... With Lliberty and Equal Justice for All

By Aurora Grajeda

(Originally posted at Coalicion Primero De Mayo Blogs on 07/03/07 12:28:11 am, Categories: Noticias, Español)

Excellence in hypocrisy

Some are more equal than Others.

To follow the Rule of the Law - “The Other”

In the darkness at night or at the break of daylight, terrorists with federal police badges, issued by the office of ICE, arrest undocumented immigrants inflicting terror in their relatives, especially to the children living in those houses, separating them from their parents and close relatives, some of which actually are American Citizens and among them are many who have been deported without concern to the violation of their constitutional and human rights.

Raids and Deportations are the punishment to “Violations” of the laws (?) of Immigration, or at least that is what the individuals say that, in great part, are guided by xenophobia and racism, they attack the Immigrants accusing us of being criminals, carriers of diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis, members of gangs, etc., and for these reasons, deserving of the consequences as it is the separation of families, the destruction of the labor of 5, 10, 15, 20 years in the so called `land of opportunity' where not even ours children have the same educational opportunities that other young people/have, with the consequent waste of their minds, and therefore, of a better individual and community future.

To follow the Rule of the Law - “The Some”

As the latest example of the historical hypocrisy of the governing class of the United States of America and the also inherently hypocritical corruption of the administration of President G.W. Bush, who shamelessly commuted a section of the sentence to jail for Lewis “Scooter” Libby, proclaiming respect for the citizen's jury:

”Respect for the jury's verdict” Bush said in a declaration. ” But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am exchanging the portion of the sentence of Mr. Libby which would require him to spend thirty months in prison.”

Excessive? To lie under oath to a Grand Jury in a case of leaking the clandestine identity of an agent of the CIA who was investigating the proliferation of arms of mass destruction (Nuclear), “Scooter” Libby committed perjury in order to conceal his participation and that of other members of the Administration in the crime committed against the Agent Valerie Plame, who was under the category of NOC (Not Official Cover (Without Official Protection)) Putting in danger her life, that of her family and the network of contacts accumulated in the years she worked under that identity.

“Scooter” Achieved his objective, he could not be condemned for his participation in the leak of the clandestine identity of Mrs Plame, but it could not avoid to be found guilty of perjury in a maneuver, that in the words of the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, “Is equivalent to the comparison of a Baseball Umpire to whom the player throws dirt in his face to cover his vision of the play" , Scooter being the player and the Public Prosecutor, Fitzgerald, the Umpire in the analogy.

And the play? Well, according to the speech of Ex-President George H.W. Bush, father of the present President who said:

” I have nothing but contempt and anger for the ones who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my opinion, the most insidious of traitors.” - George H.W. Bush, 1999-04-26, in the dedication ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligence.

But according to his son, G.W. Bush, 30 months of jail is a “excessive punishment” for the following charges:

There were five charges. Two charges were for the crime of lying to the FBI; two charges for lying to the Grand Jury, charges of perjury; and another charge, the most serious of all, was the obstruction of justice.

The jury found Mr. Libby guilty in all of the charges except in one. Where they found him innocent was the one in which the jury had struggled with the point for the last five days, many back and forth questions. It was the charge that claimed that Mr. Libby had lied to the FBI on the conversations that he had, about Valerie Plame the agent of the CIA who was at the center of this investigation of the leak, with Matt Cooper of Time Magazine.

Why is it that President G.W. Bush does not have the sense of Justice to discern that the raids, deportations, separation of families and many other manifestations of this war against the immigrants, are brutally excessive as punishment for crossing the border and to work without legal documents, which are not crimes, as the enemies of the immigrants paint it, but that in fact have been administrative violations?

Why doesn't he declare a stop to the raids and deportations? Lack of sense of Justice? Perhaps, or... maybe is nothing less than lack of testicular fortitude? Is it hypocrisy? After all, he demonstrated his hypocritical cowardice by not going to Vietnam while proclaiming his support for this invasion and declaring it as Just.

