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Date: July 17, 2007 8:29:57 AM PDT
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Subject: 7 Days in May, 2007?
Gore Vidal Feels Military Is Resisting Bush, Will
Not Collude in Another Phony "Terrorist Attack"
Literary giant slams Bush coup d'etat
-- "Bush let 9/11 happen on purpose"
Paul Joseph Watson
October 24 2006
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/241006gorevidal.htm
Controversial and prolific author, political commentator and
essayist Gore Vidal is reassured by a belief that the military's
growing revulsion at the Bush junta's policies makes it likely they
would try and prevent any "false flag" staged terror attack, while
slamming the end of Habeas Corpus and the administration's "coup
d'etat" in America on a nationally syndicated radio broadcast.
peaking with the Alex Jones Show, Vidal decried the end of the
foundational bedrock of "due process of law," and expressed his
astonishment at the recent loss of Habeas Corpus with the passage
of the Military Commissions Act, the most egregious assault on the
Constitution since the USA Patriot Act of 2001.
"Wow. I didn't think I'd live long enough to see that one go --
Magna Carta. The spirit of Runnymede runs no longer in our
Republic," said Vidal.
Vidal stressed that the framework for the USA Patriot Act was
erected with Bill Clinton's Omnibus Crime Bill, a massive expansion
of offenses that would mandate the death penalty, passed in the
immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Vidal predicted "the bankruptcy of the United States of America"
within the next two years, citing vast unchecked payments to
corporations like Halliburton and spiraling inflation.
Labeling the Bush administration's [accession to power] as a "coup
d'etat in which we lost the Republic," the literary giant slammed
Bush's claim that he is a "wartime President" and thus has a blank
check to run roughshod over the Constitution.
"You have to have a country to have a warm and you cannot have a
war unless declared by Congress -- which they will not do."
"They've got a mantra now which is totally incredible - 'if we
don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them over
here' ... Well, how the hell are they going to get here, and to
what end? These are questions which you could shut these people up
with -- if there was any media to attack, or if there was a
Congress capable of oversight," said Vidal, comparing the mantra to
the same scare tactics used by Herman Goering to frighten the
Germans into submission under the pretext of an impending Soviet
invasion.
Vidal blamed the media for abandoning its duty as the Fifth Estate
and watchdog of power monopolies.
"Our greatest difficulty at the moment is that our media is totally
corrupted, starting with the New York Times. The media belongs to
our rulers."
"In the old days when something ghastly went wrong you could count
on journalists writing something about it.... Today there are no
voices expressing disagreement, " said Vidal.
He related how he appeared on a CBS television morning discussion
show shortly after the Oklahoma City Bombing to discuss the
motivations of Timothy McVeigh when mention of the Waco massacre
caused the [network] to abruptly cut his audio, following a
military intelligence order to cease the feed.
The controversial figure also predicted the demise of the Internet
in stating, "They'll find a way of wrecking it -- they cannot
permit free speech in the United States, because free speech will
ultimately define them, name them, and describe their crime."
While stopping short of claiming the Bush administration directly
carried out 9/11, Vidal was certain that they "let it happen on
purpose," citing the head of the Pakistani ISI bankrolling the
hijackers while also meeting with U.S. government officials in the
week before and on the morning of 9/11.
"What made no sense is that CNN wouldn't follow up on why the
fighter planes had not been scrambled and gone up to stop the
hijacking -- that's the law of the land, you don't need the
President to order you, you don't need a general, those are your
instructions -- I know, my father wrote them," said Vidal.
When asked if there should be a new investigation of 9/11, Vidal
insisted, "of course there should and a wonderful time to do it
would be at the impeachment of Bush -- I think you might find
everything that we ought to know but do not know."
Asked if the Bush administration would go to the lengths of staging
a terror attack to smokescreen their scandals, Vidal stated, "They
certainly know how to cry wolf.... Let's say it was on their minds
to stage an event -- I don't know how they can do it -- luckily for
us ('we the people'), they've antagonized the entire military, so I
don't think the military would let them**."
Despite his dark outlook on the future of freedom, Vidal hinted at
a possible reprieve for America.
"I'm beginning to feel that the tide is turning -- the first twinge
of optimism I've felt in a long time."
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**May 16, 2007 http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=10976
Adm. William Fallon, then President George W. Bush's nominee to
head the Central Command (CENTCOM), expressed strong opposition in
February to an administration plan to increase the number of
carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf and vowed privately that
there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of
CENTCOM, according to sources with access to his thinking.
Fallon's refusal to support a further naval buildup in the Gulf
reflected his firm opposition to an attack on Iran and an apparent
readiness to put his career on the line to prevent it. A source who
met privately with Fallon around the time of his confirmation
hearing and who insists on anonymity quoted Fallon as saying that
an attack on Iran "will not happen on my watch."
Asked how he could be sure, the source says, Fallon replied, "You
know what choices I have. I'm a professional."
Fallon said he was not alone, according to the source, adding,
"There are several of us trying to put the crazies back in the box."
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SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
1962 Novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
1964 Film: Paramount Pictures, Screenplay by Rod Serling, Directed
by John Frankenheimer
In the novel, the story is set in May 1974, not long after the
conclusion of a stalemated war in Iran fought along conventional
warfare lines similar to Korea. The film is set a year later, in
May 1975, as shown both by the day/date indicator in the Pentagon,
and the reference by Jordan Lyman to "a year and nine months"
before Election Day 1976.
The novel has White House aide Paul Girard meeting with Vice
Admiral Farley C. Barnswell, USN, on board the U.S. Sixth Fleet
flagship USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier which was actually commissioned in 1977.
Military-Civilian Conflict: U.S. President Lyman (Frederic March)
vs. General Scott (Burt Lancaster)
The scenario of the film may have been inspired by the clash
between General Curtis LeMay and President John F. Kennedy. It is
suspected that LeMay, furious after the Cuban missile crisis for
not being allowed to use his atomic bombs, talked to some of his
staff about removing the President from power. A later film,
Thirteen Days, refers to this clash; in it, LeMay is directly
quoted as calling Kennedy a traitor to the United States.
Other observers cite as the inspiration for the story a
historically-ambiguous conspiracy among major industrial leaders to
enlist retired Marine Gen. Smedley Butler in a plot to infiltrate
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inner circle.
As the story begins, Lyman faces a wave of public dissatisfaction
with his decision to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union, an
agreement that will supposedly result in both nations
simultaneously destroying their nuclear weapons under mutual
international inspection. This is extremely unpopular with both the
President's opposition and the military, who believe the Soviets
cannot be trusted.
As the debate over the treaty rages on, an alert and well-
positioned Pentagon insider, United States Marine Corps Colonel
Martin "Jiggs" Casey (Kirk Douglas) becomes aware of a conspiracy
among the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) led by his own superior
officer, the charismatic head of the JCS, Air Force General James
Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster).
As he digs deeper, he uncovers the conspiracy's shocking goal:
Scott and his cohorts, along with allies in the United States
Congress and the news media, are plotting to stage a coup d'etat to
remove President Lyman and his cabinet seven days hence.
The plot itself, called ECOMCON (for "Emergency Communications
Control"), entails the seizure of the nation's telephone, radio and
television network infrastructure by a secret United States Army
combat unit created and controlled by Scott's conspiracy and based
near Fort Bliss, Texas. Once this is done, General Scott and his
conspirators will control the nation's communications assets; then,
from their headquarters within a vast underground nuclear shelter
called "Mount Thunder" (based on the actual Alternate Seat of
Government maintained by the U.S. at Mount Weather in Berryville,
Virginia), they will use the power of the media and the military to
prevent the President from acting ...
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