Iraq & New Orleans - The ABCs of Police Lawlessness

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Iraq & New Orleans
The ABCs of Police Lawlessness
by Jack Random
www.dissidentvoice.org
October 15, 2005

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As we witness the brutal beating of a retired school teacher, come to New Orleans to contribute his share to the rebuilding of a broken city, some of us dare wonder what the citizens of Tikrit, Fallujah, Ramadi and other targeted communities of Iraq must endure on a daily basis, where there are no civil authorities, no cameras (except the embedded kind), no civilian oversight and no judicial recourse.

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What is true of civilian law enforcement is doubly true of military personnel. The day we yield civilian authority in our cities and towns is the day we sacrifice freedom forever. Who polices the police? Who holds the military in check? It would be a monumental mistake to believe that a military takeover could not happen here. It can happen anywhere that fear becomes the overriding sentiment. Why did they disarm the people of New Orleans? If there was disorder in the early days of the disaster, did this action help or hinder? Why did they shoot dogs and disarm citizens before they delivered food or water?

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The parallels to Iraq are striking. There is clearly no commitment to citizen militias in that war torn region. Why? Are the people we call the insurgents really the people’s last line of defense against a foreign invader? Are they not the civilian defenders of liberty constitutionally protected by our second amendment?

As difficult as it may be, place yourself in Iraqi shoes. Try to imagine what you would have done if you were a citizen of Iraq when the Americans invaded. Given a choice, you would not fight for Saddam, the great oppressor of your people, but would you fight against the invaders? When the dictator fell, perhaps you would wait to see what the Americans would do. As an informed citizen, you would know the history of destruction and contempt for your people the invaders represented. When the Americans arrested masses on nothing but the thinnest veil of suspicion, sent them to Abu Ghraib and tortured them, would you grow tired of waiting? When the invaders built one after another massive military installations, belying their promise that they would not remain in your country indefinitely, would you accept that they had no intention of leaving?

The full article is available @ http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Random1015.htm

[hiabrill]

1. Initially after Saddam was toppled

We had genuinely won the hearts and minds of Iraqis.....


...... then our military treated Iraqis worse than you'd treat animals and the tide changed.

Ever since the Resistance movement in Iraq against our occupation has grown and grown in number and strength..... It is after all an illegal war and Iraqis have every right to resist.


What American Forces have done in Iraq is worse than Hitler did when he invaded France.