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Freefall

By Manuel Valenzuela

08/15/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- The towers fell upon their own imprints, floor after floor cascading down upon the next in an avalanche of concrete, glass, steel and flesh, in the process pulverizing everything, and everybody, between them, over 200 combined stories of human ingenuity flattened in the span of seconds, their reign over gravity and the skies eviscerated, falling down to the land of mortals not with the chaos of randomness and malevolent physics but with the unexpected order and perfection of orchestration and wicked pre-planned intentions.  

One building was followed by another in a near perfect duplication of the first, almost as if déjà vu had supplanted itself on Manhattan island, after morbidly disturbing airplane crashes had sent the collective conscious of the world on freefall, their fires blazing yet their inferno not scorching enough to melt the reinforced steel of towers designed to withstand airline crashes.  Soon after the strikes black and gray smoke billowed out of the crash sites, proof that what had once burned was now dissipating, unable to breathe the oxygen it needed to burn or unable to chemically alter steel skeletons or cause the structural integrity of two separate skyscrapers to be compromised.   

Yet less than one hour after each building was struck the monoliths of New York came crashing down, almost in perfect synchronization, more than half an hour apart, one after the other in a display of destruction too perfect to qualify as randomness, a form of controlled chaos never to befall a burning steel skyscraper in the histories of modern civilization or architecture.  Strangely, not one hour passed before we were led to believe fire and heat compromised and melted reinforced steel, not for one but two separate buildings, as if lightning had struck twice in the same spot, as if the impossible had become normal, as if black smoke could bend, in the course of an hour, what usually would take multiple hours to achieve.  

In America, however, where citizens have the attention spans of gnats, tuning out after ten-second sound bites, one minute news reports and having the patience only to accept rapid video flashes, even orchestrated, criminal mass murder must be accomplished on fast-forward time.  And so the destruction by controlled demolition of the WTC, brilliantly executed, monstrously planned, hidden behind the charade of hijacked airliner crashes, yet so easily deciphered by open minds and through the magic of video and the passage of time, became a reality, in a few seconds of malevolent decimation killing close to 3,000 innocent human beings and plunging a nation of 300 million into the freefall of madness, shock, fear, hatred, rage and the collective blindness needed by criminals, warmongers and greed addicts to steer a nation down the precipice of human emotion and into the realm of total control and obedience.  

While the nation, indeed the world entire, recovered its collective breath, paralyzed shock and ever-increasing fear at what we had just witnessed – and repeatedly seen over and over again thanks to the corporate media – a rather peculiar, and unexpected, event occurred that hundreds of millions were unable to see, either because of shock, fear or the blindness spawned by the psychological trauma we had just experienced.  A few hours after the towers had fallen, entombing thousands and forever altering the course of history, another skyscraper came tumbling down, clandestinely falling almost inconspicuously to the ground below.  This building, the fifty story WTC 7, seemingly untouched and unaffected by the destruction of her much larger brothers, with no fires or smoke apparent, with no structural damage noticeable, with no airplane smashing into her, decided to fall to earth in much the same way, falling exactly the way multiple buildings have fallen over the years thanks to controlled demolitions, seemingly imploding from within, her top falling down as if her structural skeleton had been turned to butter. It would later be said by authorities that WTC 7 fell due to structural and fire damage, yet video and eyewitness testimony, as well as the open eyes of any rational human being, beg to differ.  If no rational reason can be found to explain how WTC 7 fell in such a “controlled” demolition sort of way, in the absence of damage, what, then, can be deduced? What, then, are we to make of the fate that befell the Twin Towers, in direct contradiction to the laws of physics and those of logic? 

Make no mistake, 9/11 was, and continues to be, a war upon the American people, a psychological operation directed at our minds and hearts that was, from the very start, nothing but the catalyst needed to launch Project Empire by the delusional criminals and miscreants in power. The events of 9/11, with the destruction of the World Trade Center, as well as the hit on the Pentagon, were designed by the architects of mass murder as the oil needed to fine-tune and start the engine of the American war machine as well as those sparkplugs of blind and unthinking support, the American people. The targets were largely symbolic, landmarks entrenched into the American psyche, easily recognizable as pillars of American strength, the strikes upon their infrastructure calculated not only to inflict mass murder, but to deeply affect the collective psychology of hundreds of millions of Americans. In 9/11 the enablers of terror would have the birth pangs of their new American Century.   

The Throne Determined 

The individuals who planned and executed 9/11 knew that with the ascension of George W. Bush to the throne of the American presidency their plans and projects, long since created and written yet for years lacking the keys to power, would have the green-light to commence wars upon the American people as well as those long-planned against the Arab world.  Indeed, well before Bush became president the decision had already been made, deep in the dark closets of clandestine meetings and arrangements, where deal making and power decisions are made, to attack and invade Iraq, along with other nations deemed “important,” both for geopolitical and ideological reasons.  

These wars and invasions, which were to be the centerpiece of the miscreants’ master plans, creating the birth pangs of a New American Century, one based on unilateralism, resource domination, protection of Israel’s vital interests and unequaled imperial hegemony, would, it was thought, catapult America into the realm of Empire, a kingdom untouched and unrivaled, in control of the world’s energy resources, in full mastery of all potential rivals, possessed of vitally important lands and locations.  All that was needed was a stolen election or two, a little luck and a new Pearl Harbor from which to spawn their dogma of controlled chaos upon the globe. 

