Friday, April 21, 2006

Won't you come home, Reno Harnish



There's a black Mercedes rollin' through the combat zone - Bob Dylan

There aren't many small countries with greater geostrategic heft than Azerbaijan. Wedged between Russia and Iran, it's a major port of entry to the West for the region's oil and heroin, much of the latter being routed through the distribution hub of Kosovo, secured in the Balkans wars of the last decade.

Another commodity in Azerbaijan's pipeline subject to fantastic mark-up is the flesh of young women. Anar Orujov, in his report "Azerbaijani slaves of the 21st century" for the Caucasus Media Investigations Center, writes that "in our country a prostitute can make a profit from $7,000 up to $100,000 depending on the 'exploitation conditions.' No doubt that such a profitable business paves the way to spend a lot of money to 'hunt' the people, and establishment of a large mafia network which sometimes even the high-ranking officials are involved."

The composition of the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce certainly suggests another large mafia network hasn't neglected Baku. The "Honorary Council of Advisors" includes James Baker, Lloyd Bentson, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Dick Cheney (resigned after the Nov 2000 election), Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and John Sununu. Richard Perle is a Trustee, and Richard Armitage was on the Board until his State Department appointment. Turkish and Azerbaijani were Sibel Edmonds' two languages in the FBI's translation department, where she discovered the intersections of drugs, arms and oil.

So it's with some interest I read that the US State Department has today announced the recall of Ambassador Reno Harnish, former Chief of Mission, Pristina (capital of the aforementioned hub of Kosovo) and late of the American Enterprise Institute. Why, is of particular interest.

From UPI:

The Azerbaijani media is rife with speculation that Harnish is being recalled because of a burgeoning human smuggling scandal which came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Moscow newspaper Trud newspaper reported on Thursday that FBI agents began interviews with embassy officials about the smuggling of Azerbaijani prostitutes into the United States and the issuing of visas.

As the investigation proceeded, Zarifa Dzhabieva, a former translator for the American embassy was found knifed to death in her own home. Whoever killed Dzhabieva ransacked her dwelling looking for something, even though none of the victim's valuables had been touched. Dzhabieva was under investigation for aiding and abetting the issuing of visas and forged documents to girls destined for the U.S. sex trade.


Tales of prostitution, visa fraud, human trafficking and the murder of an embassy translator prompted the bizarre comment from public relations official Jonathan Henick that "The uncovering of the crime linked to the sale of Azerbaijani girls to the USA, and the punishment of the guilty parties merely shows the high level of American-Azerbaijani relations."

A translation of the Trud story, reproduced in Pravda, can be read here. Trud adds that "It is known for certain that the enlistment and transfer of young people from sunny Azerbaijan to no less sunny Florida were organized on a truly American scale and brought large profits."

Reno seems destined to land on his feet, reputation unsmudged. His next assignment appears already lined up. According to "diplomatic sources", he will find an environmental posting engaged in the "fight against bird flu."

39 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fluff news
we live in a sexually repressed society and this is another by product like rape:
The Associated Press in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, April 21, 2006. Roberts was the second exotic dancer at a Duke lacrosse team party at which another stripper claims she was raped. Two members of the team have been indicted.(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Murder:
It’s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border.

El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant maquiladora worker in Juárez. When Cecilia turns up strangled and disemboweled in the desert, Ivon is thrown into the churning chaos of abuse and murder. Even as the rapes and killings of “girls from the south” continue—their tragic stories written in desert blood—a conspiracy covers up the crimes that implicate everyone from the Maquiladora Association to the Border Patrol.

When Ivon’s younger sister gets kidnapped in Juárez, Ivon knows that it’s up to her to find her sister, whatever it takes. Despite the sharp warnings she gets from family, friends, and nervous officials, Ivon’s investigation moves her deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of silence.

From acclaimed poet and prose-writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders is a gripping thriller that ponders the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis.
What more can be said well lots.....

5:29 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like
CSC/ DynCorp

The world's premier rent-a-cop business runs the security show in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the US-Mexico border. They also run the coca crop-dusting business in Colombia, and occasional sex trafficking sorties in Bosnia. But what can you expect from a bunch of mercenaries?

CEO: Paul V. Lombardi
Military contracts 2004: $2.4 billion

note: CSC sold DynCorp in January 2005

The U.S. State Department awarded DynCorp a multimillion-dollar contract to advise the Iraqi government on setting up effective law enforcement, judicial and correctional agencies. DynCorp will arrange for up to 1,000 U.S. civilian law enforcement experts to travel to Iraq to help locals "assess threats to public order" and mentor personnel at the municipal, provincial and national levels. The company will also provide any logistical or technical support necessary for this peacekeeping project. DynCorp estimates it could recoup up to $50 million for the first year of the contract.

Already armed DynCorp employees make up the core of the police force in Bosnia. DynCorp troops protect Afghan president Hamid Karzai, while DynCorp planes and pilots fly the defoliation missions over the coca crops in Colombia. Back home in the United States Dyncorp is in charge of the border posts between the US and Mexico, many of the Pentagon's weapons-testing ranges and the entire Air Force One fleet of presidential planes and helicopters. The company also reviews security clearance applications of military and civilian personnel for the Navy.

DynCorp began in 1946 as a project of a small group of returning World War II pilots seeking to use their military contacts to make a living in the air cargo business. Named California Eastern Airways the original company was soon airlifting supplies to Asia used in the Korean War. By 2002 Dyncorp, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, was the nation's 13th largest military contractor with $2.3 billion in revenue until it merged with Computer Sciences Corporation, an El Segundo, California-based technology services company, in an acquisition worth nearly $1 billion.

The company is not short on controversy. Under the Plan Colombia contract, the company has 88 aircraft and 307 employees - 139 of them American - flying missions to eradicate coca fields in Colombia. Soldier of Fortune magazine once ran a cover story on DynCorp, proclaiming it "Colombia's Coke-Bustin' Broncos."

US Rep. Janice Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, told Wired magazine that hiring a private company to fly what amounts to combat missions is asking for trouble. DynCorp's employees have a history of behaving like cowboys," Schakowsky noted. "Is the US military privatizing its missions to avoid public controversy or to avoid embarrassment - to hide body bags from the media and shield the military from public opinion?" she asked.

