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State Terrorism and Hurricanes: lessons from American-powered British Empire by Robert Allan Williams While most people in Florida are recovering from Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, millions of other people in third-world countries, particularly Afghanistan and Iraq, pray that another kind of disaster will not hit their communities: Anglo-American state terrorism. Hurricane Charley pummeled Florida on August 13, 2004 cutting a 6-mile wide swath of death and destruction that would have left the Yankee Civil War General Tecumseh Sherman in envy had he been alive to see it. Scores of Southerners were killed and thousands of homes were leveled. Tens of thousands of more homes and buildings suffered damage. Next, Hurricane Frances added insult to injury and death. Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne repeated the mayhem twice more. Hurricanes, like earthquakes and other natural disasters, are not preventable. But many times they are predictable. Officials who monitor hurricane activity often predict with considerable accuracy and warn of imminent hurricane danger thereby allowing residents the opportunity to evacuate and seek safety. State terrorism, however, including U.S. state terrorist bombs dropped by Air Force jets, is not a natural disaster. U.S. state terrorism is a predictable and preventable human-sponsored catastrophe. So why isn’t something done about it? Iraq is a typical example. Many people know something about the current British and American occupation of Iraq or about the previously waged Operation Desert Storm. But how many people know about the Anglo- American state terrorism waged on that country between those two state terrorist assaults? After the first President Bush ended Operation Desert Storm 13 years ago, Anglo-American state terrorist bombs began to fall monthly in Iraq. They fell for 130 consecutive months on the heads of the internal enemies of the CIA-installed and maintained dictator Saddam Hussayn. Not only did the bombs kill their intended victims, they often melted their neighbors and other innocents. Those British and U.S. bombs killed scores of people but too few citizens in America or Britain were informed by their corporate-owned media. Why is it taboo to report on the carnage caused by American-powered British Empire? Former U.S. Presidential candidate Harry Browne summarized the global problem of U.S. state terrorism succinctly: "Our foreign policy has been insane for decades". Browne explained: "President Bush has authorized continued bombing of innocent people in Iraq. President Clinton bombed innocent people in the Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Serbia. President Bush, senior, invaded Iraq and Panama. President Reagan bombed innocent people in Libya and invaded Grenada. And on and on it goes." Harry Browne asked, "Did we think the people who lost their families and friends and property in all that destruction would love America for what happened? When will we learn that violence always begets violence?" ( See http://www.worldnetdaily.com) Losing America to British Empire George Washington must be rolling in his grave, asking "How did America get sucked back in by the British?" According to Prof. Nicholas Cull of Leicester University, the British had a secret strategy to neutralize American neutrality during WWII that included such baiting tactics as selecting the intolerable Winston Churchill as Prime Minister because he had dual American and British citizenship. After U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to successfully attack American military forces at Pearl Harbor, Americans rushed to Europe to help the British contain the advancing Russian forces marching on a defeated Germany. With that, the Yanks were hooked. When I was in the military during the early 1980s and saw first-hand how America provided the brawn to British Empire, I was stunned. I was schooled in American government schools and learned their stories of the American Revolution, which portrayed British monarchal imperialism and American libertarian democracy as entirely antagonistic socio-political perspectives. Yet there was Uncle Sam side-stepping with the British Monarch to maintain puppet regimes in other peoples’ countries, such as the Sa’udi King in Arabia, on behalf of oil. There was the joint British and American assault on the Argentinians at the Malvinas (aka Falkland Islands). I saw British squadrons along with Canadian flyers participating with Americans in joint war games in Nevada, Germany, and the Middle East. More state terrorism was carried out in Central America in places such as El Salvador by U.S. forces in support of pharmaceutical industry-backed dictators. Grenada was invaded because its citizenry practiced democracy and voted for a President that Uncle Sam did not favor. I saw that elections in third world countries are shams – if they don’t vote for the man Uncle Sam wants, they are punished and Uncle Sam’s man is put in anyway. How are Iraqis and Afghans supposed to take heart by elections when they are occupied by British and American forces today? It is absurd to talk about democracy when there is an occupation. Unlike hurricanes, these state terrorist acts were completely avoidable – it only required a U.S. President (Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, or Bush Junior) or a British Prime Minister (Thatcher, Majors or Bliar – "I like that spelling") to say "NO". But since they are really servants for the global gang of 500 billionaires, it requires an informed voting citizenry to vote "NO". We know where the Anglo-American state terrorists will strike, and how they intend to do the most damage – from "bunker busters" that can annihilate a six feet concrete wall to "burrowing limited nukes" that the state terrorists are itching to experiment. We only have to look for the lands thickest and richest in oil reserves. It takes a lot of petroleum to incur the wrath of state terrorists. With lots of petroleum ripe for the taking, it is not a question of if the state terrorists will strike -- it is only when will they strike? Since the end of WWII and the British pacification of America to provide the brawn to British Empire, third world people have been bombed consistently by the Anglo-American state terrorists and have lost many lives and homes to unnatural and destructive state terrorism. Most tragic is that it doesn’t take a George Washington to figure out that not only is this unnecessary, but it stands in direct contradiction to America’s reason for being. America fought two wars against the British in support of democracy and opposed to monarchy. Today, America installs and maintains kings and other dictators around the globe on behalf of their British bosses. As Robert Higgs uncovered in his "Crisis and Leviathan" (1988), war is indeed the health of the state. We citizens of America and Britain have neglected our duty to oversee our public servants for far too long. Most of our public agencies in government have at least 20 times as many government officials as they had just a century ago. Where 40 or 50 tax-consuming bureaucrats sucked up the public coffers a century ago, today 5,000 and up are sucking up tax money per million of the population. How to Reclaim America from British Empire The answer to government state terrorism is simple. We must restore our levels of government to their historically manageable condition. Prior to the World Wars, government was small. Today most government agencies are overblown, especially the militaries, and pose a serious state terrorist threat. National agencies are in the most formidable condition with many on a war footing ready to press a button or send in troops to squelch even their own citizenry. That is very nearly to the totalitarianism that Hitler had established in Nazi Germany. If you are not shocked by this article, then you probably have switched off. "Not here in America" you want to believe. Then I ask you to find out for yourself simply by typing into Google anything that I’ve mentioned above – the evidence is incontrovertible. America has been lost to British Empire and we Yanks are now behaving like the British. Our enemies are not the victims of American-powered British Empire; our enemies are the turncoats in Washington, District of Criminals, who have betrayed America to empire. I am of course referring to the fifth columnists and other parasites that lurk in our nation’s capital and how detrimental they are to our liberties and well-being. It’s unavoidable that some readers will not want to believe their eyes, but would rather believe the balderdash from our word-pushers and other politicians. Rudyard Kipling explained that "words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind". I hope that Jim Babka will help unmask this taboo once and for all: "But right now, the United States spends $1,400 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. For my family of five, that means $7,000 per year! We spend more than any twenty nations combined and we have military operations in over 100 nations. All of this is ostensibly, and fraudulently, sold to us as being necessary to "protect our freedoms." And yet, we feel less safe than ever." (See downsizedc.com). Civil libertarians throughout the country have been stymied for too long by the state terrorists in their efforts to downsize D.C. and restore public accountability. Lobbyists and other groups looking for perks run to Washington, D.C. looking for handouts based on the misguided notion that our government officials should be left alone to govern as they see fit, and that wars and foreign interventions are natural. Wars and other forms of state terrorism are not natural. This callous disregard for the truth and the safety of our fellow human beings around the globe must end. The stakes are too high. We cannot remain American if we sit by and watch more and more countries, homes, peoples’ lives melted by preventable state terrorist bombs. It is past time to stop the carnage. Community, state, and federal civil libertarians have made progress. But they’ve done too little. Too little money, too little action and too many excuses from CIA moles to the catchall fallback – "people don’t care", allow the state terrorism crisis to grow worse. We responsible citizens must work together by downsizing D.C. and reducing the quantities of "flammable" statists. This election, many concerned Americans hope to restore America by voting for Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party or Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party, America’s 3rd and 4th parties. Badnarik and Peroutka are ordinary working people, not Yale billionaire boys like Bush and Kerry who both voted for war. To learn more about them, go to Badnarik.org or Peroutka2004.org . While too few Americans currently take note of the state terrorists or that British Empire is now American-powered, the folks at DownsizeDC.com have established a watch post and are diligently warning the American public. We cannot prevent hurricanes, but we can solve the state terrorist crisis by staying close to liberty. 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