UK Civil Rights, Peace & Justice Movement overdue

[Akbal13]

What we need is a Rainbow Coalition, including the mainstream organisations where possible, like we had in the Peace Movement in the 'eighties, focusing on Civil Rights, Peace & Justice.

It is the only antidote to the very real likelihood of increasing civil breakdown and Bliar's cynical rants against 'Islamic fanatics' which are stoking-up racial strife and dividing society.

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http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4625

We must unite to face the next attack
British Muslims are again being made to feel they are not entitled to the same rights given to others
by: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on: 24th Jul, 05

Don't blow it, not now, I want to say to the police, intelligence services, the media and politicians. The swell of Muslim support they managed to marshal in the aftermath of the first bomb attack on London is receding since the second wave of attacks, because the people charged with keeping us safe within the rule of law are themselves succumbing to hysteria, unlawful acts, scapegoating and double talk.

On 7 July, howls of shared pain and disbelief arose in London bonding Britons of all hues. Muslims and non-Muslims were united, revolted and determined to beat the b******. Perhaps that is why the second, hastily arranged series of attacks was executed. These Islamicist nihilists probably never understood what London means to Muslims the world over. However, leading up to and since the second violation, the mood among Muslims is altering. The killing of an innocent man - a poor law-abiding Brazilian electrician mistaken for a Muslim terrorist - has made us Muslim parents intensely fearful, much more than the bombs. In this situation the targets are selected within set physical profiles (Arab and Asian), and the shots came from a police officer, a professional who should, in these chaotic times, have had better information than he did.

My son - tall, dark, uppity - walks and takes the tubes and buses because he can't drive. What if plainclothes officers go for him and he resists? I have been talking to my Asian friends and we share the same anxieties. All of us understand and do accept (though it is incredibly hard) that our boys will be stopped more and questioned and sometimes treated harshly because of the identity of the bombers. But we don't accept that our men must now expect to be shot too, just because policemen suspect them of no good.

How wide is this shoot-to-kill strategy? Are some officers themselves maddened by the sight of men who look as if they may be Muslim? Do they have buried prejudices which have risen since the bomb attacks? Can we trust them to do the right thing? Can they trust themselves? Years ago in Stoke Newington police station, where an alarming number of black men were being beaten up in custody, I got some of the officers to admit that black men terrified them and the fear led them to over-react. It is highly likely the same syndrome is appearing today with Asian terror suspects.

Muslims are also getting alarmed at the surging press demonisation of all Muslim thinkers, writers, theologians and professionals. In the past few days high-pitched British commentators have assailed the Swiss Muslim philosopher Tariq Ramadan whom they want to keep out of the UK. Yet he has boldly called for a moratorium on Sharia punishments in Muslim states and for the Ummah to return to true compassion and humane justice: "Muslim societies need more education, not more punishment. Muslims know how to do something but not why you do it so we have a ritualistic and formulaic adoption of Islam devoid of deeper meanings." (You can imagine the response from the mullahs.)

We let firebrand right-wing Americans into our land of free expression, and rabbis with strongly flavoured views and Hindu fundamentalist politicians, but we can't admit an intellectual and thoughtful Muslim? Is that fair or sensible? As it happens I think Ramadan is not modernist enough, but I would like to listen to his views, and young Muslims would too. Then there was that appalling way in which the entire media swooped on the British Egyptian biochemist who was presumed to be a key player in the first bomb plot. His face was on all the front pages and broadcast over and over again on the news channels before any evidence had been gathered. He was in Cairo at the time where he was interrogated, presumably in ways which would make our stomachs heave. Now it appears he may be innocent.

British Muslims feel too that the present delicate situation is being exploited by the pro-Israeli lobby. Interviewers regularly push Muslim spokespeople into an admittance that Palestinian suicide bombs are an exact equivalent of the London blasts. The suffering is the same but the two situations cannot be compared. Israel wants to cleanse itself of any culpability. To kill innocent Jewish people in clubs and at bus stops is indeed horrific but so is the shooting of young Palestinian boys and other citizens by Israeli soldiers.

Haggai Matar, an Israeli activist, writing in a new book Refusenik! (published by Zed Books), understands: "Today militarisation and racism among the Jewish population have reached a fascist level. The repression of critical thinking, the total acceptance of the occupation's crimes, the idolisation of the army and the gradual acceptance of 'ethnic cleansing' - all of these constitute only a part of our society's collapse."

There is a deletion of history too among the ultra-Zionists who today demand Muslim compliance with their versions of the truth. After 1946, the Irgun movement led by Menachem Begin and other Jewish terrorists, were as merciless as the Palestinian terrorists today. Both were and are fighting for the same cause, a homeland. The Irgun attacked King David Hotel leaving 91 dead; an Arab village was razed - 254 dead. Tax offices, immigration offices, British administration buildings were bombed. British officials and soldiers were kidnapped, sometimes strung up.

Finally, Muslims of all classes, even those who feel irrevocably British, are increasingly dismayed by the slimy words of British politicians eager to talk about the "ideology" of evil Islamicists and not at all about their own malevolent machinations and duplicitous politics. This global threat was born when corrupted Islam mated with the corrupt foreign policies of the West and the USSR. It started in Afghanistan under Soviet occupation, in Saudi Arabia, in Egypt and Algeria where the US, UK, France and other European countries play their immoral, self-serving games.

Muslims, rightly, have been asked to wake up and act to redeem their faith and rescue the young faithful from the temptations of glory offered by murderous Islamicist warriors. But our young will not look our way if they see a duff deal, if Western governments avoid any blame for the state we are in. Their interventions in the world have made it easier for terrorism to flourish. We have yet to hear a single member of our government accept that responsibility.

British Muslims are again being made to feel that they are not entitled to the rights and respect given to others. You don't want this resentment growing just when the country needs to come together in trust and co-operation to face the next attack, which will surely come soon.

[Akbal 13]

http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4634

We must end the view that civil liberties are negotiable
Jean Charles de Menezes is another victim of Blair's war on terror.
by: Liz Davies on: 25th Jul, 05

LONDON is a frightening place to live right now. We Londoners are being shown a small glimpse of what it must be like to live in Baghdad. We are in danger - from terrorist bombs and trigger-happy police.

On Friday, the police acted as judge, jury and executioner. Jean Charles de Menezes is a victim of the war on terror in London, just as those who died on July 7 are victims.

He was killed for three simple reasons - he wasn't white, he was wearing a bulky coat and he ran away from the police. Who knows why he ran, but for no reason could that justify summary execution.

The rush by leading London and national politicians and by most sections of the media to support the police action has been breathtaking.

