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Title: The Conspiracy to Erect An Electronic Iron Curtain
Source:
louisbeam.com
URL Source: http://www.louisbeam.com/ironcurtain.htm
Published: May 3, 1996
Author: An Essay by L. R. Beam
Post Date: 2009-05-03 00:31:16 by Deasy
Keywords: leaderless, first amendment, speech, sedition
Views: 390
Comments: 20
The internet, perhaps the last truly free means of information exchange in the Western World, may soon be choked by censorship and governmental controls. The circumscribing of the net may cause the death of what has become the first people-to-people exchange of ideas and information on a world wide basis. The forces behind this effort appear at first glance to be an unlikely coalition of conspirators, the CIA, some Jewish Religious groups, and various foreign governments. While this unholy alliance for censorship and control may seem unusual to some, politics makes the bed for these strange fellows. Indisputably, an international cabal of special interest groups both within and out of governments are working both openly and secretly to end the unregulated direct exchange of information between people. At stake is nothing less then the regaining of information control which the internet has shattered. Up for grabs is nothing more than the thinking and decision making abilities of informed men. Information has flowed from the top down for most of this century. Filtering of information by middle men from government, newspapers, radio, and then television has left most Americans depending upon Paul Harvey "for the rest of the story." Suddenly, almost without warning, the internet mushroomed into popularity connecting people all over the world together electronically and thereby threatening the power of those who disseminate information. If information is power, then the control of information is more power. The ideas of men are shaped by what they are told. For those who hope to erect a "New World Order" upon what they view as the antiquated ashes of free speech, control of the internet has jumped to near top of the list of "things to do." Governments and religious groups manipulate and control people by what they are allowed to know or not know. A decision has been made by the information brokers to end unregulated information exchange. Overnight the propaganda begins as these forces build their case for control and censorship. Quickly the nightly news lights up with horror stories of pornography on the net. Minutes later the same channel runs four hours of lurid programming bringing profanity, sex, sodomites and violence into the homes of viewers who were just shocked about porno on the net. Newspapers carry feature length stories about children being lured from home over the computer telephone line, as if somehow typing a request to a child for sex over the phone line is more effective than saying it over the same phone line. The Anti-Defamation League issues reports saying that bomb plans can be found on the net along with anti- Jewish opinion. As if the same were not available in every public library in the United States. Politicians in Washington began to talk about "protecting the children." The same politicians who's destructive social policies and no win wars have destroyed more mothers sons than all the pagan empires of the past. Rabbi Abraham Cooper calls for censorship of politically incorrect ideas in Canada and asks for the establishment of an "internet police." A delegation from the Nazi- hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna Austria, which has for the most part run out of eighty year old former Nazis to hunt, takes on the new task of information censors and asks Italian Prime Minister Lamberto Dini, European Union president to back World Jewish Congress initiatives to stop those who disagree on the impact and importance of the holocaust from using the internet. Then in a joint effort of the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center letters are mailed to Internet service providers in early 1996 urging providers not to carry messages that contain non-complimentary opinion about Jews, which is quickly labeled as "cyberhate speech." This is but a glimpse of the public efforts of the information censors to unleash "info police" on the net. It is clear that those who have previously served as the middlemen of politically correct information are distraught at their having been taken out of the loop. Meanwhile, sources within the federal government, who wish to remain unnamed, reveal that there are considerable behind the scene efforts to bring the flow of information under government control. In the labyrinthine bunkers of the CIA in Arlington Virginia, a team of planners has begun discussion on how to control the net by establishing internet node servers throughout the system that will act as a "strainer" of unwanted electronic information flow (there are indications this process has now begun). The Army Security Agency (ASA), which has the worlds most sophisticated signals intelligence and electronic monitoring capabilities has began setting up clandestine servers to monitor traffic, catalog, classify, and achieve. From the above sampling of events, it is clear that both government and pressure groups with sacred cows to defend have determined that uncontrolled information flow between people is a threat to their interests. The results of this statist thinking will lead to a "war on information" similar to the "war on drugs," curtailing free speech and informed opinion. Like the war on drugs the real objective will not be to save society but rather to control society. CYBER WARS are breaking out between the people and government over the flow of information. What is wanted by these would be internet thought police is nothing less then the right of government and religious (in this case Judaism) imprimatur on the transfer of electronic information: an electronic iron curtain. Efforts at censorship by religious groups are not new to this continent. The Spanish Catholic church which saw nothing of value among the writings of Aztecs and Mayans ordered their books burned in contempt. Like them, Rabbi