Reply #19: "the US had no authority...". Give me a break! [View All]

By what authority was the U.S. operating torture prisons in Iraq, at Abu Ghraib, in Guantanamo Bay, in Eastern Europe, in other Middle Eastern countries, in Afghanistan and God knows where else?

By what authority did the U.S. bomb and invade Iraq, slaughtering 100,000 innocent people?

By what authority is the U.S. killing civilians every week in Afghanistan?

By what authority did the U.S. abduct people from their countries and imprison them, and torture them, or "render" them for torture?

By what authority did the U.S. depose President Aristide of Haiti and remove him from his country?

By what authority did William Brownfield sign an outrageous, illegal, secretly negotiated U.S./Colombia military agreement, which expanded the U.S. military presence in Colombia to at least seven more bases, and granted "total diplomatic immunity" to all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia?

By what authority did Brownfield extradite death squad witnesses from Colombia to the U.S., over the vociferous objections of Colombian prosecutors and judges?

By what authority did the U.S. keep shoveling millions of dollars at the junta in Honduras? Honduras had no government. They had an illegitimate junta which received no recognition from any government in Latin America. So under what authority did the U.S. do this?

By what authority did the State Department use our tax money to pay John McCain's "International Republican Institute" to "monitor" the martial law election in Honduras? Honduras had no government. They had an illegitimate junta which received no recognition from any government in Latin America. So under what authority did the U.S. do this?

The U.S. government does what it damn pleases. Any half sentient human being knows this. And the Pentagon and the CIA are even worse. They are authorities unto themselves, with virtually no connection to the people who fund their trillion dollar budgets. They spy on everybody. They spy on us. They probably spy on the President and the State Department. They have their own foreign policies, their own agendas (protecting and expanding all that money), their own secrets, their own dirty games. They want a war? They can make it happen, right now. They have set-ups for MANY "Gulf of Tonkins" all over the world. That's yet another purpose for their thousand military bases around the world. Power to make war happen, at their choosing.

And, believe me, they knew damn well what was happening in Honduras and the Pentagon stood down.

We are talking here about a U.S. client state, dependent on U.S. taxpayers for operating expenses and for military expenses, training and equipment--a country the Reaganites wrote the constitution for, and used as their stepstool to war against neighboring countries. Honduras was experiencing a TERRORIST incident--the abduction of their president by the military and the set-up of a completely illegitimate junta, that immediately started inviting death squads into the country to kill leftists, and that was cruelly beating up, imprisoning, raping and torturing thousands of their people.

But the U.S. didn't care, and that is a fact. And the Pentagon didn't care, and that is a fact. They could have stopped it at any point, and they didn't. You know, I don't know what went down between Hillary Clinton and John "death squad" Negroponte. Maybe she was informed of the limits of her power. Maybe HE was running U.S. policy on Honduras. But you cannot tell me that the U.S. military could not have stopped that plane from taking off from their base, if they had been ordered to, and damn the consequences. Who would have objected? Hm? Who would taken the U.S. to the World Court for not having the authority? There would have been cheers all over Latin America! Nobody would have cared "by what authority," with Honduras' democracy, and President Zelaya's life and the lives of many in Honduras at immediate risk.

The U.S. arrogates plenty of "authority" to itself for doing evil, and none for doing the right thing.