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Thinking about 9/11 in light of the bailout

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Linn Cohen-Cole
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9/11 is like a giant burr under the world's saddle, making it buck endlessly.  What if it were gone?  If 9/11 were untrue it would be the biggest lie in human history.  What came out of it?  An undoing of basic constitutional rights at an astounding speed, then huge systems put in place to spy on and control us.  And by whom?  Those taking over now at a scale impossible to fathom while letting the rest of us go to hell.  What did 9/11 accomplish and for whom?  What would happen if it is untrue?  And we are not supposed to look?  Even when we have major scientists saying it's not possible?

This is part of an article sent to me by a friend.  I don't know the political position of the author (Alan Adaschik) but at some point, right and left, we are all starting to share rage at what has happened to us and our constitution and wonder who is running this now crazy show.

"America just survived the nightmare of living under the worst possible president anyone could imagine; George W. Bush.  No one can say anything good about his accomplishments while in office and this includes Republicans who are loyal to him.  This is because everything George Bush did was to the detriment of the people of this Nation and to the rest of the world.  As a President, he was a total failure and he deliberately worked to destroy everything that was right about our Nation and its government.  This includes:

* Turned the office of the President into a dictatorship
* Tightened the New World Order's grip upon our Nation
* Increased government secrecy
* Opened the revolving door between corporations and government agencies
* Reducing the effectiveness of and politicizing all government agencies
* Increased the national debt bringing the Nation to the brink of bankruptcy
* Broke down the wall between the separation between church and state
* Wrongfully rewrote legislation through the use of signing statements
* Wrongfully rewrote legislation through the use of executive orders
* Worked to eliminate checks and balances in government
* Eliminated citizen rights including inalienable ones
* Introduced torture as a legitimate tool of government
* Broke treaties and ignored international law
* Lied to the American people about everything
* Established an illegal prison system outside our borders
* Wrongfully invaded a weak foreign nation on a lie
* Failed to prevent 9/11 and is remiss in fighting the war on terror
* Mishandled the Katrina disaster
* Etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum

No, George Bush did nothing good for America and nothing good for the world.  While in office, his actions were undertaken solely for the benefit of our New World Order masters and the corporate executives who hold him firmly in their pockets.  In the final analysis, the ultimate irony of this is that what he wrought is not even beneficial to these Fascists because the destruction of our environment and the collapse of our economic system benefits no one including the demented criminals of the New World Order.  Indeed, America is ready for change but it goes far beyond just being ready because George Bush has driven a dagger into the very heart of what America is supposed to be and if his actions are not reversed, the American experiment in Republican Democracy is definitely over."

When I see that list - and it is far from inclusive - I wonder how all that was possible in only 8 years, and then I see 9/11 and buildings falling in that so perfect way, and it's clear that 9/11 was the kick-off, and the way into all of that, and the roaring (still-roaring) engine behind each part.  It's as though 9/11 set the engine at full throttle for almost 8 years, so there was no longer an idle.

"Homeland Security" is a megaphone of that constant roaring 9/11 fear as well as an ingathering of greater and greater power dependent on it.  It's as though "Homeland" "Security" were a factory and fear is trucked in as the boundless natural resource, and the factory produces police state regulations as its products. 

Mr. Adaschik left off NAIS (the Animal Identification System), which, since it is also about fear,  is now under Homeland Security, and out comes the greatest attempt in the history of the country to track every single farm animal (and thus their owners) on a 24 hour basis, the trackees paying for the spying equipment used against them, with even single penalties for not "being tracked" fast enough and accurately, enough to destroy a life.  Click here.

It's George Orwell meets Animal Farm - both come to finish off our farmers utterly and steal our farmland out from under us. 

So, then I see Bush's terms - astoundingly book-ended by 9/11 and the bailout.  And I wonder.

I dare to wonder that despite all slurs and admonitions.  Are those who profiting by taking us all to the cleaners at a level no sane person could possibly have imagined, capable of planning things to set this all off?  Are those who are leaving nothing behind - not homes, not jobs, not democracy, not animals or farmland, or belief in anything anymore - are they capable of telling the largest lie in human history, to accomplish the largest theft in human history?

I see how immensely useful 9/11 was for all of this and that "they" who are making off with our whole world in sacks they seem to have kept at the ready, have gotten rich off its catastrophes at every turn.  As contractors, arms dealers, oil companies, .... using fear and "patriotism" to take us to war (in the wrong country, some say, but the one with the most oil) and to get rich, but with a "patriotic" emptiness that left behind soldiers without even medical care.

I see 9/11 as the door opening on hell for our country and the bailout as the door closing as the largest thieves in history leave with everything. 

My credit card company just announced in fine print that its rates during these desperate times just went up from 12.99% to 28.99% so they are lying in wait for the last bones, as well.

I see all this and I dare to wonder about those who have set upon us like wolves, now.  What were they capable of on September 11, 2001?

“Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” 

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