... With Liberty and Equal Justice for All

Excellence in hypocrisy

Because Some are more equal than Others, isn't?

Bush commutes Libby’s sentence

VIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers “The Most Insidious of Traitors”

Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak

Bush “Commutes” Scooter Libby’s Sentence: Welcome to the Monarchy

...Con Libertad y Justicia Igual Para Todos

Por Aurora Grajeda

(Originally posted at Coalicion Primero De Mayo Blogs on 07/03/07 12:28:11 am, Categories: Noticias, Español
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Excelencia en Hipocrecía

Unos más iguales que otros.

Seguir la Regla de La Ley - “Los Otros”

En la obscuridad de la noche ó al romper el día, terroristas con placas de policía federal, ejercidas por la oficina de ICE, arrestan a immigrantes indocumentados inflingiendo terror en sus familiares, especialmente a los niños pertenecientes a esas viviendas, separándolos de sus padres y familia allegada, algunos de los cuales son actualmente ciudadanos estadounidences y entre ellos se encuentran muchos que hasta han sido deportados sin importar la violación a sus derechos constitucionales y humanos.

Redadas y Deportaciones son el castigo a “Violaciones” de las leyes(?) de Immigración, o al menos es lo que dicen los individuos que, en gran porcentage, son guiados por xenofobia y racismo, atacan a los Immigrantes acusándonos de criminales, malvivientes, portadores de enfermedades como la lepra y tuberculosis, miembros de pandillas, etc., etc. y por estos motivos, merecedores de las consequencias como es la separación de familias, la destruccion de la labor de 5, 10, 15, 20 anos en la llamada ‘tierra de la oportunidad’ en la que ni siquiera nuestros hij@s tienen las mismas oportunidades educacionales que otros jóvenes/niños tienen, con el consequente desperdicio de sus mentes, y por ende, de un mejor futuro individual y comunitario.

Seguir la Regla de La Ley - “Los Unos”

Como el último ejemplo de la hipocrecía histórica de la clase gobernante de Los Estados Unidos de América y la corrupción inherentemente hipócrita de la administración del Presidente G.W. Bush, quien tuvo la desverguenza de commutar la sección de la sentencia de cárcel para Lewis “Scooter” Libby, proclamando respeto por el jurado ciudadano:

” Respeto el veredicto del jurado, ” Bush dijo en una declaración. ” Pero he concluido que la pena de prisión dada al Sr. Libby es excesiva. Por lo tanto, estoy conmutando la porción de la sentencia del Sr. Libby que lo requiria pasar treinta meses en prision.”

Excesiva? Mentir bajo juramento a un Gran Jurado en un caso de divulgamiento de la identidad clandestina de un agente de la CIA que estaba investigando la proliferación de armas de destrucción masiva (Nucleares), “Scooter” Libby cometió perjurio para encubrir su participación y la de otros miembros de la Administración en el crimen cometido contra la Agente Valerie Plame quien estaba bajo la categoría de NOC (Not Official Cover (Sin Protección Oficial)) Poniendo en peligro su vida, la de su familia y la red de contactos que había acumulado en los años que trabajó bajo esa identidad.

“Scooter” Logró su objetivo, no se le pudo condenar por su participación en el divulgamiento de la identidad clandestina de la Sra. Plame, pero no pudo evitar ser encontrado culpable de perjurio en una maniobra, que en las palabras del Fiscal Especial Patrick Fitzgerald, “Es equivalente a la comparación de un Umpire de Base-Ball al cual el jugador le tira tierra en la cara para cubrirle la visión de la jugada", Scooter siendo el jugador y el Fiscal Fitzgeral el Umpire en la analogía.

Y la jugada? Bueno, de acuerdo con el discurso del Ex-Presidente George H.W. Bush, padre del presente Presidente que dijo:

” No tengo nada sino desprecio y cólera para los que traicionen la confianza exponiendo el nombre de nuestras fuentes. Son, en mi opinión, los más insidiosos, de los traidores.” - George H.W. Bush, 1999-04-26, ceremonia de la dedicacion del centro de George Bush para la inteligencia.

