- The degenerative result of death is the decay of the
human body, which ultimately takes the form of skeletonized remains. And
since individual recognition relies mostly upon one's unique facial features,
death eventually erodes this uniqueness converting it to the universal
symbol of Mankind's mortality: the human skull. Not only does the human
skull signify death, it can signify as well a means to one's end, often
warning of such in a possible horrific and untimely manner. The universal
symbol of poison is the skull and crossbones, and when used on a standard
with a black background, it symbolized impending death and destruction
on the high seas in a bygone era.
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- The visage of death has been brought to "life"
via many works of fiction and <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052169/>ghost
stories, none the least of which was the Mike Young/Filmation TV cartoon
series "Masters of the Universe." The arch villain is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletor>"Skeletor,"
a muscularly well-endowed sinister blue-skinned character with a
skull face shrouded in a dark purple hood. The skull face adorning a well-defined
muscular body conveys the message that this powerful and evil character
brings death and suffering to all who come in contact with him. The character
provides a perfect analogy to the powerful threat of death and destruction
offered by the head of the Cheney dictatorship's Department of Homeland
Security. And DHS head Michael Chertoff's visage remarkably resembles
that of a dark, sinister and dangerously evil character.
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- And recent revelations regarding the nature of his sinister
boss, Richard Cheney, seem to extend as well to the character of Chertoff,
recalling Hendrik Hertzberg's article in The New Yorkeritemizing Cheney's
character and facial traits as being that of a "scowling, scheming,
domineering silently sinister" secret individual. And Bruce Fein
reflected on Cheney's "sneering contempt" for our Constitution.
These character traits fit like a glove to the characterization of Skeletor
as documented in the Wikipedia entry: "In the cancelled 2002 show,
Skeletor is portrayed somewhat as a bully towards his minions using his
powerful abilities to threaten his followers or to silence them. He also
constantly blames his followers for their defeats at the hands of the Masters,
and rules through a policy of fear, which makes him somewhat different
compared to King Hiss."
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- It appears that this pretty much sums up the Cheney-Bush
Dicktatorship. Cheney is a flabby Skeletor with a pacemaker, but Chertoff,
although far form being muscular, does personify the sinister evil of the
Dicktatorship in his facial features. And of course, Cheney-Bush fans
will view this characterization and analogy as a cheap shot; but if the
hood fits, well, you know!
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- All of the Dicktatorship's power radiates from the white
and red hot molten steel, dust and smoldering ashes of the former World
Trade Towers, and from the gaping hole at the Pentagon. The latter's dimensions
could never have been caused by a huge airliner. And at both "crash
sites," the one in Pennsylvania as well as at the Pentagon, not one
airliner jet engine, built of virtually indestructible titanium, was found.
No wing parts, flaps, ailerons, horizontal or vertical stabilizers, landing
gear, seat frames or anything that could possibly have survived an air
crash that had always been present in ALL previous air crashes was found
at either those sites.
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- Considering the sinister evil of the Cheney-Bush regime,
what else can any thinking, non-politically biased individual conclude?
9/11 was the most dastardly, sinister and cowardly act ANY government
could ever have perpetrated against its own citizens, with the only possible
exceptions being The New York Times-sanctioned mass starvation murders
of 8 million Ukrainians in 1932 in the Soviet Union, and the total mass
murder of 66 million Christians by the Soviet Union's communists.
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- Past government-sponsored and perpetrated atrocities,
the so-called American "Civil War," the U.S.S. Maine and Spanish-American
War, Pearl Harbor, JFK, the Gulf of Tonkin lie and its employment to escalate
the Vietnam War, were all filtered by layers of government of varying responsibilities
and jurisdictions, thereby clouding and camouflaging accountability. The
Congress was usually approached for declarations of war. But the total
coordination of the 9/11 false flag terrorism could only have been orchestrated
in terms of its smashing success through the direction and efforts of the
highest levels of American government. That having been said, and combined
with the sinister, darkly secret, and sneering contempt by this administration
for our nation's rule of law, it drives all inquiry to one and only one
conclusion: and that conclusion is that 9/11 was a deliberately planned
inside job.
