MPG
San Francisco, CA.
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13th mailing 08-29-05
No responses received
except for one, a one liner. The rest were auto-replies and one
echo-back. None sent besides this mailing number 13. If
you’ve received anything else it wasn’t from me.
Since I wrote my last
letter I was sure the ‘mainstream media’ of this country, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NPR, PBS etc. would bow to
the inevitable and recognize the futility of ignoring the barrage of
facts out there on the web detailing this government’s murderous
crimes. Motivated and encouraged by the enormous amount of
excellent information available they would begin to investigate our
nation’s leaders and what they have done to this country.
I was wrong.
I no longer find it
remarkable that the U.S.’s ‘mainstream media’ still adamantly refuse to
investigate the real motives behind 911. Perhaps they consider 911 a
fait a’compli and therefore not worth their attention. Perhaps
they feel the deaths of those 3,500 Americans should only serve our
elite’s pious exhortations of obedience to lay down our lives for an
endless series of causes that have already proven to be untrue. Perhaps
the U.S. media really don’t care about their reputations. Perhaps
it’s just a matter of a paycheck to them.
What I do find remarkable
however, and to be quite honest, unbelievably absurd is their lack of
coverage regarding our governments continued and on-going malfeasance
in the “war on terror”.
Given the overwhelming
evidence, the thousands of letters, e-mails, blogs and foreign
newspaper articles generated every day uncovering this administration’s
lies one would think sheer embarrassment or perhaps a residual sense of
morality would have impelled these “institutions of the forth estate”
to do their duty. As has been the case for far to long however
they have shown obedience only to their corporate obligations rather
then the people, their readers and the citizens of this country, whom
they are supposed to serve.
It’s almost as if they
still don’t realize there’s something out there called the world wide
web, that people can actually get on it, and use it to discover the
truth.
Using a few of the articles
I’ve collected and an old 33k dial-up modem I obtained the following
web sites in less then 90 minutes. Think of what you could do
with a high-speed line and a few hours.
NOTE : I have no connection
with any of the sites listed below, nor do they with me. Simply
consider them as annotations supporting what I’ve written and an
encouragement for you to do your own research.
Specific Articles
http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
http://tvnewslies.org/html/stop_ignoring_9_11__pnac.html
http://whatreallyhappened.com/911_reichstag.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOR505A.html
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1574.htm
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg
http://www.wanttoknow.info/coverupnews#a911
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050718/holtzman
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/24/120.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GG09Ak01.html
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/03nation
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/02usa
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/07instability
http://bushwatch.com/floydspring05.htm
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/tattoo-nation-america-pays-cover.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GG19Ag04.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201447.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/25/content_472089.htm
http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20050219164651234
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3071
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=6300
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/nyt-6-25-05c.html
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050620/why_george_went_to_war.php
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/thou_shalt_not_accuse_.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOR505A.html
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=80&ItemID=8583
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050802coverupnewssummary
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/06-28-05/discussion.cgi.62.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRinIraq.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/319471.html
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001050106
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9698.htm
http://www.rinf.com/news/aug-05/57.html
Main Web Sites
http://www.wanttoknow.info/
http://www.globalpolicy.org/
http://www.thenation.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://mondediplo.com/
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
http://www.tompaine.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://alternet.org/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/terror_war/tw_wk197.html
http://www.zmag.org/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/
http://crisispapers.org/
http://www.pinr.com/
If you are a regular viewer
or reader of the ‘mainstream media’ and discover it’s the first time
you’ve read about these issues, ask yourself why?
The U.S. media’s lack of
coverage regarding our government’s past and current crimes is of
course an important issue. It is a moral imperative to bring all the
people to justice in the U.S. who helped facilitate 911, those
wonderful, brilliant individuals who ‘somehow’ so ‘fortuitously’
pre-positioned themselves to make money off of it, the ones who
exploited it as a reason de’ettra to launch a war on the rest of the
world.
However I am well
aware that tens of millions of my fellow citizens along with the
‘mainstream’ US media would consider this belief to be a personal
failing. That at best it’s simply an eccentricity for someone to feel
this way, at worst it’s a sign of insanity.
But ALL of you, EVERYONE OF
YOU should ask yourself this question. Would the US’s media warn
us of upcoming terrorist ‘events’?
Obviously our media would
report information of an impending attack to the ‘proper’ authorities,
whoever they would be. But would our media tell us if these
authorities took any action
Like our authorities, our
‘mainstream’ media has so far shown a complete and utter inability to
‘follow the money’ especially when it might lead to any of the powerful
or wealthy in our society or even to foreign countries like Saudi
Arabia. Would our media expose issues, evidence, preparations,
unauthorized FBI, CIA or NSA leaks, or warnings, of another attack to
help prevent one; if by so doing they endangered the profits of, or
would cause embarrassment to, the powerful few. Or would they remain
silent as they have for the last four years and let another ‘event’
take place?
And if such an ‘event’ were
to happen again would our ‘mainstream” media try to salvage what little
remains of their credibility as the New York Times tried to do when it
printed it’s mea culpa. An insipid apology of how they were
“fooled” by our leader’s lies and falsehoods in the run-up to the Iraq
war?
Or would any of them even
bother?
By their silence, most of
our ‘mainstream’ media have become the enablers, abettors, and
facilitators of the absolute evil that has corrupted this nation.
They are as much to blame for this evil as the current administration
they so obviously support.
So ask yourself this
question. Given what’s gone on for the last four years, what’s more
important to our wealthy elites and the media empires they operate;
their money; or your lives?
Every time you buy a
‘mainstream’ newspaper, every time you listen to a ‘mainstream’
broadcast, every time you speak to a ‘mainstream’ reporter, never
forget that question.
Never ever forget.
So in an effort to provide
a little more clarity about what’s to happen over the next four years,
I decided to conduct a second interview with Mr. Reficul. Enjoy.
A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE
CREATURE
It was midday, the hottest
it had ever been in Arizona. The sun was blazing down out of the clear
blue sky, not an animal was stirring in the midday heat, not a mouse or
a rabbit, not even a bird. Nothing moved in the baking hot emptiness
but me, and I was cold with fear, for I was about to meet the man
America had chosen to follow, the real power behind the throne of the
American Empire. Mr Nellaf Legna Reficul
I stared up at Mr Reficul’s
airy perched on a massive red rock formation three hundred feet above
me as I considered whether to meet him. After summoning up what little
courage I had left, I got back into my car and proceeded up the twisty
hairpin single lane road that led to the back of the immense structure
Mr. Reficul called home.
Mr. Reficul greeted me at
the door to his foyer as impeccably dressed and immaculately groomed as
when we last met and welcomed me courteously across the threshold into
his home.
He seemed even more
immeasurably pleased with himself then he had during my first interview
with him. As we had during that prior meeting we retired to his immense
living room with its stunningly glorious panorama of the Arizona
desert, the city of Phoenix and the distant mountains beyond to conduct
our second interview.
He began by offering some
refreshments, which as I had before, I politely declined. I could never
explain to myself why I refused to take advantage of his hospitality
except for a feeling of unease that always overcame me when I thought
to do so.
I started with a general
question. “Well Mr Reficul you must be pleased with the outcome of the
most recent election?”
“Oh I’m delighted” He
replied, “I always knew the American people would vote for their best
interests, they always have in the past with only a few notable
exceptions.”
“So you’re happy with the
war in Iraq, with the way this administration is currently managing
this country’s affairs?” I replied.
“Of course” he said as he
beamed at me with pride and satisfaction, “my friends in Texas have
done everything I’ve asked of them, my oil profits are way up, the
shares of the defense and oil companies I own have sky rocketed, I’m
making more money hand over fist then I’ve ever made before, as I told
you I would when we last met, “ he paused, with an expression of
anticipation, “and there’s so much more to come.”
