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NatlSec Adv. Berger Says 8 Terrorist Plots Thwarted
1.20.00   World Tribune

FBI helps identify millennial radical groups
10.27.99   IsraelWire

Government Hate Speech
11.4.99   Worldnet Daily
T.Metaksa former exec.dir. Natl Rifle Assoc. Institute for Legislative Action

Project Megiddo
11.1.99   Jeremy Q. Irons CN

Project Megiddo report uses unique & esoteric words & terms for which no explanatory definitions are provided. Foremost among these is term "right-wing," found total of 30 times. Sometimes used alone, other times accompanied in conjunction with "modifiers" such as: extremists, religious extremists, radicals, racists, terrorists, and nuts. … incl statement: "The radical right encompasses a vast number and variety of groups, such as survivalists, militias, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Christian Identity churches, the AN and skinheads." … In its discussion of Christian Identity, the report states: "There is no single document that expresses this belief system."

One self-proclaimed authority on cults named in report is Margaret Thaler Singer, board member of secular cult watchdog group the American Family Foundation (AFF). Singer was largely discredited through 1980s & early 1990s as result of string of unfavorable court cases in which she had testified as cults and mind-control groups "expert". Previous to this, Singer & group of colleagues drafted paper on "Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control (DIMPAC)." Singer's task force submitted its final report to American Psychological Association's Board in 1987 which rejected her report, stating: "In general, report lacks scientific rigor & evenhanded critical approach necessary for APA imprimatur."

Israel concerned over FBI report of religious violence in 2000
11.11.99   Agence France Presse

10/29/99 IsraelWire   Israel police on Monday raided houses in the Azariya neighborhood of E.Jerusalem & arrested 21 Christians suspected as cult members. Later, addtl 3 arrested in W.Jerusalem. Many Christians believe redemption will come with new millennium, but only after Israeli war of Armageddon. Police concerned extremist cults come to Israel & cause provocations on Temple Mount & other holy sites. Police stated cultists arrested this week are not the same as the "concerned Christian" cult members arrested & deported last year who wanted to commit suicide in Israel. The police received intelligence reports that the recent group of Christian cult members planned provocations. Among those arrested are women & children, who will be deported soon. Police believe many more cult members arrived in Israel & hiding in areas under PLO Authority (PA) jurisdiction. Police gathering intelligence info about groups, & hope for cooperation with PA.

10/26/99 "Suspected Christian doomsday cult members arrested in Jerusalem"
IsraelWire   Raid after midnight 10/25/99 marked 3rd time this year suspected cult members were arrested by police. Police report latest suspects arrested belong to Solomon's Temple & Brother David cults, and live near Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem. Police charge cult members here illegally & will be granted 72 hours to appeal the deportation orders. 20 Americans, one Australian & 5 children taken in police vehicles to a prison in Ramle.

10/13/99   "Christians belonging to doomsday cult expelled"
IsraelWire   26 members of Christian doomsday cult prohibited from entering Israel via the Port of Haifa were expelled on Monday. Realizing they would encounter difficulties entering country, group decided to enter on boat from Cyprus, hoping to evade police already on look out for group following intelligence reports. According to Haifa area police, most cult members were Irish   [ Travellers ?! ]   & there were children among group. Police spokesperson acknowledged members of group were denied visas on two previous occasions but would not elaborate. Shipping official on vessel said group, which had been confined to the ferry since it arrived, had $300,000 in cash & 4 cars, but described group as shabbily dressed.   [ sure sounds like Travellers ! ]   Police feared group members planned to commit suicide in Jerusalem to coincide with millennium in line with teachings of extremist cult which believes the millennium will bring end of time calling upon them to take their own lives. 14 Denver-based cult members were deported by Israel earlier in the year.

10/20/99 "FBI: Militias a threat at millennium"   K.Johnson
USA Today   … report titled Project Megiddo in which federal authorities assess threats posed by hate groups & explain significance of biblical references the groups use to discuss Y2K will be centerpiece of FBI seminar this month before Intl Assoc. of Chiefs of Police in Charlotte, NC. Unlike the rest of the meeting, seminar will be closed to public, as sign of how sensitivesubject of militias has become. Tne workshop is titled "millennium, militias, and mayhem: what to expect in the coming Year." … What concerns officials now, however, is possibility extreme militias members might undertake missions of their own, citing example of Buford Furrow, who belonged to white supremacist group &accused of killing mail carrier & shooting 6 people at Jewish community center in L.A. this summer.

10/20/99 "FBI Issues Alerts for Possible Y2K Threats"
ABCNEWS   FBI preparing roughly 16,000 such pamphlets alerting agencies about potential problems posed by the turn of the millennium. There are no specific threats, but we often alert law enforcement agencies about impending dates with significance for potential terrorists, FBI spokesman Bill Carter said Wednesday. … Each year, for instance, FBI reminds state & local law enforcement of April 19 anniversary of 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing & 1993 federal assault on Waco, Texas Branch Davidian sect. Bureau intends to distribute a 40- page research report.

