The new “Osama bin Laden tape” is an astonishing example of what the corporate media (CorpoMedia) feeds gullible Americans, as well as what gullible Americans are still swallowing after so many lies. Bin Laden has been front-page news for a week, spurring serious buzz over how much the man has changed. Beard trimmed and neatly dyed, he’s looking older in this videotape, but does not appear to be obviously ill. Dark circles beneath his eyes are more pronounced. Experts agree that his face is “visibly wizened.” The tape has been rushed into technical evaluation by U.S. intelligence analysts. Initial reviews lean toward verifying its authenticity. Bush took time out between gaffes in Australia to mutter “The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in which we live. And it is a reminder that we must work together to protect...against these extremists who murder the innocent in order to achieve their political objectives.” Sunday, 9/9/07, front pages across the country declared: AL-QAIDA ALIVE, WELL...Osama bin Laden’s video demonstrates the resilience of his organization.
One major problem in all this is the fact that Osama bin Laden has been dead for almost six years. Regardless of what “intelligence analysts” say about authenticity of this taping of the same impersonator as in the last tape, it’s just as phony. And now Bush is reminding us that we must work together to battle extremists who try to imitate our murder of the innocent in order to achieve political objectives. Perhaps the most dangerous problem of all is that the American herd continues to swallow outrageous and incredible bullshit as though it were truth.
The “experts” know bin Laden is dead, so do the intelligence analysts, and everyone with any genuine knowledge of the situation—even Bush knows... Fox “News” ran, Wednesday, December 26, 2001, Report: Bin Laden Already Dead [1]. On Thursday, 18 July, 2002, the BBC: Bin Laden “probably” dead [2]. CNN.com followed their own story of Monday, October 7, 2002 about bin Laden’s death [3] with the Saturday, October 26, 2002: Magazine runs what it calls bin Laden’s will [4]. An excellent overview plus many more links can be found at the WHAT REALLY HAPPENED website [5].
Those who profit from pretending that Osama bin Laden is still alive, there’s the key. The mindless War On Terror gushes tax dollars to war profiteers in fantastic ways that Dick Cheney and the other neocons dreamt of when they released their plans for world domination, the Project for the New American Century [6]. This might be the most important read since the Constitution for citizens concerned with what is being done to America in this new century.
Vast ill-spent energies have created the Osama boogeyman. BushCo must shoulder responsibility for not having “gotten” bin Laden, but that’s nothing compared to the potential profits in keeping the boogeyman alive in the minds of Americans.
One might think that after such a tsunami of lies—9-11, plus three phony elections, our war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan...one might think that Americans would smarten up. And there has been some smartening, but now, Iran. The propaganda, the public conditioning, the nuclear attack on Iran—then what will we do? When will Americans be unable to swallow any more bullshit? For right now, hype and propaganda swirling around The New bin Laden Tape insists there is still ample room for bullshit; that it is not possible to overestimate the gullibility of the American herd. In this dangerous world in which we live, perhaps our own gullibility is the greatest peril we face.
Rand Clifford is a novelist and essayist living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING and TIMING are published by StarChief Press: http://www.starchiefpress.com />
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Rand Clifford is a writer living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING, TIMING, and VOICES OF VIRES are published by StarChief Press.
Come on, let's not be so hard on everyone. They are not stupid nor gullible. They have been programmed since the mid'60s through education and religion. It's the same way the Germans were prepared for Hitler. These psychopaths that control our government have nothing but time for their mischiefs, as they've already got all the money they can't spend in their lifetimes. But because they're "dead" and empty, it's not enough.
There's no way I can prove this transcript is authentic or not, but it does illustrate one way all this could have went down. Hope it is of some benefit.
I agree that Bin Laden is dead and has been for many years. I didn't have your articles as evidence, just a strong feeling and an interesting story from years ago. There was talk of Bin Laden coming to this country and martyring himself as a suicide bomber. I knew that Osama would never blow himself up, so I assumed that he was already dead and there were plans to smuggle his body over here, load it up with explosives and blow up something important. I agree that we need to keep him alive and so does al Qaeda. At least we can agree on something.
It probably proved to be impractical. As for the video, I noticed something very interesting when viewing a scene of Bin Laden from 2004 and the current video. Fox had them on side-by-side. Two commentaries on the video on Fox can be seen on You Tube.
When you stop the video on these pictures and superimpose the two images of Bin Laden, it is clear that they are exactly the same. The head and shoulders are in exactly the same position. The beard is changed and the robe is changed but otherwise, the older video was obviously used to forge this one. You will notice a shadow under his newly darkened beard. The shadow represents where the longer beard used to be. That black beard is actually a rather poor fake.
My guess is that it is the work of our own government.
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Bob (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments)
on Monday, September 10, 2007 at 10:06:49 PM
