There are 12 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Proven since 2001 -- U.S. NeoCon leadership guilty of 9-11 false-flag mass-murder attack
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
2. Re: Cheney Threatens Press with Gun. Joke or Real??
From: "kitty285" <kitty285@charter.net>
3. Will some of you help out, please?
From: "MarshaMcClelland" <mofmars3@sbcglobal.net>
4. Re: Will some of you help out, please?
From: "botalerts" <botalerts@yahoo.ca>
5. *****FIGHT BACK THE NWO*****
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
6. *****FIGHT BACK THE NWO AND SAVE AMERICA*****
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
7. *****OPERATION WHITE LIGHTNING*****
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
8. Re: JOBS
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
9. Just curious
From: "Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond" <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
10. AUDIO: Andreas von Buelow, Top German 9/11 Expert
From: APFN <apfn@apfn.org>
11. The Assassination of JFK Jr. DVD another real event in real history, brought to you by the same makers of 9/11
From: "Leslie Schwartz" <lhs_emf@pacbell.net>
12. A Day in the Life: 4/2/6
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org>
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:27:30 -0800
From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Subject: Proven since 2001 -- U.S. NeoCon leadership guilty of 9-11 false-flag mass-murder attack
U.S. NeoCon leadership guilty of 9-11 false-flag mass-murder black-op attack -- everything that needs to be said and done follows from that established fact
This is the only thing people should be posting about.
This is the Achilles heel that can bring down the mass-murdering piratic regime.
You need to get behind the evidence and behind whoever is putting out the evidence.
You need to get behind Sheen, Griffen, Reynolds.
You need to avoid those who say that there were no plane crashes in NY or other devisive disinfo story.
Here is what convinced me:
http://bedoper.com/eastman
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:31:39 -0500
From: "kitty285" <kitty285@charter.net>
Subject: Re: Cheney Threatens Press with Gun. Joke or Real??
It was a threat,it would be foolish to joke at this time,he just can't stand
it,he wants to kill so bad !!
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Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: [911TruthAction] Cheney Threatens Press with Gun. Joke or Real??
> Ch 2 News, today showed that Dick Cheney, in a press conference, showed a
slide of himself, aiming his rifle. He then joked, and said that that is
what would happen to the press, if they printed anything that he didn't
like. Was that a funny joke or a real threat. He presented it as a joke,
but I believe that it was a real threat.
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:03:04 -0000
From: "MarshaMcClelland" <mofmars3@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Will some of you help out, please?
It's easy to register and the comments are all negative...The bush
lovers and bad guys are putting it to Alec Baldwin for standing up for
911 Truth...They're telling him Hannity and O'Reilly are going to tear
him apart...How about some moral support?
Marsha
http://alecbaldwin.com
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:22:19 -0000
From: "botalerts" <botalerts@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: Will some of you help out, please?
Marsha,
I haven't seen Baldwin's 9/11 truth statements. Can you please show
us (and then we'll support him).
--- In 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com, "MarshaMcClelland"
<mofmars3@...> wrote:
>
> It's easy to register and the comments are all negative...The bush
> lovers and bad guys are putting it to Alec Baldwin for standing up
for
> 911 Truth...They're telling him Hannity and O'Reilly are going to
tear
> him apart...How about some moral support?
>
> Marsha
>
> http://alecbaldwin.com
>
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:31:23 -0000
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
Subject: *****FIGHT BACK THE NWO*****
Subject of the post: Mexican Aliens and the NWO plan behind it.
Why letting pass so much illegal Mexican by opening the borders and with
this silent invasion in the U.S. and Canada all around the North
America?
As you know both of you, the Mexican government with the help of the
American government and the Canadian government are working closely
together by promoting the destruction of our national identities. Most
of this by creating an illegal Pro Mexican alien mob invisible extremist
invasion where most of the people haven't notices yet or comprehend
the movement behind it.
The plan of the NWO it's to move illegal Pro Mexican Nationalists
immigrants extremist (aliens) into the U.S. and Canada who are
advocating the liberation of their native land against the Europeans
Nazi as their main political views.
In doing so, all the illegal Mexican getting into our borders in both of
our countries are literally invading us as we are under attack by a
black op. C.I.A. (NWO Nazi) destabilisation operation in collaboration
with the secret service of both Mexican and Canadian with their black
branch respectively and the rest of the black government. (Globalist,
Iluminati)
Their main goal it's to create a gigantic aliens invasion with Pro
Mexican Nationalists extremists by creating an gigantic all out riot all
over the North America with extreme cultural tension at the end for the
creation of the super martial law at the a continental level.
Because the North America it's a huge multicultural meltingpot where
you have all the societies of the world regrouping in one super power as
the U.S. it's making a ideal place for creating ethnic tension
battleground for the NWO plan. If you observe closely it's the same
kind of operation the C.I.A. have made all around the world by
destabilizing countries like the third world in Africa and the rest of
the World. In fact, it's a much more gigantic complex operation
here in America because of the complexity to take a big liberty fortress
and ramification as well. In fact, they are totally crazy in doing this
as well they serious that's why we have to fight them with a lot of
brightness at the end. They are extremely dangerous as crazy, indeed.
Creating the critical mass riot for implementation of a Super
Continental Martial Law in North American by the mean to destroying
North America and his citizen as well
Because the secret government want to absolutely control the North
America, it's obvious they need a scenario in witch people will not
notice what they are doing with all their evils plans.
Because we all know who are behind the plot at the top level like Senior
Bush. and the rest of the puppets like Vicente Fox, G.W. Bush clones and
Steve Harper who all of them are facade agents for the NWO, the real
threat come from the G. Bush Senior who is really behind all this with
the rest of the Neoconservatives (Skull&Bones) and the black
government(Globalist or Illuminati) and so on.
Right now, their plan is mostly done at 85%. Why I am saying that it's
because most of the United State as being well invade but not as well as
the U.S. in Canada where I can see for the moment less Pro Mexican but
their concentration is getting up at a alarming rate here to. Most of
them are in big cities where the NWO want to control them because of
their strategic importance in term of geographic position as well for
their demographic situation like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago,
Denver, New York as well as Montreal in Quebec, Canada and so on. In
fact, if you are controlling the big cities, then, you can't have a
major revolt against you as well. It's just logical!
When all the region in most of North America will be enough invaded by
the Pro Mexican and the Pro Chinese in Vancouver in Canada as Pro
Quebeckers here in Quebec you will see emerge an immense flow of aliens
Pro Mexican nationalists extremists who are coming from nowhere as you
did see in L.A. and Chicago asking for their land being given to them
because of their ancestral possession and all Nazi connection and so on.
At this point of the situation everything it's going to degenerate
very quickly and you will see emerge an extreme cultural tension where
the NWO agenda, hopefully for them, the people will going to divide at
this stage of the destabilization operation by fighting each others
where it's the starting point the entire operation and where
it's going to be at a near point of no return. So it's quite easy
to see what's going to happen, but also, it's quite difficult to try
to stop it when it's begun.
How can we stop the NWO agenda by regrouping the people together and
form a gigantic opposition where all the people are going to fight on
the same side and rule out the NWO from the U.S. and the North America
forever!
