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10, AMERICAN
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* Issue 40 AMERICAN FREE PRESS
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH
MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER
Pennsylvania
Spy Scandal
Exposes Israelis
Average
citizens from across political spectrum
monitored by Israeli intelligence assets
By Michael Collins
Piper
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. It’s
a scandal (or it should be) of national —
even international — proportions. But in
Pennsylvania, where the news first reverberated,
few understand the bigger ramifications: The ongoing
furor has — just barely — kicked open
the door of a hitherto secret house of horrors
in which a whole host of spooks are lurking.
 Exposed
was yet another instance of Israeli spying on
American soil. Adding insult to injury is the
fact — revealed in Pennsylvania —
that American tax dollars are being channeled
to Israeli intelligence operations to spy on American
citizens engaged in lawful political activity.
To
understand the controversy, it is critical to
recognize that in the wake of 9-11, “homeland
security” became a booming racket —
not just in the sense of a growing government
bureaucracy. In fact, an amazing number of privately
owned companies blossomed, operating in the sphere
of American military, intelligence and law enforcement,
contracting out services to U.S. government agencies
and institutions at all levels.
An
overwhelming majority of such firms are either
1) Israeli owned; 2) owned by U.S. subsidiaries
of Israeli companies; or 3) owned by Americans
tied to Israel and the Jewish lobby in America.
It
was discovered that one such Israeli-owned company
was spying on law-abiding citizens, paid to do
so by the Pennsylvania state government —
that is, the taxpayers.
Here’s
the story:
In
2009, the Pennsylvania state Office of Homeland
Security — under Gov. Ed Rendell —
awarded a no-bid contract to a private company,
the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response
(ITRR). Its job was to monitor activities of a
wide-ranging assortment of public-issue oriented
organizations.
ITRR
passed the fruits of its intelligence activities
on to the state homeland security office that,
in turn, distributed the information to a variety
of law enforcement agencies, public officials
and what is being described as others in “the
private sector.”
Calling
itself “the preeminent Israeli-American
security firm providing training, intelligence
and education to clients across the globe,”
ITRR has offices in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia
and Jerusalem. Corporate directors are Aaron Richman,
a former Israeli police captain, and Michael Perelman,
a former police commander in York, Pa.
By
its own admission, ITRR focuses on monitoring
those it calls “extremists” with a
bent toward “religious, anarchist, anti-government,
and anti-globalization” points of view —
in short, virtually anyone with a point of view
that could (potentially) run contrary to the outlook
of the Jewish lobby in America and to the interests
of Israel. And be assured that opponents of the
“new world order” and foes of the
banking establishment are on “the list.”
The
Israeli point of view, outlined in historic religious
teachings, is that anyone with any opinion or
ideas is a possible danger: They might someday
be an enemy.
ITRR’s
alerts, distributed at taxpayer expense, cast
political dissidents in Pennsylvania as potential
terrorists, enemies of public order and threats
to freedom.
Those
in Pennsylvania targeted by ITRR included attendees
at a tea party march in Harrisburg, supporters
of an anti-illegal immigration rally in Hazleton,
critics of nuclear power, animal rights defenders,
gay activists and a group protesting natural gas
drilling. In other words, both “conservative”
and “liberal” are subject to scrutiny.
The
controversy surrounding ITRR began when the state’s
homeland security director, James Powers, sent
out an email “alert” — based
on ITRR’s spy data — stating support
for the natural gas industry and calling its critics
“those groups fomenting dissent.”
Apparently,
by accident, Powers’s bulletin was sent
to Virginia Cody, among those protesting natural
gas drilling (and thus subject to ITRR spying).
Cody was disturbed to learn she and her colleagues
had been targeted. In the wake of her discovery,
independent media and political groups forced
the mass media in Pennsylvania to take notice.
This
proved embarrassing for Rendell. A Jewish Democrat
known to jump ship politically when it comes to
the issue of Israel — covertly backing pro-Israel
Republicans over Democrats perceived unfriendly
to Israel — Rendell moved into damage-control
mode. He ordered ITRR’s contract canceled
and made a bombastic public apology, shocked —
he said — such a thing could happen.
In
fact, the ITRR affair is the tip of the iceberg,
one of myriad Israeli operations on U.S. soil
subsidized by American taxpayers in many states,
not to mention the federal level.
While
some officials are raising questions about the
ITRR matter, what none is asking is: Why, in the
first place, was a group tied to a controversial
foreign nation, central to some of the most difficult
issues affecting U.S. foreign policy, even considered
eligible for such a sensitive area as monitoring
matters relating to America’s homeland security?
One
activist spied upon by ITRR said his group was
inclined to avoid discussing the Israeli connection.
“It’s kind of controversial to comment
on, you know, what with the Holocaust. I mean,
I would rather not. The Jewish people have been
through a lot.”
The
presence in the Pennsylvania capital of the Patriot
News — the big daily newspaper —
helps protect Israeli interests in the matter:
The Patriot News is owned by the national
media empire of the Newhouse family — once
the richest Jewish family in America — whose
ties to Jewish lobby groups such as the Anti-
Defamation League (ADL) and to the Jewish crime
syndicate (with which the ADL is intertwined)
extend back more than half a century.
What
those who have expressed outrage about the ITRR
affair fail to note (perhaps out of concern of
being targeted) is that ITRR’s activities
mirror those of the ADL which — in a similar
scandal that erupted in San Francisco in 1993
— was found to be monitoring the activities
of various groups.
While
many thought the ADL spied only on the Ku Klux
Klan, American Nazis, Arab-Americans and critics
of Israel, it turned out theADL’s chief
operative, Roy Bullock, also compiled reports
on environmentalists, gay rights groups and even
civil rights organizations, including the NAACP.
It
has since been confirmed — by a former ADL
official and by Freedom of Information Act filings
— that the ADL also spied on the late Martin
Luther King Jr. and his friend and colleague,
comic Dick Gregory. The ADL turned its spy data
over to the FBI. So while it is frequently heard
“the FBI spied on Martin Luther King,”
the truth is much of the FBI’s data was
actually accumulated by the ADL.
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. . ..Michael Collins Piper can be
heard every week day night live on the Internet
at republicbroadcasting.org.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller” documenting
the collaboration of Israeli intelligence
in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
He is also the author of The
High Priests of War, The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These works
can be found at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT BOOKS:
1-888-699-NEWS. He has lectured
on suppressed topics in places as diverse
as Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu
Dhabi. |
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(Issue #40, October 4, 2010, AMERICAN
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