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- How revolting is it, therefore, to hear the Secretary
of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael "Skeletor" Chertoff,
continue the Bush regime's terrorist ruse by asserting that his "gut
feel" is that more terrorist acts, such as 9/11, will be perpetrated
and successfully engineered by yet more camel-riding nomads from halfway
around the world? And in retrospect, how hollow is theWashington Post's
exposé on the secret powers of Dick Cheney when absent any meaningful
reference to 9/11? And if NORAD, commercial aviation air traffic radar
and automatic/robotic military defense mechanisms, designed and made fail-safe
thereby precluding human error were all deactivated on 9/11 to enable human
error, the latter having been cited as preventing aerial interception of
the incoming supposedly hijacked planes, why must we now be notified via
scheming skull Chertoff's gut feeling as regards the next 9/11?
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- Although Cheney's implied sinister connection to 9/11
was sidestepped by the Post, thinking alternative media-informed readers
will have no problem making that connection. Not only will such informed
readers easily make the connection, they know alarmingly as well that Chertoff's
"gut feel" will in all likelihood morph into reality. As Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts has warned, the Cheney-Bush gangsters are destroying
not only America's economy, its military, and its reputation throughout
the world, but less importantly, the GOP as well. Why indeed is Cheney-Bush
not concerned with voter repercussions? In fact, the asinine and what
would under normal circumstances be defined as the comedic behavior of
ignoramus Nancy Pelosi, combines with the Cheney-Bush atrocities to eventually
invalidate the "two-party" system altogether!
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- Not so obvious, and not so easily connectible to 9/11,
however, is the convoluted involvement of none other than the Secretary
of the Department of Homeland Security, the Cheney-Bush Dicktatorship's
Michael Chertoff. Not surprisingly, Chertoff was born and raised in the
most corrupt state in America: New Jersey. This is from the outstanding
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff>Wikipedia entry on
Chertoff: "Chertoff was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of
Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff, the former leader of the B'nai Israel Congregation
in Elizabeth, and El Al flight attendant Livia Chertoff (née Eisen).
His paternal grandfather, Rabbi Paul Chertoff, emigrated from Russia.
His grandfather was a noted Talmudic scholar.
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- Chertoff went to The Pingry School. He later attended
Harvard University, where he was a research assistant on John Hart Ely's
Democracy and Distrust, graduating in 1975. He then graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, going on to clerk for appellate
judge Murray Gurfein for a year before clerking for United States Supreme
Court justice William Brennan from 1979 to 1980. He worked in private
practice with Latham & Watkins from 1980 to 1983 before being hired
as a prosecutor by Rudolph Giuliani, then the U.S. attorney for Manhattan,
working on Mafia and political corruption-related cases. In the mid 1990s,
Chertoff returned to Latham & Watkins for a brief period, founding
the firm's office in Newark, New Jersey."
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- Truth, fact and honesty are always a deadly combination
and an enormous, continuing threat to gangsters, conspirators, criminals
and manipulators. And sad to say, all of these dregs of humanity and similar
types can be found in American politics and their bureaucracies at all
levels of government. Congressman Ron Paul is a refreshing anomaly. So
in spite of the fact that honest, innocently assembled information is made
available to inquiring minds via the marvelous and wonderfully free Internet,
the alternative media and all those zillions of honest, truthful factoids
on the Internet are a horrific threat to terrified politicians and bureaucrats
with lots of skeletonized remains in their collective closets. That's
why criminal types such as the Hillaroid, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani
and Senator Ted "Tubes" Stevens so desperately need to shut the
Internet down, and shut the alternative media up!
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- That said, continued examination of the Wikipedia entry
offers: "In September 1986 as Assistant U.S. Attorney, Michael Chertoff
together with U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rudolph
Giuliani were instrumental in putting the American (Italian) Mafia on trial.
Mafia Don John Gotti had been locked in prison without bail since May
1986, only a few months after he allegedly took control of the Gambino
gang following the murder of the previous boss, Paul Castellano. It was
the start of the cleanup of that generation of Italian Mafia in New York
and Chicago." Wikipedia notes that the source of this information
was a magazine article: "Hitting the Mafia", ED MAGNUSON, Sep.
