01-08-2009, 05:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2009, 03:35 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Quote:FRANK LINDH: Yeah. There’s really never been a case quite like this in the United States. President Bush, all of the top officials of his government—Vice President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and especially Attorney General Ashcroft—they all repeatedly on television and in the media accused John of being a terrorist. And this was just after 9/11. This is before John was ever brought back to court, before he ever got to meet with an attorney. All the top officials of our government were telling the American people that he was a terrorist who had been trained to kill Americans. His prospect of his getting a fair trial was just nonexistent. Most people, before he was even brought to court, almost everybody in the United States, almost everybody, was convinced that John Lindh was a traitor who had fought against America. That wasn’t in fact true. But because of what they were told by the government, that’s what people believed.
All these comments were clearly massively prejudicial and in contempt of court.
Of course what we have with John Walker Lindh is a psyop: the creation of a modern myth in the service of a lie.
I assume the parents have decided to defy the gag order and speak because they finally realize their family has been spat upon by the regime which controlled the United States during 9/11, and which forms of course a near permanent ruling elite.
American Taliban.
As soon as you start to unpick it, the construct disintegrates.
After the CIA stopped overtly supporting the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, and started overtly supporting Dostum and the Northern Alliance, the General was no longer a commie drug dealer. And he could continue his favourite practice of boiling his enemies alive, like lobsters.
All in the name of spreading democracy, of course...

"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war