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FEATURES ON THE HOME FRONT

179/11 Security Holes Remainby William F. Jasper Former U.S. Customs agent Diane Kleiman witnessedcorruption and conspiracy in the front lines of our national security.

22Experts Challenge the 9/11 Reportby William F. Jasper Dozens of whistleblowersfrom federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies FBI, CIA, Customs and more are uniting toexpose and oppose the 9/11 Commission report.

POLITICS

25The One-Party Stateby William Norman Grigg The Republican National Convention demon-strated that both major parties are committed to building the total state.

TRILATERAL COMMISSION

29Spinning a Larger Webby John F. McManus The Trilateral blueprint for shaping a communityof the developed nations of North America, Western Europe and Japanhas been extended to other parts of the globe.

HISTORY ROME

34 The Birth of the Republicby Steve Bonta Romes astonishing ascent wasnot based wholly or even mostly on her militaryexploits, but on the moral sensibilities of her peopleand the limitation of government power.

THE LAST WORD

44The Democracy Shibbolethby William F. Jasper Although the leaders of both major parties pretendto represent very opposite viewpoints, ideologies and constituencies, theyare both trying to convert our republic into a democracy.

COVERSTORY SURVEILLANCE STATE

8Who Will Watch the Watchers?by Christopher S. Bentley Mexicos emerging surveillance stateoffers a sobering look into the future if the Power Elites proposal for acontinental security perimeter becomes reality.

DEPARTMENTS

3Letters to the Editor

4Insider Report The Beslan Horror Saddams Generals on U.S. Payroll Police State Preview in NYC Russias McCain-Feingold Act at Work Anti-UN Rhetoric vs. Reality Spasskys Appeal for Fischer

33The Goodness of America Sowing the Seeds of Honesty You Go, Girl!

40Exercising the Right Pipe Versus Gun And Not a Shot Was Fired

43Between the Lines Poor Figuring Argentinas Beef with IMF

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Finding AmericasHeart and SoulI am writing in response to Steve Bontas

cover story Americas Hidden Strength in

the March 22 issue of THENEWAMERICAN.

Although Im an American citizen, I have

been living overseas since 1991. Nothing

makes a person appreciate his country more

than spending a significant amount of time

away from it.

I have just recently returned from a six-

week visit to the United States and had the

good fortune of spending two of those weeks

driving through six upper Midwestern fly-

over states with my family, showing them

where I was born and where my roots are.

Most of those two weeks were spent on rural

highways driving through prairies, corn and

wheat farmlands and cattle ranches. Almostwithout exception, the first visible landmark

we noticed as we entered a small town (be-

sides the towns water tower) was a church

steeple that rose high in the sky.

It was refreshing to be able to fill up at

gas stations where the owners trust strangers

such as us passing through town enough to

let us pump the gas beforepaying for it. It

was thrilling to be at Mt. Rushmore amongst

a crowd of fellow patriotic Americans who

heartily sang (or at least mouthed the words)

of America the Beautiful played over loud-

speakers as huge floodlights illuminated thegranite faces of four of Americas greatest

leaders against the dark sky. It was greatly

encouraging to see numerous pro-life bill-

boards and signs along many of the high-

ways we were traveling on. It was perhaps

most surprising to even come across a rather

large monument engraved with the Ten Com-

mandments on a college campus in one small

town. Apparently, the ACLU hasnt noticed

that one yet!

On a more close-up and personal level,

one short visit to a relatively small, fam-

ily-run dairy farm was further evidence ofsome of those greatest hidden strengths

Mr. Bonta wrote about. We arrived at dusk

during the evening milking time. First, we

witnessed the free enterprise system at work

right before our eyes a family-run farm

not dependent on government subsidies

but only on the hard work and sweat of the

whole family working together to get the

job done. Such demanding work is, by its

very nature, family-uniting. Despite being

there at one of their busiest times of the day,

this Iowa family (whom we had never met

before) still displayed genuine Midwest-

ern charm and friendliness by showing us

around and patiently explaining the opera-

tions of their farm while they worked. On

top of their heavy work responsibilities, the

parents still find time to home-school their

two children.

The vast majority of Taiwanese who do

visit the United States join tour groups com-

prised of Taiwanese nationals, thus limitingtheir contact with Americans. Furthermore,

most tours involve brief stops in large cities

on or near one coast or the other. Still, many

of those who get no further than southern

Californias theme parks and Nevadas casi-

nos often tell me that theyve seen America. I

strongly feel that no view of America is com-

plete without spending some serious time in

Americas flyover country. More than just

the physical center of the U.S., it truly rep-

resents Americas heart and soul.

WAYNET. SCHAMS

Pingtung, Taiwan

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INSIDER REPORT

On September 7, a grim milestone was reached when the U.S. mili-tary death toll reached 1,000. Supporters of Operation Iraqi Free-

dom insist that those killed in action gave their lives to defend ourcountry, and liberate the long-suffering Iraqis. Those claims are im-possible to reconcile with the fact that in the ongoing war to liber-ate Iraq, Washington has retained the services of the same Saddam-era military elite from which that nation was supposedly freed.

Dozens of Saddam Husseins former generals and colonelsare being paid hundreds of dollars a month by the Pentagon toadvise U.S. and Iraqi officials on how to contain the insurgency innorthern Iraq, reported the French AFP wire service on Septem-ber 8. First installed in Baquba by Colonel Dana Pittard threemonths ago, Saddams generals are working as US consultantsin a bid to ease violence in the provinces of Slahuddin, Tamim,

Sulaimaniya, and Diyala, the U.S. military said.Several of the generals have links with anti-US insurgents

operating throughout the province [of Diyala], continued thereport. In exchange for modest pay-offs, those military com-manders previously denigrated in administration propagandaas Baathist holdouts or dead-enders use their influencewith the guerrillas to end attacks on U.S. troops.

This amounts to a reversal of the de-Baathification policyinstalled in May 2003, in which the Iraqi army was effectivelydisbanded, thereby swelling the armed insurgency and fuelingthe insurrection that has claimed hundreds of American lives.And insurgents who are bought off rarely staybought. As Kiplingwarned over a century ago, if you pay the Dane-geld, you neverget rid of the Dane.

Saddams Generals on U.S. Payroll

More that 300 hostages died after terrorists seized a school inNorth Ossetia, Russia. The school in the town of Beslan wassurrounded with land mines and high explosives. Children werekept in hot, unventilated rooms for more than two days, and de-prived of food and water. Some were murdered by the terrorists.

By the time Russian troops and security personnel ended the 53-hour siege, at least 326 people half of them children weredead.

Moscow immediately claimed that the murderous schoolhousesiege was the work of Chechen radicals aligned with al-Qaeda.Al-Qaeda figures have been involved in the ongoing war be-tween the Russian government and the breakaway province ofChechnya. Initial reports claimed that the hostage-takers includedChechens, residents of the neighboring province of Ingushetia,Arabs, Kazakhs and Slavs. However, Russian defense ministerSergei Ivanov has said that not a single Chechen has been foundamong the 32 dead terrorists. Officials in Beslan reported findingnotebooks with Arabic writing, and some eyewitnesses

claimed to have heard the terrorists speaking in Rus-sian, punctuated by occasional expressions in Arabic.