In a democratic society, the first response when a member of the public is killed by the police should be to suspend the officers involved and to announce an independent inquiry.

There are circumstances, obviously, when an inquiry might conclude that the only thing that the police could have done, to protect the public or themselves, was to kill.

But the gravity of that conclusion is such that it should only be reached after independent scrutiny of all the circumstances, not as a knee-jerk reaction on the day. Instead, politician after politician queued up to explain that shoot-to-kill is now necessary.

Now that we know that Menezes had nothing to do with terrorism and that there is to be an inquiry, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has expressed his regret at the tragedy but added, almost casually, that it might happen again.

The inquiry must examine not only the actions of the police at the scene but the instructions from the top and the whole "shoot-to-kill" policy. It must never happen again.

Where have we seen the state operate shoot-to-kill before? Apartheid South Africa, present-day Palestine, Los Angeles and, of course, Northern Ireland.

New Labour's assault on civil liberties, ratcheted up several notches post-September 11, reproduces the infamous policing techniques used in Northern Ireland.

Extraordinarily, new Labour has chosen those methods from Northern Ireland which were not only abuses of civil liberties but were also profoundly ineffective.

'We must end the view that civil liberties are negotiable.'

Internment in 1970s Northern Ireland, described as the best recruiting tool for the IRA, has been followed by 21st-century detention in Belmarsh.

Muslim communities are treated by the police and racists as suspect communities, with thousands of young non-white men subject to stop and search and racist attacks escalating, in the same way that the Irish community suffered in the 1970s and 1980s.

Now, we see the police operating shoot-to-kill and doing so under pressure, after July 21, to get results. The pressure to get results produced the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six, Annie Maguire and her family and Judith Ward - all appalling miscarriages of justice, but at least not executions.

This war on terror has become a byword for failures of intelligence. A failure of intelligence led to Jean Charles de Menezes's death.

A failure of intelligence and our politicians doctoring the intelligence that was available led to the announcement that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, to an illegal invasion and continuing illegal occupation and to the deaths of thousands of innocents - civilians and soldiers.

Those failures of intelligence have created the climate for terrorism to escalate.

We must end the view that civil liberties are negotiable.

The US and Britain have encouraged and practised torture, despite the absolute prohibition on torture in international law that both countries have signed up to.

Both countries will use evidence extracted by torture elsewhere. Both have practised torture on detainees in Iraq, in Bagram and in Guantanamo Bay, alternatively denied and justified as preventing further acts of terrorism.

But, of course, what someone says under torture is not reliable, it's aimed at what the victim believes the torturer wants to hear. Mass murders have not been prevented. Torture didn't identify the bombers in Madrid, Istanbul, London or Egypt.

Now, summary execution is acceptable if, apparently, it is used to forestall mass murder. But, just like torture, the chances of summary execution actually preventing mass murder are remote.

The chances, however, of the police getting it wrong and killing innocent people are high. A democratic state has a duty to maintain non-negotiable standards - otherwise, we slip further and further into arbitrary state power.

Friday's shooting will make it harder for the police to find and prosecute those involved in the events of July 7 and 21 or anyone planning similar criminal acts. Just as the Irish community was suspicious of the police, so anyone who might be mistaken for a Muslim - logically, any of us, given that it is a religion, but, in practice, those who are not white - will think twice before giving information to the police.

Suppose they detain me as a terrorist suspect? Suppose they shoot me if they raid my next-door neighbour's house?

After July 7, Charles Clarke announced further anti-terrorism offences. With the exception of the thought-crime proposal to criminalise anyone "glorifying" acts of terrorism, these offences are as yet unspecified and will be put before Parliament in the autumn, along with the government's earlier proposals to introduce ID cards.

It's hard to imagine that Labour MPs will now have the guts to vote down ID cards, but the arguments remain the same post-July 7.

ID cards wouldn't have prevented the tragedies that day. As for the creation of further anti-terrorist offences, there are plenty of criminal offences available - murder, conspiracy to commit murder, the carrying of explosives.

The police don't lack offences with which to charge potential suicide bombers - their problem lies in detecting them. The reality of more anti-terrorism offences is that the police will have more tools and more opportunity to harass anyone that they choose and grievances will escalate.

Above all, political solutions are required to end the war on terror. Blair's denial that the London bombs had any connection with the occupation of Iraq is as unrealistic and self-justifying as an alcoholic denying that he has a problem.

Ending the occupation of Iraq and achieving justice for the Palestinians are necessary to bring about a better world and would have the useful by-product of eliminating some of the sense of grievance that causes a very few to resort to violence.

Until those happen, we will all remain less safe - from terrorism and from the state.

[Akbal13]

Please Circulate Widely

http://www.petitiononline.com/Ummah/

British Muslims Reject Tony Blair


To: The UK Media

On Tuesday 19 July, the Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet with self-appointed leaders and representatives from various Muslim communities in order to discuss and tackle what he calls the 'evil' within these communities. We the undersigned, as Muslims in Britain, totally reject this approach and will take no part in it. We believe that the conduct of the Prime Minister is part of the problem and not the solution. Unelected community leaders who associate themselves with the Prime Minister will also been seen as part of the problem.

Our communities reject any lessons on morality or evil from politicians and commentators who make constant excuses for the tens of thousands of Muslims killed in Iraq and the continuing violence in that country as a result of the American-led invasion supported by Britain.

It is a mark of the Prime Minister's double standards that our communities are asked to account for bombs which killed 70 people in London, and yet are asked to turn a blind eye to the huge number of fellow Muslims killed in Iraq when he led this country into that disaster. Unlike the Prime Minister, we say unequivocally that the bombs which ended innocent Iraqi lives and which he is responsible for, are every bit as evil as the bombs which exploded in London.

Just like the Prime Minister, Muslims too say that we stand shoulder to shoulder with others, and that an attack on one country is an attack on us all. In Islam, Muslims are all part of one worldwide community (Ummah). We believe that an unwarranted attack on Iraq was an attack on all Muslims.

Neither do we believe that the Prime Minister has the remotest interest in pursuing a solution to prevent further terror attacks. He ignored a recent Home and Foreign Office report which stated an increased likehood of a terror attack because of policies pursued by this government in Iraq. Any discussion on finding a solution for preventing terror attacks must therefore include an acknowledgement that Iraq is an issue. The Prime Minister refuses to make such an acknowledgement.

Further, we believe that the government is actively discouraging dialogue with young Muslims in particular, which is something that could prevent future attacks. Progress can only come from open and honest discussion and debate of all views without rejecting them as moderate or extreme. However, the government has already alienated a large section of the population through existing anti-terror legislation. By trying to further silence genuine grievances through tougher legislation, the government is causing more problems. Exclusion is not the answer.

