The Thugs Who Control the Darkness

From: Jim Kirwan
Fw: The Thugs Who Control the Darkness
The Thugs Who Control The Darkness

September 29, 2003:

By Sheila Samples

YOU'RE GONNA DIE IN THERE! ALL OF YOU! YOU ARE GONNA DIE!~~Reverend Henry Kane,
Poltergeist II

The fear in this country was so thick immediately after 9/11 that most Americans
could taste it. Two years later, the fear is still here, but those of us who are
beginning to drown in it are struggling to be exorcised from its grip. We are
far more terrified of the greedy creatures who lurk in the dark shadows of our
new world order than of some nebulous somebody out there who might someday be a
threat to us, and I, for one, am hell-bent on scrambling to the light.

Some days it looks like we just can't get there from here. Because of the fear.

Fear is what thuggish cowards use in order to control and manipulate lesser
cowards. You know -- them against us? And there are so many of "them" skulking
through the halls of this administration and its attendant media, they're
bumping into each other.

Their names are as familiar as their fear-driven agenda -- Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
Perle, Woolsey, Bolton, Kristol, Rice, Powell...all bitch-slapping us with the
searing memory of 9-11 to keep us in trembling subjection; threatening us with
another big helping of terror if we don't back off and let them have their way.

And their way is to frighten us into connecting only two dots -- Saddam Hussein
and 9/11. Defense honcho Donald Rumsfeld was leading the pack only hours after
the September attack when he jotted his now-famous memo to his staff, demanding
the "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. (Saddam Hussein) at same
time. Not only UBL (Osama bin Laden). "Go massive," the notes quote him as
saying. "Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee a year after 9/11
about why there was such an urgent need to attack Iraq after 12 years of
successful containment, Rumsfeld responded -- "What's different? What's
different is 3,000 people were killed. We know what he intends to do," Rumsfeld
said, and added if we didn't attack Hussein post haste, millions could be dead
"because of the miscalculations..."

Condoleezza Rice is adamant that we are beset by the "forces of chaos and
terror," and the only way out is to slaughter our way to freedom and democracy
admidst rose-petals and cheers as we "restructure" the Middle East more to our
liking. James Woolsey warns that World War IV is on our doorstep -- the only
choice we have is whether we fight it here...or there. Colin Powell squandered
his political capital in an astonishing 80-minute litany of fear-inducing lies
before the United Nations, complete with galvanizing photos and audiotapes, even
going so far as to say, "Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons...and we have
sources who tell us that he recently authorized his field commanders to use
them..."

Poltergeists. They keep entering our homes, moving the furniture around,
flipping the lights on and off, and terrorizing us with an evil enemy that is
everywhere and nowhere. The only word to describe their shoddy performance is
"delirium" -- a state of extreme mental excitement, marked by restlessness,
confused speech and hallucinations...

But nobody works harder at sustaining national hysteria than Vice President Dick
Cheney, who set his course for perpetual war in order to gain control of the
world's energy resources more than a decade ago, and will not be deterred by
cries of unpatriotic rabble at home nor by shrieks of unfortunate victims
abroad.

Cheney is oblivious to both facts and evidence, or lack of them, and is seen
sporatically on venues where he knows his lies about reasons for an unprovoked
attack on Iraq will not be challenged. You will see him on NBC's "Meet the
Press" and speaking to right-wing think tanks any time there have been
embarrassing disclosures from, or about, the administration.

A year ago, Cheney and "Press" host, Tim Russert, diffused accusations that Bush
had been told in an August 6, 2001 intelligence briefing that we were under
imminent al-Qaeda attack. "Old intelligence," Cheney scoffed, sneering that
terrorists have been hijacking planes for 30 years -- so what?

Then, earlier this month, when Bush was backed into a corner and forced to admit
there was "no evidence of a connection between Saddam and 9/11," Cheney was back
with Russert, countering Bush's statement with, "we are learning more and more
about connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq before the Sept. 11 attacks."
Cheney has long insisted that Saddam not only had weapons of mass destruction,
but that he and Osama bin Laden worked in tandem to bring "massive and sudden
horror" to U.S. shores.

In the area of evil manipulation, Cheney is head and shoulders above all those
around him. He's a natural -- the best that ever was. While the others fill us
with temporary fear, Cheney infects us with the creeping horror of his own
superstitions that will remain with us far beyond Iraq -- possibly for a
lifetime.

