Webster Tarpley: "US double standard towards terrorism"

[DrakeDorosh]

He mentions Operation Gladio in his initial comments. Anyone who thinks Webster Tarpley is unnecessarily suspicious can gain perspective by learning more about it. Easy to find. Here is a Youtube link for a BBC documentary: watch?v=7fB6nViwJcM One can keep in mind that when the Soviet Union fell "Communists" lost their status as the perfect enemy. Perfect because the wealthy leadership could piggy back their hate for social programs, unions etc. "Terroristism" creates similar opportunities.

[FreedomClause]

The Hegelian Dialectic, they create the terrorists so that you will react, looking to them for a solution, they give you a war on terror and you happily pay for both sides in a made up conflict.

[hamoodahmad1]

This is now not a hidden truth that U.S.A has always been funding different terrorist organizations....well now when the fruit is coming U.S.A is not accepting it....I don't know but their is a huge hypocrisy in what they do...first they fund terrorist organizations in other countries then U.S.A attacks those countries as WAR AGAINST TERRORISM. It is U.S.A who established and funded TALIBAN, Al-Qaeda leadership, Haqani network, and many other...now thousands of people are dying because of it. :(

[rajuatham]

this kind of double standards means that U.S will stand alone on the next 9/11

[rajuatham]

@mirrorny 9/11 was done by ir troops so that dick-sucking cheney could make billions

[TheVeneth]

Webster is very inteligent and courageous man.. he was there just on the edge with that jewish girl.. at the end she tried to provoke him to say something "over the edge".. but he stayed calm and diplomatic and basicly told to viewers to stay alert and dont believe this bull....

[6of6]

Good points sadly not heard by enough people. On a side note, what a shrill annoying voice the anchor has.

[6of6]

@mirrorny So in other words the Russian gov't is employing a tactic often used here in the U.S. when stricter laws need to get pushed through.

[DONGERDUCK]

i'm glad that the russian media is good and not corrupt like the US one, i mean bbc, cnn, abc all r run by zionist jews they always bash Muslims, Muslim terrorists, muslims this and that, and even if u try to say that these terror attacks were done by the CIA, zionists or israel

they will immediately say that your crazy your an anti semite, he hates america and stuff

i'm glad that russia isn't stupid like the americans

[InfamousShogun]

@DONGERDUCK me too bro :)

[Trisket]

@DONGERDUCK

"i'm glad that the russian media is good and not corrupt like the US"

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no. Russia Today is the mouth piece of the Kremlin, it's the Russian equivalent to Fox News.

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket @Trisket dude try going to fox news, cnn, bbc and just try to say to expose the holocaust, the 911 attacks, the rich ROTHSCHILD jewish family which control the US, and how they funded the nazis, or the illuminati, new world order, skulls and bones, or expose the zionist israel lobby i can gurantee u that the media will than call u crazy, an an ti semite , america hater, terrorist sympathizer and if u expose them too much they will kill u

[Trisket]

@DONGERDUCK

"they will kill u"

Alex Jones has "exposed" every single thing you just said, and he still has a radio show, sorry but in the US you are allowed to discuss anything and everything with out fear of being killed because of it. The Prodigals of Zion, the source of your insane rambling was proven 3 decades ago to be a fabrication of the Soviets. I'm not going to waste my time with a holocaust denier.

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket alex jones is a lier, and is spreading dis information, he's a illuminati zionists agent, his job is to prevent disinformation, and no the protocols of zion have not been exposed, the movie made was made by a jew, and no one on media has ever exposed the rothschilds, illuminati, zionists etc, and people who tried to expose the holocaust have either been killed or thrown in jail and i',m not a holocaust denier, its just that if u expose the holocaust u get jailed

[Trisket]

@DONGERDUCK

You are literally parroting Alex Jones, so either you're also a Zionist agent or you're lying.

No one who has ever attempted to "expose" the holocaust has ever been killed or jailed, you might live in an theocratic authoritarian dictatorship but the western world allows for open discussion, even if it is blatantly wrong.

Go masturbate to some Cyrax and Flyrax videos, they seem right up your alley.

