THE CAUSE OF TERRORISM
By: Dr. A. H. Krieg
NewsWithViews.com
In the wake of the terrorist attacks on America on Sept 11/01 it should
be more than obvious that we are reaping 30 years of meddling in other
peoples affairs and are now reaping the result of it.
Appropriately called 5th generation war terrorism is
difficult to combat because it is not a unified military action, but
rather a means by which the terrorists, not associated with any national
functioning or military structure, attempt to alter public sentiment on
issues. Terrorism is not about winning it is about changing society to the
direction desired by the terrorists. Terrorism is often state (government)
sponsored, and in the 20th century has been used by all sides
including ours. The primary difficulty in combating 5th
generation warfare rests with the difficulty of identifying the enemy
(perpetrators) of the acts when they are not openly carried out by a
government, and if identified; the difficulty of preemptive action against
them. The key to
understanding the cause of 5th generation war, and successfully
opposing it, rests in understanding its cause and the desires of the
terrorists.
In our case it is not very difficult to understand foreign as well
as domestic terrorism, as well as its causes. While our federal and state
authorities spend billions of dollars in dozens of agencies in response to
it, they are going about combating this evil in the entirely wrong manner.
In this instance it behooves us to separate foreign and domestic terrorism
into two completely separate entities. The reason is that the cause of it
differs, the greatest danger being that government action may possibly
lead to shared aims of foreign and domestic terrorists, which would be a
national calamity of huge proportion.
All terrorism is a reaction by a dedicated group of individuals,
against an established order, who conspire and by violent means attempt to
bring about changes they deem to be in concert with their goals. A
reaction to such acts by any established order is inappropriate because it
is invariably late. The response taking place after the act has already
occurred making it mute. To arrest adjudicate and punish is appropriate
but does nothing for the victims of the act, nor does it produce a
deterrent. Military response to 5th generation war is neither
practical nor does it work. Police action invariably deprives members of
the indigenous society liberty and freedom, the exact results that the
terrorists want. How then do we fight this latest development of military
strategy?
Domestic
Terrorism is the result of government arrogance, lack of appropriate
response to citizens, and acts of state terrorism against select groups of
individual citizens. In the realm of arrogance we clearly see the creation
of law at a pace that neither government nor individual citizens are able
to keep up with. The resultant act by governmental bureaucracies is
selective enforcement by various agencies against opponents of those
bureau’s individual policies. It has not gone unnoticed that a majority
of the citizens of America fear their government, according to 1998
statistics. When citizens of any nation fear the bureaucracies created in
their government that regime becomes a tyranny.
The most flagrant offenders of this are the IRS and BATF. Internal
Revenue Statutes as of 2001 constitute a volume of over two million words,
written in such a convoluted and confusing manner that no one is able to
understand the statute. In past years Money Magazine has created a
mythical tax return and offered it to scores IRS agents as well as
CPA’s, no two have ever produced the same tax liability. Furthermore
according to Pamela Gardiner inspector general at the U.S. Treasury
Department errors in advice to taxpayers drooped from a whopping 81% down
to 73% in 2000. That would indicate that three quarters of the advice
given taxpayers by IRS agents is wrong.
If the enforcers as well as the experts are unable to produce a
uniform result it is high time to scrap the entire mess. The Bureau of
Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco institutes stupid regulations which their
agents and management are unable to explain to anyone. Why for instance
would a percussion cap firearm developed in the 1800’s require a sales
license if the hammer strikes in the center of the barrel and none if on
the side? Why would a semi-automatic AK 47 (developed over 40 years ago)
be illegal with a pistol grip and legal with a sports grip? The function
and ability are identical for both. Why would a bayonet fixture be illegal
on a firearm? Have you heard of any crime committed at bayonet point? Why
would there be a law about the length of a shotgun stock or barrel? Why
would you require a $300. license for a silencer, when a soda pop bottle
will serve the purpose for free? Both
these agencies utilize their written confusing legal structure to
selectively enforce their statutes against often-innocent citizens, more
often than not for the purpose of property confiscation and for agency
self- enrichment. These are the causes of domestic terrorism, which are
simple to combat at minimal cost. To end domestic terrorism government
must be made more responsive to individual as well as groups of citizens.
Written law that is unintelligible must be removed from the books. Tax
statues (the IRS code) must be scrapped in favor of either a flat tax or a
sales tax. Selective enforcement of statues must be condemned at the
highest levels of the bureaucracy. All agencies of government must be
forced to be cooperative and courteous when dealing with the public. No
agency of the government should be allowed to wear black uniforms and ski
masks (looking like thugs) in performance of their duty. Most importantly
all agencies must change direction in the attainment of their espoused
goals. All new statute should not be punitive but seek to achieve its goal
by reward. Instead of penalizing a land owner for having spotted owls on
his land by not allowing him to harvest his property offer him a tax write
off, and a generous reward for any increase in spotted owl population.
