US Not Exempt From All Law
22 July - Last week Washington, DC was shaken by a moderate earthquake. Many persons in the federal government were dismayed by this event, since they had assumed that the US was exempt from natural law as well.
Truth-Telling About Iraq -- (sort of)
15 July 2010 -
In recent articles about “progress” in Iraq, US news media are now referring to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq as “the US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.”
That description is remarkably accurate. It was precisely the overthrow of Hussein that was the goal and purpose of the invasion. - see FS Special “Colonialism Undressed”.
There is no longer any mention in US news media of the alleged “weapons of mass destruction” that the US and Britain used to justify the invasion. And the word “topple” evokes a different cognitive and emotional reaction than the more candid term “overthrow”.
When US President George Bush declared, “Mission Accomplished” only three months into the occupation, while intense fighting still raged, many people wondered why he would make such a bravado claim. -- Actually Bush was being more honest than people thought or his advisors intended. -- The “mission” was not to protect the world from terror or to fight Al-Qaeda (who were not in Iraq). The mission that had been in US planning since the 1980s was to gain access to Iraq, without the difficult-to-control Saddam Hussein.
In US politics and business (which are the same entities) persons are paid to provide the desired “perspective” on various events. These professional word-smiths are often called “spin doctors”. Their task is to provide an interpretation that suits the government or corporate purpose, and to minimize or prevent unwanted questions. --
The “spin doctors” of the US corporate news media are now creating a new historical reality in which the US and Britain were the liberators of the Iraqi people; and no need to mention the torture or other atrocities, such as Fallujah.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The DARAJA Case Flyer
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The DARAJA Human Rights Case
Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiment / Procedures;
US-Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child, SARAH DARAJA.
http://www.FolkSense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status in Canada, to escape persecution because of his political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee the United States.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. US human rights groups remain silent about our case. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. --
The persecution that we fled continues to the very present. -- The Bush-Cheney administration used every method to keep our case from public view. Those same illegal government acts continue now under the Obama administration. -- We remain "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
The United Nations knew that we were not safe in Canada, but the Refugee Protection Officer refused to meet with us or to help in any way. The Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture refused to perform medical examinations for us. -- In 2002 the US recruited an absentee parent to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. They also used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case. -- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent. There was no custody case.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to US territory (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a fraudulent petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing -- despite the fact that none of the parties involved lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she had been taken illegally to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday. --
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene.
-- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Email House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
Contact James Daraja: FreeSince2001@hotmail.com
The DARAJA Human Rights Case
Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiment / Procedures;
US-Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child, SARAH DARAJA.
http://www.FolkSense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status in Canada, to escape persecution because of his political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee the United States.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. US human rights groups remain silent about our case. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. --
The persecution that we fled continues to the very present. -- The Bush-Cheney administration used every method to keep our case from public view. Those same illegal government acts continue now under the Obama administration. -- We remain "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
The United Nations knew that we were not safe in Canada, but the Refugee Protection Officer refused to meet with us or to help in any way. The Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture refused to perform medical examinations for us. -- In 2002 the US recruited an absentee parent to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. They also used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case. -- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent. There was no custody case.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to US territory (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a fraudulent petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing -- despite the fact that none of the parties involved lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she had been taken illegally to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday. --
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene.
-- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Email House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
Contact James Daraja: FreeSince2001@hotmail.com
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Obama: The Audacity of Hoax
“Ba-rack, go back --
We need a president!” --- Chant of the Disenchanted
Among the rapidly decreasing number of Obama supporters there is a common “explanation” for his reversal of campaign promises. It goes something like this: “Well, you know they won’t let him do …”
The people who use this “explanation” generally fall into one of two groups: 1) persons who are themselves accustomed to authoritarian presences in their own lives and identify with Obama because... "after all, he is black" or 2) those persons who simply can not bear to face the now obvious possibility that their champion is really just another political opportunist.
The idea that there is some great “They” in a position to foil Obama’s decisions runs counter to the US Constitution, and also to the political reality. Constitutionally, only Congress, the Senate, and the federal courts can erase the president’s decisions. However, in all these cases, the members of Congress, the Senate, and the judges of the federal courts have been painfully surprised by Obama’s turn-around away from his passionate campaign promises.
