But UTPD Pussies Fail to Arrest 9/11 Terrorist Dick Cheney on Campus.

UT student prolificates 9/11 underground resistance to New World Odor
takeover of USSA. Patriotic news reporters and editors across Amerika
revolt?!

9/11 truth found on Internet.

Nate Arthur, narthur@..., December 06, 2005.

The Internet saved me from being a typical American with a turnip or
smaller fruit for a brain. I was rotting away, without enough
accessible information, until the Web came along, the solitary act of
goodness ever committed by the Pentagon.

Like believing all the terrorists have brown skin and praise Allah,
it's fashionable to believe that the Internet contains mostly bogus
information that one can trust. Is there a connection between our
cultural distrust of the Net as a source of dependable information
and our general manly distrust of reading, thinking and independent
intellectual pursuits?

You have to think and read to use the Internet, and that makes many
of us uncomfortable. Americans have also been weakened with the
stupidity of television. (Our political illiteracy is world-famous.
We've forgotten the vital importance of balanced, print journalism,
and just one proof is our persistent tolerance of FOX News, which is
like freely broadcast pornography for bigots, jingoists and
paternalists.)

TV news favors setting two opponents on one another for a three-
minute grudge match. This tends to make them appear as hot-blooded
fools, and the viewer is left feeling, "Gee, they both had points and
were passionate; one can never tell." It is a patented expression of
American political apathy and immaturity from production to
consumption.

But people are often completely wrong, and their points are sometimes
lies. Our government lies constantly. We need a 24-hour news station
devoted solely to cataloguing these lies. FBI Director Mueller told
an immense whopper shortly after 9/11 and allowed it to grow and
swell for over a year before the truth leaked out to contradict him.

He said airliner terror attacks were never predicted by any
intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, and in this willful
hallucination he was supported by several other top officials. We now
know about Al Queda's Project Bojinka and that eerily specific August
2001 Presidential Daily Brief, so we know that the nation's chief
domestic spy was only doing his real job— lying to us.

Recently, government lied about the escape of high-level terrorist-
type detainees from the Bagram gulag.

Prior to the great 2000 hustle, Republicans ran illegal anti-Gore TV
ads that featured the subliminal display of the word "Rats."
Republicans proudly scraped a bit and apologized.

The White House produced specious "news reports" promoting their
programs that were sent to news affiliates who admitted in some cases
the unauthenticity was not made clear to them. Black conservative
pundit Armstrong Williams was paid $240,000 to manufacture a pale
brand of objective support for No Child Left Behind when Williams
dispensed his Big House wisdoms.

Other pundits were less expensively greased, and then there's the
fundamentally sordid tale of "Jeff Gannon," White House Press Pool
plant of the unhomophobic right wing. The Pentagon has its own tax-
funded Pentagon News Network satellite station.

Our taxes also fund another propaganda network, Al Hurrah, which
means "the Free One," and, for a Mideast public relations, should not
sound like "the Kitten" in Arabic. We have recently admitted to
paying Iraqi "journalists" to run fake happy stories ghostwritten by
U.S. military personnel.

TV wrongly told me that Arab terrorists alone attacked us on 9/11,
2001. TV immediately produced pictures of them all, and for a brief
period, ultimately embarrassing to everyone, TV was instructed to
tell us that one of the terrorists' photo IDs had been found on the
streets of New York. It had been hurled from the plane, the poor
little indestructible plastic thing. It was hardy, being made of
different materials than a 757 jetliner, but we didn't hear much
about it soon after the announcement because it was obvious that TV
had only reported on a bizarre but honest mistaken discovery which
happened to make thinking people scoff to the point of asphyxiation.
Uncannily, one of the men who first announced the incredible aborted
find was then NYC Police Chief, a friend of gangsters, a war
profiteer and a disgraced would-be Homeland Security Director,
Bernard Kerik.

There was something about the Iraq terror war and giant, ludicrous,
soul-frying cassus belli lies I wanted to adduce in charging official
deception, but I can't recall it now.

You have no reason to trust your government and every reason to
believe what I am saying. We are through the looking glass. The
Internet allows a less biased glimpse at the perversions that have
become normal to us.

The Internet told me that it was outright nonsense to argue those
Arab men alone perpetrated the attacks, and that it was thoroughly
implausible on many different grounds, besides. In several weeks of
earnest reading and researching, the Internet offered me ample proof
to support the conclusion that members of our government masterminded
the early terrorism of 9/11, that followed so closely on the curious
and obvious theft of our presidency, and later birthed the profitable
bloodbaths of Iraq and Afghanistan which so curiously remind one of
the preoccupations and proxy wars of father Bush and the
neoconservatives from then and now.

In almost five years and counting, that secretive, indicted
government has offered virtually nothing to support its own
outlandish, jihadi-based conspiracy theory, (that includes the
bungled and obscure terrorism cases being tried) mainly because it
knows it does not have to. We don't demand it and most of us consider
it quite reasonable that Arab terrorists would attack us, and it is.

But finding the perfect believable patsy is an old game. It's always
made easier when you have intelligence connections with patsies
dating back several decades, (Noriega+Saddam+Bin Laden = one
disturbing pattern) and have made it easier for them to live, fly and
party inside the country by stifling effective terrorist-catchers
like FBI agents Colleen Rowley, John O'Neill, Robert Wright and
Kenneth Williams.

WTC Building 7 may be the Holy Grail of the "9-11 Truth Community,"
as it is called. Once you find out about WTC 7, the 9/11 Reichstag
Collapses never look the same to you again. Next to the outrageous
failure of our air defenses that day and the specific air defense
protocol which had been practiced and met over 60 times in the year
before 9/11, the all-but-ignored collapse of WTC Building 7 at 5:20
p.m. is the one aspect of the tragic events that convincingly
destroys the government story of Arab terrorists who acted alone. I
assure you the alleged hijackers did not wire those buildings for
controlled explosives.

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49366

Nate Arthur's 9/11 archive:
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/userhomepage.php?userid=35

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Cheney Protests Backfire

John L. Perry
Newsmax [NewMaRxIST.com aka homo Bush Gang's Butt-Monkey)
Nov. 17, 2005

KNOXVILLE – In allowing itself recently to be made a mockery of
higher education, the University of Tennessee actually may have
helped the nation learn a lesson.

Sadly, it is a lesson that came at the expense of the [unelected]
vice president of the United States of America's being subjected to
concocted lies and filthy taunts spewed by a handful of radical-left
[and conservative-right] UT students.

What could have been a noble, even historic event, was turned into
the stage for foul-mouth, indulged children to shriek Marxist [and
American] obscenities when company came calling at the university's
flagship campus [for organized crime].

