Hey subversives! Tired of the same ol', same ol' government? Don't think the Tea Tantrumers are doing enough? Well folks, you're in luck! For a measly five-- count 'em, five-- smackeroos, you can overthrow the bums!
"Since 1951, South Carolina has had a law on its books requiring anyone looking to overthrow the government to, well, register with the government," CBS News reports.
All ya gotta do is list the "name of subversive organization" and the name and address of its "chief agent." Quick. Simple. Easy as 1-2-bang!
That's right, ladies and gents, just answer this question: "Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?"... and just like that, you're in!
Yes, if you act now, and come up with five American dollars-- that's right, using the very currency of those you want to kick out-- you too can topple the government of the U. S. of A.!
In fact, every post I write about Blackwater is jam packed with death and destruction, ethics vacuums, and overall creepiness. And yet the U.S. government still has them on their payroll.
The US government said Friday it will review the decision by a US court to drop charges against American private security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007.
"We respect the independence of the judiciary. The decision of the judge does not exonerate the defendants or necessarily terminate the proceedings," State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters.
"The Department of Justice, in consultation with the State Department, will carefully review the judge's decision and assess all available legal options," said Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs.
Former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Sibel Edmonds.
When I saw that headline, I had to wonder if this is another one of those exaggerated stories that Commenters pounce on me for. But it's Sibel Edmonds, who usually sounds reasonable and very credible. I report, you decide:
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained ‘intimate relations’ with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, “all the way until that day of September 11.”
These ‘intimate relations’ included using Bin Laden for ‘operations’ in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These ‘operations’ involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner “as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict,” that is, fighting ‘enemies’ via proxies.
As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from ‘actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia’) as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.
The goals of the American ’statesmen’ directing these activities included control of Central Asia’s vast energy supplies and new markets for military products.
The Americans had a problem, though. They needed to keep their fingerprints off these operations to avoid a) popular revolt in Central Asia ( Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan), and b) serious repercussions from China and Russia. They found an ingenious solution: Use their puppet-state Turkey as a proxy, and appeal to both pan-Turkic and pan-Islam sensibilities. [...]
This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.
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Sibel has famously been dubbed the most gagged woman in America, having the State Secrets Privilege imposed on her twice. Her 3.5 hour testimony to the 9/11 Commission has been entirely suppressed, reduced to a single footnote which refers readers to her classified testimony.
In the interview, she says that the information that was classified in her case specifically identifies that the US was using Bin Laden and the Taliban in Central Asia, including Xinjiang. In the interview, Sibel reiterates that when invoking the gag orders, the US government claims that it is protecting ” ’sensitive diplomatic relations,’ protecting Turkey, protecting Israel, protecting Pakistan, protecting Saudi Arabia…” This is no doubt partially true, but it is also true that they are protecting themselves too, and it is a crime in the US to use classification and secrecy to cover up crimes.
I have information about things that our government has lied to us about… those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.
Summary
The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001.
It is important to understand why: the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions.
The silence by the US government on these matters is deafening. So, too, is the blowback.
Sadly, this makes sense to me in the most chilling way imaginable.
"But, you know the thing that keeps me up is not actually winning or losing, it's governing. When I think about things when the lights are out and I'm tossing and turning in bed, its how do we make sure we fulfill the commitments to the American people that we've made throughout this campaign?"
-- Sen. Barack Obama, in an interview with ABC News.
Now that my computer is gone forever, and until I can load a new one (or even buy one), I can't upload videos. Go here to see a clip of Jane Mayer on CNN, and to read the rest of this piece:
Mayer's book contains myriad shocking revelations about the Bush administration's war on terror policies, but it also lets some questions linger. For example, has President Bush issued a secret order cutting Congress out of the line of succession in case the Bush and vice president Dick Cheney were simultaneously killed.
Apparently sometime in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan issued a "secret executive order" that in the event of the death of the president and the vice president "established a means of re-creating the executive branch." Reagan's order violated the express terms of the Constitution and governing statutes.
Does a similar order exist today? We aren't told. But we do know that Dick Cheney participated in the secret "doomsday" exercises under the Reagan order, and given his central role at present, it is imperative for Congress to find out.
Steven Hatfill, of 2001 anthrax case fame, has reached a $5.8 million dollar settlement with the U.S. government. The government accepts no fault, of course, but can no longer call Hatfill a "person of interest", and formally washes their hands of him, legally speaking.
Nobody else has been charged.
Let's recap: Our wonderful fearmongering government, who still hasn't tracked down the source of the anthrax attacks (or Osama Bin Laden, for that matter) made Hatfill's life miserable, wrongly accused him, paid him off, and walked away.
Have a nice life, Steven. Business as usual, U.S. government.
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