Blair and the Mafia
dh | 22.02.2003 18:57
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Friday 21.2 2003
BLAIR IN MORE MAFIA LINKS
In a little noticed report last Sunday, The Observer (London) has exposed
more mafia links at the heart of New Labour. The devastating information was
uncovered by the respected investigative journalist Anthony Barnett, but the
pro-Blair newspaper downplayed the damning story, relegating it to page 14.
Today Blair visits Italian PM Berlusconi, his key ally in Europe and head of
a coalition which includes neofascists and the racist devolutionists of the
Northern League. Berlusconi was the first premier in Europe to back the
Perle/Sharon War against Islam project in the wake of 911, at a time when
Blair was claiming to carry a copy of the Koran on every foreign trip.
Blair will be hoping that the media ignores Berlusconi and concentrates
instead on his audience with the Pope, designed to underline Blair's
sincerity.
David Mills, husband of `Blair Babe` and key political ally Tessa Jowell and
brother of Barbara Mills ex-head of the Serious Fraud Office, is now under
criminal investigation by Italian magistrates for money laundering on behalf
of Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi.
Mills has been co-operating as a witness in the Berlusconi investigation for
several years. The Observer describes Mills as the accountant who helped set
up Berlusconi's financial empire over many years. Recent supergrass evidence
in Italy has pointed the finger at Berlusconi as the mafia's man there.
Berlusconi enjoyed a meteoric rise to power after magistrates exposed the
ruling coalition of Christian Democrats and Blair type `socialists` as
virtually a front for the mafia.
This is not an isolated case of Blair/Jowell sleaze. Formula One boss Bernie
Ecclestone was famously given privileged access to the new Prime Minister in
1997 and achieved a change in government policy on tobacco advertising in
return for a massive secret donation to Blair's New Labour. Jowell was the
health minister who tore up Labour Party Policy for Ecclestone's benefit and
Jowell's husband David Mills was a director of one of Ecclestone's key
companies.
Jowell is currently pushing the Communications Bill through Parliament,
which will allow foreign media owners to buy up tv channels in the UK.
As the saying goes, once is happenstance twice is co-incidence, three times
is downright sinster. In Blair's case the mafia sleaze links get worse. Step
in Enron and their bent accountants Arthur Anderson.
Enron was one of the key backers of the New Labour takeover of the Labour
Party, sponsoring them openly and providing more funds in secret. Enron
accountants Arthur Anderson (now liquidated) were New Labour's favorites
when it came to stitching up the lucrative PFI (quasi-privatisation) deals
which made a packet for New Labour henchmen in their less publicised role as
predatory company directors.
Anderson were so suspect that even the Conservative government had banned
them from government contracts. Anderson recruits were told it was company
policy to write notes in pencil (so that they could be falsified). Anderson
executives are facing criminal charges for destroying evidence in the Enron
affair.
The Enron affair has been misprepresented in the pro-Blair pro-US corporate
media in the UK. It was not an accounting scandal like Worldcom where
expenditures were booked as investment and investors misled. It was an
outright mafia style theft. Enron was used as a shell company to suck cash
out of the US financial system. The cash was deposited in bogus companies in
tax havens where it would be untraceable and then stolen by persons unknown.
When Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown proposed a tightening up of money
laundering havens in the wake of the 911 attacks he was ignored by the Bush
regime who preferred to attack Afghanistan and now Iraq.
The Enron accountant who might have spilt the beans died in an unexpected
and highly suspicious `suicide` shortly before he was to give evidence. The
UK media has been remarkably silent on the fate of another Enron accountant,
leading Conservative politician John Wakeham who sat on the committee
supervising Enron's accounting and now faces a criminal investigation.
Blair has never explained why he appointed Wakeham, a political enemy, to
oversee the reform of the House of Lords. At Blair's prompting Wakeham
proposed a mostly +unelected+ second chamber. Blair's original manifesto as
a candidate for Labour leader emphasised that he would fight for an elected
House of Lords.
Enron had even closer links with the third member of the Blair/Berlusconi
friends of the mafia: George Bush Jr. Enron helped bankroll Bush's campaign
for President and paid for thugs to be flown into Florida from Washington to
disrupt the recounts. This made it possible for the Jeb Bush administration
to declare that brother George Bush had carried Florida.
George Bush's third brother Neil Bush disappeared from public view after
being implicated in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from a
Savings and Loan corporation in the early nineties.
