Julian Assange, Tariq Aziz, a Death Sentence and the United Nations Day of International Human Rights

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Global Research

" ... the high praise of God in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand ..." (Psalms : 149.5) The avalanche of proof provided by Wikileaks that the U.S., and U.K., governments have been indulging in what millions have been convinced of for a very long time: just about every kind of underhand, lying, cheating, muderous skulduggery, with quite an enlightening amount of sneering and back biting towards their "allies." Predictably, they are now moving heaven and earth to shoot the messenger. If every government Minister who had allegedly indulged in a frolic with a couple of ladies had an international arrest warrant issued against him, as in the case of Julian Assange, there would be some pretty empty parliaments. In Canada, Professor Tom Flanagan, a former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, went further, proposing that assassination was appropriate. Speaking on CBC., he suggested that President "Nobel" Obama should: “put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something.” When the programme's anchor suggested this was :"... pretty harsh stuff", Flanagan responded that he was: "... feeling very manly today." Is there a doctor out there? In the U.S., former Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee and ex-Pentagon official Kathleen McFarland, called for the execution of those responsible. McFarland, comes from the Reagan, Weinberger, Kissinger stable of "manly" stallions, having worked in a key position for the former, been a speech writer for the second and a key member of the latter's National Security Council staff. Huckabee is former Governor of Arkansas, now host on Fox News and a Baptist Minister - clearly of Old Testament, hellfire and damnation persuasion. For Afghanistan and Iraq watchers, many Wiki revelations will be less than surprising, as indeed for those warily watching U.S., threats towards Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere. What is gratifying is that there is now the substance to the lethal lies. The informed can no longer be dismissed as "conspiracy theorists", "fantasists" and the endless other dismissives that knowledgeable realists have been designated. The truth is there, in the the cables - to continue with equestrian metaphors - from the horses' mouths, so to speak. Interestingly, countless words and inestimable time have been wasted on Assanage's and Wikileaks motives.Who cares? An invaluable light has been shone on untruths and deceptions. Such as have led to the destruction of two countries in the name of redemption from despotic rule and human rights violations. Now, in the name of this U.S., U.K., led carnage, is despotism and human rights violations of towering proportions. Since it is still not known how many are in Iraq's prisons and indeed, even how many secret prisons and concentration camps (i) there are under U.S., continued occupation (by another name) another reminder of the invasion's lawless world. Just one of the uncounted, incarcerated in Iraq, either untried, or tried on lies and unsubstantiated charges, in what is now a western established rogue state, complete with "disappeared", in their thousands, kangaroo courts at best, or of a standard, woefully, even lower. Early on after the coup, USA Today (3rd May 2003) ran a piece headed: "Aziz still doesn't know how to tell the truth." Speaking in Crawford, Texas: "President Bush expressed unshakable confidence Saturday about finding banned weapons in Iraq and complained that Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein's closest deputies, is not cooperating with U.S. forces who have him in custody. Bush said the deputy Prime Minister, the most visible face of the former Iraqi government, other than Saddam, 'still doesn't know how to tell the truth.' " Aziz had repeated that Iraq had no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons - a truth that had been delivered in 12,200 pages to the United Nations weapons inspectors the previous December and hi-jacked by U.S., officials. Tareq Aziz, said Bush: " ... didn't know how to tell the truth when he was in office, he doesn't know how to tell the truth as a captive." We have long known who was telling the truth. As the eighth Christmas of his incarceration approaches, with the latest death penalty - handed down on 26th October - stalking his every hour, the liars responsible for the Iraq pogroms walk free and appeals to Aziz's fellow Christians, in high places, including Archbishops, the Pope and politicians, have been met with deafening silence. "Thou shat not kill", seems to be very selective in Christianity. An ailing, indomitable man, who travelled to Rome, to ask for help once before, of the last Pope, believing that perhaps unity in faith, would persuade Vatican intervention to prevent the destruction of Iraq and its people, the country where believers acknowledge Abraham fathered Christianity, Judaism and Islam at Ur. The church was as silent and unresponsive, then as now. Tareq Aziz faces the death penalty for one