The
Last Roundup
By Edgar J. Steele
2-12-3
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"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't
speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was
no one left to speak up for me."
--- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
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A little over a year ago, when the alarm bells first went
off in my head about the current federal administration, I started
joking that I longed for the day when I was merely embarrassed
by a President who couldn't keep his pants zipped. I honestly
didn't believe that Bush, Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfield and company
were evil or that ultimately they would do anything to endanger
us - from either within or without the country. I thought they
were pretty much just overzealous boy scouts.
I'm not sure whether it was Churchill or Roosevelt who said
of national politics: Nothing is as it seems. I do believe it
was Roosevelt, however, in a moment of weakness, who said that
all national and international incidents and outcomes are scripted.
I was naive. I am no longer joking about Clinton, either. Ashcroft
is evil incarnate. So are Cheney, Rumsfield and the rest of
them.
I'm still inclined to give Bush a pass, but only because I think
he lacks the mental capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness
of his conduct. In the legal field, we call it the insanity
defense. Even so, I'm one of those rare lawyers who thinks the
insanity defense should only moderate the penalty, not the conviction,
so Bush the Second goes on the docket with the rest of them,
in my book.
I saw Bill Clinton talking on TV last night and was amazed to
find myself feeling somewhat kindly toward him. You just don't
know what you have until you lose it, as they say. Yes, Clinton
was a disgrace. Yes, Clinton was a crook. But I didn't feel
my family to be threatened by him, either directly or indirectly,
as a result of his foreign policy, as I do with Bush and company.
I didn't vote for either Bush or Gore this last election. Previously,
I would have felt fine pulling the lever for Bush, like so many
others, feeling that I had selected the lesser of two evils.
The problem with doing that, of course, is that one still chooses
evil. Think about that for a moment. I suspect that most of
the people reading this right now did that very thing after
closing the curtain on the voting booth. We have only ourselves
to blame for what is now unfolding. Possibly the US Supreme
Court, too, given what they pulled regarding the Florida vote.
We all know of the danger that America faces today as a result
of the buildup of forces in and around Iraq. We all know of
Bush's failure to articulate a single defensible rationale for
attacking Iraq, too. Incredibly, many Americans seem to think
that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11.
What so many seem to be ignoring is the danger presented by
our cavalier dealings with North Korea.
We are literally on the verge of World War III, folks. It just
takes a spark from one of the many powderkegs that Bush and
company have emplaced around the world. The big difference from
the last two major wars is that this time we are going to start
it. You have heard them talking about preemptive strikes - on
both Iraq and North Korea. You have heard them talk about even
using nukes in those preemptive strikes, haven't you?
Probably doesn't matter, because we are rapidly eliminating
any options for Iraq and North Korea, so that they will feel
compelled to attack, just as we literally forced Japan to attack
us at Pearl Harbor. And that completely ignores Al Quaeda and
Osama bin Laden (Osama who?).
Even in Britain and Australia, now, the two countries that have
been our most ardent supporters concerning Iraq, there is arising
a huge cry against America's warmongering. You would be able
to hear it from the streets of America, too, if the media were
not so tightly controlled. We are walking this path alone. Well,
not counting Israel, of course, for whom all this began, in
the first place.
The Facts We literally have become the most hated nation on
the planet and that is why, when the fireworks begin, a goodly
amount of them will go off in American cities. Bush and company
are well aware of this. Obviously, they consider America's impending
casualties to be "acceptable losses."
Think of your children in that category - Bush and Ashcroft
do.
The inevitable disruption in America to be caused by those strikes
will lead to massive civil chaos and unrest. Thus, the need
for Homeland Security and the ill-named Patriot Act. Those weren't
implemented to protect us, you see, they were designed to control
us when the time comes.
Thus, the emphasis on domestic "terrorists." Seeing
one's family butchered will make a terrorist of anybody - just
ask the Palestinians.
Matt Hale
It isn't being reported in the media, but there is a roundup
taking place of those deemed most likely to lead insurrections
against the American government in a time of civil disturbance.
The most visible arrest lately has been that of Matt Hale, head
of the World Church of the Creator, taken down on what appear
to be manufactured charges of soliciting the murder of a judge
sitting on a copyright case in which his organization has been
involved (and which, incredibly enough, resulted in a judicial
order that the church's bibles be destroyed).
Hardly anybody agrees with or approves of Hale. Most dismiss
his church as being no church at all, but merely an excuse to
vent racial hatred. That is not the point. Hale vehemently disagrees
with the policies of the American government and that is the
point. Hale is being held in solitary confinement, with virtually
nobody allowed to see him and all letters to him being returned,
a la the Patriot Act. They are treating him as a domestic terrorist.
