Liberation Central
Using Georgia to Target Russia
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August 13, 2008 |
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THE WINNER IS: THE USA!
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Reflections by Comrade Fidel
CANNON FODDER FOR THE MARKET
Perhaps some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl's message setting Cuba's position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement.
The government of Georgia would never have launched its armed forces against the capital of the Autonomous Republic of South Ossetia in the dawn of August 8th, engaged in what it called the re-establishing of constitutional order, without previous coordination with Bush who, last month in Bucharest, committed to support President Saakashvili for Georgia's admission to NATO; that is like plunging a sharpened dagger deep into Russia's heart. Many European states that are members of that military organization are seriously concerned about the irresponsible manipulation of the nationalities issue, fraught with potential conflict, which within Great Britain itself might result in the disintegration of the United Kingdom. This is how Yugoslavia was dismantled: Tito's efforts to avoid it proved useless after his death.
What need was there to light the powder keg of the Caucasus? How often is the jug taken to the well before it shatters? Russia continues to be a strong nuclear power. It has thousands of such weapons. On the other hand, I must recall that the Western economy illegally siphoned out more than 500 billion dollars from that country. If Russia today is no longer a Communist threat and it no longer has more than 400 nuclear launching-pads directly aimed at Europe's military and strategic targets since they were dismantled after the demise of the USSR, why do they seem determined to surround it with a nuclear shield? The old continent also needs peace.
The Russian troops stationed in South Ossetia were sent there on an internationally recognized peace mission: they were not shooting wantonly.
Why did Georgia choose August 8th, at the time the Olympic Games were being opened in Beijing, to occupy Tskhinvali, the capital of the Autonomous Republic? On that day, four billion people on the entire planet were watching on television the marvelous spectacle with which China was opening those games. Only the American people could not enjoy a live broadcast of the exciting festival of friendship among all the people of the world that was staged there. The monopoly over the broadcasting rights had been bought by a television channel that had paid 900 million dollars and wanted to earn maximum commercial dividends for every minute of broadcasting time. The rival corporations got even by covering news of the war in the Caucasus since this was nobody's exclusive. The dangers of a serious conflict were threatening the world.
Bush did enjoy the spectacle as an official guest. On Sunday the 10th, two and a half days later, he could still be seen waving flags, pretending to be a champion of peace and preparing to delight in the victories of the excellent American athletes, those which his eyes, accustomed to besmirching everything, were looking upon as the symbol of the power and superiority of his empire. In his moments of leisure, he held long conversations with his officials in Washington, threatened Russia and encouraged the humiliating speeches against that country given by the representative of the United States in the UN Security Council.
Some of the countries that had made up the socialist bloc or been part of the USSR itself are today acting as United States protectorates. Their governments, driven by a reckless hatred for Russia, --such as the case of Poland and the Czech Republic-- aligned themselves in positions of absolute support for Bush and for the surprise attack on South Ossetia by Saakashvili, an adventurer with a bizarre background who was born under Socialism in Tbilisi, the capital of the country, graduated as a lawyer from a Kiev university and took postgraduate courses in Strasburg, New York and Washington. He was a practicing lawyer in New York City. He comes off as a Westernized Georgian, greedy and opportunistic. He returned to his country supported by the Yankees and then went fishing in the tempestuous river of the USSR disintegration. He was elected President of Georgia in January 2004.
Following the United States and Great Britain, that is the country with most soldiers in the Iraqi war adventure; and not precisely out of internationalist sentiment. When Cuba, throughout almost two decades, sent hundreds of thousands of combatants to fight for independence and against colonialism and apartheid in Africa, they were not seeking fuel, raw materials or capital gains: they were volunteers. Thus our steel-like principles were forged. What are Georgian soldiers doing in Iraq if not supporting a war which has cost that people hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of victims? What ideals are they defending there? It is only natural that people from South Ossetia do not wish to be sent as soldiers to fight in Iraq or in other parts of the planet at the behest of imperialism.
Saakashvili, on his own, would never have jump to the adventure of sending the Georgian army into South Ossetia, where he would be clashing with Russian troops stationed there as a peace force. A nuclear war is not something to fool around with; and providing cannon fodder to the market cannot be rewarded.
This reflection was already drafted when Bush spoke at 5:30 p.m. Cuban time. But none of what he said changes what we are analyzing here: if only the U.S. government media war is today even much more intense. It is the same prefabricated maneuver that fools no-one.
The Russians have very clearly stated that the withdrawal of the invaders to their positions prior to the conflict is the only decent solution possible. Let's hope that the Olympic Games can continue without interruption by a very serious crisis. The women's volleyball match with a good U.S. team was great and baseball has yet to begin.
Fidel Castro Ruz
August 11, 2008
6:21 p.m.
