- Within minutes after the terrorist attack against the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, my phone began to
ring and emails started pouring in asking what was the meaning of it all.
I was flattered that anyone thought I would know the answer to that question;
but, in truth, I knew little more than what was being shown on television.
It was impossible to have a reasoned response until the shock wore off
and the facts could be assembled.
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- The concepts I would like to share with you today were
set to paper three days after that event. I printed about a dozen copies
and gave them to family and friends. Since then I have added historical
data, but the concepts and the message remain unchanged. Many of the predictions
I made have already come to pass; but any pride I might have in being right
is far offset by the grim substance of those predictions.
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- After completing The Creature from Jekyll Island, I felt
that I still had one more book to write and that it would be called The
Freedom Manifesto. I also knew that I would need a dramatic issue in the
first chapter to capture attention. Well, the terrorist attack on September
11 was certainly that - and more.
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- I told those on my email list that I would send them
my expanded report on terrorism, but then I became bogged down in structuring
and gathering material for the book. By that time, the report had become
huge and had to be divided into chapters. All of that took about four weeks.
So, what started out to be a four-page report on terrorism metamorphosed
into Chapter One of The Freedom Manifesto.
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- At first, it was my intent to keep the material up to
date with late-breaking events; but then it occurred to me that it might
have more value in its original form than if it were continually updated.
Writing about news events after they happen is not difficult, but writing
about them before they happen is another matter. So, I decided to let the
overview stand exactly as conceptualized on Friday, September 14, 2001.
This is that report...
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- KNOW THE ENEMY weabout every language in the world and
has become a classic of military and political strategy. In it, Sun Tzu
said:
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- If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not
fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the
enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know
neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.[1]
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- It is now three days after the attack, and I am haunted
by the words of Sun Tzu. America has declared war, but her leaders are
not even sure who the enemy is. Is it a man called Osama bin Laden? Is
it Afghanistan, the nation that shelters him? Is it the Taliban which rules
Afghanistan? Is it a terrorist group called al-Qaida? Is it Muslim Extremism?
We commit to war but do not know the enemy.
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- The meaning of this event is far more complicated than
the surface facts would indicate. On the surface, we have a group of people
in the Middle East who hate America and have pledged themselves to inflict
severe punishment on her, even at the sacrifice of their own lives. If
that is as far as we care to look, then the meaning is simple. It is them
against us; we are at war; they are the bad guys; we are the good guys;
and we must destroy the enemy.
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- That is the meaning that was given to the American people
by their leaders. President Bush summarized it well when he told the nation,
Tuesday, that the attack was an act of cowardice and that America was the
target because it was a beacon of freedom. If that is the correct meaning
of the event, the logical consequences are that we must fight back; we
must defend freedom; and we must not stop until the cowards are wiped off
the face of the earth. That is the path of war, retaliation, and, of course,
counter-retaliation.
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- There is, however, a deeper understanding of this event,
and it has to do with the maxim: actions have consequences. To come to
that understanding, we must do the unthinkable in moments of crisis. We
must ask questions.
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- LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM
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- Asking questions is not popular with some people. When
a nation is at war, there is a tendency for its citizens to rally behind
their leaders without questioning the wisdom of their actions. For them,
the test of patriotism is conformity. Those who ask questions are called
unpatriotic. Life is simple for the conformists. All they want to know
is "What side are you on, anyway?"[2]
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- When we reach the end of this report, there will be no
doubt in anyone's mind about my patriotism or which side holds my loyalty;
but, along the way, I definitely will be asking some hard questions about
the wisdom of American foreign policy.
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- Although I may be critical of our politicians and their
policies; I want it clearly understood at the outset that I totally support
our men and women who will be sent into combat as a result of those policies.
When we find ourselves in a shooting war, regardless of how we got into
it, at that point we have no choice. We must put all that we have into
the fight. But, the other side of that coin is that we must fight to win.
