~ Feed-Back from Here and There ~

             To: Robert Sterling. Editor, The Konformist
                       http://www.konformist.com



Bush's War At Home
11/10/01
Ainsley 

Sir,
I have been a subscriber of your's for almost 3 years and while I 
have not agreed with you on every issue/point of view, I have basked 
in the refreshing alternative you provide as opposed to regular, 
canned broadcast media and those ultra-Conservative sites who think 
George Bush, Jr is the best thing since sliced bread.

Sir, I am not a prophet; nor do I make claim to any special powers of 
observation. I am old enough, I suppose (53 today) to have gained a 
little wisdom and was educated to take nothing at face value, but 
always to question and investigate. There was a time once when the 
term Conservative would have been used to describe me and I would 
have used that term myself. I stopped using the term a decade ago 
(during the Newt Gingrich era) and when the radical-elitist-
Plutocratic regime we see over us today, was even then becoming 
manifest for anyone with eyes to see.

You may as well know too, Sir, that I am an Evangelical Christian and 
pro-Israel. Now let me qualify briefly. I am an Evangelical 
Christian, but know that my theological persuasion does not flaunt 
its wealth and good fortune to the deteriment of those less 
fortunate. I know that my Christ will not sanction nor will He bless 
my doing evil for good reasons or evil in the guise of some good end.

I am pro-Israel and believe they ought to be a nation unmolested. 
However, as I have taught my own children, being a Christian or being 
a Jew does not give you special sanctions to over-run the God given 
rights of other men.

I said all of the above to form some background for the real reason 
of this email to you. Thank you for the above mentioned article and 
all the others I have enjoyed (even those I do not agree with 
necessarily). You see: right now the real need in this Country is not 
for everyone of us to fall into line behind the official dogma and 
march in lock step to whatever the Bush Boys are leading us too. I 
was brought up as an American to distrust goverment anyway. Since my 
college days in the early 70s, I have learned too that far-Right and 
far-Left govermental regimes always prop up their failing rulership 
with "enemies" internal and external. We all know that ploy of 
tyrants. I will not be "sucked-in" period! I will do my best to 
verify, research and make informed decisions before I make any step. 
This is where you and the Konformist come in again. I am very much in 
fear that sites/voices such as your's will be the target of these 
Fascists. I am very frightened that all of we "dissenters" will be 
hushed and silenced forever by slander, repression and more lethal 
attacks. There is a real menace in what is developing in this 
nation's so-called leadership and I don't like it.

Keep in mind, Sir, that I said my social/political persuasions are a 
little more right of center. That is until I see what Bush-Ashcroft-
Cheney and
Company have done (are doing) to my Country and my own people. This 
is not what my Father flew and finished 40 missions over Nazi Germany 
for. Since Sept 11 America has been in the morphing stage of a Nazi-
style police state and I am alarmed. That is why I respect your site, 
your voice and courage in speaking out and those like you who take 
great risk; if not so much now, then most certainly later. These are 
dangerous times, indeed and for the first time, I am afraid of my own 
Goverment! You are correct in your article when you state that all 
these heavy-handed measures being used against immigrants and 
foreigners now, will be and can be used against all citizens later. 
Oh, I see full well where Bush and Company are going with this.

Now I do not think of myself in terms of Conservative or Right Wing 
or even Left. What is going on in this country and the agenda being 
worked out by the Plutocrats is going to impact all of us of either 
end of the political spectrum. I am an American who loves the 
freedoms of the Bill of Rights and the order simplified in our 
Constitution. That is my sole creed.

Please keep speaking up and out...there are many of us who are in 
need of the truth, unqualified and unshaken and you would be 
surprised that many of us are from religious/theological and social 
ground you would not believe would support you.

Thanks Again,

Ainsley Broussard

*****

Bush at U.N. - Freedom of speech is dead
11/10/01
Lee Markland
markland@rockisland.com

Looks like you, your contributors's, Free Speech TV and anyone who 
does not believe the Bush regime or criticizes it is in trouble.

This morning at the U.N. " Let us not tolerate outrageous conspiracy 
theories". - Bush 43. The Bush staff, DOJ and FBI must be reading 
your email.

Combine this with the move to exclude from the country, those who 
criticize the government and it's policies, such as Women in Black, 
authors and speakers such as Nawal El Saadawi (The Hidden Face of 
Eve), an Islamic feminist, and what we are left with is a self 
righteous, intolerant Jewish-Christian Theocracy, in which only 
approved and managed ideas, words, and actions will be tolerated and 
dissenters will be persecuted.

