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Wednesday 15 February 2012 - 08:45
Islam Times Exclusive:
Exploiting the Ambiguousness of Terrorism
Story Code : 134942
since long before the appointment of the George W. Bush cabal to the White House in 2000. Bush’s appointment greatly exacerbated the U.S. government's modus operandi of using excessive secrecy and illicit political agendas and the Bush cabal’s cooperation in enabling, aiding and abetting the attacks of 9/11 opened a whole new avenue of deception for the U.S. government to implement its fraudulent, prefabricated “War on Terror," allowing it to exploit terrorism and break International laws it deems itself above. President Barack Obama took the Bush cabal's blatant disregard for democracy and the rule of law to a new low when he decided – with the blessing of the U.S. Congress – he had the authority to kill or detain any American citizen he deems a terrorist anywhere, including inside the U.S.
To the U.S. government, terrorism is traditionally used to classify violence by Muslims against the U.S. and its allies. But whenever targeted terrorism is undertaken by Israel, the U.S. government or its allies, calling it terrorism is quickly denounced and defended with bogus claims of self-defense. Connecting their criminal actions to terrorism is taboo that corporate media manipulates the facts and omits the truth. One of the biggest misconceptions about terrorism is that it has some sort of a fixed, definitive meaning when in fact, it does not (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/) and therein lies a large part of the problem. By intentionally leaving the definition of terrorism so vague, the U.S. government made it easy to illegally exploit and manipulate its meaning while committing treason with impunity. But nowhere is the U.S. government's deceptive exploitation and manipulation of terrorism more evident than in its ongoing quest to attack Iran on Israel's behalf.
When it comes to defining terrorism -- and pretty much everything it does -- the U.S. government invariably utilizes double standards to manipulate its definition and meaning to suit whatever agenda it is pursuing while deflecting blame from its criminal actions (link: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2012/01/12/terrorism-and-double-standards/). When you throw excessive secrecy in the mix you can rest assured that there is more to the story than you're being told and that the U.S. government is conducting illegal activities. Those who dare reveal the U.S. government's multifaceted manipulations of terrorism are considered enemies of the state and fallaciously labeled as terrorists (link: http://codepink.org/blog/2011/12/ows-roadtrip-for-bradley-manning-dont-forget-your-baggage/).
For an example of the double standards and convenient manipulation of terrorism to pursue an illicit agenda, look at Washington's warmongering with Iran -- which corporate media unquestioningly cheerleads for just as it did for war with Iraq -- and how it omits the terrorism it perpetrates while labeling innocent victims as terrorists. In order to continue pandering to and enriching the Military-Industrial complex while raping the U.S. citizens that have been financially and morally bankrupt due to their illicit actions, the U.S. government, in complete cooperation with the Israeli Government, has been slinging piles of bullshit trying to make the U.S. public believe that Iran is a threat to our National Security.
The U.S. Government Specializes in Promulgating Perpetual Propaganda
The perpetual propaganda the U.S. government has promulgated on a profoundly misinformed U.S. public to sway support and justify attacking Iran serves many purposes: create an enemy, hype up the fabricated scaremongering to make your ignorant public think you're saving them while your “Intelligence” agency conducts covert operations and acts of terrorism in the Middle East, then propose preventive war and push a prefabricated agenda to make the American public believe war is necessary (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30052.htm). The U.S. government has specialized in this type of deception (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm) and has covertly pushed it war agenda with Iran (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29969.htm) for decades. Most U.S. -- and International -- support for the Israeli government's illicit actions is based on a multitude of lies spun as "facts" (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29640.htm). U.S. and British press has a pro-Israeli agenda slant for a reason (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29642.htm) and Neocons running the corrupt political establishment in Washington are busily pushing for wars with Syria and Iran (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29129.htm).
