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----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Damiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:48 AM Subject: FW: Truth is always bitter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Machmoed, Rofiq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:08 PM > Subject: FW: Truth is always bitter > > > Assalamu'alaikum wr wb, > > Rekan-rekan, dibawah ini adalah sebuah bacaan menarik. Perlu dicatat bahwa > belum tentu semua informasinya akurat/bisa dipertanggung jawabkan. Namun > menurut hemat saya, kita tetap bisa mengambil manfaat yaitu mempelajari > metode pembahasan/pendekatannya yang cukup mengena, yang mungkin berguna > terutama bila kita menghadapi rekan kerja expatriate. > > Wassalam, > Rofiq > > > > > > Dear friends, > > it's just something to read, not to say that I completely agree with it. > > =============================================== > > "TRUTH IS ALWAYS BITTER" > > > > Written by an American (EPISODE 3) > > > > > > > > THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPARENTLY STRUCK A RESONANCE AROUND THE WORLD. IT > > HAS > > BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MANY LANGUAGES AROUND THE GLOBE. IT IS LONG BUT > > WORTH READING!! > > > > > > > > A MOMENT OF REFLECTION > > > > > > > > On September 11th, four teams of hijackers walked past the security at > > three major metropolitan airports and hijacked four aircraft. Two were > > crashed into the World Trade Towers, one into the Pentagon, and one was > > apparently and thankfully shot down before it could reach its target. > > > > The media call these perpetrators terrorists. Given that we don't really > > know exactly who they were and what belief systems they were slaves to, we > > cannot know whether they called themselves holy warriors, freedom > > fighters, or something else. I doubt they call themselves terrorists for > > using unconventional tactics, no more than the American colonists who used > > unconventional tactics that the British found morally repugnant called > > themselves terrorists. > > > > But what we do know about these people is that they were educated. They > > were pilots. They were equipped to survive in modern American culture. > > Minus their hate,they could have been prosperous and successful here. > > With their hate, because of their hate, they were willing to throw their > > education, their prosperity, their futures, and their lives away in a > > blinding flash as aluminum ploughed into concrete with hundreds of > > innocent lives following just a few feet behind. > > > > How could anyone hate America enough to throw their own lives away in > > their attacks on the symbols of our nation's economic and military power? > > I mean it's not like someone just wakes up one morning and decides to > > hijack a jet passenger liner and use it to knock down a skyscraper and is > > willing to die in the process because there's nothing good to watch on TV. > > Nobody wakes up and says, "Gee the baseball game got rained out, let's go > > blow up a building." Anyone willing to commit such a crime as we have seen > > this week is seriously pissed off about something, and in order to stop > > more attacks we need to face up to what that something is. > > > > We're not talking "lone nuts", but entire teams of people willing to die > > in their attacks on our buildings and against our citizens. What makes > > these people so hate us that they would sacrifice their lives in their > > eagerness to strike at us? > > > > Maybe it's because America, despite lovely speeches about bringing freedom > > and democracy to the world, has a record of backing some of the worst > > dictators to be found. The US Government, for reasons of commercial > > interest, backed men like Batista and the Shah of Iran, despots who drove > > their people into poverty to enrich American corporations until their > > people rebelled. Then we befuddled Americans scratch our heads and wonder > > why those people don't seem to like us very much. > > > > Maybe people hate us because what we call Peacekeepers still looks and > > feels like an invading army to those who stop the bullets, step on the > > landmines, and catch the bombs. > > > > Maybe it's because the US Government has executed its foreign policy by > > tricking nations into fighting each other. Saddam was our buddy once, when > > he was useful to our policy towards Iran. We The People paid for the Super > > gun. Our government sold Saddam the first of his biological weapons.Then > > our government decided they didn't need him any more, told him it would be > > okay if he invaded Kuwait and declared war on him, blowing up the Supergun > > and the biological weapons (we hope). Think maybe Saddam carries a grudge? > > I sure would if I was double crossed like that. > > > > We played the same double cross with Osama Bin Laden,our ally and