Declassified: US Imperialism, Terror, and Support for Tyranny

Started by Horhey, Apr 12, 2011, 09:44:14 PM

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Horhey

Horhey

#225
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_J-fUG_b0#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnLfFxnwcg#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUBDR_j8t0#



The Contra war against Nicaragua was one of the highest priorites of the Reagan administration. Nicaragua was dangerous agent of the plague becouse it was so close to home. Secretary of State George Shultz warned that it is:

Quotea cancer that the United States must cut out,

And not by legal means:

QuoteNegotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table,

Shultz dismissed with contempt those who advocate:

Quoteutopian, legalistic means like outside mediation, the United Nations, and the World Court, while ignoring the power element of the equation.

The US blocked efforts of Central American presidents to bring negotiated peace to the region in the early 1980's. They proceeded to "cut the cancer out" by terror, subversion, and economic strangulation. The CIA attacked Nicaragua with right wing Death Squads known as "the Contras" which were the former US-trained Nicaraguan National Guard.

Destruction of Nicaragua was an important task. The country's progress during the early 80's was praised by the World Bank and other international agencies as "remarkable". 

The Inter American Develpment Bank stated in 1983 that:

QuoteNicaragua has made noteworthy progress in the social sector, which is laying a solid foundation for long-term socio-economic development.

According to a 1986 report by UNICEF, in the health sector, the country enjoyed:

Quoteone of the most dramatic improvments in child survival in the developing world.

The real cancer feared by Reaganites was this: Nicaragua's "remarkable" transformation could have become a "revolution without boarders." Therefore, It was only logical, from the US point of view, to destroy the "virus."

Against tremendous odds the new government pursued an ambitious program of social and economic development, increasing spending on health and education and carrying out extensive land reform. The following report, based on an interview with Esmilda Flores, a peasant woman living on a cooperative, captures something of the spirit unleashed by the Sandinistas' victory:

QuoteBefore the revolution, we didn't participate in anything. We only learned to make tortillas and cook beans and do what our husbands told us. In only five years we've seen a lot of changes - and we're still working on it!

Esmilda Flores belongs to 'an agricultural cooperative in the mountains north of Esteli, Nicaragua. Together with seven other women and fifteen men, she works land that was formerly a coffee plantation owned by an absentee landlord. After the revolution in 1979, the families who had worked the land became its owners. They have expanded production to include corn, beans, potatoes, cabbages, and dairy cows:

QuoteBefore, we had to rent a small plot to grow any food, and we had to pay one-half of our crop to the landlord! Now we work just as hard as before - both in the fields and at home - but there's a difference, because we're working for ourselves...

The US permits no constructive programs in the third world. They must ensure that they are destroyed to undermine "the threat of a good example." The latter phrase is used in a pamphlet on Nicaragua by a charitable development agency OXFAM, which observed the following:

QuoteFrom Oxfam's experience of working in seventy-six developing countries Nicaragua was to prove exceptional in the strength of that government's commitment to improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active participation in the development process.

The title of the pamphlet is well chosen. It is precisely these features of the Sandinistas revolution that sent chills up the spines of US planners, and privelaged elites elsewhere as well. The threat was Nicaragua's good example which may "infect" the region and even beyond. If a tiny and impoverished country with miniscule resources can begin to do something for it's own population, others may ask: "Why not us"? People who can free themselves against all the odds are sure to inspire others.

A Department of Defense official informed the press that one of the major goals was to destroy and discredit Nicaragua's successful independant development:

QuoteThose 2,000 hard-core guys could keep some pressure on the Nicaraguan government, force them to use their economic resources for the military and prevent them from solving their economic problems--and that's a plus," he said. "Anything that puts pressure on the Sandinista regime, calls attention to the lack of democracy and prevents the Sandinistas from solving their economic problems is a plus.

The Los Angeles Times added that:

QuoteAdministration officials said they are content to see the contras debilitate the Sandinistas by forcing them to divert scarce resources toward the war and away from social programs.

Nicaragua must be reduced to "the Albania of Central America," a State Department insider is reported to have observed in 1981. In a "Latin American Albania...the Sandinista dream of creating a new, more exemplary political model for Latin America would be in ruins," John Carlin comments in the London Independent. There would be no "revolution without borders" of the sort anticipated by Tomas Borge, with Nicaragua serving as a model for its neighbors, the source of a well-known fraud perpetrated by the government, the media, and segments of scholarship. 



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maledoro

maledoro

#226
Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:49:41 AM
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Stop threatening us.

If we were really interested, we could simply go to the other forum where you posted this tripe last year, or go to the other websites you had ripped these butt nuggets from.

