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>truth about terror > >GW Bush on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories >by Robert

Lederman >robert.lederman (AT) worldnet (DOT) att.net >http://baltech.org/lederman/ > >"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 General 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 [1]. > >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 [2]. Osama bin Laden,

the >Taleban 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. See "9 Unpopular Ideas About 9/11" by Robert Lederman >

>http://baltech.org/lederman/ > >2. 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." > >"The Bush family fortune

came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, >former US Justice Dept. Nazi War

Crimes investigator and President of >the Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in

the Sarasota Herald-Tribune >11/11/2000

http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 > >"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." >- Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2 Man > >"In a

time of universal deceit, TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary >act ".--George

Orwell > >"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."-Supreme Court Justice Robert

H. Jackson, The Supreme >Court In the American System of Government (1955). >

>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. > >For many other articles on the CIA/Nazi

connection to Bush, >Rockefeller, the Manhattan Institute and NYC Mayor Giuliani

see: >http://baltech.org/lederman/ > >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."

> >May 7, 2001 San Francisco Bay Guardian "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." > >CIA

Declassifies Its Records On Dealings With Ex-Nazis > >Documents May Give Clues

About Obstacles in Hunt for War Criminals By >George Lardner Jr. > >Washington

Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 18, 2001; Page A04 " > >"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." > >"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. - Frederick Douglas (1857) > >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

>http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html > > >

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