The recent call by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer for increased rail safety funding and the creation of a “no-ride” list for Amtrak trains is yet another reminder of just who is stoking fear of Muslims in America.
In an interview last year with a Jewish radio talk show in New York, Senator Schumer said he believed that HaShem (an Orthodox Jewish term for “God”) gave him the name “Schumer” — which means “guardian” — so that he could fulfill his “very important” role in the U.S. Senate as a “guardian of Israel.” Presumably, Schumer’s God-given role also includes turning the country he is actually paid to represent — the United States — into an Islamophobic police state.
Americans wondering what happened to their freedoms since 9/11 need to understand the key role played by ardent pro-Israelis like Schumer in undermining their civil liberties under the guise of protecting them from terrorism.
On October 11, 2001, exactly one month after 9/11, Senator Joe Lieberman introduced a bill to establish the Department of Homeland Security. Since then, “the No. 1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress” has been the main mover behind such draconian legislation as the Protect America Act of 2007, the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, and the proposed Terrorist Expatriation Act, which would revoke the citizenship of Americans accused of providing “material support” to a foreign terrorist organization, i.e. groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah that are legitimately resisting Israeli occupation and aggression. Lieberman, who was Barack Obama’s mentor when he entered the Senate, has even proposed a bill which would give the president the power to kill the Internet in the event of a so-called “national cyber-emergency.”
Although it would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joe Lieberman, Michael Chertoff runs him a close second. A mere 45 days after the September 11 attacks, the infamous 342-page document known as the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law. It was co-authored by Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. Chertoff, whose mother, Livia Eisen, was an El Al air hostess believed to have had links to the Mossad, was appointed secretary of Homeland Security in 2005, after having been endorsed for the job by Senators Schumer and Lieberman.
Since he left public service in 2009, Chertoff co-founded the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management firm, whose clients include a manufacturer of full-body scanning machines. After a young Nigerian without a passport — the so-called Christmas Day “underwear bomber” — was allowed, in the words of Ha’aretz, to “slip through” security at Schiphol Airport by the Israeli security firm, ICTS International (which was established by former members of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet), the former Homeland Security chief was all over the mainstream media touting full-body scanners as the answer to America’s airline security problems.
On September 11, 2001, within hours of planes having struck the World Trade Center (recently leased by an extraordinarily “lucky” Larry Silverstein, a friend of not one but four Israeli prime ministers), the then former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak dropped into the BBC studios in London to interpret what the attacks would mean for travellers’ civil liberties. “In this area, we will suffer,” Barak confidently suggested. “It will not be so easy to go aboard an airplane in the near future. But we have no way but to stand firm facing terror. Otherwise, all our way of life will be threatened.”
Later that evening, Benjamin Netanyahu let slip that the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans was “very good” for Israel. In particular, the mass murder proved to be very good for an emerging sector of the Israeli economy. In “Laboratory for a Fortressed World,” Naomi Klein detailed the post-9/11 “explosion of Israel’s homeland security sector.” Writing in 2007, Klein observed: “Before 9/11 homeland security barely existed as an industry. By the end of this year, Israeli exports in the sector will reach $1.2 billion — an increase of 20 percent.”
Consequently, Americans concerned about what “homeland security” is doing to their civil liberties need to be asking: Exactly whose “homeland” and whose “security” is being protected by the likes of Schumer, Lieberman and Chertoff?
It certainly isn’t America’s.
They have succeeded in making the very pronouncement of the word “Jewish” a racial slur and signal of “anti-Semitic” (a misnomer, historically) activity. In so doing many of these accusations gets filed away as “anti-Semitic” behavior.”
Average Americans have no choice, really. Both major party candidates, at least since Korea and probably before, for most, if not all important posts, are selected, trained and financed by the same Big Business people. Short of -an Uprising- this oligarchy will be difficult to stop.
Our 4th amendment rights have been suspended, and the 1st is all but gone; we can speak, but as long as we offend no one. We can protest, as long as no one gets “disorderly”, which of course is a judgment call by the arresting officer.