reason, he knows the truth about the liars and lies. He knows the details of the countless pages that were also removed from the back of the 12,200 pages, listing the countries and companies which sold weapons to Iraq, before facilities were destroyed by bombing in 1991, the subsequent halting by Saddam Hussein of a weapons production programme (ii) and the destruction of any residual remaining, by the weapons inspectors. There are parallels in the West's fundamentalist fatwa's against Tariq Aziz and Julian Assange, though worlds apart : both have spoken the truth. Supremely ironically, the original 2006 "trial", which resulted in the shameful, unforgettable lynching of Saddam Hussein and his colleagues, at which Aziz was also first condemned, was judged "fundamentally flawed", in a damning, ninety seven page Report (iii) by Human Rights Watch, who had consistently called for the trial, related to the deaths of those who attempted to assassinate Hussein and Aziz, in Dujail, south Iraq, in 1982. The verdict was "unsound", with the Court: "failing to meet basic fair trial standards. Unless the Iraqi government allows experienced international judges and lawyers to participate directly, it is unlikely the Court can fairly conduct other trials", it concluded, pointing out that the death penalty was "an inherently inhumane punishment." In the light of this perhaps the United Nations might step in? Iraq was one of the earliest signatories to the United Nations Declaration, signing the day after the document was drafted and signed by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov of the USSR., and T.V. Soong of China, on New Year's Day 1942. Iraq was the fourth signature of the twenty two nations who endorsed the document the following day. But Iraq has long been betrayed by the U.N., and its fine words. Thirteen years of a crippling siege in its name, under near-mute Secretary Generals. The last one, Kofi Annan (yet another utterly unworthy Nobel Peace Prize winner) then took seven months to finally say, after some pressure from the interviewer, that the Iraq invasion was "illegal." South Korea's Ban, has done nothing to redress a woefully discredited body, so far removed from its towering stated aims. In the U.K., others who have been appealed to for clemency for Tareq Aziz, his colleagues and the nameless, uncounted disappeared in Iraq, include Middle East "Peace Envoy" aka illegal invasion enjoiner, fellow very publicly professed Christian, Tony Blair. On the 21st February 1994, when Shadow Home Secretary, Blair told Parliament he was adamantly against the death penalty. He is currently adamantly silent. William Hague, now Foreign Secretary, has been approached by a number of people, a minion answers letters weeks late, on a matter of life and death and says Iraq is a "sovereign state." International lawyers disagree, one commenting succinctly: "Basically, Iraq is an occupied country, with the U.S., in actual control." Britain is thus in a position, as partner in the illegal invasion, to demand, publicly, that the executions are halted. Worth a try, but on 21st March 2001, Hague, then Conservative Leader, stated that he supported the death penalty, had always been in favour and had voted for it every time it was debated in Parliament. Slightly at odds with his address at Lincoln's Inn, the core of the UK's legal establishment, on 15th September this year, where he stated: "Our standing is directly linked to the belief of others that we will do what we say and that we will not apply double standards." Further: "Where problems have arisen that have affected the UK's moral standing we will deal with them patiently and clearly." Three years earlier, at the launch of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission's Annual Report on 10th December 2007, International Human Rights Day, he stated: “I have pledged several times that the next Conservative Government will put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. As I have said before, I believe we must conduct our foreign policy in a way that does not deviate from our values; central to which is a deeply-held belief in the primacy and inviolability of individual human rights. And on this International Human Rights Day, I hope that we can all work for the day when human rights are regarded by everyone as truly universal.” Work out all those contradictions, dear reader. Another approached has been Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. On 26th., November, he held a special Mass at Westminster Cathedral for all killed or injured in Iraq in recent weeks, especially those who suffered and died during the bombing of Our Lady of Salvation Church, in Baghdad on 31st., October. It also provided an opportunity for the Christian community in Britain to show their solidarity with, and to pray for, their brothers and sisters who are currently being persecuted and threatened by Islamists in Iraq, stated the Cathedral website. The "Islamists" in Iraq of the extreme persuasion, came in to a secular country with the invasion, are entirely U.S.,-U.K., planted and are now in "government" and the "security" services. Many are of the same fundamentalist Dawa