President James Madison

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended ... The means of defense against a foreign danger historically have become the instruments for tyranny at home.

President James Madison

General Benton K. Partin on Oklahoma City Bombing

When I first saw the pictures of the truck-bomb's assymetrical damage to the Federal Building, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforcing concrete column bases ... For a simplistic blast truck-bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out in the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A-7 is beyond credulity.

General Benton K. Partin, former head Air Force Weapons Develpment, on Oklahoma City Bombing

William S. Burroughs

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

William S. Burroughs

Ayn Rand

Criminals are a small minority in any age or community. And the harm they have done to mankind is infinitesimal when compared to the horrors -- the bloodshed, the wars, the persecution, the famines, the enslavements, the wholesale destruction -- perpetrated by mankind's governments. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is men's deadliest enemy.

Ayn Rand

Anthony J Hilder, Radio Free America

There have been more wars since the creation of the United Nations in 1948, than from the beginning of time up to 1948.

Anthony J Hilder, Radio Free America

Ariel Sharon Aide

World War III is coming whether you like it or not; the 9/11 attacks were just the beginning.

Aide to Ariel Sharon, April 2002

General L.L. Lemnitzer

We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign. We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba ... Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation.

General L.L. Lemnitzer, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

James Bamford

In the Kennedy era, the military elite and Security Services devised "Operation Northwoods" and planned to shoot down two US planes over American soil. There was mention of remote control aircraft being destroyed from the ground. Robert McNamara was also a conspirator.

There was even a plan to sabotage the first manned flight to the moon. John Glenn was to be sacrificed and the blame apportioned to the Cubans.

James Bamford, the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC World News Tonight, and is a leading expert of covert government operations.

Michael Tsarion on Desert Storm

The Iraqi government repeatedly inform western powers that Kuwaitis are illegally slant-drilling oil from the 2 mile 'no man's land' area between the countries. Bake and his office repeatedly tell Saddam Hussein to take whatever action he sees fit to police the area. As soon as he does, the US invades.

US public sanction the slaughter, after hearing Kuwati reports that Saddam Hussein's troops desecrate incubators and kill infants in Kuwait. However the truth later comes out that no such events ever took place.

Michael Tsarion

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

7 May 1915 -- British passenger liner Lusitania is directed to cross the Atlantic and break a German U-boat blockade despite repeated prior attacks and and public warning of unrestricted firing. The Admiralty in London calls off the luxurious flagship's escort and she sails into what a serious historian, who specializes in British naval intelligences says was a trap designed to bring Washington into the war.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

15 February 1889 -- USS Maine sinks a mysterious explosion in Cuban waters, killing 254 sailors and wounding 59 others. It was called into these waters by General Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Robert E. Lee. The motive for the sinking was to extend American military and economic domination in the Caribbean, and also in the South Pacific through the Philippines. The flames of war were fanned by press giants William Randolf Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

The US Destroyer Maddox, and one other ship, were reported to have been attacked and sunk by Vietnamese P.T. (Patrol Torpedo) boats ... Lyndon Johnson, the House of Representatives, and the Senate approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which brought America into the Vietnam war, where 3 million Vietnamese people, adn 58,000 Americans died.

The truth later comes out that there was no attack on these ships by Vietnamese Forces.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

Michael Tsarion, Weapons of Mass Deception

10 August AD 64 -- Emperor Nero burns Rome to the ground, implicating Christians.

15 February 1898 -- William McKinley's Navy blasted its own ships in Havana Harbor to incite war with the Spaniards.

27 February 1933 -- Adolf Hitler orders the burning of the German Reichstag to incite arrests and suppression.

7 May 1915 -- Passenger ship Lusitania sunk brings US into WWI, as planned by complicit government.

7 December 1941 -- Pearl Harbor attack permitted by a complicit President who ordered the removal of the decoding and radar equipment weeks before.

Michael Tsarion, Weapons of Mass Deception

Sens. Frank Church and Charles McMathias

"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...

"Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.

"While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic."

-- Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973

James Brooks questions Oliver North

Brooks: "Col. North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?"

Sen. Daniel Inouye (Co-chair): "I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that."

Brooks: "I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in the Miami papers and several others that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of an emergency that would suspend the American Constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which [North] had worked. I believe that it was, and I wanted to get his confirmation."

Inouye: "May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session."

Senator Jack Brooks, on questioning Oliver North on the Iran-Contra Affair

Michael Tsarion

Democracy, communism, capitalism, socialism, spiritualism: All such systems are merely elaborate experiments in mass control. They do nothing but destroy true freedom and are based on elitism, separatism, and destruction.

Michael Tsarion

Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of a democratic government.

Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan

John Dean, Worse than Watergate

History has shown that what our government does to others today, it will do to
Americans tomorrow.

John Dean, Worse than Watergate

Sean Penn, Kilroy's Still Here

And what of the shocking rise in leukemias and other cancers in Iraq due to depleted uranium exposure and of the thousands of unexploded ordinances, both, gifts of U.S. artillery. Will we remember the hundreds of thousands of children who suffered slow and agonizing deaths by diarrhea? These primarily attributed to the U.S.- led sanctions in Iraq, where bombing of water treatment plants and an embargo on chlorine continued to ravage predominantly young victims. We must reflect on the certainty with which we were sold a war on the basis of what we now so expertly call WMDs. We must reflect on the resentment of the world, invited in our positioning ourselves as their police. With Syria, Iran, and North Korea on media hit lists, we must reflect on the availability of funds for violent crusades in the absence of funding crusades for healing the very real suffering of our own people and others.

This is our money I speak of, not theirs. Ours. Our democracy. Our flag. (Lest we forget Enron) but, we see Exxon. We see Bechtel. We see Halliburton. We see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell, Rice, Perle, Ashcroft, Murdoch, many. We see no WMDs. We see dead young Americans. We see no WMDs. We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMDs. We see chaos in the Baghdad streets. But no WMDs. We see the disappearance of a murderous Iraqi dictator, who relented his struggle and ran without the use of WMDs.

Sean Penn, Kilroy's Still Here

Published on Friday, May 30, 2003 as a full-page ad in the New York Times

Thomas J Nagy

Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency
proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civililan Iraquis, mostly children would pay, and it went ahead anyway ... They primary document, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities," is dated January 22, 1991. It spells out how sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to it's citizens ... This document can be found on the Pentagon's web site.

As these documents illustrate, the United States knew sanctions had the capacity to devastate the water treatment system of Iraq. It knew what the consequences would be: increased outbreaks of disease and high rates of child mortality. And it was more concerned about the public relations nightmare for Washington than the actual nightmare that the sanctions created for innocent Iraqis."

Thomas J Nagy, "The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply"

Published in the September 2001 issue of The Progressive

Mark Crispin Miller, Cruel and Unusual

The right to trial by jury has also been limited by Bush and Co. which now has countless suspects locked up in a global U.S. gulag, awaiting trial -- if there ever should be a trial -- not by jury of their peers but by a military tribunal. Over six hundred of those vanished men (a few boys, penned up for months) are foreign "detainees" incarcerated at Camp Delta in Guantanomo Bay, "the world's worst prison," as one journalist called it. Prisoners are often beaten, tightly chained for hours, fed on nauseating scraps, and otherwise tortured, physically and psychologically -- the Muslims ... forced to watch prostitutes caress themselves, and all detainees tormented with disinformation and incessant threats (There are also death chambers in the compound, so that anyone found guilty can be executed right nearby).

Mark Crispin Miller, Cruel and Unusual

Machiavelli, The Prince

Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 17