Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat.

FPF - 16 Dec. 2005 - Why are warcriminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It) or Balkenende in The Netherlands still walking free? There's an abundance of proof concerning their inhumanity and criminality: we should one way or the other stop those barbarians which are wrecking so many lives. Locking up people and throw away the keys without even questioning them? The creatures who do this are the real criminals.

All of the people of whatever nationality or level which are actively involved in the present genocide, the American made "War of Terror' - from soldiers to secret services, including the PNAC's flying Gestapo - must absolutely be stopped and jailed.

Those people - of which some were 'elected' - are for the most even paid by us! They are paid to be our civil servants but instead have turned criminal. Our personel works against us; steals and kills. They must as soon as is possible be fired, arrested end taken to a real court without the usually corrupt judges to be tried. They are the real enemies of our lives and states.


Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat

Suspected of plotting terror, a group of men have been held for four years but never charged. Now, in their first testimonies, they reveal the authorities have not even questioned them since their arrests.

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent

15 December 2005 - Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.

The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent has learnt that there is no prospect of the men ever being questioned over the offences they are alleged to have committed.

In interviews with Amnesty International, the four - three Algerians and a Palestinian - say their detentions have harmed their physical and mental health. They also complain that their treatment has had a devastating impact on their wives and families.

The men were interned in Belmarsh jail in south-east London - which has been called Britain's Guantanamo Bay - and other high security prisons in conditions consistently condemned by human rights organisations. Their detentions were ruled illegal by the law lords a year ago and they have since been released on control orders with tough restrictions on leaving home.

Three were re-arrested in August under immigration powers pending deportation and released by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act (Siac) in October on very strict bail conditions amounting to house arrest. One of them told Amnesty: "We've been moving from one nightmare to another."

A PROFOUND SENSE OF INJUSTICE

Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International, met the Palestinian Mahmoud Abu Rideh and an Algerian man known as "H" at their homes in the past month and spent about an hour with each of them, together with their wives. She said: "Both men expressed a profound sense of injustice that their liberty had been taken from them without their ever being charged, tried or shown any evidence against them. Both expressed amazement that this could happen in a country like the UK.

"But what struck me most was the impact that the detention and subsequent house arrest of these men has had on their partners and their families. Abu Rideh's house doesn't feel like the kind of bustling home you would expect of a family with five children. It is silent, sad and isolated. Friends and family are scared to visit - to do so they have to submit their name and photo to the Home Office, and in effect become a "known associate of a terrorist suspect".

The disclosure that the men have not been interviewed by the authorities will embarrass ministers, who have claimed that the men present such a terrorist threat that they have to be permanently monitored.

In a report today on the plight of the so-called Belmarsh detainees, Amnesty calls for charges to be brought against them or for the restrictions on their freedom to be lifted. A spokesman said: "Is this really what we call justice in this country? These men have had their liberty taken from them for four years yet they haven't even been charged and tried, let alone found guilty of anything. What's really shocking is that these men, supposedly 'suspected international terrorists', have never once been questioned since their arrest."

PROLONGED THEIR ORDEALS

The four - Abu Rideh and the Algerians, known as "A", "G" and "H" - were interviewed by Amnesty. All complained of mental health problems including depression and said that their transfer from jail to house arrest had prolonged their ordeals.

"A" said: "I am basically locked up at home for 24 hours a day ... the pressure of this situation is enormous on my family."

"G" complains: "Although I have access to my garden (albeit for a limited portion of the day) I fear that if I reply to any one of my neighbours saying 'hello' to me I will be in breach of my bail conditions. So, I don't even go out in the garden. Every night I fear that the police will come and arrest me again. I feel like I have lost all access to a normal life." Abu Rideh, who has made at least four suicide attempts, says: "I can't sleep. I spend all my time in the house. I don't go outside much; I'm just not up to it."

A Home Office spokesman said last night: "Obviously bail conditions are set by Siac that are considered necessary to address the risk of absconding and to protect national security."

