In Tunisia there were popular protests that caused a president to resign in a currently boiling over endless struggle of politics. In Egypt there are similar protests going on in another active struggle for democracy.
In my opinion one cannot "have" a democracy, one can only constantly (re)create a democracy which if it were truly investigated is hardly democracy. Which is why one must keep reaching for democracy as if one does not have it, but this process of reaching for democracy is itself the closest thing to actually "having" democracy. The protests (or to put it in a different way to leave the negative connotations our corporate media has attached to that word): "a conglomeration of public politically active peoples" is a good thing in any country. People need to engage in the political process as individuals not as pieces of an illusory homogenized whole that is then "represented". As an individual against orthodoxy, I would like to explain why I can hold such a view when I am critical of all epistemologies because of internal contradictions.
It is my belief that the best way to explain anything is to historicize it. How can I justify holding a belief that people within any country no matter how the government is labeled(democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy etc.) will benefit from actively engaging the political process?
Lets start with Egypt, which is the center of a question for US policy right now: Should the US support the protesters against one of the largest recipients of U.S. Aid? Support the protestors against the regime which moderated enough to recognize Israel(thats why the Aid)? Support the protestors against the regime which houses many of their CIA black sites?
The easy answer for the United States is to just be quiet and stay in the background like Tunisia. The problem with that is that silence is violence for the United States, because of its ubiquity in the domestic governments of many countries. Current conceptions of sovereignty which are not fluid cannot recognize that the United States is in many ways a de facto world government. Certain countries have surrendered autonomy in certain places to get things from the hegemon(US). In Okinawa the soldiers can rape, murder, and drive drunk all day. They can't be prosecuted, because of the Status of Force Agreement between Japan and the US. This is in return for the United States military protection of their country cerntrally and military protection of the energy supply more loosely. When the United States does nothing about a spontaneous flare up of democratic tendencies, it is giving an OK to the regime which will tamp it down.
The United States should not take the easy way out and instead follow the advice of Jefferson and MLK jr: democratic revolution. The american revolution was not a divinely ordained event and it did not expose any universal truths. What I mean to say by these two qualities is that the american revolution can be exported, what I mean by the latter is that this revolution is not a universal truth so we should not engage in violence which would be an action of forcing democracy on a people which is a farce as we see in Iraq. The revolution should be exported, but with ideas and support(monetary, logistical). The only problem is that our revolution was too violent, our country was created by terrorists, in order to make sure that part of our revolution doesn't get exported we need to support peaceful revolutions WHENEVER the opportunity presents itself. Like in Tunisia and Egypt. But that is simply an ethical concern, why would I really be able to justify such a strong statement that these flare-ups of democracy are good and crushing them is bad?
The only justified knowledge comes from history, so lets look specifically at Egypt. Egypt was a country colonized by multiple powers, but eventually the British got a monopoly. During this time Britain controlled the political apparatus of Egypt through their puppets the Monarchs. Eventually nationalist groups or groups that are united by their national identity starting growing. These individuals felt that monarchs who pretended to be pious while allowing Britain to run the country were not good for their interests. Many nationalist uprisings were slaughtered by the British. In an example of where democratic action was not allowed to happen by an overbearing government. In a policy that is still alive today in Egypt any political parties had to be licensed in a process that no party except those which were puppets of Britain were allowed to exist. In this context the Society of The Muslim Brethren was formed. Religion being the one area which the regime would shy away from regulating. This society was a welfare and community service oriented entity. Through writing, criticizing, and activism using religion as the justification for demands the Muslim Brotherhood made attempts to better the political situation of Egyptians who faced an uncaring colonial power and later an autocratic nationalist regime.
The next generation of Brotherhood leaders included an individual named Sayyid Qutb. Qutb was put in prison and tortured for his political activism. Many other members of the brotherhood were treated in similar ways. The torture effected Qutb's outlook and thusly influenced the outlook of the entire Muslim Brotherhood, which by this time had proved a huge success (in terms of membership) with international potential. Qutb essentially opted out of the peaceful means of his predecessors. How can one be peaceful and criticize through the language of Islam, but face torture and imprisonment for it? What was the brotherhood going to gain from repeating this process? The people in power will stay in power and people who speak out for Muslims or Egyptians will receive the worst of all possible existences: life as torture. It was time to turn the page on these ineffective attempts at democracy and take a cue from the American Revolution: use violence.
Qutb became a lionized figure of violent jihad to such a degree, that it is impossible to imagine 9/11 without the life experience and subsequent writings of Qutb. I do not mean to say that Qutb bears responsibility for 9/11 and I do not mean to say that the hijackers, wahabbi, saudi, or pakistan do not bear their responsibility. I am only pointing out that things become possible by their historical trajectory. If Britain had brought democratic reforms they might still be in a great mutual beneficial relationship with Egypt, far more advantageous to Britain in the long run then blowing money keeping democracy down and eventually getting thrown out. If the nationalists had learned from the mistakes of the monarchs/britain and made political parties an accepted part of democracy the Brethren wouldn't have had to go underground. If the Egyptian government hadn't been dead set on imprisoning, torturing, and martyring the leaders of a religious movement maybe violent jihadis wouldn't have so much motivation and empirical evidence for the justification of violence.
Non-violent democracy should be cherished and supported. If one does not support such events, there are two alternatives: do nothing or actively destroy. Doing nothing is seen as complicity with the current regime, because of the close relationship Egypt has with the United States, they cannot feign ignorance with such a key ally. Which means they lend legitimacy to the efforts of the Egyptian government to actively destroy. This has taken the form of violent counter-democratic actions: beatings, chemical warfare, rubber bullets, etc.
When groups attempt to achieve their agenda peacefully and are met with violence, these groups learn that they cannot achieve their agenda peacefully. This leaves one option: violence.
If instead when groups attempt to achieve their agenda peacefully they are met with debate and compromise, that group will feel that they have won and will feel empowered by their inclusion in the political process, reducing the probability of violence to a negligible amount.
If we don't want more Al-Qaedas and more violent idealogues with the scars to justify such venom, then we should use our foreign policy to support groups who engage in the political process.
Showing posts with label muslim brotherhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muslim brotherhood. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Intro to the muslim brotherhood, or how i learned to stop worrying and love the ideology of the third reich
“What I’m doing today is doing what I’m doing now: I’m educating a new generation in the CIA that the Muslim Brotherhood was a fascist organization that was hired by Western Intelligence that evolved over time into what we today know as al Qaeda.”John Loftus, Former Deputy Attorney General Link
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“Numerous Islamic terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, have their roots in The Muslim Brotherhood.”Homeland Security website, (removed from web). Cached link
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“In 1928, six Egyptian workers employed by British military camps in Isma’iliyya, in the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt, visited Hassan al-Banna, a young schoolteacher who they had heard preach in mosques and coffee-houses on the need for an Islamic rewnewal. “Arabs and Muslims have no status and no dignity,” they said. “They are no more than mere hirelings belonging to the foreigners…. We are unable to perceive the road to action as you perceive it….” They therefore asked him to become their leader; he accepted, founding the Society of the Muslim Brothers”The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement by Brynjar Lia; Carré, Olivier and Gérard Michaud. 1983. Les Frères musulmans : Egypte et Syrie (1928-1982). Paris: Gallimard.; Mitchell, Richard P. 1969. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. London: Oxford University Presslink)
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“Here’s how the story began. In the 1920’s there was a young Egyptian named al Bana. And al Bana formed this nationalist group called the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Bana was a devout admirer of Adolph Hitler and wrote to him frequently. So persistent was he in his admiration of the new Nazi Party that in the 1930’s, al Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi Intelligence.
