This is in response to Armando's
comment in this
diary about the double standard being applied to different theories about Bush's level of complicity in the London bombings.
Hi Armando
I'm glad you pointed this obvious double standard! So lemme see if I got it right here...
If a news story with evidence appears outside the mainstream media suggesting that Bush and his puppetmasters deliberately engineered the London bombings for political gain, then it is a wild conspiracy theory worthy only of vigorous ridicule and possible banning.
But if a news story with evidence appears inside the mainstream media suggesting that Bush and his puppetmasters unwittingly assisted the London bombers for political gain, then it is widely hailed as the most important revelation of the year and is immediately front-paged.
Is that about right?
I'm sure your first line of denial will be that there is no evidence that the London bombings were an inside job.
Except
there
is:
- Right after the bombing, the AP reported that Scotland Yard warned the Israeli embassy immediately before the attacks, and that as a result Netanyahu did not travel to a hotel near one of the blast sites as was his original plan.
- First the police said the three underground blasts were spread over a 30-minute time period, then they said the blasts happened within seconds of each other. First they said the bomb was a crude device, then they said it was military-grade. First they said there were 7-8 blasts, then they narrowed them down to four.
- The Fed injected a multi-year record high amount of permanent liquidity into the money supply just two days before the bombings. This Republican financial analyst notes the injection was suspiciously well-timed to support the stock market on 7/7, when the bombing news would otherwise have pushed the market down.
- Security exercises were taking place at the exact same time and locations as the real bombings. Here is the video.
- Blair rejected requests to investigate the bombings, saying it would be a "ludicrous diversion." This mirrors Bush's initial refusal to investigate 9-11.
- London is the most closely monitored city in the world with the average resident appearing on 300 different security cameras around the city every day. Nonetheless, the terrorists appeared on none of the cameras and even the camera on the stricken bus was apparantly not working. Tapes similarly went missing after Oklahoma City and after the Pentagon on 9-11.
You won't find
The Nation or
Democracy Now! reporting these inconvenient facts and analyses because they cannot upset their corporate backers and advertisers who have a vested interest in defining the "left-most" acceptable limits of respectable journalism. But we here at dailykos are supposed to be above these corrupting corporate influences, which is why I am so surprised and disappointed to see the double standard alive and well here.
Indeed nowadays it seems the most ardent defenders of our Constitution and Bill of Rights are relegated to the "far-left" and "far-right" extremes of our false political spectrum. These disparate defenders comprise people from all walks of life from lefty atheists to conservative christians, but they are coming together in political alliance over precisely these issues of exposing state-sponsored terrorism, protecting civil liberties, regaining the right to privacy, and reinstating posse comitatus laws to demilitarize local police and roll back the police state in America.
Isn't this something that we here at dailykos should be a part of?
Before you launch into a breathless evisceration of these web sites because they contain now or have contained in the past some items that you don't believe are true, try the same credibility test with any mainstream news web site that has reported known lies in the past. Is there a double standard lurking here as well?
In case you spend less time studying the myriad murderous ways that Wall Street and the CIA conspire to scare and control the American people than I do, let me add that there are wheels within wheels to all these terrorist stories. Just like the pod theory about 9-11 is a red herring planted to distract us from the real questions about 9-11, so I suggest that this story about the Khan outing may be a red herring to distract us from the real story of the London bombings, using the implied Bush character flaw of incompetence to inoculate us against the real Bush crime of complicity.
It is infinitely less harmful to the corporate establishment for us all to believe that Bush is an incompetant bumbler constantly missing chances to catch terrorists, failing to stop terrorist attacks, and even outing Al-Qaeda informers for short-term political gain than for us all to believe that the only terrorists we should fear are those funded and controlled by our own intelligence agencies, which themselves have a long rich history of planning and carrying out terrorist activities all over the world and at home. Bush will eventually go away, but the CIA, MI5 and Mossad will not.
And its not like there have been no whistle-blowers out there warning us.
Think for a moment about what this thesis that Bush's team are consistent bunglers implies. Above all it implies they are genuinely a bunch of stupid idiots. To miss catching bin Laden again and again and again. To miss killing al-Zarqawi again and again and again. To "accidentally" out an al-Qaeda informant. I mean, they would have to be really stupid and really idiotic. But surely we are not comforting ourselves with the false notion that Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz are idiots! You think they got where they are because they are stupid?
They are not idiots - they know exactly what they are doing and they know exactly what the consequences of their actions are. For us to believe any different is self-delusion.
Who knows, maybe this Rove scandal and now this Khan outing are signs that Bush is becoming an untenable asset and the puppetmasters will have to find a new puppet. But make no mistake, this War on Terror will continue regardless of whether it is a Democrat or a Republican in the White House.
Democrats are equally complicit. Remember how Clinton passed up several oppportunties to catch known terrorists? It is a false political spectrum - there can be no difference between the parties when both are controlled by Wall Street and corporate America.
Democrats passed the Patriot Act 99-1, Democrats authorized the invasion of Iraq, Democrats just passed Patriot Act 2 out of committee by way of secret vote. Democrats want to expand our armed services, Democrats support the draft and even Howard Dean has no plans to cut the bloated corporate welfare package that is the defense budget for fear he would look weak on terrorism. These facts are all disheartening to progressives.
The most effective way for progressives to sort out who in the Democratic party is a help and who is a hinderance in the effort to stop this police state catalyst known as the War on Terror is to ask all incumbents and candidates to state publicly whether they support an investigation into the possiblity that 9-11 was an inside job. Anything less than that and we are fucked. Our political establishment has declared that the War on Terror will never end. Think about that - IT WILL NEVER FUCKING END! This is the permanent state of war that Orwell predicted! Does this concern you at all?
We had a War on Poverty during Reagan and poverty went up! We had a War on Drugs during Bush and illegal drug smuggling skyrocketed. Now we are having a War on Terror...what do you think is going to happen?
Also see:
"London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm
"When the Cops Are the Crooks"
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3318
"Al Qaeda Website Tracks Back to...Maryland?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/alqmaryland.html
"Who's Behind the Bombings in London Town?"
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3325
"The London Bombings"
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3324
"London Blasts Boost Bush and Blair"
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/070705Ruyssenaars/070705ruyssenaars.html
"al-Qu'eda or al-a'diversion?'
http://www.globalresearch.ca (at Home page, search for Article 661)
"Has the British Government Aided Bin Laden's Sect?"
http://www.thewahhabimyth.com
http://www.911truth.org
http://www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.prisonplanet.com/911.html