hora carol00atin heatedinatedantacadacadacadacadacadacadacadacad Oh, my God. You're listening to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Ladies and gentlemen, it has become increasingly evident that the majority of the American people have descended into such depths of ignorance, stupidity, and apathy that I don't know if there's any coming back from that. All I could do is to continue to try to educate the sheeple so that someday they might become real people and stop being sheared and being led to the slaughter by the Judas goats in whom they place so much of their trust. Blind trust, I might add. Ladies and gentlemen, the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. is made up of the largest number of chronic, habitual, and serious liars that probably have ever existed upon the face of this earth. They lied to us about World War II. They lied to us about World War I. They lied to us about the reasons we got into World War I. They lied to us about the reasons we got into World War II. They lied to us about the fact that they said they had no advance warning of the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, something that has been proven historically false. They lied to us about the Korean War. They lied to us about the reason why they fired General MacArthur, who wanted to win the war. They lied to us about Vietnam, especially those of us who fought in Vietnam. They lied to us about the war in Cambodia and Laos. They lied to us about the bombing of North Vietnam. They lied to us about the mining of Haiphong Harbor. They lied to us about the Turner-Jort incident in the Gulf of Tonkin. They lied to us. They lied to us. They lied to us. They continue to lie to us. Every time they come up for election, they lied to us. Every time we discover that they lied to us, we say never again, and then when they lie to us again, we believe it. They lied to us about Granada. They lied to us, ladies and gentlemen, about Panama. They are lying to us now about the war in Yugoslavia and Kosovo. They lied to us about Bosnia. They lied to us about the amount of time our troops were going to be in Bosnia. President Clinton told us they would only be there one year after he signed the Dayton Agreement, the Dayton Accords, as they're called, which specifically state that we are committing troops for a minimum, minimum of five years. President William Jefferson Clinton has proven to be the greatest liar that has probably lived amongst all of these chronic, serious, and perpetual, habitual liars that inhabit that nefarious geographical thing known as Washington, the District of Columbia. So since Americans have such short memories from lie to lie, tonight, listen very carefully. You're going to hear the soundtrack from Panama Deception, which is a videotape. I want you to go out and buy this videotape in huge numbers. Pass them out to your friends. Give them to everyone that you know. Buy tons and tons of this video. It's called Panama Deception. Find it. Buy it. Buy not just one copy, but several copies, and hand them out to everyone that you know. Ladies and gentlemen, stop believing the lies. Stop supporting tyranny. What we are doing in Yugoslavia is committing acts of war against a nation-state which has never in its history attacked us, has always been a loyal ally, held 21 German divisions at bay during World War II, and if they had not done that, we could not have won the war. Don't believe it? Study the history of World War II, and you'll find out if there had been 21 more German divisions free to fight us, we would have been rolled back to the beaches of Normandy. It's not conjecture. It's fact. They rescued our pilots. They took care of them. They healed them. They treated them. And they took them to the lines and turned them back over to the Allied forces. Ladies and gentlemen, the Serbs for hundreds of years have been persecuted, enslaved, castrated, blinded. Most of you have no idea of the history of that part of the world. The KOTOVAN rebels, the KLA, is a Marxist-communist organization that has been funded and that has been turned loose to do what they are doing in order to fraction the nationalist state of Yugoslavia to create unrest in the region, to test the power of the New World Order, to exert its will over sovereign nation-states by the use of the World Police Force, which is the United States military forces. Now listen very carefully and learn from this. All of the witnesses that you're going to hear tonight are just poor Panamanians. They've got no axe to grind. They're not communists. They're not socialists. They're not anything. They're just poor, poor people. They're going to tell you the truth about what the United States of America did in Panama. And then you're going to know how bad the lies have been, can be, and will continue to be until you grow up and stop being so damn ignorant, stupid, and apathetic. You think, if you speak out against this, that you're not patriotic. Tell me, tell me, dummies, what is patriotic about attacking the nation of Yugoslavia when they have never, ever in their history attacked the United States of America? huh. Dum. Dum. Dum. Dum.ья. For me, this is true, that I want to dance with you in the summer. For me, this is true, that I want to dance with you in the summer. I'm going to run with you in the summer, and then the empty water is in the summer. For me, this is true, that I want to dance with you in the summer. For me, this is true, that I want to dance with you in the summer. If you do not move, go and go and go and go. If you do not go to the sand, go and go and go and dance with you in the summer. For me, this is true, that I want to dance with you in the summer. Mommy, get some good stuff. Mommy, get all right up, we go get some good stuff. Mommy, get some good stuff. On December 19, 1989, while Panamanians were getting ready for the Christmas holidays, the United States was secretly mobilizing 26,000 troops for a midnight attack. I saw helicopters approaching. They were closed. The lights went out and the helicopters began to shoot. People were running left and right without direction, without knowing where they were going. It wasn't just machine gunfire. They were boxed. The noise was frightening. You could hear gunfire coming from all directions and a strange noise that we had never heard before. People were frightened, running, wondering what was going on. The sky was completely red and there was a tremor you could feel throughout the city. The invasion was swift, intense, and merciless. When it was over, thousands lay dead and wounded, and the country was in shambles. Millions of U.S. tax dollars were swallowed up in three days of brutal violence. The strategy was considered a stunning military and political success. The operation continues. In many ways, the invasion served as a testing ground for the Persian Gulf War one year later. It is also an indication of the kinds of intervention the United States may undertake in the years to come. But still, big questions remain. What exactly happened during the invasion of Panama? And why? As the invasion unfolded, Americans stayed glued to their TVs and newspapers for coverage. But how much of the real picture did the media give them? The performance of the mainstream news media in the coverage of Panama has been just about total collaboration with the administration. Not a critical murmur. Not a critical perspective. Not a second thought. The story that the White House was pushing was getting the so-called narco-terrorist in a net. And that was the thrust of all of the coverage. When are we going to get Noriega? Have they let Noriega get away? By late today, they had taken control of much of the country, but their chief target, General Manuel Noriega, the state. Manuel Noriega belongs to that special fraternity of international villains. Men like Qaddafi, Idi Amin, and the Ayatollah Khomeini, whom Americans just love to hate. The White House announced a $1 million reward for his campaign. And today, the Justice Department set up a hotline to take in tips on Noriega's possible whereabouts. That hotline number is... They focused on Noriega to the exclusion of what was happening to the Panamanian people, to the exclusion of the bodies in the streets, to the exclusion of the number dead, to the exclusion of what happened to the women and children in that country during this midnight invasion. In some ways, the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama was no surprise, given the history of relations between these two countries. The United States refused to recognize Panama's independence movement throughout the 1800s. But when the U.S. proposal to build a canal across the isthmus was turned down by Colombia, U.S. policy abruptly changed. In 1903, the United States provided military backup, enabling Panama to secede from Colombia. By doing so, the United States secured the right to take over the canal project that had been abandoned by the French. In a treaty that was negotiated between the French canal investors and the United States, the Americans were granted sovereign control in perpetuity of a 10-mile-wide strip of land they called the Canal Zone. Panamanians were not included in the negotiations, and no Panamanian signed the treaty. The United States immediately placed the Canal Zone under military control. Teddy Roosevelt was asked by what right he acquired in possession of the Canal. At least in the honest words of a thief, he said, I took it. That, if you know, right in law never has. And hopefully never will. The Canal project had a dramatic impact on Panama. The U.S. imported cheap labor from the Caribbean, India, and Asia, changing the racial makeup of the country. Thousands of these workers died, and those who remained lived as part of a new racial underclass. They created an apartheid system in Panama, a system of obeying and racial segregation, where black people could not live in the same home, where black people could not even use the same water fountain. The Jim Crow law that was practiced in the southern part of the United States was implemented in Panama by the United States government. After the Canal was completed in 1913, the United States continued to expand its military presence and tighten its grip on Panamanian politics. Violent concentrations between Panamanians and the U.S. military grew in the decades that followed. Tensions peaked in 1964 when students tried to exercise Panama's right to fly its flag in the Canal Zone. Twenty-one Panamanians were killed, and hundreds were wounded in the confrontation. In 1968, Panama's