“I was a little
disappointed of course” he continued with a look of concern, “when they
started talking about this ‘freedom and democracy’ business, but after
a little coaching Bush went right back to the game plan, followed the
script, and emphasized the ‘war on terror’. I mean really,” he
said with disgust, “what would have happened to my arms business for
the next ten years if we didn’t have a continuous ‘war on terror’? How
could we maintain control of the U.S. population without a reason for
renewing the Patriot Act? By the way,” he said with a gleam in his eye,
and a knowing smirk” how did you like the London bombings, the way they
occurred two weeks prior to the Patriot Act renewal and three weeks
before the British Security Act renewal. Now wasn’t that ‘fortuitous’?”
I looked at him in
disbelief. “Mr. Reficul you don’t mean to tell me….” “Nothing” he
interrupted me abruptly, while giving me a warning glance, “absolutely
nothing” he said again as he leaned forward to get my attention, and
said sternly. “Remember this word of advice for your future plans kid,
never ever do anything directly, always use intermediaries, preferably
with as many intervening layers, third parties, cut-outs, patsies, etc
you can possibly have. Always preserve ‘plausible deniability’ and
never ever tell anyone what actually occurred. But you can hint.” He
finished with a sly wink and a smile as he leaned back in his chair.
“Just like my friend Dick did when he said before the last elections,
‘if you don’t vote Republican there will be another terrorist attack.”
Stunned for a brief moment
I paused to collect myself and asked, “So what’s going to happen to
Iraq now?”
“War,” he said as he smiled
savagely, “continuous, beautiful, profitable, delicious, endless war.
So far everyone is doing what they’re supposed to do, the Saudis are
supplying the foreign resistance in Iraq to keep ‘the pot bubbling’ and
help divide any national resistance movements as I told you they would
at our last meeting,” he looked at me, I nodded my head in assent. “We
do have the problem of that stupid Moqtada al-Sadr running around
saying he wants a nationalist not a federalist government. We can’t
have that; it could lead to a national resistance movement. Who would
have figured a Shi’ite helping to hold Iraq together with the Sunnis,”
Mr Reficul wondered bemusedly, “but you don’t have to worry about him,
something ‘fortuitous’ will happen to him.”
“Admittedly all this
‘bubbling’ is causing a shortfall in oil production from Iraq but
that’s why we and our Saudi friends are getting such high prices for
our products, not to mention the enormous profits we’re reaping from
our mutual interests in our various defense contractors”
With an upraised eyebrow,
he asked, changing the subject abruptly, “have you ever heard about
Corcoran prison?”
I’ve heard about it, there
was some sort of scandal there if I recall,” I replied, “why do you
ask?”
“Because it’s an excellent
example of our strategy in Iraq, the Middle East, in fact,” he paused
for a moment, “our strategy throughout the entire world. Always,
always, always ‘divide an conquer’” He stated, with complete firmness.
“The scandal in Corcoran was caused because of those stupid bleeding
heart liberals. The whole thing was blown all out of proportion.
All that happened was the guards wanted to have a little playtime with
the prisoners, teach them what low life’s and garbage they really were.
Understand of course they weren’t able to have as much fun as some of
the guards did in Abu Ghraib, making snuff movies and all, but they
still had a good time.”
“You see after a few years
in our prison system, … how should I put this…” he paused while he
reflected on what to say, “after being subject to the lovely
environment we created, the prisoners would become ‘improvised’ in
body, mind and spirit. We would break them you see. Our methods
of control could be less refined, made to be more ‘simple’ so to speak.
It was at this point that the guards would have a little fun. They
would take a prisoner from one gang put him in a courtyard with another
from a rival gang and encourage them to fight to the death. If they
didn’t fight, the guards would simply shoot them. It would remind me of
the glorious days of the Roman coliseum” he finished wistfully.
“But can you believe for
simply having a little relaxation time” Mr. Reficul said with a frown
of disapproval,” some of these guards were actually arrested? How
silly can you get? It goes to show how many bleeding hearts we
have in this country. Luckily the juries that were selected acquitted
almost every one of the guards exactly as they did for the jailers in
charge of Abu Ghairab. Now we get to use these same wonderful
techniques on an entire country.”
“We play Sunnis against
Kurds, Kurds against Shi’ites, Shi’ites against Sunni. Anybody gets out
of line and misbehaves we kill them. They don’t do what we tell them to
do we kill them. All the while we keep playing one group against
another while our solders remain in their fortified bases. After
awhile everyone becomes real cooperative.”
“Ah” Mr. Reficul said with
a contemplative expression, ”you should have seen some of the videos
from Abu Ghairab, what was done to some of those young men before they
finally died was sublime.”
“The Moslems are so easy to
‘play’,” he continued sighing contentedly while gazing at the distant
desert mountains, “We’ll divide the whole middle east eventually by
playing the Sunni countries off against the Shi’ite. That’ll make
everything run predictably and smoothly for the Saudis and us for the
next ten years, and provide another pretext to attack Iran. After
that war is over we’ll just pick up the remaining pieces.”
“Think about it, we’ve been
planning this thing of ours for almost two decades. It’s been so easy
to play off these religious fanatics against each other, and not just
theirs either.” He said, as he turned to look at me “I mean twenty
years ago when the Bush family got together with the Saudis we in the
U.S. started, centralizing, organizing and financing the Christian
Right. While at the same time the Saudis started training, financing,
organizing and centralizing the extremist Wahabbisits in their country
and the Middle East. They get their fanatics to support their
policies; we get ours to support ours; everyone’s happy” he finished
contentedly.
Needless to say everyone
will assert it’s all just a coincidence, just a ‘fortuitous
circumstance’, just an accident of chance that Bush Senior, head of the
CIA twenty years ago developed this ‘special’ relationship with the
Saudis for which he and his family’s members are now receiving their
enormous and justly earned rewards, along with me of course.” Mr.
Reficul paused, and looked at me with a twinkle in his eye. “I just
love America, just imagine the American Christians helping me, of all
people, by sacrificing their own sons and daughters to make me
fabulously wealthy and allowing me to enjoy such delicious treats as
those videos from Abu Gharib, there really is justice in the world
after all, let me tell you.”
The only problem I have is
some of the Christians are talking to much,” he said irritably.
“We’ve already begun the buildup in South America and are getting set
to go after Venezuela as I said we would,” he paused and looked at me,
I nodded my head a second time in assent “Yet we’ve got loud
mouths like Pat Robertson running around spilling the beans. Who the
heck does he think he is saying we’re going to assassinate the
Venezuelan president Chavez? Of course we’re going to, but now he’s
made it truly difficult.” He finished with a look of anger. “Guys like
that deserve what happened to Gary Webb, the jerk who worked for the
San Jose Mercury news and spilled the beans on the CIA’s program to use
drug money to help support the contra’s. He truly got what he
deserved,” Mr. Reficul finished with a satisfied look.
“But what about the
people of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, what about the U.S.
military,” I stuttered inanely.
Mr. Reficul looked at me as
if he had just bit into something sour; I guess he’d finally gotten
impatient with my naiveté. “Look kid,” he said disdainfully” I
invited you here because I thought you were smart, I thought you wanted
to be a ‘player’, to teach you how the world works and here you are
thinking like an idiot and asking stupid questions. I’m beginning to
believe I’ve wasted my time.”
I tried to look abashed
while I came up with a clever response, and felt relieved as I thought
of one. Looking concerned I stated. “Well it’s not that I care about
the casualties Mr. Reficul, or the people who are dying it’s just that
your plans could be endangered be the growing anti-war movement and the
low opinion polls Bush is receiving because of the carnage.”
“Ha Ha Ha” Mr. Reficul
leaned back in his chair laughing so hard I thought he was going to
fall over. “The anti-war movement,” he said with contempt,” those
wimps, those dummies, you’ve got to be kidding me. They and the opinion
polls are just crud, you know what Bush’s approval ratings were right
after 911?” he asked sharply.
