- "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it
is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington
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- At a roundtable discussion
conducted at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, on September 16,
2002, and sponsored by the Department of Political Science there, the following
remarks were recorded: "I was shocked like everyone else, but to be
honest, I wasn't surprised," said Bassa. He went on to describe the
advent of what he called 'modern terrorism,' which ranges from the first
plane hijacking in 1961 to an eerily prescient attempt in 1994 to fly an
Air France jet into the Eiffel Tower. He dismissed as 'patently false'
claims that we had no warnings of our own attack, citing the letter by
FBI Agent Colleen Crowly."
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- The speaker continues: "If headquarters had given
the field office more authority," said Bassa, "they would have
been able to crack [terrorist Zacharias] Moussaoui's laptop, get to the
other hijackers, and prevent this crime."
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- Another panelist offered: "Passed on Oct. 29, he
said the [USA PATRIOT] act 'augmented the power of the attorney general
like never before.' It also granted sweeping new powers to intelligence
and law-enforcement agencies, while cutting some of the judicial supervision
of these same agencies. He cited domestic surveillance as an example, stating
that the government can now tap your telephone and monitor Internet activities
without probable cause and, in the case of computer tapping, without any
accountability."
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- The second speaker went on to question the legal status
of Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hambi [sic], "who bear the nebulous
label 'enemy combatant' and are still in a military prison. 'As U.S. citizens
they are entitled to a trial,' Atkinson said, but that has not happened
yet.'" Hamdi has since been deported
to Saudi Arabia after being illegally confined by the United States Government
for three years.
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- M.W. Guzy points out, "Obviously,
the government has a duty to protect the nation from its enemies. This
case [Padilla], however, brings to mind the favorite adage of a former
law instructor: 'when you change the facts, you change the law' applicable
to them."
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- In his article entitled, "Why Jose Padilla Matters,"
Guzy begins: "When Allied troops stormed the beaches on D-Day, they
headed for Berlin. Nobody knew when - or whether - they'd get there, but
it was generally understood if the city fell, the German Reich would fall
with it. In the war on terror, no correspondingly distinct benchmark for
victory exists. That's because we're combating an abstraction.
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- Of all the so-called failures of intelligence, or the
alleged bungling of government alphabet agencies, none stands out more
than the Colleen Crowly incident. And when matching this to the ruthlessly
suppressed desire by former FBI linguist/translator Sibel Edmonds,
it becomes clear that at least at the field level, there are many dedicated
and patriotic government workers. The internal rot now destroying US originates
from within and starts at the head of "our" Government: President
George W. Bush.
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- The issue in the Crowly incident is that the FBI field
operatives had Moussaoui's computer, but because of concerns for his rights
AND the ability to prosecute him should they find evidence of wrongdoing,
the case could have been compromised if legal investigative procedures
weren't followed to a tee. That's why the reliance on legal procedures
- it was a matter of prosecution versus prevention of a serious crime that
could harm many Americans.
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- And of course, we can sympathize with the FBI somewhat;
after all, they represent a law enforcement agency. Regrettably, however,
new information has come to light in spite of the news-suppressing and
spiking "American press." The FBI and the Department of Justice's
astonishing and frightening campaign against Sibel Edmonds seems to point
to only one very embarrassing possible "secret" - proof of the
total domination of all levels of the federal government by Israel.
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- If our government's real motivation was the protection
of our nation and we the people, how could any truth be a "threat
to national security," unless that truth proved conclusively that
our government was disloyal to US and totally subservient to the government
of another nation? Read carefully the third paragraph from the bottom of
Edmond's piece, "Gagged, But Not Dead," and the horror of the
treason of the United States government begins to reveal itself. It is
not a matter of protection versus prosecution, but a matter of protection
from prosecution of the crime of treason! And it all points to the Bush
administration!
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- c. 2005 Ted Lang - All Rights Reserved
- Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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