The Scarlet A: Links between the Anthrax Attacks and 9/11
by Barbara Honegger
The
author is a Senior Military Affairs Journalist, and former White House
Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President
in the first Reagan Administration. Ms. Honegger is the author of the
9/11 expose “The Pentagon Attack Papers” http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf and October Surprise (Tudor, 1989), the first book to reveal the true origins of the Iran side of the Iran/Contra scandal.
By
insisting that Bruce Ivins, a biowarfare scientist then with the Army’s
Ft. Detrick laboratory, was behind the anthrax attacks, the Bush
Administration has officially acknowledged that those attacks were
perpetrated by a U.S. Government insider -- and not by bin Laden or by
Iraq.
Likewise, compelling evidence (1)
has demonstrated that the mass murders of 9/11 themselves were
perpetrated or enabled by U.S. Government insiders. And while it is
well known that President Bush has admitted Iraq was not behind Sept.
11, it is less widely known that bin Laden has never been wanted by the
FBI for 9/11 on the agency’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ web page. FBI
Director Mueller and his chief investigative spokesman, Rex Tomb, have
publicly stated that the reason bin Laden isn’t officially wanted for
9/11 is because there is “no hard evidence” linking him to the Sept. 11
plot. (2)
Because the
Administration has thus admitted the anthrax attacks were perpetrated
by a U.S. government insider -- and Sheila Casey and Barry Kissin have
shown in the Sept. 2008 issue of The Rock Creek Free Press that they were a true inside job by the CIA (and DIA) and its contractor Battelle Memorial Institute, not a ‘lone nut’ rogue (3)
-- if significant evidence links the insider anthrax attacks to 9/11,
we can reasonably infer that the same government/military insiders were
behind both mass crimes.
So what is the evidence linking anthrax to Sept. 11?
1) Whatever insiders wrote the letters mailed with the anthrax wanted you to believe they were linked to 9/11. As
is well known, the date hand written on the anthrax letters
is Sept. 11, 2001. Though the official story -- that the first
letter, to Florida photo journalist Bob Stevens, wasn’t mailed until
after 9/11 and so anthrax wasn’t part of the actual 9/11 plot -- it’s
clear that whoever wrote and dated the letters and added the
super-weaponized (3) U.S. military anthrax
wanted you to believe there is a direct connection, and that Islamic
foreigners were responsible for both.
2) Superweaponizing anthrax was one of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s top priorities. Two days before9/11,
on Sept. 9, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held a rare press
conference in which it revealed that on his first day as Secretary of
Defense, Rumsfeld ordered the DIA to take Project Jefferson,
a secret and illegal anthrax weaponization program (probably using the
Ames strain contained in the anthrax letters) to the next level of
lethality and that it had achieved ‘success’ earlier that month in a
classified field test. The mainstream press reported this event on
Sept. 10, the day before 9/11. 3) Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) preplanned a
bio/chem-terrorism exercise likely involving an anthrax scenario for
which personnel were in New York City on 9/11, and Giuliani's
just-recent OEM director urged White House staff to go
on anti-anthrax Cipro on Sept. 11. Giuliani testified to
the 9/11 Commission that his Office of Emergency Management (OEM) had
scheduled a bio/chem-terrorism response exercise, called TRIPOD II, to
begin the day after 9/11, Sept. 12. But personnel who were to take part
in the exercise were already in New York City on Sept. 10th and OEM
personnel were cleared out of their WTC7 offices on Sept. 11 and moved
to the exercise command center on a New York pier and thus conveniently
out of the building when it was brought down by military-grade thermate
explosives on 9/11 -- controlled demolition charges that required weeks
to pre-place, the very weeks the exercise was being planned. New
Jersey’s Ft. Monmouth, an Army base just across the water from the Twin
Towers, also held a ‘II’ exercise, called TIMELY ALERT II, on 9/11 (4), almost
certainly coordinated with Giuliani’s TRIPOD II, further evidence that
the latter was also scheduled to begin on Sept. 11.
