Likewise, the record-breaking Federal defense budget, along with an extra $20 billion for fighting terrorism, was approved by December 8, 2001. The shares of the defense industry began rising sharply and are rising still. As the observant reader has, no doubt, noticed, this kind of crisis always flares up in the summer or the fall, when the US Federal budget is being discussed in Congress, not at other times of the year.
Need it be added that Mr. Cheney recently held a leading position in the Carlyle Group, a large defense industry holding company, where the Bush family has substantial interests? Need we be reminded that, already in 1998, oil giant Unocal went to the US House of Representatives <http://www.seen.org/pages/media/20011024_afghanistan.shtml> to demand a "recognized" (read corruptible) government in Afghanistan, so it could build a natural gas pipeline through that country and profit from the booming energy market in the Far East? Could it be that the 4,000 Afghani civilians killed <http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm> by US precision bombs just happened to live along the proposed route of that pipeline, now conveniently cleared of homes, schools mosques, and hospitals that used to stand in its way? We'll be watching Unocal and finding out.
Osama bin Laden, an old CIA operative accused of masterminding the 9-11 attacks, disappeared into thin air and hasn't been heard from since--except that a source trusted by this writer saw him and his entourage of top Al Qaeda leaders safe and sound on a remote NATO base in Europe just a week after the bombings. The terrain there is rocky and could well have provided the backdrop for the last couple of videos issued by Osama. The guests might just have arrived whe the observer chanced upon the scene: they were still in their beards and their national garb, free and not confined. Until we learn otherwise, it's safe to assume that they were given new identities and new lives in America. The service they did the Bush administration was great enough for that.
Back in the thirties, Hitler proceeded to rearm Germany and attack his neighbors on trumped-up charges of jeopardizing German interests and mistreating German minorities. Germany became the bully of the decade and started the Second World War. Although Germany lost the war and Hitler committed suicide, her arms industry, including the German subsidiaries of US car giants GM and Ford, profited handsomely. The profits due to Ford and GM were paid out <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm > after the end of the war.
Following the 9-11 attacks, President Bush readily stepped up to the challenge and declared war on terrorism on the evening news of September 11. His battle cry "If you're not with us, you're against us" is a round statement by a world-class bully, much like the accusations of treason Hitler liked to level at countries that attempted to preserve their independence before the onslaught of the supposedly invincible German war machine.
America has undergone a Fascist takeover, the beneficiaries of which are the owners of big business. The system is rapidly being exported all over the world, and it is intended to become permanent. To prevent citizens from getting in the way of the massive enrichment of the already rich, and to help them accept their new position as mere consumers and sweatshop laborers without the right to uncorrupted political representation, all objections to the process are labeled "terrorism."
Here's a quote from Douglas Reed, writing about the loss of freedom Germans experienced the night of the Reichstag fire.
When Germany awoke, a man's home was no longer his castle. He could be seized by private individuals, could claim no protection from the police, could be indefinitely detained without preferment of charges; his property could be seized, his verbal and written communications overheard and perused; he no longer had the right to foregather with his fellow countrymen, and his newspapers might no longer freely express their opinions.
The Bush administration's 2001 antiterrorism legislation, introduced using a similar ruse, effects the same changes in America, and is being copied in every country that has a popular or ethnic opposition to deal with. It is a well proven method: Roosevelt knew about, encouraged, and facilitated <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201299/qid=1012526003/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/102-5544675-1061731> the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, sending the Pacific Fleet there to act as a target, keeping the local military commanders in the dark, and proscribing all defensive action. He then used the public's outrage over the attack to draw America into WW II and provide the American arms industry with its fair share in the proceeds of that great conflict, along with its overseas competitors.
You may ask: What, if any, are the differences between Hitler and Bush? Not many, but one stands out: Hitler was elected to his office democratically. Bush was installed against the will of the majority of US voters, through the machinations of his brother, the Florida Governor, and the Supreme Court judges appointed by his father. Another difference may lie in the span of their reigns: Hitler killed himself after 12 years as Reichskanzler, while Bush stands under the curse of Chief Tecumseh <http://www.bupipedream.com/010126/news/n4.html>, and is bound to die within 4 to 8 years in office.
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