9-11 Widow Files Rico Lawsuit

29. UK Minister: "Bush had Foreknowledge of 9-11 attacks"
"...it is not surprising that some have seen the US failure to avert the 9/11
attacks as creating an invaluable pretext for attacking Afghanistan in a war
that had clearly already been well planned in advance." http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1036588,00.html

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OPINION: THOUGHTS ON THE COMING "DISCOVERY" OF BIN LADEN 
--The Best Propaganda Money can Buy

Unless preparations are made for its eventuality, the announcement of
Bin Laden's capture will be the death-knell for the 2004 Democratic campaign.
And, like the "heroic rescue" of Jessica Lynch or the toppling of Hussein's statue
by "jubilant throngs" of Iraqis, it needn't even be real:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/3028585.stm
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la
-oe-scheer20may20,1,2187120.column
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1762/3907255.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm

So Democrats must have a pre-emptive strategy in place; the most obvious being,
early in the game, to accuse the White House of sitting on Bin Laden for political gain. 

A better one is to launch an independent investigation to find Bin Laden first and
announce the discovery before Rove's political operatives; this would be a huge coup.

In case you haven't been paying attention, this election year, Republicans are
playing a deadly game of attrition -- death by a thousand tiny cuts, so to speak:
extreme reprimanding in Texas, the recall of a governor in California, the
installation of inauditable, easily "preprogrammed" DRE e-vote machines in
as many counties as will allow them to be stuffed down their throats, relentless
and bloody character assassinations in a bought-and-paid-for Murdoch-
dominated media empire, absentee ballots counted by an untouchable firm
in Kuwait, stacked courts ready to deliver decisions for which 2000's
Gore vs. Bush set the precedent.

The odds look dire for Democrats (and, by extension, the majority
of Americans, though they are as yet blissfully unaware of the
slender thread from which all our liberties hang). 

But, in case you haven't connected the dots,
this time the GOP is playing for keeps. 

Once the fix is in, there will be no turning back: by an invisible,
carefully planned coup, the neoconservatives will have transformed
America into an autocracy, and any remaining political opposition
will be window dressing.

And so, I challenge you: this is a battle we perhaps cannot win,
but, at all costs, MUST NOT LOSE.

The consequences of surrender will be incalculable: one by one,
like dominos, institutions we cherish will fall -- environmental laws,
social security, independent media, healthy advocacy groups, assistance
for the unemployed, impoverished and disenfranchised -- 
and, foremost, the right to choose our leaders.

We will be left with one remaining liberty: the right to choose
which products to buy to keep the militaristic money machine well-oiled,
and its minders well-heeled.

This year, unless YOU act -- BOLDLY, DECISIVELY, PERSISTENTLY
AND INCESSANTLY -- the dream our forefathers nurtured to life will die.

Don't let the dream die.

Stand up and fight for America.

Stand up and fight for the vote.

This will be your last chance.

sincerely,
Eric A. Smith
Tokyo

About the author:

Eric A. Smith is a freelance journalist, editor and IT instructor living in Tokyo,
Japan. An activist for over 25 years, he has worked with such diverse
publications as the RTP Beacon, Common Ground and Adbusters magazine. 

Smith is currently volunteering to assist Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org,
Attorney Phillip Berg in 9-11 widow Ellen Mariani's RICO suit against Bush,
et al, and is a charter member of the Open Voting Consortium.

Smith earned his BA at the University of North Carolina in 1992,
and holds MCP, field service technician, A+ and Network+ certifications
from Microsoft, COMPTIA and the Control Data Institute.

He can be reached for comment at 81-03-3959-5371 or snowdog@juno.ocn.ne.jp
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God, Blair and the Bomb 

A tentative search for moral clarity

LONDON, Mar 7 -- Well, now it's official.

Blair has joined Bush in declaring their mutual global campaign a 'war on evil',
thus officially designating our bombs holy and the enemy's evil, should we have
harbored any doubts. So while we poison civilians with depleted uranium for the
"greater good", our enemies are using (or were maybe perhaps planning to
someday use) exclusively evil Weapons of mass destruction. 

Whoops, wait a minute; since Rumsfeld, Cheney, Reagan and Bush senior
SUPPLIED Hussein with Anthrax, Botulism, Cholera, Bubonic Plague, Gas
Gangrene and nuclear detonators in the first place, were THOSE WMD "holy"
until they arrived in Iraq, at which time they became tools of Satan?
And would that then make Rumsfeld, et al, "Satan's suppliers"?

This raises other important moral issues, for example, at which point do these
weapons cross the line of sanctity? As soon as the sales receipts are obtained?
As they're loaded onto our transport planes? After America's neocons
have been paid?

The import of these answers far outweigh those of the "how many angels
can dance on the head of a pin" or the "if you listen to Stairway to Heaven
backwards does it really say 'Satan hump me gently'" arguments.

And, hypothetically, if the Pope were to bless our "bunker buster" nukes,
would they become permanently holy? Would they not then be endowed with
a sort of teflon-esque holiness? If these papally-blessed nukes were then delivered
to, oh I don't know, IRAQ, would they not then RETAIN their holy essence?
And would that holiness be violated if they were sold to a Saddam-like dictator
instead of merely detonated upon the heathen heads of the enemy's civilians?

God -- and now perhaps Blair and Bush -- only knows.

References:
Senator Robert C. Byrd -- Senate Remarks:
"Providing a Cookbook for Iraqi Biological Weapons" -- September 26, 2002
http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_issues/byrd_iraqi_bioweapons/byrd_
sept262002/byrd_sept262002.html

Wikipedia -- the free internet Encyclopedia -- entry "Halliburton"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

Global Policy Forum: 
"Pentagon Iraq Contractor Has History Of Supporting Terrorist Regimes"
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/after/2003/0416pentagoncontract.htm

Contact:
Eric A. Smith
Hot Damn! Design
Tokyo, Japan
81-03-3959-5371
snowdog@juno.ocn.ne.jp
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