prevails.¹ That¹s the concluding paragraph in that piece. This particular article was then amplified on Nightline by Ted Koppel on ABC Television with an entire program on the ³inexorable² next terror attack and the response of the national security authorities as outlined in ³Armageddon.² And he had Edwin Meese on that program, and Richard Clarke, the putative critic of Bush who apparently were two of the functionaries who were part of this pre-selected martial law team, hiding away in bunkers preparing for the imposition of direct, dictatorial rule in this society. This is reckless endangerment of their precarious system, I submit. However menacing this may seem to us, and however ominous it indeed is, the cutting of the tie with the American population the rending of the mask from the face of U.S. Capital, the display of the relentless and ruthless dictatorial class rule that this tiny, besieged ruling class is compelled to undertake is to set into forces historical and sociological and vast in our society that will put paid to this system. OUR SURVIVAL INTERESTS There is no question in my mind that no system so degenerated as this, so incapable of meeting the most elementary aspirations and needs of people can endure. And to rend the façade, to dispel the illusions, to appear naked before the American people as an illegitimate, unsolicited, unselected, unelected handful of people who rule over us what, perpetuate permanent war? To require a draft to compel our working class kids to go again to the hinterlands to oppress people and to meet their wrath? And do they think this is going to be something in which our people will acquiesce on some permanent basis -- is the height of delusion. No, this system generates within itself its own opposition and resistance in the class it oppresses. Karl Marx used to call the great revolutionary mole who was burrowing underground and pops up here and pops up there these are historical forces that require of our people a response in their own survival interests that is incompatible with permanent rule of this handful of people. RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT OF THE SYSTEM ITSELF And I submit that the for all the alarming and intimidating nature of these plans for dictatorial and martial law rule, and for all the attempts to terrorize and demoralize and frighten our people with the prospect that ŒThe terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming! The next attack is inevitable and upon us!¹ Biological weapons, chemical weapons, suitcase nukes and the like. For all of that blather, this is a reckless endangerment of the system itself. There are sectors of the rulers who are well aware of it as you see. To General Zinni to others of their ilk who say, ŒWe don¹t want to rend the façade in this fashion and to cut the cord of acquiescence that is still precariously intact. They understand. There may be, indeed, a kind of coup in this society, the kind of military response to these adventurists amongst our rulers that is coming from within the ruling class itself to prevent the kind of adventure in the United States which they have undertaken before but which on this occasion will produce the kind of response that the Spanish people gave to the perpetrators of the crimes in Madrid who were the U.S. authorities themselves. They swept out of office that acquiescent and dependent regime. They may have picked a blunt instrument in the social democratic order, but none the less they engendered panic in Washington as the rulers understood the significance of that event in Spain. BY NO MEANS RECONCILED This story is still unfolding, brothers and sisters. And our population is by no means reconciled to the forms of rule which are being prepared for us. That is a danger sign for those who are perpetrating these schemes, and some of them understand it. * Part one of this series. www.snowshoefilms.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
--- End Message ---
