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I also strongly support Occupy!<br>
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What's wrong with being an anarchist at heart?<br>
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Are you praising them or criticizing them?<br>
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If ya live in Amerika and you don't at least sympathize with<br>
anarchists, you might be duped or sumpthin'.<br>
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I was disappointed not to see Amerikans in the street<br>
like the comrades in Greece raising hell and being pissed off.<br>
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Americans are soft. (Is it Malakas or Malakos?)<br>
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... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen
to shrink from controversy.<br>
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<p>"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to
secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings.</p>
<p>We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted
concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which
are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in
opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary
restrictions.</p>
<p>Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our
nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very
grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be
seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits
of official censorship and concealment.</p>
<p>That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my
control.</p>
<p>And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or
low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight
as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up
our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the
facts they deserve to know."</p>
<p>For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless
conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of
influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion
instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on
guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.</p>
<p>It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material
resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient
machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence,
economic, scientific and political operations.</p>
<p>Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are
buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No
expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is
revealed."</p>
<p>"No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For
from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that
understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary.</p>
<p>I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration,
but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and
alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in
the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are
fully informed.</p>
<p>I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers-- I
welcome it.</p>
<p>This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as
a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until
you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility
for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss
them.</p>
<p>Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no
country can succeed-- and no republic can survive.</p>
<p>That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for
any citizen to shrink from controversy.</p>
<p>And that is why our press was protected by the First (emphasized)
Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by
the Constitution-- not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to
emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply "give the
public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to
state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises
and our choices, to lead, mold educate and sometimes even anger
public opinion.</p>
<p>This means greater coverage and analysis of international news--
for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and
local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the
news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that
government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you
with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits
of national security...</p>
<p>And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans
deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--
that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your
help man will<br>
be what he was born to be: free and independent."</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/04/2015 11:15 PM, David Johnson
via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You
need to RE-READ the article Roger !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This
information came from Freedom of Information Requests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And
I LOVE Occupy, TRUE American patriots ! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David
J.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
Roger Helbig [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com">mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 04, 2015 8:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Johnson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] The FBI Invents Some
Plots & Ignores Others In War On Freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and you really believe some Occupy puke,
yes, I do despise them and their inability to control
anarchists vandals who destroyed things in Oakland - I would
take anything that Occupy says and carefully vet it before I
ever sent it on to anyone. And yes, they deserved to be
closely surveilled - they were anarchists at heart if not in
fact and their encampments were full of people causing
trouble along with a few who actually thought that they were
doing something sincere.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:24 AM, David
Johnson via Peace-discuss <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:24.0pt">The FBI Invents Some
Plots & Ignores Others In War On Freedom</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt">By Derek Royden, <a
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href="http://www.occupy.com/article/manufacturing-terror-how-fbi-invents-some-plots-and-ignores-others-war-freedom"
target="_blank">www.occupy.com</a><br>
February 3rd, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">After Sept. 11,
2001, the FBI was forced to re-prioritize, making
counter-terrorism the Bureau’s main focus. More than
1,800 agents, almost a third of the total dealing
with criminal cases from organized crime to
insurance fraud, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html/pagewanted=all&_r=0"
target="_blank"><span style="color:black">were
transferred</span></a> to terrorism and
intelligence duties in the aftermath of the attacks.
What 9/11 did, among other things, was to create a
need for proof, via arrests, that the new State
focus on terrorism was showing results.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">We’ve all seen
the headlines from mainstream media sources after
arrests were made and press conferences were given
by high level officials announcing another disrupted
“terror plot.” Yet, when one investigates these
cases, as many journalists and writers in the
alternative press have done, we see the score isn’t
as it all appears – and when compared with similar
cases where terror charges were not brought, a
disturbing picture emerges.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">The Seas of
David and the Redefinition of Entrapment</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">In criminal
law, a person is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://definitions.uslegal.com/e/entrapment/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:black">“entrapped”</span></a> when
s/he is induced or persuaded by law enforcement
officers, or their agents, to commit a crime that
s/he had no previous intent to commit.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Most Americans
know there have been some dubious prosecutions in
the FBI’s ongoing effort to thwart terror attacks on
American soil. Unfortunately, it seems many
Americans are too scared to care. The vast majority
of these cases have involved Muslim Americans, a
group that has never had much power in terms of
American politics and less so in the wake of 9/11
and two wars in majority Muslim countries. My
purpose isn’t to dismiss these cases, but to show
the slippery slope they represent: when one group
gets targeted successfully, other marginalized
groups usually follow.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">A story that
illustrates this slide is the group the media dubbed
the Liberty City 7. Arrested in June 2006, this
group, we were told, had taken an oath to Al Qaeda
and planned a series of attacks to rival or even
surpass 9/11. There were just a few problems with
the narrative: five African-American and two Haitian
men taken into custody were not Muslims, were facing
dire economic circumstances (most were homeless),
and the ostensible leader of the group, a colorful
character named Narseal Batiste, seemed willing to
say just about anything to get money out of the FBI
informant who had created the plot out of whole
cloth.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Almost all FBI
stings have one thing in common: the use of
informants who are themselves trying to get out of
criminal charges, and are doing the job for cash, or
both. The main informant in the Liberty City case,
Elie Assad, courted the men who practiced their own
religion based on elements of Christianity, Judaism
and Islam, and who called themselves “The Seas of
David.” The informants’ motivations seem obvious
today; in all, Assad and another informant, Abbas
al-Saidi, got more than $130,000 for their work
helping FBI handlers build a case against the seven
men.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Another
interesting note about the Seas of David: they never
actually engaged in anything resembling violence,
and even <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515"
target="_blank"><span style="color:black">refused
to receive weapons when they were offered them</span></a>.
