tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post3904056395315767347..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: How the GOP Turned the US Into a Hideous Police StateAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-12608542926109265082008-09-16T18:21:00.000-07:002008-09-16T18:21:00.000-07:00PostscriptSource url: http://humanbeingsfirst.blog...Postscript<BR/><BR/>Source url: <BR/><BR/>http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/responseto-how-gop-policestate.html<BR/><BR/><BR/>A followup comment to Project Humanbeingsfirst's response above by someone noted the following helpful citations:<BR/><BR/>" I think the visa officer you refer to may be Michael Springman.<BR/><BR/>You are right about the CIA liasing with al Qaeda operatives. Ali Mohammed (also here) was an al Qaeda insider. For over ten years he trained Islamic jihadists for all the main attacks inside the US<BR/><BR/>There is also author Peter Lance's fascinating account of FBI links to the early jihadist attackers: the Lincoln Tunnel bombing and the 1993 attack on the WTC. "<BR/><BR/><BR/>While the above citations attempt to explain away the facts of collusion between the State's intelligence apparatus and their manufactured terrorists as either “blowback”, “incompetence”, or “double-triple cross”, etceteras, the real fact of the matter is that due to sophisticated compartmentalization of covert-ops with clever red herrings planted to manage “plausible deniability” across the board, many governmental agencies and different groups within the same agency are deliberately provided different views and different micro marching orders under which they each operate. This creates a fantastic, independently functioning – with well defined responsibilities and interfaces which effectively limit one's charter and operational purview – cohesive distributed system under a common framework and common overarching agenda. As a systems architect well versed in managing complexity, this is how I would compartmentalize the structure of any step-wise “imperial mobilization” planning and execution when deception is required to be the primary modus operandi. The evidence of recent “imperial” history suggests that this is also how a State does it – as also captured in the pithy statement of a former Director of the CIA: “Deception is the state of mind, and the mind of the State”!<BR/><BR/>The covert-ops of 911, a deliberate and precision “inside job”, masterfully planned, superbly orchestrated, and devilishly camouflaged for various well-intentioned patsies chartered to perform only their limited and routine “daily jobs”, just like the visa officer ordered to issue visas without being told anything else, is how very large and complex political science driven operations in the modernity du jour are managed. The fact that the visa officer was compromised when he was ordered by his bosses against his “routine judgment”, and then lived to narrate it quite prominently, is an anomaly in the same way as Daniel Ellsberg living beyond the “Pentagon Papers” is an anomaly. Was this so as a planned red herring designed to be spun by a well-intentioned patsy honestly telling his tell all-tale? After all, look at the impact: the visa officer, like Pacifica's Democracy Now, did contribute to all the gratuitous theories of 911, from “incompetence” to “blowback”, except the very fundamental and truthful one – “inside job”! To my recollection of years of listening to Democracy Now until I stopped, I have not heard Amy Goodman entertain the only scientific as well as forensically tenable explanation, that 911 was an inside job!<BR/><BR/>This is why, in order to understand modernity, especially for un co-opted journalists, historians, scholars, and any conscionable people trying to make sense of contemporaneously unfolding 'future-history', one has to be quite sophisticated and quite well-read in political science (deception based social control), military science (when 'hardwar' is involved as in perpetual war favored by neo-conservatives and other unilateral terror advocates), economics (when 'softwar' is involved as in neo-liberalism and exercising hegemony through the debt trap), and in the history of covert and black-ops which are subsequently typically blamed upon patsies, dupes, and the 'lone gun-man' when successful, or comes unraveled. To the extent that those erudite pundits in the Western hemisphere who ought to know better but remarkably don't, and fortuitously for 'empire', mainly end up perpetuating the 'dialectics of deception', well – please see Project Humanbeingsfirst's report “Weapons of Mass Deception – The Master Social Science”. The hallmark of such scholarship is to retain the one or more basic core-lies as axiomatic, while spinning all possible and plausible alternatives in order to cater to any and all proclivities of the masses, from the simpleton to the sophisticated.<BR/><BR/>In order to ameliorate these matters, in Project Humanbeingsfirst's view, all credentialled journalists must minimally acquire graduate degrees in political science and political history, just as all credentialled medical doctors must minimally have an MD in order for each to demonstrate minimal competence in their respective chosen profession before being permitted to practice on their respective trusting patients! That competence by itself is not a sufficient condition, but surely an axiomatically necessary one, for the 'freedom of the press' to mean anything useful. See Chapter 7 of “Prisoners of the Cave” for other necessary conditions, and Chapters 4 and 6 for related matters that need to be effectively countered, in order to create a useful 'fourth pillar of democracy' in a genuine Republic.