Indeed a group of Ecuadoran peasants filed a class action against the company in September 2001. The suit alleges that herbicides spread by DynCorp in Colombia were drifting across the border, withering legitimate crops, causing human and livestock illness, and, in several cases, killing children. Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers intervened in the case right away telling the judge the lawsuit posed "a grave risk to US national security and foreign policy objectives."

What's more, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. International Police Force monitor filed a lawsuit in Britain in 2001 against DynCorp for firing her after she reported that Dyncorp police trainers in Bosnia were paying for prostitutes and participating in sex trafficking. Many of the Dyncorp employees were forced to resign under suspicion of illegal activity. But none were prosecuted, since they enjoy immunity from prosecution in Bosnia.

Earlier that year Ben Johnston, a DynCorp aircraft mechanic for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in Kosovo, filed a lawsuit against his employer. The suit alleged that that in the latter part of 1999 Johnson "learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts."

The suit charges that "Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased." "DynCorp is just as immoral and elite as possible, and any rule they can break they do," Johnston told Insight magazine. He charged that the company also billed the Army for unnecessary repairs and padded the payroll. "What they say in Bosnia is that DynCorp just needs a warm body -- that's the DynCorp slogan. Even if you don't do an eight-hour day, they'll sign you in for it because that's how they bill the government. It's a total fraud."

5:42 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is that the same Insight Magazine published by Rev. Moon's Washington Times?!

10:42 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent, the real world just keeps coughing up more dots that fit so well into the patterns described on these pages. 'Blogger turns seer'

10:55 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damn I love your writing Jeff. I go after many of the same type of subjects but I end up writing too long. I have to get in the habit of doing a 21st century, 1-4 minute attenion span kind of deal when it comes to my research and musings.

Now back your Harnish/Reno post. Don't you find a pattern here? We have Christopher Cox, a smarter stealther corrupt Tom DeLay type of guy who was mysteriously pulled out of his high-ranking in the Congress to chair the SEC... Which we know from 9-11 is capable of playing a HUGE role in "follow the money". Then we have the demise of Greenspan to where he was immediately made a "sir" and given a job w/ the lizards in London replaced by this Barnake guy. I don't even have to do a background on him. Just take a look at a pic...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/images/20050621-1_p45036-022jpg-515h.jpg

In any case, excellent job again.

11:58 p.m.  
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2:06 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT:

Tagging Air Force One

http://www.devilducky.com/media/44655/

3:08 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off subject, but I just found out Donald Rumsfeld co-owns a ranch in Taos, New Mexico with Dan Rather! Not sure if you covered this before, but it sure caused me a moment of head scratching.

3:15 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Legalizing prostition does not end abuse. In Holland slavers still import women from poor countries and sell them for less than the legal prostitutes.

As for America even the US government admits it occurs in the 10s of thousands. I was researching historical sexual slavery of the so called Comfort Women enslaved by the Japanese army during WWII and came across present day cases in the US. One batch of slaves in Houston Tx were smuggled from Asia. The women were kept chained to their cot. A local police officer said this showed what contempt Asians hold women in as the perps running the place were also Asian. He some how ignored that it was Americans who continued the violation and abuse of these women by paying to abuse these women. do a news search and periodically cases like this show up. A few people get a couple years in jail but nothing changes for long.

3:52 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for bringing attention to this, Jeff. This is a very important story.

5:33 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Repressed sexually society exhibits these traits Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov conducted a series of experiments on dogs. Most of us are familiar with the theory of conditioning, taught in Psychology 1001. Dogs were given food after a bell was rung. The bell, after several times, caused the dog to salivate (anticipate food), whether or not the food followed. The sound produced hunger in the dog. Two separate stimuli, applied within seconds of each other will create an involuntary response in the brain.

Many of his experiments went beyond the conditioning. He was able to produce nervous breakdowns in dogs and other animals, again, by association. The hungry animal would go for the food and he would apply painful shocks, extremely loud noises, blasts of scorching heat or other stimuli creating a survival verses fear/pain situation. This created neurosis and mental illness in the animals, in the same way ALL societys has ruined the mental health of billions by enforcing the abstinence of sexual intercourse and denying other normal and natural needs. Sexuality is equal to the life force; abstinence creates neuroticism.
That is why it everywhere.


Mexican writer's book on pedophiles exposes abuses, and puts her in peril

By S. Lynne Walker
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

April 4, 2006

CANCUN, Mexico – The moment that changed journalist Lydia Cacho's life came on a humid, moonless night in the tropical resort of Cancun.

A 19-year-old, her voice broken by sobs, repeated to Cacho what she had told police. A Cancun businessman had sexually abused her for years, she said, and her younger sister had been molested at the man's oceanfront villa, too.


LUIS J. JIMÉNEZ / Copley News Service
Journalist Lydia Cacho left a Cancun jail last month, followed by a federal agent assigned to protect her. Cacho must register often to show she has not skipped bail on libel charges.
The girl's accusations – and Cacho's response – set into motion a series of events that has exposed a tangled web of wealth and power reaching across Mexico.

The Cancun businessman, Jean Succar Kuri, has been jailed for two years in Arizona, fighting extradition to Mexico. The governor of Puebla state is being pressured to resign.

And Cacho is facing criminal libel charges that could send her to prison.

Cacho, the 42-year-old author of a book published last year about a network of pedophiles, has become as much a part of the story as the children she set out to save.

The founder of a battered women's shelter in Cancun, Cacho found herself in a harsh and unwelcome spotlight when she published allegations of rape and child pornography against Succar, 61, a Lebanese national who is a legal U.S. resident and owns three homes in Southern California.

Cacho, who studied at the Sorbonne and speaks four languages, included graphic interviews with Succar's alleged victims. Some said they met Succar when they were as young as 5 years old.

Her book, “The Demons of Eden,” also detailed a covertly filmed conversation released by Mexican law enforcement in which Succar acknowledges to one of his alleged victims that fondling little girls is his “vice.”

Cacho's work sparked a nationwide controversy and a strong denial from Succar's San Diego attorney, Charles Goldberg, who said, “There's an awful lot of evidence to indicate that the charges were fabricated, or exaggerated.”

Six of the seven alleged victims have since retracted their accusations, he said. Succar's next hearing was scheduled for today before a federal judge in Phoenix.

