THE RADICAL MIDDLE

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The Radical Middle

It's no longer Zionized Left vs. Armageddon Right

- the new political Feather of Truth is honesty

By John Kaminski

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8-8-5

 

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and

more convenient hour.

- Henry David Thoreau

 

" We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the

aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our

selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which

divide us. And only when we realise, not intellectually but actually,

as actually as we would recognise that we are hungry or in pain, that

you and I are responsible for all this existing chaos, for all the

misery throughout the entire world because we have contributed to it

in our daily lives and are part of this monstrous society with its

wars, divisions, its ugliness, brutality and greed - only then will

we act.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

 

Nobody predicted this one - not Orwell, not Huxley, not H.G. Wells.

 

I couldn't believe the words that appeared on my screen in an e-mail:

 

Overthrow

all the governments

all at once

 

International criminal syndicate

has taken control of world's money;

honest citizens must prevent

them from destroying the world;

Lennon was right:

all borders are bogus.

Is there any reason

we can't have an honest world?

 

What a radical idea! Isn't that what decent people want? But is that

the world we have? We have massive numbers of dead people turning up

in strange and suspicious mortality categories. Shall I tell you

Americans some of the causes of death inflicted by your sons and

daughters on innocent children in Iraq, or will you turn your face

away and return silently to your polite political dogma and the

cringing ugliness of your own suppressed private nightmares? Hmm?

 

We haven't had enough radicals. America was founded by radicals

(though some were surreptitious scoundrels, too). Jefferson, even

Adams, Madison and Franklin were radicals, and we Americans would

definitely not have the good deal we have without the intrepid

efforts of these intelligent men.

 

Franklin, you remember Franklin, the guy with the kite. " A republic, "

he said, " if you can keep it. "

 

And Jefferson, perhaps you recall, said:

 

" Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established,

should not be changed for light and transient causes; and,

accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more

disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right

themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But,

when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the

same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute

despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such

government, and to provide new guards for their future security. "

 

In our lifetimes and in fact ever since World War I, we've seen

precious few hints of radicalism: left wing radicals like Abbie

Hoffman in the '60s challenged perceptions and changed them enough to

stop a war; right wing radical Gordon Kahl had his hands cut off by

federal agents; way out radicals like David Koresh got to watch his

babies burn because he said the new messiah was from Iran; and, of

course, Eugene Debs was the most successful socialist radical in

American history; he got 6 percent of the vote in a presidential

election (1912) and actually raised the hourly pay rate for many

Americans before he wound up in jail.

 

Do you ever wonder who exactly it was who brought the hammer down on

these radicals? Or why what they said elicited such disproportionate

punishment?

 

Today I guess you could say radicals include Kathy Kelly, the Voices

for Peace lady doing time for insisting on assisting victims of

America's Iraq genocide, and some of the honorable soldiers like

Kevin Benderman who chose jail over crimes against humanity. Also are

the Roman Catholic nuns who doing three-year vacations in a Colorado

prison.

 

But the most tragic radicals were all the black people who have been

crushed in the dust over two centuries of our bloodthirsty European

Protestant genocidal history. Quit blaming Jews and Catholics. Take a

long look at the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who pay attention to

their church once a week, smile at their neighbors, and then build a

gigantic empire on the unpaid backs of black cottonpickers. Of course

this came after those refined White Europeans utilized every method

possible to exterminate the hapless red man first, and later got rich

selling drugs to the Chinese.

 

In my lifetime, a young articulate black man named Fred Hampton

sticks in my mind. A charismatic and sincere community organizer as a

teen, Fred was gunned down in a fusillade of bullets from murderous

COINTELPRO cops - while lying in bed with no weapon. Of course in the

newspapers the next day we learned our brave cops removed a dangerous

radical from our streets. Another martyr to bogus American justice is

Native American inspiration Leonard Peltier, jailed in Leavenworth

for more than 30 years now for a crime he didn't commit.

