Letter Never Sent

Now the Gestapo goons have started visiting libraries checking what people have been reading. Can this possibly be getting any worse? Thanks to the ironically named ‘Patriot Act’ Bush Jr. signed into law our freedoms and liberties have been absolutely raped. These people make me sick. I wish the FBI and their masters nothing but frustration and disappointment. Hopefully one day people will wake up and demand their rights back. From the Washington Post:

The FBI is visiting libraries nationwide and checking the reading records of people it suspects of having ties to terrorists or plotting an attack, library officials say.

The FBI effort, authorized by the antiterrorism law enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, is the first broad government check of library records since the 1970s when prosecutors reined in the practice for fear of abuses.

The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment Monday, except to note that such searches are now legal under the Patriot Act that President Bush signed last October. …

“It’s unfortunate because these records and this information can be had with so little reason or explanation,” Krug said. “It’s super secret and anyone who wants to talk about what the FBI did at their library faces prosecution. That has nothing to do with patriotism.”

Krug tells worried librarians who call that they should keep only the records they need and should discard records that would reveal which patron checked out a book and for how long.

Would you sell out your mother? Enjoy being part of a team? Kicking down doors? Beating up hippies and habibs? Carrying BIG guns? Boy, do we have the perfect job for you! Join the fast-paced world of Federal law enforcement! There are always openings for gung ho, patriotic self-starters! Send in your resume today!

Recently, our thug in chief, George W. Bush gave the greenlight to the CIA to capture or assassinate Saddam Hussein. Most likely, he will be assassinated. As pointed out by Al Martin, former CIA insider, the Bushes need to liquidate Hussein rather than capture him as he knows too much for someone who isn’t cooperative:

“He couldn’t be captured even though he was under indictment in the United States for a variety of charges and also under indictment in the World Court. But the United States couldn’t afford to have Saddam a prisoner and thus be able to talk about his relationship with the Reagan-Bush Regime.”

With the ‘War Against Terror’ Saddam Hussein has outlived his usefulness as the resident Mideast bogeyman. The US is now firmly entrenched in the Mideast and, more importantly, in Central Asia. They now have the justification of fighting terrorism. With that they can go wherever they like and no one will say anything about it out for fear of being labeled as supporting terrorists or as a rogue state.

Regarding the Middle East, the US military wanted to get bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It wasn’t Desert Storm that made it possible to do so. The only reason that was possible was leaving Saddam Hussein in power. It gave the US the ability to build military bases on Saudi and Kuwaiti territory. Saddam was kept in power because of the larger US geo-economic and geo-military interests.

In order to exercise those interests, the United States had to have the ability to base ground troops in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, or the Arab Emirates. They had to have a rationale. This would also de-emphasize Israel, which is what the Republicans have wanted to do. The Republicans pay lip service to Israel only because of the American Jewish vote.

Due to the upcoming Gulf War 2 led by Bush Jr. and crew, Hussein might be planning on passing the reins of leadership to his son Qusai. This would make it harder for the US to create the necessary fervor to carry out the bombing of Iraq. From Stratfor.com:

By removing himself from the top leadership position, Saddam could make it more difficult for the United States to gain diplomatic support from European allies for an assault on Baghdad. And even if he were no longer president, the Iraqi strongman could still exert enough influence over his son to maintain control over the country. Finally, it would give Qusai the chance to weather Washington’s hostility, which if handled successfully could ensure the future of Saddam’s regime.

With the events of Sept. 11 now shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East, the impetus to oust Saddam and replace him with a U.S.-friendly regime in the oil-rich Persian Gulf country has grown stronger. Each day the Bush administration appears to be laying the foundations for Saddam’s removal.

Is it a little too convenient that Qusai was recently the target of an assassination attempt? This has obvious CIA fingerprints all over it. It was most likely carried out by the CIA or by one of their domestic Iraqi proxies, a terrorist cell on the payroll of the US government. The US would love to negate any attempt by Hussein to defuse the situation.

The real question is which family is more vile and disgusting, the Bushes or the Husseins? They deserve one another.

Was Diana murdered because she was pregnant with Dodi’s brown, muslim child? Sounds possible to me. Echelon was involved, of course.

Long-running conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Princess Diana in 1997 have been fuelled with new claims from the father of her lover, Dodi Fayed, that the Princess of Wales was pregnant with his child when she died.

Lawyers acting for Mr Fayed’s father, Mohamed Fayed, say an American-run international eavesdropping network intercepted telephone conversations in which Diana described her marriage plans and pregnancy.

Details of the conversations are reportedly contained in 1051 documents created by the United States intelligence organisation the National Security Agency, using material intercepted by the global eavesdropping network Echelon.

An Echelon station at Menwith Hill in north England was reportedly used to intercept Diana’s private phone calls.

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The paper reports that Mr Fayed believes Diana was under American surveillance because her stance against landmines threatened US military interests.

Confiscation of Palestinian property? Israeli soldiers killing women and children? Israeli soldiers destroying and defecating on the Koran? Palestinians living in ‘refugee’ camps and Israeli-created ghettos? According to Judaism, the Jewish people are God’s chosen, special among all other people by the covenant of Abraham and by blood. Is this starting to sound familiar? History is full of irony. The once powerless gain mastery and fall prey to the same mistakes. I remember reading Chaim Potok’s The Chosen in high school and feeling proud of Israel. Now I am ashamed. It is obvious that the suicide bombers are murderers, but in this situation all power is with the Israelis. They are the ones who can decide how this will all turn out. Will we have an endless cycle of murder and genocide perpetrated by two desperate peoples?

Stratfor had a good analysis of what they think Al Quaeda is up to. Unfortunately, you’ll need a subscription to read the article. It’s thirty bucks for six months if you’re a student.

Al Qaeda never ceases to surprise. However, when we look through its eyes, we can begin to see the reasons behind its relative inaction over the past months and the reason why it will not take massive risks until it has to. It is building credibility in the Islamic world and creating tension between the United States and Muslim countries.

Al Qaeda has reorganized and redeployed. From its point of view, there is no rush. It will hit when it feels it has the need and ability. If the United States cannot destroy a few thousand men, that will be all the proof al Qaeda needs that Washington is a paper tiger. Survival is the key. The rest will grow from there.

The public obsession with Al Quaeda could backfire just as the article states. So much of a nation’s power is tied up with perception. If the US is perceived as incapable of dealing with this monster they helped to create they will lose a lot of credibility. That may be part of what’s behind the upcoming invasion of Iraq. The US is desperate to demonstrate that it can still blow things up and kill the people they want to kill.