March 26, 2007

9/11 and the Evidence

By Paul Craig Roberts

Professor David Ray Griffin is the nemesis of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In his latest book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, Griffin destroys the credibility of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Popular Mechanics reports, annihilates his critics, and proves himself to be a better scientist and engineer than the defenders of the official story.

Griffin's book is 385 pages divided into four chapters and containing 1,209 footnotes. Without question, the book is the most thorough presentation and examination of all known facts about the 9/11 attacks. Griffin is a person who is sensitive to evidence, logic, and scientific reasoning. There is no counterpart on the official side of the story who is as fully informed on all aspects of the attacks as Griffin.

At the outset, Griffin points out that the reader's choice is between two conspiracy theories: One is that Muslim fanatics, who were not qualified to fly airplanes, defeated the security apparatus of the US and succeeded in three out of four attacks using passenger jets as weapons. The other is that security failed across the board, not merely partially but totally, because of complicity of some part of the US government.

Griffin points out that there has been no independent investigation of 9/11. What we have are a report by a political commission headed by Bush administration factotum Philip Zelikow, a NIST report produced by the Bush administration's Department of Commerce, and a journalistic account produced by Popular Mechanics. Various scientists who work for the federal government or are dependent on government grants have issued speculative statements in behalf of the official conspiracy theory, but have not produced meaningful evidence in its behalf.

The relevant skeptics of the official story are approximately 100 independent researchers consisting of experts and professors whose careers have required them to deal with evidence and its analysis. Their individual contributions to 9/11 analysis can be found online.

Griffin has undertaken to absorb the arguments and evidence for the official account and the arguments and evidence against it. In his latest book, which has just been released, he presents the case for the official account and its evidential failure.

Polls show that 36% of Americans do not believe the official story. Setting aside the 25% of the public that is so uninformed or uninvolved as to believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attack, leaves 39% of the public who believe the official story. However, this 39% is essentially relying on the mainstream media's endorsement of the official story. Griffin believes, perhaps naively, that truth can prevail, and it is his commitment to truth that has motivated him to shoulder the enormous task.

Everyone who believes in the integrity of the US government or the Bush administration will find Griffin's book to be disturbing. Readers will have to confront such issues as why US authorities seized the forensic evidence resulting from the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings, the attack on the Pentagon and the crashed airliner in Pennsylvania and prevented any forensic examination of any part of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite widespread belief that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attack, the evidence we have is a suspect video declared to be "bogus" by Bruce Lawrence, perhaps the leading American expert on bin Laden. The US government has never produced the promised report on bin Laden's responsibility. When the Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden on presentation of evidence, the US government had no evidence to deliver; thus the invasion of Afghanistan.

The fragility of the NIST report is astonishing. The report succeeded because people accepted its assurances without examination.

Griffin shows that the Popular Mechanics report consists of special pleading, circular reasoning, appeals to the authority of the NIST report, straw men, and internal contradictions in the report itself.

There is not space in a review to present the evidence Griffin has mustered. A few highlights should suffice to alert readers to the possibility that the Bush administration has lied about more than Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

The two WTC towers did not collapse. They blew up and disintegrated, as did WTC 7. There is an enormous energy deficit in every account that rules out the use of explosives. Gravitational energy is insufficient to explain the pulverization of the buildings and contents and the severing of the 47 massive center core steel columns in each of the towers into convenient lengths to be picked up and loaded onto trucks; much less can gravitational energy account for the pulverization of the top floors of the towers and ejection of steel beams hundreds of feet horizontally just prior to the disintegration of the floors below.

Damage caused by airliners and short-lived limited fires cannot explain the disintegration of the buildings. The massive steel skeletons of the towers comprised a gigantic heat sink that wicked away whatever heat the limited fires produced.

NIST's final report stated that of the steel available to it for examination, "only three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250 degrees Celsius" (482 degrees Fahrenheit). The self-cleaning ovens in our home kitchens reach temperatures higher than this, and the ovens do not melt or deform.

Steel begins to melt at 1,500 degrees C or 2,800 degrees F. Temperatures of 250 degrees C would have no effect on the strength of steel. The explanation that the buildings collapsed because fire weakened the steel is speculative. Open air fires do not produce temperatures sufficient to deprive steel of its structural integrity. Steel framed buildings have burned 22 hours in raging infernos, and the steel skeletons remained standing. The WTC fires in the towers lasted about one hour and were limited to a few floors. Moreover, it is impossible for fire to account for the sudden, total and symmetrical disintegration of powerfully constructed buildings, much less at free fall speeds that are obtainable only with controlled demolition.