When seen in this light, the importance to the miscreants that George W. Bush become president after the 2000 election, by any means necessary, is more readily understood.  To the corporatist and neoconservative cabal that has declared war on the American people, it was imperative that Bush be declared the winner versus Al Gore.  Only with a Bush victory could their projects and sinister intentions be born and implemented, thereby creating the conditions needed to control the country and its citizens, and by extension the entire planet, for years and even decades into the future.   

Indeed, they knew that to succeed, years and even decades would be needed to transform the world according to their ideology. The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, full of corporatists and neoconservatives, could only commence their blueprint with the selection, no matter how devious it became or how unscrupulous the methods chosen, of George W. Bush to the White House, and not just for one term. Thus, the stolen election of 2000, especially in the state of Florida, was but one more strategic maneuver designed specifically to set in place the mechanisms by which their ideology could, after years of frustration, finally be allowed to blossom.  The ascension of George W. Bush to the American throne thus became an inevitable conclusion well before the first vote was cast.  It was the individuals that counted the votes, and not those that cast them, who would decide the 2000 election.   

The election of 2000 was orchestrated to perfection by the corporatists and neoconservatives who clandestinely or openly supported the Republican ticket.  Using the television and the unrivaled power of the corporate media, with its images, sound bites, editing magic and legions of journalist lackeys, they set out to tarnish the reputation and achievements of Bill Clinton and by consequence, those of his vice-president and most likely Democratic candidate, Al Gore.  Knowing how easy the buttons of manipulation can be pressed upon an unsuspecting and dumbed down American populace, they created Clinton fatigue and dislike among millions of potential voters, knowing full well that by destroying the president’s likeability they were at the same time decimating Al Gore’s potential votes among moderates and independents.  Using the television to their advantage, they thereby eliminated the president from the election picture, knowing that Clinton, if allowed to campaign for Gore, and ever the political charmer and genius, could have delivered the election to the Democrats, or at the least made Gore a more marketable personality to the electorate.   

With Clinton out of the picture, the smearing of Gore and the adulation of Bush commenced, with the corporate media using all tools at its disposal to turn Gore into an unlikable candidate, using clever editing of sound and video, combined with the negative comments of embedded lackey journalists, to turn Gore, a much worthier candidate than Bush could ever become, into a mediocre politician with no personality or popularity.  He became the unlikable candidate, the elitist Washingtonian whose candidacy was imputed to Bill Clinton fatigue. The corporate media did everything in its power to sway the unsure voter that Gore was not the right man to be president.  In the era of corporatism, it is the corporations that decide who will run and who will win.  We the People can only vote for those deemed acceptable by the corporate establishment, those that have shown loyalty not to the People, but to the interests of the corporate world.  

Meanwhile, with the complete backing of big business, the military industrial energy complex and the neoconservatives in and out of the media, Bush was transformed from east coast elitist into average Joe six-pack, with the tools of television propelling and marketing Bush as an average middle class American, with a recently purchased Texas ranch to prove it.  The creation of the Bush persona was carefully orchestrated, following the results of research, polls and focus groups, trying to recreate or imitate, at least in some psychological way, shape or form, the qualities inherent in or sought by those groups needed for Bush and his still clandestine cabal to garner the most votes in the general election. Meanwhile, the corporate media gave the dimwit Bush a pass at every turn, forgiving his penchant for idiocy and his quite apparent lack of knowledge.  His shady past was ignored; his repeated failures as a businessman were glossed over.  The corporatist world had its man and the will of the People would not stand in their way.  

As such, Bush’s persona is a fiction, in as much as he is made to represent the American middle-class, for deep inside, where genetics and environment and pathology meet on the superhighway of psychological fusion, Bush is a manifestation of the unthinking knuckle-dragger, a slight step above our primate cousins, incapable of deep thought, reasoned intelligence or logical decision making, preferring to dwell in the certainties of black and white thinking and the archaic beliefs of primitive theology.  He remains a hollow poster child for elitist juniors, a pampered spoiled little boy given to temper tantrums when he does not get what he wants, a man who for too long nursed off the breast of superiority, apathy and greed, for decades living in a wealth-induced bubble devoid of discipline or suffering.   

Deeply flawed mentally, never able to replicate the intelligence or the success of fathers and grandfathers, possessing a lack of empathy and a willingness to inflict suffering onto others, fully aware that everything he has achieved has been due to the laurels of his father and not the talents of his existence, Bush nonetheless exhibits many characteristics of a psychotic, with a penchant for incessant lying, for walking over anybody that gets in his way, for his appetite for destruction and murder, for his indifference for human life, in his ability to bully the world, in his love of greed and power, in his distaste for knowledge and intellectual stimulation, and in the unmistakable reality that whatever he has touched during his life has turned not to gold, but to pure, one-hundred percent fecal matter.  This is the George W. Bush chosen by the cabal of corporatists and neoconservatives to help usher in a new era of American imperialism.  With such a president at the helm of the most powerful state in the world, a man easily influenced and manipulated, lacking reason, logic and the wisdom of leaders, PNAC found itself the instrument of terror it so desperately needed.       

Knowing for months the likely outcome of the 2000 election, after months of research, studies and historical analysis, and millions of dollars invested had shown them the direction, Bush’s handlers focused on the one state they knew would decide the outcome.  And so, with months to go before the 2000 election, the Republican machine set out, with help from George W. Bush’s brother Jeb, to embed into the election system the mechanisms needed to steal Florida in favor of Bush, the Republicans, the neoconservatives and the corporatists.   

