Truth vs Falsehood (49 page)

Calibrations of the 9/11 Investigative Committee Hearings
(April-July, 2004)

It is useful to specify ‘positions’ to differentiate them from personalities or countries themselves. Positions are situational and subject to change due to partisan influence, stress, or social attitudes. Society is the organic, ongoing evolutionary process and subject to constantly shifting conditions. Survival often requires flexibility and adaptive maneuvers. People “rise to the occasion” and thereby discover hidden strengths. At other times, there are rueful reflection and reconstruction.

A Contextualization of the Iraqi War

As has been described earlier, it is not possible to understand
content
(i.e., the Iraqi War) unless placed in historical
context
. Since its inception, Islam has been militant. Its first Jihad was started by Muhammad who, three years after he dictated the Koran, dropped in consciousness calibration from level 700 to 135. This was apparently the consequence of temporal lobe epilepsy (see
Chapter 18
).

Early Islam was spread by the sword until it was stopped by Charles Martel of France and by its defeat at the battle of Granada in 1492. The second great Jihad was performed by the Ottoman Turks, which ended with defeat in Vienna in 1529.

The emergence of the Islamic sect of Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia (see
Chapter 18
) marked the onset of the third and still ongoing Jihad as was exemplified by the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and bin Laden’s Taliban. As a consequence of its anti-West stance, the Wahhabis took down the pro-Western Shah of Iran and Sadat in Egypt and attacked Hussein in Jordan, Mubarak in Egypt, and Musharraf in Pakistan. The overall plan is to infiltrate and take over governments in Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, and then, with Pakistan’s nuclear capacity, take down Israel. In this process, the United States would also be attacked (Word Trade Center, Twin Towers, plus others in planning stages). Growing Arabic populations would deter Europe from U. S. alliances and lead to Arabic dominance in the United Nations.

It was against this background that the U. S. strategy was to prevent militant Islamic-Arabic takeover of seventy-five percent of the world’s oil supplies and its huge financial power base (L. Abraham, 2004), plus the acquisition of nuclear materials by al-Qaeda, i.e., bin Laden, via Pakistani nuclear scientists, Russian sources, etc. (Berger, 2004). A Western power base in Iraq would split the Arabian continent in two and deter Arabic takeover and coalescence. Thus, Afghanistan and Iraq were strategic targets for multiple reasons to preclude a clash of civilizations of Islamic militancy with the Western world, which could go on for centuries, as it has in the past. Only the United States had the power to prevent such an ongoing cataclysm, as the United Nations was ineffectual and its Security Council impaired by food-for-oil kickbacks of billions of dollars to various members siphoned off by bogus sales, etc. (“Food for Oil,” 9/19/04). Thus, with this overall world contextualization (which calibrates at 465), the war in Iraq would therefore appear to have been a long-term strategic move to preclude a far worse multinational and perhaps centuries-long series of progressively severe cataclysms (e.g., the triage decision of a pre-emptive strike).

The context of the Iraqi war was that of a spreading, violent, militant ideology inflamed by distortions of Islam that sanctify hatred and violence and justify terrorism and the killing of innocents by labeling them as infidels. This has become a Pan-Arabic disease, and specific violent events that captivate the media are only symptoms.

The malignant messianic leaders Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, et al., are only the many heads of the hydra. The disease is also implanted in other countries across the world where surreptitious recruiting of radical converts is well orchestrated and funded. The disease hides under the camouflage of religion, and mosques in the United States are funded by militant Arabic groups as recruitment centers from which the ideology is spread via academic sympathizers that allow Jihad parades under the quasi-elitist banner of ‘fairness’, etc. The goal of Islamic terrorists is theocratic fascism (Newosh, 2004; Bridis, 2004).

Of considerable importance is the finding that Islamic converts include a dangerously high percentage of radicalized militant extremists amenable to terrorist indoctrination and training. The recruitment rates are:

These figures denote the alignment of allegiance to the terrorist ideology, which defies all reason and sanctifies homicide, thereby bypassing all forms of rational restraint.