The spokesman did not deny that the detainees had never been questioned by police over the past four years. He said: "We never discuss individual cases." However, one security source said: "We believe these men are dangerous, but they cannot be prosecuted. Under those circumstances there's little point interviewing them."

But Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said: "The fact that no questioning has taken place since arrest suggests that little effort has been made to explore the possibility of criminal charges. If that is the case it is completely unacceptable ... These men have been left in a legal limbo which is contrary to every tradition of justice in this country. Indefinite detention has taken an appalling toll on their mental health, just as it has with the Guantanamo Bay prisoners."

A WISH FOR FAIR TREATMENT

Amnesty is calling for immediate action: "If there is evidence against them, they should be charged with a recognisably criminal offence and tried in a British court," said Ms Allen. "Both expressed a wish for fair treatment, not special treatment - that the authorities should show them whatever evidence has condemned them to this limbo, and give them a chance to refute it in court. All they want is justice."

[andend] - The Independent - Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article333258.ece

FPF-comment: It's a grave mistake to believe that 'The Independent', 'The Guardian' and 'The Observe'r are reliable papers. All three have a long record proving that they for decades have been cooperating with the different secret services in England as well as abroad. Everything from the CIA tot the Mossad. In the UK the 'establishment' censors what it wants with the 'D-Notice' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pv2r

They'll publish some 'critical' articles as an 'alibi' but have been enforcing the policy set out by their neocon owners, and in general have been advocating the illegal wars and the criminal involvement of the European Union under Blair's mentor, the despicable Peter Mandelson. This 'Gauleiter' was put as 'Chef' of the EU, running all im- and exportbusiness of the EU! Nobody ever elected him: the infamous Banking Establishment in London appointed him as their man at the European moneymachine: the EU.

Like in The Netherlands many people in most European countries have all the reasons in the world to be very ashamed of the lying criminals which form their so called 'leadership' -and which people in the EU are forced to pay for. We keep trying to get those murdering criminals in jail.

We must stop them in their inhuman tracks, making secret deals behind our backs. We pay them! They must do as we say, not as their PNAC 'Pipers of Hameln" [http://tinyurl.com/8zwf4] which want them to rob and kill under the guise of 'bringing democracy!

They must be forced to face the consequences of their misdeeds.

EU concealed deal with US to allow 'rendition' flights

By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington

Quote: "The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/crdaf

RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* 'Spreading democracy' - Countries & US Death Squads - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/drnca - A 55' second sound bite concerning the US 'bringing democracy' everywhere - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

* 'Crying Wolf' - Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ttx8

* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.:  http://www.genevaconventions.org

* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69

* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d
It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' -  http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

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* He who travels far will often see things

Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.

When he talks about it in the fields at home,

He is often accused of lying,

For the obdurate people will not believe

Inexperience, I believe,

Will give little credence to my song.

'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse

* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Empire of Shame - a conversation with Jean Ziegler

''In September 2000, Jean Ziegler was nominated by the UN Commission on Human Rights to be the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.  Before that he was well known for his work as a professor, [Sorbonne etc.] and  was a Member of Parliament in the Swiss federal parliament for 18 years. His best known book is "The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead" which details the role of Swiss banks in illegally holding the dormant bank accounts of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He has also been a long-standing member of the League against Racism and Anti-Semiticism.'' - [http://tinyurl.com/8pdcj]

EMPIRE OF SHAME - A CONVERSATION WITH JEAN ZIEGLER

By Gian Paolo Accardo

Jean Ziegler, rapporteur at the UN (60,000 civil servants) on questions of food resources has just published a book translated in 14 languages with the Editions Fayard, Empire of Shame.

Dec 14, 2005 - In this 11 MB video*, and which corresponds to his recent interview on TV5 (Canadian television), Jean Ziegler presents his work. He explains why, at the time of the French revolution, the idea of providing enough food for all human beings on Earth was still a utopia, a dream, but how today that would be a technically possible thing. But it is impossible because of the way the wealth in the world is captured by a few people, whom he calls the Lords of the Economic War.*

Those people constitute a Feudal Order and their principal weapon is nothing other than the American military power, which operates from now on without the approval of the UN, without any control. The United States from now on uses torture and assassination as "a necessary thing" and they have withdrawn from the Geneva Conventions. The author announces that the nomination of Wolfowitz as the director of the World Bank [http://tinyurl.com/9nkvq ] - is one more disaster, since, in the future, the World Bank, instead of trying to work towards justice, will put itself in the service of the most powerful.