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The FBI, as of one year later 10/10/00, seems to have pushed the Megiddo threat analysis blunder cum PR power ploy as far into Winston Smith's memory hole as possible. At www.fbi.gov/search.htm with keyword Megiddo, 3 URLs resulted. The last two were dead links. In the search return URL, they looked as follows:

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1: FBI Press Room - Press Release - 1999 - FBI Statement Clarifying the USA Today Story Titled FBI: Militias a Threat of Millennium
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For Immediate Release   October 20, 1999
Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office


The FBI today issued the following statement to clarify
the "USA Today" story titled "FBI: Militias a threat at millennium"

"Project Megiddo" is the culmination of an FBI research initiative which analyzed the potential for extremist criminal activity in the U.S. by individuals or domestic groups who attach special significance to the year 2000. In an effort to educate investigators and officials in the law enforcement community about potential violence associated with or motivated by the arrival of the year 2000, the FBI conducted extensive research into the various ideologies and concepts which serve to motivate groups or individuals with violent agendas. Many extremists place significance on the next millennium, and may present challenges to law enforcement authorities. The significance is based primarily upon apocalyptic religious beliefs or political beliefs concerning the New World Order conspiracy theory. The report is intended to provide a clear, measured, and responsible picture of potential extremism motivated by the next millennium, and to increase awareness among law enforcement officials of the unique challenges that may be presented by extremists motivated by millennial agendas.

The study is being distributed to appropriate law enforcement personnel from around the country and provides an overview of various extremist ideologies, specifically those which advocate or call for violent action beginning in the year 2000. Such ideologies motivate violent white supremacists who seek to initiate a race war; apocalyptic cults which anticipate a violent Armageddon; radical elements of private citizen militias who fear that the United Nations will initiate an armed takeover of the United States and subsequently establish a One World Government; and other groups or individuals which promote violent millennial agendas. The report also discusses how extremists interpret biblical and/or other religious scriptures to justify their agendas, and how certain extremist elements point to the so-called Y2K computer crisis as an indicator of imminent social chaos and unrest.
In addition to addressing key millennial concepts and the ideological or religious motivations behind millennial extremism, Project Megiddo outlines a number of issues of which law enforcement officers should be cognizant, including indicators of potential violence, possible preparations for violence, and a general discussion of possible targets of millennial extremists. Law enforcement officials are encouraged to further educate themselves on the various issues discussed in the project.

manufacturing villains by institutional necessity ~ National CounterIntelligence Ctr "In absence of intelligence that more established & organized terrorist groups are planning millennial violence as an organizational strategy, violence is most likely to be perpetrated by radical fringe members of established groups."   [ police logic at its selfserving finest ] ~ Project Megiddo report

" Old FBI hands are familiar with just such a tactic, known as 'salting' government records. It was a uniquely devious way to smear an enemy. Make up spurious allegations about Mr. X, leak them to a law-enforcement agency, then, when the agency investigates, use its probe as evidence that police are interested in Mr. X's activities. It was practically foolproof, and, given the way the FBI zealously guarded the identity of its informants, almost impossible to detect." Vendetta American Express & the Smearing of Edmond Safra Bryan Burrough, Harper Collins, NY 1992 p 156, ¶2

FBI Director Louis Freeh said the agency will keep close tabs on Y2K cults because, "We don't have the ability, unfortunately, to guarantee the avoidance of problems."
  [ "I like to watch." Chauncey Gardener ]

Expert: "Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck"
12.10.99   D.M. Bresnahan WorldNetDaily

12/99 Militias & Millenarians: Preliminary Typology S.L.v.Gorka, Terrorism Research Ctr   .pdf
more of the same

  empty rebuttal
1/5/00 "ERRI Director Says At Least 2 Terror Attacks Thwarted by U.S. Forces"
Chicago, IL EmergencyNet News   Despite arrests of at least 16 people in several different countries & on Canadian/U.S. border, media pundits & other critics continue to complain threat of Y2K terrorist attacks "vastly overblown" " hoax perpetrated by scare-mongers." Clark Staten, ERRI's Executive Director & Sr. National Security analyst, says bluntly, "I respectfully disagree … ERRI analysts now believe U.S. law enforcement, military, & intelligence officials successfully thwarted at least 2, if not more, terrorist attacks scheduled to coincide with the Year2000 transition."

[ subsequent question is did those officials also stage the thwarted attacks to rationalize their bloated budgets ? ]

Mr. Slahi's connections to Mr. bin Laden's group, Al Qaeda, they said, suggest the possibility that Mr. Bin Laden may be at the heart of the plot. Investigators are pressing to find out more about the role of Mr. Slahi, whom one law enforcement official described as "potentially the most significant person" discovered thus far in the case. Little is known about his background, but investigators say he had "constant communications" with a construction company in Khartoum, Sudan, that was owned by Mr. bin Laden. The company, officials said, was used as a front for Al Qaeda. Mr. bin Laden lived in Khartoum from 1991 to 1996. Several officials said that Mr. Slahi is related by marriage to one of Mr. bin Laden's key operatives, known as "the Mauritanian." They would not identify this person, but one official said he had been tied to the African bombings.

