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Feb 15, 2011

GORDON DUFF: AMERICA’S MURDERER-DIPLOMAT IN PAKISTAN, A STRANGE TALE

From VeteransTodayFebruary 14, 2011, by Gordon Duff · 

DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED

“Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrorists.”

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Americans have been told one of their diplomats is being held illegally in Pakistan after killing two terrorists.  The American government has made every imaginable effort to secure his release.  Why would America’s most powerful ally, a nation dependent on American aid to survive, a nation who has lost more troops supporting America’s wars than America herself, suffered more terror attacks and more economic disruption simply, as the news reports, hold someone repeatedly called an “innocent diplomat” hostage?
(Initial police interrogation of Raymond Davis)
Why are the people of Pakistan ready to topple their own government if American Raymond Davis is released?
This week, the young wife of one of those Davis killed, shot in the back, committed suicide.  This isn’t Egypt.  Pakistan is an American ally in the field, with a million man army, nuclear weapons and one of the best trained military forces in the world.
Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrorists.  There is no evidence of Davis and those like him be they dozens, hundreds or thousands, are actually performing any mission in either the best interests of either the United States or Pakistan.  Why are they there, who do they really work for and what are they doing?
The story of Raymond Davis is more than a single incident whose facts may never be known.  Davis, now an icon representing both the deteriorating relationship between America and Pakistan and the anger and mistrust Pakistani’s direct toward their own government, may well be innocent of any crime.  It no longer matters.  He is, in any form, in any guise, a symptom of a disease.
AMERICA NO LONGER CREDIBLE
Governments are expected to lie and America is more the “rule” than the “exception” in that category.  America’s credibility around the world was destroyed the day Colin Powell went before the United Nations with his imaginary “slam dunk” proof of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs.
"TRUTHER" BRACKEN VINDICATED AFTER ATTACKS BY PRIME MINISTER AND MEDIA
It wasn’t his personal reputation he destroyed that day, it was America’s.  Nations always lie, sometimes with good reason.  That day, lying became a national policy for the United States, lying to the world and, especially lying to the American people.  Powell hit a 10.0 on the Richter Scale of lies that day.  That day, while the molten granite and steel beneath the World Trade Center continued to cool, Powell got away with it.
Nations lie out of national interest.  Too often that interest has been economic and predatory.  Today, a powerful nation such as the United States, economically bankrupt, politically crippled and hopelessly divided, can fall victim to the influence of a globalist agenda that transcends anything previously imagined.  When this happens, and it has happened, no conspiracy theory can approach reality.
No conspiracy theory would ever go far enough.
Powell was simply following orders, told to put his personal credibility “out there,” spending that and the world’s sympathy for the 3000 dead of 9/11.  As much as elected officials and mainstream media around the world choose to ignore it, the people of the world. everywhere in the world, no longer trust America, in fact the only broad based poll ever taken showed that Australians, nearly 4 out of 5, believe the American government is fully complicit in the planning and execution of the attacks on 9/11 and, perhaps, other terror attacks as well.
Powell, in seconds, transformed what had been a reputation as the most respected and trusted man in the world to that of a liar and buffoon.  All America was soon to join him.
The “Davis incident,” two carloads of special operations mercenaries, Davis in custody, charged with two counts of murder, the second car fled the scene running down and killing a civilian in its haste, and the careless lies that America’s State Department put out, puts America on that path again.
SECRET AMERICAN GROUP BELIEVED TERROR ORGANIZATION
How does all this apply to Raymond Davis, the American currently facing two charges of murder in Pakistan? How indeed!
Why don’t people in Pakistan and around the world believe America simply “forgot” to file paperwork listing him as a diplomat?  Why would Pakistanis by the millions believe Davis, not just a killer but a terrorist as well?
What Americans aren’t being told is that Davis and his friends in the second car, the one not reported in the American press, are among hundreds infiltrated into Pakistan, not as diplomats but under the highly suspect Joint Special Operations Command tasked “quasi-publicly” with assassinating terrorist leaders.
Sold to congress in secret committee conclaves as a “vital capability” in what was then called the “Global War on Terror,” the plan was to use private contractors funded “off the books,” State Department, USAID, CIA, Defense, to do what the military, CIA and FBI could not, including funding terror groups.  Under the leadership of Vice President Dick Cheney, this secretive organization would create parallel terrorist networks around the world to undermine the credibility of what they told congress was the massive and highly organized Al Qaeda network that threatened America’s security.
What they didn’t tell congress is that Al Qaeda was, in itself, created by the United States under a similar program and had never existed.  The dozens of “web based” groups blustering about being Al Qaeda are in fact part of a non-existent front group created to provide cover for America’s bloated military industrial complex to find a replacement “enemy” now that the Soviet bloc could no longer be kept glued together.  Billions on defense could now be channeled into the private sector with intelligence gathering and special operations “outsourced” to groups with closer ties to Israel than America, new groups springing up daily, mercenaries from Peru, Chile, Ethiopia, Indonesia, unaccountable, unsupervised, “no-bid contracts,” creating a self perpetuating cycle of “false flag” terror, destabilizing drone attacks, disinformation and propaganda.
