'Fight Smart' Update
- 16 Dec 2001
Don't Take the Bait -
Fight Smart
ANIMATED PHOTO ESSAY - CLICK
HERE
Who is the enemy?
Defending
'Civilisation' with Terror - a Western Export Tradition
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/armssales.htm
The
world's largest exporters of arms are the United States and the
United Kingdom, the leaders of the 'War Against Terrorism'
"The
U.S. dominates this international arms market, supplying over
half of all arms exports in 1999, four times more than the second
largest supplier. U.S. weapons sales help outfit non-democratic
regimes, soldiers who commit gross human rights abuses against
their citizens and citizens of other countries, and forces in
instable regions on the verge of, middle of, or recovering from
conflict."
Federation
of American Scientists - Fast Facts on the Arms Trade
"There
are 28 terrorist groups currently operating in 18 countries,
according to the State Department's bi-annual list of active
foreign terrorist organizations.... In the period of 1990-1999,
the United States supplied 16 of the 18 countries on the State
Department list with arms... In addition, the U.S. military (and
the CIA) has trained the forces of many of these 18 countries in
U.S. war fighting tactics, in some cases including individuals
now involved in terrorism."
'US Arms Exports to Countries Where Terror Thrives'
- Centre for Defense Information Report 2001
"You
have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners
of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in
Nicaragua, the Central American war? It is the function, I
suggest, of the CIA, with its 50 de-stabilization programs going
around the world today, to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American
people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount
of money on arms....
"
John Stockwell,
former CIA official and author, 1987
"The F-16s sale was criticized
in the Arab world on Sept 8 [2001]. In a November 9 interview
with Pakistan's Ausaf newspaper, Bin Laden justified the Sept
11attack by noting that the US government sells advanced weapons
to Israel which Israel then uses to kill Muslim Palestinians.
Wasn't the Sept 11 attack triggered by the sale of the F-16s? Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne Cheney, was on Lockheed's Board of Directors from 1994 until
January of this year. Did she
have any influence on White House approval of the F-16 sale?
"
'Questions Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George
W. Bush' By Don Williams, 5 Dec 2001
(see also 'Lockheed Martin beats its rival Boeing to win the biggest military equipment contract in history' - BBC Online 27 Oct 2001)
" ...the CIA has overthrown functioning
democracies in over 20 countries."
John Stockwell, former CIA official and
author, 1987
"We're
talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has
performed since 1961]. .....We're talking about 1 to 3 million
people killed in these things....The people that are dying in these
things are people of the third world.
That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of
the third world. .....Most of them couldn't give you an
intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism...We are
killing, and killing, and terrorizing
people....."
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author, 1987
"Now, as nearly as I can make
out, those fellows in the CIA
don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make
their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up
to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so
they'll have something to report on. They've become.... it's become a government all of its
own and all secret. They don't
have to account to anybody."
Harry S. Truman, former US President 1973
"Somewhere
between America's spies and commandos is a small group of men and
women like Johnny 'Mike' Spann, the CIA paramilitary officer
killed by rioting prisoners in Afghanistan [Nov 2001].....They
come from within the CIA's Directorate of Operations, whose
primary mission is to conduct clandestine intelligence gathering. One
branch, the Special Activities Division, is home to the CIA's
offensive punch. Officers in this division are called upon when
the president wants covertly to advance U.S. foreign policy,
influencing a foreign government without any signs of U.S.
action. Inside
the division are intelligence officers who can create economic
and political disruption in foreign countries, and write
propaganda to influence foreign elections. Unlike the Green Berets, these officers can
operate without uniform or identification as an officer of the
U.S. government. If one is caught or killed, the government can
plausibly deny their use."
National Post, 3 Dec 2001
"The greatest purveyor of
violence on earth is my own government."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W. Norton 1978, is an international best-seller.
Below are extracts selected by NLPWessex from a lecture John Stockwell gave in October 1987, just three years before America's war with Iraq. The full text is available at: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_1.html .
NATURAL
LAW PARTY WESSEX
nlpwessex@bigfoot.com
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex
The Secret Wars of the CIA
John Stockwell, October 1987
[extracts only]
What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national security syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. manipulates the press. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S. is pouring money into El Salvador, and preparing to invade Nicaragua; how all of this concerns us so directly. I'm going to try to explain to you the other side of terrorism; that is, the other side of what Secretary of State Shultz talks about....
Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or another, already in the public records. You can dig it all out for yourselves, without coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based on information gotten out of the CIA under the freedom of information act, testimony before the Congress, hearings before the Senate Church committee, research by scholars, witness of people throughout the world who have been to these target areas that we'll be talking about. I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly conservative. We come from South Texas, East Texas...
I had a chance to go drinking with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was telling him frankly, 'sir, you know, this stuff doesn't make any sense, we're not saving anybody from anything, and we are corrupting people, and everybody knows we're doing it, and that makes the U.S. look bad'.....
I knew the CIA was not a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard way. But the question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, and I had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....
I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based on truly important, threatening information, threatening to our national security interests. If that had been the case, I still planned to get out of the CIA, but I would know that the system, the invisible government, our national security complex, was in fact justified and worth while. And so I took the job.... Suffice it to say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found these wise men making these tough decisions. What I found, quite frankly, was fat old men sleeping through sub-committee meetings of the NSC in which we were making decisions that were killing people in Africa. I mean literally. Senior ambassador Ed Mulcahy... would go to sleep in nearly every one of these meetings...
Now, the most significant thing that I got out of
all of this, in addition to the fact that our rationales were
basically false, was that we lied.
To just about everybody involved. One third of my
staff in this task force that I put together in Washington,
commanding this global operation, pulling strings all over the
world to focus pressure onto Angola, and military activities into
Angola, one third of my staff was
propagandists, who were working, in every way
they could to create this picture of Cubans raping Angolans,
Cubans and Soviets introducing arms into the conflict, Cubans and
Russians trying to take over the world.....
Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read
continuous statements of our position to the Security Council,
the general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the
Russians and Cubans were responsible for the conflict, and that
we were staying out, and that we deplored the militarization of
the conflict.
And every statement he made was
false. And every statement he made was originated
in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we managed this
thing. The state department press person read these position
papers daily to the press. We would write papers for him. Four
paragraphs. We would call him on the phone and say, `call us 10
minutes before you go on, the situation could change overnight,
we'll tell you which paragraph to read. And all four paragraphs
would be false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on
events, to create this impression of Soviet and Cuban aggression
in Angola. When they were in fact
responding to our initiatives....
We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very bloody....
We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these things....
The people that are dying in these things are people of the third world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of the third world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them couldn't give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism....
And we are responsible for doing these things, on a massive basis, to people of the world today. And we do it in a way that gives us this plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a CIA, a secret police, we give them a vast budget, and we let them go and run these programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going on, although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like it's ok because we're fighting some vague communist threat. And we're just as responsible for these 1 to 3 million people we've slaughtered and for all the people we've tortured and made miserable, as the Gestapo was the people that they've slaughtered and killed. Genocide is genocide!...
We are killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in Nicaragua but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today, CIA covert actions going on around the world today....
You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms....
What they are
planning for this society, and this is why they're determined to
take us into a war if we'll permit it... is the
Reagan revolution.... So he's
getting himself some laws so when he puts in the
troops in Nicaragua, he can take
charge of the American people, and put people in jail, and kick
in their doors, and kill them if they don't like what he's doing....
The question is, `Are we going to
permit our leaders to take away our freedoms
because they have a charming smile and they were nice movie stars
one day, or are we going to stand up and fight, and insist on our
freedoms?' It's up to us - you and I can watch this history play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.....
The above comments were made by John Stockwell 10 October 1987 - now click here and fast forward those three years to the attack on Iraq 1990 - nlpwessex, and remember:
1987 - George Bush Snr in White House as Vice President, and former Director of the CIA
1990 - George Bush Snr in White House as President, and former Director of the CIA
2001 - George Bush Jnr in White House as
President: "'[On Sept 11]
After dividing the work among his closest aides, Bush
instructed a military operator to place a call from Air
Force One to the last American who had to grapple with
the decision of whether and how to go to war. When his father came on the line, Bush cleared the
cabin so they could confer privately."
Time
Magazine, 24 September 2001
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/nfallout.html
Iraqgate Phase III - Texan Congressman speaks of 'Forbidden Truth' - 6 Dec 2001
According to a report from Oxfam, in modern conflicts over 80 percent of all casualties have been civilian and 90 percent of these are caused by small arms.