<BR/><BR/>The following books shed further light on these complex contemporary matters from the devilish political science perspective: Daniele Ganser's NATO's Secret Army, Edward Luttwak's Coup d'État, Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror, and John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman and The Secret History of the American Empire.<BR/><BR/>Which scholar and journalist in the entire Western world has employed lessons of history to unravel current affairs? Look for those who have retained the core-lie of 911 being an invasion from abroad, to eliminate the vast majority – and that includes my own teacher and mentor, “arguably the most important intellectual alive”, Noam Chomsky!<BR/><BR/>See Chapter 2 and 5 of “Prisoners of the Cave” for a discussion of this inexplicable failure to employ history and political science by world famous gadflies, Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk. The latter with even a Ph.D. in political science. And who of course does not know the 1001 books the former has so prolifically penned about the 'rogue state'! Neither demonstrates that they are at all aware that deception exists as a manifest component of rational political science and all history of “imperial mobilization” of which they have themselves written much about, that governments lie, and that bigger the lie, harder it is to disbelieve by a gullible public. They both willingly, and trivially, accepted, and continue to accept, the Pentagon's version of whodunit. Neither asked how the hell could it have realistically been done by the officially identified patsies, and both went off on their respective rehash of “why” Bin Laden dunit! With no prominent intellectual daring to challenge it as such, each has participated, according to their measure, in prolonging the death and agony of the victims who fell, and continue to fall, to the merciless “shock and awe” due to the enabling false-flag operation of 911. This includes the victims of “all the evil that followed”, the blame for which also manifestly accrues to the first “shock and awe”, and to all those silent and complicit bystanders who did not attempt to challenge the enabling core-lie upon which it was all based, and especially to those who reinforced it in the guise of dissent!<BR/><BR/>The laws on the books in the United States, as in the European Union, are now constructed such that in the near future, if the State so desires, challenging the narrative of any 'official history', will land one in jail. The pretext will be 'it is a hate-crime because it hurts the feelings of the bereaved families of the victims buried under the rubble of 911'.<BR/><BR/>Another un-glamourous “I told you so” moment of 'future-history' now being trivially foretold. The GOP/DEMS will equally participate in bringing this 'Hideous Police State' to fruition with the active support of the 'left' and the 'right', the rabble and the righteous – and then, all will, once again, act 'surprised'! See a more detailed analysis of this combined role, with full willingness of both Houses of the Congress, and the intellectuals, in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report: “Impeachment alone does not solve the problem!”.<BR/><BR/>Project Humanbeingsfirst humbly salutes those ordinary plebeians (without meaning to be self-serving), who without any fancy titles or credentials, and those tiny handful of un co-opted intellectuals and un-embedded journalists and academics, all of whom have together endeavored to forensically see past the 'puppet shows' from the very beginning. Despite never having learnt how to astutely use political science to affect change, nor how to get off a treadmill, such 'Socrates', may yet, one day, still prevail provided they finally learn the art of efficacy.<BR/><BR/>Please see the source url under Postscript in order to access all the embedded links in this response.<BR/> <BR/><BR/>Thank you.<BR/>Zahir Ebrahim<BR/>Project Humanbeingsfirst.org<BR/>http://humanbeingsfirst.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-87234123713786101852008-09-14T06:08:00.000-07:002008-09-14T06:08:00.000-07:00Jacob sez...But on the other side, it would/could ...Jacob sez...<BR/><BR/><EM>But on the other side, it would/could be usefull to readers of your blog to experiënce the depraveness of morons, and the freedom of speach. </EM><BR/><BR/>Indeed! I enjoy a good debate. Tragically, some issues can no longer be debated rationally. The best example is '911' which has been made sacrosanct seemingly by decree. Indeed, by law, if Bush does not like what you say about '911' you may be merely 'deemed' to be a terrorist and, by decree, you are one. <BR/><BR/>That has not kept me from slamming the official conspiracy theory whenever I get a chance. But it has polarized the exchange such that real debate about it is not possible. <BR/><BR/>A simple example is the issue of 'burden of proof'. In a rational society, the 'burden of proof' may be summed up thus: those who assert must prove. Bush 'asserted' a 'theory' for which he has provided no evidence, let alone proof. Yet --I am called a traitor for daring to point out that there is NOT A SHRED of evidence in support of any proposition put forward by Bush at any time. Indeed, the story has even morphed over time. <BR/><BR/>There is NO EVIDENCE to believe that al Qaeda --if it exists at all --had anything to do with 911.