At the very start of the Obama presidency, his newly appointed Justice Department was in federal court to continue one of the terrorist-related cases from the Bush-Cheney administration. The case turned on the Bush-Cheney assertion that the government could keep secrets, even from the courts. On the first day of hearings under the Obama administration, the judge asked whether the government wished to “change” any of its previous positions or to offer any new proposals. Her expectation was, of course, prompted by the Obama pledge to end government secrecy. She was so surprised by the answer she received that she asked the same question three times. -- The Obama response: “No. We’ve talked with everyone and we are comfortable with the government’s present position.” - maintain the Bush-Cheney secrecy that he campaigned explicitly to end.
Both Bush and Obama allowed the banking industry to raid the US Treasury, taking taxpayer money to fill depleted bank reserves. That fact alone should have been an indicator that Obama’s true allegiance was to Power rather than the people. But it was not taken as such. Obama’s continued rhetoric, at least until the election, promised “a presidency for the people”, and “one that respects the Constitution.” Following his election, many people expected that he would, at least, try to fulfill that promise. -- Oops.
Obama has played a masterful hand of double entendre. On the one hand he claims “non-racial” Americanism; on the other he maintains the black messiah image, making speeches that stop just short of actually saying “We shall overcome”. Consequently, his largest block of unwavering support continues to be the black masses. But from Vermont to Latin America, critical questions are being raised about this New Age campaigner and Old School politician.
In Europe, where there is more than a theatrical memory of Nazism, Bush-Cheney represented an emotional as well as political reality. Europe was so relieved to be finally free of Bush-Cheney, and so eager to embrace the newly elected “Change You Can Believe In” (Obama’s campaign slogan) that they awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize -- for which he had absolutely no earned accomplishments.
The Obama reality: Under Barack Obama not even one of the Bush-Cheney “surveillance programs” has been investigated, punished, or discontinued. Over the objections of his own Attorney General (Eric Holder) and the new Director of CIA (Leon Panetta) Obama has maintained every one of the illegal programs that he promised to put an end to. Obama’s political mentor was Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut. Lieberman is so Right-wing that he lost the Democratic primary and had to become an Independent candidate so that Connecticut Republicans could help him return to Washington. Lieberman is known for advocating that the federal government do more “to establish Watch Lists”.
The Obama presidency has revealed the poverty of the US political system. It has shown that even under the most extreme circumstances the perennial Republican-versus-Democrat match can not produce truly ethical leadership, truly concerned with “We the People”.
For Obama, this is the ultimate “Visiting Professorship”. He gets to play at being President for four years, and to bask in the light of worldwide publicity. Although not as adept as Bill Clinton, Obama is certain to amass a financially significant “Presidential Library” or “Obama Foundation” by the time he finishes this adventure. -- Also certain is that the true hopes of the people and the false promises of the candidate will have left the US more cynical and less hopeful than he found them.
In retrospect it will have been Obama that did more to damage the cause of democracy in the United States than Bush-Cheney ever could. Almost everyone, both foreign and domestic, realized that Bush-Cheney were operating from an extremist position that could not stand under rational examination. Almost everyone waited for the eventual moderation of those extremist policies. Obama’s greatest qualification for the US presidency was his promise to make those alterations “on my first day in office”.
Perhaps because of his own confused biography, Obama has used his tenure in the White House to ingratiate himself with men who remind him of his grandfather. The same generals who advocated using Guantanamo to evade the Geneva Conventions are Obama’s military advisors. His obligations to the American people and to the US Constitution have been moved to the category of “necessary losses” -- if ever they actually occupied any other position.
From the perspective of the professional politician, Obama has pulled off the ultimate coup. He recognized an opportunity and took full advantage. He successfully out-maneuvered his opponents and claimed a uniquely valuable prize. Having gained his place in the history books, and having secured his place at the very top of the social ladder, Obama will depart with no clue whatever that he might have done anything wrong. FolkSense View - 2010
We need a president!” --- Chant of the Disenchanted
Among the rapidly decreasing number of Obama supporters there is a common “explanation” for his reversal of campaign promises. It goes something like this: “Well, you know they won’t let him do …”
The people who use this “explanation” generally fall into one of two groups: 1) persons who are themselves accustomed to authoritarian presences in their own lives and identify with Obama because... "after all, he is black" or 2) those persons who simply can not bear to face the now obvious possibility that their champion is really just another political opportunist.