Our goal must be victory, not stalemate - and we should achieve it as quickly
as possible to minimize casualties on both sides. That does not mean fighting
a protracted conflict in which something other than victory is the goal.
That is what our politicians forced us to do in Korea and Vietnam and Desert
Storm and the Balkan War. After the fighting was over, the tyrannical regimes
were still there. We left them in place. Some of them are now supporting
the terrorists who have attacked us.
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- In the days ahead, we must be clear on the difference
between loyalty and patriotism. The spirit of loyalty compels us to support
and defend our country even when she is wrong. That is necessary in time
of war, but patriotism is a higher ideal. It compels us, not only to defend
our country when she is wrong, but also to do everything within our power
to bring her back to the side of right.
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- When it comes to patriotism, there is no one who has
a greater love for country than I do. That is easy to say; but when you
hear someone make that statement, you have a right to know where is the
evidence? My evidence is my life. I did not purchase our family's flag
on Tuesday. It is very old and weathered. We have proudly displayed it
on every holiday for more than forty years. Often, it was the only flag
in the neighborhood. I did not need a terrorist attack to remind me to
honor my country and my heritage.
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- Displaying the flag is important, but patriotism requires
much more than that. I have devoted almost the entirety of my adult life
trying to mobilize my fellow countrymen to the defense of America from
her enemies outside her borders and within. Since 1960, I have left behind
me a long paper trail and a mountain of audio and videotapes extolling
the virtues of the American system, her culture, her Constitution, and
her people. I love America and all that she has stood for in days gone
by, but I am saddened beyond words at what has been done to her within
my lifetime - and what I fear is yet to be done in the days ahead.
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- There are those who may say that I am anti-government,
but that is not true. I am not anti-government; I am anti-corrupt government.
I will do everything possible to defend my government from those who would
violate their oaths of office, tear apart the Constitution, or use their
positions of trust to oppress our people. To oppose corruption in government
is the highest obligation of patriotism.
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- WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?
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- The first question we need to ask is why? Why do the
terrorists hate America?[3]
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- I am reminded of the story of a young man in medieval
times who wanted to become a knight. He obtained an audience with the king
and offered his services, explaining that he was an excellent swordsman.
The king told him that the realm was at peace, and there was no need for
a knight. Nevertheless, the young man insisted that he be allowed to serve.
To put and end to the discussion, the king finally agreed and knighted
him on the spot. Several months later, the young knight returned to the
castle and requested another audience. When he entered the throne room,
he bowed in respect and then reported that he had been very busy. He explained
that he had killed thirty of the king's enemies in the North and forty-five
of them in the South. The king looked puzzled for a moment and said, "But
I don't have any enemies." To which the knight replied, "You
do now, Sire."
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- Do Muslim terrorists hate America because of their religion
or their culture? Is it because they are envious of America's wealth or
that American women wear short skirts? Or is it because they really do
hate freedom? No one with knowledge of Islam believes any of those answers.
Some commentators have quoted the more militant passages of the Koran as
proof that religion is, indeed, the basis of this animosity, but a careful
reading reveals that violence is approved only in retaliation. Of course,
there are groups within Islam that have a very liberal interpretation of
retaliation, but the fact remains that the terrorists are attacking only
those countries that have previously conducted military campaigns against
their people. Their hatred comes, not from the Koran or the ancient traditions
or from envy. It comes from a desire for revenge.
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- AMERICA BECOMES WORLD POLICEMAN
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- Ever since the end of World War II, America's politicians
have viewed themselves as global leaders with a responsibility to manage
the affairs of the world that outweighs or at least equals any obligation
to their own country. For over five decades, the nation's universities
and media have extolled the virtues of internationalism. The old tradition
of avoiding foreign entanglements was sneeringly called isolationism. We
were conditioned to think that the old way was stupid. The wave of the
future was shown to us, and it was a New World Order. Over the years, we
watched with approval as our leaders increasingly entangled our once sovereign
nation into a world community called the United Nations. Treaty by treaty,
we watched and approved as we became increasingly subject to international
edicts and played the role of world policeman.