I shook my head no.
“90%, that’s what they
were” he replied, “and they’ll be the same again after the next
terrorist incident, which let me assure you will be a big one.
After that we will,” he said the next with a particularly venomous
expression,” get rid of all those ‘peace-niks’ permanently.”
I asked with a measure of
foreboding “How do you know we’ll have another ‘big one’?”
“Because this country
need’s to be motivated to go after Iran.” He said curtly.
“And when will this country
be ‘motivated’?” I inquired worriedly.
“Before the election next
year,” he replied assuredly, “the economy will be heading into a
recession by then as the housing market slows down and we’ll be able to
afford the extra cost of a war by dropping the interest rates. If not
by then it’ll happen prior to the next presidential election three
years from now. After all, we’ve run this scenario practically every
ten years.”
“We have?” I asked with
surprise.
“Sure” Mr. Reficul replied
with relish, “You yourself pointed out how our ambassador to Iraq
practically invited Saddam into Kuwait in ’92 right? Exactly when the
economy was having a little trouble, not so?”
“Yes” I said hesitantly.
“That was a great little
war, we made a ton of money on that one too, it was a little short but
you can’t have everything” he said happily, “and around ’82 good
ol’Ronnie did a number on our ‘friend’ Noriaga after the poor little
guy helped us out so much running drugs for Iran-Contra, hee-hee,
betch’a Noriaga didn’t see that one coming” He chortled, “along with
our invasion of Granada, our weapons build-up in Europe and the US
troops we put into Lebanon, we made a lot of money from our defense
contractors during those days.”
“Yeah I remember those
incidents,” I agreed with dawning understanding.
“We would have started a
nice war during the early ‘70’s but those pesky peace-niks and their
bleeding heart congressman got in our way, all because the US lost a
lousy 57,000 guys in Vietnam, hells bells what a bunch of cowardly
weaklings! That’s why we had to take over the U.S.’s mass media
market during the ‘80’s and ‘90’s and came up with the concept of the
“imbedded”, hee-hee,” he chuckled, “I should say ‘in-bed-with’
reporters for the Iraq war. We had to make sure nothing like that
ever happened again. And of course for those that weren’t ‘in-bed’ with
us in Iraq, let me say with some satisfaction they personally
experienced an unusually high rate of attrition, and still do to this
very day.” He said with a smirk.
“Then of course we started
Vietnam around ‘62, now there was a magnificent, beautiful war,” he
waxed nostalgically” We made so much money off our defense contractors
during Vietnam it would shock you and we managed to stretch it out for
ten glorious years despite the fact we couldn’t control the
media. I really liked that war.” He said looking wistfully at the
panorama of the desert, ”It was a near thing though, that schmuck
Kennedy was having second thoughts early on about the wisdom of the war
tell my Texas boys showed him a little Texas hospitality.”
“Johnson was much more
compatible with our goals” Mr. Reficul continued, “he complied with our
wishes regarding the war, but he was so stupid about everything else,
imagine, he actually tried to fund the war while giving money to poor
people at the same time. For hell’s sake what a stupid idea, he should
have done the smart thing like Bush did, fund the war while giving the
tax dollars to us, the wealthiest 1% who have done so much for this
country. If Johnson had done that, we might have selected him for
reelection.”
I sat stunned by the
simplicity of Mr. Reficul’s revelations, realizing that there wasn’t a
possibility in the world the US’s media didn’t know about this all
along. It was way to obvious.
So I asked Mr. Reficul
“what’s to happen to America now”
“Profits for us of course,
for the 1% who own this country. As for the 9% that help us run it, as
long as they’re useful and productive we’ll give them a few crumbs, as
for the rest, the other 90%,” he paused, “well if they obey us most
will be allowed to live and maybe raise a family, if they’re good and
well behaved that is”.
“You understand of course,”
as he looked at me with an icy expression,” this country is mine now.
It belongs to ME now. The people in this country worship money as their
god and the wealthy of this country have very generously,” he paused
again choosing his words carefully, and then continued, “contracted to
give me everything that they are; or will ever be, even their children,
even after death. And I always collect what is due me,” he said
with satisfaction, “ I always collect what I’m owed.”
“So” he said as he looked
at me with interest, “Do you want to join our select little
group? You’d be one of the elites you know, one of the powerful
able to obtain your heart’s desire and rise above the law, to fulfill
your darkest fantasies, to be accountable to no one, or subject to any
moral restraint. You’d have a compliant press at your beck and
call, to admire and forgive all of your errors no matter how egregious
or obvious. All you’d have to do is sign this little piece of
paper just like all the others have done” as he said this he pulled a
document out of his breast pocket and held it out to me.
I paused for a very long
time while I considered his offer. During which Mr. Reficul looked at
me expectantly. While he waited I remained frozen, unable to stretch
forth my hand to take the contract, as I looked directly into his red
tinted eyes I said, very politely “Mr. Reficul I thank you very much
for your advice and insight, but I’m afraid I’ll have to decline your
generous offer. I’m simply not made of the same cloth as you and your
compatriots are. Although I wish you the best of luck Mr. Reficul, and
I mean that, I really do. After all this country deserves someone like
you to handle it’s affairs and I know you’ll continue to do so.”
“But” I continued with
great sincerity, “Since this country has shown such a fervent desire to
please you. Wouldn’t it be better to concentrate your efforts here,
rather then abroad? Couldn’t you leave Africa, Asia, the Middle
East and Latin America to their own devices? After all so many
people in this country admire you and model their behavior after
yours. So many here have already contracted with you.”
Mr. Reficul appeared for
the briefest of moments to become insanely enraged, as he did so I
experienced a sudden horrible sense of vertigo, then, as his expression
swiftly changed to one of fatherly disapproval I just as suddenly
regained my balance. He composed himself and with a calm but steely
voice said. “You’re making a grave mistake my son, if your not with us
you’re against us, and you know what happens to those who are against
us don’t you? As for your ridiculous suggestion to limit my
wonderful influence solely to this country, why should I? It’s
precisely because so many of the people in the rest of the world
haven’t yet experienced the benefits of contracting with me that I
need,” and when Mr. Reficul said the word need, a voracious predatory
expression suffused his features, “to spread my beneficence throughout
their lands.”
He then turned and looked
at me with disgust and disappointment, “you’re fool to refuse such an
offer and like many before you who’ve made such a grievous error,
you’ll pay for your foolishness,” and with that Mr. Reficul stood up
and stated coldly, “I would like you to leave now”
As he accompanied me to the
entrance of his house he remained utterly silent. With my legs
trembling from fear I followed him across the gleaming black marble
tiles of the floor toward the great bronze doors that marked the
threshold between his domain and that of the world outside.
For a moment I thought they
wouldn’t open, as they did a sense of relief flooded through me as I
suddenly realized the narrowness of my escape. Practically leaping
across the threshold into the blinding light, I turned to see Mr.
Reficul staring at me balefully and with a hint of regret. He
didn’t cross the threshold with me or offer to shake my hand goodbye,
perhaps because he knew I would refuse. Mr. Reficul continued to
look me as, without a touch from him, the great bronze doors swung shut
to close before me with a hollow boom.
As I headed back toward my
car I knew he was right. This country belonged to HIM now.
There would be no redemption, no undoing of the awful evil this country
was responsible for. The millions of lives shattered and
destroyed, the hundreds of thousands killed and maimed.
As I got into my broiling
hot car all I could hear in the baking silence was Mr. Reficul laughing
faintly in the distance. He sounded very pleased with himself.
End. MPG
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12th mailing 06-06-05
al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda the Media and the U.S.
As usual no replies
received, none sent besides this mailing number 12. If you’ve
received anything else, it wasn’t from me.