The idea that there is some great “They” in a position to foil Obama’s decisions runs counter to the US Constitution, and also to the political reality. Constitutionally, only Congress, the Senate, and the federal courts can erase the president’s decisions. However, in all these cases, the members of Congress, the Senate, and the judges of the federal courts have been painfully surprised by Obama’s turn-around away from his passionate campaign promises.
At the very start of the Obama presidency, his newly appointed Justice Department was in federal court to continue one of the terrorist-related cases from the Bush-Cheney administration. The case turned on the Bush-Cheney assertion that the government could keep secrets, even from the courts. On the first day of hearings under the Obama administration, the judge asked whether the government wished to “change” any of its previous positions or to offer any new proposals. Her expectation was, of course, prompted by the Obama pledge to end government secrecy. She was so surprised by the answer she received that she asked the same question three times. -- The Obama response: “No. We’ve talked with everyone and we are comfortable with the government’s present position.” - maintain the Bush-Cheney secrecy that he campaigned explicitly to end.
Both Bush and Obama allowed the banking industry to raid the US Treasury, taking taxpayer money to fill depleted bank reserves. That fact alone should have been an indicator that Obama’s true allegiance was to Power rather than the people. But it was not taken as such. Obama’s continued rhetoric, at least until the election, promised “a presidency for the people”, and “one that respects the Constitution.” Following his election, many people expected that he would, at least, try to fulfill that promise. -- Oops.
Obama has played a masterful hand of double entendre. On the one hand he claims “non-racial” Americanism; on the other he maintains the black messiah image, making speeches that stop just short of actually saying “We shall overcome”. Consequently, his largest block of unwavering support continues to be the black masses. But from Vermont to Latin America, critical questions are being raised about this New Age campaigner and Old School politician.
In Europe, where there is more than a theatrical memory of Nazism, Bush-Cheney represented an emotional as well as political reality. Europe was so relieved to be finally free of Bush-Cheney, and so eager to embrace the newly elected “Change You Can Believe In” (Obama’s campaign slogan) that they awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize -- for which he had absolutely no earned accomplishments.
The Obama reality: Under Barack Obama not even one of the Bush-Cheney “surveillance programs” has been investigated, punished, or discontinued. Over the objections of his own Attorney General (Eric Holder) and the new Director of CIA (Leon Panetta) Obama has maintained every one of the illegal programs that he promised to put an end to. Obama’s political mentor was Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut. Lieberman is so Right-wing that he lost the Democratic primary and had to become an Independent candidate so that Connecticut Republicans could help him return to Washington. Lieberman is known for advocating that the federal government do more “to establish Watch Lists”.
The Obama presidency has revealed the poverty of the US political system. It has shown that even under the most extreme circumstances the perennial Republican-versus-Democrat match can not produce truly ethical leadership, truly concerned with “We the People”.
For Obama, this is the ultimate “Visiting Professorship”. He gets to play at being President for four years, and to bask in the light of worldwide publicity. Although not as adept as Bill Clinton, Obama is certain to amass a financially significant “Presidential Library” or “Obama Foundation” by the time he finishes this adventure. -- Also certain is that the true hopes of the people and the false promises of the candidate will have left the US more cynical and less hopeful than he found them.
In retrospect it will have been Obama that did more to damage the cause of democracy in the United States than Bush-Cheney ever could. Almost everyone, both foreign and domestic, realized that Bush-Cheney were operating from an extremist position that could not stand under rational examination. Almost everyone waited for the eventual moderation of those extremist policies. Obama’s greatest qualification for the US presidency was his promise to make those alterations “on my first day in office”.
Perhaps because of his own confused biography, Obama has used his tenure in the White House to ingratiate himself with men who remind him of his grandfather. The same generals who advocated using Guantanamo to evade the Geneva Conventions are Obama’s military advisors. His obligations to the American people and to the US Constitution have been moved to the category of “necessary losses” -- if ever they actually occupied any other position.
