[The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 attacks; see the biography appended to the article below.
In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official.
The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is known for claiming not to have known that such activities were occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there.
Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such activities here seriously. But, what would North American death squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and Central American style death squads here, the North American death squads would look different -- at least at first. North American death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS.
There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment and experimentation would appear with modern technology.
In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are completely destroyed. This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for decades.]
Has Our Aim Been True? So much has gone wrong since jets hit the Twin Towers. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-32.htm by Tom Maertens Published on Monday, September 11, 2006 Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota)
Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And there are more terrorists in the world than ever before, a fact the administration plays up to curtail our freedoms. In the aftermath of 9/11, the administration succeeded in passing an extreme version of an internal security law, called the USA Patriot Act. It permits secret arrests, sneak and peek searches, and obtaining bank, credit, library and Internet records, all without a warrant. The administration also instituted wiretaps and intercepts on millions of Americans' e-mail messages and phone calls without warrants, a program recently ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.
In 2005, Bush quietly created the National Clandestine Service, which authorizes the CIA to operate within the United States -- despite past abuses such as Operation Chaos -- and reinstituted domestic spying by the military through the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He also created the National Security Service, putting elements of the FBI under his direct control, the closest we have had to a secret police agency in our 200-year history. The FBI now sends out 30,000 National Security Letters per year, demanding personal information without benefit of a warrant. It has imposed gag orders on every aspect of NSLs, making it illegal to reveal that one has been received. How does this differ from secret police tactics?
Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the government conducted surveillance on as many as 150 peaceful protest or social groups, including Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and Quakers in Florida.
The Bush administration has used the threat of terrorism to silence peaceful protest at public events. It has happened all over the country, including to two women in Cedar Rapids who were handcuffed, led off to jail and strip-searched for "disrupting" a Bush rally. Terrorists, perhaps? One was wearing a Kerry/Edwards button; the other carried a small antiwar sign.
Perhaps no event demonstrates more clearly the dangerous authoritarianism of the Bush crowd than the arrest of two American citizens, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, who were held for 3½ years in solitary confinement with no charges, no court appearance and no lawyer. The Bush administration declared them "enemy combatants" -- Enemies of the State -- and threw them in prison indefinitely, just like a Third World dictatorship.
Winston Churchill once said: "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
How far can the Bush administration go? Steven Bradbury of the Justice Department recently suggested before a congressional committee that the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States.
Government assassination squads? In America?
Things could get much worse. The Bush administration has bungled the war on terror so badly there are no real prospects of "winning." Even worse, the neoconservatives are pushing for a wider war in the Middle East.
For more than a decade, they have advocated attacking Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia, using various smokescreens but, overwhelmingly, to defend Israel. The principal reason they wanted to invade Iraq was to eliminate any clandestine weapons-of-mass-destruction program that could have threatened Israel.
The neocons' next target is Iran. The pretext is Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, for which there is no more evidence than there was for Saddam Hussein's nukes. But Tehran, of course, backs Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah.
You'd think the neocons would have learned something from the disastrous invasion of Iraq, an occupation that has already lasted longer than the U.S. fight against Germany in World War II. In the single-minded world of the neocons, however, attacking Iran is an "opportunity" to remake the Middle East. There is apparently no end of such opportunities: They also encouraged Israel to attack Syria during its incursion into Lebanon.
Everybody in government knows that the terrorists hate us because of our blind support for Israel, not because they "hate our freedom." The Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness, the honest broker role we used to have, and now blindly backs every action Israel undertakes -- whether bombing a power plant in Gaza or civilians in Lebanon -- no matter how damaging to our own interests.
The neocons are constantly pressing the government to ally the United States with Israel against much of the Islamic world (and its oil) in a "battle for civilization." Such a wider war would further inflame the Middle East and provoke an even greater terrorist threat in response, with higher costs than we can now imagine -- including domestic costs.
James Madison once warned: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." The Bush administration has already exploited the war in Iraq and fears about terrorism to stampede the American people into accepting an astonishing curtailment of their freedoms and growing lawlessness by the government. If the administration chooses to engage in the neocons' endless, global War for Civilization, American democracy will ultimately be one of the casualties.
Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department on 9/11.
I spent most of the last 35 years traveling the globe as a U.S. diplomat, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a naval officer. My final government position was as a senior official in the office of counter terrorism in the U.S. State Department during and after the attack of September 11, 2001. In that position, I helped organize the U.S. response to that attack, which came to be known as the War on Terrorism. In addition, I served as NSC Director for Nonproliferation under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, dealing with weapons of mass destruction. With this experience as background, I have written a number of articles on terrorism and on the war in Iraq, which are collected here. Included on this web site are other articles that I consider interesting or valuable along with some book recommendations. You may contact me with any comments you have by using the link at the top of the page.
* Born in Minnesota and raised in Mankato, Minnesota
* Naval Officer aboard a guided missile cruiser from 1966 to 1969
* Peace Corps volunteer to Ethiopia where he taught English as a second language and worked with the World Health Organization to eliminate smallpox from 1971 to 1972
* Foreign Service assignment in Ethiopia as a political reporting officer during the revolution
* Subsequently served in Bogota, Columbia, reporting on internal politics, the insurgent groups and the drug connection
* Worked on Soviet affairs dealing with arms control negotiations, economics, science and intelligence on different occasions
* Served as Deputy Principal Officer in Leningrad, USSR, from 1987 to 1989 where he reported on the independence movements in the Baltics and the impending breakup of the Soviet Union
* Staff member of Senate Foreign Relations committee and staff member and legislation author for Senator Bill Cohen
* Senior Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 1990 to 1991; provided advice during December 1990 coup attempt to the Panamanian president; Recommended that Washington bring in US troops, which led to the collapse of the coup
* Senior Political-Military Advisor, US Arms Control Delegation, Vienna, from 1991 to 1995 where he directed staff in conducting arms control negotiations with Russia and other countries
* Deputy Director, Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy from 1995-1998 during which he developed and led international nonproliferation seminars to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, also coordinated transfers of high-technology goods (satellites, computers)
* Directed the Environment, Science and Technology section, Moscow from 1998 to 2000 where he organized and coordinated embassy preparations for Y2K. Had oversight responsibility for a $350 million nuclear security program; was responsible for biological and chemical weapons issues and visited several Russian bio facilities
* Director for Nonproliferation on the U.S. National Security Council from 2000 to 2001 where he chaired White House review of U.S./Russian Nonproliferation Programs, resulting in $2 billion reduction in costs, coordinated U.S. efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons and materials, and participated in policy formulation on biological weapons
* U.S. Department of State Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism from 2001-2002 where he helped develop policy response to attacks of September 11, including planning the War on Terrorism
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2007-01-10 12:27:56 EST
"Allen L. Barker" wrote:
> [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can > be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an > unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way > back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such > technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. > Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on > nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government > has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would > never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible > citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe > harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment > and experimentation would appear with modern technology. > > In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by > throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying > around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it > would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is > used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, > covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless > they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are > completely destroyed. This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, > as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were > left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and > impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for > decades.]
Moral Psychology counters any of this
Guidelines for Moral Psychology http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/law/moral-guide.html
1. The basic values and virtues to be explained within moral psychology are respect, honesty, trust, compassion, love, dignity, kindness, sympathy, forgiveness as well as other attributes that denote goodness and love.
