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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 08:45 AM
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We Are Being Set Up: The Manchurian Nation
MODS: Original article grants permission for full reprint.

http://guvwurld.blogspot.com/2005/10/we-are-being-set-up-manchurian-nation.html

We Are Being Set Up: The Manchurian Nation

I recently read Michel Chossudovsky's 6/7/05 article for the Center For Research on Globalization called ""Orwellian "Scenarios": Emergency Preparedness against the "Universal Adversary"." This is an analysis of a leaked report by the Homeland Security Council:
A recent Report of the Homeland Security Council entitled Planning Scenarios describes in minute detail, the Bush administration's preparations in the case of a terrorist attack by an outside enemy called the Universal Adversary (UA).

The Universal Adversary, is identified in the scenarios as an abstract entity used for the purposes of simulation. Yet upon more careful examination, this Universal Adversary is by no means illusory. It includes the following categories of potential "conspirators":
*"foreign (Islamic) terrorists",
*"domestic radical groups", (antiwar and civil rights groups)
*"state sponsored adversaries" ("rogue states", "unstable nations")
*"disgruntled employees" (labor and union activists).
According to the Planning Scenarios Report:
"Because the attacks could be caused by foreign terrorists; domestic radical groups; state sponsored adversaries; or in some cases, disgruntled employees, the perpetrator has been named, the Universal Adversary (UA). The focus of the scenarios is on response capabilities and needs, not threat-based prevention activities." (See Planning Scenarios)
The domestic radical groups and labor activists, which visibly constitute a threat to the established political order, are now conveniently lumped together with foreign Islamic terrorists, suggesting that the PATRIOT anti-terror laws together with the Big Brother law enforcement apparatus are eventually intended to be used against potential domestic "adversaries".

While the Universal Adversary is "make-believe", the simulations constitute a dress rehearsal of a real life emergency situation:
"The scenarios have been developed in a way that allows them to be adapted to local conditions throughout the country."
Chossudovsky describes who is involved in the conduct of these exercises and what are some of the implications:
These fabricated realities penetrate the inner-consciousness of key decision makers. The reality model script molds the behavior of public officials, it builds a "knowledge" and "understanding", namely a shared ignorance regarding the war on terrorism and the "adversaries" who oppose the administration's war and homeland security agendas.

(snip)

The "Scenarios" were developed for "Use in National, Federal, State and Local Homeland Security Preparedness". They instill in public and private sector officials and participants a sense of responsibility, duty and awareness in relation to something which is ultimately fictitious.

The "scenarios" and anti-terrorist exercises develop observance and compliance by public officials, law enforcement, intelligence, military and civilian federal and State employees, etc.

Moreover, the scenarios also envisage the circumstances under which Martial Law could be triggered in the case of a threat by the Universal Adversary. In other words, fake intelligence could indeed be used to trigger a martial law situation in America, much in the same way as (deja vu) fake intelligence was used "to fit the policy" of invading Iraq, as revealed in the controversial Downing Street Secret Memo.
Last month, just prior to attending the National Summit to Save Our Elections, I posted a white paper called Blueprint For Peaceful Revolution. The paper describes many ways that inherent uncertainty is created, resulting in a rift in the perception of reality. The government intentionally creates this divide to facilitate consolidation of power and control - as long as We The People fight amongst ourselves, we won't unite in non-violent revolution.

Rather than a culture war, or red states and blue states, I see a Cold Civil War occurring between the reality-based community and the faith-based community (where faith-based has no religious connotation, instead referring to those who accept the official line unquestioningly, on faith). Chossudovsky's analysis strongly supports this paradigm by exposing the "reality models" actually used to condition and indoctrinate many establishment members into the faith-based community.

So two powerful realizations overtook me as I read this article. The first is what I've been describing: my own analysis has even more supporting evidence than I realized. The other thought referred me back to the first-ever post in the GuvWurld Blog:
American democracy empowers leaders through the consent of the governed. Who is willing to consent to elections where the preparation consists of making sure the will of the people will be reasonably called into question? We can see the setup from a mile away - the so-called opponents are "debating" the rules of their contest. This is simulated competition, in the grand tradition of professional wrestling and the Harlem Globetrotters.
I added the emphasis because Chossudovsky's article again gave me the inescapable sense that we are being set up. It goes far beyond the dangerous and violent corruption of any powerful individuals, and even surpasses the recklessness of rogue factions such as the PNAC. As Chossudovsky describes labeling peaceful protesters as terrorists, initiating actions based on fake intelligence, and the overall brainwashing needed for mass buy-in, the wholly manufactured existence of the faith-based community reveals we have become the Manchurian Nation.