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket no its illegal to guestion the holocaust , or even expose it people who did expose whether either killed or jailed, the the US media is very sympatheic towards the jews since the media is owned by them, try linking the 911 attacks to israel, mossad, zionists etc and u will immediaely be called an anti semkite crazy etc

[Trisket]

@DONGERDUCK There is a political party known as the National Socialist Party in both the United States and in Europe, comprised primarily of Neo-Nazis. A large portion of these groups deny the holocaust, and are allowed to under the law.

You don't seem to understand that in the United States it is not illegal to make any claim about history whether true or false, I would know, I've lived here most of my life.

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket my God r u serious, USA is controlled by the zionists and jews and israel, AIPAC runs and controls all US affairs, all the banks, economy, hollywood is run by them y do u think they always sterotype arabs, also try going to CNN, BBC ABC etc, and even say that holocaust isn't real, or try exposing it, or try linking israel to the 911 attacks, and other terror attacks in which the mossad and the CIA both have their hands, try saying it i can gurantee u that they will attack u

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket bash u, call u an anti semite, and that he hates israel and such, and try going on the media, and say anything negative about Islam, who will be hailed as a hero, this i can gurantee, and if someone says anything against it, than u will be against the freedom of speech, even in germany some tourist said heil hitler and guess what he got arrested where's the freedom in that, its ok to hurt Muslim sentiment

[DONGERDUCK]

@Trisket and living in US doesn't change anything u don't know who runs your country, u only see whats in front of u u also need to see the curtain behind it,

[Trisket]

@DONGERDUCK That's an argument from ignorance. I've lived outside of the US, and I know the "Shadow Government" is simply a bullshit claim, and considering you live in a country that still has blasphemy laws you have no room to talk about oppressive governments.

[KYRIACOS84]

@Trisket wrong. Fox news is the worst sham of a propaganda station that i have ever seen, and its patently obvious to every educated person in the world outside America.

[KYRIACOS84]

Respond to this video...Check the youtube channel and viewing figures as well. Cnn and fox's numbers combined dont even come close to rt's. People see through yourbullshit. 

[Trisket]

@KYRIACOS84

>implying I care about CNN or Fox News.

>implying a few thousand youtube views can be compared to the millions that watch cable news on a daily basis.

[KYRIACOS84]

@Trisket 500 million hits. Hilary said it to congress, we are losing the information war.

[Trisket]

@KYRIACOS84

Total upload views for RTAmerica is 15,481,075 (it says on their channel) not 500 million.

Fox News beats that before noon; and again, I don't give a shit about any cable news network.

[KYRIACOS84]

@Trisket Thats just RT America you douche. Just go to the RT channel not the RT America channel.

[NosoCOMINSOON]

Let this be clear: There is a huge growing number of Americans who dislike the mainstream media and realize they are corrupt. So please to all you foreigners don't make assumptions there are still A LOT of awoken Americans that realize the corruption and control in the MSM.

[MrGangaheaD88]

8 people are on minimum wage lol :O)

[haeresy]

Russia will not hold any talks with terrorists, Russian Prime Minister Putin said on Wednesday in the wake of the terrorist attack in Moscow's busiest Domodedovo International Airport earlier in the week."It is necessary to fight mercilessly with terrorism and extremism," Putin said. The premier also said the preliminary information showed the Domodedovo blast was NOT linked to Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya.

MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti) en.rian.ru

Everyone knows who it was.

[LordDyhalto]

Tarpley is my hero.

[myquill23]

The last 2 minutes of the vid are probably the most important..

Follow the trail.. see who benefits from the crisis.. it is like reverse-engineering the event..

[djp6305]

Webster Tarpley is a Communist America-hating piece of shit, and that's the bottom line. He is a shill for America's enemies, pay his bloated ass no mind. In a perfect world he would have already been executed for his treason, like the Russians do to their enemies. The Airport bomb was the work of the terrorist FSB, like the 1999 apartment bombings that brought the pedophile Putin to power. Webster Tarpley hates the country of his birth, and I hope a patriot delivers justice to him one day.

[Kaxcer]

@djp6305 In fact, he is a true american.

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@djp6305 Nice - kill everybody that says stuff I don't like... you need to read some European history...

