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On September 11, 2001, the US entered a radically new and frightening era in its collective march through history. Gone were the days when Americans felt comfortable and safe and far from the fangs of world terrorism and violence. Throughout its history, the US had been able to distance itself from nearly every major international incident that had occurred regardless of its point of origin or who participated. Through two world wars, countless border skirmishes, and regional political, social or economical conflicts, the US had managed to stay relatively clear of the violence and effects of each battle, even as it participated from afar in its inception, augmentation and outcome. Thus, as wars ravaged Europe, government capitulations sprang up from Russia to South America, and autonomous-seeking areas and regional disputes bogged down whole countries for decades at a time, America was always on the outside looking in, sometimes creating, sometimes joining and sometimes financing one or both sides of the conflict. Not since the war of 1812 has any single attack brought so much death and destruction on the cities and towns of its now 50 states. But in the aftermath of 9/11, Americans have turned their country into a cesspool of suspicion and mistrust the likes of which have not been seen since the Stalin days of the former Soviet Union. Almost overnight Americans started accusing each other of terrorist activities, calling police and FBI agencies on a near-daily basis to report any type of suspicious activity fearing that global terrorists were about to strike again. Since the events that happened that fateful Tuesday morning in September, 2001, even the most banal activities have become reasons for frantic calling and finger pointing. And as in the days when Joseph Stalin ruled the USSR with an iron fist and quick hand to imprison thousands of innocent people throughout the 20s, 30s and 40s, anonymous callers were jamming phone lines accusing fellow Americans of illicit and terrorist activities for anything from the simple touristy snapshot of a friend unknowingly in front of a bank to the inadvertent use of chalk on the sidewalk to mark boundaries of a friendly game. Following the events from that fateful day, President Bush has ordered that all cases of reported terrorism be investigated to the fullest extent possible, thus ensuring that tens of thousands of otherwise illogical and improbable cases would be completely researched and documented with the obvious result that tens of thousands of innocent and normal citizens will be rounded up, detained, imprisoned and harassed for crimes they've never committed while their anonymous accusers watch from the sidelines either in internal glee from the unnecessary suffering of their targets, or in complete ignorance of the needless pain they've caused others. Not since the dark days of Stalinism in the Soviet Union has an entire nation of that size been subject to this level of false accusations and illegal harassment and imprisonment by authorities from the local to the national level.
In continuation, I will present a mere fraction of the false accusations that have caused countless tens of thousands across America untold pain and suffering at the hands of their fellow citizens.
One evening in late April, 2003, the F.B.I. chief in Indiana, Thomas V. Fuentes, went to a crowded basement in an Evansville mosque to ask for help in the fight against terrorism. Some 100 Muslims listened politely. Then the wife of a local restaurateur spoke up to tell him what had happened the last time agents came calling, shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On a tip, her husband, Tarek Albasti, and eight other men were rounded up, shackled, paraded in front of a newspaper photographer and jailed for a week. The tip turned out to be false. But four of the men were then listed in a national crime registry as having been accused of terrorism, even though they were never charged, as the F.B.I. later conceded. The branding prevented them from flying, renting apartments and landing jobs.
"People were crying as she describes this," Mr. Fuentes recalled. "And at the end, she says, 'My husband was released, and in 19 months nobody has ever said, I'm sorry about what happened.'"
Also that year, In Michigan, Mohamed Alajji, a trucker born in Yemen, was jailed for seven days that December before agents interviewed his accuser, who turned out to be making false claims against him to press a family feud.
In May, 2007, American papers ran in almost complete unison the story of six New Jersey men who supposedly were looking to attack the Fort Dix Army base near Cherry Hill in New Jersey. According to an MSNBC article written on May 6, 2007:
"Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday of plotting to attack the Army's Fort Dix and massacre scores of U.S. soldiers - a plot the FBI says was foiled when the men took a video of themselves firing assault weapons to a store to have the footage put onto a DVD.
"The defendants, all men in their 20s from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out the military base."
In other words, six young men, one of whom worked as a pizza delivery person to the base, were supposed to carry out a terror plot on the base to kill scores of soldiers. No one in the news media recognized the obvious absurdity of this supposed terror plot. The media did not once ask the simple questions such as, "How were these six, who had no terrorist training whatsoever, supposed to carry out such an intricate and complicated plot to enter an army base full of soldiers with weapons, without being uncovered and killed by just about any soldier they met along the way?"