When you are divining people you need to manipulate them by propaganda
in witch they will follow you like sheep. So, logically what you have to
do it's not following the bad propaganda.
In doing so, WE MUST, to stop them, reverse and make counter-propaganda
NOW with the most largest and quickest counter-propaganda of the history
of this humanity as known! In another term, the impossible!
So we have to attack them with everything we have by making
counter-propaganda large enough to shift the people on our side!
It's a psychological warfare against the good and the bad at
national super-power level. The bad are strong and the good are at the
stage of collapsing, we have to reverse it and now! That's the real
challenge my friends!
In theory, because the NWO are in the final stage of their plan, we have
to create a ''Strike Propaganda at the continental level'' if
we want to stop their plans!
It's simple as saying we have to make the impossible! If we may
just have a chance to win against them we have to try something and
really quickly because we are running out of time!
Well to say a least, we are in a position that we play our last effort
for the future of this planet. If we do nothing it's all over for
us!! But let's try something!
Because our chance is very low to succeed we have to find a way to
regroup every truth patriot we can on our side. That's mean now!
Because the clock is running out of time so the only hope we really have
it's to regrouping the rest of the patriot who really want to fight
back the NWO and hopping this movement will be enough to overthrow out
of this continent the NWO forever. We must win against our enemy for
the seek and the good of the land we call North America, our free land
of freedom and liberty of our forefathers who have created for the good
of their citizens by is spiritual means as consciousness means for god
who are protecting us at the end !
It's all I have to say!
If we fail, then, at the end, the Galactic Confederation will be forces
to intervene with all the bad consequences. In fact, the scenario of the
ascension will not be at his best because we fail. Just be sure we can
fight back these bastards ourselves without our allies come directly
before we did!!!!!!!!! Because we need to retake our revenge by the way
WE MUST QUICK THEM OUT OURSELVES OF OUR FREE LAND WE CALL
AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR THE SEEK OF GOD!!!!!!!! OUR CREATOR!!!!!!
X.
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:45:47 -0000
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
Subject: *****FIGHT BACK THE NWO AND SAVE AMERICA*****
Subject of the post: Mexican Aliens and the NWO plan behind it.
Why letting pass so much illegal Mexican by opening the borders and with
this silent invasion in the U.S. and Canada all around the North
America?
As you know both of you, the Mexican government with the help of the
American government and the Canadian government are working closely
together by promoting the destruction of our national identities. Most
of this by creating an illegal Pro Mexican alien mob invisible extremist
invasion where most of the people haven't notices yet or comprehend
the movement behind it.
The plan of the NWO it's to move illegal Pro Mexican Nationalists
immigrants extremist (aliens) into the U.S. and Canada who are
advocating the liberation of their native land against the Europeans
Nazi as their main political views.
In doing so, all the illegal Mexican getting into our borders in both of
our countries are literally invading us as we are under attack by a
black op. C.I.A. (NWO Nazi) destabilisation operation in collaboration
with the secret service of both Mexican and Canadian with their black
branch respectively and the rest of the black government. (Globalist,
Iluminati)
Their main goal it's to create a gigantic aliens invasion with Pro
Mexican Nationalists extremists by creating an gigantic all out riot all
over the North America with extreme cultural tension at the end for the
creation of the super martial law at the a continental level.
Because the North America it's a huge multicultural meltingpot where
you have all the societies of the world regrouping in one super power as
the U.S. it's making a ideal place for creating ethnic tension
battleground for the NWO plan. If you observe closely it's the same
kind of operation the C.I.A. have made all around the world by
destabilizing countries like the third world in Africa and the rest of
the World. In fact, it's a much more gigantic complex operation
here in America because of the complexity to take a big liberty fortress
and ramification as well. In fact, they are totally crazy in doing this
as well they serious that's why we have to fight them with a lot of
brightness at the end. They are extremely dangerous as crazy, indeed.
Creating the critical mass riot for implementation of a Super
Continental Martial Law in North American by the mean to destroying
North America and his citizen as well
Because the secret government want to absolutely control the North
America, it's obvious they need a scenario in witch people will not
notice what they are doing with all their evils plans.
Because we all know who are behind the plot at the top level like Senior
Bush. and the rest of the puppets like Vicente Fox, G.W. Bush clones and
Steve Harper who all of them are facade agents for the NWO, the real
threat come from the G. Bush Senior who is really behind all this with
the rest of the Neoconservatives (Skull&Bones) and the black
government(Globalist or Illuminati) and so on.
Right now, their plan is mostly done at 85%. Why I am saying that it's
because most of the United State as being well invade but not as well as
the U.S. in Canada where I can see for the moment less Pro Mexican but
their concentration is getting up at a alarming rate here to. Most of
them are in big cities where the NWO want to control them because of
their strategic importance in term of geographic position as well for
their demographic situation like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago,
Denver, New York as well as Montreal in Quebec, Canada and so on. In
fact, if you are controlling the big cities, then, you can't have a
major revolt against you as well. It's just logical!
When all the region in most of North America will be enough invaded by
the Pro Mexican and the Pro Chinese in Vancouver in Canada as Pro
Quebeckers here in Quebec you will see emerge an immense flow of aliens
Pro Mexican nationalists extremists who are coming from nowhere as you
did see in L.A. and Chicago asking for their land being given to them
because of their ancestral possession and all Nazi connection and so on.
At this point of the situation everything it's going to degenerate
very quickly and you will see emerge an extreme cultural tension where
the NWO agenda, hopefully for them, the people will going to divide at
this stage of the destabilization operation by fighting each others
where it's the starting point the entire operation and where
it's going to be at a near point of no return. So it's quite easy
to see what's going to happen, but also, it's quite difficult to try
to stop it when it's begun.
How can we stop the NWO agenda by regrouping the people together and
form a gigantic opposition where all the people are going to fight on
the same side and rule out the NWO from the U.S. and the North America
forever!
When you are divining people you need to manipulate them by propaganda
in witch they will follow you like sheep. So, logically what you have to
do it's not following the bad propaganda.
In doing so, WE MUST, to stop them, reverse and make counter-propaganda
NOW with the most largest and quickest counter-propaganda of the history
of this humanity as known! In another term, the impossible!
So we have to attack them with everything we have by making
counter-propaganda large enough to shift the people on our side!
It's a psychological warfare against the good and the bad at
national super-power level. The bad are strong and the good are at the
stage of collapsing, we have to reverse it and now! That's the real
challenge my friends!
In theory, because the NWO are in the final stage of their plan, we have
to create a ''Strike Propaganda at the continental level'' if
we want to stop their plans!
It's simple as saying we have to make the impossible! If we may
just have a chance to win against them we have to try something and
really quickly because we are running out of time!
Well to say a least, we are in a position that we play our last effort
for the future of this planet. If we do nothing it's all over for
us!! But let's try something!
Because our chance is very low to succeed we have to find a way to
regroup every truth patriot we can on our side. That's mean now!