This of course applies to the anti WTO coalition, "tree huggers" and 
any dissenting voice, and eventually anyone who disagrees with Bush, 
his agenda, his supporters in any form or manner, even in the 
farcial "democratic" political arena.

*****

OPEN LETTER TO THE SINGLAUB SET
11/9/01
babs7@ulster.net


Barbara Hartwell
Legal Defense and Research Fund
PO Box 832
Woodstock NY 12498
WEBSITE  http://www.ulster.net/~babs7/

Dear Mr. Singlaub et al :

This open letter is addressed to you and all of your cronies and 
associates, whoever and wherever they may be.

I probably should have written this letter long ago. Procrastination 
is the thief of time...but, better late than never. How's that for a 
two-fer ?

You see, Mr. Singlaub, I am really a straight arrow --as straight as 
God makes them. And being the forthright, no-nonsense person I am, I 
have some questions for you and while I'm at it, some comments.

Let me start with a couple questions:

Mr. Singlaub, do you have some 'issues' with me ? And if so, what 
might those issues be ?  

I only ask because I've heard tell that maybe I am not one of your 
favorite people.....well, could be just idle gossip....but then 
again, I think there might be something to these pesky little 
rumours, so I thought it would be easiest just to come right out and 
ask.

Yes, I know the identities of many of the programmed assassins 
utilized in Operation Phoenix.  (Didn't you run that operation ? 
Correct me if I don't have my facts straight, but at least that's 
what I've read and heard from trustworthy and credible sources. )

And yes, I have profiled and debriefed a number of 'your' men. Could 
it be that --assuming you have some 'issues' with me--this might have 
something to do with it ?

But even if I've been misinformed about your alleged dislike of me, 
and you really think I'm the swellest gal that ever came down the 
pike, I seem to keep running into these spooks and goons who I've 
been told work for you...or maybe even someone up higher in the chain 
of command.....

I've even --believe it or not-- been warned by certain sources that 
I'm on a 'hit list', in connection with these goons, something I was 
absolutely not happy to hear. 

Now, I could be wrong, maybe these guys are just the OTHER spooks and 
goons...you know, the standard-issue CIA types who have 
OTHER 'issues' with me. That would come as no surprise, it's just so 
hard to keep track of who's who these days. But then -- I'm used to 
Spook Central so that doesn't really bother me.

Now, you may think I have a hell of a nerve, but I'm not accusing you 
of any wrong-doing ( that would be libelous, to say the least ). I'm 
just asking some pointed questions,  just trying to get the facts 
straight and resolve some of these 'issues'. 

Let's get some of these issues out in the open so we understand each 
other. 

Issue # 1: This is the United States of America, Mr. Singlaub. It was 
established as a Constitutional Republic ( Or have I got that one 
wrong too ?) I am an American citizen.  And what's more, I will 
defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, as 
is my sworn duty.

Issue # 2: It is illegal --not to mention unconstitutional-- 
to 'utilize' soldiers or civilians without their knowledge or 
consent, under mind control programming, in nefarious black 
operations where they are trained to kill targets, including whacking 
their fellow servicemen. 

Issue # 3: As a defender of the Constitution, as well as of the 
Inviolability of Personhood, a God-given right of all human beings, 
it naturally follows that I am a champion in service to any fellow 
human beings whose rights have been violated by corrupt military and 
gov't officials or other criminals affilated and in collusion with 
them. 

Now, if you understand what I've said so far, it's not much of a 
stretch to understand that I consider it my duty to offer my services 
in support and defense of any individuals whose constitutional rights 
have been violated. And this of course includes some of the men 
utilized in Operation Phoenix.

These men have been used and abused. Devastated and decimated. 
Traumatized and tortured. Yes, I've spent many, many hours listening 
to their testimony, that's how I know. These guys are telling the 
truth, Mr. Singlaub. And I don't think you can imagine the pain it 
has caused for me personally --over and over--every time I hear one 
of them tell me about the horrors they endured and were forced to 
commit -- often against their own wills. Some of them don't even 
remember whole portions of certain operations or missions...that is, 
until they start talking to someone like me.

