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Friday, August 26, 2005

Although we of The Scallion are still officially on hiatus, we could not resist throwing in our two cents … again!

Today’s top story: according to the Wayne Madsen Report, neocons are running rampant in NSA and firing employees based on bogus psychological exams, as if all the loonies somehow slipped past all the screening processes and procedures and are only showing up now that smirking chimp has the reins of our poor defenseless country! Sounds like the real loonies are the neocons and the psychologists who are acting as the fascists’ whores.

Preceding the Madsen report is a letter taking Pat Robertson to task for calling for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez. The Scallion has posted a shorter letter, which was sent right to Robertson’s website itself, below this edition … only we never informed our subscribers, so LOOK OUT BELOW! :}

Until we return, please remember to check out this short list of fine sources for news stories almost surely absent from the nation's mainstream commercial media:

http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.jimhightower.com/ and the weblog http://hightower.fmp.com/weblog.php
http://www.prwatch.org/ and its archives http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.html
http://gregpalast.com/
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://airamericaradio.com/

There are so many others we just don't have room to list!

If you read no other news, be sure to scan the headlines at Democracy Now! It's the best way for Real Americans (affectionately known as Unamericans) to defend themselves against Bush's pathologically compulsive bait-and-switch, closed-door politics of extreme hubris that, unfortunately, continue to thrive in 2005.

As always, for news with a giggle, try this "official" website: http://www.whitehouse.org/

Happy reading; keep the faith; and keep fighting -- this is our country, and it is up to each of us to save it ... and to rescue the embattled majority of average working class folks from the tyranny of the privileged minority of super-rich elitists.

It is the responsibility of every thinking person not to side with his or her executioner. – Albert Camus

Popular democracy anywhere threatens imperialist fascism everywhere. – The Scallion

Before we bring you the feature of the day, here is another letter admonishing Pat Robertson. It was submitted to http://tools.democracyforamerica.com/petition/robertson/ on 25 August 2005. However, AlterNet reminds us: at least Pat Robertson was being honest about America’s foreign policy …

President Hugo Chavez is a democratically-elected Christian leader of a sovereign state. He is not a thug or a terrorist, like George W. Bush and his benighted administration and supporters. Rather, President Chavez believes in working hard to promote the welfare and well-being of those whom he has taken the oath to serve in office: the poor, weak, and working classes of Venezuela.

How unfortunate that a so-called Christian like Pat Robertson feels that it is a capital offense to care enough about the working and the poor to ensure that they receive their fair share of the wealth their nation’s national resources create. How unfortunate that he feels that it is a crime punishable by death for President Chavez to follow Jesus’ teachings and do His good work. How unfortunate that Mr. Robertson has chosen to side with the imperialists, fascists, thieves, and thugs who now own and operate this once-great nation of America. How unfortunate that Mr. Robertson speaks as though it is his own personal right to decide who lives and dies, based on his own ideology, politics, and anti-American agenda.

It is even more unfortunate that Mr. Bush tacitly approves Pat Robertson’s fatwah against President Chavez by deliberately omitting to repudiate Mr. Robertson and his words publicly.

It is time for the American public to remind Mr. Bush and his mouthpieces, like Mr. Robertson: thou shalt not kill.

It’s not just a good idea: it’s the law.

This uber-scary article was forwarded to me by a faithful Scallion reader.
You can find it yourself at http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

(I’ve included everything pertinent here for easy, one-stop reading. But I encourage everyone to visit the Wayne Madden Report website early and often. I also recommend joining the letter-writing campaign the estimable LT Madsen if it’s not too late. If it is too late, then if falls to us to write our own letters independently. -Ed.)

