The Decade's Biggest Scam

[Spurminator]

http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/08/29/terrorism


Exaggerating, manipulating and exploiting the Terrorist threat for profit and power has been the biggest scam of the decade; only Wall Street's ability to make the Government prop it up and profit from the crisis it created at the expense of everyone else can compete for that title. Nothing has altered the mindset of the American citizenry more than a decade's worth of fear-mongering So compelling is fear-based propaganda, so beholden are our government institutions to these private Security State factions, and so unaccountable is the power bestowed by these programs, that even a full decade after the only Terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, its growth continues more or less unabated.

[boutons_deux]

SOCOM is spread over the planet into 100+ countries murdering whomever they think is an enemy. SOCOM is now over 5K killers

[boutons_deux]

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war

http://cloudfront-3.iwatchnews.org/files/styles/8col/public/img/AP01091404732%20(1).jpg

Taxpayer is the loser when Pentagon doesn't require competition among contractors. "The lack of competition is a scandal," says one expert.

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/29/5989/windfalls-war-pentagons-no-bid-contracts-triple-10-years-war

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/29/5989/windfalls-war-pentagons-no-bid-contracts-triple-10-years-war

[jack sommerset]

I 100 perent disagree. If we didn't buff up security there would have been many more 9-11s. There was no security at the airports. That day crushed our nation as a whole, we just wished it didn't happen to us back then, now we know better.

We actually need more, start with borders. 15 million illegal is crazy, crazy, crazy. That's the scam. Paying for their food, shelters, making their kids citzens, giving them free healthcare soon to be obamacare, paying for schools, I thought I read illegals were 25 percent of our prisoners.

[boutons_deux]

The CIA knew there were 2 9/11 guys in the USA, but didn't tell the FBI. THat's why CIA is suppressing the ex-CIA's book.

CIA could have stopped the 9/11 attack,

the FBI could have stopped the 9/11 attack
(they buried the report about the arab guy wanting to learn how to fly and turn, but not how to take off and land :lol )

had the fuckers done their jobs, along with the WH and Cunti Rice, then no 9/11, no iraq war, no Afghn war.

illegal aliens are a trivial problem compared to the destruction the financial sector has/is/will wreak on Human-Americans.

[SA210]

What about longest running scams? JFK?

[ElNono]

IMO locked cockpit + armed air marshal is all you needed to stop 9/11. And that's all I would keep around. If you're scared the plane might get blown to bits, then don't fly.

[Stringer_Bell]

IMO locked cockpit + armed air marshal is all you needed to stop 9/11. And that's all I would keep around. If you're scared the plane might get blown to bits, then don't fly.

No one makes any money off of selling/developing x-ray machines or advanced metal/explosive detectors if they go with your plan. Overall, your plan limits the military industrial complex's ability to make money off of hysteria.

I don't like it, your plan. Nope.

[ElNono]

:lol

[Wild Cobra]

IMO locked cockpit + armed air marshal is all you needed to stop 9/11. And that's all I would keep around. If you're scared the plane might get blown to bits, then don't fly.
Agreed.

[mingus]

I don't know why anyone would want to change anything security wise at airports. all it takes is one exploding airplane and the paranoia and antimuslim attitudes are through the roof at higher levels than ever before

[angrydude]

I 100 perent disagree. If we didn't buff up security there would have been many more 9-11s. There was no security at the airports. That day crushed our nation as a whole, we just wished it didn't happen to us back then, now we know better.

We actually need more, start with borders. 15 million illegal is crazy, crazy, crazy. That's the scam. Paying for their food, shelters, making their kids citzens, giving them free healthcare soon to be obamacare, paying for schools, I thought I read illegals were 25 percent of our prisoners.

Are you serious?

The added security at airports doesn't stop anything.

[boutons_deux]

Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/152197

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How Corporate and Political Forces Have Almost Neutralized All Avenues of Resistance in US Culture

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/152205

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Repugs/VRWC appeal to fear to suck $Ts out of Human-Americans. What a great civilization we have, right?

[cheguevara]

Che has said it before. If not for the terrorist fear mongering the Cheney goverment did, americans would have woken up and realized the real estate scam the banks were doing.

the american public was in this daze or fear/drunken stupor (fueled by Cheney and his govmt) and let the bankers rape them in the ass and then rob them silly.

[Agloco]

There's a lot of folks with short memories in this thread.

[boutons_deux]

"americans would have woken up and realized the real estate scam the banks were doing"

H-A's still haven't figured out that the USA was screwed by the financial sector, not by illegal aliens, not by Barry and Dems, not by Muslims, not by terrorists, not by gays or gay marriage, not by non-Christians, not by casual sex, not by extreme weather, not by abortion, not by ACORN, F&F, CRA.

Those are all lies, still repeated, by the VRWC to hide the true culprits, the VRWC themselves.

[ElNono]

There's a lot of folks with short memories in this thread.

Like who? :lol