In any case, Russian general Yuri Baluyevsky claimedthat Russia had the right to attack terrorist bases any-where in the world. The Russian population, however,had reservations about the official line.

Public opinion polls have shown people have littlefaith in the ability of the police and FSB security service[the renamed KGB] to protect them and accuse them ofbeing corrupt and unprofessional, noted a September10 Reuters report from Moscow. They are bewilderedthat tightened security across the country has failed to

prevent three major attacks within a fortnight thesiege, a suicide bomb in Moscow that killed 10 and twoplane crashes that killed 90.

Suspicions that Putin is exploiting the Beslan atroc-ity, and other recent terrorist attacks, was heightened byhis September 13 announcement of radical measures to

increase his presidential powers in the name of fighting terror-ism.

The former KGB spy, saying the future of the country wasat stake, called for creation of a powerful anti-terror agency ca-pable of not only dealing with terror attacks but also working to

avert them, destroy criminals in their hideouts and, if necessary,abroad, summarized an AP dispatch from Moscow. Curiously,however, the Russian leaders proposals focused largely on elec-toral changes. Putin said he would propose legislation abolish-ing the election of local governors by popular vote. Instead theywould be nominated by the president and confirmed by locallegislatures. This would be done, Putin insisted, to streamlinethe executive branch and make it more responsive to the threat ofterrorism. He also demanded changes in the method of electingthe Russian Parliament that would make it all but impossible forindependent candidates (not aligned with an official party) to winlegislative seats.

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Innocence amid horror:Seven-year-old Alina Tshkayeva stands near the graveof her 11-year-old brother Askharber, who was killed during the terrorist siege oftheir school in Beslan, Russia. More than 300 people half of them children were killed during the 53-hour hostage ordeal, or in the military raid that ended it.


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More ominous than any technology on display at the RNC wasthe arrogance of power that accompanied federalization of theriot control police. In and around Midtown Manhattan, conven-tion-goers got a taste of life in a society where the overriding goalis to stop attacks at all costs, wrote Orange County Registercor-respondent Stephen Greenhut in a September 5 column. It wasthe bitter taste of losing ones freedoms, albeit in this case for theshort duration of this national convention.

Everywhere I went, scores of police officers in riot gear,gun-toting military officials, blue-suited secret-service of-ficials with their ears wired and assorted private securityguards were on call, watching us, continued Greenhut.Metal cattle gates prodded us to the proper place. Streetswere cordoned off, sidewalks open only to those who showthe right ID.

As in any police state, rules were written on the windand subject to arbitrary revision without notice. One col-league mistakenly entered the wrong sidewalk area. One ofNew Yorks Finest yelled at him, Yo, get offa da sidewalk.Where am I supposed to go? my friend asked. Acrossda street! As he crossed the street, the cop patrolling thatarea yelled at him to get offa da street. You cant win in apolice state. But you dare not disobey the incomprehensibleorders.

Among the hapless innocent people caught in the secu-rity dragnet wasAmerican Spectatorcorrespondent ShawnMacomber, who found himself handcuffed so tightly that[his] fingers [went] numb and thrown into a cell with a

group of Marxist/anarchist agitators. So what was I arrest-ed for? Well, lets just say it is fairly interesting to see whatis passing for disorderly conduct here in New York City.Wrote Macomber: My own disorderly conduct centeredaround my obedience to police orders, my cooperation withanything they asked me to do, and carrying out the dutiesof my job.

Attempting to cover a protest march, Macomber was or-dered not to cross the street at a particular intersection. Afterwalking to the intersection he was ordered to, he found thatbike police had boxed the protesters in, he recalled. Iwas told once again to hold tight and I would be allowed to

pass. A bullhorn-toting officer ordered the protesters to moveon which they couldnt do, because they had been boxed in.Within seconds [of the order], a mass arrest was ordered and thepolice began penning everybody willy-nilly in together with amesh orange fence, related Macomber. Despite the fact that Se-cret Service agents verified his credentials with the CongressionalPress Office, Macomber was arrested and held for 14 hours.

Police State Preview in NYC II

The GOP National Convention offered a preview of new tech-nologies and tactics being developed by the Homeland SecurityDepartment, reported the September 13 issue ofNewsweek.

That scruffy fellow scanning his handheld [computer] in themiddle of a group of protesters? Maybe hes only a demonstrator

checking his e-mail. Or just as likely, in New York last week, hewas an undercover Secret Service or Federal Protection Agencycop manipulating with a stylus a networked camera mounted 30stories up, one of 200 throughout the city. The pictures were video-streamed to several megacenters around the country (built-in re-

dundancy in case one center is destroyed) as well as to HomelandSecurity Secretary Tom Ridges office in Washington.

American life is now accompanied by the 24-hour whir of300 BioWatch detectors in 30 major urban centers, with more tocome, continued the survey. Those devices scan their immedi-

ate atmosphere for evidence of chemical or bio-terrorist attacks,automatically uploading their data to command centers. Manymore tech solutions are in the pipeline, notes the magazine.Coming soon: biometric passports with encoded chips, makingfraud or theft virtually impossible....

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Surveillance state foretaste: A police officer models a helmetcam thatallows covert surveillance during protests. This was just one of several newsurveillance measures deployed by security personnel during the RepublicanNational Convention in New York City.


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In mid-August, Japan turned down an asylum request from Amer-ican-born chess champion Bobby Fischer, who faces extraditionto the U.S. to stand trial for violating UN sanctions against Yu-goslavia. In 1992, Fischer in defiance of a UN embargo, andafter spitting on a letter of warning from the State Department

played a rematch against his storied Russian chess opponent,world champion Boris Spassky.

For the supposed crime of playing chess in defiance of a UNembargo, Fischer faces the prospect of 10 years in prison, a size-able fine, and forfeiture of $3 million in prize money earned bydefeating Spassky for a second time. Fischer, who has renouncedU.S. citizenship, has a well-earned reputation for making unpleas-ant and bigoted public statements, most notoriously his hideouscomments praising the terrorists who committed the September11 atrocities. But the Bush administration has no constitutionalwarrant to enforce UN dicta against American citizens or in-dividuals who repudiate U.S. citizenship, regardless of how dis-

gusting their opinions may be.Spassky, who emigrated from the Soviet Union and became

a French citizen, issued a remarkable public appeal to PresidentBush on August 10. In 1972, Bobby Fischer became [a] na-tional hero, recalled Spassky. He smashed me in the match in

Reykjavik. The Soviet chess hegemony collapsed. One man wonagainst a whole army. Like Fischer, Spassky defied the UN in1992, but the French government did not see fit to enforce the UNsanctions against him.

I would not like to defend or justify Bobby Fischer, contin-ued the venerable Russian chess master. He is what he is. I amasking only for one thing. For mercy, charity. If for some reasonit is impossible, I would like to ask you the following: Please cor-rect the mistake of President Francois Mitterand in 1992. Bobbyand myself committed the same crime. Put sanctions against mealso. Arrest me. And put me in the same cell with Bobby Fischer.And give us a chess set.

Spasskys Appeal for Fischer

Not since the convention that nominated Barry Goldwater in1964 has a gathering of the Republican faithful featured so muchUN bashing from so many prominent players in the party, wrotecolumnist John Nichols of the liberal Madison, Wisconsin, Capi-tal Timeson September 9. What was once the extremist line of

John Birch Society cadres and their allies Get U.S. out of theUN, read the societys billboards in the 1960s has become apopular position within the Republican Party.