a CIA > > contract agent in Afghanistan, funded with $6 billion of YOUR tax dollars, > > now branded a supervillian worthy of a comic book. > > Remember the last time our government decided to "take care of Osama?" We > > blew up an aspirin factory in Sudan. Big joke, that was. You, the > > taxpayers, not only got to pay for the million-a-shot cruise missiles, you > > also got to pay to rebuild the aspirin factory when the owners sued the > > USA, with Vernon Jordan as their attorney! Think the people who worked in > > that factory (the ones who survived at any rate) like us? I doubt it. > > > > Maybe the reason people in the middle east are willing to conduct holy > > wars against us is because so many holy wars were conducted against them > > in the past,going back to the so-called "Holy" Crusades. > > > > Jerusalem was conquered on 7/15/1099 and 60,000 non-Christians were > > killed. > > Bodies were slit open to search for gold coins they might have swallowed. > > Jews who had taken refuge in the city's synagogue were burned alive; > > thousands of Muslims were chopped to death in Al-Aqsa mosque. > > According to the Archbishop of Tyre, who was an eye-witness, "It was > > impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; > > everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered > > with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless > > bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror > > of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the > > victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous > > sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within > > the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." > > Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following > > summer in all of Palestine the air was polluted by the stench of > > decomposition". > > > > After rude behavior like that, nobody would be welcome again. > > > > Maybe people are willing to use terror attacks against us because we use > > terror attacks against them. In 1985, authorized by William Casey, the CIA > > planted a car bomb near a mosque in Beirut to kill Sheik Mohammed Hossein > > Fadlallah, a Muslim cleric. The bomb missed the Sheik but killed 80 > > people, including children. Is it really okay for us to use tactics we > > condemn in others? No, it isn't. If they are morally wrong to use car > > bombs that kill innocent people, then so are we. > > > > Or maybe the reason so many people hate us enough to die attacking us is > > something as simple as growing up watching your playmates blown to bloody > > bits before your eyes, and picking up a piece of shrapnel stamped, "Made > > in the USA". It is silly to think that anyone could endure a childhood > > like that and remain entirely positive about the USA. Because for all its > > public talk of peace, the United States remains the largest exporter of > > mechanized death in the world. And if it is acceptable for the victims of > > guns to blame the gun makers for their injuries, it must be equally > > acceptable for the victims of bombs, missiles, and mines, to blame the > > weapons makers as well. > > > > It is far less than clear just who is behind the attacks in New York and > > Washington DC. Fingers have been pointed at Saddam Hussein, Arafat, and ex > > CIA agent Osama Bin Laden. It may be any one of them. It may be all three. > > It may be none of them. It could be the work of a third party, unknown and > > unseen, with the goal of triggering yet another war where the blood of > > innocents will be bartered for greater wealth and influence. We do know > > that those who hijacked the planes went to a great deal of effort to steal > > identities of Middle Eastern Arabs and use them on their forged > > identifications. > > > > What also know is that wars are often started with deceptions. Sun Tzu > > states in "The Art Of War" that all warfare is based on deception, and > > that rulers must cultivate the appearance of moral rightness in order to > > persuade their nations to fight. > > > > When Hitler needed the support of the German people to invade Poland, he > > got it by staging a phony attack complete with dead bodies in Polish > > uniforms on the German side of the border. Recently declassified documents > > prove that Pearl Harbor wasn't quite the total surprise it was claimed to > > be. And the story about stolen incubators that angered America into > > support of Desert Storm > > turned out to be a complete fiction created by Hill & Kowlton, a public > > relations firm that has grown rich lying to people on behalf of > > governments, ANY governments, and whose executives have bragged, "We would > > represent Satan, if he paid us." > > > > Forget for a moment who was hurt in these attacks, and study who > > benefited. > > > > A few weeks ago the USA was fictionalized, her people justly critical of > > the policies of the