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Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Onlinejournal.com Are we wusses or freedom-loving Americans? By Bev Conover September 27, 2001 - Yes, what happened on September 11 was horrifying, but it was a criminal act and not an act of war. Nations declare and wage wars on other nations. Tribes declare and wage wars on other tribes. Neither nations nor tribes declare and wage wars on bands of criminals. Dealing with criminals is what criminal justice systems are for. Yet, in the wake of September 11, with the major media beating the war drum and sucking up every fanciful tale and lie that comes out of the White House, the Bush administration wants us to wage war on we know not whom and give up our civil rights in the process. We even are expected to rally to the illegitimate administration that occupies the White House, forgetting that George W. Bush stole the election and five members of the U.S. Supreme Court blessed his theft. Not to do so is to be called un-American, un-patriotic or worse. Have we forgotten that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels? And there are no greater scoundrels loose in this country today than George W. Bush, the people he has surrounded himself with, the corporate media who continue to brainwash a jittery people with war and the need for more security propaganda, and the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Where was the White House admonition when Falwell blamed the September 11 horrors on liberals, gays, the American Civil Liberties Union, feminists and abortion rights supporters, and Robertson, despite his later denials, concurred with him? Yet, the White House has admonished Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect" for calling our previous acts of raining terror down on people from a safe distance "cowardly." Falwell and Robertson are in no danger of losing their jobs for their behavior, yet the Disney-owned ABC may cancel Maher's program. Sears and Federal Express have already pulled their commercials from "Politically Incorrect." Three ABC affiliates, including the one in Washington, DC, have already cancelled the show. We were chilled to our very core as we listened to George W. Bush's speech before a joint session of Congress on September 20 and heard the thunderous applause coming from both sides of the aisle. The man was proposing to set off a war without end, at the least, or World War III, at the worst, plus turning the United States of America into a police state. Are Americans so ready to follow an illegitimate leader who more than likely didn't even know where Afghanistan was before he decided his former financier, Osama bin Laden, was the culprit? The corporate media cheered and sickeningly likened him to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. How easy it is to forget that when FDR took office in the midst of the Great Depression many in government, including Roosevelt himself, were concerned that conditions were ripe for a communist takeover. Yet, FDR told the people, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." No truer words were ever spoken. The Bush administration and the corporate media are playing upon people's fears, instead of working to quell them. Karl Rove, Bush's political adviser, personally called selected reporters, as Bush was flying around the country looking for a place to hide on September 11, and told them that Air Force One also was a target of terrorists. When that didn't quite wash, Rove then told them the White House was a target. And when that story fell apart, it, like all the other tales of impending attacks, was blamed on "misinterpreted" information. Could it be that word filtered back to the White House about what a commercial airline pilot had to say about the White House and the Capitol being targets? As the pilot pointed out there are only two clear routes to both and that is from the west, the only problem is it would take unparalleled skill to fly an airliner around the Washington Monument to make a level hit at 300 miles per hour - which is required for a terrorist to get the desired result - on either building. Trees obscure all other sides of the White House and the Capitol. But didn't the media lap up those tall tales, as well as Air Force One being a target? Meanwhile, the shutdown of all the country's airports put the nation's commercial airliners on the brink of bankruptcy - whether you wish to cry for them or not - 100,000 airline personnel are headed for the unemployment lines, along with thousands of others being laid off; businesses - large and small - lost billions of dollars, the stock markets took a dive knocking holes in what was left of people's 401Ks. To add to the hysteria, the September 15 and 16 college and professional sports were cancelled so people could sit at home and brood over whom to punish for killing 6,500 innocent people. All people with dark hair and swarthy complexions were put at risk, as extremists cried, "Kill the towel heads!" We know not how many innocent people may have been terrorized, beaten or killed, as a consequence. Bush inflamed passions more when he showed his ignorance of Muslim sensitivities by referring to his lovely war as a "crusade" and called his madness "Operation Infinite Justice," now renamed "Operation Enduring Freedom." A reader pointed out the latter also was a curious use of words. Does he mean he has to endure freedom or wants freedom to endure? And when he settled on Osama bin Laden as the responsible one, without showing the American people or the rest of the world that he is trying to engage in his war a shred of proof, he ratcheted up the rhetoric another notch by referring to Old West posters that read: "Wanted Dead Or Alive." Then there is the Office of Homeland Security he is setting up that will make gone with the rest of our freedoms. It is based on recommendations in the Orwellian "The Phase III Report Of The U.S. Commission