Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[David Guyatt]

The "Global War on Terrorism" Mindset

The "war on terrorism" mindset builds a consensus: millions of Americans are led to believe that a militarized police apparatus is required to protect democracy. Little do they realize that the US government is the main source of terrorism both nationally and internationally.

The corporate media is Washington's propaganda arm, which consists in portraying Muslims as a threat to national security.

At this juncture in our history, at the crossroads of global economic and social crisis, the Boston bombings play a central role. They justify the Homeland Security State.

The evolving US Police State is thereby upheld as a means to protecting civil liberties. Under the guise of counter-terrorism, extrajudicial killings, the suspension of habeas corpus and torture are rightfully considered as a means to upholding the US Constitution.

At the same time, the terrorists created and supported by the CIA are used to participate in "False Flag" terrorist acts with a view to justifying the conduct of a global military crusade against Muslim countries, which so happen to be major oil producing economies.

"Massive Casualty Producing Events"

Former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion of Iraq in 2003, had outlined a scenario of what he described as "a massive casualty producing event" on American soil, (a Second 9/11) . Implied in General Franks statement was the notion and belief that civilian deaths were necessary to raise awareness and muster public support for the "global war on terrorism".

"[A] terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world it may be in the United States of America that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event." (General Tommy Franks Interview, Cigar Aficionado, December 2003, emphasis added)

While the Boston bombings are of an entirely different nature to the "catastrophic event" alluded to by General Tommy Franks, the administration appears, nonetheless, to be committed to the logic of "militarizing our country" as a means to "protecting democracy."

The Boston events are already being used to galvanize public support for an extended domestic based counter-terrorism apparatus. The latter would be implemented alongside extrajudicial assassinations against so-called "homegrown self radicalized terrorists":

"U.S. counterterrorism policy has since 2001 focused largely on killing terrorists overseas or preventing them from getting into the U.S. But the Boston bombings show how the diffusion of terrorist tactics easily transcends borders. Countering small groups of individuals inside the U.S. can be a bedeviling assignment.

Bruce Riedel, director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan Washington think tank, said the Boston attack was likely a harbinger. "We are likely to see this as the future face of terrorist threats to the United States," he said, adding that the case of a small number of radicalized participants who have lived in the U.S. and execute a plot is "the counterterrorist community's worst nightmare, homegrown, self-radicalizing terrorism that learns its skill set off the Internet." (WSJ, April 20, op cit)

The "terrorist massive casualty-producing event" was upheld by General Franks as a crucial political turning point.

Do the Boston Bombings constitute a point of transition, a watershed which ultimately contributes to the gradual suspension of constitutional government?

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How clever of our secret agencies to create Al Qaeda with the help of Osama bin Laden. He was CIA, you know, fighting the Russians in Afghanistan along with their Mujahideens (early Talibans) who trying to overturn the Afghan governmet which had been friendly towards Russia. The US supported the Mujahideens and bib Laden with guns and money, and Bzigniew Bzerzinski, Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, bragged of his work and influence in bringing about the downfall of the Soviet government, weakened by fighting an arduous war for ten years in Afghanistan (the Russians' "Vietnam war").

Thanks for that Adele. I had just read the article you linked in your previous post, as was just about to post that exact same extract as you have now done.

General Franks has let the cat out of the bag, I think.