Many, not just millions of everyday citizens but military and intelligence leaders of Pakistan as well, believe the shadowy group to be involved in, not only spying but in coordinating a terror war against Pakistan.  Americans like Davis, armed, some in native garb, some carrying explosives, have been, not only observed but arrested in Pakistan.
One of the best known American assets used to fund terrorist groups, behind the front of Islamic charities was a CIA agent whose cover identity was “Tim Osman.”  We now know him to have been Osama bin Laden, killed in Afghanistan in 2001, not killed as a terrorist leader but murdered to keep him silent.  The bin Laden family had long been, not only business partners with the Bush clan but involved in intelligence and defense projects with them for decades.  There is no family on earth closer to the Bush family than the bin Ladens.
Immediately after 9/11, only two planes left the United States.  One held Israelis who needed to escape FBI questioning in case the one of the infamous “Dancing Israeli’s” were to crack under interrogation and implicate other Mossad cells.
Authorizing this flight was an act of treason.
The other plane carried the bin Ladens to safety in Saudi Arabia.  This was an act of friendship and loyalty on the part of President George W. Bush.
PAKISTAN “IN PLAY”
When Davis was arrested, two young locals reported to have been shot numerous times in the back, part of a two car convoy heading to an area known for terror bombings, in a part of Pakistan remote from any possible American interest, hundreds of miles from Karachi and America’s supply lines, hundreds of miles from the capital of Islamabad and hundreds of miles from the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) region, the people of Pakistan believed their suspicions confirmed.
They believe an American terrorist had been arrested, one complicit in the bombings that go on every day in Pakistan, bombings that the military leadership of Pakistan believes serve a globalist agenda, America, Israel, India and Britain.  Military leaders in Pakistan believe their nation, as with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, has been selected for destruction and dismemberment as part of a plan to dominate the Eurasian continent in light of the power vacuum that has existed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.  History has confirmed their greatest fears and has done so with a clarity they now dread.
Will we be finding, in the coming months, that the struggles for freedom in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Albania, Jordan, Somalia and elsewhere have been orchestrated inside a similar framework?
SPY SWAP, WILL AMERICA SACRIFICE RAYMOND DAVIS?
Few Americans are aware that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT trained microbiologist, mother of two (children kidnapped and believed dead), wife of a Boston physician, was convicted and sentenced to 87 years in prison last year.  Her crime?  She is accused, after 5 years of torture and sexual abuse which left her wheelchair bound, of trying to murder 5 Americans during an interrogation session after no other charge could be brought.  Five years of torture and there were no confessions despite attempts to show her to be a key player in Iraq’s nuclear program, long proven a Bush fairy tale.
RAPED AND TORTURED FOR FIVE YEARS, HOSTED BY THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, "BEFORE" AND "AFTER"
87 pound Aafia was shot twice by her “translator” who was decorated for this heroic act.
No one at her trail asked why a Boston resident with a doctorate from MIT who has spoken English all her life needed a translator?
"VICTIM" VALERIE PLAME, BOTH "BEFORE" AND "AFTER"
Millions of Pakistanis have demonstrated for her release.  Now, those millions are saying that the only way Raymond Davis will return to the United States is if Dr. Aafia is returned in a “swap,” much as those between America and the Soviet Union during the cold war.
This is what we know about this case.  While on a visit to Karachi with two of her children, Dr. Aafia and her children were kidnapped by a Pakistani crime organization who passed her along until she eventually ended up in the secret CIA detention facility at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.  News stories had tied her to the infamous “yellow cake” uranium story.
Valerie Plame had a movie made about her role in debunking this story.  Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is still is in prison for 87 years based on the same lies.  Her children are dead, murdered by her captors, quite probably, murdered by American agents working in Pakistan for the same company that hired Raymond Davis.
When it turned out that there was no “yellow cake” uranium in the first place, after 2 children were murdered, it was impossible to release Dr. Aafia.
OPENING A "CAN OF WORMS"
Every aspect of Dr. Aafia’s arrest and detention violated the United Nations Convention on Torture.  Admissions to these criminal acts are part of the record of her trial.  Any and all involved, not only in her torture but her trial as well face criminal prosecution under international law and may be detained at any time.
BUSH FACING ARREST FOR AAFIA AND OTHER CRIMES
As Americans learned last week, former President George W. Bush is facing and other Americans are under international travel restriction, facing criminal prosecution.  President Bush cancelled a speaking engagement in Switzerland with an Israeli nationalist organization because he faced arrest for kidnapping and torture, acts he openly admits authorizing in his recent autobiography. Spain is similarly seeking to indict Bush and others.
Article 1
For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.
One of the crimes President Bush is facing prosecution for is the kidnapping, torture and rape of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and the murder of her children, all done directly under the authority and perhaps even personal direction of the President of the United States.
Article 15
Each State Party shall ensure that any statement which is established to have been made as a result of torture shall not be invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of torture as evidence that the statement was made.
The people of Pakistan have told their government, in no uncertain terms, that if Raymond Davis is returned without an agreement to repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, they will go the same way as Egypt.
There isn’t the remotest chance that Pakistan’s military would interfere in even the slightest way with such an endeavor.

