AMERICA'S CLARION CALL

911: THE CLARION CALL FOR AMERICA


“Through life’s broad field of battle
In the bivouac called life.
Be not like dumb driven cattle,
Be a hero (heroine) in the strife!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that in my favorite poem, THE PSALM OF LIFE. Also:

“I’ve clinched and closed with the naked north,
I’ve learned to defy and defend.
Shoulder to shoulder we’ve fought it out,
Yet it’s the wild that must win in the end!” Robert W. Service wrote that verse.

I chose the above for the hook because I identify with their purpose. I have seen enough to know the 911 Report is a sham, not worthy even of the comparison to the 26 volumes which the WARREN REPORT was based on. I do not feel like the little girl who screams out in the EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES, “But he’s naked mom!” And Chicken Little has got nothing on me. Not withstanding the Mayan Calendar and its 2012, 5200 year old prediction of calamity. If a nobody like me on his last legs, so to speak, can view documentation that utterly refutes and defeats this huge lie, made by traitors and treasonous cowards, to prevail for their own ends, then damn it, so can you smart people with your streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes who care only about acquisition, notoriety and consumption. You do nothing for the country which has given to you the most special of all birthrights in our recorded history (herstory?). While you’re enjoying your games and well groomed gods and show, the world as we know it, is being destroyed by your acquiescence. Does that make you feel good or are you among the bunch who say, I can’t/won’t make a difference? There’s no draft yet, like Vietnam, for the privileged to bitch about in serving in harms’ way. There will be, if this off the chain administration manipulates the war(s) effectively. They want a conflict with IRAN. No diplomacy, quote, unquote, just Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! I’ve already made the case for their bellicose positioning in 411. Saudi Arabia has made clear, if the U. S. unilaterally pulls out of Iraq. They will support the Sunni faction. Iraq will have Iran come at them from the east and Syria from the west and we will have to re-enter the battle theater. The Saudis are no match for grade A battle and the powers that be will find it unacceptable to let events get put of control, as the Bible’s geographical Armegeddon!

Being a “JOHN DOE” or an unknown, I choose to quote rather than use my own words whenever possible, particularly for factual information. I am passionate about our experiment with true democracy even being representative rather than participatory. Failure, I ferverently believe is not an option but doom for humanity. “God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” “Life for him was an adventure, perilous in deed, but men are not made for safe havens. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory”.

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The Greek Way, by Edith Hamilton. Knowledge is a burden, some to welcome, others to shy from. In America, we have shunned it far too long as I write of what I know to be carved in stone, I ask you to at least consider what I present. The body of matters I put forth have been kept still for too long by the powers that be. Woodrow Wilson, the 19th President of our Beloved United States who presided over World War I and tried to form the League of Nations said, “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views provided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”(!) This coming from a most respected decent President, definitively illustrates how Byzantine our American reality is.

Besides reading the Congressional Record (May 14,1975, Extension of Remarks, page E2442) I referenced in the middle article, 411 on 911, where the Warren Commission discusses white washing the Investigation and using J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald scapegoat version, I give you two other points to consider in the alternative. The Commission, to avoid admitting conspiracy, because of the Zapruder film and ignoring the inconvenience of 51 witnesses in Dealy Plaza claiming more than one shooter and three shots, ascertained there had to have been only three shots fired by one rifle. One shot (at least) hit President Kennedy in the head. One shot missed the car and hit the pavement with part of the shattered bullet wounding a witness named James Tague. That left one shot to inflict seven non fatal wounds on the President and Governor Connally. The President had a back wound in the area of third thoracic vertebrae. He had a wound in his throat described by all three attending Physicians at Parkland Hospital as a sucking entrance wound. The Governor had a back wound, a chest wound, a hole in both sides of his right wrist and a thigh wound. The Commission had NO investigators (why should they since they were confined to the Bureau’s lone gunman solution?) Again, refer to the Congressional Record entry of Wednesday May 14, 1975, page E2442 of Extended remarks from January 22, 1964 in Executive Session, where they specifically and conclusively enunciate NOT conducting any investigation and rubber stamping the Bureau’s version. They did though, have counselors who were charged with doing the work to try and make its finding fit this scenario. Here’s their version of the single bullet theory (direct from the pages of the 26 volumes of evidence, documents and testimony upon which the WARREN COMMISSION REPORT was based). This infamous single pristine bullet was labeled Commission Exhibit #399. After the ambush, in Dealy Plaza, the Presidential car with JFK and Governor Connally was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital. After bringing both men into the trauma area, a gurney was sent up to the second floor on an elevator as the emergency room floor entrance was really the basement and the second floor had the front entrance (bi-level). An aide named Daryl C. Tomlinson removed a stretcher from the elevator (allegedly Governor Connally’s) and pushed it down the hall up against the wall and in doing so hit another gurney. The impact caused a bullet lodged under the mattress from this gurney, to fall to the floor. He gave it to an FBI Agent who passed it to another. There was no chain of possession used,
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but a bullet did wind up in Washington D.C. purportedly as one and the same. In a Freedom of Information suit in Federal District Court in our Nation’s Capitol, initiated by Harold Weisberg, the most respected and astute author/investigator of The Warren Report, represented Pro Bono by James Lesar, had an FBI Agent testify about how scientific testing was accomplished to show this bullet (CE399), to the exclusion of all others, was responsible for the 7 (seven) non fatal wounds (including the hole through Governor Connally’s radial bone in his right wrist). He testified he used a pen knife to dig some metal out of the base of CE399, otherwise unbent and pristine, to preserve it for ballistics testing for Spectroscopy and Neutron Activation Analysis tests. I must interject that in this very suit, the FBI reluctantly admitted Harold Weisberg was more familiar with the WARREN COMMISSION’S 26 volumes and its contents, than any of their employees. It bears repeating, with pictures to verify, there are no other marks on #399 or lead missing. Post operative X-rays of Governor Connally, revealed more lead left just in the radial portion of his wrist than actually taken from the now, so called “Magic Bullet”! Being questioned under oath before the Commission, Mr. Tomlinson (the hospital attendant who found the “planted” bullet), was repeatedly brow beat with the question of whether he was sure CE #399 fell out of the existing gurney and not the one from the elevator. He finally ended this line of questioning by saying, “…if I told you wrong, I couldn’t sleep at night (!)”. If this patriotic conscientious decency and integrity of Mr. Tomlinson had been an influence on the seven member Warren Commission, we would have had the truth told about the murder of an American President on an open street in Dallas, virtually changing our national history for the better, not the worse. The perpetrators and collaborators would have been tried and convicted of treason and we would all be better as the beneficiaries of living proof that our system of government performed as it should, in a time of one our of gravest periods of national tragedy. Instead, the Commission relied on a crazy impossible theory which defies physics, insulted our national collective intelligence and held it together with the acquiescence of the media (both television and the printed press). Who do you ask was the counsel member who devised this absurd theory? Why none other than the Senator of Pennsylvania since 1980, ARLEN SPECTER! Yes, a United States Senator was a major force in the cover up conspiracy. What would the good citizens of William Penn’s Woods think or do, if this knowledge became widely known?
My second point is when Abraham Zapruder realized he had filmed this horror, he immediately had two copies made and set a time early in the evening alerting the media to view a screening of it with his attorney. (And of course, bid on a exclusive copy) A Dallas TV News affiliate of CBS, sent a reporter to view the film. He, then in a frantic rush to his studio to scoop all other media, demanded a live slot to relate the contents of what he saw on the Zapruder film. The nut of relating what he said he witnessed on the murder film was him emphatically saying the head shot to President Kennedy drove his head forward, consistent with the proposed lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald sixth story window theory of the School Book Depository Building, behind the motorcade. In all probability, this journalist (?) was told the film would never be viewed by the public. Mr. Zapruder gave two copies to the Secret Service that evening. With in three days time, Life Magazine, a subsidiary of Time/Life Inc., owned by Henry Luce Booth, purchased the original and ALL rights to it for a total of $150,000 to be made in six equal payments.
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(A real stdeal for Time/Life considering the incredible signifigance and that the pile is worth $916,000 in 2006 dollars. Mr. Zapruder, to his credit, donated the first payment to the family of a slain Dallas Police Officer, one J. D. Tippitt, who was alleged killed by a fleeing Oswald, which in turn led a trail to where he was apprehended in a Dallas movie theater. Life showed some select “frames” from the film on November 29th 1963 and some more the next week on December 7th in a Memorial Issue. Time/Life refused to publicly screen the film, “…out respect for the Kennedy family…”. Life Magazine’s still frames of the film did show President Kennedy’s head pitching backward with NO forward motion period. This “co-operative” reporter was soon promoted to being a national correspondent and when asked the awkward question of his Dallas disparity with reality, answered by saying he was “…he was in a hurry and made a ‘mistake’ in speaking to a live audience. This same reporter, in reward for his collusion, grew in stature at CBS. When in 1966-67, the New Orleans District Attorney tried to prosecute several people as assassination conspirators, gaining national attention, this reporter produced and hosted several shows with glaring “disinformation” of admissions and corrections, for damage control. With this CBS debunking, it made responsible efforts to have the Warren Commission’s conclusions reviewed by open sessions of Congress less possible. The two shows came up with even more outrageous explanations supportive of the Official Solution than one could imagine. In March of 1975, a man named Geraldo Rivera, hosting a show called Good Night America, showed the Zapruder Film to America for the first time ever. It caused a furor and ignited a new collective effort to have the truth told. It was at this juncture I called Mr. Weisberg and asked him to come and speak at the University of Maryland, where I attended as a Veteran, as I have related previously. The Student Union Theater was filled with an overflow crowd interested in gaining some truth in the matter. One result was a petition signing for Congress to hold open hearings on just the original inquiry, with subpoena power and penalties for perjury or subornation there of, which of course, led to the entry in to the Congressional Record of the damning Warren Commission Document. In their own words of complicity, they agreed to cover it up with a non-investigation of the facts. Again, read it in the Congressional Record of Wednesday May 14, 1975 in the Extension of Remarks (E2442) from the Honorable Gladys Noon Spellman, 5th District of Maryland). National polls have consistently showed 80% of the American people have never believed the Warren Commission finding of the lone gunman and no conspiracy conclusion. As a participant in the effort to have the truth told and being considered very knowledgeable in this field, I’ve forever been asked why was it covered up and how could it be kept so secret from the public for so long? The only answer I have is, we have allowed it. Now, who was this infamous reporter who fabricated his rendition of viewing the Zapruder film, you may ask? Clue. He later became anchor for the CBS Evening News for many years! Why, none other than Walter Cronkite’s successor, DAN RATHER. Imagine that! The gap is huge between truth and falsehood in our country and it is a travesty of the worst kind, like a bad joke gone vicious. Many lives have been lost and/or destroyed in their attempt at getting close to full public disclosure. As Richard Nixon would say, “If it’s a secret, then it’s LEGAL!”. I will comment on the film. Technology has advanced to the degree one can make subtle or dramatic changes on a picture or a film. It takes very close scrutiny to differentiate such alteration. The flip side to this is the same technology has been applied
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to genuine copies of the Zapruder film and show several almost instantaneous head movements consistent with more than one bullet splitting his skull asunder with definitely one shot coming from the right front on a near level trajectory. This state of the art ability also shows glaring disparity in President Kennedy and Governor Connally’s movement reacting to the so called first shot, magic bullet theory. People ask, show me some new evidence. My friend Harold would always employ the rejoinder, “What’s wrong with the old evidence?”. And where does this leave us some 44 years later with the question, isn’t this ancient history. No, because the same players who perpetrated the murder and influenced the ongoing cover up and their proteges, are still influencing national and foreign policy as we speak. So many of the people who basked in the glow of JFK’s light, ran for cover as November 22, 1963’s events unfolded. For instance, Benjamin Bradlee, a Washington Post Editor who had unlimited access to JFK’s White House (read pool parties and assundry partying), took advantage of a living President and wrote many a story with deep background from his alleged friendship and position. Yet, as Executive Editor from 1965 to 1991, he continually maintained his and the “integral” Washington Post’s paper’s position, was that the Warren Commission findings were correct. Maybe some bio on Ben would help connect a dot or two. Mr. Bradlee is a distinguished member of the highly prominent Boston Brahmins. He was in Army Intelligence during WWll in the Pacific Theater and afterward, became a Washington Post reporter. He became friends with Philip Graham who had married Katherine Meyer, sister of the owner of the paper and thus into the Post family. When Eugene Meyer became the first President of the World Bank, Graham stepped up. In 1951, Bradlee became assistant press attache’ to the American Embassy in Paris where he helped get running an intelligence funded program called Office of U.S. Information and Education (USIE) designed to promote U.S. policy abroad and at home. This program evolved into “Operation Mockingbird” and openly as Voice Of America, which mutated into a network of systematic attempts to influence and/or control the American Media. In 1953, The Washington Post bought CBS News with another friendly, William S. Paley becoming its President. Remember, CBS led the way in disinvestigative documentaries designed to discredit real and responsible research contrary to the Warren Commission findings! Philip Graham had his high and low spots, allegedly suffering depression and severe alcoholism. He was the main catalyst in convincing JFK to have LBJ run as his V.P. in the 1960 Presidential Election, even though JFK despised the Texas Senate Majority Leader and all he stood for. In the early ‘60’s, Philip Graham had a series of questionable activities, including an embarrassing affair and unexplainable public appearances. Mrs. Graham had him committed and in August of 1963, Mr. Graham took his own life. Back to Ben Bradlee, who enjoyed a close and personal relationship with Katherine Graham, even though he was well into his second marriage.( I must interject here that during the ‘50’s and through this marriage to Antoinette, he became acquainted with Richard Bissell and James Jesus Angleton, two key players in developing the CIA as enacted in the 1947 National Security Act. Scuttlebutt has it that the recent 2006 film, THE GOOD SHEPHERD with Matt Damon starring as one Edward Williams, was developed as a composite of at least these two gentlemen). In less than two years, he was named managing editor at the POST. There is some irony that he was finally pulled up at the ripe age of 50 something by an aspiring young blond party hostess and gossip
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columnist some 20 years his junior. He kept her at the Post and after their 1978 marriage, they became the ultimate dinner hosts for D.C.’s hoi poloi and foreign dignitaries. It bears remarking when Hilary became First Lady in 1993, she politely refused her initial Ben/Sally dinner invitation and thus precipitated Sally’s venomous journalistic attacks. I had an appointment with Mr. Bradlee in the spring of 1976, in my position of the JFK effort, to try and gain some objective ink. Not knowing then what has come to light, it was obviously futile. Irony had me sharing an elevator with Ms. Quinn and her second. It serves no purpose relating what I heard as she had no idea who I was. I waited nearly an hour before being told with regrets, scheduling prohibited my meet with Mr. Bradlee. All subsequent correspondence attempts from me and others interested in some dialogue, to one who should have been able to make some difference (and in good conscience) were continually rebuffed. I continue to be astounded that the Official version of such a flagrant and open act of treason and coup d’etat has been allowed to remain unchallenged by our best and brightest. I am a no body and since an accident prevented any relevant work, I write. Don’t confuse a paragraph here or there with some small time Don Quixote tilting at wind mills. My crusade for change has long since been…. I have no real hope that what this everyman writes, will ever receive appropriate attention. It won’t because those who could influence real democratic change, continually refuse to do so. 911 and 12/21/12 are more of the same. I was born in the Capitol of the country which should be Earth’s best and greatest hope for example and be the guarantor of Earth’s human continuity. We have not earned this privilege from Mother Earth and the great Creator. I still want to believe, but it is hard to, when no one but the likes of a nobody like myself makes the effort for truth to reign and flourish. What say you???
“Those in power write the history. Those who suffer, write the songs.” Old Irish saying.
“Treason never prospers. What’s the reason? When it prospers, none dare call it treason!” Sir John Harrington. If the legend becomes fact, print the legend!
What makes me both mad and sad at once, is the lies we were told in our education system while growing up. My teachers should have ridden with Jesse James as much time as they stole from me with unrealities like, Manifest Destiny, Wounded Knee, The Great Wars (surprises at Pearl Harbor), this UFO deal, the lies surrounding JFK, RFK and MLK’s killings, the Vietnam War (domino theory), the lies about abandoning NASA and manned space exploration. And now 911, which I discussed in the middle article, 411 ON 911. For those of you who read this without having done subsequent and substantive research, you might think I’m some kind of nut myself. Well, I do too some days, as in ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately I have either lived or done respectable reference work (or both) on these issues and before you judge me too adversely, do some real reading please. What I’m leading into is, we are in grave danger of losing our stature as the only real super power on Earth. We have lost most other countries respect since January 20th, 2001. We are more vulnerable than ever to being undermined and overwhelmed by a combined effort of third world countries and their terrorist tactics, which would so please China and Russia, thus further destabilizing what’s left of real order and responsible authority and oh yeah, DEMOCRACY. The factor which is allowing our vulnerability and decline to happen is Americans are so fed up with our Government and the lying (we’re not collectively as stupid as some would like to believe) that we just don’t seem to care. The absence of hope will create this atmosphere every time. And it still appears as if
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the Bush Administration is hell bent on a strategic nuclear strike against Iran, using as an excuse, their potential nuclear capability. To wit, for bona fides, I just finished reading a very compelling book on Israel, Iran and the United States and their secret alliance(s) dating back to WWll. Such an attack would certainly lead to an Armegeddon scenario. Since the 911 tragedies, Bush, Cheney et.al. have surreptitiously limited our Bill of Rights (the first ten Amendments to our beloved Constitution) which was added almost immediately after its forming, being suggested by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams etc… to guarantee our civil rights. Another famous founding Father, Ben Franklin commented that…”One who is willing to sacrifice liberty for security is bound to receive neither.”
Believe it or not, Americans want to be told the truth, they want to have a voice in the dialogue and process and are so tired of having their vote wasted on elected liars and their particular nefarious scandals/ill deeds. Some candidates or public servants who were actually trying to bring virtue, honesty and decency back into the public trust had their efforts either compromised or were assassinated. The Media suffered similarly. I can comprehend this successful interference in the 1960’s, when the printed press and radio were the predominant means of news dissemination. Electronic media was just coming of age and America was still more rural rather than cosmopolitan. But not now, when we have modern technology, investigative journalism, instant communication and the internet, which all have served to educate the populace. But the fact is, most people don’t grasp the concept that 911 was chosen mockingly as the date, as those with influence still refer to this infamous day as “nine eleven”. Come on people, it is “911”00208888and it is easy to see without looking too far, that to those dedicated wrong who perpetrated this huge act of treason and commensurate lies, do not hold much as sacred. I have to add a very provocative thought here. In our Constitution and its Amendments, there exists NO, I repeat NO contingency for replacing our “elected” or “appointed” Federal Government Officials, should, GOD forbid, Washington suffers a now very technologically possible, massive tragedy. Say The President and/or Vice President were to survive, there are no Constitutional rules or procedures, for either, to replace such a loss. We would go under marshal law and for how long and and and…. you fill in the blanks. I wrote an article on this back in1981. I’ve spoken to people about this grievous omission, yet no remedy has been accomplished. Why is that? I will say in our universe there are no accidents. We are now more vulnerable than ever, by both the real terrorists or by those on the inside who allowed (orchestrated?) nine-one-one. I dare not delineate scenarios I’ve come across in my reading for fear of giving America’s (my still beloved country) enemies any idea not previously contemplated. I stand to say we still may face yet another worse event to enable the provocation of even more nefarious plans. God forbid, yet as long as the 911 fairy tale prevails, the gate is open. Hell, the Democrats are again self destructing over the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan primary voters from some disingenuous rule about voting time tables in January and their infighting they still want to leave Iraq a blood letting massacre. It’s no longer a question of how Congress voted approval for Bush’s deception. It is incumbent for the United States to stabilize this fiasco and it doesn’t take the wisdom of Solomon. I discussed this in 411 On 911, or review Senator Joseph Bidens’ strategy, who by the way was never given a chance by the media in his Presidential Election bid. The most qualified experienced candidate who continually, for some six terms, has done his homework
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Yet the powers that be prevented the most viable, equal time and exposure. I don’t believe there exists a candidate who better understands Victor Hugo’s LES MISERABLES quote, “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” better than Joe. Save maybe Jesus, Ghandi, JFK or RFK or MLK or or…you tell me. Kennedy wasn’t killed for being a bad President. He just wanted to move the world toward peace and was quickly learning how. I must enter the fact that many of the above mentioned antagonists, to include CBS’ William Paley, were inducted as students, into the highly secret Yale University society called SKULL AND BONES. It is a far reaching, life long affiliation that has a world wide network and immense connections which decide humanities’ direction and events governing the desired outcomes. Both President Bush #41 and #43 share a highly diverse membership with such others as Senator John Kerry etc…! How they and other affiliated secret sects like the Masons, Illuminatti and the Bilderburger Group, arrive at a consensus of opinion, is not for us common folk to know. Astoundingly, Masonic and Illuminatti symbols and icons have been found in ancient Mayan writings and hieroglyphs.

