Saturday, December 20, 2014

Guilty but no Remorse

Why is John Kiriakou still in jail?  He revealed the CIA torture program in 2007.  Why did members of Congress do nothing then when the full extent of American barbarism could had been revealed.

Chelsea Manning, is in jail.
Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are in exile.
Thomas Drake of NSA plea bargained
Sibil Edmonds
Col. Ann Wright can't fly out of the US.
jesselyn Radack. Lawyer for Government Accountability Project

Not an isolated incidence of barbarism.

"The US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."  Martin  Luther King" 4/4/1967.
"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America remains without rival."  Frederick Douglas. 1852
     A small group of Representatives in fhe U.S. Congress decided to acknowledge that the U.S. government had regularly tortured people.  It's likely that very little useful information had been gained from those acts of inhumanity.
       Congress and the bureaucracies have no regrets, other than being exposed as barbaric hypocrites.  If they actually regretted those hideous acts, they would have released all jailed whistleblowers immediately and celebrated than as heroes, as the good guys.  They would have dropped charges against those in exile, such as Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.  They would have reinstated those who lost their jobs, and given them full back pay.  They would give restitution of at least $100 million each to all who were adversely affectd by the punishments.  The money would come from the CIA budget.
       The torture incidents were not rare deviations.  Extrajudicial murders and punishments are common in the U.S.  Several incidents of mistaken Black youth killings by police have come to light.  
       Obama's extrajudicial drone murders show he is as sociopathic as Bush and psychopathic as Cheney.    
       This entire Sept. 11 incident could have been avoided if Reagan had not funded, trained and armed Al Qaeda, GHW Bush had not manipulated the installation of US bases in Saudi Arabia, Clinton or Bush had removed bases from Saudi Arabia.

Americans are inherently criminal and evil.  The justice system is founded on the precept that only the threat of harsh punishment will deter criminal acts in the US.  Thus the world's largest prison system is in the US.  No.  Shame is not punishment in the US as Republicans and democrats are proposing.  It's a badge of honor.  Bush, Cheney and their war criminal accomplices must face the full extent of the law, something they never gave over 1 million of their Iraqi victims.




Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A New Nuremberg Tribunal for torturers

A new Nuremberg Tribunal?  The USA was part of the group of victors that self righteously set up tribunals at the end of World War II to try war crimes.  It was done publicly, contrary to the desires of everyone but the U.S., to show the world that the Allies were defenders of justice.  Even though the accused were subjects of dictatorships, "I was just following orders" was not accepted as an excuse for leniency.  Th lowliest soldier should be able to distinguish right from wrong.  Today, our war criminals are claiming the absurd excuse that the lawyers said it was okay.  It is no time for leniency today either.
       It's time for a new Tribunal that should be called the Baghdad Tribunal.  Benjamin Ferencz was a judge at the Nuremberg trials.  He would be the ideal chief judge of the Baghdad Tribunals.  All other judges should be from non-American, non-European nations.  Judge Ferencz wrote shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that it was a blatant act of aggression.  At the Nuremberg Tribunals, aggression was the supreme charge that could be levied against someone.
       America has trotted around the globe since WW II, with a holier-than-thou attitude, slaughtering people and committing crimes at least as hideous as any perpetrated by the Germans or Japanese.  Its behavior is more animal than human.  It is a nation of 1st century savages living in the 21st century.  The claim of "American exceptionalism" we now know means exceptionally cruel and evil.  In fact it always did.  A famous America once observed:
        For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy,
        America remains without a rival. 
                     Frederick Douglas,  July 4, 1852
        More than one and one-half centuries later, the Bush Administration proved Frederick Douglas's observation is just as valid.
       Justice will not come from any American institution.  The U.S. does not have a justice system in reality because its citizens in general and leaders in particular can't grasp the justice concept.  CIA employee John Kiriakou revealed in 2007 that his organization was torturing people.  Why did members of Congress do nothing?  Why was Kiriakou sent to prison where he remains today?  American justice always has been just one form or another of a racist, class-based, jingoistic lynch mob.
       The USA refuses to become a signatory to the International Criminal Court for obvious reasons, so that option is out of the question.  Only a Nuremberg style tribunal with detention and capital authority is appropriate for this situation.

