The Politics of “Fait Accompli” : An American “Leitmotiv” !

WHAT'S GOING ON INDEED ?

The Politics of “Fait Accompli” & USA 's Double Standard as “Leitmotiv” (a case study)

Now that everybody with still a few neurones in working order are outraged by the torture done in our name… How about closing our very own TORTURE SCHOOL ? http://www.soaw.org/

The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia.

"Initially established in Panama in 1946, it was kicked out of that country in 1984 under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. Former Panamanian President, Jorge Illueca, stated that the School of the Americas was the “biggest base for destabilization in Latin America.” The SOA, frequently dubbed the “School of Assassins,” has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned.

Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins. http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=100

Resources : http://www.soaw.org/type.php?type=11

Posturing about torture is easy, acting upon it would speak much louder !

The CIA now admits it has destroyed over 100 video tapes of interrogation sessions which a federal court ordered the government to preserve. This is a much higher number than the handful of tapes the CIA previously admitted it destroyed.

Who's A Terrorist Now ?
http://my.auburnjournal.com/detail/112605.html

Obama Reluctance on Bush Prosecutions Affirms Culture of Impunity
(another 'Fait Accompli' by any other name ;)
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/1/torture_expert_alfred_mccoy_obama_reluctanc...

We’re at a critical moment in the debate about torture. We’re at the exact moment historically we’ve been at six times over the past forty years. What’s happened since really 1970, right up to the present, because we’ve been engaged in torture continuously throughout this entire period, is that Congress and the press will conduct a major exposé of torture; the public will be momentarily aroused; there will be no sustained investigation, no prosecution, no penalty; the practice will continue. A few more years later, another revelation, another round of debate, discussion, nothing done, and then it emerges again" - Alfred McCoy, author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror."

BACK TO WHERE WE NEVER LEFT ?

CITIZENS 2.0 : PLAYERS NOT CHEERLEADERS !

DON'T JUDGE POLITICIANS ON WHAT THEY SAY BUT ON WHAT THEY DO !

EXECUTIVE RESUME
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GODD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK !.

JF

Maybe this item could come in handy ;)
http://www.truthtopower.tv/warning.htm

Its about...

The rise of super-patriotism
Disdain for the importance of human rights and the rule of law
Use of torture and secret prisons
Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
Suppression of dissent
A controlled mass media
Obsession with national security
Religion and ruling elite tied together
Power of corporations protected
Rampant cronyism and corruption
Fraudulent elections

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato

10 STEPS TO CLOSE AN OPEN SOCIETY

1. Invoke an internal and external threat
People who are afraid are willing to do things that they wouldn’t otherwise do.

2. Establish secret (unaccountable) prisons where torture takes place
In a secret system, the government does not have to provide any proof of wrongdoing by those it holds, so it can incarcerate anyone it wants.

3. Develop a paramilitary force
A private military force — under the exclusive direction of the “commander in chief” with no accountability to Congress, the courts, or the public — blurs the line between a civilian police force and a militarized police state.

4. Surveil ordinary citizens
People who believe they are being watched are less likely to voice opposition. To scare a population into silence, the government need only monitor the activities of a few to make everyone fear that they are being surveilled. Every closed society keeps a “list” of so-called opponents it tracks.

5. Infiltrate citizen’s groups
Spies in activist groups put psychological pressure on genuine activists by undermining their trust in one another. They may also disrupt legal activities, undermining the effectiveness of group efforts.

6. Detain and release ordinary citizens
Detention intimidates or psychologically damages those arrested and also lets everyone know that anyone could be labeled an “enemy combatant” and “disappeared.”

7. Target key individuals
People are less likely to speak out when those who are highly visible, like journalists, scholars, artists, or celebrities, are intimidated or have the livelihoods threatened. Targeting those who are especially visible makes it less likely that people will speak out and robs society of leaders and others who might inspire opposition.

8. Restrict the press
The public is less likely to fi nd out about government wrongdoing if the government can threaten to prosecute anyone who publishes or broadcasts reports that are critical of the government.

9. Recast criticism as espionage and dissent as treason
People who protest can be charged with terrorism or treason when laws criminalize or limit free speech rather than protect it.

10. Subvert the rule of law
The disappearance of checks and balances makes it easier to declare martial law, especially if the judiciary branch continues to exercise authority over individuals but has no authority over the Executive branch.

REFERENCES & EXPOSE

http://www.endofamericamovie.com/
http://naomiwolf.org/

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." - Ian Williams Goddard

Meanwhile...

GOING UP !
Top 1% share of total income
Income gap between rich and poor
Foreign debt as a percent of GDP
Age at which one can receive Social Security
Hunger
Consumer credit debt
Housing foreclosures
Severe poverty rate

GOING DOWN !
Real income
Real manufacturing wages
Percent of single women and mothers in the workforce
The bottom 40%'s share of national wealth
Older families with pensions.
Workers covered by defined benefit pensions.
The savings rate
US manufacturing jobs

ALSO...

Protest restricted/ignored
Dissenter labeled terrorist/traitor
False-flags
Elections suspect
Leaders benefit from wars/disasters
Use of propaganda/lies & partisan mass-media
Claims that War is needed for everchanging false reasons
Secret/extrajudicial/torture camps
Curtailed/suspended civil rights/liberties
Wiretap/intercept/surveillance net
Stealthily expands int'nl influence/power
Judiciary/Opposition ineffective/ignored
Legislation to defy Constitution

BTW…Have you noticed that the good guys always win except on the news ?

RIGHTS & LIBERTIES WATCH
http://www.alternet.org/rights/

Psychologists and Torture
http://www.democracynow.org/features/apa

Jonathan Turley on Hardball: "Condi Rice Confessed to Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes"

"It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination." - Henry Kissinger

This is the same 5 stars vermin who declared...

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger

“The noble virtues that drove characters like Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness” into the jungle veiled abject self-interest, unchecked greed and murder.” - Chris Hedges

Bruce Fein is spot on. At this point this is about education. See what happens when an ignorant nincompoop is made to steal the most powerful country in the world and give it away to a cabal of High-Testosterene, Arrogant Fools Who Strong-Armed America Into a Catastrophe with Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Condi & Libby at the helm. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05012009/profile.html

Now remember most of the torture was committed to rationalize Irak's invasion.

Prosecute This: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
http://www.alternet.org/story/139439/
Why, then, the relentless waterboarding ? It turns out that high Bush officials put heavy pressure on Pentagon interrogators to get Mohammed and Zubaydah to reveal a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 hijackers, in order to justify Bush’s illegal and unnecessary invasion of Iraq in 2003 according to the newly released report of the Senate Armed Services Committee. That link was never established.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole: Nuremburg War Tribunal regarding wars of aggression

"International law ? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me" - George W. Bush, 12 December 2003

The Bush White House's Appalling and Evil Legacy: Now We Know the Whole Story
http://www.alternet.org/rights/138472/the_bush_white_house's_appalling_and_evil_legacy:_now_we_know_the_whole_story/

Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/us/politics/04detain.html?_r=1&partner=rss...

Meanwhile...

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle