Subj:	Us wacky conspiracy theorists...
Date:	12/26/01 10:36:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
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          GW Bush on  9/11 Conspiracy Theories
          by Robert Lederman
          (718) 743-3722
          robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
          November 23, 2001
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=14610

          "We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate
outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th,
malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists
themselves, away from the guilty."
          GW Bush speaking before the UN GeGeneral Assembly 11/10/2001

          When President Bush spoke of "outrageous conspiracy theories" he
was for the first time acknowledging something of great significance. There
are informed viewpoints completely missing from the propaganda war being
relentlessly waged on Americans about 9/11 and its aftermath, viewpoints
which are as opposite from the official story as it is possible to get.

          The Bush administrations' official story has three basic premises.
To briefly summarize, the first is that Islamic terrorists based in
Afghanistan who hate American freedom plotted and executed an attack on
America - an attack which the U.S. government had no prior knowledge of nor
any connection to. The second premise is that in order to wage and win a war
on terrorism we must invade Afghanistan and every other nation harboring,
funding or otherwise supporting terrorists and that a simultaneous
suspension of domestic civil liberties is necessary for internal security.
The third basic premise is that our government is all good while theirs is
the very personification of evil, the "evil-doers" as President Bush likes
to call them.

          The "conspiracy theories" Bush is referring to similarly have
three basic premises and many divergent subsets. The first is that the
attack was known about (and possibly, planned) by various elements of the
U.S. government before 9/11 and was allowed to take place in order to bring
about certain conditions, including the suspension of our guaranteed civil
liberties. The second premise is that even if bin Laden and the al Queda
network based in Afghanistan were immediately responsible for the attack
that those supporting, funding and protecting them are not for the most part
based in Afghanistan but are in fact closely connected to the Bush
administration and to the allies President Bush has taken such efforts to
rally to our side. The third premise is that a U.S. built oil pipeline
through Afghanistan which has been in the planning stages for more than a
decade is the real goal of the war and that a U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
was in the works long before September 11th.
[Click Here for earlier Essay associated with this topic.].
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          What makes these alternative viewpoints, "conspiracy theories"? It
certainly isn't a lack of evidence.

          In the American criminal justice system there are three basic
kinds of evidence; direct, circumstantial and exculpatory.

          Direct evidence of a crime might include a confession,
fingerprints, DNA samples, credible witnesses or a surveillance tape proving
guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. Circumstantial evidence is anything that
lends credence to a defendant being guilty but in itself is not sufficient
to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Exculpatory evidence on the other
hand disproves a defendants' guilt or contradicts other evidence proving
their guilt. In a recent NYC case involving exculpatory evidence, a homeless
man charged with a vicious sidewalk assault on a tourist was found to be on
a store surveillance tape recorded at the same time the assault took place.
In the American system of criminal law prosecutors are required to share all
exculpatory evidence with the defense.

          The official story as told by the Bush administration and the U.S.
corporate media is constructed of "evidence" the government frankly admits
would not be admissible in any court of law. If anything, the Bush
administrations' version of events is itself a very weakly constructed
"conspiracy theory" challenged at every turn by an enormous amount of
exculpatory evidence, much of it from the Bush administration itself. No
wonder Bush insists on trials by military tribunals for suspected
terrorists, trials in which virtually none of the evidence will be revealed
to the defendants or their Bush-appointed defense attorneys.

          It's absurd to claim that such trials will have any similarity to
those at Nuremburg after WWII. The accused Nazis were given every
opportunity to mount a full defense and were directly confronted by hundreds
of witnesses for the prosecution who they were able to fully cross-examine.

          There is one very striking similarity to Nuremberg however. Like
today's accused terrorists, the Nazis were funded and supplied by some of
Americas' wealthiest businessmen including GW Bush's grandfathers who
operated Wall Street banks, shipping companies and other businesses as
fronts for the Nazis [1].
          Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the largest sources of financing
for terrorism are also intimately connected to the Bush family and to Wall
Street, to some of Americas' leading corporations and to members of both
Bush administrations.