Another Bush brother Marvin has been identified as the man who held the keys
to the World Trade Centre. His company installed access systems, knowledge
of which would have made it possible to plant the bombs which reporters and
firemen believe they heard shortly before the WTC towers collapsed.
Seismographs show sharp spikes an instant before each tower fell
Enron's links to Bush are so close that Bush saw necessary to lie about them
in public. He stated that Enron boss Ken `Kenny Boy` Lay had only been an
acquaintance and only since the mid nineties. In fact Lay and Bush were
buddies at least in the late eighties.
Andrew Rawnsley, one of the many Blair accolytes on the Observer, quotes
Blair as saying during the Ecclestone affair: `they'll have us for this`.
Blair has made clear he will use the Royal Prerogative to order British
troops to commit war crimes by invading Iraq in defiance of the UN. The
British public are currently mystified as to why Blair should back George
Bush to such an extent in flagrant defiance of (acording to opinion polls)
up to 90 percent of UK opinion.
Perhaps the aswer is that Blair does not have any choice.
Ian Henshall
Ian Henshall is the chair of INK, the umbrella organistion for the
alternative media in the UK. Opinion is in a personal capacity
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Friday 21.2 2003
BLAIR IN MORE MAFIA LINKS
In a little noticed report last Sunday, The Observer (London) has exposed
more mafia links at the heart of New Labour. The devastating information was
uncovered by the respected investigative journalist Anthony Barnett, but the
pro-Blair newspaper downplayed the damning story, relegating it to page 14.
Today Blair visits Italian PM Berlusconi, his key ally in Europe and head of
a coalition which includes neofascists and the racist devolutionists of the
Northern League. Berlusconi was the first premier in Europe to back the
Perle/Sharon War against Islam project in the wake of 911, at a time when
Blair was claiming to carry a copy of the Koran on every foreign trip.
Blair will be hoping that the media ignores Berlusconi and concentrates
instead on his audience with the Pope, designed to underline Blair's
sincerity.
David Mills, husband of `Blair Babe` and key political ally Tessa Jowell and
brother of Barbara Mills ex-head of the Serious Fraud Office, is now under
criminal investigation by Italian magistrates for money laundering on behalf
of Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi.
Mills has been co-operating as a witness in the Berlusconi investigation for
several years. The Observer describes Mills as the accountant who helped set
up Berlusconi's financial empire over many years. Recent supergrass evidence
in Italy has pointed the finger at Berlusconi as the mafia's man there.
Berlusconi enjoyed a meteoric rise to power after magistrates exposed the
ruling coalition of Christian Democrats and Blair type `socialists` as
virtually a front for the mafia.
This is not an isolated case of Blair/Jowell sleaze. Formula One boss Bernie
Ecclestone was famously given privileged access to the new Prime Minister in
1997 and achieved a change in government policy on tobacco advertising in
return for a massive secret donation to Blair's New Labour. Jowell was the
health minister who tore up Labour Party Policy for Ecclestone's benefit and
Jowell's husband David Mills was a director of one of Ecclestone's key
companies.
Jowell is currently pushing the Communications Bill through Parliament,
which will allow foreign media owners to buy up tv channels in the UK.
As the saying goes, once is happenstance twice is co-incidence, three times
is downright sinster. In Blair's case the mafia sleaze links get worse. Step
in Enron and their bent accountants Arthur Anderson.
Enron was one of the key backers of the New Labour takeover of the Labour
Party, sponsoring them openly and providing more funds in secret. Enron
accountants Arthur Anderson (now liquidated) were New Labour's favorites
when it came to stitching up the lucrative PFI (quasi-privatisation) deals
which made a packet for New Labour henchmen in their less publicised role as
predatory company directors.
Anderson were so suspect that even the Conservative government had banned
them from government contracts. Anderson recruits were told it was company
policy to write notes in pencil (so that they could be falsified). Anderson
executives are facing criminal charges for destroying evidence in the Enron
affair.
The Enron affair has been misprepresented in the pro-Blair pro-US corporate
media in the UK. It was not an accounting scandal like Worldcom where
expenditures were booked as investment and investors misled. It was an
outright mafia style theft. Enron was used as a shell company to suck cash
out of the US financial system. The cash was deposited in bogus companies in
tax havens where it would be untraceable and then stolen by persons unknown.
When Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown proposed a tightening up of money
laundering havens in the wake of the 911 attacks he was ignored by the Bush
regime who preferred to attack Afghanistan and now Iraq.
