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"Their evil deeds will be
the spark that sets it on
fire.
They and their evil works will
burn up together, and no one
will be able to put out
the fire." - Isaiah 1:31
"Is it possible that if your best tool is
a gun,
every problem looks like a target?" - Mike Ambrose
"Using more force promotes the mentality
of using force."
-
Charles
Eisenstein
"Suspension of international
politics through hegemony has been the fundamental aim of U.S. foreign policy
since the 1940s. The U.S. has assumed the responsibility for maintaining
geopolitical stability in Europe, East Asia and the Persian Gulf, and for
keeping open the lines of communication through which world trade moves. Since
the Cold War's end, the U.S. has sought to preserve its hegemony by possessing
a margin of military superiority so vast that it can keep any would-be great
power pliant and protected." - Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz
"The
historical record shows that in the real
world, hegemony never has been a winning grand
strategy. The reason is simple: The primary aim of
states in
international
politics is to survive and maintain their
sovereignty. And when one state becomes too
powerful - becomes a hegemon - the imbalance of power in its favor is a menace to the security of
all other states. So throughout modern
international
political history, the rise of a would-be hegemon
always has triggered the formation of counter-hegemonic alliances by other
states." - Christopher Layne |
"Dominion of the world from end to end is
worth less
than one drop of blood upon the earth." - Saadi of Shiraz
"History tells me that we can't change
people's opinions at the point of a gun. If
America wishes to continue as a
world leader, it will be because we live up to the
ideals embedded in our founding."
- Sheldon
J. Baer
"Since 1945
American aristocracy has insisted on acquiring
and maintaining military supremacy. The United
States continues to expand its power and
military reach. " - Robert Kagan
"American aristocracy is indeed running the old
world order, and they will for a while longer. Most
empires are destined to
implode. The overreach of the American
empire (more than 700 military installations around the world in 120 nations), coupled with a defense budget of
$1 trillion annually (all related "defense" expenditures) cannot be long
sustained." - Mitch Paradise
CIA - DCI Counterterrorist Center "Terrorist
Buster" Logo
"How
can the people who were supposed to be keeping us safe when catastrophe hit be
looked upon as the ones who will keep us safe the next time around? " - Chris
Wolfe
"American aristocracy thinks it has the right to destabilize and
dominate the entire globe. Can any clear-thinking person still believe that the America is a peace-loving nation?"-
Chris Apostal Mass media
conglomerates categorize and
stereotype human groups and
cultures that do not accept and adhere to the
broadcast version of reality.
This
current arrogance can be traced back to the
original propaganda blitz of the
Creel Commission
designed to convert the American people from friendly towards Germans to
fervently anti-German. Within a year the Zionists propaganda had succeeded and America joined
World War I .
This
arrogant
ethnocentric
opinion of other nations, cultures and societies became embedded in the American pysche by the end of
World War II largely due to the
influence of the Ashkenazi
controlled Hollywood movie studios.
"This sense of religious mission,
this belief that since the United States has
been blessed with prosperity and democracy, we have, not just the right, but
perhaps even the God-given obligation to
go to other countries and share the benefits of all we have with them,
particularly to countries that may not even
be advanced enough to realize how much they want our political system." -
Stephen Kinzer
Zionist
arrogance, once it dominates the
mind, imagines
other cultures fail to
understand the benign intent of
neocon foreign
policy and therefore commit acts of terror.
In order to make the decisions and allocate the
resources needed to ensure
American security,
Americans must
understand
reality as reality is and the Earth as the Earth is,
not as Zionists/Talmudists wish,
imagine or fantasize the Earth
to be.
Lack of approval of neocon foriegn
policy is due to
neocon support of tyrannical despotic regimes.
Corrupt regimes, with the help of
corporate
neocons sponsors, are
systematically
exploiting
resources for
profit, while imprisoning,
torturing and executing domestic dissenters
- those who object to the loss of their livelihood.
For example, Imad
Kabir, an Egyptian bus driver was beaten and sodomized with a broom stick for refusing to bribe
a civil servant. A video of his rape was broadcast by police as a public
warning, as a result his father died of a stroke.
statistical competency
45,000 Americans
died in car accidents in 2005.
Studies of statistical competency show that
mass media systematically exaggerates the
probability of vivid, high-profile
threats such as violent homicides,
sexual crimes and terrorist
attacks while downplaying the probability of being involved in a
fatal highway accident.
"Reading the statistics on the deaths and maiming due to automobile accidents
made me really think about
security. Maybe we need to realize where the true dangers lie. Is it possible to totally
protect ourselves from terrorism,
and should we live in fear because of our
inability to do so? If one were to consider the possibility of being killed or
injured in a terrorism attack versus
what could possibly happen when we get into an automobile, perhaps our
fears would diminish." - Bobby Fraker
42,000 Americans die of
cancer every month.
An American dies
every 36 minutes of cardiovascular disease.
"Because the
news media is savvy about, and complicit in, our
fears and fascinations, we are fed an endless supply of
death news that has little to do with how people
actually die." - Meghan Daum
A
comparative absence of terrorism
supports the conclusion that the terrorist threat has been grossly
exaggerated. Americans are "winning" because there are few
terrorists posing a serious threat
to America.
"Terrorists use the tools they do
because they are weak and have no others. Americans need to
remember that we are the 800-pound
gorilla: We have choices, but we need to take care when we throw our weight
around." - Francis Fukuyama
Terrorists have an incentive to
exaggerate their strength to frighten their opponents.
