Posted on 10/29/2001 9:37:43 PM PST by ouroboros
Lew Rockwell has already spelled out why conservatives should oppose this war, but here's something else to consider: how long will it be before conservatives themselves are considered terrorists?
It's already happening. The media and government are beginning to suggest that terrorism is a right-wing phenomenon. Pro-lifers are particularly subject to vilification, as usual, but the right in general is suspect. Recent remarks on the subject of domestic terrorism by a special agent of the FBI illustrate what's happening.
Several news sources have reported that the CIA and FBI suspect that the anthrax attacks of recent weeks are of a domestic origin. This may mean Al Qaeda cells or sympathizers active right here in the United States, or it may mean a home-grown terrorist group (or individual) is attempting to "piggyback" on the September 11th attacks. The Buffalo News quotes FBI special agent John P. Culhane Jr.:
Displaying a photo of white-supremacist skinheads with a swastika, Culhane said the ultra-right wing in this country could not be ruled out as perpetrators of mailing the anthrax, which has killed three people so far.
"Skinheads and others are anxious to foment unrest, and they have an opportunity here to lay it off on someone else," Culhane said. "This is the kind of right-wing activity we have to pay attention to."
Culhane also displayed pictures of executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, a former Pendleton resident, and James C. Kopp, the accused killer of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, an Amherst physician who performed abortions.
"James Kopp is as much a terrorist as Osama bin Laden. Whether it's killing a doctor in Amherst or 6,000 people, they are killing to accomplish their mission," Culhane said.
Associating a lone maniac who killed one doctor with the mastermind of a terrorist network that killed perhaps 6,000 people might seem like an exaggeration to some people, but apparently not to the FBI.
The Buffalo News article makes no mention of any possible leftist terrorists, another Ted Kacyznski or perhaps an Earth First cell. The right is singled out as a source of terror. You don't need a map to see where this is leading.
It's happened before. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was designed as an extraordinary measure to fight gangsters. It expanded federal police powers in the name of a seemingly unobjectionable cause, the fight against bloodthirsty mobsters. But in the hands of Leftist lawyers, RICO became a weapon for the political persecution of pro-lifers.
Innocence is no defense, by the way. The pro-abortion side has shown repeatedly that it is willing to lie to win public sympathy:
Those who are quick to believe false charges about pro-life violence would do well to heed the words of Joan Appleton, R.N., who testified in April, 1999 before the Criminal Justice Committee in Boston. Her testimony revealed that when she was an abortion clinic manager and nurse, she routinely fabricated reports of pro-life violence. She lied to the media; she lied under oath in the Bray injunction case in Virginia; and she lied to the U.S. Senate, falsely alleging violence by pro-lifers to help pass the F.A.C.E. law. She emphasized to the Criminal Justice Committee that such dishonesty was common among her peers; and indeed, many examples of pro-choice dishonesty could be cited. Take just one well known case: Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, who confessed, "I lied through my teeth," about the frequency of partial-birth abortion.
As for James Kopp, poster child for right-wing terrorism in the US, there are some interesting irregularities in the case against him. He says he's being framed. But we know the FBI would never do anything like falsifying evidence, would they?
Pro-lifers are a favorite target of leftists in the media and government, but of course they're only the tip of the ice-berg. Gun-owners, anti-tax activists and anyone critical of the government is suspect. We're all fair game, and all the expanded powers conservatives are eager for the State to deploy against "suspicious-looking swarthy males" today are going to be used against conservatives tomorrow.
October 30, 2001
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I don't believe that it is a right wing group because the United Nations has not been shut down for anthrax. What right wing group would send anthrax to the NY Post when they could just as easily send it to the UN?
The anthrax attacks have been on the leftists so it must be the rightists committing these crimes. Correct?
The pro-abortion side has shown repeatedly that it is willing to lie to win public sympathy:
This is nothing new. Politcians have been lying to us forever and they are not punished because we have such short memories and a President who doesn't want to take down our style of government. I feel 99.99% of our current politicians aided Clinton in his crimes either by not prosecuting or just ignoring them, thankful that they weren't up on the public platform.
Killing babies........Ah, that's just a minor abuse when you look back. Why bother getting riled at that. Well, sorry, but it really upsets me that we won't protect them just because they cannot protect themselves.
Culhane also displayed pictures of executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, a former Pendleton resident, and James C. Kopp, the accused killer of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian, an Amherst physician who performed abortions.
The brainwashing is being stepped up....the seeds are being planted...the groundwork is being laid.
And they say a picture is worth a thousand words...
Bingo ....
Excerpt:
"How close was Slepian to a conversion?
Behn told The Wanderer that the Buffalo-area pro-life Clergy Council had invited Slepian to address its monthly meeting, and Slepian - who had expressed interest in attending - had promised to give his answer on Saturday, the day after he was killed.
"We're certainly not happy Slepian's dead," Behn said. "It's going to make things very hard for pro-lifers, especially the sidewalk counsellors."
Two months after Slepian's slaying, the FBI and law enforcement agents from Canada, New York, Buffalo, and Amherst have not found a suspect, feeding speculation that Slepian was the object of a professional agent provocateur hired by those who knew Slepian was wavering in his commitment to "reproductive freedom."
Slepian's assassination raises troubling questions in the pro-life community here about just who would benefit by his murder.
While the mediarchy infers that the act was a pro-life execution to commemorate Remembrance Day in Canada or Veterans' Day in the United States, some pro-lifers suspect that the assassination was timed to coincide with the Nov. 3 U.S. election, as a way to whip up support for pro-abortion political candidates, to embarrass and defeat pro-life candidates, and to generate more punitive legislation to harass pro-lifers.
In New York, for example, Senator Al D'Amato's opponent, Congressman Chuck Schumer, started running TV ads claiming that D'Amato was responsible for Slepian's death because he voted against pro-abortion extremist legislation such as requiring federal marshals to guard abortion mills. And the Catholic candidate for governor in California, Gray Davis, has increased his barrage of "pro-choice" advertisements accusing Attorney-General Dan Lungren of being a danger to women."
There once lived a ruler who set a fire to burn some old buildings, so that he could have clear land for his new palace. But due to the negligence of his underlings, the fire spread and spread, consuming half the capital in a deadly conflagration. To avoid trouble, he shifted blame from his violent, incompetent lackeys to a small and peaceful religious sect. The people, enraged at the destruction of their city, cheered their emperor as he prosecuted the imagined crimes of this group. One group leader was beheaded, while another was nailed upside-down to a cross. This, however, satisfied neither the Emperor nor his people. They arrested many from this small, persecuted cult, using their flaming bodies to light the streets after dark. And so the fires set by the guilty greedily devour the innocent.
Clinton is rumoured to have hated Right Wing Christians with a passion, and it seems he transfered that hatred to his F.B.I. appointees. These people just go on about fulfilling the prophecies in the Bible, blithely ignorant of the fact that they are doing so, just like so many before them.
A lot of people " think " that they are CONSERVATIVES , when, in fact, they are on the lunatic fringe.
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