When one looks at history (ourstory), it is evident there was always going to be an America since ancient peoples grouped together and formed social pacts to cooperate for survival and progress. But unfortunately envy and greed also created societies who would rather conquer and make other peoples subserviant, to increase their power and position with their hard earned riches, knowledge, resources, labor and prestige. War is merely just armed robbery on a grand scale. There have been societies that were at one and peace with our beloved planet, but they yield mere footnotes to conquerors and colonialism. This concept brought cultural exchange a different, than intended, meaning. It also stifled human effort the open freedom to advance in a humanely, sophisticated and cooperative meaningful effort. The legendary ATLANTIS, an island separate from the maine, was purported just such attributes. Most of this information and knowledge was lost when the Library of Alexandria was pillaged, burned and destroyed. Plato had visited and studied some of the scrolls and artifacts preserved from the then, antiquity and passed them on to his student, Aristotle and others, the reality of a lost Atlantis and some astonishing tales of its technology and formidable position. He gave a date of some 9,000 B.C. as its zenith (all of this is subject to intense scrutiny and skepticism, even the linking of Mayan history to connections on Egyptian hieroglyphs). One version of the Library’s demise, is a sect pillaged the Library for its secrets and covered the covert theft by fire and vandalism for mythindirection. Then they have kept this knowledge and used it surreptitiously, over the ages, as they came to grasp and understand purpose and control. Much of this is just logical speculation, but its worth examining because of a confluence of unasked or unanswered questions apparent. The nonunderstood Illuminatti is a suspect.
As I have always theorized, there was always bound to be an AMERICA. A democratic experiment allowed to progress to such a level of influence and power as we have since our inception. People, from time immemorial have yearned for a social compact that would create a climate unencumbered by marauding greed of those who would pillage for gain. We have so desired a place where freedoms of thought, speech, assembly and honest deed, not only be allowed, but encouraged. A place where law, not men (people) determined human fate and balanced with equality. This type of environment would
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encourage creativity and design, for good purposes. A utopia which made the free exchange of ideas and the exploration of the sciences uninhibited, in order to gain a technology to benefit all. A geographic region hard to reach by greed and envy. We’ve so longed for a society to share with and help humankind all over the planet. A place where one could start with nothing but hard work and have that work yield success as yet before unfathomable, from such equation. This experiment, if successful, would serve to guarantee the continuity of the human race as our legacy. It did begin to happen with a piece of paper which said, “…. WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL…” and another piece written after a long and bloody fight, saying, “IN ORDER TO CREATE A MORE PERFECT UNION…” Our United States Constitution and its First Ten Amendments now known as our BILL OF RIGHTS. This was the conception which grew into what we still reference as the American Dream. Next to Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants landed to enter our country in New York, France gifted us (with whose assistance in our Revolution was essential) with a Statue we call Liberty. They built it and we positioned it fittingly at the port of immigrant entrance. It was the first image these “refugees” saw from sea, as they completed their arduous and jeopardy filled journey to freedom. “Keep your ancient lands, your storied pomp! Cries she with silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” EMMA LAZARUS wrote this, in part, in her patriotic poem, THE NEW COLOSSUS.