The Reality Behind Western Propaganda Regarding War In Georgia
By Damian Lataan
12/08/08 "ICH" -- - For many the war in Georgia may have seemed as though it came from nowhere; as if it just suddenly erupted without any warning. And, if one were to believe what the pro-western mainstream media are telling us, one could be forgiven for believing that it did. The US and their western allies have taken full advantage of this anomaly and turned it to their advantage for propaganda purposes. They have been busy telling the world that the Georgians have been overwhelmed by the Russian ‘bully boys’ to their north when in reality the Russians were and are merely reacting to the murderous bully boy tactics of the Georgian army and their supporting band of US and Israeli mercenary thugs that ruthlessly attacked the civilian population of south Ossetia in an effort to force them to give up their demands for autonomy.
In fact the tensions in and around Georgia, once part of the Soviet Union, have been simmering for years.
The Georgian state is made up of many ethnic groupings many of whom feel more comfortable being part of Russia than having to be subservient to Georgia. Over the years, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of present day Georgia in 1991, two regions of Georgia in particular, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, have evolved, against the wishes of the central Georgian government, into semi-autonomous regions whose status has been protected and supported by Russia. This has caused massive resentment from the Georgians who insist that these regions come entirely under Georgian control.
Every now and then the undercurrent of animosities between the Georgians and the Russians over these two regions well up to the surface and become a source of potential conflict. In the past Russia, simply by twitching a military muscle, which, if push really came to shove, could flatten Georgia in a flash, usually has seen an end to any further serious posturing by the Georgians.
As well as the existence of these animosities, the old Cold War animosities that existed between the US and her western allies and the Russians still linger on long after what most people believed was an end to the Cold War in 1991. As the War on Terrorism replaced the Cold War as a vehicle for US imperialism in its projection of hegemony into a resources-rich region of our world, so some of those resentments have re-emerged as the new political battles for increasingly diminishing resources intensify. The old East-West polarisations of the post-Second World War are actually beginning to replicate themselves almost as it was in the Cold War days. The all-important difference this time, however, is the new places where the East meets the West – and Georgia is one of those places.
Georgia has recently been making strong moves to become part of NATO and has ambitions to become part of the EU. Russia is not very keen, and, given that the US would like to put their anti-missile shield system into NATO countries to protect them from the so-called threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, understandably so, to limit the number of NATO nations it has on its doorstep. As a result of Georgian aspirations about becoming part of NATO, the Georgians have become close allies of the US and the West and also of Israel who have ties to the small but influential Jewish community in Georgia with some of those members having close links to Israel being in the Georgian government including Georgia’s Integration Minister Temur Yakobashvili.
It was because of their strong relationship with the US that the Georgians considered it safe to have another go at asserting its will over the breakaway regions in the belief that the Russians wouldn’t dare to counter any Georgian moves against South Ossetia with Russian military action and, if they did, the US and the West would immediately come to their aid in the event of a Russian backlash against Georgian moves into South Ossetia. Certainly, Georgia would not have made any such move into South Ossetia without the backing of the US. It now seems, though, that both the US and Georgia have badly misjudged the Russian reaction and the US are unable to move. If they do, it will be the first time that the US and Russia have ever directly confronted each other in face to face open warfare – and we all know where that would eventually lead. As it is, American ‘advisors’ (mercenaries), have in all likelihood been in combat with Russian troops in this conflict as have Israeli ‘instructors’ (mercenaries).
The US and, to a lesser extent, the Israelis have painted themselves into a corner. Neither can afford to upset the Russians too much because they need Russian support over their stance on Iran’s so-called nuclear weapons program. Open hostility toward Russia, a veto-wielding power in the UN Security Council, would mean the end of UN support for any moves toward a UN endorsement of further sanctions against Iran. While Israel could pre-emptively attack Iran and would get support from the US in doing so, without UN supported sanctions in place there could be no reasonable casus belli for such an attack. (With sanctions in place, Israel could always claim that sanctions aren’t working and attack anyway.)But if the UN were to deny sanctions because of a Russian veto this would be tantamount to the Russians saying it does not believe the Iranians need to have sanctions against them because they do not have a weapons program and, since nobody would know better than the Russians about what programs the Iranians do have in place, they are, after all, the main suppliers of the Iranian nuclear equipment, then bang goes any casus belli the Israelis might feel they can use.
The geo-political reality, as we can see, is a far cry from the propaganda and rhetoric the US and their western allies are trying to put out in the mainstream media. And in this day and age of blogs and the internet which is often nowadays keeping one step ahead of the mainstream media, the propaganda and rhetoric is becoming increasingly more transparent in its blatancy.
