[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: we are all terrorists

[Olaf]

Who had the most to gain? 

All of us who has ever seen a rerun of Columbo, read an Agatha Christie
novel, or seen any TV crime drama has heard that question when trying to
figure out the most likely suspect of a murder.

Well it looks like five thousand people were just murdered. So ask the
question. Well? For starters it's certainly not the hijackers. They lost
their lives. What about the people that are supposedly behind them, like
Osama bin Laden? It would seem not.

Some terrorist acts may give the perpetrator some street cred: blowing
up a mid-air flight like the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie Scotland which
was linked back to Libya, blowing a hole in the USS Cole, blowing up a
couple of US embassies in some backwater country like Tanzania. You can
make a name for yourself in your little region of the world and know
that the US will definitely try to catch you, but it's only going to try
so hard.

But anyone would have to realize that committing an act so horrifying in
size and audacity is sure to commit the US to not rest until it has your
head on a stick. It's like a gang member who will try to improve his
gangsta rep by shooting a local cop, but knows better than to try to
assassinate the president.

Decide for yourself what it means or doesn't mean but the ones who
benefit the most from this incident are those in the Bush
administration. 

Fact: The economy was likely to enter recession. Rightly or wrongly the
public tends to place blame for economic downturns on whichever
president is in office at the time. Well now if the economy heads south,
it's not their fault! It's this horrible tragedy of course that's shaken
people's confidence! 

Fact: The Bush administration had "nothing to do". No cause. The
President was reading to school children when the planes hit. (He
couldn't have been too busy with affairs of state). Bush himself has
said that this has now become "the focus of (his) administration" They
have found their issue, their cause to rally around, and their issue to
campaign for reelection on in 3 years.

Fact: Declaring a "war on terrorism" is like declaring a war on vice. It
is endless and can be used indefinitely as an excuse to push through
whatever agendas they may have like the missile defense shield,
increased defense spending, or whatever. 

Fact: The label "terrorist" is a very easy one to apply. Especially so
the label "harboring" a terrorist. And we now are finding out the "enemy
is among us" (here in the US). This sounds an awful lot like the Red
Scare of the 50's where the excuse of routing out the invisible
communists was used to abuse people's civil rights and intimidate anyone
and everyone opposed to the administration or US policy. Today we look
back and condemn that as "McCarthyism" but are we so clear sighted about
what's right in front of us now?

Fact: Congress just approved a FORTY BILLION "relief aid package" with
little to no oversights on how Bush gets to spend it. That's Billion
with a "B". And this is not just for disaster clean up and aid to the
victims. It's also for the "ongoing" war Bush has told us to expect and
"increasing our intelligence capability". Well what does that include
exactly? Reading all emails? Eavesdropping on our phone calls? Who knows
because they don't have to say. Congress has given the money in the heat
of emotion with little or no conditions.

Fact: Congress will have to go along with just about anything the
President's administration wants that can be tied in to this disaster.
Any representative or senator that dissents will look "unpatriotic" if
they say no. This is very dangerous. The founders created three branches
of government so that no one branch would have too much power. One of
those is the judicial branch and we saw what the Supreme Court did this
most recent election. Many legal experts say it was unprecedented that
they ruled to hand the election results to Bush rather than say they had
no business deciding it and were unduly influenced by the fact that many
of the justices were appointed by Bush Sr. So that's one branch that
seems not to be performing its role of providing checks and balances.
And now the other branch, Congress, is cow towed too. 

Fact: This sudden disaster sure seems to have taken many people's
attention off the fact that this President won the election under very
fishy circumstances in Florida (where his brother is governor). Boy that
sure is a big help. 

Does this prospect seem horrendous? Too incredible to imagine? Well it's
happened before. A great fire destroyed a huge part of Rome. The emperor
Nero blamed it on the Christians and used it as an excuse to persecute
them and this cause helped the unpopular emperor consolidate his
political power and rally patriotic Rome around him. Historians
generally feel that Nero himself probably had the fire set. In the
1930's the Reichstag (the German building where their representatives
met...like our Capitol building) burned down. Hitler blamed it on the
"communists among them" and used it to rally a patriotic Germany around
him, consolidating his political power and to persecute his political
enemies. People generally agree there is enough evidence to believe the
Nazis themselves set fire to the building for just this purpose. 