Unfortunately, in the 1800’s, the first real American Century, demonstrate the premise of democracy and capitalism’s ideals, but the enemy grows from within. Slavery nearly tears the country apart spared only by the grace and stalwartness of President Abraham Lincoln. Then the Captain’s of Industry take inhumane advantage of cheap, lower class labor, including children. All the while, their wealth and power begin to influence our foreign policy toward raping other countries of their natural resources through the ruse of Colonialism, from rubber and banana’s to oil, taking without giving. A century of this, by the 1960’s, created “THE UGLY AMERICAN” abroad. Hell, it wasn’t until 1920 did women gain the right to vote. The misunderstanding of the Russian Revolution created a post WWl paranoia that made these men of wealth, fear the rise of collective bargaining and trade unions here, as the harbinger of a real worker’s revolt, which was never a realistic possibility, even with the Great Depression from Wall Street malfeasance. Only with the Second World War and organized labor, did America actually realize a viable working middle class. Our economy became dualistic in nature, with the Cold War needing an ever expanding Military, Industrial and Intelligence Complex as one end and consumerism, buoyed by the advertising goods and services built less than substantial, so replacement with new improved products, would be a necessity. It is termed planned obsolescence. Materialism and drugs have come to dominate our keeping up with the Jones’s standard, all the while automation and the out sourcing of jobs and contracts have insidiously begun to destroy our economic infrastructure. The exploration of space of an international joint venture, would have been a truly financial boon for all, not to mention
an extremely worthwhile effort. Again, I addressed this concept in my first two articles. For reasons unexplained or lame, we ended the last two Apollo Moon Missions and cut
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NASA’s budget without any JFK type encouragement to continue doing what was possible, like colonize the moon and visit Mars. Imagine what we may have learned. Or…imagine what is being learned on the QT! Anything is possible. “The great enemy of truth, is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest….but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”. JFK
My primary occupations have been heavy construction and being a mailman. My step mom got me up early on a cold Saturday in October of 1967 (high school grad year and Vietnam draft zenith) to take the then Civil Service Exam. I told her I had forgotten the test and had partied till 4 A.M. and was in no shape…interruption by her with…”if you don’t get up and take that test and pass it to be mailman, you’ll never eat supper in my house again! I’m sending your father collect and deliver you.” I just mumbled something about her not playing fair and thus started my on/off career as a Letter Carrier, which I loved. When I started back in Florida in 1987, between some brutal interruptions, the USPS was becoming a “business, not a SERVICE, to my utter consternation. In 1999, with my young’uns raised and my wife #3 out the door, I had to resign for health per my Doctor’s strong concern. This is a whole other book. Suffice it to say, by the spring of 2000, I lost my $60,000 house. In the next few years, the housing market was sent spiraling upwards on a false economy intended to persuade owners to re-finance their homes in an unrealistic proportion (pay off your credit cards, by a boat, RV etc…) so much the middle class became spend crazy beyond their means. Then, as easily seen, my old 60k house, re-valued at 250k, realistically de-valued down to, say 120k, still high. In the past three years America has seen an incredible amount of loan defaults and foreclosures. Wall Street, in their infinite omniscient wisdom, devised a plan to partially incorporate many of these bank loans into securities to keep them afloat. One of the oldest (1923) most prestigious brokerage and banking houses is Bear Stearns which ignominiously almost went belly up this year due to loss from the mortgage fiasco. Not to give one a Civics 101 lesson, but our capitalistic system has a defining French term called “laissez-faire”, literally translating to let alone. Our government is supposed to remain free of regulating business. The concept is another ruse we were taught. On March 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve (no you won’t find it or the Internal Revenue Service in our Constitution) approved a partial merger with JP MORGAN CHASE pending a stock holder vote and a $30 Billion loan to support the mortgage deficit and keep this integral(?) stalwart of Wall Street heritage. For years (see the film BOILER ROOM) off street brokers have been cold calling the middle class and with the most self assured faux pas voice, entice them into taking their savings, 401 K or even borrowed money, to invest in “Rising Star” stock. They drop a prominent name, like WARREN BUFFET or the likes, as their source and coerce, cajole or browbeat with an intensity and religious fervor, that make door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen look like beggars. These people could sell ice cubes to Eskimo’s. They pump until the well is dry all the while becoming rich off of someone else’s hard earned nest egg. Oh yeah, the government bailout is historical for the wealthy and connected. But what of the little guy whose shoulders have carried our country to numero uno with their blood, sweat and tears? Well this time, BUSH #43
has initiated a “stimulus package” of $300 per tax payer due out in May. Mine is due
on the 4th of July. Bush says Americans will quickly spend this money circulating it back into our economy, thus boosting (a rising tide lifts all boats!) it. Of course Congress does
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not have the guts to say where this money will come from, since BUSH#43 squandered an inherited Federal Budget surplus of billions and turned it into a deficit of unknown trillions. Meanwhile, with oil over $100 a barrel, inflation is causing the biggest recession since the real Depression. There is no answer or resolution in sight, save a black male and a white woman cutting each other’s throats in a nomination fight which refuses to focus on the real issues and unselfishly form a Democratic lock on the Executive and Legislative Branches come November with our global future at stake. May I cautiously remind you the last time Bush gave America a tax rebate was in August of 2001, only weeks before 911! Aw gee Maw. Hey, I can’t see over the horizon, but….but I do know Katrina victims are still without and New Orleans has been selectively rebuilt. Have I gone 360 degrees yet?

In retrospect, I usually try and inject some humor in my writing but I’ve suddenly noticed that these some 12 pages are stone cold fact (or maybe bullshit to you) and devoid of any humor. Then on reflection I says, Hell I’ve been giving specific detail in refuting some of America’s biggest cornerstone precepts. How many of you reading here are saying this guy is a fantastic hoax. I wonder how much of his mash could he regurgitate without the benefit of a crib sheet? Good point. Or maybe he‘s just a certifiable kook! And that’s when I start laughing, because I have yet to touch on UFO’s and the prevariable “the end of the world is coming”. The crib sheet? Ha. Unfortunately, I’ve got this down by rote! The Dickens you say. I say, “Listen to “DESOLATION ROW” by Bobby Dylan.

Oh yeah,…ascension, declination and precession. Many have tried and some rather successfully, to predict the future and specific events to come. Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce are two, who as of late, have experienced an eerily recognized accuracy. In my younger day’s sporadic reading, I accidentally came across the following:
LOCKSLEY HALL…ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales:
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue;
For along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder storm;
Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Naïve and uncultured, I was swept away by this to me, a singularly awesome 1886 description of the Twentieth Century. It does have a hope full tinge, but it comes from the middle of a rather long stanza’d poem. While researching what I’ve been writing, I came
across a more ominous feature of impending gloom. I rarely read fiction as I am a sucker for footnotes, but I came across THE GENESIS CODE. It is written a’la Michael Crichton combining known science and fact with a plot. It led me to read APOCOLYPSE
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2012, by Lawrence Joseph, the definitive book (in my opinion) on the Mayan long count calendar, created in August of 3114 B. C. and ends on December 21, 2012. It is 5200 years in length, divided by four parts with the fifth being the end count which just happens to be our Winter Solstice. The kicker is every 26,200 years our sun comes into a position, via precession, which for one full day with shadows on each side, virtually blocks earth’s view of the center of the Milky Way, our galaxy! The center of course, is a large black hole which emanates all sorts of energy, known and unknown. A consensus of serious respectable researchers believe a shift of the North and South Poles, will occur, which would cause incredible upheaval on the tectonic plates (continents) and life as we know would cease. Archeologists have documented several such phenomena occurring previously with such results, one is speculated to have helped end the ice age circa 10,000 something B.C. Other discussions with Mayan shamans still holed up in caves near the Teotihuacan area all the way to the Mayan peninsula, since their own exact prediction of the Spanish invasion and raping of their culture, indicate they believe a new era of consciousness will occur. With their calendar warning them of the impending tragedy, they took their scrolls (they refer to them as codicils of calendar predictions). The arrogant Catholic Church controlled these expeditionary legions and destroyed all found documents interpreted as myth and dogma and rewrote the Mayan history as Christian. Supposedly, only seven codices survived or have been read, with five still sequestered and unshared. Perhaps all have been read and interpreted as disastrous, by the real powers that be and have been making secretive surreptitious plans to prepare for certain scenarios of 12/21/12. For instance, we know of two mountains with well protected cavernous areas carved out, storing every seed and grain known to man. Both of the two I have read of are inside the Arctic Circle and being touted as storing flora and fauna seed for rejuvenating the earth’s eco system incase of a planetary disaster like a comet incursion. Bill Gates’ Humanitarian Foundation, formed in conjunction with Warren Buffet last year, is a major financial backer of this and maybe other coinciding projects. Deep in the Ural Mountains of Russia, they have been carving out a huge ultra secret underground complex (city?) as large as the area inside the Washington D.C. Beltway. It appears the powers that be (for lack of a label of this secret conglomerate for now, how about GROUP X?), Group X has known much of this information for years and have excluded many of the earth’s best and brightest. How long have they known (years or centuries?) and what do they know? I know that they don’t have as much information and knowledge as they could because they have excluded the equation of Convergence of Capabilities which simply put, the more people to have access to a problem, the greater opportunity there exists to find a successful resolution. This arrogance and ignorance preclude reason and leave too much to chance. Chance favors the prepared, but we are facing an unknown that is a given; that being the fate of human life (perhaps all known life) on our big beautiful blue planet. I would venture to say, especially to those who really believe they know of the forces afoot on 12/21/12, do not know all. This is why the proliferation of what some do know, should be made available
to all of humanity. This knowledge is so significantly important, it could mean preventing or mitigating what may occur. Inclusion of the facts to the world and particularly to
those who have historically been predicting this date and event, is a non negotiable imperative if we are to have a snowball’s chance in Hell!! I raised my kids on the concept
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that if you think long enough and hard enough about a problem, you can find at least one acceptable solution. I must add one more looming feature to what I’ve read. Astronomers have long wondered why our sector of the MILKY WAY is 90 degrees off kilter, to its swirl. The accepted reason is we are part of a dwarf galaxy being absorbed by it. We are due to have our solar system change its course by gravitational pull. When, is still speculative. Consequences? I refuse to delve into. I can not help but think that BUSH#43’ sustained denial of Global Warming or Climate Change is predicated upon GROUP X’ knowledge and preparation of 12/21/12. For example, if you are directing all of your attention and energy toward what you believe will sustain a chosen few to survive such a catastrophic array of possible disaster(s), why spend precious time, material and energy on speculative and diminutive events which are trumped by this probable imminent cataclysm? It would certainly explain this Presidency’s bold and illegal misuse of power and funds (deficit spending) and international bellicose intervention for perceived, strategic position. In this (scenario) consideration, we are all acutely gaining in the realm of logical speculation.

