Who Is America’s Greatest Enemy, Israel Or Iran?

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Who Is America’s Greatest Enemy, Israel Or Iran?

By Gholemreza Montazami, Retired Iranian Diplomat

 December 25, 2021


Nearly three years ago John Mearsheimer had said in one of his articles the following:

“…Iran is not a direct threat to the United States. It is not even an indirect threat to the United
States. First, Iran does not have nuclear weapons and it has signed an agreement with the
world’s major powers that makes it impossible for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons in the
foreseeable future. Second, Iran does not have missiles that can strike the U.S. homeland.
Third, Iran has weak conventional forces, which cannot be used against the United States or
any country in the Middle East that is under the American security umbrella. Fourth, Iran is
not a serious threat to attack another country in its region. It has not launched a war against
another country even once in modern times, and there is no evidence that it is now preparing
to take the offensive against any of its neighbors. Fifth, Iran is not the source of America’s
terrorism problem. To the extent that any one country deserves that title, it is Saudi Arabia,
not Iran…”1

It should be obvious to the American people who America’s real enemy is, especially given
Mearsheimer’s past work on, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”.2 The state of Israel
has proven itself time and time again that Israel’s political lobby has used the US government
and military to further Israel’s interests in the Middle East.

We at the New Horizon organization have been holding conferences for over 10 years where
various personalities, such as journalists, political activists, American anti–Zionists, American
anti–Zionist Jews and others come and meet and make contributions and presentations to
expose Zionist power in the US and the Western world and to also develop strategies on
reducing or breaking this power.

We have never made any threats against the US government or America’s national or
security interests in any of our conferences. We have been rewarded for all of our hard work
by being sanctioned by the very government (US government) which has repeatedly been
used and exploited by the state of Israel. To make matters worse the US government placed
the worst possible sanctions on our organization’s three key people (Nader Talebzadeh,
Zeina Mehanna, Hamed Ghashghavi) and myself. We were designated as “Global Terrorists”
which is a special categorization of terrorists which was created after 9/11.3 Also, conference
participants from other countries have similarly been persecuted by the US government by
being put on ‘no–fly’ lists.

We don’t blame the American people for the sanctions against our organization or the
sanctions against Iran. We know that the American masses and patriots among them are
victims of Zionist power inside their government. A recent survey showed that 54% of
Americans see their fellow Americans as the main threat to them. Of those, 48% who fear
other countries, 52% fear China, Russia 12%, Afghanistan 5%, and Iran 4%.4

We fight against Zionism and Israel, which dominate the US government’s decision–making
centers. These nefarious forces are a serious threat to American national and security
interests, and to the American people. My country and our organization are fighting for the
American people against the most dangerous threat and enemy to the American and Iranian
peoples.

One of the main reasons that Israel has been so determined to overthrow our government is
because we have consistently supported Palestinian resistance to Israeli oppression and
tyranny. No other country in the world except us, can provide arms and missiles to Hamas to
resist Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. No other country in the world could give
even a bullet to help support the Palestinians against their oppressors.

The US government because of Israel has imposed so many sanctions on us that we’ve
become the most sanctioned country in human history. Instead of sanctioning us the US
government should be giving us praise and give us the financial aid which Israel has been
receiving since 1948. The main reason we should receive this praise and aid is because Iran
has consistently used its money and resources against the greatest common enemy of our
two countries. Iran has done far more for the American people by resisting Israel and Zionism
than all of America’s war heroes combined.

Iran has served the American national interests and people more than the American military,
security, intelligence and political systems. This is well known and understood by officials
inside the security, intelligence, military and political establishments and the real patriots who
are very intelligent and work within the US government. This is also known by elitist people
within America’s aristocracy. We understand this situation very well and we do not wish to put
these people in a difficult position. Because they know they will pay a very high price if they
resist the will of the Zionists and their control over the various levels of government inside the
US.

These enlightened people must do everything they can to raise awareness of Zionist power
inside America. God Willing this greater awareness will hopefully lead to the creation of
effective political opposition to resist Zionist power inside the US government.

Fortunately, we have been seeing some consistent organized opposition forming in the
growing Palestinian solidarity movement, including the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS)
campaign. This opposition has continued despite some Zionist successes in making criticism
of Israel illegal in some countries. It is the US Constitution that protects this right to protest,
so the Zionists are unable to stop the reaction by American citizens to form grassroots efforts
to struggle for justice.

