Sam’s Folly Poem by James L. A. Huetson

It all started in 1942 when Franklin D.
Authorized the beginning of the OSS,
An organization that was given the responsibility
Of espionage and for helping the resistance
Movement in Europe. Donovan was appointed as the head
And given the rank of Major General. The OSS was
The model for the CIA that bloomed in 1947 and served instead.

Its original role was to evaluate intelligence reports
And coordinate the intelligence activities of various departments
In the interest of national security. But all sorts
Of other missions were assigned to agents
Of what became known as the CIA's Black Operations.
This involved a policy that was later
To become known as Executive Action.

Executive Action is also known as a plan to remove
Unfriendly foreign leaders from power.
This including a coup d'état that overthrew
The Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954
Other political leaders deposed by Executive Action
Included Patrice Lumumba of the Congo,
And Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.

In 1975 Senator Frank Church became the chairman
Of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations.
This committee investigated alleged abuses of power by one,
The Central Intelligence Agency and two, The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The committee also discovered that the CIA and FBI
Had tried to destroy their targets reputations by sending
Employers and wives anonymous letters full of lies.

In its final report, issued in April of 1976, the Committee concluded
That Americans’ Constitutional rights to free speech,
Association and privacy had been undermined and threatened
By Domestic Intelligence activity because each
Primary provision for these rights by the Constitutional
System for checking abuse of power has been not enforced
By those who, by law, should have been responsible.

''The camps, hidden in the steep mountains and mile-deep valleys
Of Paktia province, were the place of underground headquarters
And clandestine weapons stocks of Afghan resistance leaders. Ultimately
The Afghan resistance was backed by the intelligence partners,
The United States and Saudi Arabia, and the camps were
The last word in NATO engineering techniques,
Manned by CIA assisted “resistance fighters”, each a warrior.

Then they were given a label 'resistance fighters' so they were ok.
Now they have been given a new label 'terrorists'
And thus they are transformed into the terrorists we are fighting today.
So now we can bomb them into the abyss.
No need for UN discussion, no need for proof, no need to be just.

The U.S. is the detective, hanging judge, jury of peers, and hangman,
All offices are sanctified in the fight against the terrorist.

The U.S. side of the relationship with bin Laden was by the CIA
So much of the operation is unknown.
But we do know one thing, money, the old “Pay Day”.
How much money? This should make you moan.
More than six billion 1980 dollars
And that’s just what they admit publicly.
Then Saudi Arabia added enough to make anyone holler.

In case you have lost track of U.S. intents,
Bin Laden was a resistance fighter then
But now he is a terrorist, made one by events,
If we need him will we make him an ally again?
If a worldwide terrorist organization has been created by the people
Whom the U.S. and Saudi Arabia paid during the Afghan war,
Aren't the U.S. and Saudi governments who backed them responsible?

Bin Laden et al were CIA employees, given the best training,
Arms, facilities, and lots of cash for many years.
But in a change that is most amazing
Bin Laden became a deadly enemy of the U.S. raising our fears.
The relationship changed, don’t ask too many questions.
In other words, once again,
The government line is accepted as self evident, but fiction.

Is bin Laden an enemy in fact?
Our leaders swore bin Laden and friends were good guys,
'Resistance fighters' joining with us in a pact.
If the government at that time filled us with lies
Why couldn’t it be lying about them today?
Let’s play a game. Imagine that bin Laden
And all of his friends are still employed by the CIA.

Could it be that our search for him is intended to build
Respect for bin Laden among Muslims who oppose us?
Is he to channel Arab anger into a regressive guild
Of fundamentalist movements that raise such a fuss
That they thereby destabilize secular Muslim societies
Which might resist U.S. control? Religious fundamentalists have proven themselves
The most effective enemies of independent-minded governments and their treaties.

This is precisely why the U.S. created an
Islamic Fundamentalist Proxy army in Afghanistan initially.
Perhaps bin Laden's new assignment is to be the ablest
Bogey-man of convenience whom the U.S. government blithely
Can use on any government it wishes to bomb?
This may sound crazy but is it any crazier than giving these
People six billion dollars in an attempt to control Islam?