As for this Alien (UFO) controversy, the phenomena is older than the Bible. I must yield as I have no religion per se, but a very strong faith. I believe (because I choose to…free will) in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and all things are possible through him. Of all the ancient documents like Plato or The Iliad or The Tibetan Book of the Dead etc…from Greek and Latin to Aramaic, there exist at least 24,000 translated manuscripts of the BIBLE. The concurrence of exact literal translations is about 99.5%. This figure of agreement is staggering. The Roman EMPORER, Constantine convened a meeting of Clerics, known as the Council of Nicea in the summer of 325 A.D. to consolidate a Christian Church. Among the decisions made in the Nicene Code was that this Emperor would declare Christianity as being the Catholic Church with its unified leader to be the “POPE”. Among Jesus’ twelve Apostles, he designated (Simon) Peter (as in Petra or Rock) to lead, after the fulfillment of the prophesy. This Council virtually eliminated persecution and martyrdom of the Religion. One of the results of the Council was to prepare a written historical version of the religion in what we call the BIBLE. The first six chapters are taken directly from the TORAH. These clergy discussed and decided what other books or information it would contain. Many codicils were omitted due to a perceived confliction with their message. A number of Bishops and Priests were killed due to their adamant adverse position(s) thus continuing the bloodshed which Jesus spoke against so adamantly. From Genesis forward, one can read uncanny references to stories easily interpreted with extra-terrestrial involvement. Consider this in the light of over whelming concurrence of literal interpretation in translation to English and other modern languages.
The main reason disseminated by both believers and debunkers of the UFO Alien question is, if the government were to admit knowledge of UFO’s existence, the concept would destroy religion. I say, utter nonsense, where is there a conflict? “We seek a free
flow of information….we are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation to that is
afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation (government) that is afraid of its people”. Believe it or not, the quote is from JFK during

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his abbreviated term as United States President. It has a very on point yet eerie inference, does it not? Should we read between the lines?
As far back as cave dwellings there are sketches of definitely perceptible unearthly people and flying craft that have continued up to today in familiarity of sightings. All cultures and societies have oral and written history of this imagery. Even association and abduction. You may start with our BIBLE. One can speculate they all got together and have played one long running joke on posterity which perpetuated itself. Or, you can admit there are dots to connect and the GROUP X crowd keeps telling us yet another tooth fairy tale like we are little children going, “Really?”. To challenge the BS, we are called fools and many who had the guts and fact(s) to expose their hypocrisy have had their lives destroyed or worse. This punitive debunking can only mean the phenomena is much more serious than speculation. Think Ann Coulter on a cosmic scale. In the geographic area we have (Biblical reference notwithstanding) labeled “the cradle of civilization”, which is now partially lower Iraq, held the earliest known civilization. It was called SUMERIA. It flourished around 4,000 B.C. and left behind scrolls and codices, most in well preserved containers. They began to be discovered some 200 years ago. The language was a combination of hieroglyphic and letter. A linguist named ZECHARIA SITCHIN who began the task of deciphering their stories from the mundane information (marriage, birth, death, taxes etc…) to fantastic stories of several alien life types who helped genetically DNA breed and hybrid with them to result in who we are now. There are several purposes alluded to, but according to his well respected translations, these beings gave the Sumer knowledge and power. They were referred to as Gods from above. They told of a huge 10th planet they called NIBURU, with an elliptical orbit of about 3600 years, which occasionally came close to earth. NASA has since confirmed another large object, as yet not located, outside Pluto’s path. There still exist many documents yet un-interpreted. At 84 years old Mr. Sitchin has written THE EARTH CHRONICLES’ books since 1976 and is considered the Dean, being a widely respected scholar and his work has so far stood the test of time, seemingly immune to debunking. There really is too much info to include here. Suffice it to say, this is yet another historical gag or we possess world shaking news and more dots to connect. From all continents and cultures there exist tales of UFO’s and strange beings making their presence known ever since then and the stories all bear similar or exact presentation. In the summer of 1952, for some three nights, strange lights buzzed our Capitol of Washington D.C., lighting up radar screens and were chased by our finest jets, to no avail. What the hell was that all about? Phoenix Arizona had a huge lighted object pass directly over it several nights back in 1997 for hundreds of thousands to view. Most of you know a lot of the more incredible stories, from the crash in July of 1947 of an alien object and its probable recovery and subsequent immense Government denial to personal contact and abduction to….Yet we are continually kept in the dark and told nutty excuses. All of this seems to be associated, yet I refuse to speculate what I can’t substantiate.
On September 21st 1987, President Ronald Reagan addressed the 42nd General Assembly of the United Nations. In his address he re-inserted a statement that had been edited out

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which said, “In our obsession with the antagonism of the moment, we forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside universal threat
to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world (!)” He repeated virtually the same message in a speech in 1988 to then Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachev. Pretty heady remark from the Great Communicator don’t you think? One Lt. Colonel Arthur Trudeau during the Battle of Pork Chop Hill, an essential and bloody fight in the Korean War, threw off his Helmet with General’s stars, picked up a Sergeant’s helmet and with only his pistol, rallied his vastly out gunned troops by yelling “I’m taking this hill. Who’ll come with me? Needless to say this heroic unselfish act turned the tide. This same man became a General in Army Intelligence and had been associated with the Roswell alien vehicle crash from the beginning. If you’ve read or watched the Discovery or History Channel, you would know initially, we claimed to actually have recovered a UFO and its occupants. Within a day, denial was stringently implemented and disinformation was robust. Obviously, protection of civilization’s most important find (save the real cross and validation of the shroud!) because the USSR and Red China utilize espionage to sequester data for the bomb and other technology, rather than hassle with R&D for years, to perfect such. I am for openness in our government and a participatory democracy, but to quote Winston Churchill in WWll, in regard to having cracked the German ENIGMA Code, “ In war time the Truth must be accompanied with a body guard of lies”. This acquisition must be kept secret at any and all costs, at least until we reverse engineered the equipment and abilities and mastered it for our National Defense. General Trudeau picked a nondescript Lt. Colonel named Phillip Corso (a man so innocuous, he was under the radar so to speak). Corso had seen debris from the crash site in transit and knew we were sequestering the find for study to several secret locations, like Wright Patterson Air Force Base and soon an area designated “51” for testing flight craft. He served under General MacArthur in the Korean War for Intelligence. General Trudeau recommended Ike use him as a security counsel. Later he was posted right under Trudeau at the Pentagon in a branch called Foreign Technology for Research and Development (foreign, surreptitiously meaning earthly like Russian, the perfect ruse). Lt. Colonel Corso wrote a book of his involvement and an overview of the benefits in 1998. It’s called, ROSWELL; THE DAY AFTER. In his position at the Pentagon, Trudeau had given him several file cabinets and boxes to glean understanding. He also served as Liaison to Senator Strom Thurmond, the ranking member of Defense Committee and with this relationship of trust, would find government contractors who might be working on something similar to any one of the gadgets or data he held secluded. Corso would utilize a familiar contact at that company with a visit and say here, see what you can make of this and apprise me. They would reverse engineer the object and develop a working facsimile. The Senator wanted know only just enough on need and funds would become available. After years of secret practical application for National Security, the item or concept would be commercialized and the contractor would realize a fortune from sale and stock. The Senator from South Carolina wrote a superiorly favorable introduction in the book, labeling Mr. Corso as a true American
patriot for his work. Remarkably, the day after publishing, Sen. Thurmond held a press conference retracting his remarks. Obviously, someone felt lending his name to the book
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would validate it, which they didn’t want. Simple logic tells you this move only enhanced the viability and integrity of Corso’s effort. According to Corso, the following technology
was achieved from this process; the integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, night vision
equipment, super-tenacity fibers (such as Law Enforcement life saving equipment, Kevlar plastic armor, lasers, psychotronic devices (headbands)that can translate human thoughts into signals to control machinery, particle beams (read SDI and Ronald Reagan) and Stealth Technology. And speculatory…space craft similar to what was recovered. Corso felt this work put us on a semi-equal plain as the aliens or EBE’s as the government refers to the beings who fly these craft. I know this is a lot to fathom but the dots are now revealing a pattern which explains much of our experience since 1947.

After my dear Mother passed when I was nine years old, my father moved me to College Park, Maryland to stay with his Mother. (I have always proclaimed I had the world’s two best Grandmothers) To deal with my grief and pain, I discovered my interest in our Solar System and beyond. In the best example of cathartic functionalism, (I coined that phrase, thank you) I buried myself in every book the city library and then the county one had on astronomy and the new kid on the block, astrophysics. Heck, I even read science fiction. At the time, the arrogant elitist scientific community held there could be no other life in the Universe, much less planets around other suns. We were a fluke, creationism or accident. I marveled at this dogma as a kid. Even I could tell you this was sooo wrong. Back then, I still had not become acquainted with the UFO phenom or close encounters etc...This reminds me of the joke about a young Bible Belt lady just out of college, applying for a teaching job with the local Board of Education. The lead question was, “Miss Smith, do you teach Intelligent Design or natural selection?” Her reply was, “Oh, I can teach either!” And away we go! Myself, I can’t understand how even this Big Bang Theory could have happened without GOD. Up until just recently, the Catholic Church would not hear any type of evidence we were not alone. Then poof, this May 2008, out of nowhere, the Vatican’s Chief Astronomer, one Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes stated in an interview, “….the vastness of the Universe means it is possible there could be other forms of (intelligent?) life outside earth. How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere? Just as we consider earthly creatures as a ‘brother’ and ‘sister’, why should we not talk about an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? It would still be part of creation”.”….it doesn’t contradict our faith…Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like ‘putting limits’ on God’s creative freedom.” The good Reverend even acknowledged the Big Bang etc…Am I loopy or are they just now trying to jump onto the train? Years ago, this would have been heresy and mean ex-communication and earlier, death! I can see the headlines now. Pope vies for first contact amongst other self anointed important people! Yeah, Let’s ride, take a saucer whirl around our good ole Milky Way, Brother, er Sister, er, er oh yeah Mr. ET! You can’t make up this kinda stuff, you just can’t. The dots are connecting and as for me, I know God put me here for amusement.

“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.” ECCLESIASTES”.
In 1975, I was not a Bible reader, but my Grandmother’s had gotten me in Sunday School
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and Church in my youth. One day I asked my friend and mentor, Harold Weisberg what his favorite Chapter was and he replied, “ECCLESIASTES”. I went home and opened the Bible Mom and Dad had given me at Christmas 1955, age of 6. There was that passage with my Mother’s penciled parenthesis around it hitting me like a message from the grave. In 2001, with 911 upon us, I turned to it for comfort. It was then my hair stood straight up, for that very passage was Chapter 9 Verse 11. 911 from her has been no coincidence. I don’t know how I’ve gotten to this point in my life, (her wonderful influence has been huge) but I am well aware of the events and experiences upon which I now draw from. And, I know we must and will succeed and prevail, as one people, against all odds, on this dear and great planet which GOD bequeathed us. These will indeed become the times which will TRY men’s souls. And sisters of the sun. So Rock me on the water and this time, after much learning and consideration, I am on the Bridge to stay, as did the historically time honored, HORATIO at the Bridge. It is time we took possession and control of what is duly ours. That would be our lives, our fortunes and our sacred HONOR. And our home, TERRA FIRMA, Once again and forever. Seems like after one writes an article, he/she remembers one nugget that is forgotten to include, which allows the story go full circle. Well, here’s mine. As I mentioned, both BUSH#41 and BUSH#43 were members of Skull and Bones. The point is, they undoubtedly considered their oath to the SKULL and BONES Society much more sacred than their oath of allegiance to PRESERVE and PROTECT the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA as Commander and Chief! Nuff said.

