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This government has made a deal with
every man, woman and child in this country - it's a one-sided arrangement
made at birth, and not open to discussion or negotiation. This needs to
change.
The further down on the
food-chain a person is, the greater is the share taken by the government
from that individual's life. The irony is that very few people understand
just how much this unseen but deeply felt arrangement, has come to shape
both the quality and the depth within their individual lives.
In the case of 911 the record of
inequality, between the public and the government is obscene. The public
paid for protection from attacks, such as those on 911: Yet no protection
was provided. Afterwards the government chose not to investigate and those
responsible chose not to discipline themselves, so in the end the same
people that allowed 911 to happen have been dictating US policies ever
since. In some cases the guilty parties were actually promoted after they
failed to do their jobs on 911, and that's just for starters. Did no one
resent this sorry state of depleted leadership!
It's been six long years now and
it's time to review the public record.
'We' paid for the military
hardware, the software, and for all the personnel involved: yet US
citizens were and still are the targets of this government's illegal
spying programs early on. We also suffered the loss of Habeus Corpus and
our Constitutional right to an attorney along with the right to a fair and
open trial, if as defendants we are deemed to be "enemy
combatants." But ordinary citizens have also lost their right to
freely assemble or to demand redress for our grievances with the
government-we have also lost the right to publicly disagree with
"our" elected officials (no person that disagrees with the
scheduled political speakers can be allowed to attend public speaking
events): Because this would be "a threat to national security."
"We" pay to fly on
commercial aircraft: yet we are treated worse than a herd of cattle being
sent to slaughter, mostly by minimum wage unqualified people who treat the
public like prisoners. In fact our every action is now suspect
"before the fact" by virtue of the idea that
"We-are-at-War."
The FBI has no interest whatever
in Osama bin Laden - yet every person that expresses an idea about the
wars, or whose views run counter to the Cheney-Bush line are automatically
suspected of "collaborating with the enemy," and are hence
officially treated as a potential terrorists. If the supposed mastermind
for 911 is not of-interest to the FBI, then why are ordinary people that
question the government's actions-considered to be a major threat to the
national security interests of the United States? (1)
We have paid for these wars in
both blood and treasure. We all have, and the poorer people are; the
greater the percentage of what they have that must go directly to their
silent partners-the US government.
What do most people get in return
from their silent partner when they find themselves in need? They get more
fines; more taxes, more intimidation and enough red-tape to wrap around
the World Trade Center twice over, plus they get fewer opportunities for
assistance with every passing day. Government has shut out the people that
must work to ensure the profits of others. Government has also turned a
deaf ear to those that have to look to the government, to honor that
silent compact, with the bulk of the 300 million-plus-people over whom
government supposedly governs.
This is a two-tiered system, just
like "Criminal Just-us System" and every other facet of this
government. It may be a two tiered system but the whole thing is a one-way
street that accommodates the rich and makes road kill out of every one
that isn't wealthy. Those with money live by just a few unspoken rules,
but the poor face literally millions of rigid laws that must be obeyed.
For these people there are no exceptions and there are 'zero-tolerance'
initiatives, for any deviation from the most rigid interpretation of the
LAWS-but only for the bottom four-fifths the upper fifth gets a permanent
pass!
The compact between the people
and their government has long since ceased to be an agreement; because an
'agreement' implies a discussion. The people of this nation have been
kidnapped by this government that is supposed to serve them. Citizens are
no longer represented by their congressional representatives, by the
courts or by the White House - so to quote from the Boston Tea-Party:
"Taxation without Representation is Tyranny!" Apparently the
time has come to renegotiate the terms of our servitude and their
employment. We know that this is no longer a "government of, by or
for the people." And we know that they need us far more than we need
them. so why have we not complained?
We have not complained because we
are no longer a people "in touch with the vitality of life." We,
as a society, no longer understand labor. The only sweat most ever expend
is done in a gym or on a treadmill. Far too many know nothing about the
difference between a real threat to their lives, and the far more frequent
authoritarian attempts by the government or the corporations to
intimidate: In other words we simply don't speak the same language
anymore! And since this is the case-despite the fact that we have 90
weapons for every one-hundred people-too many people will respond like the
proverbial deer caught in the headlights. Because if and when the moment
comes to actually physically resist a totalitarian government takeover:
the individuals threatened may not know the difference between a warning
and a real threat. That will produce a critical moment of hesitation that
could be fatal!
This is not a matter of having
weapons-it is a matter of knowing how to recognize the situation that
might require the use of those weapons. But with so little 'real-life
experience' and with too much distance-learning - usually from television
- or from text-books that attempt to teach abstractions of situational
circumstances that have to be lived in order to be understood: the
American public is thus overripe to be taken over by the over-eager
police-state that is hovering over everything we do right now.
How else to explain how often we
have chosen to accept the lies this government spews-when we know deep
down that they are lying through their teeth?
Today, on 911: Speaker after
speaker espoused that thoroughly discredited official fairy-tale about
what happened on 911. In the last six years every aspect of this unholy
fiction has been carefully and scrupulously shot to pieces: and yet here
they were today, on national television, repeating the original lies
-barefaced-as if every word were true! The numbers say that roughly 75%
of the populace disbelieved the government's accounts of that day. How
could the media do what it did today, with no mention that any of these
"facts" have ever been challenged? They did what they did
because they know that the American public is too fearful to raise these
topics openly, on their own, before the eyes of the whole-world.