Ziegler reminds us that Bush signed a decree that authorizes armed American commandos to operate outside of the USA while physically eliminating not just guilty people, but mere suspects. He talks about the New Barbarism and an "Organization of Hunger" in the service of the New World Order, murderous and absurd. Ziegler talks about the need for a moral insurrection. The tone of this man is impressive. The interview on a Canadian television channel (TV5) took place during prime time.

LISTEN TO WHAT THIS MAN IS SAYING, READ HIS BOOK, SPREAD HIS MESSAGE.

IT IS YOUR FUTURE AS A HUMAN BEING THAT IS AT STAKE.

(Gian Paolo Accardo)

THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW :

Jean Ziegler: "We are going towards a new feudalization of the world"

In his new book, ‘Empire of Shame’ (Editions Fayard), which was published on March 10, 2005, the subversive Geneva sociologist and intellectual - today serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food under the UN commission for human rights - moves on to attacking the "private transcontinental companies". Accused [by Ziegler] of maintaining [3rd world] famine, of destroying nature and of subverting democracy, these corporations extend their influence over the world and they aim at the annihilation of the conquests of the Enlightenment. In order to resist them, we will have to return to the spirit of the French revolution and to stand up, the way president Lula da Silva in Brazil already does. 

Your book is entitled Empire of Shame. What is this empire? Why "shame"? What is this shame?

Jean Ziegler: In the favelas (= shantytowns) in the north of Brazil, some mothers may, in the evening, put water in a pot and then put stones in it. They explain to their children who are crying because of hunger that "soon the meal will be ready…", while hoping that meanwhile the children will fall asleep. Can one measure the shame felt by a mother facing her children who are tortured by hunger and whom she is unable to feed?

However the murderous order of the world - which kills 100,000 people every day from hunger and epidemics - does not only make the victims feel ashamed, but also us, Westerners, Whites, rulers, who are accomplices of this massacre, aware, informed and nevertheless silent, cowardly and paralyzed.

Empire of shame? It could be referring to the generalized impact of the feeling of shame caused by the inhumanity of the world order. What is actually implied here is the empire of the private transcontinental companies, directed by the cosmocrats. The 500 most powerful of these companies last year controlled 52 % of the gross world product, i.e. of the entire wealth produced on the planet. 

In your book, you talk about a "structural violence". What is the meaning of this?

Jean Ziegler: In the empire of shame, controlled by organized scarcity [of food and essentials], war is not sporadic any more, it is permanent. It is not any more a crisis, a pathology, but normality. It does not any more imply the eclipse of reason - as Horkheimer expressed it - it is the very raison d’être of the empire. The lords of the financial war have put the planet under the scalpel of organized economic destruction. They attack the normative power of the States, challenge the sovereignty of the people, subvert democracy, wreak havoc on nature, destroy human beings and their freedoms. The liberalization of the economy, the "invisible hand" of the market, is their way of dealing with the universe; the maximalization of profit is the way it works. I call this practice and this cosmogony structural violence. - [http://tinyurl.com/2xz35]. 

Also you talk about the "death throes of the right". What do you mean by this expression?

Jean Ziegler: In the future, the preventive eternal war, the permanent aggressiveness of the lords, the arbitrary and the structural violence rule without constraints. The majority of the barriers of international law are collapsing. The UN itself is anemic. Cosmocrats are above the law. My book describes the collapse of international law, quoting numerous examples drawn directly from my experience as special rapporteur at the United Nations for the right to access to food.

You qualify famine as a "weapon of mass destruction". What solutions do you recommend?