A growing number of people around the world are learning that Zionists are the most
nefarious people and that they have repeatedly hurt the American and Iranian peoples. Some
of the crimes committed against America by Israel and its Zionist supporters include, the
Black Slave Trade,5 the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank and its ongoing campaign of
debasing the US currency,6 the John F. Kennedy assassination,7 the sexual revolution,8 the
pornography industry,9 the attack on the USS Liberty,10 Israeli espionage against the US, the
organ trafficking industry, various economic crises over the last 100 years to name a few 11
and the 9/11 operation. 12

The video clip (https://archive.org/details/israel–did–9–11–dr.–alan–sabrosky–u.–s–army–war–
college/Israel+did+9_11+–+Dr.+Alan+Sabrosky+–+U.S+Army+War+College.mp4) in the
footnotes section of this article provides some very logical commentary from Alan Sabrosky,
a retired Marine officer who was a director of studies at the US Army War college. He makes
a compelling argument that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.12

It’s very important that the American people realize and understand that it is they who have
used their blood and treasure in the service of Israel to invade and occupy Afghanistan and
Iraq13 in the weeks and months following 9/11. Thousands of American military personnel
were killed and tens of thousands were injured, but not one Israeli soldier was killed or injured
in these wars to protect and expand Israeli power in the Middle East region.

It should be obvious to everyone now that Israel has been the greatest beneficiary of
“America’s War on Terror”. On top of this, it’s becoming clear to a growing number of people
in America and throughout the world that Israel was behind the 9/11 Operation. Had 9/11
never happened then Israel would have never been able to use the American military to
attack and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. It should also be discussed how Israel has been
using its power over the US government to try and push it to wage a direct war against Syria.

Looking at today’s regional situation, we can see how Israel has been working very hard to
use the US military to go to war against Iran by creating dangerous situations. The single
biggest escalation of tensions came when the US military assassinated General Soleimani
and within a year of that assassination the Mossad was involved in assassinating Dr.
Fakhrizadeh. Some Israeli government officials later boasted that Israel was involved in
influencing the US government to use the US military to assassinate General Soleimani.

Iran showed great restraint in its response by only firing missiles at one US military base

in Al–Assad, Iraq. Iran in a matter of minutes could have set fire to all the American military

bases in the region and could have killed thousands of American troops. But Iran did not want
American soldiers and officers to be sacrificed for Israel’s interests. The question we need to
ask ourselves is, why do patriotic Americans; people in the intelligence, security, and military
communities; and political leaders allow American military personnel to be killed or humiliated
to serve Israel’s interests?

This year especially, we’ve seen some serious provocations by the US navy to set off a
conflict with the Iranian navy in the Persian Gulf. To make matters worse, Mossad’s chief has
been very busy the last several months in trying to pressure or influence US government
officials to try and find ways to set off a war in the region between America and Iran. A war
which would result in a long–term stoppage of oil exports from the Middle East region which
could lead to a global economic catastrophe.

We can also see that by looking back over the last 20 years that a number of Israeli prime
ministers took numerous trips to Washington to meet with presidents for the specific purpose
of trying to push the US to go to war against Iran.14 Outside of these efforts, Israel has also
worked very hard to prevent any good relations between the US and Iran. Their numerous
attempts at sabotaging or derailing the creation and implementation of the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran Nuclear Deal) are well known.

Originally Israel was dead set against the international nuclear agreement when the Obama
administration agreed to it and signed off on it. After the deal began to be implemented, Israel
made numerous attempts to derail the agreement and was eventually successful a little over
a year after Trump took office. Because of Israeli pressure, Trump eventually pulled the US
out of the nuclear deal in May of 2018.

Recently Iran’s new presidential administration made a number of efforts to try and salvage
the nuclear negotiations. While Iran was making these efforts, Israel began to increase its
pressure against Germany, France and the UK to take a hard position against Iran in the
nuclear discussions. Israel’s goal with this effort is to make sure that the entire agreement
collapses and this will eventually make it easier for Israel to set off a war between the US and
Iran, and it will also become easier for Israel to use the European powers to support a
potential American war against Iran. If such a war does happen then the European powers
will wind up losing more than what America would lose in such a war. Also it’s very important
that the Europeans understand that the destruction of the nuclear agreement will not benefit
Europe, the only beneficiary of the agreement’s destruction will be Israel.

Israel’s primary goal has been to try and start a war between the US and Iran, and because
of this Israel would never let the nuclear agreement move forward because if it was
successful then we could actually begin to see good relations between the US, the European
powers and Iran. Israel could never accept such a positive and peaceful arrangement. At the
same time, Israeli leaders know that they can’t attack Iran without US support. This is why
Israel and its Zionist supporters have been working so hard on the Biden administration and 
the US Congress to prevent America from abiding to the terms of the original nuclear
agreement.

There can be no doubt that the Zionist lobby will be working very hard throughout next year in
the run up to the Congressional mid–term elections in November 2022. Their goal of course
will be to use their money to support candidates and incumbents who will support Israel’s
goals in preventing the US government from following the terms of the nuclear agreement.

While we try to remain hopeful that somehow Israel’s power will be curtailed or God Willing
broken, we must be realistic about the situation and Israel’s never ending efforts to protect
and expand its power. Israel’s efforts could eventually lead to a full blown war with Israel
using America as a proxy to fight against Iran.

Iran would like to request from the American people that they do everything they can to stop
such a war against Iran from happening. If such a war does happen then Iran requests from
the American people that at least half of the troops used from the American side are taken
directly from units of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

If Israel is so determined to use the US military as a mercenary force to go to war against Iran
then it should directly invest in such a war by using its military personnel in such an effort.
Our last request is that if a war does begin that the US military leaders have the Israeli
soldiers wear blue and white uniforms so that our forces can easily find and target them on
the battlefield. We don’t want to put ourselves in a situation where we have to shoot any
American soldiers because too many American soldiers have already been victims by being
killed or injured since 9/11 for Israel’s benefit.15, 16, 17

Our very last request is if Israel accepts such a military arrangement for a future war, then
please do what you can to convince your government to let such a war against Iran
commence as soon as possible.

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Footnotes:

[1] Threat Inflation and the Iran Obsession,
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/threat–inflation–and–the–iran–obsession/

[2] The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, https://www.amazon.com/Israel–Lobby–U–S–
Foreign–Policy/dp/0374531501

[3] Solving 9–11: The Deception That Changed the World, https://www.amazon.com/Solving–
9–11–Deception–Changed–World/dp/0985322586

[4] Poll: We have met the enemy and it is us,
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/poll–we–have–met–the–enemy–and–it–is–us–459948


[5] The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 1,
https://finalcallstore.noi.org/product/the–secret–relationship–between–blacks–and–jews–volume–
1/, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume 2,
https://finalcallstore.noi.org/product/the–secret–relationship–between–blacks–and–jews–volume–
2/, Jews Selling Blacks: Slave Sale Advertising by American Jews,
https://finalcallstore.noi.org/product/jews–selling–blacks/

[6] The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, https://www.amazon.com/Secrets–Federal–Reserve–
Eustace–Mullins/dp/8087888979

[7] Final judgment: The missing link in the JFK assassination conspiracy,
https://www.amazon.com/Final–judgment–missing–assassination–conspiracy/dp/0935036474

[8] Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control,
https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9781587314650

[9] Merchants of Sin, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35899224–merchants–of–sin

[10] What I Saw That Day Israel’s June 8 1967 Holocaust Of Us Servicemen Aboard The
USS Liberty And Its Aftermath, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8369231–what–i–saw–
that–day–israel–s–june–8–1967–holocaust–of–us–servicemen–aboa

[11] Satan at the Fountainhead: The Israel Lobby & The Financial Crisis,
https://www.amazon.com/Satan–Fountainhead–Israel–Financial–Crisis/dp/1519227612

[12] Israel did 9/11 – Dr. Alan Sabrosky, US Army College, https://archive.org/details/israel–
did–9–11–dr.–alan–sabrosky–u.–s–army–war–college/Israel+did+9_11+–+Dr.+Alan+Sabrosky+–
+U.S+Army+War+College.mp4

[13] The Power of Israel in the United States, https://www.amazon.com/Power–Israel–United–
States/dp/0932863515

[14] The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/magazine/iran–strike–israel–america.html

[15] U.S. & ALLIED KILLED, https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed

[16] U.S. & ALLIED WOUNDED,
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/wounded

[17] America Nuked on 9/11: Compliments of the CIA, the Neocons in the DoD & the Mossad,
https://jamesfetzer.org/2016/08/america–nuked–on–9–11–compliments–of–the–cia–the–neocons–
in–the–dod–the–mossad/

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: A MODEL FOR HATE—A MODEL FOR NON-COOPERATION

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According to its website, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA):  is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.

Oh, My!  In October 2021, I commented on a question I saw on AILA’s ListServe for the Washington, D.C. area.  I said I was appalled that Applicants for Permanent Legal Residence had to be vaxxed while tens of thousands of illegal aliens were pouring across the borders, unvaxxed and likely bearing covid.

Here are some responses to my statement:

Ava Benach:  … I cannot understand how anyone practicing immigration law can call people “illegals” and make such an idiotic remark as if people at the border are not subject to grounds of inadmissibility.  I don’t know what your practice is like but I can tell that you barely tolerate a wide portion of immigrants and I hope that you retire or find a new line of work before too long.

Ana Zigel:  Really Mr. Springman – you dare make this comment.  I guess you get your “facts” from Fox News.  This statement is outrageous and not becoming of an immigration lawyer.  I agree with Ava – I think it’s time you find a new line of work.

To be sure, some sensible attorneys defended me and cited immigration law and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.  And they made eminent sense.

However, … Afterwards, I found when I asked for help with two questions posed to me by clients, I got no real responses from the ListServe, except for Ava Benach’s post:  I find that when I have tricky legal issues on immigration issues, I consult these books:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJ.+Michael+Springmann&s=relevancerank&text=J.+Michael+Springmann&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_  (Link to my books on the sources of Islamic terrorism and the migrant wave rolling over Europe.)

A second post of the same questions got no results, not even from AILA’s management, to whom I had sent copies.  The foregoing emails I received were examples of harassment, bullying, and incivility–all forbidden by AILA’s ethics code.