The GOP rank-and-file is vehemently opposed to the UN andall it represents, and several prominentconvention speakers played to that sen-timent. But in tangible terms, the Bushadministration continues to emphasize itscommitment to building the world bodyspower and prestige a fact noted byNichols in the same column.

Former U.S. Senator John Danforth,a Missouri Republican, has been trying

to patch up relations between the UnitedStates and the United Nations, observedNichols. Bush has been trying to easetensions since the United Nations helpedthe United States install Iraqs interimgovernment and, notably, he avoidedengaging in explicit UN bashing in his ac-ceptance speech....

I can only say that when PresidentBush asked me to do this job, he said thatthe United Nations is very important, thatthis was a very important job, Danforth

told Nichols. [W]orking through the UNand working with other countries andworking on a multilateral basis is clearly

the [administrations] strategy and it is very important.Another illustration of the disjunction between the Bush ad-

ministration and its devoted GOP supporters was offered imme-diately after the convention. On September 3, as anti-UN GOPdelegates and activists flew home from New York, fond memories

of UN-bashing speeches resounding in their minds, Secretary ofState Colin Powell told reporters that the administration wouldseek action from the UN Security Council to deal with Iranssuspected nuclear weapons program.

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Globalist duplicity: President Bush, seen here with Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S.

Ambassador to the UN John Danforth, has made no secret of his intention to use the U.S. militaryto enforce UN Security Council decrees. That clear, consistent policy offers a sharp contrast tothe UN bashing heard in many speeches at the GOP national convention.


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by Christopher S. Bentley

What would it take to force peo-ple to accept the loss of theirprivacy? Could people be terri-

fied into surrendering their priceless rightto be left alone by the state? How could apopulation be persuaded, or compelled, toaccept such radical measures as implant-able data chips in the name of publicsafety even when they knew that doing

so would radically expand the power of acorrupt government?For citizens of Mexico, these are not

hypothetical questions. And as the driveaccelerates to consolidate the WesternHemisphere under a single economic,political and security structure knownas the Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA) those questions will becomeincreasingly important for citizens of thisnation as well.

We are already importing many ofMexicos (and the rest of Latin Americas)

social and economic problems, such ascrime, poverty and unskilled labor. If ourpolitical systems become harmonized and ultimately merged into a conti-nent-wide or hemispheric-spanning secu-rity perimeter it is likely that we wouldadapt to Mexicos small but expandinganti-kidnap program involving the useof implantable digital information chips.After all, the reasoning would be, sincethe crime of kidnapping would no longerbe limited by borders, neither should thesolution.

Mexicos chipping program, whilemore advanced that anything presently un-derway in the U.S., shares crucial assump-tions found in Washingtons approach toHomeland Security. Merger with Mexicowould certainly provide a pretext to adoptincreasingly radical security measures,particularly as migration (no longer calledimmigration) including infiltration byMiddle Eastern terrorists escalates.

Thus its important for Americans whovalue national independence and personal

autonomy to appreciate the fashion inwhich the population of Mexico has beenmanipulated into accepting a surveillanceprogram that, if fully developed, wouldmake an Orwellian future a reality.

Kidnapping PlagueThe videotapes and photos arrived everyfew days. They showed a young woman,bound and scared, crying out as her kid-nappers slapped her face and beat her. The

pictures, the sounds of pain, tore at heruncle Gerardo like a dull razor.On the tapes or in the phone calls

which always came in the middle of thenight the kidnappers would ask, whendo you want us to stop? continued theSeptember 17, 2002 Washington Postac-count.

Demanding $5 million in ransom, thekidnappers threatened that the next timethey would send her tongue, her eye, herears, [or] her fingers. This was no idlethreat. In some kidnapping cases through-

out Mexico, victims have indeed been re-turned to their families one piece at atime.

Gerardo was also warned that his niece,mother or children would be killed if hecalled the police. Chillingly, the kidnap-pers knew enough about Gerardo to offerspecific suggestions about which of [his]properties and businesses he could sell toraise the ransom money.

This tragic and horrifying account typi-fies a growing plague south of the border.In Mexico, a kidnapping occurs every six

hours on average, observed the Septem-ber 17, 2002 Christian Science Monitor a statistic that calculates to over 1,400abductions per year. Other sources nowplace that figure as high as 3,000 or 4,000annually a discrepancy that should beconsidered significant, for reasons we willexamine shortly.

As the numbers of victims mount, thebrazenness and bestiality of the kidnappersincreases. The June 27, 2004 WashingtonPost noted that in Mexico front-page

news stories of horrific kidnappings andof their victims including two broth-ers recently killed and dumped in a gar-bage bin after their family paid the ransom have become commonplace in recentweeks. Added the June 17 Economist,kidnappers have become more violent.In the past, victims were rarely molested.Now female captives are usually raped,and men are often beaten and mutilated.

Not surprisingly, a continual state of

fear has gripped much of the country. Andwith that fear has come a desperate will-ingness to do whatever it takes to end theonslaught.

On June 27, thousands of demonstra-tors took to the streets of Mexico City todemand government action to end the kid-napping epidemic. Their sentiments weresummarized by one demonstrator, whotold the Washington Post, we cant bearit any longer. Something has to change.

Contrived Crisis, Corrupt Opportunity

Unfortunately if predictably thesedesperate people were looking for helpfrom the same government that was im-plicated in creating the crisis in the firstplace.

As previously noted, estimates of kidnapvictims in Mexico vary widely. One reasonfor this discrepancy, according to some pri-vate investigators, is that anywhere fromless than one-third to one-quarter of thevictims families ever report a kidnapping.This is because of a widespread fear of,and suspicions about, the involvement of

Mexicos notoriously corrupt law enforce-ment in the kidnappings. And that fear isamply justified: An April 14 BBC reporton the kidnapping plague in Mexico statedthat legal representatives of victims claimat least 70% of kidnaps involve police orex-police participation.

Pedro Fletes Renteria, director of a pri-vate school in Mexico City, was kidnappedat gunpoint while on his way to work inMarch 2001. As was in the case of Gerar-do and his niece, Fletes abductors knew

Who Will Watch the Watchers?Mexicos emerging surveillance state offers a sobering look into the future if the Power

Elites proposal for a continental security perimeter becomes reality.

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everything about him, reported the Post.After being released from nearly two

months of captivity, Fletes hired privateinvestigators to find out who was behindhis kidnapping. His team found evidenceof involvement at the very top of MexicoCitys police department. According to

Jose Antonio Ortega, head of a securitycommittee conducting the investigation,telephone records show that the cell phoneused by the kidnappers was also used to

make calls to the home of a topofficial from the departmentsanti-kidnapping unit.

What is the solution to anepidemic of kidnappings stagedwith the help of top-echelonMexican law enforcement per-sonnel, who have access todetailed personal informationabout their victims? Accordingto the Mexican government, itis to provide that same corrupt

law enforcement elite with unprecedentedpowers to keep the entire population undersurveillance.