The then recent director of Mayor Giuliani’s Office of Emergency
Management, Jerome “Jerry” Hauer -- a bio-warfare expert and one of the
signers of the pre-9/11 Project for a New American Century manifesto
calling for “a new Pearl Harbor” (such as 9/11) who had been a central
player in scripting the TRIPOD II bio-chem attack scenario exercise --
was an expert in the response to building collapses (5) and
managing director of Kroll Associates before and on 9/11, the company
that managed the WTC7 OEM ‘bunker’ and provided ‘security’ for the
World Trade Center, including all three buildings brought down by
controlled demolition that morning. He thus oversaw personnel with the
complete access needed to pre-place explosive charges. It was Hauer who
had advocated, despite the 1993 terrorist attack on WTC1, that Giuliani
locate his OEM, from which a response to an expected follow up attack
on the WTC would need to be orchestrated, next door in WTC7 (6).
The new OEM opened on the 23rd floor of WTC7 in June 1999, where Hauer,
its director, had his office. Hauer became a National Security Adviser
to the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 10, the very day TRIPOD
II personnel arrived in New York City, from which new NIH post he
managed the Bush Administration’s ‘response’ to the imminent anthrax
attacks, which falsely pointed the finger at Iraq and diverted
attention from the true insider anthrax killers. Indeed, it was Hauer
who zealously pushed the ‘bin Laden did it and just planes-and-fires
brought down the Towers’ official story on CBS News on 9/11 in the
immediate aftermath of the attacks before anyone not on the inside
could have possibly determined the actual cause of the collapses,
taking pains to insist that explosives were not involved, when they
were. And according to mainstream press reports and a lawsuit by the
conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, it was
Hauer who personally advised the White House to take anti-anthrax Cipro
antibiotics on 9/11 (7). [Other reports state White House personnel were put on Cipro nearly a month before the attacks (8).
Did Hauer recommend that White House personnel be put on an
anti-anthrax antibiotics on 9/11 because he had reason to believe the
9/11 attacks would also involve anthrax and/or because he had advance
knowledge there would be subsequent imminent anthrax attacks?
4) The FBI had been told the 9/11 attacks would involve anthrax.
On Sept. 11, Janette MacKinlay lived in a fourth floor apartment
overlooking what was soon to become ‘the pit’ of the World Trade
Center. Her neighbor and close friend Bruno told her later that day or
early the next morning that he had been pulled off the street into a
bank lobby next to the WTC towers by an FBI agent on the morning of
Sept. 11 to protect them from the dust cloud from the collapsing tower,
and was told by the agent that “We were told this was going to happen
and that it would involve anthrax.” Another FBI agent told a woman
about to enter the NBC Bldg. that she should leave immediately because
“there are explosives in the building as well as in the WTC.”
Clearly, the FBI had been pre-alerted because their own offices were in
the WTC -- in WTC7 -- which, like WTC1 and WTC2, was pre-wired for a
controlled demolition take down that day. MacKinlay had the presence of
mind to collect the dust from the cloud that poured into her apartment
overlooking the ‘pit’, and it is this dust that physicist Prof. Steven
Jones has analyzed and in which he found military-grade thermate as
well as other high explosives, proving the presence of pre-placed
charges throughout the towers to which ‘Al Qaeda’ could not have had
access to set. Though no anthrax has been reported in
the dust -- though it may not have yet been tested for -- if TRIPOD II
were at least in part on an anthrax attack scenario, it wouldn’t have
used actual anthrax, but an anthrax simulant -- an anthrax-like powder
that would disperse through the air in a way similar to the real thing.
Experts should be consulted for the chemical composition of anthrax
simulants and the dust from the WTC collapses tested for these
simulants.
5) In the minds of the insider
scriptwriters for the Sept. 2001 New York City TRIPOD II emergency
response exercise, an attack on the World Trade Center was already
associated with bio/chem terrorism. According to respected New
York Times science writer William Broad, the plan for the 1993 attack
on WTC1, for which alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheihk Mohammed’s
nephew Ramzi Yousef is in prison for life, involved a plot to push
cyanide into New York City. This is reported in Germs, Broad’s
book co-authored with Judith Miller. Though the latter’s credibility
has been compromised, Broad remains a respected journalist.
6) Rudolph Giuliani bought the Florida-building crime scene of the first anthrax attack.
