Interesting Times

Continuing to Ignore the Real Terrorists and the Real Source of Terrorism Only Encourages Terrorism and Extends Our Voluntary Servitude
Salmah Umm Zainab

As the days pass in the aftermath of the 26/11 terrorist assault on Mumbai, the hands of the world's powerful leaders and policy-makers have been continuing to point their controlled media fingers at Pakistan, just as they did early on during the assault, before any real investigations could even take place. What are they saying?

Delhi accuses Islamabad of failing to deliver on promises: India obliged to consider all options: Mukherjee [bolding added]
20 December 2008
By Iftikhar Gilani

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"If a country cannot keep the assurances that it has given  it obliges us to consider the entire range of options that exist to protect our interests and people from this menace (terrorism)," said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee without naming Islamabad.
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Mukherjee said the Mumbai attacks "reflect the extent to which the terrorists have spread their network in the neighbouring country".

He also hinted that Pakistani agencies may have "assisted the Mumbai terrorists". 

Mukherjee noted that "multiple centres of power" had emerged in Pakistan.

 

India May Still Strike at Pakistan: US Report [bolding added]
19 December 2008

NEW DELHI: India may have ruled out the military option against Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai terror attacks but the international intelligence community continues to believe that strikes in PoK and elsewhere could still happen. ( Watch ) 

Global intelligence service Stratfor, in its latest report, said, "Indian military operations against targets in Pakistan have in fact been prepared and await the signal to go forward."

It added, "These most likely would take the form of unilateral precision strikes inside Pakistan-administered Kashmir, along with special forces action on the ground in Pakistan proper."
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"Sources have indicated to Stratfor that New Delhi is going through the diplomatic motions in order to give Pakistan the opportunity to take care of the militant problem itself  but the Indians know that Islamabad has neither the will nor the capability to address their concerns," Stratfor said.

Three weeks after the attacks, India has gone out of its way to reassure everyone that it is not thinking of military action on Pakistan. This was most recently conveyed by Indian high commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal to Awami National Party chief Afsandyar Wali Khan in Islamabad earlier this week. But India continues to tell all its international interlocutors that its patience will not last long, particularly if Islamabad cannot crack down on terrorism. 

India's actions thus far have been to build a kind of international consensus that the attacks were sourced in Pakistan. It has led to a huge spurt in international pressure on Pakistan to ?do more? to combat terrorism. Almost every member of the international community also believes that the next attack in India would see the gloves come off.

But everybody knows that Pakistan's civilian government is unable to take any steps to curb terrorists and the military establishment is unwilling to do so. 

"From a strategic perspective, the Indian government can no more afford to accept the Mumbai attacks and move forward than the US government could have afforded to ignore the 9/11 attacks. New Delhi has little choice but to respond - regardless of which political party is in power - and because the perpetrators are linked to elements within the Pakistani state, the response must be directed against Pakistan. And if Islamabad will not cooperate in controlling the militants, India will have to take unilateral action," Stratfor said. 

It explained that India knew strikes in Pakistan would not eliminate the terrorist threat, "but that would not be the aim of any such operation". It added, "Instead, India has to communicate firmly that it will no longer tolerate attacks from Pakistan-based militants  whether they are rogue or approved by the state. Failure to do so risks emboldening the Islamists and their enablers, as well as a domestic political backlash. The Indian government could not live with either of those outcomes."

 

Pakistan 'linked to 75% of all UK terror plots', warns Gordon Brown [bolding added]
15 December 2008

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"Three quarters of the most serious plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan," said Mr Brown in a press conference alongside Mr Zardari in the presidential palace in Islamabad. "The time has come for action, not words."
Speaking just a few hours after meeting Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, in Delhi, Mr Brown also formally declared for the first time that Britain backs India's assertion that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group with links to Pakistan's military-run spy agency, carried out the Mumbai attack.

 

All Terror Roads Lead to Pakistan, says US report [bolding added]
10 December 2008

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The report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, called `World at Risk?, says, "If one has to map terrorism and WMDs today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan."

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai: Pakistan Is The Source of Terrorism in My Country
Video
14 July 2008

That's what they're saying. Obviously they are trying to build an airtight case against Pakistan, in public opinion if nowhere else, filtering out all conflicting information that points elsewhere and about which much has been written by independent analysts and reporters. This is something that was also done in the buildup to invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 in the US. But why?  

Consider the possibility that now, as then, someone is playing the world for fools, playing us against each other in the guise of the Global War on Terror, and, in the real war that it masks, Pakistan is a high-value target. Consider who the real terrorists are and you will understand the source of real terrorism. In the face of this constant propaganda building up to increased "anti-terrorist" terrorism, we need constant reminders to counteract the poison being spread, reminders such as the following:

DictatorshipWatch
Abid Ullah Jan
Comment on "India May Still Strike at Pakistan: US Report"
19 December 2008

Let one thing be crystal clear: Pakistan is the high value target. It has to be neutralized and if possible balkanized. There are several ways to achieve this goal. However, softening Pakistan is the most effective way to go about it. 

