The Mystery of Raymond Davis.

The following is a discussion of why we 'found' Osama, where, and when.  Remember, Obama started planning the May 1st raid in March, while was filling out his brackets, son!  He had the information prior to October of 2010, but didn't authorize planning until after this little James Bond slip up.

So i was doing some reading about this guy, Raymond Davis.  He was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan for shooting dead two men who he claims 'brandished' a pistol at him.  Differing reports say that he shot the men several times through the windshield of his car and then stepped out to shoot them again.  They were ahead of him in traffic and had their backs to him.  He called for assistance and a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado is said to have went across the median towards him and collided with and killed a motorcyclist before failing to reach Davis and fleeing the scene.  This car was later revealed to have inconsistent license plates.  Davis said that he was under the impression that the two men were robbing him and was acting is self defense.  The Pakistani's claim that the two men he shot weren't street thugs out to rob foreigners, but Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents.

The dichotomy of the U.S. official version and what the Pakistani's claim gets even wider as we go on.  The problem I am having is over how the most important things, the implications, of what was going on here and why this is such a big deal.  Maybe there is a reason why the Obama administration asked, specifically for the U.S. media to stand down on this one,

"A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government."

Davis is a CIA 'contractor' as far as the media is concerned.  Some describe him as a 'diplomat' others say he's there on 'official business',  but reports started coming in that he "had ties with local militants" and that this discovery was made through his cell phone records.  American officials said that, "Davis’s job was to trail links of the Taliban and al Qaeda in different parts of Pakistan."  They found in his car, "158 items...which include a 9mm Gloc Pistol, five 9mm magazines, 75 bullets, GPS device, an infrared torch, a wireless set, two mobile phones, a digital camera, a survival kit, five ATM cards, and Pakistani and US currency notes."  These all sound like things a 'diplomat' has and needs.  The camera had pictures from the Indian border as well as Pakistani defense installments.  The Pakistanis were immediately vindicated when the State Depatment released that Raymond Davis was merely an alias and not at all a diplomat and that he did not have diplomatic immunity and even if he did, murder is outside of those immunities.  The CIA had nothing when they said that he had it and the Pakistanis knew it.

The man was very clearly a spy/mercenary who was caught red handed killing two people who were investigating him and his actions.  Upon arrest there were reports that indicate him as being part of, "TF373," a covert operation on the Afghani border of Pakistan related to TFOrange and the SEAL team involved in the Abottabod operation on May 1st.  These reports even go so far as to say that there was evidence of him selling 'nuclear fissle' and 'biological' materials.  These allegations originate in claims from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and are not widely reported in the Western media. The Pakistani's believe Davis is part of a concerted effort to make the Pakistani nuclear facilities and weapons appear compromised.  Davis has since been released and sent home on what amounts to a 'blood money' deal paid to the family's of the deceased.  This is, apparently, more or less a common practice in Pakistan.

To put this into perspective, we see that Osama was found using the same technique of tracing phone calls. The U.S. is trying pretty hard to do just what the Pakistani's are accusing the U.S. of trying to do.  Namely, make their country look like it is overrun by terrorists that have access to nuclear weapons.

Interestingly enough, the Pakistani's tried (and failed) to use Davis to free a controversial detainee of our own, Aafia Siddique.  She was accused, once upon a time, of funding Al Qaeda and having indirect links to the main plotters of 9/11 and was sentenced to 86 years in prison last year.  Although these reports show deliberate misinformation planted in official military reports to absolve the military from any wrong doing she was still convicted.  She is also suspected of being a prisoner, with no rights and no formal charges, in a secret unacknowledged prison in Afghanistan from 2003 to late 2008.  What Amnesty International calls a 'ghost detainee'.   And we all know that if it is not 'officially' reported, then it's probably not real.

I don't know what I'd put past the U.S. Establishment.  And when it comes to war with Pakistan the Chinese have taken their side.  As our leaders have shown, they want Pakistan's nukes and have had active the units that they plan to get them with.

War and Debt

         Some of you may or may not have seen the Republican Presidential Primary debate.  The media gives us shit to work with if we are trying to actually promote good in the world.  Obama is pretty much assured a second term with the Republican candidates as they are.  There is only one exception, Ron Paul.

Now, many people think he doesn't have a chance.  This is because they think that everyone has a superficial view of politics and don't think that people can distinguish between shills and the real deal.  Which, there is some evidence to support.  They want movie stars and simplicity. Bread and circuses.  This election will be different.  The anti-war people can no longer say that Obama is the anti-war candidate.  And, surely, he is not an anti-debt candidate.