29, 1986 issue of TIME magazine.
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- Since the 1930s, organized crime activities at the time
were in terms of gambling and bootlegging enterprises, which were always,
for the most part, transparent and borderless as concerns New York City
and cities in New Jersey. Former New York City Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia,
vowed to send the "tinhorns across the river" to New Jersey.
It is, therefore, understandable that a U.S. Attorney for the Southern
District of New York would work hand-in-hand with an Assistant U.S. Attorney
from New Jersey to tackle the monumental task of going after the Italian
Mafia that so successfully operates in both states. And although Wikipedia
doesn't focus forcefully on that prosecutorial partnership, it does indeed
acknowledge its existence.
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- But there is a very disturbing aspect to this partnership.
How many other Giuliani activities was Chertoff involved in? Or might
it be the other way around? Can we somehow assume that virtually any legal
or any organized crime issue involving New York City and the State of New
Jersey would be a Giuliani-Chertoff combined operation? And relative to
this line of inquiry, the efforts of investigative reporter Wayne Madsen
come to mind.
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- In his <http://www.rense.com/general74/russ.htm>piece,
"9-11 WTC Links To Russian-Jewish Mafia Revealed," posted on
Rense.com on January 2nd, Madsen wrote: "According to our well-placed
source, Ray Steffans (aka diStefano of New Jersey), Jewish mobster Gideon
Chern, and Eddie Baker of Vanguard Petroleum met in Houston in September
1983 to discuss, among other items, funding for Kroll. In December 1977,
Bernard Taubenfeld, Gideon Chern and Shalom Goldburd, officials of B'nai
Torah Institute affiliate, Nutrition for Youth, were convicted of defrauding
the government by submitting bills for food that was never served to poor
children in the New York City summer lunch program. Chern's other organized
crime activity in the 1980s reportedly had an important protector -- former
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani. The
former New York Mayor and prospective GOP presidential candidate reportedly
suppressed a wealth of evidence against Chern."
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- Madsen continues: "Kroll was responsible for the
security of the World Trade Center on 9/11. The firm had hired FBI top
counter-terrorism agent John O'Neill as Director of World Trade Center
security upon his retirement from the FBI. O'Neill dies in the 9/11 attacks."
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- Isn't it odd that the powerful and successful New York-New
Jersey federal prosecutorial talents of Giuliani and Chertoff, the team
that brought down Gambino Crime Family overlord John Gotti, didn't do precisely
the same thing to the Russian-Jewish Mafia that Madsen reports Giuliani
had "a wealth of evidence" on? Might not the prosecution of
those gangsters have impeded the 9/11 inside job? And if this is a stretch,
then can we at least posture by offering the contrary in stating that the
unimpeded support by Giuliani and possibly Chertoff aided and abetted the
9/11 massacre of Christian and Muslim Americans? Haven't we just learned
of Chertoff's Russian-Israeli connections? And whatever happened to those
five high-fiving Mossad agents captured and arrested by the Bergen County
Police near Giants Stadium? Weren't traces of explosives found in their
van? Why did Chertoff secretly spirit them back to Israel?
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- Here's more from Wikipedia regarding Chertoff's "public
service": "Most recently Chertoff has managed the FEMA response
to Hurricane Katrina. On the third of September, several days after the
initial strike of the hurricane many (including the New Orleans mayor,
Ray Nagin) indicated severe dissatisfaction with the response from Washington,
citing the delay between the general knowledge of the storm's likely impact
and any effective federal response. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
declared a state of emergency on August 26; a week later, New Orleans remained
in a state of chaos.
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- While defending the federal government's response in
a September 3, 2005 press conference, Chertoff asserted that no one had
ever predicted a disaster of this magnitude; however, warnings had in fact
come for years from experts in the private sector as well as government
agencies at all levels, including FEMA itself, who had identified a disaster
such as this as one of the three most likely catastrophes to strike the
US."
