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The Last Roundup
Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under
martial law?
By _Christopher Ketcham_
(http://radaronline.com/search.php?search=Christopher+Ketcham)




ARE YOU ON THE LIST? The federal government has been developing a highly
classified plan that will override the Constitution in the event of a major
terrorist attack (Photo: Illustration by Brett Ryder)

In the spring of 2007, a retired senior official in the U.S. Justice
Department sat before Congress and told a story so odd and ominous, it could have
sprung from the pages of a pulp political thriller. It was about a principled
bureaucrat struggling to protect his country from a highly classified program
with sinister implications. Rife with high drama, it included a car chase
through the streets of Washington, D.C., and a tense meeting at the White House,
where the president's henchmen made the bureaucrat so nervous that he
demanded a neutral witness be present.

The bureaucrat was James Comey, John Ashcroft's second-in-command at the
Department of Justice during Bush's first term. Comey had been a loyal political
foot soldier of the Republican Party for many years. Yet in his testimony
before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he described how he had grown
increasingly uneasy reviewing the Bush administration's various domestic surveillance
and spying programs. Much of his testimony centered on an operation so
clandestine he wasn't allowed to name it or even describe what it did. He did say,
however, that he and Ashcroft had discussed the program in March 2004, trying
to decide whether it was legal under federal statutes. Shortly before the
certification deadline, Ashcroft fell ill with pancreatitis, making Comey acting
attorney general, and Comey opted not to certify the program. When he
communicated his decision to the White House, Bush's men told him, in so many
words, to take his concerns and stuff them in an undisclosed location.
The Continuity of Governance program encompasses national emergency plans
that would trigger the takeover of the country by extra-constitutional forces.
In short, it's a road map for martial lawComey refused to knuckle under, and
the dispute came to a head on the cold night of March 10, 2004, hours before
the program's authorization was to expire. At the time, Ashcroft was in
intensive care at George Washington Hospital following emergency surgery.
Apparently, at the behest of President Bush himself, the White House tried, in
Comey's words, "to take advantage of a very sick man," sending Chief of Staff
Andrew Card and then–White House counsel Alberto Gonzales on a mission to
Ashcroft's sickroom to persuade the heavily doped attorney general to override his
deputy. Apprised of their mission, Comey, accompanied by a full security
detail, jumped in his car, raced through the streets of the capital, lights
blazing, and "literally ran" up the hospital stairs to beat them there.
Minutes later, Gonzales and Card arrived with an envelope filled with the
requisite forms. Ashcroft, even in his stupor, did not fall for their
heavy-handed ploy. "I'm not the attorney general," Ashcroft told Bush's men. "There"—
he pointed weakly to Comey—"is the attorney general." Gonzales and Card were
furious, departing without even acknowledging Comey's presence in the room.
The following day, the classified domestic spying program that Comey found so
disturbing went forward at the demand of the White House—"without a signature
from the Department of Justice attesting as to its legality," he testified.
What was the mysterious program that had so alarmed Comey? Political blogs
buzzed for weeks with speculation. Though Comey testified that the program was
subsequently readjusted to satisfy his concerns, one can't help wondering
whether the unspecified alteration would satisfy constitutional experts, or
even average citizens. Faced with push-back from his bosses at the White House,
did he simply relent and accept a token concession? Two months after Comey's
testimony to Congress, the New York Times reported a tantalizing detail: The
program that prompted him "to threaten resignation involved computer searches
through massive electronic databases." The larger mystery remained intact,
however. "It is not known precisely why searching the databases, or data
mining, raised such a furious legal debate," the article conceded.

ONE NATION, UNDER SURVEILLANCE James Comey testifies before the Senate
Judiciary Committee (Photo: Getty Images)
Another clue came from a rather unexpected source: President Bush himself.
Addressing the nation from the Oval Office in 2005 after the first disclosures
of the NSA's warrantless electronic surveillance became public, Bush
insisted that the spying program in question was reviewed "every 45 days" as part of
planning to assess threats to "the continuity of our government."

Few Americans—professional journalists included—know anything about
so-called Continuity of Government (COG) programs, so it's no surprise that the
president's passing reference received almost no attention. COG resides in a
nebulous legal realm, encompassing national emergency plans that would trigger
the takeover of the country by extra-constitutional forces—and effectively
suspend the republic. In short, it's a road map for martial law.
While Comey, who left the Department of Justice in 2005, has steadfastly
refused to comment further on the matter, a number of former government
employees and intelligence sources with independent knowledge of domestic
surveillance operations claim the program that caused the flap between Comey and the
White House was related to a database of Americans who might be considered
potential threats in the event of a national emergency. Sources familiar with the
program say that the government's data gathering has been overzealous and
probably conducted in violation of federal law and the protection from
unreasonable search and seizure guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.
According to a senior government official who served with high-level
security clearances in five administrations, "There exists a database of Americans,
who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered
unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can
identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously." He
and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by
the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million
Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a
national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened
surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention.

DESPERATE TIMES Should another 9/11 occur, Continuity of Governance plans
developed during the Cold War go into effect (Photo: Getty Images)
Of course, federal law is somewhat vague as to what might constitute a
"national emergency." Executive orders issued over the past three decades define
it as a "natural disaster, military attack, [or] technological or other
emergency," while Department of Defense documents include eventualities like
"riots, acts of violence, insurrections, unlawful obstructions or assemblages,
[and] disorder prejudicial to public law and order." According to one news
report, even "national opposition to U.S. military invasion abroad" could be a
trigger.

Let's imagine a harrowing scenario: coordinated bombings in several American
cities culminating in a major blast—say, a suitcase nuke—in New York City.
Thousands of civilians are dead. Commerce is paralyzed. A state of emergency
is declared by the president. Continuity of Governance plans that were
developed during the Cold War and aggressively revised since 9/11 go into effect.
Surviving government officials are shuttled to protected underground complexes
carved into the hills of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Power shifts
to a "parallel government" that consists of scores of secretly preselected
officials. (As far back as the 1980s, Donald Rumsfeld, then CEO of a
pharmaceutical company, and Dick Cheney, then a congressman from Wyoming, were slated
to step into key positions during a declared emergency.) The executive branch
is the sole and absolute seat of authority, with Congress and the judiciary
relegated to advisory roles at best. The country becomes, within a matter of
hours, a police state.
In case of a wide-scale attack, the executive branch becomes the sole and
absolute seat of authority. The country becomes, within a matter of hours, a
police stateInterestingly, plans drawn up during the Reagan administration
suggest this parallel government would be ruling under authority given by law to
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, home of the same hapless bunch that
recently proved themselves unable to distribute water to desperate hurricane
victims. The agency's incompetence in tackling natural disasters is less
surprising when one considers that, since its inception in the 1970s, much of its
focus has been on planning for the survival of the federal government in the
wake of a decapitating nuclear strike.
Under law, during a national emergency, FEMA and its parent organization,
the Department of Homeland Security, would be empowered to seize private and
public property, all forms of transport, and all food supplies. The agency
could dispatch military commanders to run state and local governments, and it
could order the arrest of citizens without a warrant, holding them without trial
for as long as the acting government deems necessary. From the comfortable
perspective of peaceful times, such behavior by the government may seem
far-fetched. But it was not so very long ago that FDR ordered 120,000 Japanese
Americans—everyone from infants to the elderly—be held in detention camps for
the duration of World War II. This is widely regarded as a shameful moment in
U.S. history, a lesson learned. But a long trail of federal documents
indicates that the possibility of large-scale detention has never quite been
abandoned by federal authorities. Around the time of the 1968 race riots, for
instance, a paper drawn up at the U.S. Army War College detailed plans for rounding
up millions of "militants" and "American negroes," who were to be held at
"assembly centers or relocation camps." In the late 1980s, the Austin
American-Statesman and other publications reported the existence of 10 detention camp
sites on military facilities nationwide, where hundreds of thousands of people
could be held in the event of domestic political upheaval. More such
facilities were commissioned in 2006, when Kellogg Brown & Root—then a subsidiary of
Halliburton—was handed a $385 million contract to establish "temporary
detention and processing capabilities" for the Department of Homeland Security.
The contract is short on details, stating only that the facilities would be
used for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development
of new programs." Just what those "new programs" might be is not specified.

(Photo: Getty Images)
In the days after our hypothetical terror attack, events might play out like
this: With the population gripped by fear and anger, authorities undertake
unprecedented actions in the name of public safety. Officials at the
Department of Homeland Security begin actively scrutinizing people who—for a
tremendously broad set of reasons—have been flagged in Main Core as potential domestic
threats. Some of these individuals might receive a letter or a phone call,
others a request to register with local authorities. Still others might hear a
knock on the door and find police or armed soldiers outside. In some
instances, the authorities might just ask a few questions. Other suspects might be
arrested and escorted to federal holding facilities, where they could be
detained without counsel until the state of emergency is no longer in effect.

