New Battle Tools --Leaks, Local Terror and Public Relations

Lee Ellis

Another leak, perhaps from a government source, was divulged Friday, July 7, putting many of us at risk. This time the leak went to the New York Daily News, owned by Mort Zuckerman, a Canada-born self-made American billionaire magazine editor, publisher, and real estate magnate, also current Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World

The leak revealed that our FBI was secretly monitoring plans that were underway for a suicide bomber to blow up a New York subway train while it was going through the Path tunnels that go under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.

Fortunately, the FBI still knows eight of the culprits and has arrested the mastermind in Lebanon. Six nations have been cooperating on this investigation which was being kept secret as it progressed. The leak slowed down our investigation and may have caused the local terrorists agents to flee! The terrorist cell which is loyal to al Qaeda was hoping that Manhattan would be flooded, thus wreaking economic disaster upon us.

Today's wars are no longer fought with marching armies. Instead, they are fought by frightening Americans here in the US, or our allies in Britain and elsewhere, with terrorist acts against civilians---including women and children. This is a very inexpensive form of warfare because a suicide bomber can kill hundreds of people for a total expense of under $300, as reported by Col. Oliver North today.

In addition to terrorism, today's wars are also fought with public relations tools, advertising and media reporting. To win a war today, the Socialists and terrorists have learned that they must infiltrate the media in order to spread propaganda, infiltrate the schools to reeducate our youth to the liberal ideology, infiltrate the churches to preach tolerance and to never judge others, and to infiltrate local organizations to fight our patriots in America not with guns but with lawsuits to drive out their religion and to pursue "Politically Correct" thinking. Such thinking rules out any supposed discrimination against those who hate America ---the haters who want to change our laws and our culture to meet their needs for their new world!

I found a good example of this in today's newspaper. Picking up my Weekend magazine from my local newspaper to check on entertainment, I was shocked to read an AP story there written by David Germain about a new movie. I quote:

"'The Road to Guantanamo' is a movie to make Americans feel ashamed to be Americans, or, at least, to be ashamed of things done in their names. Yes, it's one that Americans should see, a story that puts sympathetic faces on the bystanders caught up in the unyielding war on terror that has made the United States look like an angry, heedless bully to much of the world."

The Red Cross plus Bill O'Reilly, Judge Napolitano and many other prominent military and non-military writers have been to Guantanamo to check it out and have reported that everything is OK there with the prisoners being well treated and even eating better than our troops do overseas!

And yet, the Hollywood movie producers just delight in hiring actors to make it look as if America is the worst country in the world. I guess the terrorists are regarded, by them, as saints for slaughtering 3,000 of our innocent civilians in horrible deaths on 9/11. And that no one should be ashamed for using suicide bombers to blow off arms and legs of innocent children and women in subways, restaurants, supermarkets and other public areas.

What kind of people think that we are not gentle enough in trying to get prisoners to make us aware of future attacks planned on Americans here in the US, but think nothing of the beheadings and painful torture used on our American soldiers and civilian contractors by armed thugs who are neither uniformed soldiers nor representing any one nation?

Yet our Legislative Supreme Court wants us to treat these terrorists under the rules of the Geneva Conventions! I hope that Republicans get elected in 06 and 08 for the main purpose of bringing back the three divisions of government ---Executive, Legislative and Judicial. If we had a Judicial Constitutional Supreme Court now instead of a Legislative one, trying to replace Congress, such folly would never have happened!

And why does AP publish this? Why does Hollywood produce this propaganda? The answer can only be to continue to break down the American resolve so that our citizens are afraid to protect themselves from the coming domination of our great country by the Islamic Fascists and the Socialist power forces who have already infiltrated our schools and universities and plan to do whatever is necessary to take control of our government, even doing away with the Electoral College system of this Republic. Some states with a legislature dominated by liberal Democrats, including California, have already started this process.

I heard a popular TV talk show host, recently, ask his guests why so many American people thought that the Bush Administrations and the Iraq war were bad and that we should pull out to cut and run. Neither had an answer, but I did as I yelled, "That's all they read or view in the media. People only know what they are told!"

No wonder that people are ready to believe the Murthas and Sheehans of this world and think that a retreat will protect them rather than a show of strength. History proves otherwise, but then, most people today do not know their history so they are willing to become pawns of the incoming hordes. Hmmm, didn't we see French people doing this back in the late 30s and early 40s as Hitler's armies marched towards and eventually through France?

Are we doing the same? If the polls are correct, over half of our nation seems to think that we are wrong in stopping the terrorism that emanates from the Middle East by creating an Intelligence Center there and an oasis of Freedom and Democracy in the heart of this area-Iraq!

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Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and narrator, formerly with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He was also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He had the pleasure of interviewing Ronald Reagan as an actor and then later working to help him become Governor of California. At the age of 80, he is keeping busy writing and doing free lance narrations for radio and television. He is an active member of Rotary and the VFW.

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