Backlisted?  It is not unreasonable to assume that the various attacks on me may have been orchestrated by Ava Benach.  Given Benach’s position at AILA, it would not be unreasonable to imagine that Ava has, in some way, gotten the organization to ensure that no one will respond to any of my questions on behalf of my clients.  And my job as attorney is to promote and protect their interests.

Ava, shown above, displays claims on the firm’s website about receiving …the Edith B. Lowenstein Award for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)… Ava currently serves on the Amicus Committee of the AILA helping to set nationwide litigation strategy for the organization…Ava served as Chair of the Litigation Committee and as Pro Bono Coordinator….

What’s Not Being Done.  AILA appears to be more concerned with virtue signaling and refusing to enforce its ethics code.  Moreover, the Association will not use its resources to sue the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for failing to do its job.

USCIS is delaying approval of simple applications.  I have people who have been waiting two years for Adjustment of Status to Legal Permanent Resident.  Without explanation.  This used to be accomplished within six months from date of application.  Others, asylum applicants with a credible objective and subjective fear of persecution, have been waiting for half a dozen years.

What’s AILA doing about this?  Not a thing to the best of my knowledge.  I even asked the ListServe about USCIS’ failure to do a background check on an Adjustment applicant—when that organization’s rentacop refused me admission with him to its Norfolk, Va. District Office. My Washington, D.C. driver’s license had expired—and could not possibly be renewed because of the virus.  I received no response from the ListServe.

My View.  AILA seems to be a very inbred, cliquish cult.  It is also like every large organization in today’s America–dysfunctional.  AILA ostensibly exists to make money from expensive membership dues and publications or other “advantages” of membership.  It seems to be filled with time-serving hacks who hate the people their jobs require them to serve.  This is often the result of overwork and underpay as well as boredom.  (Cf. Why Nothing Works; Marvin Harris).

The first step towards a logical solution to the issue is to clean house, adding to America’s unemployment level.  The second step is to provide real assistance and mentoring.  (I well remember the last time I belonged to AILA and asked questions.  The usual response was “Why are you requesting help?  You should know the answer.”)  The third step is for AILA to rigorously challenge USCIS for not fulfilling its mission—and not ask individual practitioners to sue for a court order commanding that the agency perform its duties—which costs the client a fortune in unreimbursable legal fees.

When I raised the foregoing problems with the Center for Immigration Studies, which bills itself as favoring low immigration while being pro-immigrant, the response was “Well, that’s AILA.”

 

 

ARE U.S. FEDERAL COURTS UNSCRUPULOUS, DECEITFUL, UNRIGHTEOUS? THE ONE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. SURE IS!

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Say it ain’t so!  Regrettably and based on my painful personal experience, it is.

To help the reader with this astonishing concept, let me say it is not a one-off experience.  It’s a problem going back years with multiple, disparate players.  There is Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey, a lesser judicial official appointed for an 8-year term.  He figures in two apparently unconnected incidents.  There is the Federal Burau of Investigation (FBI), tied in one case to Harvey and in two others to clients.  The FBI created problems for me and for several people I was representing, not through error, not through confusion, not through misstep.  But through calculation.   And it’s the FBI that routinely engages in sting operations, often using patsies of limited intelligence involved with Bureau-employed informers.  (But that’s another story.)

Here’s this story.

UNSEALING ADOPTION RECORDS.  In June 2019, my sister, Martha, who had been adopted, died unexpectedly in Texas without leaving a will.  The attorney in the Lone Star State handling her estate requested her adoption records.  Fearing any hidden husbands, children, or other relatives entitled to Martha’s assets, the local court-appointed lawyer representing the decedent’s interests insisted on having her adoption certificate.

In Washington, D.C., the State of Confusion, adoption papers between 1937 and 1956 are held by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under seal.  To break the seal and obtain needed information, the court required I petition for release of the file.  The requisite paperwork went to the court in August 2019 with further forms and a $600 payment going to the organization handling the search for Martha’s birth records.

In the request sent the U.S. District Court, I outlined the reasons for my application.  In it, I noted that there was an on-going legal case in Texas; a court-appointed guardian was demanding the adoption records; I needed to travel to Texas to wind up probate, and, eventually, bury Martha in the family plot in D.C.  Knowing full well attorneys charge by the hour, it was clear I needed the adoption paper as rapidly as possible.

And yet nothing was done for nearly two years!  THEN, U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey, started making remarkable requests.

In April 2021, Harvey ordered that Petitioner shall submit to the Court an explanation of how disclosure of the Adoptee’s adoption records to him would promote or protect the Adoptee’s welfare.  Please read that sentence again—and again—and again.  It is entirely incomprehensible to anyone why adoption records could promote or protect a dead person’s interests.  Furthermore, I cited settled Washington, D.C. case law regarding adoption to clarify my position.

In one proceeding, the D.C. Court of Appeals stated:  We held that where an adult seeks disclosure only to herself and with the consent of all other affected persons, the purpose of § 16-311 [D.C. Code section on adoption]“is fully protected.”   The idea behind the law was that the stigma of extra-marital sex and subsequent adoption could harm a child of tender years, however the Magistrate Judge, having the file, knew full well there were no other affected persons.