More recently, officials said, Mr. Slahi was living in Germany. Last fall, he arrived in Canada. While in Montreal, the officials said, Mr. Slahi worked closely with Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian man who has been charged with arranging the logistics of the plot. The arrest on Dec. 14 of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian driving the carload of explosives, prompted others linked to the plot to try to conceal their involvement, prosecutors have said. Officials said that Mr. Slahi fled to a Montreal mosque before leaving the country. Dan Lambert, spokesman for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, confirmed that his agency had been following Mr. Slahi, and took issue with the idea that Canada had lost him. "We were aware that Mr. Slahi was traveling in advance of his departure," he said. "Because the reason for his travel was the heat being placed on him by the Canadian investigation."

American officials said there are several other emerging links between the bomb plot and Mr. bin Laden's group. One involves Hamid Aich, an Algerian who lived for three years in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, until May 1999. A law enforcement official said that after leaving Canada, Mr. Aich moved to Ireland and was associated with Mercy Intl Relief Agency, an Islamic charity that American prosecutors have linked to the embassy bombings and Mr. bin Laden. The charity's director, prosecutors said in court papers, received calls on his mobile phone from Mr. bin Laden's satellite telephone. An F.B.I. search of the charity's files in the days after the embassy bombings uncovered a receipt dated 7.24.98, 2 weeks before the bombings, that referred to plans to obtain weapons from Somalia. Attempts to reach charity officials for comment were unsuccessful. In his 3 years in Canada, Mr. Aich shared an apartment with Abdel Majid Dahoumane, according to the building's superintendent. Mr. Aich was briefly detained last month in Ireland, and the police there seized his computer and personal papers. He was released before the authorities understood that the material tied him to bomb plot, officials said.
American investigators are also looking into whether Khalil Said al-Deek, a Palestinian who became an American in 1991 and is now being held in Jordan, may also have links to Al Qaeda. Jordanian officials have told their American counterparts they believe that Mr. Deek was a key figure in a plot to blow up tourist sites in Jordan at the new year. Mr. Deek's lawyer, Fred Sayre, of Newport Beach CA, said last night that his client was innocent and had not been in Jordan for about a year before officials there ordered his arrest.