Because the clock is running out of time so the only hope we really have
it's to regrouping the rest of the patriot who really want to fight
back the NWO and hopping this movement will be enough to overthrow out
of this continent the NWO forever. We must win against our enemy for
the seek and the good of the land we call North America, our free land
of freedom and liberty of our forefathers who have created for the good
of their citizens by is spiritual means as consciousness means for god
who are protecting us at the end !
It's all I have to say!
If we fail, then, at the end, the Galactic Confederation will be forces
to intervene with all the bad consequences. In fact, the scenario of the
ascension will not be at his best because we fail. Just be sure we can
fight back these bastards ourselves without our allies come directly
before we did!!!!!!!!! Because we need to retake our revenge by the way
WE MUST QUICK THEM OUT OURSELVES OF OUR FREE LAND WE CALL
AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR THE SEEK OF GOD!!!!!!!! OUR CREATOR!!!!!!
X.
http://www.wingtv.net/index.html <http://www.wingtv.net/index.html>
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/929981172?ltl=1141667399
<http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/929981172?ltl=1141667399>
http://www.pentagonresearch.com/index.html
<http://www.pentagonresearch.com/index.html>
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:53:01 -0000
From: "kennendyone" <kennendyone@yahoo.com>
Subject: *****OPERATION WHITE LIGHTNING*****
Operation White Lightning
Operation: White Lighting
Because the main medias cartels of the New World Order on the planet are
totally corrupted by the Neoconservatives in Washington D.C. and all
their secret societies members and the most prominent of them are the
Skull&Bones in the U.S. we need a way to neutralize their main
propaganda network on Earth and mostly in the United States.
The New World Order black medias who is behind the cover up disinfo of
the 9/11 and all the rest the terrorist black agents on the whole planet
it's the main target. The real terrorist it's the Skull&Bones
backed by the C.I.A who are working directly with the black medias and
the NWO and the rest of the black operation in each of the infiltrated
agencies in the United States and the rest of the world in each national
government who are controlled also respectively by their own secret
societies underneath them. The whole association of the secret societies
in all the world together IS the secret government as we call them
''Illuminati'' or shadow government. They are also occultism
and murdering people and babies by killing them for their vibratory
power with mystic black magic and black magic technology. All their NWO
bases are underground base beneath us with an enormous tunnels network
at a planetary scale.
The idea it's to attack them with so much alternative information
(truth news) in a way they will realize they are totally exposed so they
will start to panic and some in the corrupted main medias are going to
revolt, hopefully, and starting to say the truth via their medias
network.
Because we are so numerous over million who have access, most of us, to
the internet, we can literally bombard them with so much alternative
news upon their web sites so they will have a enormous pressure coming
from the people around the world and are going simply to implode in the
process, hopefully.
The most important way we can neutralize them it's by attacking them
with little group of 5 people working together in a way they can
systematically bombard their sites with quickness and accuracy as hard.
Also, be sure to have in advance database web sites links information
before attacking any black medias.
And always be sure to attack them in the heart, their weak spot, think
where and when it's the most significant way you can heart them
really hard, precise and fast.
By this way, micro cell strike teams who are well organize can punch
them fast and hard and move to another target very efficiently without
the black medias can do anything.
This little cells strike anti- desinfopropaganda against NWO can also
change target respectively in a way they are not easily detectable on
their pattern attack in attacking each individual web sites again black
medias.
Also, this micro cell strike teams needs always to change their username
or e-mail name daily in a way the main medias can't recognize who
are attacking them.
By putting all the pressure on the black medias, hopefully we can force
them to change their philosophy of lying by forcing them to telling the
truth about what's really did happen in the 9/11 attack all the rest
of the cover up in any sphere regarding the secret government and all
behind it.
We can literally make planetary revolution with our fingers and our
heads too! It's depending only of the will of each individual to
change our lying reality in a true reality. In that way we can fight for
a just cause by forcing the true to emerge finally in our own
consciousness with the consciousness around us in this present reality.
All we need to do it's to spread the word of this action to all the
people, bloogers, chatters, what so ever and just fight and regroup
that's all !!! In organizing the people to merge together and fight
back this bastards one and for all we can punch them so hard that we
will, we most liberate this planet from the madness they are poisoning
us and liberate this planet of the tyranny one and for all !
Peace and love we will! Let's make this planetary consciousness
revolution NOW !
The war is now declare, let's liberate this planet for free will of
humanity and freedom of THIS WORLD !
http://www.wingtv.net/index.html <http://www.wingtv.net/index.html>
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/929981172?ltl=1141667399
<http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/929981172?ltl=1141667399>
http://www.pentagonresearch.com/index.html
<http://www.pentagonresearch.com/index.html>
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:16:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: JOBS
I am in COMPLETE agreement with you Bugs. I grew up in the midwest, and I KNOW FOR A FACT that there are thousands upon THOUSANDS back there AND in areas RIGHT HERE in California that are MORE than WILLING to do the work! The thing about it is that There is a so called communist that I know who is a native san franciscan here and has actuall FALKEN for this hogwash propaganda! I KNOW personally folks up in the marysville and eureka areas that wiould do the work. Any one who believes differently is a MORON who lives in a shell. thsi is just another Illuminati trick and our mexican brothers and sisters are playing right into their hands.
Kevin
P.S. kind of interesting that this all happened when 911 started getting out there! Hmm!
Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Do a little math. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 7.6 million unemployed Americans right now. Another 1.5 million Americans are no longer counted because they've become "long term" or "discouraged" unemployed workers. And although various groups have different ways of measuring it, most agree that at least another five to ten million Americans are either working part-time when they want to work full-time, or are "underemployed," doing jobs below their level of training, education, or experience. That's between eight and twenty million un- and under-employed Americans, many unable to find above-poverty-level work.
Now with about 40 million illegal people in the USA most working, Im sure the 9.1 Million American out of work would do any job that is now taken by someone from the south..Even killing Chickens.
AND BUSH CONTINUES SAYING THESE PEOPLE WILL WORK AT THE JOBS THAT AMERICAN'S WON'T DO? DO YOU BELIEVE THIS? I DON'T...
bugs
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:55:34 -0000
From: "Caomhain {Kevin} Lee Hammond" <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Subject: Just curious
Anyone here checked out www.fightthenwo.org yet?
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:49:45 -0700
From: APFN <apfn@apfn.org>
Subject: AUDIO: Andreas von Buelow, Top German 9/11 Expert
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 03:15:42 -0500
From: "Leslie Schwartz" <lhs_emf@pacbell.net>
Subject: The Assassination of JFK Jr. DVD another real event in real history, brought to you by the same makers of 9/11
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:38:37 -0500
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org>
Subject: A Day in the Life: 4/2/6
GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans
Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
Via <prez@usa-exile.org>
April 2, 2006
NOTE: Today is the 52nd anniversary of my discharge from the US army
as a socalled first lieutenant; I mention this only because, looking
back on it, it seems so ironic that I was willing to "serve" in the
infamous US military under any set of circumstances. Meanwhile, the
Perkins interview below is, yes, rather long but it provides a fine
summary of the real US foreign policy behind its outrageously
misleading rhetoric. Finally, I wonder if by odd coincidence Jill
Carroll (see bottom) just happened to be wearing a stun belt when she
talked about having been "manipulated"; most of her
statement--especially the last sentence of this lackey BBC
piece--sounds like she's reading from a prepared text. -- kl, pp
From: "Graham Jukes" <grahamjukes@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: March 16, 2006 4:31:31 PM EST
Subject: Economic Hit Man John Perkins: 'We Have Created the World's
First Truly Global Empire'
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LONG BUT VERY WORTHWHILE.... THIS IS ABOUT THE PROVERBIAL OFFER YOU
CANNOT REFUSE...