government was overthrown in a military coup. Omar Turrios, a colonel in the National Guard, emerged as the new leader of Panama. Although he used repressive measures to consolidate his power, he became immensely popular. Turrios introduced an unexpected period of social reform that benefited Panama's majority population of blacks, Indians, and mestizos. It created what some people call a populist reformist process. Umberto Brown, an administrator at the State University of New York, served as a Panamanian diplomat to the United Nations. He was educated in Panama during the Turrijos period. We're, for the first time in Panama, we had a participation of the non-oligarchical people of the nation. We're people like myself, get opportunity to go to university, get a degree where the peasants, where people from the mestizo, where all the people were deprived of an opportunity for once in our life, were playing important roles in our nation. In 1978, relations between the United States and Panama reached the high point. Jimmy Carter and Omar Turrios negotiated treaties that abolished the 1903 treaty, establishing a new relationship between the two countries. The Carter-Turrios treaties required the United States to vacate its military bases and withdraw its troops by the year 2000. Full control of the canal and the canal zone would be turned over to Panama. Although these new treaties were a source of pride for Panamanians, many conservatives in the United States had vehemently opposed them. The Panama Canal Zone is sovereign United States territory just as much as Alaska is, as well as the states carved from the Louisiana Purchase. We bought it, we paid for it, and General Turrios should be told we're going to keep it. In November 1980, Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in a landslide election victory. Eight months later, on the night of July 31, 1981, Omar Turrios was killed in a fiery plane crash. The circumstances of the incident are unclear. Authorities said that his plane crashed into the side of a mountain. But witnesses said that the plane exploded in flight. Although his death was officially declared an accident, many suspect that he was assassinated. Some think that Manuel Noriega may have been involved. But many are convinced it was the CIA that was responsible. Jose Chuchu Martinez was one of Torrijos' closest aides for many years. They killed him precisely at the moment they had to kill him. At the moment that Torrijos was having a big influence over Central America, especially among the revolutionary movement. They killed Torrijos because Torrijos represented precisely the political solution of the whole Central American problem. Waiting in the wings for his chance to take power was Colonel Manuel Noriega, the CIA's primary contact in Panama. Noriega was head of Panama's military intelligence and had a long-standing relationship with the United States. He had been on the CIA payroll since the 60s. When George Bush became director of the CIA in 1976 under President Ford, he inherited Noriega as a contact. Despite evidence that Noriega was involved in drug trafficking, Bush kept Noriega on the payroll. In fact, he increased Noriega's salary to more than $100,000 a year and eliminated a requirement that intelligence reports on Panama include information on drug trafficking. Over the last 20 years since Manuel Noriega was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to be an asset, he has obviously provided many, many important pieces of information to U.S. intelligence. Peter Kornblew is Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive. The archive has assembled hundreds of previously classified government documents revealing the details of Noriega's relationship to U.S. intelligence. They've paid him an incredible amount of money, of American taxpayers' money, and obviously decided that his value to them was so important that his drug smuggling and other illegal activity could simply be ignored. I, George Herbert Walker Bush, do tell and we swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, that I will support and defend... After George Bush became Vice President under Ronald Reagan in 1981, he was named head of the administration's anti-drug campaign and once again took responsibility for monitoring Noriega's intelligence activities. Bush, in fact, seems to have been instrumental, even according to the documented evidence the administration itself has made available, in seeing to it that Noriega was well taken care of. And in fact, Admiral Stanfield-Turner, the former director of the CIA under Carter, claims that he cut Noriega off, that he removed him from the U.S. payroll. Bush put him back on and in fact, gave him a raise and developed an even closer relationship than it existed before. With support from the CIA, Noriega was able to outmaneuver his rivals and in August of 1983, he became commander of the Panamanian military. As the Reagan administration expanded its covert war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, Noriega became increasingly helpful. Working with the CIA and with Israeli arms dealers, Noriega helped coordinate an arms supply network to provide weapons to Contra bases in northern Costa Rica. It is by now undeniable that the same planes that were carrying arms from Panama into Costa Rica were also carrying drugs. And in fact, the people who were the pilots flying those arms to the Contras and flying drugs on up, eventually reaching the United States, have been indicted and are now serving time. This operation essentially gave Manuel Noriega the assurance that they would turn a blind eye to his continued brokering of cocaine deals in return for using his network to get the arms to the Contras in northern Costa Rica. Noriega's involvement in the drug traffic really increased his importance as a source for the CIA and as someone who was able to conduct dirty tricks in the region for the CIA. So, it's no accident that the CIA became the most prominent defenders of Noriega against the drug charges because that's the sort of thing which CIA clients tend to do. Time after time, when we install strongmen in the third world because we want them to be strong we want to see them involved with the strongest local economic forces which time after time are the drug traffickers. despite Noriega's collaboration with many U.S. covert operations he was becoming increasingly uncooperative with U.S. objectives in Central America. In 1984 he angered the Reagan administration by hosting Latin American leaders at the Contadora Peace Talk. The talks called for an end to U.S. intervention in Central American affairs. Noriega was not the yes man that the United States wanted him to be. He simply didn't like to be pushed around. He certainly didn't like people like John Poinichester William Casey coming down to his villa and telling him what he could do and what he shouldn't do. Then in 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal erupted. Noriega's primary contacts in the administration were now under intense scrutiny. the North was fired. The North was fired. The North was forced to resign and William Casey fell ill with a brain tumor. So all three of Noriega's major protectors were out of government and that led quickly to a shift in U.S. policy. Sentiments within Panama were turning against Noriega as well. For three years Noriega worked with the DEA in a sting operation codenamed Operation Pisces. In 1987 with Noriega's assistance authorities arrested hundreds of suspects and froze millions of dollars in Panama's banks severely disrupting the money laundering business. The financial community was outraged and Noriega's opponents mobilized against him. Back in Washington Noriega's opponents lobbied and testified against him accusing him of murder corruption and drug running. The U.S. media quickly turned it into a major story. But relations with Panama are under a new cloud tonight because of news reports Alexi Helms charged today that the military strongman of Panama Manuel Noriega is the number one drug trafficker in the Americas. Helms said that the Pan Ami has held a situation with Noriega from U.S. and politics have also led to new investigations on Capitol Hill. Faced with increased pressure both in the U.S. and Panama Noriega introduced a wave of brutal repression attacking protesters in the street and jailing hundreds of opponents. The Reagan administration now openly called for his removal. We do want Noriega out of there in a return to a civilian and democratic government. But behind the scenes the administration was secretly negotiating with Noriega promising not to indict him on drug charges if he would cooperate with U.S. objectives in Central America. Gabriel Gemma director of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the U.S. invasion of Panama spoke to Noriega about his negotiations with the U.S. General Noriega told us that there were a number of demands placed on him directly both for Poindexter and other meetings where the State Department pressured him to change the Panamanian government's policy on several issues. He said that by far the most pressing was a demand by the United States that Noriega and the Panamanian government allow the U.S. to expand the military crisis in Panama and to renegotiate the treaties to allow them to keep control over the 14 bases military bases that presently exist in Panama. Noriega refused to agree to the U.S. demands or to relinquish his power in Panama. In February 1988 two U.S. federal grand juries in Florida indicted Noriega accusing him of drug trafficking money laundering and racketeering. It was the first time a foreign head of state had ever been indicted in the United States. The U.S. now undertook a systematic effort to overthrow Noriega. Economic sanctions were stepped up and additional troops were dispatched to Panama. The United States has not declared in effect that Panama's General Manuel Noriega is a threat to this country's national security. Mr. Noriega the drug indicted drug related indicted dictator of Panama. We want to bring him to justice we want to get him out and we want to restore democracy to Panama and so when you read these outrageous charges by a drug related indicted dictator discount them they are total lies. still unable to force Noriega from power the United States turned its efforts to influencing the upcoming 1989 Panamanian national election. the Bush administration working through the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy funneled more than $10 million into the opposition slate of candidates. Presidential