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- It is in that role that our military began to wage wars
against populations far removed from our shores and even further from our
national interests. To justify those wars, we were told that we were defending
victim groups against their despotic neighbors or ridding the world of
drug lords; but, after the smoke of battle cleared, we discovered that
there were hidden agendas that were much less noble. More often than not,
the real purpose of the war was to control oil fields, ports, mineral resources,
or military supply lines - or even to distract voters from thinking about
scandals in the White House. If you roam around the globe shooting and
bombing people, and aligning yourself politically with others who do the
same, you cannot expect your victims to like you very much. Some may even
be willing to die for revenge.
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- A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN MEDIA
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- On Wednesday evening (September 12), Henry Sigman, reported
on Nightline: "The U.S. is seen as a sort of an insensitive hegemony
with arrogance that seeks to impose it's own values on the rest of the
world. It is seen as an uncritical supporter of the State of Israel in
its conflict with the Palestinians, and the combination of the two does
not make for U.S. popularity in that part of the world."
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- Adding to this theme was Magnas Raisdorff, who also appeared
on Nightline while Ted Koppel, the show's host, was speaking from London.
Raisdorff, a reporter in the London branch of CBS, and an expert on terrorism,
agreed with Sigman. He said:
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- Many in the Arab world regard the U.S., not as an honest
broker, but as protecting and shielding Israel over very important political
as well as religious issues. Among these issues are: Israel's control over
holy Islamic sites, like the Dome of the Rock;[4] the presence of U.S.
troops near Islamic religious places such as Mecca and Medina; the sanctions
the U.S. has placed on Iraq are mostly depriving children of drugs and
food they desperately need; and, most importantly, Israel's attacks on
prominent Palestinian militants are using equipment, like helicopter gun
ships, provided by the U.S.
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- Then Jim Ruden, also in London, came on the program to
summarize Raisdorff's report saying: "And that is why what happened
yesterday, happened, not because 'America is the world's brightest beacon
[of freedom].'"
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- Since the end of World War II, the United States has
launched military strikes against Panama, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia,
Serbia, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, Haiti, Granada, Afghanistan, and Somalia -
all in the pursuit of stopping drugs, defending freedom, or resisting Communism.
In the great majority of cases, these objectives were not achieved. The
only measurable result has been the creation of hostility toward America.
That is what I call the OOPS Factor that has been a dominant feature of
U.S. foreign policy for over five decades.
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- Politicians never admit that they have made a mistake
- especially a big one. To do so would imply that they are not qualified
to lead. No matter what errors they make, they find something or someone
to blame. Their standard excuse is that they didn't have enough money or
large enough staff or enough authority. If only we will increase their
budget and give them more power, everything will be corrected. Typically,
they already have spent too much money, hired too many people, and exercised
too much authority, so their proposed solution is more of exactly what
created the problem in the first place.
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- In the case of terrorism, the politicians who create
U.S. foreign policy cannot be expected to tell the world they made a mistake.
It will be a chilly day in Hades when they announce that they, themselves,
have any responsibility for these acts. They will not want the American
people contemplating the possibility that Tuesday's attack might have been
related to an interventionist foreign policy. They will try to single out
a person and then demonize him so he will become the central focus of anger
and retaliation. That person probably will be Osama bin Laden, so, let
us see what he has to say about this. (Please remember that these words
were written just three days after the attack of September 11; and, at
that time, bin Laden had not yet been firmly declared as the responsible
party.)
