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July 26, 2005

Being reasonable about your own extremism

Victoria's Assistant Police Commissioner says CCTV surveillance is useful for investigations but is not a deterrent for suicide bombers. Societies are in an awful hurry to shred the rest of their civil liberties, on the pretext of "prevention", while the same legislators pump-up the fear through the media. The Australian even reports the Howard Government "will defend tough, new anti-terrorist legislation against attacks by civil libertarians by citing its obligations under the UN human rights convention to protect human life" - though other aspects of that convention (refugees, labour rights, welfare) have been ignored and abused by the same government. Indeed, the federal Treasurer supports the abolition of unfair dismissal protection for all workers - contrary to fundamental rights expressed in many conventions. The darkness is descending rapidly. Australians are even being targetting for their reading - a Melbourne university student says the Australian Federal Police forced him to answer questions because he borrowed library books about terrorism and suicide bombings.

To long-term researchers, the strange parallels between 9-11 and 7-7 are becoming clearer - and it should be noted clearly that these are reported as "facts", not theoretical conspiracies. They include:

  • Warning from Scotland Yard to the Israeli Consulate (with vice-versa variations)
  • Anti-terror "excerises" conducted while a "real" event occurs
  • Sudden parallel surges in liquidity in the stock market
  • Security services previously being aware of the "bombers" but somehow not seeing a threat
  • ID papers being "found" despite fire and explosions.
On July 29, another parallel emerges:
  • Perpetrators identified by security services before attacks, but "sister services" prevent arrest (CNN quotes US officials saying suspect Aswat was "in their grasp" one month before the London attacks but British counterparts would not let them detain him.)
On August 8th a new parallel is revealled:
  • Warnings were given more than two years ago to UK police that bombing suspects were "dangerous", without action being taken. Warnings were also given in the months and days before July 7, again apparently without action.
Notably, both 9-11 and 7-7 events have been pretexts for the serious loss of civil liberties, and the violent imposition of authority in the name of "freedom", placing those who would argue against effectively creating police states in the invidious position of having to keep media company with "terrorists" - as if one tryanny balances another. The "clash of ignorance" as one commentator observes. Meanwhile the "Al-Qaeda" deception is quietly becoming clearer, with Blair admitting "Al Qaeda is not an organization. Al Qaeda is a way of working" and Cook going further along the same track with "Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA". Indeed it is not unknown for western services to be involved with terrorism themselves, for instance the CIA and Cuba - though to raise this point properly may be very risky in the current hysteria. Nobody wants innocent people to die, no matter who primes the fuse.

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