Public Accepts Assassination

With recent disclosures that the Obama Administration personally operates a secret murder list that includes seventeen-year-old children in the Middle-East, it should be clear that America is moving into a new phase of transfer of power to the Executive branch, unheard of in this nation's history. A recent ruling by a judge that Obama doesn't have the right to indefinitely detain American citizens without a trial shouldn't really be cause for celebration, since Attorney General Eric Holder already argued at Yale Law school that President Obama has the right to assassinate Americans without a trial. When Congress followed up on this horrific declaration in a hearing on counter-terrorism with FBI Director Robert Mueller on whether these Executive Assassination powers applied to U.S. citizens domestically, Mueller replied that he'd "have to check." Obama takes and wants personal responsibility for all of his murders and loves it to be this way. This was also the case with Adolph Hitler, whom Germany invested all of their trust in. Of course, any leader whose acts are criminal demands "personal responsibility" for their acts so that the nation--as a collective, absolves themselves of responsibility for the actions carried out in their name. In a free nation such as the United States, where citizens are more free than most other nations of the world, the fact that virtually no public outcry among the vast majority of Americans over the executive's self-proclaimed right to assassinate them is deeply troubling. Perhaps those who are even informed about this proclamation figure that if they aren't doing anything wrong, then they have nothing to hide. However, in a Constitutional Republic, the burden of proof rests upon the government, through due process of law and evidence of the charges made against the accused, before the state revokes "life, liberty, or property." Surely, the evisceration of the Magna Carta of 1215 upon which the sixth amendment gauranteeing these rights is based, under the guise of protecting the population from "terrorism," will cause Americans to lose all three. The indoctrination of the public into the idea that wanton murder of this U.S. administration of both Americans and foreigners based upon a slight suspicion of wrong doing that the executive imagines--without the benefit of an investigation or examination by the prosecution in a court of law is preposterous.

The Cost of Imperial War

Bent on controlling the world without letting up, the United States empire seeks to control the natural resources of the world and no amount of human suffering will stop the maniacal leaders who are in power in the White House. Drones patrol the skies in various cities across America as souped up police departments get ready with anticipation for the go ahead to add rubber bullet or tear gas projectile rounds to their newly federally funded government tools of oppression. Meanwhile soldiers with blown off legs who are on their seventh or eighth tour to Afghanistan are recycled into an unjust occupation of brutality with their new prosthetic limbs. Joint Special operations command, known for its murder of civilians in night-raids carried out in conjunction with the Pakistani military in Pakistan and the Afghan National Army in Afghanistan, is a subunit of U.S. Special Operations Command. Special Operations Command personnel have grown from 37,000 in the 1990's to 60,000 soldiers One third of these are "career members," according to journalist Nick Turse. The rest have other military occupational specialties but are sent through the command on a routine intermittent basis. Increasing in it's budget from $2.3 billion to $6.3 billion since the blowback event that occurred on 911, and adding in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has actually more than quadrupled to $9.8 billion in these years--a tremendous waste of taxpayer money on a ruthless special operations murder machine. The U.S. military and the C.I.A., have murdered thousands of people with drones in Pakistan and has recently stepped up such reckless attacks in Yemen, including the use of "signature strikes," where the individual whose movements are watched by satellite from an airbase in the United States do not even have to be identified before being ruthlessly assassinated by murder squads who kill from a distance and deny their victims a trial as they wield power over a strangers life. With cowardice they hide, thousands of miles away from the occupation and bomb a country that lacks air power of any kind. The idea that the wars are "winding down," as many claim is patently false. Special operations units are deployed in 70 nations throughout the world and the United States doesn't ever fully leave Middle Eastern nations which it occupies as evidenced by the continued occupation of Iraq with private military contractors, special operations forces, overhead drones and the Vatican Sized State Department embassy. Rather than being sent home, movements of soldiers are typically shifted to other bases in the region such as Qatar, Kuwait, Oman to prepare for yet another war on a small, third-world nation, such as Iran, or to bases strategically located near a world power nation such as China. The recent move to send thousands of marines to bases in Australia is an example of such attempts to revive artificially constructed cold war hostilities through the U.S. Empire's declaration that it is "pivoting" to the Pacific, or becoming a "Pacific Power." It's time that the 911 imperial mindset of rationalized murder be exposed for what it truly is--an excuse to take innocent civilian life so as to augment arms industry sales and stimulate massive arms production into congressional districts across the United States. The hijackers who struck the twin towers on 911, 15 of which were Saudis, two Yemeni and two United Arab Emirate citizens, are clearly not the same individuals as the women and children who the U.S. military/CIA and NATO slaughters day-to-day with drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan. This warped state of false consciousness, in which innocent civilians are murdered by aircraft without even a hint of the subject being guilty of any crime, is what Glen Greenwald calls "the authoritarian mind." Recent indications that most Americans have no idea why the Afghan war is even being fought include the committal of green on blue violence in which Afghans who are trained by the U.S. military kill the officers that train them by shooting them in the head when nobody is looking. This is clear evidence of where this ugly and brutal occupation of Afghanistan is going and taking the American people down with it. (C) Bill Lewis

