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The “Blind Sheik” And The CIA – Media Again Bury U.S. Support For Radical Islamism
Two days ago the Takfiri Islamist leader Omar Abdul-Rahman , the so called "Blind Sheik", died in a U.S. prison. He had been found guilty of involvement in the 1993 attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in New York and of other crimes.
The obituaries of Omar Abdul-Rahman in U.S. media are an example of white washing of the U.S. exploitation of radical Islamism for its imperial purposes. While extensively documented in earlier media and official reports the CIA's facilitation and involvement with Abdul-Rahman is seemingly stricken from history.
Since the 1970s Omar Abdul-Rahman was involved in the growth of radical Sunni Islamism:
Founded in 1976, Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt (FIBE) is part of the banking empire built by Saudi Prince Mohammed al-Faisal. Several of the founding members are leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the “Blind Sheikh,” Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman.
Financed by Saudi sources Abdul-Rahman created various groups of radicals in Egypt and gets deeply involved with Al-Qaeda, recruiting fighters for Afghanistan in cooperation with the CIA and the Pakistani secret services. He was the ideological leader of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, an Islamic radical organization in Egypt responsible for several terrorist attacks. He traveled to the U.S. several timed between 1986 and 1990 to further his violent ideology. His visas were issued by CIA agents despite his appearance on a State Department terrorism watch list. In 1990 he moves to the U.S. where he preached his violent Islam and continued to recruit fighters for radical causes.
In December 1990 the New York Times reported:
The 52-year-old religious leader, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, entered the country more than five months ago despite being on a State Department list of people with ties to terrorist groups, the authorities said. He illegally obtained a tourist visa from a consul in the United States Embassy in Khartoum, the Sudan, in May, according to records of the Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service and State Department officials.
In July 1993 the NYT reported that "illegally obtained tourist visa" was not illegal at all:
Central Intelligence Agency officers reviewed all seven applications made by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to enter the United States between 1986 and 1990 and only once turned him down because of his connections to terrorism, Government officials said today.
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Mr. Abdel Rahman helped to recruit Arab Muslims to fight in the American-backed war in Afghanistan, and his lawyer and Egyptian officials have said he was helped by the C.I.A. to enter the United States.
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American officials had acknowledged last week that the diplomat at the United States Embassy in Khartoum who signed the May 1990 visa request that allowed Mr. Abdel Rahman to enter the United States was in fact a C.I.A. officer.
Several attempts to remove Abdel-Rahman from the U.S. mysteriously failed. In 1991 he was inexplicably granted a Green Card despite still being blacklisted.
His involvement in the 1993 WTC bombing was a typical "blowback" from the CIA's chronic support of radical takfiri Islamism, supported by Saudi Arabia, whenever it helps its "regime change" plans here or there. Over the last years such CIA support led to the growth of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
After the recent death of Omar Abdul-Rahman several obituaries appeared in U.S. media. But none of them mention or dig into his deep and long CIA connections and the continuing CIA support for radical Islamism.
There is zero mentioning of the CIA and the visa shenanigans in his NYT obit, despite its earlier reporting. Neither the Associated Press nor AFP mention any connection to the CIA. The British service Reuters buries the visa story in one sentence in the 12th paragraph.
That the deep involvement over the years of the CIA (and FBI) in the crimes Omar Abdul-Rahman is now swept under the carpet and forgotten is not just coincidentally. It is a distinct feature of U.S. political culture.
The British poet Harold Pinter referred to this in his 2005 Nobel lecture:
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest.
I have called this chronic forgetfulness the concept of immaculate conception of U.S. (foreign) policy. There never is an acknowledged history of U.S. misdeeds that may have led to this or that current blowback. When there is one it immediately gets buried, pushed out of sight, never to be talked about. The same applies to partisan policies within the U.S.
Currently the fake "resistance" against a Trump presidency blasts his policy of seeking better relations with Russia, his temporary travel ban reference to seven specific countries and his words against media leaks. But it was the Secretary of State Clinton who initiated a "reset" with Russia, it was the Obama administration that set a ban on those seven countries and it was the Obama justice department that used the espionage act against journalists for publishing leaked material. That all is now forgotten and not to be talked about.
