From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: "The New Colonialism" by Mumia Abu-Jamal [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Forward from mart. Please distribute widely. ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Lippmann Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: ["The New Colonialism" by Mumia Abu-Jamal THE NEW COLONIALISM [Col. Writ. 10/10/01] Copyright '01 M.A. Jamal Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent -- Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman With the news that American political leaders are involved in intense meetings with the deposed King of Afghanistan is the revelation that the United States is trying to install a king over another people. What's wrong with this, people? How does it make sense for a nation that calls for democracy to impose, with its guns and military might, a royal house upon a foreign people? Muhammad Zahir Shah, an octogenarian who was overthrown from the Afghani throne back in 1973, is now living in Rome and is being groomed to be reinstalled in Kabul by the U.S. government. Gone from his homeland for almost thirty years now (28, to be precise) why does the U.S. want to seat him, when the Afghani people have expressed no significant interest in his return for almost three decades? It is hard for one to resist the temptation that the U.S. wants to put in a puppet that it can manipulate, control and rule through. What seems clear is that the U.S. is doing, this time through military means, what it has done before in the region through spycraft. In the 1950s, the CIA brought about the removal of Iranian premier, Muhammad Mossadegh, to return the Shah to power, which in turn led the nation down the road that turned Iran into a repressive state, to keep oil under Western control. Are the Afghanis somehow too primitive (in U.S. eyes) to appreciate the principle of democracy? What emerges from this U.S. attempt to install a potentate is the reality that the Americans don't really give a damn about democracy. Almost all of the states in the region that the U.S. calls allies are as far from democracies as the earth is from the moon. If the U.S. cared about democracies, why has U.S. foreign policy for the last half-century been the protection, sustaining and arming of anti-democratic dictators? From Marcos in the Phillipines, Suharto in Indonesia, the Duvaliers in Haiti, and to Mobutu in Zaire, and on, and on. Indeed, we need not go that far. The recent elections in Florida, which featured racial and ethnic profiling of Black, Haitian and Jewish voters there, and thereby denying them the opportunity to meaningfully participate in the U.S. democracy by voting, proves that Americans need not go abroad to protect or promote democracy. There is something unseemly about a nation that came into being by declaring independence from a king to urge a king upon a foreign people. Democracy begins at home. Copyright MAJ '01 ==================================> THEY ARE PLANNING TO MURDER MUMIA!! "We are fighting the last battle to Free Mumia, and need support now ore than ever. We need donations of money, calling cards, copy cards, etc. and we really need manpower. We need people to be in the streets every day putting out information, demonstrating, raising money, and doing whatever you can to help." "Tell judge pamela dembe to hold an evidentiary hearing and a new post-conviction relief appeal, to hear the confession of Arnold everly and to let Mumia be at the hearings in his "trial". Tell mayor john street to keep his promise and do what he can to help Mumia receive a fair trial and to hold an independent investigation into the case. (you can get a sample of both of these letters at http://www.freemumia.com) pamela dembe: 1417 criminal justice center 1301 Filbert St. philadelphia pa, 19107 Phone 215 683-7148 Fax 215 683-7150 john street: room 215 city hall philadelphia pa 19107 Phone 215 686-3000 Fax 215 686-2170" PLEASE CONTACT: International Concerned Family & Friends of MAJ P.O. Box 19709, Philadelphia, PA 19143 Phone - 215-476-8812/ Fax - 215-476-6180/ E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.mumia.org AND OFFER YOUR SERVICES! Send our brotha some LOVE and LIGHT at: Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335 SCI-Greene 175 Progress Drive Waynesburg, PA 15370 !! PEOPLE GET READY !! _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