They immediately set out to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, most of them African-American, through a myriad of illegal yet methodical ways.  Felons were purged from the voting records, as were thousands of law-abiding citizens whose names were erased from registration lists.  Outdated voting machines, those most likely to tabulate wrong vote counts, were introduced into poor areas for the sole purpose of disenfranchising voters, most of whom would likely vote for Gore.  The irregularities were many; the votes purged were in the hundreds of thousands. The corporatist/Republican voter disenfranchisement machine, so adept at Jim Crow, had come calling again. 

This election, after all, was of paramount importance, both for the corporatists from the military industrial energy complex, who were depending on Bush for hundreds of billions of dollars in future oil and war profiteering profits, as well as a complete dismantling of burdensome corporate taxes, laws and environmental regulations, not to mention untold billions of dollars in stolen Iraqi money and American taxes, and the neoconservatives, whose main interests were ideological and strategic, through imperial domination of the Middle East and Central Asia, control of oil/gas resources and mechanisms, toward complete American hegemony and eventual Empire building through domination of potential rivals, not to mention the always present protection of Israel and her interests, assuring her regional domination in the Middle East through the elimination of her rivals.  By any means necessary, the 2000 election would have to be won, irrespective of the will of the People. 

After the Supreme Court selected their man as the new president of the United States, a decision that was a foregone conclusion, the wheels were set in motion, and soon the project for the New American Century would have its new and improved Pearl Harbor, a 21st century Reichstag fire whose usefulness would never subside and whose demons could always, at the whim of expediency, be resurrected. The dreaded Arab terrorist was about to be born, entering the grand stage of American produced enemies, becoming the bogeyman striking fear at the heart of a cowardly majority.  

A new America was soon to be born from the smoke, dust and debris of falling monoliths and demolished lives.  An obedient populace would soon surface, wide eyed in allegiance to fascism, ready to hate and fear and kill for the sake of the red, white and blue, proud to march lockstep with the drums of war, eager to unleash weapons of destruction upon the lands of the barbarians.  Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran were only months away from being gobbled up, and the Bush cabal, assured by its delusions and its arrogance, could only salivate at the thoughts of what would surely soon arrive. 

Enter the Darkness 

If we ponder over the horizon of the last five years and ask ourselves who has benefited the most from the tragic events of 9/11 then surely the arrow would point to the Bush administration, along with the clandestine and known neoconservatives and corporatists controlling the military industrial energy complex.  As a result of 9/11, these groups, the Bush cabal for short, have seemingly grown in absolute power and wealth, declaring wars, occupying nations, killing hundreds of thousands of human beings, manipulating the American populace, fleecing America’s treasury, making obscene profits from war and death, curtailing Americans’ civil liberties and rights, further instituting corporatist control over government and society, engendering fear and hatred into the people and ignoring the rule of law along with the Constitution of the United States.  

The Bush cabal has succeeded in reaching many of the goals it had set for itself before taking office in 2000.  In this war against the American people, the cabal has utterly defeated us, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.  We are quite impotent, it seems, to their manipulation of our fears and the conditioning of our hatreds.  It has been 9/11, that catalyst to population control and manipulation, that has cemented the Bush cabal firmly in power, doing with the American people as they wish, leading us further down the road to corporatism.  The cabal has systematically declawed us of our bravery, making us babies crying out for our mother.  It has succeeded at manipulating us through the use of fear and terror, actually convincing us to throw away liberties and flush down freedoms for the sake of protection and security, even though the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 

It was 9/11, a devastating conduit of brain wave alteration, more than anything else, that has completely and systematically transformed the American people into the sheeple and lemmings needed by authoritarian rulers everywhere to govern and impose their tyrannical policies.  The 9/11 psychological war upon the citizenry, or, in the words of the PNAC, the “new Pearl Harbor,” was designed to nurture perpetual fear and hatred in hundreds of millions of minds, in the process harvesting loyal and obedient citizen soldiers.  The attack, taking place on a few city blocks of the largest metropolis in the country, devastated two giant buildings but left the rest of the country, besides the Pentagon, physically unscathed.   

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What September 11, 2001, did, however, more than anything else, was destroy not the physical infrastructure of America, but the mental energy of the nation and its citizens.  It was both a mental manipulation dirty bomb and a weapon of mass deception rolled into one, a direct hit against the very foundation of America’s citizenry, creating the most fragile, and by extension subservient, populace since Nazi Germany.  September 11th’s tragedy, its morbid violence, its sinister evils were played and replayed countless times, from every possible angle, sending shockwaves into our pores, fear running through our veins, with every replay our mind succumbing further inside our fragile psyches, searching for answers, and vengeance.  The thirst for Arab blood was what the cabal wanted, and it was what it got.   

A direct hit upon the American psyche did more damage to the nation than two hits on colossal skyscrapers ever could, yet slowly but methodically, our mind became the dominion of the cabal.  We became, over the course of a few days, possessed by the demons of fear and hatred, like zombies sleep-walking through our daily lives, not knowing what to do, experiencing emotions we had never felt, remembering tragedy we had just recently seen, searching in darkness for light, needing to place blind trust in the nation’s authorities, needing to trust our security and freedom and democracy upon the leaders of the country.   

