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Once again, Big Brother has acted swiftly and viciously against a perceived "enemy of the people."
The death of a disabled Ohio man and his 9-year-old son, following a 45-hour siege by 300 police officers between March 31 and April 2 in the sleepy south Cleveland suburb of Brunswick has left residents of the Ohio valley both stunned and enraged.
John M. Lekan, 54, and his son, John Jr., died as police ended the siege by ramming the Lekan home at 4095 Rolling Hills Drive in Brunswick with armored personnel carriers (APCs).
It was the bloody and tragic conclusion to an episode which began with a dispute with Medina County Human Services Department home health aides over Lekan having what appears to have been three legal firearms in the home.
The health aides had been helping to treat Lekan's wife, Beverly, a victim of multiple sclerosis.
At the request of Mrs. Lekan, her husband was buried April 5 with his arm around his son who cradled a favorite Teddy bear in his arms.
Following the lead of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which featured in its April 5 issue a grim cartoon showing a hearse passing a sign indicating it was entering the city limits of "Brunswaco;" many area residents are calling the death of the Lekans "another Waco."
The newspaper's term "Brunswaco" is a reference to the holocaust that followed a raid by FBI and other federal agents on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1994, causing the deaths of dozens of Davidians, including women and children.
Police, after spending four hours in the home following the end of the siege, emerged with the bodies of Lekan and the boy, claiming that the distraught man had shot his son and then himself.
Numerous neighbors and other residents of the area claim otherwise, that both the man and his son were shot when police riddled the home with some 40 high caliber bullets, mostly from assault-type rifles.
Three police officers were injured by Lekan during the siege.
In the wake of the tragedy several public meetings have been held with local officials, in which numerous residents have been highly critical of the SWAT-style operation.
J.J. Johnson, who heads the Ohio patriotic group E. Pluribus Unum, told The SPOTLIGHT that during one meeting two neighbors of the Lekans were overheard discussing how they had been warned to "keep their mouths shut" about what they had seen.
Lekan, a disabled chemical engineer, was by most accounts a somewhat eccentric man who kept mostly to himself. He was a veteran, a member of the National Rifle Association, a gun owner and political activist, who it has been reported, had a strong dislike and fear of the government.
Lekan became angry when his wife told him that the health care aides had filed a complaint with police concerning his habit of handling his firearms with "a young child" in the house.
There is no evidence, however, that Lekan, who, as a veteran, knew how to handle firearms properly, endangered his son or anyone else with the guns.
There have been numerous reports that he feared his son was going to be taken from him by the police, backed by allegations from the Human Services Department.
In any case, Mrs. Lekan told her husband the aides said when they returned to the home the police would probably be with them.
That night, March 30, lekan, according to his wife, became concerned and loaded all three of his firearms.
The next day at 3;m, two Brunswick police officers, apparently without a warrant, arrived at the Lekan home and demanded entry, which was refused by Lekan.
One of the officers, Sam Puxella, then kicked the front door in and was shot in the chest and severely wounded by Lekan. A half-hour later the officer was air-lifted from the property.
Then, at 8;30 pm, several well-armed police officers attempted
to rush the home, and Lekan shot two more of the policemen, at
which time the neighborhood was evacuated for a half-mile radius
and dozens of police began converging on the once quiet
neighborhood.
All gas, electric, telephone and water service to the Lekan home was disconnected and fiberoptic cameras were installed in utility poles with the interior of the residence becoming visible to the police.
Street lamps in the vicinity of the home were knocked out by police.
Police determined Lekan and his son were in the basement, so water was pumped into the cellar at the rate of about 1,000 gallons per hour, driving the man and the boy back upstairs.
By the time the day ended there were four SWAT teams, about
300 law enforcement officers and 200 fire fighters who had converged
upon the Lekan home, equipped with a variety of
shields, body armor and two APCs.
At about 11 am on Saturday, April 1, one of the APCs breached the garage door of the home and tear gas was fired inside. Then, an APC breached the east wall of the home and again tear gas was inserted.
An APC also broke through the patio doors leading to the backyard and more tear gas was fired into the house.
At 10:15 am the next day, police fired tear gas through broken windows of the home and drove an APC up to the front bedroom window and emerged moments later with Mrs. Lekan, who had been confined to her bed.
Then, about 12 SWAT team members entered the home, where they remained for four hours. When they emerged, they had the bodies of the father and his son.
Police Chief Patrick Beyer claimed the bodies had been found in a bathroom, partially within a shower stall.
Medina County Coroner Dr. Neil Grabenstetter claimed that both had died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
The deaths were officially ruled a murder/suicide. However, as this story was going to press, official inquiries into the deaths of the man and the child were pending.
At one point on Saturday, April 1, a policeman was heard on a scanner radio tuned into the police frequency that the Lekans' flag had been taken down from the home.
"We got the flag," one officer said. "Does that
mean we won?"
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Plague-thought to have been wiped out years ago-has been diagnosed in Southern California.
While the Establishment news media has virtually ignored the subject, health officials in a southern California county are desperately trying to trace the source of a deadly plague bacteria that threatens the life of a man and has the potential for spreading rapidly.
At this point, public health and medical officials in Kern County, located north of Los Angeles, are trying to determine how John Breen, 23, of Tehachapi, which is about 30 miles southeast of the city of Bakersfield, caught pneumonic plague.
Breen is in critical condition at Kern County Medical Center, Bakersfield, after he collapsed March 20 in his Tehachapi apartment, his lings filled with dense bacteria and fluid. He had been ill for several days but thought he had a "cold."
With the young man unconscious, Kern county officials have encountered difficulty in trying to trace his movements and how he may have contracted the deadly disease. If it is not treated early, the disease can have a mortality rate of up to 95 percent.
Further complicating the county health and medical officials' problems is the bizarre theft of the young man's medical papers, which, Bakersfield television channel KBAK told The SPOTLIGHT, were stolen from his father's car while it was in the parking lot of the Medical Center on March 31.
Police are seeking the papers, which were in a small brown briefcase, bearing the initials "BB." They were taken after the car was broken into.
Nothing else, The SPOTLIGHT was told, was missing from the car, nor were any other vehicles in the parking lot burglarized.
Pneumonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, an organism commonly carried by rats and other rodents. The disease can be transmitted to humans through fleas that have bitten the rodents, domesticated cats and dogs or through contact with other infected human beings.
In pneumonic form, the bacteria rapidly multiplies in the victim's lings, leading to fever and pneumonia. The more common Bubonic plague, which is caused by the same bacteria, can develop into the pneumonic form if the bacteria travels to the lungs. At that point, the bacteria is spread in airborne form, endangering anyone who comes in contact with the victim, with primary pneumonic plague.
There has not been a case of primary pneumonic plague in the United States since 1924.
ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT
The disease, which has an incubation period of from two to five days, is treated with antibiotics. Tracy Richardson, a spokesperson for the Kern County Medical Center, told The SPOTLIGHT, Breen, who is on a ventilator and is being administered antibiotics intravenously, has shown some improvement since his admission, but remains critical.
Breen is one of 70 employees at the Benz Sanitation Recycling Plant in Tehachapi, a facility that covers several acres. As a precaution, other employees at the plant are being treated with antibiotics.
Recycling facilities are a breeding ground for rats and other rodents.
Tehachapi, which is at an elevation of about 3,000 feet above sea level, is an area considered endemic with rodents carrying the disease. Plague bacteria seem to be related to rodent populations at elevations greater than 2,500 feet.
Health officials have already checked domesticated animals around the recycling center and Breen's apartment but have not discovered any infected with the bacteria.
However, one health department official, who asked not to be identified, indicated that up to 20 percent of ground squirrels native to the area are carrying the bacteria.
CAT INFECTED
In addition, tests conducted on a domesticated cat that died in Keene located about 10 miles northwest of Tehachapi, came up positive for Yersinia pestis.
The Kern County Health Department is warning all vacationers, travelers and residents int he areas around Keene and Tehachapi, areas endemic to the bacteria, to take measures to minimize their exposure to potentially infected animals.
The more widely known Bubonic plague, or "Black Death," ravaged Europe during the 14th century, causing the deaths of millions.
It is customary procedure to prevent the bacteria from spreading by controlling the rodent population of an area.
It is ironic that Kern County a few years ago was the site of the prosecution by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of Tsung Ming-Lin, a farmer whose tractor had killed a kangaroo rat, a species protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
While, like other rodents in Kern County, the rats can be carriers
of Yersinia pestis, killing the rodents carries a fine of up to
200,000 and/or time in federal prison, even, apparently, if the
killing is accidental, as in the case of the farmer.
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Who says international treaties hold no sway over U.S. laws?
Arizona has fired the latest round in the fight by states to wrest control of their destinies from the federal government. The state legislature passed a law legalizing Freon in the just completed legislative session.
Congress voted to phase Freon out of use by 1996. The mandate was overwhelmingly approved by both chambers of Congress in 1990 as part of the Clean Air Act.
However, since then, many states particularly those in the West, have reclaimed their rights through a drive known as the 10th Amendment movement.
Led by state Rep. Jean McGrath, Arizona is the latest to combat unfunded federal mandates from Washington. McGrath was a guest on Radio Free America (RFA) April 18.
Gov. Fife Symington (R) signed the so-called Freon Bill, H.B. 2236, Chapter 74, on April 16. The law allows Arizonians to possess, use and sell chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) after December 31, 1995-the date the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says one cannot distribute CFCs.
`NOT OUR FAULT'
An EPA spokesman said the agency hasn't had time to react to the Arizona decision.
"It's too early in the game to give any specifics as to what we'll do," he said. "The law isn't in effect yet."
The EPA spokesman said the agency is simply doing what Congress told it to do. He said Congress had to act in 1990 in order to comply with the Montreal Protocol.
The protocol "is an international treaty signed in 1987 to protect the stratospheric ozone layer."
Arizona lawmakers didn't understand why their constituents should have to pay more for commercial refrigeration which is arguably more dangerous than Freon in order to comply with an international treaty, according to a spokesman in the governor's office.
McGrath was out of the state when The SPOTLIGHT called.
In 1990, the EPA estimated the agency's environmental regulations cost each American family around $1,000. The price had increased to $1,700 by 1992.
Critics contend the Clean Air Act of 1990 is one of the most far-reaching statutes outside of the Internal Revenue Code. The real purpose of the law is to "control American business and the American people."
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) introduced a pair of bills early in the 104th Congress aimed at repealing the Clean Air Act. Although H.R. 475 and H.R. 479 were referred to the Committee on Commerce on January 11, there has been no action on them.
Critics claim the law was originally passed due to fears raised by radical environmentalists who want to do their share to bring the world under world government.
"Disaster is at the gate," Mikhail Gorbachev said at the Environmental Media Awards last year. "It is Knocking at our doors. Today, you are the ones primarily responsible for making people heed this warning."
Gorbachev proposed a list of rules for international environmentalism.
"There must be a kind of 10 commandments for the environment, something that no one would be allowed to violate," he said.
In fact, Gorbachev has already formed an environmental group- the Green Cross-to develop international laws. He reportedly hopes to have draft regulations available for the UN at the 50th anniversary of the globalist group later this year.
But first troublemakers who believe in individual or states',
rights must be dealt with.