In December, Cacho was arrested on libel charges outside her Cancun office and driven 1,000 miles to a jail in Puebla. During the harrowing, 20-hour ride, she said, police officers tormented her by hinting of a plan to rape and kill her.

Although she was released unharmed on $7,000 bail, Cacho's experience underscores the physical and legal dangers faced by Mexican journalists.

Under Mexico's antiquated libel laws, truth is not an absolute defense because reporters must also prove they did not intend to damage the image of their subject. Conviction can result in a prison sentence.

Isabel Arvide, 54, was given a suspended one-year sentence in March and ordered to pay $19,000 in punitive damages after a judge in the northern state of Chihuahua convicted her of libeling a former Chihuahua state attorney general.

Mexico's libel law “totally limits the freedom of expression, not just of journalists, but of any Mexican citizen,” said Guillermo Cuen, a Mexico City attorney representing Cacho.
Lured to a villa
The girls told Mexican authorities that it was in Villa 1 at the Solymar condominium in Cancun's posh hotel zone where they were photographed, filmed and sexually molested.


LUIS J. JIMÉNEZ / Copley News Service
Cancun attorney Verónica Acacio held up a tabloid with a photo of a woman called Emma, an alleged victim of sexual abuse. Emma, who is now 22, has since retracted her allegations.
In statements to law enforcement and during sessions with government psychiatrists, the girls said they were lured to the seaside villa by friends, and even other children in their own families, who told stories about money and expensive gifts and a chance to glide down a sliding board into Succar's swimming pool.

Poor, uneducated and desperate for attention in the manufactured paradise of Cancun, the children said they found in the rich, glittering world of Solymar an escape from their desolate existence.

“He photographed me and he filmed me alone, and on other occasions, together with other people or with him,” one of Succar's alleged victims said in a signed statement made to Mexico's Attorney General's Office.

The girl said she was 6 when she met Succar. “I want to make it clear that these photos and these videos were taken when I was nude, having sexual relations with him or with other people.”

The girl was who 19 when first interviewed by Cacho said she met Succar, who is married and has children, when she was 13.

“He filmed me approximately seven times,” the girl, whom Cacho identified as Emma in her book, said in a signed statement made to the Attorney General's Office. “He also did it with other girls. That is to say, he took photos and filmed them completely nude.”

Based on the children's accusations, Succar was charged by authorities in the state of Quintana Roo, where Cancun is located, with child pornography and sexual abuse.

“He is accused of raping on numerous occasions three minors who went to his house to swim in the pool and watch television,” a bulletin released by the federal Attorney General's Office said. “Also, Jean Succar Kuri forced a pair of minors to have sexual relations to take their photos.”

Parade of girls
Three doors down from Villa 1, Succar's American neighbors were struck by the constant flow of young girls to his Cancun retreat.

Tom and Jean Vickers, a retired couple from New Jersey, had bought a two-story villa at Solymar in 2000.

When the Vickers arrived to spend their winters in the Caribbean, they often saw Succar and the girls splashing around in his pool.

“We noticed it from Day One,” said Jean Vickers, 73. “He had them in the swimming pool. We constantly saw young girls, children. Very seldom did we see his family here.”

It wasn't just the constant parade of girls that drew attention to Succar. It was also his announcement at an annual owners' meeting that he intended to buy the entire complex.

“That scared a lot of people and they sold their units cheaply,” said Lynette Anderson, a West Virginia businesswoman who with her husband owns nine units at Solymar and is president of the condominium's vigilance committee.


LUIS J. JIMÉNEZ / Copley News Service
Jean Succar Kuri's villa at the Solymar complex in Cancun's posh hotel zone has been vacant since his arrest in early 2004.
Succar now owns 59 of Solymar's 243 units and villas, in addition to the restaurant, reception area and poolside bar, Anderson said.

Solymar owners were once again frightened when gunfire awakened them one night in 2004. The battle erupted over ownership of three Succar villas – numbers 1, 5 and 9 – which was disputed after his arrest.

“There were probably 50 to 75 gunshots,” said Tom Vickers, 71, who was in his villa at the time. “They used our potted plants as missiles. There was blood all over our patio. This whole melee went on for 45 minutes or so.”

Tom Vickers and Anderson and other Solymar owners say they receive calls from Succar, who is in protective custody in a Florence, Ariz., prison.

“He wants to control what is going on at Solymar,” Anderson said.

Taped conversation
A smiling Succar sips a soft drink and chats with Emma, by now nearly an adult. Succar doesn't know it, but Emma is wearing a hidden microphone and law enforcement is filming nearby.

In the video, Succar talks about why he is drawn to a young girl.

“It fascinates me to do this to her: To touch her, to caress her . . . That is all I do. It is my vice,” he said. “Yes, it is a crime and yes, it is prohibited and yes, it is bad. I am not saying that I am decent and perfect. The thing is that I do not commit what we call abuse.”

Succar's lawyer, Goldberg, said the video, which contains unexplained skips and pauses, was altered to make it appear that Succar admitted sexually abusing girls.

Emma, who is now 22, has retracted her allegations.

According to Goldberg, she says “she has reviewed the video, that it has been edited, that the conversation in the video does not reflect the conversation” she had with Succar.

On Oct. 30, 2003, just days after the video was filmed, a Cancun judge issued a warrant for Succar's arrest. But Succar had already fled the country in the first-class section of a nonstop flight to Los Angeles.

Responding to the warrant, U.S. federal agents picked up Succar's trail in Downey, where he owns a $871,000 home, said Kurt Ellingson, a senior inspector for the U.S. Marshal's Service.

On Feb. 6, 2004, agents stopped a van in Chandler, Ariz., in which Succar was a passenger.

Since then, Succar has been fighting extradition, a process his attorney said could take years.

During an April 2005 hearing before U.S. Magistrate David Duncan, Goldberg presented evidence challenging the statements by Succar's alleged victims.

Goldberg, a specialist in extradition cases who has traveled to Cancun five times to interview witnesses, said he and his investigators found “a very consistent pattern of intimidation of the children, and sometimes their parents, by representatives of the Mexican prosecutor's office.”

He said the statements were signed “after each of the children had been snatched from her home and held incommunicado in a facility that was controlled by the prosecutor's office for a period of up to two months.”

