Re: [iwar] [fc:Bush's.Bizarro.World] Just add Ashcoft and stir

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Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Bush's.Bizarro.World] Just add Ashcoft and stir
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It sounds like Jr. Bush, with the assistance of his"plucky pal" John Ashcroft want to add another "law by fiat"-AKA ruling by George and John that the US should have a law which jails folks for "counter-revolutionary activities". If it shuts up all of those folks in China and Russia who see their governments doing wacky things, it will be great for us.  We can kick around anyone who does not agree with us.  Who ever  claimed that a country which has been a democracy a over 200 years, could not be "buttoned up a little".  The disconcerting the thing is-they are not that far from it today.
May these guys never take their jobs seriously. Mr. Ashcroft as the AG of Missouri was still fighting to keep schools segregated in his state well into the 1980's.  Frightening thought!a 
 
 Fred Cohen wrote:Bush's Bizarro World
by Wayne Madsen

Superman comic book fans will fondly recall the topsy-turvy Bizarro
world, a planet shaped like a cube where everything happened backwards
and nothing made any sense.  Welcome now to the Bush world, where the
revered Dalai Lama of Tibet may now be branded by the United States as a
"fellow traveler" of terrorists or, worse yet, an "enemy combatant."

On August 27, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a shadowy
ex-Special Forces officer who has been linked to everything from heroin
smuggling in Burma's Golden Triangle to smuggling weapons to the Iranian
regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, met with senior Chinese officials in
Beijing.  According to Reuters, Armitage, representing the world's
second largest totalitarian regime, told the leadership of the world's
largest one that the State Department had added a new group to its list
of foreign terrorist organizations: the movement seeking independence
for western China's Sinkiang region, an area that Chinese Uighur
(pronounced "wee-ger") Muslims regard as East Turkestan or Uighurstan. 

The only problem with this designation, obviously designed to please the
Chinese regime prior to the upcoming October summit in Washington
between Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao and President Bush, is that the
new "terrorist group" is a member of the same non-government
organization as the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile, the
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), officially
recognized by the United Nations as an international human rights
organization.  UNPO has its headquarters on Eisenhowerlaan (named for a
notorious fifties "pinko" U.S.  President) in The Hague and regional
headquarters in Washington, DC and Tartu, Estonia.  In fact, Erkin
Alptekin, East Turkestan's exiled leader serves as Secretary General of
UNPO, and thus, represents the Dalai Lama and other ethnic and tribal
leaders of 52 members of the organization.  The Director General of
UNPO, hardly a terrorist, is Karl von Habsburg of the former
Austro-Hungarian royal family.  Last September 12, Alptekin, America's
newest "terrorist," stated in a letter to President Bush, "UNPO is
greatly shocked and saddened by the immense destruction, injury, and
loss of life which have occurred in New York, Washington DC and
elsewhere in the United States, as a result of deadly acts of
terrorism." But now Alptekin's movement has been tossed into the same
category as Al Qaeda and Hamas and its Tibetan and Chechen allies now
risk similar treatment at the hands of a U.S.  administration that could
be legitimately ruled by any psychiatrist as clinically insane. 

East Turkestan is represented internationally by a number of
organizations, now being linked by Armitage to terrorism.  They include
the Eastern Turkestan National Congress, based in Munich, Germany, and
affiliated groups in Istanbul, Turkey; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Almaty,
Kazakhstan; and New York.  With Armitage's announcement, all these
Uighur groups face sanctions and deportation. 

Under the terms of the USA Patriot Act and other U.S.  criminal
statutes, the State Department's arbitrary designation of a group as a
"foreign terrorist organization" has severe ramifications.  People who
contribute to such organizations and financial institutions who handle
transactions for such organizations can face criminal prosecution. 
Anyone who contributes money, lodging, expert assistance, transportation
or other "material support" to such organizations can face long prison
terms and seizure of their assets.  Resident aliens in the United States
can be deported, or worse, be declared enemy combatants and wind up on a
one-way flight to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  In fact, this writer once
contributed money to UNPO. 

