Forget The Middle East
North America Harbors The
World's Most Dangerous Terrorists
By Jason Miller
4-19-6
"After the explosion itself, anyone on the edge of the explosion (who
were lucky enough to survive) would have melted flesh and severe
burns, the skin would literally fall off the bone. Anyone who had seen
the blast from such a distance would have permanent loss of vision."
http://www.armageddononline.org/nuke.php
A little perspective, please
After years of living under the perpetual risk of the ultimate
terrorist attack, most people have become acclimated to the distinct
possibility of imminent extinction of life on Earth. Fortunately,
humans tend to be highly adaptable beings, and most are able to go on
with their daily tasks without dwelling on potential doomsday
scenarios.
In fact, people have become so desensitized to the threat of nuclear
holocaust that those who still believe American propaganda are more
terrified of religious fanatics wielding box cutters than they are of
an ICBM capable of annihilating millions.
According to the FBI, domestic terrorism is:
"the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group
or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or
its territories without foreign direction committed against persons or
property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian
population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or
social objectives."
Given the knowledge that it is the United States which created and
primarily wields the power to extinguish life on Earth, it is not a
tremendous intellectual leap to classify the American government as
the world's most dangerous and most powerful terrorist.
America's own domestic law enforcement entity has defined terrorism as
"threatened use of force or violence", intimidation, and coercion
against governments or civilian populations for the "furtherance of
political or social objectives".
What could be more threatening or violent than a nuclear attack? What
could be more coercive than the US imposition of its will, culture,
and ruthless economic agenda on a global populace like a domineering
father abusing his cowed children? Employing terrorist tools of
intimidation, coercion and threats of violence, the United States
consistently sets the political and social objectives for the rest of
the world.
Remember, Iran, "All options are on the table."
America is the Don Corleone of the world community. They make offers
you can't refuse. "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" delivered the Sicilian
message that nations defying the United States would find many of
their innocent civilians "sleeping with the fishes". 200,000 dead
Japanese showed the skeptics that the Godfather meant business.
Bearing in mind that the atomic bombs deployed in Japan were mere
firecrackers relative to today's nukes, the following puts a grim
perspective on the situation:
"A single Hiroshima-size blast in downtown Los Angeles, according to a
computer projection done several years ago by Physicians for Social
Responsibility, would kill about 150,000 people immediately and
100,000 more from neutron and gamma radiation. An additional 800,000
people would be exposed to high-level radiation."
(Seattle Times)
Evil begets evil
Not only did the United States let the nuclear genie out of the bottle
and unleash it on humanity, through Operation Paperclip, it provided
safe haven for Nazi war criminals. During and after World War II, the
CIA altered the records of Nazi scientists so they could enter the
United States and contribute to the evolution of America's nuclear
weapons program.
Needing an "enemy" for its indoctrinated citizens to fear, the United
States began demonizing Communism in the 1950's. As they created their
"bogeyman" so they could manipulate the masses with psychological
terror, America's leaders pushed a nation with a much weaker economy
into an insane scenario of Mutually Assured Destruction and an arms
race. By 2004, Russia's stockpile of warheads had the combined power
of 120,000 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
The combined nuclear capacity of the United States and Russia at the
height of the nuclear arms race was enough to eradicate the Earth of
life 1,500 times over.
When is enough, enough?
According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 2004 the United
States had 10,000 nuclear warheads, 7,000 of which were operational.
Yet existing in a realm of thought where logic ceases to exist,
America's leaders are obsessed with "national security". The United
States accounts for half of the world's military expenditures to
protect 350 million of the 6.5 billion people on Earth.
With over 500 land-based ICBMs, the United States can incinerate any
region of a 4.5 billion year old planet within a mere 35 minutes. The
Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles are only one leg of
America's triad of doom. Submarine-based Trident nuclear missiles have
the capacity to unleash Armageddon from the depths of the Earth's
tranquil oceans. Maintaining a fleet of B-1, B-2, and B-52 long-range
bombers, the USAF can also rain nuclear hell upon millions of
unsuspecting "units of collateral damage".
Desperation and treachery are the parents of US nuclear invention
Realizing that the "Nuclear Club" is rapidly expanding, the United
States is desperately seeking ways to circumvent treaties in which
they have pledged to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons.
As they down-sized their nuclear stock-pile in the 1990's by retiring
ICBM's like the Peacekeeper, America's leadership found ways to avoid
truly surrendering its tools of terror.
The United States began diverting substantial portions of its obscene
defense budget to its Stockpile Stewardship Program to perpetuate and
expand its nuclear capacities. Consider this 1996 statement by the
Department of Energy:
"[n]ational security policies in the post-Cold War era require that
all historical capabilities of the weapons laboratories, industrial
plants, and NTS [the Nevada Test Site] be maintained," and that
"denuclearisation... is not feasible based on current national
security policy."
With the ethereal nuclear genie slipping further from its grasp, the
United States is now focusing its resources and determined efforts
toward ensuring nuclear proliferation to those it deems deserving.
Israel, the US satellite in the Middle East, and India, a nation Uncle
Sam is determined to lure into his bed, both qualify. Iran and North
Korea are obviously not welcome at the nuclear party, whether they
apply the technology for military purposes or not.
On the domestic front, America's bellicose government is emphasizing
the enhancement of existing nuclear weapons to give the appearance
that it is not developing new ones. For example, the B61-11 is a
modification of the B61, a "tactical nuke" which "only" has 2/3 the
power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. To neutralize nations which
have developed weapons facilities deep underground, America created
the B61-11 to burrow into rock before discharging its nuclear payload.
America's Neocons are itching to play with their new toys in Iran.
The Pentagon claims that these "bunker busters" would pose no threat
to life outside of the underground targets. However, Dr. Robert Nelson
of Princeton University offers a significantly differing opinion:
"No earth-burrowing missile can penetrate deep enough into the earth
to contain an explosion with a nuclear yield even as small as 1
percent of the 15 kiloton Hiroshima weapon. "The explosion simply
blows out a massive crater of radioactive dirt, which rains down on
the local region with an especially intense and deadly fallout."
Dr. Nelson's analysis is substantially more seaworthy than the stone
the Pentagon tried to float when they proclaimed earth-burrowing
"mini-nukes" to be "safe".
A Messiah complex, severely stunted emotional intelligence and
profound ignorance are the defining characteristics of the man capable
of making nuclear holocaust a reality within minutes. In light of
this, Osama bin Laden, box-cutters, and suicide bombers don't seem
quite so formidable or worrisome.
Jason Miller is a 39 year old sociopolitical essayist with a degree in
liberal arts and an extensive self-education (derived from an
insatiable appetite for reading). He is a member of Amnesty
International and an avid supporter of Oxfam International and Human
Rights Watch. He welcomes responses at or
comments on his blog, Thomas Paine's Corner, at
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/.
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