Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Another point of view ; Dear Friends, I have always reserved this email list for information related to low frequency active sonar. Today, however, is a very different day in so many ways that I have decided to share with you a message I received. As some of you may know, I served as legal counsel at the Christic Institute during the 1980s. The major case we pursued was a racketeering case against the private, off-the-shelf, covert operators conducting the Iran-contra operation. During that litigation, I got a good look at the dark side of the U.S. democratic experiment. To summarize that perspective, the commitment to democracy unleashed great creative potential for innovation that in turn produced massive wealth. The commitment to democracy then got lost in the pursuit of materialism. The large corporations received recognition in the law as persons, their contributions polluted the democratic process, the government became an extension of their blind advocacy of an unlimited right to devour the Earth's resources, and the military-industrial-intelligence complex became a second government within the government holding more power than the publicly presented government. To preserve and enhance the national security state, things were done supposedly in the interest of the American people that the people knew nothing about and not have approved had they known. Death squads, assassinations, subversion of indigenous movements, overthrow of democratically elected governments, and other manifestations of the national security state agenda took place out of sight. Only occasionally did these actions surface, such as Cointelpro conducted by the FBI to discredit and destroy dissenting groups. A dream image captured the essence of what was happening. I was watching people sitting on the ground picnicking with their families while a band played happy music in a nearby bandstand. Behind the picnickers was a high, black wall that the people did not notice. Every now and then, a figure would slip out from under the wall, go out into the world and perform some abominable act, and then slip back again - all without anyone noticing. That is what U.S. history looks like when you step back and objectively observe what has been done. Outside dreamtime, our investigation into the history of U.S. covert operations revealed the patterns of behavior that manifest in such events as Iran-contra. During the Iran-contra involvement, I met various people inside the intelligence establishment who continued to struggle to prevent the abuses that were bringing the U.S. into disrepute throughout the world. This evening, I received a message from one of those people regarding the events unfolding today. I neither reject nor embrace the analysis set forth in the message. Ever since the Iran-contra investigation, I have kept an open mind regarding how to interpret unfolding events that are often very different from what they seem on the surface. I send you this message to provide you with a perspective that you will not hear or see on CNN or any other major media outlet. In times like these, it is even more important to keep our wits about us and not be sucked into anyone else's script, even this one. Your Friend Lanny 11:00 p.m.; 9/11/01 ========= The Message ========= "Hello to you my friend, I know that the many discoveries and lessons we shared during the Christic investigation are still fresh in your memory. I have applied our analytical technique to the events unfolding today and thought you might enjoy the musings that resulted. There is always the onion. You peel off one layer and there is another layer underneath. I think Warren Christopher sought to encourage such peeling on CNN today. He said that while we may rush to conclude the bin Laden is the author of the events, it is important to dig deeper than that surface analysis to find the true perpetrators. As with most of the liberal Democrats, Christopher is not going to come right out and say what he thinks he knows. After all, during Iran-contra, when Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas asked Oliver North about his plan to suspend the U.S. Constitution (hatched inside FEMA), it was liberal Democrat Daniel Inouye who cut off the question and shuffled that subject off into executive session. Let's start with the Taliban. Russia invades Afghanistan. The CIA is loosed to fight them. Actually, as you know, the CIA is simply the visible agency for the much larger group of agencies that conduct U.S. covert policies and that are in turn part of an international network of covert organizations pursuing common policies in many instances. The CIA looks for a group that will meet certain criteria, such as fanatical enough to conduct a guerilla war, disciplined, hardy, and amenable to outside support to fulfill their perceived mission. Enter the Taliban, a relatively obscure group preaching a fanatical version of Islam that bears little resemblance to the actual religious teachings and is rejected by most Islamic movements. The value of their beliefs is that the Russians fit their model of the unbeliever, who must be destroyed. On the border near Pakistan, they are available. Kissinger had already put the "tilt toward Pakistan" in motion. So the onion now has three layers - U.S./CIA, Pakistan, Taliban. Arming, training, and