Abraham Cooper and the Anti-defamation League see nothing of value in the words of those who beg to disagree. Black robed priests yelled the smear words of the 16th century "Vile heretic!" and labeled non-Catholics "pagan savages." Rabbi Cooper and his religious cohorts of the new inquisition cry "anti-Semitic" and label those who believe differently "hatemongers." The words have changed, but for those shouting them the objective is the same: eliminate the opposition, the opponent is never answered; he is discredited. Fear kept many silent who would have otherwise opposed the Catholic Inquisition. Fear of the rack and straps of being labeled anti-Semitic will keep many quiet today. The call now for censorship by Rabbis is much like the pyres of Priests in the fifteenth century, it is an electronic equivalent of book burning. The zealot's willingness to accept only his personal vision of the world around him has led mankind down this same pernicious path before. Intolerance it is clear, is not solely a non- Jewish characteristic. A new inquisition has begun. This one will seek out the heretics of the internet for the stake. Each age it seems, has it's TORQUEMADA. A warning of what is to come: as the Federal Government, Anti-Defamation League, and the Central Intelligence Agency seek to squelch or control the net, look for senseless acts of random electronic violence. These acts of subterfuge will be committed by computer nerds at the CIA and the ADL or their agent provocateurs and will appear to have been perpetrated by "white racists," "neo-nazis," "patriots," "extremist anti-government radicals," "hackers," or other identifiable dissidents of the right and left. The purpose of these incidents will be similar to those of a drive by shooting to terrorize people into submission. In this case consent is wanted for censorship rather than drug turf but the principal is the same: a political/religious gang wants control. Understand that establishment media, as the propaganda arm of the government, will on cue make the call for censorship of the net. Those who have the resources to employ the best politicians money can buy also own newspapers, radio and television networks, for all serve their design. That design being the control of people through the filtering of information and repressive laws. After investing billions of dollars in media/information empires and politicians, all geared to work in tangent keeping people under control, these modern day equivalents of the book burners of former ages will not willingly let unfettered information exchange hinder their efforts. With at least four federal agencies (FBI, CIA, FINCEN, and ASA) investing hundreds of millions in advanced computer systems designed solely to monitor and track people, technological warfare between the people and government will be a major component of the rest of this century and perhaps longer. The new head of the CIA John Deutsch was hand picked by Bill Clinton and his backers to carry forward plans for a technological police state to rest upon the typical shoulders of bullet proof vests, black boots, and front doors shattering under their assault. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Edward G. Lansdale, CIA operative par excellence, personally recruited the new CIA director for his first Government job in the early 1960's at just 22. Deutsch became one of Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara's ('we never intended to win in Viet Nam') whiz kids in the Pentagon who would help to design the Vietnam War; a slaughterhouse for other kids not so fortuitous as to have political connections. Deutsch has held political posts under Democratic administrations and advisory or academic positions during Republican administrations. Deutsch became part of the elite permanent government of the United States that is accountable to no one, and immune to the oversight process. The shell game of elections and political parties have no effect on their careers.. This select cadre move in and out of various Federal agencies and advisory positions, always on the public dole, never elected, spending their entire lives trying to control the affairs of others. Much like the secret CIA Air Base (Area 51) at Groom Lake in southeastern Nevada, there is an aura of secrecy surrounding their lives and functions. Deutsch's grandfather was a diamond merchant who ran the Zionist Federation of Belgium and he is therefore expected to work closely with the ADL and other pro-censorship groups. President Clinton appointed Deutsch as Director Central Intelligence in May of 1995 at the moment when the bombing of the Federal kindergarten in Oklahoma had allowed his Administration to launch a maximum political/propaganda counter-offensive against the rapidly growing discontent with, and mistrust of the federal government. Black smoke, mutilated bodies, dying children, crying distraught mothers, created exactly the atmosphere the government needed to turn things around. John Deutsch is the man in charge of that effort for the government. Censorship is a word of many meanings. In a narrow sense it of course may refer to suppression of information, or ideas. In a broader sense however, it is the rape of the human mind: Taking away that which is needed to make fair, informed opinions about this life. The mental rapist of today is no different in his goals than the back ally pervert who by force assaults a defenseless woman, taking from someone else that which he has no right to. Both acts are the works of the most contemptible sorts of humankind, desperate men, fearful of the light of day. It seems ironic to many that the ADL which has made innumerable calls for "diversity" would spearhead these efforts at censorship. What is being called for by them, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Rabbi Cooper is the equivalent to Bosnian ethnic cleansing- a sort of information cleansing of the internet. Perhaps a new organizational motto of "Many Cultures, One Opinion" would be more in line with true ADL objectives. It is not just a little bit odd that the same people who fear firearms in the hands of the people fear information