Griffin provides quotes from firefighters, police, and tenants, who heard and experienced a series of explosions prior to the disintegration of the towers. Such witness testimony is generally ignored by defenders of the official conspiracy theory.

Molten steel was found in underground levels of the WTC buildings weeks after the buildings' destruction. As everyone agrees that the fires did not approach the melting point of steel, a possible explanation is high explosives used in demolitions that produce 5,000 degree temperatures. The possibility that explosives were used remains unexamined except by independent researchers.

Contradictions in the official conspiracy theory leap off the pages and hit the reader in the face. For example, the evidence that Flight 77, a Boeing 757, crashed into the Pentagon is the government's claim to have obtained from the wreckage enough bodies and body parts to match the DNA for each person on the passenger list and flight crew. Simultaneously, the absence of passenger luggage, fuselage, wing and tail sections--indeed the absence of a 100,000 pound airliner--is attributed to the vaporization of the airplane due to the high speed crash and intense fire. The incompatibility of vaporized metal but recovered flesh and blood stood unnoticed until Griffin pointed it out.

Another striking inconsistency in the official conspiracy theory is the difference in the impact of airliners on the Pentagon and the WTC towers. In the case of the Pentagon, the emphasis is on why the airliner caused so little damage to the building. In the case of the WTC towers, the emphasis is why the airliners caused so much damage.

Perhaps it is merely a coincidence that just prior to 9/11 Cathleen P. Black, who has family connections to the CIA and Pentagon and is president of Hearst Magazines, the owner of Popular Mechanics, fired the magazine's editor-in-chief and several senior veteran staff members and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff, a cousin of Bush administration factotum Michael Chertoff. It was Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff who produced the Popular Mechanics report that Griffin has eviscerated.

In his conclusion Griffin reminds us that the 9/11 attack has been used to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to plan an attack on Iran, to curtail constitutional protections and civil liberties in the US, to radically expand US military budgets and the power of the executive, and to enrich entrenched vested interests. Griffin is definitely correct about this regardless of whether a believable case can ever be made for the government's version of the 9/11 conspiracy.

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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow's Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.

Possible GOP nominee for president-- Fred Thompson: Neocon Globalist

Meet Mr. "Law and [New World] Order"...

Yes, they are going to front another Hollywood actor since that is what George W. Bush lacks most! He has been a very poor liar, yet the country still bought what he was selling with his folksy Texas talk during campaigning and his fake Christian posturing. This guy, like Ronald Reagan, could also be another Great Deceiver (yes Reagan talked state's rights and limited government until the Bush-Hinckley attempt turned him around to the "secret government's" way; he was the avenue for GHWB to gain ascendancy recall) for he knows how to act a part very, very well. Stupid, gullible, unconstitutional conservatives will buy this guy hook, line, and sinker--for image (not reality or substance) in media-brainwashed America that can make "American Idols" is everything--unless they are awakened to the dangers of neoconservatism and their revolutionary government. This shows who "owns" him.

It is worth noting as well that republican Congressman Ron Paul (Tx)--who has formed an exploratory committee and been interviewed by CNN and CSPAN--is not listed in the Daily Mail's online survey of republican presidential possibilities. Yet, Thompson makes their list and leads the poll, while many (by name alone) do not know who he is--a candidate that has not even formed a committee! This shows media bias or control in your "free election" choices already. [See links at top of the Holler for info on Ron Paul].

GOP nomination for president

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/harrington032107.htm

Fred Thompson: Neocon Globalist

By Basil Harrington,

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

For the past few days, movement "conservatives" and GOP cheerleaders have been ecstatic that Fred Thompson, former Senator from Tennessee, may form an exploratory committee to seek the GOP nomination for president. "Now we'll have a conservative in there," said one person, who, I assume, has no idea what a real conservative is.

There already are two fine conservative candidates seeking the nomination: Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo. And Fred Thompson does not even come close measuring up to them.

Fred Thompson is a neocon globalist.

First and foremost, let's look at immigration. A third-world invasion of the USA is taking place, and it is up to patriots to stop it. As Jean Raspail taught us in Camp of the Saints, "the greatest conservative novel ever written," we can fight back and reverse the invasion, or we can watch the West be destroyed.

Although Fred Thompson is tougher than McCain and Giuliani on border enforcement, which isn't saying much seeing how they line up with Barack Obama, he had a rather lackluster record on immigration while in the Senate. As one commentator notes: "Overall, Americans for Better Immigration gives [Thompson] a career grade of C; on chain migration, C; visa lottery, C-; reducing unnecessary visas, F; on reducing asylum fraud, C-; on reducing amnesties, D; and on interior enforcement, C+. Although he was tough on border control, he was lacking in almost every other area."

