- Penthouse Magazine article sought...if anyone has read
this article we would like to hear a short summary. If the article is compelling
enough, extracts would be appreciated. -ed
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- Jeff,
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- I am writing because after the power outage we had here
on August 14 ,I was told by a friend that there was an article published
in the July 2003 issue of Penthouse magazine titled "The Manipulation
Of Power Grids For Behavioral Modification".
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- And the story behind this article is that Penthouse was
not suppose to publish the article but the magazine went to press before
the editors could pull the article.
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- The July 2003 issue of Penthouse was not on the magazine
racks very long and swiftly removed from bookstores. I tried to contact
the publisher about this article and they denied that it was in the publication.
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- If anybody has any information or knowledge about this
article I would be very interested in reading it.
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- I just find it very ironic that an article with this
title was published one month before the worst blackout in American history
occurred.
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- Keep up the good work.
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- Comment
- From Frederick Zierold
8-21-03
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- I searched the internet for a copy of this article.
July 2003 did have an article relating to the power grids, however no reference
to Behavioral Modification was made. See below.
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- I don't think this article was in the issue, because
if it was someone would have undoubtedly posted it on the net. If I am
wrong would someone please send it to Jeff. The below article is interesting
and can be found in many places on the net.
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- Are Bush, Ashcroft, and Wolfowitz Protecting America
or Their Own Regime?
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- Adapted from the July 2003 issue of Penthouse Magazine
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- "The implication or latent threat of terror was
sufficient to insure that the people would comply."
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- William Colby, creator of the CIA's Phoenix Program,
which targeted Vietnamese leaders for assassination during the Vietnam
War
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- For those of you believe the war on terror and the violent
occupation of Iraq will ensure world peace, you've got another thing coming;
and that thing is the illegitimate Bush Regime's homeland security infrastructure.
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- Let me state the point of this article up front: The
war on terror, and its "homeland security" counterpart, are flip
sides of the same coin. They are the same ideology applied to foreign and
domestic policy. But like CIA agent Alden Pyle in The Quiet American, their
evil intention is wrapped in a complex matrix of transparent lies. Pointedly,
that evil intention is to provide the Bush Regime with political internal
security at home, thus enabling it to plunder the world with impunity.
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- The foreign policy aspect of this synthesis was promulgated
on September 20, 2002 in the "The National Security Strategy of the
United States" (a.k.a. the Bush Manifesto) in which the Bush Regime
confers upon itself the divine right to devastate any nation it dislikes,
or has vast oil fields or other natural resources that it covets. This
first-degree-murder strategy makes about 70 percent of Americans feel good
about Bush. But Bush has an insidious ulterior motive, and if these feel-good
Americans were to read the fine print of his Manifesto, they would realize
that by generating more human misery around the world, the eternal war
on terror will create more dissenters at home, and thus provide Bush with
the mandate he needs to impose a de facto military dictatorship, as prescribed
in his domestic policy statements: the Homeland Security, Patriot, and
Domestic Security Enhancement Acts.
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- Just as waging war around the world is popular, so too
will be suppressing domestic dissent. For example, Fox News Channel's Bill
O'Reilly recently had to defend himself when he said war protesters were
"un-American." His producers made him do some fast backpedaling,
but the Big Mouth was expressing the true feelings of most of his listeners.
The airwaves and editorial columns bombard the public with the Bill Riley
message, and that is how peace activists go from being bad Americans to
being enemies of the state. And that is how the war on terror translates
into a homeland security infrastructure that suppresses dissent.
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- The Shell Game
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- Homeland Security is a euphemism for internal security,
but that phrase has the nasty ring of McCarthyism to it, and the anti-Communist
witch-hunts of the 1950s, led by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and racist
Senator James Eastland's Internal Security Subcommittee. Before the neo-cons
got hooked on terror, America's hawks were obsessed with Godless Communism.
Hoover devoted his life to destroying every Communist in America, while
the Dulles brothers (CIA Director Allen and Secretary of State John) harnessed
the mania and used it as a convenient pretext for Cold War foreign intervention,
and laid the foundation stones for the American empire after World War
II. In the same way, Bush's anal obsession with terror is the new contrived
pretext for solidifying world domination. But as Hoover, Eastland, and
the Dulles' knew, without political internal security, Bush cannot wage
war abroad, with all the economic benefits that entails.