The Enron accountant who might have spilt the beans died in an unexpected
and highly suspicious `suicide` shortly before he was to give evidence. The
UK media has been remarkably silent on the fate of another Enron accountant,
leading Conservative politician John Wakeham who sat on the committee
supervising Enron's accounting and now faces a criminal investigation.
Blair has never explained why he appointed Wakeham, a political enemy, to
oversee the reform of the House of Lords. At Blair's prompting Wakeham
proposed a mostly +unelected+ second chamber. Blair's original manifesto as
a candidate for Labour leader emphasised that he would fight for an elected
House of Lords.
Enron had even closer links with the third member of the Blair/Berlusconi
friends of the mafia: George Bush Jr. Enron helped bankroll Bush's campaign
for President and paid for thugs to be flown into Florida from Washington to
disrupt the recounts. This made it possible for the Jeb Bush administration
to declare that brother George Bush had carried Florida.
George Bush's third brother Neil Bush disappeared from public view after
being implicated in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from a
Savings and Loan corporation in the early nineties.
Another Bush brother Marvin has been identified as the man who held the keys
to the World Trade Centre. His company installed access systems, knowledge
of which would have made it possible to plant the bombs which reporters and
firemen believe they heard shortly before the WTC towers collapsed.
Seismographs show sharp spikes an instant before each tower fell
Enron's links to Bush are so close that Bush saw necessary to lie about them
in public. He stated that Enron boss Ken `Kenny Boy` Lay had only been an
acquaintance and only since the mid nineties. In fact Lay and Bush were
buddies at least in the late eighties.
Andrew Rawnsley, one of the many Blair accolytes on the Observer, quotes
Blair as saying during the Ecclestone affair: `they'll have us for this`.
Blair has made clear he will use the Royal Prerogative to order British
troops to commit war crimes by invading Iraq in defiance of the UN. The
British public are currently mystified as to why Blair should back George
Bush to such an extent in flagrant defiance of (acording to opinion polls)
up to 90 percent of UK opinion.
Perhaps the aswer is that Blair does not have any choice.
Ian Henshall
Ian Henshall is the chair of INK, the umbrella organistion for the
alternative media in the UK. Opinion is in a personal capacity
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Blair in Italy
23.02.2003 00:34
The first year they stayed in the house of geoffry robinson,
the disgraced post master general.
at some stage robinson was CEO of Innnocenti, which was based in Pontedera Nr Pisa, The firm went down the pan.
oh
Blairs Italian holiday Connections
23.02.2003 00:58
The first year they stayed in the vicinity San Gimignano Nr Siena. At the house of Geoffry Robinson, the disgraced former post master general. Robinson was well connected in Tuscany having previously been head of Innocenti who's plant was at Pontedera nr Pisa. The company went bust ...
The next year they moved a mile or so along the valley.
To stay in the Cusona villa of Prince (as he calls himself)
Guicciardini Strozzi. Who amongst other things is the
director of the Tuscany edition of Il Giornale, owned by Silvio berlusconi.
The Blairs are actually pitching their tent right smack on the route of the Pilgrims Way a Medievil path/road which ran from canterbury the Rome and onto jerusalem if one was that way inclined. Right next door to where they stayed is a roman mansion house, Torre it's on a good map.
Blair attended the Palio, traditional horse race where the horses are drugged the jockies hit each other with whips and the whole thing is rigged, at least once.
The palio is in actually fact a big PR stunt for the MPS bank
of Siena, the oldest bank in the world from 1472, I reckon the whole charade, there's tons of pageantary heraldry ect, is a front for a big meeting of international bankers, to which the poodle was no doubt summoned.
MPS at Milano 2, city built by Berlusconi, was the bank that was at the centre of the first big scandals involving Berlusconi. It was one of the first banks to finance him.
probably all a coincidence
oh
More than about Bush and Blair and Oil
23.02.2003 01:45
we need to overthrow these fucks now
Co-authour with Scott Ritter of 'War on Iraq', William Rivets Pitt explains the illuminati agenda demanding attack on Iraq
Of Gods and Mortals and Empire
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Friday 21 February 2003
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
- Tacitus
It sounded like two behemoth icebergs colliding in the North Atlantic, but you needed the right kind of ears to hear it. Two immensely powerful forces crashed into each other over the weekend of February 15th, and the resulting thunder has set the world to trembling.