candidate Guillermo Endara a wealthy corporate lawyer educated in the United States and his vice presidential running mate Guillermo Billy Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón. If the same scenario that those elections occurred and had taken place in the United States they would have been illegal. In the United States accepting money from a foreign government for the purpose of influencing a domestic election is illegal. Those elections were irregular from the beginning. How can you call it a peer election? The strategy is what apply in Panama it applies in Nicaragua and it applies to every government who disagree with the U.S. foreign policy. They use economic consensions to stop people then to impose a vote on these people because people vote to get bread when they're hungry. And I don't think that's democracy. The elections were held the counting of the votes began it became clear that the PRD would lose the election and at that point and not for the first time in the history of Panama or many other countries in Central America the military rulers faltered the electoral process. The country erupted in violence as ballot boxes were seized. The U.S. supported candidates who had been leading in vote tally were brutally beaten on the streets of Panama City in front of rolling TV cameras. The assailants were alleged to be Noriega's dignity battalion although none were ever identified. It was a photo opportunity that crystallized world public opinion against Noriega. Good evening. The violence in Panama escalated sharply this evening when government goons attacked Canada to pose the General Manuel of Noriega were attacked and beaten up on the streets of Panama City. We are more and one of the opposition presidential candidates were beaten and injured during the day by backers of the military later. The president of Canada was released from the hospital. It has been confirmed that he was attacked by goons. The following day President Bush ordered 2,000 additional troops into Panama. I will do what is necessary to protect the lives of American citizens and we will not be intimidated by the bullying tactics brutal though they may be of the dictator Noriega. after the election fiasco the Panamanian National Assembly declared a state of emergency and appointed Noriega head of state. George Bush now openly encouraged the Panamanian military to revolt against Noriega. with support and encouragement from the United States a group of officers from the Panamanian Defense Forces the PDF began planning a military coup to overthrow Noriega. They secretly met several times with the U.S. Southern Command to coordinate support for the overthrow. The role played by the United States Army was to block certain roads, make sure that certain airfields were not made available for use by elements loyal to, or potentially loyal to General Noriega. With these insurances, the insurgent troops launched the coup attempt. They quickly overpowered Noriega's guards, seized the TDF headquarters, and captured Noriega. But the Americans did not carry through on their promises. Forces loyal to Noriega were allowed to gain entrance and crush the rebellion, freeing General Noriega. President Bush later denied any U.S. involvement in the operation. I think this is some American operation. I can figure that he has got a trick. But I would repeat it. I'm hoping to be the candidate instantly at Panama. We have no argument with the Panamanian Defense Forces. We have no argument with the Panamanian Defense Forces. But investigative journalist Doug Vaughn, who was in Panama during the failed coup attempt, disputes Bush's claims. And the idea, at least on the American side, was to lead these coup plotters along, to seduce them into believing that they had the support of the United States, and then at a critical moment abandon them, so that then the excuse could be made that we had to smash the PDF completely, that we couldn't rely anymore on disgruntled officers inside the Panamanian Army to rise up against Noriega. And we would have to do this job ourselves. After the October coup attempt, 1,300 additional U.S. troops were flown into Panama, and offensive military equipment was secretly deployed. The U.S. military stepped up its campaign of intimidation and provocation, setting up roadblocks, confronting PDF forces, and conducting offensive military maneuvers outside of U.S. jurisdiction. They have blocked passage here, pointing at a security problem. What security? The Panamanian people would never threaten them. They are the ones threatening. They are the ones who charge us with a weapon. What's wrong with that? They charge the bayonets to us. They charge us with a bayonets in order to scare us. They said not to step onto that area, but they're on outside the Panama field. So what the hell did them? It came to an inch that that day the killing didn't start, because the tanks and everything were ready to go in to kill the Panamanian people. The Army Special Operations Command sent a highly secret Delta Force team to Panama. There were numerous actions undertaken by that Delta team, which were reported in the United States press as provocations undertaken by Panamanians against the United States. Infiltrations of United States positions, shots fired in the direction of United States perimeters and positions, roughing up of United States citizens in the street. Sabina Virgo, a national labor organizer, was in Panama just weeks before the invasion. Provocations against the Panamanian people by United States military troops were very frequent in Panama, and they had several results, and in my opinion, probably a couple of different intents. One, I think, was to create an international incident, was to have the United States troops just hassle the Panamanian people until an incident resulted. And from that incident, the United States could then say that they were going into Panama for the protection of American life, which is in fact exactly what happened. On the night of December 16th, a group of U.S. Marines ran a military roadblock in front of PDF headquarters and were fired on by Panamanian guards. Lieutenant Robert Bolivar Paz, a U.S. Marine intelligence officer, was killed. The Marines were reported to be part of a group called the Hard Chargers, known for provoking confrontations with PDF forces. The Pentagon claimed the Marines were unarmed and lost, but local witnesses said that they were armed and exchanged fire with the PDF headquarters, wounding a soldier and two civilians. An American serviceman has been killed in a weekend shooting incident. Another American officer called an example of General Noriega's cruelty and brutality. ...death of an American officer, which President Bush condemned today as an outrage. And in another incident, a Navy officer and his wife were detained. He beaten and threatened with death. She threatened sexually. Another American serviceman, also threatening that man's wife. Strong public support for a reprisal was all but guaranteed. Four days later, on December 20th, U.S. troops invaded Panama. The invasion was codenamed Operation Just Cause. Shortly after midnight, U.S. troops simultaneously attacked 27 targets, many of which were in densely populated areas. One of the primary targets in Panama City was the headquarters of the Panamanian Defense Forces, located in the crowded neighborhood of El Chorillo. U.S. troops shelled the area for four hours before moving in and calling for surrender. About ten minutes after they've been seeking this surrender surrender, we start to hear the helicopters. start to burn the quartel and start to use the laser ray and things like that, so we hit the ground. It soon became clear that the objectives were not limited only to military targets. According to witnesses, many of the surrounding residential neighborhoods were deliberately attacked and destroyed. The helicopters were heavily armed, firing powerful machine guns and rockets, and they were firing indiscriminately. They weren't just looking for military targets. They were firing at many civilians. People were running all over, trying to escape. They shot at everything that moved. Without mercy and without thinking whether they were children or women or people fighting. Instead, everything that moved, they shot. We all thought that they would just signal you. They said that's what they wanted. They would take him and would respect everyone else. After the bombing had been going on for a few hours, the soldiers say, tell everybody to come out with their hand on their head. They direct us to the church. They direct us to the church. When we were in the church about 60 o'clock in the morning, all of a sudden, the building started to burn in front of church. The people then, as they know they have, the only thing they have was inside the church place. They tried to run out to get water to house it. And the American soldiers tell them to get out. Some people, you know, stubborn, they tried to go in and the American soldiers shot up in the earth. And the people had just here and they ran back. We saw that the North Americans were denying people access to their homes. They sent people back and threatened them with their machine guns and forbid anyone to get close to the houses. Or walked in or around the alleys leading through the houses. Then they began to set the houses on fire. The Panamanian soldiers then know each alley how to go in and how to come out and where to come out and come through, you know, from one street to another street, climb up and go to a balcony. So the only way I think the American soldiers could get rid of that, that danger, was to burn down the building then. That way the Panamanian soldiers could have nowhere to hide. I'm unaware of any operations by U.S. military to go through and systematically burn down buildings. You get fires that are started by weapons. But I've seen any reports of U.S. military folks going through and setting buildings on fire. The North Americans began burning down at Chorrio at about 6.30 in the morning. They would throw a small divide into a house and it would catch on fire. They would burn a house and then move to another and begin the process all over again. They burned from one street to the next. They coordinated the burning through walkie-talkie. They were all over again and through walkie-talkie. And from here the old of Chorria went to nothing. And from here the old of Chorria went to nothing. And from here the old of Chorria went to nothing. And from here the old of Chorria went to nothing. And from here the old of Chorria went to nothing. The Pentagon used Panama as a testing ground for newly developed high-tech weapons. Such as the stealth fighter. The Apache attack helicopter. And laser-guided missiles. There are also reports that can't be explained indicating the use of experimental and unknown weaponry. We have testimony about combatants who died literally melted with their guns as a result of a laser. We know of automobiles that were cut in half by these lasers of atrocities committed by weapons that fire poison darts which produce massive bleeding. I think there's a high probability that there was a use of sophisticated weaponry merely to test it. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General, has conducted extensive research into the invasion. Above all though there was a use beyond any conceivable necessity of just sheer fire power. Just an excessive use of force beyond any possible justification. President Bush wanted to make certain that this was going to be a success. This was going to be his vindication. A denial of the wimp factor in spades. So they sent down a force that wasn't going to encounter any effective resistance. It would simply overwhelm the opposition. And the fact that it would cause tremendous peripheral damage. Damage to innocent civilians on a wide scale was not of concern in the planning. What we intended to do was to reduce collateral damage. I don't know what that means. Collateral damage? That means if the target is right here, you're trying not to have damage to other places. You're trying to have damage to a specific target because that's a military target. You're trying to minimize damage outside of the military target. And they worked. My god, we were sending in artillery and air strikes against a very heavily populated urban area. There was absolutely no question that there were going to be immense numbers of civilian casualties. We walked among the dead and saw the tanks run over and crush our dead. We saw a great number of civilian cars with whole families inside. Kids, women and the driver torn to pieces and crushed by the tanks. The soldiers passed the tanks over the people's bodies. Some of them died, some of them wounded. And there were cases that we know, for example, the case of Manuel Carro, the case of Alexander Huber, and some others whose bodies were totally destroyed. During the days and weeks following the invasion, the U.S. policy of applying overwhelming deadly force continued. There were many reports of indiscriminate killings and executions of unarmed civilians. We have eyewitness accounts on the part of a number of Panamanians where soldiers took Panamanians who had been captured after the invasion and executed them on the street. I have seen no reports of U.S. soldiers executing anyone in Panama. We have carefully checked out every such report. And if we think there is evidence that a U.S. soldier murdered a Panamanian, we will court-martial that soldier. That sort of behavior would be absolutely unprofessional, totally unacceptable, and illegal. Rafael Olabardia, a community leader from El Chirio, was taken to the Balboa High School detention camp the morning after the attack. There were many Panamanian troops at the Balboa concentration camp. They didn't seem to know what was going on. They were sitting on the grass with their arms and feet tied with plastic bands. I, along with many other people from El Chirio, witnessed their execution right in front of us. Eight of the soldiers at the entrance were executed by U.S. troops. There were many reports of unprovoked killings at U.S. roadblocks. One woman told human rights investigators how her brother and four friends were killed at a roadblock on December 23rd, three days after the initial attack. All five of the passengers were forced out of the car and put face down on the ground. They were riddled with bullets. They were simply going to visit family members when they were detained and killed in the street. Although 19 cases of homicide and alleged executions were filed with the Southern Command, all but two of these cases were internally reviewed and dismissed. Stay with us. More of the documentary, the Oscar-winning documentary, Deadly Deception, in just a few moments. I'm Kevin Harris. I'm the station manager here at Channel 9, and this is a special evening. We're going to air two documentaries that are controversial in content, but the kind of programming that only public television, only KQED would bring to you. It's showing a different perspective. That's why we're here tonight. That's why we've decided to broadcast both of these programs tonight and ask for your support. We'd like you to call 864-1100 or toll-free, 1-800-567- During the invasion and throughout the days and weeks that followed, access by the news media was tightly controlled. The Pentagon flew in a 16-person press pool from the major U.S. media. The pool did not reach Panama, however, until after the crucial first four hours of the attack and were restricted to U.S. military bases for the next day and a half. Our regret is that we were not able to use the media pool more effectively. The goal was to get reporters down there so that they could see for themselves the early hours of the operation. Now, once they got there, we had a breakdown in our ability to move them around. Helicopters that we thought were going to be available had to be pulled off and were needed for the operation itself. The press pool that went down there was managed from the day they arrived. They were only taken to see what the government, what the military wanted them to see, and there has been continuous suppression and denial of the extent of damage which was inflicted during that invasion. Many journalists who tried to investigate on their own were stopped by U.S. troops from entering areas that were attacked. Thank you, please. One of the few journalists who was able to penetrate the military's restrictions was Panamanian photographer Julio Guerra. I had already taken photographs in the Chorillo area. I'd also taken photos of some dead bodies in the street when an Alphabatican soldier told me I couldn't walk any further. They wanted to take my camera away, but I didn't let them. So they made me open the camera and expose the role of film with the shots of the dead bodies I had taken. Notary folks shouldn't be taking film out of cameras. You get young guys in combat, they get concerned, they do that sometimes. I don't think that was the norm. Another Panamanian journalist, Manuel Becker, a cameraman for a London-based news service, was covering the attack on the night of the invasion when he was stopped by U.S. troops. We almost got to the edge of El Chorillo. As soon as we were able to, we started videotaping. But the North American troops took out tapes and placed us virtually under arrest until the bombing was over. A Spanish news photographer who in the early moments was able to get a picture of bodies lined up in the morgue was subsequently shot under very strange circumstances. There was not a conflict, but according to the reports of colleagues, an American soldier just hopped, took a hand shot, herself. The U.S. military also targeted the Panamanian media. Radio stations were immediately taken over and destroyed. U.S. forces occupied and began transmitting their own signal. Many journalists were either arrested or fired. One of Panama's largest daily newspapers, La Repubblica, was raided, ransacked, and closed down by American troops. The U.S. military's control over all of the media was so effective that there was almost no video footage of the first three days of the invasion other than what was shot by the military's own camera crews. It's so ironic that the kind of very tight press control that you used to see in Russia under Stalin and under Brezhnev and which was finally ending under Gorbachev with Brezhnev, that we've seen in the United States exactly the opposite phenomenon, a new degree of press control which we never had in Vietnam so that the American people didn't really know what had happened until it was all over and it was too late. During the week of the invasion, more than 18,000 people who fled from the areas of attack were forced into temporary detention centers created by the U.S. forces. I'm in jail. There's something in jail for four hours. Entra en el campamento y adoy. No estén caminando un lado al otro. ¡Es peligroso! Por favor, acuérdense en el campamento. Ahora estamos en una guerra peligrosa. ¡Me venía a ver! ¡Ay, ya me diario! ¡Yo podía ver! ¡Cabiste! ¿Y qué? ¡Nosotros vamos a ir a la guerra! ¡Van ahí acá allá! No, mi Osir": Pero de aquí. ¡ Yo salto in! ¡No, mi Osirio! ¡Yo salto! ¡No salto! ¡Y si me salto! ¡Yo salto nada al menos! ¡Yo salto! ¡еля, soy yo! ¡No salto! It was a war. It was a battle. And the way you get it over with is to find the people who are most likely to keep shooting at you and try to detain them. And that was the goal of that operation. We arrived at the concentration camp of Balboa, a school. It was surrounded by a barbed wire fence and full of heavily armed soldiers. When we arrived, they picked all the men between the ages of 15 and 55 and put us on an army truck. The women were crying, shouting. They were pushing us around, and we didn't know where they were taking us. You're listening to WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, USA. This is the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. You're listening to a special presentation of the audio track of a videotape called Panama Deception, the truth about what the United States of America did in Panama. This film won the Cannes Film Festival for Best Documentary. It has been hailed by critics and by researchers around the world. It is the truth. Go out. Find it. Buy it. Not just one copy, but several copies. Give copies to your friends. Send them to your congressmen and senators. As if that's going to do any good, but at least you'll know that you did your best. Spend a lot of money. Let people know that Mr. Milosevic in Yugoslavia doesn't hold a candle to the atrocities committed by the liars in Washington, D.C. And ladies and gentlemen, don't call me or write to me and try to purchase it from me or from the Hour of the Time or from Harvest Trust or from the Independence Foundation Trust. We are not selling this video. We are not airing it to make money. Our purpose is to create thinking individuals who have brains and know how to use them. Not mindless sheep who believe everything that they're told, who are occasionally cheered and then led to the slaughter behind the Judas goats that they