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It's no accident that President Bill Clinton is getting support for so-called "anti-terrorist" powers.
Historically, significant politically related acts of violence in the United States causing national outrage have resulted in the passage of laws which have curtailed the constitutional rights and liberties of Americans.
Supporters of these laws have capitalized on these tragic incidents by using them as national rallying points to implement their agenda. Often the passage of time reveals that the federal government itself had some responsibility for these violent acts.
Will the Oklahoma City bombing prove to be a continuation of this pattern?
The tragedy is now being cited as justification to pass counterterrorist legislation criticized as containing provisions which will violate the constitutional rights and civil liberties of law-abiding Americans.
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy resulted in the passage of two major pieces of legislation which permitted the federal government to enter major areas of the lives of Americans.
The 1964 civil rights bill, promoted by the Johnson administration as a memorial to the slain president, removed the right of the freedom of association for Americans.
SELMA AND VOTING RIGHTS
The 1965 murder of Viola Liuzzo, a White Woman who marched in Selma, Alabama, played a key role in passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She was shot and killed, allegedly by a man who was apparently an FBI agent, but the agency tried to pin the crime on the Ku Klux Klan.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 imposed a radical new reconstruction, almost exclusively on southern states, that persists to this day.
No electoral unit in these states can alter its political system
without clearance by the Justice Department, including a modification
as minor as a city council election. Each change must be examined
to determine that it increases minority
strength.
Passage of the 1968 gun control act was a direct result of the murders of Martin L. King in April and Robert Kennedy in June.
The gun law was the first step toward a national registration system of firearms. It required a process resulting in traceable paperwork on guns sold in the U.~S. by a dealer or manufacturer or guns imported into the U.S.
The murder of doctors performing abortions and attacks on abortion
clinics has resulted in the development of a new area. of First
Amendment constitutional debate via passage of legislation creating
protected zones around abortion clinics to keep pro-life demonstrators.
Critics argue that this is a violation of the constitutional right
of free speech and
assembly.
The assassination attempt by John Hinkley on President Reagan in 1981, which crippled press secretary Jim Brady, led to the so- called Brady Bill. it was introduced every year in Congress until its passage during Clinton's presidency.
"Clinton and Reno need to cooperate with, and be open to, the depositions in the civil cases being prosecuted in Texas on Waco and prove that they represent a government of the people and of the law," said a Georgia attorney. "The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm (BATF) agents in involved in Waco have not been censured. The two BATF agents who were fired have been rehired and restored at the same pay rate.
"It is just as wrong to use the bombing in Oklahoma city to cover up for the federal government's mistakes made at Waco," he added. "Thomas Jefferson said the tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of tyrants, but over the past 30 years the liberals seem to believe that any tragic murder is an excuse for new oppressive legislation."
MORE FBI POWERS?
A National Public Radio poll claims that 58 percent of Americans would support abandoning some of their liberties to be secure at home.
President Clinton is seizing upon the bombing to expand the powers of the executive branch. His proposed counter terrorist legislation would authorize the FBI to increase its surveillance of groups and individuals suspected to be linked to those plotting possible future violent acts.
The FBI would be authorized to engage in wiretapping, opening mail, examining phone, credit card and hotel bills and records and other intelligence gathering, all without obtaining a subpoena.
In the news coverage following the Oklahoma City atrocity, much conflicting information has been disseminated on the extent of the FBI's current authority.
The FBI currently has considerable power to infiltrate and investigate possible subversive groups.
According to the Washington Post, President Reagan issued rules
in 1983 which "allow the FBI to use informers and
infiltration by undercover agents before there is sufficient evidence
to warrant a full investigation.
"They also permit continued monitoring of inactive groups even though the group may pose `no immediate threat of harm,' permit collection of publicly available information on groups not under investigation, allow the FBI to conduct investigations based solely on public statements advocating crime or violence and to investigate sympathizers that knowingly help an organization under investigation."
RUMORS RUN AMUCK
Although unsubstantiated, rumors are circulating around the nation indicating possible involvement by the federal government in the bombing. A member of the unorganized militia in Ohio, J.J. Johnson, appearing on the Donahue TV show, mentioned witnesses reported hearing two separate bomb blasts, one 10 seconds after the first. This has also appeared on Seismograph records.
According to information transmitted on the Internet, demolition
experts are raising the possibility that the magnitude of damage
done to the Oklahoma City federal building points to the possibility
of a bomb planted within the structure.
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The real threat facing the FBI is not from patriot groups: It is the danger of ending up as an international pariah guilty of covert state terrorism.
In an attempt to enlarge the government's police powers, Congress, led by Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), is pushing for legislation that would open the door to more federal wiretapping, surveillance, mail tampering and covert break-ins than ever before.
Schumer, a leading spokesman for Israel and an avid gun- grabber,
advocates giving the FBI authority to conduct
"intelligence" as well as law-enforcement operations.
In private, Schumer is urging FBI Director Louis Freeh to study and use the "successful anti-terrorist tactics" of the Mossad, Israel's secret service, Justice Department sources say.
Schumer and Sen. Alphonse D'Amato (R.-N.Y.) have given Freeh manuals compiled by Mossad analysts, suggesting he `learn from them'," related Charles O. Trammer, a veteran Justice Department investigator who has now joined the staff of an interagency group on terrorism formed in the aftermath of the Oklahoma explosion.
Freeh, who owes his rapid rise in the FBI partly to the patronage of hard-core Israeli loyalists such as D'Amato and Schumer, was in no position to rebuff their meddling, sources say.
But privately, senior FBI officials are "well aware" that the CIA-which began to share tactics and covert operations with the Mossad as early as the '50s-was "dehumanized, discredited and just about destroyed" by its collaboration with Israel's espionage establishment, according to Gordon Thurlow, who served as CIA operations analyst in Vietnam and Latin America.
Manipulated by alien agents, "the CIA became known, not as a security agency, but as an outlaw instigator of state sponsored terrorist outrages," explained Alain de Segonzac, the respected French foreign affairs writer and author of a forthcoming book on America's lost world leadership.
The FBI itself was "grievously subverted" when it allowed itself to be penetrated by alien agencies such as the anti- Defamation League (ADL), a major unregistered Israeli bridgehead in Washington, warned Trammer.
"The FBI's so-called `terrorist database' was contaminated
by the ADL's fake `studies' and spy reports," revealed this
knowledgeable security expert. "And the Mossad's terrorist
strikes against Americans-such as the fire bombing of the
scholarly research facilities maintained in California by the
Institute for Historical Review (IHR) on July 4, 1984-were simply
ignored as insignificant `common crimes.'"
Worldwide, the CIA and its Israeli ally became notorious for organizing terrorist attacks, assassinations and car bombings, sometimes as punishment, sometimes as provocation, Thurlow sadly admitted.
"The U.S.government has publicly proven its capability to commit terrorist mass murders of innocent civilians and small children," concluded Thurlow. "It has cone so in Lebanon, where a CIA-Mossad hit team killed 91 bystanders with a bungled car bombing designed to assassinate a Muslim cleric-who escaped unharmed."
In fact, the United States has done it all over the world, intelligence experts and diplomatic sources say. Since 1981, deadly terrorist incidents in France, Sri Lanka, Libya, Guatemala, Germany, Iran, and most recently in Spain-have been linked to the Cia, often moving in tandem with Mossad operatives and paying its way with the money of unwitting American taxpayers.
Behind the scenes, the official explanation for such barbaric
blows is most often that they are required by Israeli
"intelligence doctrine" and anti-terrorist strategy,
a "model" for other security services to emulate.
"Now it is the FBI that is being pushed to adopt "Israeli
`intelligence doctrine' as part of the coming `broader measures'
it takes against patriotic movements right here at home,"
warned Thurlow. "Let's hope for everyone's sake, including
the FBI's own reputation, that it will find a way to resist these
pressures."
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If President Bill Clinton has his way-and it looks like he will-Congress will give the Justice Department the right to investigate people merely because of their political beliefs and associations.
Politicians are seizing the opportunity demented terrorists
dropped in their laps by blowing up a federal building in
Oklahoma City April 19.
While the country was in shock after watching hours of video of corpses being pulled from the debris after at least one massive bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building, federal officials announced the so-called Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995.
The bill, which critics contend is a massively sweeping proposal that would destroy Constitutional rights and which is either poorly thought out or designed to limit American freedoms, has received bipartisan support in Washington. It is said to be on the fast track.
White House senior advisor George Stephanopoulos told reporters Clinton wanted full funding for legislation that would make it much easier for the government to employ electronic surveillance of suspected criminal activities or "subversive groups."
Clinton has also directed FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General Janet Reno and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake to prepare a presidential decision directive aimed at stopping terrorism.
"I don't think we have to give up our liberties," Clinton said on 60 Minutes. "We do have to take more seriously threats to our liberties." He qualified this further by calling for more "discipline" among the citizenry, apparently to be enforced by a more "vigilant" law enforcement network.
In the wake of the World Trade Center bombing trial in New York, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced anti-terrorism bills aimed at inter-national terrorists in February.
The bill would speed deportation of illegal immigrants suspected of terrorism and grant the FBI broader authority to investigate and order wiretaps of persons and groups suspected of ties to foreign terrorist organizations.
Many Arab-Americans saw themselves as the targets of these proposals. The bill would prohibit fund raising activities in the United States that benefit organizations identified as terroristic and make deportation easier. Under the legislation, if a person donated money to a hospital run by the Palestinian group Hamas which has engaged in terror strikes against Israeli civilians, that person could be arrested and deported.
"It will seriously erode civil liberties," complained James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. "I think it would be terrible if the legislation passed in this atmosphere."
Until the Oklahoma city bombing, the bill wasn't thought to have a chance of passing. The day of the bombing, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) put his considerable weight behind the bill.
"Terrorists-both foreign and domestic-should have no doubt that partisanship also stops at `evil's edge,' an edge those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing have clearly stepped over," Dole said.
In addition, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told USA Today he has already drafted a bill giving the FBI authority to track international and domestic terrorists.
We must ensure that federal law enforcement officials have the tools they need-and need now," Hatch said.
In the House, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the Judiciary Committee chair, said he's ready to write the president's bill for the White House.
The bill has not been written yet. According to reports in the Establishment press, the bill:
* Creates a special fund for infiltrating suspected terrorist
groups. The FBI would head a newly established Domestic
Counterterrorism Center;
* Gives the FBI increased authority to search phone logs and hotel and motel registers, and greater access to credit card records;
* Creates a federal crime of "international terrorism committed within the United States," punishable by death of someone dies as a result of a terrorist's act;
* Expands federal wiretapping and surveillance powers;
* Permits evidence from secret sources to be used in deportation proceedings; and
* Allows the Justice Department to investigate groups and individuals based on political beliefs and associations.
If it sounds dangerous, that's because it is. The Bill seems to be only an emotional response to a tragedy perpetrated either by a deranged individual or small group, but which is being seized upon to give law enforcement and government powers they have long craved.
Still, liberals suggest, there is a direct link between voters
kicking career politicians out of Congress, the
popularity of so-called conservative talk shows, the patriotic
movement, states' rights movements and the murderous attack on
the federal building in Oklahoma City and the accompanying slaughter
of innocents.