Last October, UNPO foresaw moves against it like the one announced by
Armitage in Beijing.  It stated in a press release: "UNPO is committed
towards promoting the legitimate aspirations of its Members through
non-violent programs and solutions.  However, we strongly believe that
renewed restrictive and repressive measures, including the use of force
against people striving to preserve their distinct identity and protect
their right to self-determination, will, and have served no other
purpose than endangering fundamental freedoms, destabilizing society,
and perpetuating violence .  .  .  UNPO furthermore strongly condemns
any such action being deliberately disguised under the pretext of the
need for legitimate measures against terrorist groups.  There are many
notable examples where these same governments in the past, unequivocally
supported so- called freedom fighters striving for self-determination,
while they are now practicing double standards against Chechens,
Uighurs, Tibetans, and other UNPO Members seeking the same freedoms."

As has already been seen with the illegal detentions of foreigners and
U.S.  citizens by the Ashcroft Justice Department and the seizure of
files and assets from various organizations and associations, it does
not take much for the feds to train their sights on any organization
over which they get gas pains and nervous tics, regardless of any hard
evidence.  In Bush's binary Bizarro world of "If you're not with me,
you're against me," just the mere appearance of disloyalty or opposition
to the grand scheme of his administration's corporate puppet masters
will earn someone or some group a penetrating spotlight by dozens of law
enforcement and intelligence agencies. 

UNPO's web site states: "UNPO offers an international forum for occupied
nations, indigenous peoples, minorities, and even oppressed majorities
who currently struggle to regain their lost countries, preserve their
cultural identities, protect their basic human and economic rights and
safeguard the natural environment."

Considering the fact that Bush boycotted the World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg, it appears that the "protection of basic
human and economic rights" and safeguarding "the natural environment" is
what has put a bee in the bonnet of people like Armitage and other
corporate shills in the administration.  Before his job at State,
Armitage headed the &lt;U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.  His raison
d'etre was and remains - oil, the mainstay of Azerbaijan's economy. 
Many of UNPO's members are at the front lines of fighting exploitative
multinational companies over land and water rights.  And this is what
places them in danger of being branded "terrorists." Just a brief
overview of UNPO membership illustrates the battle lines: Muslims in
Aceh province in northwest Sumatra are battling Indonesian army forces
fronting for Exxon Mobil, which has extensive installations in the
province.  The United States is considering resuming military aid to
Indonesia to put down that rebellion and another involving UNPO member
West Papua, an illegally annexed province fighting Indonesia and the
U.S.  mining company Freeport McMoran for control of its copper and
other natural resources.  UNPO member Cabinda, an Angolan enclave
fighting for independence against Angola, is now being attacked by U.S. 
mercenaries in the pay of oil companies like Chevron, on whose board
Condoleezza Rice once sat. 

Even native Americans are no longer safe from renewed Federal
subjugation.  One of the members of UNPO is the Sioux Lakota Nation, the
scene of past bloody battles between encroaching Federal troops and FBI
agent and the Sioux.  With a mere stroke of a pen, the State Department
can label the Lakota Sioux or native Hawaiians as linked to "terrorists"
in East Turkestan, Chechnya, or Burma (Myanmar) - and they can have
their assets frozen and their leadership tossed into jails or large
capacity "detention centers" now being advanced by two Bush appointees
on the U.S.  Civil Rights Commission. 

Bush's war against minorities and downtrodden people everywhere is a
true act of evil.  He has become what he blathers on and on about when
referring to al Qaeda and Sadaam Hussein .  It can only be hoped that
Secretary of State Colin Powell will rein in his underlings and caution
them against future excesses.  If he is unable or unwilling to do so, he
owes it to his nation and its Constitution to resign from his office. 

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and
columnist.  He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. 

Madsen can be reached at: <a
href="mailto:WMadsen777@aol.com?Subject=Re:%20(ai)%20Bush's%20Bizarro%20World%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;003a01c24fd7$185ff520$3908ba3f@oemcomputer">WMadsen777@aol.com</a>

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href="http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen0829.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen0829.html>

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