aftermath Christmas Day plot suspect offering 'good intelligence' to feds Officials won't detail what's being said or if Abdulmutallab can make a plea deal 2.3.10   N.Hurst, P.Egan The Detroit News Wash.DC   The suspected terrorist federal authorities say tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit is talking again to intelligence officials, the director of national intelligence told members of the U.S. Senate. "We got good intelligence. We're getting more," Dennis Blair said Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which was hearing testimony on terrorism threats facing the United States. Neither Blair nor other intelligence officials speaking at the hearing would detail what 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was talking to investigators about, nor if there was a possibility of striking a plea with the suspected terrorist. Abdulmutallab began cooperating with federal officials after his family persuaded him to cooperate, according to the Associated Press, quoting a senior White House official. A source close to the investigation told The Detroit News that Abdulmutallab began talking with federal officials last week and was cooperating by providing details on his training by the al-Qaida terrorist network. The information given has been an "open-ended proffer" more than a negotiated plea agreement, and it's unclear what Abdulmutallab might receive in return, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Richard Reid, the failed shoe bomber, pleaded guilty to a similar crime without providing significant valuable intelligence and received a life sentence. Before Blair's on-the-record statement, it was believed Abdulmutallab had kept mum about the Flight 253 incident and his connections to al-Qaida, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack, which came as the Northwest plane was landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Law enforcement officials say Abdulmutallab tried to detonate an explosive on board Flight 253 from Amsterdam shortly before landing. Robert Mueller, director of the FBI, said his agents questioned Abdulmutallab until he underwent surgery for burns resulting from his attempted detonation, which was stopped after a fellow passenger smothered flames from the device allegedly hidden in the Nigerian's clothes. Following his medical procedure, Mueller said, Abdulmutallab stopped answering questions. But, according to the source close to the investigation, Abdulmutallab began answering questions after federal officials went to Nigeria to learn more about his personal history and used people in Detroit with specialized backgrounds to question him. Since then, Abdulmutallab has given "good stuff" in terms of overseas intelligence, including where he was trained and who trained him, the source said. Special Agent Sandra Berchtold, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Detroit, referred questions to the Justice Department, while Barbara McQuade, the U.S. Attorney in Detroit, said she can't comment because the Abdulmutallab case is pending. Abdulmutallab attorney Miriam Siefer, a chief federal defender, did not return phone calls. News of cooperation from Abdulmutallab comes as debate on Capitol Hill over the handling of the suspected terrorist has heated up in recent weeks. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have questioned why Abdulmutallab was read his Miranda rights after less than an hour of questioning, giving him the right to remain silent and obtain legal representation from public defenders. Committees in the Senate and House have grilled federal intelligence officials over a number of issues, including why top intelligence officials weren't consulted before the decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab. A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, have said the suspected terrorist shouldn't have been put in the civilian court system, but instead been tried by a military tribunal. Miller introduced a bill last week that seeks to add executive authority for the president to make such a determination in future cases. While it's unclear just how much information Abdulmutallab will be able to offer investigators and intelligence agencies, top officials in Washington said the need for more information on potential terrorist threats is crucial; the Senate committee was told al-Qaida was planning another attack on the U.S. within six months. Blair, the national intelligence director, told the committee that terrorist networks like al-Qaida are increasingly moving toward a single-attacker strategy, rather than the group effort seen in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Court: Sentence for Millennium plotter too lenient 2.3.10   G.Johnson AP San Francisco   The long legal battle of an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium has taken another turn after an appeals court threw out his sentence and removed the trial judge from the case. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday said Ahmed Ressam's 22-year prison sentence is too lenient. Border agents in Washington state arrested the Algerian national in 1999 after he entered the United States from Canada on a ferry with a car packed with explosives. He was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. The appeals court also said Tuesday that it's taking the rare step of assigning the case to another trial judge because it doubts U.S. District Judge John Coughenour's impartiality in the matter. Coughenour presided over the case for a decade. Twice, over the objections of prosecutors, he sentenced the ''millennium bomber'' to 22 years in prison. Coughenour, appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, declined to comment when reached in his Seattle chambers Tuesday. But the ruling is seen as a strong rebuke of his handling of the case, which the semiretired jurist said was one of his toughest during a 2008 court session. Fixing a sentence for Ressam ''is a decision I struggled with more than any other sentencing decision I have made in my 27 years on the bench,'' Coughenour said in December 2008. The judge said he had to weigh the cooperation Ressam provided against the nature of his crime. On Tuesday, the appeals court said Ressam has an extensive criminal history and Coughenour's conclusions were ''clearly erroneous.'' Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Arthur L. Alarcon said the Coughenour failed to take into account public safety with the 22-year prison sentence. ''This factor is particularly relevant in a terrorist case such as this, where Ressam, who has demonstrated strongly held beliefs about the need to attack American interests in the United States and abroad, will be only 53 years old upon his release,'' Alarcon wrote. Ressam's case will be randomly assigned to another federal judge in Seattle in the coming weeks and it's expected that the Algerian national will receive a harsher sentence. A divided three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled Ressam, 41, deserves a much longer prison term because he had reneged on a deal to cooperate with terrorism investigators around the world. U.S. prosecutors said Ressam's change-of-heart after two years of cooperation compromised at least two terrorist cases in the U.S., resulting in charges being dropped. ''We are gratified that the Court of Appeals recognized the importance of public safety at sentencing and that Mr. Ressam remains a threat to the public,'' said U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan of Seattle. Ressam's public defender Thomas W. Hillier II declined comment. Federal guidelines suggest Ressam should receive a prison sentence of 65 years to life after a jury convicted him of attempting to smuggle explosives meant for LAX across the Canada border in a rental car in December 1999. Prosecutors argued for life in prison during a 2008 hearing held after Ressam recanted his cooperation and insisted that lawyers and prosecutors had badgered him into making false allegations against other alleged terrorists. ''Sentence me to life in prison or anything you wish,'' Ressam told the judge. ''I will have no objection to your sentence. Thank you.'' The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the trial judge to impose a new sentence based on the federal guidelines. Investigators say Ressam attended three training camps for Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan between March 1998 and February 1999. He learned to handle weapons, construct bombs and the black art of sabotage before he was assigned with five other terrorist to a cell to be based in Montreal. Ressam traveled to Canada in February 1999 with $12,000 in cash, bomb-making instructions and a key chemical used in explosives. The other members of his cell didn't make it to Canada, but Ressam continued plans to bomb LAX. Ressam hid 100 pounds of explosive materials in the wheel well in the trunk of a rental car, and on Dec. 14, 1999 drove it on to the American ferry M/V COHO at Victoria, B.C. He also was carrying a bogus Canadian passport. A U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agent didn't discover the explosives during a search of the car and allowed Ressam to board the ferry and travel to Port Angeles, Wash. When Ressam arrived at the U.S. port, suspicious U.S. Customs inspector Diane Dean ordered the rental car searched. This time the explosives, complete with four timing devices, were found and Ressam was arrested. ''An explosives expert later determined that the materials found in the car were capable of producing a blast forty times greater than that of a devastating car bomb,'' Alarcon wrote for the appeals court. Ressam rejected the government's offer of 25 years in prison if he pleaded guilty to nine felony charges, including conspiracy to commit an international act of terrorism transcending national boundaries. Because of intense local publicity, the case was moved to Los Angeles, where a jury convicted Ressam on all counts on April 16, 2001. Two months later, in exchange for a more lenient sentence, Ressam agreed to cooperate with the prosecution of his accomplice and provide any other information he had on terrorists plots to kill Americans. After Sept. 11, 2001, Ressam also identified Zacarias Moussaoui from a photograph as someone he met in an Afghan terrorist camp. He also provided information showing that the shoe confiscated from Richard Reid, so-called ''shoe bomber'', was a complete bomb that should be handled cautiously.