Government plays it safe by exaggerating the
terrorist threat,
while the
terrorists oblige by exaggerating
their power.
And the
corporatists reap windfall
profits.
"Most ironically, the "war on terror" framework has lent
legitimacy to terrorist leaders
such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, enabling them to present themselves as warriors
standing up against a powerful - and hypocritical - American military
machine." - Rosa Brooks
"Although
Islamist extremists can certainly do huge amounts of
harm around the Earth, it is quite different to suggest that they
can threaten the existence of the
United States." - David A. Bell
Although
the federal government claims to be doing
everything possible to prevent another
terrorist attack, the
reality is that
another
terrorist attack is going to
happen, and
most likely it will be perpetrated by an American
citizen trained by the military. When it does, you, as a
private
citizen, better have a plan to help
yourself and your family as we have seen how the
federal government will respond - as they
did with the Katrina refugees, round 'em up and bus 'em out.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
IS NOT
PREPARED TO PROTECT EVERY AMERICAN,
CAN NOT PROTECT EVERY AMERICAN
AND WILL NOT PROTECT MOST
AMERICANS!
(NOT LISTED FOR SPECIAL PROTECTION? IT IS REALLY A SHAME
THAT YOU ARE NOT A TITAN OF COMMERCE, AN
AMERICAN ARISTOCRAT, A
TALMUDIST OR A
CELEBRITY. TOO BAD, YOU COULD HAVE GOT YOUR
FOOT IN THE DOOR AS A LOBBYIST OR
CAMPAIGN
FUNDRAISER!)
AMERICA IS BIG.
AMERICA IS OPEN.
America has far too many
targets of
opportunity to allow the federal
government to fully protect each and every
American citizen!
"I, for the life of me,
can not understand why the
terrorists have not attacked
our food
supply, because it is so easy to do. We've increased the number and the
percentage of inspections, but it still is a very small amount
(approximately 1%)." -Tommy G. Thompson, December
2004 (perhaps the terrorists do not exist)
How
would we know, for example, if the
terrorists contaminated our food
with a virulent strain of escherichia coli or
salmonella?
An issue that is
crucial to individual and
familial survival as well as peace of mind involves
us as individuals. What can
we do to improve our individual chances when
disaster strikes and
the government fails us?
"It is simply
impossible to protect every inviting target in a
continent sized nation of 300 million people." -
Max Boot
Disaster struck, but not
as the predicted terrorist attack.
Hurricane Katrina made land fall in New
Orleans, the levys burst and New Orleans was flooded. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency, after being folded into the
Department of Homeland Security performed AS
INSTRUCTED in response.
The head of
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D.
Brown, prior experience of
disaster management consisted
of supervising International Arabian Horse Association judges. Michael D.
Brown's top aide, Patrick James Rhode, resume stated that his
experience was as a
television
news anchor/reporter. The director of
Federal Emergency Management Agency's Recovery Division, Daniel Craig, was
previously responsible for
United States Chamber of Commerce related legislative,
political and media
initiatives. Each of these men supported George W. Bush's candidacy for president.
They were rewarded with political
appointments to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"Democracy does not work when appointees merely
rubber-stamp the decisions of the official who appointed them. The genius of
democracy is expressed when really able people are
enlisted in the cause of good government, then
allowed to exercise their best judgment on behalf of the public." - Robert
Haage
"I think the Clinton administration would have done a better job
in handling
Hurricane Katrina."- William Kristol
"After more than three years of
nomadic uncertainty, many of the children of Hurricane Katrina are behind in
school, acting out and suffering from extraordinarily high rates of illness and
mental health problems. Their parents, many still anxious or depressed
themselves, are struggling to keep the lights on and the refrigerator stocked."
- Shalia Dewan 12/4/08 (Big Brother let us down once again!
Smell that wonderful off gassing of toxins! Oops, I mean new trailer
smell!)
{The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal
(MRGO), a 76 mile channel that provides a shorter route between the Gulf of
Mexico and New Orleans's inner harbor, was designed for deep-draft vessels that
cannot fit through canal locks of the Industrial Canal. The MRGO, now called
the "hurricane highway," was directly responsible for the storm surge that
breached the levies of New Orleans. Responsibility for the damage done to New
Orleans rests in the laps of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the
shipping concerns that used the MRGO channel.}
Americans need to acknowledge
reality and demand
honesty from American government.
"Terrorists
may have attacked America on 911, but it's how
we respond that will hand them their real victory. I have never felt unsafe in
my own home, but my stepdaughter is studying abroad in Barcelona, and we speak
to her on a regular basis. Now I can't help but
wonder if my phone was tapped.
George W. Bush claims he's using his executive
privilege to protect
us. But add to the
secret wiretaps his
belief in
torture and in holding
people without due process, and I
can't help but feel that we're starting to
resemble the country we just invaded." - Barbara
Davilman
In January of 2008 George W. Bush's wiretapping efforts were
shut down by several telecommunications providers for lack of
payment.
"America
has done wicked things in the past to
other countries but never on such a
scale and never in such an existentialist way. It's as though we are
evil. We strike first. We'll destroy
you. This is an eternal
war against
terrorism. It's like a
war against dandruff. There's no such thing as
a war against
terrorism. It's idiotic. These are
slogans. These are
lies. It's
advertising, which is the only
art form we ever invented and developed." - Gore
Vidal
"George W. Bush
has become the Orwellian Big Brother. In the
name of protecting us from
terrorists,
George W. Bush has broken, bent,
circumvented or declared null and void laws that
are based upon our constitutional rights." - Doug Tennant
The war on terrorism will
never end.
