9/11 Dutch Treat?

FPF-fwd. from "Stephen M. St. John"

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9/11 Dutch Treat?

By Stephen M. St. John - Google Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7h827

Sunday Nov 6, 2005 - Those who have bothered to read the 9/11 skeptics know about the extraordinary coincidences that took place that fateful morning. One of them happens to be the lack of routine video surveillance tapes of ANY of the passengers alleged to have boarded the ill-fated flights at Boston's Logan, Newark's Liberty and Washington's Dulles international airports.

The 9/11 Commission simply ignored this issue even though it can be fairly said that not only did the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington originate at these airport gates, but so did the resulting invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Why haven't we seen these video tapes? Why has the fourth estate failed to ask, Why haven't we seen these video tapes? Why the conspiracy of silence?

WELL, THE ANSWER MAY VERY WELL LIE IN HOLLAND.

You see, security at some if not all of these airport gates of 9/11 was in the hands of an American minimum-wage subsidiary of a Dutch corporation called ICTS-International. What is most remarkable about this arrangement is that the Dutch corporation ICTS-International was, as of 9/11, Dutch in name only. An early 2003 check of its web-site showed a Board of Directors consisting entirely of nationals of the Zionist state with the single exception of the Comptroller, who apparently was the nominal Dutchman!

And if I need to clue in the clueless, the Zionists were hellbent on finding a reason for the USA to invade Iraq. And it would be fair to say that these Zionists were the gatekeepers of 9/11 and all that followed, such as the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Interesting, eh? But the story gets even wilder.

DIED SUDDENLY OF A HEART ATTACK

Not long after 9/11, the chairman of ICTS, whose surname Harel is famous in the annals of the Mossad, died suddenly of a heart attack in his early 50s on his yacht off the coast of Palestine!* Talk about not being available for comment! But that's not the kicker. Hours before the House version of the first Patriot Act went to a vote, "technical corrections" were inserted into the body of the legislation whereby foreign security companies such as ICTS would be immune from lawsuits related to the events of 9/11. Talk about not being available for deposition!

This "Patriot" Act legislative sleight of hand occurred before the inception of the 9/11 Commission when Fearless Leader George W. Bush was still resisting the IDEA of an investigation into 9/11!

Hence, in the face of an institutional cover-up, citizens were denied the possibility of a discovery process which is normally afforded to litigants. Without such discovery process, ICTS-International would never be compelled by a court of law to give testimony and show evidence related to the missing airport video surveillance tapes of 9/11 or any other aspect of security measures in place on 9/11.

And so, we are supposed to believe that even as multiple NORAD drills were underway, video surveillance tapes from multiple cameras at multiple locations in three different "Category X" high security international airports just happened to fail to capture images of ANY of the passengers - the good, the bad and the ugly - about to board the ill-fated flights of 9/11!

As many APFN readers know, what I have just described here is just one aspect of the BIG LIE about 9/11.

Some of the answers to our national security problem will be found in Holland.

That is for sure!


Stephen M. St. John -


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* MSNBC - Poll: Ninety-four (94) percent believes that George Bush and the neocon media mislead the nation to go to war with Iraq - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248969/

* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Drifting Towards a Police State

"The country is slipping inexorably towards the Orwellian nightmare - the National Security State."

by Mike Whitney

November 3, 2005 - "Those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends."

-- Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft


Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where "defendants gave financial support to umbrella organizations without realizing that some of its adherents might eventually commit violence"? (NY Times editorial, October 30, 2005)

So, if someone unknowingly gave money to a charity that was connected to a terrorist group, he/she could be
executed.

Or, that the Senate Intelligence Committee is fine-tuning the details of a bill that will allow the FBI to secretly procure any of your personal records without "probable cause" or a court order giving them "unchecked authority to pry into personal and business matters"? ("Republicans Seek to Widen FBI Powers," New York Times, October 19, 2005)

Or, that on June 29, President Bush put "a broad swath of the FBI" under his direct control by creating the National Security Service (a.k.a. the "New SS")? This is the first time we've had a "secret police" in our 200-year history. It will be run exclusively by the president and beyond the range of congressional oversight.

Or, that on October 27, 2005 president Bush created the National Clandestine Service, which will be headed by CIA Director Porter Goss and will "expand reporting of information and intelligence value from state, local and tribal law enforcement entities and private sector stakeholders"? This executive order gives the CIA the power to carry out covert operations, spying, propaganda, and "dirty tricks" within the United States and on the American public. ("The New National Intelligence Strategy of the US" by Larry Chin, Global Research)

Or, that Pentagon intelligence operatives are now permitted to collect information from US citizens without revealing their status as government spies? (Greg Miller, "Bill would give Cover to Pentagon Spies," Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2005)

Or, that within two years every American license and passport will be made according to federal uniform standards including microchips (with biometric information) that will allow the government to trace every movement of its citizens?

