The recent revelations about government intrusion
into everyone's privacy are alarming. More alarming however, is the justifications
that the government uses for invading its citizens privacy. The entire argument
that we must balance our liberty against our security is a pernicious falsehood
based on lies and propaganda.
The constant propaganda about threats to national
security is what every regime throughout history has used to keep the support
of the people. External threats from the enemy are a scare tactic that was used
by the Romans and continues to this day. The German Reich used the threat posed
by Poland as an excuse to start World War II. The Germans used a "false flag" event
to invade that nation. Things haven't changed since then.
The threat of "weapons of mass destruction" was the
pretext the United States used to invade Iraq. No such weapons were found.
There was also no accountability for breaking international law either.
The entire "War on Terror" is based on lies and
half-truths. The alleged hijackers were supposedly Sunni Wahhabi Saudi Arabian extremists
bent on punishing the U.S. for stationing troops on holy land in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the Bin Laden family, visiting the U.S. at time of the attack was
allowed to fly out of the United States while all air traffic was grounded.
We responded to that attack by invading Afghanistan
after the Taliban offered up Osama bin Laden if we would only offer proof that
he was involved and charges of terrorism were written against him. We refused
to do that, in fact; Osama Bin Laden was never formerly charged in the attack.
Since we were advocating for a pipeline to bring oil across Afghanistan on the TAPI pipeline,
we installed Hamid Karzai, who was a CIA asset
during the Soviet Afghan War.
The United States passed The Patriot Act in response
to the attacks on 9/11. In reality the Patriot Act, signed into law on October
26, 2001, a two thousand page law that the majority of our elected
representatives admittedly never read. The Patriot Act allowed the government
expanded surveillance capabilities. Title II established three
very controversial provisions: "sneak and peek" warrants, roving
wiretaps and the ability of the FBI to gain access to documents that reveal the
patterns of U.S. citizens. The so-called "sneak and peek" law allowed
for delayed notification of the execution of search warrants. The period before
which the FBI must notify the recipients of the order was unspecified in the
Act -- the FBI field manual says that it is a "flexible standard"]--
and it may be extended at the court's discretion. These sneak and peek
provisions were struck down by judge Ann Aiken on September 26, 2007 after a
Portland attorney, Brandon Mayfield, was wrongly jailed because of the searches.
The court found the searches to violate the provision that prohibits
unreasonable searches in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
It is apparent that from the very beginning of this "War
on Terror", the government was hell bent on destroying the civil liberties of
all Americans and institute a "security state" in the U.S. The government
saturated the media with "Threat Levels" and propaganda to insure that
Americans were sufficiently alarmed and fearful of another "terrorist attack"
This continues to this day. We are constantly
informed about the intentions of al Qaida, a shadowy group of Sunni extremists
hell-bent on the destruction of the United States. This group of extremists has
led to an entire industry that supports and maintains the American Surveillance
State. The CIA, NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agencies have grown in power
and stature. The task of intercepting every phone call and electronic
communications has become so large and onerous that they had to resort to
private contractors to help with the collection of data.
President Barack Obama has used the threat of
terrorism to reauthorize The Patriot Act which had a sunset provision to allow
it to expire. The Patriot Act however, was not the only law passed to fight "terrorism".
The NDAA that has a provision that allows the military to arrest and detain
American citizens without charges for the duration of this "War on Terror" was
passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.
Now we are told that the NSA has a program called
PRISM that collects meta-data on all communications in the U.S. by every person
in America. We are told however that we may rest assured, that any data
collected will not be viewed without a warrant from a secret FISA Court without
any oversight. We are told that our government will respect out privacy.
Now we are supporting Sunni extremists in the
Middle-East linked to al Qaida, the very same Wahhabi al-Nusra jihadists that
are fighting against the predominantly Shia/Alawite government in Syria. It is
interesting to note that Iraq, the nation that we invaded on false pretenses,
has a predominantly Shia central government and seems to be falling into the
Iranian sphere of influence.
Iran is another story. Americans are bombarded with
the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Even though Iran is a signatory
of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty that allows enrichment of Uranium to
20%, we consistently attack them with economic sanctions that are crippling its
economy for doing so. The U.S. Government threatens Iran on its nuclear program
while turning a blind eye to Israel's stockpile
of 300-400 nuclear warheads while also allegedly maintaining a chemical and
biological weapons program.
In essence, what I'm maintaining here is that this "War
on Terror" is a propaganda tool used by the United States to provide
justification for external and internal decisions by our government to achieve
total subjugation of the American people while pursuing a policy of World Hegemony.
The "Full Spectrum
Dominance" is a military concept whereby a joint military structure
achieves control over all elements of the battlespace using land, air,
maritime, space, and even cyber based assets. The recent revelations about the
PRISM program address those cyber based assets.
The United States has maintained its defense
capabilities and the military industrial complex nonstop since World War II. We
have used our intelligence agencies to overthrow governments that fell out of
favor with our interests. It is worth noting that the United States was
directly responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected government of
Iran, and its head of government Prime Minister Mohammad
Mosaddegh in 1953. We replaced him with Mohammad-RezÄ ShÄ h Pahlavi, who
progressed from a constitutional monarch to an authoritarian one who relied
heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in
February 1979. The regime under the Shah was a repressive dictatorship that
allowed no dissent. The secret police the CIA-trained SAVAK, was a repressive
secret police force. Since 1979, there is widespread anti-American sentiment
which is completely understandable. It is also worth noting that the Iranian people
seem to accept Americans while distrusting our government.
We have a government that allows its trusted ally Israel
to attack a US Navy ship The Liberty. The
USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research
ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy
motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air
and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and
one civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. This
incident was concealed from the public when it happened. Israel has never acknowledged
or apologized for killing Americans.
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