There is too much
money to be made!
"Terrorism is a technique, not an
opponent. In our society,
terrorism is a crime and would be
more efficiently and effectively treated as such. However, even a
false war can have casualties.
Calling it a "war on
terror" has suppressed so much
democratic discourse that we need a
truth and reconciliation commission to
reclaim the vigor of our own
democracy."
- Chris Harget
"George W. Bush
terms it a global war on
terrorism. Making war on a tactic rather
than an enemy sounds about as effective as making war on a condition or an addiction, like our
wars on poverty (1964-) or drugs (1971-)." - P.W. Singer
"The evils of tyranny are
rarely seen but
by him who resists it." - John Milton Hay
"The most effective means of
preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the
people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts." -
Thomas Jefferson
"No single human being has the
physical power to render
whole forests to sawdust or whole peoples to
slavery."
- Charles Eisenstein
"The foundation of tyranny in the
world was trifling at first. Everyone capitulated to it until it attained its
present mgnitude."
- Saadi of Shiraz
"The ideal tyranny
is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.
The most perfect slaves are,
therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly
enslave themselves." - Dresden
James
"I don’t vote to fund wars. If
you are opposed to war, you don’t vote to authorize or appropriate money.
Congress, historically and constitutionally, has the power to fund or defund a
war. The more Congress participates in authorizing spending for war, the more
likely it is that we will be there for a long, long time. This reflects an even
larger question. All the attention is paid to what President Obama is going to
do right now with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan. The truth is the Democratic
Congress could have ended the war when it took control just after 2006. We were
given control of the Congress by the American people in November 2006
specifically to end the war. It did not happen. The funding continues. And
while the attention is on the president, Congress clearly has the authority at
any time to stop the funding. And yet it doesn’t. Worse yet, it finds
other ways to garner votes for bills that authorize funding for war. The
spending juggernaut moves forward, a companion to the inconscient force of war
itself.” - Dennis Kucinich
Popular
opinion of history has coasted along on the
myth that the Nazi, Soviet, Maoist, Khmer Rouge,
Baath and many other
murder sprees were organized by a single
madman. Historians
of tyranny have two
missions: to inform
readers how and why these
people ruled
and killed, and to deliver from the past.
If
Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Mao
Ze-Dong, Saddam
Hussein, Rafael
Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Jonas Savimbi, Charles Taylor, Pol
Pot or Idi Amen are presented as one
dimensional
evil psychopaths,
there is no that a
society has stumbled into a ;
people learn
nothing about the ruling class,
nothing
about the culture that spawned the the
ruling class
and fail to understand how genocidal
nightmares occur.
"Tyranny can't
be isolated to just one person giving orders. It is an entire
society that consists of the bullies and the
bullied, and hardly anything in between." - Bill Decker
"Explanations
of genocides that focus on "irrational mass behavior", overlook the central
importance of elite manipulation, anchored in
the state, the economy and civil society. In none of the genocides
of the 20th and 21st Century were the "masses" in a position to initiate,
organize and direct them, though, certainly, sectors of the lower classes
carried out the policies." - James Petras
If
Adolf Hitler,
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin,
Pol Pot, Mao Ze-Dong,
Saddam Hussein,
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Molina, Jonas Savimbi, Charles Taylor or Idi Amen had merely been charmless
psychopaths, they would never have risen to
power, let alone maintained it. They were simply
fanatical believers in a creed that included mass
murder to make a better
Earth and they were able to con-vince their
followers that this was indeed the proper
path to take. And - interestingly enough
- they all were able
to obtain
financing for their plans of domination.
"Supporters of Adolf
Hitler and Joseph Vissarionovich
Stalin were respected members
of society; the Nazis and the Soviets, in fact,
often worked through the established institutions of the military, the
schools and the church. Mass
violence spoke less to the psychic needs of the
masses than it did to the political needs of
the regime." - Corey Robin
An American
military policeman Spc. Sean D. Baker,
a Gulf War veteran who reenlisted
after 911, was assaulted in
January 2003 after he volunteered to wear an orange jumpsuit and portray an
uncooperative detainee. Sean D. Baker said fellow American military policemen were told that he was
an unruly detainee who had assaulted a sergeant. They proceeded
to inflicted a beating so severe that it resulted in a traumatic brain injury.
The assault left him with
seizures, blackouts, headaches and insomnia. This was only a
'' exercise.
"Conventional wisdom says the
George W. Bush administration and Republican party have been hijacked by
the ' believers' - both the
Christian imperialists and the chicken hawks. But an
alternative view is that the
neo-cons and
religious zealots are "fellow travelers" to a
cabal of
Zionists or, in the
view of the rest of the peoples of
Earth, imperial thugs.
Americans are so
confused (or in denial) that any excuse
for a messianic mission is better than
facing up to the truth.
"Of all tyrannies, a
tyranny exercised for the
good of its victims
may be the most
oppressive." - C. S. Lewis
Deep in
the American soul
we know that
without control of Middle East
oil, the American way of life, as
we now know
it, is extinct. The
neo-cons' democracy crusade provides convenient cover for the
lack of weapons of mass
destruction.