PROPRIO VIGORE QUIDAM



BY JAKE

411 on nine-one-one

411 ON 911
Since I wrote 911 so much has happened to include heightened fear, prejudice and a very deliberate and contrived diminishment of our Constitution’s Bill of Rights. First and foremost in my mind is the continual obfuscating nomenclature of that day as nine eleven and its terribly tragic events. The day should be referred to as Nine-One-One as in dialing for emergency help. To anyone, even from the “dumb down generation” and those who haven’t figured out television stations co-ordinate their commercials to be simultaneously shown in order to retain their audience, it should be abundantly clear that September 11th was specifically chosen as the day to inflict this harm on our homeland, as an incisive derisive mocking statement. Yet the media and government use “nine eleven” rather than the correct and meaningful nine-one-one intended reference. Why? Since this new day of “national infamy”, we’ve had much discussion on who, what, when and why. We’ve had a woman named Ann Coulter write a condemning book attacking “the Jersey Girls”, widows of the twin tower hits, chastising their efforts to have a more objective and inquisitive ( read integral) investigation of all the events before, during and after 9-1-1. Thomas Jefferson said, “Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error”. Yet this Colter woman chastises these widows as only being selfish, indulgent, publicity seekers stirring up sad memories. As a point woman for the dedicated wrong, one might think she could have been a bit more considerate, compassionate and commiserative toward these ladies and respect for their effort. Anyone who has read their book or having seen their interviews, see beyond a shadow of a doubt they indeed are, the genuine article, trying to use our system of checks and balances (what’s left of it, that is) in seeking the deserved justice, still not achieved. Whatever Colter’s purpose is, it proves there must be much left unexposed for her to libel, slander and mudsling to the degree she has viciously anointed the “JERSEY GIRLS” with, in an effort to refocus and debunk. As with any national event, there are always nuts and kooks coming out of the wood work to give disinformation or gain fortune and fame with their latest crazy version of what really did transpire. They are lumped together as “conspiratorialists”. There are though, credible and responsible books, articles and web sites which give reason to our worst fears of government collusion, if not cover over. Just put it in the context that if a President of the United States can be gunned down on an open public street with a Disney World fairy tale, called the WARREN REPORT as the official explanation and is still accepted (taught in school) and let stand for forty-four years with no valid disclosure, it is unfortunately, not such a stretch. I have had problems with the credibility of President Bush long before 911. In 2,000, after a strong showing by Senator John McCain in the New Hampshire Primary, George Bush had to handily win the South Carolina primary to position himself for the Super Tuesday of primaries just weeks away. Instead of going straight to South Carolina, Bush’s handlers regrouped with him in Crawford, Texas and re-invented, so to speak, their candidate, with just having him practice reading and delivery from almost invariably the same short speech, with the suggested nuances and emphasis and told him they would have a constant group of your supporters sitting down front to his
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right. After each declarative quasi-patriotic sentence, a prompt would be issued and wild delirious cheering would be exhibited as if spontaneous. Watch the videos and see after each pre-arranged point, he’d look down at his “fan club” and give that smirk/smile as in the little boy who has just pleased his mother and teacher. Positive reinforcement from brief select worded spiels gave him a new political life and shielded him from the “gotcha questions”. Not to mention the dirty tricks his handlers pulled on the Honorable Senator John McCain. Then the Republicans, in his governor brother Jeb’s state, stole the 2,000 election fair and square, with a little Supreme Court improper and illegal opinion. Speaking of JEB!, had he won the Florida Governorship in 1994, preventing “Walkin” Lawton Chiles (he walked across the state to earn his political shoes, no pun intended) from being elected to a second term, JEB! would have been 2,000’s front runner. As slow as #43 (kegboy) is on the uptake, brother Jeb is fast and formidable. He is also bi-lingual (Spanish) and has proven himself many times over, especially during the hurricanes. While during gubernatorial hurricane media info’s, Jeb has insisted the networks give him extra time to relay the same directives in Spanish! He is also adamant about being a non-candidate in 2008! Why not?
Fast forward to a Sarasota elementary classroom and Press Secretary Andrew Card coming in, while President #43 is attentively listening to children reading MY PET GOAT and telling him that yet a second plane had hit the other Twin Tower and watch Bush #43’s face for seven (7) long minutes. It shows he has no clue what to do sitting frozen (watch him in Fahrenheit 911) until a staffer comes in to yank him. What other real U.S. President in our brief history have so comfortably witnessed such obvious bellicose acts and have demonstrated such non-response to obvious ongoing terrorist action of the highest degree?? BUSH#43 did remark while still in Sarasota, he had seen the first plane hit! How could he have? My first question after the failure to even allude to nine-one-one, is that if these terrorists were so intent on maximum damage effect, then why not wait until the hours of 11A.M. to 2 P.M. when the Towers would be full to their complement of workers and an additional three to five thousand tourists? Thank God they didn’t, but why did they not? Among the questions and/or inconsistencies associated with responsible criticism of the Official Versions of the 911 Commission Report are the tracking of Flight 93 when it turned in the radar shadow of another jet liner, is the contention it followed it in its radar swath and landed in Cleveland on a parallel runway. The pit in Shanksville, Pa. where Flight 93 allegedly crashed after heroic efforts to deter its terrorist mission, was so obliterated, no items of particular (suitcases, briefcases, parts of the wreckage etc..) were said to be found and the coroner quit searching for body parts when he could not after an hour, even find traces of blood! One engine was found some two miles from the pit, suggesting maybe the courageous passengers were successful, but there could not be any contradictive witnesses, Flight 93 was either shot down or... The absence of any identifying parts, luggage and/or human effects etc… save the “black boxes”, in such a crash debris field is, incredible. At the Pentagon (five sides), a five ring stone and steel re-enforced building, strangely there exist very few eye witnesses claiming to have seen a 767 jet airliner come out of the blue at a height of 20 to 30 feet and crash
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into its side. The explosion left a much smaller gap than theoretically should have been wrought. I would be irresponsible if I agreed with the conclusions of some of the skeptics who claim a missile hit it, but I do know a jet airliner of such capacity cannot fly that low to the ground for long before inertia and gravity stalls it out and the only available video clip of the strike shows a projectile hitting the Pentagon wall almost perpendicular to the ground and in an area that was under redecoration. The tape recorders, giving constant view of the area, were pulled by the FBI almost immediately after the event and have been suppressed. WHY? With the Twin Towers, a number of hierarchy of Fire Officials and ex-military security people all witnessed sharp brief glows of light (read explosions) at corners of the buildings just prior to both collapses. In a rather persuasive argument, made by a number of knowledgeable people, all claim towers of such solid structure should not have collapsed and neither of them would have had the tendency to implode symmetrically and fall down so efficiently upon their self. Recently, we had explosive riggers here in St. Petersburg who discussed in depth the techniques they would use to destroy (implode) an old eight (8) story hotel upon it self without damaging anything near by. But yet we witnessed the perfect implosions on two heavily constructed buildings because heat from aviation jet fuel melted random steel frames. Experts in this field agree plane fuel could not reach the heat degree necessary for such collapse. These assertions and questions are viably responsible, yet none were properly addressed in 911 Commission Hearings. Try reading THE SECOND PEARL HARBOR.
Then there is the alarming reality that FBI Special Agent Harry Samit arrested Zacarias Massaoui 26 days before the attacks yet the investigation of all his background activity from flight school training (flying, not takeoff and landing and absent a real pilot’s license) on a Boeing 747 simulator and other spurious activity, was summarily dismissed at some level of hierarchy and the agent was stymied in his effort to search Massaoui,s belongings and lap top computer. A request to put an Arab speaking ringer in a cell next to his to try to glean information on his unrealistic activity was denied. He was to be the 20th hijacker on 911. The absence of these questions are reminiscent of the Warren Commission’s failure to identify who was responsible for changing JFK’s motorcade route the morning of the 22nd so it would run through Dealy Plaza with its slow turns, making for a perfect ambush forum. The Dallas newspaper had published the motorcade route that very morning, with the path avoiding any such non protocol turns but going straight to the under pass to the Stemmons Freeway to his Trade Mart speech! Read people, there is so much more inconclusiveness and unanswered questions, more so, those unasked! Oh yeah, and what about the people told not to report that day in the Pentagon, Armed Forces, New York Port Authority and Security. I don’t have the space to enumerate all. You look it up. I will say, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the well known “Gonzo” political author (“Hells Angels, A Strange and Terrible Saga”, “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas” and Fear and Loathing On The Campaign trail, 1972” are among his many books) and was reputedly, the only man to ever ride with both Hells Angels and Richard Nixon, expressed his opinion that our BUSH #43 government caused or allowed 911 to happen. He used the lawyer
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axiom Qui bono” to justify his doubt. From a man with such an astute and experienced knowledge of our government, in and out, I have no doubt in respecting his view and seeking commensurate fact. To understand how the mid east and Moslem fanatics play such a large role, I believe one must understand Iran as a key. First, Iranians are not Arabs nor are they Arabian in any sense. They are a Shiite Moslem based religious country. PERSIA is the original name and the Persians/Iranians have maintained a sovereign, integral border with the same indigenous people, for over twenty-five hundred years. Alexander the Great, during his eastward conquest campaign, chose not to destroy Baghdad and Persia and particularly its ever growing Library and Archives of antiquity. The Persian poet, Omar Khayam, may ring a bell with his famed Rhubyat, of some 80 verses. One of my more favored is, “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety or wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it”. In 1941, with WW ll ongoing, at the age of twenty one, Mohaamad Reza Shah Pahlavi took over the Peacock Throne from his deceased father. Strong ties with the United States Military Industrial Intelligence Community aided him in preserving power, particularly over Prime ministers of its Parliament and Moslem fundamentalist religious clerics. The U.S. helped the “Shah” (king) organize a dreaded secret police called the Savak. In fear for his life, the main cleric player, Ayatollah Khomeini, a Shiite fundamentalist with a large following, left Iran in 1951, for exile in France. In 1967, Shah Pahlavi declared himself Emperor.
I served in the United States Naval Air in the late ‘60’s to early ‘70’s attached to a jetfighter squadron called VF-84 (the Jolly Rogers) which flew F-4J Phantoms. At sea, we were attached to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. FDR and I made two Mediterranean cruises, which proved to be a vast learning experience. The year after I got out, the Air Force and Navy Air switched its main fighter jet to the new F-14 Tomcat. In 1974, the U.S. sold the Shah, 80 of these state of the art fighters (Air Force version), along with its sophisticated armament and advisers to train their air force in all its features. This made Iran (our proxy in that region) the pre-imminent power in the mid east along with its much despised neighbor, the democracy of Israel which becoming a state, displaced the Palestinians, creating refugees. If the powers that be had preserved land for them, I believe peace could have prevailed. Iran also happens to be one of the top three oil rich producing countries on the earth. I believe Gerald Ford (the only man never elected to serve as either Vice president or President of our United States) was in Office agreeing to the sale. Oh yeah, he was one of the seven members of the infamous Warren Commission! AND by the way, the price of oil in 1973 was $2.59 a barrel. In 1974, it jumped to $10.95 and the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC or cartel!) now was realizing over $100 billion a year in American dollars! Supposedly, the jump was from an oil (OPEC) embargo in the fall of1973. By 1980, a barrel of crude sold for only $30 and Iran was the only mid-east country with a blossoming industrial base to build on. The other countries could only invest in real estate etc…(read U.S. interests) or bank deposit profits. In 2005 -2006, a barrel of crude fluctuated between $70 and $75. As of this writing (1/14/08) a barrel of crude has passed $100 a barrel!