From the perspective of the professional politician, Obama has pulled off the ultimate coup. He recognized an opportunity and took full advantage. He successfully out-maneuvered his opponents and claimed a uniquely valuable prize. Having gained his place in the history books, and having secured his place at the very top of the social ladder, Obama will depart with no clue whatever that he might have done anything wrong. FolkSense View - 2010
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Bombing in Baghdad
Iraqi Resistance-Fighters Bombs Baghdad
Bomb-laden vehicles exploded in Baghdad this week. One of the explosions left a crater in the street twenty feet deep and forty feet wide. Early reports indicate that at least ninety-five (95) people were killed, and between 300 and 400 were wounded.
US soldiers have been withdrawn to bases outside the cities, and turned over much of the police patrol duties to the Iraqi military. The US hope was that the fact of having US soldiers still within easy access would discourage any return to large-scale violence by the resistance fighters. The Baghdad bombings this week show that the US hope is not secure.
The explosions targeted the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Finance. This sends a clear signal that the objective is to attack the US-installed government. It also signals an attack on the foreign financial interests that are presently keeping that government in power.
After six years of war and occupation, residents of Baghdad still lack many basic services. Electricity is available only a few hours each day. Clean water is in short supply. In many places, raw sewage still flows into the street.
Aside from the larger political issues at stake, there is also a human crisis that demands attention. The many killed and the hundreds wounded in this week’s bombing are only news statistics in the US. But in Iraq, they are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children of Iraq citizens. They are people who were part of someone’s family.
For the Iraqi people and for much of the Muslim world, the significance of this invasion and occupation can not be reduced to the simple slogans used in US television news and US government statements. -- Long after the soldiers are gone, as they eventually must be gone, the wounds of Iraqi families will remain.
Bomb-laden vehicles exploded in Baghdad this week. One of the explosions left a crater in the street twenty feet deep and forty feet wide. Early reports indicate that at least ninety-five (95) people were killed, and between 300 and 400 were wounded.
US soldiers have been withdrawn to bases outside the cities, and turned over much of the police patrol duties to the Iraqi military. The US hope was that the fact of having US soldiers still within easy access would discourage any return to large-scale violence by the resistance fighters. The Baghdad bombings this week show that the US hope is not secure.
The explosions targeted the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Finance. This sends a clear signal that the objective is to attack the US-installed government. It also signals an attack on the foreign financial interests that are presently keeping that government in power.
After six years of war and occupation, residents of Baghdad still lack many basic services. Electricity is available only a few hours each day. Clean water is in short supply. In many places, raw sewage still flows into the street.
Aside from the larger political issues at stake, there is also a human crisis that demands attention. The many killed and the hundreds wounded in this week’s bombing are only news statistics in the US. But in Iraq, they are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children of Iraq citizens. They are people who were part of someone’s family.
For the Iraqi people and for much of the Muslim world, the significance of this invasion and occupation can not be reduced to the simple slogans used in US television news and US government statements. -- Long after the soldiers are gone, as they eventually must be gone, the wounds of Iraqi families will remain.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
DARAJA CASE FLYER -- Distribute--Post
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Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiments / Procedures;
Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child to Conceal Human Rights Abuses.
The DARAJA Human Rights Case
http://www.folksense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status to escape government persecution because of political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee to Canada.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. -- It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We were and continue to be "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
In 2002 an absentee parent was recruited to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. The US used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case.
-- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to the US (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing - even though we no longer lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she was illegally taken to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday.
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene. -- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
*** Join our "Cause" on Facebook :
"Demand Hearing for the DARAJA Human Rights Case".
(under International Causes)
Share our story with others: http://www.folksense.com/
Contact: FreeSince2001@gmail.com
Set top and bottom margins at 0.75"
--------start here --------
Extra-judicial Punishment of Political Dissent;
Involuntary Medical Experiments / Procedures;
Sponsored Abduction of Refugee Child to Conceal Human Rights Abuses.
The DARAJA Human Rights Case
http://www.folksense.com/
In 2001 James Daraja and his daughter Sarah fled the US and sought the protection of Refugee Status to escape government persecution because of political dissent as a university student and professor. -- In 2002 the US government arranged the abduction of Sarah Daraja (then nine years old) to prevent their claim for Refugee Status from coming to open court, and to discredit and conceal the human rights abuses that forced them to flee to Canada.
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. -- Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. -- It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We were and continue to be "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
* The persecution that we fled in 2001 included: federal “quality-of-life disruption”, placing harmful chemicals in our home, and manipulation of our medical care. -- By 2001, medical interference had already taken the life of one family member.
