Liz Michael
Fighting the War On Terror: The Right Way
Fri Sep 20 03:50:49 2002
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Fighting the War On Terror: The Right Way

Fighting the War On Terror: The Right Way
by Liz Michael www.lizmichael.com 
Release September 20, 2002

Now that the 9-11 anniversary remembrances have occurred, after the heart wrenching stories have been told,
we are told that we Americans have a duty, on behalf of those who were killed, to bring those killers justice.
The act of bringing those murderers justice has been dubbed "The War On Terror".

But it is not as simple as, "go to country X, and kill everybody". This war will have a lot of covert enemies as
well as overt. And some of those enemies are pretty close to home.

But war fever, macho jingoism, and waving flags is not the be all and end all of 9-11. There is much more that
we must do to honor the 9-11 casualties than catching, trying, and killing their killers. If we are to truly honor
those who died, we have a duty to honor them, by living our lives as they lived theirs. And if we are willing to go
180 degrees around the globe to thwart terrorists, then we need to eliminate them on our own soil as well.

Why did those people die?

Most of the people who died at the World Trade Center were engaged in the commerce of the United States,
and the commerce of the world. They were engaged in profit. Making money. Promoting the trading of goods,
and with it a higher standard of living for all world traders. In other words, free enterprise.

Nobody says this. There is the contention that these people were in the proverbial "wrong place at the wrong
time". Nothing could be further from the truth. The 9-11 attackers knew what building they were striking. It
wasn't the welfare office, the post office, the tourism office, the Israeli embassy, or even for that matter the
United Nations. And they were not just striking a "symbol" of capitalism. They could have done that on a late
night flight when the building was empty. If they wanted to attack "symbols" they could have attacked the Statue
of Liberty. No. They intentionally struck a building full of people they knew full well were engaged in free
enterprise.

So let me repeat that, and sear it into your brain. Most of the people who died at the World Trade Center died
because they were engaging in free enterprise.

And this is to say nothing of the passengers of all four planes, most of whom were also engaged in free
enterprise, and the reasons most of the passengers were flying that morning were business related.

Moreover, firefighters and police officers specifically present to conduct a rescue, died when the towers fell on
them. These people died serving their community. Whatever wrong you might think police officers do in the
course of their business, on this day, they were not serving illegal warrants, or writing traffic tickets, or beating
up a suspect, or confiscating someone's guns. This day, they were doing their sworn constitutional duty. And
they died because of it.

Accordingly, if we are to honor the 9-11 casualties, we should also respect and support firefighters and law
enforcement officers doing their constitutional duty. But only when they are doing their constitutional duty. More
on that later.

The attack on the Pentagon killed everyday soldiers serving their country. I don't care what you think of the
politicians who often wage war for economic cause instead of national defense. I don't care whether you think
the military brass is corrupt. This wasn't the brass for the most part. These were the rank and file military, and
they died because they were serving in the United States military and for no other reason.

Flight 93 and the dreaded "M" word

Additionally, those who died on Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville Pennsylvania, were engaged in another
form of patriotism. According to reports, when these brave souls had heard through communications from the
outside that it was likely their hijacked plane was to be used as a guided missile against some undefined
American target, they banded together and formed an unorganized militia unit.

Yes, I said the M word. Militia. Which is not a bunch of rednecks in cammies in the wilderness doing survivalist
training... not that there's anything WRONG with that... no, the Militia, as George Mason stated, and the
founders concurred, is "the whole of the people". That's everybody, armed and unarmed, attack force,
surveillance and support. This spontaneously formed militia, formed at that moment and for specific purpose, the
purpose being to retake the plane, succeeded in at least thwarting the successful bombing of some unidentified
but important target, even though they were unable to save the plane and themselves.

