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RE: "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories"
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Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories"
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:04:35 +0100
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From: American Patriot Friends Network [mailto:APFN@a...]
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Subject: "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories"


`In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.'
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/149495.html

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November 10, 2001 - President Bush Speaks to United Nations G.W. Bush: "We
must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious
lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves,
away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of
terror." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011110-3.html

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This scandal was known by its code name Operation MOCKINGBIRD.
http://www.rense.com/politics6/mockingbird.htm

How the Washington Post Censors the News
http://members.mint.net/troberts/julian/WashPostLetter.html

A LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST BY JULIAN C. HOLMES
April 25, 1992
Richard Harwood, Ombudsman
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street
NW Washington, DC 20071

Dear Mr. Harwood,

Though the Washington Post does not over-extend itself in the pursuit of
hard news, just let drop the faintest rumor of a government "conspiracy",
and a klaxon horn goes off in the news room. Aroused from apathy in the
daily routine of reporting assignations and various other political and
social sports events, editors and reporters scramble to the phones. The
klaxon screams its warning: the greatest single threat to herd-journalism,
corporate profits, and government stability -- the dreaded "CONSPIRACY
THEORY"!!

It is not known whether anyone has actually been hassled or accosted by any
of these frightful specters, but their presence is announced to Post readers
with a salvo of warnings to avoid the tricky, sticky webs spun by the wacko
"CONSPIRACY THEORISTS".

Recall how the Post saved us from the truth about Iran-Contra.

Professional conspiracy exorcist Mark Hosenball was hired to ridicule the
idea that Oliver North and his CIA-associated gangsters had conspired to do
wrong (*1). And when, in their syndicated column, Jack Anderson and Dale Van
Atta discussed some of the conspirators, the Post sprang to protect its
readers, and the conspirators, by censoring the Anderson column before
printing it (*2).

But for some time the lid had been coming off the Iran-Contra conspiracy. In
1986, the Christic Institute, an interfaith center for law and public
policy, had filed a lawsuit alleging a U.S. arms-for-drugs trade that helped
keep weapons flowing to the CIA-Contra army in Nicaragua, and cocaine
flowing to U.S. markets (*3). In 1988 Leslie Cockburn published Out of
Control, a seminal work on our bizarre, illegal war against Nicaragua (*4).
The Post contributed to this discovery process by disparaging the charges of
conspiracy and by publishing false information about the drug-smuggling
evidence presented to the House Subcommittee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
When accused by Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY). of misleading
reporting, the Post printed only a partial correction and declined to print
a letter of complaint from Rangel (*5).

Sworn testimony before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Narcotics, and International Operations confirmed U.S. Government complicity
in the drug trade (*6). With its coverup of the arms/drug conspiracy
evaporating, the ever-accommodating Post shifted gears and retained
Hosenball to exorcise from our minds a newly emerging threat to domestic
tranquility, the "October Surprise" conspiracy (*7). But close on the heels
of Hosenball and the Post came Barbara Honegger and then Gary Sick who
authored independently, two years apart, books with the same title, "October
Surprise" (*8). Honegger was a member of the Reagan/Bush campaign and
transition teams in 1980. Gary Sick, professor of Middle East Politics at
Columbia University, was on the staff of the National Security Council under
Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In 1989 and 1991 respectively, Honegger
and Sick published their evidence of how the Republicans made a deal to
supply arms to Iran if Iran would delay release of the 52 United States
hostages until after the November 1980 election. The purpose of this deal
was to quash the possibility of a pre-election release(an October surprise).
which would have bolstered the reelection prospects for President Carter.

Others published details of this alleged Reagan-Bush conspiracy. In October
1988, Playboy Magazine ran an expose "An Election Held Hostage"; FRONTLINE
did another in April 1991 (*9). In June, 1991 a conference of distinguished
journalists, joined by 8 of the former hostages, challenged the Congress to
"make a full, impartial investigation" of the election/hostage allegations.
The Post reported the statement of the hostages, but not a word of the
conference itself which was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building
Auditorium (*10). On February 5, 1992 a gun-shy, uninspired House of
Representatives begrudgingly authorized an "October Surprise" investigation
by a task force of 13 congressmen headed by Lee Hamilton (D-IN). who had
chaired the House of Representatives Iran-Contra Committee. Hamilton has
named as chief team counsel Larry Barcella, a lawyer who represented BCCI
when the Bank was indicted in 1988 (*11).