"From Richard Nixon to Bill
Clinton, it has been an article of faith for executive branch
policy makers that U.S. weapons exports are only made to
responsible allies who use these systems for legitimate defensive
purposes. This report puts that thesis to the test by documenting
U.S. weapons deliveries to 50 current ethnic and territorial
conflicts. Contrary to the conventional wisdom in Washington, official U.S. government data on arms
transfers provides overwhelming circumstantial evidence that
U.S.-supplied weaponry is at the center of many of today's most
dangerous and intractable conflicts:
- In the past ten years, parties to 45 current conflicts have
taken delivery of over $42 billion worth of U.S. weaponry... Of
the significant ethnic and territorial conflicts going on during
1993-94, 90% (45 out of 50) of them involved one or more parties
that had received some U.S. weaponry or military technology in
the period leading up to the conflict...Two of the men convicted in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing received weapons training in Afghanistan
under the direction of fundamentalist Islamic forces that were armed and trained
by the CIA. "
Weapons at War:
May 1995 - A World Policy Institute Issue Brief
by William D. Hartung
"Since 1990, the
United States has exported more than $152 billion worth of
weapons to states around the world. Many of these sales have been
to repressive and/or unstable governments. This section provides
general arms sales statistics and highlights policies of concern
in some of America's major client states."
Federation
of American Scientists - Arms Sales Monitoring Project
"Many of the
same American corporate executives who have reaped millions of
dollars from arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy have
served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S.
government,
public records show..... A
significant portion of the millions of dollars U.S. companies and
their politically influential executives have earned in deals
with the Saudis has been through military contracts... "
Boston Herald, 12 Dec 2001
(reminder from NLPWessex - most of the Sept 11 hijackers were
allegedly from Saudi Arabia)
"The major
function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people ...
from knowing what the nation's leaders are doing."
John Stockwell,
former CIA official and author
"The Bush
administration, citing executive privilege for the first time,
refused Thursday to honor subpoenas from a House committee
investigating ..... the use of informants in organized crime
investigations....[including] a former federal drug enforcement
agent.... Burton subpoenaed 17 sets of documents related to the
FBI investigations and informants beginning 1965 and continuing
through the present hunt .... Every request was denied,
apparently under orders of the President."
NewMax.com 14 Dec 2001
More
Arms Trade Reports at
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports.html
http://www.clw.org/atop/atn/atnmain.html
US
Schools of Terrorism
"Beyond
the School of the Americas:
U.S. Military Training Programs Here and
Abroad"
A World Policy
Institute Issue Brief - May 2000
US State Department sponsors training of
would-be terrorists
By Al Martin
PREVENTING TERRORISM |
Terrorist
reprisals are all but certain now that the U.S. has launched its
military campaign to 'eradicate' terrorism. For this reason, a
proven solution to terrorism is especially urgent. Please follow
the link below, read carefully, and act decisively. There is no
other effective defense against terrorism.
Please
click here
NLPWessex War-Against-Terrorism Bulletins
WAT news media updates - click here
Iraqgate Phase III - Texan Congressman speaks of
'Forbidden Truth' - 6 Dec 2001
CIA
provided funds to financiers of Sept 11 bomber - 18 Nov 2001
'Getting
back to normal' - 4 Nov 2001
Global War - 'It's the oil stupid' - 3
Nov 2001
US
funds terrorists in Eastern Europe - Bush must go - 31 Oct 2001
The Real Bush Agenda - 28 Oct
2001
Islam, Vedic Defence and World Peace -
24 Oct 2001
Sept 11 Deja Vu? - 22 Oct 2001
Mr Bush, Mr Blair: Either you are for
World Peace, or you are against it - 22 Sept 2001
Global Security - The time for
'conservative' thinking is over - 16 Sept 2001
War on Whom? - 15 Sept 2001
WORLD PEACE AND
RECONCILIATION - THE THIRD WAY - 14 Sept 2001
Hagelin
Responds To Attacks on US - A Message From NLP Leaders 13 Sept
2001
A New Paradigm in Global Security - 12 Sept 2001
NATURAL LAW PARTY
WESSEX
nlpwessex@bigfoot.com
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex