Chalcedon Blog

Jeff Ferrell, investigative reporter for KSLA news in Shreveport, LA (he broke the story on the Clergy Response Teams), is asking "why does Osama Bin Laden's wanted poster for the FBI not mention anything about his alleged involvement in 9/11?" A good question, and one of many that I and millions of others have been asking since 9/11. And, how exactly did we move from not formally charging Bin Laden to pre-emptive invasion of countries that had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat to U.S. national security? How will we answer for the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis? Mike Huckabee says we should accept responsibility together as "one nation under God." Not me, Huckie! Maybe you, but not me!

Worse yet is the response of the White House to the new Bin Laden video in which Fran Townsend, the president's Homeland Security Adviser, told FOXNoise: "This is about the best he can do; this is a man on the run, from a cave, WHO'S VIRTUALLY IMPOTENT OTHER THAN THESE TAPES."

Impotent? Which is it, Mrs. Townsend? Is Bin Laden the head of a vast network of thousands of sleeper cells ready to strike any moment, or is he just a sickened Arabian hiding in a cave? And, if so, why in the name of all that is good are we gearing up to invade Iran? What does Iran have to do with 9/11? If Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, then Iran has even less to do with 9/11.

The propaganda being unleashed on the American people is staggering. Before us, only one other country in recent history adopted a doctrine of pre-emptive invasion: Nazi Germany. They're also the ones who mastered the doctrine of the "state of emergency"--a doctrine written by Carl Schmitt, Hitler's lawyer, and then taught to Schmitt's protege, the Jewish/German, Leo Strauss. The doctrine states that fascistic leaders must create a "state of emergency" in order to justify the expansion of domestic police powers and greater involvement of the national military. This led to Hitler's "Enabling Act," which overlayed the German Constitution (think Patriot Act), and the creation of the Gestapo, Hitler's Department of Homeland Security.

Carl Schmitt was not only the sole mentor to Leo Strauss, but he also secured Strauss a Rockefeller Fellowship; and by 1949, Strauss was teaching political science at the University of Chicago. This is important to note. Strauss was drenched in Nazi political manipulation and was now teaching politics to American university students.

Disenchanted with 20th century Liberalism, Strauss argued for the viability of Plato's political myths, viz. "the noble lie." In order to stabilize an otherwise self-oriented population, civil leaders must construct myths, legends, and lies to tell the people. A national enemy can be created or exaggerated to instill greater fear and nationalism within the populace.

One of the more popular students that attended Strauss' classes is none other than Paul Wolfowitz, the man who after the first Gulf War penned the first draft of what is now known as the Bush Doctrine, i.e. pre-emptive invasion to secure U.S. dominance. Wolfowitz was also a part of the Project for the New American Century, a neo-conservative think-tank that in 2000 produced the controversial document "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century." This document sported an odd prediction in which they argued that the massive spending they suggested for defense would not quickly be accepted by Americans without "a catalyzing event: a new Pearl Harbor." A year later, on September 11, 2001, that new Pearl Harbor would come.

And now, America is swimming in the political and social doctrines of Hitler's architects. The parallels are beyond coincidental. It was after the 1933 fire-bombing of the German Parliament building (the Reichstag) that Chancellor Hitler requested that German President Paul von Hindenburg pass national emergency measures. The fire was allegedly started by a Communist bricklayer. Through this act of terrorism Hitler was able to pass the "Enabling Act" (March, 1933) which gave Hitler the power to make executive decisions without approval of the German Parliament. The Enabling Act was only supposed to be valid during a state of emergency. That state of a national threat of terror never went away. Hitler became the dictator.

In April of 1933, the Prussian Secret Police were converted into the first version of the Gestapo. The Gestapo--or German Secret Police--were placed under the authority of the SS, and served for the purpose of homeland security. Within three years, the Gestapo had the unbridled authority to execute its police powers. Again, all of this security expansion was based upon a terrorist attack upon a government building and the corresponding declaration of a state of emergency. As I said, the parallels to our time are astounding.

The man who wrote the doctrine of Hitler's state of emergency (Carl Schmitt) mentored the German-born Jew, Leo Strauss. Strauss came to America and taught the Jewish Paul Wolfowitz, and then inspired a generation of ex-Trotskyites known as the neo-conservatives. These men are now leading America's "War on Terror."

We have our own Reichstag fire (9/11); our own Enabling Act (Patriot Act); our own Security Service (Department of Homeland Security); and we're nationally engaged in a foreign policy of pre-emptive war. Nazi Germany was turned into a military state and governed itself by an incessant declaration of martial law; and we are one crisis away from the same transition. It should be of major concern to conservative Christians that Hitler's ideological grandchildren are governing our national foreign policy.

So, remember Bin Laden? Wasn't he the one that supposedly attacked us on 9/11? If so, why does the FBI still not list 9/11 on his crime sheet? And, why does Fran Townsend claim that Bin Laden is of no consequence? She would say, "Iran is our enemy now; don't you know that?"

In Orwell's 1984, it was the job of the "Ministry of Truth" to keep changing the identity of who the nation of Oceania was actually at war with--it changed constantly. One month they would say, "Oceania is at war with East Asia; Oceania was always at war with East Asia." Then, the propaganda would change: "Oceania is at war with Eurasia; Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia." The point was the Oceania was to remain in a constant state of war, and this was the only way the totalitarian state could remain in power and control the population.

Welcome to Oceania!