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- So Bush, with the help of Joe Lieberman, the Senator
from Israel, created the Department Homeland Security to pacify (a euphemism
for terrorize) the American people into submission through a number of
ploys. This homeland security boondoggle is the biggest reorganization
of the U.S. government in 50 years. It might even bankrupt the country
and, perhaps intentionally, throw it into a Depression. That remains to
be seen. What is certain is that at a cost of $50 billion in taxpayer's
money, the homeland security infrastructure will provide Bush with 170,000
political cadres, and the internal security he needs to assure the continuity
of his political power indefinitely. Except for providing Bush with political
internal security, there is no need for the Department of Homeland Security;
it is a Trojan Horse through which Bush will unleash his ideological storm
troopers and exploit his ill-gotten power to achieve permanent political
dominance.
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- And he is creating this police state through terror.
As the Homeland Security web site assures us, the threat of terrorism "is
a permanent condition" that "requires our country to design a
new homeland security structure."
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- Terror as an Organizing Principle of Society
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- The underlying principle of homeland security (and the
war on terror) is that terror is an organizing principle of society. This
includes every type of terror, from the shock and awe bombs that liberated
Baghdad, to the collective punishments Israel used to crush the Palestinian
soul. It's armed propaganda in the form of National Guardsmen eye-balling
us at airports, and it's the greatest psywar campaign ever waged, in the
form of red white and blue color-coded warnings of terror attacks that
never occur, and unsubstantiated reports brought to you by government stenographers
at network news.
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- Terror is the underlying concept. In "Metaphoric
Entrapment In Time," researcher Anthony Judge tells how the new homeland
security infrastructure is actually an act of "structural violence."
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- "Personal violence is for the amateur in dominance,"
Judge notes, quoting two-time Nobel Prize winner Johan Galtung, but "structural
violence is the tool of the professional. The amateur who wants to dominate
uses guns; the professional uses social structure. The legal criminality
of the social system and its institutions, of government, and of individuals
at the interpersonal level is tacit violence. Structural violence is a
structure of exploitation and social injustice."
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- Now that the Department of Homeland Security has been
voted into law, Bush has laid the groundwork for America's new legally
criminal social structure, which exploits on both personal and professional
levels. This confluence blesses Bush with omnipotence. He is all-powerful.
As he said before sacrificing the Iraqis on the altar of his apotheosis:
"We have concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world."
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- Delusions of grandeur? A messiah syndrome? Penis envy?
What gives?
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- Justice as Terror
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- Administrative detention is the extralegal nail upon
which the forthcoming legally criminal homeland security structure hangs.
It is a neat way of avoiding the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Conventions
by creating "crimes of status." Administrative detention was
first used by the CIA in the Vietnam War through the notorious Phoenix
"assassination" Program, and was applied against Communists,
Nationalists, and anyone else opposing the puppet US puppet regime, just
as CIA death squads are operating now in Afghanistan and Iraq. Sympathizing
with the Communists was a crime of status, as was advocating peace.
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- Administrative detention is structural violence for the
professionals. At the personal level, the terror as an organizing principle
of society relies on selective terror, which means destroying one's political
opposition through acts of terror directed at individuals. It derives from
the Eye of God technique, which plays on primitive fears of an all-seeing
cosmic Eye of God that sees into your mind. It was used in World War One
by morale officers who sent pilots in small aircraft to fly over enemy
camps to call out the names of individual soldiers. CIA psywar expert Ed
Lansdale, Graham Greene's model for Alden Pyle in The Quiet American, used
this technique in the Philippines in the early 1950s. At night a psywar
team would creep into town and paint an eye (like the one that appears
atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States) on the wall of
a house facing a suspected Communist or Communist sympathizer.
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- In South Vietnam the Eye of God trick took a ghastly
twist. CIA officer Pat McGarvey recalled to Seymour Hersh that "some
psychological warfare [psywar] guy in Washington thought of a way to scare
the hell out of villagers. When we killed the VC there, they wanted us
to spread eagle the guy, put out his eye, cut a hole in the back [of his
head] and put his eye in there. The idea was that fear was a good weapon."
Likewise, ears were cut off corpses and nail to houses to let the people
know that big brother was listening as well. When Viet Cong leaders were
found, Phoenix teams murdered and mutilated them along with their families
and neighbors as a means of terrorizing the neighboring population into
a state of submission. Such horrendous acts were, for propaganda purposes,
often made to look as if they had been committed by the enemy. To spread
the word that everyone was a potential victim, CIA psywar posters pictured
a Phoenix with a blacklist trailing from its beak and a snake (i.e. a Communist)
grasped in one of its talons. The message was that the omnipotent CIA selectively
snatches its prey, in the most hideous way.
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- The Bush Regime is locked into this method of selective
terror. They want you to think they know everything about you: if you've
been bad or good, so to speak. Just remember what happened to Uday Hussein
and his brother Qusay, and all the other Iraqis featured on the CIA's popular
death cards, which are advertised on the Internet.
