- Much is still being challenged over the policies and
procedures that got us into the unilateral and illegal wars in both Afghanistan
and Iraq. This conflict over the keys that could unlock the truth behind
Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are still waiting to be investigated, along with
abuses throughout not only the US military chains of command; but also
within the corruption created during the Bush Administration throughout
the US Department of Justice-these were criminal actions that were responsible
for unilaterally re-writing the US Constitution and then were ruled on
by those that wrote the violations of all laws governing prisoners
of war and torture, in order to enable, illegal government decisions to
remain unchallenged for the last seven years!
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- What is at issue is doubly complicated by the fact that
the wars themselves are colonial and illegal, and have no real standing
under the international rules of war. The problem becomes glaringly obvious
when the policies used by the former administration come face to face with
the criminality they created in pursuing these occupations of nation-states
that did not attack the United States.
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- The policies now under fire over the prisoners in Guantanamo
and Abu Ghraib have no legal standing under US law; because the category
under which these people were 'captured' is itself illegal. On top of this
crime against those that were captured, the military and the intelligence
communities have also added torture and murder to the list of what needs
to be investigated. The current debate surrounding the more than 2,000
photographs of torture within the detention system that was illegally created
to hold people without charges, forever if need be is a question not of
guilt or innocence, but rather is a question under American law that has
blatantly perverted American Justice and international laws.
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- For the last week Dick Cheney, a civilian now, has been
making very public charges that need to be settled in a courtroom; where
he should be on trial for his life for exceeding his authority throughout
his tenure as 'Vice-President' in the Bush Administration. Cheney says
that his policies worked. First of all the Vice-President of the US has
no such responsibility under the US Constitution, nor does he enjoy any
kind of immunity for what he did during the last eight years. Cheney and
all his underlings need to be arrested and charged, so that they can make
their case under oath, and in an open and public courtroom for all to see
and hear what really went on during the false-flag wars that have resulted
in the deaths of millions of people, in addition to the hundreds of thousands
of American forces that have been damaged or killed by his actions.
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- The two thousand pictures will become public eventually,
the only question remaining is whether or not the criminality that created
the opportunity for those events to have taken place will be recognized
and addressed, by this administration, or by the world's courts somewhere
in the dangerous-mists of the future.
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- The reason that nations make any laws is to prevent things
like this from ever becoming problems in the first place. Under Bush-the-Dictator;
the entire US Constitution and the Bill of Rights was trashed. Obama came
to office supposedly to undo much of what was done during the last eight
years; instead he has picked up where Bush left-off and continues to expand
upon what Bush started, all the way down to and including the totally illegal
signing statements. Obummer is not the savior than his fans adore; he is
the embodiment of a whole new series of lies heaped upon the mountains
of Crimes that are still waiting for the consequences that will follow
from the distortions and the bloodshed that created them in the first place-beginning
with 911.
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- The main complaint from the bubble-protected American
public over this issue seems to be an exaggerated fear of having 'terrorists'
loose in this country: Yet the actual terrorists have been here and in
London and Tel-Aviv from the start. These are the people in 5,000 dollar
suits that have been running every aspect of this entire charade all along.
From financial and
- military manipulation; Cheney actually ran five war games
from the White House on 911 to provide cover for the attacks of that day
(1); all the way down to the killing US manufacturing while outsourcing
millions of US jobs. Some of the massively-consequential road-kill which
these policies created can also be seen in educational policies, in health
policies, and in the lack-of-capacity to basically survive under the current
police-state that has gotten bigger and more dangerous under Obama, than
it ever was under the puppets of the Bush Machine.
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- Obama ran on a contradictory platform that could never
be achieved. He said he stood for change, that he himself was that change,
and that we must only go forward and ignore the past. Because of American
policies of the past Obama became a candidate, and because of the crimes
committed in that past, he was able to sell himself as some kind of Messiah
that would magically correct everything while only moving forward. Yet
the fundamental problems presented by the formal destruction of the US
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, is not the same as getting rid of
a few corrupt politicians: because this involves treason against the people
of this country and this has destroyed whatever reputation we might have
had as any kind of an example of 'freedom in wider world.' Obama is not
the answer that he claims to be, but he is in fact the face of the continuing
problem behind a theoretically new and virtually "past-free face,"
a shadow with three different names that has arisen without a formalized
history, without even any confirmed record of his actual birth; not to
mention that his previous records in public life have all been sealed.
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- Barack Obama is the new Obamanation that was selected
to rule over the end of times, and is not the solution to anything-as their
entire agenda has been to correlate the transfer of public wealth to the
private sector-while continuing to widen our colonial wars upon the rest
of the planet, which just happens to be in total conflict with all the
settled laws that govern over the society of nations around the world.
