Hold Clapper Accountable for any Terrorist Attack on U.S.

Under pressure for the illegal surveillance activities of the NSA, now fully blossoming to include what are the obvious uses of such programs including sexual blackmail the National Security State has resorted to the Bush strategy – fear mongering.  The state media has dutifully been ratcheting up the full frontal assault on Americans over DNI James Clapper’s ominous testimony before a Senate committee that a Syrian group “does have aspirations for attacks on the homeland”.  Never mind that this is the same James Clapper who lied to Congress over the extent of domestic spying on law-abiding citizens he is taken seriously with his threat of a looming Islamist militant attack within the borders of the United States.  It should be noted that such an attack – or the uncovering of one – at the very same time when the drip, drip, drip of stories of abuse of the intelligence agencies within his sphere of influence is about to become a torrent would be very fortuitous indeed. Such an attack on The Homeland would allow for the full power of the state to be mobilized to go after former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with hammer, tong, JSOC assassination teams and drones. It would also allow for the total and permanent crushing of any dissent against the post September 11, 2001 authoritarian state, starting with journalists like the hated Glenn Greenwald and extending to possibly include anyone who within the range of a three hop query of those who have voiced support for Snowden.

This past week saw the resurrection of the toothpaste bomb, something straight out of the Bush-Cheney era of cultivating our national paranoia that turned airports into Soviet bloc style checkpoints. Now the Department of Homeland Security is following Clapper’s lead by bringing the war that Obama did not start on schedule into the domestic realm. Jeh Johnson the successor to Big Sister Janet Napolitano as the head of the American Gestapo in remarks on Friday stated that:

"We know individuals from the U.S., Canada and Europe are traveling to Syria to fight in the conflict," he said. "At the same time, extremists are actively trying to recruit Westerners, indoctrinate them, and see them return to their home countries with an extremist mission."

And in a piece that ran in Reuters on the same day entitled “Analysis: Is Syria now a direct threat to the U.S.?”  by David Rohde which bestows a sort of fawning legitimacy upon the pathological liar Clapper a number of what will soon become standard talking points were rolled out”.  I excerpt the following:

Peace talks are at a virtual standstill. An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad has missed two deadlines to turn over his deadliest chemical weapons. And radical extremists who have fought in Syria are carrying out attacks in Egypt and allegedly aspire to strike the United States as well.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper told members of Congress last week that Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda aligned group in Syria, "does have aspirations for attacks on the homeland." American and Egyptian officials expressed alarm this week at signs that Egyptians who fought in Syria have returned home to mount an insurgency.

Critics of Obama administration policy in Syria argue that none of this should come as a surprise. For years, they have predicted that Assad and his Iranian and Russian backers would fight tenaciously; militants would flock to Syria; and the region would be destabilized by refugee flows, rising sectarianism and radicalized fighters returning home.

In his testimony last week, Clapper said that American intelligence agencies had picked up indications of "training complexes" within Syria "to train people to go back to their countries and conduct terrorist acts, so this is a huge concern."

If the addicted to war establishment is to make a case for rebooting the failed attacks on Damascus it would probably be advisable to find some new footage of the “training camps” other than the al Qaeda fighters swinging from monkey bars that was aired thousands of times when the case was being made to attack Iraq.

Having another terrorist attack occur domestically, especially with foreign interests behind it would also be a windfall for the trillion dollar private security industry that sprang up to exploit the ‘day when everything changed’ and have been parasite upon the body politic ever since as well as leeches on the backs of American taxpayers. It would for all intents and purposes allow them to lock in their gains and even receive more money courtesy of corrupt politicians and sociopathic bureaucrats like Clapper.

There will be no excuse for not demanding the bald head of one James Clapper mounted on a pike if there is another attack on The Homeland. There was no accountability after September 11, 2001 but this time and especially in light of his obvious conflicts of interest were one to occur Clapper should not only be immediately fired but investigated. Enough of this looking forward crap in order to excuse incompetence and even possible criminality, it is well past time to begin to eliminate the rats that have infested our government.

We will soon rue the day when a more proactive approach to the removal of Clapper from his position was not taken shortly after he lied to Congress.

(Image: The Telegraph)

Cruise Missile Cowboy

As the old adage goes – if you give a man enough rope he will eventually hang himself and today Barack H. Obama should pay heed. Despite widespread public skepticism, a stunning smack downof British pardner David Cameron, Tonto to Obama’s Drone Ranger and a smelly case of chemical weapons use that brings back memories of “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” the leader is saddling up for a shootin’ war. I don’t ever want to hear a liberal or a Democrat attack George W. Bush again because now that Barry has turned cowboy with yet another new war, one that may even  turn into WW III and the American day of reckoning at the O.K. Corral Barry is now every bit as bad. I would venture to say that trail boss Obama is far worse than Bushever was simply because Bush never bothered pretending that he was anything other than a cowboy, his successor is a full blown Judas. Irony is hysterical in that the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was trusted by so many to end the wars is about to lead his own gang into a morass of death and destruction that has all of the potential to end up like that classic final showdown in the classic Sam Peckinpah western The Wild Bunch.