Lastly, unelected Muslim leaders have comprehensively failed to represent the interests of their communities, or to articulate the real anger and frustration of Muslims in Britain today. It is utterly contemptible that not a single community leader has challenged the hypocrisy of politicians who sanctimoniously preach about good and evil, even as the rest of us have to suffer as a result of their policies. These unelected leaders are not representative of the communities and neither will they be seen as such. Therefore individual Muslims must now take the initiative and argue their case without apology. Muslims should not be afraid of stating that the continuing British support of the American led 'war on terror' has made has made her an enemy of those who previously saw her as a friend.

The aim of Tony Blair is to deflect criticism from his policies at this crucial time. He will not succeed. We shall and will continue to remind the truth that the disaster which befell London recently is in no small part due to him. He is part of the problem and he should be held to account for it.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned
http://www.petitiononline.com/Ummah/

[ian neal]

Dear Akbal

I totally agree that this country and the world needs such a runitedainbow coalition based on common principles and a common vision

Values such as ....

truth and transparency
disclosure
accountability in public life

What I would warn against is going down the Stop the War coalition route (in terms of how to organise such a campaign)

There is much to be admired in the STWC, but IMO its centralised structure results in the message being that of the lowest common denominator and more radical voices and messages that genuinely threaten the establishment/status quo are silenced by such a system.

But definately worth exploring more

Last weekend this event was trying to build a similar movement

http://www.truthemergency.us/

[Akbal13]

I quite agree with you Neil. I was thinking of a movement of the kind many of us were involved in the 'eighties.

Although CND tried to take that over it never suceeded fully. I don't know what the state of CND is today but I would imagine it has reverted to becoming a group of hard-core politicoes.

I understand there is a Green gathering very soon. Logistics and finance prevent me going. But I think it would be the perfect place to propose the idea and to try and initiate something.

Again, I feel it's very important to involve the churches and religious groups etc as in the 'eighties.

I am sure you will agree that, finding ourselves now very much in a situation akin to the last days of Germany's Weimar Republic, we must really get into gear and organise such a movement. It's our very last chance before all dissent is forbidden.

I would rather risk being arrested and put into a future Bush-Blair Axis internment camp as a 'political undesirable' than to sit here silently being lied-to incessantly by the mainstream media. I'm sure I'm not the only one by any means!

How about throwing a few more stones in the pond to watch how far the ripples might spread? Meantime, I'll check out yr hyperlink.

[Akbal13]

http://www.williambowles.info/

A collective *
in the pants
by William Bowles • Wednesday, 27 July 2005


What kind of a mess have our erstwhile leaders got us into? It’s not too late you know, to do something about this gang of murdering politicos who have their cold, hard hands around our throats.

It struck me that the common message I have been getting of late is not only anger and frustration but of fear, not of bombers but of the political class and the growing realisation of what they are capable of and that perhaps it took a July 7 to wake people up to the reality of a desperate ruling class, backed into a corner, whose only way forward (or is it backward) is to rack up the terror, notch by notch, through holding the nation to hostage.

Folks, let history inform us of what this class is capable of, it’s all there, written in blood, there’s no mistaking what they have done in the name of something or other, normally patria and somebody or other’s ‘way of life’ (definitely not mine, nor I suspect, of yours).

I refuse to be held hostage by a 9/11 or a 7/7 or whatever shorthand is used to describe the crimes of our rulers. That ostensibly it’s carried out by some small clique of liberal ‘intellectuals’ (or inspired by them) is neither here nor there. They are the b****** sons of capitalism come home to * in our backyard, not on Tony Blair and his criminal associates, nor on those who plunder the wealth of the planet in the name of ‘civilisation’ and the GDP.

Those of us who have no doubt foolishly, taken on the task of trying to inform those of us who have rejected the pap fed them by the corporate state, have inevitably shouldered an enormous responsibility that once taken on cannot be lightly shrugged off. But make no mistake, these are responsibilities taken on entirely voluntarily, no force was necessary, not even a smidgen of guilt is involved. Insecure I may be but not guilt-ridden.

I count myself blessed to be able to articulate some of my ideas and above all my passions about life, glorious life, sometimes more coherently, sometimes less. I don’t pretend to have the answers but I damn well know what’s right and above all, what’s just!

So, as Vladimir Illyich Lenin said way back, ‘What is to be done?’. And for those of you who think it’s merely history and maybe not even relevant to our times, let me remind you that it was written in 1902, a time more than comparable to our present circumstances. A time of the embryonic development of a revolutionary party of the workers and peasants in Russia. Moreover, this party in formation followed more than three decades not only of struggle, of victories and defeats but of learning and the development of a theoretical basis for a revolutionary movement.

For those of you who actually venture into the world of Marxist polemics at the turn of the 19th century, the language, the arguments will seem incongruous, opaque even but that’s not the point. They were real debates about life and death issues that hinged first and and foremost on an understanding of what the hell was actually going on and how to formulate a theoretical understanding upon which actions could be based.

Okay, so the chief concern of the time was the development of a consciousness in the industrial working class, led as Lenin pointed out by revolutionary intellectuals, indeed members of an intellectual elite who ironically belonged to the ruling class of the time. Today, we have no comparable intellectual elite able to offer a theoretical basis for a way forward. Sadly, those who claim to be the inheritors of the revolutionary tradition of Marx, argue mostly about the past without it seems, fully understanding the reasons why they argue other than for purely academic purposes (how many ‘real’ Marxists can you cram on the head of pin?).

Indeed Lenin quotes from Engels on precisely this crucial issue

“It must be said to the credit of the German workers that they have exploited the advantages of their situation with rare understanding. For the first time since a workers’ movement has existed, the struggle is being conducted pursuant to its three sides – the theoretical, the political, and the practical-economic (resistance to the capitalists) – in harmony and in its interconnections, and in a systematic way. It is precisely in this, as it were, concentric attack, that the strength and invincibility of the German movement lies.

‘What is to be done’ attempted to sum up the situation as it stood in 1902, dealing with the major theoretical issues of the times, chiefly that of Social Democracy versus a revolutionary movement, ironically neither of which we now possess since New Labour dropped all pretence of being a social democratic party. And our former industrial working class has been relocated to far off lands, where no doubt they are going through similar struggles to those conducted by our forebears.

We on the other hand, are for the most part, well off, at least in a crass, material sense. There is of course an ‘underclass’ numbering some millions but without any kind of collective being or expression. Such underclasses are a common feature of the developed economies, essentially ‘surplus to requirement’ and hence for the most part marginalised, demonised and criminalised and subject to the full brunt of state repression in all it various and ingenious forms.