The Arab Nazis had much in common with the new Nazi doctrines. They hated Jews; they hated democracy; and they hated the Western culture. It became the official policy of the Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as the fifth Parliament, an army inside Egypt.”John Loftus, Former Deputy Attorney General Link
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Hitler and Mohammad Amin al-Husayni
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Mohammad Amin al-Husayni inspecting his SS
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Around 100,000 European Muslims fought for Hitler’s Germany in World War II. They included two Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS Divisions, an Albanian Waffen SS Division in Kosovo and Western Macedonia, the Waffengruppe der-SS Krim, formations consisting of Chechen Muslims from Chechnya, and other Muslim formations in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Bosnian Muslims, who were in the Croatian pro-Nazi Ustasha, were especially brutal toward the Christian Serbs.
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“On October 26, 1954, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, attempted to kill Egypt’s second president Gamal Abdul Nasser . As a result, the organization was outlawed again and over 4000 of its members were imprisoned, including prominent member Sayyid QUTB, who became the most influential intellectual of the group, writing books in prison much like Hitler did before his rise to power.”Homeland Security Website Cache
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“What the British did then, they sold the Arab Nazis to the predecessor of what became the CIA. It may sound stupid; it may sound evil, but it did happen. The idea was that we were going to use the Arab Nazis in the Middle East as a counterweight to the Arab communists. Just as the Soviet Union was funding Arab communists, we would fund the Arab Nazis to fight against. And lots of secret classes took place. We kept the Muslim Brotherhood on our payroll.
But the Egyptians became nervous. Nasser ordered all of the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egypt or be imprisoned, and we would execute them all. During the 1950’s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia. Now when they arrived in Saudi Arabia, some of the leading lights of the Muslim Brotherhood like Azzam, became the teachers in the Madrasas, the religious schools. And there they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic cult, Wahhabiism.”John Loftus
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Peter Dale Scott Chapter VIII: Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment The then leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Sayed Kuttub, a man Faisal sponsored to undermine Nasser, openly admitted that during this period [the 1960s] ‘America made Islam.’
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“For the Saudis, there was a ruler in charge of Saudi Arabia, and they were the new home of the Muslim Brotherhood, and fascism and extremism were mingled in these schools. And there was a young student who paid attention – - and Azzam’s student was named Osama Bin Ladin. Osama Bin Ladin was taught by the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood who had emigrated to Saudi Arabia.
In 1979 the CIA decided to take the Arab Nazis out of cold storage. The Russians had invaded Afghanistan, so we told the Saudis that we would fund them if they would bring all of the Arab Nazis together and ship them off to Afghanistan to fight the Russians. We had to rename them. We couldn’t call them the Muslim Brotherhood because that was too sensitive a name. Its Nazi cast was too known. So we called them the Maktab al Khidimat il Mujahideen, the MAK.
And the CIA lied to Congress and said they didn’t know who was on the payroll in Afghanistan, except the Saudis. But it was not true. A small section CIA knew perfectly well that we had once again hired the Arab Nazis and that we were using them to fight our secret wars.
Azzam and his assistant, Osama Bin Ladin, rose to some prominence from 1979 to ‘89, and they won the war. They drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Our CIA said, “We won, let’s go home!” and we left this army of Arab fascists in the field of Afghanistan.”-John Loftus
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Peter Dale Scott Chapter VIII: Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment :‘What is slowly emerging from Al Qaeda activities in Central Asia in the 1990s is the extent to which they have acted in the interests of both American oil companies and the U.S. government In one way or another, Americans in the 1990s cooperated with al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Kosovo. In other countries, notably Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia, al Qaeda terrorists have provided pretexts or opportunities for a U.S. military commitment and even troops to follow.’
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“Osama Bin Ladin’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, came from the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the results of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
There are many flavors and branches, but they are all Muslim Brotherhoods. There is one in Israel. The organization you know as “Hammas” is actually a secret chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. When Israel assassinated Sheik Yassin a month ago, the Muslim Brotherhood published his obituary in a Cairo newspaper in Arabic and revealed that he was actually the secret leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza.”-John Loftus
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“The al Qaeda Doctrine is the same as the Arab Nazis held. They hated Jews, they hate democracy, and they hate Westerners for Western culture. Al Qaeda is nothing more than the religious expression of Arab Fascism. We allowed this branch of the Nazi trunk to survive, to flourish, and it has come back to haunt us.”-John Loftus (emphasis mine)
“When one considers the principles that guide the constitutional system of government, one finds that such principles aim to preserve in all its forms the freedom of the individual citizen, to make the rulers accountable for their actions to the people and finally, to delimit the prerogatives of every single authoritative body. It will be clear to everyone that such basic principles correspond perfectly to the teaching of Islam concerning the system of government. For this reason, the Muslim Brothers consider that of all the existing systems of government, the constitutional system is the form that best suits Islam and Muslims.”-Al-Banna, founder of the muslim brotherhood link)
“In an very impressive research effort into the early years of the Muslim Brothers, Lia (a Norwegian scholar) relies on new sources and deep knowledge of his subject to show convincingly just how well that movement does fit the new interpretation. He establishes that it organized in ways novel for Egypt and mobilized elements of the population hitherto neglected. But its greatest importance lay in developing an answer to the rampant European ideologies of the 1930s: in this, the Muslim Brothers began “a lasting process of renewal … in which religion was related to the modern age and all aspects of modern life.” With justification, Lia concludes that the Muslim Brothers’ “reinterpretation of Islam will remain the most far-reaching Islamic renewal this century.””link
There is a body of writing that basically perceives the muslim brotherhood as an innocuous “arab socialist” group.
Qutb developed his distinctive ideas after the Egyptian Ministry of Education, for which he worked as an official, sent him to the USA in 1948-51 to study American methods of schooling. He returned to Egypt with an uncompromising hatred for the West and all its works. Qutb’s rejection of the West was not that of the conservative concerned with preserving his culture’s traditions against foreign encroachments, but rather that of the ‘born-again Muslim’ who having adopted or absorbed many modern influences makes a show of discarding them in his search for personal identity and cultural authenticity. After his arrest, Qutb wrote his famous work, Signposts, which is the first clear statement of the aims and worldview of the sects we now think of as Islamist, and is required reading for the cadre of these groups. Qutb defined the regime itself as part of the ‘infidel’ problem. Society was divided into the Party of God and the Party of Satan. The Islamist movement was surrounded by a swamp of ignorance and unbelief (jahiliyya, the term used to describe the society of Arabia before the coming of Muhammed). The creation of an Islamic government was not just a culturally preferable alternative, but a divine imperative. The method of creating it would be jihad, or holy war. (For some Muslims, jihad can mean private spiritual striving, but for Islamist groups it increasingly means, very literally, war.) It is unclear if Qutb himself would have wholeheartedly approved of the modern groups who claim his legacy; but he spelled out the main themes of modern militant Islamism.