Fred Thompson also supports affirmative action, and ideologically worships free trade, regardless how much it harms America. Historically, conservatives have opposed free trade, but Thompson, like others, has been "neoconned" into backing it.

He furthermore is a "fellow" at the American Enterprise Institute, one of the largest (and most sinister) neocon think-tanks, which demonstrates where his true loyalty lies. If you did not receive the Burkean memo, the transformation of the Middle East to liberal democracy is Jacobin, not conservative. There is not a single thing conservative about the membership of AEI. They are neocon / neoliberal globalists.

Why are neoncons backing Thompson? Ideally, being ex-Trotskyites themselves, neocons would prefer a liberal candidate, like McCain, Giuliani or Romney. But they see that conservatives deplore these candidates, and now are going to try to peddle Fred Thompson, who is just socially conservative enough and just tough enough on the borders, even if it is feigned, to woo naive GOP voters. But let's hope this nefarious neocon plot fails.

Let's pray that the more real conservatives learn about Fred Thompson, the more unacceptable he will appear. I, for one, should he receive the nomination, will vote Constitution Party.

Basil Harrington is a scholar, writer and gentleman. Basil can be reached at: basilharrington@yahoo.com

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed "Mastermind of 9/11" Confesses--after 4 years? The Case for Doubting Redacted Testimony, Secret Proceedings, and the Suspect

WILL THE REAL Khalid Shaikh Mohammed PLEASE STAND UP!

Another Update--Strike Three!

Assume that the transcript (redacted) is true, and that Sheik Mohammed's confession of being "mastermind of 9/11" "from A to Z" is true, then why would he have photos of exactly "the 19 hijackers" (the government's official story, without evidence thus far) SEVERAL OF WHOM HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE ALIVE?

CNN reports today:

"According to the 26-page [redacted] transcript, a computer hard drive seized during Mohammed's capture contained photographs of the 19 hijackers [which are proven false identities by BBC and LA Times reports] and a paper listing the pilot license fees for Mohammed Atta. Atta, the alleged ringleader of the attacks, flew one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center."

Certainly he could not be mastermind if he did not know the real identies of just who was allegedly hijacking the alleged aircraft. This testimony cannot therefore possibly be true.

This is all the proof we need that the confession is a fabricated lie that could be proven false in a court of law.

The current CNN Poll reflects the collective disbelief by those who read thoughtfully.

Do you believe all of the claims allegedly made by accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? (click for results)

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Late today, this story has gotten even more incredible, and is posted all over Drudge report. Here is just one:

9/11 Mastermind Confesses in Guantanamo

Mar 15 01:17 AM US/Eastern By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Writer

"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read [and "redacted" per below] during the session, which was held last Saturday....

...the extraordinary ["redacted'] transcript connects Mohammed to dozens of the worst terror plots attempted or carried out in the last 15 years—and to others that have not occurred. All told, thousands have died in operations he directed.

His words [without evidence] draw al-Qaida closer to plots of the early 1990s than the group has previously been connected to, including the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing [an unsolved mystery until now?].

So much propaganda to refute, so little time. All this to support the falling support for a phony war on terrorism based upon allegations that do not hold up to the evidence. (See link at bottom of article for previous article and video on Al Qaeda).
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Now with this breaking news today, the government would have you believe "there is no doubt that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the "Mastermind of 9/11" and has confessed it before a military hearing".

But before buying this sudden breaking news from the propaganda machine it is important to review some facts that have direct bearing on its credibility.

1. First let us examine the circumstances surrounding this sudden alleged "confession", based upon the AP and CNN report.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/06/gitmo.prisoners.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reporters will be barred from hearings that begin Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the 14 terror suspects who were transferred last year from secret CIA prisons, officials said Tuesday....No word of the hearings will be made public until the government releases a transcript of the proceedings, edited to remove material deemed damaging to national security, he said.

Now this was conducted entirely different, the AP article goes on to say, than PREVIOUS hearings involving said 'terrorists":

News coverage of previous combatant status review tribunals -- of which there were more than 550 between July 2004 and March 2005 -- was not prohibited, although there were restrictions on some information.

Note, therefore, the different procedures used for these particular hearings, most secretive in nature. Now consider this:

Whitman said the Pentagon is planning to withhold the name of the detainee from the edited hearing transcript, although that will be reconsidered.

Thus far, under guise of "national security" the transcript will be (1) "edited" and the (2) "name" of said detainee "withheld". Very secretive and untraceable, the alleged testimony, is it not? But one more thing...

Whitman said the hearings for the 14 formerly held in CIA prisons will be closed to the news media in order to protect national security interests that could be compromised by statements made by the detainees.