What remains of the organised working class are for the most part, employees of the state and relatively well-off. And in any case, trade unions are not going to take political power (we see what happened the last time, it’s called the Labour Party).

Where then is an opposition to come from and what form will it take? What will be its platform for change, for unlike our antecedents whose major concern was first and foremost to challenge the capitalists head-on, in the workplace and through political parties, contest political power through elections? Where the issue was freedom from material want and the realisation that one way to wrest at least a modicum of the wealth stolen from their labours was through the ballot box. To say that our struggle is now as much ‘existential’ as it is material, begs the question.

With half the population somnabulised and in full retreat from reality, safe, they think, for the moment from the world of naked capitalism, subject only to a tiny taste of what is for the Iraqis, a daily dose of ‘civilisation’, what will it take to awaken these slumbering ‘masses’ from the sleep of ages?

As to the other half, well perhaps half are ready for change but bereft of a viable alternative and having lost all trust in politicians of any flavour, even worse of the political process itself, my fear is that it will be too late. This may sound apocalyptic but the reality is that the capitalist class would rather destroy all our achievements than share them, so besotted are they with their possession of power. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we have a ruling class that is possessed of a lethal psychosis, lethal this time, for the entire planet.

This may sound elitist but the reality is that back in Lenin’s time, there was a robust and healthy debate about the nature of capitalism and the theoretical nature of an alternative, a debate conducted by the intellectuals of the time, for without theory there can be no practice.

And I think it’s true to say that from 1917 to the present, theoretical debates, with a few notable exceptions, remained frozen in time, our eyes glued firmly on the Soviet Union as the alleged leader of the ‘world socialist revolution’. Understandable perhaps, given the realities of the time but of little use to us now, except perhaps as a warning not to go down that particular road again. And I think that having learned the lessons of those times, the next time, though inevitably imperfect, we can avoid those particular mistakes from the past.

But the cold, hard reality is that we have been robbed of our intellectuals, our thinkers, the word is virtually a curse! The capitalist state has appropriated most of them and the rest are effectively locked away on campuses churning out ‘learned’ tomes that they share only amongst themselves using a language that has more in common with the scribes of the Middle Ages than it does with unpacking the crisis that confronts us.

Does this all sound totally removed from the crisis that confronts us? Well maybe so, but unless you are of a mystical persuasion, one that believes in some kind of ‘divine intervention’ that will solve all our problems with the wave of some magical wand, without a clear understanding of what the hell is going on, of the political and economic forces at work all around us, we are reduced to baying at the moon or relying on crystals to come up with solutions. And there are no longer any hills far enough away for us to run to.

It’s all well and good cursing Bush and Blair, exposing the hypocrisy of the ruling classes is important, don’t get me wrong, but without a theoretical basis for a practical way out the mess we’re in, we are truly lost.

The frustrating thing is that we do have the solutions. We live in age of unprecedented wealth and knowledge with which to solve most, if not all of the problems that confront us. None of it is rocket science, damn it!

Okay, it means shucking off a whole mess of nonsense, of self-delusion, of freeing ourselves from the web of deceit that has been woven around us. Yes, it does mean re-ordering our priorities, of re-discovering our ‘collective commons’, that which we share in common with the rest of humanity, but it’s not impossible, indeed history shows quite conclusively that it’s ‘hard-wired’ into our nature. For the most part, people are not nasty or selfish by nature, we will gladly sacrifice ourselves for others for example – under the right conditions.

Let’s face it folks, those of us fortunate enough to have been born in the right place at the right time have it within our power to unleash the forces that can initiate change, unstoppable change. Once moved to action, there is no force on earth that can stop us. But first we need to recover our sense of history and belief in ourselves as independent, thinking beings, possessed of the power to control our own lives, to make the decisions that count.

I was fortunate to participate in a small way, in the struggle that removed apartheid in South Africa. I remember well what it felt like to be part of a vast movement, the elation, the joy we all felt as we celebrated the end of a hated regime. Complete strangers hugging me on the street – Amandla! Damn, but did we party! My belief in humanity not only rewarded but confirmed. Okay, it was but the first and in many ways the easiest part of the journey to accomplish, I’m no fool, but that’s not the point, life doesn’t come with a warranty. What has happened since, was also predictable but that doesn’t mean the struggle was worthless or futile, far from it, it merely shows just how difficult it is.

Should we not have embarked on the struggle? Of course not! To think otherwise is to deny our right to think for ourselves, to struggle. If all struggle is destined to fail, then there would be no change, we would be frozen in time, accepting of a nihilist version of reality. Should the Bolsheviks have said, ‘nah, it’s bound to fail, let’s wait for the ‘perfect’ time’. Of course, there is no ‘perfect’ time, there is only the ‘moment’ when change is inevitable, but as the Boy Scouts say, ‘be prepared’.

[Alan Firminger]

The police control their release of information to the press. Therefore trust nothing that the police alone release.
Charles de Menezes was allegedly running from the police, he allegedly jumped the barrier and ran to the train. He was allegedly wearing a thick jacket.
As this began to unravel the story became "officers have to make split second decisions." That is nonsense.
The flats were under surveillance for about ten days, the police had plenty of time to work out what to do when any suspect left. de Menezes was tailled for twenty minutes on a bus through Brixton. If they genuinely thought that he might have been a threat then they should have intercepted him in the open. The interpretation is that they they wanted to kill him in a scenario that made it 'necessary'.
John Stalker said of this event "the man pulling the trigger is only as good as the voice in his ear".
The voice in the armed policeman's ear has caused too many deaths, and escaped consideration let alone punishment.
The police are on a path to losing the respect of Londoners. We will be in a mess then.

[Akbal13]

In my estimation the present intention of the police is, while pretending to be carrying out a speedy investigation, to cause fear among the public, ie in the same way that Bliar had the army surround Heathrow Airport days before the invasion of Irak in 2003. This is all part of a Psy Op to sow the seeds of fear and submission in the public.

Then follow the draconian "anti terror" laws. Meanwhile, there is already taking place a shift away from "Islamic terrorists" to "extremists" and in the US at least one NY Times journalist, Friedman, has been paid to do an article calling for a black list of all dissenters. It's only a case of time before some idiot politician in the UK will jump on the bandwagon and do the same. Soon, anyone who dares to raise their voice in dissent will be
criminalised and the full-blown police state will have arrived in Britain.

Meantime, an attack on Iran using tactical nukes is being planned. The excuse for this would be another 911. Where this time, London? All of this within the time-scale of Peak Oil (anytime between now and 2008). The G8 governments are preparing for a massive economic crisis. The bombings are a distraction to the public like wolves among the sheep.