trusted. We are not photographing. We are not photographing. We are not photographing. We are not photographing. We are photographing. We are photographing. We are photographing. We are photographing. So all men between 15 and 55 had this card with their ID number and the refugee number. As part of the invasion, the U.S. forces worked with newly installed Panamanian officials to institute repressive measures that continue in Panama today. American forces took control of the public buildings, government ministries, and the university. Almost every organization opposed to United States policy had its offices raided and destroyed. Thousands of individuals were arrested. Yes. How does Colteron and Donna and the Attorney General Rogelio Cruz effectively wrote down the names of their political enemies, gave them to U.S. military personnel who, going around like stormtroopers, would break down doors, drag people out of their houses, take them to detention centers, only because their name was given by one of these officials, and that there was no legal case against these people whatsoever. I got it. I got it. What's that door there? Yes. I got the door. I got the door. You got the door. You got the door. Come on, keep the eye on it. I got the door. I got the door. I'll fuck his ass home. Government officials have to go underground, many of them, in order not to be arrested, including university professors. There were former government and diplomatic officials that were arrested and interned at refugee camps and some of them in prisons. The list runs into the thousands. Why aren't they taking it? Why aren't they taking it? They say, I have weapons. I don't have no weapons. Why aren't they after him? Why aren't they after Bush instead? He's the one who's killing people all over the place. Why aren't they harassing a worker who's defending other workers? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? Why aren't they? 26 times the U.S. troops were here searching my house. They would surround everything with tanks and would take books, personal documents, photos of the rios. They would search it whenever they felt like it. Valvina Herrera de Perignon was the mayor of San Miguelito and a member of the National Assembly. After the invasion, she was subjected to a relentless campaign of slander and harassment. The Southern Command put up wanted posters with my photo. If you see her, please call such and such a number at Southern Command. They interrogated my children, my three little ones. They would ask them where their mother was, where their father was. They would ask them for information about us. Escolástico Calvo, the editor of La Repubblica newspaper, had been openly critical of the new government and the U.S. invasion. What I don't understand is that they've been holding me here 30 days and no one has talked to me about my case, about my charge. This is what we want a decision on. Is there justice here or not? Calvo was in prison for 18 months. No charges were ever filed against him. They arrested close to 7,000 Panamanian individuals. They arrested almost every trade union leader. The leaders of the nationalist parties, of progressive parties, of left parties in Panama. They arrested people who were cultural leaders. There are still hundreds of Panamanians who remain in jail with no due process, with no formal charges against them. As a result of the U.S. invasion, an estimated 20,000 Panamanians lost their homes. Hardest hit were residents in the poor neighborhoods of San Miguelito, Colón, Panama Viejo, and El Chorio. The U.S. invasion. The U.S. invasion. The U.S. invasion. The blood will flow, the pleasure's feet are warm Drying in the blood, the body in each bone The borrows your ears, the washes slip away So there are might, we're all we'd see I haven't started laughing at you, I'm sure my friends are not today Nothing comes from violating, nothing ever cool The oil's born beneath that angry star Let me forget how fresh I am The survivors of the invasion received little assistance From either the newly installed Panamanian government or the United States Many moved into bombed out buildings and makeshift shelters Several thousand were moved to Albrook Airfield And housed in two large airplane hangars Where many languished for more than a year In hangar number one, we constructed 506 cubicles It's a 10 by 10 foot cubicle Which holds each of the families And in each cubicle we can put as much as four cats And a small mattresses for the kids Although the Albrook Refugee Camp was administered by the Panamanian Red Cross And the United States Agency for International Development U.S. Military Police would frequently enter the grounds Restrict access and make arrests With explicit permission from the directors of the camp Our camera crew entered To interview refugees about their experience of the invasion and its aftermath But even though we had authorization U.S. Military Police and the Criminal Investigation Division of the U.S. Army Tried to stop our crew from videotaping I don't think it's right I think the world is of the right to know the truth Sir, please We are the victims We are the victims We lose everything We lose our family I don't know why The world is not supposed to know the truth Sir Yes ma'am Until a public affair The people get there I can't allow it No We are the victims We are the victims We are the victims And we want the world to know the truth Why do you think I'm the victim I want you Why are you against me I'm coming and arrest me But we have the right to be here We're shooting We're a Panamanian process And we have the right to be arrested I'm not stopping And we're not slowing down So if you have to bring someone in So of course you can do that That's your business Why do they want to throw out the report? They change itself to us They want to know the truth And they won't let them interview us Why? Why? Why? Why? Hundreds of angry refugees Surrounded the camera crew Forcing the military to withdraw Finally the refugees Were able to tell their stories We're tired of being stuck inside this hangar Sleeping on a couch Many old people are sick There's no medical attention And the children When? Where are they going to put an end to this? We are the victims of Ndara's presidency Why did it have to be us? Why didn't they choose their rich neighborhood? If they had picked 50th street It would have been repaired by now Since it was a chorrito They have forgotten about us Because the people are in bad shape They have no clothes Nothing to wear I buy them clothes sometimes And sometimes food Out of my own pocket But one can do that But one can do that every day But one can do that every day We need to avoid a problem with the chorritos In the states they're in They're liable to start a riot There could be more shootings And more thefts Because the people of El Chorilla Are very riled up If they want us to close up All the streets in the country We're going to do it But we won't answer We want to gather this guardian place We are tired of this This is not no democracy They said I can't read of Ndara And they're worse of Ndara They're plenty worse Because in Ndara We used to eat our three meals a day Now we're not even eating one More than 60 Panamanians Are reported to have died And that's been 50 Panamanians were killed A doctor at a government hospital In Panamai City But we've only had really one report On them throughout the day So we don't know how extensive We're here in the news There's no reason to doubt the report Obviously that we are getting From the Pentagon And yet all the information That we are getting from the Pentagon Seems to be switched With all the island And so we were able To get out of Panama City Then we have another panel How many people were killed In Panama And who were they? These questions may never be answered Because the United States military Undertook elaborate efforts To conceal the number of dead How they died And the location of their bodies Children died Pregnant women died Seniors died Adolescents died Soldiers died Victims who had nothing to do With politics The invasion Or the Nolliga regime What happened in Panama Is a hidden horror Many of the bodies Were bulldozed into piles And immolated In the slumps Where they were collected Other bodies were left In the garbage chutes Of the poor projects In which they died From the shooting From the artillery From the machine guns From the airborne attacks Others were said To have been pushed Into the ocean When we went down To El Chorrio There were still dead bodies Inside cars There was a man And a woman With a child All of them burnt up Inside a car People from El Chorrio Never thought They would see so many Dead bodies Even being burned On the beach Right on the beach They're being burned In the early hours Of the invasion U.S. troops Took control Of the hospitals And morgues Many of the doctors And hospital personnel Were detained And thousands Of official documents Were confiscated The truth of the matter Is that we don't even know How many Panamanians We have killed But we should have More information On what happened How many civilians Were killed The National Human Rights Commission of Panama Interviewed hundreds of people In an effort to determine How many had died What we have is Different testimonies That helped us To arrive to the conclusion That for sure There were More than 4,000 people Who died You have the UN Human Rights Commission Estimating 2,500 deaths You have the two major Independent human rights Organizations In the region Estimating 2,500 3,000 3,500 You have Isabel Cordero And her organization Estimating Probably about 4,000 That's an enormous Human total The U.S. military Said 250 civilians Were killed There isn't A credible source In Panama That believes That's true Whether it's Ambulance drivers Human rights monitors People Doctors who worked In hospitals Neighbors Of bombed out Blacks It's just clearly False That story Would be so easy To tell For any journalist With his or her salt But they're not telling It I made a point Of reading The European press As well as The American press When the Invasion occurred And immediately I could see That whereas The American press Was talking about Maybe a couple of Hundred civilian Casualties From the very beginning The European press Was talking about A thousand civilians Dead Or two thousand Civilians dead So the real facts Are that the American people Didn't really know What had happened In Panama You would think From the video clips That we had seen That this whole thing Was just a mardi gras That the people In