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From: "Marpessa Kupendua" <nattyreb1@home.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: !*"Secret Wars" By Mumia Abu-Jamal
SECRET WARS
[Col. Writ. 10/12/01] Copyright * '01 Mumia Abu-Jamal
As this is written, the obscene whine of bombs pierces
the night sky over the capital city of Kabul, in the war-
shattered nation of Afghanistan. Once again, the American
Empire has come to the Middle East, armed with the
glittering array of war.
Although national opinion polls assure us that this nebulous
war against "terrorists, and all who support them," is a popular
one, high opinion poll ratings mask the very real and very deep
anxiety that people feel, in their hearts, and in their guts, about
the prospect of victory. That anxiety underlies a deep distrust
that Americans have historically felt about the government.
What don't they know? What are Americans not being told?
*How will this end?*
In truth, there is a good reason for this sense of anxiety, as
many Americans are, without their knowledge or okay, a part
of the secret wars that are raging around the world.
When the United States was a very young, and indeed, an
infant nation, a well-known national leader hatched a secret
plot to invade and overthrow Libya. An agent of his was given
tens of thousands of dollars, and 1,000 guns to raise a secret
army against Libya. This U.S. State Department official was
attached to the Navy and given the title, "Agent for the United
States Fleet in the Mediterranean." This secret agent,
working without the knowledge or permission of the U.S.
Congress, entered Egypt, organized a mercenary army, and
waged war against Libya, but was not able to destabilize the
government.
The government agent was Capt. William Eaton. He was
acting under the secret orders of U.S. President, Thomas
Jefferson, after a secret meeting of them on December 10,
1803. (See Jerry Fresia's Toward an American Revolution:
Exposing the Constitution & Other Illusions (Boston: South
End Press, 1988), p. 102).
Such secret wars have dotted the history of the U.S., and
made her the enemy of millions, on several continents. For
the poor in Latin America, in the Caribbean, in Africa and
parts of Asia, the U.S. is seen as a powerful, yet schizophrenic
child. She will arbitrarily remove leaders of governments, insert
agents of disorder, and wage vicious propaganda wars against
other countries through her media machine.
In an alleged 'democracy', why is there even *ever* a
need for secret war?
In a nation that claims to represent the interests of the
people, how can a secret war be waged? The two are
simply incompatible, for if the government is (in Lincoln's
famous words) "... of the people", how can the government
keep secrets from itself?
While the media may manipulate public opinion to
justify the waging of wars, the real beneficiaries are rarely
known, and indeed, rarely are the real causes known. The
causes are, more often than not, economic. While citizens
and soldiers wave flags, corporations wave wallets.
For example, you may still find old-timers, who will tell you
that the big, "WW II", was fought against the Nazi ideology of
Hitler. Few would argue with the old geezer. But how many
of us know that American corporations traded with the Nazis,
*even during the war?* Charles Higham, in his 1984 book,
Trading With the Enemy (Dell Books) wrote:
What would have happened if millions of Americans
and British people, struggling with coupons and lines
at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard
Oil of New Jersey [part of the Rockefeller Empire]
managers shipped the enemy's fuel through the
neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping
Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that
the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl
Harbor was doing millions of dollars worth of
business with the enemy with the full knowledge of
the head office in Manhattan [the Rockefeller
family among others]? Or that Ford trucks were
being built for the German occupation troops in
France with authorization from Dearborn,
Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn,
the head of the international American telephone
conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid
to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's
communications systems and improve the robot
bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT
built the FockeWulfs that dropped bombs on
British and American troops? Or that crucial
ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated
customers in Latin-America with the collusion
of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production
Board in partnership with Goering's cousin in
Philadelphia when American forces were
desperately short of them? Or that such
arrangements were known about in Washington
and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?
[pp. 184-5] (Fresia's bk, pp. 108-90).
There are wars, and there are *wars*, apparently.
Unfortunately, there are also secret wars, and the ones
who are in the battle fields, or wave flags, are the last
ones to know.
Copyright 2001 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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THEY ARE PLANNING TO MURDER MUMIA!!
"We are fighting the last battle to Free Mumia, and need support now
more than ever. We need donations of money, calling cards, copy cards,
etc. and we really need manpower. We need people to be in the streets
every day putting out information, demonstrating, raising money, and doing
whatever you can to help."
"Tell judge pamela dembe to hold an evidentiary hearing and a new
post-conviction relief appeal, to hear the confession of Arnold Beverly
and to let Mumia be at the hearings in his "trial". Tell mayor john
street to keep his promise and do what he can to help Mumia receive a
fair trial and to hold an independent investigation into the case. (you
can get a sample of both of these letters at http://www.freemumia.com)
pamela dembe: 1417 criminal justice center 1301 Filbert St. philadelphia
pa, 19107 Phone 215 683-7148 Fax 215 683-7150
john street: room 215 city hall philadelphia pa 19107
Phone 215 686-3000 Fax 215 686-2170"
PLEASE CONTACT:
International Concerned Family & Friends of MAJ
P.O. Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Phone - 215-476-8812/ Fax - 215-476-6180/
E-mail - icffmaj@aol.com /www.mumia.org
AND OFFER YOUR SERVICES!
Send our brotha some LOVE and LIGHT at:
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