There has been an email circulating that scares the pants off thinking Americans. It’s based on the credibility of a man named Juval Aviv. In the email, Aviv is credited with being on the Bill O’Reilly show (FOX news) and making predictions of terrorist attacks on England, and later, purportedly warning President Bush of the nature of the attacks of 9/11. Snopes.com, a website that has become a mainstay of substantiating or refuting urban legends finds the claims to be “false.” I visit Snopes periodically to check on alarming emails.
According to the email, Aviv was a former bodyguard of Prime Minister Golda Meir. He also, according to the email, was the real person upon which the character “Avner” is based upon in the Steven Speilberg movie Munich. The controversy stems from whether Aviv truly was a ranking member of Mossad (Israeli secret service) who had access to this type of information, and then warned of the impending acts of terrorism. Let me ask this: Would any high level member of the CIA who went public with his position, giving inside information, be authenticated as credible by his government? I don’t mean to sound like a screenwriter, but what’s the business of highly sensitive agents being told, “If you are caught, we will disavow any information you may give”?
What we need to consider is not whether Aviv did or did not accomplish all he claims. Instead, we should be examining the logic of his current assertions. Those assertions warn of the form the next wave of terrorist acts on American soil may take. Which include: bombs in suitcases or packages left in densely populated public places, such as Disneyworld, football stadiums, concert halls; terrorists who will have been raised in the United States as opposed to known terrorists sneaking in; explosives being much more discreet due to their plastic composition instead of more easily detected metal structure; attacks on more remote areas that may feel safe due to proximity - such as Wyoming or Montana. In view of these, whether or not Aviv was the role model for Avner, do these warnings make sense?
My concern? Martial law. For those of us who look forward to the 2010 elections, we probably do so in hopes of many members of Congress being ousted from their positions. Why? We trust in the balance of powers provided in the Constitution. Whether the president is Republican or Democrat, we realize that Congress is the vessel which can either support or undermine the power of the president. If the president proceeds with activities which we abhor, it is not necessary to simply wait out his term of four years. Yes, the president has a lot of power. But Congress has the ability to limit the power of the president. In fact, Congress, in reality, is the most powerful branch of government; they may override his veto, they can deny his appointments, they will support or deny his declarations of war, and ultimately, they can bring about an impeachment process which examines his activities. However, if the sitting Congress allows a president to act in a manner inconsistent with the will of the people, about the only thing the people can do is replace the sitting members of Congress. And so, those of us who mourn the current trend of our government look forward to November 2010 as an opportunity to stop the destruction of the United States. Back to Aviv.
What if Aviv’s warnings of another terrorist attack on America have credence? A few suitcase bombings here, a suicide bomber there, a bit of infrastructure chaos - how would our government respond? Okay, here’s where I may sound like an alarmist. President Obama has leveraged himself into being in charge of an internet shutdown for security. He also has the power to order the shutdown of cell phone satellite communication under the basis that cell phones are how terrorists would communicate. In place, Rex 84, (do a Google search), a plan which has been in place for many years, putting FEMA in charge of an instance of civil insurrection. Then do another search on USNorthcom - contigency forces trained for dealing with controlling the US populace in the event of civil chaos. I’m honestly not a conspiracy theorist - I’m just considering the pieces of the puzzle.
I have to ask myself this: In view of Obama’s conciliatory manner toward the Islamic countries, as well as his overtures of apologizing to the world, to the point of bowing to Islamic world leaders, why would the Islamic terrorists choose to terrorize America? Especially when our leniency and apologetics would allow infiltrators to deeply root themselves into the American mainstream. Wouldn’t this be a key time to avoid alarming mainstream America of an Islamic threat? When the getting is good, why wouldn’t Islamic terrorists use the opportunity to charm America, continuing with the insistent mantra that Islam is a religion of peace? When America is conciliatory and open, why not quietly and aggressively insert your influence and operatives within its borders. Wouldn’t another 9/11 wake a sleeping giant?
Here’s where I hope I am dead wrong: If a terrorist attack were to happen sometime before the November, 2010 elections, would President Obama seem justified in implementing martial law? A crisis of that proportion would seem to warrant side-stepping a congressional election. Would it seem justified. Conspiracy?
As I said - I don’t want to be right, and this is not a prediction; it’s a fear. Hopefully unwarranted. But when I think about elemental pieces such as the president being in charge of pulling the plug on cell phone communication and the internet, the push from liberals to pass a “Fairness Doctrine” which has a sole purpose of silencing conservative media, the urgency to pass socialistic laws without opening them to scrutiny, a president who says we’ll be able to know him by who he surrounds himself with (his advisors) and then doing so with people formerly associated with Marxist and Socialistic agendas, the apologizing to the world for American arrogance, the attempt of alignment with leaders we formerly recognized as dictators and thugs, the administrations admiration of the Cuban social structure - one has to wonder: Are all these elements coincidental, or are they pieces of a puzzle that will come together?
Quite frankly, this direction does not come as a surprise. People, who were willing to listen prior to the election, realized there was cause for concern - but these concerns were derailed by a liberal media shouting “Racism.” When Obama’s associations with people like Bill Ayers were brought up, the concerns were made to look ridiculous (They just happen to live in the same community - don’t we all know people with different backgrounds and beliefs than our own?) We really didn’t know much about Obama’s past, and when his actual citizenship was questionned, we were first told he had a right to privacy, then that Hawaii’s laws precluded public examination, then shown a document on the internet - but there was no forthcoming explanation by Obama - the man who said transparency would be the cornerstone of his administration. During the campaigning, when Joe the Plumber confronted Obama with his frustration over not being able to survive in business, Obama revealed his belief about redistributive wealth; mainstream media let this slide. And a few days before the election, Obama announced that “We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming America...” Boy, he wasn’t kidding. While the crowd attending this rally was wildly cheering and celebrating, I was sick inside, thinking, “I don’t want to change America’s fundamentals”; those are what make America great, at least to me. Semantic interpretation? I don’t think so; not when you look at the big picture.
Rex 84 - an undisclosed number of concentration camps are throughout America under the jurisdiction of FEMA. As far as I can tell, these were originally put into service for an event where an uncontrollable number of illegal aliens flooded our borders and needed to be detained. Liberals feared that the Bush/Cheney administration would resort to a police state. So perhaps my fears are like those of the liberals - just from a different perspective. I hope so.
One of the key successes of the American system of government, acknowledged from the very beginning, was the peaceful transfer of power from one elected official to the next. Americans, now sick of an unresponsive and reckless Congress, look forward to 2010 in hopes of putting the brakes on runaway government. If Juval Aviv’s warnings prove prophetic, the timing of an attack before those elections won’t shock me. What better way to subvert the will of the American people than to be able to exercise martial law, with an ostensible patriotic action to “protect” America during a time of crisis.