Likewise the deep CIA connection with Omar Abdul-Rahman is now scrubbed from any of the semi-official media reporting. This at the same time the CIA continues its involvement with radical Islamists in Syria and elsewhere.
Pinter continued his lecture:
The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
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To not be taken in by the "immaculate conception" mechanism I recommend to reread or watch Pinter's lecture every once a while.
The Myths, deliberate Lies & enforced Forgetting, go back to at least 1945 …
We are the only nation to have dropped atomic bombs.
There was virtually nil justification for dropping the first, this is well documented, and absolutely none for the second(Unquestionably a War Crime and a Crime against Humanity). Imperial Japan was already known to be defeated and desperately continuously seeking to negotiate surrender terms from four months prior.
Our corrupt politicians, ideologues & entrenched corporate fascism, warmonger/war-profiteer Robber barons that seized control of the State with the appointment of Vice President Truman, later President, did it not to defeat Japan at all, but to send a, ‘message‘, explicitly to the then USSR, and to a lesser worldwide audience, that the ‘Global Order’, had changed.
Excluding Japanese & others (Min 250,000+), the casualties of this combined ‘message‘ included ~1,000 American citizens (mostly children(Japanese-Americans)) & ~25+ US Prisoners of War. This was concealed & denied until the late ’70’s …
The FBI has been a domestic Secret Police/Gestapo above the Law, in fact above the State, since the days of WWI:
J Edgar Hoover was hired by the Justice Department to work in the War Emergency Division. He soon became the head of the Division’s Alien Enemy Bureau, authorized by President Wilson at the beginning of World War I to arrest and jail disloyal foreigners without trial. He received additional authority from the 1917 Espionage Act…
In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation’s new General Intelligence Division—also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals. America’s First Red Scare was beginning, and one of Hoover’s first assignments was to carry out the Palmer Raids.
Hoover and his chosen assistant, George Ruch, monitored a variety of U.S. radicals with the intent to punish, arrest, or deport those whose politics they decided were dangerous. Targets during this period included Marcus Garvey; Rose Pastor Stokes and Cyril Briggs; Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman; and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter, who, Hoover maintained, was “the most dangerous man in the United States“…
Under Truman the National Security Act of 1947 created the National Military Establishment (NME), effectively the Dept of Defense(?!), the NSC, the CIA, the JCS, the US Air Force (Nuke bombers), et al, were created. Truman also created the NSA by a mere classified Executive Order (PDD), no legislation whatsoever.
The act re the CIA authorized it to to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, and to:
Perform other functions and duties relating to intelligence affecting the National Security.
Particularly nebulous & exploited as such from inception.
In December of 1947 Truman created classified annex NSC-4A authorizing the CIA to explicitly conduct ‘Covert Operations‘.
The follow-on Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949:
… permitted the CIA to use confidential fiscal and administrative procedures and exempting it from many of the usual limitations on the use of federal funds. The act also exempted the CIA from having to disclose its “organization, functions, officials, titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed.”
This is arguably in direct breach of the Constitution re use/allocation/oversight of Federal Funds.
So, given all the above, and the ongoing complete myths, lies & Deep State actions & falsehoods around the globe that generations have lived thru for at least ~71 years, what’s a few illegal visa’s, micro-management/direction of agent provocateurs/terrorists, resulting in the deaths of only a ‘few’ American citizens as collateral damage, as long as it’s in the interests of ‘National Security‘, as arbitrarily & unilaterally decided by the unelected, unconstitutional, unaccountable, Deep State serving corporate interests & entrenched idealogues, since 1945, at least.
The US of A hasn’t been a sovereign nation, nor arguably even a functioning constitutional Democracy, since FDR’s death … and unless the MICC is confronted, dismantled and destroyed, root & branch, what difference will voting/elections in this faux democracy make … it hasn’t for the last ~71 years … has it ?
Posted by: Outraged | Feb 21 2017 4:15 utc | 28
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thanks, as always for your links to original documents.