2. No illness, drugs or alcohol can make a person commit a crime or break the law. To suggest otherwise is incorrect grammar. Having an illness or disease can never cause a person to lose his or her morals, nor is it ever an excuse for breaking the law. While an illness can make a persons body feel bad, an illness cannot make someone feel like a bad person. Every person must be held fully accountable for any crime he or she commits.
3. All people are equal under the law. All people are born with a natural love of morals and desire for goodness. To suggest that some people are not, no matter how scientific sounding, is racism and cannot be accepted.
4.Good morals should always be described in an attractive, appealing manner, not as something strict or repressive. The best way to resolve a personal problem is to forgive the people involved and forget about it, not dwell on it.
5. Advise people to forget aggression and forgive people. Promote friendship and cooperation instead of rivalry and competition. Complicated, derogatory words cannot be included within moral psychology. Do not use technical terms to describe people.
6. Do not describe people as being merely uncivilized animals who must compete against each other for survival, and who have no need for morals. Illegal behavior is a result of choice, not genetic predisposition (to suggest otherwise is racism).
7. Superstition is not taught within moral psychology. A superstition is any belief or notion which is based more on emotional intrigue and unprovable theories than on fact. Examples are astrology, fortune telling, UFOs, ghosts, brain scans or handwriting analysis for criminal tendencies (not for ID), tarot card reading, ESP, Rorschach ink blot readings, palm reading, hypnotism, numerology, phrenology, etc. Superstition includes all other readings, teachings and analyses that are based on opinion and speculation.
8. A person should respect his own culture, and other cultures as well. The more people respect their own culture, the more they tend to respect other cultures. Cultural respect is very important.
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Has Our Aim Been True? > So much has gone wrong since jets hit the Twin Towers. > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-32.htm > by Tom Maertens > Published on Monday, September 11, 2006 > Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota) > > Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's > costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our > civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of > the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has > already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and > similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and > loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And > there are more terrorists in the world than ever before, a fact the > administration plays up to curtail our freedoms. In the aftermath of > 9/11, the administration succeeded in passing an extreme version of an > internal security law, called the USA Patriot Act. It permits secret > arrests, sneak and peek searches, and obtaining bank, credit, library > and Internet records, all without a warrant. The administration also > instituted wiretaps and intercepts on millions of Americans' e-mail > messages and phone calls without warrants, a program recently ruled > unconstitutional by a federal court. > > In 2005, Bush quietly created the National Clandestine Service, which > authorizes the CIA to operate within the United States -- despite past > abuses such as Operation Chaos -- and reinstituted domestic spying by > the military through the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), > in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He also created the National > Security Service, putting elements of the FBI under his direct > control, the closest we have had to a secret police agency in our > 200-year history. The FBI now sends out 30,000 National Security > Letters per year, demanding personal information without benefit of a > warrant. It has imposed gag orders on every aspect of NSLs, making it > illegal to reveal that one has been received. How does this differ > from secret police tactics? > > Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the > government conducted surveillance on as many as 150 peaceful protest > or social groups, including Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and Quakers > in Florida. > > The Bush administration has used the threat of terrorism to silence > peaceful protest at public events. It has happened all over the > country, including to two women in Cedar Rapids who were handcuffed, > led off to jail and strip-searched for "disrupting" a Bush > rally. Terrorists, perhaps? One was wearing a Kerry/Edwards button; > the other carried a small antiwar sign. > > Perhaps no event demonstrates more clearly the dangerous > authoritarianism of the Bush crowd than the arrest of two American > citizens, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, who were held for 3½ years in > solitary confinement with no charges, no court appearance and no > lawyer. The Bush administration declared them "enemy combatants" -- > Enemies of the State -- and threw them in prison indefinitely, just > like a Third World dictatorship. > > Winston Churchill once said: "The power of the executive to cast a man > into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and > particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest > degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government > whether Nazi or Communist." > > How far can the Bush administration go? Steven Bradbury of the Justice > Department recently suggested before a congressional committee that > the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist > suspects inside the United States. > > Government assassination squads? In America? > > Things could get much worse. The Bush administration has bungled the > war on terror so badly there are no real prospects of "winning." Even > worse, the neoconservatives are pushing for a wider war in the Middle > East. > > For more than a decade, they have advocated attacking Iraq, Iran, > Syria, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia, using various smokescreens but, > overwhelmingly, to defend Israel. The principal reason they wanted to > invade Iraq was to eliminate any clandestine > weapons-of-mass-destruction program that could have threatened Israel. > > The neocons' next target is Iran. The pretext is Iran's alleged > nuclear weapons program, for which there is no more evidence than > there was for Saddam Hussein's nukes. But Tehran, of course, backs > Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah. > > You'd think the neocons would have learned something from the > disastrous invasion of Iraq, an occupation that has already lasted > longer than the U.S. fight against Germany in World War II. In the > single-minded world of the neocons, however, attacking Iran is an > "opportunity" to remake the Middle East. There is apparently no end of > such opportunities: They also encouraged Israel to attack Syria during > its incursion into Lebanon. > > Everybody in government knows that the terrorists hate us because of > our blind support for Israel, not because they "hate our freedom." The > Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness, the > honest broker role we used to have, and now blindly backs every action > Israel undertakes -- whether bombing a power plant in Gaza or > civilians in Lebanon -- no matter how damaging to our own interests. > > The neocons are constantly pressing the government to ally the United > States with Israel against much of the Islamic world (and its oil) in > a "battle for civilization." Such a wider war would further inflame > the Middle East and provoke an even greater terrorist threat in > response, with higher costs than we can now imagine -- including > domestic costs. > > James Madison once warned: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this > land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." The Bush > administration has already exploited the war in Iraq and fears about > terrorism to stampede the American people into accepting an > astonishing curtailment of their freedoms and growing lawlessness by > the government. If the administration chooses to engage in the > neocons' endless, global War for Civilization, American democracy will > ultimately be one of the casualties. > > Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for > proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, > and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department > on 9/11. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.tommaertens.com/biography/index.html > > Tom Maertens > Biography > > I spent most of the last 35 years traveling the globe as a > U.S. diplomat, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a naval officer. My > final government position was as a senior official in the office of > counter terrorism in the U.S. State Department during and after the > attack of September 11, 2001. In that position, I helped organize the > U.S. response to that attack, which came to be known as the War on > Terrorism. In addition, I served as NSC Director for Nonproliferation > under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, dealing with weapons of > mass destruction. With this experience as background, I have written a > number of articles on terrorism and on the war in Iraq, which are > collected here. Included on this web site are other articles that I > consider interesting or valuable along with some book > recommendations. You may contact me with any comments you have by > using the link at the top of the page. > > * Born in Minnesota and raised in Mankato, Minnesota > > * Naval Officer aboard a guided missile cruiser from 1966 to 1969 > > * Peace Corps volunteer to Ethiopia where he taught English as a > second language and worked with the World Health Organization to > eliminate smallpox from 1971 to 1972 > > * Foreign Service assignment in Ethiopia as a political reporting > officer during the revolution > > * Subsequently served in Bogota, Columbia, reporting on internal > politics, the insurgent groups and the drug connection > > * Worked on Soviet affairs dealing with arms control negotiations, > economics, science and intelligence on different occasions > > * Served as Deputy Principal Officer in Leningrad, USSR, from 1987 to > 1989 where he reported on the independence movements in the Baltics > and the impending breakup of the Soviet Union > > * Staff member of Senate Foreign Relations committee and staff member > and legislation author for Senator Bill Cohen > > * Senior Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 1990 to > 1991; provided advice during December 1990 coup attempt to the > Panamanian president; Recommended that Washington bring in US troops, > which led to the collapse of the coup > > * Senior Political-Military Advisor, US Arms Control Delegation, > Vienna, from 1991 to 1995 where he directed staff in conducting arms > control negotiations with Russia and other countries > > * Deputy Director, Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy from > 1995-1998 during which he developed and led international > nonproliferation seminars to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, also > coordinated transfers of high-technology goods (satellites, computers) > > * Directed the Environment, Science and Technology section, Moscow > from 1998 to 2000 where he organized and coordinated embassy > preparations for Y2K. Had oversight responsibility for a $350 million > nuclear security program; was responsible for biological and chemical > weapons issues and visited several Russian bio facilities > > * Director for Nonproliferation on the U.S. National Security Council > from 2000 to 2001 where he chaired White House review of U.S./Russian > Nonproliferation Programs, resulting in $2 billion reduction in costs, > coordinated U.S. efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons and materials, > and participated in policy formulation on biological weapons > > * U.S. Department of State Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism > from 2001-2002 where he helped develop policy response to attacks of > September 11, including planning the War on Terrorism
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2007-01-10 13:29:06 EST
Also Allen, it's important to remember that in all cases of harassment, no matte rhow small or how bad the harassment is, always the harassing people harms themselves much more than the people they are trying to harass.
