Source of new U.S. “terror” alert is years old
Aug 3 at 8:08am by Jagwire X
IMF
This week, the Bush administration raised the “terror” level to high and warned of possible attacks soon, naming the New York Stock Exchange, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund as potential targets in the New York and Washington areas.
However it appears that much of the information obtained from al Qaeda that led the Bush administration to raise “terror” alerts in Washington and New York is at least three years old.
So what does that mean? I”d say it means the Bush administration is using more scare tactics to manipulate and control the public mind. This would be one of the characteristics of fascism - Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
Selection from the 9/11 report
Jul 23 at 10:10am by Anonymous
September 11th 2001
From page 362:
“But the enemy is not just “terrorism,” some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy.The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism—especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology.
As we mentioned in chapter 2, Usama Bin Ladin and other Islamist terrorist leaders draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within one stream of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from religion, thus distorting both. It is further fed by grievances stressed by Bin Ladin and widely felt throughout the Muslim world—against the U.S. military presence in the Middle East, policies perceived as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim, and support of Israel.”
The slight against “evil” as a useful term is of course a slight against Bush’’s useless rhetoric, but in a footnote, they specifically reference a Feb 2003 document, the “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism“, which begins rather melodramatically:
“The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania were acts of war against the United States of America and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our basic freedoms and our way of life.”
So, bravo to the commission for trying to quell the insipid use of rhetoric that helps no one understand anything.
Election Postponement: Republic or Fascism?
Jul 15 at 9:09am by Jagwire X
What is Fascism
When I first heard about this I thought it must be joke. I thought surely this is a mistake, some foolish rumor that made it into the news. But on closer inspection I see that no - the idea is indeed being bandied about like it is something that happens every so often.
Ostensibly this is part of the whole idea of “guaranteeing” secure elections in the event of a terrorist act. It’’s bullshit.
DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission, wants Ridge to ask Congress to pass legislation giving the government power to cancel or reschedule a federal election. Seems rather counter to the ideals this country was founded on.
Currently, no federal agency has the power to cancel or reschedule a national vote. There is a reason for this, elections are about the people’s right to choose who their leaders are, not of the leaders to tell us when we can choose, or even worse who we can choose. There is no historical or constitution precedent for this. Read the rest of this entry »
Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists
Apr 3 at 1:01pm by Jagwire X
Protest
This is truly frightening. Oregon is attempting to pass law that would equate protesting with terrorism. Obviously it hasn’t occurred to these vapid lawmakers that the point of the protests is to get their attention because something is TERRIBLY WRONG (this country is becoming more and more oppressive, it’s wages unjust wars on nation that post not real threat to us, etc., etc.) with this country and as a lawmaker YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING to rectify it. Instead they try making it more oppressive. Bad solution.
Senate Bill 742 identifies a terrorist as an individual who “plans or participates in an act that is intended, by at least one of its participants, to disrupt” business, transportation, schools, government, or free assembly.
There is a conservative radio pundit (Lars Larson, whom you may want to contact with your opinion of his fascist views) who is promoting this bill. No doubt making protesters out to be callous, uncaring individuals who frighten grandmothers and prevent ambulances from getting where they need to go. This is unlikely to be true. And if business gets a bit snarled, well, get the point: THIS WAR IS WRONG and we want you to do something about it. No you don’t get to have business as usual, as citizens of this country our consciences dictate that we must do whatever we can to alter the course of events.
The bill carries a very heavy very immoral and very wrong automatic 25 year sentence. This is not the America I was born in. This is not the America our founders had in mind. It’s beginning to sound a lot more like the England our founders fought to be free of.
This may be the most oxymoronic bill ever introduced anywhere at any time.
This would also technically make the police and lawmakers terrorists the moment they disrupt or plan to disrupt a free assembly of individuals who are protesting.
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