[freddietz96]

He mentions a gas pipeline the US is supposedly in Afghanistan to prevent. Tarpley is giving you misinformation, perhaps to take the heat off the Zionists who promote him and Alex Jones (Sirius XM). The west WANTS the TAPI pipeline in place, it just wants its own Exxon, BP, Shell, Halliburton, etc in control of it. 9-11 was created by Zionist bankers to install a permanent US military presence in the Mideast, initially to create that pipeline for ourselves. Obviously, the Russians caught-on.

[signboyy]

so apparently people who act against the interests of corporate controlled governments are terrorists and people who act to further the interests of corporate controlled governments are righteous rebels?

[englishgodess]

The chechen terrorists work for usa and europe. One day before this attack the americans were giving there attack order to a terrorist leaders which lives in usa. His name is Ilyas Akhmadov. He helps send money and weapons to the terrorists which are based in Usa's puppet georgia. Georgia just today opened a terrorist surporting TV channel which as close links  To Cia station radio free radio europe liberity. Usa republicans did Belsan in order to get elected bush 2nd term.

[gosciu555]

Mole detectors at langley and the pentagon, haha good one.

[goldstep999]

Good job, Webster! Qui bono? Answer this question and cut off funding - then these things will die down.

Unfortunately in this case those who benefit and those who fund sit in Washington.

[goldstep999]

Good job, Webster!

[thatswhatisaidyeah]

The Jew-controlled C.I.A. has been blowing up buildings in the U.S. Assassinating America's greatest heroes, Staging terror attacks abroad, setting up black muslim young men, torture & secret prisons, overthrowing foreign leaders, running drugs across borders, selling crack to minorities, violating geneva convention law (murder), creating gangs for blacks & mexicans, killing celebrities, illegally seizing guns, setting up police state technology, training rogue terror cells...Shall I continue?

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@thatswhatisaidyeah well yeah - but Jew-controlled??

[thatswhatisaidyeah]

@nowthatsinteresting1 Zionist, Jew-controlled, whatever you wanna call it. Obama is Jew-controlled. Works mainly for Zionist Jewish interests. Do some research on it....

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@thatswhatisaidyeah I don't go for the 'world is controlled by jewish commies' bollocks, but I do notice that US presidents (and the political class generally) do seem to be massively funded by the financial industry, and that the US stock exchange does have a day off for a well-known jewish holiday - odd for a christian country...

[bbossin]

@thatswhatisaidyeah

Yeah..um,, which CIA director or US president was a Jew again?

[thatswhatisaidyeah]

@bbossin Research! It doesn't take a Jew CIA director or a Jew Pres. Politicians and appointies are just there for you to see. They don't really run anything. Bush and Obama are both Jew Presidents man. Not by blood, but by obligation. Who controls the money, controls the government. They are the world bankers. The Federal Reserve (Zionist Jew brainchild) is all they need. You people just need to google some of this stuff, read some quotes and documents, and learn how the world really works...

[KevinADCarter]

What exactly was the "breaking news" you promised in the opening? Please stop wasting my time.

[shenyoushen]

thisis happening and steel will happen russians will feel how it feels to be bombd and distroid

[shenyoushen]

russia create to much enemis peope hwo done this might be (chechens georgians ore polish ) ore its russia hwo made it then they will blame some other county and bomb it got to have little mind to undastand sitoeishen

[reignclaw]

de-putinazation.....gotta love that one.

[IgorVasilevskii]

USA/UK job.

[mac9876ab]

This is bullshit! This has nothing to do with US double standards (which certainly do exist) but with the New World Order! RUSSIAN ruling elites are behind this attack! Russian, US and Chinese elites are in bed! They work together on the implementation of the New World Order agenda which includes splitting Russia, US and Canada into several pieces.

[mac9876ab]

I want to remind people that when there was a terrorist attack in Moscow metro in 2010 thousands of Muslims in the Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan) held peace protests condemning terrorist attacks and expressing their solidarity with people in Moscow. They said what I am telling you - this has NOTHING to do with Islam or with "Muslims vs. Christians".

This is done by the Project NWO. Putin and Medvedev are agents of the NWO! NWO fuels ethnic and religious clashes in Russia to break it into pieces.