The federal response to Katrina
is similar in that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) had the
ultimate responsibility for the protection and safety of those affected by
that catastrophe. Instead the feds pointed to the states and the states
pointed at the cities, and two years on - still almost nothing has been
done except a lot of privatization contracting (schools, hospitals and
real-estate) that will strip the life from what was once called New
Orleans. What happened to the voice of the rest of America on that
topic-probably the same thing that happened when we developed a national
case of dead silence compounded by a willful blindness to all the actual
facts concerning 911.
Americans have always loved
television crime programs: CSI, lawyers unending, Law & Order - so
what happened to that fascination when it came to the biggest crime to hit
this nation in its entire history? They have watched hundreds of thousands
of hours of detectives and cops and lawyers pouring over all kinds of
complexities and criminal schemes: but in the case of 911, suddenly
everyone became utterly stupid!
Who owned the buildings and who
was the security firm responsible for the buildings before they were hit?
Afterward, who examined the videotapes, and what could be determined from
those videotapes-did any of this matter? There were also dozens of
engineering reports about the way the steel beams had been cut as by a
knife through butter and at forty-five degree angles no less. Why was the
steel along with all the debris hustled out of the city so quickly - in
secret no less, with nothing left behind for forensic analysis? Ask Rudy
Giuliani, because he's was 'the man-in-charge' that made that deal to
obstruct any real investigation. Moreover who had the most to gain from
this event - was it the political machine that had hungered for another
"Pearl harbor for over 40 years, or a rich Saudi capitalist with a
passion to punish America?
There are also the video-tapes of
the supposed end of flight 93 - in an open field in Pennsylvania-no fire,
no trace of blood found anywhere, not even any parts of any aircraft -
just a ten by twenty foot slash in the ground with some ash and a few
broken trees, Instead of an investigation we got a feature length
Hollywood film about the heroes of Flight 93, and nothing more has been
officially said. (2)
As for the Pentagon - that was
not a plane either, the windows of the building were not broken on either
side of the single round hole that was the entry point. There were no
bodies inside the wreckage that could have been passengers, and there was
no debris from the supposed aircraft in that event either. The engines
that would have to have struck the building must have melted because
neither of those Rolls-Royce engines nor the wings on from which they had
been mounted left any marks upon the Pentagon. So what happened to the
natural curiosity of the American public?
The same thing that happens to it
each and every day, whenever Americans encounter the mega-lies of the
Cheney-Bush administration or the Israeli government in Washington,
disguised as AIPAC: A foreign government that shadowed everything that
happened on 911, and yet was mysteriously let-off by both the FBI and the
CIA in the aftermath of these events that shall live in infamy, upon the
blood-splattered records of all of those involved in this
"administration."
And over the span of all these
years there were the stolen elections - the cover-up of
what-really-happened on 911. There was Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, compounding
the absence of WMD's and the utter failure to capture bin Laden. And
throughout the many years of spying on every single American with a phone,
there were the continual lies-not to mention the over one thousand
"signing statements" that made a joke out of what remains of
congress. Then there was the embrace of torture by the US Department of
Justice; and let's never forget the Secret Parallel Government of Dick
Cheney, (the man who declared himself no longer part of the executive
branch - he's got his own intelligence service and his version of the
State Department, some say even his own private army). Then there's that
vast series of war-crimes by Donald Rumsfeld, just to touch on some of the
more public scandals that have never been addressed by congress or the
courts, much less resolved.
If the public had demanded
answers instead of simply closing ranks behind these obvious lies-much of
what we're facing now, could have been avoided. Instead the same thing
happened over and over again in Iraq, with all that confusion over the
many 'faces' that the regime tried to use to cover up our actions
over-there, and all the while they never did change course-but did we
scream-hell no!
And again in the elections last
November - those elections were thought to herald major changes, and yet
all we got were new slogans and more lies. That time Bush got more than
even he had asked for; because the congress is even more afraid of
standing up to Tyranny than are of those they officially
"represent."
Looks like we're don't get
anything except more lies and theft from our 'silent partner' so why do we
tolerate this compact with an entity so foul:
Can it really be as simple as a
habit for us - a habit that we refuse to analyze with open eyes? Are we so
certain that our government is honest that we refuse to question what the
whole world has seen from the beginning: Because if that's true-then we
have no commons sense, no capacity to differentiate between what is true
and what is simply NOT! If this is the case then we should not expect to
be pardoned for having gone along with infamy, for "they"
couldn't have done this without "us"...
Throughout the last six years we
have allowed the Constitution to be dismantled-out of shear fear and by
swearing undying loyalty to bogus terror. Now we have neither 'security'
nor 'freedom' -- yet because we would not demand an end to this -- we have
deepened our crimes against the world a thousand fold: Welcome to the New
World Order!
We are where we are because 'we'
lacked moral and legal convictions then-so we had no guides to direct our
public actions and therefore we did nothing. How dare we call ourselves
Americans now!
This deafening Silence that our
inactions have created provides a very fertile ground for Tyranny to grow
and prosper in-what might happen if we all began to shout!
Jim Kirwan
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