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- FROM THE MIND OF BIN LADEN
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- In May of 1998, ABC reporter John Miller interviewed
bin Laden at his camp on a mountaintop in Southern Afghanistan. This is
what he said:
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- The Americans impose themselves on everyone. They accuse
our children in Palestine of being terrorists. Those children who have
no weapons and have not even reached maturity. At the same time, they defend
with their airplanes and tanks, the state of the Jews that has a policy
to destroy the future of these children. In the Sabra and Shatilla massacre,
houses were demolished over the heads of children. Also, by testimony
of relief workers in Iraq, the American-led sanctions resulted in the death
of more than one million Iraqi children. We believe that the biggest thieves
in the world and the terrorists are the Americans. The only way for us
to fend off these assaults is to use similar means. So, we tell the Americans
as a people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers, and American mothers
in general, if they value their lives and those of their children, find
a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and does
not attack others, their lands, or their honor.[5]
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- I am not quoting bin Laden because I think he is a nice
guy or that I want to exonerate him in any way. In my view, there is never
any excuse for terrorism. I include his words only to emphasize what I
stated earlier. He and his followers are not motivated by hatred of freedom
or by religious zeal but by a desire for revenge. In the days ahead, as
we contemplate how to put an end to terrorism, we had better be clear on
that. As long as we follow a foreign policy of interventionism, we will
create new enemies faster than we can track down the old ones and we will
never be able to erect anti-terrorist measures capable of stopping them
all. If we retaliate against populations or geographical areas, we will
certainly unite all of Islam in a holy war against us, and we will light
the fire of hatred in the hearts of a billion Muslims who will have but
one purpose in life: to seek revenge against us.
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- SAGE ADVICE FROM THE PAST
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- For the past few days, I have found myself thinking about
George Washington. At first, I didn't know why. Then it dawned on me. Hadn't
Washington warned about all this just before leaving office as first President
of the United States? So I dug out a copy of his Farewell Address and,
sure enough, there it was. This is what he said:
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- Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate
peace and harmony with all. Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes
each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes
of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling
occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed,
and bloody contests. So, likewise, the passionate attachment of one nation
for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation,
facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where
no real common interest exists, betrays the former into participation
in the quarrels and the wars of the latter. Europe has a set of primary
interests which to us have none or very remote relation. Hence, she must
be engaged in frequent controversies, the cause of which are essentially
foreign to our concerns. ... Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?
Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle
our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship,
interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent
alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
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- One cannot read those words of wisdom without sadly realizing
how far we have drifted from our nation's moorings. In retrospect, the
so-called isolationism of our forefathers is now looking very good.
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- NO PLACE TO HIDE
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- In 1982 I produced a video documentary entitled No Place
to Hide; The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism. Immediately after Tuesday's
attack, I began to get inquiries about the program. Friends who possessed
copies ran them on public-access cable. Suddenly, the video, which had
remained almost forgotten in the back pages of our catalogue, became a
best seller. There is good reason for that. When I did the research for
this topic, I discovered that terrorism involves a lot more than just blowing
things up and killing people. There is a well-defined strategy behind it
that has to do with the anticipated reaction of the target government and
its citizens. Terrorists themselves phrase it this way: The action is in
the reaction. They know that, after repeated attacks, people will become
angry with their leaders for not preventing terrorism. This sets citizens
against their own government. They also know that terrorist attacks will
cause people to curtail travel, business ventures, and the purchase of
luxuries, all of which will depress the economy. In our modern age, many
people have come to think that the health of the economy is government's
responsibility. So, any decline in the market, loss of jobs or purchasing
power will also be blamed on the government, making it even more unpopular.
The most important reaction, however, is that terrorism causes the target
government to respond with police state measures against its own citizens.
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- Carlos Marighella, was a former leader of the Communist
Party of Brazil. His book, The Mini-Manual for Urban Guerrillas, has been
studied by revolutionaries and terrorists worldwide. It explains that the
target government must be deliberately goaded into violating the rights
of its citizens. Marighella said:
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- The government has no alternative but to intensify repression.
The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people make life
unbearable. The general sentiment is that the government is unjust, incapable
of solving problems, and resorts purely and simply to the physical liquidation
of its opponents. The urban guerilla must become more aggressive and violent,
resorting without letup to sabotage, terrorism, expropriations, assaults,
kidnappings, and executions, heightening the disastrous situation in which
the government must act.[6]
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- The same strategy was expressed in 1968 by Italian Communist
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in a booklet entitled Political Guerilla Warfare.