Of course, one big lie
leads to another. Given all the huge
problems that American government can not or will not
solve here at home (health care, Social
Security,
education, deficits,
immigration), only a
fool would seek salvation in 'freeing' the Earth
of tyranny by force." - Tom Tomeoni
"I am a retired
military officer who served his
country for 30 years. In all that time, I never
questioned my supreme duty to support,
defend and bear true allegiance to the
Constitution. All too often
history proves that
demagogues hide behind the mantras of national
security and national interests." - Paul LaBonte
"The
diffusion of power, both in the
political and the economic sphere, instead of its concentration in the
hands of officials and
captains of industry, would greatly
diminish the opportunities for acquiring the habit of command, out of which the
desire for exercising tyranny is apt to spring." - Bertrand Russell
"America is not a
normal country.
We are a homeland now under
military
surveillance and
military control." - Gore Vidal
"Neoconservatism, whatever its
complex roots, has become indelibly
associated with concepts like
coercive regime change, unilateralism and
American hegemony."
-Francis Fukuyama
"Do we remember after
World War II and during the
Nuremburg trials, the many discussions and legal rulings regarding
personal morality? How the excuses made
by those who were forced to perform hideous and inhuman acts in order to
save their own lives were considered invalid?
And again after Vietnam, when
details of unspeakable crimes were revealed, the discussions that followed all
agreed that no person should have to obey commands that are obviously immoral,
illegal or against his deeply held beliefs.
Now we have, in 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, an educated, intelligent, exemplary officer who has
clearly wrestled long and hard with his conscience and responsibly offered to
resign or serve elsewhere. Yet he is to be put on trial for refusing to fight
and kill in a war known to be based on
deceit." - Eleanor Jackson
{Pol Pot: A CIA officer told Time
magazine in 1961 that the CIA's aim "was to polarize' the communist and
anti-communist factions in Laos." Cambodia?}
"The
practice of arbitrary imprisonments have
been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of
tyranny." - Alexander Hamilton
"When
fascism comes to
America it will be wrapped in the flag and
carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis
"Never forget that everything
Hitler did in
Germany was legal." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Above all,
Fascism, the more it considers and
observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from
political considerations of the moment,
believes neither in the possibility nor the
utility of perpetual peace. War alone brings up to its highest tension all
human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the
courage to meet it." - Benito Mussolini "Klaus
Theweleit in his two volumes entitled Male Fantasies, which draw on the
bitter alienation of demobilized veterans in Germany following the end of
World War I, argues that a
militarized culture attacks all that is culturally defined as the feminine,
including love, gentleness, compassion and acceptance of difference.
The continued support for our permanent war economy, the continued
elevation of military values as the highest good, sustains the perverted ethic,
rigid social roles and emotional numbness.
It is a moral cancer.
Fascism, Theweleit argued, is not so much a form of government or a
particular structuring of the economy or a system, but the creation of potent
slogans and symbols that form a kind of psychic economy which places sexuality
in the service of destruction.
The core of all fascist propaganda is a
battle against everything that constitutes enjoyment and pleasure, Theweleit
wrote. And our culture, while it disdains the name of fascism, embraces its
dark ethic." - Chris Hedges
"The "New World Order" the Rockefellers
are planning will be a world
dictatorship. Conservatives will call it
Socialism or
Communism, Liberals will call it
Fascism. The label makes little
difference; it will be the Gulag
Archipelago on a worldwide basis." - Gary Allen
Fascism has been defined as a
system of government that exercises a
dictatorship of the extreme right,
typically through the merging of state and business
leadership together with belligerent
.
"It is
no accident that many on the radical right and their supporters have taken to
goose-stepping behind the rhetoric of
extremists like Rush Limbaugh, who first coined or
popularized the term "feminazi." It's my feeling that the lies not so much in the
epithets being flung at the left but in a real
and growing fascism
gnawing at the core of the
American national
psyche. In all the bluster and
rhetoric, our attention is being misdirected from a host of
very troubling issues."
- Tadek
Korn
"I don't care if Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is
using fascist author Ann Coulter to
raise money. John Edwards is a politician and
that's what politicians do. Ann Coulter is
using John Edwards to gain publicity so she can sell her books and continue her
shelf life by making outrageous statements. That's what Ann Coulter does. And
talk-show host Chris Matthews and "Good Morning America" make some hay by
giving Ann Coulter all this air time when she clearly has nothing to offer
except higher ratings. The whole enterprise is about
opportunism and it smells to
high heaven." - Barry Simon
"Max Boot and
other
neocon apologists are fond of using
the term 'Islamo-fascism'. It does have a certain ring of
truth. Who could deny the
existence of adherents? Now
Max Boot and cohorts should begin using
Christo-fascism and
Judeo-fascism with the same
frequency and validity." - Gene
Touchet
"If Max Boot could get past
being a fervent apologist for the neocons, he might see clearly the
reasons that many Muslims in the Middle East,
consider our policies in the region to be akin
to terrorism.
Max Boot scoffs incredulously at the
idea of Paul Wolfowitz being compared to
Osama bin Laden, but is that so
farfetched?
Osama bin
Laden orchestrated a violent attack on innocent
civilians in a country he deemed to be a threat to his
belief system
and way of life.
Paul Wolfowitz and the
other architects of the illegal
war in Iraq
trumped up phony evidence of false
threats to justify the bombing and
destruction of a country
killing tens of thousands of civilians because
they are a threat to the Zionists
way of life
and Talmudic
belief systems.
Does
Max Boot think
that the Muslim
mother whose child is
killed by a Zionist
bomb feels any differently than
the mother who lost her son on September
11?
Are Muslims supposed to accept
unprovoked attacks on sovereign soil
and the attendant collateral damage,
while we are not?