These people on Flight 93 were in reality the second military casualties of the War on Terror. Yes, military
casualties. As far as I'm concerned, they should be awarded full military honors and have a plaque dedicated to
them at Arlington National Cemetery. Because they performed the first military response to this modern day
Pearl Harbor. No, they weren't sworn servicemen, as were the Pearl Harbor personnel and the Pentagon
victims. But they served the same purpose, in the same position, being attacked, along with their nation being
attacked, having to react suddenly, and doing so, as bravely as any soldier or minuteman who ever walked.
They never "called" themselves the militia. They never registered with the governor, or engaged in any formal
training. Heck, they didn't even have guns. They weren't allowed. But they served as a militia just the same.

How do you honor these people?

So if you are to rightly honor the casualties of 9-11, you must rightly honor free enterprise, service to
community, and armed service to your community and your country, be it the military, or be it the unorganized
militia. Moreover, these were free people, operating in a free country, choosing life paths of their own free will.
So if you are to honor them, you must also honor freedom, and also civil liberties. This is something that cannot
and must not be forgotten.

Let me tell you how you do NOT honor them. You do NOT honor them by assenting to whatever tyranny of
the day some noodnik with a government title decides is okay in the name of "Homeland Security". You do not
honor them with National ID cards, checkpoints on interstates, harassment and molestation of air travelers,
suspension of constitutional rights in the name of security, or suppression of dissent. You do not honor them with
expansion of a socialist government, and especially not expansion of a national socialist government. You do not
honor them by raising taxes and by supporting the terrorist tendencies of government agencies like the IRS. You
do not honor them by looking the other way when a law enforcement official violates the constitution, or by
looking away when a judge sets himself up as God and abuses his authority, just because they say they are
keeping crime down. You do not honor them by supporting your elected officials, even when they are wrong,
even if they are evil.

And by doing all that, and waving flags and claiming to be patriotic, but accepting the transition of the United
States into Nazi Germany, you do not honor them. You piss on their graves.

Securitymaniacs

Everyone seems to have what I call "security mania". You hear it all over the media. You hear pliant air travelers
on camera willing to accept damned near anything including rape in order to "be safe". And I have only one thing
to say to these security obsessed people.

Get the hell out of my country!!!

This country was not crafted to be safe. Our constitution was not crafted as a document to guarantee security.
The United States of America was founded to establish not safety, but liberty. And the "security of that free
state" was to be entrusted, not to a bunch of soldiers, or a bunch of jackbooted federal agents, or a bunch of
cops, and definitely NOT to a bunch of airport security flunkies. It was to be entrusted to "a well-regulated
militia", that selfsame "whole of the people" I spoke of earlier. You do NOT honor the 9-11 casualties by being
secure. You honor them by being free. And by fighting for that freedom. And by vanquishing whatever tyranny
threatens that freedom, no matter the source of that tyranny.

Why limit the War On Terror to Al Qaeda?

But if we are truly committed to the War on Terror, why should we limit it to people half way around the world,
and limit it to wearers of the kefiyah or kufi? Why should not "domestic terrorists", and terrorists who wear suits
and ties, or jackets and t-shirts, be included as the enemy in the War On Terror.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking. When you hear "domestic terror", you think of racist skinheads.
Or you think of the Earth Liberation Front. But the vast majority of domestic terror in the U.S. emanates from
one source: government.

Consider the sins of the American government and of the state and local governments. From the murder of
Vicki and Sammy Weaver, to the holocaust of the Branch Davidians (who flew a shield of David as their flag),
to the fixed federal trials such as the one which probably unjustly convicted Jim Trafficant, to the traffic court
rackets, to the stealing of children from happy families by Child Protective Services units, to the everyday
activities of the Internal Revenue Service, to the BATF setups of gun owners on unconstitutional charges, to the
regular suppression of dissent by the Secret Service, first under Clinton, and now, much more markedly, under
Bush. And I could go on and on, to the latest craze of the regular near sexual assault of airline passengers by
some of the worst vermin to occupy this country, the airport security personnel who suddenly have been given a
mere sniff of absolute power, and have gone stark raving mad.

