-Caveat Lector-
http://waynemadsenreport.com/
Sep. 20, 2006 -- ANALYSIS -- As the neocons, the corporate news
media, and the international banking class push the world towards
more military showdowns in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and wherever else
they can provoke a crisis, along with their ultimate goal -- a "Clash
of Civilizations" -- there are some important crosswinds blowing
around the world that may stop them dead in their tracks.
First, the pro-democracy military coup in Thailand should be examined
outside the spin and puffery emanating from the editorial and
production desks in New York and Washington, DC.
Yesterday, while Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a Rupert
Murdoch- and Silvio Berlusconi-like corporate media and
telecommunications baron, was preparing to rub shoulders with his
fellow "coalition of the willing" war criminal George W. Bush at the
UN General Assembly summit in New York, he was deposed in a pro-
democracy and bloodless military coup at home. Although the neocon
media tried to paint the coup as having some nefarious purposes
(pointing out that the coup leader, Army Commander Gen. Sondhi
Boonyaratkalin, is a Muslim), the coup's aim was to wrench Thailand's
government away from the corruption, nepotism, and anti-
constitutional government of Thaksin, his family, and his cronies. As
far as the backing for the coup, it is well known that Gen. Sondhi
maintains a close relationship with the King -- and the King is the
supreme Buddhist leader of the nation. So much for the neocons trying
to link the coup to Al Qaeda and their other bogeymen like Jemaah
Islamiya, the group's Southeast Asian branch. But the neocon media
are now painting the coup as a "dangerous" precedent -- because the
generals did not accede to the "civil society" efforts to depose
Thaksin. That is, of course, Council on Foreign Relations/global
governance claptrap that often emanates from the "enlightened"
limousine liberals -- the same bunch who have decided to support
Arnold Schwarzenegger's re-election in California.
As with all deposed dictators, Thaksin was forced to retreat into
exile in gilded splendor, in his case in a suite at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel in Manhattan and then to fashionable quarters in London. The
Thai military, which was supported in their move by the Thai
opposition, placed Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense
Minister under arrest. Thailand cleaned house in one of those rare
moments when the military steps in to restore or bring about
democracy. It has happened in Portugal, Spain, the former Soviet
Union, Romania, Venezuela, Philippines, Sao Tome and Principe, and
other nations. Nazi Germany serves as an example of the military
attempting twice, but failing, to return the nation to sane
leadership by ousting Hitler in 1942 and 1944. Marshal Pietro
Badoglio's 1943 coup against Benito Mussolini serves as another
example of the military ousting a tyrant.
Rioting broke out in Budapest after the transcript of comments, made
by millionaire "Socialist" Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcasny after
winning re-election in April, were leaked to the public. Candidly,
Gyurcsany admitted that he and his government had been lying to the
Hungarian people for the previous four years in order to ensure their
re-election. Gyurcsany's comments could have been made in the Cabinet
rooms of Bangkok, London, and Washington, DC by similarly corrupt and
dishonest government officials. But these leaked out and gave the
Hungarian people a rare dose of who and what is running their
country, in fact, who and what are running much of the world.
Gyurcsany's comments included the following:
". . . we have screwed up. Not a little but a lot. No country in
Europe has screwed up as much as we have. We have obviously lied
throughout the past 18 to 24 months. It was perfectly clear that what
we were saying was not true... in the meantime we did not actually do
anything for four years. Nothing . . . we lied morning, noon and
night. I do not want to carry on with this . . . .the faith comes
from the fact that I am creating history. Not for the history books,
I do not give a shit about them. I do not at all care whether we or I
personally will be in them. I do not at all care . . . the
government's work is not constructed nicely, calmly or scrupulously.
No. No. It is being prepared at a mad breakneck speed because we
could not do it for a while in case it came to light, and now we have
to do it so desperately that we are almost at the breaking point."
While it doubtful the Hungarian military will have to step in to oust
Gyurcsany and his government of liars, the riots involving tens of
thousands of people throughout the country threaten to topple his
shameless lying regime, a government that puts the interests of the
World Bank, European Central Bank, NATO, and the dictates from
Washington before the interests of its people. And the Hungarian
police are being criticized for not coming down harder on the rioters
when they first hit the streets.
Then there is the declaration by millions of Mexicans that their
candidate, former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador,
robbed of his election by a combination of U.S. and international
banking class corruption and vote fraud, is the legitimate President
of Mexico. Lopez Obrador's populist movement and rival presidency is
buttressed by popular rebellions in Chiapas and Oaxaca states. The
Washington right-wing candidate, Felipe Calderon, and his
conservative forerunner Vicente Fox, are besieged in their own
capital. The people of Mexico and Lopez Obrador are saying no to
fraudulent elections and continued control by the international banks
and neocon interests. Populist governments in Venezuela and Bolivia
are saying no to the international bankers and multinational
corporate leeches. But America does not have to look to Bangkok,
Budapest, or Caracas to see a rising tide of progressive populism. It
is occurring right to our south.