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As a returned vet, I worked as a mailman and went to college at night, until I could afford to finish out my degree at the Univesity of Maryland, in my hometown of College Park, Maryland. My first semester there was January of 1975. In March of 1975, Geraldo Rivera, hosting a late night show called Good Night America, showed for the first time, the one known film of John Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, November 22, 1963.The film was made by a dressmaker named Abraham Zapruder, from the so-called “grassy knoll”and the original had been held in the National Archives by officialdom on the premise of preserving the dignity of the Kennedy family. Obviously, it showed just the opposite of what the Warren Commission had maintained of there being a lone gun man shooting the president from the rear. From the beginning, as a 15 year old kid, I had many questions about the report which bothered me as unanswered or unasked. It was then that I came upon a book called WHITEWASH by one Harold Weisberg, at the off campus book store. He had to publish it with his own funds and sold on consignment, because, in his own words, “no publisher would dare print the truth”! The book was critical of the Report and every sentence had a documented footnote, mostly from the twenty six volumes of evidence, documents and testimony upon which the Report was based. Even more credible was the responsibility it used in not theorizing, but comparing and contrasting the finding with the body of evidence. He had published two more books on the Warren Report and one on the investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination by this time. The showing of the film caused such an uproar (read cause of the moment) that I called Mr. Weisberg, who fortunately lived just seventy miles north in Frederick, Md., and I asked him to come speak at the Campus, not having any plan A or idea how I would accomplish such a feat. But Harold said yes and asked me to visit him to go over details. A week later and much preparation (read perspiration and anxiety), I drove to his home to discuss the details. On April 14, 1975 Harold spoke to an overflow crowd of 2,000 and as a result of the interest, a group of us started a petition drive to have Congress hold open hearings on just the Investigation. There were several Resolutions of such, in the House of Representatives, at the time. One was by The Honorable Thomas Downing of Virginia and the other House member was Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, who by the way, had ridden in the motorcade that fateful day in Dallas. Our Congresswoman, the late Gladys Spellman from our Fifth District agreed, after some urging, to join as a co-signer of the Resolutions and enter mention of our 7,000 plus, petition signatures in the Congressional Record. She did ask me if I could provide some type of substantiation to justify her entry. I gave her a document Harold had just recently received under a Freedom of Information Act request. It was notes of the Warren Commission and counsel, in executive session (verbatim) on January 22, 1964 (this was before them reviewing any documents, evidence or the hearing of any testimony) discussing explicitly, that there was to be no real investigation and they were to rubber stamp the FBI’s version of Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and unassisted, in accomplishing the murder. Read it for yourself in The Congressional Record of May 14, 1975 on page E2442 in the Extension of Remarks. This all ties together that May, when my long time friend Dan and I went to Georgetown University in NW Washington D.C. to visit our contact, Jenifer, representing a group
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of interested students there. We parked on “N” street and walked a block to the Administration Building entrance. The campus had an old wrought iron fence and gate surrounding the area, probably for ambience. As we approached, we could hear vehement chants of a marching demonstration on the out sidewalk, of maybe a thousand people. They had brown bags over their heads and slits cut to see through. Some were painted various colors. They were protesting the Shah of Iran and his Savak’s atrocious acts on his own citizens. They obviously were afraid to reveal themselves, to prevent harm to them and their relatives back home. This made me realize that there were indeed thousands of students in the U.S. on visas attending some of the most prestigious Universities in America, paid for by their oil rich families. This was apparently true of all the oil wealthy mid east countries. Engaging in conversation, I began to learn they believed the U.S. Government had controlling interests in these nations and did not wish to see democracy take root. These people loved our society and culture and freedom but were abhorrent, on the whole, we as citizens were so politically naïve. They thought so much of us as a people, that if we knew first hand about the atrocities they spoke of, we would vote out the politicians who were allowing such anguish and abuse. They were also very moderate in their Moslem beliefs with even the Shiites not so interested in seeing fundamentalism take hold in their respective nations (read religious right and Jerry Fallwell etc…here). Right now, in the year 2006, with all that has taken place, I have strong doubts the majority of these peoples’ feelings have only grown stronger in this forum. I believe they just resent what our unchecked, greedy, dedicated wrong group have fomented in the region. I declare this from the many conversations I had with some of the foreign students and their American friends. Ironically, I had a professor in Ancient to Medieval History who spent a week discussing Allah, Mohammed, the Koran and the spread of the Moslem Empire, which of course led to the Crusades and the fight for JERUSALEM. He predicted that the 1974 Oil Embargo which was just the beginning of Moslems uniting in a Jihad (holy war) against the arrogant imperialism of the west which had been virtually stealing their oil for mere pennies. Funny life!?
Back to the future, in 1978 President Jimmy Carter visited the mid east and Iran during the New Year Holidays. He stoutly declared that Iran was, “an island of stability” in the volatile mid east region. After much civil unrest, even at the peril of the infamous Savak, the Shah, alleged to have cancer, was forced to leave Iran in January 1979. The next month, the fundamentalist Shiite Cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini, returned from exile in France, victorious and formed his own government. Sounds to me like Jimmy Carter, a very decent man with extreme integrity, was given some very poor intelligence or, just plain disinformation. My opinion was he was deliberately deceived and sabotaged to look bad. On November 4th, 1979, a group of “students(?)” to include the current President, stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, the Capitol and held all in the compound, prisoners (the hell with Diplomatic Immunity!). After a failed military rescue in April of 1980, President Carter turned to diplomacy but the channels would not open. It is now common knowledge that Ronald Reagan, candidate for the Republican nomination for President of these United States, through secret
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emissaries, held back channel meetings with Iranian officials (in Paris) to keep the hostages held until he won the election and took office. It remains to be seen exactly what the quid pro quo (Iran/Contra scandal ala Ollie North etc…) was, but at 12:30 P.M. on January 20th, 1981, with Ronald Wilson Reagan sworn in as our 40th President, on the 444th day of captivity, the announcement came that wheels were up on a plane carrying the Embassy Hostages to safety. Again, you tell me!
In neighboring Iraq (ancient Sumeria circa 4,000 B.C.) on July 22, 1979, a bully of a scoundrel named Saddam Hussein, took complete control over the military and the country (with U.S. help), after forcing the puppet President Baks, to step down. In the next few days he murdered anyone in power he perceived to be a threat. Iraq is divided geographically into three very separate groups. In the north there are the Kurds. In the mid region, around Baghdad, there are the Sunni Moslems and to the oil rich south, are the warlike Shiites. The Kurds are more the nomadic type having their population contiguous to Turkey, Iran, Syria and Armenia as well as Iraq. With the breakup of the old Ottoman Empire, the Treaty of Sevres created several of these nations and held clause for a state of “Kurdistan” which never came about. With the loss of Iran, the U.S. powers that be, decided to support Saddam Hussein to keep a foothold in the region. Which of course, meant weapons, armament, advisers, etc… and a turned head to human rights violations. In 1980, the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, (USSR) invaded Afghanistan, which became for them, a quagmire just like our war in Vietnam. Some countries just will not submit to conquest, no matter how overwhelming the strength or duration of occupation. Coincidentally, Saddam’s Iraq invaded Iran the same year(?). One can only speculate why, eh??? Iran’s air force was immediately destroyed (remember the F-14 Tomcat acquisition. Well it needs maintenance and upgrading, which the U.S. ceased support). Iraq’s forces were nearing Tehran and victory, when the Ayatollah influenced thousands of weaponless Iranians to blindly charge the Iraq army. With wave after wave of weaponless men of all ages confronting the Iraqi’s, Iran’s military behind them, pushed over the bloody corpses and turned the invasion back to the border where it remained as a standoff for eight long years; about the same length as the Soviet incursion of Afghanistan.. One incredible incident was Saddam Hussein using lethal gas to murder perhaps a million Kurds in the north. One other interesting bit from the 1981 time frame, was Israel’s air force striking and destroying a uranium refinery where Iraq was trying to manufacture fissionable material for an Atomic bomb. If this is starting to bore you as a history lesson, hang in there because when I’m finished, I’ll be at your doorstep. The United States has an indispensable interest in this region and as the old saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, the U.S. supported Afghanistan with a bushel of assistance. The Moslem fundamentalists declared the USSR invasion to be a “Jihad” and many Moslems, particularly rich Saudi Arabians (Osama Bin Laden), journeyed to join the romantic fight. Our Intelligence Community was equipping the Afghans with armament, missiles, technology and strategy, all of which Bin Laden was absorbing at the same time he was carving himself out safe houses, mountain enclaves and influence of the Moslem fundamentalists there and afar.
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Spreading his family fortune around did not lose any friends either. With the war over and the Soviet Union breaking apart, Bin Laden and friends had helped form a political group to rule Afghanistan, called the “Taliban”. Inside this circle was a terrorist group, called Al Quaeda. But I’m ahead of myself again. You see, Ronald Reagan (a grade “B” movie star) was President from 1981 (he beat the twenty year elected in a year ending in zero curse of dying in office, dating back to 1840…call it the luck of the Irish, but ballots not bullets should bequeath our leadership, amen) to 1989, but George Bush as Vice President (“#41” as opposed to his son whom the intimates refer to as “#43”) was really the “Man” (as in the THE WIZARD OF OZ). This scenario repeats itself with Dick Cheney (“Vice as kegboy calls him) running the show. Since when has Vice ever presided over the Senate as prescribed? So #41, beats Dukakis in ’88 for a virtual third term and now with hostilities ceased in the region, some new peril must be fomented. We need boots on the ground (read a large military base of operations in the region) with these oil rich nations gaining savvy and bravura everyday from the petro dollar influence. As it appears, Bush “41”gave Saddam an incidental wink to invade the small oil producing neighbor of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. There’s evidence to support this impropriety (read treasonous act) like let’s have a little live drill with our weapons and tactics, to see how well they function and we’ll just drive you out of Kuwait. Or, the wink is to shake up Saudi Arabia (oil rich and virtually defenseless) so we can have a strong hold there for staging the re-liberation of Kuwait and we’ll stay there as status quo. Or a simple answer is, Saddam just got too big for his britches and did not believe a consensus coalition with the United Nations could be put together, to repulse his forces. The price of a barrel of crude oil doubled over night in July of 1990 and we had in place “Desert Shield” at Saudi Arabia’s border with Kuwait and Iraq, pronto. Now pop quiz: who did this infidel’s occupation piss off more than anyone??? Osama Bin Laden, naturally. His ego (read power strive) was so off the chain, he was deported from Saudi Arabia. Awww gee maw! Desert Shield, with the proper patience and intelligence, allowed the Commanding General, Colin Powell in now Desert Storm, to kick butt in early 1991 and basically, the air contingency destroyed Saddam’s whole front line. The boots just served to clean up. Bush ”41” gave, at best, confusing signals to the Kurds up north that he would guarantee protection for them if they chose to rise up and fight for independence. He did declare their region a “no fly zone”, as he did in the southern Shiite region, but he didn’t keep his word and they suffered staggering, inhumane losses trying to break free from Saddam. In effect, we said we’d be there when their coinciding rebellion ignited. Instead, #41 let them rot and die. At that juncture, there was nothing of substance standing between us and Baghdad to oust Saddam and divide the separate entities and create a tentatively stabile sovereign region for each party. There was no Taliban or Al Quaeda then, formidable enough to create any insurgency or civil strife, like we see today. No matter what Bush “41” says his reason was not to pursue the dragon, (he actually wrote an apologist book on the lack of follow through) because he did not have,”an exit strategy”. I say BS. There were nefarious reasons he let Saddam stay in power. Osama Bin Laden grew legendary in stature, especially after his video declaration of Jihad against America in 1998,