Or, that recent rulings, the DC District Court unanimously decided in two different cases that foreign prisoners have no rights under international law to challenge their indefinite imprisonment by the United States and, (in Rumsfeld vs. Padilla) that the president can lock up an American citizen "without charges" if he believes he may be an "enemy combatant"? Both verdicts overturn the fundamental principles of "inalienable rights", habeas corpus, and the presumption of innocence, replacing them with the arbitrary authority of the executive.

The American people have no idea of the amount of energy that has been devoted to stripping them of their constitutional protections and how stealthily that plan has been carried out. It has required the concerted efforts of the political establishment, the corporate elite, and the collaborative media. For all practical purposes, the government is no longer constrained in its conduct towards its citizens; it can do as it pleases.

The campaign to dismantle the Bill of Rights has focused primarily on the key Amendments, the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th. These are the cornerstones of American liberty and they encompass everything from due process to equal protection to free speech to a ban on the "cruel and unusual" treatment of prisoners. Freedom has little tangible meaning apart from the safety provided by these amendments.

At present, there's no reason for the administration to assert its new powers. That would only dispel the widely held illusion of personal freedom. But, the existing climate of "well being" will not last forever. The poisonous effects of war, tax cuts, burgeoning budget deficits, and inflation indicate that darker days lie ahead. The middle class is stretched paper-thin and disaster could be as close as a hike in interest rates.

The new repressive legislation anticipates the massive political unrest that naturally follows a tenuous and volatile economic situation.

Is this why Congress has rubber-stamped so many of the administration's autocratic laws, or does Bush simply "hate our freedoms"?

The members of America's ruling elite carefully follow the shifting of policy in Washington. They have the power to access the mainstream media and dispute the changes in the law that they oppose. Regrettably, there's been no sign of protest from the bastions of the corporate, financial and political oligarchy, just an ominous silence.

Does this mean that American Brahmins have abandoned their support for personal liberty and the rights of man?

America is undergoing its greatest metamorphosis. It has been severed from its constitutional moorings and is drifting towards a police state. If Samuel Alito is appointed to the Supreme Court then Bush will be able to solidify his "unchecked" power as executive and 50 years of progressive legislation will be up for review. Everything from abortion to Miranda will be reconsidered through the hard-right lens of the new majority.

Americans still seem blissfully unaware of the fundamental changes to the political system. The cloak of disinformation and diversion has successfully obscured the perils of our present course. Freedom is no longer guaranteed in Bush's America nor is liberty everyman's birthright. The rickety scaffolding that supports the rule of law has been replaced with the unbridled authority of the supreme presidency.

The country is slipping inexorably towards the Orwellian nightmare - the National Security State.

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Mike Whitney lives in Washington state, and can be reached at: fergiewhitney@msn.com.

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The FBI's Secret Scrutiny & the STASI

FPF - NOv. 6th 2005 - In former East Germany the feared 'State Security Service' (Staats Sicherheits Dienst) - also now as the 'STASI' - worked in the same way as the FBI's secret scrutiny described in the Washington Post today. In case you want to know why: ''Ex-KGB and STASI Chiefs To Work Under Chertoff - KGB and STASI reinforce Homeland Security'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a4azv

The situation must be really bad when even neocon propaganda sheets like the 'Whitewashington Post' start publishing stories like this. It's probably later on - when they are in court for their collaboration with the warmakers - used as an excuse to refer to: "Look how citical we were!". This low level form of behavior by Quislings in the media is called "Alibi journalism".

The WP story below as such gives another confirmation of the US administration's totalitarian police state activity - ruthless and lawless scare tactics based on lies and fakes - of which the STASI would have been proud.


PERMITTING CLANDESTINE SCRUTINY OF U.S. RESIDENTS

And all those people who say "I've got nothing to hide":
just ask for the PIN code of their bank pass...

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The FBI's Secret Scrutiny

In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans

By Barton Gellman

Washington Post Staff Writer


November 6, 2005 - The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said.

Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer at a library branch some distance away. Christian, who manages digital records for three dozen Connecticut libraries, said in an affidavit that he configures his system for privacy. But the vendors of the software he operates said their databases can reveal the Web sites that visitors browse, the e-mail accounts they open and the books they borrow.

Christian refused to hand over those records, and his employer, Library Connection Inc., filed suit for the right to protest the FBI demand in public. The Washington Post established their identities -- still under seal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit -- by comparing unsealed portions of the file with public records and information gleaned from people who had no knowledge of the FBI demand." [end quote]

Read the rest, weep for a while and than - as you can see from the links below - we all as soon as is possible must do something about it, civil disobedience is a good start.

PERMITTING CLANDESTINE SCRUTINY OF U.S. RESIDENTS - Washington Post 'alibi journalism' article - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/72rzj

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