Party who attempted assassination of Hussein and Aziz, in 1982. Ironically, the Mass was: " ... attended by the Iraqi Chargé d'Affaires to the UK ...", part of the Vichy regime which has brought such unimaginable tragedy to Iraq. Archbishop Nichols, seemingly, does services and crocodile tears, for fellow Christians, tragically dead, but does not answer letters about them, when alive and facing impending death. (Westminster Cathedral is also where the man who bears so much responsibility for Iraq's dead, Tony Blair, was welcomed in to the Catholic fold in 2007.) Another who has been approached is Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, leader of the seventy million strong Anglican Church. As Archbishop of Wales, on the 57th Anniversary of Hiroshima (6th., August 2002) he was one of three thousand signatories on a document handed in to Downing Street, condemning the detailed war plans to remove Saddam Hussein as : "immoral and illegal." It also called for the U.S., and U.K., to open their nuclear, biological and chemical weapons facilities to U.N., weapons inspectors. In January 2002, he had called the attack on Afghanistan: "morally tainted" and "embarrassing." Since gaining an Office heading a vast church body which preaches peace, forgiveness and sanctity of life, he has joined the deaf, mute, and become unable to write, it would seem. A further woeful representative of the same Church, went to Baghdad in 1991, at the personal invitation of Tareq Aziz. He returned with the invaders' tanks. Canon Andrew White, former Middle East envoy to the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, has now dubbed himself the "Vicar of Baghdad." His bio makes interesting reading, with a host of honours from Israel and the U.S., Government Cross of Valour. In a recent interview, this man of God who travels Iraq, he says with 120 armed guards in armour plated vehicles, commented of his fellow Christians: "There is no comparison between Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) then and now. Things are more difficult than they have ever been before. Probably ever in history. They've never known it like now." Indeed, nether have Iraqis of all faiths, or none. Nevertheless, his intervention on behalf of one Christian, who welcomed him and introduced him to Iraq, is notable by its absence. Heaven forbid the funding, the bulk of which, he jokes, comes from the Pentagon, has come between him and his Christian conscience. A poignant plea for Tareq Aziz and his colleagues to a Papal envoy was made by a Muslim, with deeply held beliefs. At a recent international human rights conference, he approached the Pope's representative: "Father", he asked, where is the Pope, the Catholic Church? "You are the shepherds, he is one of your flock, lost and alone ..." The reply was less than a commitment. The tireless Paris based Committee for the Liberation of Political Prisoners in Iraq point out a glaring illegality in their petition for clemency (iv): "The capital punishement meted out, last October, to Tariq Aziz, Saadoun Shaker, Abed Hammoud, Sabawi Ibrahim and Abdel Ghani Abdel Ghaffour is illegal because this punishment (was) suspended by the Provisional Authority of the Coalition, between June 2003 and August 2004. The 'High Penal Court' of Iraq must therefore apply to their case the most favorable provision provided by the Iraqi Criminal Code as stipulated by International Law. The 'High Penal Court' must as well abide by an Iraqi Law that rules that people aged over 70 – as is the present affair- cannot be executed or are pardonned after their sentencing." Today is the United Nations Day of International Human Rights. Will they mark it by demanding adherence to Articles in their fine Declaration of Human Rights, for Julian Assange and the incarcerated of an invasion called "illegal" by their former Secretary General? Article 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person"; Article 5: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading treatment or punishment." No hope. So as Christmas approaches, with God's representatives on earth preparing their messages of goodwill and celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, a frail man, awaits his fate. At the beginning of November he wrote to his son, Ziad, asking that it be ensured that he be buried in Jordan, lest his body and grave be desecrated - and that his body be returned to his country: "after Iraq is liberated." A poignant irony from one who told me, in an interview before the looming invasion: "When I was ten years old, I was putting leaflets through doors, handing them out on the streets, to stop (western companies) taking over our oil. I will not give up on Iraq now." He never did. Except from beyond the grave. It will not have escaped him that Saddam Hussein was executed on 31st December. i. http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2010/11/iraqi-concentration-camp-exposed  ii. http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/index_en.php  iii. http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/11/19/iraq-dujail-trial-fundamentally-flawed  iv. Committee: http://0z.fr/Z3nHS  Petition: cldpi@gmx.com