How Harassment works http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/sup/harassment.html
Young people sometimes have problems with harassment. This website explains there is nothing to worry about. No one needs to get back at a harasser. Just ignore it.
A harasser harms his own situation more than anyone elses If a person harasses or tries to harm someone, the person doing the harassing always harms himself much more than the person he is trying to harass. This is because he is the one who is doing it. The harassment is coming from him. He is the one creating and pushing the harassment. The harassers harassment is his.
No one needs to get back at a harasser Though the person being harassed may suffer some harm, it is the person trying to harm someone else who damages his own situation much more than anyone elses. This is because he is the one doing the harassing. It is his. It is of him.
If a person doesn't harass or try to harm anyone, he will do fine in life. He has nothing to worry about. It's like this with everything in life. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Derogatory comments The same is true if a person calls names or makes derogatory comments about another person. It shows that the person saying the comments is having problems in his own life more than anything else, not the person it's being said about.
Think about it, if a person is doing well in life, would he go around talking bad about other people? Certainly not. He wouldn't waste his time.
Many of us know a person who seems to always make derogatory comments about other people. Ever notice that kind of person has few friends? It is the person who constantly makes derogatory comments about other people who harms himself much more than the person he is talking about.
This is different from someone who, for example, says "Joey broke his leg last week. I hope he is okay". This type of statement shows compassion in describing a problem, it shows caring for the person. It offers good will and hopes the person gets better. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Lying harms the person who lies more than anyone else This is because if a person creates lies he is basically saying "lies and deception are good and okay". Therefore, he is subject to this himself more than anyone else.
What comes from a person is of that person. So, if a person who lies comes across deception in the future, because he already engages in lies, he finds it harder to know what is true. If a person lies he tends to confuse himself more than anyone else.
When a person is honest in what he says and does in life, he can more easily see what is honest and true in general.
A person who is honest and trustworthy has fewer problems in life. His mind is calm, clear and carefree. Honesty allows people to do better, to play music, run businesses and have more fun in life.
A person who lies a lot becomes unable to use high technology.
"Allen L. Barker" wrote:
> [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can > be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an > unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way > back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such > technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. > Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on > nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government > has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would > never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible > citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe > harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment > and experimentation would appear with modern technology. > > In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by > throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying > around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it > would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is > used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, > covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless > they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are > completely destroyed. This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, > as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were > left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and > impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for > decades.] > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Has Our Aim Been True? > So much has gone wrong since jets hit the Twin Towers. > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-32.htm > by Tom Maertens > Published on Monday, September 11, 2006 > Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota) > > Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's > costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our > civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of > the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has > already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and > similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and > loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And > there are more terrorists in the world than ever before, a fact the > administration plays up to curtail our freedoms. In the aftermath of > 9/11, the administration succeeded in passing an extreme version of an > internal security law, called the USA Patriot Act. It permits secret > arrests, sneak and peek searches, and obtaining bank, credit, library > and Internet records, all without a warrant. The administration also > instituted wiretaps and intercepts on millions of Americans' e-mail > messages and phone calls without warrants, a program recently ruled > unconstitutional by a federal court. > > In 2005, Bush quietly created the National Clandestine Service, which > authorizes the CIA to operate within the United States -- despite past > abuses such as Operation Chaos -- and reinstituted domestic spying by > the military through the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), > in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He also created the National > Security Service, putting elements of the FBI under his direct > control, the closest we have had to a secret police agency in our > 200-year history. The FBI now sends out 30,000 National Security > Letters per year, demanding personal information without benefit of a > warrant. It has imposed gag orders on every aspect of NSLs, making it > illegal to reveal that one has been received. How does this differ > from secret police tactics? > > Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the > government conducted surveillance on as many as 150 peaceful protest > or social groups, including Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and Quakers > in Florida. > > The Bush administration has used the threat of terrorism to silence > peaceful protest at public events. It has happened all over the > country, including to two women in Cedar Rapids who were handcuffed, > led off to jail and strip-searched for "disrupting" a Bush > rally. Terrorists, perhaps? One was wearing a Kerry/Edwards button; > the other carried a small antiwar sign. > > Perhaps no event demonstrates more clearly the dangerous > authoritarianism of the Bush crowd than the arrest of two American > citizens, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, who were held for 3½ years in > solitary confinement with no charges, no court appearance and no > lawyer. The Bush administration declared them "enemy combatants" -- > Enemies of the State -- and threw them in prison indefinitely, just > like a Third World dictatorship. > > Winston Churchill once said: "The power of the executive to cast a man > into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and > particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest > degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government > whether Nazi or Communist." > > How far can the Bush administration go? Steven Bradbury of the Justice > Department recently suggested before a congressional committee that > the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist > suspects inside the United States. > > Government assassination squads? In America? > > Things could get much worse. The Bush administration has bungled the > war on terror so badly there are no real prospects of "winning." Even > worse, the neoconservatives are pushing for a wider war in the Middle > East. > > For more than a decade, they have advocated attacking Iraq, Iran, > Syria, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia, using various smokescreens but, > overwhelmingly, to defend Israel. The principal reason they wanted to > invade Iraq was to eliminate any clandestine > weapons-of-mass-destruction program that could have threatened Israel. > > The neocons' next target is Iran. The pretext is Iran's alleged > nuclear weapons program, for which there is no more evidence than > there was for Saddam Hussein's nukes. But Tehran, of course, backs > Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah. > > You'd think the neocons would have learned something from the > disastrous invasion of Iraq, an occupation that has already lasted > longer than the U.S. fight against Germany in World War II. In the > single-minded world of the neocons, however, attacking Iran is an > "opportunity" to remake the Middle East. There is apparently no end of > such opportunities: They also encouraged Israel to attack Syria during > its incursion into Lebanon. > > Everybody in government knows that the terrorists hate us because of > our blind support for Israel, not because they "hate our freedom." The > Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness, the > honest broker role we used to have, and now blindly backs every action > Israel undertakes -- whether bombing a power plant in Gaza or > civilians in Lebanon -- no matter how damaging to our own interests. > > The neocons are constantly pressing the government to ally the United > States with Israel against much of the Islamic world (and its oil) in > a "battle for civilization." Such a wider war would further inflame > the Middle East and provoke an even greater terrorist threat in > response, with higher costs than we can now imagine -- including > domestic costs. > > James Madison once warned: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this > land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." The Bush > administration has already exploited the war in Iraq and fears about > terrorism to stampede the American people into accepting an > astonishing curtailment of their freedoms and growing lawlessness by > the government. If the administration chooses to engage in the > neocons' endless, global War for Civilization, American democracy will > ultimately be one of the casualties. > > Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for > proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, > and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department > on 9/11. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.tommaertens.com/biography/index.html > > Tom Maertens > Biography > > I spent most of the last 35 years traveling the globe as a > U.S. diplomat, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a naval officer. My > final government position was as a senior official in the office of > counter terrorism in the U.S. State Department during and after the > attack of September 11, 2001. In that position, I helped organize the > U.S. response to that attack, which came to be known as the War on > Terrorism. In addition, I served as NSC Director for Nonproliferation > under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, dealing with weapons of > mass destruction. With this experience as background, I have written a > number of articles on terrorism and on the war in Iraq, which are > collected here. Included on this web site are other articles that I > consider interesting or valuable along with some book > recommendations. You may contact me with any comments you have by > using the link at the top of the page. > > * Born in Minnesota and raised in Mankato, Minnesota > > * Naval Officer aboard a guided missile cruiser from 1966 to 1969 > > * Peace Corps volunteer to Ethiopia where he taught English as a > second language and worked with the World Health Organization to > eliminate smallpox from 1971 to 1972 > > * Foreign Service assignment in Ethiopia as a political reporting > officer during the revolution > > * Subsequently served in Bogota, Columbia, reporting on internal > politics, the insurgent groups and the drug connection > > * Worked on Soviet affairs dealing with arms control negotiations, > economics, science and intelligence on different occasions > > * Served as Deputy Principal Officer in Leningrad, USSR, from 1987 to > 1989 where he reported on the independence movements in the Baltics > and the impending breakup of the Soviet Union > > * Staff member of Senate Foreign Relations committee and staff member > and legislation author for Senator Bill Cohen > > * Senior Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 1990 to > 1991; provided advice during December 1990 coup attempt to the > Panamanian president; Recommended that Washington bring in US troops, > which led to the collapse of the coup > > * Senior Political-Military Advisor, US Arms Control Delegation, > Vienna, from 1991 to 1995 where he directed staff in conducting arms > control negotiations with Russia and other countries > > * Deputy Director, Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy from > 1995-1998 during which he developed and led international > nonproliferation seminars to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, also > coordinated transfers of high-technology goods (satellites, computers) > > * Directed the Environment, Science and Technology section, Moscow > from 1998 to 2000 where he organized and coordinated embassy > preparations for Y2K. Had oversight responsibility for a $350 million > nuclear security program; was responsible for biological and chemical > weapons issues and visited several Russian bio facilities > > * Director for Nonproliferation on the U.S. National Security Council > from 2000 to 2001 where he chaired White House review of U.S./Russian > Nonproliferation Programs, resulting in $2 billion reduction in costs, > coordinated U.S. efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons and materials, > and participated in policy formulation on biological weapons > > * U.S. Department of State Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism > from 2001-2002 where he helped develop policy response to attacks of > September 11, including planning the War on Terrorism
Opinions
2007-02-13 08:56:42 EST
Goodness wrote:
> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: > > > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > > > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > > > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > > > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS.
We must remember that ultimately anyone who engages in lies, wrongdoing and deception harms himself much more than anyone else.
This means that a false flag waver harms himself much more than anyone else. He confuses himself more than anyone else. The person engaging in harm and deception slowly loses his mind...., until he stops doing it, earnestly asks for forgiveness, and even then it will take time for him to heal up from.
Everyone has probably heard of the problem with corrupt policemen in America. Corrupt policemen usually become blithering alcoholics. Those who stop it and work towards preventing it, heal up from it over time.
> > > > There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can > > be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an > > unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way > > back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such > > technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. > > Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on > > nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government > > has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would > > never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible > > citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe > > harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment > > and experimentation would appear with modern technology. > > > > In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by > > throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying > > around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it > > would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is > > used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, > > covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless > > they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are > > completely destroyed. This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, > > as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were > > left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and > > impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for > > decades.] > > Moral Psychology counters any of this > > Guidelines for Moral Psychology > http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/law/moral-guide.html > > 1. The basic values and virtues to be explained within moral psychology > are respect, honesty, trust, compassion, love, dignity, kindness, > sympathy, forgiveness as well as other attributes that denote goodness and > love. > > 2. No illness, drugs or alcohol can make a person commit a crime or break > the law. To suggest otherwise is incorrect grammar. Having an illness or > disease can never cause a person to lose his or her morals, nor is it ever > an excuse for breaking the law. While an illness can make a persons body > feel bad, an illness cannot make someone feel like a bad person. Every > person must be held fully accountable for any crime he or she commits. > > 3. All people are equal under the law. All people are born with a natural > love of morals and desire for goodness. To suggest that some people are > not, no matter how scientific sounding, is racism and cannot be accepted. > > 4.Good morals should always be described in an attractive, appealing > manner, not as something strict or repressive. The best way to resolve a > personal problem is to forgive the people involved and forget about it, > not dwell on it. > > 5. Advise people to forget aggression and forgive people. Promote > friendship and cooperation instead of rivalry and competition. > Complicated, derogatory words cannot be included within moral psychology. > Do not use technical terms to describe people. > > 6. Do not describe people as being merely uncivilized animals who must > compete against each other for survival, and who have no need for morals. > Illegal behavior is a result of choice, not genetic predisposition (to > suggest otherwise is racism). > > 7. Superstition is not taught within moral psychology. A superstition is > any belief or notion which is based more on emotional intrigue and > unprovable theories than on fact. Examples are astrology, fortune telling, > UFOs, ghosts, brain scans or handwriting analysis for criminal tendencies > (not for ID), tarot card reading, ESP, Rorschach ink blot readings, palm > reading, hypnotism, numerology, phrenology, etc. Superstition includes all > other readings, teachings and analyses that are based on opinion and > speculation. > > 8. A person should respect his own culture, and other cultures as well. > The more people respect their own culture, the more they tend to respect > other cultures. Cultural respect is very important. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Has Our Aim Been True? > > So much has gone wrong since jets hit the Twin Towers. > > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-32.htm > > by Tom Maertens > > Published on Monday, September 11, 2006 > > Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota) > > > > Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's > > costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our > > civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of > > the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has > > already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and > > similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and > > loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And > > there are more terrorists in the world than ever before, a fact the > > administration plays up to curtail our freedoms. In the aftermath of > > 9/11, the administration succeeded in passing an extreme version of an > > internal security law, called the USA Patriot Act. It permits secret > > arrests, sneak and peek searches, and obtaining bank, credit, library > > and Internet records, all without a warrant. The administration also > > instituted wiretaps and intercepts on millions of Americans' e-mail > > messages and phone calls without warrants, a program recently ruled > > unconstitutional by a federal court. > > > > In 2005, Bush quietly created the National Clandestine Service, which > > authorizes the CIA to operate within the United States -- despite past > > abuses such as Operation Chaos -- and reinstituted domestic spying by > > the military through the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), > > in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He also