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Friday, Nov. 23, 2001. Page VIII
Global Eye -- A Thirsty Evil
By Chris Floyd
Are you a terrorist? If you don't know, you'd better find out fast.
Because Uncle Sam's made a list and he's checking it twice -- "40 to
50 countries" targeted for possible "U.S. action," according to
America's securely-located vice president, Dick "Chicken Hawk"
Cheney. As the man says, a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
So here's a simple test to check your moral worthiness and see if you
can escape God's -- sorry, Bush's -- all-devouring wrath. Have you
ever gone out for a beer and bought a Stella Artois instead of a Bud?
Then you, my friend, have engaged in a conspiracy to cause "adverse
effects" to the economy of the United States. And that makes you one
of the evildoers.
So says the great Oval Object in his latest executive order, in which
he grants himself the power to have anyone he designates as a
terrorist to be tried by secret military tribunals and executed
without appeal. Bush's dread edict -- which of course takes effect
without any input from that useless appendage of a bygone era, the
U.S. Congress -- covers anyone who "causes, threatens to cause" or
even "has as their aim" to cause "adverse eff
ects" on, among other things, the American economy or U.S. foreign policy.
As always, Bush alone retains the right to decide who is and who is not a terrorist,
just as he alone decides what constitutes an "adverse effect" on the United States.
Could be a bomb, a boycott, a protest, a tariff -- o
r the wrong beer: it's his call.
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The edict gives him the power to seize any non-U.S. citizen, in any country on earth,
and to subject him or her to secret summary justice. There is no outside check or
oversight of this exercise of universal dominion, and
no legal recourse for the accused -- not even to the laws of their own country.
Never has a single person in the history of the world laid claim to such absolute
power -- and commanded the military might to back it up. For we should also note that
Bush now has the authority to launch attacks against
any nation he chooses, at his own discretion, without a vote by Congress or that other
withered appendage, the United Nations.
And if you don't like it, pal, you can tell it to the judge. The military judge. Just
before he puts a bullet in your brain.
No Direction Home
But what about malcontents in what Bush now calls "the Homeland?" Hey, we got it
covered. The U.S. government now has the power to prosecute any public expression of
dissent as an act of "domestic terrorism," thanks to th
e super-duper new "U.S.A. Patriot" Act passed, in the dead of night, by Congress late
last month -- a law which most of the dangling legislative appendages freely admit
they never read before the vote.
Under the new law, you are a "domestic terrorist," subject to 25 years in prison, if
you engage in acts intended to "influence the policy of government by intimidation or
coercion." Which is, of course, the very definitio
n of public protest: the attempt to force policy changes on reluctant governments
through an unsettling display of popular will.
In this case, the Imperial Executive has delegated power to his most faithful minion:
Attorney General John Ashcroft. It is Ashcroft -- the only senator in U.S. history to
be rejected by voters in favor of a dead man -- w
ho will now define the limits of freedom in America.
And Ashcroft -- a prissy religious crank like his boss -- has gone about his task with
Christian zeal. (After all, your true believers know there is a higher law than that
secular humanist rag, the constitution.) For exam
ple, just last week, Ashcroft stripped prisoners of the ancient right to confer with
legal counsel in private, conferring upon himself the power to monitor any such
conversation whenever he sees fit.
This also applies to people being held without any charge at all -- and there are
hundreds, perhaps thousands, in that category now. We don't know the exact number,
because Ashcroft no longer tells anyone -- including the
Appendages -- how many people he's holding, or why he's holding them, or who they
are, or where they might be, or what he's going to do with them. But not to worry;
he's taking good care of his nameless captives. Why, on
ly one has died in custody so far. At least that we know about.
Because Ashcroft's not telling.
Bullet Points
The terrorist attacks on American liberty are coming so fast these days you can't keep
track of them all, and so your inundated Eye is reduced to making mere lists of a few
recent developments:
Bush insiders begin pushing the idea of using regular Army troops to "keep order"
among the general populace -- the kind of thing that once drove terrorist leaders like
George Washington and Patrick Henry to violent rebel
lion.
A rightwing group founded by the vice president's wife, Lynn Cheney, issues a list of
dozens of academics it considers "short on patriotism" for making critical comments
about American policy. The group plans more "naming
and shaming" of individuals who are "out of step" with the "Homeland."
Ashcroft orders the interrogation of an additional 5,000 young Arab men who entered
the country legally during the past two years. With a straight face, Ashcroft denies
singling out anyone on the basis of race, creed, or
national origin.
And finally, some good news: Billy Bush, radio DJ and the president's
first cousin, finds work after being canned by a small Virginia radio
station for low ratings. He's been hired by CNN.
>>>Hot linques @ site<<<
Other Countries Could Face US Military Action
The Guardian, Nov. 17, 2001
Text of Presidential Executive Order on Military Tribunals
The White House, Nov. 13, 2001
In War, It's Power to the President
Washington Post, Nov. 19, 2001
Seizing Dictatorial Power
William Safire, New York Times, Nov. 15, 2001
Lawmakers Debate Sending in the Troops � At Home
FoxNews.com, Nov. 9, 2001
Military Favors a Homeland Command
Washington Post, Nov. 21, 2001
Prosecutors Begin Effort to Interview 5,000
New York Times, Nov. 15, 2001
Conservatives Denounce Dissent
Boston Globe, Nov. 13, 2001
CNN Hires a Bush
National Journal Hotline Scoop, Nov. 16, 2001
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