New questions were raised about the credibility of the accusations after a deputy attorney general in Quintana Roo was imprisoned in another child-abuse case for illegally removing children from their homes and putting them up for adoption. The deputy attorney general, who took the children's statements in the Succar case, was released in December after serving nearly five months in jail.

The extradition proceedings have not dealt with Succar's guilt or innocence, Goldberg said. “We have no way of knowing what happened, if anything, between him and any of these girls.”

On the offensive
As Succar waits in jail, Cacho has gone on the offensive.

She filed a criminal complaint last month against Puebla Gov. Mario Marín, the state attorney general and the judge who presided over a hearing following her arrest.

She also named Kamel Nacif, 69, a Lebanese businessman who allegedly pressured the governor to have Cacho arrested. Nacif accused Cacho of libeling him in her book by linking him to Succar and the alleged sexual abuse of children.

Cacho accused her accusers of abuse of power, influence peddling, torture and attempted rape.

Puebla's attorney general admitted to reporters that there was no legal justification for detaining Cacho and transporting her across the country.

Cacho was initially accused of failing to respond to a judge's summons to appear in court on the libel charges. The state attorney general now acknowledges that the summons was never issued.

In taped phone conversations aired on national television, Nacif allegedly congratulates the governor for persecuting Cacho.

Although Nacif refers to the person on the other end of the line as “my precious Gov,” Marín has denied the voice is his.

Mexico's lower house of Congress has called for Marín to step down while authorities investigate allegations that he participated in the revenge plot against Cacho.

Marín now says will send an initiative to the state legislature proposing that a special prosecutor be named to investigate pedophiles and child abusers. Nacif will be the first target, the governor's office said.

Nacif, known as the “King of Blue Jeans” because of his empire of clothing maquiladoras in Puebla, has disappeared from public events.

Cacho has returned to running her battered women's shelter.

Over the past three months, 40,000 copies of her book have been sold, making “The Demons of Eden” the second-most-popular book in Mexico after Harry Potter. Her book is being translated into English and will be released by Random House in the United States later this year.

Whenever she leaves her house, two federal agents travel with her as bodyguards, driving her around town in an armored car. And every two weeks, she must go to a Cancun jail and register to show that she hasn't skipped bail on the libel charges.

Still, she has no regrets about writing her controversial book. She is already working on another one, about the trafficking of women and children in Mexico, which she hopes to publish next year.

“I think children should have lives free of violence. No kid deserves this.”

Then she began to weep.

“Yes,” Cacho said. “I would do it all over again.”

9:34 a.m.  
Blogger Peter M said...

the fact that this was exposed reveals not a "high level relationship," but rather the Azeri determination to keep throwing monkery wrenches into the NED coup machine and cling to a non-aligned policy. The Iranians must be working overtime trying to get these stories out right now as well. No doubt we'll start seeing stories about Persian girls on the news tabloids, with no mention of Reno Harnish to be sure.

Of course the subtext will be to associate the veil and the head-scarf with these human trafficking networks. The irony is that this ploy is itself the greatest veil of all: hiding the Cold War assistance channeled to virulent Islamists, and attempting to massage history into conveying a close link between Islamists and the KGB forefathers of so much contemporary human trafficking. Thus will the Cold War acheive but another feat of Houdini-esque daring do, right before your eyes.

9:35 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent post, as always.

Any chance you can share your opinions about what's happening in Ontario in regards to the Native protest and road blockade?

I'd like to hear a Canadian's perspective on the situation.

Sounds like Canada is becoming the 51st state quicker than Canadians would like to admit.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/04/21/1544829-cp.html

' A couple that lives on the other side of the barrier watched the drama unfold from their front porch, chatting over coffee and debating the issues with neighbours and strangers alike.

"We've been here all day and (the protesters) have done nothing wrong," said one woman who asked not to be named.

She said she was disgusted by stories she heard of police raiding the compound early Thursday morning, allegedly using Tasers and tear gas to subdue the crowd.

"I'm embarrassed to be Canadian right now," she said, and added she was horrified to hear one woman matter-of-factly ask, "Have (the police) shot them all yet?" '

9:52 a.m.  
Blogger Jeff Wells said...

Thanks for the update on Cacho. I touched on her story in this post.

9:56 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't know if you guys have seen this already but,
here's a contribution to the Juarez story:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1075952,00.html

'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls

Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where one campaigner is battling the authorities to expose the powerful men she believes to have murdered 100 women.

Sunday November 2, 2003
The Observer

Ciudad Juarez is known as 'the city of the dead girls'. In 10 years almost 400 women have been murdered in this city on the border between Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and the killings continue. Now a courageous Mexican-American journalist is alleging a group of six businessmen is behind the slaughter. Described as 'untouchables', their wealth puts them above the law. Their motive is said to be blood sport.
The border has always been violent, but organised crime exploded in 1993 when the Carrillo-Fuentes drug cartel, known as the Juarez Cartel, took control. It is the most powerful cartel in Mexico, and the most brutal, being responsible for trafficking most of Latin America's drugs into the US. In daylight, the narcos smuggle their loads across three bridges that link Juarez with El Paso. Law enforcers on either side have the choice, according to one former trafficker, of being 'very rich, or very dead'.

Cartel members live in garish mansions in the Golden Zone of Juarez, a far cry from the shanties where most of the city's two million residents subsist. The narcos pay millions of dollars in bribes to stay above the law and Juarez has become one of the money-laundering capitals of the world. Narco money has built 'legitimate' businesses and made Juarez the fourth-largest city in Mexico. The rise of the cartel coincided with the feminicido, the female murders. The first victim was Angelica Luna Villalobos; her body was dumped in the Alta Vista neighbourhood in 1993.

Since then, 370 women have been killed. Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime. But more than a third of the women were raped before death. Most victims are tortured and mutilated. Sometimes the killer leaves a signature; a breast or a nipple is sliced off. The bodies are then dumped in wasteland.

The average age of the victims is 16; all were poor. Their deaths, says Amnesty International, 'have no political cost to the authorities'. Many suspects are in custody, but the killings go on.

Human rights organisations accuse the authorities of incompetence, and there have been allegations of torture used to obtain false confessions. Women are frightened to go out, day or night, reminded of danger by the pink crosses marking places where bodies were found.

