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Titolo: Il ridicolo non li seppellirà, purtroppo...

... Il mondo, infatti, è pieno di gente priva di "sense of humour"
(espressione che qualcha sagace filologo potrebbe anche tradurre: "Il koala
ossiacetilenico")... P.S. E le elezioni sono in novembre! Oh my!
Namib
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Miami "terror" arrests-a government provocation
Sun, 2006-06-25 01:49
By Bill Van Auken - World Socialist Web Site
There are many incongruities surrounding the arrest of seven men from the
impoverished Liberty City neighborhood of Miami on charges of conspiracy to
"wage war on the United States" that suggest it, like so many previous
"terrorist plots" announced by the Bush administration, is a
government-inspired provocation mounted for reactionary political ends.
None of the claims made by the government and repeated uncritically by the
media concerning the arrest of these young working-class men can be accepted
as good coin. Both the flimsiness of the criminal indictment and the lurid
headlines surrounding it mark this event as an escalation in the
anti-democratic conspiracies of the Bush administration.
There is every indication that this latest purported terrorist
threat-described by some media outlets as "even bigger than September
 11"-was manufactured by the FBI, which used an undercover agent posing as a
terrorist mastermind to entrap those targeted for arrest.
While the Justice Department declared that the arrests had foiled a plot to
blow up the tallest building in the US, the Sears Tower in Chicago,
authorities in that city assured its residents that there had never been any
threat to the structure.
The four-count indictment presented by the Justice Department in a Miami
federal court on Friday contains not a single indication of an overt
criminal act or even the means to carry one out. The brief 11-page document
consists almost entirely of alleged statements made by the defendants to the
FBI informant, referred to in quotes throughout the indictment as "the al
Qaeda representative."
The government chose to consummate its entrapment plan by unleashing dozens
of combat-equipped federal agents, dressed in olive drab fatigues and
carrying automatic weapons, on the predominantly African-American Liberty
City neighborhood, one of the poorest in the country. Liberty City was the
scene of riots that broke out in 1980 after the acquittal of white police
officers for the beating death of a black motorist.
On Thursday, the government's paramilitary squads confronted residents with
pictures of the accused, demanding to know their whereabouts. The seven
defendants are representative of the impoverished working class population
of Miami, including Haitian immigrants.
It appears they were targeted by the FBI because they had formed a religious
group, calling themselves the "Seas of David," which reportedly incorporated
elements of Christianity and Islam. One of their crimes, according to the
FBI's deputy director, John Pistole, was that the Seas of David "did not
believe the United States government had legal authority over them."
According to some residents of the neighborhood, the group lived together in
the warehouse that was raided by the FBI, using it for religious worship and
as a base of operations for a construction business.
Elements of the federal indictment are so self-incriminating as to border on
the ludicrous. Among the charges are that the defendants "swore an oath of
loyalty to al Qaeda." Who administered this oath? The "al Qaeda
representative," AKA, the paid informant of the FBI.
Aside from this "loyalty oath" solicited by the FBI, only one of the seven
defendants is accused of any overt act, outside of driving the FBI informant
to meetings.
The only action with which this one individual is charged-all else is
words-is taking pictures of the FBI headquarters in Miami. Who supplied the
camera? The "al Qaeda representative"-i.e., the FBI agent provocateur.
The indictment further charges two of the accused with driving "with the 'al
Qaeda representative'" to a store in Dade County, Florida to purchase a
memory chip for a digital camera to be used for taking reconnaissance
photographs of the FBI building. The document does not say who paid for the
chip, but there is hardly room for doubt.
In one of the more curious sections of the indictment, one of the accused,
Narseal Batiste, is accused of asking the FBI informant to provide various
