Boston Under Martial Law: Total Shutdown Of Major City

Terrorists come in all types.  Religious groups, ethnic groups, political extremes both right and left, anarchists, ecologists, animal lovers, animal haters: the list is long, very long and seems to cover virtually all human positions in the spectrum.  The goal of most societies is to control the populace so that people can go about their business without too much trouble.  And this constantly breaks down.  This happens, in particular, when economic forces wane and people get poorer rather than doing well.

So here we have it: a pair of young students who, like the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria  are on a rampage thousands of miles away from home.  This is due to them being fired up by the War on Terror and international politics which are played out very violently in border regions of interest where empires clash.

The intersection of India, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan is Kashmir and this has spawned huge terror events even in distant places like the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed so many people.  The Chechnyan terrorists have killed thousands of Russians.  Beslan school hostage crisis killed dozens.  The 1999 Russian apartment bombings killed hundreds of innocent victims and was done by Chechnya terrorists.

Then there was the Moscow theater hostage crisis  which killed more hundreds.  Over and over again, I talk about how going to war against a billion Muslims is very dangerous for the US.  We have no Muslim provinces although Israeli Jews want to operate their home base as such foisting the US to treat Muslims like second class citizens over there or outright displaced people with zero rights.

This endangers us all here in the US over and over again.  We saw how Yugoslavia was turned into a wreck by these same forces whereby people seek to get privileges for their own tribal/religious affiliations.  I consider this to be highly dangerous and the US is very much like Yugoslavia when it fell: people don’t like each other and huge groups of people want to eliminate civil rights of other groups so they can enhance their own personal power.

Chechen President blames AMERICA for Boston bomb suspects’ acts of evil because of ‘immoral upbringing’:  And see how the blame is handed to us?  No, the US did not create this problem.  This is an universal problem caused by exclusionary thinking of various groups.  For example, the Tibetans rioted not too long about in an attempt to eliminate their fellow Chinese citizens.  This was viewed as ‘freedom fighting’ by Westerners who approve of ethnic cleansing when it is aimed at wrecking rival countries.

Years ago, Alexander Lebed, a Russian general, made peace with the Chechnyans only to die soon afterwards in a helicopter crash. This opened the door for Putin to gain power and he cracked down on Chechnya leading to the Second Chechnya War.  Diplomacy: KGB Putin And Russia’s Shadowlands is an article from 2006 where I talked about this event.

Click here to read a chapter about all this in Chechen Jihad – Yossef Bodansky – Google Books.

I had a very small bit to play with General Lebed for we exchanged emails once long ago when I wrote about his negotiations with the Chechnya rebels and he was running ahead of Putin in the polls.

And here is one of the power players from Saudi Arabia who gave great efforts to destabilize Chechnya:  Ibn al-Khattab.  He was assassinated by a poison letter and this reminds us of two terrorist attacks from white males in the US that came on the heels of Muslim terror attacks: the ricin and the anthrax letters.

It may just be pure coincidence and all the white right wingers who are happy it wasn’t one of them who attacked America with bombs or jets have nothing to celebrate with these poison letter attacks that shadow these events.  Something is quite wrong with many aspects of political life and the hysteria of shutting down a major city to catch one terrorist shows how vulnerable we really are.

And how the right wing’s belief that having many guns, etc, will protect them, this is foolish.  Just as foolish as leftists and environmentalists who took to bombs and arson and assassinations.  They thought they would rouse up everyone into revolt!  Instead, it made the State stronger and we lost power but then, people don’t want ‘power’ if this means fanatics, religious lunatics or just angry people terrorize us violently.

Right now, few are complaining about the lockdown but the government’s time for doing this is rapidly running out.  People will demand the right to go back to business tomorrow if this continues.  So the government is pulling out all stops.    The violent shoot-out when they cornered one of the Chechnya students was extreme just like the shootout recently of a black killer cop set the cabin on fire.

All terrorists have good or not so good excuses for their rampages.  Many suffer from mental illness of various degrees.  Alienation and depression are common feelings and often with psychopaths, they find some excuse for rampages to justify their going out of control like the Norway assassin.  There are thousands of excuses for this.

But empires have responsibilities, too and the US has been playing with fire for many years now, using Muslims to attack other empires or weaken their home states.  This very dangerous tool has boomeranged here in the US repeatedly and instead of stopping this, we have doubled down and it is a rising, screaming tide which is merging with the ‘we hate women’s rights’ tide here in the US.

That is, anti-liberal, anti-sexual rights are on the warpath.  The Chechyans blame us for our freedoms as do the Saudis and  so many others.  Meanwhile, our freedoms are vanishing due to this endless global war which we can ill afford to fight forever.  Ending the civil rights of American women will not stop terrorism.  That is domestic terrorism.  Forcing raped women to have babies is terrorism, too.

And of course, terrorizing gays and locking them out of society is terrible.  We can’t fix America by becoming a religious dictatorship with foreign Popes and local lunatics ordering us how we behave in bed, at home and in private.  Any more than Muslims should have any say in how we live our personal lives.  Fighting for personal freedom is important and it isn’t done with guns, it is done with ideas.  One of which is respect of other’s privacy and rights and tolerance of other ideas and beliefs.

The Boston lockdown should scare Americans.  It should never have happened.  But will happen again and again if we don’t stop and think about how to behave in a civil society and supporting ethnic cleansing is NOT the way to do this.

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