Felicity Arbuthnot is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Felicity Arbuthnot

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America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship

Paul Craig Robert
Infowars.com
November 11, 2010

The United States Department of Justice (sic) routinely charges and convicts innocents with bogus and concocted  crimes that are not even on the statutes book. The distinguished defense attorney and civil libertarian, Harvey A. Silverglate, published a book last year, “Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent,” which conclusively proves that today in “freedom and democracy” America we have punishment without crime.

	Today the erroneous belief is widespread that the executive branch is supreme and that the other branches of government are less than equal.

This same Justice (sic) Department, which routinely frames and railroads the innocent, argued in Federal Court on November 8 that the US government, if approved by the president, could murder anyone it wishes, citizens or noncitizens, at will.  All that is required is that the government declare, without evidence, charges, trial, jury conviction or any of the due process required by the US Constitution, that the government suspects the murdered person or persons to be a “threat.”

The US Justice (sic) Department even told US Federal District Court Judge John Bates that the US judiciary, formerly a co-equal branch of government, has absolutely no legal authority whatsoever to stick its nose into President “Change” Obama’s decision to assassinate Americans. The unaccountability of the president’s decision to murder people is, the US Justice (sic) Department declared, one of “the very core powers of the president as commander in chief.”

The argument by the Justice (sic) Department that the executive branch has unreviewable authority to kill Americans, whom the executive branch has unilaterally, without presenting evidence, determined to pose a threat, was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center For Constitutional Rights.

The outcome of the case will determine whether the neoconservative and Israeli stooge, president George W. Bush, was correct when he said that the US Constitution was nothing but a “scrap of paper.”

It is my opinion that the American people and the US Constitution haven’t much chance of winning this case. The Republican Federalist Society has succeeded in appointing  many federal district, appeals and supreme court judges, who believe that the powers of the executive branch are superior to the powers of the legislature and judiciary. The Founding Fathers of our country declared unequivocally that the executive, legislative, and judicial branches were co-equal, However,  the Republican brownshirts who comprise the Federalist Society have implanted the society’s demonic ideology in the federal bench and Justice (sic) Department. Today the erroneous belief is widespread that the executive branch is supreme and that the other branches of government are less than equal.

If Americans have a greater enemy than neoconservatives, that enemy is the Federalist Society, a collection of incipient Nazis.

Disagree with me as you will, but now let’s look at this development from another perspective. I am old enough to remember the Nixon years, and I was a presidential appointee, confirmed by the US senate, in the Reagan administration. For those of you too young to know and those who are to old to remember, President Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment simply because Nixon lied about when he learned about the burglary of the Watergate office of the Democratic party.

Nixon lied about when he learned of the burglary, because he knew that the Washington Post would make an issue of the burglary, if he launched an investigation, to defeat  his re-election.  The military/security complex and the black ops groups in the US government were angry at Nixon for smoothing US-China relations. The Washington Post, long regarded as a CIA asset, hid behind its “liberal” image to bring Nixon down. Woodward and Bernstein wrote thriller-type reports of midnight meetings with “deep throat” in dangerous parking garages to get the scoop on the date of Nixon’s knowledge of the meaningless burglary.

Let’s assume that I have it all wrong. The fact remains that Nixon was driven from office because of the Watergate burglary.  No one was harmed. Nixon did not kill anyone or claim the right to kill, without proof or accountability, American citizens.  If the dastardly President Nixon had a Justice (sic) Department like the present one, he simply would have declared Woodward, Bernstein, and the Washington Post to be a threat and murdered them by merely exercising the power that the Obama administration is claiming.

Nixon might be too far in the past for most Americans, so let’s look at Ronald Reagan. The neoconservatives’ Iran/Contra scandal almost brought down President Reagan. It is unclear whether President Reagan knew about the neocon operation and, if he did, whether he was kept in the loop. But all of this aside, what do you think would have been President Reagan’s fate if he, or his Justice (sic) Department, had declared that Reagan had the power as commander in chief to murder anyone he considered to be a threat?

Instantly, the media would have been in an uproar, law schools and university faculties would have been in an uproar, the Democrats would have been demanding Reagan’s impeachment, and his impeachment would have occurred with the speed of light.

Today in Amerika, approximately 25 years later, the ACLU has to go to federal court in order to attempt to affirm that “if the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the president does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state.”

In reply, the Justice (sic) Department told the court that murdering American citizens is a “political question” that is not subject to judicial review. The “freedom and democracy” government then invoked the “state secrets privilege” and declared that the case against the government’s power to commit murder must be dismissed in order to avoid “the disclosure of sensitive information”

If the Obama Regime wins this case, the US will have become a dictatorship.

As far as I can tell, the “liberal media” and most Americans do not care. Indeed, conservative Republicans are cheering it on.

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.

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Targeting American Citizens: CIA Takes Global Murder Policy to Next Level

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 5, 2010

The father of the new Osama bin Laden, Nasser al-Awlaki, has initiated a lawsuit to prevent “extrajudicial killings” of his son and other officially designated enemies. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights were retained by the elder al-Awlaki.

In 1965, the CIA provided lists to the Indonesian military of people to be tortured and murdered. Between 500,000 and a million people perished after the abortive coup d’état.

In April, Obama targeted U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who is described as the clerical leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The cleric stands accused of contacting the suspect in the November shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, and the alleged underwear bomber. Anwar al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

In January, Clinton’s State Department officially designated al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as an enemy of the state. Obama later marked the cleric for death. “The designation was a recognition that al-Awlaki has risen in the ranks of anti-Western Islamic extremism and become a mortal enemy, a danger to America’s national security on a par with 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden,” USA Today explained.

