The Crusade

On September 11, 2001, I awoke to find that my birth place, New York City, and my adolescent home, Washington D.C. were 'under attack'. Shaken to my core, I rushed to the nearest T.V. in time to watch the plane hit the second tower. Then, as I watched to see how they would put out the fires, the first tower was demolished.

As I said, I was born in N.Y.C. and for kicks we would watch old apartment buildings get demolished, imploded, collapsed. I had seen it so many times, that when the first tower fell, I knew it was intentionally demolished. I knew what my eyes told me. And I knew what my heart was telling me. And because of the amazing schooling I was afforded, I knew what was happening. This was the final push.

On Sunday, September 16, 2001, less than one week after the towers fell, George Bush Jr. declared a Crusade. Ever since 911, everything that has happened, has happened as a direct result of that day.

Since that day, we have seen the suspension of Habeas Corpus, the right to free speech and dissent, the right to protest, the right to privacy, search and seizure laws, all but vanish. We have had a Supreme Court expanding the rights of corporations while reducing the rights of the individual citizen. We have seen the complete corruption of our Judicial system to justify this war on terror, this Crusade. We watched as the Executive Branch routinely snubbed it's nose at the Congress and continues to this day to claim 'executive privilege' to justify renditions and secret prisons.

As long as we have an ambiguous 'war on terror', we have an Executive Branch that can operate under the War Powers Act and everything can be classified under National Security.

In Orwellian fashion the realities of this crime; this horrible unspeakable act against our own citizenry, have been transformed from an obviously psychopathic, tyrannical evil, that has no place amongst humans, to a question of whether or not we have the moral authority to do whatever is necessary to root out evil. Even the left-leaning media continues this dialogue, as if it had merit to discuss.

What happened on 911 was a crime. If it turns out that this crime was perpetuated in order to justify a Crusade, then what we have is one of the largest atrocities ever known, in any time.

Imagine;

1) Create a catastrophe on your home soil

2) Create one Central Authority to manage FEMA, NSA, CIA, FBI, state and local police, ie; Homeland Security. (How Orwellian is that?)

3) Wage a vengeance war on Afghanistan and take control of the poppy production. (In 2007, opium production out supplied its demand for the first time in recorded history.)

4) Appoint a politically ambitious Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, and stack the Federal Courts with politically appointed judges, Bybee,for one.

5) Seek judicial clearance, from said corrupt judges, to justify torturing confessions from prisoners that Iraq and Al Qaeda were linked.

6) Lie to the Congress to justify a war with Iraq, (based on confessions from tortured children), in order to gain control of their oil fields. (Exxon topped out the Fortune 500 list this quarter, Number 1 on the Charts)

7) Create a private army, to perform assassinations and covert operations, that doesn't answer to military or civilian authority, only to the executive branch.

8) Out a covert CIA operative in a time of war because her husband had proof that the justification for the war was based on faulty intelligence and lies.

9) Bankrupt the country by literally robbing the bank. (The largest withdrawal in U.S. Banking history was made from the New York Federal Reserve, 2.5 billion dollars, in cash, on pallets, loaded into an 18 wheeler and disappeared.)

10) Announce, after losing the election and leaving behind moles in the highest levels of government, that the new President has made the country less safe.

What happens next should be obvious.

And yet, the so-called news outlets entertain the conversation of whether it is viable to prosecute these barbarians, these animals. They are even going so far as to debate whether or not we should be torturing someone, if it provides valuable information.

What George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Carl Rove and everyone else who participated in these atrocities did were crimes against humanity. And as long as this goes unpunished, we are all responsible for these crimes.

We can say that we acquiesced our rights because we were afraid. Because we needed the security of a strong defense. We can say that and we can fool ourselves into believing that we didn't know, that we couldn't believe our own government would do something so horrible, so blatantly evil. We could. And maybe, just maybe, we might even believe it, a little.

But when Orwellian terms like Homeland Security, and devices such as the microwave gun and the crowd dispersing ray gun, and the ever growing population of unmanned, heavily armed, drone aircraft and tanks with ray guns start to become a part of our every day vernacular, we have crossed the line of ignorance, and moved into denial.

Make no mistake about it, this is a Crusade. But it is not the Crusade that has been presented to us. No. It is not the wars and the terror and the clashes of religions, nor the long fought wars over territory or minerals. No. This is a Crusade against us, the people. As long as things continue to blow up, as long as there is an avian flu, or a swine flu, or drug resistant TB, or Aids, as long as there are people starving to death while there are warehouses of food rotting in storage, as long as we continue to entertain a conversation over whether or not torture works, the Crusade continues to be waged. And won. It is a Crusade against our rights as Humans. It is a Crusade being waged in such an Orwellian fashion that we are asking to have our rights taken away from us, in order to have a false sense of security.

But in the end, we will have surrendered our rights to the very people whom aim to enslave us.