This is all on the Barry too. He spent too much of his first term acting as a triangulating, milquetoast, arugula eating, verbose, teleprompter reading effete snob and he was mocked and disrespected by his enemies and taken advantage of by his friends. When he idiotically came out last year and stated that the use of chemical weapons was his “red line” for sending the military bully boys into action in Syria it was only a matter of time until someone – and let me emphasize that we still have no idea of who – would call his bluff. Real men don’t chicken out when it’s time to take ten paces, turn around and draw, especially given the long, lurid and colorful history of American cowboy foreign policy and Obama now has little choice.  Thorough international investigations will take you only so far when the monstrous power of the military industrial complex and the blood barters of Wall Street catch the scent of blood money.  Toss in a grifter like Obama, still smarting over being pilloried throughout his lamentable first term and then having his nose rubbed into a bowl of borscht flavored humble pie with a vodka chaser by the black hat Putin over Ed Snowden and we have a man that is itching for a gunfight. One must wonder how many times that Django Unchained has been the nightly movie at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Nixon got his Vietnam rocks off by watching Patton and we know damned well how well that all turned out.

This is a looming disaster another step in the downtrend, but Barry can’t back down because as national sheriff he has laid down the law and can’t be seen as a ‘chicken’ . After the embarrassments of being rebutted by the U.N. Security Council and Cameron’s parliamentary fiasco the rogue Obama regime is today hanging it’s hat on a new U.S. intelligence report offering damning evidence of the Assad regime’s complicity in the chemical gas attack. Don’t bother stopping to think that the very same intelligence community has a vested interest in protecting their own asses by hyping a new war that will knock the NSA Stasi revelations out of the headlines and provide more time for Obama’s black ops hit teams to find and murder Ed Snowden.  The added benefit would be that any opposition to Barry’s big shootout in Damascus will quickly be labeled as “traitors” and accused of “aiding the enemy” for their daring to challenge El Presidente. This is the way it always works in totalitarian societies and post September 11, 2001 we are living in an increasingly obvious one. The very fact that Barry and the boys no longer bother hiding any of it is an ominous sign of what is yet to come.

So expect high noon anytime now, best get out and gas up your car before the coming oil price spike. The administration once again sent forth Skull and Bones member John Kerry to again spew out demagogic rhetoric in his normal monotonous delivery to push the propaganda line. French President Francois Hollande now appears to be joining the Obama gang as the 2013 incarnation of the “coalition of the willing” begins to take form. One can imagine that the cheese-eating surrender monkey French are still traumatized by their resistance to Bush’s Iraq war and having French Fries renamed Freedom Fries in the Congressional cafeteria. Obama is also now invoking the imminent threat to Israel and Jordan which will set the tone for the smearing of opponents as “isolationists” and pejoratives even worse than that. The question that is never once tolerated is that why is there always money for more war when the entire country is crumbling and is on the brink of becoming akin to a third world banana republic in the coming years. Such a question would quickly run astray of Obama and his state media lynching party and those who ask would be ruthlessly smeared.

So as we here sit on the eve of what would be the initial cruise missile shots of World War III we are only provided with the pro-war propaganda of the usual cavalcade of clowns. Poor pitiful Barry stands to lose face, and the sycophants and stenographer presstitutes worried about lost access were they to live up to their duties under the rapidly disappearing First Amendment. At least there are some, now exiled to the fringes who still dare to ask the forbidden questions. Take Pat Buchanan for instance who just wrote-

Understandably, Obama wants to get the egg off his face from having foolishly drawn his “red line” against chemical weapons, and then watching Syria, allegedly, defy His Majesty. But saving Obama’s face does not justify plunging his country into another Mideast war.

Does Obama realize what a fool history will make of him if he is stampeded into a new war by propaganda that turns out to be yet another stew of ideological zealotry and mendacity?

As of today, we do not know exactly what gas was used around Damascus, how it was delivered, who authorized it and whether President Bashar Assad ever issued such an order.

Yet, one Wall Street Journal columnist is already calling on Obama to assassinate Assad along with his family.

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Nations that start wars and attack countries, as Gen. Tojo and Adm. Yamamoto can testify, do not get to decide how wide the war gets, how long it goes on or how it ends.

If the United States attacks Damascus and Syria’s command and control, under the rules of war Syria would be within its rights to strike Washington, the Pentagon and U.S. bases all across the Middle East.

Does Obama really want to start a war, the extent and end of which he cannot see, that is likely to escalate, as its promoters intend and have long plotted, into a U.S. war on Iran? Has the election in Iran of a new president anxious to do a deal with America on Iran’s nuclear program caused this panic in the War Party?

If we think the markets reacted badly to a potential U.S. strike on Syria, just wait for that big one to start. Iran has a population the size of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq combined, and sits astride the Straits of Hormuz through which the free world’s oil flows.

And who will be our foremost fighting ally in Syria should we attack Assad’s army? The Al-Nusra Front, an arm of al-Qaida and likely successor to power, should Assad fall.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Obama is indeed mad as in pissed off at Putin and aS the ongoing revelations of his corrupt surveillance state as well as the ugly truth that his economic policies are a disaster and his health care reform plan is nothing more than a big government backed shakedown of taxpayers to benefit big corporations.  But in the sense of the word invoked by Buchanan he is not truly mad (is in crazy) and that is a very disconcerting though in that madmen eventually are stopped. It is the arrogant, foolhardy, reckless state of hubris as Barry has now received his own personal fix of our cowboy bent when it comes to global affairs.

It is all a matter of Obama playing a game of my missile is bigger than yours with Putin and Syria just happens to be the set of this tragedy in the making.

It is a tall order but the American people and Congress need to reign this varmint in now.