<BR/><BR/>Al Qaeda, literally, means 'the base', a creation of the US CIA in Afghanistan during that nation's war with the old Soviet Union. It has no other existence beyond that. Many of the 'images' of bin Laden are faked; others are of various people. The most infamous 'bin Laden', the bin laden of the tape released following the 911 attacks, is clearly NOT bin Laden, or at least not the tall, slim and almost emaciated bin Laden of earlier images. <BR/><BR/>Bin Laden is the creation and brain child of the CIA, MI6, MI5 and possibly Mossad. It's all bullshit and lies. <BR/><BR/>There is NO EVIDENCE than any of the said hijackers every board any of the said planes on 911. It was not only the BBC, but The Telegraph and other media who interviewed many of the hijackers after they were 'said' to have died on 911. <BR/><BR/>In short, 911 is an absurd cover story for which there is not a shred of hard or circumstantial evidence at all.<BR/><BR/>'911' is a form of induced mass psychosis. And there is simply no point is trying to debate with a lunatic or those who deliberately choose to remain ignorant.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-64720605683698615542008-09-14T05:23:00.000-07:002008-09-14T05:23:00.000-07:00Dear Cowboy,I do not know where in heaven or hell ...Dear Cowboy,<BR/><BR/>I do not know where in heaven or hell or on Earth you get the energy from, but I do know you matter a great deal when it comes to 'giving' this World today (since we're on the internet) a whole lot of information!(wich I descretely check-out of-course!) <BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>I realy do hope, and you prommessed such, that you would go-into further in-to the psycho(ana)logical aspects, wich you in your earliar post on Jung gave way to be more public.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Maybe the above mention is in some-way cryptic, but you know what I mean.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>I hope you do wel dear Cowboy and that you know where to graze the herd when the rain falls, it is, to beautifull to ignore!<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>And please, please, take care of yourselves!<BR/><BR/>BE BRAVE, BE BEAUTIFULL,<BR/><BR/>Jacob.<BR/><BR/>And PS. There's no problem whatsoever from me, understanding your way of preventing all kind of "reversal-creativity" in the form of ignorance!<BR/><BR/>But on the other side, it would/could be usefull to readers of your blog to experiënce the depraveness of morons, and the freedom of speach.<BR/><BR/>Have a good day sir.<BR/><BR/>Jacob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-36673446579701616472008-09-14T04:12:00.000-07:002008-09-14T04:12:00.000-07:00Jacob, Thanks for your very welcome post. I apolog...Jacob, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your very welcome post. I apologize for the comment moderation --but, of late, I am just not in the mood to tolerate the spam, personal attacks and 'sponsored' propaganda disseminated by trolls. Hope you understand. <BR/><BR/>You wrote: <BR/><BR/><EM>It's also the reason why I like this blog so much, Len Hart stirs up, with an incredible amount of information, the few (seeing and reading the amount of comments compared to several other blogs) who seem open and honest and thoughtful enough to participate in, what seems to me, a humanitary-historical discussion, only to be compared with " The Age Of Voltaire "!(book by Will and Ariël Durant)</EM><BR/><BR/>I have, in the past, paid homage to Voltaire --his Chateau in Ferney, France and his Geneva residence which is now a scholar's museum. Visits are by appointment only. Inside, I was allowed to 'peruse' Voltaire's original letters in his own hand.<BR/><BR/>I would also like to thank Zahir Ebrahim for the great post. When I am less pressed for time, I will hope to post the reply that it deserves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-72565807595633004942008-09-14T03:14:00.000-07:002008-09-14T03:14:00.000-07:00@Zahir Ebrahim,Your comment is without a doubt the...@Zahir Ebrahim,<BR/><BR/>Your comment is without a doubt the most intelligent I've read on this Existentialist Cowboys Blog!<BR/><BR/>Thank You.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>It's also the reason why I like this blog so much, Len Hart stirs up, with an incredible amount of information, the few (seeing and reading the amount of comments compared to several other blogs) who seem open and honest and thoughtfull enough to participate in, what seems to me, a humanitary-historical discussion, only to be compared with " The Age Of Voltaire "!(book by Will and Ariël Durant)<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Len Hart truly states that the GOP has become/is a criminal/political conspiracy, wich has without a doubt something/a-lot to do with his own feelings and experiences about the grand betrayal of the GOP/Neo-Cons as an Republican Institution. Scott Ritter, Gore Vidal and Ron Paul seem to me to be in the same state of mind when it comes to the real " REPUBLICAN VALUES " wich 'once upon a time in the West' were created by, it now seems, giants of U.S. representative and democratic state-building and responsebility in the 18th and 19th century.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>The one thing I doubt in Len Harts vision about the U.S. political system (a blind spot maybe?) is his portrayal of the GOP as the only great evil in U.S. politics. While the Dems, Clinton and now Obama were/are in fact persisting on a like-wise Global-Dominance, and Democrat Leader Pelosi resisting/blocking any/all arguments to impeach the Maffioso murderous criminal Bush bunch that rules the U.S. policies abroad and at home today.