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The Laissez Faire City Times
April 12, 1999 - Volume 3, Issue 15
Editor & Chief: Emile Zola
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War is Peace
by Don Lobo Tiggre
Well, history seems to be repeating itself. Bloated nation-states
entangled in outdated alliances are taking a relatively minor backwater
conflict and making it escalate, just as they did in World War I. And
why? Because they�re spilling blood over there� So, like parents setting
a "good" example by beating a child who has hit another child, Bill
Clinton and his NATO cronies are waging war to teach the virtue of
peace.
The hypocrisy of a president who protested and avoided taking part in a
similar Big Brother police action when he was younger, and who�s now
sending young Americans to die in yet another senseless war is
inescapable. The unmitigated gall of it is enough to make one sick, if
one weren�t already made sick by the voting public�s sanction of such
hypocrisy. However, beyond hypocrisy, there are many good reasons why
the U.S. and NATO Johnny-come-lately entry into this 1000-year-old
conflict is a bad idea. Here�s a quick list for starters:
1] You can�t teach peace at the point of a gun (so, not surprisingly,
NATO�s action has resulted in an escalation of the violence against
"ethnic Albanians" in Kosovo).
2] If the U.S. and NATO have a right to stop "bad things" from happening
anywhere in the world, even within the borders of sovereign countries,
then they are declaring themselves to be the de facto world government.
There are no more sovereign countries.
3] The U.S. military was established by the Constitution and its authors
to defend the several states from foreign aggression. "Global cop"
adventures are inconsistent with and undermine the U.S. constitution,
which U.S. national leaders have sworn to uphold.
4] NATO was created to enable combined western strength against Eastern
aggression. The "mission creep" implicit in this "global cop" action
goes against NATO�s charter, and is an object lesson in why NATO should
have been disbanded when the Eastern threat collapsed.
5] By acting aggressively in ways that violate the alliance�s reason for
existing, NATO is destabilizing the region (NATO claims to the contrary
not withstanding) and increasing the chances of a minor conflict growing
to engulf peoples that presently have nothing at stake in the conflict.
(Russia has kicked out its NATO representatives and sent warships to the
area�that should be enough to make any sane person at least a little
nervous.)
6] U.S. taxpayer money is being spent on "do gooding" that many
taxpayers consider to be quite the opposite. The U.S. government is
dropping million-dollar bombs to no worthy effect, a major waste of
taxpayer money, even that of hawkish taxpayers.
7] Civilians in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY � Serbia), most
of whom didn�t even support Milosevic before the bombing started, are
being killed. Remember that Milosevic is not the properly elected leader
of FRY; he set aside the elections, which he lost! How ironic it would
be if the casualties included some of the students who protested
Milosevic�s illegal regime students who received high praise from
American couch potatoes who watched them on the 6 o�clock news.
8] FRY was/is acting within its own borders. We may not like what
Milosevic�s soldiers are doing to the "ethnic Albanians" (not that it�s
much different from what Albanians have done to Serbs and Croats in the
past, or Croats to Serbs and Muslims�), but where does a U.S. president
or NATO get the authority to apply force to a sovereign nation that is
not attacking a single other country (such as Iraq did)?
9] The U.S. didn�t like what the Chinese did within their own borders as
regards Tienanmen Square, but didn�t try to stop the bloodshed with
bombs. There�s plenty of ethnic violence in northern Ireland, why not
bomb them too? What about the scores of ethnic and nationalistic
conflicts going on around the world? Hey, using this U.S./NATO action as
precedent, we could finally get rid of those pesky inner city ghettos in
the U.S.�there�s plenty of violence (some of it is even ethnic) going on
there�by having the government do a MOVE bombing on a national scale.
That would take care of the problem quite nicely, and the BATF could
bring along their flags to hoist after the Federal Baby Incinerators are
done gassing the children of resistors.
10] If the U.S. and NATO back Kosovar independence, then they�d have to
back Chechen independence in Russia in order to remain consistent.
They�d have to let Texas secede too, if Texas adopt the Texas
Constitution 2000. Or how about me? If I�m the Tiggre Liberation Army,
will the U.S. bomb itself when I fight back against their oppression?