We became putty in the hands of the cabal, and they knew it.  Everything they wanted we would gladly give them for we had become, in the span of a few days, corralled sheep and caged lemmings, robbed of free thought, our bravery supplanted by the fear hovering throughout the land, our reason destroyed by the hate in our hearts.  We wanted security, safety and most of all, vengeance.  We failed to think logically about the mess the cabal was immersing us in.  We failed to understand the ramifications of entering a hornet’s nest and murdering tens of thousands of people.  We failed to comprehend the vicious cycle of violence our acquiescence would soon spawn, nor the disaster that was to unfold.  Standing behind the flag and our patriotism blind we became to the view of reality.  We wanted revenge for 9/11; we wanted to unleash carnage upon Arab lands, whether they were a threat or not.  We fell right into the cabal’s master plans. 

The tragic events of 9/11 became an instant myth in our collective consciousness, its story firmly entrenched in our minds, its official narrative becoming both national tragedy and inspiration, its fable unable to be altered, its façade unbending, its reality hidden by blind rage and closed minds. We were conditioned never to question the official narrative, or the obvious 9/11 Commission white wash.  To question and even seek truth was to delve in realities we could not bare or wish to understand.  The implications would be unfathomable, and deeply disturbing.  For if our protectors had committed mass murder in New York and Washington, if our leaders were responsible for 9/11, then who and what was running the nation? If they could kill 3,000 citizens, what was stopping them from murdering many more? It was better to be brainwashed with the official story than to question the uncomfortable.  It was easier to never question than to seek the truth.  In the end, it was easier to drink the Kool-Aid than enter the rabbit hole.  

In the end, it was simple to believe that we had been attacked by what we did not know or understand, by entities that wished to destroy our freedom and our democracy, by brown-skinned bogey men lurking in every corner and underneath every bed, waiting to come out of closets, ready to murder and rape, pillage and devastate.  We were made to fear, and with fear we lost reason.  We were made to hate, and with hate born free thought died. The Arab and the Muslim had become our enemy; almost overnight more than a billion humans were condemned by a barrage of corporate media propaganda and government manipulation, seemingly too conveniently, too prepared and scripted, as if the enemy had been concocted months and years before, its fault carefully planned and orchestrated, marketed for all its faults and none of its virtues, transforming a group of people into the monsters of our imaginations and the madmen of our corporate media indoctrination. 

The Bush cabal had succeeded in concocting an enemy from the same lands and region where it wanted to wage war and occupation.  Geopolitics, geostrategy, oil, gas and pipelines, imperial hegemony and absolute power, how lucky for the cabal that America’s new bogeymen hailed from the same nations scheduled for invasion.  The cabal’s actions, or inaction, depending on how one looks at 9/11, embedded the lust for vengeance, and thus for war, on the American population.  The Bush cabal, fully aware that the American people would never consent or give approval to multiple wars of choice upon lands and peoples that had not done us harm, thus needed a catalyst, a new Pearl Harbor, a 9/11-like event from which to alter the minds of 300 million Americans, making warmongers out of pacifists, vengeance-seekers out of peaceful citizens.  Without the trauma and the shock and the fear and the hatred and the blind rage spawned by 9/11, the Bush cabal would never have been able to embark on their warmongering and profiteering ways.  The anger and hatred and blind trust engendered thanks to 9/11 made sure that the cabal could proceed with long-held plans and ideologies.  

Thus we were fed the lies and the deceits and the manipulations that exist in the lands of authoritarianism, where the citizenry is too dumbed down and unable, or unwilling, to question its own government.  We followed the fable and the bull manure, believing, still to this day, a government that has lied about every single issue to ever arise in five years since usurping power. In a world where war is peace, slavery is freedom and ignorance is knowledge, let it also be said that lies are truth in these new days of “new normals” and “birth pangs” and “bringing democracy to the Middle East.” Let it be said we have entered the darkness, from which light dare not enter.   

Terrorist Cabal 

The cabal, it must be understood, is comprised of pure blooded authoritarians, corporatist (fascists) tyrants that care not one ounce for the well-being of the population.  To them we are but mere peasants, nothing but peons and pawns and patsies relegated to playing the grand game of geopolitical and greed-mongering chess, doing our part to advance the neocon Machiavelli wet dream of imperial hegemony.  The death of 3,000 citizens means nothing to these monsters, much like the murder of 250,000 Iraqis or the death of 2,600 American soldiers.  The Bush cabal is made up of madmen and monsters, incapable of living in reality or of understanding truth, yet tyrannical enough to create a new Pearl Harbor through the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers (not to mention WTC 7 and a strike on the Pentagon).  They dwell in an infallible bubble of make believe and of unrealistic theories, a land of Kool-Aid drinkers and dependents of delusional cocktails.   

The Bush cabal has no morals or scruples, preferring lies to truth, secrecy to transparency, life in a pitch black void over that in translucent light.  They have no trouble murdering their own citizens to pursue and achieve their goals and ideology.  They are authoritarians, tyrants more comfortable living in a police state than in an open society, inside their pores hating every facet of true democracy, for to them the will of the people should never be heeded.  Democracy is a hindrance of governance, an uncomfortable principle that works to destroy their vision, though now made a charade for the masses to believe the system is as it has always been. The death of democracy and of the Constitution would send tears of joy running down their cheeks.  

In their view citizens are incapable of making the right decision and should therefore be told what to think, how to act and who to follow and obey.  The majority needs to be conditioned as to what to do and how to do it.  To them the corporate media is but a tool of control and manipulation, a way to make good sheep and lemmings out of the citizenry, a loudspeaker to proclaim that the state is the only entity capable of protecting the nation, a disseminator of lies and half truths, a gatekeeper telling the people only what the cabal wants us to know.   

