The Grand Deception

KNOW THE ENEMY

In the year 500 b.c., a Chinese general and philosopher by the

name of Sun Tzu wrote a treatise called The Art of War. It has been

translated into just about every language in the world and has become a

classic of military and political strategy. In it, Sun Tzu said:

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the

result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for

every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither

the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."[1]

It is now three days after the attack, and I am haunted by the

words of Sun Tzu. America has declared war, but her leaders are not even

sure who the enemy is. Is it a man called Osama bin Laden? Is it

Afghanistan, the nation that shelters him? Is it the Taliban which rules

Afghanistan? Is it a terrorist group called al-Qaida? Is it Muslim

Extremism? We commit to war but do not know the enemy.

The meaning of this event is far more complicated than the

surface facts would indicate. On the surface, we have a group of people

in the Middle East who hate America and have pledged themselves to

inflict severe punishment on her, even at the sacrifice of their own

lives. If that is as far as we care to look, then the meaning is simple.

It is them against us; we are at war; they are the bad guys; we are the

good guys; and we must destroy the enemy.

That is the meaning that was given to the American people by

their leaders. President Bush summarized it well when he told the nation,

Tuesday, that the attack was an act of cowardice and that America was the

target because it was a beacon of freedom. If that is the correct meaning

of the event, the logical consequences are that we must fight back; we

must defend freedom; and we must not stop until the cowards are wiped off

the face of the earth. That is the path of war, retaliation, and, of

course, counter-retaliation.

There is, however, a deeper understanding of this event, and it

has to do with the maxim: actions have consequences. To come to that

understanding, we must do the unthinkable in moments of crisis. We must

ask questions.

LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM

Asking questions is not popular with some people. When a nation

is at war, there is a tendency for its citizens to rally behind their

leaders without questioning the wisdom of their actions. For them, the

test of patriotism is conformity. Those who ask questions are called

unpatriotic. Life is simple for the conformists. All they want to know is

“What side are you on, anyway?”[2]

When we reach the end of this report, there will be no doubt in

anyone’s mind about my patriotism or which side holds my loyalty; but,

along the way, I definitely will be asking some hard questions about the

wisdom of American foreign policy.

Although I may be critical of our politicians and their policies;

I want it clearly understood at the outset that I totally support our men

and women who will be sent into combat as a result of those policies.

When we find ourselves in a shooting war, regardless of how we got into

it, at that point we have no choice. We must put all that we have into

the fight. But, the other side of that coin is that we must fight to win.

Our goal must be victory, not stalemate – and we should achieve it as

quickly as possible to minimize casualties on both sides. That does not

mean fighting a protracted conflict in which something other than victory

is the goal. That is what our politicians forced us to do in Korea and

Vietnam and Desert Storm and the Balkan War. After the fighting was over,

the tyrannical regimes were still there. We left them in place. Some of

them are now supporting the terrorists who have attacked us.

In the days ahead, we must be clear on the difference between

loyalty and patriotism. The spirit of loyalty compels us to support and

defend our country even when she is wrong. That is necessary in time of

war, but patriotism is a higher ideal. It compels us, not only to defend

our country when she is wrong, but also to do everything within our power

to bring her back to the side of right.

When it comes to patriotism, there is no one who has a greater

love for country than I do. That is easy to say; but when you hear

someone make that statement, you have a right to know where is the

evidence? My evidence is my life. I did not purchase our family’s flag on

Tuesday. It is very old and weathered. We have proudly displayed it on

every holiday for more than forty years. Often, it was the only flag in

the neighborhood. I did not need a terrorist attack to remind me to honor

my country and my heritage.

Displaying the flag is important, but patriotism requires much

more than that. I have devoted almost the entirety of my adult life

trying to mobilize my fellow countrymen to the defense of America from

her enemies outside her borders and within. Since 1960, I have left

behind me a long paper trail and a mountain of audio and videotapes

extolling the virtues of the American system, her culture, her

Constitution, and her people. I love America and all that she has stood

for in days gone by, but I am saddened beyond words at what has been done

to her within my lifetime – and what I fear is yet to be done in the days

ahead.