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

The Complete History of the U.S.: Past, Present and Future

The Complete History of the United States:
Past, Present and Future
In Seven Pages

By Taggat

The United States was founded and built on the genocide of one race and the enslavement of another.   It was and is based on the idea that some people are more valuable than others, and some are of no value.  Once it's accepted that some are less valuable than you are, you are accepting the idea that you are less valuable than someone else.
In 1808, the United States was shamed into terminating it's trains-Atlantic slave trade. The British led the abolition movement to the extent of using the Royal Navy to capture slave ships.  In 1833, it passed the Slavery Abolition Act outlawing slavery altogether.  However, it recognized "apprentices" who were shaves in reality.  In the U.S., the last known slave ship delivery was made in Alabama in 1859.  It took a bloody civil war over states' rights to partially end slavery.  Then a Constitutional Amendment ended it legally, but not in reality.
The end of slavery cut the foundation out from under the wealth pyramid.  For a wealthy nobility to exist, there needed to be a slave class.   The economic theory of capitalism filled that vacuum.  It provided a way to create a slave class that did not know it was enslaved.
Capitalism also provided a disguise for the noble class.  The corporation married the plantation.  Then Supreme Court cases such as Santa Clara County vs Southern Pacific Railroad in 1884 gave personhood to the corporations.  The corporation noble was born.  The plantation master was back.  The Plantacorp bastard had been created from the unholy coupling.
There was a problem with highly imperfect workers.  Slaves had been selectively bred for greater strength to work harder.  That became necessary after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was banned.  The slaves became superior physically, mentally and morally.  It was imperative that they be kept ignorant, so they were kept out of schools and forbidden to read.  It was desirable to keep them so poor they must resort to crime to survive.  It was advantageous to keep them addicted to alcohol and drugs so they could not rise to power as mentally superior groups normally do.
The white race needed to be improved.  In 1890, the U.S. implemented a plan to sterilize the low-intelligence white people.  Thus began three decades of eugenics.  Over 70,000 people were sterilized.  That plan was terminated when the assembly line was developed.  The idea remained in high favor.  It continued in subterfuge in the U.S., mostly against Negroes.  Idiocy still is a dominant trait among whites, and mixed with a beast ferocity provides a ruthless savagery necessary to conquer the world.
Restoring slavery has been a brutal and bloody process now that it is applied to most Americans.  Capitalism inherently is self-destructive.  It reveres greed and gluttony.  It eats its own young.  It gorges until it bursts.  Unregulated, as it was in the 19th century, it boomed for a few years, then went bust.  Through bankruptcy and outright government welfare, the corporations dump their debt and mistakes.  The government pumps renewed life back into them and, like the Phoenix, they rise from their ashes and resume their mistakes, voracious growth, plunder and destruction cycle creating a new bubble that ultimately bursts.
A few people were able to perceive the fraud and oppose it.  The most successful of these were labor unions.  The Industrial Workers of the World was the most determined and relentless of these.  Not only did its members oppose the Plantacorps, but they advocated for total equality among races and sexes.  The resistance grew to such great strengths that the government in the form of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft inaugurated a trust busting plan to curtail the expansion of Plantacorp power and its reckless, destructive practices.
The reaction from the Plantacorps was swift.  The previously competitive, even cutthroat predators banded together.  They employed the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) to remove all threats to their assumed entitlements to steal, enslave and plunder.  During the administration of Woodrow Wilson, they changed the antislavery Republican party of Abraham Lincoln into the pro-exploitation Republican Party of Herbert Hoover.  Now the Plantacorps had two parties.
Most importantly, NAM and ICC discovered the value of public relations.  Discoveries by Sigmund Freud about the workings and potential manipulations of the mind promised to provide long-term solutions to the problem of outside interferences with the depredations of the Plantacorps' economic and social systems.  With the new public relations tools, most people could be convinced to demand their own enslavement.
A war was raging in Europe, and President  Wilson wanted to be a part of it.  He established the Committee on Public Information (CPI) to convince the American people that they should join in the madness. The Committee employed the foremost experts on public relations including Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, and Walter Lippmann, a stellar figure in the media.  Most Americans subscribed to the philosophy of "No foreign entanglements."  The job of the CPI was to reverse that sentiment.
Critics were silenced with weapons such as the Alien and Sedition Act.  Opposing the slaughter of one's fellow human beings became a crime.  Minds were warped to turn neighbor against neighbor.  Soon, President Wilson got his wish.  Americans marched off to suffer horrible war conditions and die hideous deaths from the new weapons that had been deployed.  In return, they got nothing.
That war was a war of attrition.  Each side wanted to prove it was willing to sacrifice more of it's people and resources than the other side was.  When the United States entered the war, that balance suddenly tilted heavily against Germany and its allies.  The United States had unlimited resources.  Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany decided his side could not win and sued for peace.  He paid dearly for that, perhaps the only, sane act of the war.  The victors levied heavy, budget breaking reparations on the loser.  That guaranteed a resumption of the war at some future date.  Then they divided up the Middle East so that it would never be united again and inhibit Western nations from helping themselves to all that oil.
President Wilson was rewarded with The League of Nations he had championed.  He promised it would prevent war from that day on.  WW I would be the war that ended all wars.
Meanwhile, the Plantacorps had regained their former strengths and then some.  They grew bigger and bigger.  If some nation had a valuable cash crop, they took it by one or two of many tactics ranging from bribery and extortion to murderous invasion.  Profits justified any act or crime in the Plantacorp mind.
Profit gorged Plantacorps can't see the paths they are on due to their immense bellies.  Eventually, they walk over a cliff and fall to their dooms.  The path they chose at that time was called "trickle down economics."   That was a foolproof theory, they claimed.  Just pour enough money into the hands of the rich, the biggest spenders, and it will trickle down to the lower classes making them richer.
The next doom came in 1929 when the trickling spout had jammed up and the stock market came tumbling down.
In the 1930s, the Department of Education asked NAM what qualifications did industry want from a school graduate.  NAM answered: "We want a worker who is dumb as an ox."  The education systems complied.  Walter Lippmann called the American people a "bewildered herd."  Now they would be a stampeding, bewildered herd.
The economic crash of 1929 resulted from nearly a decade of "trickle down" economics.  The hardship that followed was called the "great depression."  Formerly, the worst economic collapses were called recessions.  Since that word carried a highly negative connotation, a new term was needed, according to the new public relations experts.  Little things like words have big impacts on the slow mind.
Obviously, capitalism did not work.  A new economic system was needed.  Socialism and Communism were the most promising alternatives.  Russia was experimenting with the latter.  Several European nations were trying varying degrees of the former.  Some like German NAZIs included the name but not the precepts.  Italy combined capitalism and state socialism and called it Fascism.
World War II was the logical result of the confusion.  That was a   necessary socialism as governments geared up to fund war industries.  The trickle down economics theory did not work.  Nor did the League of Nations and its promise to end all wars.
The numerous failures of the new Republican Party led to its ouster in 1932.  It took three generations, 62 years, to dumb down the American people enough to entrust the keys to the Treasury to the Republicans again.
The Plantacorp string of reversals slowed after World War II as the fears of war that galvanize the herd into a cohesive defensive unit began to dissipate.  Public relations advised a strategy of tension to reactivate those fears.  The Plantcorps instigated a war in Korea followed immediately by one in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was intended to show the world that there is no act so hideous, vile, ruthless or savage that the U.S. would not do it.  The Vietnam War was intended to warn the nations of the world never to oppose any demand made by the U.S., especially its Plantacorps.  The Vietnam War was intended to show the world that the Nazis were defeated but not their ideas and goals.  The Nazis had just moved their command center to Washington DC.  Their name for it was "Operation Paperclip."
In reality, the NAZI relocation to Washington DC was a homecoming.  It was born in the United States.  It was the product of a witch's brew of a genocide of nearly 17 million Native Americans, eugenics of 70,000 morons and the perfection of public relations.  Germans found the infant in the 1920s and 1930s, nourished it to adulthood, used it for their evil ends, then, in the late 1940s, returned it to its birthplace where it has thrived since.
Unfortunately for the Plantcorps, there were some who were willing to risk being Vietnamized.  Those daring elements were inside the belly of the Plantcorp beast itself.  Public relations were not foolproof yet.
The Plantcorps launched an all-out counter attack.  There was elevated police repression and economic attacks and retaliation against individuals and groups who rejected total submission.  At the macro level, there was a long range plan for a class war Armageddon.
Then, the National Association of Manufacturers moved its headquarters from New York to Washington DC.  In New York, it disciplined businesses to cooperate and the media to adhere to the Plantacorp party line.  It had put the grass roots in order.  In Washington, it would concentrate on trimming the tree tops.