created the National > > Security Service, putting elements of the FBI under his direct > > control, the closest we have had to a secret police agency in our > > 200-year history. The FBI now sends out 30,000 National Security > > Letters per year, demanding personal information without benefit of a > > warrant. It has imposed gag orders on every aspect of NSLs, making it > > illegal to reveal that one has been received. How does this differ > > from secret police tactics? > > > > Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the > > government conducted surveillance on as many as 150 peaceful protest > > or social groups, including Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and Quakers > > in Florida. > > > > The Bush administration has used the threat of terrorism to silence > > peaceful protest at public events. It has happened all over the > > country, including to two women in Cedar Rapids who were handcuffed, > > led off to jail and strip-searched for "disrupting" a Bush > > rally. Terrorists, perhaps? One was wearing a Kerry/Edwards button; > > the other carried a small antiwar sign. > > > > Perhaps no event demonstrates more clearly the dangerous > > authoritarianism of the Bush crowd than the arrest of two American > > citizens, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, who were held for 3½ years in > > solitary confinement with no charges, no court appearance and no > > lawyer. The Bush administration declared them "enemy combatants" -- > > Enemies of the State -- and threw them in prison indefinitely, just > > like a Third World dictatorship. > > > > Winston Churchill once said: "The power of the executive to cast a man > > into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and > > particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest > > degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government > > whether Nazi or Communist." > > > > How far can the Bush administration go? Steven Bradbury of the Justice > > Department recently suggested before a congressional committee that > > the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist > > suspects inside the United States. > > > > Government assassination squads? In America? > > > > Things could get much worse. The Bush administration has bungled the > > war on terror so badly there are no real prospects of "winning." Even > > worse, the neoconservatives are pushing for a wider war in the Middle > > East. > > > > For more than a decade, they have advocated attacking Iraq, Iran, > > Syria, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia, using various smokescreens but, > > overwhelmingly, to defend Israel. The principal reason they wanted to > > invade Iraq was to eliminate any clandestine > > weapons-of-mass-destruction program that could have threatened Israel. > > > > The neocons' next target is Iran. The pretext is Iran's alleged > > nuclear weapons program, for which there is no more evidence than > > there was for Saddam Hussein's nukes. But Tehran, of course, backs > > Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah. > > > > You'd think the neocons would have learned something from the > > disastrous invasion of Iraq, an occupation that has already lasted > > longer than the U.S. fight against Germany in World War II. In the > > single-minded world of the neocons, however, attacking Iran is an > > "opportunity" to remake the Middle East. There is apparently no end of > > such opportunities: They also encouraged Israel to attack Syria during > > its incursion into Lebanon. > > > > Everybody in government knows that the terrorists hate us because of > > our blind support for Israel, not because they "hate our freedom." The > > Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness, the > > honest broker role we used to have, and now blindly backs every action > > Israel undertakes -- whether bombing a power plant in Gaza or > > civilians in Lebanon -- no matter how damaging to our own interests. > > > > The neocons are constantly pressing the government to ally the United > > States with Israel against much of the Islamic world (and its oil) in > > a "battle for civilization." Such a wider war would further inflame > > the Middle East and provoke an even greater terrorist threat in > > response, with higher costs than we can now imagine -- including > > domestic costs. > > > > James Madison once warned: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this > > land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." The Bush > > administration has already exploited the war in Iraq and fears about > > terrorism to stampede the American people into accepting an > > astonishing curtailment of their freedoms and growing lawlessness by > > the government. If the administration chooses to engage in the > > neocons' endless, global War for Civilization, American democracy will > > ultimately be one of the casualties. > > > > Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for > > proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, > > and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department > > on 9/11. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > http://www.tommaertens.com/biography/index.html > > > > Tom Maertens > > Biography > > > > I spent most of the last 35 years traveling the globe as a > > U.S. diplomat, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a naval officer. My > > final government position was as a senior official in the office of > > counter terrorism in the U.S. State Department during and after the > > attack of September 11, 2001. In that position, I helped organize the > > U.S. response to that attack, which came to be known as the War on > > Terrorism. In addition, I served as NSC Director for Nonproliferation > > under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, dealing with weapons of > > mass destruction. With this experience as background, I have written a > > number of articles on terrorism and on the war in Iraq, which are > > collected here. Included on this web site are other articles that I > > consider interesting or valuable along with some book > > recommendations. You may contact me with any comments you have by > > using the link at the top of the page. > > > > * Born in Minnesota and raised in Mankato, Minnesota > > > > * Naval Officer aboard a guided missile cruiser from 1966 to 1969 > > > > * Peace Corps volunteer to Ethiopia where he taught English as a > > second language and worked with the World Health Organization to > > eliminate smallpox from 1971 to 1972 > > > > * Foreign Service assignment in Ethiopia as a political reporting > > officer during the revolution > > > > * Subsequently served in Bogota, Columbia, reporting on internal > > politics, the insurgent groups and the drug connection > > > > * Worked on Soviet affairs dealing with arms control negotiations, > > economics, science and intelligence on different occasions > > > > * Served as Deputy Principal Officer in Leningrad, USSR, from 1987 to > > 1989 where he reported on the independence movements in the Baltics > > and the impending breakup of the Soviet Union > > > > * Staff member of Senate Foreign Relations committee and staff member > > and legislation author for Senator Bill Cohen > > > > * Senior Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 1990 to > > 1991; provided advice during December 1990 coup attempt to the > > Panamanian president; Recommended that Washington bring in US troops, > > which led to the collapse of the coup > > > > * Senior Political-Military Advisor, US Arms Control Delegation, > > Vienna, from 1991 to 1995 where he directed staff in conducting arms > > control negotiations with Russia and other countries > > > > * Deputy Director, Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy from > > 1995-1998 during which he developed and led international > > nonproliferation seminars to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, also > > coordinated transfers of high-technology goods (satellites, computers) > > > > * Directed the Environment, Science and Technology section, Moscow > > from 1998 to 2000 where he organized and coordinated embassy > > preparations for Y2K. Had oversight responsibility for a $350 million > > nuclear security program; was responsible for biological and chemical > > weapons issues and visited several Russian bio facilities > > > > * Director for Nonproliferation on the U.S. National Security Council > > from 2000 to 2001 where he chaired White House review of U.S./Russian > > Nonproliferation Programs, resulting in $2 billion reduction in costs, > > coordinated U.S. efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons and materials, > > and participated in policy formulation on biological weapons > > > > * U.S. Department of State Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism > > from 2001-2002 where he helped develop policy response to attacks of > > September 11, including planning the War on Terrorism
Opinions
2007-02-13 09:13:03 EST
Goodness wrote:
> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: > > > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > > > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > > > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > > > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > > > There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can > > be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an > > unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way > > back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such > > technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. > > Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on > > nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government > > has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would > > never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible > > citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe > > harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment > > and experimentation would appear with modern technology. > > > > In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by > > throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying > > around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it > > would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is > > used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, > > covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless > > they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are > > completely destroyed.
Although legitimate, honest parts of the American government do investigate this somewhat, what many people don't realize is countries like China, Venezuela and the EU nations have investigated this far more thoroughly.