Damian Lataan is an aeronautical Engineer and Historian. http://lataan.blogspot.com/
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A Path to Peace in the Caucasus
By Mikhail Gorbachev
12/08/08 "Washington Post -- - MOSCOW -- The past week's events in South Ossetia are bound to shock and pain anyone. Already, thousands of people have died, tens of thousands have been turned into refugees, and towns and villages lie in ruins. Nothing can justify this loss of life and destruction. It is a warning to all.
The roots of this tragedy lie in the decision of Georgia's separatist leaders in 1991 to abolish South Ossetian autonomy. This turned out to be a time bomb for Georgia's territorial integrity. Each time successive Georgian leaders tried to impose their will by force -- both in South Ossetia and in Abkhazia, where the issues of autonomy are similar -- it only made the situation worse. New wounds aggravated old injuries.
Nevertheless, it was still possible to find a political solution. For some time, relative calm was maintained in South Ossetia. The peacekeeping force composed of Russians, Georgians and Ossetians fulfilled its mission, and ordinary Ossetians and Georgians, who live close to each other, found at least some common ground.
Through all these years, Russia has continued to recognize Georgia's territorial integrity. Clearly, the only way to solve the South Ossetian problem on that basis is through peaceful means. Indeed, in a civilized world, there is no other way.
The Georgian leadership flouted this key principle.
What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas. Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against "small, defenseless Georgia" is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity.
Mounting a military assault against innocents was a reckless decision whose tragic consequences, for thousands of people of different nationalities, are now clear. The Georgian leadership could do this only with the perceived support and encouragement of a much more powerful force. Georgian armed forces were trained by hundreds of U.S. instructors, and its sophisticated military equipment was bought in a number of countries. This, coupled with the promise of NATO membership, emboldened Georgian leaders into thinking that they could get away with a "blitzkrieg" in South Ossetia.
In other words, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was expecting unconditional support from the West, and the West had given him reason to think he would have it. Now that the Georgian military assault has been routed, both the Georgian government and its supporters should rethink their position.
Hostilities must cease as soon as possible, and urgent steps must be taken to help the victims -- the humanitarian catastrophe, regretfully, received very little coverage in Western media this weekend -- and to rebuild the devastated towns and villages. It is equally important to start thinking about ways to solve the underlying problem, which is among the most painful and challenging issues in the Caucasus -- a region that should be approached with the greatest care.
When the problems of South Ossetia and Abkhazia first flared up, I proposed that they be settled through a federation that would grant broad autonomy to the two republics. This idea was dismissed, particularly by the Georgians. Attitudes gradually shifted, but after last week, it will be much more difficult to strike a deal even on such a basis.
Old grievances are a heavy burden. Healing is a long process that requires patience and dialogue, with non-use of force an indispensable precondition. It took decades to bring to an end similar conflicts in Europe and elsewhere, and other long-standing issues are still smoldering. In addition to patience, this situation requires wisdom.
Small nations of the Caucasus do have a history of living together. It has been demonstrated that a lasting peace is possible, that tolerance and cooperation can create conditions for normal life and development. Nothing is more important than that.
The region's political leaders need to realize this. Instead of flexing military muscle, they should devote their efforts to building the groundwork for durable peace.
Over the past few days, some Western nations have taken positions, particularly in the U.N. Security Council, that have been far from balanced. As a result, the Security Council was not able to act effectively from the very start of this conflict. By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its "national interest," the United States made a serious blunder. Of course, peace in the Caucasus is in everyone's interest. But it is simply common sense to recognize that Russia is rooted there by common geography and centuries of history. Russia is not seeking territorial expansion, but it has legitimate interests in this region.
The international community's long-term aim could be to create a sub-regional system of security and cooperation that would make any provocation, and the very possibility of crises such as this one, impossible. Building this type of system would be challenging and could only be accomplished with the cooperation of the region's countries themselves. Nations outside the region could perhaps help, too -- but only if they take a fair and objective stance. A lesson from recent events is that geopolitical games are dangerous anywhere, not just in the Caucasus.
The writer was the last president of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and is president of the Gorbachev Foundation, a Moscow think tank. A version of this article, in Russian, will be published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper tomorrow.