It is, of course, appropriate for any government to plan for the worst. But
when COG plans are shrouded in extreme secrecy, effectively unregulated by
Congress or the courts, and married to an overreaching surveillance state—as
seems to be the case with Main Core—even sober observers must weigh whether the
protections put in place by the federal government are becoming more
dangerous to America than any outside threat.

Another well-informed source—a former military operative regularly briefed
by members of the intelligence community—says this particular program has
roots going back at least to the 1980s and was set up with help from the Defense
Intelligence Agency. He has been told that the program utilizes software that
makes predictive judgments of targets' behavior and tracks their circle of
associations with "social network analysis" and artificial intelligence
modeling tools.
"The more data you have on a particular target, the better [the software]
can predict what the target will do, where the target will go, who it will turn
to for help," he says. "Main Core is the table of contents for all the
illegal information that the U.S. government has [compiled] on specific targets."
An intelligence expert who has been briefed by high-level contacts in the
Department of Homeland Security confirms that a database of this sort exists,
but adds that "it is less a mega-database than a way to search numerous other
agency databases at the same time."

CROWD CONTROL New Yorkers walk home on the afternoon of the September 11
attacks (Photo: Getty Images)
A host of publicly disclosed programs, sources say, now supply data to Main
Core. Most notable are the NSA domestic surveillance programs, initiated in
the wake of 9/11, typically referred to in press reports as "warrantless
wiretapping."

In March, a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal shed further light
onto the extraordinarily invasive scope of the NSA efforts: According to the
Journal, the government can now electronically monitor "huge volumes of
records of domestic e-mails and Internet searches, as well as bank transfers,
credit card transactions, travel, and telephone records." Authorities employ
"sophisticated software programs" to sift through the data, searching for
"suspicious patterns." In effect, the program is a mass catalog of the private
lives of Americans. And it's notable that the article hints at the possibility of
programs like Main Core. "The [NSA] effort also ties into data from an
ad-hoc collection of so-called black programs whose existence is undisclosed," the
Journal reported, quoting unnamed officials. "Many of the programs in
various agencies began years before the 9/11 attacks but have since been given
greater reach."
"We're at the edge of a cliff," says Bruce Fein, a top justice official in
the Reagan administration. "To a national emergency planner, everybody looks
like a danger to stability"The following information seems to be fair game for
collection without a warrant: the e-mail addresses you send to and receive
from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the
numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the
Internet sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations
of the airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM
withdrawals; and the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this
information is archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources,
also fed into the Main Core database.
Main Core also allegedly draws on four smaller databases that, in turn, cull
from federal, state, and local "intelligence" reports; print and broadcast
media; financial records; "commercial databases"; and unidentified "private
sector entities." Additional information comes from a database known as the
Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, which generates watch lists from the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence for use by airlines, law
enforcement, and border posts. According to the Washington Post, the Terrorist
Identities list has quadrupled in size between 2003 and 2007 to include about
435,000 names. The FBI's Terrorist Screening Center border crossing list,
which listed 755,000 persons as of fall 2007, grows by 200,000 names a year. A
former NSA officer tells Radar that the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, using an electronic-funds transfer surveillance program,
also contributes data to Main Core, as does a Pentagon program that was
created in 2002 to monitor antiwar protesters and environmental activists such as
Greenpeace.

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU From your late-night e-mails and travel plans to phone
records and financial transactions, the government finds you fascinating—and
may consider you a potential enemy of the state (Photo: Illustration by
Brett Ryder)
If previous FEMA and FBI lists are any indication, the Main Core database
includes dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax
protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal
aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.

A veteran CIA intelligence analyst who maintains active high-level
clearances and serves as an advisor to the Department of Defense in the field of
emerging technology tells Radar that during the 2004 hospital room drama, James
Comey expressed concern over how this secret database was being used "to
accumulate otherwise private data on non-targeted U.S. citizens for use at a future
time." Though not specifically familiar with the name Main Core, he adds,
"What was being requested of Comey for legal approval was exactly what a Main
Core story would be." A source regularly briefed by people inside the
intelligence community adds: "Comey had discovered that President Bush had authorized
NSA to use a highly classified and compartmentalized Continuity of
Government database on Americans in computerized searches of its domestic intercepts.
[Comey] had concluded that the use of that 'Main Core' database compromised
the legality of the overall NSA domestic surveillance project."
If Main Core does exist, says Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism
officer and an outspoken critic of the agency, the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) is its likely home. "If a master list is being compiled, it would
have to be in a place where there are no legal issues"—the CIA and FBI would
be restricted by oversight and accountability laws—"so I suspect it is at
DHS, which as far as I know operates with no such restraints." Giraldi notes
that DHS already maintains a central list of suspected terrorists and has been
freely adding people who pose no reasonable threat to domestic security.
"It's clear that DHS has the mandate for controlling and owning master lists. The
process is not transparent, and the criteria for getting on the list are not
clear." Giraldi continues, "I am certain that the content of such a master
list [as Main Core] would not be carefully vetted, and there would be many
names on it for many reasons—quite likely including the two of us."

UNDER REAGAN In the 1980s, control of the FBI's "security index" was
reportedly transferred to none other than FEMA (Photo: Getty Images)
Would Main Core in fact be legal? According to constitutional scholar Bruce
Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general under Ronald Reagan,
the question of legality is murky: "In the event of a national emergency, the
executive branch simply assumes these powers"—the powers to collect domestic
intelligence and draw up detention lists, for example—"if Congress doesn't
explicitly prohibit it. It's really up to Congress to put these things to rest,
and Congress has not done so." Fein adds that it is virtually impossible to
contest the legality of these kinds of data collection and spy programs in
court "when there are no criminal prosecutions and [there is] no notice to
persons on the president's 'enemies list.' That means if Congress remains
invertebrate, the law will be whatever the president says it is—even in secret. He
will be the judge on his own powers and invariably rule in his own favor."

Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemies list or Senator Joe McCarthy's
blacklist look downright crudeThe veteran CIA intelligence analyst notes that
Comey's suggestion that the offending elements of the program were dropped
could be misleading: "Bush [may have gone ahead and] signed it as a National
Intelligence Finding anyway."
But even if we never face a national emergency, the mere existence of the
database is a matter of concern. "The capacity for future use of this
information against the American people is so great as to be virtually unfathomable,"
the senior government official says.
In any case, mass watch lists of domestic citizens may do nothing to make us
safer from terrorism. Jeff Jonas, chief scientist at IBM, a world-renowned
expert in data mining, contends that such efforts won't prevent terrorist
conspiracies. "Because there is so little historical terrorist event data," Jonas
tells Radar, "there is not enough volume to create precise predictions."

The overzealous compilation of a domestic watch list is not unique in
postwar American history. In 1950, the FBI, under the notoriously paranoid J. Edgar
Hoover, began to "accumulate the names, identities, and activities" of
suspect American citizens in a rapidly expanding "security index," according to
declassified documents. In a letter to the Truman White House, Hoover stated
that in the event of certain emergency situations, suspect individuals would be
held in detention camps overseen by "the National Military Establishment."
By 1960, a congressional investigation later revealed, the FBI list of
suspicious persons included "professors, teachers, and educators; labor-union
organizers and leaders; writers, lecturers, newsmen, and others in the mass-media
field; lawyers, doctors, and scientists; other potentially influential persons
on a local or national level; [and] individuals who could potentially
furnish financial or material aid" to unnamed "subversive elements." This same FBI
"security index" was allegedly maintained and updated into the 1980s, when it
was reportedly transferred to the control of none other than FEMA (though
the FBI denied this at the time).
FEMA, however—then known as the Federal Preparedness Agency—already had its
own domestic surveillance system in place, according to a 1975 investigation
by Senator John V. Tunney of California. Tunney, the son of heavyweight
boxing champion Gene Tunney and the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in
the film The Candidate, found that the agency maintained electronic dossiers
on at least 100,000 Americans that contained information gleaned from
wide-ranging computerized surveillance. The database was located in the agency's
secret underground city at Mount Weather, near the town of Bluemont, Virginia.
The senator's findings were confirmed in a 1976 investigation by the
Progressive magazine, which found that the Mount Weather computers "can obtain
millions of pieces [of] information on the personal lives of American citizens by
tapping the data stored at any of the 96 Federal Relocation Centers"—a
reference to other classified facilities. According to the Progressive, Mount
Weather's databases were run "without any set of stated rules or regulations. Its
surveillance program remains secret even from the leaders of the House and the
Senate."