The Israeli government -- which owns entirely too much of the U.S. government -- and the Saudis are behind much of the Iran terror plot propaganda and lies (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29426.htm). In October of last year, Washington was pushing the blatantly false "Iranian Terror Plot" involving two Iranian "terrorists" meeting up with an assassin from a Mexican drug cartel who just happened to be a longtime DEA informant which was neither credible nor believable (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29373.htm). In typical fashion, the falsely fabricated "terrorist plot" was riddled with inconsistencies. The U. S. government's allegation that Iran plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. quickly unraveled (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29438.htm), raising a lot more questions than answers (link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/12-8). It's a pretty safe bet that the Saudi Ambassador had more ties to terrorists than the alleged assassin did.
The most recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's nuclear program was full of lies and misinformation. The IAEA "Study" -- contrived of massive amounts of false evidence to build a case for war with Iran -- offers yet another revealing look at how Washington's culture of corruption works (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29668.htm). Unsurprisingly, it was later revealed that the IAEA Chief was in cahoots with the U.S. Federal government (link: http://bit.ly/fsWLFE), and is in fact bought and paid for (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29664.htm). Despite the bloviated bullshit espoused by Washington and its propaganda pushers, Iran is more than a few months away from building nuclear bombs (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30011.htm).
Terrorism is Only Terrorism When Acts are Committed against the U.S., not by the U.S.
Herding Americans to war with Iran with alarmist propaganda and scaremongering suffered a minor snafu with the recent fifth assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. As with every other profoundly ignorant fabrication of the U.S.-Israeli government contrived Iranian terror plot, it has become blatantly evident that the assassinations had all the earmarks of U.S.-Israeli sponsorship (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30234.htm).
Even the New York Times -- the U.S. government's loudest cheerleader for invoking yet another unwinnable war in Iran -- has acknowledged that Israel, with some help from the U.S., appears to be conducting a covert war aimed at sabotaging Iran and assassinating its top nuclear scientists. The Israeli government, aided by the U.S. government, is committing acts of terrorism in Iran. But to both governments, it's only terrorism when acts are committed against them, not by them (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/). Instead of the U.S. and Israeli covert operators being called terrorists, the assassinated Iranian Nuclear scientist is the terrorist who must be stopped before he kills.
The assassinated Iranian Nuclear scientist was not committing any crimes that anyone can prove. He was killed for allegedly trying to develop nuclear weapons that would allegedly be used to attack Israel. Illegally conducting assassinations and covert operations for political reasons or policy purpose -- despite being defined as an international act of terrorism for purposes such as the State Department's annual reports on terrorism under U.S. law – is deemed perfectly acceptable and legal when the U.S. does it and those committing the crimes are often praised or promoted by the government.
The assertion that Iran would fire a nuclear missile at Israel -- which has more than 200 Nuclear missiles of its own that are officially unacknowledged and ignored by the U.S. government -- is duplicitous and completely absurd. Despite the lies and propaganda fabricated by the Neocons running the U.S.-Israeli governments, there is still no evidence that Iranian leadership is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and the official Iranian position claims that the use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic law. The U.S.-Israeli Governments fantasy of an Iranian nuclear first-strike on Israel has nothing to do with self-defense -- it has everything to do with looting Iran.
Secretly Exploiting Terrorism with no Oversight Ensures Deniability
Now that evidence is growing revealing the U.S.-Israeli government involvement in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, it's not proper to call this terrorism -- despite the fact that it is terrorism -- because the U.S. and Israeli Government's use the ambiguous definition of terrorism to mean something done only to Middle Eastern countries by Muslims and serially killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists isn't. Exploitation and manipulation of terrorism allows the U.S.-Israeli governments to take a "do as I say, not as I do" attitude when perpetrating acts of terrorism in total secrecy with no oversight ensures deniability, which both governments, in their infinite delusions, embrace regularly.
That does not mean that terrorism is inconsequential. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite. Terrorism is one of the most consequential words to our corrupted political establishment. Once someone is successfully branded as terrorist, they deserve all the punishment they get under the rule of law. The problem is, individuals and groups of people are being branded as terrorists without any evidence or due process of law, regardless of fact or truth, and the rule of law is for the most part, nonexistent when it pertains to the U.S. Government.