Actions Have Consequences.  I then sent a copy of my response to Harvey’s idiocy to the Chief Judge of the District Court.  After more legal filings, including a Judicial Misconduct Complaint against this Magistrate Judge, mirabile dictu, the District Court released the entire file in its possession.

More surprisingly, well, not really, the adoption records and a subsequent Internet-search showed that Martha’s biological mother was dead, that she had been estranged from her family, and that the people in her direct bloodline were all deceased.

The Cost.  In dollar terms, because of the District Court’s inability or unwillingness to timely perform its tasks, the Texas attorney’s original $4,000 bill grew to $8,000. Then, there was the time spent researching and writing arguments contrary to G. Michael Harvey’s nonsensical requests.  And of course, there was the sheer aggravation of dealing with a simple matter made complicated by the District Court’s intransigence.

But there’s more.  Two unconnected incidents, in which I was directly involved, demonstrated that the justice system in Washington, D.C. is clearly broken—if not unrighteous.  The FBI was involved in both.  And G. Michael Harvey reappeared in one of them.

2.  FBI.  In 2018, Steven Amato and his wife Mary, from Woodbridge, Va., sued me for an effort to collect on a debt a client said the Amatos owed him.  Immediately upon learning that the client had lied to me, I dismissed the case.

So why did the Amatos go to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia?  And how did the FBI make an appearance?  1.  Money.  2.  Retaliation.  (I had been harshly critical of what turned out to be his employer, the FBI).  Steve Amato, apparently a Bureau catspaw, claimed that he would lose his security clearance, and, presumably, his job, because of the terminated collection action.  In his pleadings, Amato made no reference to where he worked or what he did.  Or what his security clearance was.

Under federal law, money damages can be obtained under the Federal Fair Debt Collection Act for willful violations.

After much searching, I eventually learnt that Steve Amato worked for the Federal Burau of Investigation.  In court, he expressed great pleasure in being an Air Force retiree who had helped fire missiles from a B-52 into Iraq.

Guess Who’s Involved?  Again.  Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey, handling the case, never asked Amato about the security clearance, job location and nature of employment—or why he feared their loss.  Unlike his actions in my petition for Martha’s records.  And the malpractice attorney firm, Eccleston & Wolf, the insurance company provided me, never brought up a key provision of the federal code:  debt collectors can’t be held liable for unintentional violations if the violation was involuntary, resulting from bona fide error.  You would think that a client lying to his attorney might fall into this category.

Nor did the Legal Eagles examine the mitigating circumstances for people with supposed security clearance issues—until I gave them the proper citations.  Then, the firm paid for an opinion piece written by a national security law expert stating that Steve Amato didn’t have a case.  Yet, Eccleston & Wolf did not enter this into the record because, it said, Magistrate Judge Harvey didn’t want it done!!!

COST TO ME & MONEY IN AMATO’S POCKET.  Malpractice insurance has a deductible, in my policy, $5,000, which was paid out of my pocket.  A year’s worth of aggravation and attempts to educate my attorneys were an added cost.  Steve Amato got paid $36,000, a reward for his trouble-making.  The insurance adjuster involved admitted to me that this was the highest amount paid out in such a matter as far as he was aware.  At best, he noted, the plaintiff would get about $1,500—and more only if he could prove damages.

WHY THE FBI DOESN’T LIKE ME.  In the past, I had been savaged this agency, terming it the Fascist Burau of Intimidation.  In fact, I had published an article recounting that organization’s attacks on me and some clients.  (US Government Reads All About It – CounterPunch.org).  The people involved had suffered the FBI shouting outside their windows every night, holding them incommunicado at the airport and, later, threatening to arrest them for unspecified crimes.  Later, in another FBI violation of a client’s legal rights, Parag Gupta’s wife kidnapped their U.S. citizen daughter and took her to India.  That 3-lettered agency, whose moto is Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity, viewed the kidnapping as a “domestic dispute” and did nothing, despite clear violations of federal law on parental abductions.  (N.B. Mr. Gupta has given permission to reveal his name and details of the case.)  Yet, despite repeated meetings with FBI “Special” Agents, complaints to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, as well as to the U.S. Justice Department, and my attempts to involve INTERPOL, the international police organization, Rhea Gupta, Parag’s daughter, is still in India.

3.  ONE LAST THING.  The federal government, using its courts, is good at burning up the time and funds of its critics.  (And I’m certainly one of them.)  Adding to this putrid porridge, it was also the same U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia which sealed and dismissed my first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, seeking to learn the reasons for my dismissal from the State Department.  The grounds given: National Security!  In a second, later, FOIA action, one to get terrorist visa applications I had denied, the same court dismissed the matter without getting to the basics.