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>By now we all know what Obama's/Biden's intensions are in the Middle East, and for that matter the Caspian/Caucasus region, whoever gets elected as president in November, for the World at large it'll mean more of the same U.S. TERROR, with over 700 military basis around the Globe to spread it from. My personal (only) hope as an European is, that The U.S. of A shall meet such a economical collapse that Israël/AIPAC loses its U.S. money/military subsidies and with it its megalomane/racist/gripe, wich cripples all proper humane solutions towards peace. I'm not sure about China or Russia, but seeïng/knowing theyr geo-political agenda, they're in no position to escalate the U.S. Foreign Policy Insanity wich they know to be a prospect for a total degradation and a probable end to humanity.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Europe was and is today utterly and totally useless in geo-political-matters, its face-less non-moral-non-committant stance is purely financial/economic driven, Sarkozy may seem some leader now in the Georgian/Russian conflict, but in my book of (European/World)leaders he's next to Italy's Maffia-Berlusconi, not even to speak about The Dutch (I'm Dutch) government right now, wich is merely abusing the separation of church and state under the fundamentalist christian Prime Minister Peter Balkenende, who could'nt connect with ordinairy people if his life depended on it.<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work and thank you all for your personal insights in a very troubled World.<BR/><BR/>Jacob Roodenburg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-85790464819661521902008-09-10T16:20:00.000-07:002008-09-10T16:20:00.000-07:00Great stuff, Zahir Ebrahim! More power to you. I t...Great stuff, Zahir Ebrahim! More power to you. I think the visa officer you refer to may be <A HREF="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SPR302A.html" REL="nofollow">Michael Springman</A> (also <A HREF="http://wotthehellisthis.blogspot.com/2006/08/michael-springman.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>). <BR/><BR/>You are right about the CIA liasing with al Qaeda operatives. <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mohammed" REL="nofollow">Ali Mohammed</A> (also <A HREF="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3422" REL="nofollow">here</A>) was an al Qaeda insider. For over ten years he trained Islamic jihadists for all the main attacks inside the US – the first WTC bombing, 9/11, the attacks in Somalia and Kenya. He trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri. But that’s not the whole story. Mohammed was a former officer in the Egyptian army’s military intelligence unit who in the 1980s cross-trained with the US Green Berets. Around 1984 he apparently became a CIA agent while an agent of Al Qaeda. He moved to the US in 1985 and obtained citizenship. He then joined the US Army and served as a drill sergeant until 1989 - simultaneously offering clandestine military and demolition training to some of the perpetrators of the 1993 WTC bombing. He was al Qaeda’s spy within the US military. Mohammed was arrested in 1998, but released from prison on the direct orders of US attorney general Gonzalez. Why the special treatment? Ali Mohammed is a walking 9/11 Commission, the story you’ll never hear. <BR/><BR/>There is also author <A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/29/triple_cross_journalist_peter_lance_on" REL="nofollow">Peter Lance's </A>fascinating account of FBI links to the early jihadist attackers: the Lincoln Tunnel bombing and the 1993 attack on the WTC. (Also <A HREF="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/03/peter-lance-article.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>). <BR/><BR/>Lance relates how in 1989 a crack FBI team was surveilling Islamic terrorists from an MAK (al Qaeda precursor) centre in Brooklyn. On four separate weekends they photographed them do automatic weapons training on Long Island.Three of the guys photographed went on to bomb the World Trade Center. One (Nosair) went on to kill Rabbi Kahane, two went on to plot with the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) to blow up tunnels around Manhattan - which included the FBI office at 2600 Federal Plaza - and the leader of the group, Ali Mohammed, went on to train Bin Laden's bodyguards in Afghanistan and did the surveillance work for the African Embassy bombings in 1998. They were part of a veritable who's who of Egyptian islamic terrorists present in the US in 1989 who later played senior roles in al Qaeda activities.<BR/><BR/>Two of the guys photographed and surveilled by the FBI were Mahmud Abouhalima and Mohammed Salameh who took part in the 1993 WTC attack.<BR/><BR/>According to Lance this FBI surveillance was mysteriously shut down in 1989.<BR/><BR/>The next story Lance relates is about the assassination in New York on 5 Nov 1990 of US orthodox rabbi and radical Israeli terrorist, Meir Kahaneby, carried out by one of the MAK group, El Sayyid Nosair (later convicted of the 1993 WTC bombing). That night the NYPD and the FBI raided Nosair's house and found 47 boxes of evidence which included: <STRONG>1400 rounds of ammunition, top secret manuals from the U.S. Special Forces Warfare school in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, maps of the World Trade Center, pictures of the World Trade Center, bomb recipes and the untranslated sermons and writings describing the Blind Sheikh's sermons which said that they wanted to hit the edifices of capitalism -- "the high world buildings."</STRONG><BR/><BR/>The NYPD detective in charge, Joseph Borelli, determined that this was a "lone gunman" shooting. They also arrested in the house Mahmud Abouhalima and Mohammed Salameh - the two guys photgraphed by the FBI team in 1989 using automatic weapons, who just happened to be the getaway car drivers for Nosair when he did the hit!