Feltrinelli said that the task of the terrorist was to "violate the
law openly challenging and outraging institutions and public order in
every way. Then, when the state intervenes as a result, with the police
and the courts, it will be easy to denounce its harshness and repressive
dictatorial tendencies."[7]
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- In Germany, Ulrike Meinhof, a member of a terrorist group
called the Red Army Fraction, explained it this way. She said: "It
is necessary to provoke the latent fascism in society, and then the people
will turn to us for leadership."[8]
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- Initially, most citizens will not complain about a repressive
government if they are convinced it is necessary for their own safety,
but eventually it adds to a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo
and sets the stage for a revolution - either a violent one or a political
one - in which the target system is stripped of its freedoms with the timid
consent of the governed. That is the real goal of international terrorism.
Let me to repeat that. The goal of international terrorism is a revolution
- either a violent one or a political one - in which the target system
is stripped of its freedoms with the timid consent of the governed.
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- Who would want to do that? Certainly, that is not the
goal of those who sacrifice their lives in acts of suicidal revenge. They
care nothing about changing the structure of the target society. But those
who encourage them, who finance them, who train them, and who psychologically
program them by enflaming their passions, are quite different. Who are
they?
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- There are two powerful groups today that would like to
see what is left of the free world brought under totalitarian control.
For many decades they have alternated between competing and cooperating
with each other in their quest for world dominance. Together, they constitute
the greatest threat to freedom that the human race has ever faced. Yet,
less than 5% of the population even knows that they exist. They have worked
very hard to avoid using names for themselves that are commonly recognized.
Humans think with words, and if we have no words to identify these groups,
then we cannot even think about them - which is very much to their liking.
If we are to follow Sun Tzu's advice, if we are to know the enemy, it is
obvious that the first thing we must do is identify him.
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- In the following three chapters, I will identify the
names of these groups. From their own records, I will show their ideologies,
their goals, and their tactics. By the end of Chapter Four, you will know
the enemy.
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- PERPETUAL WAR
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- In the meantime, we are told that we are fighting terrorism.
But terrorism is not the enemy. It is a strategy of the enemy. That is
like saying the enemy is hand-to-hand combat or air raids or missile attacks
or espionage. Since terrorism is not the enemy, a war on terrorism cannot
be won. It is doomed to drag on forever - just like the war on drugs and
the war against crime. It might as well be a war against sin.
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- Shortly after World War II, George Orwell wrote his classic
novel entitled, 1984. It was a satirical prediction of what the world might
be like far in the future. Orwell envisioned that, if governments continued
to expand their power as they were then doing, eventually, they would evolve
into a global police state. He described the methods that would be used
to keep the masses from rebelling. Thought control was the primary method,
but one of the ways they accomplished that was to be constantly at war.
In time of war, the populace will accept any hardship and make any sacrifice
to defend the homeland. However, to have war, it was necessary to have
an enemy, and that enemy had to be despicable in the eyes of the homeland
defenders. Atrocities had to be committed and many lives had to be lost.
But it was equally important to avoid winning the war - otherwise, the
hardships imposed by the state would no longer seem reasonable to its subjects.
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- The world was divided into three geographical areas called
Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, and the rulers of these regions agreed
to war against each other but never to seek outright victory. The object
was perpetual war. Orwell described it this way:
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- In one combination or another, these three superstates
are permanently at war and have been so for the past twenty-five years.
War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it
was in the early decades of the twentieth century. This is not to say
that either the conduct of the war, or the prevailing attitude toward it,
has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, war hysteria
is continuous and universal in all countries. But in a physical sense
war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly trained specialists,
and causes comparatively few casualties. The fighting, when there is any,
takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can
only guess at. In the centers of civilization war means no more than a
continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a
rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. It does not matter
whether the war is actually happening, and since no decisive victory is
possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All
that is needed is that a state of war should exist. War, it will be seen,
is now a purely internal affair waged by each ruling group against its
own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests
of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.[9]
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- When we look at the facts surrounding the war on terrorism
- particularly the impossibility of victory - we cannot miss the striking
parallels to Orwell's satire. His only error, it seems, was choosing the
wrong year for the title of his book.
