Obrador to Create Parallel Government (legitgov.org)

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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
30 August 2006
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Mexico Leftist to Create Parallel Gov't 29 Aug 2006 Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent 'victory' of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon. Some predict his parallel initiative ÷ which Lopez Obrador's supporters call the "legitimate government" ÷ could turn those protest camps into the core of a violent revolt, especially if the government tries to shut it down. People close to Lopez Obrador say he is assuming the role of his hero, 18th century President Benito Juarez, who led a roving, "unofficial" presidency from 1863 to 1867 during the French invasion, before driving out the invaders and executing the French-installed Emperor Maximilian .

Navy lawyer charged with leaking secret Guantanamo Bay detainee names list 30 Aug 2006 A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps was charged Tuesday with relaying secret national defense information to a person outside the government "with intent or reason to believe that the said information was to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation." Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, who was stationed at Guantanamo Bay for six months, allegedly printed and transmitted to an outside person names and information related to Guantanamo detainees between December 2004 and March 2005, months before AP forced the DOD to release detainee lists through Freedom of Information Act requests. If convicted, Diaz faces more than 36 years in prison.

FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database 30 Aug 2006 The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents, FBI officials said yesterday.

NSA Mobilizes Against Leaks 30 Aug 2006 The National Security Agency has instructed all of its employees to "actively" watch for unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the press and online, and to report such disclosures to the authorities.
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[Larkspur]

1. Andrew Jackson did something similar that Obrador is doing

Jackson didn't run a "shadow" or "parallell" government but he led a political guerrilla movement that led to Jackson defeating John Quincy Adams in a landslide.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Your second link doesn't work. As I recall, this article on Lopez-Obrador

is from a war profiteering corporate news monopoly source. Ergo: Lopez Obrador's legitimate government "could turn those protest camps into the core of a violent revolt"...ahem...(afterthought) "especially if the government tries to shut it down."

The truth: The majority leftists in Mexico are ENTIRELY PEACEFUL. They have HURT NO ONE. ALL VIOLENCE is coming from the Corporate State, which sicked Darth Vader cops on striking teachers in the middle of the night (the teachers were camping outdoors) in Oaxaca, where fascist thugs have already killed at least one protester, and surrounded congress with Darth Vader cops to prevent a peaceful protest of Calderon's fraudulent installation as president.

The Mexican leftists are part of a huge movement, throughout Latin America, for peaceful, democratic change--with leftist governments elected in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela and Bolivia--and strong leftist movements in Peru, Nicaragua and other places. It is an unstoppable movement. And its hallmark, its signature, its glory--and ultimately its victory--is PEACEFUL action, to bring the MAJORITY--the vast populations of the poor and brown, forever excluded, oppressed, ignored and/or brutalized in these countries (often by U.S.-backed dictatorships)--into their own as a social and political force, through TRANSPARENT elections. As the recently elected, first indigenous president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has said: "The time of the people has come."

Fox/Calderon, in collusion with the Bush Junta and U.S.-based global corporate predators, are trying to stop this trend in Mexico, through a stolen election. But Mexico has a strong, fresh-in-the-mind, revolutionary tradition. But no one in Latin America wants to return to the era of armed revolution against fascist dictatorships. Violence breeds violence. This is the new wisdom of Latin America. PEACEFUL leftists are not going to "turn" their own protest camps "into the core of a violent revolt." That is simply not going to happen. They have people power on their side (huge support in at least Oaxaca, and probably throughout the southern states, and in Mexico City). They DON'T NEED violence to win, and none of the protesters (millons of people, with some protest rallies as large as 2 million+ people) has committed any violence or is plannng any violence. If there is violence, it will be by the choice of Fox/Calderon AGAINST the protesters--against their own people. I've no doubt that the designers of our own Darth Vader police forces are down there in Mexico right now, advising the Mexican police on how to train pepper spray hoses on the faces on peaceful, seated demonstrators, and how to "score" hits in the face with rubber and wooden bullets, as they did here, in Seattle '99, and more recently in Miami at anti-FTAA protests (also at the docks in San Franciso).

Mexican police are different from our own, however (as is often true throughtout Latin America). They may have fascist leaders. Their rank and file are not so brainwashed as ours, and are closer to the people. Will they brutalize women and children--of which these protest camps are full? Will they shoot at their own young people? Will they leave their consciences behind, inside their Darth Vader armor? It's a big "if." I don't think they will--and if they do, I think it will be a very big disaster for Fox/Calderon. (It happened in Oaxaca in June--and guess what the result was? A huge local uprising and establishment of an alternative government in the Oaxaca, which is still in charge.)

Mexicans, and Latin Americans in general, have better people-to-people communications than we do. In Venezuela, for instance, the news media is entirely corporate-controlled and virulently, 24/7 anti-Chavez. The people just ignore it. They have their own word-of-mouth means of knowing what's really going down. So do Mexicans. And this is in stark contrast to the situation here, wherein the corporate news monopolies were able to entirely slander the Seattle '99 protest and turn the truth on its head. (It was a police riot! I was there.) Local people knew. They had hearings in Seattle, and the police chief was forced to resign--news that was entirely black-holed nationwide. So, if Fox/Calderon inflicts a brutal assault, it will be known--no matter what propaganda the corporate news monopolies spew--and I don't think the people of Mexico will put up with it.

"The time of the people has come." --Evo Morales