Like the Washington Post, Hamilton had not shown interest in pursuing the
U.S. arms-for-drugs operation (*12). He had accepted Oliver North's lies,and
as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee he derailed House Resolution
485 which had asked President Reagan to answer questions about Contra
support activities of government officials and others (*13). After CIA
operative John

Hull (from Hamilton's home state). was charged in Costa Rica with
"international drug trafficking and hostile acts against the nation's
security", Hamilton and 18 fellow members of Congress tried to intimidate
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez into handling Hull's case "in a
manner that will not complicate U.S.-Costa Rican relations" (*14). The Post
did not report the Hamilton letter or the Costa Rican response that declared
Hull's case to be "in as good hands as our 100 year old uninterrupted
democracy can provide to all citizens" (*15).

Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy
theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves
government or corporate conspiracies:

In its COINTELPRO operation, the FBI used disinformation, forgery,
surveillance, false arrests, and violence to illegally harass U.S. citizens
in the 60's (*16).

The CIA's Operation MONGOOSE illegally sabotaged Cuba by "destroying crops,
brutalizing citizens, destabilizing the society, and conspiring with the
Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro and other leaders" (*17).

"Standard Oil of New Jersey was found by the Antitrust Division of the
Department of Justice to be conspiring with I.G.Farben...of Germany. ...By
its cartel agreements with Standard Oil, the United States was effectively
prevented from developing or producing [for World War-II] any substantial
amount of synthetic rubber," said Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin
(*18).

U.S. Government agencies knowingly withheld information about dosages of
radiation "almost certain to produce thyroid abnormalities or cancer" that
contaminated people residing near the nuclear weapons factory at Hanford,
Washington (*19).

Various branches of Government deliberately drag their feet in getting
around to cleaning up the Nation's dangerous nuclear weapons sites (*20).
State and local governments back the nuclear industry's secret public
relations strategy (*21).

"The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and some twenty
comprehensive cancer centers, have misled and confused the public and
Congress by repeated claims that we are winning the war against cancer. In
fact, the cancer establishment has continually minimized the evidence for
increasing cancer rates which it has largely attributed to smoking and
dietary fat, while discounting or ignoring the causal role of avoidable
exposures to industrial carcinogens in the air, food, water, and the
workplace." (*22).

The Bush Administration coverup of its pre-Gulf-War support of Iraq "is yet
another example of the President's people conspiring to keep both Congress
and the American people in the dark" (*23).

If you think about it, conspiracy is a fundamental aspect of doing business
in this country.

Take the systematic and cooperative censorship of the Persian Gulf War by
the Pentagon and much of the news media (*24).

Or the widespread plans of business and government groups to spend $100
million in taxes to promote a distorted and truncated history of Columbus in
America (*25). along the lines of the Smithsonian Institution's "fusion of
the two worlds", (*26). rather than examining more realistic aspects of the
Spanish invasion, like "anger, cruelty, gold, terror, and death" (*27).

Or circumstances surrounding the U.S. Justice Department theft from the
INSLAW company of sophisticated, law-enforcement computer software which
"now point to a widespread conspiracy implicating lesser Government
officials in the theft of INSLAW's technology", says former U.S. Attorney
General Elliot Richardson (*28).

Or Watergate.

Or the "largest bank fraud in world financial history" (*29), where the
White House knew of the criminal activities at "the Bank of Crooks and
Criminals International" (BCCI) (*30), where U.S. intelligence agencies did
their secret banking (*31), and where bribery of prominent American public
officials "was a way of doing business" (*32).

Or the 1949 conviction of "GM [General Motors], Standard Oil of California,
Firestone, and E. Roy Fitzgerald, among others, for criminally conspiring to
replace electric transportation with gas- and diesel-powered buses and to
monopolize the sale of buses and related products to transportation
companies throughout the country" [in, among others, the cities of New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, and Los
Angeles] (*33).

Or the collusion in 1973 between Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT). and the
U.S. Department of Transportation to overlook safety defects in the 1.2
million Corvair automobiles manufactured by General Motors in the early 60's
(*34).

Or the A. H. Robins Company, which manufactured the Dalkon Shield
intrauterine contraceptive, and which ignored repeated warnings of the
Shield's hazards and which "stonewalled, deceived, covered up, and

covered up the coverups...[thus inflicting] on women a worldwide epidemic of
pelvic infections." (*35).

