Saddam Hussein in the courtroom.




Hello, and welcome once again to American Dissident Voices. I'm Erich Gliebe.

Well, there's been big news from Iraq recently. The American death toll has now officially exceeded the 3,000 mark, and the number of wounded is over 22,000. With 109 American troops killed in December -- making the last month of the year the bloodiest for the U.S. in 2006 -- there seems to be no slackening in the determination of the insurgents to carry on their fight. Estimates about the financial implications of the war put the cost of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq at around $550 billion by the end of fiscal 2007.

President Bush's concern about the war derives from the war's effect on his presidency. That is, he wants to finish the job in Iraq because he thinks it will make him look good. As much as he tries to evoke sympathy toward victims when the media cameras are on him, he fails. He's not concerned about the families of dead U.S. servicemen. He's not concerned about the hundreds of Iraqis killed every week in the sectarian violence that he is responsible for. He vows to "stay the course" because he's hoping to come out looking like a conqueror.

He's wrong. There's no good way out for him in Iraq. He should have known that before he made the decision to go in. And he should have known that because that's what always happens when you listen to the Jews around you and do what they want you to do. The Jews' true agenda -- which they often hide from their pawns like Bush -- almost always gets completed, whereas their phony agenda that they put forth for the masses to believe -- which usually has layers of lies behind it -- often doesn't get done.

The Jews' true agenda for going into Iraq was, firstly, to shut down Saddam Hussein because he had an independent mind and didn't behave like world Jewry wanted him to behave. The second part of the agenda was to cripple the military power of Iraq because it was a threat to Israel, and also to destroy the country's infrastructure and political stability. All that has been done, and the Jews are happy about it. As for what happens now, they couldn't care less.

The phony agenda fed to the public about the invasion of Iraq had to do with Saddam financing or otherwise helping the 9/11 hijackers. It had to do with so-called "weapons of mass destruction" -- chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons that Saddam was said to be producing and stockpiling. All of that has since been shown to be a complete fabrication. And our troops continue to pay, every single day, for the Jews' selfish plans and for George Bush listening to his manipulative Jewish advisors.

Saddam Hussein's hanging on December 30th, though, has overshadowed the other gloomy news from Iraq. It's tough to say what effect Hussein's execution will have in Iraq, but I can't imagine it's going to be anything good. Various media outlets have tried to put a positive spin on it -- to the effect that "a dark chapter in the history of Iraq is over" -- but it isn't as though the country will suddenly heal, ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity.

I don't see the sectarian violence being tempered at all. In fact, after a few "normal" days following Hussein's death, the Sunni minority has publicly expressed outrage about the treatment of the former leader, who was a fellow Sunni. Besides objecting to the timing of the hanging -- it was the first day of Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim festival -- the Sunnis allege that Saddam was ignobly taunted during the execution. An unauthorized video taken during the execution contains audio supporting the claims of the Sunnis. Observers now fear that the Sunni masses, which -- before the execution -- were largely inert in the Sunni militants' uprising against the Shiite majority government, now might actively support the rebellion. It isn't a pretty situation.

But, of course, we knew all along that Hussein's days were numbered. It wasn't really a question of IF Saddam would die in prison; it was more a question of HOW he would die in prison -- whether by his own hand or by execution. You can bet that the Americans and their Iraqi toadies who were keeping an eye on Hussein were told to keep an EXTRA close eye on him, so as to make sure he didn't slip away by his own choice, as Hermann Goering did hours before he was to be hanged by his Allied captors. No doubt the Allies and Jews regret that they didn't capture Adolf Hitler before he was able to take his own life; they would have relished every second of the monkey trial that they would have cooked up for him. But Saddam's day finally came, and hanging was the method of choice.

Judicial hangings don't happen too often in the West anymore. Whenever capital punishment is carried out these days in the West, it's usually done by lethal injection, as was the case in 2001 with Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Here in America, whenever we hear about hanging in the news, it is usually in connection with a suicide. This is also true in Europe, especially in countries where firearms are less readily available than they are in the U.S., such as in the United Kingdom.

The practice of hanging as a method of execution is believed to have originated in the Persian Empire around 500 B.C. The technique spread, however, and death by hanging has been one of the methods of choice for executioners ever since. Hangings are still routinely carried out in the Arab Middle East.

Hanging has a left a long legacy in the United States. John Brown, who led an insurrection of Black slaves and White abolitionists in Harper's Ferry Virginia in 1859, met his death by hanging. Most hangings are individual events, but mass hangings are also well-known.

The largest mass hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota in December of 1862, when 38 Sioux Indian males were simultaneously executed for their part in the Sioux Uprising of that year, in which hundreds of White settlers and an unknown number of Sioux lost their lives. In that execution, the supporting platform was made to collapse when a single rope was severed, causing the condemned to simultaneously drop to their deaths...except for the one Sioux brave whose noose broke as he fell. Not about to be let off the hook so easily, his captors calmly strung him up to die next to his already-departed comrades.

Hangings were also routinely carried out in the U.S. armed forces of the 19th Century and early 20th Century. In the Houston Riot of 1917, 150 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 24th U.S. Black Infantry mutinied, killing 19 Whites in Houston, Texas. Nineteen of the Blacks were court-martialed and executed, thirteen of them simultaneously on December 10, 1917.

During that same period, vigilante groups often took justice into their own hands and hanged an offender themselves. Hollywood makes it sound as if the only hangings of this type performed were the ones against innocent Blacks who were lynched by gangs of racist Whites. More often, though, a lynching was an expedient for justice, allowing the White society of the South to enforce its own cultural rules without having to turn things over to the tired and slow courts.