items for his group, including footwear, for which he provided a "list of
shoe sizes." Apparently the FBI delivered the shoes.
Pistole, the FBI deputy director, admitted that the supposed plots to blow
up buildings had been "more aspirational than operational." In the raids
carried out by the FBI squads, no weapons and no explosive substances were
found.
"We preempted their plot," declared Pistole. But the indictment and the
facts of the case indicate that the alleged plot would never have existed
had the government not planned and instigated it in the first place.
At a Washington press conference, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
acknowledged that the alleged plot had posed no actual danger. He claimed
this was because the authorities had intervened "in its earliest stages.
"
So "early" was the preemption that officials associated with the supposed
targets of the plot dismissed the government's indictment. Barbara Carley,
the managing director of the Sears Tower, told the press, "Federal and local
authorities continue to tell us they've never found evidence of a credible
terrorism threat against Sears Tower that's ever gone beyond just talk."
Her remarks were echoed by Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline, who
said, "There never was any credible threat to the Sears Tower at all."
In his press conference, Attorney General Gonzales asserted that the Miami
group represented a "new brand of terrorism" created by "the convergence of
globalization and technology."
What these words mean is anyone's guess. There is no indication that those
charged, who were living in a warehouse in the poorest city in America, had
access to any technology, and their supposed contact to the wider world was
an informer planted by the FBI. The suggestion that the seven men were a
"home-grown" terrorist group inspired by contact with Al Qaeda elements over
the Internet is supported neither by evidence nor the charges contained in
the government's own indictment.
R. Alexander Acosta, the United States attorney in South Florida, told the
media that the defendants had "lived in the United States for most of their
lives, but developed a hatred of America." This is presented as though it
constituted evidence of a crime.
It is hardly surprising for someone living in Liberty City to hate the
poverty and oppression that prevail there, or for Haitian immigrants to
despise the imprisonment and repression that Washington metes out to those
attempting to escape the brutal conditions imposed by US imperialism upon
their homeland.
What is highly noteworthy is that the federal government decided to
intervene in this situation to concoct a phony Al Qaeda connection and
trumped up "terror plot."
What is the government's motive in manufacturing such a plot? Whose
interests are served? Under conditions in which the majority of the American
people have turned against the Iraq war and support the withdrawal of
American troops, the Bush administration is desperately attempting to once
again link its neo-colonial venture in Iraq with a supposed "global war on
terror" waged to defend the American people against another 9/11.
To sustain such a fiction, fresh evidence of terrorist threats is
periodically required. And it has been forthcoming on a regular basis. Every
several months another "conspiracy" is unveiled, invariably involving an FBI
informant and hapless individuals ensnared in a plot orchestrated by the
government.
Until now, these "sting" operations have been targeted at Muslim immigrants.
Last month, for example, Pakistani immigrant Shahawar Siraj in New York City
was found guilty of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in
a "plot" that the evidence indicated was based entirely on suggestions from
an FBI informant.
The FBI agent provocateur taunted the defendant with photographs of Abu
Ghraib torture victims and demanded to know how, as a Muslim, he could fail
to take action.
Similarly, in Albany, New York two years ago, the FBI recruited a Pakistani
immigrant, promising him leniency on minor fraud charges, to ensnare two
other immigrants in a fictitious scheme to help a non-existent person buy a
weapon for a fake terrorist plot.
These provocations and conspiracies are symptomatic of a government that is
both ruthless and desperate. Confronting a population that is increasingly
hostile to its political agenda of reaction at home and war abroad, it is
driven to manufacture an endless series of terrorist threats aimed at
disorienting and intimidating public opinion.