As Webster Tarpley has noted, al-Awlaki represents “one of the premier terror impresarios of the age operating under Islamic fundamentalist cover.” More than a mere ideologue, al-Awlaki plays a vital role in the manufactured war against Muslim patsies and mental deficients the U.S. government has insisted for nearly a decade hate us for our freedom. “In particular, Awlaki and his work were used to motivate and encourage groups of mentally impaired and suggestible young dupes who were entrapped into ‘terrorist plots’ by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent years, thus keeping the boogey man of Islamic terrorism in the public eye,” writes Tarpley.

Awlaki and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have provided the U.S. government with a custom-made excuse to expand the bogus war against terror into Yemen and ultimately Africa.

“No U.S. citizen has ever been on the CIA’s target list, which mainly names Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden, according to current and former U.S. officials. But that is expected to change as CIA analysts compile a case against a Muslim cleric who was born in New Mexico but now resides in Yemen,” the Los Angeles Times reported in February.

It should come as no surprise the CIA has expanded its murder campaign to include Americans. The CIA has facilitated the mass murder of untold numbers of people since its inception as an integral part of the National Security State.

In the mid-60s, the agency “played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U.S. diplomats say,” Kathy Kadane wrote for the States News Service in 1990.

The CIA role “really was a big help to the [Indonesian] army. They probably killed a lot of people, and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad. There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment,” said Robert Martens, a former member of the U.S. Embassy’s political section in Jakarta, in 1990. Estimates of the total number of Indonesians murdered over a period of several years following an aborted coup range from 500,000 to one million.

Following the CIA-engineered ouster of democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954, tens of thousands of “politically suspect” Guatemalans were murdered with the eager assistance of the agency. “Not only did U.S. officials apparently give a death list to the Guatemalan military but even forced out of power Guatemalan officers who balked at the murder assignments,” writes Robert Parry.

In 1973, with the active participation of Henry Kissinger, the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile. Thousands of Chileans were tortured and killed, many fingered as “radicals” by lists provided by the CIA, notes Mark Zepezauer. Author Róbinson Rojasdocumented in The Murder of Allende how the CIA was actively involved in compiling lists of political leaders, journalists, union and community organizers to be arrested, tortured and murdered.

Former high-ranking CIA official John Stockton estimated in the 1980s that over 6 million people around the world were killed in CIA covert operations, a crime that approaches the atrocities perpetuated by Nazi Germany.

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“The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so,” said CCR Executive Director Vince Warren.

It has and it will and with the right mix or false flag terrorism and 24-7 corporate media propaganda the American people will enthusiastically support it.

“Public understanding of what it means to murder people because they inspire others, is thoroughly buffered by context: since 1990 in Iraq millions of Iraqi Muslim civilians have been killed, mothers, fathers, children, who showed no ill will against America,” writes J. B. Gerald. “The covert claim to absolute power over citizens of other countries, is now familiar enough for the CIA to allow surfacing of its hit list, not a new policy but the overt continuation of an old policy. It is publicly claiming the right of the American government to murder anyone.”

Including its own citizens.

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The Nazification of the United States

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
August 28, 2010

Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce one of the most important articles of our time, “Obama’s US Assassination Program.”

September 11 destroyed American liberty, the rule of law and the US Constitution.

It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FlSA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying.

Nothing was done about it. “National security” placed the president and executive branch above the law of the land. Civil libertarians worried that the US government was freeing its power from the constraints of law, but no one else seemed to care.

Encouraged by its success in breaking the law, the executive branch early this year announced that the Obama regime has given itself the right to murder Americans abroad if such Americans are considered a “threat.” “Threat” was not defined and, thus, a death sentence would be issued by a subjective decision of an unaccountable official.

There was hardly a peep out of the public or the media. Americans and the media were content for the government to summarily execute traitors and turncoats, and who better to identify traitors and turncoats than the government with all its spy programs.

The problem with this sort of thing is that once it starts, it doesn’t stop. As Norris reports citing Obama regime security officials, the next stage is to criminalize dissent and criticism of the government. The May 2010 National Security Strategy states: “We are now moving beyond traditional distinctions between homeland and national security. . . . This includes a determination to prevent terrorist attacks against the American people by fully coordinating the actions that we take abroad with the actions and precautions that we take at home.”

Most Americans will respond that the “indispensable” US government would never confuse an American exercising First Amendment rights with a terrorist or an enemy of the state. But, in fact, governments always have. Even one of our Founding Fathers, John Adams and the Federalist Party, had their “Alien and Sedition Acts” which targeted the Republican press.