According to the website homelandstupidity.com in an article entitled, U.S. settles in false terrorism arrest lawsuit, "The United States government formally apologized and will pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by an Oregon attorney who was mistakenly accused of involvement in the 2004 Madrid, Spain, train bombings." Brandon Mayfield had been arrested and jailed for two weeks as a "material witness" in May 2004 after FBI investigators mistakenly matched a partial fingerprint from the Madrid train bombing to him. The FBI's crime lab had matched the latent fingerprint, recovered from a bag of detonators, to Mayfield, while Spanish police pointed out repeatedly that the FBI had screwed up the match. The fingerprint was later matched to an Algerian man.
In July, 2007, Abukar Arman, a Somali immigrant living in Hilliard in central Ohio, was falsely accused of supporting suicide bomber attacks by Patrick Poole, a fellow resident of Hilliard, and a reporter for the conservative magazine Front Page. Patrick distorted and lied about Abukar's affiliation with terrorist organizations in Somalia. After the stories ran, many people called and emailed city and county officials asking for Abukar's arrest. The result of Mr. Poole's lies and the needless incitement to anger it caused have resulted in Mr. Arman's loss of his job with the county.
And just recently two Germans, one who was in the US visiting, wanted to enjoy their love of running but wound up falsely accused of bioterrorism and now face felony charges. According to MSNBC, "Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge. The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday. New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.
"The siblings set off the scare while organizing a run for a local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a worldwide group that bills itself as a "drinking club with a running problem." "Hares" are given the task of marking a trail to direct runners, throwing in some dead ends and forks as challenges. On Thursday, the Salchows decided to route runners through the massive IKEA parking lot. Police fielded a call just before 5 p.m. that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the night. The incident prompted a massive response from police in New Haven and surrounding towns. Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.
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I am paranoid....
justifiably, wholly and irrevocably .... of the Empire and the Elites who own it. by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [400 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:51:27 PM  (0+)
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Reply: No, Richard
That's what those people want. The elitists bank on the great majority of people being too afraid to band together and too alarmed to be aware of what's going on around them. It has worked well for them over the years. The very first step to take along the path of freedom from these cretins is "Awareness." Be aware of your surroundings. Be aware of the changes that are being undertaken both locally and nationally. Become informed on the major issues, especially those that may very well impact you in the near future. Here's but one example: There have been a lot of YouTube vids on martial law, Bush starting it, and its imminent arrival. They cite dozens of directives from the White House that gives specific directions on how to run the country in case Martial Law needs to be implemented. We must become aware of what these directives are. BUT, we musn't be fooled into thinking that their mere existence is rock solid proof of the immediate arrival of Martial Law. Nearly every directive cited wasn't signed yesterday by Bush, .............................. it was signed by John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Directives on the books since 1962 or so do not constitute iron clad proof that Bush will declare Martial Law next week. That's absurd. The directives give specific responsibility to various groups in government. This change WILL affect you directly. But the time of implementation, if it exists, is not contained in these directives. It's elsewhere. Be aware of what's going on around you locally and nationally. That way you are informed if drastic measures like that are implemented. But don't run off to the hills a la Rambo because JFK signed some directives 45 years ago. All issues need to be approached with a clear understanding of their eventual implications as well as the likelihood of their application. You must know what's going on in order to make intelligent, rational decisions based on ALL the information and not just the ones that we are given by people crying "Wolf" every other day. The second step involves organizations of like-minded people in order to be better able to confront problems as they arrive. I will post this on my convergence site because that is where we are discussing EXACTLY what to do to stop the NWO and its protagonists. by John Little (43 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 181 comments [18 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:53:39 PM (0+)
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Americans should be afraid they have earned their fear
