- Let's get real. The US isn't the only nation that has
had its fangs sunk deep into the neck of international monetary corruption,
its global stock and trade. When French or Chinese weapons show up among
the burned out vestiges of terrorist attacks, we need to remember that
those arms, or components for those arms, have been moving through a system
of hand-offs and perfectly legal trade deals for decades. For example,
recent French missile parts found at a terrorist bombing in Baghdad brings
the quick cry from the ultra-right in America, "See! It's the French!"
On the contrary, it's everyone. Let's step back several phases and look
at the whole process.
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- The US or the Russians or some other developed nation
will manufacture and sell either whole or component parts for advanced
military weaponry to 'allies' and those on 'approved' lists by the State
Department, and they do so knowing full well that these so-called 'allies'
will turn right around and make a deal and sell either whole weapons or
components of weapons to nations on 'their' approved lists, which don't
match our list at all. This doesn't even take into account what happens
on the black market! So far, everything is a legal transaction. Bit by
bit, part by part, cargo comes and goes from port to port throughout the
world and everything is a-ok and signed in triplicate and whose to know...
or care? A shell casing here, an detonator there, some computer components
for guided missles... And then some poor kid in a third world country wakes
up at 4am to an incendiary hell-storm on his home, his limbs blown from
his body, his parents spattered against the walls and everyone starts looking
for someone to blame behind the terrorist act. Who funded it?? Where did
the weapons come from?
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- The conspiracy to look for isn't hidden, it's right in
plain sight. It always has been. It's a sick little vaudeville act with
an unfeeling clown's shrug and passing the buck and each nation playing
the same game, shuffling, shifting, buying and selling. No different than
the Ford motor company supplying machine parts for tanks to Nazi Germany.
It's business as usual. It's part of the global economy. It's part of the
vital lifeblood of all nations (even those that parade around as socialist/communist
and reject such as 'bourgeois' capitalist the line is just a little bit
more desperate than the one before (the system itself creating all the
strife and poverty for that very desperation!) and will pay top dollar
for what it wants. Whether its the Clinton Administration selling untold
amounts of advanced weaponry and missile systems to China, granting them
"most favored nation" status (how convenient!), who in turn will
sell in whole or in part billions of dollars worth of newly developed weaponry
to declared enemies of the US, or as a recent example the sale of weapons
to China by Israel, who in turn continue to shore up the disintegrating
Communist regime of North Korea:
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- "The Jewish state, recipient annually of $3 billion
in U.S. aid, is second only to Russia as a weapons provider to China, U.S.
congressional investigators say."
- http://www.rense.com/general28/iisj.htm
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- What the hell is Israel doing selling China weapons?
There's absolutely no difference in selling such weapons or components
for weapons to China than it is just trucking it into Ramallah directly
and giving it to Arafat's minions as a gift. It's the same thing every
other technologically advanced nation is doing. Making money. Period. To
hell with the outcome. The war on terror is as big a joke to them as the
war on drugs. The supply and demand for weapons of destruction, mass or
otherwise, is the backbone of world economic stability.
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- It's time to see these protesters focus on the world
system as the enemy, and stop wasting time vilifying mere figureheads and
statesmen and presidents and premieres. That won't get you anywhere. They
change seats almost as fast as Hollywood executives, and whether they are
coming from the left or right wing is meaningless, they're playing the
game too. It's the system that is the enemy, not any one nation or leader.
They ALL do it. These world leaders will spew hateful rhetoric out of one
side of their mouths at each other, then handshake on a big arms deal a
week later. They all need to be opposed and their activities followed,
charted and brought to an international court, be it the UN or World Court,
and indicted repeatedly, endlessly -- each transaction counting as full
accomplice to the final act of violence that springs from the sales, down
to the last nut and bolt and mercury switch and bullet. So, then next time
you feel great anger towards the Bush admin, or some other nation participating
in dastardly deeds, just remember, the lot of them are part of a sick orgy
of money and violence. No one more evil than the other. Each is doing its
part is perpetuating a system that ensures that violence, death and destruction
and remedies for such (more violence, death and destruction in the name
of peace) continue...forever.
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- Comment
Michael P. Smeltzer
10-31-03
I'm writing in responses to Alton Raines article dated 10-27-2003, Plenty
Of Bloody Hands To Go'Round. I would like to take Mr.Raines suggestion
of indictments and world court
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- action, and add the following. There is a little known
subset of law called "Facilitation".
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- Facilitation works like this. Lets say your a licenced
gun dealer, and someone goes to purchase a gun from you. As the purchase
commences, the customer tells you that he or she is thinking about killing
someone. If you hear that phrase "kill someone" and you complete
the sale of a gun to that person, and a murder does occur, using that gun.
You are guilty of committing murder by "Facilitating" the murder
by selling the gun to that person who committed murder.
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- This term Facilitation, is a new tool in the law. It's
use is gaining more and more acceptance by both prosecutors and police.
In fact it is mentioned in the Millennium Communications Act of 2000 signed
into law by Bill Clinton.
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- In fact the Jewish Zionist, Liberman, used the word "Facilitation"
during a recent presidental debate in Detroit, MI.
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- Facilitation is and open ended term with broad ramifications,
and can be used to snare unsuspecting people for a overly broad range of
charges, real or imagined.
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- May I suggest to Mr. Raines that our American, British
and Israel governments are all guilty of "Facilitation" of various
criminal endeavors. And that using "Facilitation" as it is outlined
in the law, should work just fine on government officials as it does on
the rest of us. After all whats good for the goose is good for the gander
also.
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- Good hunting to you Mr. Raines, and to everyone else
of like mind.
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- Very Sincerely Yours
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- Michael P. Smeltzer
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