october 2004
doremus observes
Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort
Beulah The Daily Informer, in Sinclair Lewis'
famous book "It Can't Happen Here", at its
conclusion, "drove out saluted by the meadow larks,
and onward all day, to a hidden cabin in the Northern
Woods where quiet men awaited news of freedom.....still
Doremus goes on, into the sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup
can never die......
WHEN YOU VOTE
REMEMBER THIS IMAGE - AMERIKA !!....
from
NYERERE
Very few people have read serious investigations about these forms of modern slavery, for example, the report, HIDDEN SLAVES, Forced Labor in the USA.
These documents show how Slave Labor is an easy source for US Corporate and Government profits. One article touches the very core of the issue:
Franz J. T. Lee: The big lie of Human Trafficking in Venezuela
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23094
University of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: The latest terrorist, political gimmick of the USA against Venezuela ... even threatening to block access to international loans with a de facto veto in international lending institutions ... is to accuse Venezuela of participating in "human trafficking" ... in other words, that Venezuela is promoting modern global slavery ... more precisely, is nurturing "forced human labor."
In the 2nd US Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, the US Department of State itself had explained a while ago what Venezuela is being accused of.
Well, the Chavez Frias government has absolutely nothing to do with the above ... it is too much occupied with the integration of Latin America against the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (ALCA) and the CIA ... Chavez Frias is organizing popular "missions" to provide education, health, housing and food for the nation.
In spite of such "urgent preoccupations" of the White House, at least Secretary of State Colin Powell had the objective decency to report the following about the Euro-US Mafiosi which is very much occupied with global human trafficking:
What does not bother the US administration in the least is that ... over the last decades, in Europe .. the trafficking in women and girls for the purpose of sexual exploitation was (and still is today) a huge profitable industry. In Western Europe alone, the International Organization for Migration estimates that around 500,000 women per year are being trafficked from poorer regions in the world." That is, from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Surely, sexual and labor exploitation are against the law in the United States? Also US Federal laws prohibit slavery, also in prisons. However, it seems, that under the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act and other similar laws in Europe, that Bush, Schroeder and Chirac have no measures available to mete out punishment or sanctions against their very own slave masters.
For sure, according to the US Amendment XIII:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Yet, in reality, according to reports, in the USA, ten of thousands of prisoners ... especially Afro-Americans ... are being enslaved by forced labor. Very few people have read serious investigations about these forms of modern slavery, for example, the report, HIDDEN SLAVES, Forced Labor in the USA.
These documents show how Slave Labor is an easy source for US Corporate and Government profits. One article touches the very core of the issue:
In conclusion, the truth of the matter is that, apart from the universal, politico-economic fact, the USA is itself exploiting billions of physical and mental labor forces en masse ... by prostituting them, buying their very bodies and souls cheaply, northern corporate imperialism still has the arrogant audacity. Especially after its lies about Pearl Harbor, the Twin Towers and its preventive Invasion of Iraq ... now by means of bare-faced international info-war, to disseminate more blatant hoaxes across the globe, lies about Venezuela and its revolutionary government.
Concerning human trafficking/modern slavery ... by secretly tolerating them or even organizing them; and by forcing young men into genocidal economic world wars, the very USA and Europe are in the front line of such heinous crimes against humanity. In reality, they should be at The Hague or in Nuremberg trials to be judged for heinous crimes against the very species homo sapiens, against all life on the planet.
However, as always ... if not Chavez Frias, the "bad guys" are the Arabs.
According to a 1993 US State Department estimate, about 90,000 blacks were supposedly owned as slaves by North African Arabs who, in a thriving slave trade, were selling them for as little as US$15 per human being.
Even worse, UNICEF estimates that 200,000 children from West and Central Africa are being sold into slavery each year.
Another more serious report brings us nearer to the truth:
(Currently there are about) 27 million slaves in the world. At least ten thousand live in the United States. This is real slavery, in which people are forced to work for little or no pay and under the constant threat of violence.
Hence, Bush and Kerry, Hands off Venezuela!
Urgently attend your own trafficking of drugs and human beings at home, before your very own cocks will come home to roost!
In spite of your modern technology of malicious, massive, disinformation campaigns, Big Lies still have very short wings.
Franz J. T. Lee
franzjutta@cantv.net Franz John Tennyson Lee, Ph. D
(University of Frankfurt), Author, Professor Titular
& Chairholder of Philosophy and Political Science,
University of The Andes, Merida (Venezuela) -- http://www.franzjutta.com ;
'Zell's
Hell'
(on the speech of Senator Zell Miller at
the Republican National Convention,
Sept. 1, 2004)
- by Ian Reed -
'Twas in the seventh circle, its third part,
Dante with Virgil in infernal realms
Saw sinners damned for Violence to Art.[1]
Running with blood, a red rill rings that plain
Of burning sand, where naked wraiths assailed
By flakes of flame, cry out in endless pain.
Now by his recent speech, another comes
To join those souls stretched on the searing ground
>From the assembly of satanic sons.
Bear witness what his paltry prose express:
"It is the soldier, not the reporter
Who has giv'n us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who
Has given us freedom of speech." And yet
He roused the cheers of a crusading crew,
That riotous assembly who claim Christ their lord
Yet blaspheme God, profaning sacred Scripture
Which is, as self-described, a doubl'edge sword.[2]
Therein, in the beginning was the Word.[3]
The Word became flesh[4] and a living poem.