In mid-July, Rafael Macedo de laConcha, Mexicos attorney general, an-nounced that several senior members ofhis staff plus 160 employees at a new

crime database center have received [a subdermal] anti-kidnap chip, reportedthe United KingdomsRegister. In a storybearing the revealing headline, Kidnap-

wary Mexicans Get Chipped, theRegisterexplained that Mexicos attorney generaltook the unusual step of having an anti-kidnap chip stuck in his arm and thenmaking the fact public....

In a significant admission against inter-est, Macedo stated that his reason for beingimplanted was because of widespreadcorruption in his own government, whichis considered to be a major factor in theauthorities lack of success in tackling thekidnap problem. It was further announcedthat the surveillance system would serveboth as an identity device and a trackingmechanism should they be kidnapped.

In addition to Macedo and his 160-mem-ber staff receiving the chip, more [federalemployees] are scheduled to get taggedin coming months, and key members of

the Mexican military, the police and theoffice of President Vicente Fox might fol-low suit, noted a July 15 Associated Pressreport. Macedo said that the chips were

Just as the Mexican people are being

worn down to accept microchip implants

for their kidnapping plague, Americans

are being softened up psychologicallyby the threat of terrorism to cave in to

similar surveillance state solutions.

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Rightful anger; wrong approach:Thousands of Mexicans gathered on June 27 at Zcalo, a large square in Mexico City, to demand that theirgovernment do something to end the countrys chronic and increasingly violent plague of kidnappings. Tragically, those helpless people are turningto one of the main sources behind their plight for solutions.


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undefended, Washington is allowing MiddleEastern terrorist groups to build cells andnetworks in the U.S. thereby increasingthe likelihood of catastrophic terrorist at-tacks and, inevitably, the draconian counter-terrorist measures that would result.

Totalitarian ToolsBecause the U.S. Border Patrol doesnthave the manpower to stop the flood ofimmigrants, calls for the technology to doso are starting. According to an August 24Associated Press story, T.J. Bonner, presi-dent of the National Border Patrol Council,made this disturbing recommenda-tion: It should be simple for anylaw enforcement officer, anywherein the world, if they encountersomeone suspicious to run one

biometric check that would linkthem to all this information so thatthey would know if this person is asuspected terrorist or a criminal.(Emphasis added.)

This biometric control mecha-nism is also one of the recommen-dations of the 9/11 Commission.Its report states: Secure identifica-tion [means] biometric identifi-ers [that] measure unique physicalcharacteristics, such as facial fea-tures, fingerprints, or iris scans, and

reduce them to digitized, numericalstatements called algorithms. Thereport added: Americans shouldnot be exempt from carrying bio-metric passports.

Such a totalitarian recommen-dation is no surprise. Half of the10-member (supposedly indepen-dent, bipartisan) 9/11 Commis-sion was comprised of membersof the world-government promot-ing Council on Foreign Relations

(CFR). CFR members on thecommission included ThomasH. Kean, who served as chair,and Lee H. Hamilton, the vicechair, along with Jamie S.Gorelick, Bob Kerrey, and JohnF. Lehman. Philip D. Zelikow(CFR), one of three membersof the commissions staff, wasthe executive director.

If biometric identification isdeemed insufficient, the solu-tion would be to make unique

ID more tamper-proof, such as by im-planting the microchip, as is now begin-ning to take place in Mexico. A July 27Associated Press report noted that AppliedDigital, which manufactures the chipsbeing used in Mexico and elsewhere, is

positioning itself to market implantablemicrochip technology in the United States where thus far it has received a chillyreception.

According to its publicity materials, Ap-plied Digital plans to promote the technol-ogy, known as the VeriChip, for a varietyof uses, including homeland security and

secure-access applications. Company lit-erature describes the VeriChip as a min-iaturized, implantable radio frequencyidentification device (RFID) that has thepotential to be used in a variety of security,financial, and other applications.

Each microchip implant is about the sizeof a grain of rice, with a unique verifica-tion number, which is captured through theuse of a proprietary scanner. The companyis also attempting to develop an implantthat would contain a Global PositioningSystem, which would allow the implantedcarrier to be pinpointed anywhere on theplanet.

Mexico is the first country to go publicwith its use of the microchip for law-en-forcement purposes, observes VeriChipspresident Keith Bolton. Russia, Switzer-

land, Venezuela and Colombia have alsopurchased an undisclosed quantity ofchips. And Italys Ministry of Health an-nounced last April that it would be puttingthe chips to use in hospitals as part of asix-month trial.

Bolton told the August 4, 2004 Chris-tian Science Monitorthat VeriChips ex-

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Should this technology be fully

implemented, it would be the nucleus of

an all-encompassing global network of

continual surveillance of everywhere we

go, and everything we buy limiting

where we are permitted to travel, where

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Getting tagged:This Mexican national is shown being implanted with the VeriChip on July 17, 2003.The chip can be used to catalog numerous details on individuals, such as identity and health history.Some 1,000 Mexicans have already volunteered to be chipped for medical purposes. Now, the Mexicangovernment is starting to chip top members of its military and police, with the presidents office to followsoon, as a means of limiting access to a new anti-crime information center. Supposedly, this systemwould combat corruption within the governments own ranks.


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ecutives were inspired to use the deviceon humans after the Sept. 11 terrorist at-tacks, when they saw firefighters headinginto the twin towers ID-ing themselves bywriting on their arms with magic marker.At that moment, Bolton said, we then re-alized that our chip was also a product forthe human market.

Either Mr. Bolton suffers from a memo-ry lapse, or he is being disingenuous. Oneyear before 9/11, the companys Web siteclaimed that future versions of the device

[subject to FDA approval] may be able tobe implanted within the body and that itwas specifically designed for use withhumans. As with many federal proposals from creation of a Homeland Securitydepartment to the war on Iraq introduc-tion of the VeriChip is being piggybackedon the 9/11 tragedy as a way of gainingmainstream acceptance.

Applied Digital proposes that the sys-tem would be used to control authorizedaccess to sundry public and private insti-

tutions, such as government installations,private-sector buildings, nuclear powerplants, national research laboratories,prisons and jails, and sensitive transporta-tion resources. It would also be used to en-hance security for airports, airlines, cruiseships and ports.

In these markets, notes the officialWeb site, VeriChip could function as astand-alone, tamper-proof personal veri-fication technology or it could operatein conjunction with other security tech-nologies such as standard ID badges andadvanced biometric devices (i.e. retinascanners, thumbprint readers or face rec-ognition devices). Additionally, the com-pany recently unveiled VeriPass andVeriTag, which will allow airport andport security personnel to link a VeriChip

subscriber to his or her luggage (both dur-ing check-in and on the airplane), flightmanifest logs and airline or law enforce-ment software databases.

Bluntly stated, should this technologybe fully implemented, it would be thenucleus of an all-encompassing globalnetwork of continual surveillance of ev-erywhere we go and everything we buy. Itwould no longer be necessary for securityofficials to demand your papers, please.It would simply be a matter of limitingpeoples access to where they are permit-

ted to travel, where they will live, or wherethey will work.

Projecting the LinesThe new VeriChip/biometric trend syncsup nicely with a recommendation in theSeptember/October 2004 issue of ForeignAffairs, the house journal of the Councilon Foreign Relations. In an article entitledThe Neglected Home Front, StephenE. Flynn (CFR) wrote: The governmentmust do more to safeguard critical U.S.infrastructure and mobilize the American

public to help. For starters, it should createa semi-independent federal agency tappinginto private resources that would developand enforce security standards. That is, amarriage between private and public sec-tors for developing security standardswould be arranged with governmentundoubtedly being the senior partner. InGermany and Italy such a perverse part-nership was called fascism.