JUST IN CASE The Miami Herald contended that Reagan loyalist Oliver North
had spearheaded the development of a "secret contingency plan" (Photo: Getty
Images)
Ten years later, a new round of government martial law plans came to light.
A report in the Miami Herald contended that Reagan loyalist and Iran-Contra
conspirator Colonel Oliver North had spearheaded the development of a "secret
contingency plan,"—code-named REX 84—which called "for suspension of the
Constitution, turning control of the United States over to FEMA, [and the]
appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments." The North
plan also reportedly called for the detention of upwards of 400,000 illegal
aliens and an undisclosed number of American citizens in at least 10 military
facilities maintained as potential holding camps.

North's program was so sensitive in nature that when Texas congressman Jack
Brooks attempted to question North about it during the 1987 Iran-Contra
hearings, he was rebuffed even by his fellow legislators. "I read in Miami papers
and several others that there had been a plan by that same agency [FEMA] that
would suspend the American Constitution," Brooks said. "I was deeply
concerned about that and wondered if that was the area in which he [North] had
worked." Senator Daniel Inouye, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Iran,
immediately cut off his colleague, saying, "That question touches upon a
highly sensitive and classified area, so may I request that you not touch upon
that, sir." Though Brooks pushed for an answer, the line of questioning was not
allowed to proceed.
Wired magazine turned up additional damaging information, revealing in 1993
that North, operating from a secure White House site, allegedly employed a
software database program called PROMIS (ostensibly as part of the REX 84
plan). PROMIS, which has a strange and controversial history, was designed to
track individuals—prisoners, for example—by pulling together information from
disparate databases into a single record. According to Wired, "Using the
computers in his command center, North tracked dissidents and potential
troublemakers within the United States. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemies list
or Senator Joe McCarthy's blacklist look downright crude." Sources have
suggested to Radar that government databases tracking Americans today, including
Main Core, could still have PROMIS-based legacy code from the days when North
was running his programs.
In the wake of 9/11, domestic surveillance programs of all sorts expanded
dramatically. As one well-placed source in the intelligence community puts it,
"The gloves seemed to come off." What is not yet clear is what sort of
still-undisclosed programs may have been authorized by the Bush White House. Marty
Lederman, a high-level official at the Department of Justice under Clinton,
writing on a law blog last year, wondered, "How extreme were the programs they
implemented [after 9/11]? How egregious was the lawbreaking?" Congress has
tried, and mostly failed, to find out.

HISTORY'S LESSONS Japanese Americans moved to internment camps in World War
II
In July 2007 and again last August, Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat
from Oregon and a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee,
sought access to the "classified annexes" of the Bush administration's
Continuity of Government program. DeFazio's interest was prompted by Homeland
Security Presidential Directive 20 (also known as NSPD-51), issued in May 2007,
which reserves for the executive branch the sole authority to decide what
constitutes a national emergency and to determine when the emergency is over.
DeFazio found this unnerving.

But he and other leaders of the Homeland Security Committee, including
Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, were denied a review of the
Continuity of Government classified annexes. To this day, their calls for
disclosure have been ignored by the White House. In a press release issued last
August, DeFazio went public with his concerns that the NSPD-51 Continuity of
Government plans are "extra-constitutional or unconstitutional." Around the same
time, he told the Oregonian: "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy
out there are right."
None of the leading presidential candidates have been asked the question,
"As president, will you continue aggressive domestic surveillance programs in
the vein of the Bush administration?"Congress itself has recently widened the
path for both extra-constitutional detentions by the White House and the
domestic use of military force during a national emergency. The Military
Commissions Act of 2006 effectively suspended habeas corpus and freed up the
executive branch to designate any American citizen an "enemy combatant" forfeiting
all privileges accorded under the Bill of Rights. The John Warner National
Defense Authorization Act, also passed in 2006, included a last-minute rider
titled "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," which allowed the
deployment of U.S. military units not just to put down domestic insurrections—
as permitted under posse comitatus and the Insurrection Act of 1807—but also
to deal with a wide range of calamities, including "natural disaster,
epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack, or incident."
More troubling, in 2002, Congress authorized funding for the U.S. Northern
Command, or NORTHCOM, which, according to Washington Post military
intelligence expert William Arkin, "allows for emergency military operations in the
United States without civilian supervision or control."
"We are at the edge of a cliff and we're about to fall off," says
constitutional lawyer and former Reagan administration official Bruce Fein. "To a
national emergency planner, everybody looks like a danger to stability. There's no
doubt that Congress would have the authority to denounce all this—for
example, to refuse to appropriate money for the preparation of a list of U.S.
citizens to be detained in the event of martial law. But Congress is the
invertebrate branch. They say, 'We have to be cautious.' The same old crap you
associate with cowards. None of this will change under a Democratic administration,
unless you have exceptional statesmanship and the courage to stand up and
say, 'You know, democracies accept certain risks that tyrannies do not.'"

CREDIBLE WITNESS James Comey (Photo: Getty Images)
As of this writing, DeFazio, Thompson, and the other 433 members of the
House are debating the so-called Protect America Act, after a similar bill passed
in the Senate. Despite its name, the act offers no protection for U.S.
citizens; instead, it would immunize from litigation U.S. telecom giants for
colluding with the government in the surveillance of Americans to feed the hungry
maw of databases like Main Core. The Protect America Act would legalize
programs that appear to be unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, the mystery of James Comey's testimony has disappeared in the
morass of election year coverage. None of the leading presidential candidates
have been asked the questions that are so profoundly pertinent to the future of
the country: As president, will you continue aggressive domestic
surveillance programs in the vein of the Bush administration? Will you release the COG
blueprints that Representatives DeFazio and Thompson were not allowed to read?
What does it suggest about the state of the nation that the U.S. is now
ranked by worldwide civil liberties groups as an "endemic surveillance society,"
alongside repressive regimes such as China and Russia? How can a democracy
thrive with a massive apparatus of spying technology deployed against every act
of political expression, private or public? (Radar put these questions to
spokespeople for the McCain, Obama, and Clinton campaigns, but at press time
had yet to receive any responses.)
These days, it's rare to hear a voice like that of Senator Frank Church, who
in the 1970s led the explosive investigations into U.S. domestic
intelligence crimes that prompted the very reforms now being eroded. "The technological
capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could
enable it to impose total tyranny," Church pointed out in 1975. "And there would
be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together
in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is
within the reach of the government to know."

UPDATE: Since this article went to press, several documents have emerged to
suggest the story has longer legs than we thought. Most troubling among these
is an October 2001 Justice Department memo that detailed the
extra-constitutional powers the U.S. military might invoke during domestic operations
following a terrorist attack. In the memo, John Yoo, then deputy assistant attorney
general, "concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic
military operations." (Yoo, as most readers know, is author of the infamous
Torture Memo that, in bizarro fashion, rejiggers the definition of "legal"
torture to allow pretty much anything short of murder.) In the October 2001
memo, Yoo refers to a classified DOJ document titled "Authority for Use of
Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States."
According to the Associated Press, "Exactly what domestic military action was covered
by the October memo is unclear. But federal documents indicate that the memo
relates to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program."
Attorney General John Mukasey last month refused to clarify before Congress
whether the Yoo memo was still in force.
Meanwhile, congressional sources tell Radar that Congressman Peter DeFazio
has apparently abandoned his effort to get to the bottom of the White House
COG classified annexes. Penny Dodge, DeFazio's chief of staff, says otherwise.
"We will be sending a letter requesting a classified briefing soon," she told
Radar this week.

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1.php)
• _Secrets and Lies: The man behind the world's most dangerous website_
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Reflections and Ramblings on Reality and Revelations and Rumors

Posted by: "rosegojda@aol.com" rosegojda@aol.com   rosegojda

Fri May 30, 2008 7:44 am (PDT)

Reflections and Ramblings on Reality and Revelations and Rumors
- crg

I am answering several duplicate or related emails - see notes below - and
sending this reply to a few other pen pals to boot since these items are very
important - and need to be shared and discussed.

Forgive me if I am blunt or quick here - but my uncle's funeral was last
night and burial today and we have bad storms forecasted and I have tons to do
before burial and storms hit ... never a boring day here ..

Here is my quick summed up reply:

As far as 9/11 - Iraq - GM food et al

First - one important email today involved the nonchalant approval and
shifting of US granulized sugar supply to GM sugar beets. This subject deserves
more than a paragraph but -

* Everyone should be alarmed at the spread of GM products and the
massive growth in its concurrent application of herbicides and poisons and its
impact on our water and air and on critical pollinators and our own genetics and
the impact to our pets and next generation.
* All this is driven not by nutrition nor need but rather to maximize
profits and to control the seed banks and if illnesses ensue -- the same
mega-multi-nationals control the pills and powders and potions to pour into your
veins ... so nothing to fear here, right?