Max Boot's attitude
reflects the very racism and lack of
respect
that he claims
Muslims have no right to
feel." - Michele Greene
"If we
send more troops, as Max Boot suggests,
there will be more fighting and the number of our soldiers
killed will go up. More than 55,000
Americans were killed in action in
Vietnam, and then we left. The
insurgents know that if they kill enough of us we
will leave Iraq too, because we have
no justification to be there in the first place. The only reason that we are
still in Iraq is to distract the
voters from the corrupt
politicians and their
cronies
looting the treasury." - Steve
Harrington
"As I read Max Boot's
alternate-universe view of reality, I glanced up several times to see if a
white rabbit was running by holding a watch screaming that he was late." - Gary
Garshfield
"Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld's comparison of our enemies
in the Middle East to fascist countries
of World War II is an interesting
stretch. Real fascist
governments have the following
characteristics: domination of
all branches of government and the
economy by a political party; control of news sources
via economic relationships and threats of retribution; reliance on a large
military to promote national unity and
expand global
influence;
blind
obedience to the national
leader, and dismissal of any
international
laws unless they are temporarily
expedient." - Michael
Roddy
"I think Max
Boot can get the whole country
behind this war just by having him and his
neocon armchair general buddies and
their sons be seen on the front line and have a little skin in the game."
-
Jack Seidman
Fascism and
corporatism are one and the same
thing - both are dependent on
never ending preparation for war and execution of war.
"Since the
end of the World War II, the
federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current
and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of
the government. The
military-industrial establishment is a very lucrative business. It is
gilded corporate welfare.
Massive profits are always
guaranteed." - Chris Hedges
"War will end
when recruits throw down their guns, refuse to fight and the
American people rise up and drive from our
midst the warmongers at the highest
levels of government." - Kim W. Carney
The five permanent members of the
United Nations Security Council are the United
States, Russia, China, France and the
United Kingdom.
"I am absolutely convinced, you
never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure." – Ron
Paul The
United States, Russia,
China, France and the United Kingdom are the
major suppliers and exporters of military hardware and are in possession
of most of the weapons on the face of the Earth.
"The only satisfactory area for an
army or a navy is
the whole planet, since no
smaller area will prevent war."
- Bertrand
Russell
"In the end, more than freedom, they
wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all -
security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give
to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for
most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was
never free again." - Edward Gibbon
The administrations of
Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
authorized the sale to Iraq of items having both military and civilian
applications, including toxic chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as
anthrax and bubonic plague, in an effort to arm
Iraq against the Iranian threat.
(This explains George W. Bush's insistence of
weapons of mass
destruction.)
The United
States and its European allies provided the regime of
Saddam Hussein with its
chemical and biological weapons.
While American officials publicly
condemned Iraq's employment of mustard gas,
sarin, VX and other poisonous agents, sixty Defense Intelligence Agency
officers were secretly providing detailed information on Iranian deployments,
tactical planning for battles, plans for airstrikes and bomb-damage assessments for
Iraq.
The United States alone spends
what the rest of the world's governments combined
devotes to military expenditures. It has been estimated that direct
United States military expenditures will cost
$647 billion for
2008.
The Iraqi
invasion's indirect costs, the impact on global oil prices and the
long-term cost of health care for wounded veterans increases the price tag to
between 1 trillion and $2.2 trillion.
The
United States exports more weapons than any other
nation on Earth.
"We know the U.S. sells more
weapons abroad than any other nation, and we know
it is war above all that makes the
bankers rich." - Richard C. Cook
"So I looked for
good, but evil came
instead." - Job 30:26After 2000 United
States global military sales averaged between $10 and $13
billion per year. In 2006 the
Pentagon inked arms sales agreements worth
$21 billion.
{Between 2001 and 2005, the United
States delivered 2,099 surface-to-air missiles to nations in the developing
world, 20% more than Russia, the next largest supplier. During that same
period, the United States sent 10 "major surface
combatants" like frigates and destroyers to developing nations. Collectively,
the four major European weapons producers shipped thirteen. Along with the
ships the United States provided 338 anti-ship
missiles. Russia supplied 180 anti-ship missiles.}
The
Pentagon contracted military trainers to
138 nations in 2008 for $90 million.
Private military "contractors"
first outnumbered uniformed military personnel in
Iraq in December 2008. Of the more
than sixty major private military
corporations that supply mercenaries worldwide, more than 40 are based in
the United States.
Viktor Bout
The movie "The Lord of War" may as
well have been a true story as it was based on a living individual named Viktor
Bout.
In August 2004 Viktor Bout was hired by the George W. Bush
administration to deliver 110,000 AK-47
assault rifles and 80,000 pistols
from an American base in Bosnia to Iraq
security forces.
The weapons never arrived.
Viktor Bout is
known to have delivered weapons to Charles
Taylor, the Angola government and rebel forces opposing the Angola government,
the Taliban and radical Islamists in Mogadishu.