This “Jew Club” which runs the world is also named incorrectly. While most of these people come from a “Jewish” ancestry (there is some argument that “Jewish” is not a a race at all, the majority of them being of Slavic, Russian, German, Polish, or some other “white” background…), most do not adhere to the Talmud or even the Torah, and most do not adhere to kosher eating regulations or do the proper prayer and penance particular to that religion.
What makes what they do wrong is to be found primarily in hiring practices, which is all that can account for 2.2% of the American population owning and/or controlling over 90% of the news and media, over 80% of major industry, a good chunk of high-dollar real estate, and many defense/security contracts. They hire “their own”, meaning those fellow Jews and those sympathetic to their Zionist agenda. This is no a racial or a “hate” issue; it is about insider trading, manipulation of money markets, and discriminatory hiring practices.
These pseudo-Jews did a real Jewish lightning on 9-11, and I think a following of the money trail before and subsequent to the events of 9-11 bears this out clearly. To run an operation like that was, you don’t need to control everything, you just need one or two men at the top, the underlings need ever even know what is going on. Hence the head cleanup man of 9-11 knows he is scooping up and selling scrap metal (quick sale, that), but the guys in the cranes and dump trucks think they are going to work like any other day.
I’d be happy to share what I know (meaning what I can prove) if anyone else is researching along these sensitive lines. Frankly, I’m a bit spooked about what I am looking at.
To control
And now for a dose of the truth.
It’s’ not pro Israelis who have made America worry about certain Muslims and Islam in general, it’s those Muslims who have wreaked havoc in America that the writer should be pointing his finger at.
You can start with 9/11 and then proceed to home grown terrorists who make many Americans leery. And how about the overall tenet of Islam that American should become under Islamic rule, governed by Shariah law. Do you think that may play a part in America’s fear?
It would be refreshing if writers such as the one who wrote this article was more able to see reality and the truth. Instead, it all comes down to blaming Jews or Israel. It’s really very transparent and not at all believable, and certainly not balanced. Is it to much to ask someone to write a fair article in this journal that doesn’t take a one sided lopsided view of the world and Jews in particular?
It’s not Muslims who have conspired to wage wars of aggression on manufactured pretexts and shredded our Constitution.
As if history began on 9/11 and there was nothing before.
Truth? What truth have you spoken, friend?
You should all know that several Zionist watchdog groups send out droves of petitions against any commentary or article written that has anything negative to say about Israel, Jewish, and/or Zionism. Research how the MEGAPHONE application works, for instance, then see the literally HUNDREDS of charities and special interest groups dedicated to poor Israel.
Any Muslim aggression in the United States is regrettable, and I am not here to defend it. But certainly were this true it would not be a legitimate reason to just invade these Muslim countries at will…as is the current case in Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, and as was the former case in Iraq. There have been and are several others since Korea.
In fact, when WAS the last Muslim terrorist action on American soil? “wreaked havoc” seems a bit overblown, especially considering SO MANY actions blamed on “Muslim terrorists” or the other shills like “Al Qaeda” or “Hamas” are actually Israeli jobs blamed on Muslims.
Furthermore, some would say it is the American presence in over 80 countries, and its over 130 bases throughout the world that has fostered resentment against the American government. The arrogance and aggression that has replaced diplomacy in my country is totalitarian when seen from a distance.
To act as if “we will give you our skewed version of capitalism and pseudo-democracy if we have to kill you to accept it” implies Americans think they know how the rest of the world should act, and that they can buy and have bought their way into even foreign nations whose people do not want them there. Would piss me off if say Japan had a base in MY town. In fact, I am sure it wouldn’t last long, knowing my town.
The responder above has an axe to grind, I have none. He starts with 9-11, and if you believe Muslims did 9-11 you really are a fool. “Americans are leery of Muslims,” he says, which may be true of the ignorant, or those who never met one, but the reason it could be true is because it has been drummed into their head by the media and every movie or TV special that needs a villain that the villain HAS to be either a Muslim or a Nazi. Neither do I know any Muslim that wants us “under Shariah Law.” This is more mumbo-jumbo lying, more spreading of untruths these types are so famous for. They rob, and then holler “thief.”