Anthrax was found throughout the American Media, Inc. (AMI) building in
Boca Raton, Florida where the first anthrax letter victim, Robert
Stevens, worked -- as confirmed by AMI employees whose desks were near
Stevens’ whom I have interviewed. A ‘don’t cross’ line was put
around the building by the FBI, which had been “told 9/11 was coming
and that it would involve anthrax.” AMI was forced to move to
another location and put the building up for sale. According to The New
York Times, this first anthrax attack crime scene with evidence still
in place was then bought (at an anthrax sale price) by former NYC Mayor
Giuliani, overseer of the Sept. 11/12 TRIPOD II bio/chem-terrorism
probable-anthrax-scenario exercise, who formed a partnership with a
decontamination expert qualified to decontaminate the building.
Giuliani thus controlled and oversaw the destruction of evidence at
both the New York crime scene of the 9/11 attacks, the WTC, ordering
the steel containing traces of controlled demolition explosives to be
removed, and the crime scene of the first anthrax attack, America
Media, Inc, in Florida. The FBI had
already joined the conspiracy to obstruct its own investigation of the
anthrax attacks by “agreeing to the request” of Iowa State University
College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames, Iowa to destroy its ‘library’
of over 100 vials of the Ames strain gathered since 1928 necessary for
a definitive match against the anthrax in the mailed letters, which
library was destroyed on Oct. 12, 2001, one week after Bob Stevens
became the first victim. (9) This
Florida anthrax is critical because, according to press reports on
Ivins’ alleged involvement, the anthrax in the mailed letters -- but
not the ‘first’ anthrax sent to Stevens (the FBI claims no letter was
found in connection with the anthrax recovered from Stevens’ computer
keyboard but assumes a ‘missing’ letter) was traced back to a flask in
Ivins’ laboratory. The Stevens anthrax is thus key to proving that
Ivins, if he was involved at all, did not act alone, as it does not
trace back to his flask, and because it’s the closest in time to 9/11
and so most likely to be directly linked to Sept. 11.
Based on the above, a reasonable case can be made that Giuliani’s Sept.
11/12 TRIPOD II bio/chem. terrorism response exercise was at least in
part on an anthrax scenario, using an anthrax simulant; that the
letters mailed slightly later with real anthrax may have been written
or the text drafted for that exercise; and that Giuliani’s former
Office of Emergency Management director and close friend Jerome Hauer
advised White House staff to take anti-anthrax Cipro on 9/11 because he
was afraid the anthrax attack exercise scenario might be about to ‘go
live’ just as both the NORAD hijacked-plane ‘exercise’ and the NRO
plane-crashing-into-tower ‘exercise’ had already just ‘gone live’
earlier the morning of Sept. 11 as parts of their 'game' scenarios
suddenly turned horribly real.
If the
Florida anthrax doesn’t link back to Ivins’ Ft. Detrick flask and
Ivins, who worked on vaccines (bio-defense) and not its weaponization
(bio-offense) wasn’t behind the attacks -- and neither, the government
now claims, was Steven Hatfill whom the Bush Administration just agreed
to pay millions of dollars to settle his case -- then who was? As
detailed in the September issue by Casey and Kissin, the key suspects
are CIA/DIA contractor Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI); and,
individually, William Patrick and Ken Alibek.
Battelle, a bio-defense contractor located in West Jefferson, Ohio, has
exclusive control of the Ames strain contained in the mailed anthrax
letters (10) and, in partnership with the CIA
and Defense Intelligence Agency, ran Project Jefferson, the
government’s covert bio-weapons program whose goal was to develop
hyper-weaponized anthrax like that contained in the mailed letters (11) and which Rumsfeld ordered developed to the next level of lethality on his first day as Secretary of Defense.