Before I sat down to watch
one of my favorite movies the other day, I saw two of our local “news”
i.e. “fanciful infotainment” stations spewing the same identical
doggerel about al-Zarqawi and Al Queda and literally gushing on and on
about how the US was “saving” the poor Iraqi people from this evil
monster.
If you’re seeing the same
garbage on your TV just keep in mind the articles listed below and Mr.
Reficul’s quote included in mailing number 10 from my first
conversation with him, “our true friends the Saudis will continue to
supply funds and resources to my agent provocateurs be they Al Queda or
some new incarnation. They'll provoke more incidents to keep the pot
bubbling [in Iraq]. Iran will be next, maybe the states in the
Caspian basin, maybe Nigeria, perhaps Venezuela. I'll have to
come up with new groups for those countries.”
Articles #1, #2, #3, #4 and
#5 detail how the Bush administration didn’t go after al-Zarqawi when
it had SEVERAL chances to do so, this was done under direct orders from
Bush himself. Please note that this failure was remarkably under
reported by our news media. Gee…… I wonder why?
Article #6 outlines how
convenient this all was for the Bush administration’s policies. Note it
also mentions how Rumsfeld backed off saying al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda
were connected to each other after George Tennent head of the CIA
issued a report saying there wasn’t any connection. Didn’t Mr.
Tennent also issue several other critical reports such as “a lack of
WMD” a “pessimistic outlook on the war in Iraq”, etc., was later fired,
the CIA purged, and he and his agency become the fall guy for the
U.S.’s “intelligence failures”? I wonder why? Hmmm.. it must be
one of those “fortuitous circumstances” right?
Articles #7 and #8 both
point out how al-Zarqawi and his band of merry men, the “Tawhid” were;
and basically still are, a group completely separate and apart from Al
Qaeda. The articles cover how al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan where he
presumably received some CIA support. How he hates the Shias and
believes they are apostates. How he would serve as a perfectly good
U.S. foil to “divide”, a unified Iraqi resistance by his continuous
attacks against the Shias and thereby enable the U.S. to “conquer” all
three ethnic groups in Iraq. This is just another “fortuitous
circumstance” of course, along with how our press keeps saying Al Qaeda
when they really mean to say the Tawhid, Gee…… I can’t figure that one
out. Must be some sort of TV dubbing or voice over effect………… you
think?
Article #9 even suggests
that U.S. forces had captured al-Zarqawi AND THAN LET HIM GO.
What can I tell you;
another terrorist with admittedly tenuous connections to the CIA (this
time) one of whom we take every opportunity not to attack, one of whom
we may even have actually captured and than let go. A person who the
press has enlarged into this “BIG BAD MONSTER OUT TO GET US” a person
who probably obtains his support from the Saudis (unconfirmed as of
yet, I’m still researching) but is definitely a Sunni who believes that
the Shias are apostates. A person who is incorrectly described as an
“Al Qaeda terrorist” which the press, shuddering with fear, eyes
bulging in terror states “may attack us at any time”.
Gee he sounds exactly like
that “other” guy …. What was his name … Osama something, right?
Everyone should be grateful
however that unlike Osama, the bin Ladens and the Saudis, al-Zarqawi
doesn’t have a twenty to thirty year history of embarrassing
connections between himself and the Texas Cabal and Bush family.
Wow I just realized what
a.. dare I say it again; I just can’t help myself.. what a “fortuitous
circumstance” that is.
Think about it. The U.S.
government has already made preparations for a draft. This
administration has cleared the decks by purging the C.I.A, the one
organization that issued reports critical of their plans and the only
one capable of standing in their way. Rhumsfeld has now taken the
reigns of power at the Pentagon. The economy may go into the tank under
the increasing load of debt caused by this administration’s policies.
If there were another
attack on U.S. soil, our current government would be able to pass an
enabling decree much harsher then the Patriot Act, invoke the draft,
blame any economic difficulties caused by their policies and
mismanagement on the attack, and invade more countries,.. like Iran for
instance.
Such an attack and
subsequent invasion of Iran would strengthen the Saudis position and
power in the Gulf, Bush’s position and power in the U.S. and of course
would put the last remaining gulf state not under Bush’s control firmly
in his hands.
Wow, now wouldn’t that be
fortuitous?
As I’ve said in prior
personal letters I’ve written more then two years ago, ”isn’t it
interesting to see two such families who derive their wealth from the
oil industry arrive at such a sympathetic understanding?”
By the way there are many,
many, many other articles detailing this administration’s mendacity on
these issues.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200410070007
#1 Media Matters –
the radio factor – Media largely silent on WSJ report – 11-15-2004
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108880/
#2 Slate magazine –
Why Bush let Iraq’s top terrorist walk – Daniel Benjamin – 10-29-2004
http://zfacts.com/p/653.html
#3 Z Facts.com – Know
the Facts – Get the Source – Bush Failed to Attack Zarqawi – From
the Wall Street Journal – by Scott J Paltrow – 10-25-2004 – Page A-3
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/oct_2004/bush_failed_to_attack_zarqawi.html
#4 Lycos Tripod –
Bush Failed to Attack Zarqawi – From the Wall Street Journal – By Scott
J Paltrow – 10-25-2004 – Page A-3
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/
#5 NSNBC TV –
Avoiding Attacking suspected terrorist master mind –
By Jim Miklaszewski –
03-02-2004
http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_04_on/zarqawi_bush.html
#6 Brush Tail
Graphics – Is al-Zarqawi a false flag operator – Nick Possum –
07-01-2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/18/opinion/main618114.shtml
#7 CBS news – from
the Weekly Standard – Who is Abu Musab al Zarqawi –
Written by Robert S Leiken
& Steven Brook 05-18-2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0303-01.htm
Published on Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by Knight-Ridder
Doubts Cast on Efforts to Link Saddam, al-Qaida
by Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott
http://www.global-conspiracies.com/saudi_suicide_bomber_claims_zarqawi_was_captured_then_released.htm
#9 Global
Conspiricies dot Com – Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi was
Captured, Then Released – by Alisha Ryu – 01-24-2005
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11th mailing dated
04-12-2005 & 05-08-2005
As usual nothing received,
nothing sent. So if you’ve received anything besides these mailings it
wasn’t from me.
As you may have noted I’m
mailing the complete document, what can I say. I was advised not
to set up a web site, so I’ve sent everything again.
Oh look here’s a quote from
a factoid in the May 16th 2005 copy of the Nation.
“Despite the refusal of the
Shah to rule out the possibility of Iran's developing nuclear weapons,
the Ford Administration in 1975 approved the sale of up to eight
nuclear reactors with fuel to Iran and, in 1976, approved the sale of
lasers believed to be capable of enriching uranium. The Washington Post
reported that an initially hesitant President Ford was assured by his
advisors that Iran was interested only in the peaceful uses of nuclear
energy.
Ford's Defense Secretary
[at the time] was Donald Rumsfeld, his Chief of Staff was Dick Cheney
and his man in charge of nonproliferation efforts at the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency was Paul Wolfowitz.”
Well, well, well, what do
you know, I’m really surprised. No, no really I am, it’s the same darn
people we keep hearing about, wow what a coincidence, they just keep
turning up over, and over, and over again. It’s funny how our
mainstream “press” doesn’t report these things. These are the
same guys who helped sell weapons to Iraq and then took the U.S. to war
because they claimed Iraq still had them.
Isn’t that like killing
both your parents and than throwing yourself on the mercy of the court
because you’re an orphan?
Hey you think they’ll take
us to war against Iran too, for the same reasons? Nah, can’t be,
it just has to be one of those “fortuitous” circumstances right?
By the way guess what, in
the last couple of weeks the commission charged with investigating 9/11
and finding out who funded the terrorists and facilitated their entry
into the U.S. decided not to continue their investigation. Wow, what a
surprise. Just exactly what I said they would do in my 7th
mailing dated 08-29-2004. Geez I’m shocked, really I am.
