Forget the Middle East:
North
America Harbors the World's Most Dangerous Terrorists
By
Jason Miller
4/19/06 "ICH"
--
“After the explosion itself, anyone on the edge
of the explosion (who were lucky enough to survive) would
have melted flesh and severe burns, the skin would literally
fall off the bone. Anyone who had seen the blast from such a
distance would have permanent loss of vision.”
(http://www.armageddononline.org/nuke.php)
A little perspective, please
After years of living under the perpetual
risk of the ultimate terrorist attack, most people have
become acclimated to the distinct possibility of imminent
extinction of life on Earth. Fortunately, humans tend to be
highly adaptable beings, and most are able to go on with
their daily tasks without dwelling on potential doomsday
scenarios.
In fact, people have become so desensitized to the threat of
nuclear holocaust that those who still believe American
propaganda are more terrified of religious fanatics wielding
box cutters than they are of an ICBM capable of annihilating
millions.
According to the FBI, domestic terrorism is:
“the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force
or violence by a group or individual based and operating
entirely within the United States or its territories without
foreign direction committed against persons or property to
intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population,
or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or
social objectives.”
Given the knowledge that it is the United States which
created and primarily wields the power to extinguish life on
Earth, it is not a tremendous intellectual leap to classify
the American government as the world’s most dangerous and
most powerful terrorist.
America’s own domestic law enforcement entity has defined
terrorism as “threatened use of force or violence”,
intimidation, and coercion against governments or civilian
populations for the “furtherance of political or social
objectives”.
What could be more threatening or violent than a nuclear
attack? What could be more coercive than the US imposition
of its will, culture, and ruthless economic agenda on a
global populace like a domineering father abusing his cowed
children? Employing terrorist tools of intimidation,
coercion and threats of violence, the United States
consistently sets the political and social objectives for
the rest of the world.
Remember, Iran, “All options are on the table.”
America is the Don Corleone of the world community. They
make offers you can’t refuse. “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”
delivered the Sicilian message that nations defying the
United States would find many of their innocent civilians
“sleeping with the fishes”. 200,000 dead Japanese showed the
skeptics that the Godfather meant business.
Bearing in mind that the atomic bombs deployed in Japan were
mere firecrackers relative to today’s nukes, the following
puts a grim perspective on the situation:
“A single Hiroshima-size blast in downtown Los
Angeles, according to a computer projection done several
years ago by Physicians for Social Responsibility, would
kill about 150,000 people immediately and 100,000 more from
neutron and gamma radiation. An additional 800,000 people
would be exposed to high-level radiation.”
(Seattle
Times)
Evil begets evil
Not only did the United States let the nuclear genie
out of the bottle and unleash it on humanity, through
Operation Paperclip, it provided safe haven for Nazi war
criminals. During and after World War II, the CIA altered
the records of Nazi scientists so they could enter the
United States and contribute to the evolution of America’s
nuclear weapons program.
Needing an “enemy” for its indoctrinated citizens to fear,
the United States began demonizing Communism in the 1950’s.
As they created their “bogeyman” so they could manipulate
the masses with psychological terror, America’s leaders
pushed a nation with a much weaker economy into an insane
scenario of Mutually Assured Destruction and an arms race.
By 2004, Russia’s stockpile of warheads had the combined
power of 120,000 of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima.
The combined nuclear
capacity of the United States and Russia at the height of
the nuclear arms race was enough to eradicate the Earth of
life 1,500 times over.
When is enough,
enough?
According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
in 2004 the United States had 10,000 nuclear warheads, 7,000
of which were operational. Yet existing in a realm of
thought where logic ceases to exist, America's leaders are
obsessed with “national security”. The United States
accounts for half of the world’s military expenditures to
protect 350 million of the 6.5 billion people on Earth.
With over 500 land-based ICBMs, the United States can
incinerate any region of a 4.5 billion year old planet
within a mere 35 minutes. The Minuteman III intercontinental
ballistic missiles are only one leg of America’s triad of
doom. Submarine-based Trident nuclear missiles have the
capacity to unleash Armageddon from the depths of the
Earth’s tranquil oceans. Maintaining a fleet of B-1, B-2,
and B-52 long-range bombers, the USAF can also rain nuclear
hell upon millions of unsuspecting “units of collateral
damage”.
Desperation and treachery are the
parents of US nuclear invention
Realizing that the “Nuclear Club” is rapidly
expanding, the United States is desperately seeking ways to
circumvent treaties in which they have pledged to work
toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. As they
down-sized their nuclear stock-pile in the 1990’s by
retiring ICBM’s like the Peacekeeper, America’s leadership
found ways to avoid truly surrendering its tools of terror.
The United States began diverting substantial portions of
its obscene defense budget to its Stockpile Stewardship
Program to perpetuate and expand its nuclear capacities.
Consider this 1996 statement by the Department of Energy:
"[n]ational security policies in the post-Cold
War era require that all historical capabilities of the
weapons laboratories, industrial plants, and NTS [the Nevada
Test Site] be maintained," and that "denuclearisation... is
not feasible based on current national security policy."
With the ethereal nuclear genie slipping further from its
grasp, the United States is now focusing its resources and
determined efforts toward ensuring nuclear proliferation to
those it deems deserving. Israel, the US satellite in the
Middle East, and India, a nation Uncle Sam is determined to
lure into his bed, both qualify. Iran and North Korea are
obviously not welcome at the nuclear party, whether they
apply the technology for military purposes or not.
On the domestic front, America’s bellicose government is
emphasizing the enhancement of existing nuclear weapons to
give the appearance that it is not developing new ones. For
example, the B61-11 is a modification of the B61, a
“tactical nuke” which “only” has 2/3 the power of the bomb
dropped on Hiroshima. To neutralize nations which have
developed weapons facilities deep underground, America
created the B61-11 to burrow into rock before discharging
its nuclear payload. America’s Neocons are itching to play
with their new toys in Iran.
The Pentagon claims that these “bunker busters” would pose
no threat to life outside of the underground targets.
However, Dr. Robert Nelson of Princeton University offers a
significantly differing opinion:
"No earth-burrowing missile can penetrate deep
enough into the earth to contain an explosion with a nuclear
yield even as small as 1 percent of the 15 kiloton Hiroshima
weapon. "The explosion simply blows out a massive crater of
radioactive dirt, which rains down on the local region with
an especially intense and deadly fallout."
Dr. Nelson’s analysis is substantially more seaworthy than
the stone the Pentagon tried to float when they proclaimed
earth-burrowing “mini-nukes” to be “safe”.
A Messiah complex, severely stunted emotional intelligence
and profound ignorance are the defining characteristics of
the man capable of making nuclear holocaust a reality within
minutes. In light of this, Osama bin Laden, box-cutters, and
suicide bombers don’t seem quite so formidable or worrisome.
Jason Miller is a 39 year old sociopolitical essayist
with a degree in liberal arts and an extensive
self-education (derived from an insatiable appetite for
reading). He is a member of Amnesty International and an
avid supporter of Oxfam International and Human Rights
Watch. He welcomes responses at
willpowerful@hotmail.com
or comments on his blog, Thomas Paine's Corner, at
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/.
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