© 2008 The Washington Post Company
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GEORGIA: Israeli Arms Sales Raise New Concerns
JERUSALEM, Aug 12, 2008 (IPS) - With the eruption of fighting between Russia and Georgia, Israel has found itself in an awkward position as a result of its arms sales to Georgia, caught between its friendly relations with Georgia and its fear that the continued sale of weaponry will spark Russian retribution in the form of increased arms sales to Iran and Syria. |
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| CRISTO-FASCISM AWARENESS, By June Terpstra, Ph.D. |  |  |  |
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"This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." GW Bush "God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and I struck them. And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. And now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."-- GW Bush
Onward Christian Soldiers and One Nation Under God Given the recent conference in Washington DC last month on "Islamo-Fascist terrorism" sponsored by the real terrorists, the imperialist war pimps, I again issue the call for a Christo-Fascism Awareness Week which will sponsor events, sit-ins, hollywood produced paper clip and writers projects in schools, petitions for mandated indigenous holocaust education, counter-summits and conferences on all university campus programs in the USA and around the world to raise awareness about Christo-Fascists (CF) whose centuries of terrorism, inquisitions, crusades, invasions, colonizations, and genocides have and continue to go unabated through-out the world.These important counter- imperialist terrorism events should be be appropriately held during and on the festival days chosen by Pope Julius I long ago. The day was commonly known throughout the Persian Empire, by the Romans, the Mesopotamians, and the Greeks as a festival period for various gods. The effort by the Christian Pope was one of the first of many to end established holidays and replace them with a so-called Christian holiday. This is yet another common historic pattern of the Christo-Fascists as imperial thief. They steal even the festivals (not to mention the constitutions) of natives and claim them for themselves and generations to come. The program's main focus will be on the historic oppression of women and children by the Christo-Fascists and their past and present genocides and holocausts. The goal is to educate people who have fallen under the ideological and economic control of the Christo-Fascists. The following is a list of event topics to be included: Christian Fascist Genocides Past and Present
Over 700, 000 innocent people are currently on the published list of targets. The Judeo-Christian Fascist alliance and their juntas disappear Arab and Muslim's off the streets of the USA and rendition them to remote secret sites to be tortured in a similar program to their past inquisitions. They must be stopped and students and faculty must be at the forefront of the fight against the Judeo-Christo-fascists. This is a historic fight for truth; a fight for people's lives; a fight against the media lies of their toady hegemonic news conglomerates; and a fight for the children who will be conscripted and contracted into their militaries, their secret services and mercenary militias.Historic Oppression of Women and Children The historic oppression of women is evidenced in the biblical texts of the Christo-Fascist which blames the mythical Eve for the sin of eating at a tree of knowledge! The Christo-fascist uses women as their nannies, mammies, lab rats and whores. They have committed incest against their children in countless numbers. On their plantations the Christo- Fascist men raped the African slave women to breed them like cattle. Today women and girl children are sexual objects in every ad, film, video game and TV program. Boys are molested by their priests and preachers. When the Christo-Fascist tires of the women they maybe killed, raped, humiliated or discarded into nursing homes, institutions for the insane and prisons. Our upcoming programs will include the following topics.
*Recent revelations of cases in which Catholic priests have sexually abused minors over the course of the last five decades drawing intense media scrutiny and public outrage. *The cover-ups and minimal punishments and discipline of the clergy for sexual offenses. *The significant public health problem of child sexual abuse in the Christo-Fascist controlled United States wherein the National Institute of Justice reveals that 22.3 million children between the ages of 12 and 17 years in the United States, 1.8 million were victims of a serious sexual assault/abuse. *A woman is attacked every 15 seconds in the Christo-Fascist controlled US. One third of women admitted to emergency rooms are victims of domestic violence. Every day four women die in the USA as a result of domestic violence, the euphemism for murders and assaults by husbands and boyfriends. That is approximately 1,400 women a year, according to the FBI. The number of women who have been murdered by their intimate partners is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. *Every year approximately 132,000 women report that they have been victims of rape or attempted rape, and more than half of them knew their attackers. It is estimated that two to six times that many women are raped, but do not report it. Every year 1.2 million women are forcibly raped by their current or former male partners, some more than once. *Women are 10 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate. Young women, women who are separated, divorced or single, low- income women and African-American women are disproportionately victims of assault and rape. Domestic violence rates are five times higher among families below poverty levels, and severe spouse abuse is twice as likely to be committed by unemployed men as by those working full time. *Violent juvenile offenders are four times more likely to have grown up in homes where they saw violence. Children who have witnessed violence at home are also five times more likely to commit or suffer violence when they become adults. The Christian Fascists teach their women from the time they are little girls that their bodies are filthy. They teach them that they are inferior to men and that they must obey and submit to the men. Many women and children in Christo-Fascist homes are beaten. Additionally, beyond the widespread practices of priests and ministers molesting children there are reported and documented cases among psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists that allege ritualized sexual and physical abuse of women and children in the secret societies of powerful Christian Fascists.Just the Facts One need only study the own words of the Christo-Fascists written in documents such as the papers from their War College. There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing. --Major (P) Ralph PetersOne need only ask who is invading and conquering whom; who has the greatest nuclear, chemical and biological weapons arsenals in the world; and who benefits? One need only follow the money trail and the path leading to the corporations of all the oil companies, banks, security and contracting companies. These facts will be the foundation of our upcoming educational programs. Please look for future events such as the Judeo-Christo Fascism Awareness Week which will be held during Passover. In a massive campaign to educate the public these programs will examine the invasion, occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people and the US increase in so called security aid to Israel by 25 per cent, from 2.4 to 3 billion US dollars starting next year. Source List http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/usa4_org.php http://www.childtrauma.org/CTAMATERIALS/sexual_abuse.asp http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/44_4/03_FMS.htm http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/74652.html http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm
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USA President and Vice President charged with genocide in Iraq
A satirical look at the Associated Press propaganda about the International Criminal Court's accusations and the real deal
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July 14, 2008 The People's Collective of the International Criminal Court for Liberation Central filed genocide charges Monday against the President and Vice President of the United States of America, accusing them of masterminding attempts to wipe out the people of Iraq with a campaign of murder, rape and torture. |
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Barbarism
July 3, 2008
U.S. President George W. Bush recently stated that he would be remembered for liberating 50 million people from the clutches of barbaric regimes. Bush represents a lineage of liars whose expert propaganda turns truth on its hinder for the sake of promoting the power interests which they serve.