The Bush cabal cares only about absolute power, hegemony, greed and wealth.  They care nothing for American soldiers, all of whom are considered cannon fodder for the military industrial energy complex.  Wars are fought not for defending “freedom and democracy,” which to them is nothing more than a catchy focus group catchphrase, rather to expand and defend the interests of American corporations, as well as to enrich the military industrial energy complex.  After all, instability in the Middle East is great for energy corporations; the more instability the higher the price of a barrel of crude will be and the higher will thus be a gallon at the American pump. The cabal thinks in black and white, not in shades of grey; it makes policy based on ideology, not reality.  It operates under the theory of controlled chaos, unleashing hell to get to an eventual heaven.  

The cabal makes enormous profits at our expense, helping shrink our wallets while fattening theirs.  The cabal supplies billions of dollars in military arms to the Middle East, and to the world, only to see nations declare war on each other, killing and murdering with our weapons.  Human life and human rights, along with international law are but bumps in the road to total hegemony, to be sidestepped on the road to Empire.  Civil rights and freedoms in America are contrary to the authoritarian dream; if it was up to them America would be under martial law and under severe police powers, our civil liberties curtailed severely, our freedoms eroded.  In time they will inevitably get their wish; each year the threat to our liberties and freedoms is exacerbated, not by terrorists but by the Bush cabal. 

For five years we have been told to look far and wide for so-called terrorists, across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, given a magnifying glass into the Middle East.  It is here, we are made to believe, where they hate us for our freedoms and our democracy, for our “grand” way of life, though certainly not for our occupations, undying support for Israel and brutal foreign policy.  It is said they hate us for our democracy, yet we refuse to grant them the same freedoms.  It is said they strike us for our open society, yet we exploit their lands, rape their women and subjugate their daily lives.  For five years our minds have been distracted with the threats posed by Arabs and Muslims, most of which happen to live below the last remaining fields of oil.  If the French or the Germans lived in the Middle East, they too would today be America’s enemy, our terrorist barbarians.   

For five long years we alone have been responsible for sacrificing our civil liberties and our freedoms, not to mention our democracy, which in essence is today nothing but a charade, a banana republic façade exported to a first world nation.  Our fear and cowardice has resulted in the loss of liberty at home and in warmongering escapades abroad, creating in Iraq the worst strategic disaster in the history of the nation. Our almost absurd over-reactions to bull manure infested terror warnings, nothing but control mechanisms implemented to remind us who is protecting us and who deserves our loyalty and our vote, make us the laughing stock of the world.  Terror warnings laced in lies and manipulation should be questioned, not religiously followed.  They should be understood for what they are, not feared like the end of the world.  Terror warnings about dark-skinned Arabs and Muslims are but a ploy to control your thoughts and your lives, designed for you to place allegiance to the cabal, to distract you from the erosion of liberties or the disasters in the Middle East.  They are, like 9/11, a figment of our imaginations, nightmares of our conditioned minds, stories meant to frighten us into giving away more of our freedoms and liberties.  Sadly, however, these mechanisms seem to be working brilliantly.   

All this time we have been looking to the Middle East for the dreaded terrorist, yet since 9/11 we should have been looking for terrorists within our own shores.  It is the Bush corporatist and neocon cabal that is the real terrorist organization.  It is they, a bunch of miscreants of the highest order, criminal minds addicted to power, wealth and greed, arrogant and monstrous in behavior, that are the cause of terror worldwide.  It is they that have made our nation less safe, not more.  It is they who are guilty of committing mass murder upon our shores and it is they who will not hesitate to murder many more if it suits their needs.  

It is because of them that the so-called war on terror paralyzes and controls us.  It is they that spawned it and continue nurturing it, carefully rearing it like a mother does a child, ever so proud of what it has become, looking forward to the greatness it can one day turn into. The war on terror is their brainchild, a creation designed to replicate its malevolent energy over and over, growing and expanding through the vicious cycle of hatred born and murder committed, repeated until a clash of cultures, civilizations and religions sustains and engorges it, creating the controlled chaos needed to satisfy the delusion of the Project for the New American Century.     

The so-called war of terror is a figment of their imagination, now lingering in ours, a creation that has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.  It was a war started by the cabal, a result of our foreign policy and our destruction of both people and land abroad, a vicious cycle that feeds itself more and more with each new death inflicted by our corporate controlled military.  For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, for every death or maiming the thirst for vengeance grows; for every brutal occupation calls for hatred and revenge arise.  With every American made missile launched, artillery exploded, bullet released the war on terror is assured of new recruits, new reactions of opposite and intended consequences.  This is the war on terror’s mantra, its slogan, the law created by the cabal so that it never ends, just as it never began.  The war on terror is designed to last into perpetuity, for America always needs an enemy to quench its war culture thirst.  It always needs war and enemies to cause fright among the populace, the easier to control millions.  War means profit, wealth and the sustained viability of the economy.  In America, war, and thus enemies, is good for business.   

