“Let them march all they want, as long as they pay their taxes”

From The trouble with Obillary vs. Hibama :

...Where would the military brass be without their indispensable enemies? Is it too much to imagine that the occupation was designed to cause chaos and civil war, as in divide and conquer? That among the many goals of the Military/Industrial Complex is to "create more terrorists"?

Which brings us around to Obillary vs. Hibama. When one or the other or both of them take office, how will they dash our hopes, as they invariably must, given that they both serve the same group that Bush (and Bill Clinton, etc.) served before them?

Let me make a prediction. There will be a reduction of the 400 percent over-the-top-crazy-war-mongering rhetoric, by say, 35 percent, and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief.

Then around the first hundred days or the next "terrorist attack," whichever comes first, will come the sad news from President Obillary or VP Hibama: "We're really sorry about not having affordable health care for everyone, and the deplorable state of our public education system, and that we are still not using readily available electric cars. But you see, the previous administration has made such a mess of things — the economy, the environment, Iraq — we have enough to do just to keep our heads above water."

Did anyone catch that little moment in the last debate when Senator Obama said that, as president, he would send more troops to Afghanistan? Of course, both he and Hillary are of the conventional opinion that the war in Iraq has distracted from our real war, war "A," the War on Terror, (an abstract noun currently hiding in a cave in Waziristan).

Obama counts among his foreign policy advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski, the man who admitted in the pages of Paris Match to creating the Mujahedeen, the forerunners to Osama's al-Qaida, six months before the Soviet invasion, to provoke the Russians to invade and so "bleed the Bear." Just the man we want guiding the "change" crusade, Barack. Hillary's people are as bad or worse.

And that's the trouble with Obillary vs. Hibama, isn't it? It's the same trouble with Republicrat vs. Demublican, Coke vs. Pepsi, and War "A" vs. War "B" — no matter how they try to dress it up, it's really no choice at all.

I think I'm going to vote this year, though. There's a ballot initiative in the works in New York to hold a new 9/11 Commission, one that's not quite so obviously a white-wash. And I look forward to voting for Ralph Nader, just so I can proudly say I did. And after that? In the great tradition of Henry David Thoreau, war-tax resistance. Because what Gen. Alexander Haig said back in the Reagen years still holds true: "Let them march [or vote] all they want, as long as they pay their taxes . . . " We're starting to catch on again, General.

John Kirby is the director of the movie The American Ruling Class. (theamericanrulingclass.org and bullfrogfilms.com).

Why George W. Bush Should Stand Trial for Capital Crimes

There is probable cause now to try George W. Bush for capital crimes in connection with the US program of torture at Abu Ghraib as well as the war of aggression against Iraq. There is evidence that George W. Bush ordered this program which most certainly resulted in numerous violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Principles.

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

-US Codes, TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441; How Current is This?

Certainly, the Bush regimes has sought to make 'legal' Bush's but only after they had already been committed. The argument that Bush, as 'President', may pardon himself or grant himself retroactive immunity from prosecution is just silly. If that were the case, every President might have tried to get away with it by simply making it all up as one goes along --the very anti-thesis of the 'rule of law', indeed, 'Due Process of Law', guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. If mere Presidents were allowed this kind of power, they might as well rule by decree. As I have pointed out not even European monarchs were permitted to get away with that [See: Why Bush Made Plans to Invade the Netherlands; Bush's Unitary Executive Ends the Rule of Law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Separation of Powers ].

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Navajo from Big Mountain: US media and politicians orchestrate wars

Bahe Katenay, Navajo from Big Mountain on the Navajo Nation, said the US media created the stories of the so-called Navajo Hopi Land Dispute, which was orchestrated by Peabody Coal and US politicians, the same way the US orchestrates the war in Iraq for its resources.

"There was never a dispute," Katenay said of the so-called Navajo Hopi Land Dispute. He said the lands were long shared by Navajo and Hopi. "The Hopi had their trails through there."

Katenay said the United States media created the stories of the so-called Navajo Hopi Dispute, the same way the US media creates and fuels other disputes and wars.

"One of the examples of this is the Iraq war right now." Katenay said the media claims there is a dispute in Iraq. Those US claims led to the U.S. occupying and dividing the country and the people.

"Over there it is more brutal and more horrific. But it is the same sort of thing they did in Big Mountain and Black Mesa. They divided the two tribes."

Katenay said the Navajo and Hopi tribal governments do not represent their people.
"The tribal governments are basically a board of directors. They are not a sovereign assembly. The Navajo government does not represent the Navajo Nation and the Hopi government does not represent the Hopi Nation," Katenay said in an interview with Longest Walk Talk Radio, www.earthcycles.net/

Katenay, one of the original Long Walkers in 1978, joined the Longest Walk 2 Northern Route in Pueblo and described the orchestrated scenario and the so-called "Navajo Hopi Land Dispute," which grew out of the Indian Land Claims Commission.

Katenay told how a Mormon attorney for Peabody Coal, John Boyden, came to Hopi country and attempted to form a Hopi Tribal Council for the purpose of seizing leases for coal mining.

"It failed each time because the traditional Hopi people were a sovereign people and rejected the Hopi Tribal Council. They still had power in the villages. The traditional people supported the traditional chiefs."

Finally in 1964, Peabody's attorney John Boyden picked Hopi people and formed a Hopi Tribal Council which was recognized by the US government. However, the Hopi Tribal Council was not recognized or given authority by traditional Hopi.

Katenay said federal laws and proceedings complicated the issues for Navajos and Hopis and the BIA played a role. The BIA had its hand in tribal governments and federal laws. Referring to the so-called range war, Katenay said there was no range war and there is no proof that it ever existed. It was a staged scenario which Congressmen fueled.

Among those Arizona Congressmen in the 1970s were Rep. Sam Steiger who introduced the relocation legislation, Barry Goldwater and Morris K. Udall.

"They spearheaded this legislation back then."

Then, other Southwest Congressmen took notice because of plans to seize the Colorado River water and Navajo and Hopi resources. The concocted scenario that there was bloodshed on the Navajo Hopi lands was a means to an end.

Last year, Big Mountain celebrated 30 years of resistance.

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Listen to the interview, audio file (bahiemp3) at: www.earthcycles.net/

 

Photos of the Longest Walk Northern Route:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

 

Vanishing Prayer - Genocide against the Dineh Navajo

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McCain's complicity

US drops charges against 5th marine in Haditha case plea-bargain

From Deutsche Welle :

The United States Marine Corps has dropped all charges against a servicemen facing court-martial over the killing of two dozen unarmed Iraqis in 2005. In a statement, the Marines said that charges against Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum were dismissed in order to pursue the truth behind the so called Haditha incident. Marine prosecutors have been seeking testimony from Tatum against his then squad leader, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich. Wuterich is the most senior of eight Marines charged over the killing of 24 men, women and children at Haditha. Iraqi witnesses say angry Marines massacred unarmed civilians spontaneously after a popular marine was killed by a roadside bomb. Defence attorneys maintain that the civilians were killed during a battle with insurgents. Only three Marines continue to face charges in the case.