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- The modern manifestation of selective terror is the computerized
blacklist - the greatest blackmail scheme ever invented: if you don't do
what Bush and his clique want, your name pops up and you're suppressed.
Be forewarned, the Bush Regime's blacklists include the INS/State Department's
TIPOFF; CAPPS II, which uses credit information and secret databases to
assess a person's security risk level each time he or she flies; the "No-Fly"
blacklist of peace activists, distributed to airlines by the FBI and the
Transportation Security Administration; and local blacklists like the one
kept by the Denver police department. You know about these lists. You just
don't know about the secret ones, the Bush Regime's enemies list of its
most powerful domestic political opponents.
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- Administrative detention and selective terror work in
tandem and depend on informant and surveillance programs that identify,
in homeland jargon, "terrorist surrogates" at the grass roots
level of society. (Attorney General John Ashcroft's Terrorism Information
and Prevention System, a.k.a TIPS, was the short-lived prototype.) This
is how it happens: on the basis of a false accusation made by an anonymous
homeland informant, counter terror teams will arrest a terrorist surrogate,
detain the person indefinitely under administrative detention laws in an
interrogation center until he or she dies or defects, or is sent to a military
tribunal for disposition. Disposition means permanent detention in some
perverse torture chambers like the ones in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ultimately,
the Domestic Security Enhancement Act will allow Ashcroft to secretly incarcerate
and deport U.S. citizens without any thought of ensuring them due process
of law. Check out what happened to Jose Padilla.
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- To summarize so far: Blanket surveillance, blacklists,
arrests on the word of anonymous informants, the absence of due process
through extralegal administrative detention procedures, military tribunals,
incarceration, and deportation are the instruments of the homeland security
infrastructure, which will coordinate all existing U.S. intelligence, police,
and military units in the attack on terrorists and their surrogates.
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- Ensuring Political Security
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- Bush is about to devour his domestic enemies at both
the tactical (personal) and strategic (professional) levels. Upper echelon
enemies will be dealt with by the Homeland Security Council, which Bush
chairs, and which does not appear on any organizational chart. It sets
policy for a secret political warfare program. It is the greatest danger
facing America today. Like the anthrax letters mailed to Democratic senators,
it takes only a few "black propaganda" operations to suppress
the leaders of the political opposition. Private contactors may carry out
executive actions (what the Israelis fondly refer to as "targeted
kills") issued by this all-powerful Board of Directors, as they are
not accountable to Congress. Or Bush will employ political action squads
from the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, which consists of the FBI
and CIA's terror experts, and reports only to Bush.
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- Tactically Bush will neutralize opponents through the
Department of Homeland Security, which consists of four directorates: Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, Science and Technology, Border
and Transportation Security, and Emergency Preparedness and Response. The
all-important Office of Intelligence, consisting of about 1000 analysts
from dozens of agencies, is cloistered within the Directorate of Information
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. This Office, insofar as it will
coordinate the other directorates in terror operations, is the nerve center
of the DHS political internal security infrastructure.
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- The Office of Intelligence will manage the CIA's domestic
action squads, interrogation, and informant programs, and will wag the
homeland security dog by coordinating all in-coming intelligence, and then
sending out warnings to state, local and private sector officials. Employees
from the CIA's Counter-Terror Center will fill the most important positions
within the Office of Intelligence, and will plan daily operations in conjunction
with fellow CT Center officers posted within 93 Justice Department terrorism
task forces run around the country. With the latest electronic surveillance
gadgets available to them, they will reach into every corner of society,
including our homes, workplaces, public facilities and computers, to sniff
out terrorist surrogates and launch preemptive attacks to neutralize them
before they activate.
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- If you don't believe that the blossoming homeland security
infrastructure is already providing political internal security, consider
that hundreds of businesses and institutions across the country have already
been placed on the CIA's Watch List. According to Bob Woodward of the Washington
Post, one Bush official said that merely being on the list "could
destroy the livelihood of all those organizations...without a bomb being
thrown or a spore of anthrax being released."
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- Elizabeth Becker of the New York Times reported several
months ago that "the leaders of many federal departments and agencies
have been scrambling to figure out... how they can influence the outcome
[of the impending Department of Homeland Security] without appearing disloyal."
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- And James Bamford noted that "pressure has been
building on the intelligence agencies to deliberately slant estimates to
fit a political agenda," and "a growing number of military officers,
intelligence professionals and diplomats ...charge that the administration
squelches dissenting views."