It's very likely the Roman citizens could never imagine their own
Emperor setting fire to their own city, and the same with the Germans.
And that is exactly why it worked. 

There is also considerable evidence that the American Govt. knew of the
planned Pearl Harbour attack in advance but just let it happen.
Result.. An angry population, easy to manipulate and focused on revenge.

After the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995,
people who suggested people in the government were behind it looked like
conspiracy nuts. Even today there seems little motivation to that idea.
Unless it was a test. A smaller scale test to see how the public would
react. And to extrapolate how they might react to something much bigger
in the future.

Back to the suspects: Shortly after the attacks a rental car was found
in the parking lot of Boston's Logan airport. Inside was the Koran and
an instructional video tape on how to fly airliners. Even some of the
news anchors reporting this live seemed to say what an obvious plant
this seemed like! It's just not plausible that the perpetrators would be
watching a video the day before the attack. It seems they'd have learned
how to fly the plane well before then. If they didn't have it down by
the day before something's wrong. 

And it also doesn't make sense to leave such obvious evidence behind. It
might if the attackers/backers planned on taking credit for it. But they
haven't. Just the opposite. Everyone is denying it. So if they didn't
want to get blamed for it, wouldn't they be a little more careful about
leaving behind such obvious evidence? 

On Saturday, just days after the attack, they announced that in the
rubble of the trade center they found one of the terrorist's passports.
We all saw that fireball! The fire was so hot it turned the steel of the
building into hot liquid molten metal. But his passport survived? And it
was found even though they had only gone through 20,000 tons of debris
out of a total of 1.4 million tons? In other words they only scratched
the surface of the ruins and there it was? It's like reaching out and
taking a pinch from the haystack and lo and behold! There's the needle!

Something about all of this just doesn't smell right. Does that seem
unpatriotic? Un-American? Well this country has a long tradition of
healthy Yankee skepticism and asking about what might really be going
on, what we're not being told rather than falling lockstep behind
whatever slogans and rhetoric government leaders are feeding the public
like the masses do in totalitarian countries.

So now might be the time to use our heads and try to look beyond the
superficial.

Real Americans are not afraid of debate, of different ideas, of free
thought. So pass this email along and let people discuss it. If millions
of people passed along the email hoax of that phony Nostradamus
"prediction" then we owe it to ourselves to share with each other
something that is actually relevant.




At 11:52 PM 26-09-01 +1000, Roland Smith wrote:
>What does one believe nowdays, web gumpff, or tv gumpff.
>
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/carvalho.html
>
>
>The essence of it (true or not) is:
>
>
>        "the Palestinians celebrating
>        the bombing, out on the streets, eating
>        some cake and making funny faces for the camera.
>
>        Well, THOSE IMAGES WERE SHOT BACK IN 1991!!! Those are
>        images of Palestinians celebrating the invasion of Kuwait! "
>
>
>
>Who knows..  When the Yugoslavian war was happening, I watched CNN
>telling
>America that "Absolutely not had a stealth bomber been lost", while BBC
>was
>showing footage of what looked to be 3rd world potato farmers jumping up
>and
>down upon the majority of what is probably one the most easily
>identifiable
>planes ever built.  Not that this figures in the scheme of anything, but
>I
>guess that at least I can validate it  : )
>
>

At 02:31 AM 08-10-01 -0700, clae wrote:
>
>apologies to those who recieve this twice, there's some important stuff
>here
>
>from the FBI's definition of terrorists:  
>
>http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm
>
>"The second category of domestic terrorists, left-wing
>groups, generally profess a revolutionary socialist doctrine
>and view themselves as protectors of the people against the
>"dehumanizing effects" of capitalism and imperialism. They
>aim to bring about change in the United States through
>revolution rather than through the established political
>process."
>
>"Anarchists and extremist socialist groups -- many of which,
>such as the Workers'World Party, Reclaim the Streets, and Carnival
>Against Capitalism -- have an international presence and, at
>times, also represent a potential threat in the United
>States. For example, anarchists, operating individually and
>in groups, caused much of the damage during the 1999 World
>Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle."
>
>
>
>
>
>=====
>"Life is strange.  People are even stranger."
>            - Uri Geller
>
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