There are those who may say that I am anti-government, but that

is not true. I am not anti-government; I am anti-corrupt government. I

will do everything possible to defend my government from those who would

violate their oaths of office, tear apart the Constitution, or use their

positions of trust to oppress our people. To oppose corruption in

government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?

The first question we need to ask is why? Why do the terrorists

hate America?[3]

I am reminded of the story of a young man in medieval times who

wanted to become a knight. He obtained an audience with the king and

offered his services, explaining that he was an excellent swordsman. The

king told him that the realm was at peace, and there was no need for a

knight. Nevertheless, the young man insisted that he be allowed to serve.

To put and end to the discussion, the king finally agreed and knighted

him on the spot. Several months later, the young knight returned to the

castle and requested another audience. When he entered the throne room,

he bowed in respect and then reported that he had been very busy. He

explained that he had killed thirty of the king’s enemies in the North

and forty-five of them in the South. The king looked puzzled for a moment

and said, “But I don’t have any enemies.” To which the knight replied,

“You do now, Sire.”

Do Muslim terrorists hate America because of their religion or

their culture? Is it because they are envious of America’s wealth or that

American women wear short skirts? Or is it because they really do hate

freedom? No one with knowledge of Islam believes any of those answers.

Some commentators have quoted the more militant passages of the Koran as

proof that religion is, indeed, the basis of this animosity, but a

careful reading reveals that violence is approved only in retaliation. Of

course, there are groups within Islam that have a very liberal

interpretation of retaliation, but the fact remains that the terrorists

are attacking only those countries that have previously conducted

military campaigns against their people. Their hatred comes, not from the

Koran or the ancient traditions or from envy. It comes from a desire for

revenge.

AMERICA BECOMES WORLD POLICEMAN

Ever since the end of World War II, America’s politicians have

viewed themselves as global leaders with a responsibility to manage the

affairs of the world that outweighs or at least equals any obligation to

their own country. For over five decades, the nation’s universities and

media have extolled the virtues of internationalism. The old tradition of

avoiding foreign entanglements was sneeringly called isolationism. We

were conditioned to think that the old way was stupid. The wave of the

future was shown to us, and it was a New World Order. Over the years, we

watched with approval as our leaders increasingly entangled our once

sovereign nation into a world community called the United Nations. Treaty

by treaty, we watched and approved as we became increasingly subject to

international edicts and played the role of world policeman.

It is in that role that our military began to wage wars against

populations far removed from our shores and even further from our

national interests. To justify those wars, we were told that we were

defending victim groups against their despotic neighbors or ridding the

world of drug lords; but, after the smoke of battle cleared, we

discovered that there were hidden agendas that were much less noble. More

often than not, the real purpose of the war was to control oil fields,

ports, mineral resources, or military supply lines – or even to distract

voters from thinking about scandals in the White House. If you roam

around the globe shooting and bombing people, and aligning yourself

politically with others who do the same, you cannot expect your victims

to like you very much. Some may even be willing to die for revenge.

A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN MEDIA

On Wednesday evening (September 12), Henry Sigman, reported on

Nightline: “The U.S. is seen as a sort of an insensitive hegemony with

arrogance that seeks to impose it’s own values on the rest of the world.

It is seen as an uncritical supporter of the State of Israel in its

conflict with the Palestinians, and the combination of the two does not

make for U.S. popularity in that part of the world.”

Adding to this theme was Magnas Raisdorff, who also appeared on

Nightline while Ted Koppel, the show’s host, was speaking from London.

Raisdorff, a reporter in the London branch of CBS, and an expert on

terrorism, agreed with Sigman. He said:

Many in the Arab world regard the U.S., not as an honest broker,

but as protecting and shielding Israel over very important political as

well as religious issues. Among these issues are: Israel’s control over

holy Islamic sites, like the Dome of the Rock;[4] the presence of U.S.

troops near Islamic religious places such as Mecca and Medina; the

sanctions the U.S. has placed on Iraq are mostly depriving children of

drugs and food they desperately need; and, most importantly, Israel’s

attacks on prominent Palestinian militants are using equipment, like

helicopter gun ships, provided by the U.S.