Only prostitutes come out at night - to cater to the Americans from an army base in El Paso. Prostitutes can earn $100 a day compared to the $30-$60 weekly wage of a factory worker. 'This is a dangerous job,' said Sandrita, 19, 'but it's safer than working in a maquila (factory). Most of the girls who disappear have worked in the maquilas. At least we get protection from the police.'

Hundreds of factories - often internationally owned sweatshops - have drawn tens of thousands of women here from all over Mexico to seek work. The police have often blamed the girls for the abductions, accusing them of behaving sluttishly. Public pressure forced the maquila bosses to provide buses to ferry the girls home safely.

A mother of one of the victims took The Observer to a cross that marked where her 17-year-old daughter's body was dumped. The girl disappeared after leaving work to catch a bus home. Like other victims, she had been gang-raped and strangled. Her left breast had been severed and her body, covered in bite marks, was badly beaten.

Diana Washington Valdez has investigated the murders for five years for the El Paso Times. Courageous in the mould of Veronica Guerin, the investigative journalist murdered in Ireland, she has gone on the record about the killers' identities. In doing so, she knows she is putting her life on the line.

In her book, Harvest of Women, to be published next year, Washington exposes the seedy underworld of Juarez's narco-traffickers. 'The girls are carefully screened,' she says. 'They're always a safe bet. Disposable women. They are watched in advance for suitability - young and poor.'

Washington's accusations are based on her research and on leaks from the FBI and Mexican investigators.

'Mexican federal authorities have conducted investigations, which reveal who the killers are,' she claims. 'Five men from Juarez and one from Tijuana who get together and kill women in what can only be described as blood sport. Some of those involved are prominent men with important political connections - untouchables.'

The chosen victims are so young, explains Washington, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. Underlings supply new victims: 'They capture the girls and bring them to their masters.'

Washington alleges at least 100 women have been killed by these men, of whom all but one are multi-millionaires. They have political connections going all the way to President Vicente Fox, and some have allegedly made contributions to Fox's presidential campaign. They have ties to the Juarez Cartel, and have used their drug wealth to build respectable businesses.

In March, the FBI passed a report to the Mexican authorities detailing locations in Juarez where the abducted girls are brought to. The FBI believes the Mexicans did not act on the intelligence, even though it revealed plans to capture another four girls.

Sickened that the authorities did nothing to prevent further murders, Washington campaigned to expose the killers. She does not believe they will be arrested.

'It sounds crazy,' said psychologist Dr Stanley Krippner, who teaches in Cuidad Juarez, at the Institution of Medical and Advanced Behavioural Technology. He attributes the murderers' behaviour to a mix of male bonding and wild fantasies.

'It is one aspect of men in power,' he said, 'especially in a developing country. They know they can get away with outrageous behaviour because they are more powerful than the police and the government.'

Manuel Esparza, spokesman for the women's sexual homicide department, said: 'We don't have information that links our cases to organised criminals, to the drug cartels.' He says if there was evidence of who was committing the murders they would be arrested. But Amnesty International's report, which Esparza admitted he hadn't read, said his unit had undermined the credibility of the justice system.

Now the feminicido seems to be spreading. In the neighbouring city of Chihuahua, at least 16 young women have disappeared over two years in a seemingly copycat pattern. Eight have turned up dead.

- 'The City of the Lost Girls', filmed and directed by Rodrigo Vazquez - was winner of the 2003 Rory Peck award for features.

1:17 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Relevant:

Globalization and the Sex Trade : Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children

http://sisyphe.org/imprimer.php3?id_article=965

9:24 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SORRY! Here is the proper link:

Globalization and the Sex Trade : Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children

http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=965%20%20-

9:26 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another great post, Jeff -- and vitally important in the bigger picture of PTB privelege and their continuing frauds and abuses.

Like the organized, state-subsidized crimes of human trafficing, sexual and child-abuse, kidnapping and murder, the Northern Mexico femicide is an utterly horrible symptom of our modern society -- in which the most noble principles of human dignity and rights, and respect for life and law have been subverted by scheming, power-mad tyrants and their willing sycophants.

The Mexican Soidarity Network is working to solve the Mexian border-region crimes, to fully punish those responsible, to increase public awareness and help protect the women working there by enlisting practical solutions.


http://political.detritus.net/vid/juarez.html
View this 5-minute piece that summarizes the situation in Juarez and Chihuahua City, where approximately 400 young women have been murdered with virtually no action taken by the police or government. This video was produced by Steev Hise, who traveled on the West Coast leg of the International Caravan for Justice in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua in October and November, 2004. This is a study in preparation for a longer, complete documentary about this situation.

*****
For more info:
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/Juarez%20and%20Chihuahua/index.html
Femicides of Juarez and Chihuahua

--quote--
For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women, the site of over 400 unsolved femicides. Despite the horrific nature of these crimes, authorities at all levels exhibit indifference, and there is strong evidence that some officials may be involved. Impunity and corruption has permitted the criminals, whoever they are, to continue committing these acts, knowing there will be no consequences.

A significant number of victims work in the maquiladora sector - sweatshops that produce for export with 90% destined for the United States. The maquiladoras employ mainly young women at poverty level wages. In combination with lax environmental regulations and low tariffs under the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the maquiladoras are amassing tremendous wealth. Yet despite the crime wave, they offer almost no protection for their workers. High profile government campaigns such as Ponte Vista (Be Aware), a self defense program, and supplying women with whistles have been ineffective and are carried out mainly for public relations purposes.

Small advances in the struggle for justice are due to the perseverance of victims' families who cannot be silenced despite the efforts of state and federal authorities to keep them quiet. Campaigns by local, national and international non-governmental organizations are also important. Often grassroots groups work in a climate of threats and defamation by government officials for making one simple demand - STOP THE FEMICIDE!

We invite organizations and individuals to unite forces around the following objectives:
· Pressure the Mexican government to end crimes against women in the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua, and to punish those responsible.
· Demand punishment of public authorities responsible for the impunity.
· Create consciousness in the United States and Mexico that the crimes against women in the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua are a bi-national problem.
· Demand that maquiladora owners assume responsibility for the safety of their workers by providing safe transportation, street lights and increased security measures.
· In the US, promote the Sense of the Congress Resolutions of Representative Hilda Solis and Senator Jeff Bingaman that condemn the femicide.
· In Mexico, demand that the Fox administration intervene in the investigations and clean up local corruption and impunity.
· Promote the creation of a bi-national committee to address gender violence.
--snip--

Starman

1:23 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fascism is a male domination cult.

