- (Note - It is lamentable, but not a surprise, to see
our government and media begin using the term 'survivalist' and
'survivalist
groups' as now being among the prime suspects in the US anthrax
attacks.
-
- What is a 'survivalist' and what constitutes a
'survivalist
group'? Who shall define them? And who are the 'experts' mentioned in
the story below? If you have put away a 3 months' supply of food and water
for your family, are you all members of the 'survivalist' movement? Are
you a 'survivalist'? Never mind that our government is constantly telling
us that we stand to take potentially enormous casualties here at home in
George Bush's 'War On Terrorism.' Is it unpatriotic and suspicious to
plan to survive calamities, both natural and human-made? It now appears
so.
-
- There is great danger in the label game, especially as
played by the masters of spin. Immediately after the OKC bombing,
'militias'
and 'patriot groups' were villified, smeared, defamed, and crucified in
the national media. It only took a couple of days to accomplish a near
180 degree reversal of the meaning of that formerly heroic expression:
'patriot'...turning it into one of the foulest words in the English
language.
-
- Now, however, instead of the phrases 'patriot' and
'patriot
groups' being used to define prime suspects, we see the phrases 'Neo-Nazi'
and 'survivalist.' This is no accident. As of now, if one isn't a
'patriot,'
one is apparently, potentially suspect. Furthermore, if one dares question
or explore potential (and well-documented) international monetary
'conflicts
of interest' between the administration and foreign companies and
geopolitical
power bases, one runs the near certain risk of being branded 'unpatriotic'
or 'un-American' by a large portion of a citizenry which finds itself in
a frenzy of 'true patriotism.'
-
- Crazy, evil people come in all guises, some wear turbans
and some wear baseball caps, some carry Kalashnikovs and some carry
briefcases.
Beware...beware...beware of the label game and the mass manipulation of
America. The shadow elite are brilliant at their craft. -ed)
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- DOJ And FBI Now Targeting 'Survival Groups'
In Anthrax Investigation
- By Ed Vulliamy in New York
The Observer
10-28-1
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- Neo-Nazi extremists within the US are behind the deadly
wave of anthrax attacks against America, according to latest briefings
from the security services and Justice Department.
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- Experts on 'survivalist' groups and extreme-right 'Aryan'
militants have been drafted into the investigation as the focus shifts
away from possible links with the 11 September terrorists or even possible
state backers such as Iraq.
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- 'We've been zeroing in on a number of hate groups,
especially
one on the West Coast,' a source at the Justice Department told The
Observer
yesterday. 'We've certainly not discounted the possibility that they may
be involved.'
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- The anthrax crisis, which grew last week, had by Friday
night spread to mailrooms at CIA headquarters, the Supreme Court and a
hospital, and yesterday three traces were found in an office building
serving
the US Capitol.
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- 'There are a number of strong leads, and some people
we know well that we are looking at,' the Justice Department said. 'These
are groups organised into militia and "survivalist" movements
- which pull out of society and take to the hills to make war on the
government,
and who will support anyone else making war on the government.'
-
- Investigators are examining threatening letters sent
to media organisations - some dated before the 11 September attacks - which
did not contain anthrax but contained similar messages and handwriting
style as those which later did. The theory is that the anthrax attacks
were planned - and the killer germ was obtained and treated - long before
the carnage of 11 September.
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- Speaking to The Observer yesterday, the Justice
Department
official said: 'We have to see the right wing as much better coordinated
than its apparent disorganisation suggests. And we have to presume that
their opposition to government is just as virulent as that of the Islamic
terrorists, if not as accomplished.
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- 'But that is, in its way, one of the most compelling
possible leads in the anthrax trail - that it is not really al-Qaeda's
style, but rather that of others who sympathise with its war against the
American government and media.'
-
- The official said the investigation had, in the past
week, drafted in special teams from the Civil Rights division of the
department to reinforce the international terrorism teams. The American
neo-Nazi Right is motivated above all by its loathing of the federal
government,
which it believes is selling out the homeland to a 'New World Order' run
by masons and Jews.
-
- Its insane politics have propelled numerous attacks and
armed stand-offs over the past eight years, culminating in the carnage
at Oklahoma. Now the anthrax investigation is zooming in on possible
connections between these neo-Nazis and Arab extremists, united by their
mutual anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel. Such alliances have been common
among neo-Nazis in Europe, but have played a lesser role in the US.
However,
monitoring of the hate groups shows they are now embracing al-Qaeda's
terrorism
as commendable attacks on the federal government.
-
- Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal centre in
Los Angeles said that at a meeting in Lebanon this year, US neo-Nazis were
represented alongside Islamic militants. 'There's a great solidarity with
the point of view of the bin Ladens of the world,' said Mark Potok of the
Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors the far right. 'These people
wouldn't let their daughters near an Arab, but they are certainly making
common cause on an ideological level. They see the same enemy: American
culture and multiculturalism.'
-
- Neo-Nazi websites, including the largest umbrella
organisation,
the National Alliance, show support for al-Qaeda. Billy Roper, the
alliance's
membership coordinator posted a message within hours of the 11 September
attacks, reading: 'Anyone who is willing to drive a plane into a building
to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members had half as much
testicular
fortitude.' Another group, Aryan Action, praised the attacks of 11
September,
saying: 'Either you're fighting with the Jews against al-Qaeda or you
support
al-Qaeda fighting against the Jews.' Others outwardly support the anthrax
mailing.
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- One message, entitled 'No Sympathy for the Devil', was
posted in several chat rooms by right-winger Grant Bruer, whose racist
writings are circulated among supremacist groups. It reads: 'Is there not
a single person who has received these anthrax letters that isn't an avowed
enemy of the white race? Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle and the gossip rag offices
have all been 100 per cent legitimate targets. Who among us has the
slightest
bit of sympathy for these pukes?'
-
- Right-wing groups have had an interest in anthrax and
other biological agents. A member of the Aryan Nation group once bragged
he had a stash of anthrax from digging up a field where cows had died of
the disease in the 1950s. Larry Wayne Harris was arrested after trying
to obtain three vials of bubonic plague from a mail-order science
company.
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- The trail leading investigators to groups from the
domestic
ultra-right - rather than the al-Qaeda terror network - comes as a dramatic
twist in the confused crisis. Last week, parallel evidence appeared to
be linking the now rampant anthrax attacks to another trail: leading from
Iraq and through the Czech Republic, with al-Qaeda militants as the likely
couriers.
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- The shift in the investigation echoes that which followed
America's other infamous terrorist attack: the destruction of the federal
government building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The bombing was initially
thought to be the work of Arab extremists, but turned out to be the work
of the Aryan supremacists.
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