NSA's Own Nest of Cuckoos

NSA's tribe of headshrinkers consists of a trio of psychologically tortuous on-the-payroll psychologists led by Dr. John Schmidt. Dr. Marianne Moran and Dr. Dina Wieczynski are his fledgling understudies who directly execute orders from both NSA's Office of General Counsel and NSA's Office of Security. These three psychologists hold all the cards for continued access to employment but many question if these doctors are abiding by the ethics of their profession. Most unsuspecting employees targeted by NSA's network of neoconservative officials often endure repeated brutal types of mental interrogations. Reminiscent of the witch trials in past centuries, former co-workers or acquaintances of these "marked" employees for termination are welcomed to falsify statements to Federal law enforcement agents assigned to NSA. Schmidt, Moran, and Wieczynski salivate in anticipation of their next victim to abuse. All three are conducting their own sadistic method of torture; Dr. Schmidt prefers to make female subjects sexually uncomfortable, but tends to take a harsher stand with males. Dr. Moran, like Dr. Wieczynski, appears to diagnose everyone with "personality trait" disorders, despite non-Agency doctors finding to the contrary. Based on a series of documents, Dr. Wieczynski appears to have mastered the art of psychic-evaluation, where the employee doesn't even have to be present for an evaluation but she is able to give a complete "unbiased" analysis into the person's psyche. These talents are truly amazing considering the overwhelming number of agency-diagnosed employees with "personality trait" problems or, in essence, "sociopaths" who have freely wandered the halls of NSA over the past years. Particularly poetic is the fact that so many were never identified and rejected initially through the stringent security background investigations the agency conducts. On the other hand, the rising numbers of "insanity" cases could just reflect the Gestapo-like tactics generating massive paranoia throughout NSA. One former agency employee stated, "We are nothing more than lab rats for psychological testing at the whim of a hierarchy out of control . . . it is like being trapped in a fixed maze where there is no way to escape." How long will this career-fatal cat and mouse game continue?

*** Next article from the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) ***

NSA Security resorts to Soviet-style "Psikhushka" to intimidate and terminate career employees. The neocon assault on U.S. national security continues. It's beyond time to take action.

UPDATE: Since this story ran, WMR has received further information about the staff of the NSA psikhushka. Dr. Wieczynski received her PhD in clinical psychology from George Mason University in 2000 and went to work for the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center at Jessup, Maryland's maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital until 2003. From dealing with some of Maryland's most dangerous convicts, Hayden's team selected Wieczynski to psychologically evaluate career NSA employees for fitness. It is also noteworthy that Wieczynski's colleague, Dr. Moran, also worked at the Perkins hospital for the criminally insane before joining Dr. Schmidt's staff at NSA. Schmidt's "psikhushka" actions have extended beyond Fort Meade. As early as the early 1990s, Schmidt was used by NSA management to diagnose a civilian NSA contracting officer technical representative at Naval Security Group Sugar Grove, West Virginia as psychologically paranoid and delusional because he brought attention to fraudulent activity by the commanding officer for changing ratings on contractor performance appraisals.

NOTE: This editor [Wayne Madsen] was attached to NSA in the mid-1980s. Although I have been a critic of the agency over the years -- on issues concerning NSA strictly abiding by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Constitution -- it is absolutely treasonous what is now taking place at Fort Meade. NSA is responsible for one of the most critical intelligence functions in the United States Intelligence Community -- signals intelligence, the discipline that ensured America's military victories in World War II.

The neocons are not only rifling through sensitive raw intercepts of the personal communications of U.S. citizens but they are now conducting a purge of independent-minded intelligence analysts and technicians at NSA who refuse to kowtow to the "new normality" of quasi-fascist control of the United States Intelligence Community. Combine this neocon abuse at NSA with the outing of non-official cover CIA agents, punishing national security whistleblowers, and other outrages, and one must conclude that the neocons are extremely dangerous elements within the United States government and they must be held accountable for their destructive actions.

I am kicking off a letter campaign to the Congress when it returns from recess after Labor Day. It calls on Congress to immediately pass legislation requiring the Director of National Intelligence to order an immediate halt to and retroactive (to include the past three years) reversal of all personnel actions within the U.S. intelligence community that are based on blatant political vendettas. I will personally hand-deliver the letter to the relevant committees on intelligence, government affairs, and armed services.

