- Back on August 31st, 2007 nuclear weapons were
flown across America in violation of US law. We heard a brief
statement from the Pentagon at the time that a big investigation would
be conducted by the Pentagon. This was the military equivalent of the fox
investigating the dead chickens found in the henhouse, but we'll ignore
that for now.
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- The general assumption by government and media is that
Americans have a short memory. Perhaps this is true to some extent, but
many of us do not. Most hypocritical about western civilization including
the US, is how the average person is completely accountable for every
mistake, crime and error they make. Punishment for even minor offenses
ranges from a fine, to losing a job or an involuntarily stay in the big
house without door knobs.
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- But if you're the "Commander in Chief" you
can be like many mafia bosses which have been nicknamed "Tefflon Dons"
by the media, because no criminal charges will stick to them. (Tefflon
misspelled here intentionally.)
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- We have had the "Tefflon President" (TP) for
eight long, painful, America-destroying years that has seemed like a century.
The TP may have instituted Homeland Security but he has also strived
to wreck America which has resulted in nothing but insecurity.
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- There is no need to review his record of offenses - to
list them all would fill a book. For now, we will focus on the incident
of two good USAF men being shown the door. After all, when it's stated
to them "resign or get fired," resigning IS being shown the door.
A rose by any other name
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- A few years ago, we watched former CIA director George
Tenent stand up and testify giving the unvarnished truth in front of a
senate subcommittee on CSPAN about 9-11. I saw this and said to my wife,
"He'll be gone soon." And he too, was shown the door. Of course,
he announced he was leaving for "family matters."
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- Let's apply cold, hard logic to Mr. Tenent:
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- Is George Tenent independently wealthy and can afford
to quit? No.
- Could he go on the lecture circuit like former presidents?
No, his work was classified. About all Mr. Tenent can talk about in the
public infamous CIA fact-book, which gives detailed data on each country
of the world (yawn.)
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- So what did George Tenent gain from quitting a reasonably
secure, high paying job? Not a thing.
- Yet he quits his job for family matters? That would only
make things worse.
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- Yet another rose by any other name
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- But when you're even higher in government a.k.a.
"The Executive Branch," you can literally get away with three
thousand murders in 2001 and many thousands more since overseas yet never
be held accountable by any mortal man.
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- But mark my words - sooner or later, all of it will catch
up with him.
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- If you are Mr. Tefflon, you can order nuclear weapons
flown over US soil yet another violation of the law. He
let the investigation run its course, then pinned the blame on the highest
ranking career officers he wised to remove. There must always be a scapegoat
to take the rap somewhere. The white house has repeatedly lied to the media
on numerous occasions, and it's lying yet again when it says it had nothing
to do with this. Those USAF officers who resigned were at the very top
of the USAF chain of command.
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- These same men, Chief of staff Mosely
and Secretary Michael Wynn are taking the rap for everything gone
wrong in the past including warhead components shipped to Taiwan "by
mistake." This story has the same tone of honesty as a crooked police
officer planting an unregistered gun in someone's vehicle.
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- Minot airbase near Bismarck, North Dakota is
where the nuclear weapons originated. CNN announced on May 30, 2008 that
same base failed an inspection. [1] How convenient that this takes place
now. It was just two months ago in March 2008 that Minot was
re-certified to handle nuclear weapons. And now we hear about the resignation
of top veteran USAF officers!
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- As I've stated clearly in a former essay some months
ago, there has been a chain of command in place for some 50 years to control
the movement of any nuclear weapon from storage to an aircraft. Stored
in specially sealed and tamperproof containers, these weapons require sign-offs
by safety officers for removal from storage and special containers, ordinance
officers who handle them and everyone else down the line that has any responsibility
associated with them.
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- Since the US military is staffed by an all
VOLUNTEER force, why would an entire chain of command and airmen put all
their careers, reputations, paychecks and retirement pensions at risk and
risk a courts martial and possible time in Leavenworth? It's not possible
to justify such an idea, yet that's what we've been led to believe. Instead,
two innocent men are punished to make it all believable to the public and
satisfy the public's need for justice in the matter.
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- Sharp military people put numerous safeguards in place
in the middle of the last century to prevent this very thing from happening.
But above all, to move even one of these weapons out of storage onto a
plane (and there were six of these weapons) requires an EXECUTIVE ORDER
from none other than the president.
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- Without question, all the officers involved are well
aware of the regulations and laws for handling and transporting these weapons.
It was all part of air force specialized training long before they were
assigned to the airbase. These men and women absolutely know that it is
clearly against US law to fly these weapons over US soil
in a condition of being ready to drop.
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- Pilots can tell nuclear weapons are present, too. A former
USAF pilot told me "you KNOW when these things are on board. The plane
handles completely differently." So why would the pilot and copilot
put their careers, retirement, etc... at risk?
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- ACCIDENTAL DROPPING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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- Why was this law preventing the over-flying of American
airspace with nuclear weapons enacted? Because of earlier accidents. The
details about one such accident are eerily similar to the final scenes
of "Dr. Strangelove" where actor Slim Pickins rode a nuclear
bomb down to ground zero. Perhaps this is where Kubrick got the idea:
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- On March 11, 1958 a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet
from the Hunter Air Force Base's 308th Bombardment Wing in Savannah, Georgia took
off around 4:34 p.m. It was scheduled to fly to the United
Kingdom for Operation Snow Flurry. The plane was required to
carry real Mk-6 nuclear bombs in the event of war breaking out with the Soviet
Union.
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- Air Force Captain Bruce Kulka was the navigator and
was summoned to the bomb bay area after the captain of the plane had encountered
a fault light in the cockpit indicating that the bomb harness locking pin
for the transatlantic flight did not engage. As Kulka was reaching around
the bomb to pull himself up, he mistakenly grabbed hold of the emergency
release pin. The Mk-6 bomb dropped to the floor of the B-47 and the weight
of the Mk-6 forced the bomb-bay doors open, with the bomb plummeting 15,000 feet to
Earth.
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- Although the bomb did not contain the removable core
of fissionable uranium and plutonium (the core was securely stored in a
containment area onboard the plane), it did contain thousands of pounds
of conventional high explosives. The resulting explosion created a mushroom
cloud and crater estimated to be 75 feet wide and 2535 feet deep.
It destroyed the residence of a William Gregg and leveled nearby trees.
Nobody was directly killed from the blast but several people were injured
from the explosion. [2]
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- Other accidental bomb drops over American soil include
incidents near Atlantic City, New Jersey (1957) and Goldsboro,
North Carolina (1961). [3] It's also possible that since 1961 further
nuclear accidents have been covered up of classified to prevent further
embarrasment.
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- Yet the incident at Minot Airbase burns brightly like
a shining star, distracting public attention far away from Washington where
the guilty party is who ordered this event. And the scapegoats are two
career officer who lost everything to protect their crooked Commander in
Chief.
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- This is just another case of protecting the guilty and
punishing the innocent.
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- The question that remains is simple how much longer
will the military put up with Mr. Tefflon? When will they finally say ENOUGH
IS ENOUGH!
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- Ted Twietmeyer
- tedtw@frontiernet.net
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- SOURCES
- [1] http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/30/nuclear.mistake.inspection.ap/index.html
- [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Bluff
- [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States
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