James J. Wedick, a former agent with the Bureau, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/07/21/fbi-entrapment-created-illusiob-terrorist-plots-report"
target="_blank"><span style="color:black">said of
the group</span></a>: “These guys couldn’t find
their way down the end of the street. They were
homeless types. And, yes, we did show a picture
where somebody was taking an oath to Al Qaeda. So
what? They didn’t care. They only cared about the
money. When we put forth a case like that to suggest
to the American public that we’re protecting them,
we’re not protecting them.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">One of the men
was acquitted in the first trial, while the other
six were tried three times, with the first two
proceedings ending in mistrials due to hung juries.
Eventually, five of the six remaining men were
sentenced to between five and 12 years behind bars,
while the last was acquitted. Because the legal
process took so long, and the mainstream media has
proven itself incapable of accurately and fairly
following stories like this one, most people only
remember that a group of “terrorists” were targeting
the Sears Tower in Chicago – a place that none of
the men ever actually visited. Few, by contrast,
remember any actual details about the case,
specifically the entrapment of a group of hapless
individuals known as Seas of David.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">The Strange
Plot Against Occupy Houston</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">There has also
been a strange selectivity when it comes to who gets
charged under terror laws. The Southern Poverty Law
Center has for years publicized cases of white
supremacist and militia groups plotting actions that
don’t result in terrorism charges, even though they
seem to meet the legal requirements. At the same
time, animal rights activists, who have filmed
animal abuses or committed some form of property
damage, but never harmed people, have been charged
with the gravest of offenses: terrorism.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Now let’s jump
to Houston where, several years ago, heavily
redacted documents released under a Freedom of
Information Act request showed that at the height of
the Occupy movement, in October 2011, a group was
planning to target “leaders” of the Occupy Houston
encampment using sniper rifles. One might think the
FBI could investigate the person or persons planning
to assassinate American protesters peacefully
exercising their Constitutional rights.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Sadly, the
Bureau wasn’t interested and couldn’t even be
bothered to forward the sniper plot information to
state or local authorities so that they could pursue
it themselves. A few competing theories as to who
may have been involved in the plot have since
emerged – from the FBI itself authorizing the plan
as part of a modern-era COINTELPRO program, to a
mercenary company called <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/06/27/fbi-document-deleted-plots-to-kill-occupy-leaders-if-deemed-necessary/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Craft
International planning the attack at the
direction of unknown bosses</span></a>. Or,
after all, it could have just been a small
right-wing group that decided not to take action
after receiving a visit from federal law enforcement
– an opportunity to avoid decades in prison that
groups like the Animal Liberation Front rarely, if
ever, receive.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">When we really
look at terrorism in the post-9/11 era, we begin to
see clearly something that the police and
intelligence communities have tried to obscure.
Almost every real foiled plot was stopped by
ordinary bystanders, whether passengers on a plane
or a street vendor selling food in Times Square.
Federal law enforcement groups have budgetary and
political incentives to make us believe we stand
somehow powerless against the dark forces bent on
our destruction, and that we must give up more of
our rights for our own safety. While this may still
be true in a war-torn country like Afghanistan, it’s
not true in the U.S. or anywhere else in the Western
world where people are statistically more likely to
be struck by lightning than to die in a terrorist
attack. After the financial crisis of 2008 put so
many working people out of their homes, at least
some of the money spent creating terrorism where
none existed before could have been spent
investigating the bankers who tanked the economy.
Entrapment, then, might take on a whole new meaning.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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