"Because of the nature of their capture, the fact that they are high-value detainees and based on the information that they possess and are likely to present in a combatant status review tribunal ... we're going to need an opportunity to redact [i.e. edit or revise] things for security purposes before providing that in a public forum," Whitman said.

He appeared to be referring to the fact that the 14 were held for an undisclosed period in a secret CIA prison network that Bush acknowledged for the first time last September 6 [now known as the illegal CIA international "rendition" torture system].

Such redacted, revised, edited, and secretly obtained "confessions", without any eyewitnesses either to the detainees or to their testimony, all done in entire secrecy, are impossible to verify, trace, or examine. What the government is doing is asking the press and American public for BLIND BELIEF of whatever they present. That this same government has consistently lied to the public since 9/11, and including about 9/11, is beyond question.

Now torture is a means of drawing many false "confessions" that many believe to be only consistent with what the torturer wants to hear, in order to stop the torture or gain release, and therefore not credible.

Forgive us for questioning the secret government's allegations, the same government who "fixed the intelligence around the policy" to go to war, based upon "there is no doubt" allegations and "uranium from Nigeria", and pretended testimonies made without full or credible disclosure. Forgive us for questioning and doubting while this man has such a confusing history through credible news sources, and from various government officials. Forgive us for doubting the same government that produced the 9/11 Commission Report and anti-constitutional legislation like the PATRIOT ACT and REAL ID all on the fear-mongering of terrorism and a 9/11 story that does not hold up to evidence. Forgive us for not believing a government that has more secrecy than openness, and that due to the Executive branch, that has established an Office of Special Plans that by-passes the Pentagon channels and CIA, and follows a blueprint for a "new middle east" straight from a neoconservative plan for PAX AMERICANA drawn up before 9/11 itself, which desired to go to launch a global war, only awaiting a "catalyzing event...like a new Pearl Harbor".

The special, secretive, and unprecedented rules for these military hearings, from which this "confession" was drawn, all smack more of craft than of a credulity the public could reasonably swallow whole without choking.

2. The Identity Question: Mr. Mohammed (real name?), who is allegedly in custody at Gitmo in this alleged (no press allowed) hearing, has been the subject of conflicting reports in international news, which even reported that he had died! Thanks to The Memory Hole, the following has been retained:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/khalid-resurrection.htm

Asia Times, 30 Oct 2002:

"...an Arab woman and a child were taken to an ISI safe house, where they identified the Shaikh Mohammed's body as their husband and father. The body was kept in a private NGO mortuary for 20 days before being buried, under the surveillance of the FBI, in a graveyard in the central district of Karachi....The widow subsequently underwent exhaustive interrogation in the custody of FBI officials, during which she revealed details of people who visited her husband, and of his other contacts and plans. News of the death of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was intentionally suppressed so that officials could play on the power of his name to follow up leads and contacts."

Note this refers to the FBI's involvement in this report, and even gives a motive for keeping his death a secret. But then one year later, we read this:

New York Times, 2 March 2003:

"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington and one of the F.B.I.'s most wanted terrorists, was detained by Pakistani authorities this morning and is now in American custody..."

And this article, trumpets for the first time that--

"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is one of Osama bin Laden's most senior and significant lieutenants, a key Al Qaeda planner and the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks," said the statement, issued by Ari Fleischer.

Now that is a very big "and", for up til then it was Usama blamed for 9/11.

Question: What is the evidence that U.S. officials had that Shaikh Mohammed was the "mastermind of 9/11?" What did they base this "there is no doubt" assertion on? If they knew nothing about 9/11 coming, how did they conclude it was this man who was its mastermind--and why not (the elusive, missing, "wanted dead or alive") Usama bin Laden?

But there is more! The Memory Hole captured this piece of historical news as well:

2 March 2003, Reuters news agency reports:

Pakistan's interior minister denied reports on Sunday that suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been handed over to the United States and said he was still in Pakistan.

Here we have Pakistan's interior minister denying what the American Press printed the same day.

3. Finally, note that no details were given about the Sept. 11th plot he was said to have confessed to, which begs the question: Just how was 9/11 financed and how and who were the men who carried it out? Let us hear some details of this remarkable confession--which apparently comes 4 years after his capture! Why should not there be a press conference to finally lay bare the entire 9/11 plot, how it was carried out, how they knew there were simultaneous war games going on that very same day and time (remarkable intelligence these terrorists had, was it not?), how they were able to crash a plane into the Pentagon without leaving wreckage, how they fooled the FAA and Air Force, how they blind sided the most sophisticated and costly intelligence and military power in the world, and, above all, how did the manage to board aircraft without being listed on the flight manifests, and how they overcame entire flight crews with "plastic knives" and "boxcutters"--the world would like to know!! Oh, and how did they know they could hit both towers, with 2 planes, without jet aircraft experience (something many pilots could not do), with "military precision", trained only on 'simulators" and "Cessna's" (and not doing very well according to trainers either), and how did they know the towers would collapse (being built to withstand such), since no fires had in history ever destroyed steel frame buildings--buildings which fell at almost the speed of gravity, which only controlled demolition could have produced!

