the Italian government did it in the past "strategy of tension" and all that ..

but it seems they might have a double agenda. 1) the blame ETA till after the election. 2) they then switch to Al queda and give it the big one on heavy laws .
They found a van full of korans and a book on how to drive thomas the tank
engine in arabic .

I this one looks like another 911, it went off so well, the people who did this were well covered..
What cracks me up is the way the media goes along with all the bullshit .
The suitcases are the same as two found on a train in december, but what if someone else put the bombs on the train and then carried out this attack. But that and another load of coincidental evidence is presented as prove that ETA did it. Then the micky mouse fax turns up so it's either ETA or Al Queda .
But no one mentions that the attack and the subsequent protest rallies specifically called for by the prime minster, well aware that there would be spontaneous protests.
The spanish goverment will benefit, just as the DC did in Italy with american under hand help, perhaps GW was paying his buddy back for sticking his neck out over the war. The spanish punters in general were against the war with Iraq ..

The 9/11 truth movement is making headway in New York City now, and Bush is not going to get anymore political milage there from lying about and exploiting the tragic event. For many of the people most directly effected by a tragedy it takes some time before they can think about it clearly. I'll give you a great eloquent piece of writing by Jimmy Breslin that shows the change. But it would be catastrophic if the Right were to get away with lying about the "terrorism" in Madrid for so long. There needs to be an immediate informed activist response linking Spanish progressives and researchers to their commrades throughout Europe, and pushing at every at least half-way intelligent and open-minded paper (i.e.The Guardian), moving the conversation about this kind of TERRIFYING PROPAGANDA SPECTACLE to who really benefits from it happening and who really has the capability and position to do it. MEANS, MOTIVE AND OPPORTUNITY as the scientific Criminologists say.

Sing the old Civil Rights anthem "we shall overcome" to keep yourself going, and keep on the case.


HE MOLESTS THE DEAD
by JIMMY BRESLIN
March 6, 2004


In his first campaign commercial, George Bush reached down and molested the dead.

But this only in keeping with both Bushes. George Bush, Sr., had the badge of officer Eddie Byrne, who was gunned down in South Jamaica, and he stood up at Christ the King High School in Middle Village and held it up and said he would have this badge on him forever. Some chance. Bush then led high school girls into insane cheers for the death penalty.

Now, right off, this second George Bush came up with the badge of a Port Authority cop, George Howard, who died. He was from Hicksville. His mother gave Bush the son's badge. When Bush came back to the trade center a year later, he reached into his pocket and whipped out that badge and he had a tear in his eye. What makes it worse is that this George W. Bush acts like he's entitled to treat the remains of a dead man like a souvenir. Now he shows a commercial with dead bodies, or body parts, covered with an American flag being taken through the smoke and flames of the world trade center attack. It caused people who had lost family members in the attack to complain about using the dead or parts thereof being used for a politician's gain.

"Bush is afraid to let us see the dead being brought back from Iraq," one fire fighter said yesterday.

The ad is nothing more than another George W. Bush fraud. First, arriving at the trade center, he was led by a flunkey to a retired fire fighter, Bob Beckwith, who had come down three days after the attack to take a look. Bush's flacks had Beckwith stand on a destroyed fire engine and Bush came up next to him and Bush put an arm around him and, two heroes, Bush called out "we're tough" to the television cameras.

He had all he wanted out of the place. A picture.

You all saw Bush play dress-up and land on the aircraft carrier and stand there, the helmet under his arm just like an Ace from the top of a bloody sky. The aircraft carrier had to be turned around so the skyline of San Diego wouldn't be seen.

Now he has his world trade center commercial out there and a lot of decent people regard it as an insult.

Right away, Rudolph Giuliani came out to defend him to the death. He said the commercial was true and right to put on because it was "appropriate." He was a nobody as a mayor and in one day he became a hero. This sudden career, this door opening to a room of gold, all started for Rudolph Giuliani when his indestructible bunker in World Trade Center building blew up. He had personally selected it, high in the sky, and with tons of diesel fuel to give emergency power.