The U.S. government's exploitation of the ambiguousness of terrorism reveals, as noted by Glenn Greenwald, that the term terrorism means nothing and justifies everything, which is why such strong emotions are evoked when it is used in a way that deviates from mandated orthodoxies. Terrorism is a meaningless term that plays a significant role in governing how power and violence can be wielded and against whom (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/). The egregious abuse of power the U.S. has witnessed since the illegal inception of the fraudulent "War on Terror" has resulted in turning U.S. Democracy into a dictotorship. Understanding this gives you a better grasp of what is going on in the world today.
© Islam Times
To the U.S. government, terrorism is traditionally used to classify violence by Muslims against the U.S. and its allies. But whenever targeted terrorism is undertaken by Israel, the U.S. government or its allies, calling it terrorism is quickly denounced and defended with bogus claims of self-defense. Connecting their criminal actions to terrorism is taboo that corporate media manipulates the facts and omits the truth. One of the biggest misconceptions about terrorism is that it has some sort of a fixed, definitive meaning when in fact, it does not (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/) and therein lies a large part of the problem. By intentionally leaving the definition of terrorism so vague, the U.S. government made it easy to illegally exploit and manipulate its meaning while committing treason with impunity. But nowhere is the U.S. government's deceptive exploitation and manipulation of terrorism more evident than in its ongoing quest to attack Iran on Israel's behalf.
When it comes to defining terrorism -- and pretty much everything it does -- the U.S. government invariably utilizes double standards to manipulate its definition and meaning to suit whatever agenda it is pursuing while deflecting blame from its criminal actions (link: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2012/01/12/terrorism-and-double-standards/). When you throw excessive secrecy in the mix you can rest assured that there is more to the story than you're being told and that the U.S. government is conducting illegal activities. Those who dare reveal the U.S. government's multifaceted manipulations of terrorism are considered enemies of the state and fallaciously labeled as terrorists (link: http://codepink.org/blog/2011/12/ows-roadtrip-for-bradley-manning-dont-forget-your-baggage/).
For an example of the double standards and convenient manipulation of terrorism to pursue an illicit agenda, look at Washington's warmongering with Iran -- which corporate media unquestioningly cheerleads for just as it did for war with Iraq -- and how it omits the terrorism it perpetrates while labeling innocent victims as terrorists. In order to continue pandering to and enriching the Military-Industrial complex while raping the U.S. citizens that have been financially and morally bankrupt due to their illicit actions, the U.S. government, in complete cooperation with the Israeli Government, has been slinging piles of bullshit trying to make the U.S. public believe that Iran is a threat to our National Security.
The U.S. Government Specializes in Promulgating Perpetual Propaganda
The perpetual propaganda the U.S. government has promulgated on a profoundly misinformed U.S. public to sway support and justify attacking Iran serves many purposes: create an enemy, hype up the fabricated scaremongering to make your ignorant public think you're saving them while your “Intelligence” agency conducts covert operations and acts of terrorism in the Middle East, then propose preventive war and push a prefabricated agenda to make the American public believe war is necessary (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30052.htm). The U.S. government has specialized in this type of deception (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm) and has covertly pushed it war agenda with Iran (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29969.htm) for decades. Most U.S. -- and International -- support for the Israeli government's illicit actions is based on a multitude of lies spun as "facts" (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29640.htm). U.S. and British press has a pro-Israeli agenda slant for a reason (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29642.htm) and Neocons running the corrupt political establishment in Washington are busily pushing for wars with Syria and Iran (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29129.htm).
The Israeli government -- which owns entirely too much of the U.S. government -- and the Saudis are behind much of the Iran terror plot propaganda and lies (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29426.htm). In October of last year, Washington was pushing the blatantly false "Iranian Terror Plot" involving two Iranian "terrorists" meeting up with an assassin from a Mexican drug cartel who just happened to be a longtime DEA informant which was neither credible nor believable (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29373.htm). In typical fashion, the falsely fabricated "terrorist plot" was riddled with inconsistencies. The U. S. government's allegation that Iran plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. quickly unraveled (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29438.htm), raising a lot more questions than answers (link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/12-8). It's a pretty safe bet that the Saudi Ambassador had more ties to terrorists than the alleged assassin did.