          The need for complete control of all information and media
coverage along with a 24 hour a day propaganda effort to depict support for
the Bush administration as a patriotic duty becomes obvious once one has
even briefly considered the exculpatory evidence. Not only might it be
difficult to convict the so-called terrorists in a legitimate court of law
but support for either the war or the Bush administration would be virtually
impossible once the full facts were known.

          Nevertheless, being a loyal American I must support the
Presidents' position in the war on terrorism with one additional point. The
American people should hold President Bush to his own professed standard as
explained in the following quote.

          In his remarks, the president again laid out what the White House
called the Bush Doctrine.

          "If you harbor terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train or arm
a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a
terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by the
United States and our friends."

          NY TIMES 11/22/2001 Bush Says War May Go Beyond Afghan Border

          In other words, the President, the CIA, his father and many of
their business partners, cabinet appointees and so-called allies are - based
on the President's own words - terrorists.
          Only by bringing them to justice can we ever hope to win the war
on terrorism.


          [1]

          BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
          TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS

          PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE
          PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
          WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL,
          HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
          Page: A1 Section: National/Foreign

          AN AMERICAN DYNASTY

          Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New
York Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942. "Hitler's Angel
Has 3 Million in US Bank,"read the headline above a story reporting that
Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union Banking Corp.,
possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs." Bush knew all about the New York
bank: He was one of its seven directors. If the Nazi tie became known, it
would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush and his partners at Brown
Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to government regulators that their
position was merely an unpaid courtesy for a client. The situation grew more
serious when the government seized Union's assets under the Trading with the
Enemy Act, the sort of action that could have ruined Bush's political
dreams.


          Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
          John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator
and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum, is quoted as saying:
          "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich."
          (Click Here for original story)
http://baltech.org/lederman/9-11-unpopular.html


          Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2 Man:
          Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob
on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't
want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for
lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country.

          George Orwell
In a time of universal deceit, TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary act.


          Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson,
          The Supreme Court In the American System of Government (1955)
          I cannot say that our country could have no central police without
becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot be
totalitarian without a centralized national police.
          A national police will have enough on enough people, even if it
does not elect to prosecute them, so that it will find no opposition to its
policies.


          (Author's note: After its founding following WWII, the CIA was
initially staffed with thousands of former Nazis who were experts in
propaganda, biological warfare, eugenics and social control as recently
admitted by the CIA itself.
          For excellent published works on the CIA/Nazi connection read:
Trading With The Enemy by Charles Higham, The Secret War Against the Jews by
Loftus and Arrons and Blowback by Christopher Simpson.


          UPI 9/20/2000
          CIA says Nazi general was
          intelligence source
          COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) --
          The Central Intelligence Agency has for the first time confirmed
that a high-ranking Nazi general placed his anti-Soviet spy ring at the
disposal of the United States during the early days of the Cold War. The
National Archives said in a release Wednesday that the CIA had filed an
affidavit in U.S. District Court "acknowledging an intelligence relationship
with German General Reinhard Gehlen that it has kept secret for 50
years...The CIA's announcement marks the first acknowledgement by that
agency that it had any relationship with Gehlen and opens the way for
declassification of records about the relationship," the National Archives
said Gehlen was Hitler's senior intelligence officer on the Eastern Front
during the war and transferred his expertise and contacts to the U.S. as
World War II reached its climax. While Gehlen's relationship with U.S.
intelligence during the 1940s and 1950s has been the topic of some five
books over the years, the eventual release of CIA documents pertaining to
the development of his European spy ring could shed new light on the origins
of the Cold War and early U.S. espionage efforts against Moscow. Gehlen's
network of agents in Europe - including many with Nazi backgrounds who were
bailed out of prisoner of war camps by U.S. intelligence officers - was
known as the Gehlen Organization and received millions of dollars in funding
from the U.S. until 1956. The CIA's acknowledgement of its dealings with
Gehlen came in a response to an appeal of a Freedom of Information Act
request by researcher Carl Oglesby, the National Archives said. The agency
pledged to release its records on the general in accordance with the Nazi
War Crimes Disclosure Act.


          San Francisco Bay Guardian May 7, 2001
          "Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine ...unprejudiced
mind ..."That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment described
Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute,
the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS
unit performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and
other "undesirables" during the Second World War. Although he was wanted in
Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S.
CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs.
Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's
gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after
Germany surrendered to the Allies.