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- Now isn't that utterly amazing? Here's a guy who graduated
from Harvard University and also from Harvard Law School magna cum laude,
but cites a totally phony defense offering the lie that no one had ever
predicted such a disaster. His operative legalistic disclaimer is the
word "magnitude." And demonstrating that he can think both in
and out of the box, the centerpiece of his legal accomplishments was demonstrated
by his having partnered with yet another Assistant U.S. Attorney and Harvard
Law School summa cum laude graduate, Vietnamese-born Viet Dinh.
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- Dual citizen [Israel] Chertoff and former Vietnamese
Dinh wrote the USA PATRIOT Act. Clearly, these foreign-spirited Harvard
Law School geniuses have clearly and unswervingly articulated the specter
and intent of American "law" as acquired from their prestigious
alma mater, an institution that has forged far ahead of all others legally
validating as well justifiable torture as championed by its own Israeli
professor, Alan Dershowitz. Although totally out of context with all of
the foregoing, former Congressman John LeBoutillier's book title alone
says it all:Harvard Hates America! BTW: Didn't AG Gonzo graduate from
that cesspool as well?
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- Isn't it sad that an individual who obviously works so
hard to acquire academic credentials and recognition, and works so tirelessly
to acquire unimpeachable stature in his chosen "profession,"
then tosses it all relying upon secrecy and the control of information
to allow him to abuse his magnificent advantage? There is no question
that he is indeed a genius, but certainly not in his so-to-speak profession
of law. He has made the basic mistake made by all tyrants, dictators,
and unscrupulous manipulators: he mistakes and forsakes law based upon
justice for law based upon power and fear. And once a lawyer or any other
highly trained professional transgresses against his/her profession's individual
moral code, there's no going back. Ever-increasing levels of power and
control are needed to cover one's tracks by the manipulation of laws and
information.
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- In his latest exposed totally unprofessional caper, Washington
Post Staff Writer Carol Leonnig points out in her August 2nd article, "In
Terrorism-Law Case, Chiquita Points To U.S." writing, "On April
24, 2003, a board member of Chiquita International Brands disclosed to
a top official at the Justice Department that the king of the banana trade
was evidently breaking the nation's anti-terrorism laws. Roderick
M. Hills, who had sought the meeting with former law firm colleague Michael
Chertoff, explained that Chiquita was paying 'protection money' to a Colombian
paramilitary group on the U.S.government's list of terrorist organizations.
Hills said he knew that such payments were illegal, according to sources
and court records, but said that he needed Chertoff's advice."
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- Leonnig goes on: "Chiquita, Hills said, would have
to pull out of the country if it could not continue to pay the violent
right-wing group to secure its Colombian banana plantations. Chertoff,
then assistant attorney general and now secretary of homeland security,
affirmed that the payments were illegal but said to wait for more feedback,
according to five sources familiar with the meeting. Because of Chertoff's
indecisiveness, Chiquita is now facing prosecution for having dealt with
foreign terrorists, even though that terrorist organization's efforts favor
a US corporation in that country. Chertoff admitted the situation was
complex, of course made so by careless legislation crafted by over-zealous
"law-making" individuals like himself. The only way out, as
usual in these kinds of situations, is selective enforcement of existent
laws, which constitutes yet more assaults upon both reason and justice.
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- It is obvious that Chertoff is a schemer and a planner.
Imitation human beings that write unjust laws like the USA PATRIOT Act
and the Military Commissions Act and other unjust and totally immoral "laws"
have to be. And along with this concept of law based upon power, we have
laws based upon party politics and favoring lobbyists and donators using
government as a weapon for their own interests. We should all be wary
when these types, such as Rudy Giuliani and Rick Santorum, advise US not
to vote for Democrats, or not to weaken "our" resolve in Iraq,
and that if we do, we are inviting yet another major terrorist act on our
soil.
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- And I guess it is in the light of these warnings from
Bush and Cheney's GOP that we should now behold and most seriously regard
the warning offered by that most recognizable symbol of impending horrific
death and destruction. Where is the He-Man that will save US from the
clutches of evil?
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- © THEODORE E. LANG 8/03/07 All rights reserved
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- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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