“Mitchell was well-informed through his personal contacts with prominent Brothers, and was also the first Western scholar to draw heavily on Arabic sources. Mitchell, like many others of his time, believed that the Society had been finally suppressed in 1954, by which time all its leaders had been jailed or executed. In 1968, he believed that ‘the essentially secular reform nationalism ƒ in vogue in the Arab world would continue until the earlier appeal of the Society eventually is lost’ (Mitchell, p.xxiii-xxiv). And, indeed, in the 1960s, such a conclusion was fully in accord with all observable political and social realities. However, in the 1970s and ‘80s, the situation changed dramatically and, in the 1990s, analysts were agreeing that ‘Islamic activism will be a major feature of regional politics into the 21st century’ (Robin Wright, quot. in Voll, J.O. Foreword, in Mitchell (1993), p.x.). Consequently this timely (1993) reissue of Mitchell’s classic work incorporates a foreword by leading US Islamic scholar John Voll discussing the subsequent history and continued significance of the Society.”link
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Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), the Egyptian ideologue of modern Islamism and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was one of the first to combine the two strands. His writings have been read by millions of Muslims around the world and have been a major influence in the development of contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism. Qutb used racist stereotypes and forgeries of Western anti-Semitism such as the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (translated into Arabic and widely distributed in the Muslim world) [7] . As a result, Islamism today sees itself involved in a cosmic struggle against “the Jews” which has to fought to the bitter end: “Therefore the struggle between Islam and the Jews continues in force and will continue, because the Jews will be satisfied only with the destruction of this religion (Islam).” [8] For Qutb, modern-day Jews are identical to their forefathers at the time of Muhammad, who “confronted Islam with Enmity from the moment that the Islamic state was established in Medina. They plotted against the Muslim Community from the first day it became a Community.” [9] Since then, says Qutb, all Jews have always been wicked enemies of Islam, and contemporary Islam is attacked by the very same Jews using the same “machinations and double dealings which discomfited the Early Muslims . . . The Jews continue – through their wickedness and double-dealing – to lead this (Muslim) community away from its religion and to alienate it from its Qur’an” [10] . Qutb argues that Jews are inherently evil because all through the ages they have rebelled against God “in the most disgustingly aggressive manner . . .”. As a result: “From such creatures who kill, massacre and defame prophets one can only expect the spilling of human blood and dirty means which would further their machinations and evilness.” According to Qutb, Jews are characterized by ingratitude, selfishness, fanaticism and hatred for all others. They foment dissension in their host societies and exploit all disasters to profit from the misery of others. They also utilize usury to accumulate wealth, infiltrate societies, and dominate the whole world
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“Numerous Islamic terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, have their roots in The Muslim Brotherhood.”Homeland Security website, (removed from web). Cached link
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“In 1928, six Egyptian workers employed by British military camps in Isma’iliyya, in the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt, visited Hassan al-Banna, a young schoolteacher who they had heard preach in mosques and coffee-houses on the need for an Islamic rewnewal. “Arabs and Muslims have no status and no dignity,” they said. “They are no more than mere hirelings belonging to the foreigners…. We are unable to perceive the road to action as you perceive it….” They therefore asked him to become their leader; he accepted, founding the Society of the Muslim Brothers”The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement by Brynjar Lia; Carré, Olivier and Gérard Michaud. 1983. Les Frères musulmans : Egypte et Syrie (1928-1982). Paris: Gallimard.; Mitchell, Richard P. 1969. The Society of the Muslim Brothers. London: Oxford University Presslink)
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“Here’s how the story began. In the 1920’s there was a young Egyptian named al Bana. And al Bana formed this nationalist group called the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Bana was a devout admirer of Adolph Hitler and wrote to him frequently. So persistent was he in his admiration of the new Nazi Party that in the 1930’s, al Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi Intelligence.
The Arab Nazis had much in common with the new Nazi doctrines. They hated Jews; they hated democracy; and they hated the Western culture. It became the official policy of the Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as the fifth Parliament, an army inside Egypt.”John Loftus, Former Deputy Attorney General Link
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Hitler and Mohammad Amin al-Husayni
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Mohammad Amin al-Husayni inspecting his SS
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Around 100,000 European Muslims fought for Hitler’s Germany in World War II. They included two Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS Divisions, an Albanian Waffen SS Division in Kosovo and Western Macedonia, the Waffengruppe der-SS Krim, formations consisting of Chechen Muslims from Chechnya, and other Muslim formations in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Bosnian Muslims, who were in the Croatian pro-Nazi Ustasha, were especially brutal toward the Christian Serbs.
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“On October 26, 1954, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, attempted to kill Egypt’s second president Gamal Abdul Nasser . As a result, the organization was outlawed again and over 4000 of its members were imprisoned, including prominent member Sayyid QUTB, who became the most influential intellectual of the group, writing books in prison much like Hitler did before his rise to power.”Homeland Security Website Cache
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“What the British did then, they sold the Arab Nazis to the predecessor of what became the CIA. It may sound stupid; it may sound evil, but it did happen. The idea was that we were going to use the Arab Nazis in the Middle East as a counterweight to the Arab communists. Just as the Soviet Union was funding Arab communists, we would fund the Arab Nazis to fight against. And lots of secret classes took place. We kept the Muslim Brotherhood on our payroll.
But the Egyptians became nervous. Nasser ordered all of the Muslim Brotherhood out of Egypt or be imprisoned, and we would execute them all. During the 1950’s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia. Now when they arrived in Saudi Arabia, some of the leading lights of the Muslim Brotherhood like Azzam, became the teachers in the Madrasas, the religious schools. And there they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic cult, Wahhabiism.”John Loftus
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Peter Dale Scott Chapter VIII: Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment The then leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Sayed Kuttub, a man Faisal sponsored to undermine Nasser, openly admitted that during this period [the 1960s] ‘America made Islam.’
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“For the Saudis, there was a ruler in charge of Saudi Arabia, and they were the new home of the Muslim Brotherhood, and fascism and extremism were mingled in these schools. And there was a young student who paid attention – - and Azzam’s student was named Osama Bin Ladin. Osama Bin Ladin was taught by the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood who had emigrated to Saudi Arabia.
In 1979 the CIA decided to take the Arab Nazis out of cold storage. The Russians had invaded Afghanistan, so we told the Saudis that we would fund them if they would bring all of the Arab Nazis together and ship them off to Afghanistan to fight the Russians. We had to rename them. We couldn’t call them the Muslim Brotherhood because that was too sensitive a name. Its Nazi cast was too known. So we called them the Maktab al Khidimat il Mujahideen, the MAK.
And the CIA lied to Congress and said they didn’t know who was on the payroll in Afghanistan, except the Saudis. But it was not true. A small section CIA knew perfectly well that we had once again hired the Arab Nazis and that we were using them to fight our secret wars.
Azzam and his assistant, Osama Bin Ladin, rose to some prominence from 1979 to ‘89, and they won the war. They drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Our CIA said, “We won, let’s go home!” and we left this army of Arab fascists in the field of Afghanistan.”-John Loftus
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Peter Dale Scott Chapter VIII: Al Qaeda and the U.S. Establishment :‘What is slowly emerging from Al Qaeda activities in Central Asia in the 1990s is the extent to which they have acted in the interests of both American oil companies and the U.S. government In one way or another, Americans in the 1990s cooperated with al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Kosovo. In other countries, notably Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia, al Qaeda terrorists have provided pretexts or opportunities for a U.S. military commitment and even troops to follow.’
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“Osama Bin Ladin’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, came from the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the results of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
There are many flavors and branches, but they are all Muslim Brotherhoods. There is one in Israel. The organization you know as “Hammas” is actually a secret chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. When Israel assassinated Sheik Yassin a month ago, the Muslim Brotherhood published his obituary in a Cairo newspaper in Arabic and revealed that he was actually the secret leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza.”-John Loftus
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“The al Qaeda Doctrine is the same as the Arab Nazis held. They hated Jews, they hate democracy, and they hate Westerners for Western culture. Al Qaeda is nothing more than the religious expression of Arab Fascism. We allowed this branch of the Nazi trunk to survive, to flourish, and it has come back to haunt us.”-John Loftus (emphasis mine)
“When one considers the principles that guide the constitutional system of government, one finds that such principles aim to preserve in all its forms the freedom of the individual citizen, to make the rulers accountable for their actions to the people and finally, to delimit the prerogatives of every single authoritative body. It will be clear to everyone that such basic principles correspond perfectly to the teaching of Islam concerning the system of government. For this reason, the Muslim Brothers consider that of all the existing systems of government, the constitutional system is the form that best suits Islam and Muslims.”-Al-Banna, founder of the muslim brotherhood link)
“In an very impressive research effort into the early years of the Muslim Brothers, Lia (a Norwegian scholar) relies on new sources and deep knowledge of his subject to show convincingly just how well that movement does fit the new interpretation. He establishes that it organized in ways novel for Egypt and mobilized elements of the population hitherto neglected. But its greatest importance lay in developing an answer to the rampant European ideologies of the 1930s: in this, the Muslim Brothers began “a lasting process of renewal … in which religion was related to the modern age and all aspects of modern life.” With justification, Lia concludes that the Muslim Brothers’ “reinterpretation of Islam will remain the most far-reaching Islamic renewal this century.””link
There is a body of writing that basically perceives the muslim brotherhood as an innocuous “arab socialist” group.