This war in Yugoslavia makes U.S./NATO policy self-contradictory and
destructive.
11] Our "temporary" troops in Bosnia are still there�do we really want
to see U.S. troops permanently garrisoned in Serbia too? How many
countries will we occupy before their people bring the war home to
American soil, and American civilians start dying in large numbers from
retaliatory attacks?
12] The bombings led to an intensification of the Milosevic offensive,
which has produced a flood of refugees into neighboring countries that
do not have the facilities to deal with the hundreds of thousands of
homeless. The U.S. and NATO are spreading chaos.
13] Serbians now see themselves as victims of aggression, and are
beginning to unite, behind Milosevic. Where he was a tyrant and usurper
of power before, he�s now becoming a national hero for refusing to
knuckle under to foreign aggression. U.S. and NATO action is giving this
man more power than he would otherwise have had. He has declared martial
law, and is drafting up the more and more people to send them off to
war.
14] Reports indicate that many Serbians blame the Albanians for the rain
of death on their cities and villages, and hate them as an ethnic group
even more than before. The willingness to negotiate to try to find peace
has been blasted out of existence.
15] A decade of bombing and tens of thousands of American dead failed to
conquer the Vietnamese. What makes anyone think this will end
differently? Even the ruthless Germans failed to subdue the Serbs during
World War II. And the Serbs will NOT give up�they�ve been invaded and
suffered their own massacres too many times to give in. In the name of
saving lives, the president is pursuing a course that could lead to
decades of mounting body counts.
There�s plenty more where the above came from. If any of these arguments
make sense to you, there�s a lot you can do to oppose the war. One easy
thing is to sign an anti-war petitions, such as the one at:
http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=117042
But you know, none of this touches on what really has me stirred up
about this particular war.
Let me tell you about my friend; I�ll call her Nina out of respect for
her privacy. Nina is a Serb. She�s only 18, is wise beyond her years,
and remembers well the time when her country was a peaceful and
beautiful place. She and her family had to flee their home in
Mostar�remember that Serbs have been victims of "ethnic cleansing"
too�during the war in Bosnia. Nina remembers well the months of protests
in Yugoslavia when Milosevic set aside the elections. Either in spite
of, or because of all that she�s been through, Nina has a profound grasp
of the true nature of freedom. She knows what so few people discover in
their whole lives: that freedom is a personal choice.
Nina is here in the U.S. as an exchange student. She loves literature
and wants to be a writer. She is a writer; even in her hesitant English,
she writes stories with beautiful and disturbing power. With her
stories, she wants to teach people what she�s learned. She wants to
teach them to savor life as it is, to find freedom and happiness here on
this world. And did I mention that�s she�s heart-stoppingly beautiful?
It almost hurts to hold such an exquisite human being in my mind�s eye.
But our happy conversation about teaching freedom and crafting stories
came to a halt when that rapist scum from Arkansas started the bombing
of her home. Nina was up all of that first night, getting e-mail in
half-hour intervals from her family in Belgrade.
It makes me want to scream and cry in frustration. Stop! Stop! You�re
killing innocent people. You�re dropping bombs around my friend�s
family!
By my life, it makes me angry too. I�m angry that this common criminal
dares to claim that he represents Americans, and American interests, in
this conflict. He does not represent me, nor the many peace-loving
Americans who are embarrassed by his insane foreign policy. HE�S NOT MY
FUCKING PRESIDENT!
He�s going to start World War III and invite international terrorists to
come blow up my family and other people�s families, all because of a
policy we don�t support regarding something that is none of our
business. If Bill Clinton wants to stop the Serbian offensive so badly,
why doesn�t he resign as president, buy a so-called "assault rifle", and
go on over there himself and get down in the trenches with the Kosovar?
Why didn�t those spineless cowards in the Senate remove him from office
while they had the chance? Oh Life�not again! How many times must we
learn this lesson?
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
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Don Lobo Tiggre is the author of Y2K: The Millennium Bug, a suspenseful
thriller. Tiggre can be found at the Liberty Round Table and The Liberty
Channel.
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from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, No 15, April 12, 1999
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