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      <p>Skolnick COMMENTARY #002
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      <p>[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]</p>
      <p>Hi. Sherman Skolnick (sp?), Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the
Courts, 9800 Oglesby (sp?).</p>
      <p>Some years ago the federal government set up a special
[inaudible] group. For two-and-a-half years they met in secret at
Iron Mountain, New York. Their findings were called "Report from
Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace."
Their document, by some of the leading thinkers, was suppressed.
Later, it was printed in a limited edition, with the *names*
removed. Some were shocked by what they read.</p>
      <p>Throughout history, permanent peace was dangerous to established
governments. War, and the threat of war, are the principal
organizing force for most societies. They divert attention from
*other* economic and political problems. War keeps the factories
going, wasting government manpower and material that would
otherwise be of surplus. Peace brings unemployment, the collapse
of prices of goods and property, and knocks down the government.
In simple terms, war prevents [economic] depression. (By the way,
sooner or later, whatever nation loses a war is overthrown. So it
has been all the centuries. The American ruling circles lost the
Vietnam War. The aftermath is bound to scatter the rulers to the
winds.)</p>
      <p>As the report says, in Europe, over the years, the typical
standing army consisted of troops unfit for employment in
commerce, industry or agriculture, led by officers unfit to
practice any legitimate profession or to conduct a business
enterprise. A large standing army is a form of social welfare
program; a form of control of the population. War, and the threat
of war, keep all levels of society busy. The newspapers are kept
rich reporting it. Pundits are employed to mouth off. Wars speed
up so-called scientific development. War goods do not have to
show a profit or be the lowest price. In permanent peace there
are vast cutbacks in research and development. And yes, wars kill
off surplus population; young men with no good job waiting for
them.</p>
      <p>The [Iron Mountain] report points out that the war system makes
stable government of society possible. The end of war means the
end of national sovereignty.</p>
      <p>Without an identified enemy, why would the CIA have
a large secret budget to assassinate political leaders and
overthrow other governments the White House does not like?</p>
      <p>To promote their secret agenda, the CIA has taken over a part of
the savings and loan system to funnel men and money for "dirty
tricks" here and overseas.</p>
      <p>The CIA likewise manipulates the federal bankruptcy courts to
grab up companies for use as covert action fronts. In Chicago,
this is done with the help of foreign intelligence agencies, such
as Mossad. Chicago bankruptcy trustee William A. Brand (sp?) jr.
is a top honcho of the CIA and other spy shops.</p>
      <p>In the name of national security, the mass media have been
*ordered* to "soft pedal" or "stay shut" about spy agencies doing
such things. The CIA involvement in bankruptcy court should have
made headlines as the number one item on the evening TV news. Yet
not one word is said by the liars and whores of the press.</p>
      <p>Play it again: Fermilab and weather modification. (312) 731-1505.</p>
      <p>New message Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations
appreciated. Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 S.
Oglesby (sp?), Chicago, 60617.</p>
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assassinations and the news media. On 24 hours.

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