<BR/><BR/>Since the police had decided it was a "lone gunman" shooting, they released them without charge!<BR/><BR/>That was in 1990!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-51247715678620814562008-09-10T12:44:00.000-07:002008-09-10T12:44:00.000-07:00Comment for "How the GOP Turned the US Into a Hide...Comment for "How the GOP Turned the US Into a Hideous Police State"<BR/><BR/>Dear Mr. Len Hart,<BR/><BR/>As I read through your chilling summation of what's presently transpiring in the real America that most Americans still do not get to see and hear, I feel no sense of gloat or satisfaction; only intense frustration at what this beautiful country has been so very very predictably turned into. It is incoherent to blame it upon the GOP alone. The GOP/RNC represents the same ruling interests as the DEM/DNC. They have the same common financiers and power-wielders, policy-planners and think-tankers - surely you know all this already. Both presidential platforms represent the same "imperial mobilization" agendas. They differ only cosmetically at best, and perhaps a bit in temporal tactics if at all.<BR/><BR/>None of what you detail is at all a surprise - it was predicted the day FBI visited my home in search of some "terrorist", an experience I detail in the first part of my book; and the basis of whatever you have described by scouring all those current newspaper and eyewitness reports, is in the second part of my book. This was in 2003, on the eve of Iraq's invasion. At that time, maximum weekend protest size in America by any reasonable estimate, was less than half a million - and then it was back to work in pursuit of the "American dream". Today, the protests are far smaller, any mass mobilization non-existent. Whence your optimism: "When millions are so motivated, the underpinnings of this dictatorship of less than one percent of the nation will collapse."? That is like Etienne de La Boetie platitudinously observing in his famous discourse on Voluntary Servitude in 1552 A.D.: "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." Yet, not much has happened. Tyrants abound in all times as people allow them in all times. The Ten Commandments were surely enough to end all injustices in the world 3000 years ago! Yet we still have the 'ubermenschen' who remain "beyond good and evil". Platitudes are no match for devilish political science. It is only astute political science that can counter, with any efficacy, Machiavelli and Orwell, Brzezinski and Kissinger, Huxley and the opiate of the "American Dream".<BR/><BR/>Here are a few excerpts from my 2003 book which might sound like "I told you so five years ago". However that's not the purpose. Rehearsing these passages here is only meant to reflect the idea that "self-interest" is a major motivation for anyone, including the "United We Stand" Americans who have principally enabled the "imperial mobilization" of their nation. It was an intimate understanding of that basic principle which led to the creation of the false-flag pretexts (911, wmd, "imminent threat to domestic well-being", another 911, ...) that could bring forth that desired enabling response from the public. And unless "self-interest" is impacted, there will only be silence, acquiescence, and complacency from a peoples who are too far removed from the mayhem overseas to care. The economic depression, bankruptcies, and high cost of living is slowly tickling that "self-interest", but not fast enough to get a people mobilized. I humbly suspect that the biggest mobilizer for the American masses may be the North American Union. Until the crises which finally enables its construction, there will be no efficacy in dissent. Prepare for that crises, for only then, will the large mass of patriotic Americans standing at the brink of losing their beloved country to some bizarre union, have their patriotic self-interest sufficiently awakened to prevent it. That would be the time at which a precariously balanced game of domestic mobilization for dissent can possibly succeed in order to protect America from its real hijackers - if ever at all. Some ideas from chapter-7 in my book may still be useful towards that end.<BR/><BR/> <BR/>Excerpt from "Prisoners of the Cave" 2003 <BR/>http://prisonersofthecave.org<BR/><BR/> <BR/>From Part-I<BR/> <BR/>"I felt that just the fact that they had knocked on my door and no one else's in the neighborhood, was racial profiling and a presumption of guilt on their part, and a very intimidating moment for me because now I was going to have psychological problems about door knocks and door bells. And I also worried that my questioning them about their right to do so might lead them to think that I was trying to hide something. So I explained out loud to them that while I had nothing to hide, there was no reason for them to be suspicious at my wanting to assert my rights. I was living in a country which did accord me such rights, which is why I was living here and not elsewhere in the first place. I lectured them that it was unfair that they had their periscopes drawn on the Muslim community, that despite this "war on terrorism", innocent until proven guilty was a fundamental edict of this nation and cannot be wiped away by the Patriot Act 1, intrusive and obnoxious though it may be. And I even cautioned them, just in case they were not aware - few people are, of the looming Patriot Act 2 which is far more insidious and dangerous proposal for all US citizens and would impact them and their children and grandchildren far more than it would impact me, since I am not a citizen. I told them the story of the proverbial frog which can easily jump out of instant hot water and escape, but not from the reassuring warmth of gradually heated luke-warm water whose temperature is raised slowly to a boiling point, one civil liberty at a time, until there is no escape, only Fascism. They just stared at me, perhaps confounded by my spontaneous burst of outspokenness. Perhaps they had not expected such a reception, perhaps they were usually accustomed to the acquiescence of people they had been visiting up to that time, and had not thought about any of these issues as they carried out their normal course of duties. Like it used to be in Germany!"