Agression Nation

The United States murders people in foreign lands on a routine basis. There is no limit to the slaughter that the imperial United States wages against other nations for natural resources. Despite the ideas of freedom and democracy, the reality is that the American government denies rights guaranteed in the Magna Carta and the United States Bill of Rights to other citizens of the world. Recently, CIA Director Gen. Patraeus said that he wants to murder anyone in Yemen who his intelligence agencies determine are engaging in terrorism, even if their identity is not known. The military as an institutions promote mass slaughter as a means to terrorize the subject population. An individual who is not tried for a crime or even allowed to know the charges made against himself is assassinated without due process. What did the country of Yemen do to deserve this? There are over 60 drone bases from which military personnel throughout the world murder people via drones without granting these individuals a trial for any crime. Attacking countries without a declaration of war under Article I Section 8 of the constitution from various air-conditioned drone facilities facilitates a distanced, anesthetized war where the leaders of the National Security State can dominate a country under the threat of airstrikes without committing combat troops and therefore minimizing the scrutiny of the American public. The public does not see the routine death of innocent civilians on their television screens and most Americans are not aware of what websites to frequent to become informed about these crimes. Behind the slaughter of innocent civilians masked as a "war on terror" that occurs when the U.S. military or CIA uses drone strikes to attack another nation, the real reason for the aggression is desire for strategic control of Middle East oil. Oil is a resource that the military needs to wage future wars and is integral to the operation of tanks, planes, drones, trucks and military bases. Anywhere that the United States continues to wage its unconstitutionally declared Global War on Terror, there also happens to be oil in the various nations it invades. The United States is a police state. Secret police are now going to listen to everyone on buses and they are also going to use their intimidation tactics against any journalist leaving the country. The government is at war in Uganda, Afghanistan, maintains drones and special operations forces, along with private contractors in Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Pakistan. The United States wants permanent war in all of these countries to continue spending massive amounts of American tax dollars on weapons systems.

Phony Atrocious Wars

A secret U.S. document now shows that the Taliban is set to retake complete control of Afghanistan after the U.S. military leaves the country. This war is not only an atrocity against the Afghan people, it is also phony because we have been funding Hamed Karzi's brother as a CIA contact while he trains/wherhouses Khandahar strike force, and simultaneously, the U.S. allowed him to profit from the heroin trade. Through the collection of road tolls in the opium transport, this activity funded the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Will this failed/phony atrocity war end that takes toll on civilian life and allows special operations forces to murder innocent people because the U.S. financially cannot afford to be there anymore, or will the U.S. withdrawal regular troops and leave the special ops there to continue these atrocities which they also commit worldwide in 75 countries. Will the U.S. not attack Iran because of financial considerations? Is the current marshaling of sea war paraphanilllia just for the U.S. to try to maintain an image or do they eventually plan to attack Iran in a final quest for world domination?

(C)Bill Lewis

Taliban 'poised to retake Afghanistan' after NATO pullout, leaked U.S. report claims
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