Enabling Palestinians to distribute blood money not only violates the obligations of the Oslo Accords, it also contravenes the 1999 U.N. Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terror and the 2001 U.N. Security Council Resolution to combat international terror in the aftermath of 9/11.
It demonstrates the fragility of our nation's democracy by having a folksy New Englander, Buzz Windrip, gain the White House with vague blandishments, and then usher in a dictatorial regime of suppression, terror and totalitarianism to save the nation from welfare cheats, promiscuity, crime and a liberal press.
A man of outstanding intelligence, courage and integrity, Wickrematunge accurately predicted that he would pay with his life for his outspoken stance on violent media suppression in his country and the acts of terror inflicted on its people.
With no legal code or safeguards, the administration of revolutionary justice was largely arbitrary and resulted in widespread abuses and the suppression of civil liberties: the "Green Terror".
In the late 18th century, reactionary conspiracy theorists, such as Scottish physicist John Robison and French Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel, began speculating that the Illuminati had survived their suppression and become the masterminds behind the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
The first Ransome was an uncritical defender of the Russian revolution, a man who wrote passionately pro-Bolshevik pamphlets and articles, denied the Red Terror, justified the suppression of democracy, was even prepared to accept as necessary execution without trial.
The second, set five years after the outbreak and distinctly dystopian in tone, showed the aftermath – more than half the world's population wiped out, a second war on terror – and murky suppression of information by the political establishment.
I first made the case that a small group of military contractors benefited financially from a hyped "war on terror" and the suppression of liberties in the US, in 2007, in my book The End of America, and backed it up with hundreds of footnotes: the argument, which spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list, has never been debunked.