9/11, according to Cheney, is "the merest glimpse of the violence terrorists are
willing to inflict on this country. They desire to kill as many Americans as
possible, with the most destructive weapons they can obtain." He says it will do
no good to protect the American people from 99 percent of the cold-blooded
killers who are after them -- because that one percent will surely sneak
through, and then all of us are gonna die!

In a July speech to the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, Cheney
declared unending war on an enemy who "holds no territory, defends no
population, is unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of
morality. It can only be destroyed," Cheney said, adding matter-of-factly,
"...and that's the business at hand." He told the mesmerized audience, "we will
act, and act decisively, before gathering storms can inflict catastrophic harm
on the American people..."

Cheney is rarely seen in public, but his dark, bone-chilling influence permeates
this administration. He IS the "Reverend Henry Kane" (played so brilliantly in
Poltergeist II by the mysterious Julian Beck) of this administration. When he
appears, I look upon his grim, pale countenance, his mouth distorted into a
snarl, and involuntarily shudder as I fight the impulse to warn everybody within
hearing distance -- "It's hee-e-e--erre..."

Of course, it will do no good, because Americans are mostly sitting
submissively, staring vacantly at the eerily fair-and-balanced static on their
TV screens...

Nobody is more obsessed with tracking down and destroying potential evil before
it materializes than the Dear Little Leader, George W. Bush. All he knows, he
recently bragged to FOX News' Brit Hume, is what his advisers tell him; he
doesn't read newspapers or watch TV. Is it any wonder, then, that Bush is out
there, babbling hysterically about evil and evildoers -- and thrashing about
wildly on the world stage?

A lot of ink has been spilled in vain attempts to "dissect" Bush's psyche. He
has been called stupid, greedy, mean-spirited -- even evil. He IS all that, but
only as an agressive, pre-teen schoolyard bully can be when he is literally
given all the power in the neighborhood -- discovers that the other kids have to
listen to him whether they want to or not -- and he can play "dress up" to his
heart's content. Bush is the perfect foil for those who surround and control
him. He believes what they tell him, and he lives by a "smoke 'em out, git 'em
on the run -- don't mess with Texas" philosophy. He remains an intellectual and
emotional child, albeit a spoiled and pampered one, who never got over his fear
of the Boogie Man...
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they
were," Bush said proudly while on the campaign trail in January 2000. "It was us
versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the
they are, but we know they're there."

Bush is not stupid. Almost immediately after the twin towers imploded, he
learned that his popularity was directly connected to 9/11, and that the more he
laced his rhetoric with fear and terror, the faster his "numbers" shot up.
Suddenly, he wanted all the evildoers, the potential evildoers, even Dr. Evil
himself, and he was going to get them all -- dead or alive. Before we realized
he wasn't just playing "grown up," we were sucked into a mad crusade, too
frightened to realize in June 2002 that the shudder shifting the world under our
feet was Bush throwing down his preemptive-strike "Bush Doctrine" gauntlet from
West Point in a speech wherein he arrogantly assumed dictatorial powers. "If we
wait for threats to fully materialize," Bush warned ominously, "we will have
waited too long."

But, alas, the game didn't turn out as planned. The evildoers keep changing the
rules; ganging up on him in the schoolyard. And, now the Dear Little Leader, who
simply believes -- and repeats -- what his advisers tell him, is the most
frightened one of us all. He appears to be literally numb with fear -- unable to
recognize the light of reason. Being a mother, I feel sorry for him, even though
he brought it upon himself...

He's like the child who cannot be convinced that the dark, monstrous form
lurking just inside the closet is nothing but a pair of jammies slung carelessly
over the door. Nothing short of sleeping with the light on will allay his fear,
because he knows the creature is there -- just beyond his range of vision. YOU
may not see it, but HE knows it's there. Oh, yes indeedy, it's there all right
and it's just waiting for the right moment to pounce...

Most of us grow up and shake off such childish fears. We move on to a world of
light and freedom, family and community, weeping and laughing -- and of living
and dying. But there are those whose stunted growth forces them to dart about
fantastically in a ghastly world of ominous closets and cackling hobgoblins.
Like Bush and the greedy, corporate warmongers who control him, they live in a
terrifying world of "what if" -- compelled to strike out indiscriminately and
crush all in their path because any threat they imagine is real.

This is now the world of George W. Bush. It is a dangerous world wherein the
brutish cowards who surround Bush and stoke his childish fears have their hands
on the light switch. Unfortunately, it is even more dangerous for us because --
as we struggle frantically toward the light -- we remain at the mercy of Bush's
frightening hallucinations...