Then Jim Ruden, also in London, came on the program to summarize

Raisdorff’s report saying: “And that is why what happened yesterday,

happened, not because ‘America is the world’s brightest beacon [of

freedom].’”

Since the end of World War II, the United States has launched

military strikes against Panama, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia,

Serbia, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan, Haiti, Granada, Afghanistan, and Somalia –

all in the pursuit of stopping drugs, defending freedom, or resisting

Communism. In the great majority of cases, these objectives were not

achieved. The only measurable result has been the creation of hostility

toward America. That is what I call the OOPS Factor that has been a

dominant feature of U.S. foreign policy for over five decades.

Politicians never admit that they have made a mistake –

especially a big one. To do so would imply that they are not qualified to

lead. No matter what errors they make, they find something or someone to

blame. Their standard excuse is that they didn’t have enough money or

large enough staff or enough authority. If only we will increase their

budget and give them more power, everything will be corrected. Typically,

they already have spent too much money, hired too many people, and

exercised too much authority, so their proposed solution is more of

exactly what created the problem in the first place.

In the case of terrorism, the politicians who create U.S. foreign

policy cannot be expected to tell the world they made a mistake. It will

be a chilly day in Hades when they announce that they, themselves, have

any responsibility for these acts. They will not want the American people

contemplating the possibility that Tuesday’s attack might have been

related to an interventionist foreign policy. They will try to single out

a person and then demonize him so he will become the central focus of

anger and retaliation. That person probably will be Osama bin Laden, so,

let us see what he has to say about this. (Please remember that these

words were written just three days after the attack of September 11; and,

at that time, bin Laden had not yet been firmly declared as the

responsible party.)

FROM THE MIND OF BIN LADEN

In May of 1998, ABC reporter John Miller interviewed bin Laden at

his camp on a mountaintop in Southern Afghanistan. This is what he said:

The Americans impose themselves on everyone. … They accuse our

children in Palestine of being terrorists. Those children who have no

weapons and have not even reached maturity. At the same time, they defend

… with their airplanes and tanks, the state of the Jews that has a policy

to destroy the future of these children. … In the Sabra and Shatilla

massacre, … houses were demolished over the heads of children. Also, by

testimony of relief workers in Iraq, the American-led sanctions resulted

in the death of more than one million Iraqi children. … We believe that

the biggest thieves in the world and the terrorists are the Americans.

The only way for us to fend off these assaults is to use similar means. …

So, we tell the Americans as a people, and we tell the mothers of

soldiers, and American mothers in general, if they value their lives and

those of their children, find a nationalistic government that will look

after their interests and … does not attack others, their lands, or their

honor.[5]

I am not quoting bin Laden because I think he is a nice guy or

that I want to exonerate him in any way. In my view, there is never any

excuse for terrorism. I include his words only to emphasize what I stated

earlier. He and his followers are not motivated by hatred of freedom or

by religious zeal but by a desire for revenge. In the days ahead, as we

contemplate how to put an end to terrorism, we had better be clear on

that. As long as we follow a foreign policy of interventionism, we will

create new enemies faster than we can track down the old ones and we will

never be able to erect anti-terrorist measures capable of stopping them

all. If we retaliate against populations or geographical areas, we will

certainly unite all of Islam in a holy war against us, and we will light

the fire of hatred in the hearts of a billion Muslims who will have but

one purpose in life: to seek revenge against us.

SAGE ADVICE FROM THE PAST

For the past few days, I have found myself thinking about George

Washington. At first, I didn’t know why. Then it dawned on me. Hadn’t

Washington warned about all this just before leaving office as first

President of the United States? So I dug out a copy of his Farewell

Address and, sure enough, there it was. This is what he said:

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate

peace and harmony with all. … Antipathy in one nation against another,

disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of

slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when

accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent

collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. … So, likewise,

the passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of

evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an

imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists,

… betrays the former into participation in the quarrels and the wars of

the latter. … Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none

or very remote relation. Hence, she must be engaged in frequent

controversies, the cause of which are essentially foreign to our

concerns. ... Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by

interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our

peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship,

interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of

permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

One cannot read those words of wisdom without sadly realizing how

far we have drifted from our nation’s moorings. In retrospect, the

so-called isolationism of our forefathers is now looking very good.