STAGE SET
Liberal columnist Carl Rowan, for instance, blamed the bombing on the "angriest of the angry White men." The president and vice president have used similar rhetoric in recent months accusing what they call "right-wing extremists" for everything wrong in America.
Many who treasure their constitutional rights point out an emotional reaction-or a calculated one masquerading as emotional- to the tragedy in Oklahoma places the rights of all Americans at risk.
The federal government, for example, has a history of using national security considerations to justify counterintelligence programs aimed at illegally disrupting dissident groups or provoking them into acts of violence.
According to the Washington Post, tactics used in the 1960s and early '70s, during the height of leftist and communist terror attacks in the country, include illegal surveillance, blackmail and tricks such as forging hate literature that appeared to have come from suspect groups.
"We have enough examples from the past to say that when criminal evidence standards were lowered, they were replaced by standards related to a person's political association or race," said Ira Glasser, the ACLU's executive director. "We were not safer...We compounded the problem by hurting innocent people.
"The real focus has to be that every incident in the past shows you don't make yourself safer by expanding investigatory powers, you infringe the rights of others."
Law enforcement agencies "do not go after dangerous groups," Zogby said, "They go after unpopular groups."
Many could argue the FBI already has more power than it is authorized.
For example, Leon Panetta, the White House chief of staff, told Meet the Press the FBI is monitoring militia groups, and was before the bombing.
"Our law enforcement officials have been monitoring these groups and, in fact, there are investigations that are going on with regards to these groups when allegations are made, so we have been taking steps to already begin to monitor groups like that," he said.
A recently retired FBI official denied the report. He said it would be illegal for the FBI to monitor militias.
"There ought to be, before we infiltrate these groups, some evidence of wrongdoing," the official said. "But we ought to be able to take some cognizance of what these groups are saying in their publications or on the Internet."
Also, as the ADL-spying case in California proved, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are already in cahoots with illegal domestic intelligence gathering groups, such as the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
For example, San Francisco police officer Tom Gerard conspired with ADL operative Roy Bullock to spy on law abiding American citizens. This information would up in the hands of foreign governments and possibly U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Last month, a Costa Mesa, California detective, Larry Rooker, led a raid on the West coast headquarters of Liberty Lobby. The raid was based on information given to Rooker by a group that included another ADL intelligence operative.
Now is the time to contact your representatives and let them
know where you stand on this freedom robbing legislation.
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Populist ideas and ideals, espoused by patriots for years against a tide of politically correct internationalism, are suddenly "mainstream."
For 40 years, Liberty Lobby was a voice in the wilderness. Now, in less than one year, two of this populist institution's major goals have been embraced by presidential candidates and congressional leaders:
Abolishing the federal income tax and eliminating government- imposed racism in education, employment and government contracts.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), in his first major address after saying he intended to run for president, called for eliminating the income tax.
Lugar is an unlikely champion of Liberty Lobby. He is an internationalist and interventionist with a Liberty Ledger rating of 40 percent But his calling for an end to the income tax demonstrates that two generations of public education can make an issue "mainstream."
Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), top challenger to Republican front runner Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), told The SPOTLIGHT in an earlier interview that he would like to get rid of the income tax and end "IRS intrusion" into people's lives.
Gramm said then he would eliminate the deficit in his first term or not seek re-election, then move on the income tax matter.
Lugar said he would abolish the Internal Revenue Service and substitute a sales tax collected by the states. "This means for every American that the money you earn is yours," he said.
TAXES AND QUOTAS
Another presidential candidate, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Ga.) said he wants an new, simpler system and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service in favor of another type of collection.
"Affirmative action" is a term he "does not use because we're talking about quotas and set-asides," Gramm said in his SPOTLIGHT interview. As president, he would abolish them with an executive order, Gramm said.
After Gramm spoke out, Dole called for a "study" of "affirmative action." President clinton decided to "review" the issue and was pounced upon by Jesse Jackson and other far-left Democrats.
California Gov. Pete Wilson is supporting and initiative in his state that would abolish racial quotas there. It is headed for the November 1996 ballot, where it will be a drag on the Democratic ticket.
Just months ago, opposition to "affirmative action" was met with cries of "racism" and politicians dared not touch the issue. Similarly, talk of abolishing the income tax was considered "radical right" and embraced by none.
But the Washington based populist institution, publisher of
The SPOTLIGHT, was riding the wave of the future-all alone.
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Are U.S. schools so out of control that we must call in the military?
The U.S. Army, apparently with approval of President Bill Clinton, is planning its next mission after Somalia-a major invasion of U.S. high schools.
The SPOTLIGHT has learned that under a new program, called "Coalition for Goals 2000," the U.S. Army is planning a major offensive to enter American high schools in some unusual ways to ostensibly recruit students for military service.
The plan surfaced in the Pocono Mountain region of Pennsylvania. There, the Wilkes-Barre Recruiting company is based at the Tobyhanna Supply Depot.
The unit's commanding officer, Capt, Howard Blomberg, will, in coming weeks, be offering his company of recruiters as substitute teachers, tutors, chaperons assistant coaches and hall monitors.
Apparently the recruiters will serve, if wanted, as monitors in the high schools, checking student passes and making certain that the teenagers are acting properly.
PRINCIPAL'S CHOICE
"It's really dependent upon what the principal wants," Blomberg said. "If they're going to do an advanced calculus class, we should probably not get involved. If it's just proctoring a class, we can do that."
A spokesman at the Tobyhanna Depot recruiting center said the program was part of the Army's "Center of Influence" (COI) function.
The Wilkes-Barre Recruiting Company covers 18 counties in the Pocono Mountain Region.
The company falls under the command of the Harrisburg Recruiting Battalion, which covers most of Pennsylvania east of Pittsburgh.
There, the Battalion commander, Lt. Col. Thomas Gannon, told The SPOTLIGHT the new effort in the schools was "part of the `Coalition for Goals 2000' program, as approved by President Clinton."
The program he said was national in scope.
So far, in Pennsylvania, Robert Biggin, Pocono Mountain School District's assistant to the superintendent, said he could not comment on the proposal because he had not yet seen it.
He did say that the district is always looking for volunteers.
Gannon said the program would in no way replace regular school employees.
Stroudsburg High School Principle Bridget Kelly said she welcomed the program when Blomberg offered it there several weeks ago.
She said the school was going to "ask them to do some
chaperoning."
However, not everyone concerned with the education of Pennsylvania's high school students was eager to jump into the program.
Referring to the soldiers serving as monitors, Art Moeller, an East Stroudsburg school board member, said, "As long as I'm a school board member, there'll be no soldiers on guard duty in our schools."
"This is insidious," Martin Bragg, a retired officer of the Pennsylvania National Guard, said.
"I can imagine nothing as ridiculous as a liberal like
Bill Clinton, who has a record of nothing but disdain for the
military, being in favor of such a program, unless there is a
hidden agenda.
"Could it be that once they get their foot inside the school house door the next step will be using the military to police schools for drugs and guns, ripping open students' lockers in search and seizure operations?
"It's totally out of line."
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An expert on security and terrorism says the government isn't telling the truth about the bomb that devastated the building in Oklahoma City.
A very high tech and top secret barometric bomb was the cause of the explosion that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, with a loss of life that may reach and even exceed 200 persons.
That is the conclusion of an FBI veteran with 28 years of service.
Ted L. Gunderson of Santa Monica, California. He
dismisses as a cover-up U.S. Justice Department claims that a
simple bomb, concocted from fertilizer and fuel oil, was
responsible for the blast.
According to Gunderson, the bomb was an electro-hydrodynamic gaseous fuel device (barometric bomb) which could not have been built by former Persian Gulf war Army veteran Timothy McVeigh and his rural Michigan farming friends, brothers James and Terry Nichols-at least not without the aid of persons, as yet unknown. Those persons would need to possess knowledge of research classified at the very highest level of top secret by the U.S. government, in addition to access to a vast array of chemical and electronic components.
Former Army Sgt. McVeigh has been charged as being a key player in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building and the Nichols brothers stand accused of conspiring with McVeigh in the production of explosives, but not directly associated with the bombing.
McVeigh, initially charged as "John Doe No. 1" in a federal warrant, and as yet, according to the Justice Department and FBI an unknown "John Doe No. 2" the subject of a massive nation wide dragnet, are accused of delivering the bomb to the front of the federal building and igniting it.
Gunderson, in several lengthy interviews with The SPOTLIGHT, has revealed that he knows the inventors of the type of bomb that devastated the Oklahoma city building. One of whom upon learning of details of the blast, told Gunderson, "That's my bomb."
Gunderson has obtained from an expert who has knowledge of the device an abstract description, including a diagram, of the bomb described in the abstract as "top secret due to the ease in which the device can be created.
"Technically," according to the abstract, "it is considered an `A-neutronic' device, hence the designated `Q" clearance is required for information. "For the sake of security, the electronic detonation sequence shall not be described herein" to prevent the process from being copied, the abstract indicates.
From sources familiar with U.S. government classification methods, "Q" clearance is required to obtain access to, among other things, nuclear weapons components, including small-easily transportable by a single person-portable nuclear bombs.
Vastly more sophisticated than the fuel oil-fertilizer bomb now being described by federal agents as weighing up to 5,000 pounds, the A-neutronic device may have been "the size of a small pineapple," according to the abstract.
MISLEADING CLAIMS
Gunderson, who retired in 1979 from the FBI as the senior special agent in charge of the bureau's Los Angeles office, takes a dim view of FBI and Justice Department claims that the bomb responsible for the Oklahoma City blast was a concoction of fertilizer and fuel oil, delivered to the front of the building in a large rented moving van.
Federal officials started out claiming the bomb weighed 1,000 pounds, then up-scaled it to 1,400 pounds, then 4,000 pounds and now up to 5,000 pounds, with claims of the size of the delivery vehicle also being up-scaled from a delivery van to now a moving van.
"It appears the government keeps up-grading the size of the vehicle and the `fertilizer' bomb to coincide with the damage," Gunderson said.
The attention of The SPOTLIGHT was focused on Gunderson when this newspaper received a fax sent out by the high-level FBI veteran, dated April 26. Headed "To Whom It May Concern," the fax message was sent to a number of individuals and organizations, including his former employer, the FBI.
SEISMOGRAPHIC REPORT
Gunderson included with the fax a copy of a seismograph record from the Oklahoma Geological Survey located at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, about 15 miles south of Oklahoma City.
The seismograph record indicates that there were two explosions involved in the April 19 bombing, which coincides with the reports of a number of people in and around the building at the time it was devastated.
Gunderson stated in his fax message that from the seismographic record, Dr Ken Louzza at the university "advised there were two surface waves, one at 9:02 am and 13 seconds and the other at 9:02 am and 23 seconds on April 19, 1995 (10 seconds apart). He stated the chart indicates two detonations."
Despite this evidence to two distinct blasts and reports of people at the scene, the FBI and Justice Department insists there was only one explosion, a position which up until now the national media has chosen to believe and has ignored the university seismographic report.
To make certain of what he had been told, Gunderson, with years of interviewing in criminal cases under his belt, said "I wrote it down and repeated it back to him and he confirmed that was what he stated."