Who would believe they would ignore the deaths of 3,500 Americans just
because the election was over. I guess they’re just like the U.S.
press. Think of that, all these amazing ‘fortuitous’
circumstances happening all at the same time.
So to make up for the lack
of investigative prowess by the American press I decided to write this
letter and conduct another interview with Mrs. Middle America.
Enjoy.
A Second Conversation with
Mrs. Middle America
Filled with trepidation but
with resolute determination I made my decision to return and conduct
another interview with Mrs. Middle America. With great difficulty
I forced myself to go back to that nightmarish neighborhood of
perfectly manicured lawns, perfectly maintained homes and perfectly
dressed people. Knowing what these people have done, knowing they
believed and practiced the awful things Mr. Reficul said were good for
this country. I did it because I just had to know if anything had
changed since I last interviewed Mrs. Middle America six months ago.
Not sure of my reception I
first gave Mrs. Middle America a call to see how I would be
received. She sounded pleasantly surprised to hear from me again
and agreed to another interview.
I arrived late that
afternoon. After entering her home we exchanged the usual pleasantries,
made ourselves comfortable on her living room chairs while we both
sipped some tea and I proceeded to get my notes ready for the interview.
I began genially "Well Mrs.
America what do you think about our recent Presidential election. And
what's been happening to this nation for the last six months?"
"Oh things are fantastic",
she cooed while her eyes sparkled brightly, "everything's going really
well, we now have a great and glorious mandate to do all the wonderful
things we have to do for this country and the rest of the world."
"Such as get those evil
rotten terrorists" I asked?
"What do you mean?" she
replied with a blank and vacuous look on her face.
"Well," …. I paused trying
to collect my thoughts and said. "In my last interview you stated
'we had to protect ourselves from those evil terrorists, to go get
them, all of them'.
"I did?" she replied with
another blank look.
"Sure" I said feeling
somewhat confused by her lack of recollection, so I showed her my notes.
"Oh no, no, no… of course
that isn't what I meant, not at all. You just misunderstood me,"
she stated in what she hoped was a reassuring tone of voice.
"What we're going to do is bring 'freedom and democracy' to the world,
that's what I really meant."
"I see," I said looking
utterly stunned. And stated tonelessly "So our reasons for what we've
done, and will do, have changed," I paused for a very long moment,
"again?"
"Of course they have my
dear, to reflect the new global realities, that's what our wonderful
and glorious president said in his inauguration speech." She replied
with a radiant smile.
"I see," I repeated again
feeling like a fool, "Let us both cover some of our nation's prior
historical events so I can get this straight. Back before Bush Jr.'s
dad, Bush Sr., served in his term of office, Bush Sr., his corporate
pals, and his friends who were later appointed to his cabinet, sold
Saddam weapons, including some of those 'awful' weapons of mass
destruction'. Later when Bush Sr., actually served his term of office,
his ambassador to Iraq in a conversation with Saddam, practically
invited Saddam to invade Kuwait. Am I to understand that It's your
contention the U.S. government did all of these things to promote
'freedom and democracy', is that right?'
"Yes of course that's the
reason" She responded "So Bush Sr. and his cabinet made a little money,
I already told you I don't care if they did. As regards to what our
ambassador said, I never read anything about her 'inviting' Iraq to
invade Kuwait. What does it matter anyway"?
"It matters because it's
true" I replied "And you're right, you probably didn't read about it
because the story was barely covered by our major newspapers, for some
inexplicable reason they only carried it for a couple of weeks. Here's
what's on the public record however. When asked about her conversation
with Saddam in a congressional hearing she lied under oath and falsely
stated the conversation had never occurred. Later when confronted with
the secretly recorded tape Saddam had kept of their conversation she
finally admitted she had told Saddam, 'the U.S. would have no opinion
about the matter' when Saddam informed her of his intentions to
invade. This from the very ambassador who represented Bush Sr.
and members of Bush's own cabinet who had 'befriended' Saddam, The very
men who had encouraged and facilitated many of the companies who
supplied Saddam with his weapons. Saddam trusted her statement, his
relationship with Bush Sr. and Bush's corporate pals….. And acted
accordingly."
"I really don't see the
point of discussing this. If our newspapers didn't cover the story it
obviously wasn't very important, now was it?" She replied while looking
at me expectantly.
"200,000 people and
hundreds of Americans died in Gulf War One," I stated flatly, while
staring coldly at her.
"And your point is?" she
replied with an impatient look?
"My point is," I said
biting off each of my words, "Do you still contend we did this to
promote 'freedom and democracy'"
"Of course we did." she
replied with a questioning look, "it's obvious you just don't
understand what we're trying to do."
Taking a moment to compose
myself while looking at my notes I retorted "Bush Sr. also deliberately
encouraged the Kurds and Shiites to rise against Saddam, after Gulf War
One. Citing your 'freedom and democracy' all the while. He then refused
to support them in their efforts to obtain their true freedom and
democracy allowing Saddam to slaughter them wholesale. A policy I might
add that helped to weaken all three ethnic groups in Iraq both
militarily and politically while simultaneously exacerbating internal
divisions and ethnic tensions. Such an outcome would of course
'fortuitously' support a strategy of 'divide and conquer' if the U.S.
should 'coincidently' decide to occupy Iraq at some future date. Did we
also do this to promote 'freedom and democracy'?"
"And again I tell you of
course we did, you're simply not getting the point, besides its all
just ancient history anyway, why are you asking me questions about Bush
Sr. and his policies. I thought we were going to discuss our current
president, his son" She replied with some irritation.
"Well" I responded "I
thought these historical events might have some baring on our current
situation, that they might actually be related to each other,
especially considering the fact that many of the same people who served
in Bush Sr.'s cabinet, are now the very same people who are serving in
Bush Jr.'s cabinet. Did you ever consider that Mrs. America, that these
events might actually be connected in some way?"
"But all these things
you're talking about happened years ago." she said with a look of utter
and profound perplexity, how could they possibly be connected?
Looking at her
incredulously I queried, "So anything that happened" I paused "'years
ago' I paused again, "has no relation to what happens now. Is that
right?
"Exactly", now you're
getting it" she replied, "It's never a good idea to look into the past,
especially if it's unpleasant. Why dig up all that old stuff
anyway? All you do is cause unhappiness."
I responded "So when this
current administration stated that Saddam was connected to 9/11 and it
turned out that statement wasn't true at all, it didn't matter because
it happened years ago, is that right?"
"Exactly" she replied
enthusiastically.
"And when they said Iraq
and Saddam were connected to Al Quada and it turned out that statement
wasn't true either, it didn't matter because it happened years ago.
That's also correct?" I asked.
"Exactly, …..right again,
now you're getting it" she replied appearing to be very excited.
I responded. "And when they
said Iraq was sponsoring terrorism and it turned out that wasn't true
also, it was OK because it happened years ago right?"
"Perfectly correct, I think
you're finally understanding me now" She replied.
"And when they said Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction and that also turned out not to be
true, it was just fine because they said it….. years ago,…..is that
right?" I asked in disbelief.
"I think you are finally
beginning to understand how it works now, you're becoming one of us"
she replied," regarding me fondly as if I'd been newly converted to her
chosen faith."
Feeling like I'd entered
the twilight zone I finally asked," and if a year from now it turns out
that all the terrible things we've done, including the invasion of
Iraq, and the slaughter of it's people were done not for 'freedom and
democracy', but for some new hitherto undiscovered 'reason', would that
be OK to?
"Of course it would be, now
you've finally got it." She exclaimed appearing to be so excited she
was practically bouncing up and down in her chair.
Staring at her, utterly
appalled I replied softly "Mrs. America those were just campaign
slogans, do you understand that during the last twenty years while we
played these ethnic groups and countries against each another, all the
while making money selling them weapons to kill one another, millions
of people have died, many quite terribly"
"Oh don't' be such a cry
baby. It doesn't matter anyway" she crowed, grabbing my arm in her
excitement, practically jumping off her chair while staring at me
intently, "we did it to give them 'freedom and democracy'."