Few with power can brook opposition or criticism, especially when it is a simple matter for those with power to sweep away constraints upon their power in the name of “national security.” Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan recently explained that more steps are being taken, because of the growing number of Americans who have been “captivated by extremist ideology or causes.” Notice that this phrasing goes beyond concern with Muslim terrorists.

In pursuit of hegemony over both the world and its own subjects, the US government is shutting down the First Amendment and turning criticism of the government into an act of “domestic extremism,” a capital crime punishable by execution, just as it was in Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia.

Initially German courts resisted Hitler’s illegal acts. Hitler got around the courts by creating a parallel court system, like the Bush regime did with its military tribunals. It won’t be long before a decision of the US Supreme Court will not mean anything. Any decision that goes against the regime will simply be ignored.

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This is already happening in Canada, an American puppet state. Writing for the Future of Freedom Foundation, Andy Worthington documents the lawlessness of the US trial of Canadian Omar Khadr. In January of this year, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the interrogation of Khadr constituted “state conduct that violates the principles of fundamental justice” and “offends the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects.” According to the Toronto Star, the Court instructed the government to “shape a response that reconciled its foreign policy imperatives with its constitutional obligations to Khadr,” but the puppet prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, ignored the Court and permitted the US government to proceed with its lawless abuse of a Canadian citizen.

September 11 destroyed more than lives, World Trade Center buildings, and Americans’ sense of invulnerability. The event destroyed American liberty, the rule of law and the US Constitution.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating.

Former FBI Agent Reveals New Angle On Kennedy Assassination

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 25, 2010

It is a story the corporate media, with the notable exception of one lone Fox News affiliate, refuses to report. A former FBI agent, Don Adams, has compelling evidence Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate president John F. Kennedy. Adams was assigned to an FBI office in Thomasville, Georgia, on November 22, 1963. Adams was responsible for investigating Joseph Adams Milteer, described as a radical with connections to the States Rights Party and KKK. Milteer, according to Adams, was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.

As revealed by the Church Committee in the mid-70s and according to internal FBI documents the agency controlled the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists beginning in the 1960s. More recently, it was revealed that racist radio talk show host Hal Turner operated as a “national security intelligence” asset for the FBI, thus demonstrating the agency still has its hooks in the lunatic fringe movement.

The racist Milteer “was reportedly one of most violent men in the country,” Adams told Fox 8 News. Years later, Adams discovered that Milteer had threatened to kill Kennedy on November 9, 1963, and the FBI had lied about Milteer whereabouts. In order to make his case, Adams played an audio recording of Milteer for Fox News. In the recording, Milteer tells an informant the best way to get the president “is from an office building with a high powered rifle.” Asked if he was sincere about a plot of kill Kennedy, Milteer responded: “Oh yes. It’s in the works.”

Despite the threat and possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the president, the FBI and Secret Service allowed Kennedy to travel to Dallas. “[They] should have stopped the President from traveling instantly,” said Adams.

“You thought I was kidding when I said he would be killed from a window with a high powered rifle,” a “jubilant” Milteer” told the informant following the murder.

Adams points out that Milteer was in Dallas on the day of the assassination and has a photograph to prove it. In the photo, Milteer stands near the presidential limousine prior to the shooting. Adams notes this fact was not mentioned in the Warren Commission report.

Other, more well-known personages were also photographed in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day, in particular George Bush Senior. The future CIA director and president was photographedstanding outside the Texas Book Depository building where it was said Oswald single-handedly shot the president from the sixth floor. Gerald Ford appointed Bush to head-up the agency when the House Select Committee on Assassinations was investigating CIA-FBI links to the murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

During Gerald Ford’s funeral in 2007, the elder Bush attacked theories straying from the official version. “After a deluded gunman assassinated President Kennedy, our nation turned to Gerald Ford and a select handful of others to make sense of that madness,” said Bush. “And the conspiracy theorists can say what they will, but the Warren Commission report will always have the final definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Jerry Ford put his name on it and Jerry Ford’s word was always good.”

After Adams told the FBI he believed it was impossible for Oswald to have fired three shots with a bolt-action rifle in seven-and-a-half seconds while taking aim through a scope, he was warned by his superiors not to pursue his findings. “Don, be careful what you say and how you say it,” an agent told him.

Mr. Adams’ assertions contribute to a huge body of evidence revealing that Kennedy was not murdered by Oswald in the fashion described by the government.

In 2007, a study conducted by a former FBI scientist put to rest the Oswald-as-lone-gunman theory. William A. Tobin, a former FBI lab metallurgist, and colleagues published a study the Annals of Applied Statistics demonstrating that at least one other shooter was involved in the assassination.