It is noted that the FBI, after insisting for several days after the bombing that it had occurred at 9:04 am, has now changed the official time to 9:02, which conforms to the seismographic record from the University of Oklahoma.
In any case, it was the two explosion reports that led Gunderson to rule out the fertilizer bomb and to zero in on the more sophisticated A-neutronic device.
Although the abstract provided to Gunderson is relatively technical in nature, it basically states that the bomb consists os a cylinder of just "64 ounces or more of ammonium nitrate which surrounds a shaft of Aluminum silicate that has at its center another shaft of an explosive known as PETN described to The SPOTLIGHT as a "low volume explosive."
The abstract states that when the PETN is detonated the top of the canister or tank containing the bomb "flies upwards and the bottom of the tank opens up into a flower petal shape. Immediately the ammonium nitrate mixes with the shattered micro- encapsulated aluminum silicate to create an even more devastating explosive fuel cloud This cloud is then energized with a high potential electrostatic field resulting in the creation of millions of microfronts."
The abstract further indicates that the "cold cloud ignites, creating a shock wave which surpasses the traditional effects of TNT. The most astounding effects of this type of detonation is the immediate atmospheric overpressure which has a tendency to blow out windows of any structure within the vicinity of the blast."
BUILDING VULNERABLE
In reporting on the vulnerability of the building to the explosion, the New York Times in its April 28 edition, page A27, reported as follows: "The Federal Building in Oklahoma City may also have been vulnerable because of its ground level atrium and glass facade. The problem was not with flying glass-a small hazard compared with collapsing concrete-but with the way the blast was able to penetrate the glass-easily and push up the floors at the lower levels, some experts said."
The times reported further: "Anatol Longinow, an engineer
at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, a firm Chicago that
investigates structural failures, said that when a bomb goes of
a street level, the blast `expands spherically, and it hits the
floors up instead of down,' by coming in under them.
"The floors are not intended to go up in any event,' he said, from normal, he said, the floors may break loose relatively easily and crash down in a pancake-like pile."
It is this "pancake-like pile" of the several stories of the building that has caused rescue workers and firemen so much trouble in their search for survivors and retrieval of the dead from the structure.
CONFIRMED AT HEARING
However, it was reports from a hearing on the charges faced by McVeigh held before Federal Magistrate Ronald Howland in El Reno, Oklahoma, on April 28, that the final clue to the use of the A- neutronic device in destroying the federal building was revealed. USA Today of April 28 reported on its page 3A that final clue. The paper's editors do not realize that they had inserted in their newspaper the final piece of the bomb's mosaic.
The article stated: "The decision came after hours of testimony from FBI Special Agent John Hersley, who said a shirt McVeigh was wearing when he was arrested by an Oklahoma state trooper during his alleged get-away had traces of the explosive PDTN."
(This is not a typographical error; there are two kinds of explosives with similar names associated with the bomb described by Gunderson-PETN and PDTN. PETN is used in the initial detonation which releases ammonium nitrate and aluminum silicate to mix in a cloud. PDTN is used to detonate the electrically- charged cloud. The reason PDTN is not used in both charges is because, if it were used in the first detonation, it would be of such a violent explosive nature that it would detonate the secondary charge at the same time.-ED.)
When this was passed on to Gunderson by The SPOTLIGHT and after the veteran FBI boss had consulted with an expert connected with the design of the A-neutronic device, Gunderson called this newspaper, stating:
"You just won the Super Bowl."
The explosive PDTN, Gunderson had been told, is the substance used to detonate the second explosion, which in turn detonates the electrified cloud mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum silicate, causing the major devastating blast that virtually wiped out nearly two-thirds of the federal building.
Completing the picture of the A-neutronic device even further, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, published in Little Rock, in describing the FBI's contention in its April 30 edition that the "fertilizer" bomb concoction was detonated by using explosive cord wrapped around the barrels, it stated: "The barrels wire somehow tied together with high-explosive detonator cord, a rope- like device that contains the explosive PETN, an official told the Dallas Morning News.
While it is true that the explosive PETN may be used in explosive cord, as described, it is also, according to the A- neutronic device-the release and dispersal of the ammonium nitrate and aluminum silicate combination.
There is no evidence that has surfaced, or claimed by FBI agents, that both explosive substances-PDTN and PETN-were used in their "fertilizer" bomb story.
At 5:45 pm on April 28, Gunderson received a call from the FBI office where he had faxed his memo and the material he had collected on the bomb.
"They asked me if I cared if they faxed my fax to other field offices around the country," Gunderson told The SPOTLIGHT. "It was a BS call. They just wanted to know where I am."
Gunderson, whose life has been at risk numerous times during his long career, said, quite matter-of-factly, "Of course, if anything does happen to me, it just confirms what I have uncovered."
Was a Moving van used to transport the bomb to the blast site?
"They could have delivered it in a suitcase," the
former G-man said.
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Once again this year, The SPOTLIGHT was on hand for the annual meeting of the global elitists.
Copenhagen, Denmark-The most effective way to expose the Trilateral Commission this year was to mingle at the fringe.
I arrived here on Thursday evening, April 20. Most of the advance staff would land in a stampede Friday morning and the Trilaterals would be trooping in all afternoon and evening.
But the early advance staff was putting up signs Thursday evening and the logistics were ideal: A wide-open luxury lounge was located to your right if you were a Trilateral entering the sealed-off area.
So, sit at the bar and observe the comings and goings. But one small step is crucial: Remove the suit coat and drape it casually over a stool-they can't observe that you are not one of more than 300 wearing the name tag of a member or support staff. This is not really plausible, considering Copenhagen's cool climate in April, but being fat-make that horizontally challenged-makes this writer a more likely coat-draper.
The bustling young staff invariably glances at the lone, if full, figure at the bar. They receive a nod, because Trilaterals don't yell "Hi ya. I'm wearing my Trilateral black suit."
By my first trip on Friday, I have visually identified the American staff. I pass over the Japanese staff, not only because of language problems but they are by nature and breeding subservient, not likely to vary at all from their masters' vow of silence.
By now, I have acquired some official Trilateral documents, which I hold as a credential, coat carefully draped over arm, as I approach a European staffer standing alone in the lobby, waiting to greet and escort any continental Trilateralist who may pick that moment to arrive.
"Young man Dr. David Rockefeller and Mr Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman suggested some of you on the European staff might help me understand better what takes place at this meeting," I say. (David Rockefeller has held a PhD in economics for most of this century, so the reference implies a thorough, if deferential, relationship.)
He looks at me politely, but with uncertainty in his eyes.
"A couple of others have agreed to meet with me at the restaurant across the road," I said. This was untrue, but I wanted to encourage him and ultimately, using the same line, I had "a couple of others."
"Which restaurant?" he asks.
"Come here," I said, and pointed to a huge establishment with flying flags across the road.
"I understand you chaps won't be so busy once the meeting
start," I said. "And, Of course, you are my guest for
refreshments."
We agreed to meet that same afternoon and set up more meeting for Saturday.
"Let's be discreet about this," I told each of them. "Mr. Volcker and Dr. Rockefeller are concerned about the way the Trilateral Commission is perceived in the United States and I'm trying to help. But it is a dab irregular and they would not want us to talk about it to anybody else."
All agreed.
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Internationalists want you to stop complaining about what Russia does with your tax dollars.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-The world must be patient with Russia, even if she occasionally lapses into old communist habits and keeps throwing mostly American dollars at the old Cold War enemy.
That's the thrust of the Trilaterals' "Engaging Russia" report, a "discussion draft" which was received enthusiastically by the international financiers and industrialists who enjoy immense profits in the process.
To keep the money machine well greased by the United States, the report tries to minimize America's contributions with a numbers game. It also doubted if the donations were "commensurate with the problem."
"Aid from all sources amounted in July 1994 to some $110 billion," the report said. "of this, 59 percent came from the European Union...and its members; 15 percent form the United States; 5 percent from Japan; 2 percent from Canada and 10 percent from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)."
Left unsaid was the fact that by its own figures, the European states contributed, on average less than 5 percent compared to america's 15 percent. Also left unsaid was the fact the United States is the largest contributor to the World Bank and IMF. Not mentioned either was the fact that Japan has a balanced budget and a favorable trade balance because of practices that would be denounced as "unfair" if American.
YOUR MONEY NEEDED
Still, the report worries about whether the assigned guilt will keep the American money pipeline open.
"The new Republican Congress is displaying some tendencies of both unilateralism and isolationism," it said. American authority that has always been required in the last half century for the transatlantic community to deal effectively with hard problems."
Elsewhere, it worried about "the withdrawal of the United States into petulant unilateralism/isolationism,,,or the angry disintegration of the European Union...whether, with a new Republican Congress, the United States in the next two years can avoid a major struggle between the executive and legislative branches regarding America's role in the world."
The report also said "there is to be a review in 1998 to consider the creation of a free trade agreement between Russia and the European Union. The shift in trade patterns and the new institutional links have considerable political as well as economic implications. Together, they are a powerful instrument for anchoring Russia in the democratic European mainstream."
During Trilateral discussions of the report, several members
made the point that such a European-Russian trade deal would pressure
the United States to accept the looming Transatlantic Free Trade
Area (TAFTA).
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Everyone wants to get on the constitutional bandwagon.
In what is being viewed as a major event in patriotic circles, John McManus, head of the John Birch Society (JBS), announced an apparent drastic shift for his organization.
Speaking at The New Yorker Hotel in late April, McManus said the JBS is "Getting to the point where we no longer want to be called `conservatives' we now want to be called `constitutionalists'."
The speech, entitled "Changing commands: Which Will It Be America, the United Nations or the United States?" was attended by a crowd of approximately 200 which included a unique mix of older supporters, newer recruits and members of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, whose organization owns the Hotel New Yorker where the speech was held.
McManus also claimed, in one part of his address, that exposure
of the now well-known "Would You Shoot Americans?" survey
of troops was the result of his society's efforts. The JBS president
claimed a Marine recruit questioned the survey, bringing it to
the attention of a relative who was a JBS member. Readers of The
SPOTLIGHT may have a different opinion.
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President Bill Clinton and the leadership of both political parties may be exploiting the outrage and grief of the nation in the aftermath of the tragic bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by trying to quickly push through Congress a trilogy of Orwellian legislation which threaten to curtail the civil liberties and constitutional rights of Americans.
The first bill is the Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Bill (S. 390/H.R. 896). This will authorize the U.S. military for the first time in our nation's history to counter domestic violence, and will increase surveillance on groups and individuals thought to be linked to terrorists by reducing criminal standard evidence. This could lead to witch hunts against those differing with Establishment orthodox views (see The SPOTLIGHT, May 8).
The second bill is the Exclusionary Rule Reform Act (H.R. 666), passed by the House on February 8. It would authorize area- wide warrantless searches (see The SPOTLIGHT, Feb. 20).
Critics claim it effectively guts the Forth Amendment by allowing law enforcement officials to conduct unreasonable searches and seizures of American citizens without a search warrant of there is "probable cause."
The measure is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee awaiting action.
The third bill is the communications Decency Act (S. 314) which requires the monitoring of phone lines and computer bulletin board services (BBSs).
This has been introduced by Sen. J. James Exon (D.Neb.), is cosponsored by Sen. Slade Gorton (R.-Wash.), and has been referred to the Senate Commerce Committee.