Reid my lips 7.17.05   Snopes.com On 22 December 2001, Richard Colvin Reid, a 29-year-old British citizen flying as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, attempted to ignite what other passengers described as a wire protruding from one of his shoes. When Reid attacked a flight attendant who confronted him about this suspicious activity, other passengers responded to the commotion and rushed to help subdue him. According to various accounts, one French man reached over the seat to pin Reid's arms as he struggled while other passengers held his legs; a doctor on board sedated Reid while another passenger wielded a fire extinguisher as a weapon. After passengers finally restrained Reid using belts and anything else available for the purpose, they were eventually able to remove his shoe. What Reid had been trying to ignite was a fuse leading to plastic explosives hidden in the sole of his high-top suede sport shoe — enough explosives, prosecutors later maintained, to blow a hole in the fuselage of the plane and kill all 197 people aboard. (His plot failed, authorities speculated, because his shoes were moist from sweat.) Flight 63 was diverted to Boston, where Reid was taken into custody. As U.S. federal prosecutors prepared their case against "shoe bomber" Reid on eight charges (including attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction), he surprised them in October 2002 by pleading guilty to all charges in order to spare his family pain and publicity. Reid maintained that he was a member of al-Qaida, pledged his support to Osama bin Laden, and declared himself an enemy of the United States. Prosecutors and the FBI said witnesses had reported Reid was present at al-Qaida training camps, and that he had help making the bomb from an al-Qaida bomb maker. At his hearing on 30 January 2003, Reid was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge William Young. After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his "allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah," defiantly stated "I think I ought not apologize for my actions," and told the court "I am at war with your country." Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted above, a stinging condemnation of Reid in particular and terrorists in general. Exchange between Reid, judge follows life sentence 12.6.03   CNN Boston   The man who admitted to trying to blow up a U.S. jetliner with explosives in his shoes was wrestled out of a courtroom by federal marshals Thursday after a federal judge sentenced him to life in prison. 0 As he was dragged out of the courtroom, Richard Reid began yelling at Judge William Young, repeating his allegiance to Osama bin Laden. "I'm at war with your country not for personal reasons but because you have killed so many innocents, so many children. ... My fate is in Allah's hands. ... I leave you to judge." Crew and passengers on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001 helped subdue Reid before he could ignite the explosives. The flight, with nearly 200 people aboard, was diverted to Boston. Reid, a 29-year-old British citizen, was sentenced to life in prison on three counts: one of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. nationals outside the United States and two of interference with flight crew and attendants using a dangerous weapon. He was also ordered to pay a $2 million fine and sentenced to consecutive 20 year terms on four other counts and a 30 year term on an eighth count. Reid's attorneys have said he believed bombing the plane was necessary to "prevent the destruction of Islam." In court he described himself as a "soldier." Young responded, "You are not a soldier in any war; you are a terrorist." Calling the sentence Reid will face "a fair and just sentence, a righteous sentence," Young said, "We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. ... You're big, but you're not that big. You are no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. "You hate our freedom, our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, and to believe or not believe as we individually choose. ... See that flag, Mr. Reid? That is the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is forgotten. And it still stands for freedom." Defense attorney Owen Walker called Reid "laid back," and said, "You can do a malicious act without being a malicious person." Several crew members addressed the judge. Flight attendant Christina Jones described struggling with the 6-foot-4 Reid. "He bit me; the pain was so fierce, I knew I was seriously injured" she said. Jones spoke of her 8-year-old son who watched on television as she was taken off the plane by officials and brought to an ambulance. She called the incident "an emotional and physical tragedy." Reid "dragged me into this war on terrorism, and my innocent little boy as well," she said. Defense attorneys had asked for a postponement in sentencing on seven of the counts, insisting classified government documents used against Reid should first be released. Prosecutors argued the documents would not affect sentencing, and there was no good reason for a delay. The judge ruled in their favor. Intelligence documents CNN has obtained from two Western nations show Reid reported to al Qaeda's head of military operations, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -- a self-confessed planner of the Sept. 11 attacks. Among Reid's assigned tasks was a scouting trip to Israel and Egypt, looking for locations for possible terrorist attacks, the documents show. Reid: 'I am at war with your country' 1.31.03   CNN partial transcript of Thursday's court hearing in which Richard Reid was sentenced to life in prison for his confessed plan to try and blow up a jetliner with explosives he had hidden in his shoes. The exchange is between Reid and Judge William Young. RICHARD REID: I start by praising Allah because life today is no good. I bear witness to this and he alone is right to be worshiped. And I bear witness that Muhammad Sa'laat Alayhi as-Salaam is his last prophet and messenger who is sent to all of mankind for guidance, with the sound guidance for everyone. Concerning what the Court said? I admit, I admit my actions and I further, I further state that I done them. JUDGE WILLIAM YOUNG: I didn't hear the last. I admit my actions and then what did you say? REID: I further admit my allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah. With regards to what you said about killing innocent people, I will say one thing. Your government has killed 2 million children in Iraq. If you want to think about something, against 2 million, I don't see no comparison. Your government has sponsored the rape and torture of Muslims in the prisons of Egypt and Turkey and Syria and Jordan with their money and with their weapons. I don't know, see what I done as being equal to rape and to torture, or to the deaths of the two million children in Iraq. So, for this reason, I think I ought not apologize for my actions. I am at war with your country. I'm at war with them not for personal reasons but because they have murdered more than, so many children and they have oppressed my religion and they have oppressed people for no reason except that they say we believe in Allah. This is the only reason that America sponsors Egypt. It's the only reason they sponsor Turkey. It's the only reason they back Israel. As far as the sentence is concerned, it's in your hand. Only really it is not even in your hand. It's in Allah's hand. I put my trust in Allah totally and I know that he will give victory to his religion. And he will give victory to those who believe and he will destroy those who wish to oppress the people because they believe in Allah. So you can judge and I leave you to judge. And I don't mind. This is all I have to say. And I bear witness to Muhammad this is Allah's message. YOUNG: Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you. On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutive one with the other. That's 80 years. On Count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years consecutive to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you on each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 for the aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines. The Court imposes upon you the $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need not go any further. This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and a just sentence. It is a righteous sentence. Let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is all too much war talk here. And I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court where we deal with individuals as individuals, and care for individuals as individuals, as human beings we reach out for justice. You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. Whether it is the officers of government who do it or your attorney who does it, or that happens to be your view, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not treat with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. So war talk is way out of line in this court. You're a big fellow. But you're not that big. You're no warrior. I know warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense Trooper Santiago had it right when first you were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and where the TV crews were and you said you're no big deal. You're no big deal. What your counsel, what your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today? I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty and admit you are guilty of doing.