NO PLACE TO HIDE

In 1982 I produced a video documentary entitled No Place to Hide;

The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism. Immediately after Tuesday’s

attack, I began to get inquiries about the program. Friends who possessed

copies ran them on public-access cable. Suddenly, the video, which had

remained almost forgotten in the back pages of our catalogue, became a

best seller. There is good reason for that. When I did the research for

this topic, I discovered that terrorism involves a lot more than just

blowing things up and killing people. There is a well-defined strategy

behind it that has to do with the anticipated reaction of the target

government and its citizens. Terrorists themselves phrase it this way:

The action is in the reaction. They know that, after repeated attacks,

people will become angry with their leaders for not preventing terrorism.

This sets citizens against their own government. They also know that

terrorist attacks will cause people to curtail travel, business ventures,

and the purchase of luxuries, all of which will depress the economy. In

our modern age, many people have come to think that the health of the

economy is government’s responsibility. So, any decline in the market,

loss of jobs or purchasing power will also be blamed on the government,

making it even more unpopular. The most important reaction, however, is

that terrorism causes the target government to respond with police state

measures against its own citizens.

Carlos Marighella, was a former leader of the Communist Party of

Brazil. His book, The Mini-Manual for Urban Guerrillas, has been studied

by revolutionaries and terrorists worldwide. It explains that the target

government must be deliberately goaded into violating the rights of its

citizens. Marighella said:

The government has no alternative but to intensify repression.

The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people make life

unbearable. The general sentiment is that the government is unjust,

incapable of solving problems, and resorts purely and simply to the

physical liquidation of its opponents. … The urban guerilla must become

more aggressive and violent, resorting without letup to sabotage,

terrorism, expropriations, assaults, kidnappings, and executions,

heightening the disastrous situation in which the government must act.[6]

The same strategy was expressed in 1968 by Italian Communist

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in a booklet entitled Political Guerilla

Warfare. Feltrinelli said that the task of the terrorist was to “violate

the law openly … challenging and outraging institutions and public order

in every way. Then, when the state intervenes as a result, with the

police and the courts, it will be easy to denounce its harshness and

repressive dictatorial tendencies.”[7]

In Germany, Ulrike Meinhof, a member of a terrorist group called

the Red Army Fraction, explained it this way. She said: “It is necessary

to provoke the latent fascism in society, … and then the people will turn

to us for leadership.”[8]

Initially, most citizens will not complain about a repressive

government if they are convinced it is necessary for their own safety,

but eventually it adds to a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo

and sets the stage for a revolution – either a violent one or a political

one – in which the target system is stripped of its freedoms with the

timid consent of the governed. That is the real goal of international

terrorism. Let me to repeat that. The goal of international terrorism is

a revolution – either a violent one or a political one – in which the

target system is stripped of its freedoms with the timid consent of the

governed.

Who would want to do that? Certainly, that is not the goal of

those who sacrifice their lives in acts of suicidal revenge. They care

nothing about changing the structure of the target society. But those who

encourage them, who finance them, who train them, and who psychologically

program them by enflaming their passions, are quite different. Who are

they?

There are two powerful groups today that would like to see what

is left of the free world brought under totalitarian control. For many

decades they have alternated between competing and cooperating with each

other in their quest for world dominance. Together, they constitute the

greatest threat to freedom that the human race has ever faced. Yet, less

than 5% of the population even knows that they exist. They have worked

very hard to avoid using names for themselves that are commonly

recognized. Humans think with words, and if we have no words to identify

these groups, then we cannot even think about them – which is very much

to their liking. If we are to follow Sun Tzu’s advice, if we are to know

the enemy, it is obvious that the first thing we must do is identify him.

In the following three chapters, I will identify the names of

these groups. From their own records, I will show their ideologies, their

goals, and their tactics. By the end of Chapter Four, you will know the

enemy.

PERPETUAL WAR

In the meantime, we are told that we are fighting terrorism. But

terrorism is not the enemy. It is a strategy of the enemy. That is like

saying the enemy is hand-to-hand combat or air raids or missile attacks

or espionage. Since terrorism is not the enemy, a war on terrorism cannot

be won. It is doomed to drag on forever – just like the war on drugs and

the war against crime. It might as well be a war against sin.

