10 December 2010 By Keith Johnson As controversy persists to swirl around the TSA's
latest intrusive screening procedures, finger pointers
from both ends of the political spectrum are hard at
work blaming each other for giving birth to the one
federal bureaucracy that has become a poster child for
the tyrannical apparatus known as the police state. The so-called "left" has been quick to point out
that the TSA came into existence during the tenure of
Republican President George W. Bush, who signed the
agency into existence in the aftermath of the attacks
on the World Trade Center in 2001. They also like to
remind us that it was under the Bush administration
that Homeland Security director, Michael Chertoff,
laid the groundwork for the proliferation of "full
body scanners" throughout our nation's airports. Those on the so-called "right" have been just as
quick to point out that the creation of the TSA was
facilitated through the "Aviation and Transportation
Security Act," a bill that was sponsored by a
Democratic Senator, Fritz Hollings, and co-sponsored
by 22 of his fellow Democrats (of course there
were also 8 Republican co-sponsors to that bill, but
conservatives aren't so quick to point that out).
They also like to remind us that it was Obama's TSA
director, John Pistole, who introduced the "enhanced
pat-downs" that have become the focus of so many 4th
amendment protests being reported this holiday season. So, who was to blame? Certainly, both parties were
responsible for bringing the TSA into existence. Even
if the "Aviation and Transportation Security Act" were
largely a brainchild of the Democrats, the bill faced
virtually no opposition as it raced through the
Republican controlled house. From there, it went on
to the floor of the senate—where it was passed by a
unanimous vote—before being sent it off to the
President for his enthusiastic approval. So there you have it. In the immortal words of
former Alabama Governor, George Wallace: "There's
not a dime's worth of difference between the
Republicans and Democrats." Everyone seems to be missing the point. The birth
of the TSA was merely a reaction to the events that
took place on September 11, 2001. By now, we should
be used to the fact that both political parties will
use any crisis as an excuse to expand the power of the
federal government. When put in that perspective, it
really has becomes of little significance as to who
penned the legistlation, who signed it, or who ended
up expanding the programs into the paranoid mechanism
of control that it has evolved into. More important
are the catalysing series of events that occurred on
9/11 that caused politicians to react in the way that
they did. Whoever is responsible for those attacks
are the ones we should be blaming for giving us the
TSA. So who were they? If you want to believe the
official story that the government gives us, then I
suppose you believe that 19 radical Muslims hijacked 4
planes and flew two of them into the World Trade
Center towers, one into the Pentagon and one into the
ground. If that's what you want to believe, fine.
Let's suspend all disbelief and pretend that's
precisely what happened. If 19 radical Muslims were responsible for the
attacks, you've got to ask youself what their beef was
with the United States? If you want to take George W.
Bush's word for it, then I suppose you believe that
"they hate us for our freedoms." Come on, Folks, do you really buy that? No one
hates freedom. As living beings, we are born with an
inherent love of freedom. Why do you think toddlers
cry when you take their toys away? Why do children
pout when you turn off their TV and tell them it's
time for bed? It's because you're infringing upon
their freedoms. And that love of freedom is not just
something confined to the human species. Animals love
their freedom too. Why do dogs jump fences? Why do
raccoons chew off their legs to be sprung from a
hunter's snare? As we grow older, we learn to adapt
to controls and limitations society places upon us,
but we never lose that inherent love of freedom. Do you think Muslims are any different? Perhaps
you do. We are constantly fed endless propaganda that
characterizes Muslims as something otherworldly. One
of the more common theatrics offered to us in the
mainstream media are the large crowds of angry Muslims
burning effigies and chanting—or carrying signs that
read—"Death to America!" That's always bound
to stir a reaction out of the English only speaking
American voter, who rarely ventures outside his or her
living room. For centuries, the burning of effigies has been a
legitimate form of peaceful protest. It is a symbolic
gesture of odium that has been traditionally carried
out by people of all faiths and ethnicities. It is
intended as to be loud and visually compelling. But
it is still a peaceful expression of outrage. In the
United States, this form of expression has become
uncommon. Propagandists take advantage of the
American public's ignorance in this regard and portray
the demonstrations as overtures to violent acts.