The war on terror is but an illusion, a concoction disseminated by the Bush cabal and its journalist hacks to control the population into submission, into forcing us to abandon the freedoms and democracy we once enjoyed.  We are being frightened by the cabal of terrorists using the corporate media and government loudspeakers, our strength and courage evaporating with each new terror threat or warning, with each new sermon advocating still another war of choice.  We are being used and abused, our lives transformed, slowly but surely, methodically creating a “new normal,” an American police state, an authoritarian system full of followers, full of yes-men and women, full of sheep and lemmings, unable to comprehend how we allowed our nation to become the reality of our nightmares.   

We must open our eyes to the reality of the Bush cabal.  They are the real terrorist organization.  They are the murderers and the criminals, the destroyers of life and the butchers of the Middle East.  They are preparing us for perpetual war, for a future devoid of security or freedom or democracy.  The war on terror will not end; our troops will be in Iraq for decades to come; wars against Iran and Syria have been planned.  There will be many more 9/11’s to come, some real and some concocted, yet the next one will undoubtedly open the doors to a perpetual police state, altering dramatically our way of life, making George Orwell roll in his grave. According to the cabal of terrorists, it is inevitable.   

One more attack on our soil is all it will take for the bastion of democracy and freedom to turn into the cesspool of authoritarian rule.  The cabal of terrorists is looking for an excuse, an opportunity.  How many of us will die this time? How many of our children will be sent to the next war(s)?  How many liberties will we have left? How many of our friends and neighbors will be made to disappear? Will we accept their rule, and continue fighting a charade, or will we finally put an end to this madness?  Will we change our ways, or will we continue living like the sheep and lemmings we are being conditioned to become?   

We must put a stop to the madness before the madness puts a stop to us.  We must reclaim America from the claws of authoritarianism and corporatism.  We must show we are not pawns or patsies in the games the neocons play.  We must show we are brave and strong, not fearful and weak.  They are few, we are many.  Truth and fairness and justice are on our side; karma and malevolence on theirs.  The time for indifference and passivity are over.  Enough fear mongering and war making, enough terror threat manipulation.  We must show that we do not hate, that we actually think for ourselves, that we seek peace and international harmony.  Enough death and suffering has gone on in our name.  America is being made the laughing stock of the world, hated like never before, stirring anger and boiling rage for all we allow to happen.  Only this time, the peoples of the world no longer differentiate between the government and the people.  We are all hated now. The time to take a stand is now, for if not now, when? We were once loved and admired, respected and an inspiration. Let not five years of disarray become a lifetime of disaster.  We know who the real terrorists are.  It is up to us to show them that their America is not our America. It is time we show them the door out of the country.  

Their America is not our America, for we are the People of the World; they but the Scourge of Humanity.  We are Peace and they are War, they are few and we are many, many more.

Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst and Internet columnist. His articles as well as his archive can be found at his blog, http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com  and at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info as well as at other alternative news websites from around the globe.  Mr. Valenzuela is also author of Echoes in the Wind, a fiction novel. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net.

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Well put.

[vmarks]

Wow, that's your sole opinion on this lengthy diatribe?

"well put."

that's all you have to say on it?

I mean, given the contradiction in the piece where the author is clearly superior to fellow Americans who have fallen for BushCoNeoConCabal, and calling for them to be independent strong thinkers -by following his lead- and not explaining BushCoNeoConCabal's success if they're so dumb...

The mind boggles.

More than that, there are a lot of unsupported contentions that the author clearly believes to be self-evident.

You've nothing to say to any of these things other than 'well put.'

I'll grant you that the author knows how to put a subject and a verb together, but beyond that there's very little here other than insults for a vast populace.

Come on. Tell us what you REALLY think.

[red rocket]

Originally Posted by vmarks

that's all you have to say on it?

I decided it was preferable to let the text stand on its own. Lengthy observations tend to draw the focus onto the observer.

Originally Posted by vmarks

I mean, given the contradiction in the piece where the author is clearly superior to fellow Americans who have fallen for BushCoNeoConCabal, and calling for them to be independent strong thinkers -by following his lead- and not explaining BushCoNeoConCabal's success if they're so dumb...

Bemoaning (A) the sheeple's sheepleness, whilst (B) neglecting to explain the neoconservative's success, do not seem contradictory to me. One might even say that A is a precondition for B.

Originally Posted by vmarks

The mind boggles.

At what?

Originally Posted by vmarks

More than that, there are a lot of unsupported contentions that the author clearly believes to be self-evident.

You could say that about any statement made by anyone.

Originally Posted by vmarks

I'll grant you that the author knows how to put a subject and a verb together, but beyond that there's very little here other than insults for a vast populace.

Like Nietzsche used to say, if somebody is offended by what he has written, the fault does not necessarily lie with the author.

Originally Posted by vmarks

Come on. Tell us what you REALLY think.

Why are you so interested in my opinion? And what's with the capitals? Are you attempting to imply something?

[Dakar]

'Well put' is just as lame as Farmboy's infamous 'I thought it was interesting and wanted to see what other posters though of it?'

[Buckaroo]

I don't hav time to read all that. I have a couple unread issues of Popular Science and Popular Mechanices I need to read.

[ebuddy]

Is there anything new here? I mean, it's flowery and all, but is anyone shocked by just another partisan viewpoint on the current Administration? So he doesn't like Bush... meh

[red rocket]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo

I don't hav time to read all that. I have a couple unread issues of Popular Science and Popular Mechanices I need to read.

Don't have time to spellcheck, either?

Originally Posted by ebuddy

Is there anything new here? I mean, it's flowery and all, but is anyone shocked by just another partisan viewpoint on the current Administration? So he doesn't like Bush... meh

It's not about liking, or not liking, Bush. Bush is practically irrelevant to the thrust of this article.