in the minds of people. The ADL supported the recent government ban on certain types of firearms just as it supports government action to censor the net. As firearms laws only disarm honest citizens who obey the laws, information bans only effect people who desire to think for themselves. One pundit has already quipped that "I'll give up my information when they pry my cold dead fingers from the keyboard." In closing the author would like to make two additional things clear. First, there are Jews who oppose censorship although to this point their voice is but a whisper compared to the intolerance of the Anti- Defamation League and Rabbi Cooper. Second, that writing about Jewish religious leaders and government spymasters operating in a collusive effort to erect an electronic iron curtain to restrict freedom of speech and information does not make one anti-Semitic or anti-government. The truth is anti-Semitic. The government is erecting a police state. The author opposes both oppressive religious groups and repressive government. If speaking the truth and opposing tyranny makes one anti- Semitic and anti-government than I am both... Poster Comment: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltaire, 1764 
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#1. To: Deasy (#0)
The above highlighted excerpt from your article is an outright lie. The ASA, in conjunction with the US Army CEEIA have been performing these intelligence operations for decades. US intelligence listening posts are located all over the US and around the world to snoop into your communications, particularly for international communications.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Is that really you, Dakmar? Is that you in living flesh and bones and flapping lips and waving arms?
Inaugural ping list thread.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
I take it you don't want to be on my sunbeam ping list.
NAZI!
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
The above highlighted excerpt from your article is an outright lie. The ASA, in conjunction with the US Army CEEIA have been performing these intelligence operations for decades. US intelligence listening posts are located all over the US and around the world to snoop into your communications, particularly for international communications. Look at the original publication date: 1996. At that point in time not a lot of people were aware of the extent of government surveillance of the formerly free citizenry. Therefore he was on the money - given the time it was written/published.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Are you kidding, I think sunbeams can be as important as even jesus.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Thanks for the correction. These same surveillance activities have been an ongoing on-slaught of our freedoms since the establishment of the FBI. When the CIA was established, the flood breaks were removed to this day.
Everything about her just says 'mom.'
Everything lasts and everything ends. Longer than our children could ever imagine, faster than we could ever imagine. Children are the stuff of life; god was right to deny us immortality.
These same surveillance activities have been an ongoing on-slaught of our freedoms since the establishment of the FBI. When the CIA was established, the flood breaks were removed to this day. No problemo. Agreed on the surveillance. Both the FBI and CIA have done worse though. Disreputable unamerican activies is what they are.
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
In the sense that some children are runaways I guess... :)
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Remember that the US government routinely spys on its own citizenry. After 9- 11 with the Patriot Act there are no real judges whom approve the activities. Yet, all known terrorists are from foreign origin.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
The more restrictive the Feds become the greater the likelihood of US breakup into smaller, more manageable (in the peoples' interests) states, especially in times of economic turmoil and when people begin to see that breaking away from the federal government will eliminate income tax, using only a sales tax of less than 20% to fund government services. None of the smaller state entities will require anywhere near the kind of massive military the US has now. Other than agricultural production the US has nothing any other country needs to go to war over with America. The only country that has to remain on a war footing is Israel to protect itself, particularly the property Israelis have stolen from Palestinians. People of Asia just want to sell goods they make and grow to the North American market; Arabs of the ME just want to sell oil and specialty crops and Europe, high tech equipment. None of this requires any war measures. "Threats" to American security are mostly fiction generated by Organized Jewry's propagandists in their desperate efforts to protect their illegal Israeli state and to keep snookering the West into protecting the Zionist thieves with its money and military.
You've given a realistic outlook for world peace, if only Israel weren't influencing global affairs. Of course there would be uprisings and internecine rivalries. That's human nature. But without the G8 or G20 supporting the old Zionist-established regimes in the Mideast, the people there would be free to build their own governments. Because of our choice to support the old Zionist (Balfour) paradigm, we must side against liberty everywhere we involve ourselves in the Islamic world. Jew-interest propagandists depict our geopolitical actions as supporting liberty but they couldn't be more wrong. We're siding with tyranny in many civil conflicts. The sides struggling against the old Balfour establishments are themselves a form of reaction, and often go to excess in their zeal. We must accept the possibility that we are somewhat responsible for those tragedies and move on, concerning ourselves with our own problems, not theirs. We could have a much more peaceful world without our ties to Israel, and its influence (blackmail?) on the G20.