It would be refreshing if writers such as Barry above would shut their traps unless they can make comments that are true or have something at least meaningful to say. When Silverstein, the person who bought the Twin Towers is a Jew, the mayor Bloomberg is a Jew, the person who OK’d the lease for Silverstein and who works at the Port Authority of New York is a Jew, when 8 out of 10 media reporting on the event were Jewish owned/controlled/ran, when several the people who worked on the “official report” blaming laughably FIRE for those towers falling were Jews, when Jewish people working in Building 7 got special cell phone messages telling them to evacuate a building nobody expected to fall down, when over 4,000 Jews working in the area of the Towers did not report to work that day…when JEWS have the most to gain by blaming 9-11 on the Muslims, when several Mossad members were arrested and subsequently released without a whisper as to why, since they were carrying explosives, multiple passports, and boxcutters, and later appeared on Israeli TV to say they were in NYC to “document the event”…when the businesses which cleaned up, which sold, and which will rebuild the towers (the latter I can tell you here are Tishman Construction, along with BLOOMBERG’s enterprises…)
…then I’m sorry to say that you don’t have to be a racist to see there is some pseudo-Jewish connection that did that Jewish lightning on 9-11.
Once again, if you can correct my facts, please do so. Otherwise, spare me the tired innocent Jew rhetoric. Had they not already infiltrated the executive branch, this America having been told the truth would already be having diplomatic relations with the Muslim world…an perhaps been leading an air strike against Tel Aviv.
thank you for putting it succinctly my brother no truer word s ever written and for all the jewish folk -good folk who have a skewed perception of events take note and get it right
Good article.
America once stood for everything worth fighting for, but not today.
I want Americans to take their country back. I want America to cut its deficit and get out of the wars in the Middle East. I want America to tell Israel that if it builds one more settlement, then it no longer receives $3 billion a year from the USA taxpayers and that the USA will not longer guarantee Israel’s security.
I would like the members of USA Congress who signed a letter of unconditional allegiance to Israel to be thrown out of Congress.
Louise
Aussie
Great article — and provides us with part of the reason why Islamophobia goes unaddressed in both America and Europe.
Back in March, Pubic Eye put out a study of “counter terrorism training” being given to government security and law enforcement agents. This study showed that unregulated industry of “counterterrorism trainers” are teaching our law enforcement to treat Muslims differently than other citizens and to use Islamophobic stereotypes in law enforcement practice. http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/training/Muslim_Menace_Complete.pdf
Also – we found out (something I suspected) a couple of week ago that DHS has scaled back its non-Islamic domestic extremism investigations. This over-emphasis on “Islamists anf jihadists” – while ignoring or downplaying right-wing extremism – is also occurring in Europe, in Europol and in EU nations, like the Netherlands.
The reality is that “Islamist and jihadists” don’t pose the same threat as the radical right does, especially when allowed to plot and spread hate, and when given legitimacy, such as the Tea Party or the Geert Wilders PVV in the Netherlands, these extremists become even more dangerous.
So, his mom was El-Al air hostesss? I bet she also had a big nose. Zionists are so clever these days.
Total misreading there, Matt.
Best article on the topic of America’s laws in relation to Israel and American Zionists pushing these police state laws which threatens EVERYONE’S FREEDOM.
I have often said that the U.S. has adopted all Israeli policies since September 11, 2001 for the most part including the targeting of Muslims.
Before 9-11-2001, the entire U.S. government was on the defensive against “profiling.” Now just like torture, the U.S. government and its supporters in the media and politics justify both the torturing of innocent people and profiling.
America is NOW A FASCIST-POLICE STATE AND BOTH LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES OF BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES ARE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE.
The Republicans have been on a steadfast course of targeting black people in America and the Democrats sit idly by and allow these GOP Members to push racist policies.
Peter King of New York is a RACIST REPUBLICAN who has these anti-Muslim hearings in the Congress and the liberal media goes along with it. Even Keith Olbermann and the so called antiwar left has a hatred for Iran and Iranians.
America is no different at this time in most ways than Nazi Germany was in the 1930s.