My own gut feeling is that the bombings are part of CIA tactics with Mossad expertise and the complicity of the UK authorities on a very tight Need to Know basis. The police needn't know anything but just run around like keystone kops. I understand that Mr Meneze's assassins were Special Operations plain clothes. Isn't that secret service?

The need to build a non-violent mass movement is urgent. Why the hell won't the Stop the War Coalition, CND etc pull their finger out? What ARE they playing at?

[Akbal13]

COUNTDOWN: THE COMING COUP

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http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/countdown-coming-uk-coup.html

[Akbal13]

http://www.medialens.org/board/
Muslim community leaders - Excellent letter from Scottish Herald, 5th August

Posted by inf4mation on August 5, 2005, 5:25 pm
User logged in as: malcolm

Our so-called "community leaders" want to eradicate extremism among the youth and met with Malcolm Chisholm at a secret "invite only" meeting. These discredited old "yes men" (with a handful of honourable exceptions) have stifled political discussion within the "Labour-dominated" city mosques for years. They are the remnants of 1960s community relations grateful for the crumbs of the table who continue to pretend that they are in touch with our youth. Of course our community condemns the London attacks but that does not mean we should be paralysed by a defensive and apologetic stance translated into a lack of criticism of the government.

We have screamed from the rooftops for years that we are British, yet no-one wanted to hear and now we are told we must prove our Britishness. Born and bought up here, I have no desire to support the Queen or fly a Union Jack.

Conspicuous by their absence at No 10 or at the meeting with Chisholm were the real leaders, the young Muslims who have marched in their hundreds of thousands on the streets against war, shoulder to shoulder with the non-Muslims campaigning for genuine justice and peace. The anti-war movement was a real turning-point and a beginning of hope for many within the Muslim community.

Until then as British Muslims we had been asked whether we were British or Muslim – as if we could not be both. It would have been better for the government to invite their harshest critics. But Blair never listened to the millions who marched against war. He ignored real democracy, opening a Pandora's Box releasing the politics of hate.

As British Muslims we feel marginalised, criminalised and fed-up with demands to adhere to higher standards of behaviour than any other section of the community or risk losing the right to be British. They forget that our community is also among the dead, be it in New York, London, Baghdad or Bali; that we also had sleepless nights waiting to hear the voices of our loved ones

The young bombers are easy to dehumanise as "evil monsters" but that will bring us no closer to what motivated them. British society bears a heavy responsibility for losing these men to hate, and what we have seen in the days gone by is only increasing that hate. By ignoring political realities, Blair's war on terror will not contain but fuel further violence.

Muslims picked up for questioning have no more desire than anyone else to be slain in a random act of violence, whether it is instigated by a fanatic or the politically committed. We were as likely, if not more, to have been victims in the bombings in Hackney, Aldgate East, or Edgware Road. The irony is that while Muslims feel so afraid with their very existence being threatened, we are at the same time being portrayed as the threat.

Since 9/11 there have been 700 arrests in this country under the terror laws, yet only three successful convictions related to militant Islamic groups. Two years ago when charges against my clients accused of being the "Hogmanay al Qaeda" were finally dropped, I warned that security services were wasting valuable time and resources targeting the innocent, racially profiling the usual suspects.

Extra powers for the police will further alienate their best resource for intelligence, the Muslim community. Muslims today balance the fear of being victims of bombs with the fear of being executed paramilitary style. So no, we cannot accept this mythical "intelligence-led" Stop and Search, no matter what our elders say.

We now learn that British police officers have been receiving shoot-to-kill training from the Israeli military. How could a police commissioner sanction shoot-to-kill without any consultation? Why send them to a country accused of war crimes and torture? What message does this relay to the Muslim community? Would it have been acceptable for the Met during the Brixton riots to have sent their officers for training to apartheid South Africa? Would it not have been wiser if the Metropolitan Police had gone to the West Bank to learn from Palestinians why some of their children do not want the gift of life any more?

It has been 150 years since public hangings were stopped and over 40 years since execution of convicted murderers because it was considered morally reprehensible. I remember as a child being taught that it was better to let 100 guilty men go free than to hang an innocent man. In 2005 the police can carry out a public execution on the basis of a "suspicion", ministers excuse the death of 100,000 in the search for "WMD", community leaders conduct witch-hunts and the tabloids blame refugees with their banners of hate – how far our civilised, democratic society has come.

We know the sense of alienation our youth feel. They are intelligent, highly politicised and angry about troops in Iraq, the Israelis in Palestine, and racism in this country. It is time we valued our Muslim youth rather than fearing them, but to do so we must listen to their grievances and stop operating double standards if we really want to win a future generation that this country can be proud of.

Aamer Anwar, Beltrami Berlow Solicitors, 40 Carlton Place, Glasgow.

[Andrew Johnson]

Did you or anyone send him DVDs? It might give him a clue as to who has instigated the terrorism

[Akbal13]

Do you mean Mr Anwar or Dr Naseem or both? No, I didn't, Andrew so if anyone has a stock, maybe they can?

Also, see

http://mathaba.net/h.htm?http://www.mathaba.net/0index.shtml?x=297467

(posted in 911 News)

Rory.

[Andrew Johnson]

I sent DVDs to Dr Naseem myself (I just hope they weren't ... ahem "intercepted")

I will send some to Mr Anwar

[Akbal13]

Oh, they very likely were but they should still have been delivered, given that it's a criminal offence not to do deliver the Royal Mail.

Let's hope the 911 Truth Campaign gets some success in France. Anwar's letter has now been posted on William Bowles' INI website at http://www.williambowles.info

Rory

BTW, apropos of all the huffing and puffing we're getting in the tabloids about charging the mullahs with treason, in my book this country's Traitor Numero Uno is the Bliar himself. But maybe he'll need to find himself in hell first to wonder why he never got to heaven.

[Akbal13]

The Radical Middle

It’s no longer Zionized Left vs. Armageddon Right
— the new political Feather of Truth is honesty

By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
— Henry David Thoreau

"We are each one of us responsible for every war because of the aggressiveness of our own lives, because of our nationalism, our selfishness, our gods, our prejudices, our ideals, all of which divide us. And only when we realise, not intellectually but actually, as actually as we would recognise that we are hungry or in pain, that you and I are responsible for all this existing chaos, for all the misery throughout the entire world because we have contributed to it in our daily lives and are part of this monstrous society with its wars, divisions, its ugliness, brutality and greed — only then will we act.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti



Nobody predicted this one — not Orwell, not Huxley, not H.G. Wells.