Trying not to cringe and
jerk my arm away from her grasp, I gently removed her hand and asked,
"so, using your own words we are now going to 'kill, maim and torture
millions and millions of other people, especially the one's with lots
of oil' not to 'protect ourselves from those evil terrorists', but to
'bring the people in these countries freedom and democracy', is that
right Mrs. America. In your opinion 'we're actually helping them when
we bomb and kill them.' Is that correct?"
"Exactly, you finally
understand what we're really trying to do."
Looking sadly at Mrs.
America I asked softly "Mrs. America… do you know what a lie is?"
"Of course I do, why are
you asking me such a silly question. A lie is when you don't tell the
truth." She replied.
I responded patiently "I'm
asking this silly question because you've already agreed that all the
prior 'reasons' or 'truths' were wrong.
"There weren't 'wrong' she
said, and paused while she concentrated, "they were true at the time"
she paused again, with a painfully thoughtful expression." And now
they're not true." She finished looking at me brightly and with great
cheer." She hesitated and regarded me searchingly. "You understand now
don't you?"
I replied very slowly "So
anything the administration says is 'true' is 'true' at the time they
say it and because they say it, especially if our mass media
uncritically and continually repeat it over and over again. Even if it
is contradicted by all the current facts and is later proven to be
utterly untrue. Is that correct?"
"Absolutely correct" she
replied with a satisfied look.
"Mrs. America" I said
patiently "that is not the meaning of truth"
"Oh fiddlesticks" she said
with great exasperation "I thought you were beginning to understand me."
"Well let me try to
understand you better by asking a few more questions. Would you
sacrifice your sons and daughters for this 'truth' whatever it may be
at the time," I asked softly.
"Yes" She replied.
"And you would agree that
the U.S. can kill and maim and torture millions of people throughout
the world on the basis of whatever 'truth' your 'truth' currently
happens to be." I asked softly again.
"Yes", she sighed happily
"so you do understand after all".
"And it doesn't matter that
your 'freedom and democracy', your new 'truth' is already fraying at
the edges. That we have established 14 military bases in Iraq and it
looks like we’ll occupy Iraq for the next 10 years. That the Shiites
who comprise 65% of the population, 'somehow', remarkably received only
48% of the vote in the recent Iraqi elections, coincidently right below
the 50% margin needed to take control of the government. What the San
Francisco Chronicle might have been referring to in a prior article as
'controlled democracy'. What you are saying essentially Mrs.
America is occupation is freedom and tallying the votes the way you
want them to go is democracy, is that correct, this is your 'truth'."
"Of course it is." She
replied with utter aplomb, "truth is whatever our wonderful president
decides it's to be and if he has to change it every six months then
that's what he'll have to do."
I reply very softly, “Mrs.
America I’ve read an article recently outlining Pentagon plans to
establish a series of ‘terrorist’ groups in Iraq, ostensibly to be used
to combat and infiltrate other terrorist groups. These groups
would be semi-automanous, and probably unaccountable to any legal
authorities or body of international law. Like the ‘death squads’
which caused so much untold agony for Central America’s people these
groups could be used, and given history’s tendency to repeat itself
probably will be used, to coerce the local population; for the selected
assassination of political undesirables; and as agent provocateurs to
deliberately inflame religious or ethnic tensions when and if the need
should arise. [hh] Is this a policy compatible with your ‘freedom and
democracy?’
“Of course it is,” she said
smiling. “You have to understand everything we’re doing is for the
Iraqi people’s own good, we’re only there just to help them, and
they’re just going to have to understand this and trust us.”
As I stared at the happily
beaming Mrs. Middle America, I realized nothing would stop her, that
the killing and deaths would go on and on and on to satisfy whatever
glorious visions her 'wonderful president' would lay out for her.
No amount of death and destruction was too much. Nothing would ever jar
her out of her self-satisfied reverie even if the price were to be paid
for by her own flesh and blood.
Utterly shocked by what I
had heard I got ready to leave. Mrs. America happily accompanied
me to the door, and appeared to be blissfully unaware of the effect her
views had had on me. She cordially said goodbye, perhaps thinking I was
one 'of them' now.
But of course I wasn't. I
knew there was no place in this country for me, no place to hide
anymore 'they' were everywhere and would do anything and say anything
to get what they want. But this isn't the true horror; the horror
is that they would smile at you and say they were helping you, even
while they killed you. That's the true horror.
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10TH MAILING
10-17-2004
Well nothing received and
nothing sent except this mailing #9. If of course you've received
anything else it wasn't from me.
This is the last full
transmission, I promise. However considering the inflammatory
nature of 'my conversation' I've decided to include the rest of the
document.
By the way for those who
are interested here's a small sampling of various web sites among
dozens I've visited. I'll have a lot more as links when I set up
my own web site. Enjoy.
http://www.democracyunbound.com/lookingglass.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI202A.html
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2005/stories/20030314006302400.htm
http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/06.21A.pitt.watchtower.htm
http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2005/stories/20030314006302400.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33642
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html
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Think about it,
The U.S. created Al Qeada
through it's proxies.
The U.S created the
Mujahadeen which led directly to the creation of the Taliban.
The U.S "played" the
Mujahadeen against the Soviets leading to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands.
The U.S supported Osama bin
Laden directly and through it's proxies
The U.S 'somehow'
'fortuitously' allowed our 'friend' turned 'enemy' Osama to attack the
U.S. killing thousands.
The U.S supported Saddam
and he became our's, leading to untold repression and the deaths of
tens of thousands.
The U.S sold him weapons of
mass destruction.
The U.S 'played' Iraq
against Iran and encouraged Saddam to use the weapons we gave him to
kill millions.
The U.S supported and
created the Shah of Iran leading to untold repression and the deaths of
thousands.
The U.S traded weapons with
Iran so we could support the Contras killing thousands in the process.
The U.S 'played' Iraq
against Quwait which killed hundreds of thousands.
The U.S weakened Iraq with
the first Gulf war which killed hundreds of thousands more
The U.S. weakened Iraq
further when it encouraged the Shiites and Kurds to rebel against
Saddam, then stood by while they were ruthlessly slaughtered. [gg]
The U.S weakened Iraq even
further with the sanctions which killed additional hundreds of
thousands more.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Afghanistan was weakened sufficiently we invaded it and
conquered it.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Iraq was weakened sufficiently we invaded it and we will
conquer it.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Iran has been weakened sufficiently we will invade it and we
will conquer it.
Killing hundreds of
thousands, possibly millions more.
This is what we did, and
will do, to only THREE of all the countries out there in the world.
Isn't the United States a
great country to do 'business' with?
Isn't the United States a
great country to be 'friends' with?
There is a fable of a
mythical creature, it goes by several names, many of which you
shouldn't say aloud. If you make a deal with this creature it'll
grant you your wish. This creature thrives on death and
destruction, it grows more powerful as those it tempts with it's offers
meet their downfall. This creature is well known to be the
"master of lies". It convinces it's victims that it's doing them
a favor, that somehow if the victim doesn't succumb to it's charms
there's "something wrong" with the victim. It is the master
trickster "playing" with people and nations as if they were toys.
If you want gold or weapons
or a chance to achieve power it'll give you what you want....... Always
for a price of course..... Always for a price. But if you are tempted
by this creature's offer and you take what it gives you will be utterly
destroyed and consumed, you will have been 'played' and so will all of
your people, your tribe, and your nation.
A CONVERSATION WITH THE
CREATURE:
I met Mr
Nellaf Legna Reficul at his home located in the outskirts of Phoenix
Arizona Mr. Reficul's home was a huge modern cement and glass structure
inset into the top of a massive red rock formation with an almost 360
degree view overlooking Phoenix's central valley and the distant
mountains hundreds of miles away.