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For All...
Important read....It helps explain the facts behind the Federal
Government and why no changes ever come about, even when the Party in
power changes...There is a common thread that is woven into the fabric
of the government so tight, that no changes in the bureaucratic
structure can penetrate its weave! . . .
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Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins:
“We Have
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John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," joins us
in our firehouse studio to talk about his former work going into
various countries to try to strongarm leaders into creating policy
favorable to the U.S government and corporations. Perkins describes
himself as an economic hit man. [includes rush transcript]
• John Perkins, author of “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”,
formerly worked for an international consulting firm and describes
himself as an “economic hitman”
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AMY GOODMAN: We turn to someone on the inside who decided to speak out,
and he is John Perkins, has written the book, Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man. He came into our studios to talk about his former
work, going into various countries to try to strong-arm leaders into
creating policy favorable to the U.S. government and corporations, what
he called the “corporatocracy.” John Perkins says he was an economic
hit man. I began by asking him to explain this term.
JOHN PERKINS: We economic hit men, during the last 30 or 40 years,
have really created the world's first truly global empire, and we've
done this primarily through economics, and the military only coming in
as a last resort. Therefore, it's been done pretty much secretly. Most
of the people in the United States have no idea that we've created this
empire and, in fact, throughout the world it's been done very quietly,
unlike old empires, where the army marched in; it was obvious. So I
think the significance of the things you discussed, the fact that over
80% of the population of South America recently voted in an anti-U.S.
president and what's going on at the World Trade Organization, and
also, in fact, with the transit strike here in New York, is that people
are beginning to understand that the middle class and the lower classes
around the world are being terribly, terribly exploited by what I call
the corporatocracy, which really runs this empire.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, before we move further, your experience with it?
Explain the vantage point you come from. What does it mean to be an
economic hit man?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, what we've done -- we use many techniques, but
probably the most common is that we'll go to a country that has
resources that our corporations covet, like oil, and we'll arrange a
huge loan to that country from an organization like the World Bank or
one of its sisters, but almost all of the money goes to the U.S.
corporations, not to the country itself, corporations like Bechtel and
Halliburton, General Motors, General Electric, these types of
organizations, and they build huge infrastructure projects in that
country: power plants, highways, ports, industrial parks, things that
serve the very rich and seldom even reach the poor. In fact, the poor
suffer, because the loans have to be repaid, and they're huge loans,
and the repayment of them means that the poor won't get education,
health, and other social services, and the country is left holding a
huge debt, by intention. We go back, we economic hit men, to this
country and say, “Look, you owe us a lot of money. You can't repay your
debts, so give us a pound of flesh. Sell our oil companies your oil
real cheap or vote with us at the next U.N. vote or send troops in
support of ours to some place in the world such as Iraq.” And in that
way, we've managed to build a world empire with very few people
actually knowing that we've done this.
AMY GOODMAN: And you worked for?
JOHN PERKINS: I was recruited by the National Security Agency, the one
that's in the news so much today because of spying on people, and I was
tested by them, recruited by them --
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean you were recruited by them?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, while I was a senior in business school at Boston
University, they came to me and suggested that I take their test. I had
connections through my wife with people in the agency, and they put me
through a series of tests, personality tests, lie detector, several
days, and concluded that I would make a good economic hit man, and they
also discovered a number of weaknesses in my character, which they
could use then to hook me into the business, and then I ended up
working for a private corporation.
AMY GOODMAN: Why didn't you work for the N.S.A.?
JOHN PERKINS: Because these days it's not done that way. Nobody wants
to be able to connect the dots. So the N.S.A., the C.I.A., these types
of organizations often recruit economic hit men and the jackals, the
assassins, the 007 types, but they will recruit us, maybe train us, and
then turn us over to a private corporation, so that you really can't
make the connection, so that if I were caught at what I was doing in
one of these countries, it would not reflect on our government; it
would only reflect on the corporation that I worked for.
AMY GOODMAN: And who did you work for?
JOHN PERKINS: I worked for a company called Charles T. Main, a big
consulting firm out of Boston.
AMY GOODMAN: And your job?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I started off as economist, became chief
economist, and my job really – I had a staff of several dozen people.
My job was to get them, and for me to convince these countries to
accept these very large loans, to get the banks to make the loans, to
set up the deal so that the money went to big U.S. corporations. The
country was left holding a huge debt, and then I would go in or one of
my people would go in and say, “Look, you know, you owe us all this
money. You can't pay your debts. Give us that pound of flesh.”
The other thing we do, Amy, and what's going on right now in Latin
America is that as soon as one of these anti-American presidents is
elected, such as Evo Morales, who you mentioned, in Bolivia, one of us
goes in and says, “Hey, congratulations, Mr. President. Now that you're
president, I just want to tell you that I can make you very, very rich,
you and your family. We have several hundred million dollars in this
pocket if you play the game our way. If you decide not to, over in this
pocket, I've got a gun with a bullet with your name on it, in case you
decide to keep your campaign promises and throw us out.”
AMY GOODMAN: Well, explain actually how that plays out, because it's
not really in this pocket and that.
JOHN PERKINS: No, it’s – what I'm saying is that, you know, I can make
sure that this man makes a great deal of money, he and his family,
through contracts, through various quasi-legal means, and I can also –
if he doesn't accept this, you know, the same thing is going to happen
to him that happened to Jaime Roldos in Ecuador and Omar Torrijos in
Panama and Allende in Chile, and we tried to do it to Chavez in
Venezuela and are still trying – that we will send in the people to try
to overthrow him, as, in fact, we recently did with the President of
Ecuador, or if we don't overthrow him, we'll assassinate him. And these
people all know the history. They know that this has happened many,
many, many times in the past.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain what happened to Torrijos, for example, in
Panama, and what did you have to do with it?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, this was back in the ‘70s, and Torrijos was making
a lot of world headlines, because he was demanding that the Panama
Canal be turned back over to Panamanians. I was sent down to Panama to
bring him around, to convince him that he needed to play the game our
way. And he invited me to a little bungalow outside of Panama City, and
he said, “Look, you know, I know the game, and if I play it your way,
I'll become very rich, but that's not important to me. What is
important is that I help my poor people.” Now, Torrijos wasn't an
angel, but he was very committed to his poor people. So he said, “You
can either play the game my way, or you can leave this country.”