The main platform for any political candidate is to protect the U.S. citizens from external harm.  This plays a large part of both parties in the U.S.  The difference between the 2012 election and the past two elections in 2004 and 2008, is that we have no obvious “mainstream” anti-war candidate.  This is HUGE.  No one, aside from psychotics, like hearing on the news that anyone around the globe is dying needlessly.  Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who has any potential to pull the generally exclusive left-wing anti-war vote his way.

            If one looks at what is happening  in regards to U.S. foreign policy it becomes immediately obvious that Obama had no intention of scaling down the wars upon being inaugurated.  He didn’t close Guantanamo, he hasn’t ended drone bombings in foreign countries, habeas corpus is still M.I.A., rendition and torture are still ‘useful’, and the domestic spy state expands unabated.  Quite to the contrary, he has done exactly what Romney said he will do and that is, namely,  consult his generals.  The  logical issue here is the generals are the same from administration to administration.  If every president listens to them, then the overall foreign policy never changes.  This is not to mention the think tanks where the intellectual plans are made of which many generals and defense interests participate.  Some have said Paul to be “irresponsible” for wanting to tell his generals what to do.  I am left wondering if they have considered the implications of having our military occupying Iraq and Afghanistan while, at the same time, bombing Pakistan and Yemen, unconstitutionally contemplating the deployment of ground troops in Libya, and threatening Lebanon, Iran and Syria.  How well do the voters know the generals and some of the ridiculous ideas that they have theorized? (I’m thinking McChrystal’s plan for Task Force Orange to seize Pakistani nuclear arms in much the same manner as the so called “Osama take down” [EDIT: 8/16/11 The source site for that is gone now...here is the Google cache of the page.).  How well can we identify the interests of defense contractors and private 'security' forces?   And just what does Patraeus watch, ‘Jersey Shore’ or ‘16 and Pregnant’?

Any other Republican candidate can say all they want about ending the wars now that it is en vogue,  but they will not stand a chance of chiming the left-wing voters to jump ship from Obama.  Think about this.  The general liberal voter will not vote for Bachmann, Cain, or any of the other xenophobic mouthpieces based on their stances of what is called ‘social conservatism’ or stated bluntly moral judgementalism.  Liberals are for gay rights, open immigration, and abortion, they are against domestic spying and want the military/industrial/security complex dismantled and Ron Paul accepts that people have various interests and priorities.  Live and let live.

            The main issue for the tea party is the debt.  It is obvious that Paul is the only economically literate candidate.  He consistently gives real examples that aren’t politically expedient.  He knows the distinctions between various schools of economics, of which many are unaware because economics is sold as a “science” in school and therefore is assumed to give definitive conclusions to situations.  It cannot, as it is only a series of theories attempting to explain the distribution of goods under conditions of scarcity.  The Austrian school, of which Paul subscribes, attempts to observe what markets do in unhampered conditions because ultimately the market is more powerful than regulations.  This is what allows those who understand it (Austrian economics) to 'predict' what could happen given certain circumstances.

            The “tea party” only has to decide between Paul and Bachmann.  Romney, Cain, Pawlenty, and the other one don’t stand with the tea party as much as they stand for the traditional Bush-era GOP.  Bachmann’s main talking point was her many, many children.  She apparently wants to be the mother of all of America.  A noble pursuit, but I have a mom, the country has Founding Fathers, and humanity has Mother Earth.  So we’re pretty much covered in that regard.  I thought we needed a leader anyway.  Bachmann would be an okay Press Secretary for President Paul, however.  Maybe that is what Ron should have said when asked at the debate.

            Paul has several decades of speeches recorded on the floor on the Congressional Hall stating his positions on virtually every issue that is brought forth.  He is consistent, principled, logical, sane, moral, and above all honest about political situations.  While Obama and Bush have done their part to bring the U.S. to the brink of both bankruptcy and a possible world war.  The liberals are in dismay and are effectively vulnerable to anti-war sentiment, while the tea party has split the republican vote.  If the GOP puts up any candidate other than Paul, they hand the election to Obama.  If they run Paul, they can cut Obama’s anti-war voter base down significantly.  Paul stands alone saying, “End the Empire.”  Let’s actually do the world a favor and do it on our terms before the rest of the world does on theirs.  Peace.