The fact is that government-funded spying on activist groups has been an ongoing thing since Pinkerton was sent to break up unions, and probably before. Looking at the long, sordid history of government espionage and counterrevolutionary activities would be interesting. We're reminded that about 5,000 Americans were held in prisons for resisting the draft during the First World War. Since the beginning of the industrial era, the emerging middle class has said "what do I have to hide?" People accepted the monitoring of themselves and their neighbors as a necessary step in maintaining order. Most Americans now accept the government-run "intelligence industrial complex" as a necessary and harmless price to pay for our security. Outspoken anti-government activists like Beam are easily depicted as security threats to the average American, and so Beam's complaints about excessive government power make little sense to them. The case of Louis Beam would just seem to prove that their trust in government to restrain unreasonable people would be justified. To these naive Americans, it's just part of defending a thriving "democracy" against those who would derail the interests of the majority. What's more, the vast majority of Americans would not agree with Beam's personal views. Without even referring his online pamphlets, which can tend to depict his views in somewhat more muted terms, one must consider his associations with the KKK, the Order, Aryan Nations, and Christian identity groups. Many Americans believe that some of the most angry, criminally active individuals in the country's history have emerged from these organizations. Who would step up to defend Beam against the intelligence complex given his associations? (Convicting of crime based on guilt by association is as about as undemocratic as it gets, but this is lost on many Americans eager to suss out the mass media's calls for action.) We can agree, however, that Louis Beam is not your average militia hobbyist or weekend border guard minuteman. He's built a lifetime of angry views, and he's associated with many extreme people. His statements about race run counter to most American concepts of diversity and community. And that makes Beam an easy target for government persecution. Is that the standard for American freedom of speech and freedom of association? By the founding fathers' writings, we can see that they would have vigorously supported Beam's rights, even if some might have disagreed with him personally. The mass media, however, assumes no such blanket protection on the rights of dissidents. Instead of questioning the legality of investigations into the personal lives of activists like Beam, they encourage more aggressive actions on the part of government by stirring up fears in the minds of the American people. The mass media pressures government agencies to take preventive action, instead of charging people with crimes after the fact. This can lead to excessive interference with the individual's right to hold contrary viewpoints. The other problem, as with Randy Weaver's situation at Ruby Ridge, is in how the government inevitably carries out its clumsy work. Their goal is not to protect the American people, but to trump up charges that can be used to widen their investigations, their other spying efforts, and take people down into the belly of the judicial system's authority with the least amount of effort required. The FBI and the BATF know that these people are held in contempt and fear by the average American. Therefore, anything would seem to go. And it does. By the time the press was finished with the Randy Weaver story, most believed that he was a heinous NAZI running guns for the Aryan nations and mistreating his family. Few understood that he was drawn into a web of deceit because he was initially deemed a likely citizen to spy on the more hardened cases. He was chosen as a possible assistant to another investigation because he was not an extremist. Through incompetence and outright disregard for the sovereignty of the individual, the government ended up killing his dog and members of his family, before awarding damages. As unsympathetic as Americans are to these movements, they should understand that the implications of supporting preventative investigations is vast. To claim a need for preventative action is literally to predict the future, which is impossible. When the wheels of government bureaucracy can be put into motion against the American citizen based on predictions of his future actions, we can quickly run into voodoo law enforcement. But as with our preemptive war on Saddam Hussein, Americans are being trained to accept preventative use of government force (in the name of security) on a large scale as necessary and good. Our founding fathers almost unanimously agreed that the government must be held in check by the people. The government should be subservient to the people's needs. No system of government that has grown beyond the means of the people to restrain it will ever scale back its power voluntarily. Even if the average American does not agree that this has happened yet, he should understand that others may think that it has. If it were true, that the government had exceeded its authority and decent limits on its power, would we expect to agree with everyone who stood up to oppose it? Of course not. Could this disagreement be exploited by those who were interested in maintaining their hands on excessive government power? Of course. It is with cases like Beam's that we must be most careful. His situation is used by anti-patriot activists to justify BATF/FBI investigatory authority. But the more power we cede to these organizations, which now include Homeland Security and a host of other bureaucracies that are capable of feeding incriminating data on citizens to one another, the less we can object to government excesses. The same mentality that defends the intelligence industrial complex justifies greater restraints on anti-government speech. Who can actively struggle to contain the steady advances of government power without coming into direct contact with one of these agencies? Consider the IRS, the Selective Service, the U.S. Treasury, and the Commerce Department. Consider Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Department of Education, and Health and Human Services are involved in the daily lives of Americans. Now we have laws that require a national ID card to be implemented through our state motor vehicles agencies. And all financial transactions are monitored. Don't people who are saying the government has too much power have a point? What's more it's anonymous, faceless power that has little need to check its actions against the individual. With this level of monitoring of the American citizenry, if nothing else had gone wrong, could we defend Beam's extreme positions on government spying? Yes, but things are much worse than that. The 9/11 attacks brought America into direct support of Israel's preferred foreign policy with regard to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. America went from attempting to appear neutral in some of these multilateral disputes to siding with Israel. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been pointless. Much blood has been shed in our name without any positive results. Torture has been used to obtain confessions to activities that may have not transpired, alleged activities that justified Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations leading us to war against Saddam Hussein. Steve Weissman reports in Truth Out in April, 2009: So we can view the Patriot Acts and the other litany of orders, laws, and agency formations including expanded NSA spying capabilities and such, as more than attempts to protect the average American's security. With a government involved in illegal military actions against foreigners, and intelligence operations against its domestic dissidents such as anti-war protesters and so forth, it's clear that greater ability to spy on the American people is needed in order to maintain this new level of government control. We therefore can see that the Louis Beams and Randy Weavers have always had a point. We may not agree with them in terms of what they want to accomplish politically, but we can see that their protests against government excess is valid. At the very least, we must consider the criticisms Louis Beam was already directing toward government intelligence gathering in this article. We must also stand up to protect his right to speak out against government excess. And we must recognize his fundamental loyalty, aside from what he personally believes on race and religion, to the original founding documents of these United States. When they were captured and extradited back to the United States so that Louis could stand trial for sedition, it should not come as any surprise to us that Beam and his wife were tortured by those who held them in Mexico. They were both kept in handcuffs for five days with no release of their arms for rest. According to the couple, Mrs. Beam was beaten in a failed attempt to secure confessions to charges the Mexican government wanted against her and her husband. We can wonder if the FBI felt that it had an opportunity to mistreat the couple because they had a situation similar to the extraordinary rendition that the Bush administration had so carefully defended. In those situations, people captured in intelligence and combat operations around the world and even in the United States, could be sent to foreign countries where the laws regarding torture were less strict. Louis Beam and his wife may be some of the first American patriots to have been tortured in a scenario similar to extraordinary rendition. When considering whether or not he deserves our consideration, remember that he may not be the last American to be tortured for disagreeing strongly with government.
Eff them and their spying. If the Founders were cowered by rats, we'd still be British subjects :)
The Army Security Agency (ASA), which has the worlds most sophisticated signals intelligence and electronic monitoring capabilities has began setting up clandestine servers to monitor traffic, catalog, classify, and achieve.
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HELTER SKELTER
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The Army Security Agency (ASA), which has the worlds most sophisticated signals intelligence and electronic monitoring capabilities has began setting up clandestine servers to monitor traffic, catalog, classify, and achieve.
#10. To: Deasy (#7)
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I take it you don't want to be on my sunbeam ping list.
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#13. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#11)
Thanks for the correction.
#14. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#12)
Everything about her just says 'mom.'
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#19. To: Original_Intent, christine, Jethro Tull, Refinersfire (#9)
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At that point in time not a lot of people were aware of the extent of government surveillance of the formerly free citizenry. Therefore he was on the money - given the time it was written/published.
In part to get that smoking gun, the CIA waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and Abu Zubaydah 83 times. But neither man told the interrogators what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear about Iraq and al-Qaeda. That came from Ibn al Sheikh al Libi, whom the Bush administration sent to Egypt for what CIA Director George Tenet called "further debriefing." As PBS Frontline reported back in November 2007, al Libi "confessed" - after being beaten repeatedly and locked in a small box for some 17 hours - that Saddam Hussein had trained al-Qaeda in chemical weapons. Al Libi later retracted his statement and the CIA later rejected it as reliable intelligence. But the torture of al Libi worked to sell the war in Iraq, providing the "evidence" that Secretary of State Colin Powell used when he spoke before the United Nations Security Council in February 2003.
Before the onset of foreign terror against Americans in response to the first Gulf War and our blind support of Israel in the Mideast, the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents were already indicating a government out of control, and hell bent on suppressing dissident voices. Immigrants from Islamic countries represent the most likely source of domestic terrorism against the United States but the unpopular American citizens action groups are the ones the government really fears most. Immigration has not been slowed much since 9/11, but intelligence gathering on Americans has grown dramatically, just with the NSA wiretapping systems alone. People are increasingly justified in voicing concern about the state of the American federal government's excessive power, and its lack of oversight. The traditional checks and balances are weakening.
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