 

Given the brief glimpse of the abbreviated political trajectory of

Fred Hampton I have to think he would have made a wonderful president

someday. Same could be said of Leonard. These remarks make America's

nasty white supremacists squirm. Good.

 

For all you effete intellectual snobs (Spiro Agnew's famous phrase),

the radical to beat all was the cantankerous French Situationist Guy

Debord, who argued that we were trapped in our own abstractions and

had lost all meaningful contact with the world around us, before one

sad day he put a bullet in his own head because no one could hear

what he was saying.

 

" Imagine there's no countries, " John Lennon sang shortly before he

was taken out by a Bush family religious program mind-trained

assassin with six shots to the back of the head, mmm yes, Mossad

style. Can you say Hinckley Dinckley? Oh no, that was Chapman. Same

school, though. Did I ever tell you about the time Hinckley's brother

had dinner with Bush? Another time, perhaps ....

 

" All you need is love, " Lennon prominently sang. Now how can you

argue with that, even as you contemplate that a lot of this good will

was generated as a social experiment by (even then) Zionized social

scientists in a place called the Tavistock Institute in London, where

a bomb went off the other day, incidentally. Isn't that interesting?

 

What has always interested me about the 9/11 skeptics movement is the

almost complete absence of political dogma among its participants. I

mean, there are people from all over the political spectrum: the Trap

Rock Peace Center to the American Patriot Friends Network. That's

good market coverage, my friend.

 

But in the exact middle of the American heart in this incredible

poison: a totally locked down establishment media monster

regurgitating the twisted and clumsy lies of sociopathic misanthropes

who are butchering and poisoning half the world while hiding behind

flags and bibles. No. I take that back. They've already destroyed

both of them, too.

 

Yes, our president, the one who OKs overnight visits from a well-

known homosexual prostitute and then puts him in the press corps to

throw gopher ball questions at him, yes, that president, says he gets

his orders from God!

 

This is the best news I've heard about religion in years. It tells

you all exactly what religion is. Remember: the best Bible passage is

Deuteronomy 28:56-58. Look it up. It says everything.

 

Thanks to George Bush and Tom Brokaw. And Charles F****** Krauthammer

(the perfect Jewish name). American politics has evolved to Howdy

Doody meets Bride of Chucky, and the most astounding thing is -

obviously we can't seem to figure it out - is that the American

people have ACCEPTED IT!!!

 

They've accepted the destruction of the Constitution, the routine use

of torture, the total falsification of elections, and the needless

mass murders of hundreds of thousands of South Asians in the past two

years alone.

 

So needless to say, I've looked for signs of hope that there were

still actual human beings on this planet, and certainly have found

that and more in both the 9/11 skeptics movement, and especially in

the wonderful people I've met on the Internet, many of whom are much

smarter than me and just as concerned about the apparently imminent

destruction of most of the things we hold dear.

 

But the most amazing thing I have found is that virtually all of the

people rising up and being willing to consider the frightening

reality that 9/11 was an operation executed by our government ...

 

.... wanna buy an Arab terrorist? They're for sale, you know, and the

CIA uses a lot of them; you occasionally see their case files on TV

for a few weeks; then a new one is chosen as this week's excuse for

continuing the carnage by our multi-trillion dollar war machine ....

 

.... the most amazing thing is that all these people, upset about

government lies and needless killing, ARE FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE

POLITICAL SPECTRUM. Most are not really political at all.

 

And their issues are not about godless communists or soulless

capitalists. Their issues are not about foreign intrigues or

Washington sexcapades. Their issue is about living a good life and

not having their money stolen by criminal demagogues posing as

sanctimonious philosophers.

 

Their issue is honesty.

 

The middle of the American political spectrum, totally ignored by the

corporate spin machine under the assumption that " to go along to get

along " is the political philosophy of choice for most of its

listeners, is becoming radicalized over the issue of honesty. Under

the media's very noses. That's delicious.

 

Look under that rock in the middle of the road. Why it's Bill Moyers,

sonafagun, and he's saying the president should be in jail. Naw, I

must not have heard that right.