For the full account of the real reasons for my discharge from the State Department, see Visas for Al-Qaeda:  CIA Handouts That Rocked The World.  (www.michaelspringmann.com)

FAILED AMERICAN HEALTHCARE One Example

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Georgetown University Hospital (MedStar Health) Profile | Health eCareers

WHAT?  MedStar Health, an alleged not-for-profit health care organization, operates more than 120 entities, including ten hospitals in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area of the United States.  This includes MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH), styling itself as a teaching hospital.  MGUH and MedStar Health have a serious communications problem—along with an apparent inability to do their job.

WHO? ME?  Yep.  Along with my charming smile, once-auburn hair, and eye color, I inherited something called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT).  While it has nothing to do with my choppers, being named for two Frenchmen and an Englishman who studied it in the 19th century, it is intimately connected to my physical well-being.  The malady causes the slow, progressive loss of muscle and muscle tone in the extremities.  Nerves activating the muscles lose their insulation, essentially shorting out and blocking commands to contract or loosen.  Imagine a switched-on, electric table lamp.  Now, take a knife and shave off the plastic or rubber on the wire to the mains socket.  The light goes dark.   That’s CMT in a nutshell—along with difficulty walking, balancing, and losing fine motor skills in the hands.  No picking up pennies from flat surfaces.  And finding major problems with U.S. government employment.                  

WHY?  For nearly 10 years, I have been going to MGUH’s Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Clinic for an on-going examination of my CMT.  And for nearly 10 years, I had been seen by competent, knowledgeable, compassionate medicos such as Michael D. Sirdofsky, M.D.  Unfortunately, Dr. Sirdofsky is now retired.  And that’s where the problem started.

THE PROBLEM.  In late summer 2019, MGUH’s physical therapy department referred me to the Hanger Clinic on 31st St. N.W. in Washington, D.C.  The nationwide firm supplies ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs), essentially half-boots that brace the lower legs and feet, compensating for the ravages of CMT. 

Unfortunately for me, the Hanger Clinic couldn’t pad the footplates of the new orthoses—even though I showed them my old pair which, while comfortably cushioned, needed an upgrade due to loss of muscle. 

Despite repeated visits, Hanger still couldn’t supply me with comfortable braces.  I returned their latest iteration on August 4, 2021 as being ill-fitting and dangerous to use.

MGUH—AGAIN!  After August 4, I sought help from Georgetown Hospital’s MDA Clinic—but couldn’t get an appointment until November 24, the day before Thanksgiving (the traditional American holiday where, for once, people eat better than the French).

Physical Therapy.  I began calling the physical therapy department there, raging about Hanger and seeking aid in getting a new prescription for what I call Frankenfeet (orthoses).  I met with Chris Grimm, their “expert” on AFOs.  He examined my feet, my 7-year-old orthoses, and promised to get a justification written to enable me to deal with a qualified company for new braces.

That never happened.  He told me that Medicare pays for new AFOs once every five years.

Wrong!  Medicare told me that if these things are deemed a medical necessity, the organization will reimburse the supplier, no matter the time frame.

WORDS (AND FAXES AND TELEPHONE CALLS FAIL ME).  I began calling the neurology department at MGUH without a response.  I then called Michael Saschtleben, the hospital’s president.  To no avail.  I then tried Kenneth Samet, MedStar President and CEO.  All I got was referrals to Patient Advocacy at MGUH.

More than a week ago, someone named Power, a nurse in the hospital’s neurology department, telephoned me, saying that Shreya Gandhy, D.O., had written a prescription for a new pair of Frankenfeet.  And that it was being mailed to me.  Since I live 3 miles (5 kilometers) from MGUH, I found that not receiving the script was passing strange.  So, I called Dr. Gandhy.  When I received no response, I faxed her.  Days later, there has been no reply to the fax.

SOLUTION.  Remove the politicians and bureaucraps masquerading as medical doctors and healthcare officials.  Replace them with competent administrators and knowledgeable medicos.  Strip U.S. Congressmen of their preferential medical insurance.  And then establish a European-style healthcare system that provides preventive medicine and wellness programs for everyone, not just the few with enough money to pay for concierge care.

 

 

 

St. Navalny & Elections

By

The First Time I Voted - The Bedford Citizen

His Holiness.  Alexei Navalny, alleged leader of Russia’s opposition, has two claims to sanctity.  One, Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly poisoned or had him poisoned for, as the New York Times noted on September 20, 2020, “denouncing corrupt pro-Kremlin politicians during a recent trip to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. He named 18 local legislators who he said had suspiciously intimate ties to a construction industry notorious for corruption.” Two, he  has been unable or unwilling to lash out at the recent travesty of the political process in the United States the way he has at the Russian one.

Following his return to Moscow from Siberia, Novalny reportedly fell violently ill and, allegedly, might have died had the pilot not diverted the plane to Omsk.  Once there, he was hospitalized and, later, transferred to Berlin for treatment.