conspiracies of the Bush administration.
Azz....
Ci mancava proprio un coglione che vede cospirazioni :)
-Stefano

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Dopo tutte le volte che ti hanno mandato a cagare, tu, piu che 
costipazioni non puoi vedere...
K

costipazioni non puoi vedere...
...disse il povero fesso di un kiwi culotastierato... :)
-Stefano

 Miami "terror" arrests-a government provocation
Ecco cosa ne dice Juan Cole.  Un bell'articolo
http://www.juancole.com/2006/06/cair-miami-cult-not-muslims-i-just-saw.html
 CAIR: Miami Cult not Muslims
I just saw the spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations
on CNN saying that the Miami cult members just arrested are not
Muslims. I'd say that is a fair statement.
For one thing, they are vegetarians!
It seems pretty obvious that they are just a local African-American
cult which mixed Judaism, Christianity and (a little bit of) Islam. It
seems to be a of vague offshoot of the Moors group founded by Dwight
York. I heard on CNN that one of them talked of being Moors. And
Batiste, the leader, called whites "devils" in the tradition of the
original Nation of Islam and York's Moors. Now CNN is saying one member
said they practiced witchcraft [likely meaning Haitian voodoo or
perhaps Santeria-like rituals]. One former member is called Levi-El,
suggesting he might be associated with the Black Hebrew movement or an
offshoot. Now a relative of one of the members, Phanor, said that they
wore black uniforms with a star of David arm patch and considered
themselves of the Order of Melchizadek. I wonder if it is "Seas of
David" or "C's of David", with "c" meaning commando or some such?
I define cult as a religious group that has values that put it in a
high state of tension with the norms of mainstream society, and that
has a leadership that imposes high levels of discipline and demand for
control of adherents' lives.
This Seas of David group primarily seems to have been studying the
Bible. The mother of one insisted that he is a Catholic. Then there is
all that Jewish symbology and terminology, even in their names. Islam
was nothing more for them but a set of symbols they could pull into
their syncretic local culture. The group drew on poor Haitian
immigrants and local indigent African-American youth. If this were the
1960s, they'd have been Black Panthers or Communists.
American folk religion, pursued in small groups with charismatic
leaders, is replete with such groups, from Father Divine to Jim Jones
of the People's Temple to David Koreish.
The group never got past the stage of talking big, and violently. They
talked dangerously, and some sort of intervention was warranted. Since
they begged the FBI informant for "shoes," they weren't exactly a
well-heeled group that seems very dangerous in actual practice. And, to
what extent did the FBI informant press an al-Qaeda connection on these
otherwise clueless but imaginative zealots?
But contrast the grandstanding of Alberto Gonzales on this group of
poor unarmed ghetto folk with the way in which the Robert J. Goldstein
case was treated. He actually had the bombs in his house and was going
to blow up Floridians. No press called him a "Jewish" terrorist and no
questions were ever raised about his possible international links.
Imagine the horror of an urbane Arab-American professional with
university higher degrees, steeped in Islamic culture and contributing
to American society, at being lumped in by the American press and
officialdom with these cultists who appropriated his religion for their
violent religious fantasies.
The other thing to say is that American law is soft on cultic
practices, of dirty tricks against and smearing of critics, enforced
third-party shunning, manipulation, and group coercion. These things
are not protected by the First Amendment and I think one part of our
counter-terrorism strategy must be to develop legal strategies to make
it easier to disrupt the workings of cults before they accumulate a
critical mass for violent action. The practice of just letting the head
of the Internal Revenue Service decide if a group is a tax-free
religion should also be revisited. In the past, some IRS heads appear
to have been blackmailed by cults into granting them that status, which
allows them to accumulate more wealth.
Whereas most terrorism is a form of educated, middle class politics,
this particular group clearly grew out of the grievances and
resentments of race and class inequality in the United States.
The sister of one was just on MSNBC saying that he deeply resented Bush
spending money to drop bombs on poor people who could not defend
themselves, while depriving the poor in the United States of any
support. "We are not capable," she said. This is a theory of class war,
connecting the poor of Kut with the poor of Miami's inner city. The
city, by the way, has horrific levels of unemployment.
The position of the poor and workers in particular is deteriorating in
the US, as more and more of the privately held wealth is concentrated
in the hands of a white, privileged, few. The unions have been gutted,
the minimum wage is inadequate, and racist attitudes are reemerging on
a worrisome scale. Cities such as Detroit, New Orleans and Miami
continue to witness enormous strains coming mainly from racist
attitudes. In this case, the best counter-terrorism would be more
social justice.