It is time that these lies be exposed and translated for the people of the US who do not seem to understand what is being said. We hereby present this guide to understanding a few of the propaganda slogans and terms used by US politicians, puppets, pundits, and propagandists.
"Barbarians" are by definition people who destroy others with utter ruthlessness, mutilating, murdering and enslaving them. This, of course, describes the barbaric, brutal and savage regimes of the US, Britain, the Jewish settler state and Europe grabbing for control of the world.
"Civilization" means people who profess conscientious control of themselves and a reduction in violent impulses while at the same time torturing, mutilating, executing and enslaving those whose lands and resources they loot.
The "savages" are the rapacious bankers, weapons manufacturers and global corporate plunderers of the West, the very same Judaeo-Christian Crusaders who profess to be civilized and democratic.
"Liberation" means no rights or legal status for those conquered, no matter what their nationality, religion, race, or ethnic background.
"Democracy" means not rule "of, by and for the people" but the rule of the moneyed elites over the people.
"Freedom" means enslavement.
"Peace officers" are war makers.
"Rule of law" means locking up the poor.
"Pre-emptive war" means invasion, occupation, and expropriation.
The "terrorists" are the corporatocracy- sponsored military industrial complex using every tactic possible to obtain control over all coveted resources.
The real "terrorist training camps" are U.S. military boot camps.
"Homicide bombers" and "suicide bombers" are infantry men.
"Support the troops" means sacrificing your children to become trained terrorists, torturers and killers for the profit and power of bankers and industrialists.
"Interrogation" means torture.
Police "serve and protect" ...the rich.
"Law enforcement" means locking up and lynching the poor and those who won't shut up.
"Gangsters" include bankers, judges, CEO's, legislators and lobbyists.
"Globalization" means imperialism.
"Free market" means plunder and exploitation.
"Freedom of speech" means shut up or else.
"Fair and accurate" means with extreme malice and bias.
"Liberals" are fascists. "Fascists" are liberals.
"Conservatives" are for state control of everything except the rampagings of the rich.
"Neo-cons" are royalists and Zionists.
"Left" is right.
"Right" is wrong.
"Democrats and "Republicans" are Imperialists.
"We're not racist" means we are racist.
The "axis of evil" is actually the US , UK , the Zionist entity, the UN and the "International Community".
Politicians, lawyers, teachers, social workers, consultants, facilitators, advisers, bank tellers, your children, your parents, your families and just about everybody in America are being intensively pressured to turn into informers and agents. Over 2 ½ million persons are in jail, almost all of them from the lowest classes and a preponderance of them Black. Millions of paid informers, police and prison-related personnel and private- contracting gun thugs roam the country seeking their prey, while fatuous priests of all officially recognized religious denominations pray for their success and safety.
While there has been much barbarism throughout the world, the USA has emerged as the worst of all in the annals of history, presenting itself as "liberator" and harbinger of "democracy" while torturing, killing and plundering the world and exploiting and befuddling the hapless folks at home.
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| A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| Wednesday, 02 July 2008 | |
This article is from an anonymous woman now living in South Africa.