Rep Tim Johnson (D-S.S.) is the sponsor of the House counterpart H.R. 1004, which has been referred to the House Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
CYBERSPACE SPEECH SILENCED?
Historically, many freedoms of Americans have been taken from them in the name of some good, humanitarian sounding causes. The need to protect children is the card being played by this bill's proponents.
"Many critics say that on the Internet, anything should go," says Exon. "I say the framers of the Constitution never intended for the First Amendment to protect pornographers and pedophiles."
Exon said he wants to toughen penalties for people actively transmitting pornographic and "harassing" material.
Skeptics studying the bill are questioning how to assure, in a politically correct age where some speech and views are demonized and called "hate," that certain political and philosophical views will not be subject to censorship.
While the bill might do some good to curtail the "molestation of children," as the Washington Post characterized it, the bill's likely impact could be a chilling of free thought and expression.
Freedom Network News reports the bill "would place substantial criminal liability on telecommunications carriers (including traditional telephone networks, Internet service providers, commercial on-line services such as America Online and Compuserve, and independent BBSs) whenever their networks are used to transmit any material which the government deems to be `indecent' or `harassing.'
"This is clearly a heavy handed attempt to censor and
control electronic communications-particularly the Internet, which
is one of the last remaining bastions of free expression left
in
America."
This may impede cyberspace free speech and thought expressed on various forms of on-line services including e-mail, discussion lists, fax networks, CompuServe, America OnLine, Prodigy, Usenet, the World Wide Web and Gopher. Also impacted will be cable television and other emerging technologies.
FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED?
Exon's proposal is an amendment to overall telecommunications reform legislation passed by the Senate Commerce Committee on March 23.
Revised language now makes it clear innocent carriers will not be held liable for inappropriate messages, Exon claims. He says he has and will continue to work with those interested in the goals of the bill to ensure that the language is "sharp precise and within the frame work of the First Amendment."
Nothing in the measure shall preclude any state or local government from enacting and enforcing complementary oversight, liability, and regulatory systems, procedures and requirements, so long as they govern only intrastate services and od not result in the imposition of inconsistent obligations on the provision of interstate services.
Section 403 raises the fine for "obscene programming on cable television" to $100,000; Section 404 raises the fine for "broadcasting obscene language on radio" to $100,000; and Section 405 amends 2511 of title 18, U.S. Code to cover digital communication in addition to wire, oral and electronic communication.
This legislation targets the very modes of communications utilized successfully nationally by grassroots opponents to the proposed Conference of the States (COS).
COS is the latest attempt by elitist to change the Constitution through a national convocation which could resemble a constitution which could resemble a constitutional convention. The initial COS strategy meeting planned for July has been postponed.
Anti-COS patriots created a national network using computers, bulletin boards and fax networks, bypassing the mainstream media, which either ignored the issue or reported it in a biased, distorted manner, attempting to demonize COS opponents as "extremists."
Many of these citizens view Exon's bill with a wary eye.
WACO AND RUBY RIDGE HEARINGS
Although no evidence clearly connects the Oklahoma City bombing to the federal government's fiery raid on the Branch Davidians in Waco, both deathly tragedies have been extensively linked in the press.
Numerous appeals have been made for Congress to investigate and get full public disclosure on Waco and the raid by federal agents on the Ruby Ridge, Idaho home of Randy Weaver which resulted in the murder of his wife and teenage son.
Pat Choate of the Manufacturing Policy Project, concerned that congressional hearings can easily be "manipulated," suggests an independent blue ribbon panel or commission.
While press reports indicate that Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), have an interest in holding such hearings, spokesman for both say neither have such plans.
The legislator most likely to spearhead hearings on Waco is Rep. Bill Zeliff (R-N.H.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and General Justice. A staffer for the congressman says he is seriously considering the matter.
Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has also been reported as advocating hearings on both Waco and Ruby Ridge.
A spokesman in Hyde's congressional office said on May 3 that over sight hearings on Justice Department operations will most likely be held in early summer, but they will not focus exclusively on Waco or Ruby Ridge.
Some patriots believe that operations of the Justice Department's
"Nazi hunting" Office of Special Investigations, which
has persecuted John Demjanjuk and other Eastern European e'migre's,
should be included.
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Shades of the famous "missing minutes" on the Nixon Watergate tape.
A vital tape-recorded account of a key hearing in the Oklahoma City bombing case has mysteriously been found to be blank. The "accident" happened while the tape was in the custody of court officials.
The incident, which is reminiscent of the now famous 18 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes, although not receiving much more than passing attention in the national media, has the Detroit Free Press in an uproar.
The recording is of an extraordinary secret federal hearing before Magistrate Thomas Carlson in U.S. District Court in Michigan on April 22, at which James Nichols appeared to face charges related to explosives, other than the Oklahoma explosion.
Nichols and his brother, Terry, are friends of Timothy McVeigh, who is charged in Oklahoma with the April 19 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City.
The Free Press has a particular interest in the hearing since the Nichols brothers are from rural Michigan, where on a family farm, they are alleged to have "experimented" with explosives with their friend McVeigh, and because the Michigan Militia has been identified as allegedly being linked to the brothers.
SEALED BY COURT
Consequently, when a request of the U.S. attorney prosecuting the case that the audio tape of the proceedings be sealed was granted by Carlson, the newspaper's attorneys went into action to have the recording made available to their Free Press client. They won their case in court.
The trouble is, when Court Clerk David Sherwood went to get the tape recording to have it copied for the newspaper, it was discovered there was nothing on it-totally blank-leaving the public without any recording of the hearing.
Free Press attorney Herschel Fink angrily stated that the situation underscores the constitutional requirement that courts be open.
"It is this type of situation that leads to distrust of the justice system," Fink said. "This sounds like the plot line for Oliver Stone's next conspiracy movie."
Stone produced the highly acclaimed movie, JFK, detailing a conspiracy behind the assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963.
According to the U.S. Marshall's Office, the hearing was closed because "there weren't enough officers working to provide adequate security," since Nichols was being held as a material witness in the Oklahoma City bombing.
"That's a joke," said Ted L. Gunderson, a retired senior special agent once in charge of the Los Angeles office of the FBI.
NOT A PROBLEM
Gunderson stated that in any case, and in particular this case, sufficient federal agents would be available to provide adequate security, "even if they had to call them in from home."
Carlson sealed the tape April 22 and it was kept in a locked evidence vault over the weekend, according to U.S. Marshall James Douglas.
The following Monday, Sherwood took the tape to Carlson for the "official sealing order." The clerk said it was returned to his office the same day.
However, when the Free Press obtained its order for unsealing and Carlson retrieved it from the vault for copying, it was found to be blank.
The tape was in a sealed white U.S. Justice Department envelope, which had been both sealed and the flap securely taped. Sherwood said the seal was intact and there was no evidence of tampering.
Gunderson, however, said that the tape could have been erased through the envelope with a magnetic erasing device available from any electronics store.
"This is very embarrassing," Court Administrator John Mayer said. "It has happened once or twice before in the past 15 years, but never in a case of this magnitude."
ANOTHER CASE
Gunderson said similar "embarrassments: have occurred before in sensitive cases, recalling, as an example, a tape recording made of a hearing in 1990 in a civil action against the government in the famous Inslaw case, involving theft of computer technology by high government officials.
"In that one," Gunderson said, "they found blank a tape of a very sensitive proceeding involving one Michael Riconosciuto."
Gunderson indicated he was highly skeptical that the erasure of a tape of a secret, unconstitutional hearing in the Nichols case was accidental.
Gunderson said efforts to widen wiretap activities, which he
said "are probably already going on illegally," and
the opening of mail to "keep track of people's activities"
could lead to "dangerous excesses in our free society."
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The Bilderberg group will meet atop a mountain near the small town of Burgenstock, Switzerland June 8-11, The SPOTLIGHT has learned.
The site of the secret meeting of the elite among the world shadow government culminates an intensive investigation is which The SPOTLIGHT's American and European staffs collaborated closely.
It will be the first time Bilderberg has ever met in the same place twice. Bilderberg also met in Burgenstock in May of 1960.
With its timetable for world government looming-the year 2002- Bilderberg will meet for four days instead of its customary three and has gone to great length to avoid penetrations.
The site is atop a mountain accessible only by helicopter and autos that must wind around the sides in one lane. After cars reach the top, the road is reversed for those going down.
On this peak are three great resort hotels, the Grand, the Park and the Palace. Suites cost $,000 a day, although the three resorts, under a single ownership, remain exclusive. Travel agencies are unable to find them in their international source books.
Since assuming the name Bilderberg and establishing formal- rather than impulsive-meetings in May of 1954 in Oosterbeck, Holland, Bilderberg has for 41 years denied its existence and struggled to keep the fact of its meetings unknown.
The unusual step this year of returning to Burgenstock and retiring behind barricades atop an inaccessible mountain reflects even more strenuous efforts to make sure it is conducting public business behind closed doors.
Bilderberg will have its own extensive security personnel-much like that which protects the president and high officials-at Burgenstock. This will be supplemented by a large contingent of the Swiss national police and, possibly-it has happened before- military forces.
These extra and elaborate precautions were prompted by penetrations over the years by The SPOTLIGHT which resulted in coverage, too, by the less disciplined European press. A year ago, in Helsinki, Finland, SPOTLIGHT readers warned the local papers, of which they are many, and Bilderberg stories and photos appeared daily throughout the meeting.
David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger, who are on the executive committees of both the Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg, will coordinate the agendas of the two major arms of the world shadow government.
Rockefeller is the main force behind the trilaterals. He shares power with the Rothschilds of Britain and Europe in the senior and more exclusive Bilderberg group.
Katharine Graham, boss of the Washington Post, and high officials
of the New York Times and other leading journals will participate,
as usual, on their solemn promise to reveal nothing. This effectively
blacks out coverage in the Establishment press.
This much of the Bilderberg agenda has been learned by the SPOTLIGHT:
* Like their Trilateral Brethren, much anguished attention will be given to the new spirit of populism in America, which they view as a threat to world government. Today's "angry White man" is less disposed to stand by as the United States surrenders sovereignty to a global government, Bilderberg reasons.
* Continuing the flow of Western (mostly American) money to the former Soviet Union while it is nurtured into the European Union will also be a major item. The European/NATO inclusion of the former Warsaw Pact states is a critical step toward global government.
Also, immense profits are being made by the international financiers and bankers of Bilderberg by exploiting the former communist empire's natural resources and cheap land and labor.
Since the beginning, the White House has always had a close crony of the president on hand. High officials of the State, Defense and Treasury Departments will also attend, at taxpayers' expense.
Until last year, a few leaders of Congress also attended. Whether this will be politically viable this year is not yet known.
But is known that Bilderberg will make decisions that affect the lives of all Americans and most of the world. It will do this behind locked and guarded doors. Taxpayers will paw the tab for the American officials who attend and they never travel coach.
SPOTLIGHT will also attend.
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Network editors took scissors to a Trilateral Commission explanation.
I never expected CBS to give me 20 minutes-about the length of the interview-on its nightly network newscast on May 2 but I had hoped for more than one sentence:
"The conspiracy is to have a global government in which the elite will control the entire world and the unwashed multitudes will have a higher loyalty to the world government than to their own provinces such as the United States."