Also in 2007, former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt admitted in an audio recording that he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK. The tape was released by the late Hunt’s son, Saint John Hunt, and aired on the Coast to Coast radio show in April, 2007.

“E. Howard Hunt names numerous individuals with both direct and indirect CIA connections as having played a role in the assassination of Kennedy, while describing himself as a ‘bench warmer’ in the plot. Saint John Hunt agreed that the use of this term indicates that Hunt was willing to play a larger role in the murder conspiracy had he been required,” writes Paul Joseph Watson.

Quite predictably, the corporate media all but ignored Hunt’s revelations and continues to peddle the ludicrous theory that Oswald was alone responsible for the assassination.

Saint John Hunt said that his father indeed resembled one of three “bums” arrested and photographed in Dealy Plaza following the assassination. The elder Hunt told his son he was “deeply conflicted and deeply remorseful” that he didn’t blow the whistle on the plot at the time and prevent the assassination. At the time Kennedy was hated by many government officials, especially officials at the CIA. Following the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation and his failure to support military action in Cuba, Kennedy had promised to “shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter the remnants to the wind.”

Kennedy’s enemies in the CIA and the FBI are well documented. He fired the Chief Executive of the CIA, Charles Cabell, and among his enemies were Richard Helms, former CIA director Allen Dulles, and Gerald Ford, who would later become the default president of the United States.

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Ford, who was a member of the Warren Commission, implicated the CIA in a cover-up of the assassination from his deathbed, according to a publisher of a book on the subject.

In May of 2007, Saint John Hunt went on the Alex Jones Show and revealed that his father would have “finish[ed] the job” and killed Teddy Kennedy. “In the context that JFK had already been removed, RFK was gone and his motto was ‘let’s finish the job,’” Hunt told Jones. He said his father was pleased when Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

In 2008, the BBC aired a documentary offering evidence that the CIA was responsible for Robert Kennedy’s assassination. Three men were positively identified as senior officers who worked together in 1963 at JMWAVE, the CIA’s Miami base for its Secret War on Castro. “I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard,”David Sanchez Morales, aka “El Indio,” who was involved in CIA efforts against Castro and the CIA’s 1954 overthrow of the Guatemalan government, reportedly bragged after the RFK assassination.

In his audio confession, the late E. Howard Hunt said Morales and Lyndon Johnson were involved in the plot to kill JFK. Hunt said the code name for the assassination operation was “The Big Event.”

Johnson’s former mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, told author Robert Gaylon Ross prior to her death in 2002 that Johnson was involved in the murder, a plot that had its origins in the 1960 Democratic Convention, where John F. Kennedy was elected as presidential candidate with Johnson as his running mate. Johnson, according to Brown, colluded with oil tycoon H. L. Hunt to have Kennedy eliminated. “It was a total political crime and H.L. Hunt really controlled what actually happened to John Kennedy — he and Lyndon Johnson,” said Brown. “It was a political crime for political power.” Johnson had allegedly said on the night before the assassination: “Those SOBs will never embarrass me again.”

A preponderance of evidence points to government involvement in the Kennedy assassination. However, due to the intelligence practice of compartmentalization — and the murder and disappearance of key witnesses — we will probably never know the exact details of how the government killed not only John F. Kennedy, but also his brother Robert and the civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Assassination of key U.S. ally adds to Pakistan's crises

Assassination of key U.S. ally adds to Pakistan's crises

Pakistani plainclothes police officers remove the body of the Chief of Frontier Constabulary Sifwat Ghayur from a burnt car at the site of suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. A suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying Ghayur in northwestern Pakistan, killing him and two others.

By Griff Witte / Washington Post

ISLAMABAD -- A Taliban suicide bomber assassinated a top-ranking Pakistani security official and key U.S. ally Wednesday, adding to a string of crises here that have raised alarm in recent days over whether the government can cope.

Since last week, Pakistan has endured its worst air crash in history, the most severe floods in living memory, its deadliest ethnic riots this year and now the killing of a commander known for his unusual vigor in hunting insurgents.

While not all connected, the confluence of so many calamities has appeared to overwhelm a government that has trouble performing basic services even during the best of times.

"It is all too much," said Javed Hussain, a security analyst and retired Pakistani general. "The problems are big, but the leaders are small."

As the U.S. confronts its own struggles with its flagging war in Afghanistan, the disasters in Pakistan -- both natural and man-made -- threaten to take Pakistani attention away from efforts to eliminate key al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctuaries.