[mojo2]

Originally Posted by red rocket

I decided it was preferable to let the text stand on its own. Lengthy observations tend to draw the focus onto the observer.

Bemoaning (A) the sheeple's sheepleness, whilst (B) neglecting to explain the neoconservative's success, do not seem contradictory to me. One might even say that A is a precondition for B.

At what?

You could say that about any statement made by anyone.

Like Nietzsche used to say, if somebody is offended by what he has written, the fault does not necessarily lie with the author.

Why are you so interested in my opinion? And what's with the capitals? Are you attempting to imply something?

Why do young jihadists insist on referring to us as Sheeple?

[Zeeb]

Originally Posted by red rocket

We must put a stop to the madness before the madness puts a stop to us.  We must reclaim America from the claws of authoritarianism and corporatism.  We must show we are not pawns or patsies in the games the neocons play.  We must show we are brave and strong, not fearful and weak.  They are few, we are many.  Truth and fairness and justice are on our side; karma and malevolence on theirs.  The time for indifference and passivity are over.  Enough fear mongering and war making, enough terror threat manipulation.  We must show that we do not hate, that we actually think for ourselves, that we seek peace and international harmony.  Enough death and suffering has gone on in our name.  America is being made the laughing stock of the world, hated like never before, stirring anger and boiling rage for all we allow to happen.  Only this time, the peoples of the world no longer differentiate between the government and the people.  We are all hated now. The time to take a stand is now, for if not now, when? We were once loved and admired, respected and an inspiration. Let not five years of disarray become a lifetime of disaster.  We know who the real terrorists are.  It is up to us to show them that their America is not our America. It is time we show them the door out of the country.  

Their America is not our America, for we are the People of the World; they but the Scourge of Humanity.  We are Peace and they are War, they are few and we are many, many more.

I have a problem with this section of the article. It claims that one side is completely "right" while the other side is "wrong". While I disagree with most of the social policy of the Bush administration, we don't live with an authoritarian goverment. You've never experienced a true authoritarian goverment. Who are "we"? Who are "they"?

[G Barnett]

Wow, just.... wow.

Even I -- a fellow who disagrees with the Bush administration on just about everything they've done, who's disgusted with how they've handled both Iraq and Afghanistan, who finds the entire Neocon agenda to be an utter abomination and betrayal of America itself -- even I don't buy into this conspiracy bullcrap about 9/11.

Are they craven opportunists who took advantage of a horrible situation to advance a repressive political agenda? Yes. But I don't believe for one moment that any of them have the capability to do some of the things that article alleges without a single person coming out and saying "I was there, I planted bombs." Eventually, someone, somewhere would start gloating, and it'd get out.

Besides, the Neocons and their Fundamentalist allies have no need for suicide bombers or to engineer devastation on such a massive scale, when there's plenty of rabid Islamic Fundamentalist sorts who are more than willing to do such things on their own. All that our whackjobs need to do is to turn the fear engendered by the actions of the "other side" to their own political gain. They reap the benefits while still being able to claim some sort of twisted "moral high ground."

They simply saw what was to them a golden opportunity to start their agenda in motion and jumped all over it with a rather twisted glee. Fortunately for the sane Americans, they've been so damn ham-handed about it, that their incompetence, overconfidence and greed for power is finally beginning to hurt them.

There's no need for conspiracy theories, when opportunism explains everything just as well, and far more simply.

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by red rocket

It's not about liking, or not liking, Bush. Bush is practically irrelevant to the thrust of this article.

Oh, I saw the numerous references to the "Bush Cabal" and thought it was crafted as just another anti-Bush Administration, "neocon" indictment piece. I reread the article and it seems it's entirely about not liking Bush.

[davesimondotcom]

Originally Posted by vmarks

BushCoNeoConCabal

Dude! I totally want that as my next XBOX Live Gamertag... here I thought I was going to go for K3nnyYouB45t4rd so that when I get killed in Halo 2 it says "You killed K3nnyYouB45t4rd" but BushCoNeoConCabal might be better.

[Chuckit]

Too long; didn't read.

[Millennium]

That's one of the more impressive Rule-8 violations I've seen in a while. Did you really have to post the complete text of the article, rather than linking to it?

Ahem. Last I checked, "too perfect/complex to be by chance" is the pseudoscientific (if it can even be called that) justification for Intelligent Design. I'm not convinced by ID, so why should I be convinced by this article?

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by red rocket

I decided it was preferable to let the text stand on its own. Lengthy observations tend to draw the focus onto the observer.

In other words, you didn't think we'd take something you posted seriously. In fact, hiding behind this lengthy diatribe has caused the very thing you sought to avoid: we aren't taking you seriously. Ironic, isn't it?

Bemoaning (A) the sheeple's sheepleness, whilst (B) neglecting to explain the neoconservative's success, do not seem contradictory to me. One might even say that A is a precondition for B.

Is it that the people are sheep, or is it perhaps that the neocons really do have a strong and effective goal and plan?

Why are you so interested in my opinion?

Because this is a discussion forum. If you want to discuss something, then discuss it, rather than just parroting what someone else told you.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Millennium

Because this is a discussion forum. If you want to discuss something, then discuss it, rather than just parroting what someone else told you.

Exactly. If you just want to regurgitate any idea you come across rather than actually discuss things, Get A Blog™.

[Rumor]

Is there any truth to tower 7 going down?