Qutb developed his distinctive ideas after the Egyptian Ministry of Education, for which he worked as an official, sent him to the USA in 1948-51 to study American methods of schooling. He returned to Egypt with an uncompromising hatred for the West and all its works. Qutb’s rejection of the West was not that of the conservative concerned with preserving his culture’s traditions against foreign encroachments, but rather that of the ‘born-again Muslim’ who having adopted or absorbed many modern influences makes a show of discarding them in his search for personal identity and cultural authenticity. After his arrest, Qutb wrote his famous work, Signposts, which is the first clear statement of the aims and worldview of the sects we now think of as Islamist, and is required reading for the cadre of these groups. Qutb defined the regime itself as part of the ‘infidel’ problem. Society was divided into the Party of God and the Party of Satan. The Islamist movement was surrounded by a swamp of ignorance and unbelief (jahiliyya, the term used to describe the society of Arabia before the coming of Muhammed). The creation of an Islamic government was not just a culturally preferable alternative, but a divine imperative. The method of creating it would be jihad, or holy war. (For some Muslims, jihad can mean private spiritual striving, but for Islamist groups it increasingly means, very literally, war.) It is unclear if Qutb himself would have wholeheartedly approved of the modern groups who claim his legacy; but he spelled out the main themes of modern militant Islamism.
“Mitchell was well-informed through his personal contacts with prominent Brothers, and was also the first Western scholar to draw heavily on Arabic sources. Mitchell, like many others of his time, believed that the Society had been finally suppressed in 1954, by which time all its leaders had been jailed or executed. In 1968, he believed that ‘the essentially secular reform nationalism ƒ in vogue in the Arab world would continue until the earlier appeal of the Society eventually is lost’ (Mitchell, p.xxiii-xxiv). And, indeed, in the 1960s, such a conclusion was fully in accord with all observable political and social realities. However, in the 1970s and ‘80s, the situation changed dramatically and, in the 1990s, analysts were agreeing that ‘Islamic activism will be a major feature of regional politics into the 21st century’ (Robin Wright, quot. in Voll, J.O. Foreword, in Mitchell (1993), p.x.). Consequently this timely (1993) reissue of Mitchell’s classic work incorporates a foreword by leading US Islamic scholar John Voll discussing the subsequent history and continued significance of the Society.”link
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Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), the Egyptian ideologue of modern Islamism and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was one of the first to combine the two strands. His writings have been read by millions of Muslims around the world and have been a major influence in the development of contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism. Qutb used racist stereotypes and forgeries of Western anti-Semitism such as the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (translated into Arabic and widely distributed in the Muslim world) [7] . As a result, Islamism today sees itself involved in a cosmic struggle against “the Jews” which has to fought to the bitter end: “Therefore the struggle between Islam and the Jews continues in force and will continue, because the Jews will be satisfied only with the destruction of this religion (Islam).” [8] For Qutb, modern-day Jews are identical to their forefathers at the time of Muhammad, who “confronted Islam with Enmity from the moment that the Islamic state was established in Medina. They plotted against the Muslim Community from the first day it became a Community.” [9] Since then, says Qutb, all Jews have always been wicked enemies of Islam, and contemporary Islam is attacked by the very same Jews using the same “machinations and double dealings which discomfited the Early Muslims . . . The Jews continue – through their wickedness and double-dealing – to lead this (Muslim) community away from its religion and to alienate it from its Qur’an” [10] . Qutb argues that Jews are inherently evil because all through the ages they have rebelled against God “in the most disgustingly aggressive manner . . .”. As a result: “From such creatures who kill, massacre and defame prophets one can only expect the spilling of human blood and dirty means which would further their machinations and evilness.” According to Qutb, Jews are characterized by ingratitude, selfishness, fanaticism and hatred for all others. They foment dissension in their host societies and exploit all disasters to profit from the misery of others. They also utilize usury to accumulate wealth, infiltrate societies, and dominate the whole world
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Autobiographical Masturbation, or intro to the intro to the muslim brotherhood
I first learned of the Muslim Brotherhood from Hicks’ book The Big Wedding which I suggest for any individual who wants to take a look at some seedier stories surrounding September 11th. He does some great research and interviewing of individuals who could be considered “less credible” so you have to take it with much salt. Fortunately Hicks’ has what appears to be an incisive mind and helps cut through a lot of the bullshit. He lets you know the guy he is talking to is shady and he does one thing that makes me respect him as a writer. As Buck 65 says “I never underestimate the audience’s intelligence” Hicks’ did not do this with “The Big Wedding”. Instead he compressed a vast breadth and depth of facts in to a well written tool for the information guerrilla which can fit in your back pocket.
I remember a time when I did not “believe” that individuals within our own government would possibly engage in an activity such as 9/11. The pure audacity of it for one thing, how could they get away with it, and why would they risk their power?
Before I really delved in to the historical investigation of this event. I already knew and “believed” that these events would be manipulated by the individuals in power, regardless of party or position, to further their own subjective goals. It even seemed highly plausible that there was negligence and incompetence. But…foreknowledge? Culpability? Such conclusions seemed farfetched.
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I opened my eyes to hear the scream of the telephone on the floor of my dormitory. My girlfriend rolled out of bed and walked around the divider between my “bedroom” to the outside of e-suite. It was the largest room on campus that a single person occupied, somehow I had managed to get out of having a roommate. “Hello” She asked in to the receiver.I rolled over pressing my eyes shut hoping to fall asleep quickly. Hoping that if I fell asleep quickly it would somehow delay the alarm on my watch that stared down at me from the window sill. The whole area glowed with a piercing blindness from the morning sun, which made it impossible to see the time it read without committing myself completely to lucidity and consciousness-“A Plane Did What?!” She stated incredulously.-my eyebrow raised slightly as the aural stimuli from the next room reached my brain. I gave it a small percentage of my conscious attention. That is to say I dedicated what little I could spare as long as I could remain somewhat asleep.
CLICK
The TV turned on. She kicked the reel from my Dreamcast’s Bass Fishing game and sent it skipping over discarded trash and empty beer cans along the floor. “oh my god. nada, wake up, come here!”The tone of her voice and the attention I had dedicated so far told me this was more important than my chronic morning infatuation with sleep.
I stepped in to the room and rubbing my eyes stared at the television. A smoking building. Where? “A plane flew in to a building.” She stated matter-of-factly. “Wow, now that is a drunk pilot.” I let out as I collapsed on the couch next to her.
Then the channels that seemed like they had only just appeared in the 2000 elections took charge of the oversight for my stimuli consumption. The 24-propaganda disseminators which would be telling us what issues to think about and what their corporate owners subjectively define “normativity” as.
I was smirking when it happened.