And Guiliani walks on. He walks from his bunker, up Barclay Street and went on television. Went on and announced his heroism and then came back every hour or so until he became a star, a great figure, a national hero, the mayor who saved New York.

Most of this comes from these dazed Pekingese of the Press. As this was being written on Friday night, the television announcers kept saying that Martha Stewart would go to a country club federal prison. The fools. Try any jail on any day. At five o'clock, you can't go home. Giuliani was a hero with these news people. He did not pick up a piece of steel or help carry one of the injured off.

He made the trade center his private cathedral. Police commanders were terrified of letting you in. There was only Rudy, who flew his stars, Opra and the like, down to see it. Now he says a Bush ad is "appropriate."

That's Giuliani's word. As the mayor, he had a detective driving one of his girl friends out of the Gracie Mansion driveway while another detective was arriving with another girl friend and was waved off to prevent a domestic riot.

All the while upstairs there were his wife. and children.

Giuliani then showed appropriate behavior by walking in a parade on Fifth Avenue with his girl friend and all the while his children could sit and watch him on television.

How marvelous! It was appropriate to humiliate his children, and now it is appropriate to molest the dead.

Giuliani also had a flunkey, Bernard Kerik, rush on television and say, so earnestly, that the Bush commerical was appropriate. Kerik was a Giuliani campaign chauffeur who became police commissioner. How marvelous! At the world trade center, Kerik was in the back of his car dictating the last part of a book that was going to appear under his name. It had him writhing with delicious excitement. It was about his mother being a prostitute.

"That's what's going to make me all the money," he told a friend of mine.

That is only the start of the Bush campaign. He has plenty of money and unlimited personal cheapness.

How can you say that the terror atrocity in Madrid was a propaganda stunt. You say that to any of the people who was injured in the blast. You say that to anyone who has lost a loved one and you will soon find out the beliefs of the real victims.

When will people realise that everything wrong in the world is not the fault of right wingers or America. Someone Shot my cat with a shotgun yesterday and my neighbour who frequently dresses as Stalin said he did. I blame America though, because if they hadn't have been in the world my cat would be alive because its all for there propaganda.

Its 'RRRRRRROlocks! I wonder if some of the people who post on this site have a working brain cell. These retarted idiots who support the terrorists are a plague on this earth that must be removed.

I send my sympathies to the people of Spain.

"idiots who support the terrorists are a plague on this earth that must be removed."

Good idea Mick. Why don't we round them all up and gas them. Hey, we could borrow a few ideas from Nazism while we're at it and just call it 'Evacuation', after all, we've already set the ground work by making it acceptable to call 10,000 dead Iraqi's 'Collateral Damage'. It's the same thing, just a matter of scaling it up.

What I really meant to say is that people like you who want to 'remove' people en-mass are no different to the terrorists, and always worse, as you've got a huge murderous state apparatus to rationalise your crimes, and a huge murderous industrial apparatus to carry it out.

It would be foolish to start apportioning blame until we know the facts in full. The press in the US were all pointing fingers at "Arab extremists" when the Oklahoma Federal Building was bombed, until evidence emerged that it was actually home-grown US terrorists. Let's wait and see what comes out in the weeks ahead, and refrain from jumping to hasty conclusions.

By the way, that word is spelled "retarded".

This is the type of comment that flooded our corporate media here in the U.S. after 9/11. It could be heard spouted by people who were some of the most reasonable people before 9/11. 2-1/2 years later the sum total of this type of excrement is that the public discourse here, at the level of the corporate-owned media, has shifted notably to the right in support of militarism, xenophobism, monoculturalism, and mindless conformity. My sympathies to the victims of the railcar attacks in Spain, and to the war victims in Iraq and Afghanistan - on "our" side and on "their" side. To use authentic human grief to stoke the fires of war and human rights abuse is itself a crime against humanity.