On one side were the people, who took to the streets all across the world by the tens of millions to stand against George W. Bush's push for pre-emptive war on Iraq. The numbers, and the locations, were staggering. More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Sydney, Australia, a nation that has been solidly in Bush's corner on this matter. In Spain, another member of Bush's "Coalition of the Willing," several million protesters took over Madrid, Barcelona and 55 other cities. Italy, another Bush ally, saw over a million citizens take to the streets of Rome. Britain, Bush's go/no go ally of allies, saw over a million people protesting in London. Police there said it was the largest demonstration in that nation's long history.
The Netherlands saw one hundred thousand protesters, as did Belgium and Ireland. There were protesters by the tens of thousands in Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Greece, Russia and Japan. 500,000 protesters demonstrated in Germany, joined by three members of Gerhard Schroder's cabinet who defied their Chancellor by being there. It was the largest demonstration ever in post-war Germany. Another 500,000 people marched in Paris and 60 other French cities.
The United States of America saw protests from coast to coast in over 100 cities nationwide. New York City was paralyzed by over a million marchers. San Francisco was taken over by well over 200,000 protesters, and Los Angeles saw over 100,000 people take to the streets. Thousands upon thousands joined them in Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Seattle.
This was a gathering of ordinary citizens who came together in the streets of the world in an organized event that has no precedent in all of human history. They were brought together by a global word-of-mouth activism rooted entirely in the Internet. Were it not for this planetary connection, no such coordination could have ever taken place. Once upon a time, the world wide web was a realm dominated by dreams of profit and marketing. Those dreams have soured, leaving behind a marvelous network now utilized by very average people who can, with the click of a button, bring forth from all points on the compass a roaring deluge of humanity to stand against craven injustice and ruinous war.
The weekend of February 15th saw this force ram headlong into the will of men who walk in shadow, whose hands wield lightning and steel, pestilence and famine. In their ranks stand Presidents, Prime Ministers, corporate magnates, untouchable billionaires, and the advisors who whisper to them of empire and domination. They are few in number, but life and death flows from their fingertips in freshets and gouts. These men control the armies and navies of great nations, nuclear and chemical nightmares beyond measure, unassailable technological weapons and walls, the financial cords which hold the package together, the water, the air, the oil, the law, and a global media machine by which they can obscure their designs with pleasing lies.
No mere citizen could do what these men in one moment can do with the crooking of a little finger. With a word, they can erase cities, deprive an entire populace of water and light, unleash disease and famine, annihilate the economies of dozens of nations, and imprison forever anyone who dares dissent. These men bleed, they sicken, they die, but in their time of life they can punch holes in the sky large enough to make Zeus wince with envy. Like the millions who marched, the gathering of such fearful powers into the hands of so few is also without precedent in all of human history.
There was, among the millions who stormed the planet last weekend, a misconception that masked the true reason for their presence in the streets. A great many people believe this looming war with Iraq is about old grudges and oil. There is logic in this; Iraq has the second largest proven stores of precious petroleum in the world, and there is a definite history of malice between House Bush and House Hussein. The truth of the matter is far more broad and deep, belittling all talk of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and even oil. The men who pursue their goals by way of this war have a great many desires on their minds, and once more, they have the will to attain these goals by whatever means is required.
Were the protesters fully aware of whom they faced, a good many of them may well have fled in terror to cower in their homes. One does not lightly bait a bear with such terrible claws.
Does this all sound like some paranoid fantasy? If so, allow me to introduce The Project for the New American Century.
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.
The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.
Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions." Note well that PNAC does not want America to be prepared to fight simultaneous major wars. That is old school. In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see.
Why is this important? After all, wacky think tanks are a cottage industry in Washington, DC. They are a dime a dozen. In what way does PNAC stand above the other groups that would set American foreign policy if they could?
Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election of George W. Bush, and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.
Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
PNAC is staffed by men who previously served with groups like Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, which supported America's bloody gamesmanship in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and with groups like The Committee for the Present Danger, which spent years advocating that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was "winnable."
PNAC has recently given birth to a new group, The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in order to formulate a plan to "educate" the American populace about the need for war in Iraq. CLI has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to support the Iraqi National Congress and the Iraqi heir presumptive, Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court in 1992 to 22 years in prison for bank fraud after the collapse of Petra Bank, which he founded in 1977. Chalabi has not set foot in Iraq since 1956, but his Enron-like business credentials apparently make him a good match for the Bush administration's plans.
PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report is the institutionalization of plans and ideologies that have been formulated for decades by the men currently running American government. The PNAC Statement of Principles is signed by Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, as well as by Eliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, Bush's special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and many others. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News
The desire for these freshly empowered PNAC men to extend American hegemony by force of arms across the globe has been there since day one of the Bush administration, and is in no small part a central reason for the Florida electoral battle in 2000. Note that while many have said that Gore and Bush are ideologically identical, Mr. Gore had no ties whatsoever to the fellows at PNAC. George W. Bush had to win that election by any means necessary, and PNAC signatory Jeb Bush was in the perfect position to ensure the rise to prominence of his fellow imperialists. Desire for such action, however, is by no means translatable into workable policy. Americans enjoy their comforts, but don't cotton to the idea of being some sort of Neo-Rome.
On September 11th, the fellows from PNAC saw a door of opportunity open wide before them, and stormed right through it.
Bush released on September 20th 2001 the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world. Recall that PNAC demanded an increase in defense spending to at least 3.8% of GDP. Bush's proposed budget for next year asks for $379 billion in defense spending, almost exactly 3.8% of GDP.
In August of 2002, Defense Policy Board chairman and PNAC member Richard Perle heard a policy briefing from a think tank associated with the Rand Corporation. According to the Washington Post and The Nation, the final slide of this presentation described "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize" in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of Saddam Hussein's weapons. Bush has deployed massive forces into the Mideast region, while simultaneously engaging American forces in the Philippines and playing nuclear chicken with North Korea. Somewhere in all this lurks at least one of the "major theater wars" desired by the September 2000 PNAC report.
Iraq is but the beginning, a pretense for a wider conflict. Donald Kagan, a central member of PNAC, sees America establishing permanent military bases in Iraq after the war. This is purportedly a measure to defend the peace in the Middle East, and to make sure the oil flows. The nations in that region, however, will see this for what it is: a jump-off point for American forces to invade any nation in that region they choose to. The American people, anxiously awaiting some sort of exit plan after America defeats Iraq, will see too late that no exit is planned.
All of the horses are traveling together at speed here. The defense contractors who sup on American tax revenue will be handsomely paid for arming this new American empire. The corporations that own the news media will sell this eternal war at a profit, as viewership goes through the stratosphere when there is combat to be shown. Those within the administration who believe that the defense of Israel is contingent upon laying waste to every possible aggressor in the region will have their dreams fulfilled. The PNAC men who wish for a global Pax Americana at gunpoint will see their plans unfold. Through it all, the bankrollers from the WTO and the IMF will be able to dictate financial terms to the entire planet. This last aspect of the plan is pivotal, and is best described in the newly revised version of Greg Palast's masterpiece, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."
There will be adverse side effects. The siege mentality average Americans are suffering as they smother behind yards of plastic sheeting and duct tape will increase by orders of magnitude as our aggressions bring forth new terrorist attacks against the homeland. These attacks will require the implementation of the newly drafted Patriot Act II, an augmentation of the previous Act that has profoundly sharper teeth. The sun will set on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The American economy will be ravaged by the need for increased defense spending, and by the aforementioned "constabulary" duties in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Former allies will turn on us. Germany, France and the other nations resisting this Iraq war are fully aware of this game plan. They are not acting out of cowardice or because they love Saddam Hussein, but because they mean to resist this rising American empire, lest they face economic and military serfdom at the hands of George W. Bush. Richard Perle has already stated that France is no longer an American ally. As the eagle spreads its wings, our rhetoric and their resistance will become more agitated and dangerous.
Many people, of course, will die. They will die from war and from want, from famine and disease. At home, the social fabric will be torn in ways that make the Reagan nightmares of crack addiction, homelessness and AIDS seem tame by comparison.
This is the price to be paid for empire, and the men of PNAC who now control the fate and future of America are more than willing to pay it. For them, the benefits far outweigh the liabilities.
The plan was running smoothly until those two icebergs collided. Millions and millions of ordinary people are making it very difficult for Bush's international allies to keep to the script. PNAC may have designs for the control of the "International Commons" of the internet, but for now it is the staging ground for a movement that would see empire take a back seat to a wise peace, human rights, equal protection under the law, and the preponderance of a justice that will, if properly applied, do away forever with the anger and hatred that gives birth to terrorism in the first place.
Tommaso Palladini of Milan perhaps said it best as he marched with his countrymen in Rome. "You fight terrorism," he said, "by creating more justice in the world."
The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required. The tide can be stopped, and the men who desire empire by the sword can be thwarted. It has already begun, but it must not cease. These are men of will, and they do not intend to fail.
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William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times bestselling author of two books - "War On Iraq" (with Scott Ritter) available now from Context Books, and "The Greatest Sedition is Silence," available in May 2003 from Pluto Press. He teaches high school in Boston, MA.
dh