CBS's Anthony Mason had asked about the Trilateral Commission.
But all of that fell on the cutting room floor. This was not live, but taped in advance. Might CBS have chosen some more interesting sentences?
Mason had seemed particularly interested in the interlocking leadership of the Trilaterals and Bilderberg, which I doubt he had ever heard about. The role of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and others in both groups was explained.
The participation of the major newspapers-Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others-in both groups, on vows of secrecy, was explained. I referred Mason to Katharine Graham, boss of the Washington Post, who participates in both groups, for further information.
From the Trilaterals' own reports, I read Mason quotes in which the United States is denounced as an "individualistic" society where it is difficult to "groom the elite" for leadership roles.
While the Trilaterals seem worried about their "elite's" ability to be elected in the new mood of populism in America, I pointed out to Mason that hey have had success with their own members in the past.
Presidents Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton were
all Trilaterals and members also fill high posts in every
administration regardless of party, Mason was told.
But all of that remains on the cutting room floor.
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The U.S. immigration problem has been linked to nationalism versus internationalism.
Pat Buchanan, the America First Candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said he will refuse the Trilateral Commission's call for an international body to decide who can enter the United States.
Two years ago (SPOTLIGHT, April 12, 1993) the Trilaterals, in a confidential report, called for an "international migration regime" to be a final arbiter on decisions of who can and cannot enter a nation, including the United States.
Under that plan, someone denied entry to the United States could appeal to the international body. it would have the power to order the United States to accept the individual.
"A critical feature of such arrangements is that national decision authorities yield to international standards and scrutiny in their decision making," the Trilaterals' report said.
Asked about this at a Washington press conference on immigration, Buchanan responded:
"The United States is not going to be joining such an international body" while he is president. "Defense of the border is the duty of the U.S. government under the Constitution."
PATHETIC PERFORMANCE
President Clinton is "pathetic" but the Republican Congress can "act now" to cut "90 percent of illegal immigration in six months," Buchanan said.
He called for doubling the Border Patrol, erecting a fence along a 70-mile stretch "where 90 percent" of illegal aliens cross and using the National Guard and Army, if necessary, to stop the "invasion."
There should be a five-year "time out" for legal immigration and California's Proposition 187-which denies most welfare benefits to illegal aliens-should be adopted by all states and Congress, he said.
Congress should also remedy the effects of a Constitutional provision that all people born on U.S. soil are automatically citizens, Buchanan said.
As a result, many Mexican women cross the border just in time for the taxpayers to finance the delivery of their babies, who become instant citizens. As "relatives" of a "citizen," the parents remain and send for more relatives to feed off American taxpayers.
Because this was not the intent of the Constitution, Buchanan said he thinks it could be remedied with legislation. If necessary, the Constitution should be amended, he said.
Appearing with Buchanan were representatives of seven groups advocating strong action against illegal aliens.
Jesse Peterson, a Black activist, denounced Jesse Jackson and the NAACP and said he wants to "rebuild the Black community by rebuilding the Black man."
Blacks, he said, are concerned about "family and country"
and Americans should "close our borders and send the illegal
aliens back," he said.
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Various tests undertaken by federal investigators have proven a fertilizer bomb could not have caused the explosion that destroyed the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City on April 19.
This information, passed on to The SPOTLIGHT from a high-level member of a federal law enforcement agency involved in the bombing case, confirms the findings of Ted L. Gunderson.
Gunderson, of Santa Monica, California, a 28-year veteran of the FBI who retired in 1979 as senior special agent in charge of the bureau's Los Angeles field office, (See The SPOTLIGHT, May 15) maintains the explosion was caused by a high-tech electro- hydrodynamic gaseous fuel device.
These instruments are more commonly referred to as a barometric bomb, and considered an "A-neutronic" device which requires the highest level of government classification, known as "Q" clearance, in order for someone to obtain information regarding its construction.
Instead of being a 5,000 pound concoction of fertilizer and fuel oil, as maintained for the benefit of the public by the government, the A-neutronic device is believed to be as small as a pineapple. It could have been delivered to the blast site in something as small as a lunch bag.
According to the federal agent, who requested anonymity, the explosive substance PETN caused the primary blast. That explosion released a gaseous cloud of aqueous (liquid) ammonium nitrate and microencapsulated aluminum silicate, which caused a second explosion.
PDTN is a much faster explosive substance and was used to detonate the cloud of ammonium nitrate and aluminum silicate, causing the bomb's devastating main explosion.
Both substances, PETN and PDTN, have reportedly been found on the clothing of Timothy McVeigh, who is currently in custody and charged with multiple murders resulting from the bombing.
The agent indicated acoustic tests were conducted which conclusively proved a fertilizer bomb had not been used and that the more deadly and sophisticated A-neutronic device was the culprit.
If a fertilizer bomb, composed of a compressed mixture of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and furl oil, had been used, only 60 to 70 percent of the concoction would have detonated with the remainder being spattered about the blast site, he said. This was not the case in Oklahoma City.
TOXIC CLOUD
A cloud of toxic nitric acid would have resulted from such a bomb, he added, which would have eventually started to "etch" the concrete and metal around the blast site.
He said that due to the presence of the nitric acid, which when breathed, causes severe lung damage, it would have been necessary for rescue personnel and others at the site to wear self-contained breathing devices while working about the area, particularly immediately following the blast.
He described the bombing as an enhanced reflected wave detonation, created by a duplex, multiple charge-i.e., the bomb described by Gunderson.
He said the bomb was positioned to cause a "shear and drop effect," meant to shear off supporting pillars at the bottom of the building, causing the front to drop.
This resulted in what he described as "the debris field" to drop into the bomb's crater in front of the building.
He said the duplex charges were detonated by special triggers, which he described as "government off-the-shelf `Q' clearance triggers," which are similar to nuclear triggering devices.
This, of course, he pointed out, would make it impossible for just anyone to make such a bomb, even if they knew the technology involved, which is also, as previously indicated, protected by "Q" classification.
The federal official said the "No. 1 goal" of all federal law enforcement agencies is to set up the "rejection of firearms mentality" in society and thus the campaign to portray all militias and patriotic groups as evil terrorists.
The high-level agent said "people within the various federal agencies and the military know what's going on and there are sharp divisions as to where their loyalties rest.
"Some are good Christians and loyal to our constitutional form of government," he said, "others are not."
He warned the situation now existing in America would get worse in the months ahead, as the government presses for more restrictive laws and grabs for more power.
He explained that national security estimates undertaken during the Cold War indicate 10 million Americans could be considered leaders who would fight to protect the nation, while 60 million are "on the fence," with probably not even half of them willing to join the 10 million.
He said that nevertheless, the 10 million, considered willing
to fight to defend the nation from any tyrannical move to take
over America, is both large and significant.
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Is bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh being set up for a political assassination before he can talk at a trial?
Security being provided for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh is inadequate to guarantee his safety "to live long enough to stand trial," according to Ted L. Gunderson, a former senior special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI.
Gunderson, who served 28 years with the bureau and retired in 1979 to accept a special appointment by then-Attorney General Griffin Bell as chief of security against potential terrorist acts at the Pan-American Games that year in Puerto Rico, has stepped froward to criticize the handling of the case by federal agencies.
Gunderson, who now operates his own international security
and investigations agency in California, after a thorough probe
of the bombing has provided evidence that a highly sophisticated
barometric bomb or A-neutronic device was responsible for the
tragic April 19 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
The device is thought to be far beyond the ability of those thus far linked by the FBI to the case to produce.
Gunderson's findings were reported in an exclusive page on tory in last week's edition of The SPOTLIGHT. The story placed a serious cloud of doubt over the FBI's on-going investigation and conclusion that the blast was caused by an easily-made bomb consisting of a concoction of fertilizer and fuel oil.
The veteran investigator has now cast a critical eye at the security being provided for McVeigh, whom he claims in a mere "throwaway" or "patsy" used by those responsible for the bombing.
When McVeigh has appeared in public, since his arrest a few days after the bombing, he has been dressed in a bright fluorescent orange jump-suit and stands considerably above the heads of several short U.S. marshals who accompany him, who, unlike the accused, wear kevlar military-style helmets and bullet proof flak jackets or vests.
Gunderson describes the security thus provided as "very poor, sloppy, an open invitation for someone to kill him."
The bright orange jump-suits are used to hinder the escape of a prisoner. The standard procedure is that the prisoner is naked or wearing just undershorts beneath the jump-suit. In this Way, it the prisoner should escape he is faced with the choice of either wearing the jump-suit, which can be easily spotted, even from the air, or removing the suit and going naked or near naked and thus obviously attracting attention to himself.
ESCAPE UNLIKELY
In McVeigh's case, however, he is hand cuffed and hobbled with ankle chains, plus surrounded by the heavily armed marshals, making the likelihood of an escape virtually nil.
Gunderson was also critical of how the accused bomber is led from the van, in which he is conveyed to court appearances, a somewhat lengthy distance on foot to the court and back to the van afterwards.
He said the usual procedure is to covey the prisoner to an underground entrance to the court building or a special entrance. The van carrying the prisoner is able to park only a few steps from the door of such an entrance.
"Standard procedure is to get the accused in and out of court with as little exposure to the public as possible," Gunderson said.
Also curious about McVeigh's appearances in public is the presence of a crowd, hissing and booing and shouting threatening remarks.
Gunderson, and others with whom The SPOTLIGHT has discussed the security being provided McVeigh, question how the crowds know when to be present, why McVeigh's arrival time at a court facility is not kept secret to protect him and to prevent the gathering of menacing mobs.
A high level federal law enforcement official who has come
forth anonymously to discuss the case (see The SPOTLIGHT, May
15 and accompanying article this week) has also expressed concern
for McVeigh's safety and, like Gunderson, has stated that the
defendant is a "patsy" of those who were responsible
for placing the highly sophisticated bomb at the Oklahoma City
federal building.
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Evidence indicates there was advance knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing.
The SPOTLIGHT has learned that Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh was in close, and probably sustained long-time, contact with an agent of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith operating in McVeigh's immediate circle.
This shocking evidence suggests the ADL has had McVeigh under regular surveillance for some time.
Here's the story. On April 21 the Washington Post reported-to the surprise of The SPOTLIGHT-that in the fall of 1993 McVeigh, using an assumed name, "T. Tuttle," had taken out a classified advertisement in this newspaper.
According to the Post, the source of this information was a press release from the ADL. The ADL claimed, according to the Post, that the advertisement promoted a "rocket launcher."
In fact, the so-called "rocket launcher" was a flare gun. The advertisement also offered a pepper spray key chain.
(The Post speculated that McVeigh used the proceeds from presumed profits from sales from the advertisements to finance his acquisition of the material used to create the Oklahoma City terrorist bomb.)
Needless to say, The SPOTLIGHT was surprised to learn from the Post that McVeigh had advertised in this newspaper. When alerted to this allegation The SPOTLIGHT's advertising staff underwent a laborious and time-consuming effort to locate the advertisement and the in-house paperwork relating to the sale of the advertisement.