The guest of honor was [Jewish neoCon/Com twice-convicted drunk
driver, alcoholic, cocaine and heroin junky and narcoterror kingpin,
pedophile rapist and serial killing mass murderer] Dick Cheney, who
was here to pay homage to Howard H. Baker, Jr., former senator, chief
of staff to President Ronald Reagan, recent U.S. ambassador to Japan,
a decent man who may well go down in history as Tennessee's most-
illustrious native son. [Baker owner of "The Firm" rumored to be the
Jewish Mishpucka mafiya law firm in Memphis that served as model for
John Grisham's novel/movie "The Firm" starring Jewish actor Tom
Cruise. Baker's The Firm was hired by 9/11 terrorist bombers of World
Trade Center, UT's CDI Controlled Demolitions Inc, partnered with BFI
Browning-Ferris Industries, owned by William Miller of Knoxville, to
defend the tow-trucking felony car-theft class actions filed by
Pirate News producer John Lee. Baker was Reagan/Bush Sr White House
chief of staff during their narcoterror bombing crime spree of Iran-
Contra. Baker helped coverup Nixon's assassination of president JFK
during the Watergate prosecutions, after Nixon confessed on White
House tapes to the coup d'etat, and thus was forced to resign to
avoid the death penalty for murder and treason. See Nixon's tape-
recorded confession in PNTV's video September 911 Surprise Episode 2,
at PirateNews.org.]

Education for Life

[Where UT football coach loots $2-Million/year gov't salary, UT
president loots $750,000/year gov't salary, where UT "trustees" loot
billions of dollars in gov't CAFR pensions, where UT contractors loot
open-ended- cost-plus blank-check unaidited gov't contracts, where UT
professors are paid $3,000 to $6,000/year salary, where UT College of
Law bans all offspring of active Democratic Party and Independent UT
alumni even when they contribute $100,000 to UT.]

It's a safe bet none of the UT "students" or their America-hating
marionette faculty members will ever be remembered for much of
anything.

The disgrace took place on November 15, Baker's 80th birthday. This
is how parents of the self-proclaimed "peace activists" raise their
young to treat their elders? When – indeed if – these hooligans ever
reach 80, who will respect them?

The vice president had flown down on a busy day in Washington to help
dedicate the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, which
will one day grace the UT campus.

Who Needs This?

Cheney may be forgiven if he now asks himself if it was worth his
time and effort, what with America at war and all that. How many
people willingly travel that distance for the privilege of hearing
themselves made the object of unproven accusations and scatological
epithets? Is this how these kids treat their own parents when they go
home for holidays?

As television cameras watched, a number of young UT scholars who had
taken time from their classes and study time in the library tried to
interrupt the vice president's speech. It was a gracious speech
devoted entirely to celebrating Baker's bipartisan service to the
nation and Tennessee. It praised the state's university, its
Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, one of its Republican senators, Lamar
Alexander, and Knoxville Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., a long-time friend
of Baker. Not a word of partisan political advocacy.

Yet the tantrum-throwers persisted until police finally led them from
the hall like naughty pre-pubescent toddlers on the way to their room
for "time out." Cheney did what any courteous guest does when the
host's children misbehave; he ignored them as if nothing was going on.

Not Unappreciated

At his conclusion, the [braindead mind-kontrolled gangsta] audience
was on their feet applauding heartily and at length, which was all
they could do by way of apology.

It would have been in bad taste for Baker to have taken the moment to
apologize for the rowdies' misbehavior. After all, he was the one
Cheney was there to honor – not to receive an apology from.

But no one else on the platform uttered a word of public apology,
then or later, notably not the host, UT President John D. Petersen,
who sat stiffly in loco parentis. The message was clear: children
allowed to get away with anything at home must be made to feel just
as at home while receiving a college degree at parents' and
taxpayers' expense.

Not a Happy Memory

The day had to have been spoiled for Baker. What a way to have the
dedication of a university center commemorating and perpetuating your
lifetime of labor for the public weal remembered long after you are
gone.

If people writing hefty checks to fund the multi-million-dollar Baker
Center had some message they wanted conveyed that day, it was lost
amid all the obscenities being hurled at Cheney and by indirection at
Baker.

Nor was the caterwauling confined to the event held within UT's
Thompson-Boling Arena, where Pat Summitt, a strong woman of
unimpeachable integrity and ethics, has coached so many Lady Vols to
national women's basketball championships. She, too, must have been
mortified. It's unthinkable what would have happened to her girls had
they engaged in such disgraceful conduct.

Cue the TV

On campus outside the arena, a larger festering of UT protesters
disporting themselves had swarmed so the cameras could dutifully
accommodate them. Anyone who thinks there was not collusion between
performers and the electronic media doesn't understand how things
work these days.

Had no cameras been around to record the obscenities, would the
protesters have shown up? A clue: When the cameras finally left, the
show-offs, their purpose achieved, dissolved back from whence they
came.

The story that went out across America and the rest of the world was
the little darlings' message of hate and filth. What Cheney or Baker
had to say was lost, buried down at the bottom.

But here is the good news: The fact that the protesters made their
point so effectively is the very reason they lost it so decisively.

How to Alienate an Audience

Regardless of political affiliation, no one raised in a decent home,
no one who truly loves this country, no one who held the grand old
University of Tennessee in respect could have been anything but
horrified, offended and infuriated by what appeared on TV or in the
newspapers.

Whatever level the vice president's authentic popularity level might
have been before he set foot on the UT campus that day, it had to
have been elevated enormously by what happened to him and by the
gracious and manly way he handled it all. Talk about trick cigars
exploding in one's face.

If Dick Cheney wants to ratchet up his standing even more with the
American people – and assuming he is willing to take all this
juvenile radical-left excreta – he should schedule frequent
university appearances.

Go wash out your filthy mouths, precious little ones, and know that
you did your country far more good than all the harm you intended.

John L. Perry, a [butt-licking] prize-winning newspaper editor and
writer who served on White House staffs of two [criminal] presidents,
is a regular columnist for NewMaRxIST.com.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/16/162247.shtml

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Ignorance complicates 9/11

Nate Arthur - Columnist
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 issue
Click here to print


An English professor, a senior in accounting and a playful law
student have all had their criticisms printed but only the first
merits a kind of apology or a clarification in defense.

The arguments said to belong to the two students must be treated as
the egregious rubbish statements they are. A fact is not a fact
because a person says it is so. A "fact" is only bankable once it's
observed from several angles, for instance, and can be reasonably and
wholly judged.

The establishment of fact usually requires more than a five-minute
search on the Internet, and is practically impossible if one confines
themselves to the Web sites of Andrews Air Force Base or the
milquetoast liberal news agency, NPR.

I don't feel I can be convicted of hate speech in mentioning Zionists
as I have, or even in charging some of them in particular with guilt
for the 9/11 attacks.

I wrote about specific Jewish neoconservatives, highly placed in
government and national security, whose names and influence are
almost totally unknown to the average citizen. I wrote nothing about
the controversial and varied theory of Zionism, or about the nation
of Israel or its people.