And now to 9/11 and Iraq and recent revelations and rumors -

I agree the most foolish conspiracy theory was that of 19 Saudi's plotting
with a disgruntled rich guy in caves dreaming of 72 virgins and goats.

Bin laden was being controlled - he was a twenty year CIA trained and paid
operative and all 19 of the hijackers named had CIA or MI6 training and were
here with no hindrance whatso ever

just a coincidence I guess (LOL) that
* anyone who did try to alert anyone from the air school instructor to
CIA and FBI agents were ignored or silenced -
* six foreign intelligence agencies were on red alert before 9/11 and
warning us of a US domestic event and
* Condirat had a warning sitting on her desk,
* Clark was going nuts at anti-terror desk -
* yet Bush and company were BBQ'g literally with a Saudi prince at
Crawford -
* the Taliban were on our paid aid list while
* the Northern Alliance guy killed the day before on 9/10, by a very
sophisticated explosive in a newsman's camera - was opposing the US-Unical oil
pipeline deal with now Afghan President Karsai - who was the Unical director
who with Condirat was negotiating that deal in DC and Crawford with THE
Taliban in spring of 2001, Unical or BP or Exxon even named one of its tankers
after Condi --
* and odd how the biggest Taliban leaders escaped with Binny and his
Egyptian side kick yet all the expat Afghan's who would have opposed Karsai
were conveniently killed by our friendly fire ... from UAV's ???....
* Ron Pearl was beheaded while investigating Paki and CIA links to the
Taliban
* Pro-football Cardinal star who was going to expose fraud and lies was
killed by friendly fire
* these current "conflicts" to fight terror have killed more
journalists than WW1 and 2 and Korea and Vietnam conflicts combined yet have made more
billionaires then the Depression and WW 2
* we are supposedly on alert for terror yet our border is as porous as
Swiss cheese
* we have Chinese and Arabs running our ports, we kidnap and hide ex
CIA agent Noriega in jail here, and then let the Chinese run the Panama canal
* we have 20 percent foreigners now in the US Army
* our National Guard is exhausted and shell shocked and under supplied
* we are building domestic detention centers for who, for what ?
* we are building or selling our tax paid hiways to foreign operatives
to run as toll roads
* diesel fuel which is cheaper to make than normal petrol is
skyrocketing here but is less than $2 in Mexico and $.30 in Saudi Arabia but we are
bankrupting independent truckers, forcing inflation, and allowing faux shortage
scares in oil and corn and rice and wheat to jack up prices with impunity
and the Congress and fifty state houses are smiling as their own stock
portfolios rise since they have guaranteed non social security pensions and free meds
and early retirements already and the Pentagon chicken hawks get cheap gas
and goodies at their private PX's
mmmm nothing suspicious here or in Iraq where billions are spent weekly with
no detail accounting and already tens of billions are missing and a mess
created while we continue to be indebted and our national assets sold to
Japanese yakuza banks, Communist China, the Arab elite, and mega multinationals
....mmmmm

Sadly, we have no Congress with cajunas - most are getting richer as this
war continues and multinationals profiteer - Congress is 90% millionaires all
bought off by the same special interests - the party affiliation no longer
matters

We are confronted by one huge octopus = the petrol chem pharmaceutical
complex controls everything from fuel to food to pills to power

We are screwed - Truman warned us, Ike warned us, JFK died fighting it -
guys like Johnson and Nixon thought they could manage it and were ruined -
threats like JFK, MLK, RFK, even Wallace were killed or crippled with a litany of
convenient plane crashes

US urban police are being rained by Blackwater mercenaries and are being
indoctrinated to see all citizens as potential threats to be contained and
controlled and local pols and state houses are manned by cronies and the best govt
- fund raisers can buy

Speak out and be targeted

Say nothing, and you will be contained and your wealth shifted in the most
organized shift of wealth seen since the Great Depression and the rise of
fascism and the private Federal Reserve Bank and the founding of the new false
entity of huge immune mega corporations loyal only to profits and power and
blind to national interests or community or citizen rights or needs.

What more can I say - I am off shortly, to bury my uncle today, who fought
hand to hand in the slaughter and bloody sands of once Pacific Paradises - who
suffered malaria and dengue fever and one other unknown virus and was given
the last rights four times - yet as he was dying begged me to try and remember
the locations of dead he feared went unknown or Japanese unburied or planes
they saw go down in jungles unchecked - he was worried about closure for the
living while his own body was racked with pain and torment..

My late dad also told me of the horrors of war in Europe, landing on D-Day,
the Battle in the Ardenne Forest, the Budge -entering concentrations camps -
later investigating rapes and murders committed by the war-crazy on both sides
as soldiers full of hate or shell shock or bitterness rampaged thru no-man
zones as the war was winding down -- and then surreally taking German POW's
in boxcars while German scientists were in Coaches enjoying wine and fine food
being trained to Los Alamos for more weapons intrigue and horror

All of them are gone now - my Mom and Dad, my uncles and aunts who lived
thru the Depression with its bread lines and beggars at the kitchen door and
working since they were kids - school was a luxury they were too poor to enjoy...

I remember the Ukrainian Priests who came here on Holidays when I was a kid
- until that was cut off by the RC church here who closed the separate
Ukrainian Churches and seized their endowments. These priests came from the
Ukraine and Russia, and they were missionaries who described the nightmare of
eastern Europe and the gulags and the organized round ups and murder of the
educated or outspoken and priests while the US and Europe sat silent while freedom
and human rights were destroyed and famine killed millions in the Ukraine
and Slavic Soviet satellites ... as would be repeated in China and Cambodia
and Africa while we were reveling in our USA status as super power who had
"liberated the world " -- well at least those parts we cared about... and they
were afterall, better dead then red ...right?

Well don't worry

Those who scoff at the danger of un monitored multinationals -
* who still cling to blind loyalties to political parties and sound
bite news -
* to those who "know" our government would never allow dangerous food
or medicine or faulty bridges or levies to risk any citizen's life or home ...

* to those who still think there is nothing the govt could do to
control oil profiteering and corporate welfare
* to those who figure let poor central Americans and Nigerians or
Indonesian fill our ranks of soldiers since better those poor fools since so many
here don't want their kids or grandkids to serve
* to those who avoid jury duty or are too busy to vote or read or
investigate legislation or policies - which includes most of Congress
* to those who feel they will never confront a paramilitary cop or
unfair law or unjust arrest
* to those who still think there is nothing to fear but those boogie
men your govt or faux news identifies
Remember and heed these words:

The world is full of plenty of unmarked graves and lost lives and a long
history of Kings, would be kings, Tzars, Commissars - and now a growing rank of
Commissioners, Pentagon chicken hawks, boardroom bullies, and a stream of
power brokers & bankers - and a league of multi-national managers and Dr
Strangeloves, and larcenous leaders who are counting on that naiveté and rose
colored ramblings to make their profiteering and pilfering plans palatable and
employable...

Don't worry ... it will be the other guy's - not your home not your wealth
not your loved ones.. don' t worry



Peace, Hugs, and Purrs
Carolyn Rose Goyda
Saint Louis, Missouri USA
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From Mary: on GM food

Background Information: American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar
company and several other leading U.S. sugar providers have announced they will be
sourcing their sugar from genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets beginning
this year and arriving in stores in 2008.

Like GE corn and GE soy, products containing GE sugar will not be labeled as
such.

Since half of the granulated sugar in the U.S. comes from sugar beets, a
move towards biotech beets marks a dramatic alteration of the U.S. food supply.
These sugars, along with GE corn and soy, are found in many conventional food
products, so consumers will be exposed to genetically engineered ingredients
in just about every non-organic multiple-ingredient product they purchase.

The GE sugar beet is designed to withstand strong doses of Monsanto's
controversial broad spectrum Roundup herbicide. Studies indicate farmers planting
"Roundup Ready" corn and soy spray large amounts of the herbicide,
contaminating both soil and water. Farmers planting GE sugar beets are told they may be
able to apply the herbicide up to five times per year. Sugar beets are grown
on 1.4 million acres by 12,000 farmers in the U.S. from Oregon to Minnesota.

Meanwhile candy companies like Hershey's are urging farmers not to plant GE
sugar beets, noting that consumer surveys suggest resistance to the product.
In addition the European Union has not approved GE sugar beets for human
consumption.