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- THIRTEEN PREDICTIONS It is always dangerous to make predictions
- especially if they are put into print. If they prove to be wrong, they
can haunt you for the rest of your life. Nevertheless, here are thirteen
predictions that I fervently hope will be wrong. Unfortunately, I have
no doubt that most if not all of them will come to pass. 1. The first prediction
is that we will not be given genuine options regarding the war on terrorism.
We will have only two choices, both of which are disastrous. It will be
similar to the Vietnam War in which Americans were expected to be either
hawks or doves. Either they supported the no-win war or they opposed it.
They were not given the option of victory. Their choice was between pulling
out of the war and turning the country over to the Vietcong quickly or
doggedly staying in the war and turning the country over to the Vietcong
slowly - which is the way it turned out. Likewise, in the war on terrorism,
we will be asked simply to choose sides. Either we are for freedom or for
terrorism. The wisdom of U.S. interventionism will not be allowed as a
topic for public debate.
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- 2. Most American political leaders are now committed
to world government, so the second prediction is that they will crow about
how America will not tolerate terrorism, but they will not act as Americans.
Instead, they will act as internationalists. They will turn to the UN to
lead a global war against terrorism. They will seek to expand the capacity
of NATO. and UN military forces. Although American troops will provide
the backbone of military action, they will operate under UN authority.
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- 3. The third prediction is that the drive for national
disarmament will be intensified. This will not lead to the elimination
of weapons of mass destruction, but merely to the transfer of those weapons
to UN control. It will be popularized as a means of getting nuclear and
bio-chemical weapons out of the hands of terrorists. The internationalists
promoting this move will not seem to care that many of the world's most
notorious terrorists now hold seats of power at the UN and that the worst
of them will actually control these weapons. This will be documented in
Chapters Five and Six.
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- 4. The fourth prediction is that, if any terrorists are
captured, they will be brought before the UN World Court and tried as international
criminals. This will create popular support for the Court and will go a
long way toward legitimizing it as the ultimate high tribunal. The public
will not realize the fateful precedent that is being established - a precedent
that will eventually be used to justify bringing citizens of any country
to trial based on charges made by their adversaries in other countries.
Anyone who seriously opposes the New World Order could then be transported
to The Hague in the Netherlands and face charges of polluting the planet
or committing hate crimes or participating in social genocide or supporting
terrorism.
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- 5. The fifth prediction is that the FBI will be heavily
criticized for failing to detect an attack as extensive and well coordinated
as this. In reply, we will be told that the FBI was hampered by lack of
funding, low manpower, and too little authority. Naturally, that will be
followed by an increase in funding, additional manpower, and greatly expanded
authority.
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- 6. The sixth prediction is that, eventually, it will
be discovered that the FBI and other intelligence agencies had prior warning
and, possibly, specific knowledge of Tuesday's attack; yet they did nothing
to prevent it or to warn the victims. This will be a repeat of what happened
at the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years
previously. Why they failed to do so is the topic of Chapter Four.
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- 7. The seventh prediction is that much of the war on
terrorism will be waged against Americans inside their own country. New
laws, international treaties, and executive orders will severely restrict
travel, speech, privacy, and the possession of firearms. Americans have
consistently rejected these measures in the past, but there will be much
less opposition when they are presented in the name of fighting terrorism.
Government agencies will demand to know everything about us, from our school
records, our psychological profiles, our buying habits, our political views,
our medical histories, our religious beliefs, the balances in our savings
accounts, our social patterns, a list of our friends - everything. This
will not be unique to America. The same program will be carried out in
every nation in what is left of the free world.