And I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you. But as I search this entire record it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose.

Here, in this society, the very winds carry freedom. They carry it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom. So that everyone can see, truly see that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely.
It is for freedom's seek that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf and have filed appeals, will go on in their, their representation of you before other judges. We care about it. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties.

Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms.
Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. Day after tomorrow it will be forgotten. But this, however, will long endure. Here, in this courtroom, and courtrooms all across America, the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done.

The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged, and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag still stands for freedom. You know it always will. Custody, Mr. Officer. Stand him down.

REID: That flag will be brought down on the Day of Judgment and you will see in front of your Lord and my Lord and then we will know. (Whereupon the defendant was removed from the courtroom.)

YOUNG: We'll recess. All rise.

Shoe bomber case resurfaces, fuels national security debate
1.28.10   Fox News

Five months ago, British shoe bomber Richard Reid, who is serving a life sentence for his failed attempt in 2001 to blow up a trans-Atlantic airliner, was moved out of the isolation wing at the Supermax prison in Colorado, prompting some conservative lawmakers to suggest that the Obama administration is making it possible for the self-proclaimed Al Qaeda terrorist to radicalize his fellow prisoners.

Critics said the move was part of what they say is a troubling pattern in the administration to treat terrorists with kid gloves.
"This decision is another product of the Obama administration's alarming effort to treat terrorist killers like everyday common criminals," said Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a strong critic of the president's national security policies.
"It raises troubling questions about how terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be treated once they too enter our civilian justice system," he said. "As Sen. Sessions has said, the Obama administration is returning America to the law enforcement approach that failed us on 9/11."

But a Justice Department scoffed at that notion, calling it "absolute nonsense."
"The career men and women of the Justice Department have prosecuted hundreds of terrorists," DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd told FoxNews.com. "This administration is committed not only to using the justice system as a counterterrorism tool, but the military tribunals ... and all tools in fighting the war on Al Qaeda."

Boyd added in a written statement that the Bureau of Prisons "houses the most dangerous international terrorists under the most restrictive conditions to ensure that they cannot influence others, gain reinforcing prestige, or use others to send or receive messages.
"There are more than 340 convicted international and domestic terrorists currently in Bureau of Prisons custody, including Richard Reid as well as those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa."

Reid's case has recaptured the spotlight following the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day and the debate over the Obama administration's decision to try the Nigerian suspect in the case, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in a civilian court instead of a military tribunal.
Supporters of that policy have pointed to the Bush administration's decision to try Reid in a federal court, where he pleaded guilty in 2003 to trying to blow up a jumbo jet in late 2001 with explosives in his shoes.

Reid was placed under tight restrictions known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) that were renewed each year on the ground that his interactions with others posed a "substantial risk" of resulting in death or serious injury to them.
But last June Attorney General Eric Holder allowed the security directives to expire following a 2007 civil lawsuit by Reid in which he claimed that SAMs violated his First Amendment right of free speech and free exercise of religion.

He said the restrictions prevented him from practicing his Sunni Muslim faith or to learn Arabic, order books and magazines, watch television news and speak to anyone except his family and lawyers.
He was moved out of isolation in August, but he was subjected to new restrictions that barred him from writing to anyone except his immediate family and lawyer.

Mike Sullivan, the former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts who prosecuted Reid, said moving him out of isolation poses a risk.
"If he's in general population, it's not unusual that he could radicalize" others," Sullivan said. "Reid, if you look at him, he became radicalized because of contacts in the U.K. There is clear evidence that Al Qaeda uses inmates to recruit others to their radical positions."

A spokesman with the Bureau of Prisons said he could not specify whether Reid is in general population; only that his conditions have changed and he is confined at the Supermax prison.
Boyd said Reid's communications, including mail and phone calls, are monitored by prison guards and that he can interact only with individuals approved by the Bureau of Prisons. His visiting rights are limited and subject to restrictions, and he can receive news publications only after they are reviewed by authorities.

"Contrary to suggestions in the media, Reid is not allowed to freely roam the halls of Supermax," Boyd said in a written statement. "His status is closely monitored and should any of his communications or contacts pose a potential threat to persons, the Justice Department may direct the Bureau of Prisons to renew SAMs on him."
Reid told a court that he was still being prevented from studying his religion and that he worried that the special limits could be reimposed at any time.

The Justice Department argued that the court should dismiss Reid's lawsuit because the special limits had been lifted and that he must initiate a new petition to challenge the new restrictions.
On Tuesday, a judge sided with the Obama administration and rejected Reid's request for looser restrictions. Reid can appeal the decision.