Introduction of the VeriChip system inMexico takes on an added ominous sig-

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nificance in light of a proposal publishedin the January/February 2004 issue of For-eign Affairs. In an essay entitled NorthAmericas Second Decade, Robert A.Pastor (CFR) laid out a plan for a consoli-dated continental security system which

would almost certainly include the use ofhigh-tech identification systems.

Referring to the events of9/11 as a shock to the NorthAmerican body politic, Pastorclaimed that the emerging polit-ical entity called North Amer-ica has two possible coursesthat lay ahead. The first wouldstrengthen border enforcementand impede movement. Thiswould strike most Americansas the common sense position.But, in typical fashion, Pastorand his fellow internationalists

prefer the opposite course that of inte-gration.

By exploiting security fears as acatalyst for deeper integration, the CFRglobalists hope to develop common in-stitutions. Accordingly, Pastor wrote,

deeper integration would require newstructures to assure mutual security, [and]

to promote trade [combined with] a re-definition of security that puts the UnitedStates, Mexico, and Canada inside a con-tinental perimeter.

Pastors most important recommen-dation is for the Department of Home-land Security [to] expand its mission toinclude continental security a shift bestachieved by incorporating Mexican andCanadian perspectives and personnel intoits design and operation. The perspec-tive of the incurably corrupt and relent-lessly predatory Mexican government istypified by its willingness to use VeriChiptechnology against its increasingly help-less population.

Democratic presidential contender JohnKerry (CFR) has caught Pastors vision fora North American continental perimeter

of security. In an August 2004 interviewwith Podermagazine, Kerry spoke of his


Once total power is given to an

unaccountable elite, freedom is quickly

extinguished. Americans must act soon

to restore our Constitution and Republic,

before a universal surveillance state is

erected and we become inmates in a

global prison without walls.

SURVEILLANCE STATE

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The 9/11 Commission,larded with members of the world-government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, recommended numeroussurveillance state sunique physical features such as fingerprints, or iris scans....


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intention to create a North AmericanSecurity Perimeter to facilitate the le-gitimate travel of law-abiding citizens andcrack down on bad actors trying to enterthe United States. By working closely withour neighbors to coordinate our customs,immigration and law enforcement poli-cies, we can better protect the region fromterrorist threats.

This is not to say, of course, that a re-elected President Bush would pursue asignificantly different course. In fact, hehas repeatedly endorsed the political andeconomic consolidation of the WesternHemisphere via the FTAA free tradeagreement fraud.

During his first term, Mr. Bush hasworked consistently to integrate oureconomy and security system with that

of Mexico. And of course, he has pre-sided over the creation of an immenseHomeland Security department with anopen-ended mandate to treat U.S. citi-zens not foreign terrorists as thechief threat to public order. If elected toa second term, Bush, like Kerry, wouldundoubtedly pursue a politically mergedWestern Hemisphere, with a security pe-rimeter that would include both North andSouth America.

Security Perimeter, or Global Prison?

In such a security perimeter, the terror-ists who have been permitted to infiltratehere would be left inside with the doorsclosed behind them. And in order to rootthem out, it would supposedly be neces-sary to target allpeople as potential en-emies. The easiest solution to this pre-dicament would be to uniquely identifyeverybody with some sort of ID, be it bymicrochip implant, biometric scanning(such as finger or retina) or a combinationof the two.

Over 30 years ago, in an article for the

December 1973 issue of American Opin-ion(predecessor to THENEWAMERICAN),author Gary Allen surveyed the predictionsmade inNineteen Eighty-Four, George Or-wells famous novel warning against a to-talitarian future. Orwells major premise,wrote Allen, was that government woulduse technology to establish a surveillancesociety which would end all privacy.

A dying George Orwell wrote Nine-teen Eighty-Four as a warning to us,Allen soberly concluded. His message

is that once political and scientific powerare centralized we will have no chance toescape tyranny.

It is precisely because we have departedfrom our Constitution in various ways and

degrees that political power is being cen-tralized in this nation. And we are beingduped and primed by the same Power Elite which has created or exploited so manyof our nations and the worlds problems into accepting a manufactured needfor all of these surveillance trappings andhigh-tech measures.

The Roman satirist Juvenal asked mil-lennia ago: Who will watch the watchersthemselves? Once total power includ-ing that of surveillance is given to an

unaccountable elite, freedom is quicklyextinguished.

Fortunately, weve not reached thatdismal milestone yet. But its loomingever larger on our horizon; and it must be

halted.Americans must act soon to restore our

Constitution and Republic, before a uni-versal surveillance state is erected andwe become inmates in a global prisonwithout walls.

The John Birch Society (of which this magazine is

an affiliate) has the program to expose the designs

of those who would destroy America and to save our

Constitution. For more information about the JBS,

go to www.jbs.org.


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Trading privacy for convenience:On June 28, frequent flyers at the Minneapolis-St. Paulairport signed up for a three-month project allowing them to pass quickly through a biometricidentification checkpoint. The program requires flyers to submit to eye scans, fingerprints andcriminal background checks.


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by William F. Jasper

For Diane Kleiman, the terrorist at-tacks of September 11, 2001 hitvery close to home both liter-

ally and figuratively. Her apartment, justthree blocks from Ground Zero, shookviolently when the first airplane hit theNorth Tower of the World Trade Center.Along with other residents and workersin the area who had rushed outside to see

what had happened, she stared in horrorand disbelief at the flaming inferno. Sheran to the building, then watched, stunned

and helpless, as the second plane hit theSouth Tower. She saw the bodies falling,as desperate people trapped by the flamesjumped to escape the firestorm. She ranfor safety, choking and covered with dustand debris, as the first building collapsed.

One of Kleimans first thoughts duringthe terror and tumult of that fateful morn-ing was that her sister Beth may have beenon one of the doomed flights. It wasntuntil later that afternoon, around 4:00

p.m., that she learned that Beth, who hadboarded a flight around 7:30 that morning,was okay.

Competing with the fear, confusion andcompassion Diane Kleiman experiencedthat morning was another emotion: white-hot anger. I wasfuriousat Customs, shetold THENEWAMERICAN, referring to theU.S. Customs agency, where she had pre-viously worked. I screamed to myself,Why couldnt they have listened? Whydid they let this happen?

Since June 1999, when she was firedfrom her Customs job at New Yorks John

F. Kennedy Airport, Kleiman had beentrying to get federal authorities to act onoverwhelming evidence that top Customsofficials at JFK had intentionally turneda blind eye to a criminal conspiracy withLatin American drug cartels and airlineemployees to bring huge amounts of nar-cotics into the U.S. Her firing, she says,was an act of retaliation for her efforts toexpose official corruption.