A government is empowered through the consent of the governed to serve a sacred purpose, namely, to create a bright and sustainable future for its people and a biodiverse garden of its region. This purpose is possible. If a government no longer serves its intended purpose then it is proper that each individual formally withdraw his or her consent to be ruled by that government. Through a consistent stream of actions the United States Government has proved itself to be corrupt, having turned away from serving its original purpose. The United States Government has therefore failed, and is de facto illegitimate. Consequently, all of its authorities over me are hereby removed and the United States Government is hereby disbanded in its entirety. All branches, the legislative, executive and judicial branches, including all offices and resources, political, military, informational and financial, are hereby disenfranchised and replaced by local, self-organizing, bioregional governments and currencies that promote sustainable infrastructures and demonstrably serve the principles of integrity, transparency, interdependence, consciousness and the sustainable well being of their entire ecology. Human beings carry an inalienable responsibility for choosing to whom or what they pledge their allegiance. From this moment forward I no longer pledge my allegiance to the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America. We are dissociated. I disallow that organization to legislate, adjudicate, use money, or make agreements in my name, either nationally or internationally. I hereby withdraw my franchise from the United States Government and I no longer submit myself to its authority. I hereby abandon my United States Passport as worthless, null and void because through its own actions the United States Government has invalidated itself. This document recognizes that the United States Government has Irredeemably abolished itself by no longer fulfilling its true purpose. This document announces that I take my authority back from that failed organization. The United States Government no longer has authority to represent me, tax me, detain me, question me, or in any way rule over me. It can no longer take any actions in my name. From this moment forward I take back my autonomy. I hereby declare my independence from the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America. Although I alone, without reason or circumstance, am responsible for my decision to withdraw my franchise and allegiance from the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America, I am willing to name examples of how this organization has betrayed the purpose for which it was originally created: 1. The Government of the United States of America (herein referred to as the Government) has consistently legislated in favor of a carbon-based economy that multiplies corporate profits while disregarding the increases in greenhouse gas concentrations to the point where the future of all of humanity is now seriously threatened by the consequences of global warming. 2. The Government has promoted the use of nuclear powered electric generation plants creating millions of tons of lethal nuclear waste products that can never be safely stored, and creating decommissioned power plants that remain radioactive for eternity. 3. The Government has abused its leadership position in the world by promoting fear-based military force as the international culture of America, rather than a culture of innovation, compassion, respect, and mutual support of humanity. 4. The Government over and over again, and still now is using illegal DU (Depleted Uranium) weapons and devices in direct opposition to signed United Nations agreements, degrading the United States of America to a renegade country, likely to have its leadership regime brought to war crimes trials and capitally punished. 5. The Government has promoted an unsustainable consumerism culture that multiplies corporate profits while devouring the future's natural resources and producing mountains, rivers and seas of toxic unrecyclable wastes. The consumer economy never did have a future and still the government promoted it wholeheartedly. 6. The Government has promoted covert military actions and subterfuge that includes traffic in illegal drugs, illegal weapons trade, assassinations, illegal takeovers of corporations and governments, and ruthless competition rather than intelligent cooperation or creative collaboration. 7. The Government has allowed itself to be infiltrated and corrupted by corporate and elite regimes that now direct the branches of Government to serve purposes contrary to the true and proper purpose of government. 8. The Government has turned over control of the currency of the United States of America (the original world currency) to private individuals who manipulate it for their own personal benefit rather than for the benefit of the world. 9. The Government has promoted a system of education that keeps people stupid rather than developing their innate potential and well being so they can create satisfying lives, fulfilling relationships and loving families in the 21st Century. The Government has allowed corporations and organized religions to control school curriculums, and has permitted drugs, gangs and guns to define the school experience for many children. 10. The Government has promoted economy over humanity in a value system that shamelessly sponsors injustice, inequity, and slavery, not only in America but around the world, regarding people in developing nations not as brothers and sisters but as sweatshop slaves for producing cheap clothes and the latest technological devices. 11. The Government has designed cities and towns around automobiles and roads rather than around people, cutting people off from their own community and trapping people in suburbs that are not sustainable. 12. The Government has consistently sponsored an imbalanced budget and has accrued a national debt over one trillion dollars that future generations must somehow pay back, meanwhile losing track of an additional trillion dollars. 13. The Government has greedily destroyed the future of civilization by developing an infrastructure, energy, food, housing and transportation systems relying entirely on consuming vast quantities of hydrocarbons that exist in limited supply, thus building a dangerous house of cards that will now tumble down as oil, gas and coal supplies dwindle. If half of the war budget would have been redirected towards developing renewable power for the last twenty years, the entire country would be oil free by now. 14. The Government has promoted a diet of fat-saturated fast-foods, and hormone and antibiotic saturated beef, pigs, poultry, and dairy products that endanger the health and general well being of its people, ground water and farmlands. The Government has also promoted fishing grounds to be exhausted to near extinction, and promotes deforestation and dependence on pesticides and fertilizers that undermine foreign economies but makes huge profits for corporations. 15. The Government has promoted the so-called patenting and engineering of the genetic designs of life forms to be used for the profit of corporations while endangering the future of the humanity. 16. The Government has promoted the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the general food chain for the profit of corporations while endangering the future of humanity. 17. The Government has used military force, assassination, and political manipulation to overthrow other governments as a desperate attempt to control remaining oil supplies for the purpose of maintaining the illusionary value of a world petro-dollar to assure profit for the corporations rather than assuring a bright future for the people. 18. The Government has promoted a medical establishment that profits pharmaceutical corporations and has blocked the development of less profitable but more humanistic, holistic and intuitive healing modalities. 19. The Government has persistently implemented legislation and presidential orders to override constitutional rights, and has built and staffed over 600 new prison camps across the country prepared to imprison citizens who might be regarded as the enemy of Government. These and other actions reveal that the United States Government has irredeemably abolished itself by no longer fulfilling its original and true purpose. |
Through my signature below I hereby withdraw my consent to be ruled by the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America. A sample of articles by June Terpstra
Hollow women of the hegemon
By June Terpstra
Visible token women leaders clucking sanctimoniously over “women’s rights” as bombs are being dropped on their “sisters” are examples of Western feminist “success” within the hegemon; women such as Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Mar 10, 2008, 00:39
Reform, resistance and revolution
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
I invite all allies to act now to stop the war and end imperialism. Many of us have been discussing and organizing online and offline for a long time.