A month after WTO 1999 rebellion
SEATTLE'S NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION CANCELED
CNN

12.29.99   "Suspects Rounded-Up Prior to Millennium Challenge"
Unspecified number of arrests & "preventive detentions" have taken place in several Middle Eastern & other countries, according to govt officials. Round-up of "usual suspects" is believed to be an effort to interdict & interrupt potential Millennium-related terrorist attacks. Officials from an undisclosed Mid-Eastern country said that it is likely that unless questioning of the suspects produces incriminating evidence that it is likely to that they will be released early next year. Counter-terrorist analysts say that the move is not unusual in some parts of the world and that detention for questioning is permitted under existing laws of a number of nations.
Rand Corp. terrorist analyst Bruce Hoffman in Wash.DC, told ABC News "similar roundup occurred during World Cup soccer games in France 1½ yr ago … calculated to have disruptive effect & throw people off." ERRI national security analysts said detentions signal to intended terrorists US is "pulling out all the stops" to prevent any potential trouble during the coming holiday weekend.

NWO associations

"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.


And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.


Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments,
lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called,
in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon."

~ Revelation 16:12-16; (KJV)   click here   for 3D tour

"Something deep in my heart says God wants me to be a blessing to Israel," Lott said in a telephone interview. "But it's complicated. We're just not ready to send any red heifers over there. If there's a sovereign God with his hand in the affairs of men, it'll happen, and it'll be a pivotal event," he said. "That time is soon. Very soon."

neo-gnostics

Rudolf Hermann Lotze list of cognitive biases Weilliana Oswald Bill Hicks T.McVeigh ryecatching Theodore Kaczynski Tavistock cat'spaw Huxley R.H. Tawny L. Ron Hubbard Jack Parsons ibid Novalis forgotten propellerhead Heard Heard re UFOs Heard re blogistan Dr. Geo. Hodel David Ferrie Alfred Loomis J.F.C._Fuller Charles Williams Novalis reading list Enochian necronomiconistics Wells' "Curious Stranger"   Tipler, et al Anders Sandberg prof. F.J.Tipler John Walker Wiki Fusion anomaly Anthropic Cosmological Principle quantum Zeno effect

" … future state of the universe where "life" (in any form) exists and develops forever, without getting locked into a loop"   ¹ ² ³   " … maximum level of complexity-consciousness, considered the aim towards which consciousness evolves. Rather than divinity being found 'in the heavens' he held that evolution was a process converging toward a "final unity", identical with the Eschaton and with God … planet is in a transformative process, metamorphosing from the biosphere into the noosphere."   ²   Ñoopolitik

Aging to Saging
Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi   interview
2.29.96   David Cherniack

In the meantime, I was also studying more about body. I was getting rolfed and Feldenchrist and all those kinds of things so that introspection and paying attention to body became more important. As this was happening, I started to notice some shifts &changes in my own being.

The resilience that I had before wasn't there. The body started to give different messages than I'd gotten before.

Along with that came also an awareness of kind of sadness that I couldn't be as powerfully active and as resilient as I was before and all kinds of things, shifts and changes were happening in my body to which I had to start paying more attention. It was getting very clear that body maintenance and maintenance of the right frame of mind was important. Still I hadn't connected it yet with aging. I need to give credit to someone who I met in my many journeys of learning from people. His name was Gerald F. Heard, a friend and a mentor of Aldous Huxley. He lived in Los Angeles in Topanga. And he had written a book, The Five Ages of Man. It's a book that not many people had read it and yet it was a blue print of growth and human evolution in which he mapped what was happening to humankind on the level of philogony against the experience of the individual person on the level of onthogony. So Gerald Heard, a Scotchman and had a nice brogue and beautiful face and eyes. He would talk about how people are in preconscious places and this was how we evolved from that preconscious place. He compared this to childhood, to infancy. We haven't got words yet and the question of getting born, what does it feel like to get born. The ordeal of birth is the first ordeal one has to go through. And then he had a place in which people got to feel to be heroic and ah dragon slayers and this kind of stuff. And that fits very much and to the place where we are in adolescence. And then he describes the person who became the very strongly disciplined person of medieval times and ah that kind of person is one who wants to overcome the crisis of ah adolescence and become now the adult. And then comes that person who has become in full ego, in full consciousness and to whom everything in the world sort of gets addressed at this point. And that too is something that we could see in the Renaissance. And then we have modern man and modern man with all the connections. And so you find it both in history and that's how we created commerce and all that and at the same time you find a person in his business years. Then comes another transition and that transition is the one that makes it sort of difficult for many people because it brings on what Gerald Heard called involutional melancholia  [ positivist existentialism, occidental Buddhism ]   I can't help but it's not that I want it to, death is coming closer and this is another ordeal that has to be overcome. He feels that involutional melancholia is happening to humankind now too. That the fact that we, and he wrote this in 1950 with a vision of what's happening really to us at this time, that all the progress and all that hasn't helped us to be happier. It hasn't created the abundance that it promised, you know. And so you see this on the global scene and for the individual it's this way. And he argues that at this point there is one way to overcome that and that's to make a leap. And the new transformed person is whom he calls the leptoid, you know, the one who's made that jump, that paradigm shift. As I reflected in those years when I felt, by this time I was getting to be 55, 56 and feeling less of the energy, (instead) feeling more of the demands that the body made, I searched inside of myself; Gerald Heard wrote about that. It has something to do with aging. [ Heard spoke of species immortality as 'survival' ] ~