Vulhala

Owned. I have to hand it to you Mal, you're nothing if not thorough.

maledoro

Quote from: Vulhala on Apr 22, 2011, 12:33:50 PM
Owned. I have to hand it to you Mal, you're nothing if not thorough.
Thank you. The other guy is heavy handed and I wish he was through.

DoomRulz

Horhey, why the heck don't you use the same avatar from that forum, here? It's pretty epic ;D 8)

Vulhala

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PM
Quote from: Vulhala on Apr 22, 2011, 12:33:50 PM
Owned. I have to hand it to you Mal, you're nothing if not thorough.

And I will continue to chew him up and spit him all over you. Who's "owned"? You know nothing and I will continue to exploit that with a slapping.

You'll find that difficult. At least for the next 48 hours. For someone seemingly quite intelligent, which I have no doubt you are, that was ill advised. I didn't insult you, and I don't expect it back. Your ability to post will be restored this time on Sunday.

Horhey

For the record. I was out of line with the above comment. Even if he was one of the hecklers, which he is not.

Horhey

Horhey

#232
The World Court finds the United States Guilty of International Terrorism against Nicaragua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOsDwFo2EhM#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2O0qAtKrYk#

Nicaragua did not respond to the terrorist attacks with bombings in the US. Rather, it went to the World Court for relief.

In 1986, the court ruled in Nicaragua's favor, dismissing US claims and condemning Washington for "unlawful use of force" - international terrorism, in lay terms. The ICJ also held that the U.S. had violated international law by mining Nicaragua's harbors. The decision had little effect. The World Court was condemned as a "hostile forum" by the editors of the New York Times, and therefore, irrelevant, like the U.N. US aid to the contras was described as "humanitarian" in violation of the court ruling.

As expected, despite the careful and authoritative reasoning by whitch the Court reached it's decision, the New York Times Editorial page denounced the ruling and even accused many of the judges of being Communists. It wrote:

QuotePredictably, the World Court has found the United States guilty of violating international law by supporting the ''contra'' war against Nicaragua. Just as predictably, the Reagan Administration feels vindicated for not bothering to defend itself; it scorns this frail institution as irredeemably hostile.

The Court's judgement was deplorably broad, but America's response was damagingly petulant. The "laws" the Court seeks to articulate are more accurately values, rooted in traditions that America should honor even in a hostile forum. As the Nicaragua case shows, the absence of effective rebuttal only aggravates the Court's tendentiousness. Worse, for America not to defend its policy leaves the impression the policy is indefensible.

Despite the presence of Communist judges, and those of other incompatible ideologies, the Court is the only body that even pretends to search for rational guidelines of international conduct. In such a forum, and doubly so when it feels wronged, Americans should never be silent.

The following is the evidence the World Court based it's decision on..

Case concerning military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) by The International Court of Justice

On December 29, 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs issued a report condemning the CIA-Contras:

Quotethe CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against civillian population. The Contras have killed, tortured, raped, mutilated and abducted hundreds of civillians they suspect of sympathizing with the Sandinistas. Victims have included peasants, teachers, doctors and agricultural workers.

The United States administration, for it's critical role in facilitating the Contra violence must share responsibility as a hemispheric violator of human rights.

Human Rights Watch concurs:

Quotethe Contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners. The Bush administration is responsible for these abuses because the contras are, for all practical purposes, a U.S. force.



Another report, prepared by Reed Brody, a United States lawyer who spent four months in Nicaragua collecting over 40 sworn affidavits from victims and eyewitnesses, dsiclosed a "distinct pattern" of abuses by the Death Squads, including:

Quoteattacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly; - premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; - and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras; -assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; - intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; - and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy- trained lay pastors.

A report published jointly by the International Human Rights Law Group and Washington Office in Latin America, two private United States organizations that monitor human rights compliance, made the following statement based on an investigative mission they sent to Nicaragua in February 1985:

QuoteThe Contras do attack economic targets such as lumber yards, coffee processing plants, electrical generating stations and the like.... [They] also attack individuals deemed to be contributors to the country's economy pr its defense, such as telephone workers, coffee pickers, teachers, technicians, and members of the civilian-based militia...

Substantial credible evidence exists that Contra violence is also directed with some frequency at individuals who have no apparent economic, military, or political significance and against persons who are hors de combat.

It is important to emphasize that these are not persons caught in crossfire between Contra and Sandinista military units. These are unarmed civilians who have no connection with hostilities and who have been the targets of deliberate attack by Contra units.

Any provision of aid to the Contras, directly or indirectly, by the government of the United States would render our government indirectly responsible for their acts.

The following is part of former CIA analyst, David MacMichael's testimony at the World Court hearing:

QuoteThe principal actions to be undertaken were paramilitary which hopefully would provoke cross-border attacks by Nicaraguan forces and thus serve to demonstrate Nicaragua's aggressive nature and possibly call into play the Organization of American States' provisions (regarding collective self-defense).