What I gleaned from this article (couldn't read the second part of the post) is that GW is just a tool. His political strings being pulled by someone else.

I'm really curious about the tower 7 thing though.

[Spliffdaddy]

That building was supported by beams that suspended it above a big hole. It was an unusual method of construction.

PS, it looks like Bush has been right about pretty much everything. Which really pisses off the liberals.

[mojo2]

I lost total interest in any 9/11 conspiracy theories when I realized that the jet fuel heated the steel in the WTC and once it was hot enough to reduce the steel's strength to 50% of it's cold strength the towers had to fall.

Turn off the lights when you leave.

[red rocket]

Originally Posted by Zeeb

I have a problem with this section of the article. It claims that one side is completely "right" while the other side is "wrong". While I disagree with most of the social policy of the Bush administration, we don't live with an authoritarian goverment. You've never experienced a true authoritarian goverment. Who are "we"? Who are "they"?

I assume that "they" is referring to the neoconservative-militarist-corporate thinktank behind US policy, "we" to the American on the street, who has to suffer the consequences of the policies implemented in the pursuit of the PNAC.

Your point (if I understand you correctly) is that the US electorate has a say in what policies are adopted by the government, thus the "Us vs Them" concept is flawed.

Although that is still formally correct, the fact that the neoconservative ideology is designed from the ground up to deceive and undermine the electorate raises concerns about the future of voter power.

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Originally Posted by G Barnett

Wow, just.... wow.

Even I -- a fellow who disagrees with the Bush administration on just about everything they've done, who's disgusted with how they've handled both Iraq and Afghanistan, who finds the entire Neocon agenda to be an utter abomination and betrayal of America itself -- even I don't buy into this conspiracy bullcrap about 9/11.

Are they craven opportunists who took advantage of a horrible situation to advance a repressive political agenda? Yes. But I don't believe for one moment that any of them have the capability to do some of the things that article alleges without a single person coming out and saying "I was there, I planted bombs." Eventually, someone, somewhere would start gloating, and it'd get out.

Besides, the Neocons and their Fundamentalist allies have no need for suicide bombers or to engineer devastation on such a massive scale, when there's plenty of rabid Islamic Fundamentalist sorts who are more than willing to do such things on their own. All that our whackjobs need to do is to turn the fear engendered by the actions of the "other side" to their own political gain. They reap the benefits while still being able to claim some sort of twisted "moral high ground."

They simply saw what was to them a golden opportunity to start their agenda in motion and jumped all over it with a rather twisted glee. Fortunately for the sane Americans, they've been so damn ham-handed about it, that their incompetence, overconfidence and greed for power is finally beginning to hurt them.

There's no need for conspiracy theories, when opportunism explains everything just as well, and far more simply.

You're probably right.

I sincerely hope that that is the extent of it.

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Originally Posted by Millennium

Originally Posted by me

I decided it was preferable to let the text stand on its own. Lengthy observations tend to draw the focus onto the observer.

In other words, you didn't think we'd take something you posted seriously. In fact, hiding behind this lengthy diatribe has caused the very thing you sought to avoid: we aren't taking you seriously. Ironic, isn't it?

Drivel. It is the article that discussion should concentrate upon, not the opinion I might have about it. That's my view, anyway.

Originally Posted by Millennium

Is it that the people are sheep, or is it perhaps that the neocons really do have a strong and effective goal and plan?

You support the neoconservative agenda, then?

Originally Posted by Millennium

Originally Posted by me talking to vmarks

Why are you so interested in my opinion?

Because this is a discussion forum. If you want to discuss something, then discuss it, rather than just parroting what someone else told you.

I wasn't talking to you. Stop barging in on other people's conversations, it's not all about Millennium, you know.

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Originally Posted by Chuckit

Originally Posted by Millennium

Because this is a discussion forum. If you want to discuss something, then discuss it, rather than just parroting what someone else told you.

Exactly. If you just want to regurgitate any idea you come across rather than actually discuss things, Get A Blog™.

Apart from parroting Millennium, I don't see you contributing anything.

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Too long; didn't read.

Typical. Attention span of gnats, indeed.

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Originally Posted by Rumor

Is there any truth to tower 7 going down?

What I gleaned from this article (couldn't read the second part of the post) is that GW is just a tool. His political strings being pulled by someone else.

I'm really curious about the tower 7 thing though.

Despite the fact that most people haven't heard about it, on account of it being (understandably, in the wake of larger events) under-reported, apparently it did indeed collapse some seven and a half hours later.

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All in all, I find that even if one dismisses the "9/11 was staged" theory as garbage (which, after reading numerous websites from both sides, I am prepared to do), the rest of Venezuela's article still makes for compelling reading, and I find his description of the neoconservatives perfectly accurate.

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by red rocket

Drivel. It is the article that discussion should concentrate upon, not the opinion I might have about it. That's my view, anyway.

The view is correct, but your conclusions aren't. It's generally considered the responsibility of the person who brings up the topic of discussion to also start it with their own opinion. By failing to do this, you have brought more attention to yourself and your views than simply stating your opinion of the piece would have done.

You support the neoconservative agenda, then?

I was only posting another possible answer to the question. You treat your views as though they are the only "normal" or "natural" way of thinking, and while this is understandable, it's not necessarily the case. Do you really believe that the only people who could support the so-called neoconservative agenda are evil or brainwashed? What if the opposite were true; what would the ramifications of that be?