The United States went off the gold standard.  Those pieces of paper called dollar bills no longer had precious metals behind them.  Behind them now was only the full faith and credit of the United States.  Something we dare not look into.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) was conceived.  The Bretton Woods agreements establishing world economic guidelines at the end of World War II had no teeth, no punitive actions sufficient to deter those who chose not to abide by them.  The WTO would provide harsh repercussions against those who acted in ways that jeopardized Plantcorps profits, real or anticipated.  The first planning round would be held in Uruguay in 1972.  It was super secret and uneventful.  Seattle, Washington won the award of host city for the second round of the WTO.  It had been in effect nearly three decades.  It's powers and missions now were better known.  It met with fierce opposition, confrontations in the streets, businesses burned down or looted or both.  Scheduled for five days of meetings, it closed down on the third day.
Judge Lewis Powell, later Supreme Court Justice, wrote a memorandum for the Chamber of Commerce declaring the need to take action against trends such as criticism from the media, campus-based protests and consumer and environmental laws that restrained Plantacorp  goals.  Publicly, conservatives were railing against judicial activism.  Privately, they were urging more of it.
What do all these events have in common?  All occurred in 1971.  The "go" year for the grand global plan was 1971.  They represented the Plantacorps' final drive to establish a Plantacorp nobility whose interests always would supersede those of people.  Most importantly, the Plantacorps' goals were beyond national.  They now were global.  Using the treaty provisions of Article VI of the Constitution, and transnational organizations like the WTO, they would have legal grounds to dilute democracy further and empower the Plantacorp nobility.  It would expand voluntarily or militarily until there was one economic global power.  Nation states would cease to exist.  This is the natural evolution and progression of civilized society, the advocates convinced themselves.   Francis Fukuyama, the chronicler for the Neo-Conservatives, summed it up in his book The End of History, (1989).  "There is no alternative," he declared.  The maxim became an acronym, TINA.  Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of England, never tired of using it.  Reagan promoted the concept saying a global economy is a stoppable.  Once people are convinced it is inevitable, the Plantacorp objectives would be easy to achieve.
The global government concept first set down solid roots in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected (installed) in the White House through clever manipulations and outright election thefts.  The jovial dunce never grasped what he was doing, but played the role well even for a second rate actor.  He once read the wrong speech from a Teleprompter and never realized it didn't apply to his audience.  The Communist Party claims Reagan attempted to join that organization back in his youth when he supported unions and was the chairman of the Screen Actors Guild.  The Communist Party found him to be too scatter brained, and rejected his bid for membership.  He was good enough to be president of the United
States, but not good enough robe a member of the Communist Party.  So he became its worst enemy, as well as the worst enemy of the U.S.
By the time Reagan took office, the media and educational systems had been so thoroughly controlled and manipulated that the average American was functioning at a three-year-old mental, moral and maturity level.  Reagan was very popular.  He resolutely vowed to balance the budget.  He set off a debt avalanche that has been growing ever greater ever since.  Reagan promised to cut taxes then passed the largest tax increase in history.
One of the greatest scams ever pulled on the American people was hatched by Alan Greenspan in 1983 and promoted by Reagan, who probably could not understand its devious nature, but would have approved it if he did because it robbed the working poor and middle classes.  It involved an increase in Social Security of nearly 50%.  Those lower two classes pay Social Security on every dollar they earn.  The Treasury would get this money which has accumulated to nearly $3 trillion now, and give Treasury financial instruments to Social Security.  On the books, Social Security would appear to have a surplus and the budget would appear to have a lower deficit.  In reality, those Treasury instruments would be redeemed from general tax revenues.  Thus, the workers who had the money deducted from their pay checks would be responsible for replacing their own deductions.  Thus, they were robbed twice, and most of them voted for Reagan twice.  The three-year-old American goal has been achieved.
Today, several world trade agreements are in effect, and more are on the way.  With each one, individuals become more powerless and move one more step toward total slavery.  The global Plantacorp nobility becomes more powerful, more remote, more ruthless, more heartless and more lethal.  Every person has a dollar value.  Some of those values are in the negative zone.  Upon maturity of the Plantacorp, most people will have a negative dollar value.  Most peoples' lives will have the importance of a Thanksgiving turkey.
There is one chance to alter the Plantacorp path to total slavery.  Abolish all interstate and international business institutions and mechanisms including the corporate charter.  Replace our horse-and-buggy Constitution with a Space Age parliamentary Constitution including instant runoff balloting and proportional representation.