A Warning for Egyptian Revolutionaries: Courtesy of People-Power in the Philippines


By Michael Barker | February 15, 2011
Much like Mubarak, the former democratic reformer turned long serving US dictator for the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, demonstrates what can happen to even stalwart defenders of capitalism when they are opposed by their citizens en masse. Like Mubarak, Marcos previously provided a ray of hope for Western elites intent on quelling popular resistance within their own countries; after President Ronald Reagan launched his “worldwide campaign for democracy” before the British Parliament at Westminster in June 1982, he then decided to visit Marcos in the Philippines “where he announced in a public homage to the dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, that ‘the Philippines has been moulded in the image of American democracy.’” This commitment to ‘democracy’ in the Philippines was not new; the previous year vice-president George Bush “raised a toast to Marcos during his visit to Manila, declaring ‘We love your adherence to democratic principle and to the democratic process.’”[1]


Little wonder that when the US government institutionalized their commitment to democracy, it took the form an Orwellian organization called the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) — an organization that was set up by the US government to overtly carry out the ‘democracy promoting’ interventions that had formerly been undertaken covertly by the Central Intelligence Agency. Since then, the NED has assumed a pivotal position in defusing revolutionary movements all over the world, but their central role in the eventual ouster of Marcos is worth retelling, especially bearing in mind the similarity of his regime of oppression to Mubarak. Thankfully the history of the US government’s ‘democratic’ invention in the Philippines has already been analysed in William I. Robinson’s ground breaking book Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 1996); consequently this article merely aims to encapsulate some of his key points.