[GeminiGypsystar]

Please know that although I was born in America, I am a Citizen of the World who is deeply saddened by Any Attack on Any Part of the World. We who Love You, Hear you and Feel your Pain.  Know that we are Standing with you in Spirit. Our arms reaching out to Comfort you All, in This and in Past times. We wish to add our Voice to yours Calling through Space and Time " IT IS ENOUGH"

[XBionic1955]

I appreciate Webster always giving the direct answers to the questions, but sometimes by the time he finishes his answer one forgets what question he wasasked

[IgorVasilevskii]

USA is an official terrorist country.

[mikelo303]

"Lets keep terrorism somewhere in the world to keep our (pentagon) budget (uncut)" - Exactly!

[thebaldybishop]

PUTINS LEGACY 250,000 MURDERED CHECHENS

[xMaXiMuSx]

@thebaldybishop

well not true.. That's the total amount of immigrants.. The deaths are far fewer..Over 90% of the Chechens voted for Putin in the elections..so clearly there is no separation movement as the western forces want because they want to control the caucusus cause of the energy in that area.. Only the merceneries and thugs working for US and british intelligence..

[Enleuk]

0:32 lol

[Enleuk]

@Enleuk let me correct that... 0:31 lol

[badaboomrock]

Benjamin Franklins said “those who would sacrifice liberty for safety and security deserve neither safety nor security”

[komarevo]

It is so interesting to see how some of us are desperately trying to CONSPIRIFY the truth.

[quitearow]

Yeah who was that about a year ago tracking the detroit kid bomber and who continues to benefit from all the mad terror in geopolitical terms????

[BITARTEN]

Let's be clear: the US DINES WITH TERRORISTS.

[HerculesRockefellerr]

@BITARTEN....and russia builds them nuclear reactors

[BITARTEN]

@HerculesRockefellerr You are wrong, ISRAEL has US help not Russian

[Kaxcer]

Tarpley is right as usual.

[Binerycode]

DAMN TERRORIST

[steevyization]

@Binerycode Here is a plan-Don't annoy them then...

[Binerycode]

@steevyization we didnt annoy them THEY CAME FIRST AT us i hope they all die those terrorist your probably one of them we should just NUKE THEM to end it all

[steevyization]

@Binerycode They have nukes too and don't forget the nuclear fallout. Terrorism is a fact of life and we should chill out and get used to it. I think governments like the fear it creates and the power it gives them. Terrorism for many inept governments is a welcomed distraction.

[Binerycode]

@steevyization they dont have nuke if they did we would be dead then cause there CRAZY

[alpidistra]

These so-called Chechen "rebels" are as Chechen as the KLA was Albanian. What a load of BS!! Do they expect us to believe that the Chechen people are now celebrating in the streets expecting to be handed complete independence now? Somebody attempt to explain how Chechnya is benefited by acts of terrorism. If you can manage it, they've got a job for you at CNN or BBC. Maybe its time for Russia to create the "R.F.I.T.", The Revolutionary Front for the Independence of Texas "rebel group".

[afghanistanculture09]

Israel would be Behind the blast 99 % bcz Russian President announced his support for Palestinean State and Isreal got pissed. So its clearly double standards. They want to sell the Killing x-scanners to Russia and money goes to the Chitkoff's pocket and the Isreali lobby. Think once Again who is behide all this shitt. Who is the real EVIL behind the viel. ..

[thesapiens16]

@afghanistanculture09 Spot on! Russia also announced that they wanted to trade more in Euros.

Terrorism is neither random nor without motive.

Random violence is a tool of control.

Will money be made from this tragedy?

Who benefits?

[wwaalltthheerr]

RELEASE THE TARPLEYS!!! OMG CIA DID IT!!! AND SAAKASHVILI!!!WITH BUSH!!! NO, WITH BOTH BUSHES!!!OMG!!! WHITEHOUSE INSIDE JOB!!!BREAKING NEWS - JOHN BOLTON DID IT WITH BASAEV AND JOHN MCCAIN!!! AND DON'T FORGET TEA PARTY!!! OMG!!! ROBERT GIBBS DID IT, JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE, HE IS CIA FA SHUA!!!tARPLEY IS GOD-LIKE GENIUS!!!