Support of this trend by apologists (cal. 185), notably academics, rights activists, etc., would seem lacking in wisdom and discernment. The same trend in earlier decades turns out to be catastrophic (American Nazi Party, American Communist Party, white supremacist religious extremists, atomic energy scientists sharing secrets with the former U.S.S.R., the resultant Cold War, etc.).

The “Hate the Leader” Syndrome

Throughout history, and quite prominently in current society, is the recurrence of the symptoms of focused negativity on leaders or personifications of secular, political, economic, or religious power. The leader becomes the straw-man target for the projections of disturbed people who, by splitting their own repressed desires, externalize them and see them as ‘out there’. With calibration techniques, that phenomenon, which is quite shrill and overt in recent times, can be diagnosed. The pattern has been equally intense concerning past presidents (Lincoln, Roosevelt, Clinton, etc.) where its component psychodynamics were essentially identical. We can examine the contrasts between the images of the presidents and compare them with their verifiable reality. If the ruler is truly a tyrant (Hitler, Stalin, etc.), that fact reveals itself quickly upon investigation.

The “Hate Bush,” “Hate Clinton,” and “Hate America” factions tend to overlap. The fallacies of the “Hate America” extremists (Gibson, 2004) have already been reviewed in a previous chapter. The “Bush” pictured by Bush haters is seen as a fascist (cal. 65), like Stalin, Hitler, and Hussein (cal. 50-80), and as a greedy warmonger and evil person willing to sell out his country and its citizens for oil profits (traitor calibrates at 80), and send innocent soldiers to their needless deaths so he can get richer and be a dictator. Thus, he is depicted as a malignant, messianic narcissist (cal. 30). These assertions are further elaborated to include surreptitious intrigue and being in league with anti-American Islamic terrorists (i.e., treachery, cal. 60, or lower).

The composite depiction of the ‘evil’ straw man calibrates at 130. The presidency of Bush is at
460
, which indicates integrity. Collectively, the heads of all the governments of all the members of the United Nations calibrate at 190 (excluding the United States). Characteristically, critics of the U. S. defer to the U. N., which itself calibrates at 185-195. The U. N. Security Council has been involved in the food-for-oil and other payoff scandals. The Administration’s attitude toward the U. N. appears to be appropriate and supported by the facts, as described in the study “Inside The Asylum” (cal. 455) by Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.

A composite of the haters of President Bush (and the U. S., as well), collectively calibrate, amazingly enough, at 135, i.e., exactly the same as their depicted evil straw man. This displays a basic defective phenomenon of human experience as well as truth about the unconscious discovered by Freud (cal. 499) and confirmed during fifty years of psychiatric practice. Hate distorts perception, and distorted perception results in hate as falsity, e.g., Bush conducted an ‘illegal’ war. In fact, his motive was not only legal but also approved by a vote of the U. S. Congress.

Thus, the world is like a Rorschach card, and, to a disturbed person, the inkblot “U.S.” or “Bush” looks like an evil demon. Those who fear and hate authority project it onto others via ethnic, religious, or political symbols. The basis of leader hatred is simply jealousy and envy of authority figures, facilitated by the projected dualistic perceptual distortion of perpetrator/victim (the classic Marxist pitfall). In addition, narcissism results in guilt and self-hatred that is then projected onto the country and the president.

By verifiable analysis, integrous people who, by virtue of self-honesty, are themselves able to perceive integrity, can confirm that the President exercised duly-appointed responsibility and endeavored to fulfill his oath-taken duties of stewardship over a great nation in turbulent times in which the majority of the countries of the world operate from markedly lower levels of integrity, much less interest in the welfare of civilization itself (calibrates as ‘true’).

The alternative option is to passively withdraw and capitulate to Islamic terrorism, which, with control of seventy-five percent of the world’s oil supply and its vast wealth, ensures success of access to Pakistan’s nuclear capacities by which Israel would be eliminated.

