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© 2001 by G. Edward Griffin
Within minutes after the terrorist attack against the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, my phone began to ring
and emails started pouring in asking what was the meaning of it all.
I was flattered that anyone thought I would know the answer to that
question; but, in truth, I knew little more than what was being shown
on television. It was impossible to have a reasoned response until
the shock wore off and the facts could be assembled.
The concepts I would like to share with you today were set to
paper three days after that event. I printed about a dozen copies and
gave them to family and friends. Since then I have added historical
data, but the concepts and the message remain unchanged. Many of the
predictions I made have already come to pass; but any pride I might
have in being right is far offset by the grim substance of those
predictions.
After completing The Creature from Jekyll Island, I felt that
I still had one more book to write and that it would be called The
Freedom Manifesto. I also knew that I would need a dramatic issue in
the first chapter to capture attention. Well, the terrorist attack on
September 11 was certainly that – and more.
I told those on my email list that I would send them my
expanded report on terrorism, but then I became bogged down in
structuring and gathering material for the book. By that time, the
report had become huge and had to be divided into chapters. All of
that took about four weeks. So, what started out to be a four-page
report on terrorism metamorphosed into Chapter One of The Freedom
Manifesto.
At first, it was my intent to keep the material up to date
with late-breaking events; but then it occurred to me that it might
have more value in its original form than if it were continually
updated. Writing about news events after they happen is not
difficult, but writing about them before they happen is another
matter. So, I decided to let the overview stand exactly as
conceptualized on Friday, September 14, 2001. This is that report.
*********
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.i[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?”ii[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?iii[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;iv[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.v[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.vi[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.”vii[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.”viii[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.ix[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 remaining chapters, but I can tell you that I have made this a
high priority project. If you would like to be notified when it is
published, I suggest that you visit our web site and request to be
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WHAT CAN BE DONE?
In the meantime, the crucial question is what can be done
now, 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.
A WAY TO BYPASS THE MASS MEDIA
The first step is to mass distribute copies of this report.
For that purpose, they now are available free from the Reality Zone
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handouts and envelope enclosures or you can send emails to your
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While you are on line you can enter the names of those you would like
to read this report. The Reality Zone will do the rest.
I urge you to send this report to everyone you know.
Everyone. Don’t worry about how they will react. Some have been so
sheltered from reality that they will not be able to accept the
validity of this information, no matter how much documentation is
provided. After all, they are not getting any of this through the
mass media. Besides, people don’t want to hear bad news But, as
events unfold and as the predictions become historical facts, our
friends eventually will come on board.
It is my intent to make the Reality Zone a cyberspace
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to this report, you will be able to get a printed transcript of the
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to have the documents available in every major language of the world.
With the capacity to send electronic documents over the
Internet, we finally have a way to bypass the mass media. Just
imagine what would happen if everyone of the 5000 people on my email
list would forward a copy of this Report to everyone on their email
list. And then imagine that ten or fifteen percent of those would do
the same. It would be theoretically possible to reach every person
with an email address on the entire planet within a few months.
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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Endnotes
x[1] Sun Tzu, The Art of War (New York: Delacorte Press, 1983), p.
18.
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