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"Free people cannot live in fear and remain free"
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of
Offense, before the committee March 23, 04.
There he sits before the third
version of the first public committee to investigate 911. Rummy came again
to the pulpit of a committee inquiry, smug and arrogant with pat
assertions that squirt from both sides of his bought and paid-for oratory.
But this time he has uttered a phrase that condemned the policies of his
own dictatorial administration. Look at what they’ve done, as opposed to
what they continue to say.
Fear is based on the unknowns
that linger on the fringes of life. To the extent that any society is able
to shed light on their problems, that fear is dissipated. In government
that ‘light’ is called transparency in governance. Domestically this
administration began its political life by sealing up the deeds of
Bush-the-first, when he was still vice-president. This was done by a
presidential edict, issued under a presidential seal of absolute secrecy.
This policy of completely hidden agendas was immediately followed by
Cheney’s demand for total secrecy when he met with those who wrote
national energy policy, in the beginning of 2001. Now Cheney’s ‘privilege’
is being challenged before an obviously biased Supreme Court Justice who,
by a decision of the full court, will be solely responsible to decide
whether the public has the right to know who made those decisions—by
which we all must now live. http://www.americaheldhostile.com/ed032004.shtml
These two actions set the tone
for all that this administration has tried to do, since they stole the
offices they now hold.
Internationally, these thieves
began by unilaterally re-writing the history of US foreign policy, since
the end of the Second World War. Masking all decisions in "national
security interests of the United States," the Bush Doctrine of
international brutality and dominance came into being. Whenever anything
is challenged the pirates wrap everything in the flag, curse all
dissenters as traitors or worse, and then proceed to the next obscenity.
In foreign policy circles the
bandits have virtually emasculated diplomacy, strangled any and all
options that do not have military force as their first choice, and have
now moved on to make quasi-imperialism the order of the new American
Century. In all of this, fear has played a key role both at home and
abroad for billions of people around the world – not just for those of
us who have to tolerate their lies as national political policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5929.htm
The administration has tried to
justify the War-on-Iraq, in several different ways. Before the war, it was
all about Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the UN resolutions designed to
discover the truth of that question. After having lied to the world body
and the public about the threat, the bandits finally fell back on calling
for adherence to the UN resolutions: Resolutions that were passed to
obtain compliance with UN inspections—in the case of Iraq. But this
appeared to be a course that would take too much time, so we allowed Bush,
then in a temper tantrum, to send our men and women into a war that had no
basis in fact or in principal. Later, our thief-in-chief tried to justify
his actions after the fact, as being necessary because Saddam was a cruel
and evil ruler. But the fact remains that Iraq had nothing whatever to do
with Al Qaeda, or the attacks of 911. And in having diverted funds and
personnel to Iraq, the president apparently weakened his own case against
the international effort to route out terrorism.
Recently Bush has said that no
nation could be allowed to defy the UN, by ignoring resolutions that
called for specific actions, supposedly to protect the world from a
nuclear nightmare. No mention was made of the fact that Israel has ignored
over 60 UN resolutions, and possesses, all the forbidden weapons of mass
destruction in abundance, including nuclear weapons that can easily reach
any country in the world.
In continuing this two-tiered
policy, the USA has shown the world that we are not interested in real
solutions, only in continuing to dominate the lesser-armed countries, with
the help of our nasty and brutish ally—the rogue state of Israel.
United
Press International: Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations
We should look directly at the
pro-active role of fear in all of the above. Our policy decisions now seem
to rest on fear and fear alone, as the key to evermore-extreme actions in
our attempts to protect privatized seizures of the property of other
states. It is noteworthy that once the pipeline deal was signed, our
attention shifted directly to Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.30A.afgh.pipe.htm
Fear of terror is and has been
our primary concern. Fear of personal injury or death is a by-product.
Fear is what drives the false promises behind HOMELAND security. Fear
opens the door to international piracy and to the direct looting of the US
treasury supposedly to make us all secure from any and all forms of
terrorism. Fear is what lies beneath the destruction of the US
constitution and the savage dissolution of all our basic civil rights. If
there were any transparency, in any of the actions of this federal
government - most of these transgressions against the rights of the
governed, would never, could never have happened. It is only because of
911 that this has occurred.
