Thursday, May 25, 2006

Kaminski: The Mindlock, part 2 - 9/11 will never be solved

Congress and the President of the United States, George Bush, indicated in Public Law 102-14, 102nd Congress, that the United States of America was founded upon the Seven Universal Laws of Noah, and that these Laws have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization.
FPF-fwd. an essay by John Kaminski
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND AN OPEN MIND

FPF: Let me give you an example of why it's important to get all of the facts before making a decision. If I promised you $5 million to jump out of an airplane without a parachute, would you do it? If you quickly answered "no" you lost an easy $5,000,000. You see, the plane I was asking you to jump from was parked on the ground.*

''If the Freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington warned: because Freedom of speech and an own opinion is regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies, where it is understood to outlaw censorship. The right to Freedom of speech is guaranteed under international law through numerous human rights instruments, notably under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.*

WHEN THAT RIGHT IS TAKEN AWAY FROM ONE OF US, ANYWHERE ON THE GLOBE, IT IS TAKEN AWAY FROM ALL OF US.

SO: WHO THE HELL DECIDES WHAT YOU OR I MAY THINK OR SAY? In whatever country or society you or I live in. And what are their usurped criteria, with which 'they' try to sell the cliché's, and permanently brainwash everybody? Anybody - of any nationality - advocating and collaborating to circumsise freedom of speech, is ill intended and their thought-police must be stopped. Otherwise you'd for instance never know about a Holocaust report by the International Red Cross, why earlier a horrible Holocaust denier would get a Pulitzer Prize for being silent about up to ten million people killed, and Hitler thought the same might be done to Germany.*

OR WHY KAMINSKI ASKS FOR AN OPEN MIND, FOR AS LONG AS SOME CLEVER PEOPLE STILL HAVE ONE:

THE MINDLOCK, PART 2 - 9/11 WILL NEVER BE SOLVED

PEOPLE AND PUBLISHERS REMAIN AFRAID TO CONFRONT THE REAL ISSUE

... it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. Url.: http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/18220.php

THE 9/11 PUZZLE WILL NEVER BE SOLVED, BECAUSE ALL THOSE INVESTIGATING ARE TOO COWARDLY TO CONSIDER THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THAT SORRY DAY.

BY JOHN KAMINSKI

I titled my explanation of 9/11 "The Day America Died" when I wrote it three years ago, and it remains a true title. We all, the barely living, died a little that day. America, certainly. Liberty was replaced by politically correct torture. - [FPF - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/or79j] - Until recently, I was the only writer who actually said that the key factor in all that needless death and destruction on 9/11 and the worldwide state of permanent war that followed was Jewish. The permanent silence that has followed is the reason the crime has not been solved.

The owners of the skyscrapers*, the men running the government, and the media telling the stories — all Jewish. A perfect fabric for covering up a false flag crime that was created as a reason to fight the very enemies it invented — the perfect enemy, one who doesn't exist except as a useful target, and hence can't ever be captured or defeated. The perfect enemy.

THE RESULT IS THE ENDLESS WAR WE NOW HAVE. PERFECT. FOR PROFIT.

And as Jews and their cowardly liberal minions scramble to evade this charge and hide behind the facade names like Zionist, Israeli, Khazar, Illuminati, Frankist and Straussian neocon to avoid the spotlight of guilt for these crimes, do not be deceived by those who pretend to preach peace and equality among men, nor those who say they are trying to get to the bottom of things in their own way.

See the real words, and how they clothe layers of distraction into patterns of activity — like peace demonstrations — that wind up going nowhere, and ultimately are a waste of time. Many "sincere" Jews are involved in these activities; in fact, they often run them. Going nowhere. But appearing to be trying. Another subtle layer of distraction.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND? WILL YOU EVER UNDERSTAND? DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO UNDERSTAND?

What happens to you when you contemplate the word which many in the world are forbidden to utter, and those who do are in jail? Do you run? Or will you stand and fight? - [FPF/Irving - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/orp55]

Virtually all efforts by so-called 9/11* skeptics ignore this most important aspect, and instead focus on holograms, fake tape recordings of stewardesses, and passengers and flights that existed only in some criminals' manipulative imaginations, which were then established in our minds by consensual (but not honest) Jewish media repetition.