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_USA Military Officers Challenge Official Account of September 11_
(http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/99-americas/3865-usa-military-officers-challenge-off
icial-account-of-september-11.html) 22 May 2008 Twenty-five former U.S.
military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and
called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army
Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense, Col. Ronald D. Ray, two former staff members of the Director of the
National Security Agency; Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, and Major John M.
Newman, PhD, and many others. "A lot of these pieces of information, taken
together, prove that the official story, the official conspiracy theory of
9/11 is a bunch of hogwash. It's impossible," said Lt. Col. Robert Bowman, PhD,
U.S. Air Force (ret). With doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Nuclear
Engineering, Col. Bowman served as Director of Advanced Space Programs Development
under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter

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*? 2 ALL: 4-DAY WORK WEEK - GOOD OR BAD IDEA?*

Posted by: "Greg Dempsey" gregdempsey@sti.net   secular_humanist2

Fri May 30, 2008 10:03 am (PDT)



Hi Team!

*? 2 ALL:

4-DAY WORK WEEK - GOOD OR BAD IDEA?*

When Ohio's Kent State University offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring gasoline prices.

"We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it," said university spokesman Scott Rainone.

The reason is simple: rising gas prices and a desire to retain good workers. And while so far only the university's custodians are eligible, Rainone hopes the option will be offered to all departments -- including his own.

"In our office, we have people who travel anywhere from five or six miles to a couple who are on the road 45 to 50 minutes," Rainone said. "As the price of gas rises, the level of grumbling rises."

"In our office, we have people who travel anywhere from five or six miles to a couple who are on the road 45 to 50 minutes," Rainone said. "As the price of gas rises, the level of grumbling rises."

Regular gasoline averages $3.94 a gallon in the United States, up 33 cents in the past month and 88 cents since the beginning of the year, the Energy Information Administration said this week.

Do you think the 4-day work week to save gas is a good or bad idea?

Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST
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====

Workers shifting to 4-day week to save gasoline

Andrea Hopkins
Reuters US Online Report Top News

May 29, 2008 15:07 EST

CINCINNATI (Reuters) -

The federal government has offered four-day workweeks to eligible employees for years as part of a flexible work program that also includes telecommuting.

But the surge in gasoline prices is pushing more private employers as well as local governments to offer a four-day week as a perk that eliminates two commutes a week.

Staff at Neighborhood Development Services in rural northeastern Ohio were talking about quitting to find work closer to their homes when executive director Dave Vaughan stepped in with offers to compress their work week.

"I didn't want to lose people," Vaughan said of the program, which more than half of his 19 employees began last week. "In rural areas like we are, gas price increases are more challenging because we don't have the mass transit alternative -- we can't jump on a bus or take a train."

Eventually, Vaughan hopes to close the office one day a week, further reducing energy costs.

In America's struggling automaking heartland, the shorter workweek offers employers a way of rewarding employees when the budget does not allow a salary increase, said Oakland County, Michigan, executive L. Brooks Patterson.

"By allowing employees to work four 10-hour days it will save them 20 percent on their commute costs and ease the financial pinch of filling up their cars," said Patterson, who last week proposed the compressed week for county workers.

Gasoline prices have begun altering U.S. commutes in many ways, a survey released on Thursday showed.

CHANGING HABITS

Some 44 percent of respondents said they have changed the way they commute -- doing things such as sharing a ride or driving a more fuel-efficient car -- or are working from home or looking for a closer job in order to reduce gasoline costs, according to staffing services company Robert Half International. That's up from 34 percent two years ago.

On New York's Long Island, Suffolk County legislator Wayne Horsley also has proposed employees have the option of working four 10-hour shifts, rather than five eight-hour shifts, saying it would save 461 barrels of oil in a 120-day pilot project.

"This is a gasoline-driven proposition and we're looking to change people's long term philosophies of life," Horsley said.

The program, termed Operation Sunshine, will cut gasoline costs for workers who drive an average round trip of 32 miles to work. It also aims to cut the county's energy bill by having fewer employees in the office at a time, Horsley said.

In Oklahoma, a resolution is pending before the state legislature encouraging state agencies to implement flexible work schedules that would allow the four-day workweek.

"State employees are on fixed budgets and they are not usually the most highly paid in our society," said State Sen. Earl Garrison, a Democrat, who sponsored the measure.

Some schools, including community colleges in rural areas where commutes are long and public transportation is scarce, already have plans to drop a day of classes, usually Fridays.

The school district in Marietta, Georgia, a city north of Atlanta, institutes a four-day week during June and July when schools are out and it is mostly administrative staff who are working, saving on air conditioning and water in addition to commuting costs for employees, said Thomas Algarin, director of communications at Marietta City Schools.

But a four-day workweek brings problems too. The state government in Ohio is bucking the national trend and canceling an 8-year-old policy that allowed a compressed workweek.

"There were just too many vacant seats on Friday," said Ron Sylvester, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services.

(Additional reporting by Karen Pierog in Chicago, Kevin Krolicki in Detroit, Marcy Nicholson in New York, Matthew Bigg in Atlanta and Tom Doggett in Washington; Editing by Bill Trott and David Wiessler)

Source: Reuters US Online Report Top News

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WHERE OUR GAS MONEY REALLY GOES?

Posted by: "Marie Buchanan" marielovesashley@yahoo.ca   marielovesashley

Fri May 30, 2008 12:37 pm (PDT)

Please check from part 1 to part 27
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-.nv5DWs8erSpEGVZKpn.gCLG93gBjAe_?p=1506

Thanks to AKA Jesuit Infiltrator @ youtube who sent me this information.
For more informations about the Bible, the Bible Prophecies and the New World Order, please go to:
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Diabetics, wear your bracelets not to be TASED during a SEIZURE ! up

Posted by: "rosegojda@aol.com" rosegojda@aol.com   rosegojda

Fri May 30, 2008 1:37 pm (PDT)

mesha got some more info on the diabetic tasered in Arkansas

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now you will be pulled over and inspected just for being on a motorc

Posted by: "rosegojda@aol.com" rosegojda@aol.com   rosegojda

Fri May 30, 2008 2:01 pm (PDT)

_With deaths on the rise, cops target motorcycles -- Page 1 -- Times Union -
Albany NY_
(http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=692369&category=Capital%20Region&BCCode=EMAIL&newsdate=5/30/2008)

now you will be pulled over and inspected just for being on a motorcycle

jeez

fly, ride a bus, hop on your bike, go out on Friday nights - remember to
have all your "papers" in order and your soon to be National ID and inspection
papers, your insurance cards....

what's next your DNA card and your approved travel plans ?


Peace, Hugs, and Purrs
Carolyn Rose Goyda
Saint Louis, Missouri USA
_rosegojda@aol.com_ (mailto:rosegojda@aol.com)



_With deaths on the rise, cops target motorcycles -- Page 1 -- Times Union -
Albany NY_ (http://timesunion.com/
AspStories/story.asp?storyID=692369&category=Capital%20Region&BCCode=EMAIL&newsdate=5/30/2008)
* By _CAROL DeMARE_
(http://timesunion.com/TUNews/author/AuthorPage.aspx?AuthorNum=36) , Staff writer
Click byline for more stories by writer.
Last updated 3:57 p.m., Friday, May 30, 2008
* As the Lake George Americade extravaganza approaches and with
motorcycle fatalities on the rise, State Police are putting the brakes on bikers
who break the rules, starting today with a Northway checkpoint.
* * An electronic billboard will direct motorcyclists to exit at
the Northway rest area just before Exit 18 in the Glens Falls area,
beginning at 2:30 p.m. There, troopers will inspect helmets, tires, exhausts,
inspection stickers, lighting and the bikers' motorcycle license.
* The checkpoint will last a few hours and be repeated next weekend as
those attending Americade leave for home, said Major William Sprague of
Troop G in Loudonville.
* Sprague cited an "alarming trend" in fatalities. In New York, deaths
from motorcycle accidents jumped 29 percent from 2004 to 2006 "at a time
when we were experiencing record low fatalities in other motor vehicle
accidents," Sprague said at a news conference this morning.
* In 2005, total motor vehicle fatalies numbered 1,410 in the state.
The following year, it increased to 1,433. Had it not been for motorcycle
fatalities included in that 2006 number, the state would have had another record
low, Sprague said.

News from the _St. Louis County Police Department_
(http://www.stlouisco.com/police) about the [Friday night ] Sobriety Checkpoint
* The St. Louis County Police Department Highway Safety Unit will be
checking motorists in an effort to reduce the number of intoxicated drivers on
our streets and highways. Specially trained officers will be conducting DWI
Enforcement on Friday, May 30, 2008, in South County. Hours of operation will
be from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM the following morning. .... Inconvenience to
motorists will be minimal. The officers participating in the enforcement have had
additional training in the recognition of motorists who have had too much to
drink or are under the influence of illegal drugs. Officers will also issue
citations for seat belt and other violations

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*? 2 ALL: LESBIANS TOLD TO STOP KISSING AT BALL GAME - WHAT'S YOUR O

Posted by: "Greg Dempsey" gregdempsey@sti.net   secular_humanist2

Fri May 30, 2008 5:08 pm (PDT)



Hi Team!

