August 9, 2004

• Today's Human Rights Roundup

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Again, it has begun...

  
  

   

  
  

  Once more, hate, violence, abuse against Jews in Auschwitz. Again, ignored by most of the press. The only difference: this time the instigators are French. Reported only by the Jerusalem Post, this provocative attack, undertaken at one of the most solemn memorials for Jews who remember the Nazi death camps of 59 years ago, was just the latest incident around Europe where Jewish bystanders were assaulted with slurs, cruel rhetoric and violence. But this one is arguably the most egregious. While in the past few years, we have witnessed countless abuses by anti-Semites, even the burning of Synagogues the likes of which we have not seen since the Second World War, today is marked as the end of such flirtation with Satanic nostalgia into a consummation of a new Dark Wave of hellish history. Now that the unspoken line has been crossed, of an assault on a people even at the site of the most world-renowned human cruelty- and with no worldwide outcry, it can be reasonably feared that the nations today have officially christened this ship of horror, though we had once promised to remember the lesson- to never forget- but have, to sail again the miserable waters of murdered dreams and innocence spilled in blood.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Pre-9/11 Chinese Government Documents Linked in Principle to 2001 Al Qaeda Attack

  
  

   

  
  

  According to a recent report on China’s military buildup and tensions with Taiwan,

  
  

   

  
  

   “Instead, China had to develop ‘asymmetrical’ warfare to defeat the U.S. in any conflict. Interestingly, ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ became an instant best seller in China after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In the 1998 book, the Chinese colonels suggested that a successful bombing by Osama bin Laden of the World Trade Center would be an example of this new “unrestricted warfare” concept.”

  
  

   

  
  

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  Communist Chinese Delegation Cheers on 9/11

  
  

  Today a report has come out which says Chinese foreign journalists visiting the U.S. in early September 2001 were cheering and celebrating as the images of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were broadcast before them. Frontpagemag.com says,

  
  

   

  
  

  “The most shocking example of [The Department of] State’s hyper-sensitivity not to offend its guests came in the days immediately following 9/11, when the organizers of the IVP were faced with a controversy over what to do with a delegation of Chinese journalists who reportedly cheered and laughed while watching the attacks unfold on television. For days,  [The Department of] State refused to suspend their program and only after the group’s escort threatened to leak the story to the media did it take some action. The suspension was officially attributed to ’security reasons,’ yet no other delegation was sent home during the days following 9/11.”

  
  

   

  
  

  Major Direct Al-Qaeda Tie Between Operations in Chechnya and West  

  
  

  Esa al-Hindi, recently arrested in London helped to finance Qaeda operations in the West, as well as in Chechnya. He also is said to be involved in supporting pro-Pakistani Islamic militants in Kashmir (which borders Pakistan, India and China) as well “Palestinian” causes. This may be another piece to the puzzle Blogbat calls "The al Qaeda Triangle".

  
  

   

  
  

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  Kerry Dealt with Firm Tied to Chinese Military

  
  

  Chinagate Part Deux: Company using US ties to gain access to high technology with PLA military use may also have DNC ties

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Death of Sovereignty

  
  

  To some the US government has turned into 1930s Norway and Bush has become Quisling.  If the sentiment were popular, such public opinion should virtually decide the upcoming Presidential election not in Bush's favor. But Kerry, to our dismay and despair is unquestionably worse. Sure, history may not view foreign involvement in our sovereign elections for the first time since we won independence from Great Britain in the 18^th century as a crisis of national identity. On the other hand in the event of a soured election similar to the one in 2000, we might find members of the UN Security Council (Russia, China, France et al.), along with traitor politicians, pushing to have peace-keepers brought in. Worse-case scenario would then find numerous other parties finding opportunity for terrorist attacks and nefarious engagements. With 100+ thousand troops committed abroad, we could quickly wind up in a very bad situation. 

  
  

   

  
  

  The matter was initially pushed in the political realm by nine leftist congressmen, who wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Koffe Annon in early July. Despite the hue and cry by Americans and an outpouring of letters and phone calls to their representatives, President Bush finally consented to allow Austrian observers to monitor American elections, and Colon Powell, now showing the Internationalist tendencies Blogbat has long suspected, was the man to make the formal offer. It now seems far more than doubtful the political intelligence or loyalty of our executive branch. As for me, they abide as always with the Constitution of the United States, as constructed by Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Hancock and other patriots. What is not in doubt is the loyalty of most Americans, with whom I belong. Mr. President, do not forget that we do not swear our allegiance to you, nor do we to any man. Ours alone belongs to our Constitution and it will be so regardless of who its enemies choose to be. One might ask why Americans are so. It is namely and chiefly for the reason that the US Constitution has proven to be the single best protector of human rights the world has ever seen. However it cannot survive in sustained political implementation without a fully-sovereign and adherent government.

  
  

   

  
  

  Given that John Kerry is clearly far worse than the current administration (and Bush has some good points), Most of us will likely vote for our current President come November. However, the public surely will have a few options after the election. Americans may re-elect George W. Bush, but that does not mean they will not turn around and seek his impeachment, if so provoked. The Founding Fathers have shown us by word and example that it is our eternal duty to throw off any government that directly threatens our liberty and any Constitution which recognizes it.

  
  

   

  
  

  The opposing view from some in the State Department will most likely be that the US is not really surrendering sovereignty though because the monitors observations bear no teeth. But this simply shows either a substantial historical naïveté or something worse. Either choice is frightening in our current world. Even if our elections are not too close and such an extreme-scenario as I mentioned above does not materialize this time, it sets a precedent by which future erosion, by example of the long-flowing course of historic events, will undoubtedly occur.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

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  U.N. Security Council Dissolves Panel Monitoring Al-Qaeda

  
  

  From a news release last February. Worthy of mention are the Security Council members who include members from countries either secretly or not-so-secretly supporting Al Qaeda.

  
  

   

  
  

  In 2001, shortly before the Chinese downed a US aircraft, holding its crew hostage and stealing the plane’s technology and mission-data, as well as before the terrorist attacks in September, the US was kicked off the UN Human Rights Commission. Not long thereafter, the UN selected Libya as her replacement, in spite of outrage from human rights groups around the world.

  
  

   

  
  

  The UN in the Sudan

  
  

  A path of resolutions leading to nowhere. And the Sudanese government has a friend in Libya.

  
  

   

  
  

  The Legacy of Campaign 2000

  
  

   

  
  

  Whispers to Abolish UN Gaining in Mainstream:

  
  

  From the right: Conservatives, dissatisfied with the performance of the UN, since its dubious inception, its fathers known Communists the likes of Alger Hiss, has been nothing but trouble both financial and political for the US hence.

  
  

  From the “middle”: The UN is proving nothing more than a group in the thrall of quid pro quo, protecting the world it seems from the vices of honest government and democracy, while lining pockets along the way.

  
  

  From even the left: http://www.acasa.upenn.edu/Replace_UN.pdf  (related blog: Designing A Replacement For The UN)

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

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