William Patrick, a former top bio-scientist at Ft. Detrick and close
colleague of former Giuliani OEM Director Jerry Hauer, was the mentor
of initial FBI ‘person of interest’ in the anthrax attacks Steven
Hatfill. Patrick holds five classified patents and trade secrets,
including on how to hyper-weaponize anthrax to the 1 trillion spores
per gram contained in the letters mailed to Democratic Congressional
leaders Senators Daschle and Leahy (12). After leaving Ft. Detrick, he was contracted by Battelle to research and write a report on howmailed letterscould
be used as the vector for dispersing weaponized anthrax. (13) On
Sept. 9, two days before 9/11, Battelle contractor DIA announced the
‘success’ of Project Jefferson’s anthrax hyper-weaponization
program. Following the Sept./Oct. 2001 letter mailings, some of
which were reported to contain anthrax at 1 trillion spores per gram, a
footnote in Patrick’s report stating that “We have now arrived at the
point where we can purify [anthrax] to the extent of 1 trillion spores
in a gram” was removed from publicly available copies. (13)
William Patrick worked with his close colleague and friend, former
Soviet bio-weapons expert Ken Alibek, at Battelle, which also ran
Project Clear Vision, a secret CIA program to reverse engineer
dry-powder anthrax bombs produced by the former Soviet Union. Patrick
and Alibek were the FBI’s first suspects in the anthrax attacks, but
the initial FBI investigative team was taken off that
focus and replaced by a new team that diverted attention to
Hatfill. Director Mueller himself assured a Senator that the FBI “was
not investigating, nor intending to investigate, anyone with, or
formerly with, BMI [Battelle]." (14) Battelle
is also a contractual partner with BioPort and Scientific Applications
International Corporation (SAIC), and directs the anthrax production
and experimentation program at the Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in
Utah, the second ‘home’ in addition to Ft. Detrick of the Ames strain
contained in the letters. Hauer and Hatfill worked together at SAIC. (15)
The
inside job anthrax attacks were then used as a pretext for the illegal
secret domestic wiretap program and assault on the Constitution.
Given the timing, it is now almost certain that the U.S.
government insider anthrax attacks were used as the pretext for
President Bush’s illegal warrantless domestic wiretap program for which
he signed the first ‘authorization’ on Oct. 23, 2001 – right in the middle of the anthrax terror (16). Senator
John McCain had just gone on ABC TV, on Oct. 18, to push the
disinformation that a nonexistent bentonite additive, purportedly
marking the anthrax as coming from Iraq, meant that Saddam Hussein
was behind the attacks. To this day, the White House still refuses
to provide Congress with this Oct. 23, 2001 presidential authorization
for its warrantless inside-the-U.S. surveillance program, and for
obvious reason. This is the alleged authorization that we now know,
from a footnote referring to it in another now-released document,
contains Bush’s shocking claim that the Constitution’s
Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and
seizures do not apply to U.S. military operations conducted inside the United States.
The fact that the Administration continued its secret and illegal
domestic spying program long after its was publicly known that the
anthrax attacks were the work of one of its own inside military
facilities is strong evidence the perpetrators were the same high
level officials who used the attacks to justify their illegal
surveillance program – the White House itself. Exposing the inside job
anthrax mailings as the false pretext for the illegal warrantless
domestic wiretap program is thus critical to bringing President Bush
and his administration to account for its Reichtag Fire-like attack on
Congressional Democratic leaders Daschle and Leahy then pushing for an
investigation of the 9/11 attacks and resisting the
president’s railroading of the Patriot Act -- the analog to Hitler’s
Enabling Act passed in the wake of the Reichtag Fire -- through
Congress, as well as for the mass murders of Sept. 11.
We
have seen the Terrorists, and They are U.S. It’s time for under
oath pre-impeachment hearings -- and pre-court martial hearings -- to
interrogate these suspects, and all others who worked with them, to
expose who wears The Scarlet A.
----------------- Notes 1 The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Expose, by David Ray Griffin, Interlink Books, Sept. 2008. 2 http://www.twf.org/News/Y2006/0608-BinLaden.html 3 “FBI Sweeps Anthrax Under the Rug,” Rock Creek Free Press, Sept. 2008 issue, pp. 1 and 2. 4 http://www.amc.army.mil/amc/pa/oct01.html 5 New York Times, July 27, 1999 6 http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/07/jerome-hauer-911-suspect-await ing.html 7 http://www.judicialwatch.org/1967.shtml 8 Crossing the Rubicon, by Michael Ruppert, pp. 505-506. 9 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/Bioter/theamesstrain.html 10 http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2008/08/project-anthrax-cover-up-p art-five.html 11
The FBI recently held a ‘science’ briefing for reporters on the Ivins
evidence in which it made a 180-degree reversal from the results of lab
analyses of the anthrax reported by Ft. Detrick and other scientists
and officials in the first year following the attacks. Those early
analyses showed the spores in the letters to Senators Leahy and Daschle
to be super-weaponized: they were found to be highly uniform, extremely
small in size, extremely concentrated at 1 trillion per gram,
electrically charged, and with a silica coating. At its ‘science’
briefing, the FBI absurdly claimed that mail processing machines caused
the additional powderizing and electrical charge found in the samples
-- both coincidentally common results of weaponization. 12 http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/rarey/rarey3.html; “Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S.,” by William Broad, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001. 13 Ibid. (Broad, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2001). 14 http://www.worldnewsstand.net/news/anthrax.htm 15 www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/open_letter_mueller.html; www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/anthrax_espionage.html16 Further confirmation that the insider anthrax attacks were used by the Bush Administration to justify creating the secret illegal warrantless domestic wiretap program is in “Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink,” Washington Post, Sept. 14, 2008, by Barton Gellman. Note [6] at the end of this article reveals that the very first memorandum giving the purported legal rationale for the wireless domestic taps, by John Yoo, was dated Oct. 4, 2001 – just after published reports of the first anthrax victim, Bob Stevens, and only one day before his death on Oct. 5.This is contained in Shannen Coffin’s letter to Senator Leahy of Aug. 20, 2007 onthe subject of this and other of Yoo’s ‘Top Secret-Codeword’ documents, still not released to Congress.