Clearly, the 9/11 Commission could revise and publish their (phony) official report (that does not hold water) based upon the alleged "confession" of this alleged "mastermind of 9/11", for the benefit of the government and all the people. It would be a best-seller! But this would be too logical of an outcome to expect "full closure" on 9/11, and will never happen, for the confession as well as the identify of the man are without credibility, and have all the marks of propaganda too commonly fabricated by Bush government.

CONCLUSION:

As long as the U.S. conducts hearings in absolute secrecy, editing and withholding names from transcripts, upon a person that has had no photographs released to the media except the same one trotted out years ago, a person whose death was reported in the Asian Times in 2002, and that involving the FBI's direct involvement, whose custody to America was refuted by Pakistani officials (and from a Pakistani ISI who did wire money to Mohammad Atta), whose "confession" only suspiciously comes 4 whole years after his alleged "capture" (while being silent the entire time), and the said person who has held within the CIA torture "rendition" system (which could make anyone say anything), and that the "official story" of 9/11 can be weighed in the balance as "false" given contradictory evidence, or in the absence of evidence produced---then we must hold this present story as suspicious as statement like "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction"--because we say so!

The Bush administration would gain, in this propaganda, (1) a substitute for the capture of the (elusive and dead) Usama bin Laden, which has haunted them since no progress was made since 9/11; (2) the assertion that Al Qaeda exists, proven by capture of its alleged leaders; (3) a "confession" that appears to verify the official story, easily contradicted and attacked by "conspiracy theories" in alternative media, which has growing acceptance by the American public; and finally (4) justification for their secret CIA torture and "rendition" program, which they will claim produced these results.

P.S. Al Qaeda does NOT exist (BBC documentary excerpt) --

http://westvirginiaholler.blogspot.com/2007/02/al-qaeda-does-not-exist-government.html

America's "Secret Government" - Its Tampering in Iran and other covert wars

America has operated by a rogue and extra-constitutional government since the revolution that is more tamely called the "Civil War". About 20 years ago this report was broadcast to show the reality and danger of it, and it is most relevant to today. This is an excerpt, and after the introduction, and discussion of the historic Cold War against the Soviets after WWII, it goes directly into America's covert, primarily CIA, operations, especially in Iran. It also shows how America helped to arm Iran, as well as foment internal revolutions, and counter-revolutions. This sets the context for much of today's controversies, yet this context is not related on Network News. It also shows how America's presidents have consistently lied to justify wars or secret operations.

PBS "America's Secret Government", Constitution in Crisis -- Bill Moyers (22 min)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8536707153900925247

" I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks.... What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United States? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.." (25)

-- Usama Bin Laden, Oct. 16, 2001

Bush's Thermidor

Bush's Thermidor

Patrick J. Buchanan / VDARE.com:

In the calendar of the Revolution, Thermidor was the second month of summer. On 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794), Robespierre was guillotined and the Reign of Terror [ed. led by radical "republicans" during the French Revolution] came to an end. Thermidor has thus come to mean the turning point in a revolution, when the fever passes on and the fury abates. Trotsky called Stalin's consolidation of power "Soviet Thermidor." In the catechism of the Bush Revolution, liberty is indivisible. If the whole world is not free, America's freedom is not secure, and we must thus use American power in perpetuity to liberate mankind and, as Bush declared in his Second Inaugural, "end tyranny on earth." No more utopian ambition has ever been declared by an American president.....(continued)

HATE CRIME LEGISLATION WILL TARGET YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH

By Tom DeWeese
March 13, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

A battle has been waging during the opening months of the 110th Congress over proposed Hate Crime legislation. The main bill currently before the House is H.R. 254, titled, "The David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act," introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX).

Opposition is growing to the legislation because hate crime laws would make certain types of speech a federal offense, allowing federal "thought police" to interfere in the law enforcement authority of states and local government. Such interference is blatantly unconstitutional.

(continued) http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom77.htm

REAL ID--Arizona Set To Torpedo REAL ID Act; Idaho Second State To Reject Real ID Act

Welcome to the new Civil War against Federal Despotism, and battle for both State and Citizen privacy rights--Constitutional government vs. Federal Fascism!