The people of this nation wanted
to believe their president was not the congenital serial liar that he is.
We wanted to believe that the government could not seriously pursue the
theft of treasure, or the coercion of national polices, just to make
billions for their supporters and cohorts. But that is exactly what they’ve
been able to do, thanks to the obscenity of 911, and the continued
failures to examine how this event could have become a reality.
Terrorism is a fact of life, but
it has been operating and escalating since the beginning of the Reagan
administration. If we were serious about addressing the real problems that
such extreme measures represent, then where were the diplomatic efforts
necessary to confront the many issues beneath each of these dramatic and
bloody events, over the last 25 years? The short answer is that we did not
seek co-operation but domination. Our attempts at global domination are
precisely what produce the kinds of terror tactics that exist today.
Two days of hearings have finally
been held about events that took place over 30 months ago Richard Clarke
apologized for the failures, where none have chosen to do so before. While
policy failures are certainly part of the problem, a complete
understanding of the US military’s actions after the attacks began, are
the way to the whole truth.
Contrary to the statements of the
witnesses at the hearings, there were military defenses in place going all
the way back to the 1950’s, specifically for the kinds of attacks that
occurred on 911. These polices were ignored, which meant that someone from
the White House had to have intervened. The chain of military command, at
NORAD, clearly was not followed in this instance. It is rumored that the
vice-president ordered the US Air Force to stand down and not to interfere
with the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and whatever
else was to have been the target of the remaining aircraft.
If the public is to discover the
truth of that day – then both Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, in the
absence of the president himself, must be compelled to testify at the next
session of the committee’s hearings.
These hearings are about who was
ultimately responsible for all that death and destruction on that
particular day. It is about who has not been fired, or even seriously
questioned, concerning this unforgivable loss of human life, both on that
day and continuing to the present moment. Between all those we have been
bombed, shot and or maimed, the casualties worldwide have to be in the
tens of thousands. Bush is found of saying. "We must never forget the
lessons of 911." What "lessons" that would be has to
concern what happened, and who among those responsible did what on that
fateful day. If the White House were serious about the truth of 911, they
would be clamoring for the hearings, instead of trying to stonewall their
efforts.
It seems doubtful that this third
commission will show the testosterone necessary to even remotely approach
the truth, never mind the will to lay blame. Given the fact that without
the truth here, we are all doomed to a future without resolution. More
needs to be expected from this commission than this simple exercise of
business as usual. All those who are in the employ of the people of the
United States, who were and are charged with responsibilities, must be
compelled to account for their actions. There must be consequences for the
failures of this administration on 911.
Many cite the desire to just
"move-on." That is precisely the problem. Without knowing who
was culpable in this instance, we cannot move-on, because events seem to
indicate that there are traitors in our midst, at the highest levels of
this government. That question needs to be fully explored, and clearly put
to rest for the world to see.
‘All people share a
responsibility to the rest of humanity because there are fine lines
between right and wrong, between freedom and oppression – and between
the best of intentions and the insanity of genocide.’ *
‘Sometimes oppressive
governments and murderous factions can confuse their true purposes so that
the lives of ordinary people can be used to prop up tyrannies because of
misplaced ideals and the false flags of patriotism.’ *
"We live in a world where
violence has become the currency of the day, where the insanity of hatred
overwhelms the spirituality of our existence. We search for meaning, yet
all we find is chaos." *
Maybe if we look deeper into the
realities behind 911, we may find that our real enemy has always been
fear. The Bushites say, "People hate us because we are free."
But we are becoming the ultimate victims of our own fear, and we are
beginning to earn the loathing of the world. If we are truly interested in
eliminating the terror, then perhaps we should begin to look at what we’ve
done, politically and socially, to attract so much venom from so many
people around the world. We are a very small percentage of the world’s
population. And we have not behaved as a member nation of the world
community since Bush took office.
The process of renewal begins
with the discovery of what really happened on 911.
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