It was hoped that the Nicaraguan Government would clamp down on civil liberties within Nicaragua itself, arresting its opposition, so demonstrating its allegedly inherent totalitarian nature and thus increase domestic dissent within the country, and further that there would be reaction against United States citizens, particularly against United States diplomatic personnel within Nicaragua and thus to demonstrate the hostility of Nicaragua towards the United States.

A Training Manual designed for the CIA-Contra forces (the Guerillas) attacking Nicaragua. The manual advised:

QuoteCIA PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE

Tactical Manual for the Revolutionary

ARMED PROPAGANDA

If a guerrilla fires at an individual, make the town see that he was an enemy of the people and that the weapon fired was one recovered in combat against the Sandinista regime. Make the population see that if the Sandinista regime had ended the repression, the freedom commandos would not have had to brandish arms against brother Nicaraguans.

Implicit and Explicit Terror

If the government police cannot put an end to the guerrilla activities, the population will lose confidence in the government, which has the inherent mission of guaranteeing the safety of citizens.

Selective Use of Violence for Propagandists Effects

It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, mesta judges, police and State Security officials, CDS chiefs, etc. [As writer Holly Sklar noted, "a hit list that starts with court judges and ends with etcetra is a mighty broad license for murder."]

Creation of Nuclei

If possible, professional criminals will be hired to carry out specific selected "jobs."

The notification of the police, denouncing a target who does not want to join the guerrillas, can be carried out easily, when it becomes necessary, through a letter with false statements of citizens who are not implicated in the movement.

Ways to Lead an Uprising at Mass Meetings

Specific tasks will be assigned to others, in order to create a "martyr" for the cause, taking the demonstrators to a confrontation with the authorities, in order to bring about uprisings or shootings, which will cause the death of one or more persons, who would become the martyrs, a situation that should be made use of immediately against the regime, in order to create greater conflicts.

Shock Troops. These men should be equipped with weapons (Knives, razors, chains, clubs, bludgeons) and should march slightly behind the innocent and gullible participants. They should carry their weapons hidden. They will enter into action only as "reinforcements" if the guerrilla agitators are attacked by the police. They will enter the scene quickly, violently and by surprise, in order to distract the authorities, in this way making possible the withdrawal or rapid escape of the inside commando.

The International Court of Justice found that:

Quotethe United States of America, by producing in 1983 a manual entitled 'Operaciones sicológicas en guerra de guerrillas', and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

The Court, which is the highest judicial body of the United Nations, ruled that by arming and financing the Contra death squads, attacking Nicaragua, and laying explosive mines in the territorial waters of Nicaragua, in addition to other offenses, the United States had volated international law. The Court also ordered the United States to cease and refrain from such actions and to pay reparations to Nicaragua.

The calls were dismissed as ridiculous by the Reagan administration and their allies in the agenda setting "liberal media". Congress immediatly approved an additional 100 million to escalate what the court had condemned as the "unlawful use of force." The US continued to undermine "utopian, legalistic means" untill it acheived it's goal by terror.

Following the US rejection of World Court orders Nicaragua took its case to the Securirty Council, which endorsed the court's judgement and called on all states to observe international law. The US vetoed the resolution. Then Nicaragua took it to the general assembly, which passed a similar resolution with only the US, Israel and El Salvador opposed. None of this was ever reported so it has disapeared from history.

TO BE CONTINUED

DoomRulz

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PM
Quote from: DoomRulz on Apr 22, 2011, 04:20:18 PM
Horhey, why the heck don't you use the same avatar from that forum, here? It's pretty epic ;D 8)

I just hope Lesnar doesnt underestimate Dos Santos. Ive seen what he can do on my DVD. If you blink, all you'll see is his oponent drop and you'll be like "what just happenned?" You have to rewind it and then watch in slow motion to see his punches. Kinda like Bruce Lee.

Come over to this thread: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=5869.msg100162#msg100162

Horhey

Horhey

#234
President Reagan: "I am a Contra"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvTyi58KMq0#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D436_CO8VI#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbqOkZbCfw#

Washington's reaction to the orders of the World Court was to escalate the terrorist war, while also ordering its Death Squads to go "after soft targets" - undefended civilian targets - and to avoid the Nicaraguan army.

The Boston Globe Reports:

QuoteGen. John Galvin, leader of the US southern command, told a House subcommittee yesterday that the contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government have a better chance of winning than they did just a few months ago and attributed his growing optimism to the contras' new strategy of attacking civilian targets instead of soldiers.

Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere subcommittee, Galvin said, "The contras have a fighting chance if we sustain them" with continued military aid. "It's getting better. In the past few months, I'm more hopeful than I was before."