These unfamiliar images are edited into a montage to
ellicit a pavlovian response, intent on making the
viewer feel threatened. What propagandists also intentionally fail to
explain to you is that the word "Death" is a
common slur used by Arabs and Persians in the same
manner that we use "Hell" or "Damn."
If you or I get caught in traffic, we may say "Damn
this traffic, I'm getting off at the next exit!"
An Arab will respond in the same way, except he might
say "Death to this traffic!" Or, if a
Persian woman in Tehran get's an article of clothing
back from the dry cleaner—but finds a new stain that
wasn't there when she ndropped it off—she may very
well exclaim "Death to that dry cleaner" in
the same manner that you and I might exclaim "To
Hell with that dry cleaner!" The language barrier between Americans and people
of other nations is perhaps one of the greatest tools
propagandists use to manipulate minds into adopting
biased attitudes and prejudices against their
enemies. Because the word "Death" is not
considered to be one of the many slurs used in the
English language, the phrase "Death to America"
is taken quite literally by American
audiences. This stirs us all the wrong kinds of
emotions, and terrorizes the gullible into fearing for
their very lives. Once we allow ourselves to believe that a
significant percentage of the world's population is
intent on carrying out a campaign of genocide against
the rest of us, we begin to adopt those attitudes
ourselves. Our fears give way to an ‘Us Vs. Them'
mentality, and we respond to our perceived enemies
with even greater threats of our own. Naviagte through any number of the more popular
internet hate sites sponsored by Fox News, the
American Thinker or the Washington Times. Follow any
one of the countless Islamophobic articles you'll find
there to the comments section at the bottom of the
page. There you will find dirty walls, spray painted
with hate speech and anti-Islamic threats that go far
beyond the use of slurs like "Hell" or Damn."
Calls for the extermination of "Them Moozlims"
and turning their nations into "Glass parking
lots" are far more common than any kind of
figurative condemnation. And these comments are
coming from people who have never suffered at the
hands of a foreign invader. They may
relate—peripherally—to the loss of American lives as a
result of the attacks on 9/11, but they have not
personally lost a loved one, had their homes
destroyed, or been displaced after a military
operation levelled the village they grew up in. But those angry Muslims you see burning effigies in
the streets have lost loved ones and
friends. They have had their homes
demolished and have been forced to live like
nomads as they move what's left of their families to
the few remaining places of refuge that exist in an
otherwise barren wasteland of death and destruction. When they chant "Death to America," they
are—in effect—saying "Damn you America! Damn you
for killing our children! Damn you for stepping foot
on our sacred soil and laying waste to what our
ancestors took centuries to build!" And when they speak of "America," they are
not speaking about you and I. They are speaking about
our leadership. It is our leadership that has carried
out this abominable foreign policy that has claimed
over a million lives and created a living hell for
millions more. In his book, "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is
Losing the War on Terror," Michael Scheuer, the
former station chief assigned to the CIA's "Osama Bin
Laden Task Force" writes: "Osama Doesn't Hate Our Freedom:
The fundamental flaw in our thinking about Bin Laden
is that "Muslims hate and attack us for what we are
and think, rather than what we do." Muslims are
bothered by our modernity, democracy, and sexuality,
but they are rarely spurred to action unless American
forces encroach on their lands. It's
American foreign policy that enrages Osama and al-Qaida,
not American culture and society." Then there's this: In 2007, during a Republican
Presidential debate in South Carolina, Rudolph Guliani
and Ron Paul squared off on the root causes of
terrorism. It was an explosive exchange. After
Guliani falsely accused Ron Paul of suggesting
"that we invited the attack [on 9/11]because
we were attacking Iraq," Paul responded by
saying: "I believe very sincerely that the CIA is
correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When
we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes,
there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking
of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore
that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that
we can do what we want around the world and not incite
hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here
to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They
come and they attack us because we're over there. I
mean, what would we think if we were — if other
foreign countries were doing that to us?" The recently deceased Chalmers Johnson, a former
consultant for the CIA, university professor and
author of the book "Blowback," says the same thing in
an article entitled "The Lessons of Blowback," penned
just three weeks after the 9/11 attacks. "We must recognize that the terrorism of Sept.