The “journalists” came from every direction “literally crawling out of little holes in the ground” pointing their cameras and giving live feeds. Every single aircraft that would fly by within sight would be videotaped. While following the path of said aircraft the “journalist” will make statements which in general look like these:“oh no, here comes another plane right now!”“uh oh, we got a plane coming in hold on!”“OH! OH! watch out! plane!”Every “journalist” wanted to be the one who saw and pointed out the death and destruction first. This was award time and they couldn’t have been happier.
I was smirking when it happened.
BOOM!!!!!
All day they “speculated”. All day my friends and I just pointed out the bullshit that was being called “the news”. Everyone in the country was watching it. Everyone in the country saw the replay over and over. Every single subjective entity in this country was force-fed the same overwhelmingly traumatizing imagery and then spoon-fed bullshit for the next few weeks.
I didn’t know what to fully make of it, but the thought of collusion never crossed my mind.
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..It was a while before I got back to Chicago. My friend and I went to see the Atmosphere, Eyedea and Abilities, Mr. Dibbs, and Sage Francis show at the Fireside. The fireside is gone now, but it was a broken down bowling alley with the bar still intact. Not the greatest of venues, but it had been the purveyor of many an epic punk and hip-hop show.
The ceiling kept coming off in pieces on the artists, the legs of the table for the decks were wobbly, and the worst part: every once in awhile the mic would cut off.It was a fun atmosphere(no pun intended) the artists made fun of the crowd for not hearing of any of them but Eyedea, because he was on the HBO blaze battle. Freestyling incorporating the general shittiness of the venue in their rhymes.Lots of energy, great music, and light hearted response to the ceiling collapsing on them.
In general a great show.
I had never heard of Sage Francis, except for I understood he was on the ticket for the show. So I was skeptical when he got on stage and launched in to a spoken word session. I’m not a huge fan of spoken word, but what can make it even harder to deal with spoken word is when the mic keeps getting cut off. A few songs in to his set he pulls a necktie out of his pocket.
“This is something that’s gonna be on the next album” he said as he put the necktie on.
And belted it out:“Makeshift patriot the flagshop is out of stock/I hang myself at half mastMakeshift patriot the flagshop is out of stock/I hang myself at half mastComing live from my own funeral, beautiful weather offered a nice shineWhich is suitable for a full view of a forever altered skylineWhen times like these arrive I freestyle biased opinions every other sentence Journalistic ethics slip when I pass them off as objective “Don’t give me that ethical shit.” I’ve got exclusive, explicit images to present to impressionable American kids And it’s time to show this world how big our edifice is! That’s exactly what they attacked when a typically dark skinned Disney villain Used civilians against civilians and charged the Trojan horses into our buildings Using commercial aviation as instruments of destruction Pregnant women couldn’t protect their children Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions Now have to back pedal…from the shower of glass and metal Wondering how after it all settles we’ll find who provided power to radical rebels The Melting Pot seems to be calling the kettle black when it boils over But only on our own soil so the little boy holds a toy soldier.. And waits for the suit and tie to come home. We won’t wait ‘til he’s older before we destroy his hopes for a colder war to end “Now get a close up of his head” Makeshift PatriotThe Flag Shop Is Out of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast ”How does my hair look” Makeshift Patriot The Flag Shop Is Out of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast “Run that tape back” Makeshift Patriot The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast “It Looks just like a movie” It’s the make shift The patriot The Flag Shop is Out of Stock I hang myself “while the stock markets crash” The city is covered in inches of muck I see some other pictures of victims are up Grieving mothers are thinking their children are stuck Leaping lovers are making decisions to jump While holding hands…to escape the brutal heat Sometimes in groups of three The fall out was far beyond the toxic cloud where people look like debris But all they saw after all was said…beyond the talking heads Was the bloody dust with legs looking like the walking dead calling for meds but Hospitals are overwhelmed. Volunteers need to go the hell home Moments of silence for fire fighters were interrupted by cell phones Who’s gonna to make that call to increase an unknown death toll? It’s the one we rally behind He’s got a megaphone…and he’s promising to make heads roll we cheer him on, but asbestos is affecting our breath control The lesser we know…the more they fabricate…the easier it is to sell souls There is a new price on freedom, so buy into it while supplies last. Changes need to be made;No more curbside baggage,Seven pm curfew,Racial profiling will continue with less bitching.We’ve unified over who to kill, so until I find more relevant scripture to quote,Remember, our god is bigger, stronger, smarter, and much wealthier. So wave those flags with pride, especially the white part. We’re sellin’ addictive 24 hour candle light vigils on TV’s Freedom will be defended…at the cost of civil liberties The viewers are glued to television screens Stuck… cause lots of things seem too sick I use opportunities to pluck heart strings for theme music I’ll show you which culture to pump your fist at, which foot is right to kiss we don’t really know who the culprit is yet…but he looks. Like. This. we know who the heroes are. They’re not the xenophobes who act hard “We taught that dog to squat, how dare he do that shit in our own back yard!” They happened to scar our financial state and char our landscape Can you count how many times so far I’ve ran back this same damn tape? While a camera man creates news and shoves it down our throats on the West Bank With a ten second clip put on constant loop to provoke US angst So get your tanks and load your guns and hold your sons in a family huddle ’cause even if we win this tug of war and even the score…humanity struggles There’s a desperate need of blood for what’s been uncovered under the rubble Some of them dug for answers in the mess…but the rest were looking for trouble”
As he approached the climax of the song he pulled upwards on his necktie, until it had transformed fully in to a noose.
Great show, but pretty melodramatic was my impression. But those lyrics… those lyrics.
“Now I have to back pedal…from the shower of glass and metal Wondering how after it all settles we’ll find who provided power to radical rebels”
“We cheer him on, but asbestos is affecting our breath controlThe lesser we know, The more they fabricate, the easier it is to sell souls”
Then finally one that would reveal its meaning later:“There’s a desperate need of blood for what’s been uncovered under the rubble Some of them dug for answers in the mess…but the rest were looking for trouble”.
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.Got my hands on a laptop a few years later. My friend explained to me that he discovered something called “Torrents” which was a (so far) legal peer-to-peer file sharing system. It worked so quickly that you could download movies. Well I soon found out that getting movies that people didn’t want you to have were actually harder to get. On the other hand movies that people wanted others to see were easy. That is how I filled a 100gb mp3 player with documentaries. I didn’t discriminate and found a wealth of movies concerned with things considered “propaganda” like global conspiracies and secret societies. I had always read a little here and there on the general ideas. Esotericism, dispensationalism, and Masonic myth. The Man Who Would Be King is what piqued my interest in Masonic mythology(which obviously started out as a Rudyard Kipling book[who authored the mythologies on animal origins which I used to love]).
But most movies that centered around simply proving an “illuminati” were boring as fuck and ridiculously slanted. These movies were doing one thing consistently: Underestimating the audience’s intelligence.
To believe a single secret society presided over all events of historical significance without a single internal revolution or political-infighting is naïve to say the least.
But, to create a movie with the purpose of making a person believe a single secret society presided over all events of historical significance without a single internal revolution or political-infighting is going to be rife with manipulations, because it is not possible to conclude such a massive thing without first properly understanding the preponderance of evidence and secondly dwelling on the evidence.
For the most part I didn’t really get through any of those movies. The reason I mention them is, because in order to get to the juicy part I had to cut the gristle and the fat out. Just because you have to sit through Alex Jones yelling about the illuminati, does not mean that the citations he offers are any less credible, because of it. You can always disagree with a person’s conclusion, but facts are facts.
But also mythology is interesting and comedic, it is funny to see how David Icke views the world. Not funny like “what a sad person” but funny like “what a different perspective”.
So after watching some random conspiracist movie they mentioned 911 and I wrote down the citation. I realized I liked the 911 information, but I do not “believe” there was a conspiracy or direct culpability. I only “believed” at the most there was negligence.