In 2002 an absentee parent was recruited to carry out the abduction, and later to provide false information about Sarah’s medical history. The US used NCMEC (Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children) to issue a false report that I had fled to Canada to avoid a custody case.
-- I have been a single parent since my daughter was an infant, and her only legal custodial parent.
When we learned of the abduction plan we returned to the US (Buffalo, NY), so that the US could not deny involvement. -- Within weeks, a New York court presented a petition from Ohio (the state we had fled) to take custody of Sarah Daraja, without notice or hearing - even though we no longer lived in Ohio. They then "dismissed" the petition one week later, after she was illegally taken to yet another state, New Jersey. -- I have not seen my child since that time, five days after her ninth birthday.
Although child abduction is a federal crime, US courts and the FBI refuse to intervene. -- We remain “excluded” from the protections of civil law.
*** To help with the DARAJA Case:
Email President Barack Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact.
Demand investigation and open hearing of the DARAJA case. --
"Legitimate National Security does not require child abduction."
*** Join our "Cause" on Facebook :
"Demand Hearing for the DARAJA Human Rights Case".
(under International Causes)
Share our story with others: http://www.folksense.com/
Contact: FreeSince2001@gmail.com
Preparing To Take Iran, Again
As part of its continuing strategy to re-colonize the Middle East, the US is preparing its next attempt to re-take Iran.
Israel has already been given permission to attack Iran. The only question is when the attack will happen. That US-supported attack is supposedly about Iran's development of nuclear weapons (which Israel already has in its own arsenal).
Actually, the attack on Iran is meant to fulfill two other US goals. First, the US wants to destroy the Iranian religious leadership currently in power. It was that same leadership that effectively organized Iran to overthrown the US-installed Shah Reza Palevi in 1979. Second, the US has reasoned that attacking Iran will give it an excuse to keep US soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan - both wars that the US is currently losing to resistance fighters.
--more on this story soon --
Israel has already been given permission to attack Iran. The only question is when the attack will happen. That US-supported attack is supposedly about Iran's development of nuclear weapons (which Israel already has in its own arsenal).
Actually, the attack on Iran is meant to fulfill two other US goals. First, the US wants to destroy the Iranian religious leadership currently in power. It was that same leadership that effectively organized Iran to overthrown the US-installed Shah Reza Palevi in 1979. Second, the US has reasoned that attacking Iran will give it an excuse to keep US soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan - both wars that the US is currently losing to resistance fighters.
--more on this story soon --
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cheney's Secret Program - Not About Al Qaeda
The federal government and the US news media are busy trying to sell the idea that former Vice President Dick Cheney was secretly targeting Al Qaeda -- which is ridiculous. Everyone on the planet knew that the US was trying "to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders". There would be absolutely no reason for Cheney to have any special program to do that.
What is more reasonable and also more frightening is the likelihood that the true targets of Cheney's secret program were US citizens. The Pentagon and CIA had gone well beyond the Constitution in designing new covert programs for domestic use. It is that secret that the federal government is desperate to keep from the US public.
Cheney and the architects of the Bush Doctrine were committed to the idea that they could "exclude" persons and themselves from the Constitution. Thus, captives in Guantanamo became "enemy combatants", or persons without any legal rights whatever. That same concept was applied to domestic programs.
The federal government is tring to avoid revealing the actual scope of the "domestic surveillance program". They also need to keep the US public from discovering the "other practices" that were used by the intelligence agencies. -- These practices are well outside any common concept of surveillance. Those "other practices" are the ones Cheney needed to keep from Congress. --jd
What is more reasonable and also more frightening is the likelihood that the true targets of Cheney's secret program were US citizens. The Pentagon and CIA had gone well beyond the Constitution in designing new covert programs for domestic use. It is that secret that the federal government is desperate to keep from the US public.
Cheney and the architects of the Bush Doctrine were committed to the idea that they could "exclude" persons and themselves from the Constitution. Thus, captives in Guantanamo became "enemy combatants", or persons without any legal rights whatever. That same concept was applied to domestic programs.
The federal government is tring to avoid revealing the actual scope of the "domestic surveillance program". They also need to keep the US public from discovering the "other practices" that were used by the intelligence agencies. -- These practices are well outside any common concept of surveillance. Those "other practices" are the ones Cheney needed to keep from Congress. --jd
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