supplying the Taliban through Pakistan, the CIA experiences a rare success. The Taliban and others inflict so much damage on the Russian forces that Russian public opinion (similar to U.S. public opinion during Vietnam) turns against the war and forces Russia to withdraw. Now armed and dangerous, the Taliban turn their guns on competing groups within Afghanistan and rise to national dominance. Women, foreign missionaries, and other groups not holding a sufficiently holy place to be considered righteous become targets of Taliban fanaticism. Bin Laden is considered a true believer with the resources to do a lot of harm to the unrighteous and finds a home in Afghanistan. To the onion now has four layers: U.S./CIA; Pakistan; Taliban; Bin Laden. The final layer of the onion is the semi-independent cells with the Laden network. Even better would be to have sent recruits in to Laden to form such cells that would actually operate under control external to Laden. Enter Bush and Company. With practically all the judges on the federal bench now appointees of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush (the elder), stealing an election through the Supreme Court is a piece of cake. The Iran-contra gang comes storming back into power. The appointment of Richard Armitage as Deputy Secretary of State is like a rooster crowing in terms of announcing who is in charge. Colin Powell is window dressing. The old gang sets about doing what they always wanted to do (loot and pillage) and undoing what they always wanted undone (environmental protection, civil rights, etc.) They follow the old axiom of do everything controversial you can in the first months of office to give people time to forget. Withdrawing from the Kyoto Treaty, leaving arsenic in the water, violating and then withdrawing from the ABM treaty, promulgating a "reward your friends" energy policy, etc. all will predictably lead to an alienation of the electorate. Sure enough, the opposition begins to strengthen. Your campaign to stop deployment of low frequency active sonar is only one of many campaigns that have mobilized people, fattened the coffers of opposition organizations, and produced a greater willingness to challenge the actions of the government. The next step is to powerfully impact the emotional body of the electorate and cause the nation to rally behind the President and the military. The Gulf War model is not readily available. You remember how U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Hussein that the dispute between Kuwait and Iraq was a local matter and how Hussein swallowed that fly like a hungry trout. Then Bush (the elder) got to unite the world to drive Hussein out of Kuwait. Those types of manipulation are not so easy to find. So back to the onion. The terrorist bin Laden or elements of his network are available as a surrogate. Only this time the purpose of the surrogate is not to fight someone else. The purpose is to terrorize the U.S. population into embracing Bush and Company. Laden's big actions to date have generally involved getting a bomb into some place where it can cause harm, such as a truck aimed at an embassy gate or a small boat aimed at a large ship. This time, however, he will make a great leap forward into being able to recruit four teams that are capable of hijacking four different airplanes from three different airports, conducting the hijacking with such swiftness that none of the legitimate crew can punch in the hijack code, flying those airplanes without the crew in place, navigating those airplanes to separate targets with high impact potential (Trade Center innocents, military hq, and presidential retreat plus the passengers), and impacting three of the four targets in a very short period of time, thereby inflicting the damage in such a way as to have the most emotional impact on the population. The onion provides plausible deniability. Assistance will be provided through cooperating elements of Pakistani intelligence and then through cooperating elements in the Taliban to bin Laden and perhaps on to elements of Laden's network operating without his direct control. The network cell conducting the operation will be suicide squads, perhaps recruited from the Palestinian population. Deniability for everyone and obliteration for the perpetrators. Pretty clean all around. Laden will never know that he is a pawn of the U.S. national security state. He will believe that Allah has suddenly blessed him with resources and capability that previously eluded him. He will be the trout. Once he takes the bait, he will be the new demon, the country will rally behind the President and the military to exorcise their fears, and everyone will forget all the terrible things Bush and Company did since January. I would assume that you will have a very hard time getting anyone to pay any attention to low frequency active sonar, particularly as your position can be painted as impeding military preparedness at a time when terrorists and rogue nations are on a rampage. Sorry about the whales. As you may have noted, President Bush (the younger) appointed his campaign manager head of FEMA. While being given charge of an agency that provides financial and other assistance in time of flood and other natural disaster may not seem like much of a reward for returning the White House to the national security state, there