Evolution has made the male gender the designated killer and military intelligence analysts intentionally excaberate this latent potential violence to induce predictable behaviors which then lead to control and profit systems.

This black art of bringing the out the worst in people used to be ascribed to an entity called 'The Devil.'

Thus the poetic truth of calling those now in power 'Satanists.'

The quote that V for Vengeance (horribly appropriate handle from a movie intended to inflame) posted was cogent-

'It sounds crazy,' said psychologist Dr Stanley Krippner, who teaches in Cuidad Juarez, at the Institution of Medical and Advanced Behavioural Technology. He attributes the murderers' behaviour to a mix of male bonding and wild fantasies.

'It is one aspect of men in power,' he said, 'especially in a developing country. They know they can get away with outrageous behaviour because they are more powerful than the police and the government.'

1:09 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Moira Anderson; child abuse; senior public figures; Dunblane

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2006/04/moira-anderson-child-abuse-senior.html

4:14 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a recent article in Time magazine about trafficking in women in Iraq has this intriguing quote:

A visit to the Khadamiyah Women's Prison in the northern part of Baghdad immediately produces several tales of abduction and abandonment. A stunning 18-year-old nicknamed Amna, her black hair pulled back in a ponytail, says she was taken from an orphanage by an armed gang just after the U.S. invasion and sent to brothels in Samarra, al-Qaim on the border with Syria, and Mosul in the north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186558,00.html

5:43 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What truly amazes me, in the light of this and other excellent posts by Mr Wells, is that anyone who dares suggest that the people who rule us cant possibly be true human beings is described as someone stretching conspiracy theory to untenable extremes !

7:22 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jeff,

OT, but I recalled your post about the possible "aiming" of Katrina when I blogged this... ahem... probably-disconnected series of events involving what may be the largest storm ever recorded bearing down on Australia.

10:24 p.m.  
Blogger Peter M said...

Human Trafficking=reality
Lizard Overlords=dubious

11:44 p.m.  
Blogger ericswan said...

George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, And Aleister Crowley
By Joseph Cannon

Few people understand that one of the most notorious individuals in British history may have contributed to the lineage of our current president. Aleister Crowley, a.k.a., "The Great Beast 666" -- the infamous practitioner of "sex magick" whose motto was "Do What Thou Wilt" -- came to know a great many remarkable people, including the maternal grandmother of George W. Bush. "Know," in this case, may be taken in the Biblical sense. Evidence points to the disturbing possibility that he was the true father of Barbara Bush, the former First Lady and mother to George W. Bush.

The story may seem difficult to believe at first, until one learns more about the social inter-relations that tied together these unlikely parties. Specifically, we must focus on a fascinating woman named Pauline Pierce, born Pauline Robinson -- whose third child was named Barbara.

Most sources divulge little about this woman. We learn more about her husband Marvin Pierce, the president of the McCall Corporation, which published McCall's magazine and Redbook. He married Pauline, a beautiful young socialite, in 1919. Their first child, Martha, was born the next year; the second, James, was born in 1921. At this time, Aleister Crowley inhabited what must have seemed a very different world, as he embarked upon the great communal experiment of the Abbey of Thelema in Italy.

Pauline, however, had a hidden side -- what we might call (without intending any judgment or insult) a wild side. We get a whiff of it from this Wikipedia entry:

W magazine once described her as "beautiful, fabulous, critical, and meddling" and "a former beauty from Ohio with extravagant tastes"...

Rumors that Pauline had an affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower have never been verified... Still, gossip tabloids from the '40s often associated her with prominent men in politics and film.

I have not yet been able to acquire independent confirmation of the Eisenhower liaison, although I personally see no reason to doubt that it existed. However, we may well have reason to believe that she began her "experimental" period before the 1940s.

A sixth-level initiate within the OTO (the Ordo Templi Orientis, the mystical society that Crowely came to head in the 1920s) first set me down this research path by revealing that Pauline Robinson had befriended an woman named Nellie O'Hara, an American adventuress who, at some point during her European travels, met the famed writer Frank Harris. Despite his advancing years, Harris still maintained a reputation for sexual excess that rivaled Crowley's. During this period (1919-1927), Nellie and Frank Harris lived as man and wife, although they could not actually wed because Harris' second wife was still alive and would not grant a divorce.

Harris and Crowley were good friends. Not only that: At this time, and not for the last time, Crowley was very much the proverbial "friend in need."

During the Abbey period, a Crowley follower had accidentally died during a magickal ceremony. The incident created a firestorm of unwanted publicity (the sensationalist British press labeled Crowley "The Wickedest Man in the World"), which prompted Mussolini's government to expel Crowley and his followers from Italian soil. By 1924, he lived in poverty in France, where Frank Harris kindly took him under his roof. This arrangement inevitably brought Crowley into contact with Nellie. Crowley's diaries, to which I have been given access, clearly indicate that he depended on Harris for financial assistance:

January 3rd 1924 - "No luck about cash yet: but F.H. promises 500 fr to-morrow - so that I can bolt to Paris. One step onward to the Establishment of the Law of Thelema.

The money soon ran out, and AC (as his associates called him) soon had to ask his friend for further assistance. At this time, Harris was writing his multi-volume "erotic autobiography," My Life and Loves; he also purchased a newspaper, The Evening Telegram. But he lacked the resources and management skills to make the enterprise a success, and soon found himself in a financial position no better than Crowley's.

Despite his parlous economic circumstances, Crowley focused his attention on sex magick. Not many years previously, he and a follower named Jeanne Foster (a.k.a. Soror Hilarion) had conducted a sex-magickal rite designed to give birth to a child destined to carry on Crowley's work. I have not been able to determine whether he conducted similar experiments with Nellie, although given the polyamorous proclivities of all the parties involved, one should not discount the possibility.

Nellie's friend Pauline no doubt scandalized her social circle by traveling to France on her own and leaving two very young children in the care of nursemaids. However, her correspondence with her friend -- whose life in France with a famous literary figure must have seemed quite glamorous -- can only have inspired a sense of wanderlust. Her husband, increasingly bound to his duties with the McCall Corporation, did not share this spirit of adventure.