To begin with, there should be no doubt that the ouster of President Marcos in 1986 was due to any long-range conspiracy hatched in the White House: his removal from power was entirely due to a popular uprising. On the other hand, the US government did belatedly succeed in undermining and co-opting the revolutionary ferment that was in the air. What is clear is that throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the poor and oppressed citizens of the Philippines had been gathering political strength. This emerging power was significantly bolstered by the August 1983 assassination of the most visible leader of the elite opposition, Benigno Aquino Jr. — a murder which had the effect of ensuring that the non-Marcos elite was finally “galvanized… into active opposition.” This galvanization had the effect of drawing the middle-classes into the already popular and vocal opposition movement, and with the potential for a broad-based increasingly radicalized opposition movement developing in the Philippines, the US government became more than a little interested in intervening in the region. Elite concern in the United States was further aggrieved when in late 1984, the wife of the assassinated Benigno, Cory Aquino — who was now a serious contender for power — worked with other opposition leaders to draw up plans that “spelled out a nationalist-orientated program of social reform and development and also called for the removal of US military bases from the Philippines.”[2]


The US had always been  interested in the Philippines because of the Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force Base: military bases which were key strategic sites from which every US invasion of Asia had gone through since 1898. Concern really heightened and got greater in about 1984, because of the people’s movement, including the New People’s Army (NPA), a fighting force of over 20,000 fighters and led by the Communist Party of the Philippines.


If it wasn’t obvious before, it now became evident to US planners that a “diverse and well organized” movement was gaining momentum in the Philippines, “ranging from the NPA insurgency, to the mass, left-of-center civic movement BAYAN (New Patriotic Federation, which went by its acronym in Tagalog), which brought together millions of Philippine citizens, to numerous parties and groups of the center, center-right and right.” Noting that “[p]erhaps the weakest among the opposition were the center and conservative sectors which, as in Nicaragua and other authoritarian Third World regimes, had vacillated during many years between support for, and opposition to, the dictatorship,” ‘democracy’ aid was quickly funnelled to these needy sectors of civil society.[3]
Between 1984 and 1990, Philippine organizations received at least $9 million from the NED and other US sources. These included: the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), which mobilized the business community against Marcos; the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), a minority, conservative union federation affiliated with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and which competed with more radical and left-leaning labor organizations; Philippine “youth clubs” established under the guidance of US organizers to mobilize Philippine youth; the KABATID Philippine women’s organization (KABATID is the Tagalog acronym for Women’s Movement for the Nurturing of Democracy), also established under the guidance of US organizers; and the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL).[4]
Here one should note that Robinson’s figure of $9 million is based on publicly available NED annual reports, and as he observes, “the actual amount is probably much higher, since millions more were sent to the Philippines circuitously via such organizations as the AAFLI [Asian-American Free Labor Institute] and via the CIA and other ‘national security’ related spending, which is classified.”[5] To be sure the TUCP, which was the local affiliate of the AFL-CIO’s Asian-American Free Labor Institute, was a creation of the Marcos Dictatorship pure and simple, and its goal was to keep the labor sector under control. Indeed, after Aquino’s assassination, the US Government channelled millions of dollars to the TUCP through AAFLI as a way to help the TUCP — and the Marcos Dictatorship — survive. On the other hand, the most significant pro-worker, anti-management part of the labor movement in the Philippines was the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU-May First Movement) — which was a nationalist, militant labor center of unions built in the various regional political economies across the nation that united on a national level on May 1, 1980, in Manila. KMU specifically challenged the TUCP, and they were central to the nationalist challenge to the dictatorship.