<BR/><BR/><BR/>" My attorney later told me that the first FBI agent called him up in response to his letter, and much after this second visit by Homeland security, identified himself as an FBI agent, and told him that it was a purely “voluntary” questioning they wanted to do of me. When my attorney informed him that I was quite keen on clearing up any misunderstandings they might have but that I would like my attorney to be present, the FBI agent said he did not see any point in interviewing me if an attorney was to be present, and just hung up!<BR/><BR/>In other words, if I have legal representation, they leave me alone! They only want to interrogate me if I don't have legal representation! And they don't even inform me that it is voluntary when they first come to visit and instead tell me that my name had loosely matched some terrorist they were hunting down! So much for the State's Security apparatus upholding the public's civil rights in good faith! My knowing and insisting on my rights because of the brochure that NLG had handed out was instrumental in defeating their design of interrogating me without legal representation - or so it appears for the moment. Only for the moment however, as they can always interrogate one at airports, especially on arrival from overseas. In the guise of making immigration checks, they are regularly putting Muslims through a barrage of unjustified questioning and there are no lawyers present then."<BR/><BR/>" Wake up sleeping and complacent America!<BR/><BR/>It may have started with the Muslims, but it will not end there. You might be next. Fascism usually starts against a minority group, because it is easier to tolerate since it is only happening to those “damn Arabs” - not to us - how did our oil get under their sand anyway? But the laws that are getting on the books in the persecution of the minority, tend to stay there for a long time. If not you, then your children will surely pay the price. Are the Bill of Rights so trivial that you can stay silent? If not for reasons of compassion for another, then at least for the logic of self preservation, do not let this injustice prevail.<BR/><BR/>It will be of no compensation when several Ph.D. theses will be written by the succeeding generations about why and how their parents' generation could remain so silent, as a once democratic country with such lofty ideals, slowly descended into a Fascist state within, and the world's most barbaric imperial power outside. All the warning signs are plain to see, their designs even documented by the imperial perpetuators themselves, if only one can read. The images of reality pleadingly tell the truth - if only one is allowed to see them.<BR/><BR/>If we, all of us, do not arm ourselves with knowledge and critical thinking now, and don't exercise our Constitutional rights in publicly challenging the injustices done in our name, it might indeed be too late by the time we do finally wake up, when they would dare knock on anyone's front door, not just the Muslims. And no rights left to legally protest! Countless would have paid the price for our privilege of writing remorseful theses, soul searching books, sorrowful poetry, and sheepish apologies, in the future - yet again."<BR/><BR/><BR/>From Part II, Chapter-5, <BR/> <BR/> <BR/>"Why are Muslims under attack?<BR/><BR/>Let's return to the favorite question of this essay, the 'why', and ask, why is this happening to the Muslims in the US at this time, and why now? The malevolence for Islam in the hearts of the bigoted fanatics is nothing new. Then why all of a sudden is it finding this virulent expression? Doesn't the US already have its hands full with battles of conquest overseas? Commonsense would dictate that they should not take on domestic problems at the same time. Furthermore, ZB's framework has nothing to do with religion, it is all about resource, economic, and political hegemony. So why target the entire 6 - 8 million Muslims living peacefully in this country and make them objects of FBI investigations, map out their mosques, interview their members, monitor their communications and their finances, take down their credit card numbers, examine their wallets upon exit and ingress into the country, and who knows what else they are doing? Perhaps the government is thinking, that surely the Muslims have the motive, aren't we bombing their people, they will react and do something criminal and terroristic, and we have to protect the good people of the United States?