So I downloaded a plethora of 911 based documentaries, still really only for the novelty of seeing where this mythology of a Bavarian secret society running things would say about 911.
I would leave them on while I played Halo 2 with a friend of mine. Dedicating just as much attention as I could without hurting my performance in the game.
I learned I couldn’t stand Alex Jones very quickly. The constant yelling, the cheesy graphics, and the delusions of grandeur just got to me and I found myself fast-forwarding a lot. What I mean by delusions of grandeur is in fact a symptom of schizophrenia and a belief in your own greatness. It embraces the mythological archetype of Odysseus and is not a shortcut to happiness. Labeling others as “sheep” constantly is an effort to condition a person with the stimuli that people who aren’t illuminati acolytes are less than human. This is what Jones does by constantly referring to “outsiders” as sheep. He teaches you that there is no one else to trust and he teaches you that believing in him is superior. Not only that but this dehumanization is a psychological precursor to war, genocide, and murder to dehumanize the enemy.
Well I kept track of what little citations he offered despite my personal distaste for his style. I quickly developed a favorite movie, essentially the one I could watch more than once.
It was called “The Truth and Lies of 911”. It started with a clip of some guy giving shit to CIA director John Deutch in a public hearing about drug smuggling operations that were being overseen by the CIA. It had this guy Peter Dale Scott in it who has written extensively on drugs, oil, and war . Most importantly though it had more citations than you could shake a stick at.
The one thing I noticed about Ruppert is he didn’t tell you his conclusion. His conclusion remains mired in mystery throughout the film and on his website. It was not peak oil that needed to convince me what the Iraq war was fought over. Just ask Dave Chappelle as “black bush”:Reporter-“What about people who say you’re only interested in the middle-east for oil?” Black Bush-“what? Huh? Oil? Who said somthin’ about oil bitch, you cookin’? oil!? Man I dunno what the-“ knocks over water pitcher and runs “-come on yah’ll get outta here!”
Ruppert had many arguments that were not facts. That would need to be proven with evidence and the only way to understand the evidence is to read it. For example: The CIA is wall street. The government is complicit with drug trafficking. The CIA’s director has to OK the director of the ISI.
One thing he didn’t do is cram stimuli down your throat(without citations) and insult your intelligence if you didn’t see how it was all an illuminati plot.
So I printed this out. Started looking at the citations and maybe pulling them up while watching the documentary. I wanted to see if he was exaggerating anything.
He pulled out The Grand ChessBoard by Zibigniew Brezezenski and read a few quotes. The quotes were incredible. Obviously not something that makes you decide there was direct culpability, but makes it quite obvious that numerous intellectuals and even elite factions had been “waiting” for this. The PNAC’s statement in “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” was usually the one focused on at my sources of information intake. The PNAC were neo-cons and right wingers, but Zibig…he was something else. I didn’t know much about him, except that he was at the Oslo Accords from a PBS documentary on Israel-Palestine. Then I remembered where I had read his name. The adbusters hope and memory issue . It had a quote from Brezezinski taken from Le Nouvel Observateur .
“Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? TheTaliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-upMoslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of thecold war?”
My question is are the two connected?
Now don’t assume that by me asking these questions above evidences that I have concluded on any of them or that I “believe” a certain story over others.
I only say that because there is one question I’d like to ask Brzezinski, and that is if he knows who the Muslim Brotherhood is.
If he answered yes to this question, I would have to follow with: “Are you aware of the connection between what intelligence agencies refer to as ‘Al-Qaeda’ and this entity The Muslim Brotherhood?”
I started to look in to Ruppert’s background to see if there were any blatant conflicts of interest. What I found is that there was nothing, but a few smear articles written about his episode with John Deutch. Calling him a “conspiracy theorist” simply because he had said that the government is trafficking drugs. Never addressing the points he made they continued to rehash the argument that he had stated “the drug trafficking was happening to get black people addicted to crack-cocaine” ”(which by the way is exactly what Gary Webb was smeared with).
This was of course not what he was saying.
But, there are people who attempt to use such tiny fractions of attention to manipulate. Individuals who want to convince you in 90 minutes that a Bavarian secret society has been pre-eminent for a few thousand years they are one type. The other type is the individual who misconstrues and smears.
They take pleasure in their puckishness and mistake it for being clever, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
They know that most people will opt for the easiest psychological way out. By saying that Ruppert was arguing “the drug trafficking was happening to get black people addicted to crack-cocaine” he gives people the easy way out. He states that he knows that Ruppert did this. Like all the reader would have to do is track it down and read it. If the reader did that he would undoubtedly come to the same conclusion as the author. That is how it is presented.
So most people are not going to read what Ruppert said. They will conclude he is a moron and a conspiracy theorist, therefore anything he has to say can be rejected prima facie.
There are others who have learned this tactic and use it to great effect on the collective consciousness known as the internet .
Those are the first of your enemies in your search for truth. The obfuscators. Who are made up of two sects:The individuals who would be getting a check for their smear tactics if they were smart.AndThe individuals who want the psychologically easy way out.
They are the individuals who label people “conspiracy theorist” for asking hard to answer and scary questions. But these obfuscators suffer from the same symptom of schizophrenia that the conspiracists do.
No one is normal.
The other enemy is the attention whores and the cult leaders. They also would be getting a check if they were smart. People like Fintan Dunne who labels a swath of independent research outlets as CIA fronts without evidence obviously. These are the people who condemn individuals who are helpful to our search for truth as disinformation or CIA assets. They are also the ones who give more credibility to the theory the more “hokey” it is. Such as The Hologram Theory .
It disturbed me to see a view on Ruppert’s credibility from an individual who wrote for FTW and the comments that followed.
They(hopsicker, emory, and GNNers) have a point.
Ruppert didn’t mention the Muslim Brotherhood in the Rubicon.
In fact when I read The Big Wedding, I was initially in a state of disbelief when I came across the chapter Hicks wrote on the Muslim Brotherhood.
I would like to know Ruppert’s response to the criticism that he did not include research pertaining to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I had to check it out for myself to see if what Hicks was saying stood up. It added a whole other element to the story that I had never been exposed to.
This element should be explored.
Much like Brezezinski’s statements are the flipside of the PNAC.
This Muslim Brotherhood information is coming from right wing news sources and not being covered in other places.
Which could make it the flipside of the “neo-cons share the most direct culpability(i.e. dick cheney)” which for the most part was circulating through left wing sources.
Could they both be red herrings?
Why question the answers?
Is lucidity that important? Is consciousness? Is truth?
I remember a time when I did not “believe” that individuals within our own government would possibly engage in an activity such as 9/11. The pure audacity of it for one thing, how could they get away with it, and why would they risk their power?
Before I really delved in to the historical investigation of this event. I already knew and “believed” that these events would be manipulated by the individuals in power, regardless of party or position, to further their own subjective goals. It even seemed highly plausible that there was negligence and incompetence. But…foreknowledge? Culpability? Such conclusions seemed farfetched.
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I opened my eyes to hear the scream of the telephone on the floor of my dormitory. My girlfriend rolled out of bed and walked around the divider between my “bedroom” to the outside of e-suite. It was the largest room on campus that a single person occupied, somehow I had managed to get out of having a roommate. “Hello” She asked in to the receiver.I rolled over pressing my eyes shut hoping to fall asleep quickly. Hoping that if I fell asleep quickly it would somehow delay the alarm on my watch that stared down at me from the window sill. The whole area glowed with a piercing blindness from the morning sun, which made it impossible to see the time it read without committing myself completely to lucidity and consciousness-“A Plane Did What?!” She stated incredulously.-my eyebrow raised slightly as the aural stimuli from the next room reached my brain. I gave it a small percentage of my conscious attention. That is to say I dedicated what little I could spare as long as I could remain somewhat asleep.