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because there were infidels on holy soil (Saudi Arabia, home of the Rock/Dome) which came to initial fruition with the twin Embassy bombings on the same day/time in Africa and the suicide boat bombing of the USS Cole, at anchor off the coast of Sudan. In 1994, the Republicans with Newt “NUT” Gingrich and his little pamphlet called Contract With America (should be Contract ”On”…it reminds me Of Mao tse Tung’s “Little Red Book”, which pamphlets were distributed to the two billion or so Chinese, to read each day and memorize, on why Communism in China was so correct etc….) led his Republican Party to majorities in both Chambers of Congress, the first time in memory. They had a Lobbyist/fundraiser by the name of Jack Abramoff with an office on “K” St. NW (“K” St. became a sort of lobbyists’ row, finding unique means to raise and channel millions of solicited funds for strategic Congressional races in return for lock step voting and a multitude of various political favors…mostly unethical and illegal) who began to grow money trees and with the help of Congressman Tom Delay of Texas (who by the way, is now looking at a criminal indictment from his own home district with heavy prison time looming; Abramoff is already convicted and in prison) who succeeded Gingrich as Chairman of the House. By the way, Tom Delay currently suffers the same indignities as Abramahoff did. The ciphering off of millions dollars to candidates of choice, in every important state race, fattened their war chests with more than enough grease to win each one. In those early heady days, these Congresses spent over thirty-five million dollars to investigate President Bill Clinton as he proceeded to balance the budget in his first term, changing billions in deficit spending to a surplus of $236 billion with efforts to try and get Congress (read Republicans) to put it in the Social Security coffers for the baby boomer generation to have back what they legitimately earned, for their golden years!. Not concerned with healthcare, education, jobs or affordable housing, the Republican held House, spent over 140 hours in Committee, investigating alleged misuse of then President Clinton’s Christmas card greeting list (among other issues, like his sex life!). When representative John Conyers, Dem. Michigan, and some fifty other members asked for hearings on a document from the British government called “ the Downing Street Memo”, which that stated Bush”43”had “fixed” the intelligence about the reasons to take out Iraq, they were flat out denied! There have been less actual hearings in this Congress since Harry Truman’s “do nothing Congress” of 1948. According to the Constitution,” the Congress shall from time to time, advise and consent to the Executive Branch”. Basically it is supposed to hold hearings (with full subpoena power and penalties for perjury or the subornation of such) and legislate laws and send such bill(s) to the President to sign into law or make recommendations on matters of state. Since 2,000, when Bush “43” stole the Presidential Election fair and square, the Congress has held very few hearings. When Clinton lied, nobody died, makes a great talking point and bumper sticker. In #43’s absurd abuse of power(s), Rep. Conyers has a Bill of Particulars calling for the Impeachment and Removal from office of George Bush. In his role as the President of our country for our constitutional democracy, I would take a bullet for #43. As a citizen, I whole heartedly support Representative Conyers’ Bill. The previous was scribed prior to the 2006 Congressional elections.
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There is so much to put into an effort such as this, to awaken the regular Jane or John DOE American. In 1984 (George Orwell was just a few years ahead of his timing), I wrote of the re-election of Ronald Wilson Reagan “the Hawk won’t fly and the Turkey will certainly flop and the mule will be left to wallow in the slop!”. Benjamin Franklin, co-author of our beautiful Democracy, lobbied for the Turkey to be our National Bird. In a way, I am glad the EAGLE won out, but in the same vein, I’d rather have AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL as our National Anthem. The Wednesday after Tuesday’s 2006 elections, Bush #43 fired Donald Rumsfeld, his Secretary Of Defense and co-author of the war in Iraq and main point man on the bogus Weapons of Mass Destruction reasoning for making the war with Iraq and turning out Saddaam. Until the Democratic pummeling, Bush #43 was adamant about keeping his key war cabinet members intact throughout the remainder of his final term! Now it is incumbent upon the Democrats to offer viable solutions to ending the strife and turmoil (read torture and mass murder) and stabilize Iraq. As you can imagine, this will take the wisdom of Solomon. You can’t always get what you want, but if you try real hard, you get what you need! When I was working the JFK Petition and related efforts at U.of M., I was interviewed by the Campus Newspaper, THE DIAMONDBACK. I was asked about our democracy and my JFK effort and I said, “It is a shame America depends on one person so often, for so much”. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Martin L. King etc…”O sweet illusions of the brain.. O sudden thrills of fire and frost. The world is bright while ye remain and dark and dead when ye are lost (!)”.(THE HANGING OF THE CRANE by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) There is so much to include in this attempt to have real regular people read and understand how bad things are going for our dear country. Let me try by inserting the first paragraph of a book I started thirty years ago, to be named, THE DAY AMERICA WOKE UPAND DECIDED TO CALL IN SICK (or drunk, which ever you prefer!) “After all”, said Scarlett, ‘tomorrow is another day’”. Ah yes, TOMORROW….what else has been said about tomorrow? Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps on its petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And we are but poor players who strut and fret their hour upon the stage (actually Andy Warhol only allows us 15 minutes of fame in the future!) and then are heard from no more. Tis’ a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Shakespeare penned that goody. Really though, what about tomorrow? Actually, these days, this is more of an if, when, how and where question. That is if you possess enough fore thought to consider the opportunity. And although the drive for survival wins top priority in all species known, as the basic need, it seems ludicrously absent in today’s modern society, especially in America where Peep Hole magazine tantalizes us at the check out counter with what TomKat, BritFed and Mad Donna are up to and what have they done lately like their derigueur African baby adoption duty a la’ Angelina Jolley (sp?, no casting aspersions here because I believe her to be the real thing). The concept of our succeeding ourselves is as if it were some fore gone conclusion, undemanding of any consideration. It is as if Mother Nature (read GOD) has taken that one last voluntary leap for mankind (womankind also) and decreed on CNN, we are now safe and secure from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and planetary destruction.
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(don’t believe the Mayan Calendar and the 12/21/12 prediction) No Miss Fortune for good ole God Blessed America and we can now take survival for granted. Thusly, we have copped out for various reasons to not worry. What a rude awakening lays in store for US, I will not venture to predict. I shall only concede the awakening to the event. Of course, it is obvious I have updated the euphemisms to be contemporarily significant. But they mean so much more now, than ever. Actually, Bush #43’s stay the course policy on Iraq reminds me of the three legged chicken my son and I witnessed while crossing the state on the way to a NALC Seminar which I was a paid delegate (mailman) as to many of the functions and conventions. We got off the interstate for gas and I made a wrong turn and wound up down an ole Florida lane on farm land. As we were turning around, a three legged chicken ran in front of my truck and Buck (my youngun’) said, “Look Pops”. About then a farmer appeared with a shotgun and being like most country folk, not enthusiastic about intruders, was directing us to skedattle. Buck yells out to him, “Didn’t we just see a three legged chicken?”. “Yup”, he replied, “now get on”. My son, being persistent (family trait?) inquired further. The farmer says,“ I’ll tell you, then y’all git”. Seems he and Ma were partial to drumsticks and Jr. came along, thus the need to hack two chickens a night for supper and so he would complain about it. So Jr. says “Pop, why not breed them with three legs, one for each of us?”. The farmer said that was a great idea and proceeded to do so. Buck yells out as we’re leaving, “How do they taste?” The farmer frowns and says,“ I don’t know, I haven’t been able to catch one yet!”. So goes the Iraq dilemma. Be it far from me to trivialize the blood and last full measure of our troops, in any hostile arena. My thoughts and prayers go out to them and theirs, as I breathe. Yet I don’t sense the same code of ethics in our Executive Branch. For instance, Iraq had a museum and archive of material from antiquity even Saddam Hussein would not plunder. Many historians and scholars tried to covey to Bush #43 the message that when our troops reached Baghdad, we should secure this location ASAP, to protect it against looting. Three days in to the attack, our forces reached the city, but they had no orders to heed this pleading. The first building to be secured was the MINISTRY OF OIL! Unbridled rioting saw ancient treasures taken, even as our troops looked on! I believe this to be as good an indicator of Executive #43’s priorities, as any yet. Saddam was as brutal a murdering dictator as they come, minus Weapons of Mass Destruction and had no truck with Osama Bin Laden, as he would never tolerate anyone in His country, to share power or glory with him…get real folks. At the time, it was extremely obvious he had no part of Al Qaeda’s terrorism with the US and no desire for Uncle Sam to kick his ass again! Bin Laden had ingratiated himself to the various tribes of Afghanistan which allowed the Taliban, an ultimate fundamentalist group to gain control, in post Soviet Union occupancy. The Taliban allowed Al Qaeda to build its blossoming world wide terrorist group by recruitment, development and training of eager zealot wannabees, for the growing JIHAD. A very important distinction between the two has been publicly ignored by the Executive Branch from either, less than truthful intelligence or ignoring truth to power. Osama’s money and his successful terrorists’ missions began to draw Moslems to him like a lightning rod.
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With 911, his stature became legendary but in his home of Saudi Arabia and Iraq and Iran, he became persona non grata, out of fear he might foment the same type of unrest and following he was to enjoy in Afghanistan. As of this writing, there is no monolithic Arab/Moslem plot to destroy America and her Allies. There is though, a common feeling among these mid-east and other OPEC countries which would relish all problems and tragedy that could befall our dear country. From my point of view, I would question just how much Bin Laden and his ancient fundamentalist cronies really were involved as procreators of the 911 disasters, simple as they are made to be seen. His name and bio popped up on that tragic day, in all the news feeds, just as Lee Harvey Oswald’s did on 11/22/63, with an array of alleged connections, none justifying culpability of the act. It was more like disinformation being spread to support a predilected conclusion. The paternal Bin Laden was prolific in mating, with wives (17 plus) and children (50-60?) and had made his vast fortune on construction of virtually a massive amount of the Saudi infrastructure (highways ,buildings etc…) with Osama being in the back ground of the fold. Some of the Bin Laden family and financial group, were in America during 911 and even though all flights were grounded for about four days, special Executive Privilege was granted these potential witnesses and they were allowed to fly out of the country back to Saudi Arabia. After all, BUSH #41 had a sweetheart relationship with The House of Saud, the Rulers of Saudi Arabia, going back to the 1960’s or longer! The U.S., in its initial effort to gain footholds in Afghanistan, was to bribe tribal chieftains with $ millions for help (many opposed the Taliban and their main strategic tribal chief was gunned down on 9/10) and intelligence. It was with their selective help (remember, they had to be careful and hesitant on hedging their bets on the outcome) which enabled the U.S. to invade Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and put Al-Qaeda on the run into the Tora Bora Mountains which border Pakistan (remember the Khyber Pass?). Again, the main announced priority was to fetch Osama Bin Laden and bring him to American justice by invading Afghanistan in mid to late October 2001. As late as November 12, 2001, Bin Laden was giving his last public speech at the Center for Islamic Studies in Jalalabad, some thirty miles from these mountains, with some of the same tribal chieftains in attendance! Two days later, U.S. forces had taken Kabul, the capitol and a major city, some 40 miles to its west, which coincidentally, is his last public appearance and was known to have left from the Center, in a caravan of 7 to10 vehicles, heading toward the southeast and the mountains of Tora Bora, where he was known to have built fortified cave dwellings (recall, his family was the construction company in Saudi Arabia) To this writer, I have trouble believing the best and the brightest of INTELLIGENCE, in the world, failed to identify his location at this point and take him (out?). There are certain principles of warfare with the most important being (1) know your enemies, (2) identify your friends (and enemies of your enemy) and (3) think it through before you plug and play. The appearance, in retrospect and I emphasize appearance, is the U.S. had insufficient intelligence, poorly chosen allies and used very dubious military tactics, particularly an insufficient amount of Special Forces to apprehend the villain(s). It must be understood, Central Command asked for more boots on the ground early on and retired patriotic Generals have spoke and
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written to confirm this necessity. I must add, General Patton’s 3 principles of warfare are “audacity, audacity and audacity”! I have used the Christian Science Monitor articles for some of this background, specifically the March 4, 2002 issue. It is a well respected periodical that generally gets its facts straight. Rumor had Osama holding up in one of the many caves his construction country carved out (a favored modified redoubt, so to speak) in the Tora Bora mountains and is at large, to this day, irregardless of Bush #43’s voicing of the old western saying, “WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE”! One would think a $50 million bounty would stir the greed for a corpus delecti, but noooo. Periodically, a new video or just audio, of Osama Bin Laden, shows up through the Arab Al-Jazeera network, invoking his urge for a collective worldwide Jihad against the “infidels”, code for western civilization as a whole and America specifically. One must understand our Intelligence Community is second to none in this world, therefore it should be being used as effectively as possible, as long as Bin Laden is at large. But with the main bad guy still an active influence, the War on Terror is alive and viable. This is one hell of an indictment of those Constitutionally pledged and responsible to “preserve and protect” our dear democratic country. Five months into U.S. incursion in Afghanistan and no Bin Laden in March of 2002, an Operation named ANACONDA, was in full battle in the Tora Bora Mountains with Al Qaeda leaders and thousands of so called terrorists. Most escaped across the border to our supposed ally, Pakistan. We have captured several top Al Qaeda figures along with hundreds of “political” prisoners, bringing many to our Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, for interrogation. We have held thousands of others, in secret locations around the globe, in order to extract information. It is widely known we have used all sorts of torture on these Prisoners of War (detainees?). This is a WAR on terrorism, correct? Is it OK for the US to torture these detainees, but not alright for other countries (say Hanoi, North Vietnam) to torture our G.I.s upon capture? Double standard or paradox (?), hey, you tell me. I agree there has to be a different technique obtaining vital information pertaining to a verified threat of clear and present mass destruction, but not an en masse carte blanche abuse as desired. The Geneva Conventions of War do not apply to this Administration, or so says BUSH #43, his Vice President Cheney (nicknamed “vice”) and his (now ex) Defense Secretary Rumsfeld (Rummy). Each of these illegalities and questionable acts/events all deserve enough delving for a book, in and of itself. Suffice it to say, the November Elections swayed enough mainstream Americans in both red and blue states (despicable connotations), to give a Majority to Democrats in both Chambers of Congress. This happens just when I had about given up on our citizenry to the old parable of the door to door survey taker, asking just two questions. Do you think Americans of today, are politically uninformed and apathetic? The answer from 9 out of 10 being, “I don’t know! And I don’t care!” It is now the responsibility of the mule. What a symbol, huh? So what does all of this malfeasance, greed, hypocrisy, ineptitude and treason yield to the American people? Well, we have a President whose distinguishing high point was at Yale U. being social chairman of his fraternity (keg boy!) and his pappy (BUSH #41) had to fly into town and talk him into joining the ultra secret SKULL AND