Shortly after World War II, George Orwell wrote his classic novel

entitled, 1984. It was a satirical prediction of what the world might be

like far in the future. Orwell envisioned that, if governments continued

to expand their power as they were then doing, eventually, they would

evolve into a global police state. He described the methods that would be

used to keep the masses from rebelling. Thought control was the primary

method, but one of the ways they accomplished that was to be constantly

at war. In time of war, the populace will accept any hardship and make

any sacrifice to defend the homeland. However, to have war, it was

necessary to have an enemy, and that enemy had to be despicable in the

eyes of the homeland defenders. Atrocities had to be committed and many

lives had to be lost. But it was equally important to avoid winning the

war – otherwise, the hardships imposed by the state would no longer seem

reasonable to its subjects.

The world was divided into three geographical areas called

Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, and the rulers of these regions agreed to

war against each other but never to seek outright victory. The object was

perpetual war. Orwell described it this way:

In one combination or another, these three superstates are

permanently at war and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War,

however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in

the early decades of the twentieth century. … This is not to say that

either the conduct of the war, or the prevailing attitude toward it, has

become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, war

hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries. … But in a

physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly

trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties. The

fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose

whereabouts the average man can only guess at. … In the centers of

civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption

goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few

scores of deaths. … It does not matter whether the war is actually

happening, and since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter

whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a

state of war should exist. …War, it will be seen, is now a purely

internal affair … waged by each ruling group against its own subjects,

and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of

territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.[9]

When we look at the facts surrounding the war on terrorism –

particularly the impossibility of victory – we cannot miss the striking

parallels to Orwell’s satire. His only error, it seems, was choosing the

wrong year for the title of his book.

THIRTEEN PREDICTIONS

It is always dangerous to make predictions – especially if they

are put into print. If they prove to be wrong, they can haunt you for the

rest of your life. Nevertheless, here are thirteen predictions that I

fervently hope will be wrong. Unfortunately, I have no doubt that most if

not all of them will come to pass.

1. The first prediction is that we will not be given genuine options

regarding the war on terrorism. We will have only two choices, both of

which are disastrous. It will be similar to the Vietnam War in which

Americans were expected to be either hawks or doves. Either they

supported the no-win war or they opposed it. They were not given the

option of victory. Their choice was between pulling out of the war and

turning the country over to the Vietcong quickly or doggedly staying in

the war and turning the country over to the Vietcong slowly – which is

the way it turned out. Likewise, in the war on terrorism, we will be

asked simply to choose sides. Either we are for freedom or for terrorism.

The wisdom of U.S. interventionism will not be allowed as a topic for

public debate.

2. Most American political leaders are now committed to world government,

so the second prediction is that they will crow about how America will

not tolerate terrorism, but they will not act as Americans. Instead, they

will act as internationalists. They will turn to the UN to lead a global

war against terrorism. They will seek to expand the capacity of NATO. and

UN military forces. Although American troops will provide the backbone of

military action, they will operate under UN authority.

3. The third prediction is that the drive for national disarmament will

be intensified. This will not lead to the elimination of weapons of mass

destruction, but merely to the transfer of those weapons to UN control.

It will be popularized as a means of getting nuclear and bio-chemical

weapons out of the hands of terrorists. The internationalists promoting

this move will not seem to care that many of the world’s most notorious

terrorists now hold seats of power at the UN and that the worst of them

will actually control these weapons. This will be documented in Chapters

Five and Six.

4. The fourth prediction is that, if any terrorists are captured, they

will be brought before the UN World Court and tried as international

criminals. This will create popular support for the Court and will go a

long way toward legitimizing it as the ultimate high tribunal. The public

will not realize the fateful precedent that is being established – a

precedent that will eventually be used to justify bringing citizens of

any country to trial based on charges made by their adversaries in other

countries. Anyone who seriously opposes the New World Order could then be

transported to The Hague in the Netherlands and face charges of polluting

the planet or committing hate crimes or participating in social genocide

or supporting terrorism.

