The Bush regime's "endless war on terror" would fall on its face in the U.S. if there weren't a huge continuing campaign to try to keep up our fear of being attacked. It doesn't matter that it wasn't true about Iraq, that they had no weapons of mass destruction, that they weren't planning on blowing up Buffalo, that they weren't putting terrorist cells in our cities, that they didn't have a fearsome army set to invade the world.
Even though it wasn't true, spokespeople for the Bush regime keep on implying that it was ("Buffalo FBI chief explains Lackawanna Six," Nov. 7).
What does UB get out of helping them do this? Do they get some money for keeping the military budget swollen and fat? Sure.
Was the Spectrum reporter who wrote this slimy article full of the lies and "implications" of FBI/Bush propaganda, na??ve - being used? Maybe.
If the people of this country weren't constantly being bamboozled into thinking that we need to be fighting some enemy overseas (and their covert agents hiding in our back yards) we would be demanding our money back so we could fight for our needs right here at home.
So we have all this propaganda to support the flow of all those dollars.
The railroading of the Lackawanna Six (and the railroading of thousands of people here and everywhere who were made to believe that these young men were criminals) is still being lied about, helped along by racism, just to keep you worried about so-called terrorists.
Clever lies. Fancy work with words. Makes you think they said something they didn't. Weren't the Lackawanna Six convicted? No, but threatened with secret military kangaroo courts if they didn't plead guilty, and in fear of being stripped of all their rights as citizens, these six young men, made the target of the most powerful and shameless government in the history of the world, pled guilty.
What was the big investigation that the FBI is so proud of? Um, some licensing and registration fees allegedly not paid for businesses in the Yemeni community here. Like immigrants everywhere, Arab and Yemeni workers in Lackawanna send a lot of their money to family still in the old country. Lots of these places have no banks, no wire transfers. Cash business.
A great opportunity to imply that respected community leaders like Mohammed Albanna sent money to terrorists. Who's to argue? The FBI didn't really say that. They just implied it, knowing what people would believe. They just implied that there's a connection between this money sending and the never-existed Lackawanna terror cell that you are supposed to believe in.
Don't believe. Ask, who benefits if we believe what they're telling us?
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