Which brings us to our current dilemma. George W. Bush has trampled
on our Constitution, has been found to have authorized illegal
surveillance of Americans in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and
tortured those protected under U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions.
Senators of Bush's own party now realize that Bush and his cronies
may have committed war crimes and they are not eager for Bush to have
the U.S. back out of its Geneva Convention treaty commitments. And
then there is Iran. From all indications, Bush and his neocon war
council are determined to go to war with Iran sooner rather than
later. Current and retired senior military officers have reached
their breaking points with the Bush administration over torture and
another bloody war. They are also well aware that Iraq Coalition
Provisional Authority war criminal Jerry Bremer presided over a cabal
of Republican loyalists who enriched themselves and their families
with lucrative salaries and contracts -- at the cost of the lives of
hundreds of American servicemen and women and tens of thousands of
innocent Iraqis.
That Bush has violated the Constitution is not debatable. He has. But
the GOP Congress has abdicated its responsibilities to hold Bush and
his administration accountable for their illegal behavior. Level-
headed Federal and state judges have tried to put the breaks on the
Bush excesses, but the effects have been piecemeal. There is now fear
that the Bush administration and its allies in state and local
governments will manipulate the November 7 elections with their
"election engineering" accomplished by Diebold and other corrupted
electronic voting machines.
Bush's impaired mental state was painfully apparent to reporters who
covered his press conference last Friday, an event in which Bush
threw a virtual tempter tantrum to defend his torture policies and
effort to disengage America from its legal commitments to upholding
the Geneva Conventions. With all the evidence that Bush's mental
state calls for the implementation of the 25th Amendment which calls
for his replacement due to physical or mental inability to carry out
his duties, the rubber stamp Congress refuses to act.
The response by loyal Americans to either a Bush war with Iran or
another rigged election, or both, is clear. Every U.S. military
officer swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against
all enemies, foreign and domestic, including enemies occupying the
Oval Office. And it may take temporarily suspending a very small part
of the Constitution in order to save our Constitutional Republic from
neocon tyranny and dictatorship.
The Thai military decided to suspend the entire Thai Constitution in
an interim measure before a return to democratic rule. The U.S.
military, in response to Bush's numerous violations of the U.S.
Constitution and orders to engage in a potentially disastrous war
with Iran, could merely step in and suspend Article I, Section 9;
Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution to pave the way for a return to
democratic rule. That Clause is the Bill of Attainder clause, which
states, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed."
A Bill (or Writ) of Attainder is when a legislature (or another
governing tribunal such as the Joint Chiefs of Staff) declares a
person or group of persons guilty of a crime or crimes, and nullifies
their constitutional rights, without benefit of a trial." In this
case, the U.S. military could, under international law (and pursuant
to a suspension of the Bill of Attainder clause in the U.S.
Constitution), declare that Bush, Cheney, and other high level
administration perpetrators have violated the Geneva Conventions and
other U.S. treaties having the effect of law, and, without the
benefit of a U.S. trial, hand them over to the International Criminal
Court in The Hague to face justice. In other words, the Joint Chiefs
of Staff could issue a Writ of Attainder against the guilty parties
in the Bush administration. Afterwards, the Writ of Attainder clause
of the U.S. Constitution could be restored to force. Extraordinary
times demand extraordinary measures -- and the founders of the United
States wanted it that way. We owe it to them and their great
sacrifices to carry on the revolutionary spirit they bequeathed to us.
Combining the wishes of our Founders like Jefferson, Madison and
Paine with the requirements of modern international law: Temporarily
restore the Writ of Attainder for Bush and his criminal
administration and then hand them over to The Hague for trial.
Sep. 20, 2006 -- From the a new book "Presidential Doodles," a
compendium of the drawings and doodles of presidents, comes this
description of a very unsettling sketch by President Kennedy:
"President Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments,
would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. Events long
after his death give one doodle an unintended chill: A small circle
with the numbers "9-11" contained within. Just to the lower left on
the page, the word 'conspiracy' is underlined."
JFK: Did he have a premonition about 911?
This editor has long maintained that the United States is different
from other countries when it comes to coups d'etat. The fascist coup
here took decades to reach culmination. It began on November 22, 1963
in Dallas and reached its fulfillment on September 11, 2001.
www.ctrl.org
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/
<A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om