May 30, 2007, 00:18
Arrested
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
On Thursday evening, March 8, International Women’s Day, I was arrested by Evanston police. This occurrence came on the heels of a controversial article I wrote for which I received hate mail and death threats.
Apr 17, 2007, 01:34
What Dick really means . . . Neocon terrorists have ambitions of empire, says Cheney
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
The US War of Terror’s ultimate aim is to establish “a stronghold for the New World Order, covering a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia -- and it wouldn’t stop there,” US Vice President Dick Cheney warned yesterday. He said the war of terror ”had ambitions of empire.”
Mar 6, 2007, 01:30
“Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”
By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
The tired old slogan “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” is being parroted once again by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Feb 21, 2007, 01:17
MANDATING INDIGENOUS HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, By June Terpstra, Ph.D.
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On yet another USA manufactured "holiday" where schools close to honor the savage conquistador, Christopher Columbus, who ushered into history the holocaust of approximately 11 million native north American "Indians" I propose a mandate for indigenous holocaust education, K-12. Like the new federal legislation introduced in congress to mandate education of the Jewish holocaust, I also propose we replace not only senior citizens arts and crafts but pre-school arts and crafts with education workshops developed to examine the denial of Indian genocide and removal; the denial of African Diaspora genocide and slavery, past and present; and, the genocide of Arabs and Muslims occurring in Palestine today. Currently being reviewed by committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act - if passed - would provide select organizations nationwide with competitive grants to be used to develop Holocaust curriculum guides as well as training for teachers. . (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=97) Never Forget A common expression of white men and women in the USA regarding their barbaric history towards Africans and Native Americans is for "them to just get over it"! The sloganeering of remembering history in order to avoid extermination, removal, kidnapping, enslaving, lynching does not apply to non-Jews. Yet the history of Europe's program of extermination of the Jews is now introduced in the US Congress to be mandated education in public schools with an official curriculum written and sponsored by Jewish historians. Mandated education on all holocausts only seems fair and right in the "democratic, truth loving land of equality". Everyone should know the history of the mass murders and removals of Native Americans and the countless Africans killed through the middle passage and their slavery and savage treatment by the Euro-Americans. The truth about all genocides should be mandated education for everyone everywhere. My students in colleges and universities in the USA typically do not know the history of the indigenous people of North America. They believe a lie told to them in the mandated public education programs that Columbus "discovered" America! They never heard of the Arawak, the Taino, the Algonquin, the Huron, or any of the tribes of the First Nation People. They are horrified to read the first source documents, the letters of Columbus, the letters of Bartolomeo Las Casas wherein the descriptions of the genocide, torture and terrorism of the natives is described. For example, upon Columbus' invasion, the Arawaks, regrettably, greeted the savage Europeans, bringing them food, water, and gifts. Columbus wrote in his log:
When Bartolomme Las Casa arrived on Hispaniola in 1508, he writes, "how "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; the soldiers took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys...they suffered and died in the mines and other labors in desperate silence, knowing not a soul in the world to whom they could turn for help...there were 60,000 people living on this island including the Indians; from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it...." (Source: Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, 1542) Most of my college students know nothing about the terrorism that led to extermination and removal of the American Indians. They are unaware of the conservative estimates that the indigenous population of the United States prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. Four centuries later, the count was reduced by 95% to 237 thousand. Students in the USA are provided with a cursory history of Euro-American genocide and slavery of African people but not to any extent that includes the hundreds of Hollywood films, after-school specials, or school projects that prioritize the Jewish holocaust. Millions of black Americans were killed during the trans-Atlantic slave trade and during their servitude. They were systematically tortured, killed and enslaved. Forty thousand slaves were transported each year to the occupied territories called colonies. These were blatant and overt acts of terrorism for political gain. Yet African Americans are consistently told to "get over" their history of slavery and genocide at the hands of Euro-Americans. Patents on Holocaust Who holds a patent on holocaust histories? Tragically, the genocides of history are a condemnation of human beings capabilities of human