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Showing posts with label 911. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
The Attack on the World Trade Centre
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Monday, 4 July 2016
The Bush Family at War
Prescott Bush is not very well known but he should be infamous because he was involved in financing the Hitler regime during World War 2. In 1942, Prescott Bush had his company seized under the "Trading With The Enemy" Act at the same time as American troops were being killed by German soldiers. No action was taken against this traitor.
Many years later in 1991, his son President George H.W. Bush responded to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by ordering an aerial bombardment of targets within Iraq. A successful ground campaign began soon after which lasted one hundred hours and ended on February 28th. At this point, a terrible war crime was committed.
For no valid reason, 150 000 Iraqi troops were slaughtered using fuel air bombs. It was totally unnecessary because the Iraqis were fleeing on a crowded highway from Kuwait to Basra. President Bush ordered U.S.A military forces to kill these surrendering troops. Some were still alive as they were bulldozed into mass unmarked graves in the desert. President Bush then ordered a cessation of hostilities.
Why did this happen? What was the significance of this slaughter? Why did President Bush declare that the war over on this day?
It was the, "Day of Purim," which is the day the Jews celebrate their victory over Ancient Babylon and a day when Jews are encouraged to take bloody revenge on their enemies. Ancient Babylon is contained within the borders of what is now called Iraq.
In 2000, George W. Bush, son of George H.W. Bush and Grandson of Prescott Bush was elected President of the United States. He will forever be associated with the attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 and the events that followed.
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
The Reichstag Fire and 911
On 22nd February 1933, a young communist called Marinus van der Lubbe carried out an arson attack on the the Reichstag Building in Berlin which is the main assembley location for the German Parliament. Adolf Hitler had been sworn in as German Chancellor four weeks earlier and he used this as evidence of a communist plot in operation. He manipulated the situation President Paul von Hindenburg and persuaded him to pass an emergency decree suspending civil liberties which enabled Hitler to organise a series of mass arrests of Communist party members. This included all the Communist Party Parliamentary delegates and the Nazis thus managed to eliminate their main political rivals at a stroke and became the majority party in German Parliament.
Whether van der Lubbe acted alone is still a matter for debate and it has been suggested that the Nazis carried out the attack as an under cover operation to discredit their political opponents. Hitler and the Nazis certainly used the situation to consolidate their political power but was President von Hindenberg very naive in issuing the emergency decree. To be fair, he could not have forseen the far reaching consequences of his actions
On September 11th 2001, the World Trade Center in New York was attacked and the USA adopted a whatever it takes approach to punish those responsible. Security concerns were deemed to be more important than individual civil liberties but some of the tactics used, when details emerged, could be described as questionable at the very least. Tales of secret prisons, the rendition of terror suspects, waterboarding and the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq produced a collective guilty conscience in the USA population. Widespead wire tapping, arrest without trial and invasive airport security are other examples which are not just confined to the USA and have gradually increased in severity
It is difficult to ignore the similarities between the Reichstag fire and 911. In each case, ordinary people were persuaded to give up their liberty for increased security. What will be the consquences this time?
In 1945, Nazi Germany was defeated and Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. Twelve years after the Reichstag Fire and the world was able to move on.
Thirteen years have passed since 911 and there is still no let up is in sight. A supposed terrorist threat means security is still more important than individual freedom and our hard won, long established civil liberties are still being slowly eroded. Each reduction is barely noticeable but taken as whole, over a period of time the effect will be very significant. Nobody notices and nothing is said.
There is a famous quote by Edmund Burke:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"
In Nazi Germany, the good men stood aside while the Jews were persecuted because it didn't concern them. In post 911 USA, the good men said nothing while innocent men were imprisoned without trial.
Who will be next? Maybe it's your turn?
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