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- One huge case in point that has gotten very little notice,
is the current takeover of the US Air Force Academy (a coup that is now
six years old), that was undertaken by extreme Christian fundamentalists
who are continuing the Christian Crusades through today's US officer corps.
The Crusades began in the latter part of the Eleventh Century, and are
obviously still alive and still trying to crush Islam as their spearpoint
of American colonial policies that most of the world's other major nations
have had to formally abandon.
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- "When Barack Obama moved into the Oval Office in
January, he inherited a military not just drained by a two-front war overseas
but fighting a third battle on the home front, a subtle civil war over
its own soul. On one side are the majority of military personnel, professionals
who regardless of their faith or lack thereof [who] simply want to get
their jobs done; on the other is a small but powerful movement of Christian
soldiers concentrated in the officer corps."
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- There's Major General Robert Caslan-commander of the
25th Infantry Division, a.k.a. "Tropic Lightening"-who in 2007
was found by a Pentagon inspector general's report to have violated military
ethics by appearing in uniform, along with six other senior Pentagon officers,
in a video for the Christina Embassy, a fundamentalist ministry to Washington
elites. There's Lieutenant General Robert Van Antwerpt, the Army chief
of engineers, who has lent his uniform to the Christian cause, both in
a Trinity Broadcasting Network tribute to Christian soldiers called Red,
White and Blue Spectacular and at a 2003 Billy Graham Rally-televised around
the world on the Armed Forces Network-at which he declared the baptisms
of 700 soldiers under his command evidence of the Lord's plan to "raise
up a godly army."
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- What men such as these have fomented is a quiet coup
within the armed forces, not of generals encroaching on civilian rule but
of religious authority displacing the military's once staunchly secular
code. Not a conspiracy but a cultural transformation, achieved gradually
through promotions and prayer meetings, with personal faith replacing protocol
according to the best intentions of commanders who conflate God with country.
They see themselves not as subversives but as spiritual warriors-"ambassadors
for Christ in uniform," according to Officers' Christian Fellowship;
"government paid missionaries," according to Campus Crusade's
Military Ministry."
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- "Within the fundamentalist front in the officer
corps, the best organized group is Officers' Christian Fellowship, with
15,000 members active at 80 percent of military bases and an annual growth
rate, in recent years, of 3 percent. Founded during World War II, OCF was
for most of its history concerned mainly with the spiritual lives of those
who sought it out, but since 911it has moved in a more militant direction.
According to the group's current executive director ~ to which Obama has
committed 17,000 new troops in Afghanistan-is a "spiritual battle
of the highest magnitude."
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- "But another OCF Bible study, "Mission Accomplished,"
warns that victory abroad does not mean the war is won at home. "If
Satan cannot succeed with threats from the outside, he will seek to destroy
from within," asserts the study, a reference to "fellow countrymen"
both in biblical times and today who practice "spiritual adultery."
"Mission Accomplished" takes its text from Nehmiah 1-6, the story
of the "wallbuilder" who rebuilt the fortifications around Jerusalem.
An outsider might misinterpret the wall metaphor as a sign of respect for
separation of church and state, but in contemporary fundamentalist thinking
the story stands for just the opposite: a wall within which church and
state are one. "With the wall completed the people could live an integrated
life," the study argues. "God was to be Lord of all or not Lord
at all." So it is today. "Mission Accomplished" continues,
proposing that before military Christians can complete their wall, they
must bring this "Lord of all" to the entire armed forces. "We
will need to press ahead obediently," the study concludes, "not
allowing the opposition, all of which is spearheaded by Satan, to keep
us from the mission of reclaiming territory for Christ in the military."
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- The quotes are from the story in Harpers magazine of
May, 2009 by Jeff Sharlett which is featured on the cover displayed above.
The title of the article is JESUS KILLED MOHAMMED, The Crusade for a Christian
Military; it's lengthy but documented in detail and includes the
roles of many of the military's most high-profile officers such as General
Petraeus and other officers at that level. The story also charts the efforts
of those opposed to this silent coup that Americans very desperately need
to become very aware of.
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- In the meanwhile the Obama team's feet must be held to
the fire of public demands for real answers for the crimes that brought
this new public insult into the top echelon of what was once the US government-because
there cannot be solutions until the crimes that created all of this are
openly investigated and those guilty are charged and punished accordingly.
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- 1) From the Smoke & Flames the Truth is Rising
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2004/art29.htm
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