If you are a current or past member of the U.S. intelligence community (including military service and law enforcement elements) and would like to sign on, please send you name, city and state where you vote, and agency and division (if classified, merely send the cover title), and years of service to waynemadsendc@hotmail.com. If you reside abroad, state your home of record (birth place or city and state where you cast your absentee ballot). If you are a current member of the U.S. intelligence community and wish to remain anonymous, merely provide your agency and city and state where you vote.

Dear Senator/Representative [XXXXXXX]

We, the undersigned members and veterans of the U.S. Intelligence Community are writing you to request that legislation be introduced that would require the Director of National Intelligence to order an immediate halt to politically-motivated adverse personnel actions that are directed against career members of the U.S. Intelligence Community. A number of experienced intelligence professionals who have strictly followed departmental and agency rules and regulations and demonstrated their commitment to the the Constitution and the national security of the United States have been victimized by an Intelligence Community-wide program of intimidation, psychological abuse, revocation of their security clearances, and wrongful termination. This witch hunt and purge must stop. We are also asking that all politically-motivated terminations of intelligence professionals over the past three years be immediately reversed by the Director of National Intelligence and a review of the individual circumstances of the adverse actions be conducted by a special congressionally-chartered commission staffed by professional mediators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Respectfully,
Wayne Madsen, Arlington, VA, (LT, USN, National Security Agency 1984-85).
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Comment on this Wayne Madsen Report article from reader Ted Twietmeyer, 8-24-5

As someone who worked with NSA people on systems contracts back in the 1980's,
I can state categorically that their employees have historically are wonderful, fine dedicated people and great patriots. The pay isn't exactly stellar, so you know they must be dedicated.

Of course, almost any government agency has a dark side - with nasty people doing dirty work. But overall, those people only provide the security function. No one ever wants a visit (overt or covert) from them...and the thought of it is what keeps most NSA people on the straight and narrow.

One agency employee told me some years ago, that they received a very minor speeding ticket (most of them call it a "chicken ticket.") The next morning the person was called into the office and dressed down. The NSA monitors their employees like no one else can. And they know it.

So WHY would the leadership need a purge? Perhaps they are finding that employees can't believe what's happening to America, right in front of their eyes. And they aren't thrilled to be a part of it.
It's no wonder the shrub on PA Ave. wants a purge. Real patriots don't like a police state disguised as "new freedom," and are waking up in droves. In past articles I've directly called for people inside the government to help stop this police state takeover of America. Perhaps a few people actually listened to that call from myself and others like Alex Jones. We cannot forget that "God works in mysterious ways," too.

The psyc. evaluation program sounds like yet another idea from under-furer Karl Rove to further consolidate power in the palace. Has ANYONE noticed, that Rove's name starts with a "K" and not a "C?" Spelling it with a "K" is more germanic oriented. One can be sure that some time before Bush's term is up, he'll doing something so drastic that martial law will be declared. And with it -- his term in office will go on indefinitely under military law.

That is -- if he gets away with it.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

And foiDUHmore …

We marched on over to the 700 Club’s website and submitted a question to Pat Robertson regarding his call to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The temptation of confronting Mr. Robertson through his “Bring It On” feature of the program was too great to resist. This is what we asked Mr. Robertson:

The 700 Club's Pat Robertson recently called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, a Catholic Christian head of state who believes that the welfare of the people he pledged to serve in public office is more important than "playing ball" monetarily with a fascist, imperialist rogue state. According to Jesus' teachings in the Bible, President Chavez is doing Jesus' and God's work by caring for the poor and weak. Where does the Bible say it is moral to assassinate such a man? Thanks!

We wondered whether their heads would explode when they read it!

It is the responsibility of every thinking person not to side with his or her executioner.
– Albert Camus

Popular democracy anywhere threatens imperialist fascism everywhere.
– The Scallion

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Although we of The Scallion are still officially on hiatus, we could not resist throwing in our two cents … again!

Today’s feature: two letters that Scallion staffers have sent to George W. and Laura Bush.