business as usual
"The "business" of the United States Intelligence
Community is the Nation's security, and today that security is
threatened by a chaotic multiplicity of
adversaries and enemies, real and potential [and
imagined]. These
threats know no national or regional
boundaries or borders, there is no clearly defined battlefield. They are fueled
by a world beset by
competition over
resources, land, information, and
ideologies. To one degree or another, all
nations are affected by the phenomenon
known as globalization. While it has benefitted many, its
underside fierce competition for
global energy reserves and emerging markets, tremendous disparities between rich
and poor nations, criminal networks that
create and feed black
markets in drugs
and even human beings, and the rapid
transmission of disease all breed potential threats to our security." - United States
Intelligence Community (USIC)
"It is foolish
to imagine we can identify all
threats and eliminate them. It is arrogant
in the extreme to feel we can attack possible threats without certainty." - Tom
Wright
"Americans suffer
the inconvience of enhanced security daily, and one
wonders if we are
truly any safer for it. I am
sure a determined terrorist could
easily circumvent the metal detectors and minimum-wage screeners. If one of the
goals of terrorists is to instill
fear, create chaos and cause
us to change our
way of life,
they are succeeding mightily." - Ed Colmen of Venice California on
security at Staples
Center and Universal Amphitheater
"While
poor kids and middle-age National Guardsmen
leave their families and risk getting blown up
in Iraq to defend
freedom and democracy, back home the
George W. Bush administration proudly
trades away those principles and
ideals at every opportunity in exchange for
small, and probably imaginary, slivers of
increased security. In this sense, even while claiming to fight them 'over
there,' George W. Bush has already
surrendered large parts of America to the
terrorists. It seems the real debate
is not about how to balance
civil liberties and security but about what kind of
nation we want to be: a nation of principles or a nation of cowards."
- John
Miller
"The people of America have
been required to give up much in the way of privacy and personal rights in the
'war on terror', but
when it comes to interfering in a business decision, our
government is quite willing to jeopardize
national security." - Thomas W. McCarthy, comment on allowing a United Arab
Emirate state of Dubai corporation
controlled by the foreign
government of Dubai to
operate six major American
ports.
"In George W.
Bush's America, the
terrorists have won.
They attack America to destroy our
values, our
laws and our Constitution,
and the
George W. Bush administration
gives them everything they want.
George W. Bush believes that every American is cowering in
fear.
That is not
my America!
America stands proud, defiant in the face of the
terrorists.
Americans stand proud behind our
Constitution and our laws,
because we
know that they make
America great.
The
revelation of illegal wiretaps is only just
another example of
abandoning
America's core values to give in to the
terrorists.
I want my
America back!" - Christopher
Johnson
"There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell
swoop, for the American people
cherish their
freedoms and would not tolerate such a
loss if they could
perceive it. But the
erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all out
frontal assault, but rather as
a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in
secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of
greater security."
- Senator Robert C. Byrd
"Our growing national
debt to
China is a national security
issue. Countries such as
China that own our
debt will soon not
only be making our toys, our clothes and our computers, they will be making
our foreign policy." - Nancy
Pelosi
911 emergency response
An
independent analysis of 911 in Florida released in September 2009 identified
numerous inadequacies and offered specific recommendations to rehabilitate a
fragmented emergency response system which fails to provide the very security
it was set in place to perform.
In 2008 Denise Amber Lee was kidnaped,
raped, beaten, executed and buried in a shallow grave.
Denise's father, Detective Rick Goff, was able to call on all area
state, county and municipal law-enforcement agencies to search for Denise and
her captor immediately following her abduction. Denise Amber Lee called 911
from her abductor's cell phone. There were at least four other calls to 911,
one from her distraught husband and three from eyewitnesses to the crimes as
they were occurring.
One witness gave the local sheriff's department an
exact location of the crime happening right before her eyes. She stayed on the
phone for more than nine minutes, identifying cross streets as she continued
driving. Despite the fact that as many as four patrol cars were within a mile
of the car in which Denise was fighting for her life, due to inefficiencies in
the privately contracted 911call center, none were dispatched.
Florida's 911 system was found to be not a "system" at all, but rather
a patchwork of state and local public and private agencies, protocols, and
technologies cobbled together to respond to 911 calls.
911 in Florida
had no single state agency to monitor how effectively calls for emergency
assistance are handled; the system was underfunded on a statewide level;
incomplete statewide coordination of equipment used for emergency response; and
no mandated, uniform training was required in the state's 258 independently
contracted call centers that handle 911 calls.
(Job
offer: 911 operators paid $23,608 or $24,793 with 3+ years experience and 911
dispatcher with emergency experience paid $28,662 or $30,118 with 3+ years
experience.
Minimum qualifications in Orange county Florida in
September 2009: High school diploma or GED; a U.S. citizen or registered alien;
able to work 11-1/4 hour shifts with rotating days off; able to speak and
understand English; able to complete a job related "CritiCall" test and must be
computer literate. Psychological evaluation after conditional
offer.)
So if you feel secure let the story of Denise
Amber Lee be a reminder that no matter how secure you believe yourself to be
the entire law enforcement system of Florida could not save the life of Denise
Amber Lee, a Sheriff's daughter, even though there were multiple opportunities
to do so.
Seven weeks after the September 11 attacks, Senator Jon
Corzine of New Jersey introduced the Chemical
Security Act, a bill that would
require chemical plants to reduce
toxic
chemical inventories where practical
and switch to less toxic
chemicals when it was
economically feasible. In many cases a plant
manager could store a 30 day inventory of
toxic
chemicals rather than a full six
months' worth.
"Simple, sensible economic
reforms of that category could
save a lot of lives in a catastrophic event. The
industry does what it
desires or what it
thinks it can afford - and millions of
Americans are at risk." - Senator Jon
Corzine
The bill passed the Environment
and Public Works Committee in a 19-0 vote.
After the
George W. Bush administration crushed the
Chemical
Security Act, Senator Jon
Corzine stated, "There are currently no federal
security standards for
chemical facilities. None at
all."
Daniel Zwerdling asked, Al Martinez-Fonts, Tom
Ridge's top aide on March 21, 2003, about
reluctance to mandate security
reforms in the chemical
industry, Al Martinez-Fonts said "In a
time of war the administration
is reluctant to interfere with business decisions by the
private sector."
