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GW Bush on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
by Robert Lederman
(718) 743-3722
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November 23, 2001
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=14610
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never
tolerate
outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September
the
11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the
terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."
GW Bush speaking before the UN GeGeneral Assembly
11/10/2001
When President Bush spoke of "outrageous conspiracy
theories" he
was for the first time acknowledging something of great significance.
There are informed viewpoints completely missing from the propaganda
war being relentlessly waged on Americans about 9/11 and its
aftermath, viewpoints which are as opposite from the official story as
it is possible to get.
The Bush administrations' official story has three basic
premises.
To briefly summarize, the first is that Islamic terrorists based in
Afghanistan who hate American freedom plotted and executed an attack
on America - an attack which the U.S. government had no prior
knowledge of nor any connection to. The second premise is that in
order to wage and win a war on terrorism we must invade Afghanistan
and every other nation harboring, funding or otherwise supporting
terrorists and that a simultaneous suspension of domestic civil
liberties is necessary for internal security. The third basic premise
is that our government is all good while theirs is the very
personification of evil, the "evil-doers" as President Bush likes to
call them.
The "conspiracy theories" Bush is referring to similarly
have
three basic premises and many divergent subsets. The first is that the
attack was known about (and possibly, planned) by various elements of
the U.S. government before 9/11 and was allowed to take place in order
to bring about certain conditions, including the suspension of our
guaranteed civil liberties. The second premise is that even if bin
Laden and the al Queda network based in Afghanistan were immediately
responsible for the attack that those supporting, funding and
protecting them are not for the most part based in Afghanistan but are
in fact closely connected to the Bush administration and to the allies
President Bush has taken such efforts to rally to our side. The third
premise is that a U.S. built oil pipeline through Afghanistan which
has been in the planning stages for more than a decade is the real
goal of the war and that a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was in the
works long before September 11th. [Click Here for earlier Essay
associated with this topic.].
http://baltech.org/lederman/9-11-unpopular.html
What makes these alternative viewpoints, "conspiracy
theories"? It
certainly isn't a lack of evidence.
In the American criminal justice system there are three
basic
kinds of evidence; direct, circumstantial and exculpatory.
Direct evidence of a crime might include a confession,
fingerprints, DNA samples, credible witnesses or a surveillance tape
proving guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. Circumstantial evidence is
anything that lends credence to a defendant being guilty but in itself
is not sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Exculpatory evidence on the other hand disproves a defendants' guilt
or contradicts other evidence proving their guilt. In a recent NYC
case involving exculpatory evidence, a homeless man charged with a
vicious sidewalk assault on a tourist was found to be on a store
surveillance tape recorded at the same time the assault took place. In
the American system of criminal law prosecutors are required to share
all exculpatory evidence with the defense.
The official story as told by the Bush administration and
the U.S.
corporate media is constructed of "evidence" the government frankly
admits would not be admissible in any court of law. If anything, the
Bush administrations' version of events is itself a very weakly
constructed "conspiracy theory" challenged at every turn by an
enormous amount of exculpatory evidence, much of it from the Bush
administration itself. No wonder Bush insists on trials by military
tribunals for suspected terrorists, trials in which virtually none of
the evidence will be revealed to the defendants or their
Bush-appointed defense attorneys.
It's absurd to claim that such trials will have any
similarity to
those at Nuremburg after WWII. The accused Nazis were given every
opportunity to mount a full defense and were directly confronted by
hundreds of witnesses for the prosecution who they were able to fully
cross-examine.
There is one very striking similarity to Nuremberg however.
Like
today's accused terrorists, the Nazis were funded and supplied by some
of Americas' wealthiest businessmen including GW Bush's grandfathers
who operated Wall Street banks, shipping companies and other
businesses as fronts for the Nazis [1].
Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the largest sources of
financing
for terrorism are also intimately connected to the Bush family and to
Wall Street, to some of Americas' leading corporations and to members
of both Bush administrations.
