There is an analysis that 9-11 was the work of relative amateurs rather
than a far flung master organization.  That does seem likely and points to
the helplessness of a modern techno state in the face of determined and
not totally unreasonable, hatred.

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> Cry for us, Enron-Tina
> by Frank Scott
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> While sincere Americans were  waving flags , Washington was picking
> their pockets to fill the coffers of corporate capital. At the same
> time, this  government has been hysterically destroying the
> constitutional  freedoms that make America, with all its moral flaws, a
> worthwhile dream of democratic possibility. Most elected officials, with
> the cooperation of mass media acting as a propaganda  wing of the state,
> have united in a frenzy of thoughtless action alleged to fight terror
> elsewhere, but really create it within our midst.
>
> During this orgy of mass financial looting and frenzied civil liberties
> theft , the economic horrors of a multi-billion dollar corporation,
> Enron, and a multi-multi billion dollar nation, Argentina, haven’t been
> closely examined. They reveal more about what might ruin our future than
> present fears about retail terrorism practiced by dark-skinned amateurs
> , in contrast to the more common wholesale terrorism practiced by
> light-skinned professionals.
>
> The capital theft at Enron may eventually lead to individual
> prosecutions, but personal crime is only a small part of this case. If
> we allow the soft shoes and weak spines of  official opposition to be
> the only response to the  cowboy boots and cow-pie brains  of this
> administration, we will gain nothing. Some satisfaction for the craven
> cowards who called Bush a moron on 9/10, but made him a dictator after
> 9/11, will simply mean personal vengeance enacted against the mental
> minimalist president and his crew of power-mad petro-greasers.This kind
> of small time , short term  politics  won’t  protect us from the
> big-time,  long term threat .
>
> It is our capital fundamentalism , and well as our chemically dependent,
> petroleum addicted energy policy that lie at the root of the Enron
> corporate fiasco. The complicity of many within the Bush gang  is only a
> sideshow; a focus on their behavior that misses the larger deregulatory
> horror responsible for this mess amounts to sending pretzels to the
> white house as a way of opposing the president.
>
> While it was mainly a conduit for Republican funding,the cabal of energy
> and financial thieves at Enron  dumped off money to the other wing of
> our  corporate political mafia and its henchmen , like Joe-God
> Leiberman, when it saw the  need for a little help from more than one
> criminal gang.
>
> And the national disaster of  Argentina has been the story of everything
> supposedly right about the triumph of deregulated capital becoming
> everything that is wrong with the disaster of unregulated capital. IMF
> policy, which means U.S. free market fundamentalism , was supposedly
> working like a charm in Argentina. Sure, until the drugs wore off. Then
> the invasion of foreign capital and the destruction of national currency
> became a living nightmare of unemployment, poverty, food riots and bank
> chaos.
>
> Now, while thousands suffer the system’s losses at Enron, millions
> suffer the  system’s deprivations in Argentina, and billions worldwide
> are threatened by further breakdowns in global capitalism. But there is
> some hope for Argentina;  many of its people have shown  they will no
> longer tolerate the  nonsense that created their problems. The new,
> temporary government is withholding payments on foreign debt, which
> numbers even more billions than the old paper value of Enron. This could
> be a  signal to other nations  impoverished by capital to fight back.
> And even we Americans show some signs of waking up reality.
>
> Business flacks tell us consumer confidence is  increasing, but this may
> be because consumers  realize what Argentineans finally understand ;
> they will never be able to pay their debts, which will outlive them, and
> they  can’t be prosecuted for incurring them if their debtors  robbed
> them in the first place, and they band together to get more power than
> those to whom they allegedly owe the money .
>
> It is the system’s total dependence on waste, pollution, deregulation
> and debt that is most dangerous, and is the point at which  Enron and
> Argentina  offer lessons. This is how things work; for the unprincipled
> minority investors, and  against the  majority from whom they draw the
> interest they call profit, which is that majority’s loss.
>
> But awareness must come at a faster pace. More victims are sought in  an
> endless war against “them”, with dreadful Democrats like presidential
> wannabee Leiberman joining the  chorus that sings for murder as the only
> way to stop more murder. The popular demon, Saddam Hussein, looms large,
> as both American and Israeli  vampires of war thirst for more blood,
> having whetted their appetites with Afghanistan’s powerless Taliban and
> Palestine’s defenseless citizens.
>
> International corporadoes desire a global empire under the total control
> of gas guzzling, environmentally destructive  western civilization, in
> its most anti-democratic , fundamentalist form.
>
> The  perverse, greedy onanism of modern  capital is so focused on its
> private parts that it denies the larger body of society, which is
> composed of  people in numbers far beyond the minority of investors and
> corporations on whose selfish interest its goals are focused. It is that
> majority which is kept divided by manipulation and teachings that claim
> all power to the individual, while robbing those individuals through
> governments controlled by wealth ,  which collect taxes  to  fill the
> pockets of their owners; the minority corporadoes.
>
> The financial interests which profited from the  crimes of Enron are the
> same ones which got fat sucking Argentina dry. And the workers at Enron,
> the citizens of Argentina and ultimately all of us are the ones who will
> pay. The neo-liberalism of the past thirty years that returned to
> primitive capital’s attack on public service  government, with all power
> placed in the market under private control, has brought Enron and
> Argentina  to near or total ruin. But more importantly, that
> unregulated, debtor creating system threatens all people, every nation
> and the planet itself if it is not brought under democratic control.
> Today Enron-Tina; tomorrow, us?
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> Copyright (c) 2002 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
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