"I was in the private sector all my
life," explained Al Martinez-Fonts. "In general,
we don't like to be told what to do. People are
concerned that a lot of regulation,
a lot of legislation might be the ultimate result!
We are trying to avoid that. I would prefer to avoid that
altogether!"
When asked whether it doesn't make
sense for the federal
government to also require
security upgrades by the
chemical
industry, Al Martinez-Fonts replied:
"September 11 happened, airplanes
rammed into buildings! Chemical
plants were not blown up!"
In July 2003, the Conference Board, a
business research group, found
that American
corporations have increased
security expenditures less than
4 percent on average since the September 11 attacks.
Terrorism
expert Rand Beers resigned in March
2003 after providing counter terrorism advice to every
president begining with Ronald Reagan, "Of course, there's no such
thing as a perfect defense, but we are remiss if we do not try to protect
our citizens. We
know for sure, from of
terrorists, that
security measures have
value, they discourage attacks. So, the
idea that we
should leave the barn door open is a dereliction of
duty."
"I do not want to
you.
No, wait.
I do want to you.
"You and your loved ones are in of dying horrible,
gruesome deaths at the hands of a terrorist
chemical attack,
and the
government has refused to
do anything about it.
The prospect of a
chemical attack, of course, has been
a favorite weapon of fear mongers for years. George W. Bush has insisted that, after
9/11, we could no longer ignore the potential threat of
Iraq's
weapons of mass
destruction and who should know better - after all we still have the
receipts.
George W. Bush
thought it would strike fear into our hearts
to emphasize weapons Iraq was
known to have, namely
chemical weapons. The notion that
chemical weapons pose any threat to
us is farfetched. Mustard gas is effective in trench
warfare, not in cross-hemisphere attacks.
Even if terrorists smuggled
chemical weapons into the country,
the casualties would be fairly minor. The only way to kill a number of people with
chemicals is to concentrate the
chemicals in huge quantities near a
big city.
In fact,
this country has lots of weapons like that.
They're called
chemical plants.
Attacking
one with a truck bomb, or a small plane, would disperse far more
toxins than any
chemical weapons attack. The
Congressional Research Service has found that we have 100
chemical plants that, if struck,
would each endanger more than 1 million lives.
Indeed, United States
intelligence has discovered that
al-Qa`ida has studied the
possibilities." - Jonathan Chait, 03-26-06
"The
possession of power over others
in inherently destructive both to the possessor of the
power and to those over whom it is
exercised."
-George Herron
"It's impossible to inoculate a child
completely from the horrors of militarism and its misguided
ideals of
honor, its putative
duty to kill others and to
be killed in the name of American
chauvinism,
nostalgia or corporate hegemony. A
child must be taught to
answer the bullies and sadists who have somehow coerced, shamed, flattered and
lied us into believing patriotic
service means on behalf of
state power.
Speaking Truth to
power,
the Quakers call
it." - Andrew Tonkovich
"Sometimes I wonder if
we, Americans, can couch any
issue except in terms of
war. Americans have had the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on terrorism and, most recently, the
cultural war, which pits us against
ourselves. One
Civil War was enough.
It is time that we
realized that 'war' is not the solution to any of the problems
Americans seek to redress." -Richard E. Norred
"The heart of America's problems rest with a
corporate dominated public policy of
perpetual military and class warfare. This has generated
a gross and growing unequal distribution of
wealth and power, growing
indebtedness at all
levels of government,
a regressive tax
system, suffering caused by cuts in
funding and denial of vital public
services. Add the deaths and
wounding of thousands of
America's soldiers and more than 100,000
Iraqi
civilians. The tragic
reality is a hell on Earth
of suffering, hatred and violence even in history's richest, most technologically advanced nation, leading
to weapons of mass
destruction and suicide of
humanity. Unless
Americans stop dodging the
connection among
local, domestic and global crises
and our public policy of perpetual warfare treated as an unavoidable necessity,
there is no hope for
America." - Nicholas Seidita
"I am morally outraged by the
George W. Bush administration's handling of
Iraq.
Fear is the word by which this group
operates.
They
create fear
as a way to get information from prisoners, they create fear in
the general population of
Iraq, and they
create fear
here in America as a way to scare
Americans into looking the
other way and letting them ignore the
rules by which a
civilized nation conducts itself. If
torture of a
human being can be ignored, then I want no part
of it. Let's bring our soldiers home. I am
tired of hearing that they are 'fighting for Americans freedom.' What
category of
freedom is this?"
-Ellen Ferguson Schenk
"When Americans
understand that
Iraqis are not the 'other' and know in our
hearts that they too are
our sons,
daughters, brothers and sisters; when we
consider it our sacred duty
to shed tears for all victims of
violence; when Americans embrace strangers and strive to
feel connected to the Earth; when Americans are humbled by the inherent dignity of
all humans - fathers and sons
will have learned the lessons of
war." - Paul Nicoll
"America has used
force abroad more than
, it has declared war
only five times: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American and Spanish-American
Wars, and World Wars I and II." -
John Yoo
John Yoo, American Enterprise Institute, was the
principal author of Justice Department memos giving George W. Bush the
extraordinary power to prosecute the global "war on terror" while ignoring the
Geneva Conventions regarding captured terrorist suspects by placing a high bar
on what constitutes torture.
