Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
You Can't Spell "Patriot" Without "Riot" Barak goes on Orielly..Moving the chess pieces around.. re-arranging the Deck chairs on the Titanic.. The Soldiers keep on killing themselves, 8000 troops in stateside jail..Mccain plays I'm no fat cat..Paid actors, staged funeral... Article on American Political system focusing on RNC.by Dew Rock
(libertarian)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Dateline 9/07/08
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
You Can't Spell "Patriot" without "Riot"
It's 10:30 in the morning on a Saturday as I sit to write this article about the soon to be vanquished American political system and its pathetically elite conventions. The radio crackles as Amy Goodman's voice reads the days headlines on her "Democracy Now" program. Her soft persona confuses her pointed and skeptical attitude-Not to belittle the poor woman, for God sake, she just got out of a government detention center-but it's okay because a good tune just came on as "bumper" music into commercial.
The song ends as I turn down the knob and try to focus on the crazy radical mayhem that just happened atop the mighty Mississippi. I'll do my best.
From what I've heard, Goodman, prior to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, was attempting to explain to riot police why she and her associates were in St. Paul-documenting the police department's behavior-and why it might be in their best interest to release her recently arrested producer. Goodman was herself accosted and arrested. Her producer's only crime was stepping out into the street to see what the commotion was. Goodman's only crime was trying to ask a question to what might as well have been a wall. Despite these not being real crimes, under the Patriot act, the St. Paul Police Department in cooperation with federal agencies, were allowed to hold Goodman, her associates, nineteen other press members, and thousands of peaceful protestors, for up to 38 hours without charges. In recent days, a video recording of the event has been in heavy circulation on the internet and is widely being cited by the free press as further evidence of a growing police state in the USA.
Democracy Now, Goodman's program on PBS and other stations, announced that the police state was in full force in St. Paul. Contrasting greatly with the Democratic Convention days earlier in Denver, the RNC looked like a trial run for martial law, as non-violent protestors were the targets of tear gas, rubber bullets, and mass arrests without provocation.
The RNC also featured a series of "pre-emptive" raids targeting mostly small media outlets that were planning to document extreme injustice during the event. One such group, calling itself "The RNC Welcoming Committee", was a main target of the raids. Based on information from paid informants inside the organization, police claimed to have reasonable cause enough to investigate. They started by storming the group's headquarters with guns drawn and even managed to endanger several women and children during the raid. A good question would be, why didn't the informants tell the feds about the women and children that would be there? I'd say it's likely these informants are pretty sketchy.
Eight members of the "RNC Welcoming Committee" were arrested. Charges were leveled today by the St. Paul Attorney General who accused the group of planning riots and held them accountable for all vandalism that occurred during the RNC, even though they were in a detention center before the RNC even started. The charges are terrorism related and felonious. Everyone should know what that means-but most sadly don't. We likely won't be seeing or hearing from these eight people anytime soon. This is because "terrorists" rot in cells while the Feds claim to be "building a case."
Building a case involves extracting confessions. It is now widely known that the government tortures "terrorists" and puts them in "rendition" camps. Rendition camps are secret and often hidden detention facilities on ships and in countries around the world. A confession obtained under torture doesn't hold up well in court so a trial is usually avoided while the "confession" is used to pacify public opinion.
A common tool law enforcement uses to make arrests when there has been no crime is the agent provocateur who infiltrates undesirable groups and serves two purposes. The first is to provide information to the police that will allow a raid to go forward. Obviously, because these provocateurs are paid- like the Iraqi exiles that provided false info on Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons- they'll say pretty much what ever you pay them to say. The second reason for the provocateurs is to entrap the group's members. Often these paid informants will introduce violent plans and attempt to get the group to agree. The police can then crack down on all protestors once a few start rioting. Worse, The police have even been known to-and almost doubtlessly have at the RNC- dress up as protestors, knock over some trash cans then scurry away while uniformed police descend on the crowd in full riot gear.
