constitutional protections of civil liberties is not a
free country.
American political leaders and the American people need Europe’s help in order to avoid the degeneration of the American political entity. American
freedom, as well as sovereign independence elsewhere in the world, require criticisms of US foreign
and domestic policies. The US media, which was
concentrated into a few hands during the Clinton
administration, functions as a Ministry of Propaganda for the government. It was the New York
Times that gave credibility to the neoconservative
propaganda and forged documents that were used
to sell the invasion of Iraq to the public. It was the
New York Times that sat for one year on the evidence that the Bush administration was committing
felonies by violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It was not until after Bush was reelected that the reporter was able to force his story
through editorial opposition.
Americans need criticism from Europe to compensate for the absence of an independent American
media. Americans need outside help in order to
reach an understanding of the immorality of their
government’s policies, because they receive no such
help from their own media. Without Europe’s help,
Americans cannot regain the spirit of liberty and
tolerance bequeathed to them by their Founding
Fathers. America herself is a victim of the neoconservative and liberal internationalist pursuit of US
hegemony.
We in America need to hear many voices telling
us that it is self-defeating to become like an enemy
in order to defeat an enemy. As Germans learned
under Hitler and Russians learned under Stalin, it
is the internal enemy—the unaccountable elite that
controls a country’s government—that is the worst
and most dangerous enemy.
If America has enemies who are against “freedom
and democracy,” then America herself must make
certain not to sacrifice her own civil liberties, and
the sovereignty of other peoples, to a “War on Terror.” Acts of terror are a small cost compared to the
cost of the erosion of civil liberties that took centuries to achieve. Far more people died to achieve
liberty than have died in terrorist attacks.
The United States cannot pretend to be a guarantor of liberty when the US government takes away
liberty from its own citizens.
The United States cannot pretend to be a guarantor
of peace and democracy when the US government
uses deception to attack other lands on false pretenses.
Europe, whose culture was wrecked by 20th
century wars, Europe, which has experienced
tyranny from the left-wing and from the rightwing, has a right to its own voice.
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