CLICK
The TV turned on. She kicked the reel from my Dreamcast’s Bass Fishing game and sent it skipping over discarded trash and empty beer cans along the floor. “oh my god. nada, wake up, come here!”The tone of her voice and the attention I had dedicated so far told me this was more important than my chronic morning infatuation with sleep.
I stepped in to the room and rubbing my eyes stared at the television. A smoking building. Where? “A plane flew in to a building.” She stated matter-of-factly. “Wow, now that is a drunk pilot.” I let out as I collapsed on the couch next to her.
Then the channels that seemed like they had only just appeared in the 2000 elections took charge of the oversight for my stimuli consumption. The 24-propaganda disseminators which would be telling us what issues to think about and what their corporate owners subjectively define “normativity” as.
I was smirking when it happened.
The “journalists” came from every direction “literally crawling out of little holes in the ground” pointing their cameras and giving live feeds. Every single aircraft that would fly by within sight would be videotaped. While following the path of said aircraft the “journalist” will make statements which in general look like these:“oh no, here comes another plane right now!”“uh oh, we got a plane coming in hold on!”“OH! OH! watch out! plane!”Every “journalist” wanted to be the one who saw and pointed out the death and destruction first. This was award time and they couldn’t have been happier.
I was smirking when it happened.
BOOM!!!!!
All day they “speculated”. All day my friends and I just pointed out the bullshit that was being called “the news”. Everyone in the country was watching it. Everyone in the country saw the replay over and over. Every single subjective entity in this country was force-fed the same overwhelmingly traumatizing imagery and then spoon-fed bullshit for the next few weeks.
I didn’t know what to fully make of it, but the thought of collusion never crossed my mind.
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..It was a while before I got back to Chicago. My friend and I went to see the Atmosphere, Eyedea and Abilities, Mr. Dibbs, and Sage Francis show at the Fireside. The fireside is gone now, but it was a broken down bowling alley with the bar still intact. Not the greatest of venues, but it had been the purveyor of many an epic punk and hip-hop show.
The ceiling kept coming off in pieces on the artists, the legs of the table for the decks were wobbly, and the worst part: every once in awhile the mic would cut off.It was a fun atmosphere(no pun intended) the artists made fun of the crowd for not hearing of any of them but Eyedea, because he was on the HBO blaze battle. Freestyling incorporating the general shittiness of the venue in their rhymes.Lots of energy, great music, and light hearted response to the ceiling collapsing on them.
In general a great show.
I had never heard of Sage Francis, except for I understood he was on the ticket for the show. So I was skeptical when he got on stage and launched in to a spoken word session. I’m not a huge fan of spoken word, but what can make it even harder to deal with spoken word is when the mic keeps getting cut off. A few songs in to his set he pulls a necktie out of his pocket.
“This is something that’s gonna be on the next album” he said as he put the necktie on.
And belted it out:“Makeshift patriot the flagshop is out of stock/I hang myself at half mastMakeshift patriot the flagshop is out of stock/I hang myself at half mastComing live from my own funeral, beautiful weather offered a nice shineWhich is suitable for a full view of a forever altered skylineWhen times like these arrive I freestyle biased opinions every other sentence Journalistic ethics slip when I pass them off as objective “Don’t give me that ethical shit.” I’ve got exclusive, explicit images to present to impressionable American kids And it’s time to show this world how big our edifice is! That’s exactly what they attacked when a typically dark skinned Disney villain Used civilians against civilians and charged the Trojan horses into our buildings Using commercial aviation as instruments of destruction Pregnant women couldn’t protect their children Wheelchairs were stairway obstructions Now have to back pedal…from the shower of glass and metal Wondering how after it all settles we’ll find who provided power to radical rebels The Melting Pot seems to be calling the kettle black when it boils over But only on our own soil so the little boy holds a toy soldier.. And waits for the suit and tie to come home. We won’t wait ‘til he’s older before we destroy his hopes for a colder war to end “Now get a close up of his head” Makeshift PatriotThe Flag Shop Is Out of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast ”How does my hair look” Makeshift Patriot The Flag Shop Is Out of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast “Run that tape back” Makeshift Patriot The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock/I Hang Myself at Half Mast “It Looks just like a movie” It’s the make shift The patriot The Flag Shop is Out of Stock I hang myself “while the stock markets crash” The city is covered in inches of muck I see some other pictures of victims are up Grieving mothers are thinking their children are stuck Leaping lovers are making decisions to jump While holding hands…to escape the brutal heat Sometimes in groups of three The fall out was far beyond the toxic cloud where people look like debris But all they saw after all was said…beyond the talking heads Was the bloody dust with legs looking like the walking dead calling for meds but Hospitals are overwhelmed. Volunteers need to go the hell home Moments of silence for fire fighters were interrupted by cell phones Who’s gonna to make that call to increase an unknown death toll? It’s the one we rally behind He’s got a megaphone…and he’s promising to make heads roll we cheer him on, but asbestos is affecting our breath control The lesser we know…the more they fabricate…the easier it is to sell souls There is a new price on freedom, so buy into it while supplies last. Changes need to be made;No more curbside baggage,Seven pm curfew,Racial profiling will continue with less bitching.We’ve unified over who to kill, so until I find more relevant scripture to quote,Remember, our god is bigger, stronger, smarter, and much wealthier. So wave those flags with pride, especially the white part. We’re sellin’ addictive 24 hour candle light vigils on TV’s Freedom will be defended…at the cost of civil liberties The viewers are glued to television screens Stuck… cause lots of things seem too sick I use opportunities to pluck heart strings for theme music I’ll show you which culture to pump your fist at, which foot is right to kiss we don’t really know who the culprit is yet…but he looks. Like. This. we know who the heroes are. They’re not the xenophobes who act hard “We taught that dog to squat, how dare he do that shit in our own back yard!” They happened to scar our financial state and char our landscape Can you count how many times so far I’ve ran back this same damn tape? While a camera man creates news and shoves it down our throats on the West Bank With a ten second clip put on constant loop to provoke US angst So get your tanks and load your guns and hold your sons in a family huddle ’cause even if we win this tug of war and even the score…humanity struggles There’s a desperate need of blood for what’s been uncovered under the rubble Some of them dug for answers in the mess…but the rest were looking for trouble”
As he approached the climax of the song he pulled upwards on his necktie, until it had transformed fully in to a noose.
Great show, but pretty melodramatic was my impression. But those lyrics… those lyrics.
“Now I have to back pedal…from the shower of glass and metal Wondering how after it all settles we’ll find who provided power to radical rebels”
“We cheer him on, but asbestos is affecting our breath controlThe lesser we know, The more they fabricate, the easier it is to sell souls”
Then finally one that would reveal its meaning later:“There’s a desperate need of blood for what’s been uncovered under the rubble Some of them dug for answers in the mess…but the rest were looking for trouble”.
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.Got my hands on a laptop a few years later. My friend explained to me that he discovered something called “Torrents” which was a (so far) legal peer-to-peer file sharing system. It worked so quickly that you could download movies. Well I soon found out that getting movies that people didn’t want you to have were actually harder to get. On the other hand movies that people wanted others to see were easy. That is how I filled a 100gb mp3 player with documentaries. I didn’t discriminate and found a wealth of movies concerned with things considered “propaganda” like global conspiracies and secret societies. I had always read a little here and there on the general ideas. Esotericism, dispensationalism, and Masonic myth. The Man Who Would Be King is what piqued my interest in Masonic mythology(which obviously started out as a Rudyard Kipling book[who authored the mythologies on animal origins which I used to love]).