I tried distinguishing between a Zionist that does extraordinarily
bad and unsociable things from an everyday Zionist that has no
connection to intelligence agencies, targeted assassinations,
murderous Likud intransigence, etc.

I see a similar difference between average, caring Christians and
those morbid cross-draggers who support the demented corporate
assassin, Pat Robertson.

Further, I mentioned the "dark side of Zionism." That implied a
dichotomy, and a significant one: Good, or at least something
tolerable, vs. Evil that plots false terrorist attacks for geo-
political, economic gain and other nebulous prizes, right?

I apologize to everyone for using language that can be seen as loose
or irresponsible, in referring to "frothing Zionists." In hindsight,
this was obviously not the clearest distinction.

Yet I have trouble interpreting it as reason to call me a purveyor
of "hate speech"— except in saying that I hate the real perpetrators
of the improbable, weirdly dramatic mass murder we have used as
reason to invade two weak, resource-rich poor countries, over-
confidently armed as we were with an actual military, cancer-
spreading armor and bullets, and the most powerful no-bid contracts
ever developed for war, which I do: I despise and I resent the
fiends, too.

It's a poisonous irritation to be sidetracked by people who clearly
haven't begun to approach level analysis of even a chapter of the
data I've researched about the mass murder of 2001, and who yet make
insulting charges against my grasp of the basic facts.

I say certain institutions like the military and the media are lying
blatantly to us, and my detractors seek out one Web site from each of
these institutions for material to contradict me. I've heard people
called ankle-biting sophists for less than all that.

Still, God ensures that Satan trains lots of advocates so that angels
might sometimes publicly thrash their glib, superficial, and
typically disingenuous claims. Criticisms of my credibility — in both
specific and general terms — displayed a limited, gullible
understanding of the serious events of 9/11. But by the very act of
attacking a pundit, if I may be called that for a sentence, the
sniper always appears to be at least a little formidable, inquisitive
and informed, especially when they wield mystic Latin incantations
like "ad populum."

Avoid getting pettifogged, hoodwinked or dazzled by Dow Jones indexes
and magick words, and remember that accountants and lawyers routinely
rate as low as mechanics and politicians in public confidence polls.
(Those are two ad hominem attacks, and two points for me, by the law
student's rules. I wonder how many points scientific, objective facts
are worth, or instances of clear thinking, or if I get a bonus for
being the only contestant in possession of either.)

As to the barrister's recent attack-arguments, they float like a
bubble and sting like a tickle. Still, because such insubstantial and
fantastically wrong claims were delivered in such a preening,
pedantic style, they urge rebuttal.

The pre-9/11 put-option trading is what it is, and no amount of
poorly researched supposition about larger market depressions can
alter the fact that many people tried gambling on mass murder for
millions in profit, or that our Department of Justice is ignoring
this criminal aspect of the attacks.

The law scholar openly "speculates" that the spiked trading was
(possibly) mirrored in the worried, reeling market at large. The
scholar "speculates" and he lands squarely in the land of
insupportable error, where he is recognized as a King.

He should have researched that "speculation," perhaps through the San
Francisco Chronicle articles I referenced, or the investigative
analysis of European market regulators who were not so naοve, or the
London Times, or credible think tanks like the Center for Policy
Research and Development, or even through deductive details like the
mystery resignation of Deutsche Bank head Mayo Shattuck III shortly
after the attacks. The student speculation was an air ball in this
case, yielding no profits.

The dispute of my claims about fighter-scrambling abilities and
Andrews Air Force Base is certainly wrong, also. My proof of his
error will have to wait, but he might consult various Web sites not
belonging to the Air Force, (or read that one correctly) or the 9/11
Commission's own report which managed to get some temporal details,
like the one in question, basically correct.

In the meantime, anyone who wants additional verifiable data and
proof can e-mail with their questions. I will respond.

— Nate Arthur can be reached at narthur@....

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49288

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Stocks reveal true 9-11 causes

Nate Arthur -
November 08, 2005

"The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind
every occasion its enemies attack it. I would like to assure the
world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have
been planned by people for personal reasons. I have been living in
the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules.
The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations."
— Osama bin Laden, from the statement issued to Al Jazeera within
days of the 9-11 attacks, and before the appearance of the October 7
confessional videotape which features a portly and more negroid-
looking "bin Laden," uncharacteristically wearing a gold ring and
using the wrong primary hand.

It is profoundly and painfully obvious to those who have faced even a
third of the objective evidence surrounding 9-11 that elements of our
own government and military were involved in planning and executing
the horrible attacks that are responsible for so much of our current
misery and ruthless war-making.

Government supplies the fictions; the media supplies excellent
stenography. You have to pursue the larger truth yourselves, armed
with the late, paradigm-shifting power of the Internet, which has
been effectively ridiculed and denigrated by those elite
intellectuals who do not want commoners jeopardizing their antiquated
monopoly on knowledge.

Just try "linking" to a primary, referred source while reading a
print newspaper. You find yourself tearing holes in paper: You are
forced to trust the journalist, who may or may not have a pimple of
integrity on his or her body. The Internet can and usually does back
itself up, in lightning-fast time. It is a life-vest for a world
whose pudgy, technologized elite scarcely understand they are
drowning.

All Praise Mammon

The Department of Justice is doing very little to honor its name. It
has come up with no prosecutions into the massive "put option" stock
trading that occurred in the weeks before 9-11 and would seem to
indicate foreknowledge and the irresistible urge to profit from 3,000
murders.

Placing a "put option" is a bet that stock will go down, but it may
then be sold for the original price of purchase, inflexibly and
profitably. Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options
Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but
only 396 call options, which, in theory, bank on stock rising in
price.

On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought
on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade
Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three
trading days before 9-11; this compares to an average of 27 contracts
per day before September 6.

Nearby Merril Lynch had options placed against it increase by 1,200
per cent, compared to the previous average volumes. This story is so
poorly covered by the prostitute corporate media that it is unclear
whether the $2.5 million in profits for these shady transactions that
went unclaimed the week after the attacks (as revealed in the San
Francisco Chronicle) represent the only unclaimed profits.

Given the lack of attention and the total number of these options, we
can assume that a good deal of the blood profits found their
investors. Under U.S. finance laws which have always favored the rich
and the contract-holder, the names of these bold and greedy parties
are protected against disclosure. Seriously.

Until this past week I had never even heard of the following
compelling instance of related financial terrorism. In the minutes
before the planes crashed into the two towers, a high volume of
credit card transactions were run through the computers of various
companies in the WTC complex. A German company, CONVAR, did the work
on the damaged hard drives and the Reuters report I found is from
shortly after the attacks, leading one to believe that this story was
similarly buried beneath media and DOJ disinterest.

