I Do Not Believe In Coincidences

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1. 

   Arthur Gilroy on May 21, 2009 at 8:12 pm

   asks Big Dick.

   And the answer?

   You ain’t gonna do shit about it except talk among yourselves.

   You will blame assholes and buffoons like Rush Limbaugh and then listen raptly to other hypemasters…ones who “agree” with you (ones who present propaganda that you are predisposed to swallow) like the MSNBC crew. (MSNBC-More Shit Not Being Covered)

   Betcha they won’t say anything about this farce either. Nothing substantive. Not unless told to do so by their masters they won’t.

   Examine their sponsors and then step away from the TV with your brains in the air.

   I dare ya, you bunch of degenerate media junkies.

   I dare ya.

   AG

   P.S. It worked. Cheney’s shit is being accorded jowl-shakingly serious attention all over the media.

   Those terr’ists!!! Why…they’re home grown!!! Mebbe Unca Dick is right!!!

   Deep.

   Can’t wait for the next shoe to drop.

   And rest assured…it will.

   Bet on it.

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     BooMan on May 21, 2009 at 8:34 pm

     i think you’re way off on this one.  But for shits and giggles, give me a minute to google you a present.

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       Zandar1 on May 23, 2009 at 9:34 am

       I don’t.  Three things.

       1. Did America manage to not suffer another 9/11?
       2. Did universal health care pass with a public option?
       3. Did the economy finally get back on its feet?

       If you can answer yes to all three questions in 2012, then the GOP is dead and gone, the way of the dodo.  The Powers That Be know this.

       If you were the GOP arm of The Powers That Be, what’s the fastest way to prevent all three from happening?

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     BooMan on May 21, 2009 at 8:38 pm

     Ah, yes, my neurons are still firing.  From the New York Times, October 28, 1993.  I never forget this stuff.  

     Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

     The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.

     The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as being in a far better position than previously known to foil the February 26th bombing of New York City’s tallest towers.

     The explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand people injured, and damages in excess of half-a-billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court [on charges of involvement] in that attack.

     Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army officer, was used by the Government [of the United States] to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists who are now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack, and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels, and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the World Trade Center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I.

     Supervisor `Messed It Up’

     After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I. supervisor who, he said, “came and messed it up.”

     “He requested to meet me in the hotel,” Mr. Salem says of the supervisor.

     “He requested to make me to testify, and if he didn’t push for that, we’ll be going building the bomb with a phony powder, and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn’t do that.”

     The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington about the Bureau’s failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev.

     Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev had told him,

     “He said, I don’t think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York Office to go to Washington, D.C.”

     Another agent, identified as Nancy Floyd, does not dispute Mr. Salem’s account, but rather, appears to agree with it, saying of the `New York people’:

     “Well, of course not, because they don’t want to get their butts chewed.”

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       Arthur Gilroy on May 22, 2009 at 12:02 am

       is mainstream intel style.

       Remember…they are the same sorts of fools that run the rest of the government and corporate world. Total fuckups and ass-kissers who were born with enough position to get into good schools and enough ass kissing talent to graduate from them and thrive in the corporate/governmental world.

       Rotted through and through, that part of this system. We survive despite its existence, not because of it. All of the real work is done elsewhere. These people just act as overseers and parasites.

       Remember…this is a massive superpower that has essentially been defeated by little Vietnamese guerrillas in pajamas and relatively untrained Muslim partisans using pipe bombs and converted Toyota pickups.

       The media’s sole duty is to spin a coverup story that hides these simple truths from the media-hypnotized, media-addicted American public.

       That story in its entirety is called our “culture”.

       Sad shit, Booman.

       Sad shit.

       AG

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       Oui on May 22, 2009 at 12:04 am

       .
       The link you found has as headline:
       “CBS NEWS report about FBI foreknowledge of the World Trade Center bombing.”

       The Twin Tower destruction and the 911 terrorists were tracked by multiple intelligence agencies in Germany, the U.S. and by the Mossad.

       This week’s headline in Great Britain about the 7/7 bombing of the London subway:
       MI5 Missed Chance to Stop 2005 London Bombers

       "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   Oui on May 22, 2009 at 12:12 am

   .
   As soon as Gordon Brown took over as Labor’s PM of Britain, the last of the foiled terror plots took place. We’ve had the foiled ricin attack, fertilizer terror and fluids on airliners plots under Blair’s “watch”.

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

3. 

   Alice on May 22, 2009 at 9:30 am

   Missed you, Arthur.  This is delightful – “jowl-shakingly serious attention”

4. 

   Quentin on May 23, 2009 at 10:59 am

   See Robert Dreyfuss, Yet another bogus terror plot, in The Nation.

   You can link to it also on antiwar.com.

   Oh, how sweet it is!

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     Arthur Gilroy on May 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm

     Good minds surf alike, I guess.

     AG

5. 

   Arthur Gilroy on May 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm

   At least some of the media is getting it right.

   Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation.

   Yet Another Bogus “Terror” Plot

   By the now, it’s maddeningly familiar. A scary terrorist plot is announced. Then it’s revealed that the suspects are a hapless bunch of ne’er-do-wells or run-of-the-mill thugs without the slightest connection to any terrorists at all, never mind to Al Qaeda. Finally, the last piece of the puzzle: the entire plot is revealed to have been cooked up by a scummy government agent-provocateur.

   I’ve seen this movie before.