are still all those pesky little executive orders that essentially turn the country over to FEMA in times of national instability. As events unfolded today, FEMA took charge. Once the deed is done, tracks are to be covered. An amusing CNN story today was the "leak" from law enforcement that the FBI intended to execute search warrants tomorrow in Hollywood and Daytona Beach, Florida. Of course, law enforcement, particularly in highly sensitive cases, always broadcasts in advance to potential suspects their intent to conduct a search the next day. CNN, which would almost certainly withhold a story about a planned military action during wartime, somehow cannot contain itself and breaks the news to the perpetrators that a trail needs to be covered. Alternatively, the search sites need to be sown with the necessary evidence to continue pointing the finger in the "right" direction. Perhaps they will find a diary of one of the perpetrators detailing their service to Allah against the U.S. Satan and their allegiance to bin Laden. The FBI will find whatever it is that others want them to find. It will be interesting to watch as the cover up continues. Will evidence be lost? Will evidence be fabricated? Witnesses die mysteriously? Stay tuned if you can stomach it all. Well color me cynical if you will. I have seen enough of how these guys operate to find this entire episode simply too useful politically and too perfect in execution. I hope you enjoy these musings. No need to rep ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 13 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:31:14 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the chickens have come home to roost Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/keller10.html The Chickens Come Home to Roost by John Keller I�m watching the dust from the World Trade Center buildings settle and the Pentagon burn, while the White House is evacuated. The FAA has grounded all flights, as it now appears that three domestic commercial airliners were hijacked and crashed into these buildings, and possibly one other plane crashed before finding its target. What else could have happened but a well organized terrorist attack? >From here the script is set. The pundits on TV have already mentioned Osama bin Laden. Retired General Wesley Clark maneuvered into his favorite position, full frontal camera, and announced that only Ossama bin Laden had the resources to co-ordinate such an attack. Newt Gingrich repeated basically the same thing. George Bush has promised that the government will hunt the terrorists down and punish them. "Terrorism against our nation will not stand." Huh? Sadly, terrorism already did stand, the World Trade Centers did not, and the terrorists most directly responsible are already dead. Back to the TV where the anchor goes on about the previous bombing of the World Trade Centers, the bombing of the USS Cole, Oklahoma City, and the bombing of our African Embassies. Tomorrow the calls for a national day of mourning will begin. Somewhere in this formula of terrorism, mourning, Tomahawk-revenge, repeat, the news-media are failing to connect the dots. Where and why did the cycle begin? Why do people hate the United States enough to come here and try to wreck the maximum amount of death and destruction possible? Why, why, why? Terrorism gets its name from the type of attack designed to generate the maximum amount of terror. The terrorists responsible for these attacks understood psychology well, and used it to maximum advantage as they planned their attack. They also had a reason for choosing the targets they did. Lets start with the targets, The World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. The World Trade Centers, besides the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building were two of the most widely recognized buildings in New York. They stood at the edge of the financial district, right on Wall Street. They were the two largest symbols of American global corporatism in New York City. They were also crammed full of people, with approximately 50,000 civilians working in the two every day. The terrorist messages, intentional or not, are fivefold. First, civilians are not safe; they are fair game. Second, a highly secure building in the middle of America�s financial capital is not safe; therefore, no office building in any city is safe. The result: office buildings in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Washington, and other cities emptied within hours of the attacks. The UN and all government buildings in Washington were evacuated. Third, the airlines are not safe. The terrorists hijacked at least 4 planes, from four different airports, and two different airlines. Fourth, the terrorists attacked the symbol of International finance. Why? Fifth, the United States military is despised by whoever did this. The method of attack, and the timing tells us these terrorists had coldly calculated how to cause the greatest amount of grief for America. The flights were all domestic flights. The departure and arrival cities for the flights may have been only coincidental to the terrorist goal of hijacking the largest jets, but I don�t think this was the case. It�s easier to study a single airport for security weaknesses, get your people hired on the inside, and get weapons through, than it is to hijack