"There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the
approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts
exceeding $100 million,'' Richard Wagner, data retrieval expert from
CONVAR said. "They thought that the records of their transactions
could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed."

Lucky Larry

Larry Silverstein was the proud new lease holder of the WTC complex.
Three months before they were expertly dive-bombed by coke-snorting
jihadis with little aeronautical skill, Silverstein had rented the
Towers (and the several other neatly collapsed and destroyed
buildings ignored in the world of paid journalists) from the Port
Authorities of New York and New Jersey through what is sometimes
referred to as a "sweetheart deal."

In an act of outstanding but clearly unsuspicious foresight,
Silverstein, a major Zionist bankroller, immediately upped the
insurance policy to $3.5B, apparently a sizable increase. Legally,
after such an unforeseeable act of God he was not liable to the
Authorities.

His real victory came in 2004, when a second Manhattan District Court
ruling found that the two planes constituted "two separate terror
attacks," which doubled his insurance payout to around $7B. They were
distinct, yes: distinctly related to our intelligence communities,
the military-industrial complex and the dark side of Jewish Zionism.

I confused one frothing Zionist for another in the last column.
Philip Zellikow is not Dov Zakheim, though their political objectives
and personal conflicts of interests may be frighteningly alike.
Zellikow was the obscene director of the hack "Independent 9-11
Commission," and Zakheim is the former Pentagon Comptroller that
couldn't find those lost $3 trillion, and who co-authored the
cosmically prescient PNAC policy paper I referred to two weeks ago,
and who is connected to some rather spooky aerial remote-control
technology.

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49109

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Logic, data connect U.S. to 9/11

Nate Arthur
October 25, 2005

"I can state: The planning of the attacks was technically and
organizationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes
within a few minutes and within one hour, to drive them into their
targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable,
without years-long support from secret apparatuses of the state and
industry."
—Former German Minister of Technology, Andreas Von Buelow, Jan. 13,
2002.

I made a mistake in the last column, in using logic rather than
numbers and names. My premise is that this government of ours was not
only grossly negligent in preventing 9/11, but actively complicit in
the horrible event.

As much as I enjoy writing for The Beacon, I don't mind risking my
spot by going on about this dissatisfying and ugly truth and seeming
monomaniacal. A few goons wrote me and said, "Why don't you offer
proof, you ungrateful smarty?" They expanded on the virtues of pure,
credible journalism and told me to leave this country, which is the
greatest model ever conceived. Americans are characterized by their
hunger for specifics and accountability, everybody knows that.

In the January 2005 issue of Penthouse, Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI
translator of various Turkic languages is interviewed. She alleges
that powerful folk in our intelligence and political leadership have
covered up massive shadiness regarding individuals connected to
terrorist activities being allowed to leave the country months, even
a year after 9/11.

She says 9/11 involves deeply corrupt co-workers who have been
protected, like translator Melek Can Dickerson, and that the mass
murder of 3,000 people and its cover-up involve the flow of drugs,
arms and laundered money.

Edmonds was gagged by former Attorney General Ashcroft so she can't
testify, as requested by the 9-11 Families Committee. She is suing
but she can't name names or countries because of the gag.
Conventional media has largely ignored Edmonds, as they've ignored
Ken Williams and Colleen Rowley, the FBI field agents who tried to
alert superiors about the "twentieth hijacker" Moussaoui and others
and were aggressively ignored. They teamed with other intelligence
and security personnel in a published letter criticizing the
laughable 9-11 Commission's findings.

The problem with 9-11 is you can't have all those terrorism warnings
from 11 different countries and flagrant Presidential Daily Briefs
titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the U.S. (Possibly using
commercial airliners)" and still plead utter surprise and
bureaucratic mismanagement. That explanation simply does not hold up,
and it blatantly ignores a crucially important aspect of the day
which is hardly ever mentioned.

That aspect is that our military was conducting several different
live-fly defense and terrorism drills on the very morning those
terrorists decided to stage their trickery. Yet Operations Vigilant
Guardian and Vigilant Warrior and several others with absurd titles
were all publicized beforehand.

The Commission effectively ignores the drills, as they ignore the
wild stock-trading that our justice system refuses to look into.
Courageous Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney talks about drills and
stocks, and so her own Atlanta Journal-Constitution ridiculed her,
then refused to print her defense.

You can't simply state that an F-16 went Mach 1.5 when it went at
Cruise speed. It's unaccountably dumb to send fighters from distant
Langley when Andrews Air Force Base is 15 miles from the Pentagon,
and a plane is heading toward Washington and the Towers have just
been dive-bombed.

The government can't repeatedly fudge the timeline of two of the most
pivotal hours in modern history — not without systematic corruption
or laziness among the media and public. Not unless Independent
Commissions are made of lawyers and politicians who defended Iran-
Contra misdeeds, major drug-dealer/CIA assets named Barry Seal and
oil and foreign security interests in the Gulf.

When Senator Mark Dayton publicly inquired of the Commission
directors, he was quite vocal about the obvious lying that went on
between the impartial jurists and NORAD as they both worked to heap
blame on the FAA, which has maintained for years that on that day all
phone lines were quickly open to the president and those who were not
listening to children read.

Philip Zellikow was the Chief Director of the Commission, and that's
inappropriate. He co-authored the much-ballyhooed "Rebuilding
America's Defenses" policy statement for the crazed neo-conservative
think-tank, Project For A New American Century.

The whole Commission skit relied on public ignorance of C-SPAN, and a
general disinterest in stuffy matters like who Zellikow is and what
he's written or shilled in the private sector. Among other idiocies
they were committed to, the panel embraced the idea that the collapse
of WTC Building 7 was unimportant, and that foreknowledge was not
demonstrated by the 600-1200% increase in stock market put-options
against United and American Airlines, WTC-connected Morgan-Stanley-
Dean-Witter and their insurance agencies.

Only a handful of our politicians will broach any of the awful issues
of what really happened that day, and they do it fearfully and
mincingly. Only two or three foreign politicians will speak directly
to 9-11 and lay blame where it truly seems to lie, according to the
evidence.

Christian theologian David Ray Griffin has been plainly stating in
his books that our very secretive central government is somehow
behind 9/11.

What we all tend to forget is that with all the evidence there is to
support this conclusion, there's no burden on us to speculate on why
our sick imperialist government would commit such crimes. I am only
concerned with the logical and physical proofs, as you should be.

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=48923

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9/11 produced by vast conspiracy

Nate Arthur
October 11, 2005

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance
prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an
organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither
persons nor property will be safe," Frederick Douglass, a 19th
century abolitionist, said.

"The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and
in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the
public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and
encroachments," Henry Clay, a Kentucky senator, said in 1834.

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is
obvious," George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, said.

My argument is as straightforward as it is secure and convincing: Our
government was behind the terror attacks of 9-11.