Asked after the hearing what the contras have achieved the past few months, Galvin replied, "Lots of victories. They're going after soft targets. They're not trying to duke it out with the Sandinistas directly."



The Reagan Administration was deliberately attacking the popular and successful institutions developed by the Sandinistas. Horatio Arce, one of the Contra rebels destabilising Nicaragua, admitted in 1988 that:

QuoteWe attack a lot of schools, health centers, and those sorts of things.  We have tried to make it so that the Nicaraguan government cannot provide social services for the peasants, cannot develop its project . . . that's the idea.

Washington ordered its Death Squads to attack "soft targets," with horrific results. An eyewitness to a Contra raid in Jinotega province said:

QuoteRosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off and their eyes poked out. They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit.

When asked by the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs to define US policy in Nicaragua, former CIA Director Stansfield Turner responded with with following statement:

QuoteI believe it is irrefutable that a number of the Contras' actions have to be characterized as terrorism, as State-supported terrorism.



Human Rights Watch (formerly Americas Watch) issued a report citing systematic murders by the Death Squads.

Human Rights Watch reports:

QuoteThe contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.

The Bush administration is responsible for these abuses, not only because the contras are, for all practical purposes, a U.S. force, but also because the Bush administration has continued to minimize and deny these violations, and has refused to investigate them seriously.

Human Rights Watch reports:

QuoteThe conduct of the military conflict, particularly by the insurgent forces (commonly known as "contras"), continued to have a severe impact on rural civilians. Violations of the laws of armed conflict by the contras cause great suffering to the Nicaraguan people.

The Contras have been:

*targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination.
*kidnapping civilians.
*torturing civilians.
*executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat.
*raping women.
*indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses.
*seizing civilian property.
*burning civilian houses in captured towns.

In contrast, Human Rights Watch's harshest critisism of the Sandinista government was the following:

QuoteAlthough the government of Nicaragua does not engage in systematic violations of laws of war in the course of military operations, we believe it needs to make greater efforts to investigate alleged violations by members of the military, to try those responsible for abuses that have undoubtedly occurred and to punish those persons convicted with all the vigor of the law.

TO BE CONTINUED

PLEXI

Just skimmed the thread a bit..  I'm sure I've read about all of this stuff already, but kudos for putting it all together into one behemoth. 

My only question is; wouldn't these posts be better suited to a forum that more actively analyzes these kinds of topics?  It also usually helps when you narrow the focus on one thing at a time too.  Just my two cents.   

Horhey

Horhey

#236
Quote from: PLEXI on Apr 23, 2011, 12:22:40 AM
Just skimmed the thread a bit..  I'm sure I've read about all of this stuff already, but kudos for putting it all together into one behemoth. 

My only question is; wouldn't these posts be better suited to a forum that more actively analyzes these kinds of topics?  It also usually helps when you narrow the focus on one thing at a time too.  Just my two cents.

Yea well I made the mistake of starting this thread so I guess I have to finish it. Still though, it's turning into a far more improved compolation of information that I can use at another time. It does go in order though. You just have to skip the comments and find my next post.

maledoro

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PMI already said I posted this stuff at another forum.
That's not the issue; it's that you're just randomly cutting and pasting shit from fringe websites.

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PMAfter it was requested and apolagists like yourself challanging me with nonsense of course.
I haven't defending anyone or anything, so how am I an apologist?

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PMIm a hero at that forum ;D
You may be a social lion there, but you're an animal cracker here.

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 22, 2011, 04:41:47 PMHavent been active there in a long time though. I kinda wanted to stop paying attention to this stuff.
And what better way to do that than to post it on another forum?

maledoro

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 02:29:03 AMYou're defending the empire by f**king with me.
Wooh!
:o  ;D

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 02:29:03 AMYou're acting like you feal threatened by this stuff.
Not really. ♠ = ♠.

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 02:29:03 AMYou asked for it when you called me a nutjob when I said it doesnt matter who the President is.
So, you're only posting this crap as an act of revenge toward me. That makes it even funnier!

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 02:29:03 AMI already told you how you can make it stop but you havent done it yet, because you cant. Period.
Reread that outloud; it contradicts itself.

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 02:29:03 AMYou've already tried by doing searches with my info here and you failed.
No, I found pages where you cribbed "your" ideas from.

maledoro

Quote from: Horhey on Apr 23, 2011, 03:00:40 AMWell yea, some of the narraration comes from other places. Im not gonna sit here and type the whole thing out. Check page 1 for the credit. That's right. It's been credited. Nice try. Clearly, that's the best you can do.
I guess I did better than you credited me for. You cited Stockwell's book, but ever since you've been copying and pasting the tripe from other websites. Geez, you can't even rant in your own words?

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