NO PROBLEM
Yet, somehow, the ADL had been able to dig up this obscure fact with little difficulty. The SPOTLIGHT immediately assumed that the ADL's well-heeled and highly sophisticated intelligence apparatus had all of the SPOTLIGHT's advertisements on its computer database.
However, The SPOTLIGHT has since learned from a source with close ties to the ADL that, instead, the ADL had learned of McVeigh having advertised in The SPOTLIGHT from what The SPOTLIGHT's contact described as an "inside source" in McVeigh's circle of acquaintances.
In other words, McVeigh was either associating so closely with
an ADL operative that he revealed to the ADL agent he had advertised
in The SPOTLIGHT using an alias, or associated with someone who
was in turn filling in the ADL on McVeigh's activities.
Thus, the question arises: Did the ADL, in fact, have advance
knowledge of the "something big" that McVeigh reportedly
told his sister and a number of acquaintances was about to happen?
In light of the fact that the ADL, in turn, has a long history of reporting its findings to government agencies such as the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and the CIA, not to mention the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, is it a stretch of the imagination to ask whether any of these agencies also had advance knowledge of McVeigh's activities-and his intentions?
If McVeigh is indeed responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing (and much evidence tends to implicate him), then it is the responsibility of our law enforcement agencies to come clean and investigate the ADL's connection with McVeigh.
AGENT DEPLOYED
Although the ADL masquerades as a "civil rights" organization, it has been documented time and again that the ADL has, for years, deployed agents inside a wide variety of political organizations.
What's more, the colorful Lyle Stuart, a maverick New York publisher who was himself Jewish, published a series of explosive accounts in the mid-1950s exposing how the ADL was actually financing a rag-tag "neo-Nazi" organization. it had a peculiar habit of engaging in loud public demonstrations outside synagogues in the New York City area at precisely the same time the ADL was engaging in fund-raising efforts in the Jewish community to "fight the neo-Nazi threat."
The ADL spy scandal which erupted in San Francisco in January
of 1993, following a joint FBI San Francisco Police Department
investigation of the theft of classified police and FBI
intelligence files by an ADL operative, Roy Edward Bullock, revealed
to the general public for the first time the broad scope of the
ADL's activities.
To their credit both the San Francisco Examiner and the Los
Angeles Times carried extensive reports on the ADL spy scandal,
Seven years earlier, The SPOTLIGHT first exposed ADL man Bullock
as an ADL agent provocateur, something Bullock denied hotly at
the time.
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Is there something about the Oklahoma City bombing you aren't being old?
On the trail of the conspirators behind the block buster Oklahoma bombing, the FBI has come up against a finding it does not dare acknowledge publicly: Thus far the largest single beneficiary of this disaster has turned out to be the government of Israel.
Yet, federal investigators say, even with all the nation's law enforcement resources at its disposal, the FBI will not crack this case until it confronts the fundamental question of every criminal investigation: "Cui bono.?" Who benefits?
Asking for "leakproof anonymity," intelligence analysts and diplomatic observers cited the following gains and advantages Israel has garnered from the Oklahoma tragedy.
For more than a year, Israeli lobbyists and agents, including key dual loyalist national security bureaucrats, have been pressuring President Bill Clinton to clamp a total trade embargo on Iran. The White House demurred because of strong opposition in the Departments of Defense, Commerce and even the State Department.
Regional experts in these agencies argued that any such move would cost billions in corporate revenues, tens of thousands of American jobs and inflame tensions between the U.S. and the Islamic world to the flashpoint of open warfare.
But in the aftermath of the Oklahoma blast, Clinton told a Jubilant banquet of the World Jewish Congress that Iran was a "rogue nation guilty of terrorism."
In retaliation, the president declared economic war on Iran with a draconian trade ban and a worldwide drive designed to pressure other major nations to do the same.
In another key gain, Israel saw its favorite legislative proposal gather strong new support in Congress.
The administration's omnibus anti-terrorist bill, for example, would make anyone who gave so much as $10 to a Middle Eastern charity not approved by Israel a target for federal investigation as a "supporter of terrorism" and, if not a native-born U.S. citizen subject to arrest and deportation without explanation or appeal.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) postponed, under pressure from congressional leaders, the release of a report revealing that Israel has violated every agreement and pledge it made to the U.S. in order to obtain loan guarantees worth $10 billion from the Bush administration.
Instead of financing the resettlement of a "flood" of Jewish immigrants from Russia-the purported "flood" was found to be a trickle soon after the accord was signed-the Israeli government used the money to import almost 100,000 contract workers from Thailand. An equal number of jobs and were driven from Israel and penned behind barbed wire, raising tensions in the Middle East to the boiling point.
Discredited everywhere, even among Washington intelligence analysts, for its brutal, repressive and counter-productive "counter-terrorist" tactics, the Mossad, Israel's secret service, hound itself rehabilitated when congressional leaders, spearheaded by Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) pressured FBI Director Louis Freeh to "work with the Mossad" in his investigation of the Oklahoma bombing.
Even the shadowy, deeply hidden Mossad unit tasked with conducting
covert operations in the U.S. extracted signal
advantages from the Oklahoma tragedy.
Faced with a storm of criticism after one of its operatives went on a murder and crime spree in the New York area (SPOTLIGHT, May 8), the Mossad saw most of the unfavorable public attention it feared dissipate in the wake of the Oklahoma blast.
"Americans are still lost in grief counting the tragic
losses of this catastrophe," said Dr. Jacques Botin, a UN
consultant on international terrorism. "But when the search
for conspirators turns serious, it must lead to those who are
counting their winnings. When that time comes, we may finally
get a closer look at just what Israel has been up to."
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The Clinton administration has no limits in trying
to conceal the depth of its subordination of U.S. military forces
under United Nations command and control.
This is in spite of the fact President Bill Clinton
signed last year Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD-25),
which critics claim details the part being played by U.S. military
units in the UN command structure.
The problem is that the document, for reasons known
only to the administration, was classified-and remains classified
in spite of efforts by Rep. Jim Lightfoot (R-Iowa) and others
in Congress to obtain its public release.
The simple truth is the Clinton administration will
do just about anything to conceal the depth of UN control over
U.S. military units, even to the point of lying to members of
Congress.
As an example, many SPOTLIGHT readers have written
to their representative or senators requesting information about
military vehicles, spotted virtually in every section of the United
States, that are painted white and emblazoned with the letters
"UN."
JUST `SURPLUS'
The legislators, in turn, pass their constituents'
requests for an explanation on to the Department of Defense, which
states that the UN does not own any vehicles but does lease "surplus"
U.S. military equipment from the United States.
The claim of the Pentagon about the vehicles being
just leased "surplus" does not quite coincide with an
article which recently appeared in the official newspaper of the
Army's Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
While the Pentagon will not admit it, Fort Polk serves
as the North American training center for the UN, as evidenced
by units from countries around the world being trained at the
Joint Readiness Training Center for Deployment as part of UN forces
virtually all over the globe.
In any case, in the May 5 issue of the paper, the
Guardian, described on its front page as "Published for the
community of Fort Polk, La.," (and inside listing as the
head of its editorial staff, Brig. Gen. Michael B. Sheffield,
"commander," and Maj. Jim Beinkemper, "public affairs
officer") a story appears detailing 600 members of a unit
at Fort Polk being assigned to duty in Haiti.
HAITI BOUND
The page one story is headlined: "2nd ACR to
assume control of U.S. forces in Haiti."
The lead paragraph of the story states: "About
600 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment soldiers will deploy in late
May to support the United Nations mission in Haiti."
The deployment, which the newspaper reports "could
last up to 179 days," includes the regiment's headquarters
element, along with the 1st Squadron and Medical Troop and will
replace U.S. forces who are "preparing to return to their
home stations."
Those returning troops, according to the Guardian,
are members of the 25th Infantry Division from Hawaii.
The most interesting part of the story in the newspaper,
however, is a photographic display of page three.
Beneath a photograph, the following caption appears
under the headline, "Headed for Haiti":
"More than 250 vehicles belonging to the 2nd
Armored Cavalry Regiment have been painted white and marked with
the United Nations insignia for use during the unit's upcoming
deployment to Haiti. The vehicles will be used by the regiment's
headquarters, 1st Squadron and Medical Troop when they deploy
in late May. The regimental headquarters element will assume command
and control of U.S. forces supporting the United Nations mission
in Haiti..."
Obviously, these vehicles: (1) are not U.S. military
"surplus" leased to the UN and (2) become UN vehicles
when painted white and bear the insignia of the world organization.
If not, perhaps the Pentagon would like to explain
how the average Haitian peasant, or terrorist, is supposed to
know the vehicles contain United States military personnel?
Obviously, the use of the words "support"
and "supporting" in describing the UN operation in Haiti
is stretching the truth, to say the least. It is clear, from the
appearance of the vehicles that the troops are using, that it
makes them an integral part of the UN command structure in the
troubled Caribbean nation.
Concerned SPOTLIGHT readers, who have been sent such
explanations by their congressmen of "surplus" military
vehicles being leased to the UN, might want to bring this to the
attention of those representatives, seemingly the victims themselves
of obvious deceit.
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Did two separate explosions devastate the Edward
J. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19,
1995? Does physical evidence of two blasts exist? If so, where
could investigators expect to find it?
More to the point, since the entire crime scene is
now under the complete control of federal authorities (as was
the Waco compound), will Americans ever be permitted to know of
this physical evidence? Especially if that evidence undermines
the well-oiled anti- "terrorist" propaganda campaign
now underway? Or if it derails the draconian anti-"terrorism"
legislation introduced by the Clinton administration last February?
Nevertheless, two pieces of extremely disturbing
physical evidence slipped through the federal cordon in the moments
after the despicable crime.
TWO EVENTS
Seismic data recorded by two monitoring stations
of the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) seismic recording instruments
are located at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, more than
20 miles from the blast site, and at the OmniPlex Science Center
in Oklahoma City proper, less than eight miles from the tragedy.
Records from both of these instruments document at
least two severe, ground-level shocks at the time of the terrorist
attack, shortly after 9:02 am on April 19. The seismographic records
(called seismograms) show a succession of at least two "surface
waves" at the time of the blast.
The Norman seismogram clearly shows two shocks of
equal magnitude. The "events" were 8-10 seconds apart,
starting at 9:02:13. They are preceded on the seismogram by a
high-frequency event, which could be an automobile passing near
the sensing instrument. Alternatively, seismologists say, the
high-frequency shock could be a "P" wave-the primary
shock of a very powerful explosion.
The OmniPlex seismogram depicts "events"
so violent they sent the instruments off the scale for more than
10 seconds.
Instead of two distinct shocks over about 10 seconds,
there are three "peaks" during the wild 10-second interval.
A strong shock sent the seismogram off the scale for almost 5
seconds, although at lower levels than the initial "spikes."
Today, almost a month after the attack, these seismograms
have thwarted all attempts at discovering a conventional explanation
for the two "events" (or three?) that they document.
The Norman seismogram is presently being analyzed
by teams at the OGS, Oklahoma State University, Stamford University,
the University of Texas and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In April, one senior geologist I spoke to expressed
amazement and frustration with the physical evidence generated
by his instruments and the instruments at the OmniPlex Center.
He had never seen anything like the Norman seismogram.