planes from Boston, Washington, and Newark. That means security at three separate major airports was compromised. With end route cities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, Washington, and Boston, people across the entire U.S. have lost loved ones as a result of these attacks. As of this writing, a group with the name "Palestine" in it is the only one to claim responsibility for attacks. Why would a group of Palestinians claim responsibility for the attack? Why would Palestinians be so happy about the attacks? Why would the terrorists attack military / government and banking targets? Could it be that Palestinian terrorists perceive the United States to favor Israel in the current Intafada. New York is renowned for its large Jewish population, and banking is considered a historically Jewish profession. I think the picture is becoming a little bit clearer. Maybe that�s why the World Trade Centers were targeted in New York City. Don�t get me wrong, they made good terrorist targets for logistical reasons alone: sheer height, the amount of media coverage in New York City, and the timing of the attack ensured that cameras would capture the murders and mahem, broadcasting live to an audience of millions. Chalmers Johnson has theory. He calls it blow-back. It�s simple really. When a big strong country uses its military or money to push around a smaller country, the smaller country can only fight back via terrorism. And provoked enough, the smaller country will fight back. The Pentagon folks call it asymmetrical war, as in, the two sides are not even. Our side has nukes, aircraft carriers, fighters, tanks, Tomahawks, and is considering missle defense. The other side has a minimum of 4 suicidal hijackers pilots, 12 suicidal hijackers with any kind of gun, some friends in airport security, maintenance, catering, or baggage, an agreed upon date, time, and target list, and enough money to buy a few dozen plane tickets. When Nikolay Soltys or Joseph Ferguson goes on a murder spree in California, we shake our heads and dismiss it as the doings of a lunatic. When at least a dozen people carry out coordinated suicide terrorist attacks on specific targets in the United States, something besides, or perhaps in addition to, insanity is at work. What could stir and feed such a profound hatred? Dismiss the "jealous of America" idea. Jealousy is the petty hatred of small-minded gossips and pickpockets. I think that seeing members of your family killed by armaments supplied by the United States, bought with money supplied by the United States, and used with the support of the United States just might do it. If the cycle went on long enough, perhaps for years, hatred could set it. So the question is, who would do this? Here�s a partial list of countries the United States has recently (in the last 10 years) bombed, invaded, supported overthrow of the government, or supplied arms to one side in a war: Palestine, Iraq, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Sudan. China is an honorary member of the list, because of its embassy bombing, which was probably intentional. Well, we have the usual suspects, and we can bet that a terrorist from any of those countries will see this attack on the U.S. as retaliation for our bombing of their home soil. It�s ironic that the initial response is to look to the military for protection after the damage is done, when military involvement around the world was probably the cause. It�s ironic to hear calls to hunt down and punish those responsible, when they already paid with their lives. The evil masterminds remain, and given the success of this attack, they will have legions of new fanatics, ready to die. Even if we eliminate those at the top of the organization, more will take their place. Why? Will we learn anything in the aftermath of this attack? The lessons seem clear enough: follow an isolationist foreign policy. Stop selling weapons and supplying monetary aid to foreign countries, period. Stop meddling in the internal politics of foreign countries, period. How much longer will we blindly support Israel, when it may have cost us thousands of lives instead of billions of dollars? How many more dead Americans do we need before we realize that our military is seen as an occupation force when viewed with foreign eyes, from foreign shores? Bring them home. How many more civilian lives will it take before we realize our government cannot protect us from harm, when it creates millions who hate us abroad? How much more destruction will be wrecked on American soil before we realize that this is a faint reflection of the destruction we have wrecked on Iraq and Yugoslavia? The list of countries we have antagonized is long. The names of the dead in those countries run into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. If we do not change our ways, September 11, 2001 will be remembered as the first in a long string of the worst. I pray that it will be the turning point in the way we deal with the world. I pray that it will be the last, worst attack on the people of the United States. In his Gettysburg address, Lincoln said "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain". Let us resolve to understand why our countrymen were killed, that their deaths may not be in vain. September 12, 2001 John Keller lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