And I talked to my bosses, and we all decided I should stay. Maybe I
could bring him around. In the meantime, we could make some money, and
so I stayed. But I knew the whole world was watching Torrijos because
of this Panama Canal issue and that if he didn't come around, the
jackals would be likely to come in. [inaudible] A man like Torrijos
[inaudible] not only would we lose Panama, but he would set an example
that others might follow. So I was very concerned. I liked Torrijos,
and one of the reasons I wanted to bring him around was not just
because it was my job, but because I wanted to see him survive, and
because he didn't come around, sure enough, he was assassinated.
AMY GOODMAN: How?
JOHN PERKINS: Fiery airplane crash, and afterwards, there was no
question that – he had been handed a tape recorder as he got on the
plane that had a bomb in it.
AMY GOODMAN: How do you know this?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I know the people that did the investigation
afterwards, and this is pretty well-documented in many places also, but
I, personally, was aware of what went on, and, of course, you know, our
official line here was that, of course, that wasn't what happened. The
plane simply blew up and hit a mountain. But there was no question, and
in fact we were expecting this to happen.
Three months before this, another president, Jaime Roldos of Ecuador,
who I also was involved in trying to bring around, he very strongly
opposed our oil companies. Not “oppose,” isn't the right word. What he
said is, “Oil from Ecuador has to serve the interest of the Ecuadorian
people. Therefore, the oil companies are going to have to pay a lot
greater share to the Ecuadorian people or we're going to nationalize
them.” And he’d run on a very, very strong anti-American campaign, and
we knew that if he didn't change his ways, that something would happen
to him. We were in his office making the same promises. You know, here
we’ve got a couple of million dollars for you. Here we’ve got a bullet
for you, basically. It’s done a lot more subtly than that, but that's
the short version. And three months before Torrijos, his airplane also
exploded.
AMY GOODMAN: And what did the investigation reveal in that case?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, if you're talking about F.B.I. investigations, it
revealed that there was an airplane that exploded in both cases. If
you’re talking about local investigations and investigations that were
done by many international journalists, there were explosives on those
planes, both of them. And, you know, it's relatively easy to get to
assassinate one of these presidents who has a security force that's
well armed, that surrounds him all the time, and in the case of both
Roldos and Torrijos, those security forces had been trained primarily
at the School of the Americas, a U.S. training camp for South American
armies. It’s well known that when --
AMY GOODMAN: Which used to be in Panama, actually?
JOHN PERKINS: Used to be in Panama, right, and it's well known that
people that are trained this way stay pretty loyal to their trainers.
And they didn't make a lot of money, and so if one of their trainers
went back and said, “Hey, would you mind handing this tape recorder to
Jaime Roldos?” And the security guy may very well know that there's a
bomb in it, and I'm going to pay you several hundred thousand dollars
or maybe in this case it's only $100,000, because these guys were not
very well paid, or, “simply look the other way while we plant something
on the plane.”
That's an easy thing to do, and incidentally, we also tried to do that
to Saddam Hussein. When he didn't come around, the economic hit men
tried to bring him around. We tried to assassinate him. But that was an
interesting point, because he had pretty loyal security forces, and in
addition he had a lot of look-alike doubles, and what you don't want to
be is a bodyguard to a look-alike double and you think it's the
president and you accept a lot of money to assassinate him and you
assassinate the look-alike, because if you do that, afterwards your
life and your family's isn't worth very much, so we were unable to get
through to Saddam Hussein, and that’s why we sent the military in.
AMY GOODMAN: Although Saddam Hussein was in the pocket of the U.S. for
many, many years.
JOHN PERKINS: He was and – but we wanted that final deal, similar to
the one we’d struck with Saudi Arabia. We wanted to get Saddam Hussein
to really tie in to our system, and he refused to do that. He accepted
our fighter jets and our tanks and our chemical plants that he used to
produce chemical weapons that we knew were being used against the Kurds
and the Iranians. He accepted all that, but he wouldn’t quite tie into
our system in such a big way that he would bring in the huge
development organizations to rebuild his country, as the Saudis did, in
a Western image. And that's what we were trying to convince him to do
and also to guarantee that he would always trade oil for U.S. dollars,
instead of Euros, and that he would keep the price of oil within limits
acceptable to us. He would not go along with those things. If he had,
he would still be president, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: As a consultant, you did work in Saudi Arabia, John
Perkins?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, yes, in fact I put -- I was one of the ones
responsible for putting together the main deal there in the early ‘70s.
As you may recall, Amy, OPEC decided that they were going to clamp down
on us, shut off our oil supplies. They didn't like our policies towards
Israel, and so in the early ‘70s, the supply of oil was cut way back in
this country. We had long lines of cars at the gas stations, and we
were afraid we were going to go to another depression like the one that
started in 1929, so the Treasury Department came to me and some other
economic hit men and said, “Look, this is unacceptable.” And I give all
the details of this in the book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
but the short version is, they said, “Make sure that this doesn't
happen again,” and we knew that the key to stopping this sort of thing
was Saudi Arabia, because it controlled more oil than anyone else and
the Royal House of Saud was corruptible.
So again, the short version is we put together a deal whereby the
House of Saud agreed to send almost all of the money it made from
selling oil all over the world back to the U.S., invest it in U.S.
government securities, the interest from those securities was used by
the Treasury Department to hire U.S. companies to rebuild Saudi Arabia,
power plants, desalinization plants, in fact, entire cities from the
desert, and in the process, to westernize Saudi Arabia, to make it more
like us. And the other part of the deal was the House of Saud agreed to
keep the price of oil within limits acceptable to us, and we agreed to
keep the House of Saud in power, and that deal still holds. It's been
holding for a long time. There's a lot of blowback right now that's
occurring around it, but from our standpoint as economic hit men, it
was an extremely successful deal, and it’s the one we tried to
replicate with Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man. We’ll continue with our conversation in a minute.
[break]
AMY GOODMAN: We return to our interview with John Perkins, author of
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. I asked him if he was the first
person to coin the term “economic hit man.”
JOHN PERKINS: I think I may have been the first to use it in print,
but we used it back in the ‘70s. We called ourselves -- and it was sort
of a tongue-in-cheek term. Officially, I was chief economist, but we
used that sort of tongue-in-cheek, because it described was we did.
Since the book came out on hardback – yes, and there’s a new epilogue
in the paperback, which covers a lot of the new material -- a lot of
people have stepped out of the shadows and approached me and talked to
me, high people in governments and other economic hit men and jackals
and wanted to share their story. A lot of them want to do it
anonymously, which is a little tricky for a writer these days, as you
know, but it's been fascinating to me how many have stepped out.
I also have seen, Amy, I think, a tremendous change in attitude around
the world. We're seeing people really rebelling and saying, you know,
we understand what's going on. And to be honest with you, I attribute a
great deal of that to your show and other shows like it. You're
reaching people. The internet, for example, is working wonders. And
there’s a lot of books, there’s a lot of movies like Syriana and Hotel
Rwanda and Good Night, and Good Luck and so on and so forth. So, the
information is getting out. And I think once Americans understand what
we're doing in the world and how much hatred this is generating, we
will demand change. And I think history has proven that when we demand
change in any area, eventually -- it takes a little time -- but we do
get it. So I’m very hopeful.
