STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 6/9/01 4:19:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Pace said the court should be "a cathedral for the 21st century, not just another glass and brick box with a prison attached >> How appropriate calling it a cathedral! These huge and permanent edifices were built with the pietistic sweated labor of so many thousands of workers in the Middle Ages, as monuments to ignorance and the control of a feudal hierarchy. Standing all over Europe, Cathedrals cast their ideological shadows on the people and represented the false consciousness of the rulers and the church. It was within their "hallowed" walls that millions learned to accept false dogma and the "inevitability " their poverty and powerlessness. "The poor are always with us." "Pray for us." But rulers cannot build religious structures in the 21st Century in order to lay claim to moral rectitude. What institution today have they have built and consecrated to buttress their dominance and superiority? The law. Their law. It is sanctified, codified, "democratic," incontrovertible. Laws they write, courts they create, prisons they construct to protect their positions and wealth and to justify their depredations. As the cathedrals were the centers of feudal society, central to a system based on greed and expansion of power and exploitation, so too are the new Global Courts. And there they justify the rapine and pillage of the modern warlords who seek conquest and control. Francis Jennings, in the Invasion of America wrote: "Persons and groups reaching for illicit power . . . assume attitudes of great moral rectitude to divert attention from the abandonment of their own moral standards of behavior. Deception of the multitude becomes necessary to sustain power and deception of others rapidly progresses to deception of self." Soon it will be time for us to tear down their "Cathedrals of the 21st Century" and to create our own courts; we will accuse those responsible for their monstrous crimes against humanity. And the people of Eastern Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean will give testimony. We who have lived and struggled against the liars and deceivers and murderers in the beast's belly will stand up. And together we will judge and condemn those who have dared to judge us. Heather Cottin ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
