Terrorists in High Places: America's Shadow Government

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Terrorists in High Places: America's Shadow Government

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December 30, 2005

 

Terrorists in High Places

America's Shadow Government

 

by Charles Sullivan

 

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Wars are not waged by those who have to fight them. Those who fight

wars know too well their terrible costs. Wars are waged by those who

profit from them with minimal or no risk to themselves. War is big

business and it is immensely profitable for a select few who are

insulated from the effects of war's environmental impacts and social

costs. War never serves the interest of working class people. They are

the result of menacing forces of greed and power masquerading as

benevolent government, insulating us from contrived acts of terror.

They are in fact anything but munificent.

 

Never is the trait of deceit more treacherous than when it leads to

the loss of precious innocent life. It was obvious from the outset

that George Bush lied about the pretext for war with Iraq. His man

servant, Colin Powell, sold the idea to the world in his infamous

speech before the United Nations. It was widely known that Saddam

Hussein had little war making capabilities; and he certainly did not

pose a credible threat to the United States, Israel, or any Middle

Eastern Country. U.N. weapons inspectors such as Scott Ritter made

this fact known long before the invasion began. Saddam Hussein was the

creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Boogey Man

necessary to sell the American people on Bush's illegitimate invasion

and occupation of Iraq.

 

Likewise, Osama Bin Laden was on the C.I.A. payroll. And like Saddam

Hussein, he was another Boogey Man created to sell the American people

on the invasion of Afghanistan. Based upon the evidence, it is

unlikely that Bin Laden or any other Muslim had anything to do with

the events of September 11. That, too, was in all probability another

cruel hoax perpetrated on the American people by those who stood to

make billions of dollars by plundering Afghanistan and Iraq. It also

explains why so little effort has been spent finding Bin Laden, the

supposed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

 

The events of 9/11 were, I contend, an inside job. The findings of the

9/11 truth commission defy the laws of physics and ignore the most

relevant physical evidence. They are a work of phantasmagoric fiction

that requires us to believe the fantastic—that tall buildings can fall

at free fall speed within their own footprint, for example. Or that

small fires can melt steel pillars and cause massive sky scrapers to

collapse. But that is another story.

 

What is beyond dispute, however, is that the events of 9/11 set off a

chain reaction of cause and effect in the Middle East. Soon after the

U.S. bombing and invasion of Afghanistan, Unocal (recently merged with

Chevron) had established a major oil pipeline through Afghanistan—a

territory ruled by war lords hostile to U.S. imperialism. Soon the

money from the plunder of Afghanistan was filling the corporate

coffers with black gold. What is the loss of a few thousand innocent

civilians when there is money to be made? Let them live in the Stone

Age we have created for them.

 

I fully understand what a profound and potentially shocking statement

that is to those who have been deceived by the `official' history of

the United States. It would require that members of the Bush regime

were knowingly complicit in the murder of thousands of innocent U.S.

citizens. It might even require that they actually orchestrated those

events as a pretext to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, even though

neither country had anything to do with 9/11. As testimony to the

commercial media's proficiency at deception, forty-two percent of

Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.

Never mind that there isn't a shred of evidence to substantiate that

claim. It is a matter of faith. When Bush and his minions repeat those

stale lies over and over and the media repeatedly broadcasts them, the

ill informed can be made to believe anything. The bigger the lie, the

more readily it is believed. The official version of the events of

9/11 could not take root in the public conscience without the

complicity of the corporate media. Make no mistake: the commercial

media is a vital and potent component of the Pentagon's superb

propaganda machine.

 

In reality, the neocon agenda of global domination is the blueprint

for the events of 9/11, as revealed in the `Project for the New

American Century' and `Rebuilding America's Defenses'. Both of these

revealing documents are online for public perusal. Reading them is

imperative to understanding not only America's veiled history, but

also current events. They offer considerable insight into future

military interventions. It is no irony that these documents, which

call for regime change in Iraq and a host of other countries was

authored by the very same people who are serving in the current Bush

regime. They are the same people who stand to benefit financially and

politically from the plunder and occupation of Iraq, as well as the

rest of the world.

 

Subsequent to the events of 9/11, the neocon brain trust declared that

a catalyzing event was needed to galvanize the American people to back

a plan of U.S. global domination—a New Pearl Harbor. On the morning of

September 12, 2001, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, called for

an immediate attack on Iraq, and Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney

repeatedly referred to the events of 9/11 as " an opportunity. " George

Bush declared that he " hit the trifecta. " The Bush people could hardly

contain their glee. These statements of fact reveal much about the

kind of people who are running the country. It should also make clear

that in America there is no separation of commercial media and

state—the two are as inseparable as newlyweds on a honeymoon.

