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With Friends Like These By Lee Robinson Published 03. 16. 03 at 20:38 Sierra Time In a war you need to know two things; who are your friends, who is the enemy. Putting your life on the line in any situation where you cannot accurately answer those two questions is virtually suicidal. The inability to distinguish between friend and foe contributed greatly to America's defeat in Viet Nam and if we are not careful it will do the same in our new so-called War on Terrorism. First and foremost, your friends are the people you can trust. If you can't trust them they aren't your friends. If they aren't your friends, they are the enemy. We are being told by the government that we must fight a vague and open ended war against "terrorism". We are told that our personal survival and the survival of our way of life are at stake. But we are told this by people who have shown themselves to be absolutely untrustworthy, the very people who pose the greatest threat to our personal survival and our once free way of life; it is not logical to start believing in compulsive liars just because they start telling lies about people even worse than they are. Let me give an example: They say on the news that a new "terrorist" training video has appeared. The video shows al Qaida lunatics rehearsing murderous attacks on schools, practicing drive-by shootings from pick up trucks and motorcycles, launching attacks on golf courses, staging the invasion of private homes and ambushing police officers. The spin being put on this so-called training film by the government, which the mainstream media will parrot into the living rooms of the great American herd (those living rooms not yet filled with swarthy "terrorists"), is that this is what we can expect to happen soon in the U.S.of A. I don't believe a word of it, hell I don't believe a syllable or even a single letter of it. It seems obvious to me that this is nothing but another cheap trick designed to further the infantile masses' dependence on Big Brother. In a week or so they will present us with another list of rights that are preventing the endless federal agencies from saving us from these dedicated "terrorists". Surrender these rights, we will be told, and we can still protect you. They may even hint that it will only be temporary. The whole training film scenario is too preposterous and too obviously tailored to further frighten that certain juvenile segment of society. Why would any serious group make such a thing? Were they going to sell copies on e-Bay to recruit more Islamic nut bars? Maybe they planned a correspondence course in Destroying The Great Satan and this was to be a teaching aid. Is anyone so stupid that they have to watch a video to learn how to do a drive-by shooting? Are we really supposed to believe that al Qaida, who according to the government lived and plotted among us for years without being detected by our secret federal police, just left this revealing evidence "in an abandoned house" in Afghanistan? It is so obviously self-serving that it is beyond the day to day treason we have been seeing these last few years, it's just plain insulting. They can do better than that, or at least they always used to. They apparently think we are all so pathetic, frightened and foolish that we will now uncritically believe anything we are told. Another "news" story is claiming that "terrorists" have infiltrated various civil rights organizations and are shamelessly using them to subvert the wonderful new anti-"terrorism" laws that are so essential to protecting our freedom. J. Michael Waller, a senior writer for Insight Magazine states; "Terrorists and their supporters are doing their best to weave themselves into the political fabric of American society, say specialists in homeland security. They are operating front groups and charities to finance their operations, and they are running influence operations to weaken federal antiterrorism laws under the guise of protecting civil liberties." One of their pet peeves, the article implies, is the new, blatantly unconstitutional practice of people being charged with crimes based on secret evidence. This "evidence" is so sensitive that the accused are not allowed to know what it is. If the defendants are allowed to view the evidence against them this will somehow be bad for the Fatherland and anyone who has a problem with this new policy must, at the very least, be a "terrorist" sympathisizer. (And by the way, just what is a "specialist in homeland security"? Whatever it is I'm sure it will make an important addition to some neo-Nazi's resume.) Referring to "liberal civil-liberties groups, libertarians and small-government conservatives", Waller says that "The same groups, an Insight investigation shows, worked after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda airliner attacks to gut the Bush administration's tough new antiterrorism package." Well, duh, Mike. Anyone believing in the continuation of our Constitutional government or a civilized legal system would naturally have a very big problem with Bush's transparent attempts to seize power using the old scare tactics/sycophantic reporters gambit. It may interest some of these bozos to know that everything the 9-11 perpetrators did was already illegal and in most cases had been so for centuries. Conspiracy, kidnapping, illegal immigration, murder, plotting to violently overthrow the government, hijacking; all big no-nos that would justify investigation and arrest by any law enforcement agency that really wanted to do so. The big problem the government had wasn't a lack of laws with which to keep our country safe. The big problem was that the government was subject to legal restraint just like everyone else. Eliminating that restraint was the whole point of Bush's "tough new antiterrorism package.", and he seems to be succeeding, with a little help from his friends. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, politics abhors freedom. Free men and women are able to spend 100% of their time and resources on their own lives. That leaves nothing for the politicians. The less freedom people have, the more their lives belong to the government and the more of their resources go to the politicians. Fear has always been an efficient tool to dismantle the foundation of freedom. Lies are the building blocks of that fear. Find the source of the fear, find the source of the lies, and you have found the enemy. That is half the battle. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Lee Robinson lives on a farm in Tennessee where he raises exotic poultry. He enjoys target shooting and making life difficult for tyrants. © 2002 SierraTimes <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. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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