And the bloodthirsty thugs who would control the world are also controlling the
darkness.

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma freelance writer, a former US Army Public
Information Officer and Axis of Logic contributing editor.

Reprint permission is granted if it includes name of author, designation as Axis
of Logic publication, and original www.AxisofLogic.com URL.

From: "Dick Eastman"
Let me smarten you up real fast. -- big picture economic perspective on
all that is happening -- and the real news: hr 3598 the draft iis here
here, -- more and more war crimes, plunder and death

Let me smarten you up real fast.

by Dick Eastman

VERY important news articles follow below -- but they are worthless unless
you can place these facts in the "big picture." Here is my interpretation of
the big picture based on what I have managed to learn over the years.

The theme of the " big picture" is tiny ruthless ruling elites maximizing
financial return at whatever cost to the balance of humankind around the world.

"We plunder the US as we would any bannana republic, not playing favorites. The
masses in America are third-world low quality anyway now." (not a real quote,
rather the candid globalist tycoon of my imagining, of my best guess of how they
really think, i.e., a theoretical model of a globalist)

There have been deliberate scams by our deviant financial elite. These scams
have destroyed the middle classes and ruined the United States, land, system and
people. The false-flag inside-job 9-11 operation and the "Frameup Wars" -- as I
propose they be called in future histories -- are just par for the course.

The world wars were financial /big business scam. (war profiteering, war debt)

The stock market crash was a financial/big-business scam. (destruction of
competition and thus increased monopoly power, deflation for bond holding class,
transfer of assets from the masses to the few) etc.)

The great depression was a financial scam. (the rich were better off than
ever -- in economic catastrophe assets are not so much destroyed as that they
change hands -- although assets of mass-high-standard of living production were
destroyed too -- goverment regulation which ment monopoly for the survivors and
fixed prices (fixed competition) etc.

The cold war was a financial/big-business scam. (The military-industrial
complex -- a giant scam designed almost single handedly by Bernard Baruch from
World War One (and the related creation of the Federal Reserve) through the cold
war (Baruch's term) and the nuclear arms race (Baruch headed the Atomic Energy
Commission, making sure it was devoted to weaponry and not to cheap power) --
even as US industry help Stalin to keep him a credible boogy-man to justify the
"arms race."

The Great Society social programs were a financial/big business scam. THe
government hiring marginally able social workers to tell families how to live,
and taking local streetwise scam artists and putting them in charge of people's
programs did two things -- it built the kind of dependency on something for
nothing that is very useful as political patronage at election time and it
forced (during war time -- remember Viet Nam!) even high national debt -- a
boon for the big investment banks -- whose banking families have always thrived
on lending money to govenments for wars -- to the point where causing wars and
prolonging them has become a fine art!!!! And so -- after the death of John
Kennedy the good -- Mr. Pork and intimidation, Lyndon Johnson took over,
doing the bidding, as always, of the financial elites who control us all.

The bank-deregulation-high-inflation scam (called the S & L scandal) -- junk
bonds in an deliberately Fed Reserve generated super inflationary environment
during the Carter years -- no investment could be made UNLESS it was risky and
likely to fail (so it qualified as "junk" -- so office skyscrappers rose in
cities that never have been filled from the day they opened rose up all across
the country -- and new great malls in the middle of deserts -- why? --
because in order to be attractive in a high inflation environment the interest
rate had to be very high (e.g. S & L's had been taking in savings deposits and
paying 3 per cent interest on them while lending them out in 30-year mortgages
at 6 per cent interest for decades so that when suddenly they were suddenly
thrust into very high inflation following Watergate (under cipher stooge Gerald
Ford and Fed Res. CHairman Arthur Burns) ) and intensifying under clueless
self-proclaimed "nuclear scientist and businessman" Jimmy Carter ( whose whole
cabinet was CFR Rockefeller goons) and also-clueless patsy and fall-guy Fed
Chairman WIlliam Miller -- thruinflation rocketing 9, 10 , 11 and 12
ercent -- all deliberately generated by the Federal Reserve and S & L
deregulation (letting them invest in junk bonds that pay higher interest rates
so they could make up for (compensate for) all their long-term locked-in
mortgage loans at six percent in the new inflationary environment when they
needed to be paying out at least six percent interest to attract savings
deposits to keep them from going under -- to (which super inflation (one step
below hyper-inflation) could only be intentional -- Fed Chairman WIllima Miller
was the "George W. Bush of 1970's monetary policy -- brough in to push the
pillow down over the mouth of the baby, Miller was a moron yes-man, just what
was needed by the New York bankers and brokers who invented the scam and set it
up (Donald Reagan invented the money-market accounts as CEO of Merril Lynch and
other machinery for the high-inflation-high-interest-junk-investment scam --
that is after whore Congress passed the deregulatory acts (when it should have
shut down the Federal Reserve!!!!!!)