goodness, mercy and decency towards each other. Moreover, the victor's insanity extends to a mythical patent on the very words of holocaust and genocide, terrorism and barbarism. Those who write the definitions, histories, make the movies, and develop the propaganda claim intellectual property rights to even the words and stories as they codify their stories and erase the stories of their victims. Those who dare to use the word, "holocaust" when speaking of the genocides and the wars of terrorism against the First People of North, Central and South America; the natives of Africa in the past; and the Iraqi and Palestinians presently are accused of "anti-Semitism. Jobs are lost, tenured denied, and rendition and prison if they are a Semitic Arab. Thus, even the history of the Arab people as Semites has been erased and now only applies only to the Jews. He who writes the rules, rules. Who benefits? The conquerors, the imperialists, the state terrorists of today are US, UK and Israel. Therein resides the majority of 4% of the class who own the biggest weapons of mass destruction, the most nukes, and the control of the media and who directly benefit from which peoples stories are mandated and those whose stories are erased and denied. Today, it is the stories of the genocide and holocausts of the Iraqi and Palestinian people being erased in the corporate media of the USA. When the stories are told, they, like the indigenous peoples of Africa and North America, are painted as savages and terrorists deserving of a program of extermination. After all, if one does the crime of resistance by fighting the imperialists, one will do the time. Their story will be erased if not mandated by their advocates and lobbyists. Without a mandated history they are invisible, they do not exist. No Hollywood films for indigenous oppressed people unless it includes a white hero who tells their story and comes to rescue them in the super power's super hero fairy tale. Sankofa and Rights to Return I teach the concept of Sankofa in my classes on Race and Ethnic Relations. Sankofa is derived from the Akan people of West Africa. Sankofa literally translated means "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot." The word Sankofa is used today across the pan-African world to promote the idea that African people must go back to their roots in order to move forward. Whether oppressed or oppressor, all people must go back to their roots in order to change domination paradigm. The term Right of Return refers to the principle in international lawthat members of an ethnic or national group have a right to their lands whether through immigration and naturalization into the country that they, the destination country, or both consider to be that group's homeland independent of prior personal citizenship in that country. This belief is sometimes reflected in special consideration in a country's immigration laws (called "repatriation") which facilitates or encourages the reunion of a Diaspora or dispersed ethnic population. When will the land be returned to the indigenous of North, Central and South America, Africa, and the Middle East? When will they have a right to have what was theirs, returned? NEVER REMEMBERED History repeats itself in horrifying patterns mirroring past tragedies. During the Cold War the imperialists of the USA sponsored covert terrorism that killed millions of people. These wars were called WWIII by CIA officials. Today, the same rabid greed that fueled the Europeans of the past fuels the US, UK and Israeli imperialists today as they conduct genocidal programs similar to those of their Europeans ancestors. Replete with walls, Jim Crow separation of latrines in Iraq, no voting or land rights for Arabs, puppet regimes, and the killing of over a million men, women, and children in Iraq and Palestine, recently including a little girl with backpack at a checkpoint in Gaza, the terrorism of the super power goes unchecked and unabated. As the greedy imperialists veto healthcare for children in the USA they simultaneously give the orders to rendition, torture and terrify Arabs and Muslims all over the world. They enslave the poor with IMF debt while giving them "equal opportunities" to work in their sweatshops, oil fields, diamond, copper and gold mines. Clearly, they do not remember their genocidal history and need the Red, Black, and Brown indigenous peoples mandated education curriculum before millions more people are erased in their latest extermination program. Alan Ronkin, deputy director of the Jewish Community Relations Council says that teaching about the Holocaust is "critical to shape the next generation...Holocaust education not only teaches about the past but it also uses the lessons of the past to help shape students' decisions to become future leaders [who fight] against racism, bigotry and anti-Semitism." . (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=97) I agree, lets teach all the holocausts of history including Native American, African, and the genocide of the Arabs of Palestine and Iraq) | |
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About the website author:
June Scorza Terpstra, Ph.D. is an activist educator and university lecturer in Justice Studies, Criminal Justice and Sociology. She has founded numerous programs for homeless, abused, youth and oppressed people in the USA. She is presently teaching courses on Law and Terrorism, Social Justice, Resistance, Criminology, and Juvenile Justice. She is a former Community Research Fellow and doctoral graduate of Loyola University Chicago.
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