Bcc: contributors Friends, Below are some follow-up comments re/ our last posting... ...the one about the world's greatest state bully terrorist (the USA), insisting that it be exempted from the court which is being set up to deal with precisely such crimes. Have you noticed the growing congruence of Bush-administration policies and the policies of the Third Reich? Quantanamo serves as our symbolic first concentration camp. The Patriot Act echoes the concept of "Enemies of The Reich". Bush's "You are either for us or against us" lacks the charisma, but matches the sentiments of Hitler's waving arms and more coherent rhetoric. And like the Third Reich, we are everywhere on the defensive offensive. You do realize that the Sudenland was occupied only to rescue the suppressed German minority? And Poland invaded Germany first? Poor surrounded Germany. Poor terrorist-threatened USA. Instead of Jews as the unter-menschen, we have the Arabs. They are more foreign than domestic, but that matches the age of globalization. People don't need to be neighbors in order to hate one another... we have television to make everything closer. Progress. --- On another subject, please take a look at... http://www.QuayLargo.com/Productions You'll now find the real cover, by a brilliant Swedish artist who lives in the woods where a noise in the garden is likely to be a moose. Don't be upset if you can't make sense of the images. What I like about them is that they draw you in without offering any easy answers. The quest begins with the cover... You can see more of Theis Eljas' work at... http://eljas.com/graphic_design/book_covers/book_covers.html hope you're all having a great summer, rkm ============================================================================ Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:14:19 +0000 From: "Bernard D. Tremblay (Ben)" <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: U.S. Storm Troopers & the Criminal Court rkm posted: > U.S. Ties Military Aid to Peacekeepers' Immunity By ELIZABETH BECKER FYI the full copy of this article can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/10/international/10COUR.html ============================================================================ From: "Jane Russo" <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Subject: peacekeepers Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:28:42 -0500 See what our "peacekeepers" have already done. DynCorp, one of the largest gov contractors, is headed by Herbert Winoker who is also on the board of directors of Enron,and the board of directors Harvard Management. The Bush admin can't let these guys go to prison, at least not a real prison. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/index.html Aug. 6, 2002 | Two former employees of DynCorp, the government contracting powerhouse, have won legal victories after charging that the $2 billion-a-year firm fired them when they complained that co-workers were involved in a Bosnia sex-slave trade....Ben Johnston claims that buying prostitutes -- many of whom were clearly underage -- had become so common among DynCorp employees at Camp Comanche, outside Tuzla, Bosnia, that he was forced to report the problem to the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Command. DynCorp Still Taking the Moral Low Ground Sometimes it seems there's little left to do except scratch your head in bewilderment. For Insight, this is one of those times. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=260511 ============================================================================