Kenneth E. Boulding ªuth. ¹ ² ³ ¶ £ Ç   père "ecodynamics" = evolutionary rather than equilibrium economics aka "Samuelson's dynamics";   "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist".   +n His vocal pacifism during WWII cost him his job with the League of Nations in 1944. … "believed that, in absence of committed effort to the right kind of social science research & understanding, human species might well be doomed to extinction". … "evolution … is a process of development of structures of increasing complexity & improbability. The evolutionary process always operates through mutation & selection,   and has involved some distinction between the genotype which mutates and the phenotype which is selected. The process by which the genotype constructs the phenotype may be described as "organization". Economic development manifests itself largely in the production of commodities, i.e. goods & services. It originates, however, in ideas, plans, and attitudes in the human mind. These are the genotypes in economic development. This whole process indeed can be described as a process in the growth of knowledge. What the economist calls "capital" is nothing more than human knowledge imposed on the material world. Knowledge & growth of knowledge, therefore, is the essential key to economic development. Investment, financial systems and economic organizations & institutions are in a sense only the machinery by which a knowledge process is created & expressed.” … "labor (is) an intermediate surrogate for more fundamental factors, like know-how, materials and energy, … capital is a surrogate for know-how, and land is surrogate for material resources; traditional factors of production, land, labor and capital, are easily rearticulated as know-how, energy and materials". "His 'post-civilized' society is not the stationary state of John Stuart Mill or Herman Daly, but it does have a stable population. In his youth, Boulding took position now referred to as neo-Malthusian. 'the indication seems to be' that the (per capita) income level at which the western world would only reproduce itself is one 'that the actual standard of life can never reach'. (1939, 107) 30 years later, still prior to Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb (1969) and the limits-to-growth literature (e.g., Meadows, 1971), Boulding argued it "is hard to avoid considerable pessimism" (1965) about the prospects of development especially in countries with high birth rates, which could undermine the great potential of a post-civilized society. His major contribution to this problem is probably the argument (1964) for tradable birth-right permits … based squarely on neoclassical concern for efficiency."   Ð

… different time scales in biological evolution and what Boulding calls social or societal evolution.
With advent of human capacity for developing complex images (1950), social evolution proceeded orders of magnitude faster than biological evolution. Ex. Changes in the size of the human brain have occurred orders of magnitude more slowly that the social & economic changes of in the last ten millennia.

Yet slower than biological evolution is the time scale of astronomical change. Precision by which the field of celestial mechanics is able to describe the movements of bodies of the solar system is due to the incredibly slow time scale of astronomical, evolutionary change.
Boulding's longstanding concern was that equilibrium analysis, market dynamics, and growth theory as practiced in conventional economics is based on the mathematics of difference & differential equations found in celestial mechanics. ¹ ²

"Prediction of the future is possible only in systems that have stable parameters like celestial mechanics.
… Evolutionary systems, however, by their very nature have unstable parameters. … our power of prediction, though not zero, is very limited because of the unpredictability of the parameters themselves. …
Social systems have Heisenberg principles all over the place, for we cannot predict the future without changing it. (1981, p. 44)

intensive student of Jakob Böhme's works, Novalis;   meme: Liebesreligion, religion of love

"Love is the final goal of world history - the One of the universe".
"We are on a mission: we are called upon to educate the earth".

ƒ   1575 – 1624;   mystical experiences throughout his youth, culminating in a vision in 1600 that he received through observing the exquisite beauty of a beam of sunlight reflected in a pewter dish. He believed this vision revealed to him the spiritual structure of the world, as well as the relationship between God and man, and good and evil..
After another vision in 1610, he began writing his first treatise, producing an enormous amount of writing, including his major works De Signatura Rerum and Mysterium Magnum.


Chief concern of Böhme's writing was the nature of sin, evil, and redemption. Consistent with Lutheran theology, Böhme preached that humanity had fallen from a state of divine grace to a state of sin and suffering, that the forces of evil included fallen angels who had rebelled against God, and that God's goal was to restore the world to a state of grace.
Where Böhme appeared to depart from accepted theology, though open to question due to his somewhat obscure, oracular style, was in his description of the Fall as a necessary stage in the evolution of the Universe.


In Böhme's cosmology, it was necessary for humanity to depart from God, and for all original unities to undergo differentiation, desire, and conflict, as in the rebellion of Satan, the separation of Eve from Adam, and their acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil, in order for creation to evolve to a new state of redeemed harmony that would be more perfect than the original state of innocence, allowing God to achieve a new self-awareness by interacting with a creation that was both part of, and distinct from, Himself.
Thus, free will and transverted orb was the most important gift God gave humanity, allowing us to seek divine grace as a deliberate choice while still allowing us to remain individuals. Böhme saw the incarnation of Christ not as a sacrificial offering to cancel out human sins, but as an offering of love for humanity, showing God's willingness to bear the suffering that had been a necessary aspect of creation.

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