government, questioning even if that government's > > taxes were legal, questioning the support of Israel, questioning the > > handling of the Condit case, questioning Waco, questioning a self-critical > > nation demanding answers to some tough questions; answers the government > > did not have. > > > > Now, the United States has been transformed. All criticism is gone, > > Criticism itself is now deemed to be, instead of the right of the people, > > an act of treason. > > > > In the blink of an eye our nation has gone from being 266 million thinking > > citizens wanting to know if the government is right to 266 million > > conscripts willing to follow the government into war even if it is wrong. > > In the blink of an eye the people have stopped blaming the government for > > the worsening economy and shifted that blame to the "terrorists". > > > > The government of the United States has reasserted its power over the > > people. It is stronger, much stronger, because if this attack. And any > > educated student of history would know ahead of time that this > > strengthening of the US government's power would be the result of > > horrendous attacks such as we have seen.. > > > > Israel, criticized by the world for its treatment of displaced > > Palestinians, now finds that criticism silenced. For the foreseeable > > future, Israel can do what it will with the Palestinians, immune from the > > censure of the world's press, burying the Palestinian cause under the > > rubble of the World Trade Towers. > > > > Unless he is still working for the CIA, Osama Bin Laden would not have > > wanted to cause any of the changes which have resulted from the horrific > > attacks on New York and Washington DC. The attacks made the US government > > stronger. Who benefits from that? That stronger US Government is now ready > > to wage war against the Arabs. Who benefits from that? > > > > Who really gained from the attacks in New York and Washington DC? Whose > > political agendas were advanced by the attacks? That is where to look for > > the planners of the World Trade Towers attacks. > > > > That we have been attacked is certain. But before we send out the cruise > > missiles to prove how big our national dick is, we had better make sure we > > are aimed at the right party, and not just being suckered into bombing > > someone that the real planners and perpetrators of the World Trade Center > > attack want to trick us into bombing. Because if, in the heat of the > > moment and the lust for vengeance we surrender our basic American > > principles such as demand for proof beyond a reasonable doubt, then we > > ourselves will have damaged America and what it stands for far more than > > those who attacked the World Trade Center could ever do themselves. What > > the hijackers could not knock down, we will have thrown down ourselves. If > > we do that, then those who planned and carried out the attacks against the > > World Trade Towers and the Pentagon will have won, even if we hunt them > > down and kill them. > > > > Don't be a slave to your beliefs about what a government could or could > > not do. History is full of governments that perpetrated monumental frauds > > upon their own people to trigger a war. Governments HAVE to commit fraud > > to start a war because most people, especially Americans, refuse to > > initiate a war of conquest. They have to have the illusion they have been > > attacked first. > > > > 5,000 lives are a lot. But to a government, ours or anyone else's, it's a > > tiny fraction of a percent to sacrifice to bring 100% of the nation under > > control, isn't it? And if we go into a protracted war in Afghanistan, a > > region that has resisted invasion for the last 2000 years, we will soon > > long for the days when our dead could be counted in mere thousands. > > > > The World Trade Towers cost a billion dollars. That's 1/10th of a percent > > of what the Department Of Defense misplaced last year, and a drop in the > > barrel compared to the worth of the oil sitting under the lands we are > > about to attack. > > > > Are you really so sure you have been told the truth about what is going > > on? > > > > > > > > ************************************************************ > > > > > > NOW FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS!!! > > > > > RantauNet http://www.rantaunet.com Isikan data keanggotaan anda di http://www.rantaunet.com/register.php3 =============================================== Mendaftar atau berhenti menerima RantauNet Mailing List di http://www.rantaunet.com/subscribe.php3 ATAU Kirimkan email Ke/To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isi email/Messages, ketik pada baris/kolom pertama: -mendaftar--> subscribe rantau-net [email_anda] -berhenti----> unsubscribe rantau-net [email_anda] Keterangan: [email_anda] = isikan alamat email anda tanpa tanda kurung ===============================================