The US of A hasn’t been a sovereign nation, nor arguably even a functioning constitutional Democracy, since FDR’s death … and unless the MICC is confronted, dismantled and destroyed, root & branch, what difference will voting/elections in this faux democracy make … it hasn’t for the last ~71 years … has it ?
you didn’t address that question to anyone in particular, but since i run my mouth off on ‘elections’ … i’ll give it a shot.
there are elections and then there are what we have now, which are called ‘elections’.
the former are run bottom-up by the people of any given constituency. and are probably illegal … or would be/will be if we actually had/have any, in the eyes of our present overlords.
the latter are … media extravaganzas such as the most recent one that’s brought us president trump … top-down, choose from among distinct personalities with no effective difference between/among the ‘policies’ to be effected by any of them … i don’t think i have to exhaustively characterize these ‘elections’ and/or their candidates as they have exhausted all of us already.
i don’t see any way other than elections of some sort to discover and document the will of the constituents of any constituency. am open to suggestions.
the question then – other suggestions aside – is how to have bona fide elections.
my suggestion is – just do it, basically. don’t ask anyone’s permission. no one has the authority to grant or deny such ‘permission’ anyway. it inheres in us sovereign people, constituents of the office in question. not only our election of representatives, but the power to legislate, to repeal laws made by our representative assemblies, and the power to recall such elected representatives and any all of their appointees also inheres in any sovereign constituency in question. the power to constitute government naturally lies within a constituency.
this/these power/s are alluded to in the us declaration of independence but not in our us constitution. so among our first tasks, once we have seized power, is ‘mentioning’ them, and correcting other such deficiencies of our constitution as we shall see fit to correct.
in our given political circumstances, the way to proceed seems to me to be as follows …
1. there are said to be ~150,000 voting precincts in the usa, of between 1,000 and 2,000 voting population each. this seems to be the natural ‘cellular’ size at which to organize.
2. politics ain’t rocket science. we need to define standards for paper ballot polls taken at the level of 1 above : authorization, authentication, physical ballot marking, counting, announcement of results, and storage of ballots for recount.
3. our first mission, once we accept it, is the broadest possible one : to ensure that our methods are accepted and validated nationwide.
4. that does not at all preclude the use of our balloting system to decide our overlords’ representative elections in the meantime … we may do so by defining our minimal platform, discovering among ourselves those who seem most likely to be able to effect our platform in the present congress, and voting them in during what our ‘overlords’ deem to be the ‘real’ elections in each of our constituencies.
5. the definition and discovery alluded to in 4 will take multiple elections to achieve. voting in our precincts must become second nature to us. there is no such thing as ‘hands free’ democracy. a moment or two’s reflection will confirm that.
6. there will be clashes between ourselves and our overlords once they discover that we mean actually to seize power ourselves and so to end their rule. we must arm ourselves with an inalienable belief in our own sovereignty and persevere, no matter what forms their resistance to our power may take. our greatest strength will be in the knowledge of not only the rightness but the absolute necessity of our cause. there is no alternative to democracy, to turn the glib phrase of the neo-liberals/neo-cons against themselves.
that’s what i see as the problem and its solution. i imagine that serious results might be achieved in 10 or 12 years … 5 or 6 congressional cycles in the usofa. some surely sooner.
the biggest payoff will be in the transformation of our conception of ourselves from subjects to rulers. a further moment’s reflection will confirm that that is exactly what is required by the term democracy.
as i say i am open to suggestions. i’m trying to envision a way from here to there, and that’s the path that i can see between the two states.
i think that the idea of a representative administration … which of necessity tends toward oligarchy, can nonetheless be useful. making traffic laws, seeing to food and drug regulation, making sure that corporations are brought to heel along every dimension of obfuscation and deceit they may employ … but that such a representative body is merely a tool, and all the results it brings about must be subject to review and approval by the sovereign constituents of our realm ourselves: all of us. any subset of us is sure to have interests that will contend with the interests of all of us, and so only all of us together can straighten out and put right our collective work of self-government. albeit through compromise and majority rule. majority rule may seem tyrannous, but minority rule is surely not an acceptable alternative.
sorry to go on at such length … as surely the above is only the barest outline of what’s required. but you asked a question … and in my view it literally demands an answer.
Posted by: jfl | Feb 21 2017 8:55 utc | 32
There’s no longer any doubt that the U.S. Deep State has for decades viewed radical Islamic terrorism as a tool it could use to help achieve geopolitical aims. There seem to have been two main methods involved – one, recruitment of radical Islamic terrorists who could be manipulated into carrying out attacks against various targets, and two, organization of financial support that couldn’t be directly traced back to the United States. The two main players seem to have been the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudi Wahhabist billionaires, respectively.