<BR/><BR/>First of all, there is an adequate statistical sampling of terrorists and criminals in every ethnic group in America, including the majority, their most infamous one being Tim McVeigh. What about Alqaeeda, maybe some of them are really hiding in the mosque? If they were, the government would know exactly who they are and what their phone number and SS numbers is, because remember they trained them. The testimony provided by an ex. US official of the US embassy in Riyadh Saudi Arabia is quite telling. I heard him on Pacifica, describing how he was a visa officer and he would get these strange type of people applying for US visas in Saudi Arabia, from all different parts of the Arab world. Upon being asked the usual questions why they wanted to visit America, they would say strange things like: to attend a technical conference, and upon further inquiry have no clue about that subject area. So he would reject their visa application. Having rejected one too many visas, he was called up before his superiors and told to give out the visas regardless! So he issued the same people US visas the next time they visited, after already having rejected them the first time as dubious customers! Later he figured out these were the CIA operatives recruited from around the world and trained in the US for various "freedom fighting" activities. Their identities, mug shots, finger prints, dental profiles, DNA profiles, urine samples etc. are probably all on record with the government. It was reported that the CIA/FBI even had an informant working within the inner circles of the hijackers of 9/11 for what that's worth. Suffice it to say, the government is not really looking for terrorists in the mosques any more than they are looking for them in synagogues, or churches, or temples.<BR/><BR/>Stifling activist dissent is the real reason<BR/><BR/>Okay, what is the answer? Muslims of America make a very convenient fifth column to be vigilant against, to be investigated and dug out of their mosques, requiring new laws for surveillance and new powers for security agencies. To successfully deploy this, any and all confluence of interests are being employed, including the hatred and arrogance of the ultra right-wing Christian fanatics who seek Armageddon to get closer to Jesus.<BR/><BR/>How convenient! Muzzling the dissent of the very vocal minority of brave activists, and the likes of Daniel Ellsberg that might rise up to challenge the oppression and destruction of innocent people around the world in the process of executing this American global conquest, would require some draconian measures. Why? In order to curb their civil rights and create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation so that they would not be vocal in their protests, lest they are able to successfully mobilize and dethrone the emperor! Well the persecution of the "fictitious fifth columnist" is conveniently giving the perpetuators of world conquest the much needed despotic laws to control and contain any sort of public outrage.<BR/><BR/>These oppressive laws via the USA Patriot Act 1 passed by Congress in the wake of 9/11 without any debate, and now its even more oppressive successor Patriot Act 2 waiting in the wings for an opportune time, and the concomitant erosion of civil liberties, is really intended for the rest of the US population, and not so much for any "fictitious danger" from the "fictitious fifth columnists".<BR/><BR/>It is a preemptive strike at domestic dissent, consistent with the doctrine of preemptive strike at imperial targets abroad. Both are part of the same foreign policy agenda, as per ZB's “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”*7<BR/><BR/>Test this hypothesis yourself. How much danger are the Muslims to the state in the prosecution of their global hegemonic plans, and how much danger are the activists? In fact, any terrorism done by any Muslim in the US would play right into the hands of the state, now wouldn't it? But a Daniel Ellsberg or two leaking out privileged information from the “inside” like the infamous “Pentagon Papers”, that can provide concrete evidence of lying and deceit of the kind impeachments are made of, difficult to wriggle out from, can put a quick stop to the grandiose expansion plans of the state, now couldn't it? Or a mass mobilizations against the war as witnessed during Vietnam might awaken the real sleeping giant, the good hearted but dormant public, mightn't it? Richard Nixon, October 15, 1969, inside the White House, talking to Henry Kissinger, while a million people protesting outside the White House, briefly contemplates dropping an atomic bomb on Vietnam, but allows sanity to prevail because of his fear of what the million marchers might do to him.*8"<BR/><BR/><BR/>Zahir Ebrahim<BR/>Project Humanbeingsfirst.org<BR/>http://humanbeingsfirst.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-26827110091034220512008-09-10T08:07:00.000-07:002008-09-10T08:07:00.000-07:00We didn't win the cold war; they just transferred ...We didn't win the cold war; they just transferred their operations to the USA. Remember 1980 and the USSR was in Afghanistan? Well, guess who's in Afghanistan now. The same filth that was running the USSR(bolshevik Jews) are now running the US after their false-flag coup on 9/11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-18348945684948344962008-09-09T11:24:00.000-07:002008-09-09T11:24:00.000-07:00Christopher said... You said "......The US is fini...Christopher said...<BR/><BR/><EM> You said "......The US is finished UNLESS it can PURGE the nation of the GOP plague.........".<BR/><BR/> It seems, according to the polls, that Mr and Mrs America are about to elect another Republican to succeed George Bush. So they obviously like the GOP. </EM><BR/><BR/>Welcome back, Chris. <BR/><BR/>I hope the polls are wrong. In terms of my 'hopes' for America, those 'hopes' are, in fact, my last hopes. <BR/><BR/>McCain --Bush's third term --will finish off Democracy. This may be difficult to believe --but McCain is an even bigger liar than Bush and as much a threat. <BR/><BR/>I am always open to miracles.