Living in fear of the evolution of a “left-center popular alliance,” the US State Department dispatched their finest experts in conflict resolution to meet with Cory Aquino and the leader of the  right-wing opposition, Salvador “Doy” Laurel, to “convince them to run under a united ticket that would stress anti-communism and refrain from opposing US bases in the Philippines (Laurel subsequently became Aquino’s running-mate as candidate for vice-president).” Having laid the groundwork for a change of leadership, events then heated up when Marcos decided to ignore the results of the snap election held on February 7, 1986, in which  the people of the Philippines elected the Aquino/Laurel ticket to power. Contrary to US interests, Marcos’ adverse Dictatorial reaction further inflamed popular resistance, providing further fuel for the popular insurrection.[6]


The US wanted to do whatever it could to contain the growing insurrection, and an important part of the US’s ultimately successful intervention in the Philippines was to get the military onside and ready for the ‘democratic’ transition; and a key player in this regard was General Fidel Ramos, a long-time loyalist to Marcos who was acting as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). It was in this way, with a ‘little’ prodding by the United States, that in mid-1985 General Ramos came to see the futility of supporting Marcos’s crumbling regime and joined with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile in helping organize a reformer’s revolt which split the military shortly after the contested election.[7] Thus when the people subsequently rose up in defiance of Marcos to protect the military reformers and their forces in Manila, Marcos’ only choice at that time — if he had wanted to crush the military revolt — was to order the Army to slaughter the masses, and the US didn’t want that!


With few other options left on the table, the US turned all its resources to bring pressure to bear on Marcos , and they did this by dispatching “at-large ambassador Philip Habib to Manila to urge Aquino to keep her followers off the streets and to convince Marcos to step down.”[8] However, when Habib failed to make the US’s case firmly enough, Paul Laxalt, a right-wing US Senator from Nevada, called Marcos (on February 24) and told him to “cut and cut clean”; and within twenty-four hours Marcos was gone and Aquino had been sworn into office.[9] Taken together, these actions served to undermine the growing political power of the people’s power movement, as they circumscribed the need for the massive (potentially revolutionary) social protests that were in the pipeline — which were to include economic boycotts and a general strike.


Significantly, “[s]uch actions would have greatly enhanced the labor movement, with its militant base and left-wing tendencies, in both removing Marcos and in shaping the post-Marcos government and policies.” Yet one should note that there was never any question of Aquino — soon to be Time magazine women of the year — supporting labor, and particularly KMU, over the military. All the same, the big question for the US was could she re-establish social stability, and be won away from wanting to close the US military bases. Consequently after Aquino assumed power, there were several military coup efforts against her by the Marcos-inspired military,[10] in which her side eventually prevailed: Ramos and Enrile played key roles here, with Ramos becoming more important of the two over time. Both Enrile and Ramos were long time allies of the US — Ramos is a graduate of West Point — and they were able to convince her to keep the US bases. At the same time, the US government provided tons of money, and a direct address by Aquino to the US Congress to keep her on their side, which wasn’t hard: Aquino herself had gone to college in the US, and was very pro-American. She also agreed to pay debt incurred by the Dictatorship, seeing them as legitimate.


In the aftermath of the US’s ‘democratic’ intervention in the Philippines there has been a vigorous debate about the significance of the US’s role in the process. Yet as Robinson points out, “whether or not US intervention was itself the determining factor in the overthrow of Marcos obscured a much more significant issue: US intervention was decisive in shaping the contours of the anti-Marcos movement and in establishing the terms and conditions under which Philippine social and political struggles would unfold in the post-Marcos period.”[11] Moreover it is critical to observe that the post-Marcos era has not been a happy period for the majority of the Philippines’ citizens, In fact, Walden Bello and John Gershman described this new post-Marcos environment as “politically sanitized” to such an extent that “anti-elite candidates with radical political programs have been driven from the electoral arena by the threat of force — so that even intense electoral competition would not be too destabilizing.”[12] Likewise in a stark reminder of what might happen in Egypt, Philippines labor specialist Kim Scipes writes how…
… replacing Marcos with Aquino left a brutal state apparatus intact, which Aquino used to kill peasants, workers and the urban  poor. In fact, KMU leaders told me that the human rights abuses under  democrat Aquino were worse than under dictator Marcos: she couldn’t control her generals. However, whether she couldn’t control them or if she didn’t want to control them — Alfred W. McCoy in Policing America’s Empire (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) claims the  latter — the fact is that unless the brutal state apparatus is dismantled, and especially the Police and the torture agencies, the repression could be re-instituted.[13]
The Egyptian people have struck a great blow for freedom from tyranny, and have complicated US and Israeli foreign policy in the region immensely, and such external forces will want to re-establish control at very first opportunity. However, not only foreigners but remnants of the Egyptian elite want to re-establish the control they’ve long had, and will do anything they can to do so. The Egyptian people need to learn from the Philippine experience, and do all they can to keep that from happening.