*? 2 ALL:

LESBIANS TOLD TO STOP KISSING AT BALL GAME - WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?*

Sirbrina Guerrero says she was approached at a baseball game and told to stop kissing her girlfriend after a woman complained to staff at Seattle's Safeco Field that they were "groping and making out."

Guerrero was told by a seating host that the woman didn't want to explain to her son why two women were kissing, but she refused to give in.

"If you want to kick me out, you're going to have to," she told the host. After the exchange, Guerrero took pictures of heterosexual couples kissing that were not targeted by staff.

"We were eating garlic fries," Guerrero told the reporter, when asked if she and her partner were acting inappropriately or "carrying on." "The last thing we want to do is make out with each other."

Lesbians told to stop kissing or leave ball game - what's your opinion?

Greg Dempsey
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For Real Progressives
====

Lesbian couple told to stop kissing or leave baseball game

by PageOneQ

While a portion of Safeco Field's code of conduct mentions "displays of affection not appropriate in a public, family setting," Mariners spokesperson Rebecca Hale told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Thursday that they don't specifically target same-sex couples. "We would like folks to know that we're treating these complaints and concerns very seriously," Hale said. "We've definitely not got a policy that states that if you're gay, you can't kiss at Safeco Field. Our policy is, if your behavior is inappropriate in a public setting, we are going to proactively intervene." Hale also said that the couple were not kicked out by the seating host, but spent a "good chunk" of the game filing their formal complaint at Guest Services.

"This is not a place where we are targeting people based on sexual orientation or any other classification," Hale went on. "Our goal is to have an atmosphere where everyone is welcome."

"If it turns out we were in error, we'll do what we can to make it right."

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*? 2 ALL: GINGRICH: BUSH SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED 'REMINDER' ATTACKS - WH

Posted by: "Greg Dempsey" gregdempsey@sti.net   secular_humanist2

Fri May 30, 2008 6:45 pm (PDT)



Gingrich recommended splitting the FBI
into a domestic crime unit, which would
respect civil liberties, and a "small but very
aggressive anti-terrorism agency" with
"extraordinary ability to eavesdrop."

====
Hi Team!

*? 2 ALL:

GINGRICH: BUSH SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED

'REMINDER' ATTACKS - WHAT'S YOUR RESPONSE?*

During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11.

"I honestly don't know," Gingrich replied. "I would have expected another attack. I was very, very worried ... when we had the sniper attacks, because the sniper attacks were psychologically so frightening. ... I was amazed that the bad guys didn't figure out how to send ten or twelve sniper teams."

"This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration," Gingrich continued. "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

"I think that your liberties in a domestic setting are paramount,"
Gingrich explained. "I would rather risk crime than risk losing
my civil liberties. But I would not rather risk a nuclear weapon. ...
I think the greatest danger to our liberty is to actually have the
country end up in the kind of attack that would lead us to
favor a dictatorship for security."
Gingrich quips Bush should have allowed some "reminder" attacks - what are your comments?

Greg Dempsey
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Iraqi children playing soccer blown up by bomb 30 May 2008

Posted by: "Lori R. Price" lrprice@snet.net   lori_price_clg

Fri May 30, 2008 7:50 pm (PDT)

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
30 May 2008
http://www.legitgov.org/
All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Iraqi children playing soccer blown up by bomb 30 May 2008 One Iraqi child was killed and two wounded on Friday when a group of children playing soccer picked up a bomb and it exploded, police said. The children, aged about 5 or 6, were playing near a rubbish dump in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, when they spotted a strange object, police said. When they picked it up, the home-made device exploded.

US marine 'lied' to cover up Haditha deaths --Sergeant told to delete photographs of Haditha massacre 29 May 2008 A US marine lied to cover up a squad's killings of 24 civilians in Iraq's city of Haditha in 2005, a US prosecutor has said at the officer's court martial. The prosecutor's comments came during opening statements in the trial of Lt Andrew Grayson in California. Lt Grayson is charged with obstructing justice and making false statements in connection with the case... Lt Grayson is alleged to have instructed a sergeant to delete digital photographs of the incident from his camera.

'They held up pictures of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki dressed as Saddam Hussein.' Thousands of Iraqis rally against U.S. troop accord 30 May 2008 Thousands of people heeded a call from anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to protest talks between Washington and Baghdad on keeping U.S. troops in Iraq beyond 2008... In one of the largest demonstrations, several thousand people took to the streets in the Baghdad district of Sadr City, a bastion of Sadr's Mehdi Army militia. They held up pictures of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki dressed as Saddam Hussein.

Al-Qaeda virtually beaten in Iraq, says CIA 31 May 2008 The CIA has declared that al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] is virtually defeated in Iraq and that the country is seeing its lowest level of violence for four years. The main reason for the drop in violence, which has also seen a big decline in Iraqi civilian deaths, is a ceasefire by the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose forces have been directly confronted by US and Iraqi troops for over a month.

Afghan town recaptured by security forces 31 May 2008 Afghan security forces along with United States-led occupation forces regained control of a district centre in Ghazni province after Taliban militants had captured it overnight, Ghazni Governor Shir Khosti told Reuters on Friday. Taliban 'insurgents' seized the remote Afghan town overnight and patrolled the streets for some hours before withdrawing ahead of the government operation to recapture it, residents and officials said.

Taliban capture Afghan district: officials 30 May 2008 Taliban militants captured a remote [?] district in central Afghanistan, taking prisoner the police and administration chiefs, officials and the militant group said Friday. "Last night Taliban attacked Rashidan district and it fell," said provincial police chief Jan Mohammad Mujahed. "We are trying to decide here now what to do," [LOL!] Mujahed said, adding that he did not know what had happened to the district officials.

US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan, district falls 30 May 2008 A soldier in the US-led occupation and several militants have been killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan, officials said Friday, while the Taliban attacked and captured a 'remote' district. The soldier was killed "in action" Thursday near the western town of Farah, the coalition said in a statement.

'US drones have been violating Pakistani airspace every day.' US helicopters violate Pak airspace 31 May 2008 Two United States helicopters intruded over the Pakistani area of Shawaal near the Pak-Afghan border on Friday. The helicopters hovered over the area, which is 70 kilometres west of Miranshah, for about 40 minutes before returning to the Afghan side without taking any action. According to residents, US drones have been violating Pakistani airspace every day.

Study on Camp Lejeune toxic water continues with Navy money 30 May 2008 The Navy agreed Friday to pay for continued government investigation into whether contaminated water harmed the babies of Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., after U.S. health officials provided additional details about their work. The Marines estimate that 500,000 Camp Lejeune residents may have been exposed to the tainted water, including thousands of Vietnam-bound Marines. Federal health investigators estimate the number is higher.

McClellan: WH wanted him to stay silent 29 May 2008 Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday that he erroneously believed what President [sic] Bush was saying about the war but now is answering to a higher loyalty: "a loyalty to the truth." "The White House would prefer that I not talk openly about my experiences," he said in a lengthy interview. "These words didn�t come to me easy. � I�m disappointed that things didn�t turn out the way we all hoped they would." He added: "I have a higher loyalty than my loyalty necessary to my past work. That's a loyalty to the truth."

Scott McClellan Apologizes for Bashing Richard Clarke --As White House Press Secretary, McClellan Called Clarke's Book on the Bush Administration 'Flat-Out Wrong' 30 May 2008 In an encounter last night in the lobby of a New York hotel, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan apologized for denouncing a former White House colleague, Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser, after Clarke wrote a book highly critical of the Bush administration in 2004. Now McClellan is facing a similar denunciation from the White House for his own highly critical book. Clarke, an ABC News consultant, says McClellan appeared to be "very sorry, repentant" for his role as Bush's press secretary. Both Clarke and McClellan were in New York to promote books.

Rice rejects Iceland's criticism of Guantanamo Bay 30 May 2008 Secretary of State [war criminal] Condoleezza Rice on Friday rejected allegations that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay are abused. Her comments came a day after Iceland's parliament adopted a resolution condemning abuses torture at Guantanamo and calling for its immediate closure.

The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty --After being held prisoner by the US for six years, inmate to be charged with terrorism offences despite protesting his innocence 30 May 2008 A British resident who is facing the death penalty in Guantanamo Bay has made a final desperate plea to Gordon Brown to end his six-year ordeal and bring him home today. In a letter delivered to Downing Street, Binyam Mohamed, the last Guantanamo inmate with the automatic right to British residency, calls on the Prime Minister to use his influence with President [sic] George Bush to stop an American military "kangaroo court" sending him to his death.

