Crouching Government, Hidden Terrorists

"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love. It's a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, 'the American people', as in the sentence, 'I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.'

It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. This does not apply of course to the 40 million people living below the poverty line and the 2 million men and women imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons, which extends across the US." - Harold Pinter, English dramatist, from a speech called Art, Truth, & Politics that he gave upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

Nobody has summed up the crimes and lies of the American government better than the late Harold Pinter. He died in 2008 on Christmas Eve. Today, October 10, 2010, would've been his eightieth birthday.

The essay 'Art, Truth, & Politics' that he left us should be read by every citizen in the world. What he said is all true. America is indeed "the greatest show on the road." At the same time that the U.S. government is raising new terror threat alerts across Europe, getting everybody unnecessarily agitated about the possibility of new terrorist attacks on European soil, U.S. intelligence officials are pleading with the American people to put the danger of terrorism into "perspective." Michael Leiter, who became the director of the National Counterterrorism Center in 2007, recently said in a conference on intelligence reform that the American people "have to put the threat in perspective." By that Leiter means it is not the worst thing in the world if your son, father, mother, or daughter dies in a future terrorist attack, that you can recover from such a tragedy, and move on with your life. From the government's perspective, your pain matters little in the grand scheme of things. You can handle another terrorist attack, but you can't handle the bombshell truth.

It is chilling to hear such a cold calculative statement from a government official in relation to the problem of terrorism because "putting things in perspective" is how terrorists normally speak when they commit their horrific deeds. It is even more chilling when you know that the September 11 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the same people who are currently running the U.S. national security apparatus.

President Barack Obama made similar statements about terrorism, which appear in Bob Woodward's book "Obama Wars." Obama:

"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."

The President can speak like this and get away with it because there is still public ignorance about the roots of the terrorism problem. As long as people believe that terrorism stems from radical ideologies outside America, or as a rational reaction to American foreign policy, then most people will accept a society that is resourceful and strong enough to withstand another devastating attack by terrorists. But, once people realize that the phenomenon of state terrorism is the bedrock of the modern terrorism problem in America and the Western world, U.S. government officials won't be able to lie to the world, and spread fear, and the problem of terrorism will be solved.

Since the War on Terror began nine years ago it has become obvious to many people that Western politicians, government officials, and security experts are dealing with the terrorist threat, which is largely manufactured by them, not for society's benefit, but in ways that ensure them political and financial gain. The recent statements by U.S. government officials and their collaborators in England about the potential for new terrorist attacks in Europe is another example that indicates the United States, NATO, and England are totally insincere in their pursuit of world peace and global security.

Officials from around the world are catching on to America and England's political game. Last Thursday a top level diplomat in Pakistan accused the Obama administration of spreading fear for political gain. Here is an excerpt from an October 7, 2010 article in The Guardian called "Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain":

Hasan, a veteran diplomat who is close to Pakistan's president, suggested the Obama administration was playing politics with the terror threat before next month's midterm congressional elections, in which the Republicans are expected to make big gains.

He also claimed President Obama was reacting to pressure to demonstrate that his Afghan war strategy and this year's troop surge, which are unpopular with the American public, were necessary.

"I will not deny the fact that there may be internal political dynamics, including the forthcoming midterm American elections. If the Americans have definite information about terrorists and al-Qaida people, we should be provided [with] that and we could go after them ourselves," Hasan said.

The German government also called out U.S. and British officials on the sudden and unjustified change in the terrorism threat assessment. Reuters:

"There are currently no indications of any immediate threat of attacks planned against Germany," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters. "There is no reason whatsoever to be alarmist at the moment." (Germany sees no immediate risk of terror attack, October 4, 2010).

What is deeply troubling about the government-induced terrorism hysteria is that it barely scratches the surface of the larger scandal of government terror in the United States, England, and the West. We can't excuse these recent terror alerts by the Obama administration as just "domestic politics." It should be considered a state crime to instill fear into people without reason.

It becomes even more outrageous when we learn that former U.S. officials like Robert Shapiro are saying that the Obama administration can only be saved politically if there is a new terrorist attack:

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” said Shapiro, adding, “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

We must ask ourselves what type of man is Barack Obama if he is willing to lie about the possibility of terrorist attacks. What other lies is he capable of telling, and covering up? This is no small matter. Telling a lie about terrorism, about life and death, is to terrorize.

Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his first Inaugural Address that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." But Barack Obama doesn't agree with FDR. He believes we must fear, even unjustifiably. Clearly, Obama does not represent the leadership that FDR referred to when he said in that same speech; "In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."

Glenn Greenwald said in a recent article called "More terrorism fear-mongering exposed as frivolous" that fear "is a potent weapon." And it is the most potent weapon. It is a weapon that throughout history powerful elites in positions of authority have used against the people to acquire greater wealth, prestige, and power. If it were not for fear, which FDR said "paralyzes" human action, the traitors who have seized the U.S. government wouldn't last a day in office. Their actions in the War on Terror, both in America and overseas, are entirely illegitimate, and criminal. Under their direction, America, and much of the Western world, is a dark, fearful, and Orwellian place.