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- This is the maximum danger of homeland security, and
what it boils down to mandatory self-censorship. Already we passively permit
hooded paramilitary policemen with automatic rifles to search our cars,
without probable cause, for Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. These policemen
are helping us, right? They would never turn their guns on us, right?
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- As stated in a CIA terrorist training manual that came
to light almost 20 years ago, "Implicit terror always accompanies
weapons, since the people are internally "aware" that they can
be used against them."
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- This is what William Colby was talking about when he
was quoted in the prologue to this article as saying, "The implication
or latent threat of terror was sufficient to insure that the people would
comply."
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- Creating the Political Cadres
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- Neo-con Michael Ledeen, a certified homelander, rationalized
the use of terror as an organizing principle of society when he said, "New
times require new people with new standards." According to Ledeen,
these new people have the will power to "stamp out" the "corrupt
habits of mind" manifest in the thoughts or actions of anyone who
opposes Bush Regime aggression. Says Ledeen, "The entire political
world will understand it and applaud it. And it will give [Homeland Security]
a chance to succeed, and us to prevail."
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- On the international scene, these "new people"
illegally invaded Iraq, formed a puppet regime of supplitiefs, stole the
nation's oil and are putting the profits in their own pockets, and are
now assassinating and otherwise terrorizing, through an updated Phoenix
Program, any political opposition, in what amounts to mass murder.
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- Information management is key in creating the "new
people" who will organize the new criminal homeland social structure,
and make it appear legal, moral and most importantly, popular. The first
step in manufacturing these robots is through motivational indoctrination,
which is based on the principle that people will do a anything you ask
of them if you make them feel special. In return for adopting the right
attitude, a successful career is offered. Several alumni from the CIA's
Phoenix Program already enjoy important top homeland security posts, like
Major General Bruce Lawlor, Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland
Security, and Roger Mackin, the CIA officer in charge of the Department's
counter-narcotics center. From mid-1967 until mid-1968, Mackin ran the
Phoenix Program in Da Nang City, and managed its Intelligence and Operations
Coordination Center - the organizational model for the Department of Homeland
Security. Mackin is also touted as the CIA officer who nailed Colombian
drug smuggler Pablo Escobar in a typical Phoenix assassination operation
in December 1993.
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- CIA psywar experts like Lawlor and Mackin will motivationally
indoctrinate the 170,000 some odd homeland security personnel to wage political
warfare. A training manual on the subject was reprinted in the early 1980s
by a former Phoenix officer who got caught up in the Reagan Regime's illegal
Contra War. Titled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, it states
that "the human being should be considered the priority objective
in a political war. And conceived as the military target of guerrilla war,
the human being has his most critical point in his mind. Once his mind
has been reached, the 'political animal' has been defeated, without necessarily
receiving bullets."
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- Having been politically and motivationally indoctrinated,
Critical Infrastructure and other homeland personnel will spy on colleagues
who may inadvertently or maliciously serve as terrorist surrogates by publicly
or privately revealing information about homeland infrastructure vulnerabilities,
such as power grids or computer systems. These cadre will covertly identify
and watch terrorist surrogates until it becomes necessary to expose the
surrogates in the media. No one will want to be identified, even falsely,
as an inadvertent or malicious terrorist surrogate, knowing that they are
subject to being "stamped out," as Michael Ledeen suggests. In
this way the Bush Regime is organizing its political cadre - Ledeen's "new
people" who have been psychologically defeated by the implicit terror
around them and, having reverted to the same infantile state of mind occupied
by President George W. Bush, have embraced the Fascist principles they've
been subliminally indoctrinated with for years through the corporate propaganda
machine.
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- These "new people" are fast joining front organizations
like the Freedom Corps, the Citizen Corps, Community Emergency Response
Teams (which will train kids at school to prepare for the disasters the
Bush Regime will surely visit upon America); the Neighborhood Watch Program
that will allow the Bush Regime to detain its drunk and disorderly political
opponents as terrorist surrogates; and the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC),
through which enfranchised doctors will monitor patients within the faltering
health care system.
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- Within these front groups are cadres trained "in
techniques of persuasion over control of target groups" to support
the Bush Regime. In the forthcoming national emergency, these cadres will
be mobilized, will attend mass meetings, carry placards, shout slogans
as part of a Popular Information Program, appeal to our cultural beliefs
through Michael Savage-style radio shows, teach classes on correct thinking,
organize subtle but massive screening operations designed to generate defectors,
who will in turn to denounce former comrades who spoke ill of the Bush
Regime. They will intervene with "problem individuals," and everywhere
encourage their neighbors to report the activities of terrorist surrogates
by dropping a note addressed to the police in local mailboxes. It's not
hard to imagine a few of the most highly motivated cadres getting carried
away, grabbing ropes, and forming lynch mobs.
