Protecting The World-Wide U.S. Terrorist Network

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CounterPunch
June 1, 2005

The Deeper Meaning of the Posada
Beyond Hypocrisy
By JAMES PETRAS

Posada was and is only one of a long series of terrorists who were or are instrumental agents of US destabilization campaigns. Miami is full of ex-Contras from Nicaragua, ex-paramilitary death squad leaders from Haiti, Colombia, Vietnam and El Salvador. Today Chechen terrorists, who were responsible for the murder of 323 schoolchildren and teachers in Russia are living on US stipends in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These terrorists are part of a system of power. They work for numerous US overseas secret police apparatus (CIA, DEA, DIA, NSC, SEAL etc) which engage in assassinations and sabotage to further US imperial interests.

The terrorist Posada is a symbol of the US international para-state: to extradite him means that all the current terrorists working for the US would lose confidence in their paymaster. Facing a choice between complying with international law and a bilateral extradition treaty with Venezuela or retaining the "confidence" and providing security of its terror networks, Washington has chosen the latter. Employing terrorists is a two-edged sword ­ Posada depends on US protection and Washington depends on Posada to remain silent about his long standing ties with the US terror network. Abiding to international law puts into question the deeper structures of US imperial power, the violent face behind the façade of democratic propaganda.

Posada, the self-confessed terrorist, is not a "bad memory" ­ he is a reminder today that torture at Abu-Ghraib, Guantanamo and the dozens of torture centers around the world are part of a world-wide US terror network: The terror network operates with thousands of agents in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Colombia, Chechnya and elsewhere, who pursue a common purpose ­ destroying anti-imperialist movements to further US world domination. The campaign to force the US government to extradite Posada strikes a blow not only against a despicable assassin but puts on trial the international terror network of which he was an essential part and which has grown to nightmarish proportions in the past 5 years.

By granting Posada asylum, the State Department would be providing him with impunity. It is a message designed for all of its terrorist collaborators whether they be Baghdad bombers, Kurdish assassins, or Afghan narco-warlords, who murder for the empire ­ if they are defeated by the national liberation movements, as in Cuba, they can safely emigrate to the US there will always be a sanctuary, impunity and a fat retirement pension.

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1. It goes to show we are not a nation of laws

The only laws that count are the ones that oppress the people and protect the Empire.

Another example is the government ignoring the law regarding the Quality Data Act. Americans for Safe Access said the government was lying and igoring science and fact in their demonization of cannabis/marijuana. The law required a ruling, but the fascist just ignored the law- http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2094

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2. Kick!

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