The tight money, remedy scam, where everyone who borrowed money in the
inflation environment (includign the government) now has to pay it back with
tight money -- with deflationary money. You see, part of the interest rates
that were charged on loans were merely jack-ups added on in expectation of
future inflation -- in expecting to be paid back in the future with dollars of
considerably diminished purchasing power -- but when new Fed. Res. Chairman
Paul Volker, provided the "remedy" of very tight money supply (just as
deliberately as Burns and Miller provided a very loose (inflationary) supply)
that meant a super boost -- a super bonanza for everyone holding time IOU's
(the bond holding class) -- the people who owned high interest bearing bonds
from firms that did not go under during the previous inflationary scam.

The use of big winnings from the last two scams to buy up America, to break up,
down-size, and mean-and-lean everyone to economic penury. Leveraged buyouts,
mergers -- the firing and breaking up of the old America that worked.
Corporations with ethics and which thought about their workers were
"inefficient" and old fashioned and not "mean and lean enough to survive" -- and
so therefore kill them, canabalize them, throw the rest away -- (and begin to
relocate the production facilities in China.

Opening up China economically -- the great markets to exploit -- over a
billion consumers etc. Actually, the corrupt ruling banking families of the
Occident were aligning with the druglord Triads of the Orient (China as
controlled by Rothschild agent Zhou En-lai who set up the Peoples Republic as
the organized crime machine it is today with its corrupt market-totalitarian
princelings, and industrialization funded by the $2 trillion of laundered
CHinese heroin revenues that is deposited in Wall Street banks and the City of
London to be reinvested in CHinese penny labor super factories -- that Americans
are never shown in any media (lest they realize what has happened to their own
vanished industrial capital).

Dot com investments -- yes, through your money into the internet -- it will
soon be doing everything, you will soon be buying everything, getting all your
entertainment and education and economic transactions from the world of
cyberspace so invest, invest, invest.

BUT THE COST OF ALL THIS IS THAT WE DID NOT BUILD OURSELVES BETTER HOUSING, WE
DID NOT BUILD OURSELVES BETTER BRIDGES, ROADS, PARKS, MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES,
CULTURAL FACILITIES, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, ATOM POWER PLANTS, AND SCIENTIFIC
ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH FACILITIES, AND WE DID NOT BUILD NEW ROBOTICS
FACTORIES SO THAT WE WOULD ALL HAVE LOWER PRICES AND MORE LEISURE --
Rather we did the one thing that economics are certain reduces the real wage and
the standard of living of the working man -- we removed tools and machinery and
infrastructure from him, so that his labor (combining with existing tools and
technology) will not be as productive, not be worth as much etc.

When the public was busy looking at Florida and the spectacle of a put-up
deliberately contested election (I say that Bush didn't double-cross Gore, but
Bush and Gore and those who control both were double-crossing us all again --
btw, the fact that Florida was the tie-breaker state was no accident -- other
states had to have had their elections rigged too!) -- anyway, as I was saying,
when the Florida distraction was going on Congress completely deregulated the
derivatives market (that is why Donald Rumsfeld was able to consider starting a
derivatives instrument based on predicting and hedging against future acts of
terrorism!!!! (showing the financial world's scamming fingerprints on Rumsfeld's
DoD) -- derivatives giving the financial elites complete fluidity in scamming
anything anywhere -- setting up a scam and selling shares in it to the
insiders, who can then dump their shares in it when it looks like it might go
bad -- like the 9-11 mass-murder frameup to get Afganistan opium moving again
to feed the Chinese slave-labor-super-factor industrialization on course --
expanding it to southeast Asia etc. in which our financial elites are
artners -- but when things go bad -- people start to wake up -- and maybe the
control of Iraq oil is at risk, it would be so much nicer for the financial
elites who were ultimately behind 9-11 and the wars -- to be able to sell off
their shares in the scam in the event that it doesn't work out as Richard Perle
and Heny Kissinger represented to them that it would.

just a thought I woke up with

Dick Eastman
Yakima