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Welcome to the New World Order
By Rita Weinstein
February 28, 2006
The Project for The New American Century is widely accepted as the blueprint for what the neocons have been trying to accomplish ever since they "took" office in 2000. Founded in 1997, this think tank published its goals in the 2000 paper: "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century," a vision of global dominance by the American empire. This vision includes permanent bases in Southern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East; building up our military; putting a strategic missile system into place; and controlling cyberspace. The result is intended to be total global control. The PNAC document also includes preparation for, and actually launching, wars on multiple fronts throughout the globe. What the blueprint for empire does not explicitly state is a possibility that has begun taking hold of my awareness in recent weeks that one of those fronts is America itself.
Since this administration took office, the Constitution has been suspended, article by article. Unitary American Executive (read: dictator) Bush believes our founding fathers wrote a Constitution that grants him the right to kidnap, detain, torture, and even kill any person on the planet, simply by declaring that person an enemy combatant. UAE Bush now has a judiciary, headed by the Supreme Court, that will not oppose his grab for unlimited power over the life and death of the planet and every soul on it.
Since this administration took office, two major cities have been attacked, both with prior warning. Neither was defended. In fact, one (New Orleans) is still on a knife edge of existence. We now know that in both cases, criminal negligence of the executive branch took place, yet not a single person has lost a job for causing the loss of thousands of lives. In both cases, UAE Bush displayed a total unconcern for the outcome prior to catastrophes he knew were on the way.
THOSE "DETENTION CAMPS"
I had an uncle who, as a half-starved 15-year-old, was part of the uprising against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. He survived the concentration camp after he was captured. Since I read about Halliburton's immense contract to build a network of detention camps across the US, I have not been able to get him out of my mind.
According to the Halliburton web site, "The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." In other words, at this moment, camps are being constructed for new programs that are being put into place.
Who are these camps being built for? What new programs? Have we the people been told? There never has been a dictator that did not have his secret detention camps. UAE Bush is not unique.
THE PORTS DEAL
The administration is now enveloped in a firestorm of criticism over the sale of our ports to the State of Dubai. At first, the deal was reported to involve six ports. The latest number making the rounds is 21. From the time the story broke, UAE Bush has vowed that the deal will go through. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice concurs. Both say that nothing can be done to stop the sale. Yet, curiously, after the firestorm exploded, Press Secretary Scott McClellan said that UAE Bush didn't know about the sale until he read about it in the media. (He only learned about the disaster in New Orleans after one of his staff made a 2-hour DVD of the news coverage to show him after the fact.)
Michael Chertoff, Head of Homeland Security, and Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, also said they didn't know anything about the sale until the story broke, a more than curious excuse since their offices require them to be knowledgeable about critical national security issues. They have joined UAE Bush in suggesting that all those who oppose the sale on security grounds must be closet racists who hate dark-skinned people from a certain part of the globe. Yet, they are the very ones who have been playing the fear card ever since the attacks of 9/11. They include many who deliberately conflate those who flew planes into the WTC with Muslims in general.
The question of our national security being harmed as a result of this sale is legitimate. Why should any foreign government have control of such critical strategic and economic assets? Why have we not created a Port Security Agency much like the agency that controls airport security? Why are we not recruiting loyal Americans to supervise and manage our docking facilities?
A CONTROLLED DEMOLITION
I believe that what we are witness to is the controlled demolition of the United States of America. Everything that has happened since December 12, 2000, when the Supreme Court appointed UAE Bush to the presidency, has been about setting this country up for a hostile takeover by the Bush global syndicate.
Remember George H.W. Bush, friend and business partner of the bin-Laden and Saudi royal families, former head of the CIA, well-versed in the strategies of destabilizing and overthrowing governments throughout the world? Remember his talking about "a New World Order"? What exactly was the New World Order supposed to look like? I'm thinking we're about to find out.
For six years, we've watched the Bush administration systematically gut the U.S. treasury, military, and security apparatus; destabilize the population by dividing it against itself and destroying the middle class; and facilitate the destruction of our manufacturing and corporate revenue base. Astronomical borrowing has turned America, once the world's greatest economic engine, into the world's greatest debtor.
Gearing up the factory lines to fight WWII ended the Great Depression. Our workforce contributed mightily to win that war. What happens now if we're attacked militarily? Do we outsource our tank and weapons orders to China?
MARTIAL LAW IN THE WORKS?
When Republican Congressman Ron Paul goes on the air to express his concern that foreign troops are being prepared to be mobilized outside and inside America to be used in a martial law takeover by the Bush administration, we need to take notice:"It's a horrible precedent and it's all part of the NAFTA scheme and globalization and world government … Obviously they shouldn't be permitted. What I'd like to see is that we don't have our troops in foreign countries and if we needed a national guard that they were back here at home, that's the bigger problem. Then if there were foreign troops on our soil maybe our state officials could deal with that with their own national guard."
To what other foreign governments will UAE Bush sell the rest of our strategic resources? For what "rapidly developing programs" will we need all those detention camps?
On February 6, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared before the Senate Judiciary committee to discuss warrantless eavesdropping (read: spying) on American citizens. At that hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested to the AG a new target for the administration -- fifth columnists, disloyal Americans who "sympathize and collaborate with the enemy." Graham said, "The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements -- I stand by this President's ability, inherent to being Commander in Chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don't think you need a warrant to do that" Graham then volunteered to help draft guidelines to neutralize those who sympathize and collaborate with those UAE Bush considers to be the enemy.
NEEDED: A WEAKER AMERICA
What does that mean -- "sympathize"? I sympathize deeply with the innocent Iraqi parents of the innocent Iraqi children who were born deformed from depleted uranium exposure. Also with the families of people everywhere whose loved ones have disappeared into the global American gulag. And the more than 100,000 civilians we killed in our "shock and awe" attack. Jesus said to pray for our enemies. Is praying for someone the same as collaborating?
And I wonder, when the National Guard, Army, and Reserves are all overseas fighting our permanent wars, what nationality will the camp guards be? Will Camp Guard become a great entry-level job for illegal aliens or foreign mercenaries?
A New World Order of dominance by a global syndicate run by Bush cronies is on our doorsteps. But it can't happen in a strong, democratic America. What it takes is a weakened America with all power consolidated in a unitary, monarchic executive, one who can sell off our strategic interests and lock up all dissenters. Are we there yet?
Rita Weinstein was a Media Consultant on the Kucinich for President campaign and now is assisting Mark Wilson in his challenge to Maria Cantwell in Washington State's Democratic primary. She is also a playwright.