America under horrific neocon coup

"WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, harshly criticizing the news media for disclosing an operation he called legal and "absolutely essential" to fighting terrorism. "What I find most disturbing about these stories is the fact that some of the news media take it upon themselves to disclose vital national security programs, thereby making it more difficult for us to prevent future attacks against the American people," Cheney said, in impromptu remarks at a fundraising luncheon for a Republican congressional candidate in Chicago" That offends me" ^{Houston Chronicle (NYT)}

Another secret programme, no wonder the Bush administration has been desperate to silence whistleblowers. You really get the impression everything is held together with sellotape.

Of course, it is very disturbing that some Americas wrongly feel their security is dependent on their being crushed under choking layers of tyranny and it's also destined to have a very very damaging effect on the rest of the world, particularly for impressionable sociopaths like Tony Blair, and a power-hungry Gordon Brown who earlier this year announced his intention for more spying on the private financial affairs of British citizens, selling it to them as 'Bletchley Park'.

Spyblog asked at the time, "Is Gordon Brown planning to snoop even more heavily on the financial transactions of the British public ? Is he also planning to attack the privacy and security of the world's financial networks ?"

Then there is this new 'Sears Tower plot' (a widely predicted target by alternative news sources for some time), perhaps designed to destract from the neocon's finanicial espionage:

"SEVEN men arrested in the US for planning to blow up America's tallest building and FBI offices were not Muslims and not linked to the US Islamic community, Islamic leaders insisted yesterday. The suspects - five Americans and two foreigners - arrested on Thursday after approaching an undercover FBI agent who they thought was an agent of al-Qaeda, were described as a cult. They were accused of trying to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago with help from al-Qaeda. But authorities said the men never actually made contact with the terrorist network and were instead caught in an FBI sting involving an informant who posed as an al-Qaeda operative [...]

The suspects were not Muslims, local Islamic leaders said.

"As far as we are concerned they have no relation with our community, their ideology has nothing in common with the ideology of Islam and they should not be called Muslim," said Ahmed Bedier, of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [...]

Officials said that no weapons or explosives had been seized and there was no immediate threat in either Chicago or Miami." SMH

Quite a timely diversion of another bogus plot. If you haven't yet, do read about the first World Trade Center bombing and the FBI.

Back on the financial spying, the BBC said, "Although there is no direct connection, the scheme has echoes of a recently revealed US surveillance programme in which millions of international and domestic phone calls and e-mails were monitored, correspondents say"

The BBC seem to enjoy being hopelessly naive, to everyone else the connection is 9/11 itself.

It certainly seems America is being savaged in a massive and cruel coup that began formally on 9/11. The misnamed Patriot Act, private phone records made into social networks for the NSA, financial transactions, it goes on and on. Last year Human Rights Watch noted that torture had become the official policy of the US goverment.

Cheney says these are 'tools in the war on terror', but a better explanation, especially (but not exclusively or dependently) for those with serious concerns about 9/11, is that these are tools of tyranny to keep a domestic population in check with enormous abuses of power while US troops are deployed in more and more diablolical wars for Cheney and the neocon cabal's machinations of world dominance ¹.

Meanwhile, the war on terror is being consistently observed as, by and large, a cruel political myth to provide a hazy backdrop for this militarily-offensive foreign policy accompanied by domestic social re-engineering as well as a boundless catch-all soundbyte for anything and everything.

Perhaps we should also take note that US transport secretary Norman Mineta decided to quit effective 7/7. Normally someone like Mineta would attract about as much interest from the rest of the world as someone like Alistair Darling (now Douglas Alexander) would from Americans, i.e very little.

But Mineta has become well known in 9/11 circles for the striking testimony he gave to the 9/11 Commission, which strongly suggested Dick Cheney made the conscious decision to ensure at least one of the flights hit their target, believed to be the Pentagon (although what actually hit the Pentagon is also highly controversial) The time line presented by Mineta also gravely contradicted ² the final report's timeline.

No doubt the New York Times will continue to dribble out horrifying scandal after horrifying scandal as they indeed should, but the question many will be asking is how much longer can the NYT continue to sit on 9/11 itself ?

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