Bill O'Reilly, the scurrilous "phone sex" deviant and prime time bully, wants nine eleven researchers and investigators arrested-or, more accurately under the so-called detainee bill, disappeared into Gestapo torture dungeons-and presumably brought up on treason charges, marched before a secret military tribunal, and sent to the gallows. O'Reilly did not say as much when he abused and talked over Jim Fetzer last night, characterizing him as a "disgrace" to the country for not buying lock, stock, and barrel the official Grimm Brothers fairy tale version of events of what did and did not happen on September 11, 2001. Not only did the reprehensible O'Reilly, who had the academic Dr. Sami al-Arian arrested and charged as a terrorist, slander Fetzer and by extension anybody else who questions the government, he also demanded Fetzer be tailed by the FBI.
"I'd put the FBI on you and that nutty [professor Kevin] Barrett and find out what the hell you guys are up to," threatened O'Reilly, basically insinuating that scholarly research is a crime, as of course "everything changed" after nine eleven, including the right to exercise the First Amendment. But then, as we know, or some of us know, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are now effectively dead and, increasingly, it is a crime to question the government, especially in an academic setting, same as it was after the Nazis took over in Germany.
It would appear O'Reilly's latest temper tantrum is part of a concerted effort to demonize those who "hate their country" (i.e., have the gall to ask questions) because they are unable to accept the officially sanctioned fairy tale stipulating without evidence that a few Muslim cave dwellers-one with a documented past linked to the CIA and Pakistan's ISI and others trained on U.S. military bases-made NORAD stand down with boxcutters.
Last month, the unitary decider, in a speech at the Capital Hilton Hotel, cited a White House strategy paper that insists "[t]errorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories." Is it possible Fetzer may soon be considered a terrorist recruiter for dispensing "falsehoods corrupted by conspiracy theories," that is to say information at variance with the official fairy tale?
It will be if Bill O'Reilly has his way.
"In late September 2001, al-Arian was invited to be a guest on The O'Reilly Factor," explains Democracy Now. "Al-Arian thought he was going to be discussing Arab-American reactions to the attacks. Instead, host Bill O'Reilly went on a tirade against him, basically accusing al-Arian of supporting terrorism and terrorist groups. O'Reilly dug up comments al-Arian had made 15 years earlier and suggested that he should be followed everywhere he went [by the CIA]. All of this on live international television and just weeks after the 9-eleven attacks."
The FBI and Joint Terrorism task Force raided the home of Sami al-Arian early on the morning of February 20, 2003, slapped him in handcuffs as his family looked on in horror, and dragged him off to a federal dungeon. Of course, as al-Arian is not a terrorist, the government is unable to make charges stick against him, although, as is usually the case in such highly touted "terrorism" cases, al-Arian was forced to plea to a lesser charge and will be deported "to another country," no doubt one where he will be regarded with suspicion.
In short, the Justice Department and Bill O'Reilly ruined Sami al-Arian's life-but then fascists are experts at such destructive behavior.
As the government has a keen interest in shutting down the nine eleven truth movement, especially now as it continues to gain visibility, there is a distinct possibility Jim Fetzer and other prominent researchers and academics will be arrested in the wee hours of the night. Bill O'Reilly has once again sounded the clarion call, demanding the feds take out Fetzer, Kevin Barrett, and anybody else who stands in the way of the neocon master plan to turn America into the equivalent of Germany under Hitler or Russia under Stalin.
In a way, however, Sami al-Arian was lucky, as habeas corpus still existed when he had his day in court.
If the government determines nine eleven researchers and other "conspiracy theorists" are terrorist recruiters, we can expect select personalities from the nine eleven truth movement-as fractured and factionalized as it is (and riddled with COINTELPRO agents) and thus ineffectual to a large degree-to disappear into the night, hustled off by the American version of the Geheime Staatspolizei, our very own state secret police.