I couldn’t believe the words that appeared on my screen in an e-mail:

Overthrow
all the governments
all at once

International criminal syndicate
has taken control of world’s money;
honest citizens must prevent
them from destroying the world;
Lennon was right:
all borders are bogus.
Is there any reason
we can’t have an honest world?

What a radical idea! Isn’t that what decent people want? But is that the world we have? We have massive numbers of dead people turning up in strange and suspicious mortality categories. Shall I tell you Americans some of the causes of death inflicted by your sons and daughters on innocent children in Iraq, or will you turn your face away and return silently to your polite political dogma and the cringing ugliness of your own suppressed private nightmares? Hmm?

We haven’t had enough radicals. America was founded by radicals (though some were surreptitious scoundrels, too). Jefferson, even Adams, Madison and Franklin were radicals, and we Americans would definitely not have the good deal we have without the intrepid efforts of these intelligent men.

Franklin, you remember Franklin, the guy with the kite. “A republic,” he said, “if you can keep it.”

And Jefferson, perhaps you recall, said:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

In our lifetimes and in fact ever since World War I, we’ve seen precious few hints of radicalism: left wing radicals like Abbie Hoffman in the ’60s challenged perceptions and changed them enough to stop a war; right wing radical Gordon Kahl had his hands cut off by federal agents; way out radicals like David Koresh got to watch his babies burn because he said the new messiah was from Iran; and, of course, Eugene Debs was the most successful socialist radical in American history; he got 6 percent of the vote in a presidential election (1912) and actually raised the hourly pay rate for many Americans before he wound up in jail.

Do you ever wonder who exactly it was who brought the hammer down on these radicals? Or why what they said elicited such disproportionate punishment?

Today I guess you could say radicals include Kathy Kelly, the Voices for Peace lady doing time for insisting on assisting victims of America’s Iraq genocide, and some of the honorable soldiers like Kevin Benderman who chose jail over crimes against humanity. Also are the Roman Catholic nuns who doing three-year vacations in a Colorado prison.

But the most tragic radicals were all the black people who have been crushed in the dust over two centuries of our bloodthirsty European Protestant genocidal history. Quit blaming Jews and Catholics. Take a long look at the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who pay attention to their church once a week, smile at their neighbors, and then build a gigantic empire on the unpaid backs of black cottonpickers. Of course this came after those refined White Europeans utilized every method possible to exterminate the hapless red man first, and later got rich selling drugs to the Chinese.

In my lifetime, a young articulate black man named Fred Hampton sticks in my mind. A charismatic and sincere community organizer as a teen, Fred was gunned down in a fusillade of bullets from murderous COINTELPRO cops — while lying in bed with no weapon. Of course in the newspapers the next day we learned our brave cops removed a dangerous radical from our streets. Another martyr to bogus American justice is Native American inspiration Leonard Peltier, jailed in Leavenworth for more than 30 years now for a crime he didn’t commit.

Given the brief glimpse of the abbreviated political trajectory of Fred Hampton I have to think he would have made a wonderful president someday. Same could be said of Leonard. These remarks make America’s nasty white supremacists squirm. Good.

For all you effete intellectual snobs (Spiro Agnew’s famous phrase), the radical to beat all was the cantankerous French Situationist Guy Debord, who argued that we were trapped in our own abstractions and had lost all meaningful contact with the world around us, before one sad day he put a bullet in his own head because no one could hear what he was saying.

“Imagine there’s no countries,” John Lennon sang shortly before he was taken out by a Bush family religious program mind-trained assassin with six shots to the back of the head, mmm yes, Mossad style. Can you say Hinckley Dinckley? Oh no, that was Chapman. Same school, though. Did I ever tell you about the time Hinckley’s brother had dinner with Bush? Another time, perhaps ....

“All you need is love,” Lennon prominently sang. Now how can you argue with that, even as you contemplate that a lot of this good will was generated as a social experiment by (even then) Zionized social scientists in a place called the Tavistock Institute in London, where a bomb went off the other day, incidentally. Isn’t that interesting?

What has always interested me about the 9/11 skeptics movement is the almost complete absence of political dogma among its participants. I mean, there are people from all over the political spectrum: the Trap Rock Peace Center to the American Patriot Friends Network. That’s good market coverage, my friend.

But in the exact middle of the American heart in this incredible poison: a totally locked down establishment media monster regurgitating the twisted and clumsy lies of sociopathic misanthropes who are butchering and poisoning half the world while hiding behind flags and bibles. No. I take that back. They’ve already destroyed both of them, too.

Yes, our president, the one who OKs overnight visits from a well-known homosexual prostitute and then puts him in the press corps to throw gopher ball questions at him, yes, that president, says he gets his orders from God!

This is the best news I’ve heard about religion in years. It tells you all exactly what religion is. Remember: the best Bible passage is Deuteronomy 28:56-58. Look it up. It says everything.

Thanks to George Bush and Tom Brokaw. And Charles F****** Krauthammer (the perfect Jewish name). American politics has evolved to Howdy Doody meets Bride of Chucky, and the most astounding thing is — obviously we can’t seem to figure it out — is that the American people have ACCEPTED IT!!!

They’ve accepted the destruction of the Constitution, the routine use of torture, the total falsification of elections, and the needless mass murders of hundreds of thousands of South Asians in the past two years alone.

So needless to say, I’ve looked for signs of hope that there were still actual human beings on this planet, and certainly have found that and more in both the 9/11 skeptics movement, and especially in the wonderful people I’ve met on the Internet, many of whom are much smarter than me and just as concerned about the apparently imminent destruction of most of the things we hold dear.

But the most amazing thing I have found is that virtually all of the people rising up and being willing to consider the frightening reality that 9/11 was an operation executed by our government ...

... wanna buy an Arab terrorist? They’re for sale, you know, and the CIA uses a lot of them; you occasionally see their case files on TV for a few weeks; then a new one is chosen as this week’s excuse for continuing the carnage by our multi-trillion dollar war machine ....

... the most amazing thing is that all these people, upset about government lies and needless killing, ARE FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. Most are not really political at all.

And their issues are not about godless communists or soulless capitalists. Their issues are not about foreign intrigues or Washington sexcapades. Their issue is about living a good life and not having their money stolen by criminal demagogues posing as sanctimonious philosophers.

Their issue is honesty.

The middle of the American political spectrum, totally ignored by the corporate spin machine under the assumption that “to go along to get along” is the political philosophy of choice for most of its listeners, is becoming radicalized over the issue of honesty. Under the media’s very noses. That’s delicious.

Look under that rock in the middle of the road. Why it’s Bill Moyers, sonafagun, and he’s saying the president should be in jail. Naw, I must not have heard that right.