To be believed, the argument requires that one think adult thoughts,
have a more than casually informed view of history, and be willing to
distinguish a fact from a sweet, soothing fiction.

We are told that on 9-11, 2001, we were attacked by a band of
terrorist prodigies. 19 fanatical Arab wunderkinds of terror. They
eluded our vast intelligence network and somehow managed to take out
the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

We're told the air defenses of the most aggressive military state on
the planet could not get it together enough to prevent the last
jihadi missile from getting to the nation's defense center in our
capital, though it had been over 70 minutes since four airliners were
almost simultaneously hijacked.

We are offered no dignified explanation for the absurd collapse of
WTC building 7. There is not one bit of photographic or filmic
evidence of the controversial Pentagon strike, because federal agents
confiscated all of it, and none of it has been released.

Why do we deny the obvious conspiracy, the one that explodes directly
in front of us, smelling like cordite? When any two or more parties
convene for the planning or execution of a criminal act, that is a
conspiracy, and a common circumstance in any land.

It is generally accepted that JFK was shot by more than one person.
You can torture a lot out of some weak Iraqi insurgent or Arab-
Canadian national, but physical evidence has always been more
recalcitrant, and no one credibly claims that Kennedy was not shot
from both in front and behind. And since the Warren Commission ruled
that one lone assassin named Lee Oswald committed the act, and he was
silenced by a government-connected mobster before he could ever
testify, then we have most every American believing that something
shady in the way of a conspiratorial cover-up took place. Glorious
president Apollo was thus permanently, horribly betrayed.

That can't be good for justice or the national soul. Now imagine if
the nation swallowed a crime a thousand times more heinous and
unforgivable, and just as submissively swallowed its flagrant cover
up.

How bad would that be for justice and the national soul? How would it
embolden the conspirators, the criminals? They might feel they could
do anything.

They might invade other countries on the slimmest pretexts. Or
threaten their political enemies with poison letters and force
obscene anti-constitutional legislation upon an already meek and
corrupted Congress. Maybe continue to feed the rich and the military
industrial complex with the earnings of the ignorant taxpayer, or
even reconstitute pipeline deals and the Afghan opium trade and call
it the gift of democracy to a "backwards, stone age" people who claim
they'd prefer it if we simply did not make a routine of waging proxy
war in their country and stocking it with Stinger missiles and land
mines.

German Jews smelled a conspiracy after the Reichstag fire, before
Crystalnacht, and many wisely left before the cattle cars came.

The 400 descendants of African slaves who agreed to take part in the
Tuskegee experiments begun in the '30s, in which curious federal
health officials allowed black men with syphilis to go uninformed and
untreated to their deaths, telling them it was all a "blood
experiment" and ultimately causing the infection of many children and
wives, did not suspect a conspiracy, but should have.

It is not exactly justified to accuse an American of being nutty when
they act outraged upon learning about espionage Operations Paperclip
and Northwoods. When we know that U.S. intelligence spared and then
used Nazi scientists, spies and hitmen during the Cold War, while the
relatively ungenocidal Japanese all went to the gallows, we have a
right to our outrage.

When we discover that conducting mock "terror attacks" against
ourselves and blaming them on Cuba in order to invade them was a plan
actually considered by the Kennedy administration, we should be
suspicious of the presence of bad and stupid men in government.

What really happened on 9-11 is sort of widely known among that
minority of Americans who do their own thinking. Every day I
experience pangs of anger and disgust at the childishness of the
official explanation about what took place.

It is a clumsy and hole-ridden explanation indeed. It is just as
obvious that the media is doing its part to parrot that story and
maintain it. The so-called independent 9-11 Commission was an
offensive whitewash, every bit as sloppy and fraudulent as the
commissioned whitewash of Kennedy's death, wolves looking into the
tragic deaths of chickens. Sadly, all this can only imply that we are
either gullible people or perversely dedicated to our denial.

There are large, professionally researched volumes of information on
the truth of 9-11 all over the Internet. I suggest visiting Mike
Ruppert's "From the Wilderness" Web site
(http://www.fromthewilderness.com/) and the 9-11-Truth Web site
(http://www.911truth.org/). Both offer such convincing objective
evidence, and so many supporting sources, that only the most
stubbornly brain-washed still believe our government's fascinating
tale once they've done their own investigating.

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Some conspiracies truly exist

Nate Arthur
September 27, 2005

"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous," Samuel
Johnson, British writer, said.

"It appears that a criminal syndicate is running the American
people's government," U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, said.

Let me explain one thing: I have a rational and sufficiently able
mind. I don't need conspiracy theories to round out my existence, to
make it livelier, or to settle the things which resemble mysteries.
When I choose not to ignore automatically the discomforting but
serious testimonies of the countless people throughout time who have
encountered ghosts, giant ape-men in the forest, and space aliens on
their vehicles, I am making a conscious, informed decision.

I tend to believe in matters of the supernatural, intelligent life,
Yeti and the Brachiosaurus of the fjords. I have seen a UFO, like
many people from the Catskill mountains, NY, and I confidently and
without guilt identified it as a flying, otherworldly object.

By common enough standards this makes me a crackpot. Excellent. I
admit that my grasp on reality is less firm than many other frantic
grips, but also insist it is an attitude, and even suggest you adopt
the same.

Science can't explain much and humans are dependable only in their
violence and destructive vanity. Science is usually silent or
indifferent on the subjects of magic bullets, evil spirits,
collapsible steel towers, sea monsters, and eight-foot bipeds in our
western forests, phenomena which have now been verified by stock and
business-owners. Quite obviously, for all its elevated regard in the
West, when Science is screaming defiantly and urgently it is still
too weak even to influence fuel standards or government policy.

Then there are Homo Sapiens themselves in their so-called societies.
Though I trust him when he reports that he has seen other, bigger
hominids, and flying saucers, Man is a vicious, bald and slithery
monkey that has developed elaborate cunning mostly through scavenging
rich proteins left by superior predators. It is to be generally
distrusted as an arrogant, cowardly, poetic ape who would bomb his
own troops with depleted uranium oxide dust if it was cost-effective,
and deadly enough to the enemy. God's greatest and most idiotic
mistake was in failing to make the female physically superior. If you
crave reason and decency, leave us alone.

You do not doubt the sanity of this world?

The U.S nukes its own troops. The media is unconcerned.

Iraq is a scandal beyond any fit description, an intentional raping
of taxes and resources and public wealth, a profitable massacre. The
media snuggles Master.

The heroic Venezuelan Hugo Chavez calls for his oil-rich country to
sell cheap fuel to the impoverished Caribbean; he then calls for the
sale of cheap fuel to targeted poor communities in America; the media
here is silent and instead wants to ridicule his totally valid claims
that we're trying to kill him, three years after we backed a coup.
Our premier spiritualist, Mullah Patrick Robertson, naturally calls
for the head of the evil rice-dispensing Chavez and is not rebuked by
the government because they desperately need the votes of the
fiendishly hypocritical white religious classes.