Thus it was that four individuals came together: Frank Harris, Nellie O'Hara, Pauline Pierce, and Aleister Crowley. Anyone who has studied Crowley's life will understand that what happened next was, in a sense, inevitable.

Crowley's diaries for this period record the initials "PVN," a cryptic reference to his favorite sexual position, which some of his partners found distasteful. (The letters derive from the Latin for "By way of the Infernal Entrance.") This is a common annotation in the records of Crowley's magical practices. We also find the strange initials "ECL." After researching the matter for some time, I have come to the conclusion that this is a reference to the practice known as "Eroto-Comotose Lucidity."

Before proceeding, I should emphasize that the year 1924 has a special significance in the Crowley chrnology. At this time, he is said to have undergone the "supreme ordeal" connected with his attainment of the Grade of Ipsissimus, the highest magickal achievement within his order. The exact nature of this ordeal remains mysterious. I believe that an important clue can be found in his description of the rite of Eroto-Comotose Lucidity:

The Candidate is made ready for the Ordeal by general athletic training, and by feasting. On the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen and experienced attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him sexually by every known means (b) to rouse him sexually by every known means. Every device and artifice of the courtesan is to be employed, and every stimulant known to the physician. Nor should the attendants reck of danger, but hunt down ruthlessly their appointed prey.

Finally the Candidate will into a sleep of utter exhaustion, resembling coma, and it is now that delicacy and skill must be exquisite. Let him be roused from this sleep by stimulation of a definitely and exclusively sexual type. Yet if convenient, music wisely regulated will assist.

The attendants will watch with assiduity for signs of waking; and the moment these occur, all stimulation must cease instantly, and the Candidate be allowed to fall again into sleep; but no sooner has this happened than the former practice is resumed. This alteration is to continue indefinitely until the Candidate is in a state which is neither sleep nor waking, and in which his Spirit, set free by perfect exhaustion of the body, and yet prevented from entering the City of Sleep, communes with the Most High and the Most Holy Lord God of its being, maker of heaven and earth.

The Ordeal terminates by failure---the occurence of sleep invincible--- or by success, in which ultimate waking is followed by a final performance of the sexual act. The Initiate may then be allowed to sleep, or the practice may be renewed and persisted in until death ends all. The most favourable death is that occurring during the orgasm, and is called Mors Justi.

As it is written: Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my last end be like his!

If he did undergo this "ordeal" in 1924, then we must presume that his key associates of that time -- including Nellie and Pauline -- functioned as his assistants.

Pauline returned to America in early October of 1924. On June 8, 1925, she gave birth to a girl named Barbara. Barbara Pierce married George H.W. Bush, who eventually became the 41st President of the United States.

But who was Barbara's father? The chronology indicates that it could have been Crowley, but it could just as easily have been Marvin Pierce. The truth regarding Crowlean sexual rituals is disclosed only to the highest initiates of the OTO, in a document misleadingly titled "Emblems and Modes of Use."

Is Aleister Crowley the father of Barbara Bush? Even she may not know for certain; indeed, I have no way of knowing whether she has ever been told that this possibility exists. However, more than one person has noted the resemblance -- and this resemblance is not just physical. Many will recall the former First Lady's haughty and thoughtless remarks in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster. Those "in the know" were reminded of Aleister Crowley's similar reaction to the loss of life which occurred during the ascent of Kangchanjunga, an expedition he commanded: "This is precisely the sort of thing with which I have no sympathy whatsoever."

I leave the matter for the reader to decide.
(c) 2006 Cannon Fire

12:45 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Distorted and perverse attitudes towards human sexuality are only symptoms of an altogether more distorted and perverse attitude towards both what it is to be human and human nature itself.

It's a gross exaggeration to attribute any of these disturbing aberrations simply to repressed sexuality or societal hang-ups as if they had some genuine impact on their causes. Those are merely excuses, not valid reasons.

Billions of ordinary individuals everywhere lead perfectly normal, healthy and yes, "celibate" lives each and every day.

Whether that's by choice or circumstances hardly enters into the equation. It is a fundamental reality and pre-condition of everyone's existence at one time or another as are the finest human aspirations and inspirations directed towards it's successful resolution.

Now none of what we call "normal" humans are so overwhemed simply by the physicality of their situations to use brute force or seek out clandestine, criminal or occult practices as some desperate means to relieve them.

The vast majority of people know perfectly well that what's missing in their lives isn't sex, it's love and a mutual relationship that strives for fullfillment on every possible level.

That one singular and unique possibility to fully and truly be and become who they really know they can be, if they can but find it.

That "ideal" situation in which to become the "ideal selves" that they long to be, as can only be seen and reflected in the eyes of someone who already recognises it in them and cannot help but love them for it, and just as important to be as honestly open in both heart and mind themselves to be able to recognise and love that in return...

The psychological and emotional drive towards that most human of all human needs for love and understanding is not only far more powerfull than any mere physical longings, it's the very source of them.

Too often in these conversations all the quite remarkable and beautifull human qualities that these counterfeits debase and abuse go by the boards without any mention.

As if their larger truth and the means by which they are actually being assailed is somehow automatically understood.

All the genuinely good and honest aspects of our human birthright and the overwhelmingly positive effects they bring to everyone's daily existence deserve better than being simply dwarfed by the vulgarity and outrageousness of such wanton acts events.

The true depths and remarkable beauty and color of the emotional seas our human intellect actually sails on or the intuition by which we chart our courses over them is what is being directly assaulted and challenged by them.

What these miscreants do to drag us off course, to deliberately send us into some storm or strand us in some shallows or backwater is only important to the extent that they can succeed in doing that.

It is not enough to simply know or feel what is right. We have to live up to those ideals by practicing them and keeping them in mind at each and every opportunity.

There is no other way to successfully defend them or keep them from being diminished.

Part of that process isn't just discussing these events in and of themselves. It is also being aware of the vast differences that exist between them and our own best feelings and inclinations. Of reminding ourselves at what is truly at stake.

The intention of these crimes isn't to simply create a few hapless victims but to victimize us all in the process.

1:46 p.m.  
Blogger blogbart said...

Man, has this post gone off topic...

The Moscow newspaper Trud newspaper reported on Thursday that FBI agents began interviews with embassy officials about the smuggling of Azerbaijani prostitutes into the United States and the issuing of visas.