Or that cooperation between McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company and the FAA
resulted in failure to enforce regulations regarding the unsafe DC-10 cargo
door which failed in flight killing all 364 passengers on Turkish Airlines
Flight 981 on March 3, 1974 (*36).

Or the now-banned, cancer-producing pregnancy drug Diethylstilbestrol (DES).
that was sold by manufacturers who ignored tests which showed DES to be
carcinogenic; and who acted "in concert with each other in the testing and
marketing of DES for miscarriage purposes" (*37).

Or the conspiracies among bankers and speculators, with the cooperation of a
corrupted Congress, to relieve depositors of their savings. This "arrogant
disregard from the White House, Congress and corporate world for the
interests and rights of the American people" will cost U.S. tapayers many
hundreds of billions of dollars (*38).

Or the Westinghouse, Allis Chalmers,Federal Pacific, and General Electric
executives who met surreptitiously in hotel rooms to fix prices and
eliminate competition on heavy industrial equipment (*39).

Or the convictions of Industrial Biotest Laboratories (IBT). officers for
fabricating safety tests on prescription drugs (*40).

Or the conspiracy by the asbestos industry to suppress knowledge of medical
problems relating to asbestos (*41).

Or the 1928 Achnacarry Agreement through which oil companies "agreed not to
engage in any effective price competition" (*42).

Or the conspiracy among U.S. Government agencies and the Congress to cover
up the nature of our decades-old war against the people of Nicaragua

a covert war that continues in 1992 with the U.S. Government applying
pressure for the Nicaraguan police to reorganize into a more repressive
force (*43).

Or the conspiracy by the CIA and the U.S. Government to interfere in the
Chilean election process with military aid, covert actions, and an economic
boycott which culminated in the overthrow of the legitimately elected
government and the assassination of President Salvador Allende in 1973
(*44).

Or the conspiracy among U.S. officials including Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger and CIA Director William Colby to finance terrorism in Angola for
the purpose of disrupting Angola's plans for peaceful elections in October
1975, and to lie about these actions to the Congress and the news media
(*45). And CIA Director George Bush's subsequent cover up of this
U.S.-sponsored terrorism (*46).

Or President George Bush's consorting with the Pentagon to invade Panama in
1989 and thereby violate the Constitution of the United States, the U.N.
Charter, the O.A.S. Charter, and the Panama Canal Treaties (*47).

Or the "gross antitrust violations" (*48) and the conspiracy of American oil
companies and the British and U.S. governments to strangle Iran economically
after Iran nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951.
And the subsequent overthrow by the CIA in 1953 of Iranian Prime Minister
Muhammed Mossadegh (*49).

Or the CIA-planned assassination of Congo head-of-state Patrice Lumumba
(*50).

Or the deliberate and wilful efforts of President George Bush, Senator
Robert Dole, Senator George Mitchell, various U.S. Government agencies, and
members of both Houses of the Congress to buy the 1990 Nicaraguan national
elections for the presidential candidate supported by President Bush (*51).

Or the collective approval by 64 U.S. Senators of Robert Gates to head the
CIA, in the face of "unmistakable evidence that Gates lied about his role in
the Iran-Contra scandal" (*52).

Or "How Reagan and the Pope Conspired to Assist Poland's Solidarity Movement
and Hasten the Demise of Communism" (*53).

Or how the Reagan Administration connived with the Vatican to ban the use of
USAID funds by any country "for the promotion of birth control or abortion"
(*54).

Or "the way the Vatican and Washington colluded to achieve common purpose in
Central America" (*55).

Or the collaboration of Guatemalan strong-man and mass murderer Hector
Gramajo with the U.S. Army to design "programs to build civilian-military
cooperation" at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning,
Georgia; five of the nine soldiers accused in the 1989 Jesuit massacre in El
Salvador are graduates of SOA which trains Latin/American military personnel
(*56).

Or the conspiracy of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant administration to
harass and cause bodily harm to whistleblower Linda Porter who uncovered
dangerous working conditions at the facility (*57).

Or the conspiracy of President Richard Nixon and the Government of South
Vietnam to delay the Paris Peace Talks until after the 1968 U.S.
presidential election (*58).

Or the pandemic coverups of police violence (*59).

Or the always safe-to-cite worldwide communist conspiracy (*60).

Or maybe the socially responsible, secret consortium to publish The Satanic