they have allowed their governments to treat them with contempt and they are 5 percent of the worlds population surrounded by 95 percent that increasingly despises them not individually but because they are Americans and they have failed to repudiate torture and aggressive invasion. Fear is entirely appropriate to Americans. Morrow was right that you aren't descended from fearful people, however, you are now entitled to be fearful and to sleep the restless troubled sleep of the guilty. I think it was Jefferson who said I fear for my country when I think that God is just. The ghost of Jefferson then must be very afraid. There are two likely Presidential candidates on offer Obama who voted for FISA immunities blocking off justice and accountability to those wronged by coorporations that preferred to abide by the will of the feurer than the law and John McCain that apparently likes to sing "bomb, bomb , bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach boys song Barbara Ann. There is every indication that Americans are going to get another President that they most richly deserve. Of course there are some good Americans - but their goodness is in spite of their Americanness and they are the minority. The Declaration of Independence says: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. With Bush unimpeached for torture and aggressive invasion (the war crime that contains within it the seeds of all other war crimes), with Pelosi and the Democratic party providing political cover, failing to protect the Constitution from domestic enemies (as per her oath) and seeking only to replace the man that rules rather than to restore the rule of law, Americans have become accessories after the fact to murder and aggressive invasion. The world needs the rule of law to apply to all. We can't have that with contemporary Americans allowing the United States of America to, against its word on treaties, break its word even to the extent of allowing torture and the supreme war crime. I don't believe in God but I am for justice and so I say Americans have earned their fear. The victums of American foreign policy are growing up in Iraq. American bribe money is running out. When those who despise America look to examples of how to be violent they learn from America. When those who wish for a lawful and peaceful world look for ways they must avert their eyes from America. by Brett Paatsch (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 1308 comments) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:04:56 PM (0+)
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Reply: Brett - the story of culpability for Americans
You are absolutely right in stating that Americans are just as guilty as their elected officials for supporting egregious acts of violence and torture on the rest of humanity. Most of the young people I talk to today believe that a war between the US and the entire rest of the planet not only could happen, but if it did happen, the US would come out of it practically unscathed while the rest of the world will suffer one humiliating defeat after another. They actually look forward to such a war to, "show the rest of the world that they can't mess with us and survive. Either they blindly follow our policies or they will die." The propaganda machine in the US is running on all cylinders and has completely hypnotized its people. This will eventually come back to haunt the country and could very easily be the cause of its inevitable downfall. From day one, Americans are told that they are superior to EVERYONE ELSE and have the best government, the best health care system, the best infrastructure, the greatest military, and lest we forget, the most freedoms of any country on Earth. Throughout their formative years in school, they are told that the world envies them, most people in the world would gladly do anything we ask of them because they love us so much. Bush even stated such in his first state of the union message after 9/11. Talking about the supposed arab terrorists who caused that tragedy to happen, Bush said, "They hate us for our freeoms." Across the country the vast majority of Americans couldn't have agreed more. To the rest of the world his statement was viewed as illogical and irrelevent, but most Americans applauded his statements as being the only possible reason for what ocurred. Yes, they really are that stupid. This has been going on for decades, not just with Bush jr. Americans are fed heaping portions of lies and inanities and told that therein lies the truth. The US is the best in everything that counts, and if we're not in first place, it can only be because we didn't want to show off our incredible skills. But one thing has always existed for them, the fact that the US government never makes a mistake. The few in this country that have awakened to the fallacy and bs being shoved down our throats by the MSM, the government and all venues of national importance such as Disneyland. To those people I am talking. Those who can see past the smoke and mirrors and uncover the person who really is behind the curtain calling the shots. Like I said, I have begun a site that deals precisely with the steps needed to take in order to quash these insane rulers once and for all. by John Little (43 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 181 comments [18 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:48:05 PM (0+)
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Reply: Agreed
And can you disclose your website yet? I am interested in what you are saying. by jeff rock (10 articles, 1 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 187 comments [68 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:46:34 AM (0+)
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Reply: my sites
I have two. One is for current events for discussing and debating what's going on around the world. It's mostly populated by Europeans, but there is a mixture. All topics are discussed and debated. There's even a French subforum and a Spanish subforum. The actual webmaster of this site is a Brit who lives in the Basque area of Spain. http://beyond.euskalaretoa.com/belief/YaBB.pl The other site I've set up with a British friend of mine to unite people of like-minds to discuss the steps necessary to end the NWO and all of its elements. I realize that that sounds like a lot of effort, and I'm not kidding myself that it would ba anything resembling a cake walk, but I don't see alternatives out there to give people a chance to organize and create an alternative existence away from the elitists. Most of the sites I see are gun-toting Americans who feel that only through armed conflict can such a change be made. They obviously have never heard of Gandhi or MLK. You are welcomed at both. by John Little (43 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 181 comments [18 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:14:01 AM (0+)
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That's what I get for being cryptic...
