STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Who Will Become A Terrorist? 

Look Within Ourselves, Our History, and Our Leaders. 

Terrorists R Us.

Once again the question pops up as to what makes a terrorist? [NYTimes, March 28].

The answer—nothing!
A terrorist is not a personality type; instead it is a designation for someone; a soldier, a leader, a child, a man, a woman, a LGBT –or, whatever gender and nationality, or ethnic group you might want to consider who uses TERROR! Terror is a tactic—not a strategy nor a war. 

The use of terror is intended to create simply what the word implies: FEAR, emotional realities which lead to panic, fight or flight, or whatever subsequent behavior is desired or utilized. In the case of 9/11, Bush/Cheney used terror to mobilize our country for an invasion of Iraq/Afghanistan. Most often it is used by the weaker power in an asymmetric relationship to instill fear in the dominant force so that it will react in a regressive, repressive way.  

The history of terror is embedded in the history of mankind. More importantly, America was born of terror and eventual revolution. Our Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism which precipitated the 1776 Revolution. Many of our Founding Fathers used terrorism in order to intimidate the imposing British/Hessian forces and drive them out of the new world. The Civil War was a massive exercise of terror initiated by a very sick manic-depressive individual who was born with a genetic defect entitled, Marfan’s Syndrome [like Osama Bin Laden— mental/physical problems]. His name was President Abraham Lincoln. 

Lincoln’s purposeful acts of terror against an inferior force [the Confederacy] was transmuted into beatific words which covered up the underlying barbarism with absurd Whitman poems deifying such ruthlessness with phrases like, “O Captain, My captain!”  Next, the reconstituted Republic rationalized a subsequent war of terror into a false rationalization entitled: a “civil war to free slaves’’. Nonsense!

Similarly, General Grant and the Union Army foraged into the territory of Florida to rid that area of Spanish settlers and Seminole Indians –not once but three different times. Eventually, using both terror and intimidation, we, Americans, forced the Seminole Indians on a death march entitled the ‘trail of tears’-- thousands of miles away into Oklahoma [in the meanwhile, millions of Native Americans were slaughtered by our actions]. America used terror to expand our horizons westward in the name of the “Manifest Destiny”, killing all who were in the way of our western expansion.

By now, you get my point.

Every world leader used some form of terror in order to advance his/her career on the world stage. Stalin used terror to kill over 30 million Russians. Japan used terror to torture, maim millions of Chinese in the 1920’s invasion of Manchuria [biological weapons killed over 2million]; as well as creating a massive blood bath in Nanjing [slaughtered 20,000 plus women and children using only the sword]; of course, this did not include the Bataan Death March [of American soldiers who surrendered in the Phillippines].

Hitler used terror on millions victims. 

Both Gen. Curtis LeMay and Lt.Cl. Bob McNamara used the terror of ‘fire-bombing’ sixty per cent of all the cities/ civilian Japan’ [Black Rain] in order to terminate  WWII. LeMay admitted that it was a major war crime that he had committed for which he would never be prosecuted.

Begin used terror to intimidate the British in Palestine. Sadat used terror to drive both the British and Jewish settlers out of his domain.

LBJ used terror to attack our own Liberty ship to create a scenario in which ‘unmarked phantom Israeli jets’ strafed and killed our own American sailors. Then he used terror, when he claimed a North Vietnam boat attacked our navy [false accusation] which lead to the Gulf Of Tonkin Declaration of War [Vietnam War]. We allowed the assassination of JFK, RFK, Marin Luther King, etc.—all with the permission and assistance of our own political leaders, intelligence/FBI units, et.al. The list goes on and on: 9/11 death of 3,000 American Civilians [Bush Jr/Cheney/Rum/Condi]; Iraq, Somalia; Sudan. 

Obama’s ‘Drone Warfare’ spread terror all over the Middle East, accompanied by Sandy Hook False Flag, etc.

So who are the terrorists?
Americans have allowed our leaders to used terror without any consequences whatsoever. Instead the dialogue is diverted/distorted to accuse Muslims in ISIS [created by CIA, Israel, Saudi Arabia]; Al Qaeda [Saudi Arabia, UAE]  --all of whom are supported, abetted by our shipment of guns, ammunition and personnel in order to create a constant state of strategic tension all over the world.

As usual our military industrial complex has become the purveyor of worldwide terrorism where hundreds of thousands of henchmen are paid ghastly amounts of money to study the absurd notion that there is predictive profile for terrorism when we, Americans, are the ones who abet/purvey terrorism all over the world. Yet citizens are becoming wiser, many Americans now understand that immoral government leaders use terrorism (staged and/or manipulated) to control the public.

We have entered a world of make believe intellectual pursuits [profile of a terrorist] while spawning the largest numbers of anti-terrorist organizations in our history: Counter Terrorism Centers; Special Forces; CIA use of SOCOM; and the continued support of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai and Israel—all bastions of terrorist cells and organizations.

The media magnifies the western atrocities but ignores those who have died in inconvenient locales like Pakistan, Sudan, Niger, Somalia, Yemen… and South Asia/Africa.

America is addicted to war and war-making and the only way out of that self-created conundrum is for our Republic to expunge those USG parasites who study, purvey, and distribute terror and death all over the world through our so-called ‘think tanks’, consulting companies and mercenary organizations.

I await a new responsible, moral leader who will serve our country with distinction, and like most of us, abhors the notion of war and terror but who are not afraid to fight it, if needed.

  There is a fitting proverb:

“A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.”