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- 8. The eighth prediction is that those who speak out
against these measures will be branded as right-wing extremists, anti-government
kooks, or paranoid militiamen. The object will be to isolate all dissidents
from the mainstream and frighten everyone else into remaining silent. It
is always possible to find a few genuine crackpots; and, even though they
will constitute less than one percent of the movement, they will be the
ones selected by the media to represent the dissident view point. A little
bit of garbage can stink up the whole basket. In spite of that, responsible
dissenters will still be heard. If they begin to attract a following, they
will be arrested on charges of hindering the war effort, committing hate
crimes, terrorism, tax evasion, investment fraud, credit-card fraud, child
molestation, illegal possession of firearms, drug trafficking, money laundering,
or anything else that will demonize them in the public mind. The mass media
will uncritically report these charges, and the public will assume they
are true. There is nothing quite so dramatic as watching someone on the
evening news being thrown against the wall by a SWAT team and hauled off
in handcuffs. TV viewers will assume that, surely, he must be guilty of
something. His neighbors will shake their heads and say " and he seemed
like such a nice person."
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- 9. One of the few remaining obstacles to the New World
Order is the Internet, because it allows the public to bypass the mass
media and have access to unfiltered information and opinion. Therefore,
the ninth prediction is that laws will be enacted to restrict the use of
the Internet. Child pornography has long been the rallying cry to justify
government control. Now, the specter of terrorism and money laundering
will be added to the list. The real object will be to eliminate the voices
of dissent.
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- 10. The tenth prediction is that the war on terrorism
will be dragged out over many years or decades. Like the war on drugs after
which it is patterned, there will be no victory. That is because both of
these wars are designed, not to be won, but to be waged. Their function
is to sensitize the population with fear and indignation, to provide credible
justification for the gradual expansion of government power and the consolidation
of that power into the UN.
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- 11. The eleventh prediction is that it will take a long
time to locate Osama bin Laden. A TV reporter can casually interview him
at his mountain stronghold, but the U.S. military and CIA - with legions
of spies and Delta forces and high-tech orbiting satellites - they cannot
find him. Why not? Because they do not want to find him. His image as a
mastermind terrorist is necessary as a focus for American anger and patriotic
fervor. If we are to wage war, there must be someone to personify the enemy.
Bin Laden is useful in that role. Of course, if his continued evasion becomes
too embarrassing, he will be killed in military action or captured - if
he doesn't take his own life first. Either way, that will not put the matter
to rest, because bin Laden is not the cause of terrorism, he is the icon
of terrorism. If he were to be eliminated, someone else would only have
to be found to take his place. So it is best to give each of them as much
longevity as possible. That is why terrorists like Arrafat, Hussein, Qadhafi
and Khomeini, not only are allowed to remain in power, but receive funding
and military aid from the U.S. government. They are the best enemies money
can buy. This issue will be covered in Chapter Four.
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- 12. The twelfth prediction is that, when the Taliban
is toppled in Afghanistan, a new government will be established by the
UN. Like Kosovo before it, the UN military will remain behind, and the
country will not be independent. There will be talk about how it will represent
the Afghan people, but it will serve the agendas of the internationalists
who will create it. The sad country will become just another pin on the
map showing the location of yet one more UN province.
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- 13. The thirteenth prediction is that, while all this
is going on, politicians will continue waving the American flag and giving
lip service to traditional American sentiments in order to placate their
constituency who must never be allowed to know that they are being delivered
into slavery.
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- Yes, actions have consequences, and the long-range consequences
of this act of terrorism are even more devastating than the loss of life
and property that has been the focus of the media so far. Behold the Grand
Deception: The action is in the reaction. The war on terrorism is a war
on freedom.
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appear in The Freedom Manifesto. I cannot predict how long it will take
to complete the remaining chapters, but I can tell you that I have made
this a high priority project. If you would like to be notified when it
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- WHAT CAN BE DONE?