Pero de acuerdo con su hijo, G.W. Bush, 30 meses de cárcel es un “castigo excesivo” por los siguientes cargos:

Había cinco cargos. Dos cargos eran del crimen de mentir al FBI; dos cargos de mentir al gran jurado, cargos de perjurio; y otro cargo, el más serio de todos, que era obstrucción a la justicia.

El jurado encontró al Sr. Libby culpable en todos menos en uno de esos cargos. En el que lo encontraron inocente era uno en que el jurado había luchado con el punto por los ultimos cinco días, muchas preguntas hacia adelante y hacia atrás. Era el cargo que sugería que Sr. Libby había mentido al FBI sobre conversaciones que él tuvo sobre Valerie Plame, el oficial de la CIA, que está en el centro de esta investigacion de divulgamiento, las conversaciones que él tuvo con Matt Cooper, de Time Magazine, sobre ella.

Porqué es que el Presidente G.W. Bush no tiene el sentido de Justicia para discernir que las redadas, deportaciones, separación de familias y muchas otras manifestaciones de esta guerra contra los inmigrantes, son brutalmente excesivas como castigo por cruzar la frontera y trabajar sin documentos legales que no son crímenes como los enemigos de los inmigrantes lo pintan, sino que en realidad han sido faltas administrativas?

Porqué no declara un alto a las redadas y deportaciones? Falta del sentido de Justicia? Ó, tal vez nada más es falta de fortitud testicular? Es hipocrecía? Despues de todo, demonstró su cobardía hipócrita al no ir a Vietnam mientras que proclamaba su apoyo a esa invasión y la declaraba como justa.

…Con Libertad y Justicia Igual Para Todos

Excelencia en Hipocrecía

Porque unos son más iguales que otros, nos es cierto?

Bush commutes Libby’s sentence

VIDEO: Bush I Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors”

 

Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak

Bush “Commutes” Scooter Libby’s Sentence: Welcome to the Monarchy

 

 

The terror arrives in the morning… And that is only the beginning.

Immigration is a world-wide phenomenon whose effects are more noticeable at the local level, we see and heard of the loss of jobs and the separation of families, accompanied by the consequent terror of our undocumented sisters and brothers, fearful in the uncertainty that if today, agents of I.C.E. will knock on their door, the terror is greater in the children. than they ask themselves if today, or tomorrow, or the following day, their parents, brothers and sisters without documents that guarantee their legal stay will be taken away.

Those arrested are taken to detention centers where they are victims of insults and crimes, they suffer humiliations, negligence and sexual abuse, in at least 30 of 83 deaths from 2003, the death was due to lack of medical care and administrative practices devoid of consideration to the human condition, civil and legal rights.

Important to note, that while much is spoken of the raids, very little is said of what is happening in the detention centers, where in any given day, it is easy to count 33,000 prisoners, among them women and children, many are citizens of this country, there are cases of whole families in detention.

The immigrants are of all colors and nationalities that are reflected in the dead, Yusif Osman of Ghana, the transgender woman Victoria Arellano of Mexico, Arthur Suarez-Almenares of Cuba, Edmar Alves Araujo of Brazil, Young Sook Kim of Korea, Ms. Kenley of Barbados, Caesar Gonza'les-Baeza of Mexico, for others there is not even information on their places of origin like Reinaldo Prado-Arencilia, Yvel Fils-Aim, Abdoulai Sall, or Enríquez-Betancourt, of whom there is only last names.

Among the deaths, 13 are listed as suicides, 14 as a result of cardiac diseases and 9 related to H.I.V and A.I.D.S, the lists contain other cryptic definitions of the causes as “undetermined” or “unresponsive” , in too many cases these lists do not mention their nationalities or where they lived in the United States. Some names and date of birth are ineligibles.

