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Subject: Failed States Funnies (We can bomb and torture
ourselves...)-- Paul Craig Roberts
Date: Oct 22, 2009 6:07 AM
Failed States:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts276.html
(ARTICLE BELOW)
Gonzales Torture Rule re Failed States:
http://www.lawofwar.org/Torture_Memos_analysis.htm
The Alberto Gonzales Memo January 25, 2002
"On January 25, 2002, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales sent a
Memorandum to President Bush regarding a presidential decision on
January 18, 2002, (the White House has issued an Order to that effect,
dated February 7, 2002, see below) that captured members of the
Taliban were not protected under the Geneva POW Convention ("GPW"), to
which the legal advisor to the Secretary of State had objected. He
advised that "there are reasonable grounds for you to conclude that
GPW [the ] does not apply ...to the conflict with the Taliban." Mr.
Gonzales argued that grounds for the determination might include:
"1) a determination that Afghanistan was a failed state "...because
the Taliban ***did not exercise full control over the territory and
people,*** was not recognized by the international community, and
***was not capable of fulfilling its international obligations"***
(see definition of statehood in Cpt. 1.3 and discussion in Kadic v.
Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232, 244 to 245 (2nd Cir, 1995) ) and/or
"2) a "determination that the Taliban and its forces were, in fact,
***not a government but a militant, terrorist-like group."***
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"Not a government" (no one competent
to do their government jobs, like
the NIH, NIAID, CDC and FDA, not
to mention "elected representatives,"
like James Amann, who get in the way
of scientific medical progress because
that's his full time job:
http://www.actionlyme.org/MARTIN_NINDS_MS_CHRONIC_LYME.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
Check
"Does not exercise full control over
people/ Is not a government, but a
terrorist, militant-like group:"
False arrests, perjury, stealing the
CT AG's mail off of his desk, defrauding
the self-alleged courts:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GAUVIN_DEATH_PENALTY.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/BLUMENTHALS_MAIL_STOLEN_BY_JESSICA_GAUVIN.htm
Malpractice, Medical/Scientific
Fraud, False Claims, and Negligent Homicide
still unprosecuted:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYME_DISEASE.htm
The Abduction and Torture of Children
of Whistleblowers and other dot guvver crimes:
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
"10) “Mr. Maris Time Outs” (Military Type Torture). The children
described to their mother, MEREDITH INKEL of being forced to remain
frozen in a skiing position with hands out as a punishment, per the
orders of a “MR. MARIS,” apparently ANDERSON’S male acquaintance.
Three, four, and five year old children tend to know nothing about
“forced stress positions,” despite the Abu Ghraib, Bahgram Air Base,
and Guantanamo expressions of America’s moral and intellectual
“supremacy” and appreciation for human rights."
http://www.actionlyme.org/INKEL_MOTION_APPEARANCE.htm
Phil Inkel, the parent of these tortured
children was beaten by police and then
he was ordered killed (this was on TV):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazwE8CWN0o&feature=related
Witness and Co-Victim with Phil Inkel
was stabbed 13 times by a cop-ordered hit man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE7Cjh6T5qw
Stabbed ^^^ 13 times by police-hired thug.
Denial of illness and treatment, and instead
false arrest and thrown in jail accused
of being a terrorist:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/PENISBITERDOCS.htm
Police Thugs perform brutality and false
arrests at Republican Convention (Amy Goodman).
The police and dot guv employees
co-participate in the torture of
sick people or police brutality
victims, meaning the thugs have
full control over the citizenry
in EVERY ASPECT of LIFE:
Kidnapping without cause,
Physical beatings and torture,
False imprisonments,
Denial of Medical Care,
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
Denial of access to the self-alleged courts,
and Denial of the Right to Assemble
The victims of government crimes and
incompetence are brutalized and tortured
and even their children are tortured,
just like Iraq under American control.
Yep. America is a failed state.
Undeniably.
And I didn't even mention what the
banksters did to us,... with respect to
what Chris Dodd's job was all along?
ROTFLMAO
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
==========================http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts276.html
US Joins Ranks of Failed States
by Paul Craig Roberts
by Paul Craig Roberts
Recently by Paul Craig Roberts: Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
The US has every characteristic of a failed state.
The US government’s current operating budget is dependent on foreign
financing and money creation.