The flood, in particular, could have negative long-term consequences for the war effort. The rains have been concentrated in Pakistan's northwest, which is also the area where militant groups are most active. With at least 1,500 people dead and another 3 million affected, the vast scale of destruction has created needs that the government admits it is unable to meet. Anger has been rising all week in the northwest, where residents say they have seen little sign of a coordinated assistance program.

The U.S. has earned rare praise here for reacting swiftly to the floods, promising $10 million in aid, flying in six helicopters from Afghanistan and providing hundreds of thousands of ready-to-eat meals. The aid response reflects U.S. recognition of both the peril if humanitarian needs continue to go unmet, and the promise of a chance to rehabilitate the American brand in a country where U.S. policies are unpopular.

Pakistan is a critical U.S. ally, but the two have long had a deeply uneasy relationship. Pakistani officials say they are doing their best to assist flood victims with limited resources. But U.S. officials say they are concerned that the flood could become a major internal catastrophe if more is not done to help the victims. With the government already facing political turmoil, that could be destabilizing for Pakistan, officials say, and would eliminate all hope of persuading the nation's military to take on certain insurgent groups that operate on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.

The Taliban may see opportunity in the floods. In the void left by the government, Islamic charities that are known fronts for militant groups have taken to the streets to distribute food, medicine and tents.

Analysts say, meanwhile, that Wednesday's suicide bombing, which left the head of a key security agency dead, may be the first in a series of attacks as the armed forces turn their focus to flood relief.

"The pressure on the Pakistani Taliban has been considerably released," Hussain said. "They are ruthless people and they are going to exploit this."

Wednesday's attack came in one of the most heavily patrolled areas in the regional capital of Peshawar, outside the office of the Frontier Constabulary. The agency's chief, Sifwat Ghayur, had just stepped into his car when a suicide bomber walked up to the vehicle and detonated himself, police said.

The Frontier Constabulary, along with the Frontier Corps, forms a central front for Pakistani security in the tribal lands that flank Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Unlike the Pakistani army, the Frontier forces are made up almost exclusively of ethnic Pashtuns who are native to the region.

The U.S. has bet heavily on efforts to professionalize the forces, pouring money into training and equipment programs in the hope that the Pashtun troops will take a more active role in confronting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Ghayur had been Peshawar's top police official before he was promoted to run the Frontier Constabulary, and he was credited with helping to substantially reduce the militant threat in the frontier city. His anti-terrorism efforts were considered unusually energetic, and he had earned the ire of the Taliban, which claimed responsibility for his death.

"We've lost a brave soldier who always stood against the militants and the criminals," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the provincial government spokesman. "We will continue our fight until they are eradicated."

Hussain's own struggles personify just how much Pakistan is up against: Less than two weeks ago, his only son was shot to death by the Taliban. Two days later, a suicide bomber struck outside Hussain's house in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.

And just days after that, Hussain was on television conceding humbly that the provincial government was overmatched by the devastation wrought by the floods.

Forecasters say the floods will likely extend to more areas of Pakistan, including Punjab and Sindh provinces, where sustained damage to agricultural regions could disrupt the nation's food supply.

The northwest's problems seem to be spreading in other ways, as well. In the southern port city of Karachi this week, at least 72 people have been killed in a cycle of revenge attacks unleashed by the assassination of a local politician.

The nation's largest city, with 16 million people, has long been a cauldron for ethnic and sectarian tension, but those problems have been exacerbated by what city officials say is an influx of militants fleeing army offensives in the northwest.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the assassination was carried out by a nexus of the Pakistani Taliban and anti-Shiite groups, which appear to be working together in Karachi to foment unrest.

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Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, has been absent for much of the week's turmoil. He left on Sunday for a previously scheduled trip to Europe that included a visit to his family's French chateau. His decision to leave the country while millions suffered from the floods has generated widespread criticism, as has his choice to go ahead with a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Cameron recently enraged Pakistanis with comments, made while on a visit to India, in which he referred to Pakistan's "export of terror" to other countries. The statement touched a nerve among Pakistani officials who feel the nation is making great sacrifices in the war against Islamic extremism, but only receives blame in the West for alleged covert support for militant groups.

Zardari seemed to deepen the divide with the West in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde in which he said the international community is "losing the war against the Taliban. This is above all because we have lost the battle to win hearts and minds."

The comments drew a quick rebuke from the White House, but they reflect a widespread view within Pakistan that the nation is suffering in support of a misguided war.

Radical Islamic leaders have been promoting their own take on the war this week, telling followers that the reason for all the country's troubles, from plane crashes to floods, is very simple: divine punishment for Pakistani cooperation with the United States.

Staff writer Karen DeYoung in Washington and special correspondent Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report.