[CardinalRaker]

It's not a double standard, the USA doesn't care about terrorism in any other country than it's own. The USA is a selfish narcissistic country. When 9/11 happen they expected the rest of the world to weep etc but when London and Spain got attacked they hardly covered it.

[LoveGodEndlessly]

He actually admits that there are unelected, hidden circles operating....

[falcon02012]

On January 18 2011 from the West Bank, Russian President Dmity Medvedev joined a growing list of countries endorsing a Palestinian state with an East Jerusalem capital.

On January 24 2011 Israel retaliate .

[esiosan]

Some of you have claimed that the CIA "might" be involved. I want to consider that claim for an instant. Now say that if Russia would discover that the CIA was responsible. Wouldn't it then be considered an act of war?

What interest would America have in starting a gratuitous nuclear war vs Russia?

And just for what? To enrich billionaires? How does that factor in your conspiracy theory? Seriously.

"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary EVIDENCE" - Carl Sagan.

/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU

[necridos]

@esiosan You know, if conspiracy THEORIES had extraordinary evidence, it'd have an entirely different name? It'd be called a conspiracy fact. They're called Theories because they're currently in the process of finding facts. Besides, there'd be no nuclear war if Russia had someone else to blame (Like terrorists for example). Then the rich get richer. Hell, who's to say Russia couldn't be in on it too? It's not like we know all the facts or anything. We're dumb peasants to them :(

[necridos]

@esiosan Carl Sagan also says something else friend. "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions. To be skeptical of those in authority, Then we're up for grabs." And that is exactly what conspiracy THEORISTS do.

[5T4RSCREAM]

He knows who the names are... he is scared... but his communication is valid. The solution is to rid the world of the monetary system completely so we stop using the military industrial complex as an excuse to sustain us while destroying the world and enslaving countries in the process of our imperialism.

[5T4RSCREAM]

He knows who the names are... he is scared... but his communication is valid.

[rageatm4life]

this is why I watch RT now not fox News these people are actually not bias and give time to hear the alt news circles points of view

[iridespinners]

Tarpley said it best..@ 7:35- 7:45.. THANK YOU, WEBSTER!

[MsMihailescu]

Read this important book for free on internet,here you have their plan in detail,those people want to create New World Order.The Bible call them,,The Synagogue of satan(Revelation 2:9,,3:9)

Who Is Esau-Edom..Who Is Esau-Edom..

[SirWinstonChurchill]

Probably happened because Russia has no independent Islamic homeland in Russia...

[harveybirdmannequin]

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the criminally convicted Jewish Russian oligarch, was not released just because he's Jewish much to the dismay of Israel.

Dmitry Medvedev visited Palestine recently and recognized the Palestinian state.

The USA has been actively trying to destabilize and start war with Russia through the support of Georgia and the Chechens, expanding NATO, meddling in EU and Russian ties, and starting wars in Central Asia.

The USA is begging for war and will do so under Israeli control.

[iridespinners]

@harveybirdmannequin please remember that it is not the American people who want these wars..its the shadow, secret, parallel, invisible government inside the US. :) that does.

[gotoluvit]

why do they always go after the airports dont any one ever ask the question i know there is a lot of people but no government buildings there is so much focus to airports damn

[DREwestcoast]

@gotoluvit ever wondered how this 'terrorism' pandemic has even happened? and like you said only in airports? this is bullshit, if there ever was such a thing as terrorists organizations worldwide and very rich and organized, malls would be blowing up every day...

[H8uGovDave]

bullshit RT Americans feel for their Russian brothers frack making everything about politics.

[Ebdan88]

Humans are Scio's 99.99% of them!!!

Just think if people actially talked about helping each other all the time and there was no Greed or evil!! It could happen if somehow the most evil of them all could just start introducing love to their people and help America and Russia insted of think of wars or killing or poisening people!!!

[kmitchem4]

THERE ARE NO TERRORIST! Its the american government funding these groups and no one is going to tell me differant!

[linnx88]

Tarpley is brilliant, as usual!