11 was not directed against America but against
American foreign policy." Do you need more confirmation? How about the
conclusions reached in this unclassified study;
published by the Pentagon-appointed U.S. Defense
Science Board on Sept. 23, 2004: "Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,' but rather,
they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority
voice their objections to what they see as one-sided
support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian
rights, and the longstanding, even increasing support
for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most
notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the
Gulf States. Thus, when American public diplomacy
talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies,
this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy." So, now that we have determined that our foreign
policy is what the Muslims find so objectionable, the
next step is to determine who it is that dictates that
foreign policy. I think you know where I'm going with
this. There is no larger, more influential lobby
operating in Washington D.C. than the American Israeli
Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC). While most other
lobbies campaign on behalf of America's domestic
issues, AIPAC lobbies exclusively on behalf of
Israel. What makes this lobby unique from other
foreign lobbies is that they have refused to register
as agents of a foreign power. There have been
attempts to force them to register, but those efforts
have thus far failed. Their power over our politicians has become even
greater in recent years with the passage of the
McCain-Feingold campaign reform law that came into
effect in 2003. Jeff Gates, author of the book,
"Guilt By Association-How Deception and Self-Deceit
Took America to War," explains how this works: "The influence-peddling process works like
this. Candidates are summoned for in-depth AIPAC
interviews. Those found sufficiently committed to
Israel's agenda are provided a list of donors likely
to "max out" their campaign contributions. Or the
process can be made even easier when AIPAC-approved
candidates are given the name of a "bundler." Bundlers raise funds from the Diaspora and
bundle those contributions to present them to the
candidate. No quid pro quo need be mentioned. After
McCain-Feingold became law in 2003, AIPAC-identified
bundlers could raise $1 million-plus for AIPAC-approved
candidates simply by contacting ten like-minded
supporters. Here's the math: The bundler and spouse "max out" for $9,200
and call ten others, say in Manhattan, Miami, and
Beverly Hills. Each of them max out ($10 x $9,200) and
call ten others for a total of 11. [111 x $9,200 =
$1,021,200.] Imagine the incentive to do well in the AIPAC
interview. One call from the lobby and a candidate can
collect enough cash to mount a credible campaign in
most Congressional districts. From Tel Aviv's
perspective, that political leverage is leveraged yet
again because fewer than ten percent of the 435 House
races are competitive in any election cycle (typically
35 to 50). Additional force-multipliers come from: (a)
sustaining this financial focus over multiple cycles,
(b) using funds to gain and retain seniority for those
serving on Congressional committees key to promoting
Israeli goals, and (c) opposing any candidates who
question those goals." But don't just take his word for it. In a 2006
letter to AIPAC supporters, then-President Howard
Friedman boastfully writes: "AIPAC meets with every candidate running for
Congress. These candidates receive in-depth briefings
to help them completely understand the complexities of
Israel's predicament and that of the Middle East as a
whole. We even ask each candidate to author a
'position paper' on their views of the U.S.-Israel
relationship--so it's clear where they stand on the
subject." "Members of Congress, staffers and
administration officials have come to rely on AIPACs
memos. They are VERY busy people and they know that
they can count on AIPAC for clear-eyed analysis. We
present this information in concise form to elected
officials. The information and analyses are
impeccable--after all our reputation is at stake. This
results in policy and legislation that make up
Israel's lifeline." Every conflict that is being waged in the Middle
East, by the United States, is done so on behalf of
what Israel believes is necessary to insure its
security. Israel will not feel safe until it has
completely taken over the region. That includes Iraq,
Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Israel also relies on the
United States to veto any resolution by the UN that
holds Israel responsible for the atrocities it commits
against the people of Palestine. George W. Bush told us that the reason we invaded
Iraq was to liberate its people and destroy Saddam
Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. But this was a
lie. First of all, faulty intelligence provided by
Israel overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein,
as reported by retired Brigadier General Shlomo Brom
of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv
University. "Israeli intelligence was a full partner with
the US and Britain in developing a false picture of
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction
capability." "It badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to
Israel and reinforced the American and British belief
that the weapons existed." The real reason we invaded Iraq was because that's
what Israel wanted. In 2002, Phillip Zelikow, who
served on the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board from 2001 to 2003, admitted as much in
a speech he gave to the University of Virginia. He
said: "Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear
weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the
real threat [is] and actually has been since 1990 -
it's the threat against Israel." Do you think it might be foreign policies like
these that cause Muslims hate "America?" In an article entitled "Please Forgive U.S.?"