On National Security/21st Century," which you may download in .pdf format and read for yourselves. It is hard to believe that former Senator Gary Hart and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young had a hand in writing this horror. This is the report the media have been touting and asking why it hadn't been implemented sooner. That shows you where the corporate media are coming from. And when the media aren't whipping up further fear and hysteria, they are now working to convince us that national identity cards are the things that will keep us safe from terrorists. Of course, it is unlikely that you have heard anything on the national news about the executive order Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, George W's brother, signed on September 7, four days before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that provides for the suspension of civil liberties in the Sunshine State (Executive Order Number 01-261), which begins: "WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to provide support to law- enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters; and . . ." A curious coincidence at the least. On the day of the attack, Jeb Bush signed Executive Order Number 01- 262 declaring a state of emergency exists in Florida. This gives state authorities the power to: " . . . suspend the effect of any statute, rule, or order governing the conduct of state business . . . including any and all statutes and rules which effect budgeting, printing, purchasing, leasing, procurement, and the conditions of employment and compensation of employees . . ." " . . . seize and utilize . . . personal property . . ." " . . . regulate the movement of any or all persons to or from any location in the State . . ." Now, according to the Palm Beach Post, the Florida legislature wants to lock up all the public records and conduct its business in secrecy - all for the sake of security, you know. Does a fascist streak run in the Bush family or what? George W., while he already started his damage in the spring of 2000 by getting his oil friends to run up the price of crude, then followed that in the summer of 2000 by bad-mouthing a healthy economy, causing it to spiral downward, has managed to do in just the eight months he has occupied the White House what it took Hitler and the Nazis years to accomplish. Interestingly, last spring Doubleday published investigative reporter James Bamford's new book, "Body of Secrets," in which Bamford lays out the frightening plans the Joint Chiefs of Staff, headed by Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, cooked up in 1962. Bamford stumbled on the documents in the National Archives; documents that were supposed to have been destroyed to save the nation's then military chief from great embarrassment. The plans, code named Operation Northwoods, included hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, orchestrating acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, possibly assassinating Cuban émigrés and causing U.S. military casualties, all as a way of tricking the American people and the international community into supporting a war against Cuba in order to oust Fidel Castro. The Kennedy administration rejected the diabolical scheme and, according to Bamford, " . . . three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba, Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as chairman and transferred to another job." That brings us to the question of whether someone in the Bush administration read Bamford's book and dusted off the nearly 40-year- old Operation Northwoods renaming it Operation Infinite Justice, then renaming it again to Operation Enduring Freedom? Wag the dog? This may be ancient history to some, but Castro was our bastard - as Henry Kissinger was fond of calling the despots we supported - until the day Fidel revealed he cottoned to Marxism. Osama bin Laden also was our bastard during the years the Soviet Union waged war upon Afghanistan, as was Saddam Hussein when he was useful for holding the line on the Islamic fundamentalists who took over Iran. Salem bin Laden, Osama's eldest brother, who died in a 1983 plane crash, was heavily invested in George W. Bush's first business venture, Arbusto Energy, thanks to Bush's friend and business partner James Bath, who also was tied up with the bin Ladens and the Bushes in the Bank Commerce Credit International. According to a story that appeared last Saturday in The New York Times, under the headline "For Bush, a Mission and a Defining Moment," Bush may also see himself on some holy mission in his desired all out "war on terrorism. According to Times reporter Frank Bruni, a senior administration official said Bush told a full cabinet meeting, "This is the purpose of this administration." This is the administration the corporate media and certain members of Congress would have us surrender our civil liberties to, accept national identity cards, submit to constant surveillance, subject ourselves, our homes and businesses to unreasonable searches, and consign our persons to possibly detention without end. Is this what it all has come down to? Have we become a nation of cowering, sniveling, spineless wimps all because of the acts of criminals, regardless of who they are? Do we now march like good little Germans into the ranks of the living dead as we sing the praises of our führer? Americans don't honor their fallen by handing over their freedoms and marching in lockstep to the dictates of some would-be Hitler - and don't forget Bush said it would be easier if he were a dictator - that is, if we still are Americans. Americans pick themselves up, brush themselves off, bury their dead and get on with it. As FDR said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." e Steve Wingate, Webmaster ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> 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. 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