Besides the obvious issues concernedhere about the damage that these drugswere causing on the street and the incalcu-

lable damage to our law enforcement andjustice systems anytime corruption of thiskind gets a foothold, there was the hugeissue of national security, says Kleiman.Narco-terrorism is a well-known fact;terrorist groups worldwide are tied intothe drug trade. JFK is one of our nationsbusiest and most important airports. Al-lowing this drug trade and corruption toflourish unchecked at JFK is virtually thesame thing as inviting terrorists to take ad-vantage of this giant security hole. It is asure thing that, eventually, that is exactly

what will happen.Although the hijacked flights that were

used to attack the Twin Towers and thePentagon did not originate at JFK, theSeptember 11 attacks and subsequentevents have vindicated Diane Kleimanswarnings. The corruption, conspiracy andcover-up she witnessed firsthand is not re-stricted to JFK or to Customs, but is a sys-temic problem, infecting and crippling vir-tually all of federal law enforcement andintelligence. Assurances by federal author-

Former U.S. Customs agent Diane Kleiman witnessed corruption and conspiracy in the

front lines of our national security.

ON THE HOME FRONT

9/11 Security Holes Remain

TheNewAmerican

Diane Kleiman,former U.S. Customs Special Agent, addresses the media at a 9-11 whistleblowerspress conference in Washington, D.C., on September 13, 2004.


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ities that these problems are all being dealtwith expeditiously now, or that they soonwill be fixed by implementing proposalsof the 9/11 Commission, are false assur-ances, she says, aimed at placating publicconcerns, not fixing a serious crisis.

On September 13, Diane Kleiman joinedfive other federal whistleblowers in Wash-ington, D.C. for a press conference tochallenge the official wisdom on counter-terrorism and post-9/11 security. The 9/11Commission stated at the end of its report:We look forward to a national debate onthe merits of what we have recommended,and we will participate vigorously in thatdebate. The whistleblowers responded:In this spirit, we wish to bring to the at-tention of the Congress, the press, and thepeople of the United States what we be-

lieve are serious shortcom-ings in the report and itsrecommendations.

Speaking at the pressconference, in addition toKleiman, were: Sibel Ed-monds, former languagespecialist, FBI; John M.Cole, former Veteran Intel-ligence Operations Special-ist, FBI; Bogdan Dzakovic,former Special Agent &Red Team Leader, FAA;

Raymond McGovern, former analyst,CIA; and Melvin A. Goodman, formerSenior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA.

In addition to those who attended thepress conference in person, another 20whistleblowers from various federal agen-

cies have joined as signatories to the ef-fort. (See article on page 22.)

The Kleiman OrdealAn incredible chain of events led formerSpecial Agent Kleiman to the whistle-blower press conference in Washington,D.C. and what has now been a five-yearcrusade to redeem her honor, restart herlife and expose terrible wrongs that threat-en our nations security. Diane Kleimanscareer trajectory was not that of your typi-cal Customs agent. She is a lawyer who

had served six years as a prosecutor in theQueens District Attorneys Office beforejoining the Customs unit at JFK airport.

Almost immediately, she knew some-thing was terribly wrong. The main secu-rity problem was not the front end, whereregular airline passengers are involved, butthe back end, what we call the ramps,where the baggage handlers, mechanics,caterers and cleaning crews have access tothe planes, Kleiman told THENEWAMER-ICAN.There is a huge turnover in thosejobs, very little security screening of thoseemployees and very lax security concern-ing access to those premises even now,post 9/11. When I started at JFK in 1999,we were taking airline employees intocustody who were illegal aliens movingmoney out of the country illegally. Any-

thing over $10,000 you have to declare.And we were catching them bringing out$30,000. And we would seize their money,let them go and the next day they wereback at work! And I said to my bosses, thisis insanity. You are letting illegal alienswho should not be on the ramps to beginwith have access to the planes. These peo-ple should not have been hired to beginwith because they are security risks. Theycould easily hide a gun or a bomb on boarda plane, without anyone knowing it.

What was the reaction of her supervisors

to these legitimate concerns?Outright hostility, she says. Ac-cording to Kleiman, her super-visor told her that I needed tobe a team player and keep mymouth shut. I ama team play-er, says Kleiman, but the teamI joined was sworn to upholdthe law and protect the Ameri-can people, not enforce a codeof silence that protects a goodold boy network, especially ifit means covering up unethical

and illegal activities.On February 3, 1999, she was

involved in a bust of a notoriousHaitian drug dealer at JFK thatnetted approximately $750,000in cash. She was in the moneycounting room with her super-visor, who, she says, told her torecord the final cash recoveryas $452,000 allowing nearly$300,000 to disappear.

Kleiman was incredulous. I

On September 13, Diane Kleiman joined

other federal whistleblowers in Washington,

D.C. for a press conference to challenge

the official wisdom on counterterrorism

and post-9/11 security. The whistleblowers

believe there are serious shortcomings in

the 9/11 Commission report.

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been most responsive, she says, are CharlesGrassley (R-Iowa) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Thanks to their letters to the OSCand to their monitoring of the investiga-tion, Kleimans case has not disappearedinto the institutional memory hole, as havethe cases of many other whistleblowers.

Pre-9/11 WarningBut the wheels of justice have been grind-ing very slowly. Six months prior to theattacks on September 11, Kleiman hadwarned the U.S. Attorneys Office that atragedy would occur because of the lackof security at American Airlines. The U.S.Attorneys Office said they would lookinto it but never got back to her. To addmore insult and injury upon injury, her su-pervisor waspromoted. He is now number

two man in Customs at JFK and, in effect,runs security there.Kleiman was understandably outraged.

She decided to get more vocal, to put pres-sure on the government through mediaexposure.

Soon after I went on the Bob GrantShow [WABC radio in New York City]and told the story about Customs and thedrug smuggling, the authorities started aninvestigation, she notes. During Thanks-giving 2003 they made a high-profile bustat JFK involving 25 airline employees,

about 19 of whom were baggagehandlers. What did they find?Many of them were illegal aliensand most were felons with out-standing arrest warrants. Obvi-ously, noserious effort had beenmade to fix one of our countrysmost obvious security problems.Here it was two years after 9/11,and U.S. citizens flying on air-lines are being subjected to evermore intrusive restrictions andsurveillance and yet felons

and possible terrorists were stillbeing given untrammeled accessto our airports.

To top off the outrage, saysKleiman, the Customs superin-tendent at JFK was taking bowsand doing photo-ops for thesearrests. He should have beenhiding under a rock, because ifhe had done the most routine ofbackground checks these crimi-nals never would have been

hired.The ramps and runways of our airports

are still easily accessible to unauthorizedpersonnel. Last year, for example, someteenagers rafting in the bay were buffetedby currents and winds and came ashoreat the airport. They wandered around therunways for a couple hours before beingtaken into custody. Around the same time,at New Yorks LaGuardia Airport, a nakedman was found wandering around the run-ways. If these people could get throughairport security, Kleiman says, whyeven call it security?

To drive home her point, last MarchKleiman took a TV crew from FOX Newsto JFK. The TV stations van, with dark-ened windows, drove into an area sup-posedly off-limits to unauthorized per-

sonnel. There was nobody manning thesecurity booth, she says. We drove rightthrough. They easily went to within 100feet of passenger planes from major air-lines that were in various stages of arrival,loading and departure. If we were terror-ists, it would have been very easy to com-mandeer a plane, or take several of themout with firearms, missiles or hand-thrownbombs.

