[Peace-discuss] Letter to N-G

[C. G. Estabrook]

It needn't even go that far. People call you a conspiracy theorist when they are 
unable to refute your account of how something actually happened.

E.g., the US for two generations worked in various ways to control Mideast oil: 
that's true, but to say so makes one a conspiracy theorist within the limits of 
allowable political debate in the US.

It's a great self-sealing ideological system.


On 5/12/11 8:06 PM, David Johnson wrote:
> Very good concise editing Carl.
>
> " (In 2001, the US refused to show evidence to the
> government of Afghanistan that Osama was responsible for 9/11 - as the director
> of the FBI admitted, because they didn't have any.) "
>
> Be careful Carl, some may pigeon hole you and Chomsky as  " conspiracy 
> theorists " for the above factual statement.
> That at least seems to be the knee jerk trend these days whenever anyone shows 
> facts that disprove propoganda and /or reveals collusion and secrecy amongst 
> the corporate ruling class.
>
> David J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:45 PM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Letter to N-G
>
>
> Although the News-Gazette hosts one of the few local examples of political
> conversation - its letters page - they refuse for reasons of penury or
> timorousness to post the letters on their website.
>
> The following advisory to their editor ran in today's edition. Constant readers
> will notice that it is an edited version of Chomsky's remarks, posted here
> earlier.  --CGE
>
> ======
>
>
> To the editor, News-Gazette:
>
>
> The Obama administration clearly planned to assassinate Osama bin Laden,
> contrary to the most elementary principles of international law - as the rest of
> the world recognizes.
>
> What would we say if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound,
> assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic? Without a doubt, his
> crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s. Bush was the self-proclaimed “decider” who
> gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime, differing only from
> other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
> whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal), for which Nazi criminals were hanged.
> Bush is responsible for the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of
> refugees, destruction of much of the country, and the bitter sectarian conflict
> that has now spread to the rest of the region.
>
> The Obama administration obviously had no plan to apprehend the unarmed Osama
> bin Laden - easily done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition. In
> societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and
> brought to fair trial. (In 2001, the US refused to show evidence to the
> government of Afghanistan that Osama was responsible for 9/11 - as the director
> of the FBI admitted, because they didn't have any.) Thus Obama was simply lying
> when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the
> 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”
>
> Not for the first time, Obama ordered an illegal extra-judicial execution.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Carl G. Estabrook
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