Barbara Honegger is a Senior Military
Affairs Journalist with Navy, and former White House Policy Analyst and
Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President in the first Reagan
Administration. Honegger is the author of the 9/11 expose "The Pentagon
Attack Papers" http://physics911.net/pdf/honegger.pdf and the book
OCTOBER SURPRISE (Tudor, 1989), the first book to reveal the true
origins of the Iran side of the Iran/Contra scandal.
Certainly,
Ms. Honegger seems to have put more effort into her writing than the
911 commission put into their investigation. Not that I actually
expected a real investigation, having lived through the Kennedy farce.
Veteran, '66-68
by
Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 361 comments)
on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 1:18:57 PM
I
believe the anthrax and demolition attacks were both done by elements
of the US government, not necessarily Bush/Cheney but definitely not
lone nut jobs. Both were purposeful, and accomplished their
purpose.
by
Maxwell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 244 comments)
on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 4:20:58 PM
Ok, so the secret is out. We know who is responsible, and they know we know they did it.
What
do you think is going to happen, they are going to go silently into the
night and wait to be captured and imprisoned when an honest government
takes over?
LOL. They give you a choice, McCain and Obama. Both represent the powers behind 9/11.
See
the light, don't be blinded by it. It's over. The same
powers are terrorizing you to get you to hand them 700 billion +, and
you are going to give it to them, like it or not.
In the not too
distant future, many of you are going to be happy to work for free so
long as they feed you, clothe you and give you a place to live (Obama
calls it national service). We used to call it slavery. The
power owns you, they just have not told you. The US is just 1 big
corporation right now. And its going global.
by
pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 467 comments)
on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 7:12:42 PM
Military
grade anthrax attack on Democrats , military type thermate used to
bring down WTC 1,2 &7, and unauthorized B52 flight armed with
nuclear missiles, what do they have in common? They all further the
goals of the New American Century, military domination abroad and
terrorizing Americans into submission at home. They used "shock and
awe" in New York, Washington, DC, Baghdad, and planned to nuke Iran. It
is of the utmost urgency that these sociopaths be found out and
brought to justice before they murder again.
by
Ramon Puga (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 30 comments)
on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 7:38:15 PM
Anthrax Patent Owner Dr. Carl Alving of FT Deitrich
I
wonder if our dear Dr. Carl Alving mentioned in Gary Matsumotos book "
VACCINE A " as holder of the patent on the squalene ( oil & water )
additive or adjuvant in the autoimmune causing Anthrax Vaccine ( which
had tons of production health citations ) - also known as MF-59 had
anything to do with this.
Maybe contact the Center
For Controlled Conflict on Weather Mountain in West Virginia to see
just how far this bloodletting EUGENICS scheme plans to continue.
The Cold Fart Holy Men behind this will burn in hell for all eternity. And I mean that in a nice way.
Anthrax Patent Owner Dr. Carl Alving of FT Deitrich
I
wonder if our dear Dr. Carl Alving mentioned in Gary Matsumotos book "
VACCINE A " as holder of the patent on the squalene ( oil & water )
additive or adjuvant in the autoimmune causing Anthrax Vaccine ( which
had tons of production health citations ) - also known as MF-59 had
anything to do with this.
Maybe contact the Center
For Controlled Conflict on Weather Mountain in West Virginia to see
just how far this bloodletting EUGENICS scheme plans to continue.
The Cold Fart Holy Men behind this will burn in hell for all eternity. And I mean that in a nice way.
