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A
few weeks ago I wrote about the idea that America apparently now has a
King, not openly of course but in reality, because Monarch's were a major
part of medieval times: that for the idea of a King to have taken root in
the American government of today-seemed ridiculous.
Recently one of John Pilger's
documentaries was released on the web. This one is "The War on
Democracy" and it deals with American foreign policy, as those
polices were applied in Central and South America over the last fifty plus
years. During an interview with Duane Claridge (the head of the CIA's
Latin American Division in the early nineteen-eighties) the following
exchange takes place:
John Pilger: "What right
have you; the CIA - the United States government or any foreign power:
What right do you have to do what you do in other countries?"
Duane Claridge: "National
Security Interests."
JP: "But that's a 'Divine
Right' isn't it-because the people that you do it to have no say in
this."
DC: "Well that's just tough
- we are gonna protect ourselves and we're gonna go on protecting
ourselves, cause we end up protecting all of you. And let's not forget
that! We'll intervene whenever we decide it's in our National Security
interests to intervene-and if you don't like it-lump it!
Git used to it world, we're not
gonna put up with nonsense. If our interests are threatened we're gonna do
it!"
Of course a lot of Americans
might think that "National Security" involves a whole lot more
than just stealing other people's countries or killing anyone that does
not agree to be taken over. Real national security ought to be based on
the welfare of the entire population and not merely on the phenomenal
criminal wealth of those international elites that benefit directly from
these fascistically brutal policies.
Blind arrogance was the reason
why the world outlawed many of the policies and practices of this
administration, decades before Cheney-Bush was born. But the facts of law
and international policy have never bothered these extremists-these new
American Capitalists that have appointed themselves to rule the planet.
What this government has become, in their zeal to complete their Empire,
has taught them to use fascism to force political changes in the world:
That's the Fascism that Cheney-Bush calls 'democracy.'
With the coming of the North
American Union the White House now wants to bring the kinds of changes,
which the film clearly illustrates, to Canada and Mexico as well as to
what used to be the United States. This might prove to be much tougher
than they think.
The film covers the CIA attack
upon Chile: launched on September 11, 1973. This brutal invasion was
called a "coup d'etat" and it brought back the Inquisition -
this time to overthrow a democratically elected government. After
beginning under Pinochet as a fascist dictatorship in the seventies, Chile
was selected in the 1980's to become the new American model for conquered
nation-states. 'On the surface everything seemed 'normal'-modern,
prosperous-but life had been privatized and the rich are getting richer.'
This: thanks to Milton Friedman and his "Chicago Boys" who
restructured Chile's economy and called it "Shock Therapy."
Chile today appears to be the new model for privatization that will be
used to undercut Canada and Mexico and the USA if the NAU becomes a fact.
That's why the history matters in Pilger's film. What came to Latin
America unbidden-is about to come back to haunt the people of the 'United'
States who have profited directly from these same crimes for so many
decades.
However The War on Democracy also
shows how the USA and it's partisan institutions have been stopped in
Latin America-Big-time-on at least two occasions.
In Venezuela, in 2002 the
ordinary people rejected the American backed Coup against Chavez. They
came out from their slums in their tens of thousands and demanded the
return of their elected leader. The military changed sides to join them,
and Hugo Chavez was returned to his presidential palace.
In 2000 the people of Bolivia
fought the American company Bechtel that had privatized their water-and
the people of the streets finally won.
In 2003-those same Bolivian
people finally took back their country from the American puppet that had
been running it, when they descended in their tens of thousands from the
slums to overwhelmingly elect one of their own: Eva Morales to the
presidency. All in all this film presents us with a lot to think about, in
these times, where the new fascists are now seeking to bring their dreams
of privatization to all of North America.
If this policy were being
inflicted anywhere else, it would be pawned off on the resistant people as
just another mandatory regime-change. But if the ordinary populations of
these three nations that comprise North America, do not firmly resist this
brutal sham of privatization, then the NAU will become every bit as
subservient as Chile has been for all of the thirty-four years that they
have remained an artificially-created slave-state. (1)
There are two other massive
crimes that were used against the people of the United States: These did
not directly create the climate in which our criminal Latin American
policies were formed-but their existence undermined all the laws of this
country-because they illegally imposed taxes upon the citizens of the US
and almost simultaneously gave away our ability to print and control our
own money to a foreign consortium of international bankers. This 'Jekyll
Island deal' resulted in the illegal-creation of the Federal Reserve.
The film by Aaron Russo speaks
for itself. Aaron died yesterday, but his legacy gave the people of the
United States some critically absent facts, that we might use, to take
back much of what has been stolen from all of us. (2)
Jim Kirwan
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