Coming Soon to the US? Plan Condor, the Sequel

All the now familiar names are here: John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Otto Reich, Roger Noriega, Kissinger, etc.

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When Shimon Peres celebrated his 80th birthday on September 22nd, there at the top of the guest list, ahead of Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, South Africa's F.W. De Klerk, and Australia's Bob Hawke was Carlos Bulgheroni. Bulgheroni is head of the Argentinian energy company Bridas.<1> If terrorism cropped up in their conversation, Bulgheroni and Peres had plenty to reminisce about. Israel and Argentina served as US proxies training terrorists in Central America through the 1970s and 1980s.

Argentinian death squad trainers based in Guatemala were reported to have masqueraded as Bridas employees. During that time Peres served as Israel's Defence Minister, Prime Minister, deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister--well aware of Israeli military commitments in the Americas. Reviewing the background to US sponsored Argentinian and Israeli terrorism reveals how the fictional "war on terror" is just another pretext for the pillage of Latin America by the US government and its favoured multinational corporations.

Argentina--30,000 reasons to cry Three years after destroying democracy by instigating the military coup against Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, Henry Kissinger was in Santiago for a meeting of the Organization of American States. There he met the Argentinian military junta's foreign minister. According to Robert Hill, then U.S. Ambassador in Argentina, "Kissinger asked how long it would take ... to clean up the (terrorist) problem....Kissinger gave the Argentines the green light ... The Secretary wanted Argentina to finish its terrorist plan before year end." <2> Hill should know. It was he who served as intermediary between organizers of the Guatemalan death squads and leading figures in the Argentinian government.<3>

Between 1976 and 1983, under the military dictatorship, the Argentinian armed forces killed over 30,000 civilian members of the country's political opposition. Around 500 babies of women who gave birth in detention were distributed among their parents' murderers. In over 300 camps and detention centres, victims were tortured to death and then dumped in mass graves or flown out to be dropped into the Atlantic from military transport planes. Their property and goods were divided up among their torturers and murderers--over US$70m worth.

http://www.counterpunch.org/solo10012003.html

...in place.

The Patriot Act gives an American citizen no more rights than a suspected terrorist from a foreign country.

The top color bar on the Terror Alert grid allows law enforcement and/or the military to arrest anyone found on the streets at any time of the day or night.

And finally, although I'm sure this was not the original intention of the original proposers, the new quarantine laws allow medical authorities the right to seal off entire areas if any highly contagious disease is suspected in those areas.

Basically, an American citizen may be detained for any reason for any length of time. By using the quarantine laws and the terror alert grid, entire sections of the population could be isolated and dealt with as if they had contracted a fatal and highly contagious illness.

Does all of this make you nervous? If not, then it really should.