The most recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's nuclear program was full of lies and misinformation. The IAEA "Study" -- contrived of massive amounts of false evidence to build a case for war with Iran -- offers yet another revealing look at how Washington's culture of corruption works (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29668.htm). Unsurprisingly, it was later revealed that the IAEA Chief was in cahoots with the U.S. Federal government (link: http://bit.ly/fsWLFE), and is in fact bought and paid for (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29664.htm). Despite the bloviated bullshit espoused by Washington and its propaganda pushers, Iran is more than a few months away from building nuclear bombs (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30011.htm).
Terrorism is Only Terrorism When Acts are Committed against the U.S., not by the U.S.
Herding Americans to war with Iran with alarmist propaganda and scaremongering suffered a minor snafu with the recent fifth assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. As with every other profoundly ignorant fabrication of the U.S.-Israeli government contrived Iranian terror plot, it has become blatantly evident that the assassinations had all the earmarks of U.S.-Israeli sponsorship (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30234.htm).
Even the New York Times -- the U.S. government's loudest cheerleader for invoking yet another unwinnable war in Iran -- has acknowledged that Israel, with some help from the U.S., appears to be conducting a covert war aimed at sabotaging Iran and assassinating its top nuclear scientists. The Israeli government, aided by the U.S. government, is committing acts of terrorism in Iran. But to both governments, it's only terrorism when acts are committed against them, not by them (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/). Instead of the U.S. and Israeli covert operators being called terrorists, the assassinated Iranian Nuclear scientist is the terrorist who must be stopped before he kills.
The assassinated Iranian Nuclear scientist was not committing any crimes that anyone can prove. He was killed for allegedly trying to develop nuclear weapons that would allegedly be used to attack Israel. Illegally conducting assassinations and covert operations for political reasons or policy purpose -- despite being defined as an international act of terrorism for purposes such as the State Department's annual reports on terrorism under U.S. law – is deemed perfectly acceptable and legal when the U.S. does it and those committing the crimes are often praised or promoted by the government.
The assertion that Iran would fire a nuclear missile at Israel -- which has more than 200 Nuclear missiles of its own that are officially unacknowledged and ignored by the U.S. government -- is duplicitous and completely absurd. Despite the lies and propaganda fabricated by the Neocons running the U.S.-Israeli governments, there is still no evidence that Iranian leadership is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and the official Iranian position claims that the use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic law. The U.S.-Israeli Governments fantasy of an Iranian nuclear first-strike on Israel has nothing to do with self-defense -- it has everything to do with looting Iran.
Secretly Exploiting Terrorism with no Oversight Ensures Deniability
Now that evidence is growing revealing the U.S.-Israeli government involvement in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, it's not proper to call this terrorism -- despite the fact that it is terrorism -- because the U.S. and Israeli Government's use the ambiguous definition of terrorism to mean something done only to Middle Eastern countries by Muslims and serially killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists isn't. Exploitation and manipulation of terrorism allows the U.S.-Israeli governments to take a "do as I say, not as I do" attitude when perpetrating acts of terrorism in total secrecy with no oversight ensures deniability, which both governments, in their infinite delusions, embrace regularly.
That does not mean that terrorism is inconsequential. In fact, the truth is quite the opposite. Terrorism is one of the most consequential words to our corrupted political establishment. Once someone is successfully branded as terrorist, they deserve all the punishment they get under the rule of law. The problem is, individuals and groups of people are being branded as terrorists without any evidence or due process of law, regardless of fact or truth, and the rule of law is for the most part, nonexistent when it pertains to the U.S. Government.
The U.S. government's exploitation of the ambiguousness of terrorism reveals, as noted by Glenn Greenwald, that the term terrorism means nothing and justifies everything, which is why such strong emotions are evoked when it is used in a way that deviates from mandated orthodoxies. Terrorism is a meaningless term that plays a significant role in governing how power and violence can be wielded and against whom (link: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/iran_and_the_terrorism_game/singleton/). The egregious abuse of power the U.S. has witnessed since the illegal inception of the fraudulent "War on Terror" has resulted in turning U.S. Democracy into a dictotorship. Understanding this gives you a better grasp of what is going on in the world today.
© Islam Times
Author : Bill Lindner
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