Unlike
Mrs. Middle America I didn't know much about Mr. Reficul, nor was I
able to dig up much about his past life except that in all my contacts
regarding him people said he was the most influential man in America.
Despite
Mrs. America's dire warnings I was determined to conduct more
interviews regarding what has happened to the United States in the last
few years. I had heard many terrible things about Mr. Reficul but when
he came to the door he was an effervescent, charming and extremely
likeable gentleman. His appearance was quite impeccable, a tall
silver haired, quite distinguished looking man who dressed as if he'd
just stepped out of the boardroom of a major corporation.
He immediately put
me at my ease and invited me to enter his enormous living room.
It was huge, bigger then most houses, with an acre of plate glass
windows standing approximately twenty feet high. The windows swept
around the room and looked out over the magnificent panorama of the
Arizona desert. The walls were faced with textured rough gray
granite and the floors were inlaid jet black polished marble slabs with
dark ruby red veins of some mineral running through them. High
overhead was the gray cement ceiling of the structure.
Scattered across the
expanse of floor were numerous comfortable looking
sofas and chairs arranged in modular sections and invariably made of
black leather. I sat down on one of the couches with a view of the
distant mountains while Mr. Reficul took a chair next to me.
Reaching
for a bowl sitting on the coffee table in front of us, which for some
reason I hadn't noticed before, he said in a deep honeyed melifluious
voice "would you like some black grapes to refresh yourself?" anxious
to start I declined his offer. "How about some wine?" he rejoined
reaching for two huge crystal goblets of blood red wine sitting in
plain view on the table, and which again I hadn't noticed before.
"Oh, no thanks." I said as I rubbed my eyes tiredly thinking I should
have gotten more sleep. After taking a satisfying sip from his goblet,
he said, "To bad, it's a great vintage."
Opening my
notebook I inquired as I had with Mrs. Middle America, "it's been quite
an eventful three years hasn't it Mr. Reficul?" "It certainly
has," he stated with obvious satisfaction.
"The reason I
decided to interview you Mr. Reficul", I began "is because I've
received conflicting information regarding the events leading up to
9/11 and it's aftermath. I've been told that you are one of the most
influential men in the United States, that your influence is growing
every day, and that your opinions have been excepted by more and more
of this countries citizens over the last couple of decades. Because of
this I felt you might be able to shed some light on what has happened
recently in this country." "Why thank you for your compliments, It'll
be my pleasure to help clarify things for you." He replied sincerely.
"To
start with how and why do you think 9/11 happened and why do you think
we invaded Iraq?" I queried. "Money, oil and power" was his short
clipped response. Startled by his curt answer I said "But when I
interviewed Mrs. America" I replied, "she said it was because of the
terrible events of 9/11, she said "they" did it, that 'we had to get
all of them' She said she 'trusted' the president to 'do the right
thing and attack all of them', an endless laundry list of countries
which in some cases appear to have less of a connection with the
terrorists than the men in the president's own cabinet. The president
keeps giving all sorts of different reasons for what the U.S. is doing.
They change each and every day he said: 'they hate us' that 'it's their
religion' but the people who fund 'them' Al Qedea happen to be our
'friends' the Saudis. Whereas our former 'friends' the Iraqis
whom the presidents buddies sold WMD to are now our 'enemies'.
The president said the Iraqis had WMD, were connected with Al Qadea and
9/11 but they weren't. Finally to top it all off, it looks like we're
going to invade our former 'friend' turned 'enemy' turned 'friend' now
finally our 'enemy' again Iran. I'm terribly confused, what in
the heck is going on?"
Mr.. Reficul
looked at me like I was a driveling idiot, which I could tell was
almost painful for him since he was such a polished and polite
host. "Look I like you kid," he said as he leaned forward to get
my attention, "but you have to know it's all about making money don't
you? Didn't you ask about the money in your previous interviews?' "Yeah
I did." I replied, "I asked Mrs. America and she told me not to ask, in
fact she warned me not to, but I can't believe it's the only reason for
why these terrible events have occurred. I don’t think it’s
possible, someone would have reported it in the press. Someone would
have tracked down where the money came from. Surely the liberal media
like the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS or NPR would have said
something?"
Mr. Reficul sighed,
looked at me charitably as if I were a lost cause and stated, "when the
Supreme Court said money was equal to free speech, when Rumsfield
stated the main difference between a terrorist who could be tortured or
mutilated and a soldier who had to be treated with respect was the fact
the soldier got paid, when the families of the 9/11 victims were
immediately offered huge sums of money right after 9/11, based on the
'projected net worth of the victim' not to sue, and hopefully not to
investigate the causes of 9/11..... to essentially look the other
way..... Where were you, weren't you listening? Weren't you
paying attention? Money is absolutely everything in this society."
"But that's not the way
it's supposed to work here." I replied with a look of doubt. "Of
course it's the way it works here." Said Mr. Reficul "I can tell you
with utter assurance it's the way it's worked every where in every
country throughout history, you don't actually believe that religion,
or philosophy, or ideology or morality or politics or for hell's sake
people's feelings have anything to do with how this country is run do
you? Don't tell me you actually think your vote counts, do you?"
"Well I did until recently." I said hesitantly. "Good there's a
possibility you're beginning to finally learn something." Said Mr.
Reficul with satisfaction.
Getting a little angry I
retorted "and you're happy with this, you like this tidy little
arrangement, you don't think the liberal press is going to do something
about this?" "As a matter of fact I'm quite delighted with the
way things are currently arranged," he said as he chuckled. He paused
and looked at me quizzically, "you still don't get it do you," he said
with a red gleam in his eye, "you think there is any difference between
the 'liberal' press and the 'conservative' press. You think in
regards to making money off the dead and dying out there in the world
there would be any change if you selected Kerry or Bush. You
think anyone in this country would take on both the oil and the defense
industries at the same time. Industries which comprises nearly a
quarter of our economy. If you think so you are sadly mistaken."
Shaken I looked at Mr.
Reficul and said, "you know some people call you the master of lies,
why should I believe anything you say." He gazed at me with a frank and
calculating expression and said calmly "because you know that what I
say is true, you yourself know of the great gaping hole in the coverage
of 9/11. Many people have already pointed out how the 'investigators'
he said this with a sneer, 'have refused to follow the money. You
yourself have read the articles written by those obnoxious little busy
bodies detailing my wonderful plans to conquer the rich oilfields of
the middle east, none of which I might add has been reported by the
mainstream U.S. press, either the 'liberal'," he said this with another
sneer, "or the 'conservative' press.
You yourself have pointed
out there were seven investigations into the events leading up to Pearl
Harbor but only one so far of 9/11, and that one occurred only at the
insistence of those few families of the 9/11 victims, that to my great
irritation, could not be bought off. Luckily for me the entire
membership of the 9/11 commission happens to consist of friends of mine
who own shares in the very companies constructing the Caspian oil
pipeline in Afghanistan and holding lucrative contracts in Iraq. They
of course produced a report that looked at everything but the money.
And people out there call me the 'master of lies'." He said the last
with a look of disgust. "I'm just a small businessman trying to make
some deals."
Completely shaken I reply
"But Mr. & Mrs. Middle America will find out......." He interrupted
harshly and stated "and if they did, so what.... If Bush got up
today and tearfully stated "9/11 had to be arranged to give Americans a
chance to sacrifice their lives for the greater economic good of this
country", you don't think most Americans would stand up and applaud
him. They would you know, many of them already know what's
happened and not only do they not care, many of them approve. Why do
you think there hasn't been any serious investigations to date about
the events leading up to 9/11?" he asked.