author Mickey Z. sums it up best: "We have demonized the Muslims as dangerous
fanatics, subsidized Israel's military with billions
of taxpayer dollars, blocked all progress towards a
Middle East peace settlement, slaughtered hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis in an illegal war, banned
'Arab-looking' people from air travel during that
so-called war, and we're surprised and stunned if
something is done in retaliation?" Of course we're still working off the assumption
that 9/11 was pulled off by 19 radical Muslims. If
you still believe that one, then I suppose you've
chosen to ignore some of the relevant facts. Like this excerpt from a report issued by the U.S.
Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS);
September 2001: "[The Israeli Mossad is] ruthless and cunning,
with the capability to target U.S. forces and make it
look like a Palestinian-Arab act."
Remember, it was Larry Silverstein who leased the
World Trade Center (WTC) only seven weeks before the
9/11 attacks, along with Frank Lowy, who was once a
member of Israel's Golani Brigade. The authorization
to lease the WTC to Silverstein was made by Lewis
Eisenberg, Chairman of the New York Port Authority.
All three of these men are all also prominent members
of the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the United
Jewish Appeal. Did you also know that an Israeli owned company,
ICTS, ran security at all three airport checkpoints
involved in the alleged 9/11 hijackings? Maybe you'd also like to check out some of the
investigations into Israeli spying operations just
prior to 9/11. Over 140 Israelis were arrested for
suspected espionage. Many of these the suspects
served in military intelligence, electronic
surveillance intercept and explosive ordinance units. After 9/11, 60 more Israelis were rounded up and
were found to have links to Israeli intelligence.
Many failed polygraphs when asked questions concerning
their involvement in espionage activities in the
United States. Eventually, they were released and
quietly flown out of the country. Then there are those "five dancing Israeli's", who
were caught in New York City videotaping and
celebrating the fall of the towers. They later
admitted on Israeli TV that they were there that day
to "document the event." More Israelis were arrested that day as they were
driving a white van carrying bombs, intended to be
used on the George Washington Bridge. Another group
was caught in yet another white van—that had a mural
painted on the side—which depicted the attacks. The
vans were later connected to a Mossad front group,
"Urban Moving Systems." The operator of the company,
Dominic Suter, fled to Israel immediately following
the attacks on 9/11. Do I need to go on? Whether you want to go with the official story of
9/11, or care to investigate into Israel's direct role
in carrying out the attacks, one thing is perfectly
clear: All roads lead to Israel. They're why we have
the TSA. In the wake of the 2009 Christmas Day "crotch
bomber" incident, Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff
began pushing the implementation of the full body
scanners. Even that false flag event has Israel's
fingerprints all over it. Once again, we find ICTS
running the security that the suspect successfully
evaded. Then, according to an article entitled "Evidence
Mounts for U.S. Complicity in Terrorism," Gordon
Duff writes: "When nothing adds up, its time we starting
looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now
dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another dupe. He could
have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or
simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the
Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is
falling apart. We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in
Nigeria,
ran the national arms industry (DICON) in
partnership
with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in
daily contact with them. They run everything in
Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism.
Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of
Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is
a cover." Shortly after the "crotch bomber" incident,
MSNBC's Richard Wolffe—in an interview with
Keith Olbermann—stated that his sources in the White
House were exploring the possibility that the incident
was deliberately created in order to embarrass Obama.
Here is that exchange: OLBERMANN: "And what is the focus here right
now? Is it the pushback borders at other airports?
Is it the indication that intelligence such as what
the NSA knew about al Qaeda in Yemen, using a Nigerian
man for an attack was not—maybe is not being
utilized? Where is the focus right now?" WOLFFE: "Well, I was speaking to White House
folks earlier today and it‘s clear the president is
still deeply concerned and troubled, even angry at the
intelligence lapses. But they see this more as an
intelligence lapse more than a situation of airport
security faults." "So, the question here is: why didn‘t the
centralized system of intelligence that was set up
after 9/11, why didn‘t it work? Is this conspiracy or
cork up? Is it a case of the agencies having so much
rivalry between them that they were more determined to
stymie each other or the centralized system rather
than dealing with the terrorist threat? Or was it
just there were so many dots no one could connect them
because it just was all too random to figure out?" "It seems that the president is leaning very
much towards thinking this was a systemic failure by
individuals who maybe had an alternative agenda." Further evidence, to support that this incident was
staged, comes from this article in the Detroit
News, entitled "Terror Suspect Kept Visa
to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation," where
we learn: "Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for
management at the State Department, said
Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because
intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a
visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a
denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida
threats against the United States. "Revocation action would've disclosed what they
were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the
House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing
Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances
federal investigators would be able to get closer to
apprehending the terror network he is accused of
working with, "rather than simply knocking out one
solider in that effort." The "intelligence officials" Kennedy is
referring to to have so far gone unnamed, but I think
you can guess who I believe those sources to be. If Muttalab's visa had been taken away, he would
not have gotten on that plane. There would have been
no incident, and therefore provide no opportunity for
Chertoff to make his pitch for the body scanners. I believe this is all part of a larger plan. The
goal is to get everyone so outraged about the current
screening procedures, that they beg for the kind of
profiling done by Israel. Republicans are already
making that proposal. But don't think that will eliminate the body
scanners. Those will still be installed regardless,
if for no other reason than to enrich the
manufacturers at the expense of the American taxpayer. So-called Israeli "experts" on profiling will be
the ones who will get the no-bid contracts to conduct
their operations in the United States. That's the
last thing we need. Not only are these methods more
invasive, but they will also cost a fortune. In an article entitled "Why the Israeli
security model can't work for the U.S.," Dana
Milbank, writing for the Washington Post,
states that: "El Al, Israel's national carrier,
reported spending $107,828,000 on security in 2009
for the 1.9 million passengers it carried. That works
out to about $56.75 per passenger. The United States,
by contrast,
spent $5.33 billion on aviation security in fiscal
2010, and the air travel system handled 769.6 million
passengers in 2009 (a low year),
according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
That amounts to $6.93 per passenger." And in an article entitled "What would it cost
for the U.S. to get Israel-level airport security?,"
Annie Lowry, writing for Foreign Policy,
did this calculation: "Say each passenger flying through a U.S.
airport received on average 10 minutes of questioning
from one guard. That would work out to 7.35 billion
minutes, or 123 million hours, of work annually. We'd
need 3 million full-time guards to perform it. That's
200,000 more people than the total number of active
and reserve military personnel, and twice the number
of U.S. Wal-Mart employees. It would cost somewhere
north of $150 billion a year. Sheesh!" Yep, that's a lot of dinero. But don't think that
will stop politicians from pushing it through.
Remember, this is a package that will further enrich
the nation to which they serve: Israel. So get ready, America! You're about to have it
all—naked body scanners, pat downs and profiling—all
brought to you by the same people who gave you the
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