American minds have been shifted into accepting the government's version of reality, massacres turned into "good wars" and tales of bravery taken from the exploits of men like John Kerry and Richard Armitage, twisted from rabid mass murder into legends of American paradigms. Total spin, turning pointless atrocities into worthy goals.

I've said for three years that the great gift of 9/11 was that it provided a clear window to comprehend the American murder machine as it operated throughout most if not all of its sorry history.

But most people still can't hear the call, because their paradigms are shackled by never having read stories like this, all because of who owns the media and prints the textbooks.

RED CROSS: NO EVIDENCE NAZIS TRIED TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS

... the Red Cross Report ... clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. ... "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims.

Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..."
(Vol. III, p. 83).

... The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable.

Check out this thought! It was the American bombing that caused the deaths of all those people — Jews and others — in the camps because it guaranteed starvation!

In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day.

So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594). - From Url.: http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/18220.php

POLISH HISTORY PROFESSOR MAREK GLOGOCZOWSKI WRITES THE SEMINAL PHRASE:

Holocaust as a POTENT REDEEMER of "systematic, constant, vicious and remorseless" crimes of USA, GB/EU & Israel.

Could it be that if you believe in the Holocaust you’re more likely to ignore other crimes — many horrific ones perpetrated by Israeli troops who shoot Palestinian children in the head for sport, for instance? Remember, this is wholly a Jewish practice.

It's even more than that. It's like an inoculation for some disease, like mumps, designed to prevent you from ever getting it again because you once had a mild case. Only in this case the "disease" is conscience, and if you can erase your conscience it makes it so much easier to kill all those children in Palestine and Iraq, not to mention to completely destroy the American democracy with money, drugs and cultural pornography.

What does the Law have to do with your heart?

So you follow the rules and think you know what’s going on? Guess again.

[FPF: for all of us who didn't know yet: The U.S. Congress officially recognized the Noahide Laws in legislation which was passed by both houses. Congress and the President of the United States, George Bush, indicated in Public Law 102-14, 102nd Congress, that the United States of America was founded upon the Seven Universal Laws of Noah, and that these Laws have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization. The seven laws:

* To behave justly in all relationships, and to establish courts of justice.

* To refrain from blaspheming Gods name.

* To refrain from practicing idolatry.

* To avoid immoral practices, specifically incest and adultery.

* To avoid shedding the blood of ones fellow man.

* To refrain from robbing ones fellow man.

* To refrain from eating a limb torn from a live animal.

- Text: Auburn University - Url.: http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/7laws.html ]

Referring to the Seven Noahide Laws, Gordon Ginn, PhD., comments: "A superficial reading of these 'laws' may elicit a favorable response from those who have not done their homework. But the crux of the matter is how they are interpreted.

For example, if Orthodox Jews interpret them, every Christian would be guilty of violating Number One (Thou shalt not engage in idol worship) because no cross, crucifix, image, photograph or anything that could be construed as an icon would be allowed, Christians would be guilty of violating Number 2 because they believe that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh, and that is blasphemy to the Jews. The Jews believe that Jesus was not the Son of God but only a prophet.

TECHNICALLY, EVERY CHRISTIAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH COULD BE EXECUTED UNDER THESE LAWS.

"Whoever is behind the 'Seven Noahide Laws' is not wasting any time nailing down their dastardly plans.

On the day (March 20th) that George Bush signed the resolution into law, the Wall Street Journal carried a front page story about the Noahides. And now that we are saddled with this "law," the Noahides are exploring the feasibility of taking it worldwide through the United Nations. It seems to me that this fits right in with Bush's New World Order." - [ End of Ginn quote.] - PUBLIC LAW 102-14: EDUCATION DAY USA - Judaism/Talmudism is now the officially recognized religion of US PUBLIC LAW 102-14.

And the crimes of 9/11 — the boxcar horrors of Afghanistan, the deformed dead children of Iraq, the Palestinian kids with Israeli bullets in their heads – all of these remain unsolved.

Because people will simply not choose to see the horror they endorse by not resisting it. And with each passing moment it creeps closer to their own false sanctuaries.