Arizona Set To Torpedo REAL ID Act
Liberty Papers - Elk Grove,CA,USA
The move comes as the federal Real ID Act is getting strong resistance from states nationwide. Earlier this week, the Washington state Senate voted to delay ...
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Idaho Second State To Reject Real ID Act
North Country Gazette - Chestertown,NY,USA
WASHINGTON ---- Idaho has become the second state in the nation to reject participation in the Real ID Act. That law, enacted in 2005, lays the foundation ...
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Real ID, false need
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
The Real ID Act of 2005 and recent regulations by the Department of Homeland Security require all states to begin issuing federally approved driver's ...
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Idaho Joins The Revolt Against REAL ID
By Doug Mataconis
In addition to the proposal in Arizona that would forbid that state from participating in the REAL ID Act's requirements, it looks like Idaho is joining the bandwagon as well:. WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today ...
The Liberty Papers - http://www.thelibertypapers.org

Idaho Joins the REAL ID Rebellion
By Jim Harper
Yesterday, the Idaho Senate passed Joint Memorial 3, earlier approved unanimously by the House, to refuse implementation of the REAL ID Act. More info here. I testified on the bill in the Idaho House's Transportation and Defense ...
The Technology Liberation Front - http://www.techliberation.com/

REAL ID Proposed Rule
Federal Register, Mar. 9, 2007: Minimum Standards for Driver's Licenses and Identification Cards Acceptable by Federal Agencies for Official Purposes.
Bender's Immigration Bulletin - http://www.bibdaily.com/

A Must Read: REAL ID, False Need (Daytona Beach)
By John R.(John R.)
Much of the debate over Real ID is focused on cost, Big Brother-intrusions and what amounts to a national identity card -- all valid arguments against the new licenses. It's not government's place to keep tabs on citizens. ...
Real ID Watch - http://realidwatch.blogspot.com/index.html

Idaho Opts Out Of REAL ID
By Michael(Michael)
Idaho's legislature has passed House Joint Memorial 3 and rejected participation in the REAL ID Act, according to the ACLU and the Idaho legislatures bill status site. The battle wasn'ta very hard fought one, either. ...
UnCivil Defence - http://uncivildefence.blogspot.com/index.html

CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his piece, "Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out."

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/03/09/ray-mcgovern-3/

Friday, March 9th, 2007 in Antiwar Radio by Charles Goyette

Former veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his piece, "Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out."

Also: Senator Pat Roberts' obstruction of the FBI and Senate investigations of the Cheney Cabal, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV's cowardice and reasons why he thinks the chances Bush/Cheney will bomb Iran are now less than 50/50.

MP3 here. (20:24)

Libby Conviction Reveals Cheney and Neocons Secret Ambitions

"There is a cloud over the vice president."

-- Federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald

"It was clear that what Scooter was doing in the Wilson case was at Dick's behest," said Kenneth Adelman, a former Reagan administration official who has been close to both men but has broken with Cheney over the Iraq war. "That was clear. It was clear from Dick's notes on the Op-Ed piece that he wanted to go get Wilson. And Scooter's not that type. He's not a vindictive person."

The Libby conviction has everything to do with exposing VP Cheney, the secretive "cabal" headquartered in the Office of Special Plans, and the neoconservative Fifth Column, the ones who chose George W. Bush to be their front man for the White House, the ones behind the official story of 9/11, the official justification for Iraq war, and the "war on terrorism". Before, during and after 9/11 it has been Cheney at the controls, in total secrecy (operating from "the shadows", his words), hijacking and operating a rogue government with a republican guard. Both Cheney and Libby were members of the Project for a New American Century, and it is clear that Libby did not "take the fall" for Rove, but for Cheney, and we have testimony here (quoted above) from a former Reagan administration official familiar with both men, using the most indicting words. The outting of Valerie Plame was vindictive vengeance against Ambassador Joe Wilson for his public letter refuting the claims that Iraq had "uranium" from Africa, which Dick Cheney himself had asserted as evidence of Saddam's "there is no doubt" threat. This is the M.O. of a secretive VP and faction that "fix the intelligence around the policy", and use force and intimidation to defend their blatant lies, which they must use to justify otherwise unconstitutional, irrational and insane military actions. Perjury lies not only with Libby, who was "following orders", but with Vice President Cheney himself.

Should we not note also the coincidental timing of Dick Cheney's sudden running around the entire world (in a very secretive trip, with sudden and unannounced stops, and an aircraft "problem"), while continuing to saber-rattle against Iran, and intimidate Pakistan (because the American puppet dictator installed by coupe is falling apart)...is this the last efforts of a desperate man, and usurper of power, who hides in the shadows, but controls all, behind the "President"--hell-bent on finishing the neoconservative "blueprint" for a PAX AMERICANA and "new middle east" based upon a preconceived response to a "catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor"?