 

As unthinkable as it may be to some, the wanton murder of American

citizens by the government is not without precedent. America's dark

history is brimming with examples. Two well documented cases

illustrate my point. In 2000 Robert Stinnett published a book entitled

`Day of Deceit: the Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor.' In his book

Stinnett paints an ugly picture that lead up to the American entrance

into World War Two. Citing extensively from thousands of previously

classified documents, Stinnett demonstrates that Franklin Delano

Roosevelt knew about the invasion of Pearl Harbor a year before it

happened. The newly declassified Pentagon documents reveal that U.S.

naval ships and air craft were ordered to stand by and allow the

attack to happen. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked by

a popular American president who allowed American military personnel

to be slaughtered by foreign invaders. Roosevelt's tactic was wildly

successful. The day before the attack only sixteen percent of

Americans polled favored entry into the war. The following day, more

than a million men signed up for the military. In effect, as

commander-in chief, Roosevelt presided over a treasonous act of murder

against his own military. But, like so many other events in American

history, none of this is revealed in the `official' version of written

history. These events bear an uncanny similarity to the events of 9/11.

 

More recently, in the prelude to the U.S. entrance into the Viet Nam

war, a phantom attack on two U.S. destroyers cruising the Gulf of

Tonkin was staged by the Pentagon and the C.I.A. The bogus attack

occurred early in August, 1964. That evening President Lyndon Johnson

went on television giving the grim details of the non-attack. Later,

however, it was revealed that navy commander James Stockdale flew

cover over the Gulf of Tonkin that night. Stockdale disclosed that

U.S. ships were firing at phantom targets—targets that didn't exist.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that drew the U.S. into the quagmire of

Viet Nam simply didn't happen. Johnson, as presidents so often do,

lied to the American people. The result was the rapid passage of the

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was the sole legal basis for the Viet

Nam War. As a result of Johnson's lie, three million Vietnamese people

and fifty eight thousand U.S. soldiers died.

 

The neocons, with their corporate handlers and their equally complicit

counterparts, the neoliberals, are in fact a shadow government that

runs America. They have names like Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz,

Rumsfeld, Rice, Kristol, Dulles, Kennedy and Rockefeller; Lockheed

Martin, Halliburton, General Electric, Unocal, Shell Oil and Boeing.

Democracy, freedom, liberty, organized labor, peace, and social

justice are their avowed enemies. Their crooked, talonous fingers dig

deep into the profits of war, while simultaneously clutching the

broken spines of the moldering corpses they produce. They are the grim

reapers of unrepentant capitalism run amok.

 

George Bush got his anxiously awaited war on Iraq. Halliburton,

Bechtel, and other corporations are raking in billions. It is easy

money for the war profiteers who risk nothing and gain everything. It

is our tax money that is subsidizing their obscene profits. Layers of

our civil liberties were quietly repealed. It is our sons and

daughters who die for the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton

and Bechtel. They are America's shadow government—the unseen hands

pulling the strings of atrocity. Someone has to tell our children what

they are dying for. This is George Bush's noble cause.

 

Unless we stop them, their grim work is not done. It will never be

done until there is nothing left to defile. There will be countless

millions more corpses, broken lives and torn families to follow. Even

more ghastly attacks on unwitting American citizens will be

fabricated; and fools will play along with them. The flags will come

out and Nationalism will spread like a lethal virus across the land.

Dissenters will be denounced and imprisoned. These acts of contrived

terrorism will be the pretext for the invasion and occupation of other

sovereign nations. They will be the pretext for feeding the war

machine the blood and the bones of our babies. You see, there are

terrorists lurking in high places. They are in the Whitehouse. They

are the enablers in Congress who serve the corporate interest, rather

than justice. They are hidden behind the beckoning smiles of news

anchor men and anchor women. They operate in the dark smoky recesses

of corporate board rooms, out of public view. Their tentacles reach

into every aspect of our lives. They lie concealed in the stinking

breath of the Rush Limbaughs of this world in their awful ability to

persuade. They are not on our side.

 

We must resist them at all cost. We must inform ourselves. Speak truth

to power. Let them know that we see through their masks. Do not accept

this. Organize. Organize. Organize.

 

Charles Sullivan is a furniture maker, photographer, and free lance

writer residing in the eastern panhandle of West Virgina. He welcomes

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