Similarly, this tactic has also been used in other terrorism events. One instance, the first bombing of the World Trade Center, under Bill Clinton, involved the Feds forming the group that carried out the attack using CIA assets. In fact, the Government even provided the bombs. Ostensibly, the Federal Government used the attack to rally support against Middle Eastern culture but in reality, they had declared war on freedom in America.
The event was actually a failure for the Feds. They wanted to bring the building down and enact measures similar to the Patriot Act.
Failed or not, the methodology is recognizable. As at the RNC, a group was essentially set up by a more powerful entity to cause anger and reprisal against the group that is being made to appear the aggressor.
The term for this type of operation is "False Flag". The word comes from a naval tactic that involves flying under another country's flag while attacking to cause conflict between the entity being attacked and the entity whose flag is being falsely flown. If you look closely at world history, you will likely determine that a pattern of false flag attacks emerge and that it may be the most widely used tactic in the history of warfare. Other false flag attacks of note: Burning of the Reichstag, the German Parliament building- blamed on Poland, attack on USS Liberty by Israel-meant to take the US to war with Egypt, Golf of Tonkin attack-Blamed on Vietnam sparking war, atttack on the USS Maine-blamed on Spain sparking war, sinking of the Lusitania-sent to be destroyed as reason for the US to enter WWI, 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US-Blamed on Afghanistan and Iraq. And there are still many others, truly too many to list.
At the DNC in Denver, though relatively peaceful by comparison to the rip roaring RNC, a group calling itself "Re-Create 68"-a reference to violence that precipitated around the DNC when it gathered to nominate McGovern to battle Nixon in 1968-is suspected to have been composed of provocateurs because of the offensive nature of their protest and the small size of their group. At the very least, the group was lead by people whose mission was to give the police a reason to crack down.
The events at the RNC proved that free speech in America is dead. Free speech zones, areas far away from major events where people are allowed to gather and speak their mind, are creepily Orwellian. Remember the days when the whole country was a free speech zone? The fact that the Police arrested over 19 members of the Main Stream Media indicates the government has a problem with having their abuse documented. Whether targeted or not, these members of the media are the last symbol of free speech left in this country. The audacity that the government has shown in arresting these people without cause is a declaration of war on your right to think for yourself and to seek informed opinion. If the police will not respect the media's right to free speech, how can you believe they will respect yours?
One final thought for the morning, then back to work. When the government classifies a US citizen a terrorist, they can hold that person for the rest of his natural life without charging him. He cannot access a Judge. If he's lucky, he might get a rigged trial in front of a military commission, under orders to find him guilty. Most of the offenders don't get trials because the cases against them don't rely on evidence. Rather, they rely on confessions. They will also try a case till they get a conviction, as with Osama Bin Laden's driver whom they tried four times before he was finally convicted. This is an affront to the US legal system which practices a ban on "double jeopardy"-The dictum under which you may only be charged for the same crime once- But the American legal system is not for terrorists. George Bush designed the courts where terrorists are tried. What is a terrorist? Hell if I know-could be almost everyone. In George Bush's America, your paper boy could be a terrorist. Your pastor, your mom, the School bus driver, and even you are only some light paperwork away from having access to the legal system stripped away. If the feds are arresting, without cause, non-violent protestors and people whose job is to question them, the power exists for them to do even worse things and it is also apparent the people are losing the means to stop them.
Remember the Children's book, If you give a mouse a cookie and its reminder that he will then ask for a glass of milk. In our government's case they will take the milk at gunpoint so It's important to withhold the cookie.
-Enough with that analogy already...
Every right and freedom we give up, every time we concede and let these abominations fly, it pumps these twisted, egomaniacal elites up and gives them the balls to ask a force that greatly outnumbers them to give up more, that they might live more opulently and have still more control over lives which are not their own. Tell them to Fuck Off.
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