Ernst Zundel
Picked up just last week: Ernst Zundel, Canadian expatriate
who has been living in Tennessee. Zundel was central to a notable
hate speech trial in Canada, which he lost when the court ruled
that he illegally was a "Holocaust denier," because
he took issue, in writing, with many of the claims made by jews
concerning the Holocaust. It didn't matter that he proved his
points to be correct. What mattered was that he disagreed with
the Canadian government. What matters now is that he disagrees
with the American government regarding many things, though he
really watches his step. His misstep? He missed a visa hearing
of which he swears he never received notice.
Christine Greenwood
A lady named Christine Greenwood was recently arrested in Southern
California. Greenwood ran something called the Aryan Baby Drive,
which collected children's clothing for distribution for free,
solely to needy white people. Government agents found a couple
of things that probably are in your garage right now, things
they said could be used in the manufacture of a bomb. What were
they doing in her garage in the first place? Greenwood has been
openly critical of the government.
David Duke
David Duke just worked out a plea bargain whereby he does some
hard time, allegedly for embezzling contributions. The facts
literally do not hold water in his case, but he doesn't dare
go before a jury on any charge, because a conviction is as certain
as death and taxes.
Kirk Lyons
Testimony was taken last week in Spokane from a woman who claimed
she received $2,000 from a North Carolina attorney named Kirk
Lyons, in exchange for a box of secret documents, part of a
cache of such documents that she and her ex-military paramour
had amassed. Lyons is waiting for them to come for him. Lyons
is the head of the Southern Legal Resource Center, a public-interest
law firm that handles many of the Confederate flag cases that
you hear about. Lyons has been openly critical of the government.
No, of course he didn't do it. It's a setup.
A number of lesser lights have been taken into custody recently.
Eric Gliebe
Rumors abound of investigations into others who are alleged
to be racists and/or antigovernment. Eric Gliebe, new head of
the National Alliance, has heard them concerning himself and
his organization. The National Alliance has been characterized
by Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center as being
the most dangerous antigovernment organization in America today.
Dees was instrumental in taking down Richard Butler and the
Aryan Nations two years ago, and Tom Metzger before that, and
a significant chapter of the Ku Klux Klan before that. Rumor
is, had Clinton jettisoned Janet Reno after the Waco disaster,
then Dees would have taken her place as US Attorney General.
Used to be, the establishment took down one of these high-profile
politically-incorrect types every two years or so. Suddenly,
all the stops have been pulled out and they are being arrested
and locked away faster than I can keep track. Do you believe
in coincidence? I don't.
Given the current temperament of political correctness, none
of these people dare appear before a jury. Already tried and
convicted in the media before jury selection, they simply don't
stand a chance of not doing serious time on trumped-up charges.
No, I am not kidding. I have too many clients who already have
met the same fate, with whom I can prove that tragic assertion.
Aside from shutting these people up and, in some cases, destroying
their organizations altogether, the government is getting them
off the streets before things blow up. These are the people
that logically could be expected to be leading protests when
the time comes, you see.
As if that weren't enough, last week the Justice Department
took the wraps off Patriot Act II, a significant extension to
the already-draconian provisions of the Patriot Act passed last
year. I have yet to do a comprehensive analysis of this lengthy
document, but what I have seen so far is very troubling, indeed.
Patriot Act I allows the designation of an
American citizen as a domestic terrorist, a governmental designation
not subject to review by any court or, for that matter, anybody.
After that, the person can be held indefinitely, without trial
or, even, being charged. No, I am not kidding.
You haven't been paying attention if you didn't already know
that.
Now, here comes Patriot Act II, which allows
that "domestic terrorist" to be stripped of his American
citizenship and deported to another country for "further
processing" (can you say "summary execution"
or "torture," boys and girls?).
I suppose there will come a time when I will need to shut down
this modest effort at providing a look behind the curtain. It
may even come to my being arrested on some phony charge, though
I suspect they will work through a number of other people before
they get to me. For now, though, I speak up for the politically
incorrect among us who are being led away.
Now You ?
How long before they get to you, do you suppose? Of course,
you do realize, don't you, that neither I nor anybody else of
a mind to do so will be left to speak on your behalf when that
time comes?
The time has come for every single American to speak out in
protest. Trust me, this is our last chance. The American government
has become truly insane and must be stopped. It is our job to
do it. Call congresspeople.
Tell your friends and coworkers. Flood the media with letters.
March. Speak up in public meetings.
New America. An idea whose time has come.
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be
the truth." -- Morpheus
Copyright ©2003, Edgar J. Steele
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