Do politicians not inspire you with contempt and distrust, more than
faith? No? Then it is you who are impressionable, you who are
deluded. It is you who lows for a comfortable idea before a rational
one like a cow lows for the milkmaid and not the open range.

Have you never heard of 21 year old Fred Hampton, who was executed by
the Chicago police and the FBI with 100 bullets while he laid in bed
with his 8-month pregnant girlfriend at four in the morning, December
4, 1969? He was a Black Panther militant and had to be put down. He
could have erupted as big and broadly as Malcolm X. He was a grave
danger to them. Because none of the right people suffered for his
murder, we have murderous political conditions as we do today.

You know the FBI and the CIA have killed lots of Americans while
sleeping, flying, riding in a boat, in a car during a parade, you
name it. They are particularly fond of using airplanes, and I figure
it is because this allows them to abuse and capitalize on the
primordial fears of the human mind, and its dim conception that it is
not right to fly, or too complicated to be concerned with the
mechanics of it.

Another clever method of avoiding any censure at all, aside from the
simple fact of being paid government officials with guns and thus
inspiration for action dramas, seems to me to lie in the extravagant
spending of tax dollars as bribe and hired assassination money. A
giant, brainy, muscle racket: You and I pay them for protection, yes.
And what a lot of good it did Fred, Malcolm, Martin, and everyone in
places like Iran, Nicaragua and the southwest wing of the Pentagon
one morning years ago. Sometimes these criminals even take a dislike
to white people and major politicians.

One of the sleaziest ways in which you are being fondled by the
crooked milkmaid of government is in this open-and-shut case of
9/11's blatant, even satanic cover-up, with all of its bloody fallout.

I've probably wasted time trying to demonstrate theoretical reason.
But it seems that not only have the facts eluded people in 9/11's
case, but the theory itself. The mass murder of more than 3,000
harmless citizens is to me more than a historical detail and I've
researched it more seriously than anyone I know. I'll conclude here
with several crucial points about the day of the mass murders, all of
which have been duly ignored by a media that is helped in their
obnoxious agenda the more by the willing self-lobotomy of the
republic. The truth of 9-11 is so obvious it hurts, and so we shrink
from it.

Actually I've run out of room and two weeks will pass before I get to
reveal any dread truths. As New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said
twice, "If the CIA rubs me out before long, you know what happened."

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Disaster unveils social problems

Nate Arthur
September 13, 2005

It's doubtful that the majority of Americans will ever swallow the
lessons of Hurricane Katrina, though a lot of poor children were
forced to do as much. Operation Honest Mistake, my fellow `Murricans,
like Iraq and 9-11. Nobody could have imagined, not a single
government soul; and Wal-Mart is officially sorry that it can't
accept your FEMA vouchers. Barbaric Bush knows an improvement when
she tours one.

Those who can and do read responsibly know that it is patently false
to suggest that what went on was anything other than a conscious
avoidance of responsibility, (see George Curry's article, "New
Orleans: a Disaster Waiting to Happen," or even David Brooks' recent
column in the NYT) a negligence that stems only partly from an
unscientific hope that a category 5 Hurricane will not hit our
poorest coastal lands while we are shoveling energy and money into
the voluntary holocaust of Iraq and top-tier, corporate financing.

The only people who seemed to behave decisively were the looters who
plainly saw a crude, anarchist society, governed not so much by
intelligent design as by jungle law, and the mindful entrepreneurs
who quickly price-gouged wrecked and hopeless people on gasoline and
hotel rooms. They moved with great purpose, and don't let anyone tell
you price-gouging is not essential to this system, even in dry
weather. Ask Teflon Donald Rumsfeld to explain the "messy" behaviors
of these different forms of looting.

But many of us will gobble up such reassuring half-fantasies
of "unprecedented calamities overtaking our efforts," bureaucratic
miscommunication, the bloat of Homeland Security, and the moronic
horse traders of FEMA. These themes are incidental, and symptomatic
of a broader problem.

That problem is the institutional American social reality that the
black, brown and impoverished exist in the national blind spot, where
the shrinking but ruthless white hegemon and its cold leadership can
disregard them more comfortably as it actually treats them like so
much fat to be cut in lean and disastrous times, so many marginalized
folk to be either cynically wooed or purged from the rolls come
elections, so many poor whites to punch in their fearful, ethno-
patriotic guts, and then knee in the face as soon as they have
doubled over in reflexive, voting worship of the hegemon's
willingness to defend their imagined national and ethnic interests.

Bill Fletcher of Trans-Africa Forum wrote this week that the most
appropriate analysis of the sickening and unacceptable betrayal of
poor people that yet plays out before us should draw on the Titanic
as metaphor. The poor of that luxury cruise liner rode in steerage
class, where they could be, and were, locked into their doom in the
event of an inconceivable disaster. It's an inherently unfair
economic reality, though some will debate whether it is sadistic in
its level of planning, just as with our battle cruising yacht of
state. Argued Fletcher:

"The capitalism of the contemporary era shares many of the same
values informing the builders of the Titanic; the poor are not the
responsibility of society at large. The construction of the Titanic
was not simply a technological matter. There was a decision that the
poor could be sacrificed in order that the rich survive. That is the
essence of capitalism in general, but particularly neo-liberal
capitalism — the capitalism of this era. There need not have been an
intent to wipe out thousands of poor and black people in the Gulf.
The assumptions about how money would be spent, what was necessary,
etc., meant that in the face of disaster, the poor and the black
would be sacrificed, and the rich would have their SUVs (read: life
boats)."

Unhappy Anniversary

It's hard knowing where to begin in telling people they are the
victims of a massive and diabolical scam, a fraud birthed from the
minds of numerous greedy devils who are ultimately beyond punishment.

The morning of September 11th, 2001 found me asleep, until the
frantic call from mother.

"Get up and turn on the TV. It's horrible." I agreed that the TV was
horrible, especially as a generalized reason to rouse me.

She was deeply agitated but expressed that the most prudent place for
the family to meet up for the looming Armageddon was the Ozark
mountains of Arkansas, where we know some naturalists. I was never
able to learn if most other citizens feared--as mother and I did
immediately upon seeing the pandemic of fire, fear and suicide--that
the final burliness of the United States could not possibly be
contained after being so back-stabbed by manic terrorists.

A nuclear counter-strike against someone was inevitable: I thought
that was the formula, really. Any crime that sneaky demanded atomic
retaliation from a people like us, who regularly depose foreign
governments and willingly nuked a defeated island power twice in
order to stage comprehensive tests of the raw new technologies.