You may be wondering why I would subject myself to such a painful 
ordeal. And no, Mr. Singlaub, I don't get paid for this...it's a 
mission, not a job. A mission in humble service to God. And I'm going 
to tell you why I do what I do, whether you want to know or not. I 
work with these men because I care, Mr. Singlaub. I care about each 
and every one of them personally. All of them would have laid down 
their lives defending our country, they would have died for me, and I 
feel I owe it to them to give my all, just as they did.

I care so much that I can even be grateful to my handlers for 
training me so well. Because now I can use my talents and expertise 
to help those who were 'utilized' in one way or another by the 
tyrants, the evil-doers, who thought they could usurp the power of 
God by trying to co-opt the minds and souls of those who wanted 
nothing more than to serve their country with honor.

Well, they did serve with honor. It's what's in their hearts that 
counts, in the eyes of God and their fellow citizens.

So please, Mr. Singlaub, if you do in fact have any 'issues' with me, 
perhaps because you don't approve of my mission, please understand 
that I will continue in this mission whether you and your cronies 
like it or not.  

Also please understand that I am a law-abiding citizen, abiding by 
the duly-established Constitutional laws of our country and the moral 
and spiritual imperatives understood by those who know and love God. 

You see, Mr. Singlaub, God works in mysterious ways, ways beyond our 
understanding. So with all due respect, I will ask that you and your 
cohorts cease and desist from any actions you may have instigated or 
may be contemplating that would get in the way of myself and my 
fellow patriots and friends exercising our God-given and 
Constitutional rights.

Please understand, there are more of us than you know. We'll fight 
for our country, we'll do it with honor and we will be able to look 
ourselves in the mirror every morning. And if we can't sleep at 
night, it won't be because we didn't do our damndest to do the right 
thing. 

--Barbara Hartwell

The military is a great matter of the state.
It is the ground of death and life,
The Tao of survival or extinction.
One cannot but examine it.


If the general is not victorious over his anger and sets them 
swarming like ants,
One third of the soldiers are killed and the walled city not uprooted-
-
This is the calamity of attack. 

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most 
skillful. 
Subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

The Rearing Serpent sports in the mists, the Flying Dragon rides on 
the clouds. 
But when the clouds are gone and the mists have cleared, 
They are no different than earthworms.

Invincibility lies in oneself. Vincibility lies in the enemy.

And so in the military--
Knowing the other and knowing oneself,
In one hundred battles no danger.
Not knowing the other and knowing oneself,
One victory for one loss.
Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself,
In every battle certain defeat.

Sun Tzu........The Art of War

Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries
--Persian mystic Rumi

*****

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=103717 
  
Robert Fisk: Hypocrisy, hatred and the war on terror
'If the US attacks were an assault on "civilisation", why shouldn't 
Muslims regard the Afganistan attack as a war on Islam?'
08 November 2001

