Into the dark: The US gov’t plan to provoke
terrorism
By Chris Floyd
This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld,
US Defense Secretary, when he warns that there will be more
terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization
at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, US
Defense Secretary, that this statement is an incontrovertible
fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the
Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary, be so sure
that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American
people and civilization at large?
Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the
Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, US Defense Secretary.
This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story, which
was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy
underwear ads in last Sunday’s (Oct. 28) Los Angeles Times.
There — in an article by military analyst William Arkin
detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed
by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon
— came the revelation of Rumsfeld’s plan to create
“a super-Intelligence Support Activity” that will
“bring together CIA and military covert action, information
warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception.”
According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by
his Defense Science Board, the new organization — the Proactive,
Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG) — will carry out secret
missions designed to “stimulate reactions” among terrorist
groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would
then expose them to “counterattack” by US forces.
SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, ETA, Hamas, Shining Path
and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and
freedom). We refer of course to Operation Northwoods, the plan
that America’s top military brass presented to President
John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign
— complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes, and
dead Americans -- to provide “justification” for an
invasion of Cuba, the mafia/corporate fiefdom that had recently
been lost to Castro.
Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later.
Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander
scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those
brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain
him -- and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown
himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will
augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic,
elitist clique.
There is transgression here, a stepping-over — deliberately,
with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will
— of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly
symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and
those supreme “sub-state actors,” the mafias, Bush
and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless
night of black-ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder
and terror — wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized;
of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion
of all that’s best in us, of all that we’ve won from
the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we’ve raised
above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling
in the mud of our monkey brains. It’s not a fight for freedom;
it’s a retreat into darkness.
And the day will be a long time coming.
Source: Metropolis/Global Eye
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