But some lynchings were performed in order to correct the obvious injustices of the so-called "justice" system. This was the case in the 1915 Georgia case of the Jew Leo Frank. Frank was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old White girl, Mary Phagan, who worked in Frank's Atlanta pencil factory. In some last-minute, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, Frank's Jewish friends got Georgia's governor to commute Frank's death sentence. This so enraged the populace that an armed vigilante group broke into the federal penitentiary, escorted Frank back to Marietta, Georgia, and hanged him.

By the way, the lynching of Leo Frank was instrumental in the founding of the Jewish advocacy and espionage group, the Anti-Defamation League. As some of you know, the ADL does everything in its power today to stamp out White racial consciousness and unity. And the ADL hasn't hesitated to break the law to get what they want. Sometimes -- not always, of course -- they get caught for it, as when the ADL stole hundreds of confidential police files from the San Francisco police department in 1992 and 1993. But that's another story.

Hanging, though, gradually fell out of favor in the United States. The last hanging in America took place in 1996 in Delaware when Billy Bailey, a convicted murderer, opted for death by hanging.

PUBLIC executions in the U.S. by hanging had died out long before that. The most recent public hanging in this country took place in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936. In that instance, a 26-year-old Black man, Rainey Bethea, confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old White woman, Lischia Edwards. Bethea was convicted and hanged -- to much media attention -- and the hoopla surrounding Bethea's execution led to the removal of the carrying out of capital punishment in the public eye.

So Saddam's hanging comes as a bit of an eerie episode for the squeamish members of the White populations of Western nations. Many people checked out the video footage on the Internet of the moments leading up to Saddam's execution, even though it gave them the creeps to do so. A fewer number located and viewed the poorer-quality, unauthorized footage showing the actual execution of the former dictator. Call it a morbid fascination, if you will, but recall that Saddam's hanging was ostensibly the punishment for the execution of 148 Shiite males in the town of Dujail after a botched attempt to assassinate the Iraqi leader in 1982. More than 20 times that number of Americans have died as a direct result of George Bush placing the whims of his Jewish advisors before the needs of America.

At root, it seems to me that death by hanging is just one way that the conquerors show the conquered who's boss. Whether it is a criminal who has been "conquered" by the authorities, a soldier who has been "conquered" by his enemies, or a deposed dictator who has been "conquered" by an amoral President doing the will of an alien people, hanging is simply "to the victor go the spoils" played out in real life.

So when is hanging justified? Apparently, George Bush thinks it is justified for someone who doesn't agree with him on things like Israel, the Palestinians, and who should govern what used to be the sovereign nation of Iraq. After all, Bush could have stayed Saddam's execution if he had really wanted to, but he didn't.

What about traitors? Hanging has been used for hundreds of years, particularly in the military, to deal with traitors and turncoats.

Consider the case of the Jew Jonathan Pollard. Pollard spied for Israel while working for the Naval Criminal Investigation Service during the 1980s. Pollard estimated that in the space of about a year he passed nearly two thousand items of intelligence to the government of Israel: classified documents and correspondence, computer printouts, and satellite photos. In return, Israel paid Pollard a handsome salary along with other perks. When Pollard was caught in 1985, he was sentenced to life in prison, where he resides comfortably today.

It has been speculated that the classified information Pollard gave to the Israelis was then shared with the Soviet Union. That information included data on American spies in the Soviet Union, the U.S. system for tracking Soviet submarines, as well as the U.S. system of global communication. In exchange, the Soviet government granted certain favors to the Jews, such as allowing more Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Incidentally, the government of Israel denied that Jonathan Pollard was their spy for more than a decade after Pollard's arrest, only acknowledging that fact when, in 1998, they granted the incarcerated Pollard Israeli citizenship.

Is incarceration enough for Pollard? Some observers estimate that Pollard's activities resulted in the largest leak of American military secrets ever carried out by a single person. Suppose another individual is discovered tomorrow to have sold an equivalent amount of material to Iran or North Korea. Would George Bush be content with throwing that individual into prison? What actions would he have taken if Iran or North Korea then granted that individual honorary citizenship? The point here is not to run down Iran and North Korea, but merely to point out that American politicians and the American justice system have different standards when it comes to American Jews helping the foreign government of Israel.

What about former President Clinton's Jewish national security advisor, Sandy Berger? A year ago, Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents, which he carried out of the National Archives in Washington on multiple occasions. Some of those documents allegedly dealt with information related to the attacks of 9/11 and, because they are classified, the contents of the documents have not been made public. Berger's lawyer, Lanny Breuer, says that all of the documents have been returned, but Virginia representative Tom Davis, the outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, claims that there is no way to be certain that all of the documents have been restored. Significantly, Breuer -- a Jew whose parents claim to be survivors of the so-called Holocaust -- didn't specify if any of the documents were copied and distributed to foreign governments before they were returned during Berger's criminal investigation.

So what's the punishment for the spy Sandy Berger, who admitted to unlawfully taking classified documents from the National Archives? A paltry $50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service, and three years of "no access" to classified materials. Would an Iranian spy convicted of the same offense be granted the same penalty?

Which brings us back to hanging. In any given era, the men in power never envision themselves dangling from the gallows. That's because the men in power are not hanged, they DO the hanging. For the many years Saddam was in power in Iraq, you can bet he never predicted that he would end his days at the end of a rope.

But, as Saddam found out, times change. Those who were doing the hanging sometimes end up having the tables turned on them. If the American people ever wake up, the resulting chaos could result in hanging making a comeback in this country as a punishment for traitors and sellouts.

I'm Erich Gliebe, and thanks for being with me again today.