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BONE’S SOCIETY instead of another similarly secret society, for what it’s worth. We have a national tragedy that that stinks with so much left in question, it rivals (or surpasses) the JFK Warren Commission myth. We have a closet Vice President Cheney who never does his Constitutional job of presiding over the U. S. Senate, save when BUSH #43 addresses Congress for a State of the Union speech etc… But he does call all the shots for BUSH $43. We have a Republican Congress which was in session for only 103 days, Tuesday through Thursday, doing nothing but getting so many under indictment or convicted, I won’t waste space delineating specifics. We have a war we seemingly cannot win nor afford to lose and have managed to alienate most of the other countries on our dearly beloved planet into hating us as mongers. We have a porous southern border that allows ILLEGAL immigrants, drugs and terrorists to cross daily, infiltrating our society at the taxpayer’s expense and harm, initially procreated by greedy crop farmers for cheaper labor (Caesar Chavez, where are you now?) and all this Congress wants to do is build a wall? This joke’s on us. The mid-east is now more volatile than ever with a sham of a standup President of IRAN (Cleric controlled) speaking of destroying Israel and there never having been a holocaust. We have one out every three returning veterans exhibiting Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) and their suicide rate is twice the national average, women as well. Oh yeah, and this Republican Leadership has created such a false economy that it has middle class America up to their ears in financial obligation with over priced re-financed housing and unmanageable credit and superficially created, alluring INTERESTS RATES, with the majority of the of some 7-10 trillion dollar debt, held by China, RED China, that is. (Napoleon made a prophetic quote in 1803 about China being, “…a sleeping giant and when she awakes, the world will take notice!”) Oil, money and power have fueled this disaster and our citizenry care more about obtaining Play Station #3 or whom America’s next IDOL will be or whose side are you on, The Donald or Rosie “O’Donnell in their squalid public squabble, than what really matters; survival and success, guaranteeing a better and safer world to our children, than the one we inherited. Let us not forget KATRINA and “Brownie’s good job”….DEBACLE in our beloved “Big Easy, New Orleans. In 1916 a man named Woodrow Wilson ran for President of the United States on a platform of no foreign entanglements. The Great War (WW1) was underway in Europe over some simple crap, as usual. It was between England, France and Russia against Germany and other antagonists. The U.S. had just become the world’s largest industrial and military power but an overwhelming majority of Americans wanted no truck with anyone else’s war. Wilson won handily and then by late 1917 had Congress agree on a vote of war with the slogan, “Remember the Lusitania!” Thousands of our “forever young” died fighting and for what? In 1919-1920, a pandemic flu was brought back by the survivors, ravaging our east coast, leaving between 500,000 to a million people dead (records not exactly being modern), for lack of a cure. Official Declaration of the war’s end was with the Treaty of Versailles, among the express items was one which read, Germany was not to be allowed to militarily re-arm. Of course there was a vacuum of power in Europe with Russia becoming a communist state and the rest of the community trying to reconstruct and repair from the devastation. But who was to
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enforce this stipulation. Wilson was a man before his time, as he tried to form a LEAGUE OF NATIONS which could have steered world peace to reality. He died prematurely, falling short of seeing such a great idea. A must reading is “WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED”. In the same context, American capitalists were in a paranoid frenzy that the collective bargaining Union movement in America would ultimately result in radical governmental change, which in the next 20 years saw thousands of organizers and workers protesting the unjust and inequities, maimed and killed. They put their lives on the line for laws against child labor, equal pay for equal work for both sexes, a forty hour work week, adequate pay scales and benefits such as paid Holidays and Medical benefits! Real communistic, huh? Well, the powers that be thought so, (thank God For FDR and integral elections) and you might want to read a book called “The Secret Funding of Adolph Hitler” (it’s hard to find) because a secretive conglomerate conspired to fund German groups including the Nazi Party, in an effort to refortify Germany as a proxy to take Communism out of Russia, thus the world arena. In the ‘30’s, even Charles Lindbergh led a multitude of citizenry toward strong feelings for a rejuvenated Germany, as did JFK’s dad, “ole Joe”. FDR dispatched him to the Court of St. James to stifle his run for President. Hey! You can’t make up this kind of s…! The rest is, shall we say history or herstory or, or…. What most Americans can’t imagine is having their homes invaded by insurgents, guerillas or military, having their wives and daughters and sisters and young boys, raped in front of their eyes, then subjected to all sorts of torture and then killed slowly or beheaded, one by one, that is, after any needed information can be extracted. Or just because “ethnic cleansing” is in order; see the blood flow, the screams of pain heard, the indignities of slow but sure death by goons who relish this activity with no hope of help. Durfar, in Africa, is happening as I write and you shop for your dearly beloved Christmas presents etc…There was Bosnia and Laos and, and, and….but not here, not yet. How many millions have seen this as their last vision on planet Earth. As Jackson Brown sings, “don’t think it won’t happen, just because it hasn’t happened yet!” You people just don’t get it, with your Play Station war games with no real blood or in your face anguish. Oh, the rich can adopt a child, planet hopping, finger in the Dyke so to speak (read what you will) but no ass of theirs is on the line, nor yours, right now. Since our invasion in March 2003, we have lost near three thousand brave men and women in Iraq and twenty some thousand terribly wounded, all scarred for life. Yet most of the troops seem to differ on their opinion of this conflict vis-à-vis with Vietnam. They appear to believe, absent the insurgency (what a term for undermining freedom, with horrible bloodletting and by who?), that it is a realistic and possible attempt to attain the first real Democracy in the Moslem mid-east and that Iraq‘s diverse population would revere such. Mind you, on the whole, they are less educated/sophisticated than Iran, to the eastern border, whom the ruling fanatical clerics have much to fear from a Moslem democratic government. And then Syria, to the western border, has the same fears and they are allegedly part proxy to Iran in their support of the Hezbollah faction in Lebanon, which had the rocket conflict with Israel this past July as an effort to harm the Jewish state and demonstrate lack of government rule in Beruit. And most important the player, is Saudi Arabia which believes it
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dictates major U.S. policy in the region and does not at all, want to see a full blown bloodletting civil war in Iraq if we pull out, unilaterally. In February of 2006, BUSH #43 created a panel of eight prestigious Americans, called the International Study Group (ISG), not to give him alternative possible positive strategy for his failed Iraqi mission, but to be perceived as becoming open to suggestions and taking some heat away from his cloistered little war group. Ex-Congressman, Lee Hamilton of Ohio and former Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor are several of the members. None of the eight speak Arabic, none had visited Iraq (save maybe a quick trip to Baghdad and its supposedly safe, “Green Zone” and none had any relatively close or knowledgeable affiliations with the region. In late November, they published a report suggesting success could be secured with our troops being disbursed in different areas, with more of a supporting role. And, they expressed a requisite need to hold multi-national dialogue with neighboring Syria and Iran in seeking their assistance to eliminate any connection or assistance with those responsible for the violence and insurgency. One ISG side note is of our Iraqi Embassy staff of about 1,000, of which only 33 speak Arabic with just six (6), fluent! A strategic element I find absurdidly absent is the need to teach our boots on the ground there and those elements scheduled for rotation to Iraq, a rudimentary grasp of Arabic, Iraq’s main language. Communicating in the native tongue serves many purposes, most important, the commitment of respect! However, BUSH #43 has shelved the ISG report under advisement by saying he will make a policy statement to the Nation, after the Holidays. If the U.S. forces were to just leave Iraq, besides immense slaughter on all sides, Iran stands to become, with its nuclear potential, the mini super power in the region and super powers have a behavior of acquisition and control! The poor rich Saudis would literally be between Iraq and a hard place (Kuwait is still very fresh in their minds) and as of now, the BUSH #41 relationship is souring, what with the ISG recommendations and a Democratic Congress…things may get real bizarre. I don’t believe we’ve had martial law and suspension of Habeas Corpus since our own Civil War. But, put all I’ve illustrated in perspective and its easy to see, without looking too far, not much is really sacred and there is a lot at stake with peace not so important, to those important. American history is fraught with myth and lie. For ultimate necessity, one might rely on Manifest Destiny and the big Hollywood facade covering our genocide of the Native American, Wounded Knee and Custer complete! I side step prophecy other than the paragraph on the karma deal, but things do go bump in the night. Pearl Harbor was necessary for us to will our way into WW11. Any problems with it, find out why our four aircraft carriers sailed eastward out of Pearl unscheduled and post haste, the Thursday before Sunday, December 7, 1941. Read “EAST WINDS, RAIN”. We needed those carriers to win Midway that next summer, to stem the Japanese Pacific aggression! “Remember the Maine” and our “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” deserve revisiting. View the number of cover-up attempts the Army has tried to make stick with the friendly fire demise in Afghanistan of former All American and Pro Bowl Arizona Cardinals’ Free Safety, Ranger PAT TILLMAN! If any one deserved truth to power about his death, it was this patriotic volunteer on his second tour of duty in the
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region! Oh yeah, by the way, the opium crop from Afghanistan in the year 2,000 was 72 thousand metric tons. In 2005, it was over 400 thousand. Do the math folks! Connect the dots and reveal the acceptable losses and collateral damage. I sure as heck don’t have the wisdom of Solomon and in many ways I’m relieved such a burden is absent from my character. But logic and common sense follow me doggedly. We changed the complexion of politics in the middle east, not just by the Iraqi invasion, but by giving Israel sovereignty in 1948. Israel displaced the Palestinians who had a homeland and had peacefully co-existed with the Hebrews for centuries. An immensely meaningful feature to be mentioned is that of three opposing religions, tolerating each other in one city; JERUSALEM. Moslem, Jews and Christians all hold sacred certain sites and icons in this city and this mutually understood respect has allowed no terrorist to destroy or defile any of them. I believe we could, with the right diplomat(s) and diplomacy, find a dignified resolution to the Iraqi conflict. I also believe Israel is the key. It could be as simple as influencing Israel and the Palestinians into re-creating an actual Palestinian State, with each guaranteeing the other’s security, thus Peace. This takes Syria and Iran out of the immediate “destroy Israel” picture. Commensurate with the aforementioned unimaginable, open talks with both Syria and Iran, using the carrot and the stick as incentive. This effort must have other countries to include Saudi Arabia, as participants. All the while, a measure of good faith toward peace, a cease fire of all aggressions, is a must. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. What a beautiful edict. What a terrible crest fall when one learns the truth about the BIG LIE. We have had numerous national tragedies and the official versions are so often white washed with disinformation and brutality to maintain the story. In times of such, there should be no conspiracies left to spout. No questions left unanswered truthfully and responsibly, and more important, none unasked! Because if there exist loose ends, then the full and complete accurate account is lacking. How can a government conducting business in such an irresponsible manner, ask its citizenry to have faith and trust in it? This is simple logic and the American people deserve the TRUTH and nothing less. Until we have a government of UNTOUCHABLES who will make the system work, we are less for it and things will change but not for the better. Don’t tell me Americans can’t take the truth and don’t confuse it with the Issue of real National Security. The truth shall set you free…and keep us free. We used to be thought of as the hope of the (free) world. These days, we are feared as the bully. The influence of compassion and kindness will always win out over rogue arrogance and bellicose belligerence. There is no option for planet earth other than PEACE. Trust me on this one.
PROPRIO VIGORE QUIDAM
BY JAKE