According to the German government, NATO member and U.S. client state, Mr. Navalny was suffering from the effects of a nerve agent in the Novichok family.  (In 2018, the British government had previously asserted that Sergei Skripal, former Russian military intelligence officer and U.K. double agent, and his daughter Yulia, were mysteriously sickened by Novichok.  Great Britain later accused Russia of attempting to murder the Skripals.)

Mirabile dictu, Navalny, like the Skripals, swiftly recovered.  He is, according to press reports, striding about Berlin with a police escort.  The New York Times article noted that Navalny’s supposed poisoning resulted from the Russian government’s fears of his stirring up trouble during elections in neighboring Belarus and in protests in Khabarovsk, a city in the Russian Far East.  Astonishingly, the Times continued with an alternative, and equally bizarre explanation:  “that Mr. Navalny’s poisoning pointed not to the strength of a ruthlessly efficient system of repression but to the weakness of a system whose response to potential threats has become so degraded that the state no longer functions as a single unit but rather as a jumble of rival clans and freelance enforcers with grudges…”

Another View.  The Greanville Post (describing itself as an independent, leftist publication) had a different take on Alexei Navalny.  Stating that Navalny was the favored transparency and anti-corruption activist of the U.S. and its allies, the journal noted that he and the American media failed to criticize numerous, disturbing election irregularities in the recently concluded 2020 general election.  (www.greanvillepost.com/2020/11/06/the-us-electoral-nightmare-discredits-anti-russian-rhetoric/)  The website questioned why only Judicial Watch (the conservative organization) had sounded the alarm–and not Novalny and his supporters.  “…353 counties in more than 29 states across the United States had voter registration rates above 100%, meaning that there were more people registered to vote than eligible voting residents.” Yet, in contrast, “4 cases of a single person attempting to vote twice in Russia’s constitutional referendum became the source of outcry just a few months earlier.”

The Greanville Post went on to say ” The phenomenon of dead people voting…has been a widely highlighted form of voting irregularity in the United States for many decades, so much so that comedians regularly bring it up as a punch line.”  Certainly, the specter of John F. Kennedy being elected in 1960 because dead men cast their ballots for him has not been forgotten.  (His father’s money paid mobsters to ensure that tombstones in Illinois voted Democratic, giving his son victory in the Electoral College.)

Donald Trump has been raising concerns about the integrity of the voting process, particularly the late mail-in ballots favoring the Democrats.  Somehow, these postal votes disproportionately backed Joe Biden the Democratic candidate for president.  This was especially apparent in major U.S. metropolitan areas, with Biden getting 80% to 90% of the vote, something you don ‘t see outside of 3rd World countries.  However, not one peep came from Novalny and his peeps about this. Yet, in Russian Caucasus districts in 2018, “independent observers” raised concerns at candidates receiving 80% to 90% of the vote.  These “concerns” were trumpeted by Navalny and his backers there and in other parts of Russia as proof of a rigged election.

The most damning comment from the Greanville Post is as follows:

The atmosphere surrounding the US elections is also worth noting. With COVID-19 restrictions still in effect, the media continued to play up the fear of rioting in response to the results. Across the country National Guard units were called up, and a heavy police presence was very visible on Nov. 3rd when the public went to vote, if they had not voted early or through the mail. Gun sales skyrocketed, and it was clear that the public was whipped up into a state of terrified anticipation. Residents were led to believe that terrorist attacks from right-wing militias, violent protests by leftists, retaliatory targeted attacks by anti-fascists, or other bloodshed was nearly inevitable in the election’s aftermath. Imagine of such an atmosphere had been created in the lead up to a contested Russian vote?

This is not hype.  In the writer’s area of Upper Northwest, Washington, D.C., many shops and his gym all had plywood covering their windows in anticipation of trouble on Election Day or the days following..

Again, the Greanville Post has the right of it:

If the Navalny supporters who constantly condemn Russia’s political system and leaders were really nothing other than human rights activists, their voices would be speaking up louder than ever about recent events in the United States. However, they remain silent, indicating that their motives are far more geopolitical than they are principled.

Solution?  The United States can make election day a holiday.  But, far more importantly, it can control the social media companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter which supported the seizure of the American Herald Tribune, and which manage ads and posts, often to the detriment of free speech.  That same attempt to control speech was clear in the mainstream media’s attacks on Donald Trump and Russia.  For the second election in a row, “Russia was interfering in American elections”, instead of the other way around, with U.S. media backing St. Novalny and his faceless, nameless crowd.

  1. Michael Springmann is a former U.S. State Department official having served as a diplomat in the Foreign Service with postings in Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View recounting his experiences observing officials granting travel visas to unqualified individuals. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area.

 

His Holiness.  Alexei Navalny, alleged leader of Russia’s opposition, has two claims to sanctity.  One, Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly poisoned or had him poisoned for, as the New York Times noted on September 20, 2020, “denouncing corrupt pro-Kremlin politicians during a recent trip to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. He named 18 local legislators who he said had suspiciously intimate ties to a construction industry notorious for corruption.” Two, he  has been unable or unwilling to lash out at the recent travesty of the political process in the United States the way he has at the Russian one.