Mothers with sons dead in Iraq are at the center of this community cyclone. They are surrounded by many millions of thoughtful Americans who question why President Bush didn’t permit a thoroughly and openly professional investigation — just what they’d do for any routine airplane crash in which people were killed — on September 11, 2001.

Who question why the evidence was carted away unexamined, and why New York firemen were told to clam up, or they would lose their jobs.

Who question why the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem to have been planned BEFORE 9/11 — yet later explained away as being conducted BECAUSE of 9/11.

Who question why their sons and daughters conducted the most horribly demented sexual experiments on their Iraqi prisoners, including little boys, some of whom were raped and killed. Did you see where Donald Rumsfeld testified before Congress that the new pictures from Abu Ghraib prison, where U.S. troops torture Iraqi captives with electrical wires in their anuses, were simply too terrible to look at, and we should just forget the whole thing?

Who question why Donald Rumsfeld created his own terror squads to go into Iraq and foment violence, in order, he said, to identify who the REAL TERRORISTS really are. The imbedded press, of course, forgot to keep of track of what they were doing. How many American adolescents have been killed by Rumsfeld’s special fomenting squads, trying to draw those rascally terrorists out of their hideouts? That’s exactly how the Fallujah massacre began.

Who question why Fallujah, the most hellacious and despicable war crime of the new century, was allowed to happen, and then the American people were prevented from seeing it or from hearing about it. We got to see Michael Jackson instead.

The people asking the right questions are ordinary people, with no particular political persuasion except live and let live.

I’ve been waiting for a long time for someone to come along and produce what I call (and the phrase is an important one to remember, in this age of spin) a COHERENT MEME about 9/11, which is the key to really understanding America’s role in the devolution of society and its plundering of the planet.

A coherent meme.

And wouldn’t you know, two average citizens — one a retired Bush administration official, for God’s sake; and the other, a shy professor of theology at an obscure West Coast college — were, amid the American public’s terrified silence during 2002 and the following years, able to logically and dispassionately ferret out the significant facts from among the panicky shrieks and emotional invective of the first wave of 9/11 skeptics, and state clearly and unambiguously to the general public that — well, I hope this isn’t the first time you’ve heard this, because it surely will not be the last — 9/11 was an inside job.

Same story with 7/7 and all those terror bombings in between.

What is the coherent meme in all this, you ask?

Well, let’s listen to what these two unprepossessing men, both accomplished professionals recognized in their fields with what you might say are national reputations, or at least as respectable high-achievers in their jobs, actually had to say.

They are Morgan Reynolds and David Ray Griffin.

Reynolds is so Republican he was chief economist in the Bush the Lamer’s first term. But we should never make the mistake of thinking everybody in the government is a money grubbing perv — even though the topmost leaders all may be that, and worse. Listen to Reynolds ....

It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis will not likely prove to be sound. Revised engineering and construction practices, for example, based on the belief that the twin towers collapsed through airplane damage and subsequent fires is premature, to say the least.

More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would follow if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded the WTC. If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an "inside job" and a government attack on America would be compelling. Meanwhile, the job of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers everywhere is to get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9/11 right, "though heaven should fall." Unfortunately, getting it right in today’s "security state" demands daring because explosives and structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9/11.

If you’re really interested in what really happened on 9/11/2001, you should savor Reynolds’ entire latest take on the subject at http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html

So what is the coherent meme that ordinary people can whisper to their neighbors that was stated unequivocally by this retired professor from Texas A&M? This radical!

Erroneous engineering analysis. Experts intimidated. Planes and fires couldn’t have knocked down the towers. Likely conclusion? Inside job.

Maybe the paranoid and corrupt U.S. government should begin targeting respectable white-haired college professors instead of innocent Muslim men, because Griffin, another retired professor (from Claremont School of Theology) has done more damage to the criminal syndicate in Washington than any Islamic enthusiast could ever hope to do.

Griffin’s book ....

The New Pearl Harbor reported evidence that at least six of the alleged hijackers are still alive. David Harrison of the Telegraph interviewed two of the men who supposedly died on Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, one of whom said that he "had never even heard of Pennsylvania," let alone died there. The Associated Press reported that Waleed al-Shehri, supposedly on Flight 11, contacted the U.S. embassy in Morocco about two weeks after 9/11. The 9/11 Commission Report, nevertheless, suggested that al-Shehri was responsible for stabbing one of the flight attendants shortly before Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.

The New Pearl Harbor cited reports that although Mohamed Atta, the supposed ringleader, had been portrayed as a devout Muslim ready to meet his maker, he actually loved alcohol, pork, and lap dances. Zelikow’s commission, however, said that Atta had become "fanatically" religious. They also claimed that they could find no credible explanation as to why Atta and the other hijackers went to Las Vegas. The mainstream press has let the Commission get away with these obvious contradictions ....

Another big question created by the official story is how the hijackers, by crashing planes into the Twin Towers, caused them and Building 7 to collapse. One problem is that Building 7 was not struck by an airplane, and steel-frame buildings had never before been caused to collapse by fire alone, even when the fires had been much bigger, hotter, and longer-lasting. The Commission avoided this problem by simply not mentioning this fact or even, incredibly, that Building 7 collapsed.

The 9/11 Commission Report failed to mention that WTC7 collapsed. Hmm.

Another problem, which I mentioned earlier, is that the collapses had all the standard features of controlled demolitions. For example, all three buildings came down at virtually free-fall speed. The Commission even alluded to this feature, saying that the "South Tower collapsed in 10 seconds." But it never explained how fire plus the impact of an airplane could have produced such a collapse.

Controlled demolition was also suggested by the fact that the collapses were total, with the 110-story Twin Towers collapsing into a pile of rubble only a few stories high. The core of each tower had consisted of 47 massive steel columns, which extended from the basements through the roofs. Even if we ignore all the other problems in the official "pancake" theory of the collapses, those massive steel columns should have still been sticking up a thousand feet in the air. Zelikow’s commission handled this problem with the audacious claim that "[t]he interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel shaft."

The Commission said the WTC cores were hollow. Hmm.

Another example: Breaking those massive steel columns would have required very powerful explosives. Many survivors of the towers have reported hearing and feeling explosions. But the 9/11 Commission failed to mention any of these reports. William Rodriguez told the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors about feeling and hearing a huge explosion in the sub-basement of the North Tower, then rescuing people from its effects, but neither his name nor any of his testimony is found in Zelikow’s final report

In any case, as these illustrations show, the 9/11 Commission, which had the opportunity to rebut the prima facie case against the Bush administration, failed to do so. This means that the publication of The 9/11 Commission Report needs to be recognized as a decisive event, because it was the moment at which the prima facie case against the Bush administration became a conclusive case.