The truly maddening thing is that thecorruption and conspiracy that Diane Klei-man has exposed are not unique to JFK or

U.S. Customs. Many other heroic currentand former law enforcement and intelli-gence officers tell similar stories. As theSeptember 13 whistleblower press confer-ence in Washington, D.C. demonstrated,the security crisis is systemic, affectingvirtually all of our security agencies. It isthe bitter result of decades of sustained at-tacks on all internal security measures bysubversives disguised as civil libertarians.

So far, our elected officials have chosento perpetuate this crisis by refusing to rootout those who obviously are, at best, neg-ligent, and, at worst, criminally complicit.They use the claim that they do not want toengage in finger pointing, as an excusenot to hold anyone accountable, allowingthe guilty to escape. It is also providing anexcuse for proposals to centralize police

powers under the authority of a new fed-eral intelligence czar.The 9/11 Commission report did not

even deal with Customs or Immigration,two of the most important agencies onthe front line of our national security. Theglaring holes that allowed the 9/11 tragedyto occur will not be plugged by reshufflingagencies, redrawing lines on the federalbureaucracy flow charts and pouring evengreater sums of money into an alreadybloated, unaccountable federal intelli-gence and law enforcement leviathan.

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ON THE HOME FRONT

by William F. Jasper

For more than two years, Sibel Ed-monds, a former FBI translator ofTurkish and Turkic languages, has

been warning the country of major secu-rity problems that remain unaddressed atthe FBI headquarters in Washington. Mrs.Edmonds has been responsible for makingpublic a number of alarming revelations ofFBI malfeasance and cover-up in matters

concerning our most sensitive areas of na-tional security and counter terrorism.

Edmonds broke the story of the case ofMelek Can Dickerson, the Turkish trans-lator who was hired by the FBI after 9/11despite her and her husbands records ofassociations with individuals and organi-zations that were targets of FBI investiga-tions. Melek Can Dickerson was given atop-secret clearance and given access tonumerous documents concerning terror-

ism investigations. Dickerson blocked in-vestigations into suspect organizations shewas involved with and, with her supervi-sors approval, took hundreds of pages oftop-secret documents outside the FBI tounknown recipients.

In 2002, Melek Can Dickerson andseveral FBI targets of investigation fledthe United States. No criminal investiga-tion has been opened into the Dickersoncase, and Dickersons supervisor, who

Dozens of whistleblowers from federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies FBI,

CIA, Customs and more are uniting to expose and oppose the 9/11 Commission report.

Experts Challenge the 9/11 Report

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Former FBI translatorSibel Edmonds organized a press conference of federal whistleblowers to challenge the omissions and recommendations ofThe 9/11 Commission Reportand to warn that serious security concerns have not been fixed.


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facilitated her criminal conduct, has beenpromoted to supervising Arabic languageunits of the FBIs counterterrorism andcounterintelligence investigations.

Sibel Edmonds testified before the9/11 Commission, but the Commissionsreport does not include her explosive in-formation, and only mentions her namein a single footnote. In an August 2, 2004open letter to the 9/11 Commission, Mrs.Edmonds recounted the Dickerson case, aswell as several other important incidentsillustrating the depth and breadth of thecrisis at the FBI. Her letter stated:

Your report omits these significantincidents, and your recommendationsdo not address this serious securitybreach and likely espionage issue.

This issue needs to be investigatedand prosecuted. The translation ofour intelligence is being entrustedto individuals with loyalties to ourenemies. Important chit-chats andchatters are being intentionallyblocked from translation. Why doesyour report exclude this informationand these serious issues despite theevidence and briefings you received?How can budget increases addressand resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How

can the addition of an intelligenceczar solve this problem?

Earlier this year, Edmonds was subpoe-naed by attorneys for a group of 9/11

families in their lawsuit against the federalgovernment. They were seeking to haveher testify concerning information she re-portedly saw at FBI headquarters provingsenior officials knew of al-Qaeda plans toattack the U.S. with aircraft months beforethe strikes. However, in April, the Bushadministration obtained a court gag orderpreventing her from testifying.

On Monday, September 13, Sibel Ed-monds held a whistleblowers press con-ference in Washington, D.C., bringing to-gether veteran agents, analysts and otherexperts from various government agenciesinvolved in national security.

She was joined at the press conferenceby four other former federal civil servants:Diane Kleiman, former Special Agent, U.S.Customs; John M. Cole, former Veteran

Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI;Bogdan Dzakovic, former Special Agent& Red Team Leader, FAA; and Melvin A.Goodman, former Senior Analyst/DivisionManager, CIA.

In her opening comments,Sibel Edmonds called uponCongress to refrain from nar-row political considerationsand to apply brakes to therace to implement the [9/11]Commission recommenda-tions. This unique oppor-

tunity to introduce salutaryreform, she noted, must notbe squandered by politicallydriven haste.

Edmonds further stated:

Omission is one of the major flawsin the Commissions report. We areaware of significant issues and casesthat were duly reported to the Com-mission by those of us with directknowledge, but somehow escaped at-tention. Serious problems and short-comings within government agencieslikewise were reported to the Com-mission but were not included in thereport. The report simply does notget at the key problems within theintelligence, aviation security, andlaw enforcement communities. Theomission of such serious and appli-cable issues and information by itselfrenders the report flawed, and castsdoubt on the validity of many of itsrecommendations.

A more detailed report on the whistle-blower press conference will appear in thenext issue of THENEWAMERICAN.

TheNewAmerican

The federal whistleblower press conferencein Washington, D.C. onSeptember 13 was jammed with reporters, participants and camera crews.

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FBI veteran intelligence operations specialist John M.Coletold the press conference of his experiences in tryingto alert FBI superiors that candidates under considerationfor hire by the Bureau were actually foreign intelligenceagents. His warnings were disregarded, and theseintelligence risks were hired and given positions that greatlyendanger our nations security.


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er at the Democratic National Convention,Miller delivered a similarly evangelisticspeech describing Bill Clinton as the mes-sianic embodiment of political goodness.But this irony was lost on Millers audi-ence, who eagerly surrendered to raptures

of indignation over the impudence of anycandidate who would think of supplantingour Dear Leader.

Indeed, the most remarkable aspect ofMillers address was a section implyingthat there was something seditious abouthaving a contested election inwartime. Referring to 1940Republican candidate WendellWillkie, Miller declared thatthere is no better exampleof someone repealing theirprivate plans than this good

man.... [H]e made it clear thathe would rather lose the elec-tion than make national securitya partisan campaign issue.

Where are such statesmentoday? continued Miller, hisface contorted into a mask oftheatrical indignation. Whereis the bipartisanship in thiscountry when we need it most?Now, while young Americansare dying in the sands of Iraqand the mountains of Afghani-

stan, our nation is being tornapart and made weaker becauseof the Democrats manic obses-sion to bring down our Com-mander in Chief.

Implicit but unmistakable inMillers address were the fol-lowing assumptions:

Since our nation is at war,our lives, liberty, and propertybelong to the state.

George W. Bush is not

simply an elected official withspecific, limited powers, but aholy personage to whom wecan entrust all we hold dear(something not found in theConstitutions presidential jobdescription).

Seeking to replace Presi-dent Bush through the consti-tutionally appointed means isat best divisive and at worsttreasonous.

Taken together, those as-sumptions amount tofuhrerprinzip theleader principle common to all variantsof totalitarianism, but most openly em-braced by the German National Socialist(Nazi) Party.