But most movies that centered around simply proving an “illuminati” were boring as fuck and ridiculously slanted. These movies were doing one thing consistently: Underestimating the audience’s intelligence.
To believe a single secret society presided over all events of historical significance without a single internal revolution or political-infighting is naïve to say the least.
But, to create a movie with the purpose of making a person believe a single secret society presided over all events of historical significance without a single internal revolution or political-infighting is going to be rife with manipulations, because it is not possible to conclude such a massive thing without first properly understanding the preponderance of evidence and secondly dwelling on the evidence.
For the most part I didn’t really get through any of those movies. The reason I mention them is, because in order to get to the juicy part I had to cut the gristle and the fat out. Just because you have to sit through Alex Jones yelling about the illuminati, does not mean that the citations he offers are any less credible, because of it. You can always disagree with a person’s conclusion, but facts are facts.
But also mythology is interesting and comedic, it is funny to see how David Icke views the world. Not funny like “what a sad person” but funny like “what a different perspective”.
So after watching some random conspiracist movie they mentioned 911 and I wrote down the citation. I realized I liked the 911 information, but I do not “believe” there was a conspiracy or direct culpability. I only “believed” at the most there was negligence.
So I downloaded a plethora of 911 based documentaries, still really only for the novelty of seeing where this mythology of a Bavarian secret society running things would say about 911.
I would leave them on while I played Halo 2 with a friend of mine. Dedicating just as much attention as I could without hurting my performance in the game.
I learned I couldn’t stand Alex Jones very quickly. The constant yelling, the cheesy graphics, and the delusions of grandeur just got to me and I found myself fast-forwarding a lot. What I mean by delusions of grandeur is in fact a symptom of schizophrenia and a belief in your own greatness. It embraces the mythological archetype of Odysseus and is not a shortcut to happiness. Labeling others as “sheep” constantly is an effort to condition a person with the stimuli that people who aren’t illuminati acolytes are less than human. This is what Jones does by constantly referring to “outsiders” as sheep. He teaches you that there is no one else to trust and he teaches you that believing in him is superior. Not only that but this dehumanization is a psychological precursor to war, genocide, and murder to dehumanize the enemy.
Well I kept track of what little citations he offered despite my personal distaste for his style. I quickly developed a favorite movie, essentially the one I could watch more than once.
It was called “The Truth and Lies of 911”. It started with a clip of some guy giving shit to CIA director John Deutch in a public hearing about drug smuggling operations that were being overseen by the CIA. It had this guy Peter Dale Scott in it who has written extensively on drugs, oil, and war . Most importantly though it had more citations than you could shake a stick at.
The one thing I noticed about Ruppert is he didn’t tell you his conclusion. His conclusion remains mired in mystery throughout the film and on his website. It was not peak oil that needed to convince me what the Iraq war was fought over. Just ask Dave Chappelle as “black bush”:Reporter-“What about people who say you’re only interested in the middle-east for oil?” Black Bush-“what? Huh? Oil? Who said somthin’ about oil bitch, you cookin’? oil!? Man I dunno what the-“ knocks over water pitcher and runs “-come on yah’ll get outta here!”
Ruppert had many arguments that were not facts. That would need to be proven with evidence and the only way to understand the evidence is to read it. For example: The CIA is wall street. The government is complicit with drug trafficking. The CIA’s director has to OK the director of the ISI.
One thing he didn’t do is cram stimuli down your throat(without citations) and insult your intelligence if you didn’t see how it was all an illuminati plot.
So I printed this out. Started looking at the citations and maybe pulling them up while watching the documentary. I wanted to see if he was exaggerating anything.
He pulled out The Grand ChessBoard by Zibigniew Brezezenski and read a few quotes. The quotes were incredible. Obviously not something that makes you decide there was direct culpability, but makes it quite obvious that numerous intellectuals and even elite factions had been “waiting” for this. The PNAC’s statement in “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” was usually the one focused on at my sources of information intake. The PNAC were neo-cons and right wingers, but Zibig…he was something else. I didn’t know much about him, except that he was at the Oslo Accords from a PBS documentary on Israel-Palestine. Then I remembered where I had read his name. The adbusters hope and memory issue . It had a quote from Brezezinski taken from Le Nouvel Observateur .
“Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? TheTaliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-upMoslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of thecold war?”
My question is are the two connected?
Now don’t assume that by me asking these questions above evidences that I have concluded on any of them or that I “believe” a certain story over others.
I only say that because there is one question I’d like to ask Brzezinski, and that is if he knows who the Muslim Brotherhood is.
If he answered yes to this question, I would have to follow with: “Are you aware of the connection between what intelligence agencies refer to as ‘Al-Qaeda’ and this entity The Muslim Brotherhood?”
I started to look in to Ruppert’s background to see if there were any blatant conflicts of interest. What I found is that there was nothing, but a few smear articles written about his episode with John Deutch. Calling him a “conspiracy theorist” simply because he had said that the government is trafficking drugs. Never addressing the points he made they continued to rehash the argument that he had stated “the drug trafficking was happening to get black people addicted to crack-cocaine” ”(which by the way is exactly what Gary Webb was smeared with).
This was of course not what he was saying.
But, there are people who attempt to use such tiny fractions of attention to manipulate. Individuals who want to convince you in 90 minutes that a Bavarian secret society has been pre-eminent for a few thousand years they are one type. The other type is the individual who misconstrues and smears.
They take pleasure in their puckishness and mistake it for being clever, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
They know that most people will opt for the easiest psychological way out. By saying that Ruppert was arguing “the drug trafficking was happening to get black people addicted to crack-cocaine” he gives people the easy way out. He states that he knows that Ruppert did this. Like all the reader would have to do is track it down and read it. If the reader did that he would undoubtedly come to the same conclusion as the author. That is how it is presented.
So most people are not going to read what Ruppert said. They will conclude he is a moron and a conspiracy theorist, therefore anything he has to say can be rejected prima facie.
There are others who have learned this tactic and use it to great effect on the collective consciousness known as the internet .
Those are the first of your enemies in your search for truth. The obfuscators. Who are made up of two sects:The individuals who would be getting a check for their smear tactics if they were smart.AndThe individuals who want the psychologically easy way out.
They are the individuals who label people “conspiracy theorist” for asking hard to answer and scary questions. But these obfuscators suffer from the same symptom of schizophrenia that the conspiracists do.
No one is normal.
The other enemy is the attention whores and the cult leaders. They also would be getting a check if they were smart. People like Fintan Dunne who labels a swath of independent research outlets as CIA fronts without evidence obviously. These are the people who condemn individuals who are helpful to our search for truth as disinformation or CIA assets. They are also the ones who give more credibility to the theory the more “hokey” it is. Such as The Hologram Theory .
It disturbed me to see a view on Ruppert’s credibility from an individual who wrote for FTW and the comments that followed.
They(hopsicker, emory, and GNNers) have a point.
Ruppert didn’t mention the Muslim Brotherhood in the Rubicon.
In fact when I read The Big Wedding, I was initially in a state of disbelief when I came across the chapter Hicks wrote on the Muslim Brotherhood.
I would like to know Ruppert’s response to the criticism that he did not include research pertaining to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I had to check it out for myself to see if what Hicks was saying stood up. It added a whole other element to the story that I had never been exposed to.
This element should be explored.
Much like Brezezinski’s statements are the flipside of the PNAC.
This Muslim Brotherhood information is coming from right wing news sources and not being covered in other places.
Which could make it the flipside of the “neo-cons share the most direct culpability(i.e. dick cheney)” which for the most part was circulating through left wing sources.
Could they both be red herrings?
Why question the answers?
Is lucidity that important? Is consciousness? Is truth?
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