Jean Ziegler: Through the debt, hunger is the weapon of mass destruction which is used by the cosmocrats to crush - and to exploit - the people, in particular in the Southern hemisphere. A complex set of measures, immediately feasible and which I describe in the book, could quickly put a term to hunger. It is impossible to sum these up in one sentence. One thing is certain: world agriculture, in the current state of productivity, could feed twice the number of today’s global population. So it is not a matter of fate: hunger is man made.

Some countries are crushed, you say, by the "odious debt". What do you mean by "odious debt" and what solutions do you recommend?

Jean Ziegler: Rwanda is a small farming republic of 26,000 km2, located on the mountain ridge of central Africa which separates the water from the Nile and the Congo River. Rwandan farmers grow tea and coffee. From April to June 1994, a dreadful genocide, organized by the Hutu government allied with France at the time of François Mitterrand, caused the death of more than 800,000 Tutsi men, women and children. The machetes that were used for the genocide were imported from China and Egypt, and were financed, essentially, by the Crédit Lyonnais. Today the survivors, farmers as poor as Job, must refund to banks and creditor governments even the credits which were used for the purchase of the machetes used by the genocidal Hutus. That is an example of an odious debt.

The solution is immediate debt cancellation and without conditions attached or, to begin with, by an audit of the debt, as the International Socialist Organization recommends and the way president Lula did it in Brazil, and then renegotiate the debt item by item. For each item, there are actually criminal components – corruption, hugely padded bills, etc. - which must be reduced. International audit companies, like PriceWaterhouseCooper or Ernst & Young, can perfectly well be in charge of these audits, the way they are each year responsible for auditing the accounts of the multinational corporations.

On several occasions you quote President Lula da Silva as a model. What inspires you with this high consideration for his actions? 

Jean Ziegler: I feel both admiration and concern when I consider the political objectives and actions of President Lula: admiration because he is the first president of Brazil who dares recognize that there are 44 million citizens seriously and permanently undernourished in his country and the first who wants to put an end to this inhuman situation; and also concern, because with his country’s foreign debt of 235 billion dollars, Lula does not have the means to put an end to this situation.   

In your book you also talk about a "new feudalization of the world". What do you mean?

Jean Ziegler: On August 4, 1789, the deputies of the French National Assembly abolished feudalism. Their action had a universal repercussion. Today, however, we witness a tremendous step backwards. September 11, 2001 did not only provide George W. Bush with the pretext for extending the influence of the United States over the world, the event also served as justification for the staging of organized economic destruction of the people of the Southern hemisphere by the large private transcontinental corporations. 

In your book, you very often refer to the French revolution and some of its protagonists (Danton, Babeuf, Marat…) : In what way do you consider that it still has something to teach us, two centuries later, in such a different world? 

Jean Ziegler: Read the texts! The Proclamation of Jacques Roux and the Enragés (radical extremists in the French Revolution who demanded strict economic controls) sets the horizon for any struggle for planetary social justice. The founding values of the republic, or more than that, of civilization itself, date from the time of the Enlightenment. However, the empire of shame destroys even the hope for the realization of these values.

In your book, you accuse the total war against terrorism of diverting resources necessary to other more important struggles such as the struggle against hunger. Do you think that terrorism is a false threat, cultivated by some States? If so, what makes you think that? Do you think that this threat is not real or that it deserves a different treatment?

Jean Ziegler: The State terrorism of Bush, Sharon, Putin... is as appalling as Islamic Jihad terrorism of small groups or other insane and bloodthirsty men of that kind. They are two faces of the same kind of barbarism. They are both quite real, since Bush kills and Ben Laden kills. The problem is the eradication of terrorism: it can be done only by the total disruption of the empire of shame. Only through global social justice will it be possible to cut the Jihadists off from their roots and deprive the cosmocrats’ lackeys of their pretexts for counterattacks. 

You were appointed special rapporteur at the UN on the right to food in 2002. What reflection did you draw from this mission?

