Abused By Illusions

Pay particular attention to the italicized bold sentence in the section of the story below. Why would the steps that a suicide bomber takes prior to an attack be kept top secret? Wouldn't you want every member of the public to be aware of what these steps are so as they might be able to alert authorities if they observed these acts? Or is the real goal to instill terror in the citizens and thus build a gargantuan antiterror industry on the shoulders of an ever growing police state?

Also notice that this training is being conducted by an Israeli General. Ever feel like a Palestinian in the occupied territories? I think the occupied territories are expanding everyday or so it seems.

C.I. Abramson

Seattle Police Officers Begin New Anti-Terror Training

July 25, 2005

By Leslie Knopp



With terror attacks heating up overseas, the Seattle Police Department is joining other forces around the nation in preparing in case suicide bombers ever attack our area.



SEATTLE - When the suicide bombs exploded in London, Seattle's police chief didn't see it as a faraway tragedy. He saw it as a warning for Western Washington.

"We've got to teach these officers and give them the skills to stop someone," said Chief Gil Kerlikowske.

Kerlikowske wants all his officers to learn how to respond to a suicide bombing or prevent one.

So, the Seattle Police Department plans to spend $30,000 for training to prevent suicide bombers for all officers, and it will include training from an Israeli general.

He will teach Seattle officers the steps a suicide bomber takes prior to an attack. It's information that's top secret.

Read the full story here!

Now tell me again who are the terrorist that I am supposed to fear?

Police leaders say they will not abandon their "shoot-to-kill" policy and warn more innocent people could be killed in the fight against terrorism.

Read the rest of the story here!

Reading this article from the BBC, concerning the man that was shot in the London subway system due to being mistaken as one of the terrorist bombers, has reaffirmed my resolve to avoid public transportation of all types. This incident once again clearly underscores where and of who our real fears should focus upon. Along with the threat of being gunned down by those that we are taxed billions by to provide us with "a false sense of security," the mainstream media now spews the drivel that we need more and more surveillance cameras everywhere. All of the folks that allegedly carried out the first bombing were caught on surveillance cameras, save the bus bomber (due to the camera allegedly malfunctioning). So if the surveillance cameras did not prevent this how is installing ever more of them going to make us one bit safer? It's not! The politicos are simply frothing at the mouth to build ever bigger their high tech surveillance police state. I so wish that a miracle could happen and the forefathers of this country could somehow be magically transported to the present. Who do you think the first ones folks like Madison, Jefferson, and Franklin would recommend the electorate should put the smackdown on? I can only guess that there wouldn't be any recommending to it. I think we would have an executive and congress seriously over the knees of the founding fathers getting their rearends wore out before they personally ran them out of D.C.

C.I. Abramson

Shot man not connected to bombing

Jean Charles de Menezes (far right), pictured with friends
A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was a Brazilian electrician unconnected to the incidents.
The man, who died at Stockwell Tube on Friday, has been named by police as Jean Charles de Menezes, 27.

Two other men have been arrested and are being questioned after bombers targeted three Tube trains and a bus.

Police also said a suspect package found in north-west London on Saturday may be linked to Thursday's attacks.

'Tragedy'

Scotland Yard said Mr Menezes, who lived in Brixton, south London, was completely unconnected to the bomb attacks and added: "For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets."




Good response to CCTV plea
'They unloaded five bullets'

The Brazilian government has expressed its shock at the killing and Brazil's foreign minister Celso Amorim is on his way to London to get an explanation from foreign secretary Jack Straw.

Read the rest of this article at BBC World Edition!

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
Cicero Marcus Tullius - Born on January 3, 106 BC and was murdered on December 7, BC

The question is do we as a nation still have the cognizance to recognize the traitors within the gates and the fortitude to endure the hardships that will surely be incurred when their treason is illuminated for all to see?

A really good primer on the Neo-Cons and Leo Strauss.



Leo Strauss and the Noble Lie:The Neo-Cons at War

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Ben Franklin

By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 18, 2005; A03



FBI agents monitored Web sites calling for protests against the 2004 political conventions in New York and Boston on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism unit, according to FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union pointed to the documents as evidence that the Bush administration has reacted to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States by blurring the distinction between terrorism and political protest. FBI officials defended the involvement of counterterrorism agents in providing security for the Republican and Democratic conventions as an administrative convenience.

The documents were released by the FBI in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups that say they have been subjected to scrutiny by task forces set up to combat terrorism. The FBI has denied targeting the groups because of their political views.

"It's increasingly clear that the government is involved in political surveillance of organizations that are involved in nothing more than lawful First Amendment activities," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU. "It raises very serious questions about whether the FBI is back to its old tricks."

Read the full story here!

Check out my new flash fiction piece over at Splintered Magazine. It's called "The Beast."

There was no fooling former Air Force and commercial pilot Russ Wittenberg the morning of 9/11. He knew it was an inside job from the get-go, knowing the ‘big boys’ were up to the same dirty tricks they played in the Kennedy assassination and Pearl Harbor.


The government may have fooled millions of Americans with its cockamamie official story, but the former fighter pilot who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam and who sat for 35 years in the cockpit for Pan Am and United, wasn’t one of them.


Now, almost four years later, Wittenberg is still shaking his head in disbelief more than ever, saying the country he loved and fought so bravely 40 years ago has fallen in the deep, dark and sinister hands of fascist leaders who are quickly turning America into a military state.


Although back in the beginning he seemed like a lone wolf in the hen house, he’s noticed, especially in the last six months, more Americans waking up to the cold reality that the U.S. government staged 9/1l, started an illegal war in Iraq and basically is criminally responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent lives here and abroad.

Read the full story here!

Speaking on the condition that their names not be revealed, a group of former Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have told this newspaper that the FBI never seriously investigated Tim McVeigh's connections to a right-wing paramilitary training camp.

Neither, they say, were McVeigh's ties to a notorious bank robbery gang operating in the Midwest investigated. Further, FBI agents interested in working the case were thwarted by Department of Justice attorneys and by other FBI officials.

Read the full story here!

I'm undecided on the new look. What does everyone else think?

How convenient is this?




The Commissioner Bob Kiley (chair)

Prior to his appointment as Commissioner of Transport for London in January 2001, Robert Kiley served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Partnership. The Partnership, the city's leading business and civic organisation, improves the city's economic climate through advocacy and public-private initiatives in education, job creation, affordable housing, and neighbourhood development. Its membership reflects the impressive breadth of the city's private, non-profit and civic leadership.

From 1991 to 1994 he was President of Fischbach Corporation, a major New York-based construction and engineering company, and in 1994 became its Chairman until assuming his position at the New York City Partnership in 1995.

From 1983 until 1990, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). At the MTA he was responsible for five transportation agencies serving the New York Metropolitan Region where he directed the rebuilding of New York's public transportation system and restructured its management. He led successful efforts to obtain more than $16 billion from the New York State legislature for capital improvements to the city's subways and buses, commuter railroads, tunnels and bridges in the MTA region.

Robert Kiley has consulted with corporations and public agencies at the Management Analysis Center (now Cap Gemini) then headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the 1970s he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston and served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Boston.

Early in his career, he was with the CIA, where he served as Manager of Intelligence Operations and then as Executive Assistant to the Director.
Robert Kiley is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board Member of the Salzburg International Seminar, the American Repertory Theater, MONY Group Inc, the Princeton Review Inc and Edison Schools, Inc. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Center for State and Local Government.

A Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Robert Kiley and his wife Rona now live in London.


Bio from Transport for London

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