AMY GOODMAN: And these people who have come forward, are they active
today?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, yes, very much so. One of them – you know, there
was a president elected, the President of Ecuador, Gutierrez, a few
years ago and he ran on a very, very strong anti-U.S. ticket. And he
said that if he was elected, he would make sure that the people of
Ecuador get the fair proceeds from Ecuadorian oil. As soon as he was
elected, he was visited by an economic hit man, whom I know personally,
and read the Riot Act, told the things we mentioned earlier, you know,
“I’ve got money for you or a bullet.”
Within a month, he came to Washington. There was a famous picture
shown all over Ecuador of him sitting, holding hands with George Bush.
And very soon after that, he went against everything in his campaign
promises. He cut sweet deals with the oil companies. He went back on
the indigenous peoples, whose lands in the Amazon area he had promised
to protect. And the Ecuadorian people went wild. They took to the
streets. They protested and demonstrated and eventually threw him out
of power.
So this particular one backfired. But what -- the economic hit man did
his job right. Gutierrez came around, and then the Ecuadorian people
understood what was going on. I have good friends in Ecuador who called
me shortly after that and said, “You know, when we elect someone
democratically to do something and he doesn't do it, democracy requires
that we throw him out. Why don't you the same thing in your country?”
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, what about Evo Morales? You talk about
Gutierrez.
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, I spent a lot of time in Bolivia. In fact, at one
time, I was offered the job as president of Bolivian Power Company,
which is the second most important job in Bolivia, actually, behind the
President. And Bolivia has this – and it was an American-owned company,
incidentally. Bolivia has this long record of giving into the I.M.F.
and the World Bank, privatizing their resources, like their power
company and their water company. And the people of Bolivia were fed up
with this. They had been exploited and exploited and exploited. And so
Evo Morales ran on this ticket that said, “I’m not going to put up with
this anymore.” And, of course, he's getting a bad name in the U.S.,
because we want to portray him as a cocaine-raising farmer who's all in
favor of Castro and socialism and communism and cocaine. The fact is he
did raise coca. He was a coca farmer. Coca's a very legitimate product
in Bolivia that is not just used for cocaine. It's used for many other
things.
AMY GOODMAN: Like?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, for example, high altitude sickness. Coca tea is
perfectly legal in this country, too, and it's very effective against
high altitude sickness, and derivatives of coca are used for many
medicines. They're very effective. But the reason he was elected had
nothing to do with any of that. It simply has to do with the extreme
frustration and anger of the Bolivian people, of how they've been
exploited and how the I.M.F. and the World Bank have insisted that they
turn their resources over to foreign corporations. And also, you know,
part of the World Trade Organization policies is that we insist that
countries like Bolivia not subsidize their local industries and
products, but that they accept our subsidies of them, and that they not
erect any barriers against our goods coming in there, but they accept
the barriers that we erect against their goods. And people around the
world, Amy, are getting fed up with this. 300 million Latin Americans
-- South Americans out of 360 million, over 80% have voted for these
types of candidates.
AMY GOODMAN: Not to be ethnocentric about it, but America is a
tremendous power, especially military power. It has been diverted now
to dealing with Iraq. President Bush declaring war on Iraq, not exactly
officially declaring it, but engaging in it. Do you think that that has
something to do with what is happening in Latin America, not to take
power away from the people and what they are doing there?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, certainly, I think that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
might not have survived his presidency. His presidency might not have
survived had we not been in Iraq and Afghanistan, that we were so
diverted. We -- the economic hit men tried to overthrow him, you know,
a few years ago and were successful for about 48 hours. But then he had
control over the oil company, and he was very, very popular. So he got
back into office. At that point, had we not been involved in Iraq, I
strongly suspect that we would have done something much more
aggressive, as we've done so many other times. When the economic hit
men fail, we take more drastic steps. Because we were so involved in
Iraq, we didn't do that.
This gave great support to all of the other movements in Latin
America. And these other candidates, people like Evo Morales, really
looked to Hugo Chavez as an example of someone who’s had the staying
power. He’s been able to stay there, despite the fact that the
administration has spoken so strongly against him and is so angry.
The other side of the coin is that Brazil is a world power. It's one
of the largest economies in the world, and it produces a tremendous
number of military weapons that are used worldwide. And Lula, of
Brazil, he’s backed off a bit. And there’s an interesting story that I
know behind that.
AMY GOODMAN: What?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I'll get into that. But he's backed off a bit. But
he still – he’s made alliances with Chavez, with Kirchner of Argentina,
with Morales of Bolivia. They’ve all agreed that if the United States
does anything drastic, they'll stand together and oppose us. So there
is this coalition that's happening. It's quite loose. But nonetheless,
there's a tremendous amount of support there.
AMY GOODMAN: Lula, what do you know?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I was one of the speakers at the World Social
Forum in Brazil in last February, and a man asked to meet with me who
was a very high advisor to Lula. And he said, “You know, what you say
in your book is all very true, but you just -- that's just the tip of
the iceberg.” He said, “You know, from the time I was a very young man,
I was quite radical. And it was interesting to me, as I was going
through university, how much sex, drugs, booze were available to me in
the parties that I was invited to, and so on. And now that I’m in this
position of power, I discover that somebody was taking pictures of all
those things, that there's a record of this.”
And he says, “You don't realize how all-pervasive your Secret Services
are. It's recruiting, in their own way, young people, even those that
are extreme socialists and communists. Your people befriend us from
very early ages and get a lot of information on us. So when we become
high up in the government, they basically –” And I said, “They
blackmail you?” And he said, “Well, you could use the word ‘blackmail,’
but I think I would prefer that’s ‘modern U.S. diplomacy.’”
And I asked him, I said, “Well, is Lula a part of this?” And he
obviously didn't really want to answer this question. He hesitated, and
he said, “Let me just say that nobody gets to power in Brazil these
days without being very willing to make compromises to your
corporations and your government.” He said, “I think Lula’s a very,
very good man, but he also has to deal with reality. And certainly,
he's been watched all of his life, and I’m sure he's had the same
temptations I did.”
AMY GOODMAN: And he’s also engulfed in a major corruption scandal,
which, for many of his long-time supporters, Brazilians and outside,
are raising a lot of questions.
JOHN PERKINS: And I think the fact that the scandal has come out and
has been blown into such proportions is an indication that someone is
sending Lula a very strong message. Incidentally, the jackal – I’ll
call him – that was working with Gutierrez of Ecuador said to me, “You
know, this isn’t limited to other countries. This happens in your
country, too. Don't you think that the assassination of John Kennedy
and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and John Lennon and others
like that, and the many senators that have died in airplane crashes and
other things, has sent a strong message to your politicians? And don't
you think that –”
AMY GOODMAN: Who said this to you?
JOHN PERKINS: The same economic hit man/jackal who visited Gutierrez
and read him the Riot Act.
AMY GOODMAN: Would you care to share his name?
JOHN PERKINS: No. I'll let him do that at some point, if he feels it's
appropriate. Right now, he doesn’t feel it’s appropriate. He's still in
the business. And so, many of these people are still very -- even the
ones that have retired are getting pensions, and they’ve got loyalties,
some of them. So, they’ll talk to me on the side and say, “I want you
to put this in your book, but I’m not ready to talk.” A couple of them
I am working with to write a book, and my literary agent is working
with them. So hopefully some of them will come clean. But it's a slow
process in making that happen.