34 Convicted in Display At U.S. Supreme Court --Protesters Had Decried Guantanamo 30 May 2008 Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in January in which they decried conditions at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The demonstration occurred Jan. 11, the sixth anniversary of the opening of the detention facility, which was set up to house [torture] terrorism suspects.

Inside Job #1: New York Times Perpetuates the Myth that George Bush Won the 2000 Election By Larry Beinhart 29 May 2008 "In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by the New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied." Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, May 23, 2008, in a review of the HBO television movie, "Recount" That's not true. The New York Times did not do its own recount. It did participate in a consortium. Here's what the consortium actually said: "If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin." Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, New York Times, Nov. 12, 2001.

Inside Job #2: USA Military Officers Challenge Official Account of September 11 22 May 2008 Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Col. Ronald D. Ray, two former staff members of the Director of the National Security Agency; Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, and Major John M. Newman, PhD, and many others. "A lot of these pieces of information, taken together, prove that the official story, the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a bunch of hogwash. It's impossible," said Lt. Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret). With doctoral degrees in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering, Col. Bowman served as Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

Inside Job #3: FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks 28 Mar 2008 The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army's bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned. Among the pool of suspects are three scientists � a former deputy commander, a leading anthrax scientist and a microbiologist � linked to the research facility, known as USAMRIID. The FBI has collected writing samples from the three scientists in an effort to match them to the writer of anthrax-laced letters that were mailed to two U.S. senators and at least two news outlets in the fall of 2001, a law enforcement source confirmed.

Bird Flu: More lethal than 10 hydrogen bombs: Thusoo --68 Vets and Para vets trained in control, containment ops 31 May 2008 Experts fear the nature of the disease [avian influenza] could be more lethal than ten hydrogen bombs after causing a pandemic. Earlier on Tuesday, Dr Bhupinder Singh Director, Animal Husbandry, Kashmir formally launched the training programme in which 68 vets and Para vets participated... They were also trained in mass vaccination operations in surveillance zones in the eventualities like outbreak of the disease.

'We don't want anyone thinking that we declared martial law or something like that.' Marines to conduct urban warfare training in Indianapolis --Marines will practice firing weapons, conducting patrols, running vehicle checkpoints [!], reacting to ambushes and employing nonlethal weapons. 28 May 2008 U.S. Marine helicopters will land at the old Eastgate Consumer Mall, Brookside Park and other Indianapolis locations when the city becomes a mock battlefield next week. About 2,300 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., will conduct urban warfare training from Wednesday through June 19 in and around Indianapolis. Most of the troops will be deployed at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and the Raytheon facility on Holt Road, said Debbi Fletcher of the Indianapolis/Marion County Emergency Management Agency.

Indianapolis to become "Mock Battlefield" --Circle City to be site of three week long urban warfare training By Steve Watson 29 May 2008 Indianapolis will become a "mock battlefield" for the next three weeks according to local press, as over two thousand marines will stage a huge urban warfare training exercise in and around the city. About 2,300 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., will conduct urban warfare training from Wednesday through June 19 in and around Indianapolis, reports the Indy Star.

Chertoff keen on Israeli airport security technology 29 May 2008 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, to better secure America's airports. Chertoff, at a conference in Jerusalem for public and homeland security ministers from around the world, signed an agreement with Israel to share technology and information on methods to improve homeland security.

State Police Set Checkpoints for Motorcycles 30 May 2008 (NY) As the Lake George Americade extravaganza approaches, State Police are putting the brakes on bikers who break the rules, starting today with a Northway checkpoint. An electronic billboard will direct motorcyclists to exit at the Northway rest area just before Exit 18 in the Glens Falls area, beginning at 2:30 p.m. There, troopers will inspect helmets, tires, exhausts, inspection stickers, lighting and the bikers' motorcycle license. The checkpoint will last a few hours and be repeated next weekend as those attending Americade leave for home, said Major William Sprague of Troop G in Loudonville.

State police to check motorcycles ahead of upstate NY rally 30 May 2008 State police planned to stop bikers heading to and from the upcoming Americade rally in the southern Adirondacks... A mandatory motorcycle checkpoint began Friday afternoon on the Adirondack Northway in Queensbury, 40 miles north of Albany, on the eve of Americade. Troopers planned another next week for southbound I-87 traffic near the close of the rally, which is expected to draw more than 50,000 riders from around the country to Lake George from Monday through Saturday. They planned to have a helicopter overhead, and acknowledged that while some bikes can outrace police vehicles, they can't outrun radios.

New Agreement on the Trans-Texas Corridor 29 May 2008 Today State Representative Wayne Christian (R-Center), President of the Texas Conservative Coalition (TCC), announces an agreement on vital issues regarding the Trans-Texas Corridor. The Transportation Commission adopted a minute order today reaffirming five statutory requirements proposed by the members of the TCC and issuing two new protections for future transportation infrastructure development.

Seat all delegates, Clinton lawyer urges 30 May 2008 A day before a Democratic panel is to determine how to seat the delegations of Florida and Michigan, the Clinton campaign's chief lawyer said the committee is compelled to seat both delegations fully and not award Sen. Barack Obama any delegates from Michigan.

Clinton expects superdelegates to start deciding 30 May 2008 Hillary Clinton said Friday she expects uncommitted superdelegates to begin making the choice that will decide her marathon Democratic primary race against Barack Obama soon after the Tuesday's primaries.

Obama receives new endorsements while denouncing pastor's statements 30 May 2008 Barack Obama won endorsements from the Texas Democratic party chairman and his wife this morning, as he sought to contain embarrassment over comments from a second pastor at his Chicago church. The nod from Boyd Richie and Betty Richie, two of the last remaining uncommitted superdelegates from the Lone Star state, put Obama within 42 delegates of clinching the nomination, an event expected to occur some time next week.

Activist priest apologizes for mocking Clinton 30 May 2008 An activist Chicago priest and supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama says he's sorry for a sermon at Obama's church in which he mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton's tears just before the New Hampshire primary. The Reverend Michael Pfleger said at Sunday's sermon that Clinton cried because she felt "entitled" and that a "black man is stealing my show."

Flaws stir debate on storm alert systems 30 May 2008 Emergency sirens that have failed to warn residents of severe storms in several communities this year are sparking debate across the USA about how to best alert people about dangerous weather.

Food prices to rise 9 percent a year: analyst 29 May 2008 U.S. food prices will rise a stiff 9 percent a year through 2012, the largest increase since 1979 and the result of record-high crop prices, the head of an economic consulting company said on Thursday.

ICE, ICE, Baby --One piece of legislation is why the price of everything is going through the roof By Ed Wallace 19 May 2008 In the past month we have added 11.9 million barrels of oil into our stock reserves, giving us 32.3 million more barrels of oil than we had on hand January 1. On May 5, we found out that for the second time in as many years, Iran was storing its excess crude oil on tankers in the Persian Gulf, because it had run out of storage space in the desert and was awaiting buyers for its heavy crude. That same day Saudi Arabia cut the discount price for its Arabian Heavy crude to $7.45, hoping to entice more buyers for immediate delivery. We didn�t hear that news, either... ...H.R. 5660, the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. At first this bill went nowhere in the House, not even up for debate. Then, a few months later, late one night a 242-page bill written by Wall Street lawyers, with the exact same name as the former House bill, was quietly added to an 11,000-page appropriations bill, and the Enron loophole was created. The power behind that bill was one Texas Senator, one Texas Congressman and their wives.

ICE, ICE, Baby, conclusion "Too cold, too cold" By Ed Wallace 22 May 2008 Record high prices without record low oil inventories, analysts saying that so much money flows into oil commodities that it gives the impression of shortages, when in fact no shortage exists. That mirrors the situation in the commodities market for food... When Enron failed and took its private, unregulated energy exchange to the grave, another rose to take its place. The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) was the brainchild of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, British Petroleum, Deutsche Bank, Dean Witter, Royal Dutch Shell, SG Investment Bank and Totalfina. In 2001 ICE purchased the International Petroleum Exchange in London; renamed ICE Futures, it now operates as an "exempt commercial market" under section 2(H)(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act. As the Senate hearings pointed out in the summer of 2006, "Both markets operate outside of any CFTC oversight."

Get used to high food costs, water shortages --Climate report offers a dire look at next 50 years in U.S. 28 May 2008 Shocked by rising food prices? Get used to it -- and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report rounding up likely effects of climate change on the United States' land, water and farms over the next half-century.