I'm much more likely to suffer from this variety of government "domestic terror" than I ever am likely to be killed
over my ethnicity, or have my property burned down because some radical thinks my farm is endangering
species, or thinks I am tyrannizing my free range chickens. I am also much more likely to fall victim to the
terrorism of the federal government as a political dissident than I am to be caught in an Osama Bin Laden
inspired attack. So tell me once again, so I can get it straight.

Whom should I really be fighting in the War On Terror? What enemy should I be planning to shoot at? What
attack should I really be preparing for? Some guys who live half way around the world? Or a federal agent?

The terrorists acts of the United States government

There are so many terrorist acts of the United States government I cannot possibly name them all. But let me
give a random sample, which I will try and limit to people who are actually still alive... if I went back to J. Edgar
Hoover, I'd be here all day.

The COINTELPRO program
The Ruby Ridge murders
The likely assassination of White House Counsel Vince Foster
The Waco murders
Deliberate withholding of evidence in the Timothy McVeigh trial
The FDA sacrificing AIDS patients for drug company profits
BATF armed terrorist raids of gun shops over technicalities
Cover-up of the Gulf War Syndrome by the government
The abominable treatment our government gives its veterans
The cover up of the TWA800 incident, which was probably a missile shootdown by either terrorists or our own
navy
The assassination of Admiral Jeremy Boorda
Government moves to mandate access to encryption keys
The Klamath Basin incident
Apparent FBI indifference to the probability that 7 of the 19 alleged 9-11 hijackers may still be alive
Secret court proceedings with sealed documents after the 9-11 incidents, violating all due process
Current harassment of air travelers by airport security personnel
The PATRIOT act, and several other acts designed directly at chipping away civil liberties
Attempts to eliminate Posse Comitatus, opening up the United States for military takeover
The FDA endorsement of Cipro, an expensive antibiotic manufactured by Bayer, as an anthrax antidote, to the
exclusion of more commonly known and effective, but cheaper, antibiotics
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, which essentially allows a state to use a health epidemic, real
or invented, to suspend not only their constitution and basic civil rights and due process, but also allows for the
creation of concentration camps
The federal moves at Point Reyes National Seashore to actually drive residents out and destroy towns
The Financial Action Task Force set up under the auspices of the G7, designed to deny financial privacy
worldwide
The unmitigated tyranny of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as concerns private property and states rights
And this is just the tip of the iceberg...

The acts of terrorism by state and local governments

The assassination of four students at Kent State University
The assassination of Donald Scott
The assassination of William Cooper
The oppression by several states of the Christie family and the ongoing attempt to steal their children
Commonplace eminent domain confiscation of homes of the elderly
Commonplace homeowner association harassment and confiscation of homes
Eminent domain confiscation to provide land for private business interests
Harassment of home businesses by municipalities
Conspiracy of municipalities to steal automobiles
The mandatory insurance racket: terrorism by bureaucracy for the benefit of the insurance companies
Again, the tip of the iceberg

So what are we supposed to do with terrorists again?

So if we're supposed to kill terrorists in Afghanistan, and oppose and invade countries who harbor them, what
about the domestic terrorists within our own government. What are we supposed to do to them?

Let's put this in its proper perspective. We have a duty to defend free enterprise.

We also have a duty to oppose corporate fraud and corruption, of the variety we have recently witnessed with
Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and likely hundreds of other companies.

And we have a duty to support law enforcement when it is doing its constitutional duty. When they do that, we
should honor those brave men and women.

However, as much as we have that duty, we also have a duty to oppose law enforcement when it steps out of
that role, and instead, engages in criminality or terrorism of its own. And like any other tyranny, we have a
responsibility to do more than just bitch and moan. Whether it is through lawsuits, through media coverage,
through criminal prosecutions, through elections, or even through what we patriots refer to as the "Time
Honored Tradition". Criminality, tyranny and terrorism must be opposed, WHEREVER it is found, WHOEVER
is perpetrating it, in order to preserve liberty.

We should also honor politicians who do their constitutional duty. And when I find some who are actually doing
their duty and following the const

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