AMY GOODMAN: And these people you know, who you call economic hit men,
who are the first to move in to these men who gain power, where does --
what do you know about Evo Morales now? He's just been elected
President?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I have no doubt that he has been visited by at
least one of these men, who's known him beforehand. These are not
strangers that walk in. They’ve been hanging around Bolivia for a
while, as I did. And so, once the President is elected, they walk into
his office and shake his hands and say, “Congratulations, Mr.
President. You won. We launched a strong campaign against you, but now
you've won. And now, I want to tell you the facts of life and make you
--”
AMY GOODMAN: And you know someone who has talked to him in this way?
JOHN PERKINS: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: And what was -- according to you, what was President
Morales's response?
JOHN PERKINS: Morales was very diplomatic about the whole thing, but
absolutely stood firm and said, “You know, my people have elected me
for a reason, and I intend to honor that.” This is what his initial
response was. But what I will say is we can't imagine the pressure now
that’s being exerted on a man like Morales, as is true with all these
other presidents. They know what's happened before their time. And they
– you know, the pressure will be put on them tighter and tighter and
tighter.
And imagine being in that position. Imagine being an integritous
person and really wanting to help your country, being elected with a
majority – Morales got 54% of the vote, which is unheard of in Bolivia;
he was up against many opponents -- and then, wanting to implement the
policy, and somebody walks into your office and reminds you of what
happened to all these other presidents.
And perhaps the most scary one was Noriega, who did not get
assassinated. He wasn't a martyr. Instead, he had to stand by and watch
several thousand innocent Panamanian civilians bombed, slaughtered,
burned to death. And then he was dragged off to a U.S. prison, where he
has been pretty much in solitary confinement every since. Imagine
thinking that might happen to you.
And so, Evo Morales, the story has just begun for him. I sympathize
with him very deeply. And I think from our standpoint, Amy, as American
citizens -- and I look at myself as an extremely loyal American
citizen. I believe in the principles of this country, which I think
that in the past few decades, increasingly, we've put them way in the
back burner. But as good Americans, we need to insist that our
government and our corporations honor democracy.
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man.
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Date: February 13, 2006 7:22:17 PM EST
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Subject: Freedom of [deleted]
Thanks to Brian Bogart for this article and a comment.
Brian is the founder of the organization Strike for Peace.
www.strikeforpeace.org/brian_bogart.htm
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From: Brian Bogart
Date: 02/11/06 17:44:07
To: IntelligentFutureUO@smtp.uoregon.edu;
IntelligentFuture1@smtp.uoregon
edu; IntelligentFuture2@smtp.uoregon.edu
Subject: Freedom of [deleted]
One of the most prominent figures in neoconservatism, Frank
Gaffney, has released a new book, War Footing, which along with nine
other
recommendations urges the adoption of a National Neighborhood Muslim
Watch
program. For the sake of convenience, the next obvious step would
require
Muslims to wear identifying badges on their outer garments.
Anniversary rallies, round-number-casualty protests, conferences on the
myriad impact of militarism, all have achieved little since the days of
Dr.
King when the root cause of global economic injustice -- the US arms
industry -- was the movement's visibly undeniable focus. Thankfully,
documents today clearly show a Cold War entirely manufactured in the
wake of
World War II and subsequently maintained to serve the industrialists of
war.
Because of these documents, from retired directors of CIA and others,
the
more Americans confront the reality of diminishing resources, the more
we
will look back on this 60-year era as an Enron bubble (if we survive
it) --
a crime built to feed on human misery, perpetrated and perpetuated by
public
servants.
Intended as a cure for such despotism, the Declaration of Independence
condemned the “long train of abuses” at the hands of Britain’s King
George.
It repeatedly states that the power to govern derives from the consent
of
the governed -- from democracy -- and that it is our right and duty to
alter
or abolish any government that becomes destructive of our future
security.
With all due urgency, we must ask: what was the result of the
Declaration,
to break from one land of tyranny to build another?
“The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the
American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find
ourselves organizing committees for the next generation. We will be
marching and attending rallies without end unless there is a
significant and
profound change in American life and policy.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intimidated, hopeless, or happily addressing pet symptoms, I truly
wonder if
the majority of "progressives" care about a unifying root cause. Power
takes strides while we stand with candles and call it progress.
BB
Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war in schools
Carlos Miller, RAW STORY
February 9, 2006
Just over three years ago, as the nation readied for war with Iraq,
elementary school teacher Deb Mayer stood in front of her class and
uttered
the word that would get her blacklisted from her profession.
It was a word that got her deemed "unpatriotic" by an angry parent. A
word
that led to her termination from the Bloomington, Indiana school
district. A
word that got her labeled as a potential sex offender and ruined her
chances
of finding work elsewhere.
That word was "peace."
Today, after spending more than $50,000 in legal fees in a lawsuit
against
the Monroe County Community School Corporation, Mayer awaits a decision
from
a Reagan-appointed federal judge as to whether or not she will be
granted a
jury trial.
"If Judge [Sarah E.] Barker doesn’t grant us a jury trial, it would
really
be criminal," Mayer said from her son’s home in Wisconsin, where she was
forced to live after finding herself unable to support herself. "It
means I
would have spent all this money for nothing."
Mayer is one of at least three teachers in the country who have filed
lawsuits against their employers since the beginning of the war,
claiming
their First Amendment rights were violated after they were fired for
what
they said was an opposition to the war.
So far, one case has been settled out of court in favor of the teacher.
In
2004, former New Mexico high school teacher Bill Nevins received a
$205,000
settlement from the Rio Rancho School District. A year earlier, one of
his
students recited a poem over the school’s intercom system that
questioned
the war in Iraq. Nevins, a 10th-grade Humanities teacher, was also the
coach
of the Rio Rancho High School poetry team. His contract was terminated
within months of the incident.
Professor says he was denied tenure for body count
In November 2005, Alan Temes, an assistant professor at Indiana
University
of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the college after he failed to
get
tenure. Temes said he would post the body count of US soldiers and Iraqi
civilians next to a bulletin board filled with pro-military imagery,
which
included a photo of Saddam Hussein next to a poster of the World Trade
Center in New York.
In the lawsuit, Temes claims he was warned by the department chair that
he
would not get tenure if he continued posting the body count next to the
pro-war bulletin board. His last day at the college is in May and he’s
been
looking for work for several months with no luck. He has no regrets
about
what he did.
"If you’re going to push the war, at least be aware that the count of
Iraqi
civilians is growing at a phenomenal rate," Temes said. "I figured the
American people need to know the facts. I didn’t think the mainstream
press
was doing enough of a job."
In Mayer’s case, she says it was an article in Time Magazine for Kids
that
lead to her termination. In January 2003, she was teaching a Current
Events
class to fourth, fifth and sixth graders at Clear Creek Elementary
School.
They had been discussing the articles in the magazine, which dedicated
an
issue to the situation in Iraq. One student asked Mayer if she had ever
participated in a peace march.
