- "They're locking them up today
- They're throwing away the key
- I wonder who it'll be tomorrow, you or me?"
- The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967)
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- At Christmas time, it has been my habit to write a column
in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have
been stolen by the US criminal justice (sic) system that is as inhumane
as it is indifferent to justice. Usually I retell the cases of William
Strong and Christophe Gaynor, two men framed in the state of Virginia by
prosecutors and judges as wicked and corrupt as any who served Hitler or
Stalin.
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- This year is different. All Americans are now imprisoned
in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two
complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too timid or ignorant
to recognize a rogue regime running roughshod over the Constitution, by
a bought and paid for media that serves as propagandists for a regime of
war criminals, and by a public who have forsaken their Founding Fathers.
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- Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created
by the hoax of "terrorism." It has turned out that headline
terrorist events since 9/11 have been orchestrated by the US government.
For example, the alleged terrorist plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower
was the brainchild of a FBI agent who searched out a few disaffected people
to give lip service to the plot devised by the FBI agent. He arrested
his victims, whose trial ended in acquittal and mistrial.
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- Many Europeans regard 9/11 itself as an orchestrated
event. Former cabinet members of the British, Canadian and German governments
and the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army have publicly expressed their
doubts about the official 9/11 story. Recently, a former president of Italy,
Francesco Cossiga, said in an interview with the newspaper, Corriere della
Sera (November 30, 2007), that "democratic elements in America and
Europe, with the Italian center-left in the forefront, now know that the
9/11 attack was planned and executed by the American CIA and Mossad in
order to blame the Arab countries, and to persuade the Western powers to
undertake military action both in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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- It is unclear whether Cossiga was being sarcastic about
the opinion of skeptics or merely reporting what people think. I have
written to him asking for clarification and will report any reply that
I receive. Apparently, the Italian media has not offered a clarification.
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- Cossiga's statement has not been reported by a US newspaper
or TV channel. Raising doubts among Americans about the government is not
a strong point of the corporate media. Americans live in a world of propaganda
designed to secure their acquiescence to war crimes, torture, searches
and police state measures, military aggression, hegemony and oppression,
while portraying Americans (and Israelis) as the salt of the earth who
are threatened by Muslims who hate their "freedom and democracy."
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- Americans cling to this "truth" while the Bush
regime and a complicit Congress destroy the Bill of Rights and engineer
the theft of elections.
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- Freedom and democracy in America have been reduced to
no-fly lists, spying without warrants, arrests without warrants or evidence,
permanent detention despite the constitutional protection of habeas corpus,
torture despite the prohibition against self-incrimination--the list goes
on and on.
- http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1115]
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- In today's fearful America, a US Senator, whose elder
brothers were (1) a military hero killed in action, (2) a President of
the United States assassinated in office, (3) an Attorney General of the
United States and likely president except he was assassinated like his
brother, can find himself on the no-fly list. Present and former high
government officials, with top secret security clearances, cannot fly with
a tube of toothpaste or a bottle of water despite the absence of any evidence
that extreme measures imposed by "airport security" makes flying
safer.
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071221/us_nm/security_airports
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- Elderly American citizens with walkers and young mothers
with children are meticulously searched because US Homeland Security cannot
tell the difference between an American citizen and a terrorist.
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- All Americans should note the ominous implications of
the inability of Homeland Security to distinguish an American citizen from
a terrorist.
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- When Airport Security cannot differentiate a US Marine
General recipient of the Medal of Honor from a terrorist, Americans have
all the information they need to know. http://www.homeofheroes.com/news/archives/2002_0100_foss.html
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- Any and every American can be arrested by unaccountable
authority, held indefinitely without charges and tortured until he or she
can no longer stand the abuse and confesses.
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- This predicament, which can now befall any American,
is our reward for our stupidity, our indifference, our gullibility, and
our lack of compassion for anyone but ourselves.
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- Some Americans have begun to comprehend the tremendous
financial costs of the "war on terror." But few understand the
cost to American liberty. Last October a Democrat-sponsored bill, "Prevention
of Violent Radicalism and Homegrown Terrorism," passed the House of
Representatives 404 to 6.
- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/20/5920/
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- Only six members of the House voted against tyrannical
legislation that would destroy freedom of speech and freedom of assembly
and that would mandate 18 months of congressional hearings to discover
Americans with "extreme" views who could be preemptively arrested.
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- What better indication that the US Constitution has lost
its authority when elected representatives closest to the people pass a
bill that permits the Bill of Rights to be overturned by the subjective
opinion of members of an "Extremist Belief
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- Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury
for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. He is credited with curing
stagflation and eliminating "Phillips curve" trade-offs between
employment and inflation, an achievement now on the verge of being lost
by the worst economic mismanagement in US history.
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- Creators Syndicate
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