Convergence or Converge? I read a bit of the Converge web site a while ago. I found the association with the Club of Rome disquieting. Also, although I do view the government with 'paranoia" - along the lines of William Burroughs' 'A paranoid is someone who is aware of all the facts"..(I know at least some of them).. my 'real' paranoia has more to do with the elites who appear to want to rule the world (the new and 'old' royalty), who want to eliminate a good portion of the world's population (not in 'nice' ways) with the rest essentially as serfs. Read Quigley, PD Scott, Chossudovsky, Vidal, etc. etc. I know I am not providing detail .. but the detail is out there. As far as the govt. goes, though, it is not just presidential directives and signing statements ... it is also the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Warner Defense Authorization Act, the thought crimes bill, Northcom, Centcom, the army Brigade directed towards action within the continental U.S., FEMA camps, the militarization of our police, the faux War on Terror, the CIA/Secret Government, COG, corporatism (fascism), 9/11 false flag and more to come most likely, the endless wars for global hegemony with high probability of global war, the likely draft in the future and my son's welfare. Things are well past the point where nonviolent hanging out together means anything other than 'hanging' out. And this list was just off the top of my head. There are many many more items that are the dots, which, when connected, paint a very very bleak picture. The fears are justified by the evidence. As a psych, I'm not particularly prone to delusions ..... ;-) I'm not immobilized by fear. But it is nearly always there, lurking, unfortunately reacting to or anticipating each new assault. And there has been no end to them. Being and becoming aware of them is not rocket science. by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [400 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:32:34 PM (0+)
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Reply: Yes, there is much evil out there
It's known as Convergence. While I'll agree with most of your premises, I don't think sitting around until were killed by the NWO is the best way to go. Right now the few people I have encountered who are aware of what's going on seem to be quite content to sit there and watch paint dry until it's their turn to be slaughtered. I can't change their mind for them, I can only lament the fact that they refused to work with others to end this evil before it ends them. I believe it was Martin Luther King who said: ""In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." I, for one, choose to be silent no more. by John Little (43 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 181 comments [18 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:01:23 PM (0+)
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Paranoia
A world where paranoia exists is a doomed world. I am not equating paranoia as being either good or bad because in a world where mistrust exists paranoia could be looked at as being good. This is a strange world. by shadow dancer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1115 comments [121 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:48:26 PM (0+)
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Speaking of Paranoia
Has anyone seen these totally black cars that look like cop cars but have no markings and have dark tinted windows? I saw one in Sacramento today. It had the police lights in the back window not on the roof. No markings, Cops with no badges? Unmarked black cars with tinted windows? Paraoid? yes! by jeff rock (10 articles, 1 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 187 comments [68 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:51:28 AM (0+)
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Hard to nail down
First of all, we are urged daily to be paranoid: "Be afraid. Be very Afraid". So we are, and usually of something which distracts from the actual facts. And as someone else already pointed out, being a paranoid is knowing the facts. That thought alone is enough to keep you from getting out of bed in the morning. But the process of creating, engendering and nurturing our paranoia is one of duping. And we dupe easily because we listen to hear only what we want to hear, what sounds easy to accomplish and will be the least painful or requires the least energy input. Everything is happening too fast. I had expected a terrorism "false flag" before the lection, or a more blatant declaration of war against Iran (instead we are quietly bombing Pakistan) in order to (at the very least) muddle the election and guarantee a neo-con victory, or (at the very worst) to be used as an excuse for martial law and no elections at all. I.e., more Bushshit. Instead we got Wall Street. If our paranoia lets us bail them out, we have a much greater step toward a socialist facist state of The Reign of the King Bushes. That would be ugly, long and painful. In the end, it would require the revolution. Some think the time for that is now, and I'm not certain that I do not disagree. If we battle the paranoia and say no to the bail-out, tough times and major re-adjustments must follow. But the chances are we might recover faster. But that probably means some sort of revolution, NOW. Of course, jury-rigged voting machines could alleviate the need for the false flag. But I'm being paranoid. Let's impeach Bush and Cheney, send the financiers home without bonus checks for bad behavior, suck in our guts and face the music. We have power as a people, no matter what crap W tells us. We should use it or lose it. by Ivan Hentschel (12 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 302 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:42:52 AM (0+)
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From V
Interrogator: I am instructed to inform you that you have been convicted by special tribunal and that unless you are ready to offer your cooperation you are to be executed. Do you understand what I'm telling you? Evey Hammond: Yes. Interrogator: Are you ready to cooperate? Evey Hammond: No. Interrogator: Very well. Escort Ms. Hammond back to her cell. Arrange a detail of six men and take her out behind the chemical shed and shoot her. Guard: It's time. Evey Hammond: I'm ready. Guard: Look all they want is one little piece of information, just give them something, anything. Evey Hammond: Thank you, but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds. Guard: Then you have no fear any more. You're completely free. by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [400 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Sunday, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:26:47 PM (0+)
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