"Got Organic?": New Study Finds that Organic Milk is Vastly More Nutritious By Rebecca Sato 28 May 2008 Yes, the USDA has been fibbing and it's official: Organic milk is vastly superior to conventional milk. No matter how many times the USDA and the National Dairy Council tell us that there is not a single difference between organic and conventional milk, our taste buds tell a whole different story... Scientists have found that organic milk has such higher levels of nutrients that it�s fairly shocking the dairy industry has been telling us otherwise.

NYC crane collapses into street, kills 2 workers 30 May 2008 A construction crane snapped and smashed into an apartment building with a thunderous roar Friday, killing two workers in the city's second such tragedy in 2 1/2 months and renewing fears about the safety of hundreds of cranes towering over the New York skyline.

Fox News worker sues over bedbugs in office 30 May 2008 A Fox News employee who says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after being bitten by bedbugs at work filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the owner of the Manhattan office tower where she worked.

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[Previous lead stories:] 'The occupier is planting seeds of strife between the Muslims and Christians.' Iraqis claim Marines are pushing Christianity in Fallujah 28 May 2008 "They are trying to convert us to Christianity," said Muamar Anad, a Sunni Muslim like most residents of this city in Anbar province. Residents of Fallujah are abuzz that some Americans whom they consider occupiers are also acting as Christian missionaries. Residents said some Marines at the western entrance to their city have been passing out coins [with a Bible verse] for two days in what they call a "humiliating" attempt to convert them to Christianity.

Did US Army Cause Iraq Birth Defects? 29 May 2008 Families in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are calling for an investigation into their claims of a rise in the number of birth defects. They have raised concerns about the weapons used by American forces in 2004 - when Fallujah suffered one of the heaviest bombardments of the entire war in Iraq... Hikmat Tawfeeq, deputy chairman of the Fallujah-based human rights group Alakhiyar said: "We have around 200 cases of deformities recorded by our society. Most of these cases are birth deformities which have arisen after the bombing of Fallujah."

Green Beret electrocuted in shower on Iraq base --At least 12 U.S. troops have been electrocuted in Iraq from wiring problems 28 May 2008 A highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died a painful death in Iraq this year. He died not on the battlefield. He died on a U.S. base, in his bathroom. The water pump was not properly grounded, and when he turned on the shower, a jolt of electricity shot through his body and electrocuted him January 2. Army documents obtained by CNN show that U.S.-paid contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) inspected the building and found serious electrical problems a full 11 months before Maseth was electrocuted. KBR noted "several safety issues concerning the improper grounding of electrical devices." But KBR's contract did not cover "fixing potential hazards." It covered repairing items only after they broke down.

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Help Us Take The Infowar To The Next Level This Saturday!

Posted by: "shane_digital" shane_digital@yahoo.com   shane_digital

Fri May 30, 2008 9:30 pm (PDT)

Help Us Take The Infowar To The Next Level This Saturday!

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, May 30, 2008

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"Worst Vaccine Bill Ever" Seeks Compulsory Shots For All Children

Posted by: "shane_digital" shane_digital@yahoo.com   shane_digital

Sat May 31, 2008 12:47 am (PDT)

"Worst Vaccine Bill Ever" Seeks Compulsory Shots For All Children
Activist group calls for defense of right to exemption in New York State


Steve Watson
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Friday, May 30, 2008


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A pending New York State Assembly Bill dubbed, the "worst vaccine bill
ever" by one activist group, would see all vaccines recommended by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made mandatory for
all children, including infants and toddlers.

Assembly Bill 10942, introduced at the request of Richard Daines, the
Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, calls for
changes to the law in order to make recommended inoculation compulsory
in order for children to attend school.

The bill would also permit the administration of vaccines for sexually
transmitted infections to minors without parental consent.

Separate sections of the bill would come into effect next year with
others becoming law in 2010.

A-CHAMP, a national, non-partisan political action organization formed
by parents in support of children with neurodevelopmental and
communication disorders, has called for rejection of the bill and is
demanding the passage of A5468/S3031, a bill that would give
individuals a right to a philosophical exemption from vaccine mandates.

The group's press release highlights the key points in the bill:

* Our elected New York representatives would no longer determine
the mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made by
the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would
automatically become mandatory.

* All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would
be required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to
the ACIP schedule

* All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get
annual flu shots.

* All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma
virus shot.

* All junior high school children and college students would be
required to get meningococcal shots.

* Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot
given and parents would be required to maintain the records and
provide them to school and other authorities.

* The rules committee claims that the new laws would have no
fiscal impact on the state despite the necessity of the state to spend
tens of millions on purchasing new vaccines, a vast increase in
mandatory record keeping and enforcement for schools, and a huge
increase that could be expected in the number of cases of neurological
damage, Guillian Barré syndrome and other vaccine-caused injuries.

Besides certain laws that apply only to government medical specialists
- there is no law that enforces the mandatory use of any vaccine in
the United States. Waiver forms for personal or religious exemptions
are freely available. Enforced medical treatment is an assault and a
violation of the 14th amendment.

However, some lawmakers seem determined to ignore the Constitution and
to make some vaccinations (usually the most profitable ones) mandatory.

There has recently been a spate of cases where officials, with the
assistance of directed media propaganda, have attempted to cajole
parents into believing that laws require vaccination.

In February 2006 one such media hoax fooled parents in Texas and other
areas of the country into believing that the HPV vaccine, which
experts have slammed as untested and has continued to be linked to
dangerous side-effects, is now required by law and that young girls
must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals hit the headlines after it was
revealed that the company was set to capitalize on this fraud by
making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry,
while children were put at risk.

Last November we reported on a case in Prince George's County,
Maryland, where parents of more than 1600 children were told they
could be put in jail for failing to get their kids vaccinated. At the
time a local Fox News affiliate reported, "A new law was passed last
year requiring children from 5th through to 10th grade to have the
vaccine," which was a total lie.

Article continues w/video clips:
http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/300508vaccines.htm

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Some are tired/afraid to revisit this subject but it started the US'

Posted by: "rosegojda@aol.com" rosegojda@aol.com   rosegojda

Sat May 31, 2008 5:53 am (PDT)

We all have to make up our own minds.

That infamous event (s) did and does deserve a real objective investigation
and accountability.

If there is even an iota of truth to these charges -- our nation is at risk
- and remember the Constitutional oath includes the vow to protect the United
States from threats foreign AND domestic.

Peace, Hugs, and Purrs
Carolyn Rose Goyda
Saint Louis, Missouri USA
_rosegojda@aol.com_ (mailto:rosegojda@aol.com) -

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From: ranger116@webtv.net (T Lee Buyea Fla News Service)

Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The WTC Buildings! PassThis On!

If you know ANYONE who still does not understand that 9/11 was an "inside
job", please attempt to have
them watch this 10 minute video. -- Don

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9/11: Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings!
[10 minute video]
_http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-N41SPraM&feature_
(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-N41SPraM&feature)

Bombs, explosions, secondary explosions, explosive devices... how many more
times do we need to hear these words being said by 9/11 witnesses before we
start asking questions about WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED on that awful day?

This video shows that many actual 9/11 witnesses heard and saw explosions
going off inside the towers, long before th ey actually fell.

These witnesses include police, firemen and mainstream media reporters.

And what is even more shocking is the fact that all of this has been IGNORED
by the mainstream media.

History Channel included my website in it's 9/11 Con about Flight 93 shot
down.

My job in the US Air Force was sabotaging US Govt buildings, sabotaging US
military aircraft, sabotaging US nukes using conventional C4 explosive
controlled demolitions. 1,000s of US soldiers have this job every day.

"Wargames" is what they told us, then later in the day we find out it's Real
World war illegal First
Strike.
_http://PirateNews.org/Flight93.html_ (http://PirateNews.org/Flight93.html)

_http://PirateNews.org/Pentagon_Whistleblower.html_
(http://PirateNews.org/Pentagon_Whistleblower.html)

_http://PirateNews.org/911con.html_ (http://PirateNews.org/911con.html)

_http://September911Surprise.com_ (http://September911Surprise.com)

_http://cafepress.com/PirateNews_ (http://cafepress.com/PirateNews)

***Links to all quotes below are listed at
_http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-N41SPraM&feature_
(http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ-N41SPraM&feature)

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent
attacks."
- Usama bin Laden, CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks,"
September 17, 2001

"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama
bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been
forthcoming." - Dick Cheney, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony
Snow", March 29, 2006

QUESTION: "Mr President, in your speeches, you rarely mention Osama Bin
Laden. Why is that?"
GEORGE BUSH JR: "I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that
much time on him."

"9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page. He has
not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because
the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."
- FBI agent Rex Tomb, June 6, 2006

"The goal has never been to get Bin Laden."
- General Richard Myers, chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff

OPERATION NORTHWOODS - the signed confession by US Govt for perping
terrorist attacks in USA

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Fla News Service, Miami, Fl. USA
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