Panama Was just Jumping up And down With glee And that our forces Have just moved In the air And without Taking any lives At all Have brought Liberty and freedom To these Oppressed people We're honored Of the people In Panama No It's not in the River They're The same people I thank you I love them I love this They've heard The mercy Right now Do you think It's an end When they interviewed People in Panama About what they Thought of it They invariably Were interviewing White middle class People who could Speak English They didn't really go Into the poor Neighborhoods Where people Had been bombed Did you see one Media actually Go into the Bombed areas And talk to people Who had lost The family Or lost everything They had in the Bombings They focused Totally on the Invasion As a tactical Event Was it effective Did it work well Are we losing Many American lives And another unit Moved in by Helicopters Five American Servicemen Have died In the combat Today Some of it Not all the news Is good American casualties Are now put at 15 dead And more than a Gun hole And to announce That one American Civilian has been Killed up To make a total Of 16 They focused With utter Ethnocentrism Only on American Lives The only life That was precious The only life That one could Report on The only life That one could Consider As a serious Loss Was in American life Tonight As we end This program We hear from President Bush On the high Price these Young men Paid And we say Goodbye to them Every human life Is precious And And yet I have to answer Yes I am The message In the month Following the Invasion Panamanians Were shocked To discover The existence Of mass graves Where hundreds Perhaps thousands Of bodies Were hastily Dumped in the pits And buried By U.S. troops There was a report Of what some Were calling A mass grave Which I think Is a term That is Imprecise No I didn't Say we had Any mass Burrows There was One Case Of Some Number But I cannot Quote to you That number To date There have been Fifteen mass graves That have been Identified Through La Pana Ma The United States Military Was directly Responsible For the killings Of the men Women and Children That are in These mass graves And for their Burial These mass graves Exist Throughout Panama And some Are believed To be On U.S. Military Bases Which Created Difficulty In terms Of access To these Mass Graves Among These We found Many Young People Fifteen Sixteen Eighteen Years Old We found People In their Sixties And in Their Seventies We found People Killed By a Shot To the Back Of Their Heads Dead With Their Hands Tied Dead With Casts On Their Legs Or Arms Although The Pentagon Insists That no More Than 516 Panamanians Were Killed They Do Concede That Over 75 Percent Of Those Killed Were Civilians Families Of Who Has The Right To Determine How Many People Should Be Killed In An Invasion I Think If One Person Got Killed In An Invasion That Is Illegal That Violate All Principles Of Human Rights The Number Of People The Quantity The Figures If It's 10,000 Or It's One Is Irrelevant The Innocent People Were Killed A Lot Of People Die Too Many People Die Although The U.S. Media Created A Perception Of Support To The Invasion Within The United States The Invasion Was Overwhelmingly Condemned In The International Community If You Look At Any Document In International Law Any Of Numerous Treaties It's Clear That This Invasion Was Illegal It's Not Debatable The Panama Invasion Violates The U.N. Charter And The OAS Charter Which Have Specific Prohibitions Against Invasions Of The Sovereign Country And Invasions Of The Territorial Integrity Of Other Other Other Countries These Polivisions Are Very Strick And Clear Under International Law United States Actions In Violation Of Human Rights Also Violates The Geneva Conventions Which Protect Civilians From Indiscriminate Acts Of Violence As Had Occurred Against Civilian Victims In Panama The Four Biggest Most Important Papers In This Country All Endorsed The Rightness Of The Panama Invasion That's The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times Strong Endorsements The New York Times And The Wall Street Journal Every One Of Them Now A Little Body Known As The United Nations Had A Vote About This On December 29 They Voted By An Overwhelming Majority To Condem The Invasion As In Their Words A Flagrant Violation Of International Law So I Was Interested To See That Night On The NBC Nightly News With That Great Newscaster Deborah Norville Absolutely No Mention Whatsoever Of This Vote Turning To CBS The Bastion Of Responsible Broadcasting I Found A Full Ten Seconds Lavished On That Story At The United Nations State The General Assembly Adopted A Resolution Deploying The U.S. Invasion Of Pamela Is A Flagrant Violation Of International Law The Vote 75 To 20 With 40 Extensions Now Ladies and Gentlemen When did International Law Change Has It Changed Of Course It Hasn't What We're Doing In Yugoslavia Right Now Is The Same Violation Of The Same International Law But By Now They Built Up A String Of Violations Of This International Law Which Convinces The Stupid Ignorant And Apathetic Sheeple Of The World That It's Okay With The Government Because The Media Are Owned By The Same Interests That Are Being Defended In Central America By That Government Policy The Media Are Not Close To Corporate America They're Not Favorable To Corporate America They Are Corporate America They're An Integral Part Of Corporate America We Are A Plutocracy We Ought To Face It A Country In Which Wealth Controls Maybe True Of All Countries More Or Less But It's Uniquely True Of Ours Because Of Our Materialism And The Concentration Of Wealth Here Even Our Democratic Processes Are Hardly That Because Money Dominates Politics And We Know It Through Politics It Dominates Government And It Dominates The Media We Really Need Desperately To Find New Ways To Hear Independent Voices And Points Of View It's The Only Way We're Going To Find The Truth The Truth About The Invasion Of Panama Remains Hidden From Most Americans Those Who Have Studied The Official Accounts Have Discovered Many Contradictions And Have Arrived At Disturbing Conclusions I Have Studied Everything That The President Has Said As To Reasons Why He Ordered The Invasion And None Of Those Things Singlely Or Collectively Makes Any Legal Moral Or Constitutional Sense One One One One Of The Reasons One Of The Wimp Image Of President George Bush He Had The What Now Seems To Be The Necessary Blood Of The United States President To Show His Forcefulness And His Marchismo The Last Draw Sure There Must Be Something We Could Have Done Certainly There Must Have Been Papers We Could Have Filed We Could Have Gone To The World Court We Could Have Gone To The United Nations Or Maybe The Organizations Of American States That Invade A Country Because Of This Is Absolutely Ridiculous The Excuse That Of The Invasion Was To Protect American Lives Is The One That Always Given The Fact Is There Are 35,000 American Citizens There And None Of Them Were In Any Danger I Was There Three Weeks Before The Invasion There Seems Be No Evidence And I Don't Think The Administration Has Ever Bothered To Even Give Any Evidence To That State The Goals Of The United States Have Been To Safeguard The Lives Of Americans To Defend Democracy In Panama Then President Bush Said We Had To Go To Restore Democracy In Panama Don't Forget Ladies And Gentlemen Democracy Is A Code Word For Socialism Remember Marx And Lenin Both Said That Democracy Is Indispensable Socialism And Marx Said Democracy Is The Road To Socialism And All Of Their Writings Led Us Clearly To The Conclusion That The End Goal Of Socialism Is Communism This Is A Constitutional Republic Don't You Ever Forget It Don't Be Conned By This Word Democracy It's A Lie That Will Lead You Into Socialism Which Will Take You Down The Primrose Path To Communism Has Never Existed Panama Has Never Been A Democracy Since We Created Panama For Our Own Purposes In 1903 All We We We Did We Go Down To Restore American Control And Dominance In Panama The New Government Installed By The Invasion Was Headed By The U.S. Backed Candidates From The Aborted National Election And Dara Calderon And Ford Hours Before The Invasion They Were Taken To A U.S. Military Base Where They Were Sworn In As The President And Vice Presidents But The New Government Has Enjoyed Little Popular Support Within Panama Anti-government Demonstrations Occur Regularly And There Have Been Numerous Attempts From Within The Panamanian Police Force To Seize Military Control Of The Government U.S. Troops Were Mobilized Several Times To Crush These Insurrections Every Time There's A Crisis The U.S. Military Takes Over They Give Order They Subordinate That Military Because They Don't Trust That Military Force The Conflict Is Still There The Oligarchy Knows That If The United States Were Not There They Could Not Rule This Front But President Indara Minimizes The Significance Of America's Military Occupation In Panama I Think We Are Very Normalized Now We Practically Have No Occupation At All Practically I Do See I Of Course He's Not Going To Say That That Panama Is Occupied In fact He Might Not Even Call It An Invasion He Has Is Kind That Were Killed Or Massacred He Lives In The Nice Area In The Oligarchical Area And And You And You Know His Interest Is Protected He's Not Running Panama He's The Puppet Of The U.S. Government The U.S. Government Is Running Panama They're Running All Of The Ministries In Panama He's Only Abiding By What He's Told To Do The Bush Administration Claims That Another Reason For The Invasion Was To Remove Noriega In Order To Send The Flow Of Drugs Into The United States But According To A U.S. General Accounting Office Report Cocaine Traffic Through Panama May Have Doubled In The Two Years Following The Invasion There Is Also Considerable Evidence That Key Members Of Panama's New Government Including President Vindara Have Been Tied To The Drug Trade Through Banks And Front Companies That Laundered Drug Money The Involvement Of The Panamanian Economy As A Whole In Drug Travelling Arms Running Various Questionable Banking Practices In Fact Involved Most Of The Panamanian Elite Involved Most Of The People Who Now Run This New U.S. Approved Panamanian Government And That And Ford We All Know And Panamanians Know That They Are The Real Drug Traffickers They Have Been Because Panama Had An History Of The Oligarchy Being Involved In Drug Trafficking In The Years Proceeding And Throughout The Invasion The U.S. Government And The Major Media Consistently Portrayed Manuel Noriega As America's Most Hated And