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-40025238006891208252008-09-09T11:06:00.000-07:002008-09-09T11:06:00.000-07:00You said "......The US is finished UNLESS it can P...You said "......The US is finished UNLESS it can PURGE the nation of the GOP plague.........".<BR/><BR/>It seems, according to the polls, that Mr and Mrs America are about to elect another Republican to succeed George Bush. So they obviously like the GOP. <BR/><BR/>The fact is that Mr and Mrs America voted George Bush into office not just once, but twice, and with a bigger plurality the second time around. <BR/><BR/>So the likes of Mr and Mrs America won't likely vote for Barack Obama this November, in the way they were never likely to vote for John Kerry and Al Gore. Mr and Mrs America, it seems, have never gone for candidates who are, like, THOUGHTFUL. <BR/><BR/>So they'll get the president they deserve - John McCain, who uncannily read their psyches, and picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. Sarah will turn out to have been a brilliant choice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-51560717125033102722008-09-09T08:47:00.000-07:002008-09-09T08:47:00.000-07:00Greg Bacon: I've been thinking the same thing myse...Greg Bacon: I've been thinking the same thing myself for some time. Bringing tyranny to America under the guise of fighting tyranny is a process that has been going on for a long time. It will go down in history as the biggest bait and switch of all time.SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1200977808709449432008-09-09T04:05:00.000-07:002008-09-09T04:05:00.000-07:00Len; I believe the GOP had a lot of help subvertin...Len; <BR/>I believe the GOP had a lot of help subverting our Constitution from so called ‘Democrats’. Two of those ‘Democrats’ are from my home state; Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. I’ve come to believe there is little or no difference between the two parties any more. A crook is a crook whatever you call them. <BR/>My main concern is Blanche Lincoln. She is the Senator from my District. I’ve e-mailed her numerous times and get back such inane form letters that all I accomplished was a rise in my blood pressure. <BR/>Concerning the passage of both Patriot Acts; ‘The police need these additional powers to fight terrorism here in the United States.’<BR/>Concerning Bush signing statements; ‘Like you, I believe it is imperative that the President of the United States play by the rules. As the leader of our country, he must live up to the ideals and values that we, as a nation, hold so dear. And, as a member of Congress, it is my duty to provide a check on the executive branch to ensure that the President is performing his duties in line with his constitutional responsibilities.’<BR/>Concerning the aggression against Iraq; ‘More than four years ago, Congress gave the President authority to order U.S. military forces into Iraq. Since that time, our troops have performed their mission with incredible bravery, precision and skill in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. Because of their sacrifice, we have seen a popularly elected government replace a ruthless dictator. And we have seen a democratic Constitution – approved by the Iraqi people – replace authoritarian rule.’<BR/>These are just three examples. All are an insult to my intelligence. The last particularly so; There were no free elections in Iraq at any time since the US invasion and the Constitution was written by the neo-cons and foisted off on the Iraqis.tiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00354310296446288223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-15604112868343861742008-09-08T15:28:00.000-07:002008-09-08T15:28:00.000-07:00Greg Bacon said...Can anyone tell me what the diff...Greg Bacon said...<BR/><BR/><EM>Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the USSR back then and the USSA now?</EM><BR/><BR/>I think you hit the nail on the head. As I used to say: if my rights are to be violated what difference does it make to me whether it is done by Bush or by Hitler? <BR/><BR/>If I am to be spied on and surveilled wherever I go, what difference does it make to me whether it is done by Bush or by Stalin! <BR/><BR/>The US is finished UNLESS it can PURGE the nation of the GOP plague.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-75338654334397409512008-09-08T14:41:00.000-07:002008-09-08T14:41:00.000-07:00If you're old enough to remember the stories comin...If you're old enough to remember the stories coming out of the news back in the 1960's and 1970's, you'll recall the horror stories coming out of what was then the former USSR.<BR/><BR/>Stories that would play on the nightly news about communist goon squads, busting down people's doors, Russians being dragged of out bed in the middle of the night to some god-forsaken black site prison and how any form of dissent was immediately jumped on and the protesters beaten and or shot, and rounded up to be sent to jail.<BR/><BR/>Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the USSR back then and the USSA now?<BR/><BR/>Cops in St. Paul were busting down people's doors at night, sometimes without a search warrant, dragging people off to unknown locations.<BR/><BR/>The kids being arrested were beaten, threatened with violence and arrested on trumped up charges.<BR/><BR/>Kids in the street were tear-gassed, had flash bang devices and stun grenades tossed at them, all for the crime of wanting to protest as is their right accorded to them in the US Constitution.<BR/><BR/>Please, please, someone explain to me the difference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com