   In this case, the alleged perps — Onta Williams, James Cromitie, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen — were losers, ex-cons, drug addicts. Al Qaeda they’re not. Without the assistance of the agent who entrapped them, they would never have dreamed of committing political violence, nor would they have had the slightest idea about where to acquire plastic explosives or a Stinger missile. That didn’t stop prosecutors from acting as if they’d captured Osama bin Laden himself. Noted the Los Angeles Times:

   Prosecutors called it the latest in a string of homegrown terrorism plots hatched after Sept. 11.

   “It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Eric Snyder said in court Thursday. He described all four suspects as “eager to bring death to Jews.”

   Actually, it’s hard to imagine a stupider, less competent, and less important plot. The four losers were ensnared by a creepy FBI agent who hung around the mosque in upstate New York until he found what he was looking for. Here’s the New York Times account:

   Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, the imam at the mosque where the authorities say the confidential informant first encountered the men, said none of the men were active in the mosque. …
   Mr. Cromitie was there last June, and he met a stranger.

   He had no way of knowing that the stranger’s path to the mosque began in 2002, when he was arrested on federal charges of identity theft. He was sentenced to five years’ probation, and became a confidential informant for the F.B.I. He began showing up at the mosque in Newburgh around 2007, Mr. Muhammad said.

   The stranger’s behavior aroused the imam’s suspicions. He invited other worshipers to meals, and spoke of violence and jihad, so the imam said he steered clear of him.

   “There was just something fishy about him,” Mr. Muhammad said. Members “believed he was a government agent.”

   Mr. Muhammad said members of his congregation told him the man he believed was the informant offered at least one of them a substantial amount of money to join his “team.”

   So a creepy thug buttonholes people at a mosque, foaming at the mouth about violence and jihad? This is law enforcement? Just imagine if someone did this at a local church, or some synagogue. And the imam says the people “believed he was a government agent.”

   Preying on these losers, none of whom were apparently actual Muslims, the “confidential informant” orchestrated the acquisition of a disabled Stinger missile to shoot down military planes and cooked up a wild scheme about attacking a Jewish center in the Bronx.

   It gets even more pathetic:

   The only one of the four suspects who appears to have aroused any suspicion was Payen, a Haitian native who attended the Newburgh mosque. Assistant imam Hamid Rashada said his dishevelment and odd behavior disturbed some members, said the assistant imam, Hamid Rashada.

   When Payen appeared in court, defense attorney Marilyn Reader described him as “intellectually challenged” and on medication for schizophrenia. The Associated Press said that when he was asked if he understood the proceedings, Payen replied: “Sort of.”

   Despite the pompous statements from Mayor Bloomberg of New York and other politicians, including Representative Peter King, the whole story is bogus. The four losers may have been inclined to violence, and they may have harbored a virulent strain of anti-Semitism. But it seems that the informant whipped up their violent tendencies and their hatred of Jews, cooked up the plot, incited them, arranged their purchase of weapons, and then had them busted. To ensure that it made headlines, the creepy informant claimed to be representing a Pakistani extremist group, Jaish-e Muhammad, a bona fide terrorist organization. He wasn’t, of course.

   It is disgusting and outrageous that the FBI is sending provocateurs into mosques.

   The headlines reinforce the very fear that Dick Cheney is trying to stir up. The story strengthens the narrative that the “homeland” is under attack. It’s not. As I’ve written repeatedly, since 9/11 not a single American has even been punched in the nose by an angry Muslim, as far as I can tell. Plot after plot — the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge! bombing the New York Subways! taking down the Sears Tower! bombing the Prudential building in Newark! — proved to be utter nonsense.

   “The headlines reinforce the very fear that Dick Cheney is trying to stir up.”

   Precisely.

   Coincidence?

   I don’t think so.

   Later…

   S.

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     Arthur Gilroy on May 23, 2009 at 12:41 pm

     Quentin already referenced this article

     Duh.

     Sorry.

     AG

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       Quentin on May 26, 2009 at 12:28 pm

       It’s worth reading twice.

6. 

   parvenu on May 23, 2009 at 3:02 pm

   AG, I’m with you on this…100% The chicanery lies in the characters that make up this super DANGEROUS gang of terrorists. Three of the gang are supposed to have converted to Islam while in prison. These men are James Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams. James the most talkative member of the group has been dubbed the ring leader and all of the descriptions of the plans hatched by the group to the media have come from this man. Cromitie when asked what was the reason for his Jihad against America, stated that his family comes from Afghanistan and that he has had family members killed by American troops over there. What a story!Unbelievable….

   The fouth member of the group, LaGuerre Payen, is a Haitian citizen who suffers from schizophrenia and is BiPolar. Payen also can’t read or write. Does Mr. Payen’s mental description sound like he could be a key member in a nefarious plot to blow up Jewish Synagogues and shoot down American Military planes?
   IMHO he appears more like those pathetic wandering street people that most Americans try to ignore.

   Nowhere in the news reports of the arrest of these “terrorists” does the media even suggest the possibility of entrapment of these individuals in a web spun by the Government’s so called anonymous undercover agent.

   However the national media did do one thing. They made sure that the public was treated with a generous supply of photographs of three of the four suspects, all clearly African American burly men. Closeup shots of the faces of each suspect show the hated visages of black men that Americans have had a phobic fear of for centuries.

   This is most likely the main reason no questions are being raised about the validity of their “plot”. In conjunction with Dick Cheney’s fear mongering, most Americans are saying within their hearts, “Just look at them! You know that they were planning to do something dreadful.”

   So I am afraid AG because fear and prejudice are still rampart in this country, Americans will never wake up!