[andend] - John Kaminski

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida and whose inspirational Internet essays have been seen on hundreds of websites around the world. To support him, read his stories or buy his books, go to - Url.: http://www.johnkaminski.com/

FPF - RELATED:

* Freedom of speech - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/85hwc

* The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference - Url.: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment

* HEADQUARTERS IN LONDON: 'The City' is a 'State within a State' and the Vatican of Economy - by Des Griffin - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/s4lng

* HOW THE CITY OF LONDON CREATED THE GREAT DEPRESSION - by Webster G. Tarpley - Url.: http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=2008

* How 'London' financed the 'Reich': George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Larry Silverstein - Owners of WTC - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nnomq

* In Sweden I interviewed refugee Marita Johansson, a survivor of the Nazi death camps in which arms Anne Frank had died - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/modm5

* Google - "Pulitzer Prize for Holocaust Denier" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/lkymm

FPF/HR - STRONGLY RELATED LINKS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gkgrb

* US 9/11 TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5

* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - [ http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, KILLING AMERICANS and others to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx

* SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH - American and other scientists, diplomats, researchers etc.: What happened on 9/11? - What is happening to our world? - How can we improve our situation? - Url.: http://www.st911.org/

* Interesting: How to finally defeat the New World Order - Url.: http://jahtruth.net/plan.htm

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HR this far has lived and worked abroad more than 4 decades for national and international media, including the BBC and CBS - when they still knew what honest journalism was - as an independent foreign correspondent. Of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the 'Arab World' and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

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Franklin: Fundamentalists and Concentration Camps in the US

I must hasten to remind you for the nth time that the head of FEMA has in his hand a signed directive issued by the president authorizing the head of FEMA to suspend the Constitution in the event of a national emergency. In other words, if another 9/11 is in the works, we may see the final putsch in their relentless building of a neofascist state.

The appended article from Prison Planet hints at a rounding up people and imprisoning them in the various concentration camps that have been built across America (recently relabeled as 'community centers'). The information coming from a clergyman suggests what the cabal's blueprint will be in stark terms. The new element introduced here is the addition of fundamentalist churches to an active role in gulag America.

IMHO several of my readers may well be among those who are rounded up if FEMA declares a national emergency; so you folks may want to pay special attention to the camps and anything involving them.

I'm not offering these comments as a confident prediction. I simply feel motivated to repeat ad nauseam that the concentration camps were built for a purpose, and that purpose most likely is for the confinement of people who have been actively and systematically attacking the Bush administration. That includes website owners, newsletter writers, and regular contributors to websites hostile to the cabal.

IF YOU BELONG TO ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, PERHAPS YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID — VERY AFRAID. - [FPF advice: keep cool and fight back.]

Dismiss this as pure paranoia if you will, but it seems to me the indications as to where the cabal is headed are clear and ominous.

As of late, what has added to my concern is the apparent lack of nervousness on the part of Bush and his band of neofascists. Rove is running around making speeches with seeming joyfulness. I've never seen him so jovial. Cheney, Rice, et al, also strike me as being genuinely cheerful. The relentless collapse of public support for the WH cabal and weakening of support for GOP lawmakers simply does not seem to worry the WH Mafia in the least.

WHY ARE THEY SEEMINGLY SO CALM AND CHEERFUL?

Not even Fitzgerald's relentless pursuit of WH misdeeds seems to faze them.

While on that subject, I have to say I suspect the WH has something in store for Fitzgerald and his crew. One way or another, I believe he'll be neutralized. Will it be a latter day Saturday night massacre? Not likely. My guess is Cheney and Rove will be far more imaginative than Nixon was. Heavy lies the crown of the special prosecutor.

It occurs to me life in today's America seems to include being in an almost perpetual state of paranoia as to what might be brewing in the West Wing. As I see it, [Bush's] 9/11 [op] has made almost any new horror possible.

Warmest regards,

Richard

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Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For Martial Law

Nationwide initiative trains volunteers to teach congregations to "obey the government" during seizure of guns, property, forced inoculations and forced relocation

by Paul Joseph Watson - May 24 2006

A Pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMA program which is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for a declaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, and forced relocation.

In March of this year the Pastor, who we shall refer to as Pastor Revere, was invited to attend a meeting of his local FEMA chapter which circulated around preparedness for a potential bio-terrorist attack, any natural disaster or a nationally declared emergency.

The FEMA directors told the Pastors that attended that it was their job to help implement FEMA and Homeland Security directives in anticipation of any of these eventualities. The first directive was for Pastors to preach to their congregations Romans 13, the often taken out of context bible passage that was used by Hitler to hoodwink Christians into supporting him, in order to teach them to "obey the government" when martial law is declared.

It was related to the Pastors that quarantines, martial law and forced relocation were a problem for state authorities when enforcing federal mandates due to the "cowboy mentality" of citizens standing up for their property and second amendment rights as well as farmers defending their crops and livestock from seizure. It was stressed that the Pastors needed to preach subservience to the authorities ahead of time in preparation for the round-ups and to make it clear to the congregation that "this is for their own good."

We have received confirmation from other preachers and Pastors that this program is a nationwide initiative and a literal Soviet model whereby the churches are being systematically infiltrated by government volunteers and used as conduits for martial law training and conditioning.

THE PASTOR WAS TOLD THAT OVER 13,000 COUNTIES WERE ALREADY ON BOARD.

It falls under the umbrella of the NVOAD program which is training volunteers in a "Peer to Peer" program in a neighborhood setting.

Pastors were told that the would be backed up by law enforcement in controlling uncooperative individuals and that they would even lead SWAT teams in attempting to quell resistance.

"We get the the picture that we're going to be standing at the end of some farmer's lane while he's standing there with his double barrel, saying we have to confiscate your cows, your chickens, your firearms," said Pastor Revere.

The Pastor elaborated on how the directives were being smoke screened by an Orwellian alteration of their names.

"They're not using the term 'quarantine' - this is the term they're going to be using - it's called 'social distancing' don't you like that one," said the Pastor.

HE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED HOW DETENTION CAMPS HAD BEEN RENAMED TO GIVE THEM A FRIENDLY WARM VENEER.

"Three months ago it was quarantine and relocation centers and now it's 'community centers' and these are going to be activated at the local schools," he said.

Pastor Revere outlined the plan to carry out mass vaccination and enforced drugging programs in times of crisis such as a bird flu outbreak.

"In the event of an outbreak or a bio-terrorist attack, there'd be a mass vaccination....they have a program nationwide 'Pills in People's Palm In 48 Hours'," said the Pastor who was told that Walmart had been designated as the central outlet of this procedure.

Pastor Revere said that many attendees believed in the necessity of the program and were completely unaware to the motivations behind its true purpose and were offered incentives to become volunteers such as preferential treatment and first access for themselves and their families to vaccines and food shipments in times of emergency.

WHICH ROADS TO CLOSE OFF AFTER MARTIAL LAW WAS DECLARED HAD ALSO ALREADY BEEN MAPPED OUT.

The precedent for mass gun confiscation in times of real or manufactured emergency was set during Hurricane Katrina when police and national guard patrols forced homeowners even in areas unaffected by the hurricane to hand over their legally owned firearms at gunpoint as is detailed in the video below.

In the following video Alex Jones exposes FEMA's deliberate sabotage of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts which were used as a platform for a beat test of forced relocation and gun confiscation.

Alex Jones' 2001 documentary film 9/11: The Road to Tyranny featured footage from a FEMA symposium given to firefighters and other emergency personnel in Kansas City in which it was stated that the founding fathers, Christians and homeschoolers were terrorists and should be treated with the utmost suspicion and brutality in times of national emergency.

We have highlighted previous training manuals issues by state and federal government bodies which identify whole swathes of the population as potential terrorists. A Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Law Enforcement pamphlet gives the public characteristics to identify terrorists that include buying baby formula, beer, wearing Levi jeans, carrying identifying documents like a drivers license and traveling with women or children.

A Virginia training manual used to help state employees recognize terrorists lists anti-government and property rights activists as terrorists and includes binoculars, video cameras, pads and notebooks in a compendium of terrorist tools.

Shortly after 9/11 a Phoenix FBI manual that was disseminated amongst federal employees at the end of the Clinton term caused waves on the Internet after it was revealed that potential terrorists included, "defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN," and individuals who "make numerous references to the US Constitution."

LAWYERS EVERYWHERE COWERED IN FEAR AT BEING SHIPPED OFF TO GITMO.

In December 2003 the FBI warned Americans nationwide to be on the lookout for people reading Almanacs as this could indicate an act of terrorism in planning. Almanacs are popular glove box inventory of any vehicle and this ludicrous fearmongering was met with a raucous response from satirists and news commentators.

In another twilight zone Nazi-like spectacle, Pastors were asked to make a pledge or an affirmation during the meeting to fulfil the roles ascribed to them by FEMA. They were given assurances that they would be covered by full compensation in the event of resisters injuring them during property seizures and round-ups.