5. The fifth prediction is that the FBI will be heavily criticized for

failing to detect an attack as extensive and well coordinated as this. In

reply, we will be told that the FBI was hampered by lack of funding, low

manpower, and too little authority. Naturally, that will be followed by

an increase in funding, additional manpower, and greatly expanded

authority.

6. The sixth prediction is that, eventually, it will be discovered that

the FBI and other intelligence agencies had prior warning and, possibly,

specific knowledge of Tuesday’s attack; yet they did nothing to prevent

it or to warn the victims. This will be a repeat of what happened at the

bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City six years

previously. Why they failed to do so is the topic of Chapter Four.

7. The seventh prediction is that much of the war on terrorism will be

waged against Americans inside their own country. New laws, international

treaties, and executive orders will severely restrict travel, speech,

privacy, and the possession of firearms. Americans have consistently

rejected these measures in the past, but there will be much less

opposition when they are presented in the name of fighting terrorism.

Government agencies will demand to know everything about us, from our

school records, our psychological profiles, our buying habits, our

political views, our medical histories, our religious beliefs, the

balances in our savings accounts, our social patterns, a list of our

friends – everything. This will not be unique to America. The same

program will be carried out in every nation in what is left of the free

world.

8. The eighth prediction is that those who speak out against these

measures will be branded as right-wing extremists, anti-government kooks,

or paranoid militiamen. The object will be to isolate all dissidents from

the mainstream and frighten everyone else into remaining silent. It is

always possible to find a few genuine crackpots; and, even though they

will constitute less than one percent of the movement, they will be the

ones selected by the media to represent the dissident view point. A

little bit of garbage can stink up the whole basket. In spite of that,

responsible dissenters will still be heard. If they begin to attract a

following, they will be arrested on charges of hindering the war effort,

committing hate crimes, terrorism, tax evasion, investment fraud,

credit-card fraud, child molestation, illegal possession of firearms,

drug trafficking, money laundering, or anything else that will demonize

them in the public mind. The mass media will uncritically report these

charges, and the public will assume they are true. There is nothing quite

so dramatic as watching someone on the evening news being thrown against

the wall by a SWAT team and hauled off in handcuffs. TV viewers will

assume that, surely, he must be guilty of something. His neighbors will

shake their heads and say “… and he seemed like such a nice person.”

9. One of the few remaining obstacles to the New World Order is the

Internet, because it allows the public to bypass the mass media and have

access to unfiltered information and opinion. Therefore, the ninth

prediction is that laws will be enacted to restrict the use of the

Internet. Child pornography has long been the rallying cry to justify

government control. Now, the specter of terrorism and money laundering

will be added to the list. The real object will be to eliminate the

voices of dissent.

10. The tenth prediction is that the war on terrorism will be dragged out

over many years or decades. Like the war on drugs after which it is

patterned, there will be no victory. That is because both of these wars

are designed, not to be won, but to be waged. Their function is to

sensitize the population with fear and indignation, to provide credible

justification for the gradual expansion of government power and the

consolidation of that power into the UN.

11. The eleventh prediction is that it will take a long time to locate

Osama bin Laden. A TV reporter can casually interview him at his mountain

stronghold, but the U.S. military and CIA – with legions of spies and

Delta forces and high-tech orbiting satellites – they cannot find him.

Why not? Because they do not want to find him. His image as a mastermind

terrorist is necessary as a focus for American anger and patriotic

fervor. If we are to wage war, there must be someone to personify the

enemy. Bin Laden is useful in that role. Of course, if his continued

evasion becomes too embarrassing, he will be killed in military action or

captured – if he doesn’t take his own life first. Either way, that will

not put the matter to rest, because bin Laden is not the cause of

terrorism, he is the icon of terrorism. If he were to be eliminated,

someone else would only have to be found to take his place. So it is best

to give each of them as much longevity as possible. That is why

terrorists like Arrafat, Hussein, Qadhafi and Khomeini, not only are

allowed to remain in power, but receive funding and military aid from the

U.S. government. They are the best enemies money can buy. This issue will

be covered in Chapter Four.

