[NV Greens] [North-NV-Greens] [Fwd: Washington Is the Source of Terror]

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>03 Jun 2005
>
>Washington Is the Source of Terror
>by Paul Craig Roberts
><http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi/2005/06/03#Washington_Is_the_S>http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi/2005/06/03#Washington_Is_the_S
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>The U.S. government gave the slave trade a boost by offering money 
>for Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Afghan and Pakistani warlords 
>simply rounded up people who looked Arab or foreign and sold them to 
>the Americans as captured fighters. The "fighters" apparently 
>included relief workers, refugees and Arab businessmen. The 
>tribunals looking into the classification of Guantanamo prisoners as 
>"enemy combatants" have uncovered numerous examples of hapless 
>victims of a naive U.S. government too flush with money.
>
>The Bush administration, of course, denies that it bought its 
>detainees, as it denies everything. On May 31, 2005, however, 
>Michelle Faul of The Associated Press reported that in March 2002, 
>leaflets and broadcasts from helicopters in Afghanistan enticed 
>Afghans to "Hand over the Arabs and feed your families for a 
>lifetime."
>
>One leaflet said: "You can receive millions of dollars. This is 
>enough to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the 
>rest of your life, pay for livestock and doctors and school books 
>and housing for all your people."
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>Najeeb al-Nauimi, a former Qatar justice minister, leads a group of 
>lawyers representing 100 detainees who were sold to the naive 
>Americans. He says a consortium of wealthy Arabs are buying back 
>fellow citizens kidnapped by Pakistani gangs before they can be sold 
>to the Americans.
>
>More is going on here than merely unintended consequences of a 
>hairbrained policy. The Bush administration has proven itself to be 
>utterly irresponsible in the use of power. And it keeps demanding 
>more power, including the suspension of our civil liberties in order 
>to better fight "terrorism."
>
>Aside from Sept. 11, an event of several years ago, the only 
>terrorism the United States has experienced is the terrorism Bush 
>created by invading Iraq. Why are we worried about Osama bin Laden 
>when the moronic Bush administration is so adept at creating 
>terrorism?
>
>Notice the pattern. Bush creates terrorism and then suspends our 
>civil liberties in the name of his war on terror.
>
>The real terror Americans experience comes from their own 
>government. Indeed, consider the terror the accounting firm, Arthur 
>Anderson, and its 85,000 worldwide employees experienced as a result 
>of the gestapo tactics of federal prosecutors. Prosecutors used a 
>stupid jury and a weak-minded judge to convict an entire accounting 
>firm for the actions of the few accountants who handled the Enron 
>account.
>
>It was completely clear at the time that whereas a case existed 
>against a few individual accountants, no case existed against the 
>firm itself. Arbitrary and capricious prosecutors grabbed power. The 
>American public was so whipped up in a frenzy over Enron that it 
>didn't care whose blood was spilled.
>
>Just as someone had to pay for Sept. 11-even if it is our own troops 
>and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who had no more to do with 
>the attack than the U.S. troops who are losing their lives and 
>limbs-someone had to pay for Enron. So the prosecutors destroyed 
>Arthur Anderson, one of the top 10 companies in the world ranked by 
>market value and one of America's greatest assets.
>
>Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the conviction. The highest 
>court says Arthur Anderson was not guilty. But how do we bring 
>Arthur Anderson back to life and restore the reputations and careers 
>of its many thousands of employees? Federal prosecutors effectively 
>executed the firm and destroyed the highly valuable asset.
>
>Don't expect Bush, who admits no mistake, to make restitution for 
>the criminal actions of his U.S. Department of Justice (sic). The 
>remedy is a civil suit by all the partners and employees of Arthur 
>Anderson against the U.S. government for damages. I think $1 
>trillion is a good number. It is a figure demanded by justice. And 
>it will serve the cause of peace by bankrupting the war-mongering 
>Bush administration and applying the brake to Bush's wars of empire.
>
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand
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