[1] William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p.117, p.122.
[2] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.123, p.126.
[3] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.125. “In November 1984, a secret NSC Study Directive made the call for a concerted US intervention in the Philippines to facilitate a transition. ‘The United States has extremely important interests in the Philippines… Political and economic developments in the Philippines threaten these interests,’ stated the directive. ‘The US does not want to remove Marcos from power to destabilize the GOP [Government of the Philippines]. Rather, we are urging revitalization of democratic institutions, dismantling “crony” monopoly capitalism and allowing the economy to respond to free market forces, and restoring professional, apolitical leadership to the Philippine military to deal with the growing communist insurgency.’ ‘These efforts,’ it went on, ‘are meant to stabilize (the country] while strengthening institutions which will eventually provide for a peaceful transition.’” Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, pp.124-5.
[4] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, pp.125-6. The reactionary Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) received almost US$7 million from the National Endowment for Democracy between 1984 and 1991. (p.135) One of the reasons for such emphasis on Philippine labor was the challenge from the militant KMU and the importance of labor in national political struggles.” (p.136) For an excellent historical study of the KMU, see Kim Scipes, KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994 (New Day Publishers, 1996). Scipes is also the author of AFL-CIO’s Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Lexington Books, 2010), which provides an excellent historical overview of the interaction between the US government and the National Endowment for Democracy and organized labor. Needless to say, this labor movement imperialism is not being done through labor movement procedures, but behind the backs of members.


[5] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.403.
[6] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.127.
[7] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.128.
[8] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.127.
[9] With the ouster of Marcos, Ramos was now rewarded for his assistance by the newly elected Aquino administration who appointed him Chief of Staff of the AFP, and later Secretary of Defense. In 1992 when Cory Aquino left office, Ramos was elected president of the Philippines, a position he held until 1998. After his presidency, Ramos became a committed ‘champion for democracy’ by taking up a position as the Asia advisory board Member for the  Carlyle Group, that is, until the board was disbanded in 2004. He is presently a trustee of the ‘democracy promoting’ International Crisis Group, and is a patron of the related Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. http://www.webofdemocracy.org/foundations-anthropology-an.html
[10] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.141.
[11] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.129.
[12] Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy, p.141.
[13] Kim Scipes, Email to Author, February 12, 2011. For a must-read analysis of the post-Marcos developments in the Philippines, see Kim Scipes, “Review of the Month: Global Economic Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions, and the Philippines,”  Monthly Review, 51 (7), December 1999, pp. 1-14. http://www.monthlyreview.org/1299scip.htm