This is one of the main reasons why countries like Veneluela are becoming anti-American government, and why China and Russia are saying the Cold War isn't over yet.
The tactics described above, which are designed to make a good citizen look "crazy, insane and dangerous" are not new tactics. They were being used during the Cold War and this was one of the biggest reasons the Cold War continued for so many years.
> This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, > > as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were > > left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and > > impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for > > decades.] > > Moral Psychology counters any of this > > Guidelines for Moral Psychology > http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/law/moral-guide.html > > 1. The basic values and virtues to be explained within moral psychology > are respect, honesty, trust, compassion, love, dignity, kindness, > sympathy, forgiveness as well as other attributes that denote goodness and > love. > > 2. No illness, drugs or alcohol can make a person commit a crime or break > the law. To suggest otherwise is incorrect grammar. Having an illness or > disease can never cause a person to lose his or her morals, nor is it ever > an excuse for breaking the law. While an illness can make a persons body > feel bad, an illness cannot make someone feel like a bad person. Every > person must be held fully accountable for any crime he or she commits. > > 3. All people are equal under the law. All people are born with a natural > love of morals and desire for goodness. To suggest that some people are > not, no matter how scientific sounding, is racism and cannot be accepted. > > 4.Good morals should always be described in an attractive, appealing > manner, not as something strict or repressive. The best way to resolve a > personal problem is to forgive the people involved and forget about it, > not dwell on it. > > 5. Advise people to forget aggression and forgive people. Promote > friendship and cooperation instead of rivalry and competition. > Complicated, derogatory words cannot be included within moral psychology. > Do not use technical terms to describe people. > > 6. Do not describe people as being merely uncivilized animals who must > compete against each other for survival, and who have no need for morals. > Illegal behavior is a result of choice, not genetic predisposition (to > suggest otherwise is racism). > > 7. Superstition is not taught within moral psychology. A superstition is > any belief or notion which is based more on emotional intrigue and > unprovable theories than on fact. Examples are astrology, fortune telling, > UFOs, ghosts, brain scans or handwriting analysis for criminal tendencies > (not for ID), tarot card reading, ESP, Rorschach ink blot readings, palm > reading, hypnotism, numerology, phrenology, etc. Superstition includes all > other readings, teachings and analyses that are based on opinion and > speculation. > > 8. A person should respect his own culture, and other cultures as well. > The more people respect their own culture, the more they tend to respect > other cultures. Cultural respect is very important. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Has Our Aim Been True? > > So much has gone wrong since jets hit the Twin Towers. > > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-32.htm > > by Tom Maertens > > Published on Monday, September 11, 2006 > > Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minnesota) > > > > Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's > > costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our > > civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of > > the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has > > already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and > > similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and > > loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And > > there are more terrorists in the world than ever before, a fact the > > administration plays up to curtail our freedoms. In the aftermath of > > 9/11, the administration succeeded in passing an extreme version of an > > internal security law, called the USA Patriot Act. It permits secret > > arrests, sneak and peek searches, and obtaining bank, credit, library > > and Internet records, all without a warrant. The administration also > > instituted wiretaps and intercepts on millions of Americans' e-mail > > messages and phone calls without warrants, a program recently ruled > > unconstitutional by a federal court. > > > > In 2005, Bush quietly created the National Clandestine Service, which > > authorizes the CIA to operate within the United States -- despite past > > abuses such as Operation Chaos -- and reinstituted domestic spying by > > the military through the Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA), > > in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. He also created the National > > Security Service, putting elements of the FBI under his direct > > control, the closest we have had to a secret police agency in our > > 200-year history. The FBI now sends out 30,000 National Security > > Letters per year, demanding personal information without benefit of a > > warrant. It has imposed gag orders on every aspect of NSLs, making it > > illegal to reveal that one has been received. How does this differ > > from secret police tactics? > > > > Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the > > government conducted surveillance on as many as 150 peaceful protest > > or social groups, including Greenpeace, Catholic Workers, and Quakers > > in Florida. > > > > The Bush administration has used the threat of terrorism to silence > > peaceful protest at public events. It has happened all over the > > country, including to two women in Cedar Rapids who were handcuffed, > > led off to jail and strip-searched for "disrupting" a Bush > > rally. Terrorists, perhaps? One was wearing a Kerry/Edwards button; > > the other carried a small antiwar sign. > > > > Perhaps no event demonstrates more clearly the dangerous > > authoritarianism of the Bush crowd than the arrest of two American > > citizens, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, who were held for 3½ years in > > solitary confinement with no charges, no court appearance and no > > lawyer. The Bush administration declared them "enemy combatants" -- > > Enemies of the State -- and threw them in prison indefinitely, just > > like a Third World dictatorship. > > > > Winston Churchill once said: "The power of the executive to cast a man > > into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and > > particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest > > degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government > > whether Nazi or Communist." > > > > How far can the Bush administration go? Steven Bradbury of the Justice > > Department recently suggested before a congressional committee that > > the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist > > suspects inside the United States. > > > > Government assassination squads? In America? > > > > Things could get much worse. The Bush administration has bungled the > > war on terror so badly there are no real prospects of "winning." Even > > worse, the neoconservatives are pushing for a wider war in the Middle > > East. > > > > For more than a decade, they have advocated attacking Iraq, Iran, > > Syria, Lebanon and even Saudi Arabia, using various smokescreens but, > > overwhelmingly, to defend Israel. The principal reason they wanted to > > invade Iraq was to eliminate any clandestine > > weapons-of-mass-destruction program that could have threatened Israel. > > > > The neocons' next target is Iran. The pretext is Iran's alleged > > nuclear weapons program, for which there is no more evidence than > > there was for Saddam Hussein's nukes. But Tehran, of course, backs > > Israel's nemesis, Hezbollah. > > > > You'd think the neocons would have learned something from the > > disastrous invasion of Iraq, an occupation that has already lasted > > longer than the U.S. fight against Germany in World War II. In the > > single-minded world of the neocons, however, attacking Iran is an > > "opportunity" to remake the Middle East. There is apparently no end of > > such opportunities: They also encouraged Israel to attack Syria during > > its incursion into Lebanon. > > > > Everybody in government knows that the terrorists hate us because of > > our blind support for Israel, not because they "hate our freedom." The > > Bush administration has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness, the > > honest broker role we used to have, and now blindly backs every action > > Israel undertakes -- whether bombing a power plant in Gaza or > > civilians in Lebanon -- no matter how damaging to our own interests. > > > > The neocons are constantly pressing the government to ally the United > > States with Israel against much of the Islamic world (and its oil) in > > a "battle for civilization." Such a wider war would further inflame > > the Middle East and provoke an even greater terrorist threat in > > response, with higher costs than we can now imagine -- including > > domestic costs. > > > > James Madison once warned: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this > > land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." The Bush > > administration has already exploited the war in Iraq and fears about > > terrorism to stampede the American people into accepting an > > astonishing curtailment of their freedoms and growing lawlessness by > > the government. If the administration chooses to engage in the > > neocons' endless, global War for Civilization, American democracy will > > ultimately be one of the casualties. > > > > Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for > > proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, > > and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department > > on 9/11. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > http://www.tommaertens.com/biography/index.html > > > > Tom Maertens > > Biography > > > > I spent most of the last 35 years traveling the globe as a > > U.S. diplomat, a Peace Corps volunteer, and as a naval officer. My > > final government position was as a senior official in the office of > > counter terrorism in the U.S. State Department during and after the > > attack of September 11, 2001. In that position, I helped organize the > > U.S. response to that attack, which came to be known as the War on > > Terrorism. In addition, I served as NSC Director for Nonproliferation > > under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, dealing with weapons of > > mass destruction. With this experience as background, I have written a > > number of articles on terrorism and on the war in Iraq, which are > > collected here. Included on this web site are other articles that I > > consider interesting or valuable along with some book > > recommendations. You may contact me with any comments you have by > > using the link at the top of the page. > > > > * Born in Minnesota and raised in Mankato, Minnesota > > > > * Naval Officer aboard a guided missile cruiser from 1966 to 1969 > > > > * Peace Corps volunteer to Ethiopia where he taught English as a > > second language and worked with the World Health Organization to > > eliminate smallpox from 1971 to 1972 > > > > * Foreign Service assignment in Ethiopia as a political reporting > > officer during the revolution > > > > * Subsequently served in Bogota, Columbia, reporting on internal > > politics, the insurgent groups and the drug connection > > > > * Worked on Soviet affairs dealing with arms control negotiations, > > economics, science and intelligence on different occasions > > > > * Served as Deputy Principal Officer in Leningrad, USSR, from 1987 to > > 1989 where he reported on the independence movements in the Baltics > > and the impending breakup of the Soviet Union > > > > * Staff member of Senate Foreign Relations committee and staff member > > and legislation author for Senator Bill Cohen > > > > * Senior Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 1990 to > > 1991; provided advice during December 1990 coup attempt to the > > Panamanian president; Recommended that Washington bring in US troops, > > which led to the collapse of the coup > > > > * Senior Political-Military Advisor, US Arms Control Delegation, > > Vienna, from 1991 to 1995 where he directed staff in conducting arms > > control negotiations with Russia and other countries > > > > * Deputy Director, Arms Transfer and Export Control Policy from > > 1995-1998 during which he developed and led international > > nonproliferation seminars to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, also > > coordinated transfers of high-technology goods (satellites, computers) > > > > * Directed the Environment, Science and Technology section, Moscow > > from 1998 to 2000 where he organized and coordinated embassy > > preparations for Y2K. Had oversight responsibility for a $350 million > > nuclear security program; was responsible for biological and chemical > > weapons issues and visited several Russian bio facilities > > > > * Director for Nonproliferation on the U.S. National Security Council > > from 2000 to 2001 where he chaired White House review of U.S./Russian > > Nonproliferation Programs, resulting in $2 billion reduction in costs, > > coordinated U.S. efforts to safeguard nuclear weapons and materials, > > and participated in policy formulation on biological weapons > > > > * U.S. Department of State Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism > > from 2001-2002 where he helped develop policy response to attacks of > > September 11, including planning the War on Terrorism
AmerGovtPsychopathsExposer
2007-02-13 14:47:56 EST
"Opinions" <web@internet.com> wrote in message news:45D1C39A.E93066F8@internet.com... > Goodness wrote: > >> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: >> >> > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for >> > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator >> > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In >> > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 >> > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. >> > >> > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the >> > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the >> > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He >> > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination >> > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. >> > >> > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to >> > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In >> > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death >> > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such >> > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding >> > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is >> > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were >> > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. >> > >> > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such >> > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death >> > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and >> > Central American style death squads here, the North American death >> > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American >> > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy >> > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American >> > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, >> > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > We must remember that ultimately anyone who engages in > lies, wrongdoing and deception harms himself much more than anyone else. > > http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/sup/harassment.html > > This means that a false flag waver harms himself much more than anyone > else. He confuses himself more than anyone else. The person engaging in > harm and deception slowly loses his mind...., until he stops doing it, > earnestly asks for forgiveness, and even then it will take time for him to > heal up from. >
Which is why American govt FBI and NSA PSYCHOPATHS, CRIMINALS, MURDERERS, VAMPIRES, SADISTS, RAPISTS, PEDOPHILES and PERVERTS should be RUTHLESSLY KILLED, RAPED and MAIMED for the BENEFIT of the AMERICANS and the REST OF HUMANITY......
EVERY FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATH must be RUTHLESSLY KILLED "JUST FOR THE WAY THEY THINK" which is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to the WHOLE HUMANITY on planet earth........
Read my EMPHASIS on "JUST FOR THE WAY FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATHS THINK"
AmerGovtPsychopathsExposer
2007-02-13 14:50:48 EST
"Opinions" <web@internet.com> wrote in message news:45D1C76F.7DCE44ED@internet.com... > Goodness wrote: > >> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: >> >> > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for >> > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator >> > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In >> > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 >> > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. >> > >> > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the >> > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the >> > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He >> > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination >> > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. >> > >> > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to >> > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In >> > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death >> > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such >> > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding >> > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is >> > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were >> > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. >> > >> > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such >> > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death >> > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and >> > Central American style death squads here, the North American death >> > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American >> > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy >> > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American >> > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, >> > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. >> > >> > There is some truly amazing technology available today. While it can >> > be used in positive ways, it can also be used to impose an >> > unprecedented, total police state (as Sen. Frank Church warned us, way >> > back in the 70s). The so-called nonlethal weapons are one such >> > technology that can be turned into a technology of political control. >> > Just as with MKULTRA, this technology has already been tested on >> > nonconsensual citizens and applied extrajudicially. The government >> > has not admitted this, but then again, they told us that the NSA would >> > never, ever spy on Americans... It is true. There are credible >> > citizens all across the US (and in other nations too) who describe >> > harassment which is *exactly* how such covert programs of harassment >> > and experimentation would appear with modern technology. >> > >> > In South and Central America the death squads dispose of bodies by >> > throwing them out of airplanes into the ocean, or leaving them lying >> > around on the streets. That will not do in North America, since it >> > would raise questions. In North America the psychiatric system is >> > used to dispose of the bodies. Even though the victims of modern, >> > covert, high-tech assault are usually not physically killed (unless >> > they are driven to suicide), by any objective measure their lives are >> > completely destroyed. > > Although legitimate, honest parts of the American government do > investigate > this somewhat, what many people don't realize is countries like China, > Venezuela and the EU nations have investigated this far more thoroughly. > > This is one of the main reasons why countries like Veneluela are becoming > anti-American government, and why China and Russia are saying the Cold War > isn't over yet. > > The tactics described above, which are designed to make a good citizen > look > "crazy, insane and dangerous" are not new tactics. They were being used > during > the Cold War and this was one of the biggest reasons the Cold War > continued > for so many years. > > > >> This has a disrupting and discrediting effect, >> > as well as sending a warning to others (just as if dead bodies were >> > left by the roadside). It also allows for denials, deniability, and >> > impunity under which these human rights abuses can continue for >> > decades.] >> >> Moral Psychology counters any of this >> >> Guidelines for Moral Psychology >> http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/law/moral-guide.html >> >> 1. The basic values and virtues to be explained within moral psychology >> are respect, honesty, trust, compassion, love, dignity, kindness, >> sympathy, forgiveness as well as other attributes that denote goodness >> and >> love. >> >> 2. No illness, drugs or alcohol can make a person commit a crime or >> break >> the law. To suggest otherwise is incorrect grammar. Having an illness or >> disease can never cause a person to lose his or her morals, nor is it >> ever >> an excuse for breaking the law. While an illness can make a person's body >> feel bad, an illness cannot make someone feel like a bad person. Every >> person must be held fully accountable for any crime he or she commits. >> >> 3. All people are equal under the law. All people are born with a >> natural >> love of morals and desire for goodness. To suggest that some people are >> not, no matter how scientific sounding, is racism and cannot be accepted. >>
<Res to the MORAL PSYCHOLOGY by this UNDERCOVER FBI PSYCHOPATH SHIT SNIPPED>
ALL American govt FBI and NSA PSYCHOPATHS, CRIMINALS, MURDERERS, VAMPIRES, SADISTS, RAPISTS, PEDOPHILES and PERVERTS should be RUTHLESSLY KILLED, RAPED and MAIMED for the BENEFIT of the AMERICANS and the REST OF HUMANITY......