 

Mothers with sons dead in Iraq are at the center of this community

cyclone. They are surrounded by many millions of thoughtful Americans

who question why President Bush didn't permit a thoroughly and openly

professional investigation - just what they'd do for any routine

airplane crash in which people were killed - on September 11, 2001.

 

Who question why the evidence was carted away unexamined, and why New

York firemen were told to clam up, or they would lose their jobs.

 

Who question why the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem to have been

planned BEFORE 9/11 - yet later explained away as being conducted

BECAUSE of 9/11.

 

Who question why their sons and daughters conducted the most horribly

demented sexual experiments on their Iraqi prisoners, including

little boys, some of whom were raped and killed. Did you see where

Donald Rumsfeld testified before Congress that the new pictures from

Abu Ghraib prison, where U.S. troops torture Iraqi captives with

electrical wires in their anuses, were simply too terrible to look

at, and we should just forget the whole thing?

 

Who question why Donald Rumsfeld created his own terror squads to go

into Iraq and foment violence, in order, he said, to identify who the

REAL TERRORISTS really are. The imbedded press, of course, forgot to

keep of track of what they were doing. How many American adolescents

have been killed by Rumsfeld's special fomenting squads, trying to

draw those rascally terrorists out of their hideouts? That's exactly

how the Fallujah massacre began.

 

Who question why Fallujah, the most hellacious and despicable war

crime of the new century, was allowed to happen, and then the

American people were prevented from seeing it or from hearing about

it. We got to see Michael Jackson instead.

 

The people asking the right questions are ordinary people, with no

particular political persuasion except live and let live.

 

I've been waiting for a long time for someone to come along and

produce what I call (and the phrase is an important one to remember,

in this age of spin) a COHERENT MEME about 9/11, which is the key to

really understanding America's role in the devolution of society and

its plundering of the planet.

 

A coherent meme.

 

And wouldn't you know, two average citizens - one a retired Bush

administration official, for God's sake; and the other, a shy

professor of theology at an obscure West Coast college - were, amid

the American public's terrified silence during 2002 and the following

years, able to logically and dispassionately ferret out the

significant facts from among the panicky shrieks and emotional

invective of the first wave of 9/11 skeptics, and state clearly and

unambiguously to the general public that - well, I hope this isn't

the first time you've heard this, because it surely will not be the

last - 9/11 was an inside job.

 

Same story with 7/7 and all those terror bombings in between.

 

What is the coherent meme in all this, you ask?

 

Well, let's listen to what these two unprepossessing men, both

accomplished professionals recognized in their fields with what you

might say are national reputations, or at least as respectable high-

achievers in their jobs, actually had to say.

 

They are Morgan Reynolds and David Ray Griffin.

 

Reynolds is so Republican he was chief economist in the Bush the

Lamer's first term. But we should never make the mistake of thinking

everybody in the government is a money grubbing perv - even though

the topmost leaders all may be that, and worse. Listen to

Reynolds ....

 

It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over

the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If

the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is,

then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis will not

likely prove to be sound. Revised engineering and construction

practices, for example, based on the belief that the twin towers

collapsed through airplane damage and subsequent fires is premature,

to say the least.

 

More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would

follow if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded

the WTC. If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World

Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an " inside job " and a

government attack on America would be compelling. Meanwhile, the job

of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers everywhere is to

get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9/11 right, " though

heaven should fall. " Unfortunately, getting it right in

today's " security state " demands daring because explosives and

structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the

collapses of 9/11.

 

If you're really interested in what really happened on 9/11/2001, you

should savor Reynolds' entire latest take on the subject at

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html

 

So what is the coherent meme that ordinary people can whisper to

their neighbors that was stated unequivocally by this retired

professor from Texas A & M? This radical!

 

Erroneous engineering analysis. Experts intimidated. Planes and fires

couldn't have knocked down the towers. Likely conclusion? Inside job.

