
	
	
	
	by Paul Joseph Watson
	
	
	September 7, 2006
	
	
	from
	PrisonPlanet 
	Website
	
	 
	
	A document cited by President Bush in his recent speech at the Capital 
	Hilton Hotel on how to 'win the war on terror' cites conspiracies as one of 
	the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to "address" and "diminish" the 
	problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
	
	
	
	On Tuesday
	
	Bush referred to the strategy paper 
	as, 
	
		
		"an unclassified version of the strategy 
		we've been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001," that takes into 
		account, "the changing nature of this enemy."
	
	
	
	
	The document says that terrorism springs 
	from,
	
		
		"subcultures of conspiracy and 
		misinformation," and that "terrorists recruit more effectively from 
		populations whose information about the world is contaminated by 
		falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep 
		alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular 
		prejudices and self-serving propaganda."
	
	
	The terminology echoes President Bush's speech 
	(video below) to the UN General Assembly on November 10th 2001 in which he 
	stated, 
	
		
		"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy 
		theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies 
		that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, 
		away from the guilty."
		 
	
	
	This is an outright threat to 
	the 9/11 truth 
	movement and is meant to have a chilling effect on freedom of speech.
	
	
	It is also a callous reminder that the administration that has been the 
	progenitor of the most heinous and deliberate campaign to mislead and lie to 
	its own people is so transfixed by its own hubris that it has the temerity 
	to accuse others of propagating deceptive information.
	
	
	This is the same administration that deliberately included the Niger yellow 
	cake fraud in a state of the union speech to sell a war - knowing that the 
	information was completely bogus.
	
	
	How dare they threaten us with the very defining characteristic of their 
	black legacy and equate us with terrorists?
	
	
	This is a direct assault on the alternative media and a continuation of the 
	twilight zone rhetoric that saw the administration attempt to link its 
	critics with Fascists and Hitler appeasers. The only fascists that should 
	really concern us are not imaginary 'Blogofascists' or 'Islamofascists' but 
	the Neo-Fascist slugs that occupy the White House and their cheerleading 
	sycophants in the mainstream media and congress.
	
	
	This is by no means the first time political enemies of the state have been 
	smeared as terrorist sympathizers.
	
	
	
	Alex Jones' 2001 documentary film 
	9/11: The Road 
	to Tyranny featured footage from a FEMA symposium given to firefighters and 
	other emergency personnel in Kansas City in which it was stated that the 
	founding fathers, Christians and homeschoolers were terrorists and should be 
	treated with the utmost suspicion and brutality in times of national 
	emergency. 
	
	
	We have highlighted previous training manuals issues by state and federal 
	government bodies which identify whole swathes of the population as 
	potential terrorists. A
	
	Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Law 
	Enforcement pamphlet gives the public characteristics to identify terrorists 
	that include buying baby formula, beer, wearing Levi jeans, carrying 
	identifying documents like a drivers license and traveling with women or 
	children.
	
	
	A 
	
	Virginia training manual used to help state employees recognize terrorists 
	lists anti-government and property rights activists as terrorists and 
	includes binoculars, video cameras, pads and notebooks in a compendium of 
	terrorist tools.
	
	
	Shortly after 9/11 a 
	Phoenix FBI manual that was disseminated amongst 
	federal employees at the end of the Clinton term caused waves on the 
	Internet after it was revealed that potential terrorists included, 
	
	
		
		"defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN," 
	and individuals who "make numerous references to the US Constitution."
		
	
	
	Lawyers everywhere cowered in fear at being shipped off to Gitmo.
	
	
	In May we broke the exclusive of a nationwide 
	FEMA program which is training 
	Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police 
	enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in 
	preparation for a declaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, 
	and forced relocation.