(1) The terrorist recruitment program: Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt-based, initially)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/12/extract
About a month after I joined [1976], CIA in Bonn cabled that a leader of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood who was living in Germany wanted a meeting with the CIA.. . . I knew, in short, that dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood was playing with fire. These guys were programmed for trouble. But if the Reagan administration really was determined to fight it out with our enemies in Syria and Lebanon, we couldn’t have found better surrogates. The only question was what they were prepared to do for us, and to find that out, we had to talk to them.
(2) The financial network: BCCI and the Saudis
http://www.ipsnews.net/2007/04/finance-questions-linger-about-bushes-and-bcci/
BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a dirty offshore bank that then-president Ronald Reagan’s Central Intelligence Agency used to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation and carry out other “agency” black ops. The Bushes also benefited privately; one of the bank’s largest Saudi investors helped bail out George W. Bush’s troubled oil investments. . . The CIA used BCCI Islamabad and other branches in Pakistan to funnel some of the two billion dollars that Washington sent to Osama bin Laden’s Mujahadeen to help fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. It moved the cash the Pakistani military and government officials skimmed from U.S. aid to the Mujahadeen. It also moved money as required by the Saudi intelligence services.
This was the basis of the Afghan-Pakistan program in the 1980s, to support radical Islamic groups that were supposedly under the control of Pakistan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Note that the U.S. could have instead supported the independent nationalist group headed by Ahmad Shah Massoud, but he had no close ties to the Saudis and Pakistan, so he got very little support and ultimately, Pakistan’s ISI helped the Taliban take over most of Afghanistan in the 1990s, as detailed in Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars. Here he is discussing the paperback update for an hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqs07BrmJ0c
As far as domestic American politics, though, we should admit that Trump’s ties to the Saudis and other Gulf Arab monarchies seem about as extensive as Hillary Clinton’s; the Trump family business (with his sons running off to Dubai to open golf courses, etc.) seems very similar to how the Clinton Global Initiative and Podesta & Co. and Bill Clinton operated – private junkets, speaking fees, large donations, etc. Regardless, Trump is highly destablizing to establishment programs and Clinton would have been more closely aligned with Deep State agendas. Chaotic disruption is about all we can hope for from Trump, but that’s still better than what Clinton & Co. would be up to right now.
Incidentally, one of the more telling email chains detailing these relationships is from the Podesta wikileaks trove and involves a lawyer, Jack Quinn (also for Bill Clinton & Blackwater) for the 9/11 families attempting to protect Saudi Arabia from prosecution via contacts with Podesta:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/. . .
This is a lawyer for the 9/11 families, remember – but look what he’s up to:
Over the years since the 9/11 attack and the filing of our litigation, the families and other plaintiffs have had a long history of dealings with the Department of State and the Congress, principally through counsel. Much of that interaction has involved the legal question whether the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should be dismissed from the suit on grounds of sovereign immunity and whether there are ways in which we might expedite resolution of this matter in the interests of justice, a goal we are convinced can be achieved consistent with our national security interests.
Podesta’s response is to forward the email to Cheryl Mills, getting back to the laywer Jack Quinn, who responds:
John, I see this, of course, through all my own lenses, those of someone who cares deeply about the families cause. But I equally do not want this cause not to be misused for political purposes. Those of us who have been concerned about that politicization have had some thoughts about how to defang the issue and would be happy to knock those around with you or Cheryl if and whenever you like.
This looks like an effort to get a confidential settlement from the Saudis while hiding the role the Saudis played in financing the 9/11 hijackers from the public, which is right in line with the kind of relationship the U.S. government has had with radical Islamic terror groups and their direct financial sponsors (Saudi billionaires and Pakistan ISI and various Wahhabist charitable foundations) over the years.
It also raises the question of the extent of foreknowledge of the 9/11 hijackings possessed by various members of the Bush Administration in the summer of 2001.
