9/11 - Ten Years Later

Here is an amazing piece by Chris Hedges entitled "A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe."

Glenn Greenwald: "FBI successfully thrwarts its own Terrorist plot"

Here is a great piece by Glenn Greenwald on how the FBI is manufacturing and then "preventing" terrorist attacks, most recently with the supposed Somali "Christmas tree terrorist".

Greenwald has quickly become one of my favorite writers. He is like a surgeon in his ability to dissect and communicate the countless devastating atrocities committed by the US government in the name of "security".

An excerpt:

We hear the same exact thing over and over and over from accused Terrorists -- that they are attempting to carry about plots in retaliation for past and ongoing American violence against Muslim civilians and to deter such future acts. Here we find one of the great mysteries in American political culture: that the U.S. Government dispatches its military all over the world -- invading, occupying, and bombing multiple Muslim countries -- torturing them, imprisoning them without charges, shooting them up at checkpoints, sending remote-controlled drones to explode their homes, imposing sanctions that starve hundreds of thousands of children to death -- and Americans are then baffled when some Muslims -- an amazingly small percentage -- harbor anger and vengeance at them and want to return the violence. And here we also find the greatest myth in American political discourse: that engaging in all of that military aggression somehow constitutes Staying Safe and combating Terrorism -- rather than doing more than any single other cause to provoke, sustain and fuel Terrorism.

"Terrorists" Behead Statue of Liberty Replica

A replica of the Statue of Liberty was stolen from outside a Brooklyn coffee shop and decapitated and a video posted to Youtube.

As Liberty's head is being sawed off in the video, the words, "We don't want your freedom" are flashed on the screen.

But wait, I thought that the "terrorists" hated us because this is what their evil religion teaches them. Could it be that they just don't want to be force-fed democracy and "freedom" at the point of a gun?

I don't advocate the use of non-self defensive violence or aggression by anyone, including (and especially) thugs calling themselves "the government". However, there are other freedom lovers that want to be left alone and DO advocate the use of violence to affect change. I agree with their message but not with their implementation.

One also can't help but view this demonstration as an accurate metaphor of the state of liberty in America: deceased.

Terrorists "Hate Our Freedom"

[thanks to Lewrockwell.com and The Washington Post]

In addition to the 17,000 troops sent to Afghanistan this year, President Obama just commissioned an additional 4,000. Has Afghanistan become Obama's Iraq?