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Manufacturing Fear
By Charles Sullivan
01/22/06 "ICH" -- -- The mere mention of the name Osama bin
Laden, so conspicuously absent from the news in recent years, is
enough to make one’s blood curdle, and the hair on the back of
one’s neck stand up. Images of flaming buildings consumed by
billowing black smoke come vividly to mind. One recalls the
stench of death hanging ominously in the air, as horrified
victims flee for their lives amid the rubble of fallen
skyscrapers. Now the ashen gray ghost of Osama bin Laden once
again hangs over the nation like a specter, casting a dark pall
of fear and death. Duct tape sales must be soaring.
The relationship between Osama bin Laden and George Bush is an
interesting one. Never mind what you see in the commercial
media, they are inseparable allies who feed off each other. Bush
benefits from the presence of bin Laden whenever events become
too overwhelming for him. In the climate of moral degeneracy
that is so rampant in the Bush cabal, bin Laden can easily be
trotted out onto the stage and presented as an imminent threat
to America. Bush gets to play the role of the great protector,
the war president, commander-in-chief, that he so obviously
relishes. The benefit to bin Laden is that his puny power is
impressively amplified on the world stage.
The images of terror generated by the commercial media during
the attacks of 9-11 are stamped indelibly on our collective
memory. Those events were purportedly masterminded by Osama bin
Laden and nineteen terrorists armed with nothing more than box
cutters. We are supposed to believe that a group of cave
dwelling fanatics were responsible for bringing the US to its
figurative knees. If that is in fact what happened we are in
deep trouble.
Those terrible events were supposedly investigated by an
independent bipartisan committee, the 9-11commission. The rather
bizarre conclusions about them simply do not fit the evidence.
Believing the official story requires that tons of physical
matter behave in ways that defy the laws of physics. It also
requires that we ignore any and all contradictory evidence, of
which there is plenty.
The issue is too complex to treat in a short essay of this
scope, so I will refer my readers to the extensive body of
evidence that exists in Michael Ruppert’s book ‘Crossing the
Rubicon’ and at the Oil Empire web site. There are many other
sources out there. Do the research and draw your own
conclusions.
This brings us full circle back to Osama bin Laden, to the Bush
cabal of fascists who are seeking to secure the world’s
remaining oil reserves; and to the latest perceived threats from
Al-Qaeda.
Amid stories that Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are planning new
attacks on civilian targets in the US, it is important to
remember one very important fact: The government is lying. They
lie continuously. Their record speaks for itself. Mired in
corruption, the empire is falling apart and the Bush cabal is in
a panic. The situation is spiraling out of control. The White
House needs to create some catastrophic event to hold onto
power. Clouds of impeachment are gathering on the horizon, as
the people slowly begin to awaken from long years of apathetic
stupor. Once again the Bush cabal is manufacturing a threat to
frighten the people into submission to the emperor and his
minions. We would be fools to fall for it.
The chief architects of the Bush cabal responsible for the war
on Iraq are the same ones who wrecked terror upon defenseless
civilians in South America during the 1980s during the Reagan
era. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Negroponte are among
the most prominent names involved. Rumsfeld was Reagan’s special
representative to the Middle East in those days. Some may recall
the 1983 photograph that depicts Rumsfeld shaking hands with
Saddam Hussein—another CIA creation.
According to Noam Chomsky, in Nicaragua alone, the US killed in
excess of two million defenseless people with the aid of CIA
sponsored death squads; a total that exceeds the per capita sum
of American soldiers killed in all the wars America has ever
fought. Their purpose was to suppress progressive movements in
the Southern Hemisphere, to assassinate labor organizers, and
indigenous leaders; to prevent the rise to power of leaders who
favor people above profits. The US has a long and bloody history
of suppressing populist movements wherever they occur. Perhaps
they bear too much resemblance to Democracy—so they have to be
destroyed. Reagan and his minions labeled them communist threats
because that is what sells among the gullible American people.
Consider also the enormous resources that have been marshaled
against Fidel Castro in Cuba for decades; and now especially
Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. The people responsible have dark
histories that are going unwritten and unreported in the annals
of history. The CIA also played a key role in these horrendous
events—and it continues to this day.
My point is that we are wasting both time and resources chasing
down ghosts while the real terrorists continue to operate safely
out of sight. Like Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden is the smoke
screen behind which the real terrorists operate. We must be wise
enough to see beyond the mists of illusion that have been
created to deceive us. We must be prepared to look in some dark
places and to be shocked by the truth we find.
Recently declassified CIA documents such as Project Northwoods,
whether actually carried out or not, reveal the willingness of
the CIA to murder American civilians for the purposes of empire.
I urge readers to do a Google search and read these documents
for themselves.
I realize that decent people do not want to believe that their
own government is capable of such horrific acts of terror
against the world, yet alone its own citizens. They assume that
we are dealing with conscientious human beings like themselves;
people with values similar to our own. But they are not like us;
and they are not whom they purport to be. A deep understanding
of US history reveals that nothing about America is what it
seems. Behind the words recorded in our history books there are
hidden histories that must be brought into the light for all to
see. Only when this is accomplished will we know who is really
running the government and committing acts of terror against
innocent people everywhere.
There is considerable evidence that implicates the CIA, the FBI,
as well as secret police forces in the murders of John F.
Kennedy, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy,
among others. Malcolm X and Dr. King were silenced by an
assassins’ bullet when they were on the threshold of changing
the nation’s power structure. It is a familiar story. Whenever
anyone rises to threaten the status quo, they are assassinated,
and always the work of a lone gunmen. Bogus investigations are
created to hide or destroy the evidence. It happened in the case
of the above mentioned assassinations; it happened with 9-11;
and it will happen again.
Know that whatever the American government has done domestically
to put down insurrections against the ruling class, it also
carries out on a global scale. Reagan’s unthinkable acts of
aggression and terror against the people of Nicaragua are not
only connected to the assassinations of Malcolm X and Dr.
King—they are connected to the events of 9-11 and the Middle
East.
So whenever you hear the president or one of his cabal beating
the drums of war, accusing some individual or a nation of
terrorism, you can be absolutely certain of one fact. They are
themselves guilty of the very same crimes against humanity that
are magnitudes of order worse than the accused. The rest of the
world knows this because their media is considerably freer than
ours’; and the people pay attention.
Whenever the next terrorist attack occurs on American soil, as
it inevitably will, some familiar names will be associated with
it. Osama bin Laden, or whoever takes the blame, will once again
provide cover for the real culprits.
Charles Sullivan is a furniture maker, photographer, and free
lance writer residing in the eastern panhandle of West Virgina.
He welcomes your comments at
earthdog@highstream.net
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