Time: Sat Mar 22 15:26:11 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05558; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:12:03 -0700 (MST) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02707; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 12:10:43 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 15:17:50 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Background to Drug Warriorism (fwd) <snip> >NY Review of Books March 27 > >With Malice Toward Many > >Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996 Human >Rights Watch, 424 pp., $25.00 (paper) >(distributed by Yale University Press) > >Murray Kempton > >Human Rights Watch has tolled the passing of one more year with the >release of another annual report on the advances of harshness on Earth >and official ill will to the helpless. These findings at once appeal to our >conscience and define the bipartisan compact that has put our >conscience to sleep. Human Rights Watch takes account of infamies >around the world and of our government's response to each and every >one. To put what foreign despots do together with how little our >governors care is to understand that, when we speak of our two-party >system, we are talking about two Republican Parties, the dubiously >Grand Old one and the New Democrats it has ingested. > The consequence is just one party with two wings, one the old >Republicans, who are insensitive and stony, and the other the New >Democrats, who are insensitive and flaccid. They share custody of the >national conscience and offer us a free choice between the stony and >the flaccid with about the same results. > There is also the permanent party that joins together the >Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the corporations in >sovereign immunity to occasional shifts in electoral whim. > Last fall, Human Rights Watch notes, General Barry >McCaffrey, President Clinton's narcotics enforcement director, paused >on a Peruvian tour for a bout of conspicuous fraternity with Vladimiro >Montesinos, President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence chief. > Montesinos had been repeatedly linked to an intelligence >agency death squad.... In August, a drug kingpin . . . accused- him of >extorting large sums to enable the trafficker to transfer drugs without >problems. > Anyone laden with imputations of secondhand dealings in >mayhem and firsthand dealings in extortion would have appeared the >oddest of candidates for friendly consort with a drug fighter of >McCaffrey's high station. But Human Rights Watch has offered the full >explanation, that Montesinos had "reportedly worked for the Central >Intelligence Agency." > For the CIA cleanses all hands and is too seldom asked to >cleanse its own. In 1996, the United States spent $120 million to >assist the establishment of democratic rule in Haiti. Meanwhile, the >White House refused to return thousands of documents detailing the >excesses of the Haitian junta and the Revolutionary Front for the >Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH), its paramilitary arm, in >the course of the terror that ended with the intervention of our own >armed forces. > Our troops seized the evidence, and now their commanders >decline to pass it along for liberated Haiti's government to act upon. >The most plausible reason for this diffidence is that the seized material >not only illuminates the sins of the junta but too powerfully and >embarrassingly suggests official America's complicity in them. > If it were not for this determinedly confession-avoiding spirit, >why else would our government drop its deportation proceedings >against Emmanuel Constant, boss of FRAPH bosses, and let him live >here undisturbed? Constant had to be indulged because, throughout his >career, he enjoyed the comity with the CIA that has customarily >included the comforts of its payroll. He was thus a man with a tale to >tell so much better left untold as to make his silence worth the bargain. > In another case cited by Human Rights Watch, the attorney >general of Honduras has asked the White House to deliver up to him >any documents relevant to Battalion 3-16, an elite force we equipped, >trained, and set loose to bring off scores, if not hundreds, of >"disappearances" of political suspects. This request has been repeatedly >made and as regularly rebuffed by both the Pentagon and the CIA. > So Honduras is trying to redress its old crimes and the United >States is refusing to admit whatever part it may have had in them. But >of course. We have arrived at one-party government; and, since Haiti >and Honduras were the derelictions of Republican presidents, >Democratic presidents are bound to the-junior partner's duty to cover >up for the senior. > Copyright 1996 Newsday, Inc. > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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