Too politically weak to be able to advance its interests through
diplomacy, the US relies on terrorism and military aggression.
Costs are out of control, and priorities are skewed in the interest of
rich organized interest groups at the expense of the vast majority of
citizens. For example, war at all cost, which enriches the armaments
industry, the officer corps and the financial firms that handle the
war’s financing, takes precedence over the needs of American citizens.
There is no money to provide the uninsured with health care, but
Pentagon officials have told the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
in the House that every gallon of gasoline delivered to US troops in
Afghanistan costs American taxpayers $400.
"It is a number that we were not aware of and it is worrisome," said
Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the subcommittee.
According to reports, the US Marines in Afghanistan use 800,000
gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that comes to a
$320,000,000 daily fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country
totally out of control would squander resources in this way.
While the US government squanders $400 per gallon of gasoline in order
to kill women and children in Afghanistan, many millions of Americans
have lost their jobs and their homes and are experiencing the kind of
misery that is the daily life of poor third-world peoples. Americans
are living in their cars and in public parks. America’s cities, towns,
and states are suffering from the costs of economic dislocations and
the reduction in tax revenues from the economy’s decline. Yet, Obama
has sent more troops to Afghanistan, a country half way around the
world that is not a threat to America.
It costs $750,000 per year for each soldier we have in Afghanistan.
The soldiers, who are at risk of life and limb, are paid a pittance,
but all of the privatized services to the military are rolling in
excess profits. One of the great frauds perpetuated on the American
people was the privatization of services that the US military
traditionally performed for itself. "Our" elected leaders could not
resist any opportunity to create at taxpayers’ expense private wealth
that could be recycled to politicians in campaign contributions.
Republicans and Democrats on the take from the private insurance
companies maintain that the US cannot afford to provide Americans with
health care and that cuts must be made even in Social Security and
Medicare. So how can the US afford bankrupting wars, much less totally
pointless wars that serve no American interest?
The enormous scale of foreign borrowing and money creation necessary
to finance Washington’s wars are sending the dollar to historic lows.
The dollar has even experienced large declines relative to currencies
of third-world countries such as Botswana and Brazil. The decline in
the dollar’s value reduces the purchasing power of Americans’ already
declining incomes.
Despite the lowest level of housing starts in 64 years, the US housing
market is flooded with unsold homes, and financial institutions have a
huge and rising inventory of foreclosed homes not yet on the market.
Industrial production has collapsed to the level of 1999, wiping out a
decade of growth in industrial output.
The enormous bank reserves created by the Federal Reserve are not
finding their way into the economy. Instead, the banks are hoarding
the reserves as insurance against the fraudulent derivatives that they
purchased from the gangster Wall Street investment banks.
The regulatory agencies have been corrupted by private interests.
Frontline reports that Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers
blocked Brooksley Born, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission from regulating derivatives. President Obama rewarded Larry
Summers for his idiocy by appointing him Director of the National
Economic Council. What this means is that profits for Wall Street will
continue to be leeched from the diminishing blood supply of the
American economy.
An unmistakable sign of third-world despotism is a police force that
sees the public as the enemy. Thanks to the federal government, our
local police forces are now militarized and imbued with hostile
attitudes toward the public. SWAT teams have proliferated, and even
small towns now have police forces with the firepower of US Special
Forces. Summons are increasingly delivered by SWAT teams that
tyrannize citizens with broken down doors, a $400 or $500 repair born
by the tyrannized resident. Recently a mayor and his family were the
recipients of incompetence by the town’s local SWAT team, which
mistakenly wrecked the mayor’s home, terrorized his family, and killed
the family’s two friendly Labrador dogs.
If a town’s mayor can be treated in this way, what do you think is the
fate of the poor white or black? Or the idealistic student who
protests his government’s inhumanity?
In any failed state, the greatest threat to the population comes from
the government and the police. That is certainly the situation today
in the USA. Americans have no greater enemy than their own government.
Washington is controlled by interest groups that enrich themselves at
the expense of the American people.
The one percent that comprise the superrich are laughing as they say,
"let them eat cake."
October 22, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail], a former Assistant Secretary of
the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street
Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for
two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good
Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account
of how Americans lost the protection of law, has been released by
Random House.
Copyright © 2009 Creators Syndicate
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