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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 08:58 AM
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1. How totally creepy!
It reads so much like "1984." I hope Fitz can bring down or seriously weaken this regime before it's too late.
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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:14 AM
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2. It's going to take more than just Fitzgerald to take down this
junta - we need everybody in the reality-based community working on this.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:19 AM
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4. Thanks for the reminder.
We each have to do our part. Keep writing letters, protesting, voting, contributing, making calls, and anything else you can do.
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petgoat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 01:32 PM
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10. We each have to do our part.
We need to avoid the temptation to relax and wait for Fitz to do the job
for us. It appears that he's been around the world of FBI
informants/terrorists before in his prosecution of the Blind Sheikh for
the '93 WTC bombing and his more recent negotiation of the plea bargain
of Ali Mohamed with respect to his connections to the African embassy
bombings.

Has his experience with these things made him angry? Fearful? Complicit?
Is Scooter just taking the fall? If Rove has been allowed to correct
some misunderstandings regarding his earlier testimony, is Scooter's
failure to do so deliberate?

Let's hope for the best from Fitz, but let's prepare for the worst and
keep on working on plans B, C, D....

And don't forget Plan X!

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:14 AM
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3. But on the Bright Side of things...
BushCo Homeland Experts (BHE) have announced that Choco-rations may be increased 2 mg. per citizen-consumer unit (CCU) in one of the quarters next year, or possibly in 2007.

Big BushCo loves you.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 10:34 AM
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29. Indeed. Grimly funny.
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:23 AM
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5. Labor activists? If there is any doubt that Corporate Feudalism is where
we are now, I don't know why.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:58 AM
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6. Proles for Corporate Feudalism - a new Special Interest group
Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 09:58 AM by SpiralHawk
lavishly funded by BushCo Brand New World Order.

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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 11:56 AM
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7. EXPOSE THE 9/11 HOAX!
That's the only way we're going to put a dint in this agenda.

It is ALL supported by the false belief that we were attacked by 'terrorists' on 9/11. They have gotten away with mass murder and if we continue to let them, it will only get worse. MUCH worse.
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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 01:01 PM
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9. Right on! - That hoax is the basis for all the crimes
they have committed since.
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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 12:55 PM
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8. We are already there
For a most recent example, Katrina, wanted Marshall Law, didn't get it completly, but the funding that went to the churches, and they are still getting more. It's scarey to believe that this is happenings. Lock step.
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auagroach Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:11 AM
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40. martial law not Marshall Law
n/t
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Christophera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-31-05 09:17 PM
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11. Great Post- Group Behavior: "Lord Of The Flies" & The Deceptive Bully
What we see controlling behaviors today is the reptilian mind, more and more. Fear is of the reptilian instinct base. The bully child in control of the pack that supports the bully because of their fear of losing acceptance by the group that controls the secret world government without rational expression. It also controls most Americans.

Clearly those controlled by the reptilian instincts, in control of political and corporate powers, are rallying and drawing together, helpless to their unconscious fear and massive dissociations. This "set up" is but the next level of active and forming policy meted out by agencies that "the people" will be subjected to.

It's only happening because the people have entertained a number of irrational fears and now fear the knowledge they need to retain their lives, freedom, security and futures.

The policies forming are extensions and reciprocal to a larger plan that implements/controls/empowers events, (ie. pnac & 9-11) the "UA" un named, the terrorists within, has already implemented a threshold of fear with 9-11. Now dynamics of our social fears, thoroughly un reasonable, disable us from co operating and intervening in the "scenarios", or the current developments leading to them. Those fears proliferate through media and alter our society and culture.

9-11 is the key, if there ever was one. Time to forget our differences and think about what we share.
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 05:58 AM
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33. Whenever there is an act of political violence or domestic terrorism...
ask yourself which "arm of the octopus" may be responsible. This may not always be the case, but we should openly discuss the possibilities while we have the ability. For example, if student groups protesting campus recruitment may have been coerced into performing destructive acts such as slashing the recruiters' tires, ask yourself: did any of the ringleaders have possible ties to campus Republicans? This type of thinking may get somewhere.
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 12:36 AM
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12. Related Reading
I have pulled the Manchurian theme through several more postings at the GuvWurld blog since this thread started.


World Can't Wait (Re-Cap) - 11/7/05
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com/2005/11/world-cant-wait-re-cap.html

Hypothetical Occupation of America - 11/9/05
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com/2005/11/hypothetical-occupation-of-america.html

GuvWurld Joins Call for Media Coverage of Month-Old GAO Report - 11/17/05
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com/2005/11/guvwurld-joins-call-for-media-coverage.html
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 11:26 AM
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13. please post at DU General Discussion
I'd like to see the responses there.
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 12:42 PM
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14. It was posted there but mods moved to 9/11 (eom)
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mikelewis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 11:21 PM
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25. See no 9/11, hear no 9/11, speak no 9/11...
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 06:08 PM
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15. I tried to find out why this thread was moved...
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 06:34 PM
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16. No surprise
DU law. I would be curious about an answer if you asked privately.
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JackieO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 06:53 PM
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18. do you know which rule it broke
by posting there?
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:46 PM
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21. I think you always have to question mods privately (eom)
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JackieO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 09:47 PM
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23. I mean your original post of the article in GD
not the post questioning its removal

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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 10:28 PM
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24. No, I don't think it was a rules violation
I've heard others grumble about threads shunted to obscurity in the 9/11 forum. I don't think there is a rule about it but mods may have some loosely-based understanding of what they'd like to keep out of the general areas. I look forward to hearing the reason it was moved.
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JackieO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 01:08 AM
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28. I don't think it was either
and seeing as the post doesn't even refer to September 11, I'm wondering why it was dumped in here.

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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 11:42 AM
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26. no more public scrutiny of a mod's decisions.
Edited on Mon Nov-28-05 11:42 AM by rman
good thing DU is not the government.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:45 AM
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41. You're supposed to ask the mods / admin directly
via email.

Just don't hold your breath while waiting for a reply.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 06:50 PM
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17. More people need to read this!
Edited on Sun Nov-27-05 06:53 PM by TheGoldenRule
The only reason I saw it is because someone posted about it in GD today...

Makes me feel like by the time the country wakes up it will be too damn late! :scared:
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:45 PM
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20. Link?
Could you please post the link to the thread in GD talking about this?
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 08:07 PM
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22. Sorry, the one chat_noir posted-couldn't remember the correct name
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-27-05 07:33 PM
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19. just sent an email to

admin@democraticunderground.com

Will advise when I receive a response.
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Rich Hunt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-28-05 08:01 PM
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27. how come?
Edited on Mon Nov-28-05 08:03 PM by Rich Hunt
How come they never list far-right groups and other verifiable domestic extremist groups on these lists (like, say, religious extremists)?

I saw a good documentary on Oklahoma City and Terry Nichols this weekend, and that's why I'm asking. How can people forget Oklahoma City? Remember when people were really afraid of the far right? I was living in Nebraska at the time - we had Oklahoma City and then we had some nutty pipe bomber going around...how things change, how the 'enemy' changes.

And how about 'reality-based' community versus 'fanaticism-based community', since many religious people might take justifiable offense to that? Since these things always have unrelenting fanaticism at their source, no matter who the perpetrator is.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 10:35 AM
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30. I very much fear you are right.
but people are far too comfortable to do anything about this until it is too late.
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:01 AM
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31. Kick (eom)
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 04:43 AM
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32. Kick (eom)
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MellowOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-18-06 11:41 AM
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34. Excellent point
"as long as We The People fight amongst ourselves, we won't unite in non-violent revolution."

I'd like to add, evil can prevail as long as good men do nothing.

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-18-06 08:49 PM
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35. kick for good measure
And this thread really should be allowed in GD
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 04:43 PM
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36. Kicking for my new DU journal (eom)
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 06:08 PM
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37. I'm bookmarking your new DU Journal - great article my friend! n/t
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Jose Diablo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 12:25 PM
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38. Yeah, I kinda think this is an interesting conjecture also
All I can say is if they want me, I'm right here. Never ran before, nor will I in the future.

Like Bu$h says, 'Your either for me or against me'. Well Mr. Bu$h, I won't call you president because you never won any election they were fixed, just like your coward poppa fixed all your 'achievement'. You want a piece of me, well I am right here. And I am for sure against you and all your corn fed poseur Republican buddies.

Don't be late.
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-15-06 03:01 PM
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39. Thanks file83, Jose...here's a little more
A lot of what I write now can be traced back to this OP, at least tangentially. I've posted links to the more direct works above and will be writing at least one more piece focused on this in the near future. This letter to the editor belongs in this same genre as well...

Published 3/6/06

http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=9028

Dear Editor,

RE: Area residents question what Bush knew about hurricane, 3/4/2006.

During and immediately after Katrina, as we all watched in horror and disgust, there was a very clear and strong sense that we have to protect ourselves from our government. They had not only failed us, they repeatedly took proactive steps to prevent recovery and assistance from reaching those in need. For many of us, this was only a reminder of what we already knew. For others, it was a wake up call.

Katrina, as a unique weather phenomenon, was hardly the first sign that we need to protect ourselves from our government. We should know this from the way global warming and peak oil are ignored. From the threat of jail without charges or access to an attorney. Because peace organizations are infiltrated and spied upon, and protests are forced into “free speech zones.” In the name of the U.S., torture is conducted at secret prisons. Warrantless wiretapping. 9/11.

If we are supposed to fear terrorism, let us clearly identify it. Those who hate our freedoms are those who sign legislation to restrict or cancel them. Those who inflict terror are those who have repeatedly ignored warnings before failing to protect us. The recently released videotape did not “allegedly” show Bush was warned. It showed Bush being warned and gave lie to his absurd claim that no one could have imagined the levees failing. Just like no one could have imagined planes flying into buildings while training exercises were being conducted on that exact scenario.

Fascism is a formula, a recognizable pattern that gradually engulfs a society. It is so blatant that it can’t be seen only when the media distorts reality by maintaining illusions of normalcy and by perpetuating the myths of democracy, capitalism, free speech, free markets and free press.

We do not consent. Support the truth.

Dave Berman
Eureka
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GuvWurld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 12:23 AM
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42. This essay will be in my new e-book
On Monday I am launching We Do Not Consent, a GuvWurld e-book. More details...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x739801
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