Evil Enemy General Noriega Became A Mythic Figure There Was An Attempt To Personify In Noriega All That Was Evil There's Very Interesting That When General Noriega When His Office Was Captured We Discovered The Red Pajamas The Voodoo Equipment And The Alleged Cocaine That He Was Using And The Pornographic Pictures In His Desk Now I Happened To Have Been In Chile With The United Nations At The Time Of The Overthraw Of President Allende And It's Interesting That That Same Desk Appeared In Chile With The Portographic Pictures The Red Pajamas And The Cocaine The in order to invade Panama, to say we invaded Panama because of Nogueira. I don't know how Americans can be so stupid to believe this. I mean, how can you be so stupid? What do you want to bet, folks, that when Milosevic is captured, after we send in ground troops, that they find the same desk with the red pajamas, the pornographic pictures, and the cocaine? They had Nogueira at one point. They could have taken Nogueira then, but the Americans didn't want Nogueira. What they really wanted is to destroy the Panamanian army in order to do with the teeth what they wanted, which is what's happening now. Although the U.S. government's reasons for the invasion made no mention of eliminating the Panamanian defense forces, U.S. officials later admitted that destroying the PDF was a central part of the plan. It was not only Mr. Noriega, but his accomplices and underlings who stood for a reprehensible government at the time, and therefore you had to take down not only Mr. Noriega, but take down the elements of his supporting entity in order to reduce the PDF to nothing. That man, ladies and gentlemen, was a high-ranking American general, a puppet. He had no idea what General Noriega was. He was told what General Noriega was supposed to be, and that's what he parroted to legitimize his military action. You have to understand, ladies and gentlemen, that according to military regulations in all of our military services an officer cannot proceed to be promoted beyond a certain point unless he has combat experience. Therefore, when the political machinery in Washington, D.C. decide to have a war, the military will never object, and they will never object because, according to their own rules and regulations, they cannot promote officers into certain positions unless they have combat experience. It also gives them the ability to test their new weaponry. It gives them the ability to see who is good at command and control. It gives them the next generation of high-ranking military officers. One of the objectives of an invasion, main objective, was to destroy the PDF. Why? The treaty, the Panama Canal Treaty, they say clearly that the year 2000, Panama will be responsible for the security, safety of the canal. To be responsible for the safety of a nation, you need to have arms. The elimination, the liquidation of the PDF, means the extension, the continuity of the United States present as the only military force in a nation which is historically in the United States position. What they really want is to stay in Panama after the year 2000, and that is what they have achieved. To destroy the Panamanian Defense Forces, to impose a government complacence with U.S. interests, and to make Panama the control center for all of Latin America. The control of all Latin America. The invasion sets the stage for the wars of the 21st century in South America. The 2,000-mile invasion from Washington to Panama City took place primarily with bases from the United States. The essential value of the Southern Command is to get another 2,000 miles of intervention capability, which takes us right into the heart of the Andean co-comproducing region, where the wars of the next decade are entirely likely to take place. Panama is another example of destroying your country to save it. And it's another case of how the United States has exercised a might-make-right doctrine among smaller countries of the Third World. It has long been U.S. practice to invade these countries, get what we want, and leave the people that live there to kind of rot. Our country has been ruined, our homes have been destroyed, and we still have no real answers. So what's left but to take to the streets? If we didn't lose our lives in the war, we're willing to risk them fighting for our rights. George Bush, may his children be spared what my daughter is being subjected to, my daughter who doesn't want to live. May his generation be spared what our generation is living through. He should ask God for forgiveness for all the damage caused to many families down here. One year ago, the people of Panama lived in fear under the thumb of a dictator. Today, democracy is restored. Panama is free. In March 1991, President Guillermo Andara proposed a constitutional amendment that would forever abolish Panama's right to have an army. Later that year, a law was passed by the United States Congress to renegotiate the Panama Canal Treaties to ensure continued U.S. military presence in Panama on the grounds that Panama was no longer capable of defending the canal. Until I go down Until I go down Until I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Until I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes Until I go down I'm not gonna shut my eyes I'm already And that's it, ladies and gentlemen. The same thing is happening in Yugoslavia. An invasion by the United States of a sovereign nation which has never attacked the United States of America. How do you know Who's going around committing the so-called atrocities that the controlled press and the lying bureaucracy in the United States government claims is being committed? How do you know these are not United States Special Forces troops dressed as Serbian forces? How do you know these are not KLA, Kosovo, Liberation Army troops dressed as Serbian army troops? How do you know that these are not CIA operatives dressed as Serbian troops? How do you know these refugees are not fleeing because of the bombs that are falling all around them? And trying to take a propaganda advantage by claiming that genocide is being committed. How do you know? What do you know? And why are you believing what you are being told when the history of the bureaucracy of Washington, D.C. is a history of lies? 520-333-4578 is the number. 520-333-4578 is the number. We're going to continue with this. We're going to prove that Washington, D.C. doesn't have the moral high ground over the Yugoslavian government. Good evening. You're on the air. Yes, Bill. This is Denise in Southern Nevada. Hi, Denise. Hi. I noticed that when they took over in Panama, they shut down the TV stations and radio stations. And I've noticed for the last week I was getting very good... You were getting what? Hello? Oh, Denise, call back. I'm sorry. I was trying to fix the telephone so it wouldn't ring and I accidentally cut you off. But I know what you're saying. In Panama, they did the same thing. They cut off the radio and television and they cut off the newspapers and by golly, they did the same thing in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. 520-333-4578. Good evening. You're on the air. Melosevic doesn't want to play ball with this one world government. Excuse me. I need you to talk a lot louder and barely hear you. Okay. Melosevic does not want to play ball with a one world government and that's what this thing's about. You're absolutely right. The Serbians have always been nationalists. They have always wanted their own nation state because of the tremendous oppression and enslavement they've suffered through hundreds of years. At one time, this is what the people of the world don't understand, at one time, all of the men, all of the Serbian men in that whole area were rounded up, castrated, and blinded so that they could be the slaves of what we now call the ethnic Albanians. Now, here's another thing. There was a Serbian that called in to a 50,000 watt radio station here in Omaha and he stated that Tito made an agreement with the Albanians unbeknownst to the Serbian people to turn land over to the Albanians. The Serbians had no idea this was going on. Secondly, they started moving the Albanians in and they were teaching Albanians in their own, the children in school in their own native language of the Albanian language, whatever that is. Sound familiar? to begin to split up the nation. Kind of like America, isn't it? Yes, it is and it's splitting up America too. You're either American or you're not. And why would you come here if you don't want to be American? NATO is now an offensive organization. They are attempting to enforce international law against international law. No, no, no, no. This is against international law. They are not enforcing international law. They are enforcing their will against international law which says that nation states and international organizations do not attack sovereign countries unless that sovereign country attacks someone outside their borders. Okay, but NATO made a, okay, let's back up here. Get it, get it. NATO made an agreement with the Albanian government. What Albanian government? Well, with the Albanians. Yeah, they have nothing to do with Yugoslavia or Kosovo. I understand that. Well, then that's not international law. He made a secret agreement. Okay. Now, if it's secret, how do you know about it? Well, that's what this Serbian guy said. They found out about it later. Okay, that's what you've got to tell us because when you say it's secret, then you couldn't know about it. They found out about it. Well, that's, this is alleged. We don't know that that's true. Okay. Now, let's draw a little parallel here. How many people in this country have read NAFTA and GAAP and all the side agreements attached to NAFTA? Oh, come on. Not even the people that passed it in Congress ever read it. All right. Suppose that the people of America start waking up to the fact that they are surrendering their sovereignty and their land to international organizations. That's right. decide that they're going to do something about it. Yeah, go ahead. Will NATO then come and attack us? Absolutely they will. Exactly. Absolutely they will because NATO is the police force of the new world order. It's all outlined in publication, State Department Publication 7277. I've outlined it and revealed all of it on this broadcast for the last six and a half years. and I've quoted it right out of the law and there is no doubt about it. It's also in our global neighborhood the report of the Commission on Global Governance. Yes, absolutely. And they laid the whole plan right out there for us