The Pastor said that his county had already succumbed to a tattle-tale like mentality where neighbors were reporting neighbors to the authorities for things like having chickens in their back yard. The brown shirt precedent has been set whereby people immediately turn to the authorities in fealty whenever their paranoid suspicions, fueled by zealous government and media fearmongering, are heightened.

Pastor Revere said the completion of the first stage of the program was slated for August 31st. At this point all the counties within the United States would be networked as part of the so-called disaster relief program.

We issue a challenge to all of our readers to print off this article and the supporting documents and confront their local preacher with it. If they don't receive a response within a week they should investigate further into whether their preacher is involved and hand out information to other members of the congregation.

[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm

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* US 9/11 TERROR in a CNN Poll - Question: "Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" - 'Yes' - 89% - 'NO' - 11% - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7w7c5

* US SENATOR BOB GRAHAM, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - [ http://tinyurl.com/manno] - regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks: AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN COUNTRY ASSISTED THE 9/11 TERRORISTS - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/m4duy

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, KILLING AMERICANS and others to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jn5jx

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Yellow journalism and chicken hawks - Of Pseudo-Journalists and Neocon Shills

by JIM LOBE

May 24, 2006 | Asia Times - WASHINGTON - A story authored by a prominent US neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colored badges circulated around the world last weekend before it was exposed as extremely dubious.

The article by a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-American Amir Taheri, was initially published in last Friday's edition of Canada's National Post, which ran alongside the story a 1935 photograph of a Jewish businessman in Berlin with a yellow six-pointed star sewn on his overcoat, as required by Nazi legislation at the time. The Post subsequently noted denials of the story.

Taheri's story, however, was reprinted by the New York Post, which is owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, and picked up by the Jerusalem Post, which also featured a photo of a yellow star from the Nazi era over a photo of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

IT OFFERED NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT ASSERTION.

Another neo-conservative publication, the New York Sun, also noted the story on Monday, claiming that the specific report that special badges were required by the legislation had been "incorrect". At the same time, however, the Sun quoted two Iranian-American foes of the Islamic Republic as suggesting that dress requirements for religious minorities were still being considered by Iran's ruling circles. It offered no evidence to support that assertion.

The story, which was also noted in the Australian press, comes at a moment of rising tensions between Iran and both Israel and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, which, according to the latter two, is designed to produce nuclear weapons. Both the US and Israel have suggested that they may take military action against nuclear-related targets in Iran unless ongoing diplomatic efforts to freeze Tehran's program bear fruit.

Juan Cole, president of the US Middle East Studies Association (MESA), described the Taheri article and its appearance first in Canada's Post as "typical of black psychological operations campaigns", particularly in its origin in an "out-of-the-way newspaper that is then picked up by the mainstream press" - in this case, the Jerusalem Post and the New York Post. A former US intelligence official described the article's relatively obscure provenance as a "real sign of [a] disinformation operation".

"THE INFLUENCE OF THE INFIDEL"

Taheri's original article, "A color code for Iran's 'infidels", dealt primarily with new legislation that it said was designed to ensure that Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" that removed ethnic and class distinctions and that eliminated "the influence of the infidel" - presumably meaning the West - "on the way Iranians, especially the young, dress".

But it also noted in passing that it would "envisage" separate dress codes for religious minorities - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians - who would be required to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public "so that [Muslims] can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus [become] najis" (unclean).

In particular, he explained, religious minorities will "have to wear special insignia, known as zonnar, to indicate their non-Islamic faiths. Jews will be marked out with a yellow strip of cloth sewn in front of their clothes, while Christians will be assigned the color red. Zoroastrians end up with Persian blue as the color of their zonnar," he wrote.

While Taheri did not evoke the Nazi precedent in his column, the National Post asked its readers at the end of the piece:

"IS IRAN TURNING INTO THE NEW NAZI GERMANY? SHARE YOUR OPINION ONLINE AT NATIONAL POST.COM."

That was compounded by the Post's publication of a front-page article by Chris Wattie that quoted unidentified "human-rights groups" as "raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims".
"This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," Wattie quoted Rabbi Marvin Heir, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, as telling him. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis."

The story also quoted one Iranian exile living in Toronto as confirming the story, as well as Canadian Jewish leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper as denouncing the legislation and suggesting that it was consistent with other recent moves made by Tehran.

Similarly, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, who, however, denied any specific knowledge about the alleged measure, called it "despicable" and reminiscent of "Germany under Hitler".

