[Peace-discuss] a reprehensible column regarding the CIA protest on campus

[John W.]

Very well said, Neil.


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>wrote:

I wrote up a little diddy and sent it on in.
> Remy Soni's column was reprehensible.
>
> A look at history shows that direct action is the impetus for social change
> -- such as the Flint sit down strike and the labor movement of the 1930s,
> the civil rights protests that challenged legal segregation, the struggle
> against the Vietnam War and even the recent campaign of workers at Republic
> Windows and Doors to get their duly owed wages and benefits.
>
> When one is dealing with an organization that has admitted to war crimes
> (waterboarding is a crime that we executed Japanese soldiers for committing
> during World War II -- among the many other crimes admitted in the recently
> released Office of Legal Counsel memos), sponsored assassinations,
> destabilized governments, created a counterintelligence program to spy
> on/assassinate/destabilize dissident groups domestic and abroad, installed
> dictators like Augusto Pinochet, supported the assassination of nuns, Jesuit
> priests and Archbishop Oscar Romero via US trained/armed/funded death
> squads, massacring civilians in El Mazote among other places -- showing a
> film or writing a column is woefully inappropriate to deal with the specter
> of torture and militarism on campus.
>
> As CIA agent Ralph McGehee (served 1952-1977) said: "The CIA is not now nor
> has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm
> of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows
> or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying
> those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as
> Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy.
> Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the
> American people are the primary target audience of its lies."
>
> People who want to join will have their opportunities.  But a visual
> representation of what these people are signing up for is appropriate.  It
> is the CIA's chickens coming home to roost.
>
> Solidarity,
> -N.
>
> Neil Parthun
>  Sports journalist, Public i  ||  http://publici.ucimc.org
>
> "There are many victories worse than a defeat." - George Eliot
>
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