B-36 Titan IV launch
from Cape Canaveral on September 8, 2003
(payload classified, went into
geosynchronous orbit)
(actual badge worn by military personel)
Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New
Century
September 2000"The
United States is the world's only superpower,
combining preeminent military
power, global
technological
leadership, and the world's largest economy.
Preserving the desirable strategic
situation in which the United States now finds
itself requires a
both
today and in the
future. The surplus
expected in federal revenues over the next
decade, however, removes any need to hold defense spending to some preconceived
low level. This report proceeds from the belief
that America should seek to preserve and
extend its position of global
leadership by maintaining the preeminence of
United States military
forces."
[To do so America
must:]
MAINTAIN NUCLEAR
STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY
basing the United States
nuclear deterrent upon a
global, nuclear net assessment that weighs
the full range of current and emerging threats, not merely the United States -
Russia balance.
RESTORE THE PERSONNEL
STRENGTH
of today's force to roughly the levels
anticipated in the "Base Force" outlined by the Bush Administration [#1], an
increase in active-duty strength from 1.4 million to 1.6 million.
REPOSITION United States
FORCES
to respond to 21st century strategic realities by shifting permanently based forces to
Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia, and by changing naval deployment
patterns to reflect growing United States
strategic concerns in East
Asia.
MODERNIZE CURRENT US FORCES SELECTIVELY
proceeding with the
F-22 program while increasing purchases of lift, electronic support and
other aircraft; expanding submarine
and surface combatant fleets; purchasing Comanche helicopters and medium-weight
ground vehicles for the Army, and the V-22 Osprey "tilt-rotor" aircraft for the
Marine Corps.
(Really no need to sweat the small stuff -
like body armor!)
DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENSES
to defend
the American homeland and
Talmudist allies, and to provide a
secure basis for .
CONTROL THE NEW "INTERNATIONAL
COMMONS"
OF SPACE AND
"CYBERSPACE,"
and pave the way for the creation of a new
military
service .
EXPLOIT THE "REVOLUTION IN
MILITARY AFFAIRS"
to insure the
long-term superiority of United States conventional forces. Establish a
two-stage transformation process which
maximizes the value of current weapons
systems through the application of advanced
technologies, and, produces more
profound improvements in military
capabilities, encourages competition between single
services and joint-service
experimentation efforts.
INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING
gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8
percent of gross domestic product, adding $15
billion to $20
billion to total defense spending
annually.
This "Report of The Project for the New
American Century" goes on to say that "the process of
transformation, even if it brings
revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and
catalyzing event - like a new Pearl
Harbor." 911?
Project for the New
American Century paticipants include:
William
Kristol - Chairman (BB),
William J. Bennett,
Dick Cheney,
Eliot A. Cohen,
Paul Wolfowitz(BB /CFR/TC), Donald Rumsfeld(BB /CFR)),
Norman B. Podhoretz(BB /CFR),
Midge Decter,
I. "Scooter" Lewis Libby,
Francis Fukuyama,
Frederick Kagan,
Donald Kagan,
Robert Kagan,
Zalmay Khalilzad,
Paula Dobriansky, Aaron Friedberg, Dan Quayle, Steve
Forbes, John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
Project for the New American
Century is a neo-conservative
think tank that promotes an
ideology of total United States
world domination through the use of
force.
"You will see what an evil,
bitter thing it is." - Jeremiah 2:19
(actual badges worn by military
personel)
"Every time a
State wants to declare war upon another
State, it starts off by launching a
manifesto addressed not only to its own subjects but to the
whole world. In this manifesto it declares that
right and justice
are on its side, and it endeavors to prove that it is
actuated only by love of peace and humanity and that, imbued with generous and
peaceful sentiments, it suffered for a long time
in silence until the mounting iniquity of its enemy forced it to bare its
sword. Perpetual war is the price of the State's existence."
- Mikhail Bakunin
Neoconservatives support
domination of other
countries
not to benefit the peoples of those countries,
not to protect
"us" from the "enemy," but to ensure and extend
the
power of the American petroleum-military-industrial oligarchy.
We are the invaders. We are the imperialists. We are the bad guys."
-
Kim Iannone
"Why has the world not accepted a
benevolent American hegemony (contradiction of
terms)? In the first place, it was premised on American exceptionalism, the
idea that America could use its power in instances where
others could not because it was more
virtuous than other countries. Finally, benevolent hegemony
presumed that the hegemon was not only well intentioned but competent as
well."
- Francis Fukuyama
"The management, then and now, truly
believes America is the master of the
Earth and anyone who defies us will be napalmed
or blockaded or covertly overthrown. We are beyond law, which is not unusual for an
empire; unfortunately, we are also beyond
common sense." - Gore
Vidal
"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not managed to
solve any problems. We are witnessing an
almost uncontained hyper-use of military force in
international
relationships." - Vladmir Putin
02/07
"It is time
America moved beyond the pursuit of
illusive perfect world conditions,
acting all the while as a mercurial chameleon out of step with its own
proclamations."
- Lawrence R. Gordon
People
fear death because death is an instrument of
fate.
When people are
killed by execution rather than by
fate,
This is like carving
wood in the place of a
carpenter.
Those who carve
wood in place of a
carpenter
Often
injure their hands.
Lao Tze
"Man is born
free; and everywhere he is in chains.
One thinks himself the master of others,
and still remains a greater
slave than they."
- Jean Jacques
Rousseau
"Just as the Soviet Union destroyed
itself under the weight of its arms buildup, so will America collapse because
of its looting of its exchequer by war profiteers, unless the patriotic antiwar
movement is able to save America from that doom."- Omar Huda |
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