Halloween for liberty: analysis of the Bin Laden tape.
Al Qaeda archleader Osama Bin Laden’s propagandistic video statement is analyzed.
Thanks to the coddling nature of our paternalistic governments and the lack of courage of the free press, only excerpts of the transcript are available in English.
The BBC transcript has been watered down to turn the statement into domesticated parlor talk. (*) The Al Jazeera transcript is even less complete than the BBC’s, but it is not watered down. (†)
Al Jazeera transcript: [S]ecurity is an indispensable pillar in human life and. . . free men do not forfeit their security contrary to Bush’s claims that we hate freedom.
Here Bin Laden tries to disrupt Bush’s appeal to universal liberty with a thinly veiled threat. Bin Laden will tolerate anyone’s freedom as long as no one goes against Bin Laden. The rhetorical tactic of Bin Laden here is to sow confusion while instilling fear.
Al Jazeera transcript: [J]ust as you lay waste to our Nation so shall we lay waste to yours. . . .
[I]t had never occurred to us to strike towers.
But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the America/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.
Bin Laden continues to extend the rhetoric of the Western Left that accuses the USA of being an oppressive global power. The rhetoric of the Western Left has become a warrant for the genocide of Western civilization. Furthermore, this message of the Western Left is a lie.
BBC transcript: Just as you waste our security, we will waste your security.
Note the watery nature of the BBC version.
Al Jazeera transcript: Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors and did not forget to import expertise in election fraud from the regions presidents [sic] to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.
Of course, this self-proclaimed champion of freedom, this criminal mastermind of the 9/11 mass murder plot does not support democratic elections.
Al Jazeera transcript: But because it seemed to him [Bush] that occupying himself by talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers we were given three times the period required to execute the operations.
That is a lie. Had Bush acted immediately, it would have saved only seven minutes. It’s interesting that Bin Laden tries to foment this particular lie. His desperate use of this lie is a clear indication that Bin Laden is strongly opposed to Bush winning re-election.
BBC transcript: Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush, or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security.
Here the Enemy archleader tries to justify the 9/11 attacks as if they were based on self-defense. It is a malignant, brazen, and corrupt attempt at fraud.
Over and over, Bin Laden directs his hellborn fury at George W. Bush by name. In the part of the propaganda video that we the stupid, ignorant masses are not privy to, apparently the bloodthirsity Bin Laden discourses at length on Iraq.
This is the first original Bin Laden videotape released since 2001.
It was released two days before Halloween, but more importantly it was released four days before election day 2004 here in the US.
Without doubt, Bin Laden wants to influence the US elections.
Without doubt, Bin Laden wants John Kerry to defeat George Bush.
The video is a jab at the solar plexus of America’s reservoir of courage. It is an attempt to make this goatherding kitten molester into some sort of deity. It is one of the most evil works of literature I have come across.
We must retain our common sense, and we must retain our courage. He wants us to fear him. Let us instead remain coolly determined to kill him and his minions.
Update: 1 November 2004. It turns out that the only obstacle to releasing the full transcript was Al Jazeera. (‡)
Update: 9 November 2004. Fox News says the State Department tried to keep the tape from becoming public. (§)