[kmitchem4]

Our military is 50x stronger than they pretend to be. This is all a fake ass war! We have satellites that can see frongs phunching in 10ft of water so you cant tell me they dont let all of this crap just happen. They fund it with our money! the american people are so gullable we'd believe anything they say without thought! Wakeup sheeple your being taken for False Flag wars for over 250 years!

[USAmericansWakeUp]

Im so sick of these people killing each other. Such tragedy

[raguila11]

The Chechens should not have virtual embassies open in the US or UK.

[sinner1369unknown]

Переведите диалог на русский пожалуйста!

[fang1998]

@sinner1369unknown

Что диалоговом вы желающих? Я использую Google перевести для меня.

[sinner1369unknown]

@fang1998 при переводе страдает смысл

[Eimuxxx]

USA needs some allies against Iran

[RuthyMusic]

Prob the USA behind it... they're behind anything evil..

[komarevo]

WE ARE AWARE OF THOSE CALLING NAMES, CLASSIFYING AND DIVIDING. THIS GUY - WEBSTER TARPLEY, NOWS WHATS BEHIND THE SCENES... AND DON'T HIDE YOURSELF BEHIND AMERICA. AMERICA IS NOT YOU, AND PATRIOTISM IS NOT SUPPORT OF DESTRUCTIVE AND PARASITIC FORCES THAT RULE US FOR NOW.

[2minstral]

Well said Webster!

[TheVMFA333]

cia+banks= Boom!  Moscow

[Casar1973]

good stuff from tarpley as usual, but still a lack of focus on the financiers that employ the schemes.

[hops101]

@Casar1973 , don't bite the hand that feeds you. he might be working for them to some extent

[narutocaprirequest2]

false flag

[TinaBestFan]

@narutocaprirequest2 IT'S THE SAME OLD SHIT THEY HAVE CREATE FALSE FLAGS TO TRY TO KEEP FEAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO TRY TO MAKE IT APPEAR LIKE THEY ARE AT WAR TO TRY TO CATCH THE TERRORISTS TO PROTECT US, WHEN THAT IS B.S/ A FUCKING LIE. THE REAL REASON WE ARE IN THESE WARS IS BECAUSE THE EVIL WORLD GOVERNMENT ARE PROFITING WHILE THEIR PUTTING THE COUNTRIES IN WAR IN DEBT BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS SOMEONE OR SOME PEOPLE IS STILL PROFITING/THEY ARE EVIL AND ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR EVIL AGENDA.

[RuthyMusic]

@TinaBestFan

Bravo.

[areyoulookinatmepal1]

@TinaBestFan

all evil must die

[nowthatsinteresting1]

@areyoulookinatmepal1 All innocent death is evil

[TheBENGALHANNIBAL]

WEBSTER T, always gives a good insight. Without prejudices.

[fang1998]

BEWARE OF "TheBENGALHANNIBAL" HE IS A TROLL AND LIKES TO STIR THINGS UP BY BLAMING EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENS IN THE WORLD ON AMERICA!

[xanaduisfaraway]

@fang1998 , he is an indian,if he sends friend request pls dont add him, he will use sexual slurs against white people.

Most indians like Bengal hannibal hate white people and bully them on youtube

[fang1998]

@xanaduisfaraway

"TheBENGALHANNIBAL" is originally from Bangladesh, now hiding in England and has been getting "spanked" by several people here on RT America's Youtube channel. I was just warning everybody else on what he does here.

[fukkuutube]

this smells like AL C I A DA's work

[TinaBestFan]

@fukkuutube THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.

[jesse2076]

@fukkuutube or KGB

[MaTtRoSiTy]

Great... so I wonder which rights will be taken away now to protect from terrorism?

[fenix611]

@MaTtRoSiTy exactly.

[ExpertOfSound]

@MaTtRoSiTy

I don't know, but I hope sometime soon!

All the suspense is killing me! lol

Also, I figured they would wait a few days at least until screaming QUICK TERRORISTS ALL OVER EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY MUST BE LOCKED DOWN!@ QUICK ROBED MEN WITH BB GUNS ARE GOING TO GET US ALL!@!@!@!@!@!@

[artpena72]

@MaTtRoSiTy expected and you are right on the money, excuses to take away more rights around the world