Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who stole the 7,000 page secret history of the Viewtnam War know as the Pentagon Papers, which he leaked to the U.S. Senate and the newspapers back in 1971.
In the second hour, the bad news, and your calls.
4-6 pm Eastern time
Update: Show’s over
Archives here
According to Al-Jazeera, Ayman-shouldn’t he have been caught by now?-al-Zawahiri has a new tape out, and he sounds just like the conservatives on my local talk-radio station:
1. Shariah Is The Only Source Of Law
“This Ummah will not accept any forms of laws or governments other than the Shariah which was sent down from the Lord of the Worlds. This Ummah has suffered a great deal from man-made laws that were forced on them by the crusaders and their allies from our own.”
2. Liberation of Islamic Lands
“Our land is occupied by the enemies of Allah, from East to West. Our land is being used as a base from which enemy forces take off to kill thousands upon thousands of Muslims across the globe.”
3. Total Freedom Of Islamic Ummah To Run Its Own Affairs
• The judicial system (based on Islamic Shariah) must have autonomy and must be respected and not tampered with. The verdicts of the Islamic judges verdicts must be final and must be enforced with full vigor.
• Islamic Ummah must have the freedom to practice enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong.
Ever considered running for the Senate?
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Loretta Napoleoni, author of the new book Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars behind the Terror Networks from 4-5 pm eastern time.
Update: Show’s over, Archives
No, Stupid, not between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Antiwar.com reader Eric S. has had some problems with one of Justin Raimondo’s hyperlinks (not the same sort of frustrations as doofus the Trotskycon):
I often check the links just for the sake of, well, bugging Frum or the White House. I checked the “either you are for us or for the terrorists” link [in this column] to the white house address, proceeded to save it as a “Word” file, and then checked my spyware. Couldn’t get the files out but was able to quarantine them. The only one that i remember was called paris. There was a total of 7 and this is the first time I have run into any spyware for months.
Update: I have been contacted by various computer geniuses who inform me that this is probably just a correlation without causation.
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I’ll be talking with former California congressman Pete McCloskey about AIPAC’s espionage, and the scum that was Richard Nixon.
In the second hour, Justin “Bizarro World” Raimondo will return to discuss the color-coded revolutions and the future of the American Empire.
Listen Live 3-5pm Central time
Update: Show’s over. Archives.
“What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . .
Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’. . . must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. . . .Each act. . . is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow.
You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone. . . you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ . . .But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. . . .You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father. . . could never have imagined.” :
From Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)
Thanks to Tom Feeley