Note also how the NATIONAL REVIEW (i.e. William Kristol, PNAC founder) defended their neocon friend shifty "Scooter" Libby--calling it a "politicized prosecution", overlooking that Patrick Fitzgerald was a republican prosecutor (and a good one) appointed by George W Bush! THE NEOCONS ARE CIRCLING THEIR WAGONS, IN A DEFENSIVE POSTURE OF DESPARATION, WHILE EVEN PENTAGON GENERALS ARE NOW IN FULL OPPOSITION to their Iran war-mongering. Even the compliant General Peter Pace did not bow to their pressure, provoking the neoconservative's revenge.

This of course means things could suddenly become very tumultous ("terror attack", "terrorist arrests", distractions, etc)! Cheney is not the type that would "resign" as they are speculating due to a "blood clot in his leg", which was diagnosed as caused by his sudden, lengthy, trans-world secret excursion, from being seated so long on an airline (pray, do tell us how? He does not fly United. Air Force One does not require continuous sitting, but has lounges and walking space, even excercise facilities). It appears that Cheney's obsessive ambitions are the undoing of his own health, and his appearance has of recent shown a frame that looks more akin to Ariel Sharon who recently had a stroke, much as Napolean's ambitions led him to the brink of collapse before Waterloo. Desparate men never change their course, but plunge headlong into dangerous an reckless pursuit of their unilateral agenda, putting millions of lives literally in the balance, based upon their insane vision of global conquest. Major battle fleets have been recklessly positioned near Iran, and now Bush is calling for an increase to his "troop surge", and a rapid deployment is taking place before Congress can prevent or block funds to this "reckless and arrogant administration" (Sen. Robert C. Byrd). Conservatives and former Reagan Adminstration officials are warning, "Americans have lost their country" to a rogue and hijacked government. Until Richard Cheney is arrested (the Generals swear an oath to defend the Constitution, that has been usurped and trampled, not the President or Vice President, and have lawful authority to arrest to recover power from a tyrant), along with the neoconservative infiltrators, America will continue to be a world menace, as much as Alexander and Napolean. America's sons and daughters will continue to be the cannon fodder for unconstitutional and rogue wars using a corrupted doctrine of "pre-emption" for unilateral invasion and imperialism for "Democracy"--a global democratic jihad more dangerous and more real than the propaganda about "Islamo Fascism".

Blasting Cap! Letter of Rebuke to Shelley Moore Capito on Iraq Resolution

[Letter sent Feb. 17, 2007. Response was received from Rep. Capito on March 5th which stated that the "War on Terror -- including the war in Iraq -- is the defining struggle of our time....defeating radical jihadists and terrorists who want to do nothing more than kill innocent people and destruct (sic) our way of life". Thus we see the very parroted lines of the neo-conservative fear-mongerers, that pours through Michael Agnello's talk radio microphone, as if it we are supposed to belief such radical statements without question, and despite massive evidence of planned propaganda and pure lies that have been nothing but Words of Mass Deception. Ms. Capito did not explain why Americans then are not being killed and attacked on a daily basis, or why America's port cities have not been nuked, since 9/11 according to their outrageous conspiracy theory. Ms. Capito also did not explain how wars for "democracy" into the middle east do not qualify as a "jihad", but only of a different brand. This is why West Virginians need to question, along with numerous former and present government officials, the facts versus the spin of the 9/11 Commission as well, and should not be puppets that can be lead by partisan loyalty or mere flag-waving in a false patriotism to "support our troops"--the slogan used to support wars of aggression. The Democrats are as guilty as the Republicans by not questioning and deliberating soberly, and the tyranny of political-correctness about 9/11 and "terrorism" is holding all hostage.]


Ms. Capito,

This letter is to protest your cowardly vote against the "non-binding" Iraq Resolution, inconsistent with your opposition to a troop surge. Especially in that so doing you played the "jihadists who want to destroy our nation" card, clearly bowing to talk-radio propaganda about an outrageous conspiracy theory, and that also falsely links (again) Iraq with Al-Queda, etc.. We must ask again, when did Iraq attack the U.S.?!! This is not about Iraqi "freedom", but a democratic jihad to overthrow the middle east, beginning in Iraq based upon a conspiracy theory of "Islamo-Fascism" that does not hold up to the evidence. To think otherwise is naive, and to listen to blatant lies.

