In the night, military aircraft over NM
This is written Thursday morning, Aug 14, 2008
If you live near the Southside of Albuquerque you heard a horrible sound
last night, Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 11:15 pm.
And you should file a complaint with Mayor Chavez, 768-3000 and with the Air Force 846-5991. I just did.
Last night two of the big Air Force CV-22 Osprey, tilt-rotor cover
operations planes were coming in for a landing. These are the experimental
planes the AF is using around NM for training of assassins in countries our
political leaders want to invade. Heather Wilson is probably the key person
who got them here, to keep the base open when it was on the base closings
list recently.
The CV-22 Ospreys are for one thing only, they carry special ops snipers and
killers, the flights are training to drop them in behind the lines of
other countries, to kill resistance to empire fighters, people like us.
These planes practice all over NM and land back here in the middle of the
night.
If we don't stop these planes they will invade country after country and
destroy our lives by dragging us into more wars of stupidity. This is
about to happen with the Georgia conflict, I fear. Bush and Israel have
training the Georgian military to work for us through NATO and the Russians
stopped this plan.
The danger for us is what Bush may do. Russian military doctrine stated ten
years ago that if attacked with US special precision weapons, things like
the CV-22 and laser guided bombs and missiles, they will respond with
tactical nuclear weapons to make the war equal.
Now, many of these precision weapons were developed here at KAFB with help from research faculty at UNM and other state universities. NM is deeply
involved in empire building.
These precision weapons, planes and operations need space satellites to
enable them hit targets, often civilians. It ups the body count. Without
control of space these weapons are useless.
Satellite control and space war planning and operation are a major part of
the operations at KAFB, in addition to the covert training and nuclear
weapons. This makes Albuquerque a prime target in the age of modern war.
Not only do we have the nuke stockpile but KAFB is key to space war and
precision weapons use too.
Our solidarity task is to stop the arms race into space and the development
of high tech weapons here. They do not make us safer, only less secure.
Why, the US could use this military doctrine of Russia to counter attack
with more nukes and they would retaliate. New Mexico has played a large
role in making our world unsafe. The base boosters say all this brings jobs
to NM. But this is like the Nazis saying the new tank factories and gas
ovens are jobs bringing good wages.
If you have noticed there is an increase in military aircraft of many types
flying over our Albuquerque homes lately.
Day and night the military and our political leaders are turning all of NM
into a war practice zone. Soon we will have nothing except what they do not
want if we don't speak out now. Gov. Richardson last month gave a large
tract of NM south of Portales to the AF for more of these special weapons
programs testing. He said it was for jobs at Cannon AFB.
Also, the Journal ran an article today of a new air borne laser weapon
Boeing and the AF are testing here. They are using C-130 cargo aircraft
flying out of KAFB to fire deadly laser beams at targets, people and tanks.
The will have to take more and more of our federal and state monies for
weapons like this for empire expansion. Their wars are growing bigger and
they need more space to train. People resist the empire building
everywhere.
And, yesterday the Journal had an article on the New Mexico space port
holding a secret launch that no one knew about until it was over. Lockheed
Martin we are finding out now has secret use of the public space port to
test launch experimental weapons technologies too. This is again more
public subsidies to the military-industrial complex hidden behind economic
development.
Last year Governor Richardson revealed the state had purchased from Intel a
special super computer for $100 million. This too was announced after it
had happened. The legislature slid this purchase through unnoticed to the
public while our schools can't even afford custodians to turn on the air
conditioners for the new season, or the heaters in winter.
This was another subsidy of public money to the computer global giant,
Intel. They need our money too. The governor said the computer would be
leased out to other contractors, that is the military most likely, and that
Intel would keep it in their building. This is beyond corporate welfare.
Gov. Richardson has done more to enhance the military industrial complex in
NM and to wreck and sell off the state than any group of Republicans. He
campaigned on this path 7 years ago, to expand the military in NM as an
economic development tool. (Where does Diane Denish stand on this
strategy?)
What you should be realizing is that our whole state has become, thanks to
the Congressional delegation (Domenici, Wilson, Bingaman, Udall) and Gov.
Richardson, and the aspiring Congressman Heinrich a state with no civilians,
only dumb people who will pay taxes which are used for war while we give up
our quality of life for the endless wars of the empire. We were bombed with
nukes in 1945 to practice killing Japanese and the Soviets. Why do we let
them keep killing us? We must speak out to stop this.
