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Don't Trust Government
By Charley Reese
06/08/07 "Lew
Rockwell" -- -- In reading an excellent book,
Satanic Purses: Money, Myth and Misinformation, by R.T. Naylor
(publisher is McGill-Queen's University Press), I suddenly
realized why Adolf Hitler was so popular during the first years
of his administration.
The funny thing is that the book is not about Hitler or Germany,
but about the U.S. and the bogus war on terror. It is an
outstanding book, carefully researched and footnoted, and
written in a reasonable manner, though with delicious dollops of
sarcasm.
It's the carefully detailed accounts of injustices committed by
the U.S. government against American Muslims that gave me the
insight about Hitler. In the early days of the Third Reich, if
you weren't a criminal, a communist or a Jew, you never saw the
dark side of the Nazi government. You saw an economy being
revitalized, superhighways being built, Germans being put back
to work, the disgraceful Versailles Treaty being scrapped. It
must have looked a lot like morning in Germany to the people who
had suffered through runaway inflation, economic depression and
street riots.
Similarly, if you are not a Muslim or an Arab-American who has
been a victim of the Patriot Act and other laws carelessly
passed in the hysteria following the attacks in 2001, then the
Bush administration probably looks perfectly normal. You
probably even believe that it is really protecting you from
terrorists, just as many Germans believed Hitler was protecting
them from the "bad guys."
What Taylor's book demonstrates is how often this is pure
nonsense, and at the same time what terrible damage is being
done to the rule of law and America's traditional respect for
human rights.
Typically, the government will swoop down and seize an
organization's records and computers, while making public
accusations of the people being "involved" with terrorists. The
important point is that this is done before any determination of
guilt or innocence has even begun. By the time a defendant gets
to court, if he ever does, he's ruined. Quite often then, the
fearless feds will say, "Well, never mind about this terrorist
business, just plead guilty to a minor immigration violation."
Often defendants are bullied into admitting guilt they don't
deserve by threats of being declared an enemy combatant, which
means indefinite imprisonment, probably for life.
You can see the process going on with the four men charged with
planning to blow up the fuel lines to JFK International Airport
in New York. In the first place, it is common knowledge that if
you blow up a fuel line, you will get an explosion and fire at
one point. The claim that the whole pipeline would blow up for
miles is nonsense, and the government knows that, but it threw
that out to claim the plot endangered "thousands" of lives.
The real question is, Did these guys actually plan it, or were
they set up by the government's federal informant? The federal
government has a terrible record of using informants to entrap
people. The whole tragedy of Ruby Ridge, which cost the lives of
Randy Weaver's wife and son, resulted from a federal informant
who nagged Weaver into sawing off the barrels of a shotgun,
something any kid can do with a vice and a hacksaw. The feds
then arrested Weaver with the intention of forcing him to become
an informant, and the tragic farce ensued.
So even though you haven't felt the arbitrary and unjust power
of the government, you should read this book and find out just
how much deception is involved in this war on terror. You'll
discover how often oil, diamonds and big business play
behind-the-scenes roles in this current so-called war.
As the German people discovered, once a government has unlimited
power, it will eventually use that power against everyone.
Charley Rees has been a journalist for 49 years.
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