A must watch film: Empire of the City II -
I watched this film last night and I have to tell you, it ties
everything - and I mean everything together as well as any documentary
you'll ever see and ends with several ways we can defeat the bastards.
I promise you won't be disappointed.
Google: Empire of the City II
by
Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1457 comments)
on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:29:40 AM
his
is a lengthy documentary - but it is conveniently broken up into small
sections for easy viewing - more importantly, this monumental work can
be viewed online for free at the link below.
From the mystery
religions of ancient Egypt to the Zionist role in 9/11, "Ring Of Power"
unrevises 4000 years of revisionist human history with never - before -
seen revelations. "Ring Of Power" puzzles together the pieces of a
giant puzzle into one BIG PICTURE documentary series.
Part I: 9/11 THE UNTOLD STORY (38 min.)
Half the world believes Muslims were responsible for 9/11. The other
half believes Israeli Zionists were responsible. Who’s right?
Part II: HIDDEN EMPIRE (22 min.) The world’s most powerful empire is not the U.S.A. It is an empire that insiders call “Empire Of The City”.
Part IV:
GOD AND THE QUEEN (30 min.) Genealogy charts show that British and
French royalty are descendants of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. Is
it true?
Part V: ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN (22 min.) How rich and powerful is Queen Elizabeth II?
Part VI: THE GODFATHERS (30 min.) They scammed control of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve, then they found GOD – Gold, Oil and Drugs.
Part VIII: ASSES OF EVIL (29 min.)
The New World Order Mafia are invisible rulers who make puppets out of
politicians, heroes out of villains and villains out of heroes.
Part IX:
KING OF HEARTS (22 min.) The ultimate goal of “insiders” is to disarm
the world and create one world empire under one world ruler. Who is he?
Part X: SOLUTIONS (28 min.) Protesting and writing letters to deaf politicians doesn’t work. What does work?
The Producer is an experienced, award winning documentary filmmaker
who, as a child, learned that her father was a member of the secretive
cult of Freemasonry. She recalls many arguments between her parents
over her father's secret meetings and the exclusion of women from the
brotherhood. The Masonic ring that her father wore had been passed down
from father to son over the generations. When she asked her father
about the meaning of the letter "G" and the compass and square on his
ring, she got no response. As an adult, she decided to investigate.
That investigation grew into four years of intensive research into the
identity and history of the diabolical globalists who she calls the
"Ring Of Power". Their goal is one World Empire and one world ruler.
by
CasaZaza (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 153 comments)
on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 11:06:23 AM
9-11 wasn't the first time the government has attacked us.
I
was raised from age ten to age eighteen by three remarkable people.
Grandmother Smith who with Uncle Bob made sure I knew about the history
and traditions and some of the medicine of the People of the High
Hills. The Keepers of the Western Gate.
In addition Uncle Bob
(Robert Filey also known as Big Tree) and Uncle Gust (Gus. Burgeson)
made sure I knew about the US Constitution and American History.
Both
of these men served in the trenches over there in the War to End All
Wars. Both were gassed and partially disabled while serving with the
Expeditionary forces under Blackjack Pershing. Both returned home with
empty promises from the government to compensate them for their
disabilities. Both took part in the Vets. March on Washington to demand
Congress live up to the promises made to them. Both were camped in MD
just across the bridge from the Washington Navy Yard when they were
surrounded by US Troops under the command of Gen. Macarthur. Both were
among those wounded by machine gun fire when they stood up for their
Constitutional Rights to assemble peacefully and petition the
government for redress of grievance. So If I seem to be overly critical
of the government, I'm not. I demand my right to speak against anything
the government does that brings harm to it's citizens, it's military or
it's financial health. Both told me of the do nothing stance of
the Republicans when the depression started and the practice of the
Federal Reserve to save the banks and the hell with the people. this
was the situation when FDR was elected and he was elected only because
he promised to do something. Including regulate the banks. Someone
forgot this in the recent wave of deregulation.
Sorry if
this post bothers people, but it's something that needs saying over and
over. We have a government that will work only as long as it responds
to the people instead of the rich. Only as long as the goovernment is
bound by the same laws we are. Only as long as people do not forget
what happened to those who came before them. Politics is mostly about
controling instead of serving the people. Never forget that.
by
Robert N Smith (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 112 comments)
on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:43:36 PM
13 comments
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