What we need now is a press that will let the American people in on this development---which is most important, given the fact that the official story about 9/11 has provided the pretext for virtually every other horrible thing this administration has done.

Do I hear a coherent meme?

The government and corporate media are covering up the truth. The so-called hijackers remain unidentified and unconfirmed. The Commission didn’t conduct a real investigation. Why do you think that was?

Hmm. Reynolds and Griffin. Old guys. Members of the establishment.

These guys are radicals, and you know why? They’re trying to tell you the truth, and most of you refuse to hear it. You’re so enamored of your so-called security, and so terrified of losing your meager income, that you will permit all manner of depravity and false witness. You will go to sleep at night counting your money, but you won’t count the innocent dead bodies who have been murdered in your name. That’s about the size of it.

Except for one more quintessential, sterling example of radical. Of people we should emulate.

Cindy Sheehan. Whose son Casey died in Iraq. Who has been at the forefront of trying to alert the American people that her son died for a lie, for a whole series of lies, and people are still dying for these lies.

Once she was just an ordinary mom. Then Bush’s lies took her son away, along with the lives of some 10,000 Americans and 140,000 Iraqi women and children in only two years. Plus ruining countless other lives. That’s Dubya’s legacy, along with a host of other barbaric and inhumane deeds, including the theft of trillions of dollars stolen from you and me and funneled to his corrupt corporate cronies.
(It really is an effective formula for radicalizing the middle class.)

At this moment as I write, Cindy Sheehan is standing by the side of the road in Crawford, Texas, demanding to speak to President Bush. I just saw her on CNN, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Israeli anchorman.

She told Blitzer about the first meeting she had with Bush, when the jovial president came into the room telling jokes and then consoling Cindy for the loss of “her loved one.”

“He didn’t even know my son’s name,” Cindy told the squirming Blitzer. “And I’m here until he comes out and talks to me.” Sheehan told CNN that Bush’s “misguided policy” is going to cost a lot more mothers their sons unless the war is stopped now.

The call has gone out around the world for ordinary people, musicians, and the news media to converge on Crawford to hear Cindy’s story and witness Bush’s response. For more information check out http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7418 and check the other stories on that delightful site while you’re there.

So ... now you know that Homeland Security should be concentrating on suppressing American mothers who have lost their sons to lies in Iraq.

White-haired college professors and ordinary middle-class mothers .... these are the new radicals. Will Bush and his criminal sycophants come up with a new policy to make corporate America safe from them, because they are the real threat to the people in power?

Ah, the new America. Imprisoned minds exploited by unscrupulous killers. But the middle class radicals are emerging. And their single overriding issue is honesty.

So I looked at that bizarre e-mail again ...

Overthrow
all the governments
all at once

International criminal syndicate
has taken control of world’s money;
honest citizens must prevent
them from destroying the world;
Lennon was right:
all borders are bogus.
Is there any reason
we can’t have an honest world?

... and suddenly it didn’t seem so radical to me anymore.

Oh, I know, it’s presumptuous of me to speak for people in other nations of the world, yammering Yankee dog that I am. And for sure Americans seem to be unable to clean up their own act, their unstoppable murder machine sweeping around the world.

But Bush, repulsive and without redeeming social value as he is, is still only a symptom. The real disease is systemic.

And until that truth is addressed, Cindy will be left crying on the side of the road, principled white-haired grandfathers and grandmothers will become the new targets of persecution, and young boys and girls will keep dying needlessly.

Unless, of course, we take the advice of that strange e-mail, and stop this self-destructive foolishness right now.

Any chance you can honestly respond, or are you too scared? Remember the coherent memes. It’s up to you now.

As I said almost two years ago <http://www.serendipity.li/wot/arrest_bush_now.htm>, arrest the president now, and along with him his hellish herd of homicidal harlots. You clearly see what the future holds if we don’t.


John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida whose Internet essays are seen on hundreds of websites around the world. They have been collected into two anthologies, “America’s Autopsy Report” and “The Perfect Enemy.” In addition, he has written “The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn’t Believe the Official Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001,” which explains why the government’s version of that tragic day is a lie. Due out soon are a third collection of essays, titled “Recipe for Extinction,” and a new chapbook on belief systems, titled “The Prison of God.” For more information and announcement of release dates, keep track of http://www.johnkaminski.com/

[xmasdale]

I totally agree we need broad coalitions for peace and freedom of which the 9/11 Truth Movement should be a part.

Tolerance of each other's various approaches is the key and makes a stark contrast with the culture of fear and intolerance currently being engendered.


So don't look to some mythical leadership to organise it. We have to do it ourselves.

United we stand...

Noel

[Akbal13]

Birnberg Peirce & Partners press statement

Posted on Medianews by Neil H on August 11, 2005, 2:11 pm
User logged in as: Neil H
Press Statement - Birnberg Peirce & Partners Solicitors

This morning a number of individuals we represent were taken from their addresses. All of these were individuals whom the Home Office had agreed were appropriate to be granted bail. We were not notified by the Home Office of these arrests. Those who have families contacted us immediately through their families. So far as those who do not, we have been forced to speculate; one single man we know was seized from the psychiatric hospital where he has been an inpatient since his release from detention under the discredited 2001 Anti Terrorism Crime and Security Act. Of those likely to have been arrested today, five are the subject of serious psychiatric concern as a result of the damage each was caused by his previous indefinite detention. Despite the Home Office knowing that those individuals were legally represented, and by whom, we were provided with no information for hours as to their identity, since when all the individuals have disappeared. No legal access has been provided. Some families were told that they were being taken to Woodhill prison. We were refused all access by Woodhill prison and now understand informally that the individuals taken there have been moved again, possibly separately to destinations unknown. This is the precise scenario of arrest and thereafter depravation of access to lawyers that occurred for the same men when they were seized in December 2001. The Home Office undertook then that the same would never happen again.

We will be making a second statement later today when we have seen the basis claimed by the Home Office for these arrests

[truthseeker]

Dear Akbal

Like Ian, also I totally agree that this country and the world needs such a runitedainbow coalition based on common principles and a common vision

Values such as ....

truth and transparency
disclosure
accountability in public life

I also fully agree with Ian's other comments about taking care as to how that is done,

Best wishes,

Truthseeker

[Akbal13]

Question is: what can we all do to persuade others to get it going? What can we do ourselves to build a movement which is at present desperately lacking? Can we have a discussion on this to see what needs to be done?

(Of course, I mean over and above what a lot of good folk are already doing on the 911 issue...)

Eg: I recently tried to email Stop the War groups on this topic ... only to discover that most of them appear to be defunct. So, in what manner can we start again?