As it has often been said, people go mad

in groups, and come to their senses oneat a time. The nastiest trick of collectivistpolitics of every variety is to manipulatepeople into remaining part of the mob,rather than engaging in critical thoughtas individuals. And nothing accomplishes

that design better than a state of perpetualwar.

Throwing the ElectionAnother nasty trick frequently employedby collectivists is to control all respect-able political alternatives in order to en-sure that any electoral outcome will abetthe growth of the total state.

The argument that the two partiesshould represent opposed ideals and poli-cies, one, perhaps, of the Right and theother of the Left, is a foolish idea, com-mented Georgetown history professorCarroll Quigley, who was both a capableanalyst of, and cheerleader for, the driveto create the total state. Instead, the twoparties should be almost identical, so thatthe American people can throw the ras-

cals out at any election without leading toany profound or extensive shifts in policy.Senator Millers address illustrated the ex-tent to which contemporary partisan poli-tics follows Quigleys prescription.

In addition to exalting President Bush asthe distillate of political virtue,Millers address also hymnedthe supposed virtues of two lib-eral Democratic presidents FDR and Harry Truman andthat of a losing Republican can-didate, Wendell Willkie. These

figures, along with George W.Bush, were commended forembracing an interventionistforeign policy to fight for free-dom over tyranny. Freedom,in this view, is a product of ourcentral government, with ourmilitary acting as a glorifieddelivery service.

Never in the history of theworld has any soldier sacrificedmore for the freedom and lib-erty of total strangers than the

American soldier, observedMiller. And, our soldiers dontjust give freedom abroad, theypreserve it for us here at home.Of course, Miller didnt explainhow our freedoms are beingpreserved if at the sametime we are required to permitWashington to repeal our pri-vate plans when necessary.

The choice of Willkie assymbolic of bipartisan patrio-

The recently concluded Republican

National Convention in New York City

offered overwhelming proof that the

GOP supposed standard-bearer for

limited government conservatism has

embraced the vision of building the total

state through perpetual war.

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Political cross-dresser: Powerful, shadowy figures connected to FDRand British intelligence maneuvered Wendell Willkie into the 1940Republican presidential nomination. A Democrat, Willkie collaboratedwith FDR to beat down the administrations Republican opponents. Hewas actually approached to serve as FDRs vice presidential runningmate in 1944.


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by John F. McManus

When it was formed in 1973,the Trilateral Commissionsbenign-sounding purposes in-

cluded gathering prominent Western Eu-ropeans, North Americans, and Japaneseto promote the enhancement of coopera-tive relations, analysis of major issues,and the development [and] endorsementof proposals on questions of vital mutual

interest. Nothing in its initial literaturementioned world government, but this hasbeen the underlying purpose of the Trilat-eral Commission (TC) from its outset.

A great deal can be learned from know-ing who initiated this new organization,who had sufficient clout to gather intoits fold the movers and shakers of thesemajor industrialized regions,and who supplied its financ-es. The name of David Rock-efeller figures in every aspectof the TC. Because nothing

this man has touched in his80-plus years has been goodfor national independence orpersonal freedom, it would beridiculous to expect the TC tobe anything but another Estab-lishment-spun web to entrapmankind.

Rockefeller is the consum-mate advocate of world gov-ernment whose vast wealthand influence along withthat of his family have

launched, promoted or fundedvirtually every 20th centurystep on the way to global tyr-anny. It was the RockefellerFoundation and allies at thelike-minded Ford, Ketteringand other money spigots thatfueled TC from its outset.

From only 187 membersat its launching, Trilateralmembership in mid-2004 hasswelled to 379 bankers, poli-

ticians, corporate bigwigs, media heavy-weights, labor leaders, academics andeven some clergymen. With three origi-nal regions, it has branched out and nowclaims adherents from all parts of Europe,a Mexican contingent added to the NorthAmerican group, a restructured Japanesesection that now includes virtually everyAsian country, and a new coterie of go-along-to-get-along world planners listedunder the heading Participants from

Other Areas.

The BeginningThe TCs blueprint was created in 1970by Columbia University Professor Zbig-niew Brzezinski, who would go on to be-come the organizations first director andPresident Jimmy Carters national security

adviser. That blueprint was his 334-pagebook,Between Two Ages: Americas Rolein the Technetronic Era. Therein, Brzezin-ski praised Marxism as the best availableinsight into contemporary reality, claimedthat the United States had descended intoobsolescence, called for managementof Americas future [with the] planner asthe key social legislator and manipulator,and fretted about a resurgence of nation-alism. Brzezinski then prescribed piece-

meal creation of a larger community ofthe developed nations through a vari-ety of indirect ties and already developinglimitations on national sovereignty.

More specifically, Brzezinski recom-mended the forging of community linksamong the United States, Western Eu-rope, and Japan, then extending these

The Trilateral blueprint for shaping a community of the developed nations of North

America, Western Europe and Japan has been extended to other parts of the globe.

TRILATERAL COMMISSION

Spinning a Larger Web

N e w s c o m

Trilateralist trio:Within three years of its founding, the Trilateral Commission placed key members at the veryapex of power. Membership in the TC helped Jimmy Carter seen here flanked by fellow Trilateralists CyrusVance and Zbigniew Brzezinski rise from obscurity to the White House.


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to be at an end. The Fetials endured untilthe late Roman Empire, providing a checkof sorts on the power of the Roman stateto go to war.

During his reign, at least, Numa appearsto have been successful in taming the war-

like disposition of his people, even if itwas seldom assuaged thereafter. It was thecustom in Rome to shut the doors of the

temple of the god Janus duringtimes of peace, a custom that, afterNuma, was put into practice onlyonce during the consulship ofMarcus Atilius and Titus Manliusin the third century B.C. in allof the centuries leading up to thereign of Caesar Augustus. WrotePlutarch with admiration:

During the reign of Numa,those gates were never seenopen a single day, but contin-

ued constantly shut for a space offorty-three years together, such anentire and universal cessation of warexisted. For not only had the peopleof Rome itself been softened andcharmed into a peaceful temper by

the just and mild rule of a pacificprince, but even the neighboring cit-ies, as if some salubrious and gen-

tle air had blown from Rome uponthem, began to experience a changeof feeling, and partook in the generallonging for the sweets of peace andorder.... For during the whole reignof Numa, there was neither war, norsedition, nor innovation in the state,nor any envy or ill-will to his person,nor plot or conspiracy from views ofambition.

Kings and DespotsUnfortunately, this state of affairs did notoutlive Numa himself. Tullus Hostilius,his immediate successor, was, according toLivy, not only unlike the preceding king,but was even of a more warlike dispositionthan Romulus.... Thinking, therefore, thatthe state was becoming languid through

quiet, he everywhere sought for pretextsfor stirring up war. Before long, he suc-ceeded in provoking a war with the Albans,

ROMEHISTORYHISTORY

Rome discovered a formula for

limiting the power of government by

dividing it among several different

magistrates and elected bodies. The

Roman Republic also developed a

written code of laws that defined and

protected the rights of Roman citizens.

Rome triumphant:The pageantry of a Roman military triumph was a common sight in the streets of ancient Rome. The Roman Republic, almostincessantly at war, became the most formidable military power the world had ever seen.


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