Posted by: nonsense factory | Feb 21 2017 16:13 utc | 42
TL;DR Warning, long post/rant 😉
@ Posted by: jfl | Feb 21, 2017 3:55:08 AM | 32
@ Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 21, 2017 4:37:48 PM | 50
Am reluctant to continue the oblique discussion, yet the thread is slow and these issues speak to the root cause and genesis of ‘unaccountable power’ that led to these individual events, IMV, so …
Jfl, Military Industrial Congressional Complex (MICC) as originally drafted and intended by Ike, the current 5 suborned Mega-Media-Corporations could be considered subsumed within ‘Industrial’, yes ?
karflof1, FDR was no saint, yet is well regarded and known to existing populace, and was clearly anti-fascist as opposed to administrations prior and after FDR. He was well known to be near death and highly unlikely to live long into a 4th term, hence why the corrupt party bosses installed the bankrupt, corrupt, politically indebted/beholden and week-willed malleable Truman as VP. All the ‘New Dealers’ were quickly purged or effectively sidelined. De Javu re the recent corrupt/exposed DNC primaries/campaign, perhaps ?
Go too far back (beyond ’45 ?) re any sort of discussion as to why we are where we are today, and it falls into entrenched perceived mythology of little relatable personal lived relevance, IMV. Why ? ’cause the Trump factions anomalous(?) ascendance and out of proportion reactions to it, create a chink in the sustained conformist false ‘narrative’ of generations. An opportunity now exists to increase the numbers of those who are ‘aware’ re reality/history, whether neutral, for or against the Trump-faction. IMHO.
An overlooked historical event that one thinks speaks to both your points and the true nature/alignment of the Republics Federal government & indeed Congress from inception …
The Whiskey Rebellion beginning in 1791:
Farmers living west of the Appalachian Mountains distilled their excess grain into whiskey, which was easier and more profitable to transport over the mountains than the more cumbersome grain. A whiskey tax would make western farmers less competitive with eastern grain producers. Additionally, cash was always in short supply on the frontier, so whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. For poorer people who were paid in whiskey, the excise was essentially an income tax that wealthier easterners did not pay.
Small-scale farmers also protested that Hamilton’s excise effectively gave unfair tax breaks to large distillers, most of whom were based in the east. There were two methods of paying the whiskey excise: paying a flat fee or paying by the gallon. Large distillers produced whiskey in volume and could afford the flat fee. The more efficient they became, the less tax per gallon they would pay (as low as 6 cents, according to Hamilton). Western farmers who owned small stills did not usually operate them year-round at full capacity, so they ended up paying a higher tax per gallon (9 cents), which made them less competitive. The regressive nature of the tax was further compounded by an additional factor: whiskey sold for considerably less on the cash-poor Western frontier than in the wealthier and more populous East. This meant that, even if all distillers had been required to pay the same amount of tax per gallon, the small-scale frontier distillers would still have to remit a considerably larger proportion of their product’s value than larger Eastern distillers. Small-scale distillers believed that Hamilton deliberately designed the tax to ruin them and promote big business, a view endorsed by some historians. However, historian Thomas Slaughter argued that a “conspiracy of this sort is difficult to document”. Whether by design or not, large distillers recognized the advantage that the excise gave them and they supported it…
The Rebellion raised the question of what kinds of protests were permissible under the new Constitution. Legal historian Christian G. Fritz argued that there was not yet a consensus about sovereignty in the United States, even after ratification of the Constitution. Federalists believed that the government was sovereign because it had been established by the people; radical protest actions were permissible during the American Revolution but were no longer legitimate, in their thinking. But the Whiskey Rebels and their defenders believed that the Revolution had established the people as a “collective sovereign”, and the people had the collective right to change or challenge the government through extra-constitutional means.
Historian Steven Boyd argued that the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion prompted anti-Federalist westerners to finally accept the Constitution and to seek change by voting for Republicans rather than resisting the government. Federalists, for their part, came to accept the public’s role in governance and no longer challenged the freedom of assembly and the right to petition.
I would argue that the following ~226 years of American government and the Deep State(& earlier prototypes) is an endless series of ‘Whiskey Rebellions‘, repeatedly resulting in the crushing of any dissent or resistance to faux government of & for exploitative corrupt ‘Big Business’.
