Neo-con Shrubistas: Judicial process = terrorism

[HamdenRice]

A very alarming and brilliantly written editorial by Chris Floyd

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8484.htm

alerted me to the fact that the United States official National Defense Strategy, signed by Donald Rumsfeld, actually equates judicial process, as well as the UN and other international organizations, with terrorism. Here is an excerpt from the strategy from the GlobalSecurity.org website:


OUR VULNERABILITIES

Nevertheless, we have vulnerabilities:

Our capacity to address global security challenges alone will be insufficient.

Some allies and partners will decide not to act with us or will lack the capacity to act with us.

Our leading position in world affairs will continue to breed unease, a degree of resentment, and resistance.

Our strength as a nation state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak using international fora, judicial processes, and terrorism.

We and our allies will be the principal targets of extremism and terrorism.

Natural forces of inertia and resistance to change will constrain military transformation.

<end quote>

No wonder they are sending Bolton to the UN.

Here is just a sample of the excellent, passtionate analysis by Floyd:

The Big Fix

By Chris Floyd

04/07/05 "Moscow Times" - - Let's face the facts. The game is over and we -- the "reality-based community," the believers in genuine democracy and law, the heirs of Jefferson and Madison, Emerson and Thoreau, the toilers and dreamers, all those who seek to rise above the beast within and shape the brutal chaos of existence into something higher, richer and imbued with meaning -- have lost. The better world we thought had been won out of the blood and horror of history -- a realm of enlightenment that often found its best embodiment in the ideals and aspirations of the American Republic -- is gone. It's been swallowed by darkness, by ravening greed, by bestial spirits and by willful primitives who now possess overwhelming instruments of power and dominion.

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So let's have no illusions about where we are. Gangsters are in charge, and nothing and no one will be allowed to challenge their dominion. They are waging aggressive war to cement their position and that of their allies: the energy barons, the arms merchants, the construction and services cartels, the investment bankers. These power blocs now command monstrous resources and unfathomable profits; they can buy out, buy off or bury any force that opposes them. Meanwhile, they use the loot of the stolen Republic -- its blood and treasure -- as fuel for their ever-expanding war machine: Bush now has a "secret watch-list" of 25 more countries ripe for military intervention, the Financial Times reported.

With more war crimes afoot, last month Bush issued an official "National Defense Strategy" that openly declares "judicial processes" as one of the enemies confronting the United States, actually equating them with terrorism, The Associated Press reported. Law is "a strategy of the weak," says the Bush Doctrine, in a chilling echo of Hitlerian machtpolitik: Might makes right. The judicial process must not be allowed to "constrain or shape" American behavior in any way, the gangsters declared.

Think of it: Law is now the enemy. Democracy, as we've seen above, is the enemy. This, the demented code of criminals and tyrants, has become the ruling doctrine of the United States -- replacing the Constitution, replacing the noble struggle for liberty and enlightenment with the howl of the beast, with a freak show of avarice and death.

[HamdenRice]

1. Incredibly self-serving, pathetic attention grabbing ...

self kick. Is no one interested in this frightening development?

[Goathead]

2. "A Strategy of the Weak"

That sounds like it was taken straight from the Nazi Party playbook. Is Rummy no longer hiding his blatant fascism? I swear he is the most Hitleresque of the bunch.

[HamdenRice]

3. This may be a bastardized reference to ...

This administration tends to take ideas from the academic world and water them down into sound bites, without even understanding their original meaning.

I think Rumsfeld got this from a book that made a splash a few years ago by an anthropologist, James Scott, called "Weapons of the Weak." He looked at Indonesian villages and how the poor people used a variety of techniques like gossip, begging, foot dragging, etc to fight back against the wealthy and strong. He said these techniques have existed throughout history and he called them, as the book is entitled, weapons of the weak.

Somehow this has trickled down into Rumsfeld-speak -- that weak countries use non-military force to avoid having to carry out the commands of the US.

[mondo joe]

4. Those faux-patriot fuckers so hate the constitution

They can't bear a separation of powers or a judiciary or even law.

They're only interested in Might Makes Right.

[HamdenRice]

5. and the UN and treaties and laws and peace nt