The need for complete control of all information and media
coverage along with a 24 hour a day propaganda effort to depict
support for the Bush administration as a patriotic duty becomes
obvious once one has even briefly considered the exculpatory evidence.
Not only might it be difficult to convict the so-called terrorists in
a legitimate court of law but support for either the war or the Bush
administration would be virtually impossible once the full facts were
known.
Nevertheless, being a loyal American I must support the
Presidents' position in the war on terrorism with one additional
point. The American people should hold President Bush to his own
professed standard as explained in the following quote.
In his remarks, the president again laid out what the White
House
called the Bush Doctrine.
"If you harbor terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train
or arm
a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a
terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by the
United States and our friends."
NY TIMES 11/22/2001 Bush Says War May Go Beyond Afghan
Border
In other words, the President, the CIA, his father and many
of
their business partners, cabinet appointees and so-called allies are -
based on the President's own words - terrorists.
Only by bringing them to justice can we ever hope to win the
war
on terrorism.
[1]
BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS
PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE
PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL,
HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
Page: A1 Section: National/Foreign
AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the
New
York Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942. "Hitler's
Angel Has 3 Million in US Bank,"read the headline above a story
reporting that Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in
Union Banking Corp., possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs." Bush knew
all about the New York bank: He was one of its seven directors. If the
Nazi tie became known, it would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush
and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to
government regulators that their position was merely an unpaid
courtesy for a client. The situation grew more serious when the
government seized Union's assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act,
the sort of action that could have ruined Bush's political dreams.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes
investigator
and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum, is quoted as saying:
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich."
(Click Here for original story)
http://baltech.org/lederman/9-11-unpopular.html
Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2 Man:
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some
poor slob
on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out
of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? 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.
George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit, TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary
act.
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson,
The Supreme Court In the American System of Government
(1955) I cannot say that our country could have no central
police without
becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it
cannot be totalitarian without a centralized national police.
A national police will have enough on enough people, even if
it
does not elect to prosecute them, so that it will find no opposition
to its policies.
(Author's note: After its founding following WWII, the CIA
was
initially staffed with thousands of former Nazis who were experts in
propaganda, biological warfare, eugenics and social control as
recently admitted by the CIA itself.
For excellent published works on the CIA/Nazi connection
read:
Trading With The Enemy by Charles Higham, The Secret War Against the
Jews by Loftus and Arrons and Blowback by Christopher Simpson.
UPI 9/20/2000
CIA says Nazi general was
intelligence source
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) --
The Central Intelligence Agency has for the first time
confirmed
that a high-ranking Nazi general placed his anti-Soviet spy ring at
the disposal of the United States during the early days of the Cold
War. The National Archives said in a release Wednesday that the CIA
had filed an affidavit in U.S. District Court "acknowledging an
intelligence relationship with German General Reinhard Gehlen that it
has kept secret for 50 years...The CIA's announcement marks the first
acknowledgement by that agency that it had any relationship with
Gehlen and opens the way for declassification of records about the
relationship," the National Archives said Gehlen was Hitler's senior
intelligence officer on the Eastern Front during the war and
transferred his expertise and contacts to the U.S. as World War II
reached its climax. While Gehlen's relationship with U.S. intelligence
during the 1940s and 1950s has been the topic of some five books over
the years, the eventual release of CIA documents pertaining to the
development of his European spy ring could shed new light on the
origins of the Cold War and early U.S. espionage efforts against
Moscow. Gehlen's network of agents in Europe - including many with
Nazi backgrounds who were bailed out of prisoner of war camps by U.S.
intelligence officers - was known as the Gehlen Organization and
received millions of dollars in funding from the U.S. until 1956. The
CIA's acknowledgement of its dealings with Gehlen came in a response
to an appeal of a Freedom of Information Act request by researcher
Carl Oglesby, the National Archives said. The agency pledged to
release its records on the general in accordance with the Nazi War
Crimes Disclosure Act.