Turkish and Azerbaijani were Sibel Edmonds' two languages in the FBI's translation department, where she discovered the intersections of drugs, arms and oil.

This is what boggles and infuriates me. Here we have the FBI being the good guys, and the bad guys. On one hand, uncovering human smuggling and exposing high officials involved in it, but on the other gagging a whistleblower from doing the same.

I find comfort in the fact that all agencies, and all personnel are not corrupt, but I am discomforted by the fact that even given this, the bad guys skate free, get new gigs, and the investigation scoops up only patsies and small potatoes.

Dog damn but this makes me mad.

Why the $*@^ don't the good guys get some spine and just follow through?

Sit together at lunch time, go out after work for beers together, play ball on the weekend. Do whatever it takes to get yourselves organized, on the same page, and mad and motivated enough to get these parasites off of our skin! Its your job, not just a paycheque!

3:33 p.m.  
Blogger ELFIS said...

Weirder and weirder ...

Last Friday I was on my friend Robert Larson's radioshow (OUT THE RABBIT HOLE) with my friend and fellow Anomaly Archives volunteer assistant curator and playwright, JP Smith who has researched, written and produced a play on the Juarez Murder Mystery.

I've created a new research page for this topic here:
http://wiki.anomalytv.com/tavi/index.php?page=Ju%E1rez+Murder+Mystery+Research

It will soon include numerous references to this blog since Jeff's efforts have exposed so many DOTS and actual begins to CONNECT THEM.

You can listen to the interview here:
http://www.elfis.net/media/OTRH060421.mp3

Interestingly, I know Stanley Krippner who is quoted in the BBC article. I was unaware of his being interviewed about the Juarez situation.

miles

5:36 p.m.  
Blogger Sounder said...

silverfox said;
"The true depths and remarkable beauty and color of the emotional seas our human intellect actually sails on or the intuition by which we chart our courses over them is what is being directly assaulted and challenged by them."

Well said, I think this relates to how manifest expression comes into being and its necessary perversion felt by some twisted souls.

blogbart,
I imagine that the freemasons origin was around that beer soaked table of righteousness. The Word however is still lost.

8:27 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

THIS THREAD IS BUSTED!!!!!!!!

At this point, I don't give a fig for your current thread, Jeffrey, you Coward Boy! All I want to honestly know is this. Why can professorpan come on your blog anytime it pleases his pagan ass, and "dis" Christian Fundamentalists, but anyone who even tries to question the "Jews" is summarily banned??? You suck! Your blog Sucks!! Your buttboy, professorpan REALLY SUCKS!!! You are all on a train in a tunnel which is heading for a misdirected train heading straight for you, and you're too STUPID to see it!!!

Feel free to tell me EXACTLY how you feel just after your new age, alternate reality train CRASHES into the one built by the CREATOR!!!

I would say that I can't WAIT to laugh at your smoking corpses, but that would be wrong. I am compelled to pray for your immortal souls, because That's What Real Christians BELIEVE!!!

Not a world-wide unstoppable WAR, Not celebrating every soul who rejects Jesus, and is cast into everlasting HellFire, but a load of tears for ALL of those who have thrown away their only chance to advance whole, immortal, and unscathed into Eternity!!!

Deal with it in your own small-minded Pagan ways. I'm SURE you'll find a way to beat Almighty GOD at His own game. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!

9:17 p.m.  
Blogger Sounder said...

Anon 9:17

Wow! Excellent illustration of the hazards of being caught up within the static principle.

10:36 p.m.  
Blogger ericswan said...

..., but anyone who even tries to question the "Jews" is summarily banned??? You suck! Your blog Sucks!! Your buttboy, professorpan REALLY SUCKS!!!

Feed that "Fear".. Nothing else can sustain you? It all comes down on cortisol. You may have tapped out.

4:01 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re/To Anon 'Thread Buster':
It's always hard to tell when you read something like that if someone is being sincere or just jamming/psyoping. To come to Jeff's defense, I've seen plenty of statements and links from commenters to this blog that address the issue of 'Israeli', 'Zionist' or 'Jewish' influences, despite the evident fact that he doesn't subscribe to the sweeping generalizations, or shrill, irrational tone, often contained therein.

Second point. Do you truly consider yourself a Christian? Based on that comment, I doubt that Jesus (at least as presented in your Bible) would. The hate, fear and disdain eminating from that post is truly staggering. Open up your heart a little bit more. It'll do you good.

Peace.

9:50 a.m.  
Blogger blogbart said...

Sounder said: I imagine that the freemasons origin was around that beer soaked table of righteousness.

No, not secret clubs. The socializing aspect is for moral support and the beer for Courage.

I was thinking more along the lines of Tyler Drumheller (CIA), Sibel Edmonds (FBI), Russ Tice (NSA) and other "on-the-job" whistleblowers. And, maybe even those retired generals, Lawrence Wilkerson, Karen Kwiatkowski, who waited until they had their pensions before getting some Courage.

11:50 a.m.  
Blogger Sounder said...

blogbart,
My comment was a bit flip and your idea deserves support. I think honest people have a challenge to stand up to the charismatic intimidators. Cops, Judges, civil servants, even mid level corp. employees have a difficult environment in which to remain faithful (long term) to the spirit as well as to the letter of the law.

All should pray for/support honesty anywhere. At the same time those found culpable might deserve the hand of sympathy. Many people do not understand the implications of actions as they are taken, and may wake up on a latter day feeling violated and with a desire to make amends. These folk may provide essential help in breaking down calcified power structures as they are coming from the inside.

Peace

6:21 a.m.  
Blogger blogbart said...

All should pray for/support honesty anywhere. At the same time those found culpable might deserve the hand of sympathy. Many people do not understand the implications of actions as they are taken, and may wake up on a latter day feeling violated and with a desire to make amends. These folk may provide essential help in breaking down calcified power structures as they are coming from the inside.

Indeed. Its amazingly easy to slide into corruption and dishonesty. Lots of people around to help you get there too. And it doesn't feel like a bad thing (although we usually always know it is).

But I am more than willing to forgive, or at least understand why, if guilty consciences and good souls show us their dirty laundry. Most people will be equally as generous, if not grateful.

Come out, come out, wherever you are!

Peace, or at a minimum, a fair and consistent social structure that applies to all.

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