"Air campaign"? "Coalition forces"? "War on terror"? How much longer 
must we go on enduring these lies? There is no "campaign" – merely an 
air bombardment of the poorest and most broken country in the world 
by the world's richest and most sophisticated nation. No MiGs have 
taken to the skies to do battle with the American B-52s or F-18s. The 
only ammunition soaring into the air over Kabul comes from Russian 
anti-aircraft guns manufactured around 1943. 
Coalition? Hands up who's seen the Luftwaffe in the skies over 
Kandahar, or the Italian air force or the French air force over 
Herat. Or even the Pakistani air force. The Americans are bombing 
Afghanistan with a few British missiles thrown in. "Coalition" 
indeed. 
Then there's the "war on terror". When are we moving on to bomb the 
Jaffna peninsula? Or Chechnya – which we have already left in 
Vladimir Putin's bloody hands? I even seem to recall a massive 
terrorist car bomb that exploded in Beirut in 1985 – targeting Sayed 
Hassan Nasrallah, the spiritual inspiration to the Hezbollah, who now 
appears to be back on Washington's hit list – and which missed 
Nasrallah but slaughtered 85 innocent Lebanese civilians. Years 
later, Carl Bernstein revealed in his book, Veil, that the CIA was 
behind the bomb after the Saudis agreed to fund the operation. So 
will the US President George Bush be hunting down the CIA murderers 
involved? The hell he will. 
So why on earth are all my chums on CNN and Sky and the BBC rabbiting 
on about the "air campaign", "coalition forces" and the "war on 
terror"? Do they think their viewers believe this twaddle? 
Certainly Muslims don't. In fact, you don't have to spend long in 
Pakistan to realise that the Pakistani press gives an infinitely more 
truthful and balanced account of the "war" – publishing work by local 
intellectuals, historians and opposition writers along with Taliban 
comments and pro-government statements as well as syndicated Western 
analyses – than The New York Times; and all this, remember, in a 
military dictatorship. 
You only have to spend a few weeks in the Middle East and the 
subcontinent to realise why Tony Blair's interviews on al-Jazeera and 
Larry King Live don't amount to a hill of beans. The Beirut daily As-
Safir ran a widely-praised editorial asking why an Arab who wanted to 
express the anger and humiliation of millions of other Arabs was 
forced to do so from a cave in a non-Arab country. The implication, 
of course, was that this – rather than the crimes against humanity on 
11 September – was the reason for America's determination to 
liquidate Osama bin Laden. Far more persuasive has been a series of 
articles in the Pakistani press on the outrageous treatment of 
Muslims arrested in the United States in the aftermath of the 
September atrocities. 
One such article should suffice. Headlined "Hate crime victim's 
diary", in The News of Lahore, it outlined the suffering of Hasnain 
Javed, who was arrested in Alabama on 19 September with an expired 
visa. In prison in Mississippi, he was beaten up by a prisoner who 
also broke his tooth. Then, long after he had sounded the warden's 
alarm bell, more men beat him against a wall with the words: "Hey bin 
Laden, this is the first round. There are going to be 10 rounds like 
this." There are dozens of other such stories in the Pakistani press 
and most of them appear to be true. 
Again, Muslims have been outraged by the hypocrisy of the West's 
supposed "respect" for Islam. We are not, so we have informed the 
world, going to suspend military operations in Afghanistan during the 
holy fasting month of Ramadan. After all, the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq 
conflict continued during Ramadan. So have Arab-Israeli conflicts. 
True enough. But why, then, did we make such a show of suspending 
bombing on the first Friday of the bombardment last month out of 
our "respect" for Islam? Because we were more respectful then than 
now? Or because – the Taliban remaining unbroken – we've decided to 
forget about all that "respect"? 
"I can see why you want to separate bin Laden from our religion," a 
Peshawar journalist said to me a few days ago. "Of course you want to 
tell us that this isn't a religious war, but Mr Robert, please, 
please stop telling us how much you respect Islam." 
There is another disturbing argument I hear in Pakistan. If, as Mr 
Bush claims, the attacks on New York and Washington were an assault 
on "civilisation", why shouldn't Muslims regard an attack on 
Afghanistan as a war on Islam? 
The Pakistanis swiftly spotted the hypocrisy of the Australians. 
While itching to get into the fight against Mr bin Laden, the 
Australians have sent armed troops to force destitute Afghan refugees 
out of their territorial waters. The Aussies want to bomb 
Afghanistan – but they don't want to save the Afghans. Pakistan, it 
should be added, hosts 2.5 million Afghan refugees. Needless to say, 
this discrepancy doesn't get much of an airing on our satellite 
channels. Indeed, I have never heard so much fury directed at 
journalists as I have in Pakistan these past few weeks. Nor am I 
surprised. 
What, after all, are we supposed to make of the so-called "liberal" 
American television journalist Geraldo Rivera who is just moving to 
Fox TV, a Murdoch channel? "I'm feeling more patriotic than at any 
time in my life, itching for justice, or maybe just revenge," he 
announced this week. "And this catharsis I've gone through has caused 
me to reassess what I do for a living." This is truly chilling stuff. 
Here is an American journalist actually revealing that he's 
possibly "itching for revenge". 
Infinitely more shameful – and unethical – were the disgraceful words 
of Walter Isaacson, the chairman of CNN, to his staff. Showing the 
misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of promoting enemy propaganda, he 
said. "It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or 
hardship in Afghanistan ... we must talk about how the Taliban are 
using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the 
terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent 
people." 
Mr Isaacson was an unimaginative boss of Time magazine but these 
latest words will do more to damage the supposed impartiality of CNN 
than anything on the air in recent years. Perverse? Why perverse? Why 
are Afghan casualties so far down Mr Isaacson's compassion? Or is Mr 
Isaacson just following the lead set down for him a few days earlier 
by the White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who portentously 
announced to the Washington press corps that in times like 
these "people have to watch what they say and watch what they do". 
Needless to say, CNN has caved in to the US government's demand not 
to broadcast Mr bin Laden's words in toto lest they contain "coded 
messages". But the coded messages go out on television every hour. 
They are "air campaign", "coalition forces" and "war on terror".


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