By Him, the words "Let there be light"[5] were
heard.
And poets that glance from Heav'n to earth, from earth
To Heav'n, giving a name to airy nothing,[6]
Toil His tradition that brought life to birth.
The poet has won not just freedom of speech
But earned the right, in priesthood to mankind,
To prophesy, to minister, to teach.
We also read in holy scroll unfurled
Our battle is not against flesh and blood
But with "rulers of darkness in this world,
Spiritual wickedness in high places."[7]
Then in this struggle there can be no basis
For soldiers and their military bases.
So when that senator from Georgia spoke
To cheers at the Republican convention,
He sealed his doom that Heaven's wrath awoke.
With Dante's help, we see how hapless Zell,
His treasure stored on earth and not in Heaven,[8]
Is fitted for his fitting, fit in Hell.
Ian Reed - September 2004
'Poetic Injustice', a collection of poems about
the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is at:
http://www.ReedandWrite.com
Goebbels
Rallies the People
by Harry
Browne
September 7, 2004
http://harrybrowne.org/articles/GoebbelsAndMiller.htm
Almost 65 years ago, the Nazis' rule in Germany was
threatened by the Social Democratic party, which opposed
Adolf Hitler's foreign policy and even began to oppose
Hitler himself. To counter this, Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels addressed a crowd of Germans. With 25
Nazi swastika flags flying behind him, he told an
excited, appreciative crowd:
I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the
willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect us?
[applause]
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this
hall with you tonight.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust our
future and that man's name is Adolf Hitler. [cheering]
There are some crazy men who would kill us if they could.
So Adolf Hitler has told us, "All private plans, all
private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an
overriding public danger." [cheers]
But where is the national unity in this country when we
need it most? [cheering]
Now, while young Germans are dying in the mud in
Czechoslovakia and the mountains of Poland, our nation is
being torn apart and made weaker because of the Social
Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our Führer.
[cheering]
What has happened to the nation I've spent my life
working in?
I can remember when Social Democrats believed that it was
the duty of Germany to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Time after time in our history, in the face of great
danger, Germans worked together to ensure that freedom
would not falter. But not today. [applause]
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national
security, today's Social Democratic leaders see Germany
as an occupier, not a liberator.
And nothing makes me madder than someone calling German
troops occupiers rather than liberators. [cheering]
Tell that to the Czechs, Poles, Frenchmen, and Belgians
who have been freed because Adolf Hitler led an army of
liberators, not occupiers. [great cheering]
Tell that to the millions of men, women and children who
are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from
Poland to the Balkans, because Adolf Hitler built a
military of liberators, not occupiers. [cheering]
Never in the history of the world has any soldier
sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total
strangers than the German soldier. And, our soldiers
don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us
here at home. [cheering]
Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive
Germany. Fainthearted, self-indulgence will put at risk
all we care about in this world.
In this hour of danger our Führer has had the courage to
stand up. And I am proud to stand up with him.
God Bless this great country and God bless Adolf Hitler.
[wild cheering]
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As
we read those words, we can't help but wonder what had
gone wrong in the minds of the German people. Didn't they
realize that there was no freedom when they gave their
lives to a single individual — idolizing him,
letting him make all the important decisions, letting him
take away their liberties, watching
him conquer and oppress foreign countries in the name of
advancing freedom?
We should be very thankful that this sort of thing can't
happen here. Americans would never allow one-man rule,
never allow the American military to invade foreign
countries.
Can It Happen Here?
Wait a minute.
It is happening here.
Americans have already lost many liberties at home —
as the President has decided he can cancel:-
- the right to a trial,
- the right to counsel,
- the right to confront one's accusers,
- the right to privacy in one's email, phone conversations, and bank accounts.
And Americans have watched as the
American military has invaded foreign countries —
Afghanistan and Iraq.
And all to the accompaniment of cheering crowds.
In fact, the speech I quoted above didn't come from
Joseph Goebbels. It was delivered by an American —
Senator Zell Miller at the Republican convention last
week. I had to change only a few words in order to
disguise the source. Republicans cheered Miller
enthusiastically — even as he quoted Franklin
Roosevelt saying, "All private plans, all private
lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding
public danger."
The news media focused on Miller’s attacks on John
Kerry. They should have been focusing on Miller’s
attacks on America — America the land of the free,
the land of the Bill of Rights, the land that is sinking
away from us.
(Incidentally, in 1940 the Social Democrats weren’t
speaking out against Adolf Hitler. By then, thanks to the
Zell Millers of Nazi Germany, public opposition to Hitler
was no longer safe.)
Losing One's Mind
Political parties are a dangerous phenomenon. They remove
the power to think for oneself. Individuals who become
Republicans or Democrats no longer evaluate issues
according to fixed principles. They care only about
parties. Their worst fear is that the opposition party
will win the next election.
Would those Republicans have cheered so wildly if it had
been Bill Clinton who'd had the "courage" to
invade Afghanistan and Iraq? Would any Democrats be
opposing the Iraqi war if John Kerry had started it?
Obviously, the answer to both questions is no.
As the Admiral says in Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S.
Pinafore:
I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament.
I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought for myself at all.
I thought so little, they rewarded me
By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!
Forwarded by Katherine Juestel news-report-subscribe@wiretapped.net