Until we return, please remember to check out this short list of fine sources for news stories almost surely absent from the nation's mainstream commercial media:

http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.jimhightower.com/ and the weblog http://hightower.fmp.com/weblog.php
http://www.prwatch.org/ and its archives http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/index.html
http://gregpalast.com/
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://airamericaradio.com/

There are so many others we just don't have room to list!

If you read no other news, be sure to scan the headlines at Democracy Now! It's the best way for Real Americans (affectionately known as Unamericans) to defend themselves against Bush's pathologically compulsive bait-and-switch, closed-door politics of extreme hubris that, unfortunately, continue to thrive in 2005.

As always, for news with a giggle, try this "official" website: http://www.whitehouse.org/

Happy reading; keep the faith; and keep fighting -- this is our country, and it is up to each of us to save it ... and to rescue the embattled majority of average working class folks from the tyranny of the privileged minority of super-rich elitists.

This is the letter that a distraught Scallion staffer has written to Laura Bush:

To: comments@whitehouse.gov, first.lady@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Ask your husband

Dear Mrs. Bush,

As a patriotic American who mourns the demise of this nation's democracy at the hands of the fascists, I implore you to ask your husband these important questions.

1. Why does he hate America? Why is he destroying this nation and its democracy? After the country has been so very good to him, his father, and his grandfather, I find it impossible to understand why Mr. Bush is so eager to sacrifice a democracy that has lasted 200 years for a fascist regime that will surely crumble within a few short decades at the outside (as a reader of history, you surely know this).

2. Why does he hate women? Doesn't he love you and your daughters? Doesn't he want women like you to use their God-given gifts and to exercise their rights of self-determination and self-actualization? Everything he says and does leads me to believe that he wants to institute an American Taliban: a society devoid of science and reason, where church and state are one and the same, that subjugates one half of its population to the other, reverting to the days where women were chattel. His behavior is not consistent with that of a man who loves the women in his family.

3. Why does he hate people who have to work for a living? Why does he want to see those who work an honest day's work denied an honest day's pay, a decent education, health care, or recourse to organizations that can help them to reap their fair portion of the wealth they create? Americans and other workers worldwide -- including in China, Indonesia, Haiti, and others -- have helped to create the wealth Mr. Bush now enjoys. If he were truly a Christian, he would seek to give back more than he is taking; instead, his actions show that he seeks only to take more and more away from those with less power and money than he.

4. Why does he hate our military? Why has he deliberately thrown them into harm's way in an invasion based on lies without even the common decency to ensure that they will receive fair pay, proper equipment, and decent medical care should they be fortunate enough to return home? What is the "noble cause" he has sent them to fight for in Iraq? (And, no, fascism does not count as a noble cause; nor does oil.)

5. Why is he so determined to be so shortsighted when it comes to oil, the environment, and issues that will determine whether we all live or die? Instead of invading Iraq for its oil, why hasn't he invited all his oil company friends to seek clean renewable energy in exchange for all the tax breaks, loopholes, and laws he has passed in their favor (at our expense, I might add)?

It breaks my heart to see any fellow creature so desperately unhappy, despite how hell-bent he seems to be on wreaking a trail of destruction and devastation in his wake. Deceit of self is the worst kind of deceit, and I fear that suppressing the inner knowledge of this is tearing Mr. Bush up from the inside. I weep for your husband, Mrs. Bush, and I pray for him that he will truly find Jesus and learn to worship a God that is kinder and more loving than money and power. And I beg you, please, to do everything in your power to set this nation back on the right track so that God may act through America to make the world a better place for everybody.

May God be with you both.

In contrast, here’s the letter to smirking chimp himself:

To: president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Why?

Mr. Bush, why do you hate America? Why are you destroying it? Don't you love your daughters? Don't you want them to have a nice country to live in? Or do you hate them, too, along with America? Please tell me why you hate America so that I can pray for you that you won't hate America any more. I will pray for you to love America as much as I do.