12. The twelfth prediction is that, when the Taliban is toppled in

Afghanistan, a new government will be established by the UN. Like Kosovo

before it, the UN military will remain behind, and the country will not

be independent. There will be talk about how it will represent the Afghan

people, but it will serve the agendas of the internationalists who will

create it. The sad country will become just another pin on the map

showing the location of yet one more UN province.

13. The thirteenth prediction is that, while all this is going on,

politicians will continue waving the American flag and giving lip service

to traditional American sentiments in order to placate their constituency

who must never be allowed to know that they are being delivered into

slavery.

Yes, actions have consequences, and the long-range consequences

of this act of terrorism are even more devastating than the loss of life

and property that has been the focus of the media so far.

Behold the Grand Deception: The action is in the reaction. The

war on terrorism is a war on freedom.

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That is the end of Chapter One, as it will appear in The Freedom

Manifesto. I cannot predict how long it will take to complete the

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especially considering the lateness of the hour. This is where it can

really get depressing. At the present time, there is nothing that men and

women of good conscience can do to alter the forces of destruction that

have been unleashed against them. As long as the nations of the world are

controlled by politicians with a globalist and collectivist mindset; as

long as they use every problem and crisis as an excuse to expand the

power of government; as long as the great majority of our fellow

passengers on this spaceship called Earth are unaware of these ploys,

then absolutely nothing can be done. But notice I said “as long as.”

The “as-long-as” part of the equation contains two elements that

underlie all of our problems: (1) We have put the wrong people into

government and (2) the public has been denied vital information – which

is why we put the wrong people into government. Therefore, any realistic

plan for eliminating terrorism and recapturing freedom must have two

objectives: (1) We must put the right people into government and (2) we

must see that the public gets the information it has been denied. The

political objective is important, but it cannot be reached without first

achieving the educational objective, so that is where we must begin.

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A GLOBAL FORCE FOR FREEDOM

This is no longer an issue just for Americans. It is now a global

battle that cuts across all lines of nationality, race, religion,

language, culture, economic status, and level of education. This is a

battle in which we are all united by common cause. That includes

Christians, Jews, Muslims, Americans, Afghans, Iraqis, Russians, Chinese,

Mexicans, Somalians, Croatians, Serbs, Australians, Canadians – literally

everyone in the world who seeks freedom. I am not talking about

governments. I am talking about people.

We must not be tricked into pitting Christians against Muslims or

Muslims against Jews, or Jews against Christians, or any other

combination of religion against religion. No matter how we may differ

over theology, the one thing on which we agree is that it is God’s plan

for all men to be free. That is our common cause, and that is the

rallying cry that will bring millions into our ranks. We will not be able

to defeat the global force of despotism without building a global

counter-force for freedom.

We are now engaged in world War III, a war involving every nation

and every human being on the planet. You and I are involved whether we

like it or not. We cannot escape. There is no place to hide. The only

question is when will we commit to battle. If we wait until there is no

longer any controversy and all of our friends clearly see that the war on

terrorism is a grand deception, then we will have waited too long. The

time to step forward is now.

G. Edward Griffin

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[1] Sun Tzu, The Art of War (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 18.

[2] This attitude became official government policy on September 23,

2001, when Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said, “You are

either 100 percent for us or 100 percent against us.”

[3]Five days after I wrote these words, USA Today carried an eye-witness

report from Pakistan echoing the same sentiment. It said: “In Pakistan

this week, thousands have demonstrated. They’ve burned American flags,

raised clenched fists, and held aloft banners telling the world what they

think of the USA. One, written in English, asked a stunning question:

‘Americans, think! Why does the whole world hate you?’” See “Extremists’

hatred of U.S. has varied roots,” USA Today, Sept. 19, 2001, p. 1.

[4] Although the Dome of the Rock presently has a Muslim mosque built

upon it, the Jews and Christians also regard as a holy site.

[5]See http://www.abcnews.go.com, John Miller Interviews Bin Laden (May

1998), Sept. 27, 2001.

[6] Claire Sterling, The Terrorist Network (New York: Berkeley Books,

1982), pp. 20-21.

[7] Ibid., p. 35.

[8] Ibid., p. 159.

[9] George Orwell, 1984 (New York: New American Library/Signet, 1949),

pp. 153-164.

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