August 18 2002 at 9:34 PM

by: Nashid

Why is Bush blocking and is so paranoid about having a serious investigation done about the 9/11 event? Why is there a petition signed by over 100,000 Americans demanding further investigation into this event and are not buying the media hype? Why is it that so many people made huge profits in put stock options for American and United Airlines right after this event? Why is it that the President of Pakistan who was one of the few supposedly shown "the proof" now admits that there is no way Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda could commit these acts on their own? I could go on and on with more questions that begs answers.

Lastly who benefitted the most from this act? Hints: Who now has total access to the oil in the Caspian Sea and has set up a puppet government in a key adjourning country (Afghanistan) for piping that oil out? Who now has American support for his "war on terrorism" as he legally and willfully masacre and ethnicly cleanse Palestinian people? Who now has the justification to attack Iraq and steal their oil under the banner of fighting "terrorism"? Before you blame and blindly accept the media lies you should get answers to all these questions and more. Afterall the media hype also led the Jews to crucify Jesus. A man who was totally innocent of the wrong charges against him. It worked then,there is no reason why it won't work now.

--- In stopdemocratsclub@y..., "corey lorden" <corlorde@h...> wrote:
> Honest men of Middle Eastern descent in the United States, citizens or otherwise, should be outraged if they are being treated differently in the wake of Sept. 11. In particular the five men who filed suit against four U.S. airlines this week courtesy of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, alleging discrimination as they attempted to board planes in the weeks and months after the World Trade Center attacks, should be furious and offended.
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> But their rage should be directed at the 19 young Middle Eastern Muslim men who killed 3,000 innocent Americans, and those Middle Eastern Muslims who in any way whatsoever continue to back or support such terrorist atrocities against the United States. These men have no right to be angry at law-abiding Americans, including of course so many of Arab descent, who simply do not want their planes blown up.
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> America is not at war against terrorism. We are at war against Middle Eastern terrorism. We certainly don't like terrorist groups like the Irish Republican Army or Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, but we have no national security beef with them. It's not Chilean schoolteachers who have said their goal is to kill as many Americans as possible by infiltrating our country, our communities, our very neighborhoods. It is certain young, Middle Eastern, Muslim men.
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> Which means that for a time young, Middle Eastern, Muslim men in the United States, most particularly those who are not American citizens, may well be looked at suspiciously. To suggest that a ballet dancer from Cleveland be given the same airport security screening as a male university student from Syria isn't just politically correct. It's utterly reckless and irresponsible.
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> To go along with the "don't dare ethnically profile" dictum of Transportation Secretary Mineta is a total abrogation of an airline's responsibility to its passengers. (While in some cases the airlines may be looking at Middle Eastern men more closely, it's just as clear that many screening personnel are overtly avoiding scrutinizing such men for fear of charges of racial profiling.)
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> On the other hand just this week the administration announced it will require high risk "visitors" from certain Middle Eastern countries like Iran, Iraq and Syria to be fingerprinted and, if they plan to stay here more than 30 days, to register with our government.
Once again there is the usual gnashing of teeth and ridiculous chorus of "if we trample on civil rights they win" outrage.
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> What I wonder is â€" why the heck are we letting "high risk" people from countries which sponsor terrorism in here at all?
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> Anyway, in the course of all this, is America really in danger of fundamentally curtailing civil rights, and over the long term? Not at all. Civil War historian Jay Winik explains that many times in American history presidents, right or wrong, have dramatically curtailed civil liberties â€" and it was always temporary.
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> For example there was John Adams, our second president, and his Alien and Sedition acts which during a growing fear of war with France allowed the government to expel any foreigner (never actually invoked) and to essentially quell dissent. There was Lincoln, who suspended writs of habeas corpus and other fundamental constitutional guarantees, and sent troops to keep the state legislators of Maryland from voting to secede from the Union.
> During World War I, Congress gave the postmaster general the power to keep anti-war material from going through the mail, and the Sabotage and Sedition acts allowed the federal government to punish any expression of opinion "disloyal, profane, scurrilous or abusive."
But that was nothing compared to World War II and the terrible
internment of Japanese-American citizens (which was not controversial until a generation later) along with other draconian curbs on civil liberties.
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> As outrageous or downright unconstitutional as many of these moves clearly appear in retrospect, Adams, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt are considered heroes in our pantheon of defenders of freedom and, more important, in each case when the threat had passed the liberties were restored.
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> Some 750 million passengers fly on U.S. airlines every year. And yet the activists at the anti-discrimination committee report a grand total of some 60 formal complaints of discrimination by airlines against Middle Easterners since Sept. 11. Yes there are surely other grievances as well. Still the real story here, unparalleled anywhere else in the world, isn't a few cases of so-called racial profiling.
It's that in the face of arguably the most serious domestic security threat the United States has ever faced, America has been so remarkably restrained.

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More information:

At least 8 of those "alleged" hijackers have been found alive.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/govknow.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/alive.html
http://www.rense.com/general20/alives.htm
http://www.americanfreepress.net/10_12_01/STILL_ALIVE__FBI_Mixed_Up_on_T/still_alive__fbi_mixed_up_on_t.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/20/banks.htm
http://www.nctimes.com/news/2001/20010921/65949.html