If "jihadists" wanted to destroy America they have had every opportunity to do so, for airport screening is a mere fascist facade of security (something any terrorist would by-pass), and the largest cities ports have been wide open (think of that, with cargo ships unsearched), and the borders porous. So why have no "jihadists" attacked the U.S.? If there is a conspiracy to do such, the "radical Islamics" behind it are more incapable of action than any high schooler, for anyone who desired to do something would have no problem in doing so. What accounts for the lack of "attacks" since 9/11 (an "attack" that has all the suspicious marks of an inside job and military stand-down?) FEAR AND FALSE-FLAG ATTACKS HAVE BEEN USED TO JUSTIFY AN UNJUST WAR ON "TERROR", A CONVENIENT UNIDENTIFIABLE ENEMY THAT JUSTIFIES INVADING ANY SOVEREIGN COUNTRY AT WILL, ESPECIALLY ISLAMIC. It is all a lie--an unprovable, unverifiable, allegation without evidence that would be accepted by the rules of jurisprudence. And every "terrorist" bomb story has elements of government agency involvement, and the trials have been without successful prosecution (i.e. the "airline terror plot")--proving that these allegations and claims are baseless inventions.

Iraq "had no connections with 9/11", nor is "harboring terrorists", something that is now admitted. That was lies and propaganda. The plans to invade Iraq were laid well in advance, and documented in the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" document in September 2000 (which Cheney, Wolfowitz, Zakheim, Kristol, Woolsey, Feith, etc.) were all apart of, and it is no secret that the war in Iraq was "contrived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, mostly Jewish" (Jewish Daily Forward)--who all happened to run their "blueprint" for a "new middle east" through the Office of Special Plans (a rogue operation reporting to Cheney)!

Ms. Capito, do you see how you are being played? They jump and accuse you whenever you do not support Israel unequivocally, or their "war on terrorism" absolutely. Will you bow to a false patriotism, contrary to the constitution, or the principles of only Just Wars of self-defense? Will lies and propaganda be your justification for "supporting our troops"--as mercenaries into a pre-conceived and unjust war, instead of returning them home? How political-correctness, propagated by intimidation and force, is so contrary to reasonable consideration, and a form of tyranny upon the conscience.

Did Dick Cheney strike fear in you and twist your arm? Or was it [WCHS Talk Radio] Mike Agnello's interviews to corner you on the air, and the propaganda of Bridget Gabriel--who is a professional radical propagandist, whose "American Congress for Truth" is a sham operation (Zionist propaganda tank), with none other than the PNAC James Woolsey on its board of directors (who continue their lies to justify the war)--who was calling, with Bill Kristol, for invasion of Iran and Syria during the Lebanon bombing! Are those credible sources of unbiased and objective "intelligence" or information, or do they represent a definitive "blueprint" for their ideal of a "new middle east"?

About 75 percent of Americans now believe the U.S. went into Iraq under absolute lies ("there is no doubt", Stated Cheney, "that [Saddam] is amassing weapons of mass destruction....against the U.S., and our allies", etc.), and it has been well-documented that "intelligence was fixed [fabricated, distorted] around the policy" to go to war, between Bush and Blair.

Recall too that a "non-binding resolution" was passed by Republicans (and justly so) against Clinton's unjust war in Bosnia, so why is this rebuke a waste of time now?

Finally, to claim to "not cut funding" for the war as an excuse only serves to continue, with anti-constitutional and dictatorial power, and UNJUST WAR THAT CONGRESS NEVER OFFICIALLY DECLARED, permitting a rogue and deceitful (note the lies) Executive Branch to continue with absolute and unaccountable power--forever! IT IS NOT EVIL TO CUT FUNDING TO FORCE A PRESIDENT TO STOP AN UNJUST WAR, AND IT IS GOOD FOR THE TROOPS TO RECALL THEM FROM BEING EMPLOYED AS MERCENARIES TO ADVANCE AN IMPERIALIST CAUSE OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY, RATHER THAN A WAR OF SELF-DEFENSE ALONE.

The insane doctrine that "advancing democracy" by military force stops terrorism, or is just cause, is as ridiculous as saying one neighbor could preemptively attack another because he does not want him to be armed, and does not like his principles. The war for Democatic Jihad in the middle east must be stopped before the middle east is ignited by the neoconservative Jacobins of this modern French Revolution and their plan for a PAX AMERICANA, and further invasion of the middle east.

It is a documented fact that Cheney is pushing for war with Iran, despite the President's words, for Cheney is the force behind the Office of Special plans and the neo-conservative fifth column's rogue plan.

I hope you will consider what I have written in full, and why many of us conservatives (paleo-convervatives, not neo-conservatives) are outraged at the lies and deceit that continues, and the evil and unjust wars being waged under the guise of a false patriotism, without provocation.


Sincerely,
[name withheld]