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- Only five percent of the people need to be organized
in this fashion for Bush to wield control over the indifferent ninety percent,
and defeat the five percent that form the political resistance. This is
why psychological operations are the Bush Regime's No. 1 priority. Case
in point: when Bush publicly announced the Department of Homeland Security
on 6 June 2002, he stated that the organization's primary mission was to
"mobilize and focus... the American people "to accomplish the
mission of attacking the enemy where he hides and plans." By which
he means his political opponents.
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- Psywar experts prize "compromise and discreditation"
operations like the one the FBI used against Martin Luther King before
he was assassinated. Information about his extramarital affairs was leaked,
and he was sent a message with the suggestion that he should commit suicide.
"There is only one way out for you," the forged document read.
"You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self
is bared to the nation." Forged documents like the one used against
King are an important facet of political blackmail, and are also used to
justify false arrests or conceal illegal operations. We have already seen
Network News broadcast "edited" videotapes of Osama bin Laden
and, in the Afghanistan war, captured (perhaps forged) documents were routinely
used as a form of black propaganda to justify military actions that resulted
in "collateral" damage.
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- The greatest example, of course, is Bush's criminal an
impeachable use of forged documents to justify the illegal invasion of
Iraq. This was an act of treason by the President of the United States,
and yet within the new legally criminal homeland security structure, it
is business as usual.
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- We can expect a slew of false rumors from low-level homeland
cadre, designed to ruin the reputations of politically incorrect families
in their villages and towns, especially environmentalists who pose a threat
to Critical Infrastructure corporations. The paranoia that currently infects
the Arab-American community will spread until no one is sure who is a spy
for the Thought Police. When the national emergency arrives, most likely
the forthcoming depression, and the homeland security infrastructure goes
on Red Alert, midnight arrests and disappearances into administrative detention
centers will become commonplace. Amid the confusion, the CIA will form
special units within the 93 terrorism task forces around the country, and
other unilateral Phoenix Program-style hit teams will operate under cover
of the security forces at their disposal.
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- The clincher is when the definition of a terrorist surrogate
is expanded to include people deemed dangerous to the Public Order, at
which point any person can be arrested on criminal charges for political
offenses. No specific charge is required; a homelander like Ledeen or Bill
O'Rilley will simply accuse someone of disturbing the peace or being un-American
The definitions of sedition and treason will grow to include disseminating
information about government corruption, or undermining the will of the
State by challenging its authority. Calling for civil disobedience will
be a really scary threat to the homeland. Cadre in the Office of Cyberspace
Security will expose you as a terrorist surrogate for sending sarcastic
or satirical emails. How can you prove you were only joking when you blamed
Bush for the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, and said Cheney's
refusal to investigate proves that Bush did it?
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- Ultimately, every town will form a Homeland Committee,
chaired by a Bush Regime operative who will process confidential reports
from concerned citizens about the activities of peaceniks, or people they
don't like for personal reasons, such as business competitors. These reports
will pass through an ideological filter as they work their way up to the
Office of Intelligence and the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, where
motivated CIA officers will gleefully pull the plug on environmentalists,
people espousing national health care, and anyone challenging to the Bush
Regime and the internal security forces that are firmly in its grip.
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- Beware. Ashcroft has vowed to "employ new tools
that ease administrative burdens." However benign he might think he
means this, these new tools can allow the government to wage political
warfare through implicit and explicit terror. And the government can do
it! The Geneva Conventions guarantee protection to civilians in time of
war, but do not prohibit a state from interning civilians or subjecting
them to emergency detention when such measures are necessary for the security
or safety of the state. In this way indefinite detention, torture and summary
execution, all carried out without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly
constituted court, are perfectly legal, because they are the result of
"administrative procedures" and do not involve a "criminal
sentence."
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- This is what Israel is done to the Palestinians, and
this is what the Bush Regime has in store for America through its eternal
war on terror: that sad obsession with dominance, itself a sad projection
of Bush's feelings of inadequacy, most likely brought upon by his domineering
mother Barbara.
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- Douglas Valentine is the author of The Hotel Tacloban,
The Phoenix Program, and TDY. His new book The Strength of the Wolf: the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968 will be published by Verso. Valentine
was an investigator for Pepper on the King case in 1998-1999. For information
about Valentine and his books and articles, please visit his website at
<http://www.douglasvalentine.com/>www.douglasvalentine.com.
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- He can be reached at: redspruce@attbi.com
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- http://www.counterpunch.com/valentine08112003.html
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