"I said that peace marches are going on all over the country and that
whenever I pass the courthouse square where the demonstrators were, I
honk
for peace because they hold up signs that say honk for peace."
That night, a sixth-grade student girl told her parents that Mayer was
encouraging them to protest against the war, igniting a furor that Mayer
said she'd never before experienced in her 20-year teaching career.
Three days later, the girl’s father showed up to the school for a
meeting
with Mayer and principal Victoria Rogers. Mayer explained that she had
simply explained to the children that there are two sides to the story.
When
the father asked if she had any children in the military, she told him
her
son had recently enlisted. But that only seemed to antagonize him even
further.
"He kept getting angrier and angrier," she said. "He stood up and
started
pointing his finger in my face. I felt very threatened."
The father turned to Rogers with a request.
"I want her to promise never to mention the word peace in her class
again,"
Mayer remembered him saying.
Rogers assured him that could be done, and Mayer reluctantly agreed
never to
mention the word "peace" in her class again.
"I wanted to calm the parent down," she said. "I didn’t want to be
insubordinate."
Later that afternoon in a faculty meeting, Rogers circulated a memo
announcing the cancellation of "Peace Month," a traditional month-long
series of activities beginning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that taught
children how to settle differences through mediation.
"She said that we can talk about war, but not about peace," Mayer said.
That for now on, nobody is allowed to have a stance on the war."
Rogers, who declined to go into specifics about Mayer’s case, said that
Peace Month was never cancelled but that it "died a natural death."
"We felt we were working on it all year round," said Rogers, who has
since
retired as principal of the school. "We were already working on life
skills
throughout the year so it became incorporated into what we were doing
every
day."
But Peace Month was scheduled to begin less than two weeks before she
sent
out the original memo on Jan. 13, 2003 announcing the cancellation of
the
five-year tradition. Over the next few months, as President Bush
declared
Mission Accomplished and the country became increasingly divided, the
angry
father rallied other parents against the teacher.
Complaint filed on sexual harrassment form
At least two parent complaints against Mayer were typed up on Title IX
Sexual Discrimination and Harassment grievance documents and placed in
her
personnel file.
"There was no substance to it," Mayer said. "This complaint was very
mysterious. I never saw it until I was disposed (in September 2005)."
That likely explains why she had been unable to find work since losing
her
teaching job on the Gulf Coast of Florida in 2005, where she had been
hired
as a teacher in Boca Grande, an upscale community and long-time retreat
for
the Bush family.
Mayer, who is certified to be an administrator, applied to be a
principal
when a position came open within the Boca Grande school district. But
when
they checked on her references, the sexual harassment complaint came to
light.
"I did not get the principal’s job. I got fired again," she said.
Even though it was typed on an official sexual harassment document, the
actual complaint against Mayer accused her of "harassing" children
because
she would put up her hand to silence a child if the child had
interrupted a
conversation between herself and another student.
"The parent had signed it, but nobody on the school administration has
signed it," she said. "When we tried to find out who did it, nobody
admitted
to it."
She then found another complaint against her on the same sexual
harassment
form, this one accusing her of announcing to the class about a student’s
medication. Mayer denies the allegation.
When Mayer’s attorney looked into why the complaints were typed up on
Title
IX forms, they told him they had been writing all complaints against
teachers on the federal forms for a decade.
Mayer contacted the ACLU about her case three years ago, but was told to
hire an attorney if she could afford it.
"At the time I could afford it, but now I’m out of money," she said. And
when Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut heard of her case, he contacted the
Indiana chapter of the ACLU on her behalf, but they refused to
intervene. If
anything, history is on her side. Not only did the teacher in New Mexico
receive a $205,000 settlement in 2004, but a Wisconsin teacher had a
similar
victory in 1991.
During the first war in Iraq, high school teacher and wrestling coach
Jim
Low, opposed plans for a ceremony supporting the war in Iraq to be held
before a wrestling match. When the ceremony continued as planned, Low
walked
out of the building, delegating his coaching duties to an assistant.
When
his contract was terminated two months later, Low sued the Lakeland
Union
High School District in Minocqua, claiming his First Amendment free
speech
rights had been violated. He subsequently received a settlement of
$140,000
from the northern Wisconsin school district.
If Judge Barker grants Mayer a trial by jury, it would begin on Mar. 6.
Usually they give you at least a month’s notice as a courtesy, but
February
6th already passed and I haven’t heard anything," she said. "So I’m
still
waiting to hear from her."
Mayer said her case is such a clear cut example of a First Amendment
violation that she can not comprehend why it has not already been
settled.
At first, the contention of the school was that my speech wasn’t
protected
because the war in Iraq wasn’t a matter of public concern," she said.
"Then
they changed their contention and said that my speech wasn’t protected
because the classroom wasn’t a public forum."
She believes small-town politics may play a role. The teacher’s union
refused to help her; Mayer notes that the principal comes from an "old
family" and that she was married to the former president of the union.
But others have kept her spirits up. Mayer says Howard Dean, whom she
had
volunteered for in 2004, has taken an interest in her case and checks
up on
it periodically. And the local Air America affiliate in Wisconsin has
set up
a legal fund to help Mayer raise money for her court battle.
"If the judge rules against me, she will be saying that a teacher
doesn’t
have a right to free speech at school," Mayer said. "If the classroom
is not
a public forum, then a teacher has no right to free speech."
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Freed US journalist 'manipulated'
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Last Updated: Sunday, 2 April 2006, 01:11 GMT 02:11 UK
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The US journalist released after being held hostage in Iraq for three
months has distanced herself from comments published straight after her
release.
Jill Carroll said she was forced to make a "propaganda video" on her
last night in captivity.
Speaking at a US base in Germany, Ms Carroll also said she did not
speak freely in an Iraqi TV interview, which she was told would never
be broadcast.
She called her captors "criminals, at best" saying she was often
threatened.
In a statement read to the media by the editor of the Christian
Science Monitor, the US newspaper she reported for before her capture,
Ms Carroll said she no longer stood by remarks she made on her release.
"During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to
participate in a propaganda video.
"They told me I would be released if I co-operated. I was living in a
threatening environment, under their control, and wanted to go home
alive. So I agreed."
'Fear of Retribution'
Ms Carroll was kidnapped and her translator was killed in west Baghdad
on 7 January.
She was freed on 30 March and was dropped off at the offices of the
Iraqi Islamic Party.
In her statement on Saturday she accused the group of breaking an
agreement not to broadcast an interview recorded after her release.
"The party had promised me the interview would never be aired on
television, and broke their word," she said.
"At any rate, fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak
freely. Out of fear I said I wasn't threatened. In fact, I was
threatened many times."
In the interview, Ms Carroll, 28, had said her captors treated her
"very well" and did not hit her.
In Germany, however, the freelance reporter was much more direct.
"The people who kidnapped me and murdered Alan Enwiya are criminals,
at best," the statement read.
"They robbed Alan of his life and devastated his family. They put me,
my family and my friends - and all those around the world, who have
prayed so fervently for my release - through a horrific experience.
"I was, and remain, deeply angry with the people who did this."
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