to see. Yes, except for the sheeple. They can't see anything. Well, that's because they've got their head up their ass and that's why they can't see anything. It's because they're not following the law. No, that's baloney. The sheeple don't know anything about the law. All they know is what they're told and they believe it blindly because they have their head up their ass. They don't know what the law is. They never have. I'm talking about the law in Deuteronomy, Bill. It doesn't matter whether it's the law in Deuteronomy or anything else. Even most of the Christians who pretend to be Christians and go to church really aren't, don't know a thing about it and couldn't quote you one verse out of Deuteronomy if they had to. But that's why they can't see it because they're not following the law laid down for them in Deuteronomy. That's what I'm trying to tell you and they can't. Why? Because they've got their head up their ass. It's God's promise. They don't follow the law. In Deuteronomy, one of the curses is that he will be blinded. Well, they're certainly blinded. He will grope in darkness. Well, they're certainly groping in darkness. Yeah, that's exactly right. But hey, you know, it kind of makes me, you know, it really torques me off that, I mean, I was watching MSNBC over the weekend. They were saying that all this genocide was going on. But I mean, with their little satellites, they can see my face from space, Bill. Yes, they can read a license plate. Or possibly even a paper. Now, why can't they show us pictures? Well, they can't because it's not happening. And what little bit is happening is being staged in order to create the political reason for doing this. There are no pictures. That's what I just said. There aren't any. It's not happening. And see, Saddam Hussein, the world's boogeyman. It's just like in Oklahoma City. How many satellites, do you suppose, were over Oklahoma City taking pictures of Oklahoma City when the Alfred P. Muir Federal Building was blown up? Do you know that I've submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to all of the agencies of government that would have those pictures and not one single one of them can produce a picture? Not even a weather satellite? Incredible, isn't it? It's impossible. Now, here's another thing. Saddam Hussein, the boogeyman of the world, the armpit of the world, supposedly, stated that we had CIA spies in that UN inspection team, and the media and our own government laughed, didn't they? They not only laughed, but they lied. They lied, and they lied, and they lied again, and the sheeple believed it, and chastised, and libeled, and slandered Saddam Hussein, and then guess what came out? It was true. I'm going to let you go, because I'm going to get some more people in here. Saddam Hussein was telling us the truth and our own government was lying to us. That's right. Talk to you later. Thank you. 520-333-4578 is the number. When are you going to wake up, ladies and gentlemen? When? When are you going to wake up? Are you going to die stupid, apathetic, ignorant? Are you going to contribute to the enslavement of your own children? Good evening. You're on the air. Hi, good evening. What's good? Can you hear me okay? Well, I could stand you to speak a little louder, but that's getting there. It's just a little bit of a weak phone, but nonetheless, I wanted to tell you, I found your book recently in the New Age section at Walden. That's where they try to hide it. I'll tell you. Yeah, anyway, I wanted to tell you about, I had been listening to a frequency 7.180, and I was hearing some, I think it was, you know, like Moscow or something like that, but they were broadcasting in English. This was the night of the bombing initially last Wednesday, and immediately after that night, their signal got very, very weak, and last night on 7185, 5 kilohertz off from that, they had Voice of America broadcasting in Romanian. Well, I tried to tell you guys that Voice of America is the propaganda arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, and anybody that tells the truth is going to get stomped on by Voice of America. Yep, because they've never been on that frequency before, to the best of my knowledge. They were never on this frequency before until the hour of the time purchased airspace on WBCQ. Well, I was told personally by VOA when I called them that they've been allocated to broadcast on 7415 for some time. Well, they're lying to you. They are allocated to broadcast on 7415, but only within the continent of Africa. Yep, yep, that's right. But I thought I'd let everybody know that they might want to keep their ears peeled on that frequency and see what's going on, because apparently there's something on the 7180 that they don't want the American people to hear. Well, probably is. Listen, I'm going to let you go and get somebody else in here. Take care. 520-333-4578 is the number. If you'd like to call in, put in your two cents. What do you think about what's going on? I am sick of the lies. I am sick of the lies. I am sick of the lies. Good evening. Good evening, Bill. Denise again. Hello, Denise. I'm sorry. You know, it's my fault. I accidentally cut you off. Go ahead with what you were saying. I was basically going to say the same thing the last gentleman did, except for I was referring to Greek radio at 15485. Isn't that funny? Greek is a part of the NATO PAC, and Washington says that they have 100% consensus, and everybody is aligned to be doing this, and yet the reports that we're getting from all these countries is that that's a lie. Another lie? It's not true? Right. And right before last Thursday and Friday, Greece was proclaiming their sovereignty. And then from Sunday, Sunday, Deutsche Welle was broadcasting over the top of it. And the last two days, it's been BBC. Yeah, how about that? It was a perfectly clear channel. And how about the British? How do they get the guts to dare to chastise Molesovic and the Serbians after the genocide and the entire elimination of old peoples that the British have committed in their history? And how dare the American government talk about supporting the independence movement of ethnic Albanians when they have done everything in their power, even today, to destroy the Native American Indian population in this country? Absolutely. I'll get off and let somebody help them. Thank you. Good night. 520-333-4578. And I have Native American blood in me, ladies and gentlemen, and I am incensed about that even today the United States government is destroying the American Indian. Good evening. You're on the air. Hello, Mr. Cooper. It's been a long time since I've talked to you. I saw a Serbian TV broadcast on C-SPAN last night, and they were comparing CNN coverage of the refugees and European coverage. They had people walking in green grass and people walking in the snow. So I watched today. I watched as many channels as I could. There it was. They were walking in snow and green grass at the same time. How does that happen? Now, which is it? Which is it? That's right. Which is it? It's right there for everybody to see. They just won't look at it. Well, they are looking at it. They just can't see because they're stupid. Stupid. They do not possess the ability to form an original thought based upon information put in front of their eyes. It's amazing, isn't it? Stupid. Cheaple. Ignorant. Apathetic. Dumb. Animals. Why aren't they crying out for the film from the cameras on the planes when the bombs hit? We just get very few and it's mostly from them. All you're ever going to see is the ones that go down the chimney. Just like in Desert Storm. It's a propaganda thing. It's just amazing. Well, I can barely hear your voice driving on. Let's get somebody else in here real quick. Thank you. Thank you. 520-333-4578 is the number. Good evening. You're on the air. Yeah, Bill. I just had to step away from one to answer the door but when I was standing there in the other room they sent that police force that shot that black guy the other day and all that protest going on about a month or so back. Their whole job is to drive around in old cars and jump out and frisk people they suspect of having guns. I mean, that's a little bit that's police state right there. But I'd like to comment about the stealth. I don't know if you know this or not but they share a lot of bullet holes in it. Look like small caliber rounds right through the wing. Oh, there's no doubt it was shot down. No, but I mean I think it was shot down by small arms fire. It doesn't matter how it was shot down. It was shot down. Oh, definitely shot down. How about the other one that was in Italy today? I mean, in Yugoslavia the Italian press had it apparently it was crashed in Yugoslavia and they had a pardon me not Yugoslavia but in Bosnia and it was being guarded by an American soldier in uniform and some crash remains it was on the Italian press. But I'd just like to tell you about what they did in New York. They just drive around in cars and if they think you have a gun they just jump out and frisk you. Yeah, that's Gestapo. That's not American police. That's Gestapo. Absolutely. We live in a total police state. Wake up America. Well, what if America woke up and started eliminating Gestapo? I'm afraid that might happen sooner than we expected. I think it needs to happen and that's what everybody has always said that should have happened in Germany. If every time a Gestapo agent went out into the community he disappeared there wouldn't be any more Gestapo agents would there? That's what I always ask. I'm 43 and I always ask why did you guys let this happen? That's right. Well, we don't know or whatever land excuse they gave but I always wondered why the people just didn't stand up and can't let it happen. If they're violating the Constitution if the Gestapo if this country is going the way that Germany went if Bill Clinton is another Hitler which he is without any doubt whatsoever then we need to begin to fight back. Absolutely agree with you Bill. Have a nice evening. Thank you. Well that's it folks. Good night and God bless each and every single one of you. And remember ladies and gentlemen I have given up my whole life. I don't have any money. I'm not getting rich from this. In fact the only thing that's happened to me and my family is we have been destroyed. I'm doing this because I love the principles and ideals which made this country the greatest nation on earth. Even though I may call the vast majority of American people stupid apathetic and ignorant it's because they are. 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