 

Maybe the paranoid and corrupt U.S. government should begin targeting

respectable white-haired college professors instead of innocent

Muslim men, because Griffin, another retired professor (from

Claremont School of Theology) has done more damage to the criminal

syndicate in Washington than any Islamic enthusiast could ever hope

to do.

 

Griffin's book ....

 

The New Pearl Harbor reported evidence that at least six of the

alleged hijackers are still alive. David Harrison of the Telegraph

interviewed two of the men who supposedly died on Flight 93, which

crashed in Pennsylvania, one of whom said that he " had never even

heard of Pennsylvania, " let alone died there. The Associated Press

reported that Waleed al-Shehri, supposedly on Flight 11, contacted

the U.S. embassy in Morocco about two weeks after 9/11. The 9/11

Commission Report, nevertheless, suggested that al-Shehri was

responsible for stabbing one of the flight attendants shortly before

Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.

 

The New Pearl Harbor cited reports that although Mohamed Atta, the

supposed ringleader, had been portrayed as a devout Muslim ready to

meet his maker, he actually loved alcohol, pork, and lap dances.

Zelikow's commission, however, said that Atta had

become " fanatically " religious. They also claimed that they could

find no credible explanation as to why Atta and the other hijackers

went to Las Vegas. The mainstream press has let the Commission get

away with these obvious contradictions ....

 

Another big question created by the official story is how the

hijackers, by crashing planes into the Twin Towers, caused them and

Building 7 to collapse. One problem is that Building 7 was not struck

by an airplane, and steel-frame buildings had never before been

caused to collapse by fire alone, even when the fires had been much

bigger, hotter, and longer-lasting. The Commission avoided this

problem by simply not mentioning this fact or even, incredibly, that

Building 7 collapsed.

 

The 9/11 Commission Report failed to mention that WTC7 collapsed.

Hmm.

 

Another problem, which I mentioned earlier, is that the collapses had

all the standard features of controlled demolitions. For example, all

three buildings came down at virtually free-fall speed. The

Commission even alluded to this feature, saying that the " South Tower

collapsed in 10 seconds. " But it never explained how fire plus the

impact of an airplane could have produced such a collapse.

 

Controlled demolition was also suggested by the fact that the

collapses were total, with the 110-story Twin Towers collapsing into

a pile of rubble only a few stories high. The core of each tower had

consisted of 47 massive steel columns, which extended from the

basements through the roofs. Even if we ignore all the other problems

in the official " pancake " theory of the collapses, those massive

steel columns should have still been sticking up a thousand feet in

the air. Zelikow's commission handled this problem with the audacious

claim that " [t]he interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel

shaft. "

 

The Commission said the WTC cores were hollow. Hmm.

 

Another example: Breaking those massive steel columns would have

required very powerful explosives. Many survivors of the towers have

reported hearing and feeling explosions. But the 9/11 Commission

failed to mention any of these reports. William Rodriguez told the

9/11 Commission behind closed doors about feeling and hearing a huge

explosion in the sub-basement of the North Tower, then rescuing

people from its effects, but neither his name nor any of his

testimony is found in Zelikow's final report

 

In any case, as these illustrations show, the 9/11 Commission, which

had the opportunity to rebut the prima facie case against the Bush

administration, failed to do so. This means that the publication of

The 9/11 Commission Report needs to be recognized as a decisive

event, because it was the moment at which the prima facie case

against the Bush administration became a conclusive case.

 

What we need now is a press that will let the American people in on

this development---which is most important, given the fact that the

official story about 9/11 has provided the pretext for virtually

every other horrible thing this administration has done.

 

Do I hear a coherent meme?

 

The government and corporate media are covering up the truth. The so-

called hijackers remain unidentified and unconfirmed. The Commission

didn't conduct a real investigation. Why do you think that was?

 

Hmm. Reynolds and Griffin. Old guys. Members of the establishment.