In the future, with Europe heavily infiltrated by Muslim immigrants and its protest silenced in the United Nations, the same process would infiltrate the Balkan States and eventually Russia, with its oil fields. Thus, the third Jihad is designed to eventually capture world dominance by the undermining of the West. All non-Islamics will then eventually be eliminated and Islamic power will rule the world, i.e., Islamic messianic triumphalism (cal. 50). (Abraham, op. cit.).

Post-9/11 Hearings Developments

Subsequent to the counter-terrorism move of the Iraqi war, several significant events then surfaced:

1.  The public beheadings (cal. 10) of American and other civilians.

2.  The revelation of the torture of captives in military prisons.

The public was shocked and grieved when brought into close contact with the grim atrocities and realities that occur in every war, both current and past. When the lives of comrades depend on obtaining information from prisoners, brutality results from rage. That is why spies are given cyanide capsules.

Upon examination, situational sadism is based on a psychological weakness of mankind in general. The famous Milgram (1974) and Zimbardo (1973) research revealed that out of obedience to authority (the “critical factor”), the
majority
of unselected ordinary citizens would torture even a research volunteer in a university setting. In fact, over half of the experimental volunteer ‘prison guards’ were willing to administer a lethal electric shock to the ‘prisoners’ in a mock prison study.

The experiments explained the phenomena of Nazi death camps; Algeria; Japanese barbarism in Manchuria; and the torture camps in El Salvador, Brazil, Haiti, the Middle East, and elsewhere. The university research experiments actually had to be called to a halt because the role-playing guards literally became progressively more savage, cruel, and actually sadistic. This propensity was portrayed in the well-known story of
The Lord of the Flies
(Golding, 1954).

The latent behavioral trait is also exemplified by the phenomenon of bullying. All of these illustrate the release of the ‘predator-prey’ scenario, which originates in the animal brain and, as Zimbardo and Milgram demonstrated conclusively, is released by role, plus environment. The studies revealed that because of this predictable response, closer supervision of prisoners is needed by authorities that are specifically educated about the Milgram-Zimbardo research findings. It was this serious omission that resulted in the Abu Ghraib events that biased media inflated even more than was necessary (45 repetitions in the New York Times).

Not much is learned from political pretense anymore than one can cure pneumonia by pretending that it is just a cold. “Jihad” literally means “Holy War,” which is a serious warning because it is the most dangerous of all positionalities since it sanctions as well as encourages the most barbaric actions by citing God as the excuse and authority for them (i.e., “the will of Allah”). The source of current Islamic extremism is traceable to the violent teachings of Muhammad ibn Abdul Mahhab (cal. 20), later reinforced by the distortions of the Koran promulgated by Sayyid Qutb (cal. 20), which glorify violence and death and condemn not only ninety percent of Muslims as idolaters but also one hundred percent of all followers of other religions as well (Forsyth, 2004). (See “Islam” in
Chapter 18
.) Bin Laden’s declaration of war against the United States was ignored, which was understandable with U. S. intelligence operating at calibration level 190.

His “fatwah” (cal. 40) was a formal declaration that it is the religious obligation and duty for
all
Muslims to kill
all infidels
, with no exceptions—meaning all civilians, including women and children; for Jihad, there are no ‘innocents’ among infidels. It is similar to the Roman Catholic Church’s pronouncement of “anathema,” i.e., an abomination to God. American sympathizers fail to realize that in the eyes of an Islamic zealot, they are merely the same as any other infidels (i.e., “mushrikun”).

Aggression “in the name of God” is the most dangerous of all and is immune to all the countermeasures characteristically used by the Western world. HAMAS (which was championed by Arafat), the Taliban, and al-Qaeda are similar and identical in their origins. These groups reflect the darkest potential of which humans are capable, as did Pol Pot. They calibrate at 35 to 45, which is literally below the level of the Komodo dragon, and actually lower than that of dinosaurs because of intention. Thus, the term “atavistic” is appropriate and a clinically accurate diagnosis. It represents the expression of a very primitive ‘attractor’ field of very early life forms of mindless, voracious killers and is the same level as serial murderers.