Following his return to Moscow from Siberia, Novalny reportedly fell violently ill and, allegedly, might have died had the pilot not diverted the plane to Omsk.  Once there, he was hospitalized and, later, transferred to Berlin for treatment.

According to the German government, NATO member and U.S. client state, Mr. Navalny was suffering from the effects of a nerve agent in the Novichok family.  (In 2018, the British government had previously asserted that Sergei Skripal, former Russian military intelligence officer and U.K. double agent, and his daughter Yulia, were mysteriously sickened by Novichok.  Great Britain later accused Russia of attempting to murder the Skripals.)

Mirabile dictu, Navalny, like the Skripals, swiftly recovered.  He is, according to press reports, striding about Berlin with a police escort.  The New York Times article noted that Navalny’s supposed poisoning resulted from the Russian government’s fears of his stirring up trouble during elections in neighboring Belarus and in protests in Khabarovsk, a city in the Russian Far East.  Astonishingly, the Times continued with an alternative, and equally bizarre explanation:  “that Mr. Navalny’s poisoning pointed not to the strength of a ruthlessly efficient system of repression but to the weakness of a system whose response to potential threats has become so degraded that the state no longer functions as a single unit but rather as a jumble of rival clans and freelance enforcers with grudges…”

Another View.  The Greanville Post (describing itself as an independent, leftist publication) had a different take on Alexei Navalny.  Stating that Navalny was the favored transparency and anti-corruption activist of the U.S. and its allies, the journal noted that he and the American media failed to criticize numerous, disturbing election irregularities in the recently concluded 2020 general election.  (www.greanvillepost.com/2020/11/06/the-us-electoral-nightmare-discredits-anti-russian-rhetoric/)  The website questioned why only Judicial Watch (the conservative organization) had sounded the alarm–and not Novalny and his supporters.  “…353 counties in more than 29 states across the United States had voter registration rates above 100%, meaning that there were more people registered to vote than eligible voting residents.” Yet, in contrast, “4 cases of a single person attempting to vote twice in Russia’s constitutional referendum became the source of outcry just a few months earlier.”

The Greanville Post went on to say ” The phenomenon of dead people voting…has been a widely highlighted form of voting irregularity in the United States for many decades, so much so that comedians regularly bring it up as a punch line.”  Certainly, the specter of John F. Kennedy being elected in 1960 because dead men cast their ballots for him has not been forgotten.  (His father’s money paid mobsters to ensure that tombstones in Illinois voted Democratic, giving his son victory in the Electoral College.)

Donald Trump has been raising concerns about the integrity of the voting process, particularly the late mail-in ballots favoring the Democrats.  Somehow, these postal votes disproportionately backed Joe Biden the Democratic candidate for president.  This was especially apparent in major U.S. metropolitan areas, with Biden getting 80% to 90% of the vote, something you don ‘t see outside of 3rd World countries.  However, not one peep came from Novalny and his peeps about this. Yet, in Russian Caucasus districts in 2018, “independent observers” raised concerns at candidates receiving 80% to 90% of the vote.  These “concerns” were trumpeted by Navalny and his backers there and in other parts of Russia as proof of a rigged election.

The most damning comment from the Greanville Post is as follows:

The atmosphere surrounding the US elections is also worth noting. With COVID-19 restrictions still in effect, the media continued to play up the fear of rioting in response to the results. Across the country National Guard units were called up, and a heavy police presence was very visible on Nov. 3rd when the public went to vote, if they had not voted early or through the mail. Gun sales skyrocketed, and it was clear that the public was whipped up into a state of terrified anticipation. Residents were led to believe that terrorist attacks from right-wing militias, violent protests by leftists, retaliatory targeted attacks by anti-fascists, or other bloodshed was nearly inevitable in the election’s aftermath. Imagine of such an atmosphere had been created in the lead up to a contested Russian vote?

This is not hype.  In the writer’s area of Upper Northwest, Washington, D.C., many shops and his gym all had plywood covering their windows in anticipation of trouble on Election Day or the days following..

Again, the Greanville Post has the right of it:

If the Navalny supporters who constantly condemn Russia’s political system and leaders were really nothing other than human rights activists, their voices would be speaking up louder than ever about recent events in the United States. However, they remain silent, indicating that their motives are far more geopolitical than they are principled.

Solution?  The United States can make election day a holiday.  But, far more importantly, it can control the social media companies, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter which supported the seizure of the American Herald Tribune, and which manage ads and posts, often to the detriment of free speech.  That same attempt to control speech was clear in the mainstream media’s attacks on Donald Trump and Russia.  For the second election in a row, “Russia was interfering in American elections”, instead of the other way around, with U.S. media backing St. Novalny and his faceless, nameless crowd.

  1. Michael Springmann is a former U.S. State Department official having served as a diplomat in the Foreign Service with postings in Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View recounting his experiences observing officials granting travel visas to unqualified individuals. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area.