Such actions will eliminate domestic terrorist acts, serve all the public
and bring a more civil society.
Foreign terrorism: It goes without saying that foreign
terrorism will be substantially weakened if domestic tranquility and
confidence of governing bodies is restored domestically. All foreign
terrorist acts against America, American property as well as against our
citizen’s soldiers and diplomats stem from our foreign policy. If in
fact a foreign government did to us what our state department does
congress would rapidly declare war on that entity. America’s foreign
policy is a development of “Study Committees” of the CFR. All their
policy is politically motivated without the slightest consideration of
American advantage; it is solely based on the internationalist philosophy
of the New World Order that permeates the leadership of every single study
committee at the Council on Foreign Relations, on 68th St. in
NYC. This semi-secret organization has dominated the structure, policy
making, and leadership in our department of state since the FDR
administration. To further wreak havoc on America these people are the
instigators of the EU, NAFTA, GAT, WTO, and the coming FTAA. Whether you
agree or disagree with this internationalist bent is relatively
unimportant. What is important is the outcome of these international
agreements and treaties along with their influence on Americans. Take
NAFTA, it has lost us 7 million manufacturing jobs, and turned a $5.76
billion annual trade surplus with Mexico into a mind boggling trade
deficit of $ 33 billion in 2000. Total projected trade losses amount to
over $320 billion since NAFTA inception. The last issued (suppressed)
report on NAFTA by the U.S. Department of Labor (1996, 122 pages)
indicated a loss of 1,586 manufacturing plants to Mexico. Not satisfied
with that it is now the policy of both parties to expand NAFTA to FTAA, a
hemisphere wide free trade zone encompassing all of Latin America as well
as the Caribbean Basin. Consider the population of America at about 260
million, while the combined population of FTAA is 750 million. The average
American income is about $ 24,000 annually and that of the balance of the
FTAA nations is $875. Equalized free trade would result in a decline of
the average American income to $3.360.00 per year. That these guys are
unable to add subtract or multiply is blatantly obvious. Scrap NAFTA and
don’t even consider FTAA.
In the Middle East a political flash point almost since Pax Romana,
but most certainly since the Balfour Declaration American foreign policy
has been nothing if not stupid. The world contains about one billion
adherents of Islam and perhaps 14 million Jews. Our State Department
relies on the Mossad (Israeli secret service) for the major part of our
Middle East intelligence, and is staffed by an un-proportional number of
Zionists particularly in their Middle East section. That this results in a
lopsided policy can be understood by any six year old.
Furthermore it has been our national policy (separation of church
and state excluded) that we provide a socialist theocracy Israel the bulk
of our foreign aid. All
of our Middle East terrorist activity could easily be eliminated by
reasonable evenhanded federal policies towards that part of the world.
This does not mean that we cannot guarantee Israel’s security, but
simply that our policies must conform to fairness in everyone’s eyes,
something it does not now do.
Likewise our Balkan policies gain us nothing but more enemies. The
Balkans has been in intermittent war for over 900 years. For Clinton to
have stated that “we will be out of there by Christmas” was perhaps
the stupidest statement of the 20th century. It is more than
apparent that our NATO/UN policy of “Cultural Marxism” in ramming our
political philosophies down the throats of the indigenous population has
not resulted in peace or tranquility. To my mind the only accomplishment
of our Balkan policies has been the interminable hatred of the majority of
the population of what once was Yugoslavia. We presently have over 5000
troops in the Balkans bring them home. We have thousands in Germany and
Japan bring them home. We have troops in over 80 nations around the world
bring them all home. We are not the world’s police force, and the
majority of nations consider their methods of governance and social stance
as good as ours. Who are we to try to impose our system of governance on
others?
There are two ways by which a society can be altered. These are
unrelenting military involvement, and uncontrolled unrelenting legal and
illegal immigration. Both policies along with the “Trojan Horse” of
“Free Trade” represent to corner stone of our national policy under
both Republican as well as Democrat administrations. We in fact do not
have political parties we have a political
“System” whose two goals are an international feudalistic state
managed by a small group of internationalist plutocrats, and its own
self-preservation.
To end foreign terrorism requires a dramatic shift in our foreign
policy adhering more closely to Teddy Roosevelt’s “Walk softly and
carry a big stick”. In other words minding our own business and stay out
of other people’s business. This has always been sound policy for
personal affairs, and is likewise perfect policy for national foreign
affairs.
Dr. Krieg is an author inventor
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