Heinrich is in on this big theft of public land at KAFB for private
developers. While he was on city council he facilitated the AF giving
nearly 100 prime acres of KAFB land, along Gibson from the VA hospital to
Carlisle to big private developers for a mall they plan there for the
growing war center.
In the Journal last August 27, he is quoted praising this as a needed
commercial development for the city. This is again the neo-con agenda of
privatization, the wrecking of public assets like land and technologies to
private sector groups. That is what the high tech parks are at
SNL and KAFB and UNM.
This is really a huge give away of public assets to private developers.
Don't you wish you had friends in places that would give you 100 acres of
prime land or space secrets that you could use for new inventions or malls.
A few years ago we at Stop the War Machine were scratching our
head at why Sen. Jeff Bingaman got a $10 million appropriation from Congress to move the Truman St gate, where we protest a lot. The gate was back a long way from the street. It was fine as it was. His press release said it
was modernization and improvements.
What we learn now is that it was part of the give away of the base land to
the mall developers. Bingaman was in on it too. They had to move the gate
for the private mall. We paid for it. They kept this from us, again. They
are all in on this theft and spending of our money for the wealth elites.
Tax breaks and land grabs like the old west. No wonder the business
magazines say NM is #1 for business. There are no public guardians here.
You recall Kirtland AFB's commander, Robert Suminsby recently said he
wanted to take social security money and Medicare for more weapons. He said
it plain and clear. When Councilman Rey Garduno tried to get him to come to
city council to defend this he said he would meet privately, not publicly.
The commander told Rey that he was just misunderstood and did not mean it
that way. He has since moved out to Germany for a new assignment. Hurray
to Rey for standing up for us all.
Two weeks ago the new war base commander, Col. Duvall, held an emergency town hall meeting about the jet fuel on top of our water system. The base and the NM Environment Dept kept this secret for ten years until it got so
bad they could not hide it any longer.
The foot of jet fuel on the water table is threatening our major water
supply and home owners in the area are furious at having bought homes that
are sitting on a Love Canal. This could be a disaster for the whole city.
Homeowners, people like you and us, may not be able to sell their homes for
near what they paid.
None of the city nor base water quality reports for the past ten years
mentions the jet fuel in or near the drinking water wells of the city. One
hydrologist said this is a major catastrophe for the city. The real estate
people are probably wondering if they will be sued too as part of the
conspiracy.
The war base had to release the info I figure to make it seem they are
concerned for our health and safety. There will be probably soon be a great
nuclear weapons problem we will have to deal with too, like the water
contamination. (Internally the military calls KAFB a war fighter base.)
You recall, there are 2,000 nuclear weapons at the base with all kinds of
unknown problem, they are secret too. Sandi National Lab and KAFB are full
of what they call yard holes with nuclear and toxic waste materials.
Dave McCoy of Citizen Action says one holds 30 tons of buried uranium in an
unlined hole. Mesa del Sol is down from all this too, a lot of home owners
are going to be wonder what their homes are worth too as the public learns
of the disaster the military has brought us. The caves of Monzano
Mountains contain unknown amounts of radioactive waste, which can leak out
too. The DoE will not allow any public oversight of them either.
Some of us are going to city council Monday night, 8-18, at 5 pm to speak to
council about some of this with our representatives and about their
responsibility to defend us from these dangers and war planning.
Join us to demand out government represent us, not the developers, war
profiteers and trained killers. Be there before 5 pm in the city council
chamber to sign up to speak in public comments at the start of the meeting.
There is a lot to address. Also call the mayor at 768-3000, the city
council is at 768-3100.
You should be addressing letters to the newspapers and radio stations and
other places like your legislator about all these attacks on our lives.
Those developing the high tech weapons here are not our friends. UNM sits
in this and is now spending $4 million to hire a private company to re-brand
their image.
UNM is a big war profiteer and they find this embarrassing. They plan to
hide this by trying to change the reality. They will probably hire a new
coach or pay the president more to make us feel comfortable. A Journal
article is coming out on it in a few days, watch for it.
Greg Mello has also pointed out that some state and national peace and
anti-nuclear groups are working with the DoE to bring a new nuclear weapons
parts plant to Albuquerque, at SNL, from Kansas City.
WOW! As if we in the grassroots here did not have enough problems these folks think that Building another nuclear weapons plant here will actually help us. They say it will cut Congressional support in other states for nuclear
bombs. Were you invited by them to a discussion on this stupid strategy? I
don't think so, none of us were.
If you have questions, call me,
Bob
858-0882
This has turned into a short news article... Let's step up the resistance.