TSA Workers Admit To Stealing Huge Amounts Of Cash From Passengers

(Check your wallet every time you meet TSA goons)
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson
Prisonplanet.com - Feb 15, 2011
The revelation that TSA workers have admitted to stealing huge amounts of cash from passengers they singled out for enhanced security screening is far from an isolated incident, and underscores how armies of degenerates are being employed by the federal government to push around and dominate members of the public going about their daily business.
As reported in several mainstream media reports today, a TSA supervisor at the ironically titled Newark Liberty Airport has pleaded guilty in a federal court to multiple counts of theft, as well as admitting to taking bribes and kickbacks from another TSA worker to “look the other way”, while the agent he was supervising stole more money from travelers.
Michael Arato faces a maximum potential sentence of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for stealing up to $700 per day from passengers for eight years.
Arato also allowed another worker to steal up to $30,000 in cash from traveller’s bags over a 13-month period, pocketing a share of the ill gotten gains himself. The court heard that the pair specifically targeted foreign travelers, mostly Indian women, who could not speak English and discussed how they should not feel bad about stealing from them because they were leaving the U.S. with “our money”.
Arato was caught pocketing money on surveillance cameras last October when airport authorities began investigating complaints from passengers that their money and valuables were missing after their bags had been searched by the TSA.
In one incident, Arato allegedly took a wad of cash and “gave the middle finger to the office security camera”.
Sentencing will be passed in the case on May 24.
This is just the latest example of how TSA workers are prone to criminal behavior. It is certainly not an isolated incident.
TSA workers have also been caught stealing laptop computers, stealing luggage with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, sabotaging sensitive screening databases, and joking about planting drugs on travelers.
TSA agents are also prone to predatory crimes, particularly targeting women and children, emphasizing once again why they are attracted to jobs that allow them to sexually molest and ogle vulnerable members of society.
Aside from the hundreds of stories of exposing breasts and forcefully groping travelers, there have also been scores of these even more unsavoury cases.
“A TSA employee based at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport tried to kill himself after allegedly abducting a woman, sexually assaulting her then giving her a suicide note to deliver,” reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. last November.
49-year-old Randall Scott King kidnapped the woman after she had accompanied him from the airport. Whether or not King abused his power as a TSA officer to make the woman accompany him is still being investigated by police.
Back in March it emerged that TSA worker Sean Shanahan, who was employed at Boston Logan International Airport to pat down passengers, had been charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl.
Similarly, 57-year-old Charles Henry Bennett, who worked at Orlando International Airport as a TSA screener,was arrested in connection with the molestation of a 6-year-old girl whom he planned to make his “sex slave”.
Working in airport security seems to attract perverts, rapists and pedophiles because it gives them legitimate cover through which to exercise their deviancy. Indeed, a prank caller who pretended to be a sex pervert phoned the TSA about applying for a job and was treated seriously by a TSA staffer.
Stories about TSA officials and other airport security workers abusing the use of naked body scanners have also become commonplace.
44-year-old Rolando Negrin beat his supervisor with a police baton after he had cracked jokes about Negrin’s small manhood when he walked through a naked scanner as part of a training exercise at Miami International Airport. The story underscored the fact that authorities had been lying all along about the claim that the scanners did not show sensitive details of genitalia.
Indian film star Shahrukh Khan told a BBC talk show that naked images of his body from the scanner were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London. Heathrow denied the claim but Khan himself never retracted the story, and had no apparent motive for making it up.
Heathrow authorities were unable to deny a later example of the scanners being abused, when it emerged that a Heathrow worker had perved over a naked image of a female colleague after she passed through one of the devices, before commenting, “I love those gigantic tits”.
Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, to the police after she had entered the x-ray machine by mistake and Laker took the image before making lewd comments.
The naked scanners are being manned by people like a TSA agent who flipped out and began screaming, “I am god, I’m in charge,” shortly after he got off duty at LAX earlier this year.
In addition to the gross violation of privacy that comes with the machines, such incidents have prompted lawmakers to introduce legislation that would see misuse of body scanner images punishable by prison sentences and/or $100, 000 fines.
Airport security staff workers are among the least trustworthy people to operate these machines. Such individuals are routinely caught abusing their authority for their own ego trip or sexual perversion.
The fact that the most deviant, perverted, megalomaniacal and criminally-minded dregs of society are attracted to TSA pat down jobs tells you everything you need to know about the nature of the Transportation Security Administration and how its role has nothing to do with preventing terrorism and everything to do with ritualizing the degradation and humiliation of the American people.

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