Sexual violation to a Mexican transsexual woman in the detention center of Miami, where some women reported that the guards promised to release them in exchange for sex or to deport them if they refused, of the Pearsall center in Texas. there are reports of extensive and systematic sexual abuse from the guards, in the present, there are legal complaints, lawsuits and demands for exhaustive investigations on irregularities, abuses and crimes in those concentration camps, euphemistically called detention centers, which are managed by contractors working for private corporations.

The immigrant community faces a crisis of catastrophic magnitude where the efforts to remedy it run into a great segment of the population that ignores the reality, do not care or are in agreement with the policy of the US government.

Those of us who struggle to remedy, or at least to alleviate the situation, have different opinions on what to do to fight off the attacks or how to go about it, we debate weather our immigrant marches inflame the anti immigrant sentiments or alert the rest of the population on the tragedies, the opinions on the course to follow vary in all aspects and apparently the debate arrives to the point of choosing between this or that option as the most suitable or effective method.

Other difficulties derive from the consideration of the causes and effects of the artificial phenomenon that is the forced and massive mobilization of workers and families at a global level, on these points there is no disagreement that they are the result of economic agreements at an geopolitical level, but there is indeed a debate on the spheres of influences or jurisdiction where activities on corrective measures would have to be applied or which of them must have priority, taking into account the stark reality that the problem is caused as much by the countries receiving the immigrants as is their country of origin, since both entities are controlled by corporatist interests, they share the blame for the victims of their economic policies and transnational agreements which are the workers, farmers, small entrepreneurs and their families.

And this way, the debates continue while the tragedies increase, the crises multiply, the terror remains and it is institutionalized in a pernicious way, especially in our children, thus we arrive at the situation were we find ourselves in, where we agree that it is untenable and intolerable and that something has to be done, the only remaining questions are: What, where, and how.

Homeland Security plan titled "ENDGAME"

Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME

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The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a ten-year Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."

In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called "Continuity of Government" (COG) in the event of a nuclear disaster. At the time, Cheney was a Wyoming congressman, while Rumsfeld, who had been defense secretary under President Ford, was a businessman and CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle. [1]

These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any "national security emergency," which they defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: "Any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States."

Clearly 9/11 would meet this definition, and did, for COG was instituted on that day. As the Washington Post later explained, the order "dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans." [2]

What the managers in this shadow government worked on has never been reported. But it is significant that the group that prepared ENDGAME was, as the Homeland Security document puts it, "chartered in September 2001." [3]

For ENDGAME's goal of a capacious detention capability is remarkably similar to Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" for COG in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States. [4]

[1] James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 70-74.

[2] "Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret," Washington Post, 3/1/02.

[3] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), "ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 - 2012 -- Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland;" http://www.ice.gov/graphics/dro/endgame.pdf. (As of this writing, the ENDGAME Strategic Plan is no longer posted on the Internet.) Cf. Peter Dale Scott, "10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals >From Oliver North," Pacific News Service, 2/21/06.

[4] Alfonzo Chardy, Miami Herald, 7/5/87.

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/kbrpref.html

norgesen - Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:14:03 -0700

Censored 2006 : The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored) (Paperback) will appear from Project Censored in September. It will contain my article, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps" (2/08/06), together with this brief Preface.

Operation ENDGAME PDF FILE

NOTE FROM CRYPTOGON

Ok guys, it's clear, if you want to reference government documents, save local copies of them on your webserver. We're clearly into the memoryhole phase of the game now. They're disappearing stuff right in front of our eyes.
http://cryptogon.com/2006_10_29_blogarchive.html

Cryptogon mirror of: "DRO" (Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ENDGAME
Office of Detention and
Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 - 2012
Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland

It's getting VERY frightening now. They're actively monitoring those of us who are exposing this stuff, and They're implementing countermeasures. Again, save it locally if you want to have access to it.
(Thank you Cryptogon for saving a copy - Aurora)

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