San Francisco Bay Guardian May 7, 2001
"Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine
...unprejudiced
mind ..."That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment
described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous
Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final
Solution. Augsburg's SS unit performed "special duties," a euphemism
for exterminating Jews and other "undesirables" during the Second
World War. Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg
managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in
the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA
records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's gallery of Nazi war
criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after Germany
surrendered to the Allies.
Washington Post Sunday, March 18, 2001
By George Lardner Jr., Staff Writer
Page A04
CIA Declassifies Its Records
On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
Documents May Give Clues About Obstacles in Hunt for War
Criminals
The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the
records of
its dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II. It says it has
found 251 boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially relevant
documents -- apparently more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will
take about two years to complete work on them.
Daily News 4/28/2001
Secret Files Show U.S. Used Nazis
...The documents show that high-ranking Nazis--including
death
doctor Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann--were coddled by American and
Soviet spymasters as World War II ended. "The real winners of the Cold
War were Nazi criminals," Justice Department official Eli Rosenbaum
said. "East and West became so rapidly focused on challenging each
other that they lost their will to pursue Nazi perpetrators. They even
deemed some of the criminals to be useful allies."
Excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf:
The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific
training
of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain
facts, processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for
the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art
consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced
that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct,
etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in
itself, since its function, like the poster, consists in attracting
the attention of the crowd, and not in educating those who are already
educated or who are striving after education and knowledge, its effect
for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very
limited degree at the so-called intellect...The more modest its
intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration
the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be..."The art
of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great
masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to
the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses. The
receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is
small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of
these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few
points and must harp on these slogans until the last member of the
public understands what you want him to understand [or believe]..."The
war propaganda of the English and Americans were psychologically
sound. By representing the Germans to their own people as barbarians
and Huns, they prepared the individual soldier for the terrors of war,
and thus helped to preserve him from disappointments. After this, the
most terrible weapon that was used against him seemed only to confirm
what his propagandists had told him; it likewise reinforced his faith
in the truth of his government's assertions, while on the other hand
it increased his rage and hatred against the vile enemy For the cruel
effects of the weapon, whose use by the enemy he now came to know,
gradually came to confirm for him the 'Hunnish' brutality of the
barbarous enemy, which he had heard all about; and it never dawned on
him for a moment that his own weapons possibly, if not probably, might
be even more terrible in their effects..."The function of propaganda
is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different
people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set
out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the
truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the
masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right,
always and unflinchingly...The broad mass of a nation does not consist
of diplomats, or even professors of political law, or even individuals
capable of forming a rational opinion; it consists of plain mortals,
wavering and inclined to doubt and uncertainty. As soon as our own
propaganda admits so much as a glimmer of right on the other side, the
foundation for doubt in our own right has been laid. The masses are
then in no position to distinguish where foreign injustice ends and
our own begins."
Frederick Douglas (1857)
Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have
found
out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon
them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Daily News 11/14/2001
Bush OKs Secrecy In Terror Trials
President Bush signed an order yesterday that could allow
accused
Al Qaeda operatives and other foreign terrorists to stand trial before
secretive military commissions similar to the tribunals used to
prosecute Nazis in World War II. The order gives Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld authority to establish the tribunals, White House
officials said. "Given the danger to the safety of the United States
... I find ... that it is not practicable to apply ... the principles
of law and the rules of evidence generally recognized in the trial of
criminal cases in the United States," Bush's order said."
DRUDGE REPORT SUN NOV 11, 2001
BIG MEDIA FLORIDA RECOUNT: GORE TOPPED BUSH IF ALL UNDER/OVER
VOTES COUNTED; LEGAL STRATEGY DESTROYED CHANCES
A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000
Florida
presidential election commissioned by the nation's main media outlets
shows Al Gore edged ahead of George W. Bush "under all the scenarios
for counting all undervotes and overvotes statewide.
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator."
GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on
12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their
website.
(Click Here for transcript)
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html
Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the
Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive
archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The
Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and
Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays
concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested
41 times to date for his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been
convicted of any of the charges. He is best known for creating
hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.
Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(718) 743-3722
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