And so I thought it was the end of neo-colonialism, and thus the fat
and sassy world we have been reared to miscomprehend and suck dry.

But it was only the end of a certain amount of innocence I had
somehow maintained from my infancy. I have been disappointed to find
that most 'Murricans are offended by any desire or attempt to
question the official narrative of what took place on 9-11-01.

Recall that Kennedy's death was never properly solved, or the murders
of Martin, Malcolm and Fred Hampton: each of which is acknowledged to
have a connection with the government.

Recall that we will never, ever find the anthrax terrorist who had
access to U.S. government-stock anthrax, and sent it to the enemies
of the right wing in this country.

Recall there are many disturbing and unaccountably ignored facts
about 9-11, which I will soon get to in my little column.

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Nation should really `wake up'

Nate Arthur
August 30, 2005

There's an informal tradition of offering advice in the first column
of fall semester in a college newspaper. Sadly, this is often only
the first installment.

It's unpleasant being lectured by college seniors and other
fledglings, but you will cut us slack, those of us deserving it,
because a seer and demagogue has to start somewhere, and the
important thing is that the lowest form of demagogue, the columnist,
(lower than many rabid street preachers, for many reasons) can always
be shut up by the slightest gesture.

So in an epigrammatic, advisory tone, here we have some of my few
soberly considered wisdoms, but please understand I am a hypocrite in
various ways and as asinine as your president Bush, in the right way.

Normally I irritate even myself when I type "should," so I resort to
a simplistic, insolent method of criticizing people, policies and
actions I consider wrong. The advice, as such, and then more familiar
speechifying:

a) Always be humble and reserve harsh judgments: Those are the most
important things.

When I attack people in print, party-line Republican nit-wits and
engorged capitalist fear-mongers for instance, I consider it like an
epileptic attack that can't be helped, as when a second-string D1
football player sucker-clubs a man in the head on the basketball
court, where a defensive lineman can get confused and shouldn't be
expected to endure related punishments of more than two games and
summertime shame. Attacking those who horde and abuse power is fine,
excepting your parents, for the most part.

b) Place others above yourself but make an enemy of the Joneses.

People can't fail but respect the integrity of one who is independent
yet selfless. The Joneses of America, specifically, are a coarse
family. Give money to the poor — especially when they don't ask — for
whatever purposes they favor.

The poor don't have weekends reserved exclusively for binge-drinking,
or making jaunty stabs at romance, or sweet-talking impressionable
parents. If you think they don't contribute much to society, consider
that they are on par with the majority of the world in what they
consume and produce as waste. Help them to eat, drink, and approach
merriment now.

Enough sap. It should all go without saying.

The main advice, what I keep repeating as attack politics in this
space, and I am extremely thankful for the chance, is that you all
need to wake up earlier and faster. Some of you are, and the Internet
is one salvaging alarm.

Wake up because it's getting late, hot and serious, serious enough
that you probably have at least a grudging knowledge of the broad
situation of which I complain.

In very general terms, America is not under sane, ethical control, or
playing nicely or fairly with the other countries, or indeed, with
the planet.

In many ways this was true from the beginning, obviously, but we may
now be worsening our addictions to abusive force and measures of
economic expedience that benefit only the top layers of society and
that incestuous clan of business-vermin and political weasels we
permit as leadership.

No one can explain this war or those tax cuts or certain of the
shameful legislative victories of this administration as being other
than proof that politics in our precious-talking country is corrupted
and walled off from the will of the people, a will that can be polled
and analyzed and shown to contradict most significant, core
government policies. That discontinuity is rarely pointed out, and I
say it generally like so because I can offer the statistics at any
time.

No one can explain the more criminal aspects of neo-imperial
globalization, such as bogus lending, and invading or abetting coups
in countries with no cause except dark economic ones and a feudal
sense of superiority. (See: Iran (1953), Iraq, Haiti, Chile,
Venezuela, ad nauseum)

Yes it's all very sadistic and wrong, but it's not something to be
laid at the feet of the right-wing or the "Neo-cons" alone. It seems
deeper than that to me, as if it involves completely the order and
history of our society, and flows from America's mother's milk of
diluted bigotry, violent exploitation and tortured confusion about
itself. Our problems, on most every scale, got much worse under the
so-called Democrat, Clinton.

Ronald Reagan decreed a kind of spiritual execution decades ago when
he sought to further criminalize the underclass by cutting taxes and
social programs while expanding prisons and making crime and drug
penalties drastically more severe; when he reached the White House
and promptly removed the solar panels Carter had installed on the
roof, he cut off all of our hands because we, the people, were
stealing from Big Energy.

And now we find ourselves in a tragic Vietnam redux, with equally
arrogant and untenable reasons and plans. It is much more tragic for
the invaded, now as then. What I would describe as America's greatest
tragedy is our incredible blindness to the disorder we have helped so
well to foster.

So for the next few weeks I plan to write about a very singular
American blindness: the mysterious events of 9/11/01, because one has
to start somewhere, and those explosions failed to get Americans'
attention as explosions normally are counted on to do, in government
and Hollywood.

Or perhaps it is that they got our attention in just that precise and
mindless way which allows us to imagine things as dully as Hollywood
or the president presents them.

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Terrorist attacks should make us question, not react