 

These guys are radicals, and you know why? They're trying to tell you

the truth, and most of you refuse to hear it. You're so enamored of

your so-called security, and so terrified of losing your meager

income, that you will permit all manner of depravity and false

witness. You will go to sleep at night counting your money, but you

won't count the innocent dead bodies who have been murdered in your

name. That's about the size of it.

 

Except for one more quintessential, sterling example of radical. Of

people we should emulate.

 

Cindy Sheehan. Whose son Casey died in Iraq. Who has been at the

forefront of trying to alert the American people that her son died

for a lie, for a whole series of lies, and people are still dying for

these lies.

 

Once she was just an ordinary mom. Then Bush's lies took her son

away, along with the lives of some 10,000 Americans and 140,000 Iraqi

women and children in only two years. Plus ruining countless other

lives. That's Dubya's legacy, along with a host of other barbaric and

inhumane deeds, including the theft of trillions of dollars stolen

from you and me and funneled to his corrupt corporate cronies.

(It really is an effective formula for radicalizing the middle

class.)

 

At this moment as I write, Cindy Sheehan is standing by the side of

the road in Crawford, Texas, demanding to speak to President Bush. I

just saw her on CNN, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Israeli

anchorman.

 

She told Blitzer about the first meeting she had with Bush, when the

jovial president came into the room telling jokes and then consoling

Cindy for the loss of " her loved one. "

 

" He didn't even know my son's name, " Cindy told the squirming

Blitzer. " And I'm here until he comes out and talks to me. " Sheehan

told CNN that Bush's " misguided policy " is going to cost a lot more

mothers their sons unless the war is stopped now.

 

The call has gone out around the world for ordinary people,

musicians, and the news media to converge on Crawford to hear Cindy's

story and witness Bush's response. For more information check out

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7418 and check the

other stories on that delightful site while you're there.

 

So ... now you know that Homeland Security should be concentrating on

suppressing American mothers who have lost their sons to lies in

Iraq.

 

White-haired college professors and ordinary middle-class

mothers .... these are the new radicals. Will Bush and his criminal

sycophants come up with a new policy to make corporate America safe

from them, because they are the real threat to the people in power?

 

Ah, the new America. Imprisoned minds exploited by unscrupulous

killers. But the middle class radicals are emerging. And their single

overriding issue is honesty.

 

So I looked at that bizarre e-mail again ...

 

Overthrow

all the governments

all at once

 

International criminal syndicate

has taken control of world's money;

honest citizens must prevent

them from destroying the world;

Lennon was right:

all borders are bogus.

Is there any reason

we can't have an honest world?

 

.... and suddenly it didn't seem so radical to me anymore.

 

Oh, I know, it's presumptuous of me to speak for people in other

nations of the world, yammering Yankee dog that I am. And for sure

Americans seem to be unable to clean up their own act, their

unstoppable murder machine sweeping around the world.

 

But Bush, repulsive and without redeeming social value as he is, is

still only a symptom. The real disease is systemic.

 

And until that truth is addressed, Cindy will be left crying on the

side of the road, principled white-haired grandfathers and

grandmothers will become the new targets of persecution, and young

boys and girls will keep dying needlessly.

 

Unless, of course, we take the advice of that strange e-mail, and

stop this self-destructive foolishness right now.

 

Any chance you can honestly respond, or are you too scared? Remember

the coherent memes. It's up to you now.

 

As I said almost two years ago

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/arrest_bush_now.htm, arrest the

president now, and along with him his hellish herd of homicidal

harlots. You clearly see what the future holds if we don't.

_____

 

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida

whose Internet essays are seen on hundreds of websites around the

world. They have been collected into two anthologies, " America's

Autopsy Report " and " The Perfect Enemy. " In addition, he has

written " The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn't Believe the Official

Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001, " which explains why the

government's version of that tragic day is a lie. Due out soon are a

third collection of essays, titled " Recipe for Extinction, " and a new

chapbook on belief systems, titled " The Prison of God. " For more

information and announcement of release dates, keep track of

http://www.johnkaminski.com/