Reply #29: Sure is...

[warren pease]

... And as such, it's the perfect template for the so-called "War on Terror." The physical and legal infrastructure's already there; the American people are already conquered and pacified to an extent far greater than that achieved by the Third Reich in WW II Vichy France.

Aerial and satellite surveillance has been a fact of life for decades, particularly in rural areas. Zero tolerance means they can steal your stuff for absolutely no reason, and indeterminate sentencing makes sure that either you keep your mouth shut about systemic abuse (don't want an extra 20 years added on for bitching) or you roll on anybody -- everybody... Friends, co-workers, family... It doesn't matter.

And to assure corruption, local cops and DEA offices get to keep what they steal or auction it off. Property seized by our brave drug warriors shows up on eBay and Craigslist all the time.

So we're completely screwed already, and we know it. As a result, the only people who will mess around with bulk sales, transportation, importation and distribution are very bad guys -- usually bad guys with financial hooks into the local "protect and serve" crowd. Often very bad guys with high-level CIA/DoD/NSA/FBI et al jobs and/or contract positions.

They're also the very bad guys who have absolutely no problem opening fire on crowds of civilians if that's going to keep the cops busy long enough for them to escape. Very bad guys who have replaced the largely casual bunch of fuckups and dope fiends who sold dime bags to support their own habits back in the '50s and '60s.


Then along comes Hani Hanjour, fake commercial pilot's license in hand, ready to take a gigantic Boeing 757 for a joy ride on the morning when, as the Bushies liked to say, "the whole world changed."

Sure as hell did, didn't it? Now we get to do a striptease for the dumb fuck TSA voyeurs just to board a commercial flight.

Before Hani's day was done, he allegedly pulled off this aerobatic maneuver. Beginning at 7000 feet at an air speed of 396 knots, he allegedly dove almost 5000 feet within a 330 degree turn while pulling about 5 Gs (about what you'd expect through a hard turn riding one of the world's most radical roller coasters), and covered 5 miles in about 3 minutes.

He levels off at 2200 feet to take a quick look around. Then, engines roaring as he moves the thrusters to full power and, with a very steady hand, Hani begins the final minute of his life.

Firm but supple pressure on the joystick to avoid sudden twitches that could result in overshooting the target or nosediving into the lawn, now inside ground effects (causing massive turbulence) as he wastes a few streetlight standards but manages to miss the huge reels of fiber optic cabling lying right in his path, and finally rams into the Pentagon at 460 knots -- a direct hit on the only part of the Pentagon that had already been reinforced and which was as far away as possible from Rumsfeld's office.

Does this really sound like the same guy who, about a month before "the events of 9/11"(tm), was turned down when he tried to rent a Cessna 172 at Freeway Airport in Bowie, Md., 20 miles west of Washington?

Same guy, though, according to flight instructor Sheri Baxter, who recognized Hani Hanjour's name when the FBI released its list of 19 suspects who pulled off these four alleged hijackings.


So they create the perfect, all-purpose excuse for running absolutely any program, game or thing draconian. Following the advice of Goering, Goebbels and Bernays, they brand anyone who disagrees with the official story "unpatriotic."*

Thanks to the drug war, the tables are already set -- except for Pelosi's, which is empty largely because they co-opted her way back in 2002 re approving torture and she's lived in their hip pocket ever since.

And now, it's show time.

Sound like maybe kinda a viable way to interpret "the events of 9/11"(tm) and their relationship to the drug war?

Naaaaahh....


sf

* Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during
the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in
Gilbert's book 'Nuremberg Diary.'

Goering: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some
poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that
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 in America, 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.

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some
say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the
United States only Congress can declare wars.

Goering: 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 pacifists for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country.