Internal Enemies: Kill Them and Let God Sort Them Out

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Internal Enemies: Kill Them and Let God Sort Them Out

Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire

 

Monday December 19th 2005,

 

 

How many Americans have " suspected ties to terrorist groups " and thus

deserve " eavesdropping " as deemed appropriate by the Bushcons? It

depends how you define " terrorist group. " In Bushzarro world, " insider

threats " emanate from the American populace, not al-CIA-duh

terrorists, or rather a small number of Americans who are vocally

opposed to the Iraq invasion and occupation. As we now know, the

Pentagon is in the business of collating " raw, unverified information

picked up by the military services on suspicious activities that could

involve terrorist threats, " called " Talon reports, " according to

Walter Pincus of the Washington Post. " The Pentagon acknowledged last

week that the Talon database contained reports on peaceful civilian

protests and demonstrations that should have been purged long ago

under Defense Department regulations. " In short, to protest against

the " war " is to engage in terrorism and we know what the Bushcons do

to people who are considered terrorists.

 

" CIFA's [Counterintelligence Field Activity] authority is still

growing. In a new move to centralize all counterterrorism intelligence

collection inside the United States, the Defense Department this month

gave CIFA authority to task domestic investigations and operations by

the counterintelligence units of the military services, " Pincus

continues. " CIFA's new authority will give the agency the ability to

propose missions to Army, Navy and Air Force units, which combined

have about 4,000 trained active, reserve and civilian investigators in

the United States and abroad. For example, the Air Force Office of

Special Investigations (AFOSI) has 1,935 'federally credentialed

special agents,' according to its Web site. The military service

agents investigate crime and terrorism. "

 

Crime? Once upon a time, " investigating " crime was the responsibility

of local law enforcement and the FBI, but now the cops are soldiers.

So much for Posse Comitatus and the belief that the military should be

used to protect the nation from foreign threat and invasion and the

cops used to catch bank robbers and arrest wife beaters and other

violent criminals and never shall the twains meet. Of course, CIFA is

not tasked with catching thieves, but preventing " terrorism, " defined

above as using " counterintelligence units of the military services "

against law-abiding Americans who disagree with the neocon master plan

of bombing Muslims into submission so they can be more effectively

ruled by the sadistic lords of Greater Israel and fleeced by neolib

free traders and various other carpetbaggers.

 

Keep in mind that Bush—or more accurately, the

Straussian-Machiavellians ensconced in the White House and the

Pentagon—have offered up a " proposal " to " transform CIFA from an

office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts—including protecting

military facilities from attack—to one that also has authority to

investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign

or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage. " Of course, it is

" treason " and " sabotage " to oppose the occupation of Iraq and the

neocon master plan to invade Syria and Iran (or rather bomb the hell

out of them) and preventing this " terrorism " is now a military task to

be conducted by the folks who are trained to kill people and blow

things up, as the exigencies of war demand. The CIFA's busy work will

undoubtedly make COINTELPRO and even Operation CHAOS look like the

dabbling of grade schoolers by way of comparison.

 

" The president's emphatic defense Saturday of warrantless

eavesdropping on U.S. citizens and residents marked the third time in

as many months that the White House has been obliged to defend a

departure from previous restraints on domestic surveillance. In each

case, the Bush administration concealed the program's dimensions or

existence from the public and from most members of Congress, " the

Washington Post reported at the weekend. " Since October, news accounts

have disclosed a burgeoning Pentagon campaign for 'detecting,

identifying and engaging' internal enemies that included a database

with information on peace protesters. A debate has roiled over the

FBI's use of national security letters to obtain secret access to the

personal records of tens of thousands of Americans. And now come

revelations of the National Security Agency's interception of

telephone calls and e-mails from the United States—without notice to

the federal court that has held jurisdiction over domestic spying

since 1978. "

 

COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS went beyond wiretapping, bugging, and

burglarizing the offices and homes of those opposed to Johnson and

Nixon and the Vietnam War. " In 1968, the CIA's various domestic

programs were consolidated and expanded under the name Operation

CHAOS. When Richard Nixon became president the following year, his

administration drafted the Huston Plan, which called for even greater

operations against 'subversives,' including wiretapping, break-ins,

mail-opening, no-knock searches and 'selective assassinations,' "

writes Mark Zepezauer. In regard to the American Indian Movement and

the Black Panthers, the FBI and CIA (and DIA) " conducted a

full-fledged counterinsurgency war, complete with death squads,

disappearances and assassinations, recalling Guatemala in more recent

years, " writes Paul Wolf. As it turns out, the FBI employed

reactionary fascists (not much different than those used in Guatemala

or El Salvador) to liquidate the opposition. " Despite tens of

thousands of pages of documentary evidence, the idea that the Bureau

would utilize private right-wing operatives and terrorists is a

chilling, alien concept to most Americans. Nevertheless, the FBI has

financed, organized, and supplied arms to right-wing groups that

carried out fire-bombings, burglaries, and shootings. "

 

Again, the military's primary role—killing people (100,000 or more so

far in Iraq) and destroying things—should be taken into consideration

when examining the emergence of CIFA, under the purview of murderous

and amoral Straussians in the Pentagon. If the FBI found it necessary

to hire fanatical thugs to assassinate oppositional leaders 30 or more

years ago, it can be assumed with a fair degree of accuracy the same

or worse will occur in the current climate. Of course, the military

will enjoy " plausible deniability " as it now does in Iraq and

elsewhere as operations are increasingly farmed out to private

corporations, as the unconstitutional gun-grabbing was in New Orleans

attests, conducted by Blackwater and other " security " corporations

staffed with knuckle-dragging former special forces and Israeli, South

African, and British mercenaries.

 

Is it possible Blackwater death squads will be lurking in your

neighborhood, assassinating " internal threats " as they confiscate

legal firearms?

 

No doubt we are one " terrorist event " away from finding out.