Satirists Die Another
Day
11/29/02
- The epitaph for satirist Tom
Lehner will probably include his famous epitaph for satire
itself: "Political
satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize." The very naming of this website subscribes
to this point of view. What
becomes of humor when satire and reality cross paths? The
satirists of the past become prophets, while the modern-day satirists
go jobless. If what humors us becomes indistinguishable from what
should seriously concern us, it's past the time to stop laughing,
take a step back and say, yes, seriously, what
is going on?
In this past
week, with the re-revelation that Iran-Contra
figurehead John Poindexter runs a so-called Information Awareness
Office, an Orwellian government reorganization signed into
law on Monday, and mass-vaccinations
on the way, it was with some surprise, at first, that
the Bush administration was at this same time in the midst of
finally
accepting an "independent" investigation into 9/11.
But before any satirist had the chance to dream up the most ridiculous
appointment imaginable to head up this investigation, the
Bush administration outdoes the humorists with awful reality,
once again. No satire, no matter how heavy, can top reintroducing
Henry Kissinger onto the global stage.
Of 300 million
Americans, 299.999 million are better suited to head up this "independent"
probe. Dubya was hard-pressed to find another American with more
skeletons than himself or his
family, and there you have the strategic reason behind the
appointment.
If George
W. Bush wasn't in fact directly involved in the events of 9/11,
then he surely did nothing to stop them from happening by laying
the groundwork for an intelligence "failure". This information
must, of course, remain a secret. Enter Henry
Kissinger.
Kissinger
is quite the controversial
figure. This
is the man that made it obvious that the U.S. would never
support an International Court to bring War Criminals to justice
unless Americans
were granted immunity. From supporting
the Indonesian War on Democracy in East Timor, to the "Dirty
War" in Argentina, to the debacle
in Chile with all
the evidence that goes with it, to Operation
Condor, to Vietnam,
Cambodia
and his bud Pol
Pot, and Bangladesh,
and Taiwan,
Kissinger was the architectural
mastermind that reshaped the global landscape via the slaughter
of millions, per his "National
Security Study Memorandum 200". Read on with the series
of articles, the book,
the
movie, and see if you can keep pace with the various
points of view exploding onto the net.
9/11, essentially, helped push Kissinger's manifesto into a new
century by serving as a "justifiable" starting point
to an endless campaign to rid the world of "terror",
or more accurately, a worldwide campaign against individuals and
nations who harbor regimes or factions that operate inconsistently
with western requirements. Oddly, 9/11 also helped remove Kissinger
from the public eye on another angle - the front
pages of newspapers on the morning of September 11 featured the
revelation that Kissinger was named a defendant in a federal lawsuit
filed by the family of slain Chilean military commander Rene Schneider.
This
military coup, with the direct support of United States government,
took place in 1973, on September 11.
With all of
this, Kissinger still enjoys a favorable impression by a significant
population. Acceptance, ignorance, or arrogance?
Soothsaying
or simply following protocol, Kissinger, while appearing on CNBC
on 12/13/2000, the day Al Gore gave his concession speech, had
the following words of wisdom for the judicially-selected president:
"I
can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind
George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas.
And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people
through his foreign policy."
Well ain't
that the truth. It may be the only truth to come out of the investigation.
"Ahhhh......." says the young Shrub as he watches Kissinger
that night in mid-December. "...I'm
a uniter, not a divider." Hearing
"unite" and "American people" twice in one
response from a Nobel Peace Prize-wearing Republican/role model,
and on the night you're officially selected president, well, that's
the kind of impression that sticks with you.
It sure seems
that the young Shrub and his team took note of Kissinger's advice
(with the exception of location), which is based on a proven model
akin to the
Pearl Harbor "surprise" (more)
or an unproven early
60s plan to bomb ourselves and blame Cuba. Telling the FBI
and military intelligence outfits to back off the bin Laden family
seems to have helped invoke the element of "surprise".
And actively stopping 9/11-based lawsuits, like
the several against the Saudis, or
the one "... that amounts to a veiled threat against anyone
who seeks to exercise his democratic right to a tort lawsuit...",
has had plenty of inquiring minds worldwide asking the immemorial
question "What are they hiding?" Just like the
continuing saga over the
Energy Policy. Or Reagan's
files. Or Dubya's
own files while governor of Texas.
Some of these
foreknowledge truths have already squirted out of suppression.
The "President" says, "Had
I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that
fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect
the American people." But the CIA
said this could be a plausible scenario two years before 9/11/01,
and in fact, the
Pentagon was practicing for such an event. The CIA
was also running a simulation involving planes flying into buildings
on the same morning of 9/11. Similar allegations, some
reputable, some commonly held truths not reported in the mass-American-media,
litter the internet. Here's
one site.
Here's
another. Here's seemingly
everything an investigative body would ever need.
9/11 has,
expectedly, become a conspiracist's feast and a truthfinder's
labyrinth-eternal. The last chance to keep the wraps on what may
be the greatest conspiracy against Americans in American history
would be to appoint someone who has a lot more to lose if his
truths are released, in the event that he whistleblows against
the administration. When all is said and done and the investigation
closes, expect no more than the standard spin answer we already
have about the intelligence failures. An example of this spin
can be found in this exchange on CNN between Paula Zahn and ...
Henry Kissinger:
CNN:
So you are not willing to say U.S. intelligence has failed America?
KISSINGER:
No. I think U.S. intelligence has been -- if you look at one
investigation after another, they have done as good a job as
they could under the circumstances.
12/15/02
-
What, did he already uncover an intelligence failure?
Perhaps it was in his naming to the commission?