For softening up Pakistan, the US used Mush for 8 years and then brought a kind of government in place which is worse than Musharraf's in many ways. 

To keep the puppet regime in Islamabad in power, the US has to keep the heat on both on eastern and western borders of Pakistan so that the opposition parties don't have time to throw the criminals and thugs out of power. 

So the Indian threats and most probably the planned 'surgical' strikes will achieve multi-pronged objectives, including 1) weakening the country; 2) bringing down moral of its military forces, 3) keeping the puppet regime in power and 4) paving the way for wider war in which the US will wait from the sidelines and use India like Iraq against Afghanistan.

The fundamentalist Hindus are going to become cannon fodder in the US and Israel's long awaited war on Pakistan. The US will use its forces when it sees much of the damage has done and enough of Pakistanis and Indians have been sacrificed at the altar of Zionist and neocons warlords. 

 

The Real Terrorists
Zahir Ebrahim
5 December 2008 

The atrocity in Mumbai last week, and the bizarre data that is emerging, will make more sense if one stops viewing this heinous terrorist act from the traditional Indian-Pakistan lens. It is urgent that people in both nations begin to appreciate what's at stake so that each may initiate proper self-defense against accurately identified hidden dangers from the overt katputli tamashas. 

The following News Flash is Project Humanbeingsfirst's position on this manufactured terror. To appreciate it, please study the methods of Rand Corporation, CFR, Zbigniew Brzezinski, et. al., and acquire an understanding of the notion of world-government. Political science runs the world, and the children of Machiavelli are deeply rooted in waging war by way of deception - a game of conquest "as old as mankind". From the East India Company to Free Trade to the War on Terror - all enablers of pretexts for "imperial mobilization" and "full spectrum dominance". In the West, typically, the smartest students study humanities and social sciences, and the think-tanks as well as the Pentagon are populated with scores of PhDs in political science and history. What do you think they do there? What do you think they do at the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace? How about at CFR and RIIA? They are united in one common global agenda ? world government. And they get there by shrewdly employing the overarching political science concept articulated by David Ben Gurion "what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times"!

Therefore, please don't blame the Hindus or ISI or Jihadis - patsies and mercenaries come in all stripes, ethnic origin, and social class. And the best recruits for patsies are always those who have grievances or are disgruntled. The best recruits for mercenaries are the ruling-elite, politicians, and military men. In both cases they know very little, in fact often zero, and are merely the "trigger pullers" of average intelligence. Instead, look for those "ubermensch" who employ them. To do so, one has to understand the agendas, and what scheme of things is really being enacted on the world-stage. That, according to the forensic reports of Project Humanbeingsfirst (available on its website), points to an entirely different motivation-space and entirely different criminals from the "katputli tamashas" being enacted for public consumption. 

 

Who are the REAL Terrorists? [bolding added]
S. Brian Willson
1999

Now, without existence of an alternative powerful pole, i.e. the Soviet Union, effecting a moderating influence, U.S. behavior has become ever more belligerent and lawless, as evidenced by its unilateral attacks with impunity on Panama, Sudan, and Afghanistan, and its relentless bilateral bombings, with Britain, of Iraq. U.S. aggressive foreign policy, along with its sponsored, funded, armed and/or trained "authoritarian" and "democratic" states comprise the real terror network, i.e., the network of wholesale terrorists. The increasingly sophisticated, nearly unchecked propaganda machinery of the "democratic" West has successfully censored this demonic history of the real terror network. Substituted in its place is an often desperate, frequently concocted network of the voiceless that includes, by careful definition and selectivity, only those "terrorists" who challenge important Western "neoliberal" economic interests, or who can be linked in some way, no matter how remotely, to the "enemies" of these interests. This substituted group of individuals and smaller groups of relatively poor people, in fact, become the network of retail terrorists who serve to distract attention from the more substantial and systemic destructive behavior of the wholesale terrorists.

The poor remain our enemy, whether described as "Communists," "terrorists," "drug traffickers," "demons," "backwards," etc., and whether they reside in the U.S. or abroad. The existence of the poor threatens the disproportionately privileged collective Western and American Way of Life (AWOL). Their misery is, in effect, inevitably and forcefully imposed as a trade-off enabling AWOL affluence. Genuine democracy (self-determination) and true justice for the majority of the world's people are not tolerated by political/economic systems such as ours, so totally dependent upon exploitation of public resources and human labor to assure maximization of private profits for the few.

The sick mindset of the double terrorists
Abid Ullah Jan
9 July 2005

If anything positive may emerge from the July 7 tragedy in London it is the growing realization that the terrorists and those who claim to be fighting a "war on terrorism" are just one and the same people. For this reason we must resolve to expose the enemies of freedom and never give up to the hollow rhetoric of freedom and democracy on the part of double-terrorists. 