No known seismic "reflections" account
for the two widely separated shock waves. No distant earthquakes
in the International Earthquake Database correspond to the second
"event."
Other recording stations of the Oklahoma Geological
Survey, at Tulsa, Ludlow, and elsewhere, had not detected either
shock. So- earthquake, bomb or both-the events on the seismograms
are localized to Oklahoma City at 9:02 am, April 19.
The geologist hoped the federal investigation of
the wrecked Murrah building would yield the definitive answers
his equipment and analytical teams could not.
Instead, the feds gave the world a different type
of answer immediately after the recovery effort ended. They announced
the Murrah building was to be demolished with explosives within
a week.
A series of high-explosive charges will be placed
in close proximity to the bomb-resistant, hardened support columns
of the bomb-resistant building.
The charges will be detonated in a carefully timed
sequence to sever the remaining intact columns, causing the rest
of the structure to collapse into its foundation.
TRUTH-THE
BEST MEMORIAL
President Clinton's idea of a memorial for the 168
known victims of this tragedy is a bombproof federal building
in Oklahoma City and a police state. He means to honor the memory
of these people and their shattered families by effectively suspending
Habeas Corpus, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and large chunks
of the Bill of Rights.
Clinton has demanded that Congress pass his eagerly
awaited Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Bill (H.B. 896, S. 390), introduced
by Brooklyn Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.)
on February 10.
The bill confers broad powers to Clinton personally
to name citizens or groups as "terrorists." It earmarks
the confiscated property of these citizens to finance a high-tech
American state- security apparatus that (among other things) uses
our telephone networks to spy on us and is controlled by the Department
of Justice and FBI.
Back in February, people didn't think much of Clinton,
Schumer, Biden or their precious Counter-Terrorism bill. What
people think about them now, I couldn't possibly say.
All I know is someone attacked America on April 19
and killed 168 innocent people. What they did shook the seismographs
in Oklahoma City at least twice. In the fullness of time, outraged
Americans will discover who did this monstrous thing. Perhaps
this discovery will come sooner than we think, when we see how
it was done.
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When the Washington Post calls, you must drop
everything, answer all their questions and be deferential. Besides
invading the sanctity of your office or home they proceed to interrogate
you about anything they please; no matter what you say, they will
print what they want.
Now we at The SPOTLIGHT and Liberty Lobby have tried
to play ball with their aggressive approach in the hope that honesty
would be the best policy and that a good, clean story on The SPOTLIGHT
would some day appear in print.
Well, we have learned time and time again that honesty
does not work. And our most recent experience, in the aftermath
of the tragedy in Oklahoma City, with the press big and small
and the Post in particular has proven us right.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
We will still deal with them honestly, but on our
terms.
So when a Post reporter called us recently to quiz
us again about the Oklahoma bombing, we asked him if we could
interview Post owner Katharine Graham about her attendance at
the secret meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
That would be a great story because she actually
represented both the Post and the New York Times.
The reporter became flustered, saw no relevance in
our suggestion and wanted to pursue his own agenda and do a story
on Liberty Lobby. This Post reporter, Paul Valentine, has "reported"
on Liberty Lobby before and the stories have not been very flattering.
The Post is in good company when it comes to catering
to the internationalist Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai
B'rith by attacking the pro-American Liberty Lobby.
The Wall Street Journal, the San Diego Union Tribune,
the Rocky Mountain News, the Shreveport Times, Fort Myers News
press and Newsweek are just a random sampling of publications
that have attacked and misrepresented The SPOTLIGHT and Liberty
Lobby in recent stories focusing on the Oklahoma tragedy.
For 20 years The SPOTLIGHT has been reporting on
the secret Bilderberg meetings and for 20 years the mega media
have tried to ridicule us for doing the job they lack the integrity
to do.
Some of them have charged us with running stories
about a non- existent organization-the Bilderberg group. Others
have said that if they had known about any such meeting and had
been invited they surely would have attended and reported on it.
but because they had no invitation to come, they didn't. How's
that for professional journalism?
The truth is that the top-of-the-line media are at
the Bilderberg meetings and don't report on them. They're there
to get their marching orders.
Stories in the press are, for the most part, selective
and biased. Did the media report that FDR allowed thousands of
Americans to die at Pearl Harbor or call him a war monger or killer?
No, they see the event as a necessary entree into a needed World
War-resulting in the needless slaughter of millions.
The media rallied behind LBJ in the Vietnam debacle.
It supported George Bush in the Gulf War in which thousands perished,
especially children, and more recently our stupid interventions
into somalia and Haiti-of course, at the beck and call of Israel
in the Mideast.
MEDIA'S AGENDA
There are approved news events and non-approved news
events. The media prefer to have the public feed on a heavy diet
of the Simpson trial, silly Hollywood press agents and mindless
television sitcoms. And the real news? It go unreported.
But there is hope. The media can now take the opportunity
to make up for its reportorial negligence of years gone by. Thanks
to The SPOTLIGHT the date and location of the next Bilderberg
meeting is now known.
The western world's power brokers and their emissaries
will be meeting in Burgenstock, Switzerland June 8-11.
Yes, the delegates will be there and so will The
SPOTLIGHT. Will the hypocrites and fakers who make up the "working
press" be there?
Will the journalistic puppy dogs belonging to the
West's leading mattoids stand bold and free, or continue to grovel
at their masters' feet?
Here's how you can make the difference. Tell the
editor of your local paper to have a reporter cover the Burgenstock
meeting. Unless he is ready to admit his conspiring to keep it
secret, he should do so.
With the documentation you have on the meeting he
can't feign ignorance or duck out because of a lack of an invitation.
After all, this is the kind of a story that any good
journalist or editor would want to cover. There in Burgenstock,
as has been done over the years since 1954 at other locations,
the future of all of us will be decreed. The celebrated skirmishes
in Congress are just symptoms of what the power moguls will decide
in Burgenstock.
Tell your editor he can scoop the Post and Newsweek.
But he has to be courageous, to try to do what is right for a
change. We will be watching the Post and Newsweek for complete
coverage of that event. We hope they will cover it. But past performance
tells us otherwise.
Don't allow the conspiratorial world shadow government
to stay hiding in the dark. Turn The SPOTLIGHT on it and all its
nefarious members.
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Palm Springs, California was the site of what turned
out to be one of the most successful gatherings of patriots in
this area in recent memory.
Approximately 1,000 people assembled at the Palm
Springs Hilton Hotel on Sunday, May 7 to hear speakers discuss
issues ranging from what really happened in Oklahoma City to pending
legislation which could completely abrogate the constitution if
passed.
The "Taking Our Country Back" convention,
organized by Tom Johns and Mike Kinley, was jammed to its 800-seat
capacity, sending the overflow crowd of about 200 into a separate
meeting room where they could follow the proceeding on closed-circuit
television.
Master of ceremonies for the event was Ron Fortner,
host of a popular radio talk show on station KESQ in Palm Springs,
and musical entertainment was provided by singer/song-writer Steve
Voss, who has been blacklisted by the entertainment media because
of the "politically incorrect" tone of his songs and
ballads.
The participants had to overcome the anti-patriot
hate campaign being waged by the federal government and the Establishment
media since the bombing of the Edward J. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City on April 19.
Mark Koernke, also known as "Mark from Michigan,"
was the convention's keynote speaker.
Koernke is well known in patriot circles for his
informative video America In Peril, which documents foreign troops
and military equipment on U.S. into a UN-dominated one-world government.
SUDDEN NOTORIETY
Koernke said he considers the proposed Conference
of States(COS) to be the biggest immediate threat to our freedoms.
The constitutionalist warned the COS could turn into a constitutional
convention.
The deck would be stacked against American sovereignty
and the Constitution if such a meeting is allowed to take place,
Koernke added.
The fact President Bill Clinton has proposed doing
away with the Posse Comitatus laws is another ominous sign of
things to come, Koernke said. Ending these laws would be tantamount
to the military becoming a national police force.
Koernke stressed that the people are the solution
to the problem of ever-encroaching federal tyranny and issued
this challenge to the audience.
"At one point in time they're going to decide
you're not politically correct," he said. "You may say
the wrong thing at the wrong time or be at the wrong place at
the wrong time.
"If you want a peaceful solution, and we all
do. than forget about television and sports," Koernke added.
"Get off your dead rear ends and use your vocal chords."
He urged those in attendance and all Americans to
contact their elected representatives and demand a halt to the
police-state juggernaut.
"This period of our history is the most crucial
point since the founding of the republic. We must," Koernke
said, "act as if everything depended on us. and pray, because
it depends upon God."
He ended his remarks with the slogan that has become
well known nationally: "God bless the Republic death to the
New World Order; we shall prevail."
GOVERNMENT SET-UP?
Ted L. Gunderson, an expert on terrorism and former
FBI agent, was another major speaker (see The SPOTLIGHT, May 15
and 22).
Gunderson told the group the bombing had the earmarks
of a government "set up" a la the Kennedy assassination.
He cited high sources on the inside of the investigation
as saying "John Doe No. 2 went up with the building, and
Timothy McVeigh was a `throw away'-i.e., not meant to live."
Of McVeigh, Gunderson observed, "he acts like
a robot or someone on auto pilot." He then went on to describe
in some detail mind control experiments carried out by the U.S.
government through the military, where everything from music,
hypnosis, shock therapy and even torture are used on a subject,
who, when properly programmed, could be given a "key word"
that would trigger the action or assignment desired.
Gunderson said his sources say McVeigh was involved
in the bombing, but to what extent could not as yet be determined.
As an interesting side note, Gunderson said the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith had "leaked" information
that when arrested, McVeigh had a SPOTLIGHT prepaid calling card
on his person. (No records exist showing McVeigh purchased such
a card.- Ed.)
When asking the question "Cui bono?" (who
benefits?) it is clear, noted Gunderson, the only answer is the
government and, more specifically, those forces within and behind
the government whose agenda includes the further erosion of our
Constitution and Bill of Rights and the establishment of a police
state, all in the name of "fighting terrorism."
DANGEROUS SIGNS
Suzanne Harris of the Law Loft, a Southern California
constitutionalist think tank that reviews and follows pending
legislation, called Oklahoma City "the Reichstag fire"
of 1995, referring to the famous incident in 1933 Germany some
say led to the consolidation of centralized power in that nation.
Harris said there were signs something like the Oklahoma
City event would occur and the official "bad guys" would
be groups like citizen militias and other patriotic/constitutionalist
groups.
Concurrently, groups like the ADL and the far-left
Southern Poverty Law Center, headed by Morris Dees, started putting
out "memoranda" on the militia movement accusing them
of racism, anti- Semitism etc.
The goal of this smear campaign, Harris said, was
the introduction of legislation to suppress the constitutional
rights of groups and individuals who oppose the onward march toward
the Global Plantation.
The end goal of the New World Order elitists, Harris
stated, is an "International Court of Criminal Justice."
The immediate goal is the passage of the infamous anti-terrorism
bill, first introduced in February and gathering considerable
steam since Oklahoma City. The pending legislation is currently
being rewritten by Republicans in Congress.
Mrs. Harris called on all Americans concerned about
this legislation to contact their congressmen immediately and
demand that it be stopped dead in its tracks.
"If you never write congress again in your lifetime,
do it now," she urged.
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