In fact, however, the legislation contained "absolutely no mention of religious minorities", according to Hadi Ghaemi, the chief Iran researcher for Human Rights Watch, who said it included "only generalities with regard to promoting a national dress code and fashion industry that should be subsidized and supported by the government".

The article - and especially its attribution to "human-rights groups" - was particularly unfortunate, he said, because "it plays into the hands of the Iranian government that wants to discredit human-rights issues that are raised at the international level".

THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION WAS INDEED "A TROUBLING DEVELOPMENT", BUT NOT FOR THE REASONS CITED BY THE POST, HE SAID, BECAUSE "ITS MAIN TARGET IS MOST PROBABLY IRANIAN WOMEN".

Other denunciations were quick to follow. One Jewish representative in the Iranian parliament, Maurice Motamed, insisted that color requirements for ethnic minorities had "never been proposed or discussed in parliament", let alone approved. "Such news," he told the Associated Press, "is an insult to religious minorities here.

"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," he told The Australian newspaper. "It is a lie ..."

Two Israel-based Iran experts, Menashe Amir and Meir Javedanfar, also denounced the original reports about the legislation, suggesting in a follow-up article in the Jerusalem Post on Monday that they were based on outdated speculation about the impact on non-Muslims of the adoption of Islamic dress standards.

Nonetheless, the Sun, without endorsing the specific contents of the National Post articles, refused to drop the story, quoting "a leading spokesman for Iranian Jews", the secretary general of the Iranian American Jewish Federation in Los Angeles, Sam Kermanian, as thanking "the world for its outcry" over the original reports and praising Taheri as "someone with fantastic credibility".

TAHERI IS A MEMBER OF BENADOR ASSOCIATES, A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM that lists a large number of leading neo-conservatives, including American Enterprise Institute associates Richard Perle, David Frum, Michael Ledeen, Michael Rubin and Joshua Muravchik, among its clients.

Major boosters of the war with Iraq, Benador clients, who also include former Central Intelligence Agency chief James Woolsey and former Israeli minister Natan Sharansky, have also called for the US administration to take a hard line against Iran.

The newspapers that so far have run the story are similarly identified with a hard line against Tehran. The National Post, which was bought by CanWest Global Communications from Conrad Black, a close associate of Perle's, is controlled by David and Leonard Asper, who have accused the Canadian Broadcasting Corp of being anti-Israel, according to Marsha Cohen of Florida International University, who has closely followed the badges story.

SIMILARLY, THE SUN HAS TAKEN POSITIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE RIGHT-WING LIKUD PARTY IN ISRAEL ON MIDDLE EAST ISSUES, WHILE MURDOCH OWNS THE STRONGLY PRO-ISRAEL WEEKLY STANDARD AND FOX NEWS, IN ADDITION TO THE NEW YORK POST.

"I think the way these stories played - particularly the references to the Holocaust - was designed to arouse and play upon concerns and accusations that Ahmadinejad is another Hitler who needs to be dealt with accordingly," noted Cohen, who added that the Iranian president's questioning of the Holocaust and aggressive statements about Israel had made such stories more credible.

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Jim Betker - Editor's Comment:

Of Pseudo-Journalists and Neocon Shills

Jim Lobe does a masterful analysis of the recent propaganda ploy aimed again at demonizing the Iranians as tensions continue over Iran's nuclear program.

Pulling all the pieces together, Lobe shows that Amir Taheri, supposedly an Iranian dissident, is nothing more than the Iranian equivalent of Ahmed Chalabi and a neocon shill with a long history of association with them.

The lamestream press picked up Taheri's recent piece and ran with it in true disinformationist style, even using the typical comparison to the Nazi regime in an attempt to stir the passions of the unthinking masses who have long been desensitized and conditioned to knee-jerk reactions regarding "the poor, persecuted Jews".

Naturally, the neocon managers of Canada and elsewhere chimed in as if on queue with the Zionists nodding approvingly in the background while invoking the epithet of Iranians as Nazis.

The only problem with this, of course, is that the Zionists themselves have a long history of collaboration with Hitler and his Nazi regime in relation the the establishment of the rogue state of Israel.

When will the sleeping and propagandized masses of the west awaken to the monumental fraud which has been perpetrated on them and which continues its plunder of social, economic and cultural treasures, not to mention the blood which is spilled in the never ending quest of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.

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