EVERY FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATH must be RUTHLESSLY KILLED "JUST FOR THE WAY THEY THINK" which is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS to the WHOLE HUMANITY on planet earth........
Read my EMPHASIS on JUST FOR THE WAY FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATHS "THINK"
Challenge
2007-02-14 18:42:02 EST
"Opinions" <web@internet.com> wrote in message news:45D1C39A.E93066F8@internet.com... > Goodness wrote: > >> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: >> >> > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for >> > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator >> > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In >> > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 >> > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. >> > >> > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the >> > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the >> > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He >> > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination >> > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. >> > >> > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to >> > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In >> > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death >> > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such >> > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding >> > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is >> > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were >> > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. >> > >> > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such >> > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death >> > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and >> > Central American style death squads here, the North American death >> > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American >> > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy >> > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American >> > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, >> > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > We must remember that ultimately anyone who engages in > lies, wrongdoing and deception harms himself much more than anyone else. > > http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/sup/harassment.html > > This means that a false flag waver harms himself much more than anyone > else. He confuses himself more than anyone else. The person engaging in > harm and deception slowly loses his mind...., until he stops doing it, > earnestly asks for forgiveness, and even then it will take time for him to > heal up from. > > Everyone has probably heard of the problem with corrupt policemen in > America. Corrupt policemen usually become blithering alcoholics. Those > who > stop it and work towards preventing it, heal up from it over time. >
Opinions,
I went to myspace and downloaded a couple of 16 yr old kids pictures and then masturbated fantasizing about fucking them while being watched by FBI in real time live.
And then I showed the cum on my fingers to my FBI friends who are watching and recording this whole stuff by putting my hand very close to the video surveillance devices.
I would have downloaded 14 yr old kids pictures but the problem I encountered was I didnt know how to browse and search for 14 yr old kids pictures and I dont have time to do research.
Can you please post a comment explaining how to do download 14 yr old pictures ?
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2007-02-15 10:53:00 EST
On Feb 14, 4:42 pm, "Challenge" <Challe...@Challenge.com> wrote: > "Opinions" <w...@internet.com> wrote in message > > news:45D1C39A.E93066F8@internet.com... > > > > > > > Goodness wrote: > > >> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: > > >> > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > >> > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > >> > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > >> > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > >> > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > >> > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > >> > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > >> > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > >> > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > >> > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > >> > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > >> > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > >> > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > >> > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > >> > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > >> > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > >> > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > >> > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > >> > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > >> > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > >> > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > >> > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > >> > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > >> > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > >> > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > >> > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > >> > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > > We must remember that ultimately anyone who engages in > > lies, wrongdoing and deception harms himself much more than anyone else. > > >http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/sup/harassment.html > > > This means that a false flag waver harms himself much more than anyone > > else. He confuses himself more than anyone else. The person engaging in > > harm and deception slowly loses his mind...., until he stops doing it, > > earnestly asks for forgiveness, and even then it will take time for him to > > heal up from. > > > Everyone has probably heard of the problem with corrupt policemen in > > America. Corrupt policemen usually become blithering alcoholics. Those > > who > > stop it and work towards preventing it, heal up from it over time. > > Opinions, > > I went to myspace and downloaded a couple of 16 yr old kids pictures and > then masturbated fantasizing about fucking them while being watched by FBI > in real time live. > > And then I showed the cum on my fingers to my FBI friends who are watching > and recording this whole stuff by putting my hand very close to the video > surveillance devices. > > I would have downloaded 14 yr old kids pictures but the problem I > encountered was I didnt know how to browse and search for 14 yr old kids > pictures and I dont have time to do research. > > Can you please post a comment explaining how to do download 14 yr old > pictures ? > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
What are you, focus on the family?
2007-02-15 10:53:40 EST
On Feb 14, 4:42 pm, "Challenge" <Challe...@Challenge.com> wrote: > "Opinions" <w...@internet.com> wrote in message > > news:45D1C39A.E93066F8@internet.com... > > > > > > > Goodness wrote: > > >> "Allen L. Barker" wrote: > > >> > [The article below is by Tom Maertens, who was Director for > >> > Nonproliferation at the NSC from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Coordinator > >> > for Counterterrorism at the State Department from 2001 to 2002. In > >> > the latter position he helped develop the response to the 9/11 > >> > attacks; see the biography appended to the article below. > > >> > In the article Maertens is highly critical of the response to the > >> > attacks, particularly with regard to civil liberties. He compares the > >> > FBI's use of National Security Letters to secret police tactics. He > >> > also openly discusses the possible use of government assassination > >> > squads in America -- as suggested by a Justice Department official. > > >> > The full article is below, and it is well worth reading. I do want to > >> > make one point, though, regarding government assassination squads. In > >> > South and Central America these were (and still are) known as death > >> > squads. The US has a long history of turning a blind eye to such > >> > activities, as well as a history of planning, organizing, and funding > >> > such actions covertly. The current Intelligence Czar, for example, is > >> > known for claiming not to have known that such activities were > >> > occurring in Honduras while he was the ambassador there. > > >> > Eternal vigilance demands that we take even the *possibility* of such > >> > activities here seriously. But, what would North American death > >> > squads look like? While we need to be vigilant about South and > >> > Central American style death squads here, the North American death > >> > squads would look different -- at least at first. North American > >> > death squads would operate deniably, in secret (and government secrecy > >> > has truly gotten out of control in the US these days). North American > >> > death squads would look like modern, high-tech versions of COINTELPRO, > >> > MKULTRA, and MHCHAOS. > > > We must remember that ultimately anyone who engages in > > lies, wrongdoing and deception harms himself much more than anyone else. > > >http://fortresscastles.bravepages.com/sup/harassment.html > > > This means that a false flag waver harms himself much more than anyone > > else. He confuses himself more than anyone else. The person engaging in > > harm and deception slowly loses his mind...., until he stops doing it, > > earnestly asks for forgiveness, and even then it will take time for him to > > heal up from. > > > Everyone has probably heard of the problem with corrupt policemen in > > America. Corrupt policemen usually become blithering alcoholics. Those > > who > > stop it and work towards preventing it, heal up from it over time. > > Opinions, > > I went to myspace and downloaded a couple of 16 yr old kids pictures and > then masturbated fantasizing about fucking them while being watched by FBI > in real time live. > > And then I showed the cum on my fingers to my FBI friends who are watching > and recording this whole stuff by putting my hand very close to the video > surveillance devices. > > I would have downloaded 14 yr old kids pictures but the problem I > encountered was I didnt know how to browse and search for 14 yr old kids > pictures and I dont have time to do research. > > Can you please post a comment explaining how to do download 14 yr old > pictures ? > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com