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- In the meantime, the crucial question is what can be
done now, especially considering the lateness of the hour. This is where
it can really get depressing. At the present time, there is nothing that
men and women of good conscience can do to alter the forces of destruction
that have been unleashed against them. As long as the nations of the world
are controlled by politicians with a globalist and collectivist mindset;
as long as they use every problem and crisis as an excuse to expand the
power of government; as long as the great majority of our fellow passengers
on this spaceship called Earth are unaware of these ploys, then absolutely
nothing can be done. But notice I said "as long as."
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- The "as-long-as" part of the equation contains
two elements that underlie all of our problems: (1) We have put the wrong
people into government and (2) the public has been denied vital information
- which is why we put the wrong people into government. Therefore, any
realistic plan for eliminating terrorism and recapturing freedom must have
two objectives: (1) We must put the right people into government and (2)
we must see that the public gets the information it has been denied. The
political objective is important, but it cannot be reached without first
achieving the educational objective, so that is where we must begin.
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Everyone. Don't worry about how they will react. Some have been so sheltered
from reality that they will not be able to accept the validity of this
information, no matter how much documentation is provided. After all, they
are not getting any of this through the mass media. Besides, people don't
want to hear bad news But, as events unfold and as the predictions become
historical facts, our friends eventually will come on board.
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information on the global crusade for freedom. In addition to this report,
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Internet, we finally have a way to bypass the mass media. Just imagine
what would happen if everyone of the 5000 people on my email list would
forward a copy of this Report to everyone on their email list. And then
imagine that ten or fifteen percent of those would do the same. It would
be theoretically possible to reach every person with an email address on
the entire planet within a few months.
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- A GLOBAL FORCE FOR FREEDOM
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- This is no longer an issue just for Americans. It is
now a global battle that cuts across all lines of nationality, race, religion,
language, culture, economic status, and level of education. This is a battle
in which we are all united by common cause. That includes Christians, Jews,
Muslims, Americans, Afghans, Iraqis, Russians, Chinese, Mexicans, Somalians,
Croatians, Serbs, Australians, Canadians - literally everyone in the world
who seeks freedom. I am not talking about governments. I am talking about
people.
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- We must not be tricked into pitting Christians against
Muslims or Muslims against Jews, or Jews against Christians, or any other
combination of religion against religion. No matter how we may differ over
theology, the one thing on which we agree is that it is God's plan for
all men to be free. That is our common cause, and that is the rallying
cry that will bring millions into our ranks. We will not be able to defeat
the global force of despotism without building a global counter-force for
freedom.
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- We are now engaged in world War III, a war involving
every nation and every human being on the planet. You and I are involved
whether we like it or not. We cannot escape. There is no place to hide.
The only question is when will we commit to battle. If we wait until there
is no longer any controversy and all of our friends clearly see that the
war on terrorism is a grand deception, then we will have waited too long.
The time to step forward is now.
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- Endnotes
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- [1] Sun Tzu, The Art of War (New York: Delacorte Press,
1983), p. 18.
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- [2] This attitude became official government policy on
September 23, 2001, when Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said,
"You are either 100 percent for us or 100 percent against us."
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- [3]Five days after I wrote these words, USA Today carried
an eye-witness report from Pakistan echoing the same sentiment. It said:
"In Pakistan this week, thousands have demonstrated. They've burned
American flags, raised clenched fists, and held aloft banners telling the
world what they think of the USA. One, written in English, asked a stunning
question: 'Americans, think! Why does the whole world hate you?'"
See "Extremists' hatred of U.S. has varied roots," USA Today,
Sept. 19, 2001, p. 1.
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- [4] Although the Dome of the Rock presently has a Muslim
mosque built upon it, the Jews and Christians also regard as a holy site.
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- [5]See http://www.abcnews.go.com, John Miller Interviews
Bin Laden (May 1998), Sept. 27, 2001.
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- [6] Claire Sterling, The Terrorist Network (New York:
Berkeley Books, 1982), pp. 20-21.
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- [7] Ibid., p. 35.
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- [8] Ibid., p. 159.
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- [9] George Orwell, 1984 (New York: New American Library/Signet,
1949), pp. 153-164.
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