Jfl, unless an overwhelming critical mass of the population first have their indoctrinated perceived reality re the fraud of ‘The American Dream’ & ‘Freedom & Democracy’ belief in the validity of faux parties upturned and made ‘aware’, then how would your proposal get past go ? Consider the following …
@ Posted by: ben | Feb 21, 2017 12:01:09 AM | 29
Essentially concurrent with what the sock-puppet Truman was used to enact by corrupt party power-brokers in league with Wall Streets owners, was the ‘Red Scare/s(1&2)‘ & ‘Lavender Scare‘. The active reversal of addressing segregation & civil rights by FDR’s administration and a complete infiltration and destruction of labor/union movements, workers, social & civil rights and associated entities under the faux claim of, ‘Y’all are Commies! or Subversives or Gays !’. This did not end with McCarthy who was actually fed by J Edgar Hoover and as a means to undermine Eisenhowers popularity.
President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835, the “Loyalty Order”, in March 1947. An eventful year, 1947 …
The order established the first general loyalty program in the United States, designed to root out ‘communist'(simple Dissent ?) influence in the U.S. federal government. Truman aimed to rally public opinion behind his Cold War policies with investigations conducted under its authority…
The Executive Order 10450, signed by President Eisenhower in April 1953, revoked Executive Order 9835 and extended the restrictions to all other jobs in the US government…
Previously, the criteria used to define a security risk were largely political, that is, affiliation with suspect organizations or a clear demonstration of disloyalty. Executive Order 10450 added more general estimations of character, stability, and reliability. Its language was broad: “Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion.” At the same time, the executive order’s provisions contained advice on evaluating character problems, as in its provision that the medical valuation of a psychological problem should show “due regard to the transient or continuing effect of the illness.”
Without explicitly referring to homosexuality, the executive order responded to several years of charges that the presence of homosexual employees in the State Department posed blackmail risks. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. explained that the new order was designed to encompass both loyalty and security risks and he differentiated between the two: “Employees could be a security risk and still not be disloyal or have any traitorous thoughts, but it may be that their personal habits are such that they might be subject to blackmail by people who seek to destroy the safety of our country.” The executive order had the effect of banning gay men and lesbians from working for any agency of the federal government.
Loyalty and security tests spread through the federal government. At these inquiries, federal employees were asked questions such as:
Is it proper to mix white and Negro blood plasma?
There is a suspicion in your record that you are in sympathy with the underprivileged. Is that true?
What were your feelings at that time concerning race equality?
Have you ever made statements about the “downtrodden masses” and “underprivileged people”?
Have you engaged in sexual behavior of a criminal nature or sexual behavior that may cause you to be vulnerable to coercion, exploitation, or duress ?
This didn’t even begin to be partially redressed until the mid 60’s and I would seriously argue virtually any organization/association/entity, or politician/leader in existence re the above issues has been actively targeted/destroyed, infiltrated & suborned since ’47 (& prior) on an ongoing, unrelenting basis by any and all means necessary, both domestically and wherever possible internationally.
EO 9835 and EO 10450 weren’t repealed until Prez Bill Clinton signed EO 12968 in 1995 & EO 13087 in 1998(!).
So, a 20 year old entering federal service in 1995/1998 in an entrenched, assimilated ideological culture, with mandatory enforced/re-inforced attitudes/beliefs going back many generations would only now be in mid-management, ~20 years later, perhaps, assuming they survived or advanced at all … should they not ‘conform’ …
Hence, as long as the aims of Global Empire, supra-national/supra-legal 5-Eyes imperialism, more sophisticated yet harking back to the 19th century continues in the form of overt & covert endless war profiteering & neo-colonial resource exploitation by such continues, contrary to an actual democratic sovereign State nor the benefit of its citizens, then any hope of ever substantially addressing those domestic issues will likely only result in repeating unpleasant historical events …
The Deep State exists to serve almost exclusively the corporate interests that created it … Divide & Rule & deny/suppress/destroy any and all dissent/opposition/non-conformism/protest/resistance/’Others’ re what was ‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ to ‘The New Deal’ and since.
Achieving a critical mass re ‘awareness’ of actual reality and true history is the mandatory prerequisite to any possibility of effective change, IMV. Thank FSM for digital Samizdat, ‘The Internet’, or an obviously accidental & unintended consequence of DARPA research funding 😉
Rant over, My 2c is up.
Posted by: Outraged | Feb 22 2017 4:10 utc | 54
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