Believing in their statements of mass deception or even staying silent in the face of their ever increasing lies sends the message to the double-terrorists and their allies that their terrorism upon terrorism works in favor of their totalitarian designs and so makes further atrocities at home and abroad more likely.
Therefore we must take this opportunity to realize that the perpetrators on the bombing in London and Iraq and Afghanistan are using well trained armies to commit terrorism abroad and well trained secret agents to commit terrorism at home for additional support for terrorism abroad. 

While the terrorists are fighting in the name of freedom and democracy and that definitely has merit, the intentional invasions and occupations on the basis of lies, the intentional killing of innocent people and the intentional establishment of countless concentration camps is never justifiable as means to promote the stated cause. The democratic terrorists should have learned from the failure of Communism that the end does not justify the means. 

We will never be able to see an end to terrorism because the double-terrorists are the perpetrators: the real culprits. They then become the judge, the prosecutor and also declare a "war on terrorism." Very very strange indeed: we are facing mass deception of an unprecedented scale in human history.

A mere realization of this reality is enough to neutralize terrorist practices by preventing them from attaining their totalitarian designs in the short run. In the long run, they are going to take themselves out of steam with their own hands. No one is militarily so strong to defeat them. However, they digging a deep hole for themselves with the belief that they can continue to lie, cheat and fool the world indefinitely.
Thus, the categorical condemnation of this double-terrorism would go a long way towards its elimination. We need to expose and defeat the mindset that promotes and sustains this bloody game of double terrorism. 

...we are facing terrorism upon terrorism from the double-terrorists. No amount of silence or surrendering our rights to real freedom and self-determination will prevent them from striking at home and abroad with the twin objectives of consolidating police state at home[2] and puppet regimes abroad.

The last quote helps us know what we need to know and understand what we must do about it, as does the following:

A Monologue on Hope and Voluntary Servitude
Zahir Ebrahim
September 2008

...after concluding that all tyranny rests on popular consent, La Boetie eloquently concludes that "obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement." Tyrants need not be expropriated by force; they need only be deprived of the public's continuing supply of funds and resources. The more one yields to tyrants, La Boetie points out, the stronger and mightier they become. But if the tyrants "are simply not obeyed," they become "undone and as nothing." La Boetie then exhorts the "poor, wretched, and stupid peoples" to cast off their chains by refusing to supply the tyrant any further with the instruments of their own oppression. The tyrant, indeed, has nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had not cooperation from you?

La Boetie concludes his exhortation by assuring the masses that to overthrow the tyrant they need not act, nor shed their blood. They can do so "merely by willing to be free." In short,

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

...What prevents La Boetie's prescription today when the same principle exemplarily brought down the majesty of the British Empire in its own Jewel in the Crown less than four score years past? 

The answer must remain the same as during La Boetie's time " the threshold of the masses" tolerance hasn't been crossed yet - the poor among mankind having been endowed with infinite patience and eternal hope! It is this "hope", and man's misplaced optimism due to it, that primarily enables one's "Voluntary Servitude". Therefore, despite the simple mechanism of overthrowing it - albeit only collectively - being quite naturally available to man as rationally demonstrated by Boetie, "hope" perniciously incapacitates him.
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And what appears to hasten or preempt man's natural threshold for bearing infinite pain due to his infantile lingering "hope" for better times, is always inspiring leadership! Leaders courageous enough to boldly assert "enough", with a vision and a plan, before that inevitable turning-point can be naturally reached when only the uncontrolled mob with nothing more to lose takes over - as it did in the French Revolution which subsequently spawned the tyranny of Napoleon!
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Finally, one can rightfully claim, that there is little difference between the peoples of America, and the peoples of Pakistan - united they do stand in "hope" and inaction for a better tomorrow, as the rich plunderers laugh their way to the bank! 

...it is quite evident that it is mainly the deprivation of "hope" that enables one to abandon "Voluntary Servitude". Be it towards the despondency of the weak, and hence they perish. Or be it towards the assertion of fight-back by the strong - who have had it up to their neck and are not willing to take it anymore as they are going to perish anyway, who are left with no hope of being rescued by anyone else and have nothing further to lose by standing up - by their minimally copying the instinctive behavior [45] of the free animals! The courageous history of mankind is evidence that it is only when there is no hope of rescue, or of the suffocating conditions ameliorating, that "Voluntary Servitude" ends! 

This was indeed the premise behind the famous speech given by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 [46] when he hath proclaimed: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
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Only a year later, the intimate realization that "There is no longer any room for hope", led to a Declaration which today, surely still resonates, albeit mutely, in the hearts of some, and sends a winter's chill down the spine of every despot and demagogue:

...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Wherefore such a people? Only whence bereft of hope, and only when courageously led! Or at least, that is what the empirical history of mankind suggests.