"Sure 9/11 was a slightly
larger event then we planned initially" he continued softly, looking
thoughtful "but as you've pointed out you can't make an empire with out
breaking a few lives now can we? Think of the numbers; 3,500
heroes for 30 trillion dollars in potential oil reserves and an empire
stretching to the Caspian Sea. It's the best caus'beli this country has
had since 'Remember the Main'. The cost was peanuts. It's a brilliant
move.
Consider the opportunities,
an unknown faceless enemy that can, in most cases, do just a small
amount of damage but generate large amounts of fear. One that in the
future I'll finance better so the money will be harder to trace. Such
agent provocateurs will provide an endless need for political
repression and more importantly total secrecy. And the groups you
create can be tailored to any caus'celib or job that needs to be done.
The size of 9/11 has worked in our favor and it's all turned out for
the best in the end." He said the last with an extremely satisfied look.
"So what will happen with
Iraq?" I ask with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. "It will be
consumed of course" he stated matter of factly, "probably destroyed, if
they continue to develop a national resistance movement we'll just have
to kill the lot of them, level their cities establish more Abu Gariabs.
Did you like that by the way?" He asked as he paused to look at me
slyly. "That was my own personal touch, to use Saddam's former torture
center as a not to subtle way of intimidating the locals. Yes we'll
have to kill many more of them," he said resuming brusquely. "If
however they remain tribal and we can continue to divide and conquer
them we'll have a chance to be less destructive. Either way I'll make
enormous amounts of money in defense contracts and my companies will
suck the Iraqis dry of their oil."
"What about U.S.
casualties." I inquired forebodingly. "There'll be lots of them"
he stated flatly with a complete lack of concern "however by the time
I'm done using the five conglomerates who now control 90% of the U.S.'s
media market your Mr. and Mrs. America will gladly sacrifice their sons
and daughters for my cause so they can continue to live the life style
they've become so accustomed too, and of course, so I can continue to
live mine"
"What about the other Arab
and Moslem countries?" "What about them" he said as he looked at
me coldly, so coldly a chill went right up my spine and I got goose
bumps. "A people that run around in turbans spouting religious
slogans thinking their "God" can protect them. A bunch of tribal
societies, you think they would have learned something from what we did
to the American Indians. No they're easy to deal with. I must
tell you this whole situation has given me enormous satisfaction.
You have no idea what it's like to 'play' simple tribal societies
against one another as I've done, to destroy them from within and
without. They're easy, and you know what the best part is, after you do
them, and conquer them, you can convince some of them to be grateful to
you. It's extremely gratifying."
"So where do we go from
here?" I asked completely subdued. "We make more money," he
replied "our true friends the Saudis will continue to supply funds and
resources to my agent provocateurs be they Al Queada or some new
incarnation. They'll provoke more incidents to keep the pot
bubbling. Iran will be next, maybe the states in the Caspian
basin, maybe Nigeria, perhaps Venezuela. I'll have to come up
with new groups for those countries. What do you think." He said as he
looked at me inquiringly. "Commies for Venezuela, but what should I
call the group for Nigeria?" "I don't really know." Was all I could
mumble. "It doesn't matter" he said looking off into the distance
over the Arizona desert, "like Bush is so fond of saying whichever
leader it happens to be at the time, we'll just say 'he was a bad guy'
and we'll go destroy him and replace him with somebody more amenable to
our goals."
"Even if we created him
like we did with Saddam?" I interjected. He looked at me with a
slightly surprised look "especially if we created him. They're the
easiest to get too, once they start doing business with you, you get to
control them and manipulate them. It's the one's that can't be
bought or won't do business with you that present the most problems. "
"And the elections in this
country?" I ask. "Whoever's selected will toe the line," he said
quietly. "I just wish I had picked someone better then Bush. Him
and his idiot friends have made a mess of things. They've made
everything so obvious to the rest of the world that I had to spend
extraordinary amounts of my own money stroking the press, buying people
off, not to mention what I had to offer the other countries in the rest
of the world to keep quite. I thought Chaney would handle things
better than this. I'm really very disappointed with him."
"How much more destruction
will this cause, how many more deaths?" I inquired completely worn out
and depressed. "It depends, if I get what I want not to much," he said
looking directly at me with a strange calmness. "Maybe a million dead
maybe less. You must understand although I enjoy playing with people
and nations, which some weaklings disapprove of, what I do will make
this a better world for everyone. It's their resistance to my
wishes that inevitably leads to their destruction. It's their
partial cooperation that I can't abide. If they would only give me what
is rightfully mine when I ask for it, none of these unpleasant things
would have to happen. It's their fault you see, they bring it
upon themselves, they deserve what's going to be done to them."
"I see," I said tiredly,
with a sense of utter dismay at what I've heard "speaking of giving in
I believe I've got enough material to go on. I really appreciate your
agreeing to meet with me to express your views, but it's getting late
and I've got to go.
"Certainly" he said looking
a little disappointed as he got up to accompany me to the door. "You
really must understand all I want is a little sympathy for my position
and a little more respect" "Oh I understand" I said quickly "and I'm
very sympathetic and respectful. It must be quite hard for you to
manage this country's affairs with some of the resistance you've been
getting lately. I'll be sure Mr. Reficul to let the entire world know
of your views.”
"Thank you" he said
sincerely, "that's all I could ask of you."
As he opened the door to
his front patio, which looked out over the vast desert, a blast of
super heated air entered his foyer. As he reached for my hand to
give me a handshake I avoided it as gracefully as I could and waved
goodbye to him. As I turned to go, I heard the massive bronze doors of
his home thud shut behind me.
Standing there, stunned by
the awful truth I gazed out over the hundreds of miles of stark bleak
emptiness south of his home, now colored blood red by the setting sun.
As I stood in the aching silence with no sound but the sighing of the
hot wind playing with my hair I came to realize in my heart that Mr.
Reficul had won. He was right, this really is the way it's always been,
and I knew as I stood there that I would never ever believe again in
the lies I had been taught as a child.
Frank Capra was dead, there
never ever was a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life
never really existed. I was the deluded one, the crazy one, the
one who believed in childish fantasies, the one everyone else knew was
insane.
The ones who obeyed Mr.
Reficul who believed in Mr. Reficul, who did what he told them to do,
they were the sane ones, the smart ones, the 'players'.
End. MPG
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Eighth mailing 09-21-2004
As usual, no replies
received from anybody. Again if you received any from me they're
not mine.
As promised of course I
checked on Google to see if there are any connections between the
Saudis, the Chechens and the ongoing slaughter in the Sudan. I
only got about 10,000 articles on the first couple of searches, so I
won't bother to tell you what you already know. Not that anybody
in this country seems to care.
Secretary Powell is of
course making bleating noises about the slaughter in the Sudan, but we
know that's just for show since the money comes from Bush's "friends"
the Saudis. Doesn't Powell have any more pride left? What do they do
over there in the white house? Give him drugs or something? First his
ridicules show at the U.N. regarding Iraq, now this.
To make all of you happy
this is the last full transmission of my entire document. I don't
want to clog up your e-mail or web sites. From now on you'll only get
the addendums and since I'll be establishing my own web site, probably
not even those.
What follows is an addendum
you'll really like. It's in the format of a fictitious satirical
interview. I think it's pretty biting, I hope you enjoy it.
A CONVERSATION WITH MRS.
MIDDLE AMERICA
This interview took place
in a finely maintained split-level home, with a well-mowed lawn in the
front, a two-car garage on the side of the house and a spacious
backyard. In the backyard you'll find an above ground pool, plenty of
additional green lawn and a vegetable garden. The house is located in a
well to do suburb of the Midwest.
Mrs. Middle America is a
middle aged, plump, apple cheeked, Caucasian woman who is a member of
the PTA, the local country club, attends her local church regularly,
and likes to garden. She has three children, two girls and a boy in
their teenage years. Mrs. Middle America voted for the Republican
ticket in the last election and intends to do so again.
I'm speaking with Mrs.
Middle America to get a sense of where our country is heading and what
she thinks about