Jean Ziegler: My mandate is fascinating: I am totally independent and answerable to the General Assembly of the UN and the commission for human rights. I have to make a new human right  justifiable, through statutory or conventional rights: the right to food. It is a Sisyphus task! It advances  millimeter by millimeter. The essential center of this struggle is the collective conscience. For a long time, the destruction of human beings by hunger has been tolerated with a kind of ice cold acceptance. Today, it is regarded as intolerable. Public opinion puts pressure on governments and on the international organizations (WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, etc.) so that basic measures are taken to slay the enemy: land reform in the Third World, suitable prices paid for the agricultural produce of the South, rationalization of humanitarian aid in the event of sudden catastrophes, the closing of the Chicago Stock Exchange for agricultural products and raw materials, which speculates in the rise of prices of major food products, fights against the privatization of drinking water, etc. 

In your book, you seem to defend the cause of the "altermondialistes", even as if you were a spokesman for this movement. How is it that you so seldom participate in the "alternative" demonstrations and that you are generally not regarded as an "alternative" intellectual? 

Jean Ziegler: What do you mean? I spoke in front of 20,000 people in the "Gigantino" of Porto Alegre in January 2003. I feel like an organic intellectual of the new planetary civil society, of its multiple faces of resistance, this tremendous fraternity of the night. But I remain faithful to the principles of the revolutionary class analysis, in Jacques Roux, Babeuf, Marat and Saint-Just.

You seem to attribute all the misfortunes of the world to the multinationals and to a handful of States (the United States, Russia, Israel…) : isn't that a bit simplistic?

Jean Ziegler: The order of the current world is not only murderous, it is also absurd. It kills, destroys, slaughters, but it does so for no other reason than the desire for maximum profit for some cosmocrats who are driven by an obsession for power and unlimited greed.

Bush, Sharon, Putin? Lackeys, henchmen. I will add a postscript on Israel: Sharon is not Israel. He is the perversion of Israel. Michael Warshavski, Lea Tselem, the "Rabbis for human rights" and many other resistance organizations incarnate the true Israel, the future of Israel. They deserve our total solidarity. 

Do you think that morals have a place in international relations, since they are rather dictated by economic and geopolitical interests?

Jean Ziegler: There is no choice. Either you choose development and normative organization or you choose the invisible hand of the market, the violence of the strongest and the arbitrary. Feudal power and social justice are radically paradoxical.

"Ahead towards our roots", urges the German Marxist Ernst Bloch. If we do not urgently restore the values of the Enlightenment, the Republic, international law, civilization such as we have built it for two hundred and fifty years in Europe will be annihilated, absorbed by the jungle. 

Since the departure of the Taliban, the Middle East and the Arab-Muslim world seem to be hit by a wave of more or less spontaneous democratization (elections in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Palestine, the opening of the presidential election to multiple candidates in Egypt…). How do you feel about that and do you think that democracy can be exported to those countries? Or do you believe that they are condemned to having despotic systems?

Jean Ziegler: It is not a question "of exporting democracy". The desire of autonomy, democracy, popular sovereignty is innate in human beings, whatever the area of the world where they were born. My friend the great Syrian sociologist Bassam Tibi wants lo live a life in democracy and has a right to it. However, for thirty years he has been living in Germany, in exile from the dreadful dictatorship which prevails in his country. Elias Sambar, the Palestinian writer, another one of my friends, has a right to a free and democratic Palestine, not to an occupied Palestine, nor should he have to live a life under the obscurantist iron rule of the Islamists.

Tibi, Sambar and I want the same thing and we all have a right to it: democracy.

The problem: the cold war, the instruments of the systems in place by the great powers, and finally the cowardice of the Western democrats, their lack of active and real solidarity have made it possible for the tyrants of the Middle East, of Saudi Arabia, of Egypt, of Syria, of the Gulf and of Iran to last until today.

Jean Ziegler

[andend] - Axis of Logic - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ahwlt

Original text in French - Url.: http://www.jp-petit.com/Presse/empire_de_la_honte.htm

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How the World Bank robs: Like in many countries - and here on video - Perkins who took part, explains that "Jackals' are C.I.A. - sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations, or try to." - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm

* World Bank web site - Url.: http://www.worldbank.org/

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It.) Balkenende (NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.:  http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

* The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' -  Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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