          Washington Post Sunday, March 18, 2001
          By George Lardner Jr., Staff Writer
          Page A04
          CIA Declassifies Its Records
          On Dealings With Ex-Nazis
          Documents May Give Clues About Obstacles in Hunt for War Criminals

          The CIA is finally getting around to declassifying the records of
its dealings with former Nazi spies after World War II. It says it has found
251 boxes and 2,901 file folders of potentially relevant documents --
apparently more than 250,000 pages -- and that it will take about two years
to complete work on them.


          Daily News 4/28/2001
          Secret Files Show U.S. Used Nazis
          ...The documents show that high-ranking Nazis--including death
doctor Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann--were coddled by American and Soviet
spymasters as World War II ended. "The real winners of the Cold War were
Nazi criminals," Justice Department official Eli Rosenbaum said. "East and
West became so rapidly focused on challenging each other that they lost
their will to pursue Nazi perpetrators. They even deemed some of the
criminals to be useful allies."


          Excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf:
          The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training
of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts,
processes, necessities, etc., whose significance is thus for the first time
placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so
skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the
process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not
and cannot be the necessity in itself, since its function, like the poster,
consists in attracting the attention of the crowd, and not in educating
those who are already educated or who are striving after education and
knowledge, its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and
only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect...The more modest
its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration
the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be..."The art of
propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and
finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention
and thence to the heart of the broad masses. The receptivity of the great
masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of
forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective
propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these
slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to
understand [or believe]..."The war propaganda of the English and Americans
were psychologically sound. By representing the Germans to their own people
as barbarians and Huns, they prepared the individual soldier for the terrors
of war, and thus helped to preserve him from disappointments. After this,
the most terrible weapon that was used against him seemed only to confirm
what his propagandists had told him; it likewise reinforced his faith in the
truth of his government's assertions, while on the other hand it increased
his rage and hatred against the vile enemy For the cruel effects of the
weapon, whose use by the enemy he now came to know, gradually came to
confirm for him the 'Hunnish' brutality of the barbarous enemy, which he had
heard all about; and it never dawned on him for a moment that his own
weapons possibly, if not probably, might be even more terrible in their
effects..."The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and
ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one
right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an
objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set
it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own
right, always and unflinchingly...The broad mass of a nation does not
consist of diplomats, or even professors of political law, or even
individuals capable of forming a rational opinion; it consists of plain
mortals, wavering and inclined to doubt and uncertainty. As soon as our own
propaganda admits so much as a glimmer of right on the other side, the
foundation for doubt in our own right has been laid. The masses are then in
no position to distinguish where foreign injustice ends and our own begins."


          Frederick Douglas (1857)
          Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found
out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them;
and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows,
or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress.


          Daily News 11/14/2001
          Bush OKs Secrecy In Terror Trials
          President Bush signed an order yesterday that could allow accused
Al Qaeda operatives and other foreign terrorists to stand trial before
secretive military commissions similar to the tribunals used to prosecute
Nazis in World War II. The order gives Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
authority to establish the tribunals, White House officials said. "Given the
danger to the safety of the United States ... I find ... that it is not
practicable to apply ... the principles of law and the rules of evidence
generally recognized in the trial of criminal cases in the United States,"
Bush's order said."

DRUDGE REPORT SUN NOV 11, 2001
BIG MEDIA FLORIDA RECOUNT: GORE TOPPED BUSH IF ALL UNDER/OVER
VOTES COUNTED; LEGAL STRATEGY DESTROYED CHANCES
          A vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida
presidential election commissioned by the nation's main media outlets shows
Al Gore edged ahead of George W. Bush "under all the scenarios for counting
all undervotes and overvotes statewide.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just
so long as I'm the dictator."

GW Bush during a photo-op with Congressional leaders on
12/18/2000. As broadcast on CNN and available in transcript on their
website.

(Click Here for transcript)
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html

          Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the
Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive
archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The
Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street
News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani. Lederman has been falsely arrested 41 times to date for
his anti-Giuliani activities and has never been convicted of any of the
charges. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor
Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator.

          Robert Lederman,
          President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
          (Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
          robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
          (718) 743-3722

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