Greenwald writes:

That is essentially how America is governed: constantly ensure that Americans are petrified of an always-changing, always-expanding cast of Horribles so that they submit to whatever policies -- wars -- are alleged to be devoted to eradicating those threats. There isn't much attention paid to what happens to a citizenry that is kept in a constant state of increasing fear, but there should be, because the way that degrades a nation's character can't be overstated.

As citizens we must continue to counter the fear created by our politicians who are acting more like state terrorists than democratic leaders. The best way to counter fear is by spreading knowledge, particularly about the phenomenon of state terrorism, as many of us have been doing for a number of years. Once we all understand what it is we are facing as a global society, we will be able to defeat it, and create a more peaceful world.

It is not easy to see the phenomenon of state terrorism because the idea that our leaders are betraying us goes against our basic conceptions of authority. Saying that 9/11 was done by government officials is so repulsive, and heretical because it is repulsive and heretical. I don't blame the people who deny it. As the playwright Arthur Miller said; "Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And the evidence has to be internally denied."

The Audacity of State Terrorism

Perhaps the biggest reasons why some people can't break their conditioning is because the state terrorists in America are so unashamed, and brash. They appear so convinced of their own righteousness and of the threat of "Terrorism" that people can't help but be convinced too.

But very few individuals in the U.S. government are state terrorists, so how can the vast majority be brainwashed into carrying out lawless government actions? According to George A. Lopez, a Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and author of the essay, "A Scheme for the Analysis of Government as Terrorist," one of the main pillars that allows state terrorism to function, and be seen as justifiable by state officials, is ideology. "In a description and explanation of state terrorism, ideology," Lopez says, "serves as a sine qua non." (1). Lopez lists four ideologies; authoritarianism, militarism, national security consciousness, and patriarchy. An ideology "stimulates, rationalizes, and blesses as patriotic political behavior government actions that deny others their basic human dignity and their universal political rights. It reifies the state, making it the highest institutional value to which the ruling elite must maintain their highest commitment." (2).

Armed with ideology, of whatever kind, state officials can excuse any action that violates the basic human rights of citizens, and even feel good about themselves. They could steal a couple's baby at the moment of birth, and go home to kiss and hug their own baby on the same day. In their mind they are protecting society by executing coercive government orders. The writer Albert Camus expressed it this way: “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”And if you go against the "servants of tyranny," you will be seen as an "extremist" to be detained, tortured, and killed.

As highlighted by Kurt Nimmo in his article, "SPLC, DHS, Community Officials Team Up to Attack Patriot Groups," the state terrorists in charge of the U.S. government are done playing footloose with the American people; they are ready to take flesh. Nimmo:

In early April of 2009, a document produced by the Department of Homeland Security, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” characterized patriot political groups that reject “federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or [reject] government authority entirely” as domestic terrorists.

The DHS report followed similar reports issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center and the Virginia Fusion Center. The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as “militia” influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.

These attacks were long in the making. For a while the U.S. terrorist government was creeping towards the American people like a crouching beast on all its four paws - economic, political, legal, and ideological - but now it is targeting, and striking vulnerable individuals, and "political undesirables," that include anti-war activists, and patriot groups like Oath Keepers. "Now it is in your face and the mask is off," says Stewart Rhodes.

What do we as conscious citizens do when we are attacked, when our brothers and sisters are attacked, when our rights are stripped, and our lives are destroyed by state terrorists armed with propaganda and high-tech weapons of repression? We expose them for the criminals, liars, and thieves that they are. That's it. It will be a mistake if we retaliate violently; by taking that course of action we will fall into the trap laid out by them of violence, and counter-violence. State terrorists justify their brutality and repression when citizens take up arms against them, allowing them to raise their violence to another level, with the added bonus that the bamboozled public will believe them even more when they declare political resisters as "terrorists" and "violent extremists." Let's not use violence, and thereby give these state terrorists an inch in which their slimy propaganda can slip through the public consciousness. We must deny them the moral high ground.

Although it is difficult to change people's beliefs about actions done in the name of authority there are many reasons to remain hopeful that common sense, and rational thought will prevail over lies and fear-mongering by the U.S. government. As citizens for freedom, justice, and world peace we must continue to demand answers about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and persistently question what type of individuals are leading America and the West, why are they pursuing a secret agenda in the War on Terror, and how come they are so determined to reshape the world without consulting the people.

We cannot back down from our historical responsibility to preserve liberty, and create peace. We cannot give the terrorists in suits any room, not even an inch. Since they are attacking the basic moral values of civilization in the guise of defenders, we must reverse the tables, and expose to the world their unbelievable treason, and deception.


Notes:

1. George A. Lopez. "A Scheme for the Analysis of Government as Terrorist." The State As Terrorist: The Dynamics of Governmental Violence and Repression. Edited by Michael Stohl and George A. Lopez. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984. Pg. 65.
2. Ibid. Pg. 65 - 66.