Nate Arthur - Columnist
September 18, 2001

Any sensible person has been saddened and horrified at the way the
world's been going for the last few decades and centuries. Forget
medicine, and trips to the moon. Science has given us bombs,
environmental chaos and too many hormones; governments have caused
wars and the legacy of poverty for the colonized people of the global
south, those of the "third world" of color. The recent horrors of
W.W.II, Vietnam, and Kosovo are all the more terrible and meaningful
because, like the arguably arrogant and irresponsible sense behind
phrases that place us in the "first world" and those we are closely
connected to in the "third," they disclose a contrast to other
horrors, and a hierarchy of grief and outrage. There is racism in the
world - inseparable from economic exploitation - and there is a
devaluation of the lives of certain people that is revealed by our
national inability t o be very moved by atrocities in Iraq, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Chile, Guatemala, Zaire, the Congo and Rwanda. It occurs
to me that there may not be a slick name for the coming war. When
Bush the Elder brought destruction to Baghdad and the deaths of as
many as 200,000 people, it was a proper strike, a reaction to alleged
crimes. The terms could be dictated, our c asualties would be few and
far away, and an ominous and heroic title was given to the slaughter.
This is the problem as I see it: America is far too used to bringing
the pain, to walking out and taking over, to sanctioning, to
dictating the terms and deci ding when and for whom to grieve. Part
of the solution, if I may be so bold, is to actually export the
ideals of our Constitution, to extend our ultimately hollow
egalitarian rhetoric to include everyone in the world. We should not
support and bankroll the despots and fanatics as we have, we should
not sell them arms and train them and then cynically wait to suffer
the consequences, only to use these inevitable cruelties as reason to
wage more war. Those policies, to m e, are insanity on the level of
feeling that worthy change will come from taking out the symbols of
capitalism and the thousands who toil away inside them. Numbers often
help. In the early 70s alone, the military that spawned Saddam
Hussein got $16 million in three years from the CIA to fight the
Kurds, and the chemical weapons he himself used in 1988 at Halabja to
kill 5,000 were supplied by American and Br itish companies, with the
tacit support of "our" government, who "needed" Hussein to fight Iran
and stabilize Iraq. If we were so interested in "not standing for
aggression," we could've attacked then. Five billion CIA dollars
(official records) helped no urish the mujahadin Afghanis in their
fight against Russia and in their civil war throughout the 80s and
early 90s. Bin Laden was there with his money, too, and was described
by the CIA as having "impeccable Saudi credentials." This meant he
could be used to further geo-political and economic gains for our
country. Government was forced to change its tune when bin Laden
announced that all serious Muslims should kill any Americans wherever
they see them. As for the twelve-year sanctions against Iraq: they'
ve killed well over a million innocents, and at least 900,000
children - 5,000 each month. Bin Laden must be condemned, brought to
justice, perhaps even hated. But to continue to value the lives of
Iraqi children, of Palestinians and Afghanis and Brazilians and
African-Americans as less than those of the hegemony is a crime.
Don't fool yourself that this is not the case. History will not judge
kindly the people who scream only for blood after blood instead of
justice, especially when those people seem to have demonstrated a
disregard for the lives of their fellow humans by never paying them
eno ugh attention in their media, and allowing their leaders to
pursue policies of contempt for international wisdom and law. History
will have no trouble damning experts who ask endless "how's" and
no "why's," or presidents who "make no distinction" in a sel f-
righteously dubbed "war of good versus evil." We have been at war for
years with the non-English speaking world. Only now has death reached
out to us. If we are forced to recognize our role in global
injustices for a change, then this travesty will have a redeeming
effect. It could be a wonderful time, if the "American people" united
around something meaningful and even quite possible: changing global
policy and improving humanity. If you support this war that in fact
has no specific enemy or national target, and own a Motorola phone,
then be glad. They make some of the plastic parts in the land mines
that still litter Afghanistan. - Nate Arthur does not agree with Sen.
Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., that we have been "limp-wristed" in our
dealings in the Middle East.

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Columnist plans to `move on'

Nate Arthur - Columnist
January 27, 2005

A letter to the editor was published recently, suggesting that I move
on, and it offered other observations. My schtick does generally
revolve around criticizing our dear, misunderstood leader; it may
seem monomaniacal of me. From a muckraking perspective the oil and
securities baron is an expansive target, whether or not he is
president and makes Democracy vs. Tyranny Speeches. I'm also
confident that my critiques are a grave civic duty that will make me
rich.

Wednesday was the deadliest day for U.S. soldiers in this war of
George II's personal and most urgent creation. I'm aware that in this
context "moving on" is worse than hibernating, yet I feel rightly
scolded, somehow. The truth is, over the past four years every human
enjoying the basic credibility of being a Bush critic has been so awe-
shocked by the president's constant strain of vicious, avoidable
mistakes, and now the horror of his ratification, that their natural
response begins to sound repetitive and surly. I'm usually annoyed
with myself for being daily annoyed with this sadistic jackal-headed
government as a whole. It is an outrage to me that a vainglorious
cipher like the son of George Bush can control any portion of my
consciousness as he does. I truly do want to get over it — still not
as much as the Cherokee did, and the Mexicans and the Filipinos, and
those who understood as America's moral values decayed more after
JFK's murder, then through the reigns of Reagan and the spooky Saudi-
oil-gargling progenitor of this current booby and fraud. Bush makes
getting over it difficult. To the world and me, he's an aggressive
Martian virus that can only be monitored, having found host in a
dangerous, threatened America.

I have to make one point now, before moving on finally — it's a
parallel: When the first Bush presided over a depressed economy and
led us into a confused and familiarly botched war (See: rebellious
but dead Shiites, cancerous Iraqi children and diseased U.S.
veterans) that actually had mass international support, his mandate
was subsequently chopped to bits. Both Father Bush and son were known
as fumbling blubber-lipped politicians and policy makers, more
inclined to business and deal-making. The second Bush presides over
an economy which is arguably in cataclysmic tatters due particularly
to him, and herds us as if in slow motion into a brutal, contrived
war unwanted by most sound people, where the only clear issues are
that (1) there were no WMDs, (2) the criminal elite are making
obscene cash as American capital edges closer to dominating remaining
oil reserves and (3) each day, to the people we are allegedly guiding
toward democracy we directly or indirectly deliver death in
staggering quantities, (an enshrined American formula) but scant
reconstruction money. We then re-elect this Air-Guarding cheerleader-
son of a real war-hero, a son who had the historic gall to wage a
campaign featuring the lewdest imaginable character-assassination of
his comparatively middle-class college fraternity mate who actually
risked his life in their illegal war, then made a moral stand against
it. Why?

Why did we re-elect this bonny, strutting, inconceivably over-
privileged and yet irritable man? Beyond the primacy of money in
determining the president, beyond obvious issues of election fraud
and the systemic gelding of the black and underclass vote, the
answer, plainly, is genuine learned stupidity, or to be kind, fear —
events that have become three numbers. My kind portion believes we're
afraid. Nobody needs to belabor the point, or even compare the
phenomenon to past eruptions of fascism and nationalism, because
what's happened is just too obvious.

In order to move on I'm going to burn three virgin elephants at
Poseidon's altar, hopeful that he will sweep away certain districts
of the state of Florida, simultaneously revenging the election of
2000 and eliminating any future dynastic kings of evil and graft.
Then, instead of stabbing at dull Caesar in these pronunciamentos I
will briefly focus on the purse-heavy charlatans and evil-doers who
surround Jr. and seem to do him so poorly that he is allowed
repeatedly to say fantastic, harmful and stupid things, issue garish
decrees from the Middle Ages, and swagger between Crawford and D.C.
as if he were not covered in both their shame and his.

There's Bernard Kerik, aborted defender of the homeland whose heart
and mob connections were cloudy enough to deceive even the keen-eyed
president. Here's Michael Chertoff, selected after the incredible
Kerik disgrace to fill the shoes of Tom Ridge, who can now return to
championing the deregulated energy industry. One could write about
several toothesome Bushmen in or feeding upon Iraq, who have all the
stamps of corruption. The various holdovers and predators from the
Iran-Contra swindle who hold posts in the administration are
potential topics for scorn, too. I would be far more useful, though,
if I could successfully indict the system that produces dynasties of
men like these. I have trouble moving past even the verifiably
treasonous and venal deeds of grandfather Prescott Bush, but at least
he did not create the wars he profited so well from.

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