[Peace-discuss] Trump Threats to Slash UN Funds, Move US Embassy to Jerusalem ‘Unprecedented’

Thu Dec 29 16:59:14 UTC 2016

Francis A. Boyle : Again I do set forth all of that comprehensively in this new book, Protesting Power. But to make a long story short actually I just resumed teaching my International Law students yesterday, I have about 50 second and third year law students, and went through this doctrine of preventive warfare at great length and pointed out that in fact this doctrine that was developed by Wolfowitz, my former colleague from the University of Chicago, was actually rejected by the Nuremberg Tribunal when lawyers for the Nazi defendants made an argument along the lines of preventive warfare to justify their invasion of Norway. And it was soundly rejected.

Yet, unfortunately Wolfowitz and others put this into the national security directive of September 2002 to justify preventive warfare against Iraq. It is still on the books as the policy of this government. It is undoubtedly I suspect going to be used to justify a war against Iran and this is a Nazi doctrine. Again it gets back to my point that the Neocons because of the Strauss connection with Schmitt, these Neocons are in fact Neo Nazis and they are adopting and espousing and justifying Neo Nazi doctrines in our government and in our popular culture.

For example, Francis Fukyama, one of the leading Neocons at John's Hopkins School of International Affairs, a center for Neocons, was asked to do a review on the hundredth anniversary of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, for the New York Times Sunday book review. They gave him the whole back page of the book review to do this. And during the course of reviewing Max Weber's Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, and I lecture my students in Jurisprudence on this subject, Fukuyama<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Francis_Fukuyama> mentions Carl Schmitt as if Carl Schmitt were an ordinary German philosopher along the lines of Max Weber. And Fukuyama didn't bother to point out to anyone that Schmitt was a Nazi.

What also astounded me was that the editor of the Sunday New York Times Book Review did not pick up the fact that Fukuyama was citing a Nazi philosopher right there in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. It simply astounded me. But that's what these Neocons do. They take Nazi, Neo Nazi ideology and doctrine, and either put them into government policy as Wolfowitz has done on the National Security Directive of Preventive Warfare which then gets carried out against Iraq and now might be carried out against Iran, or else they pollute and degrade the academic and intellectual culture here in America by espousing Nazi doctrines without attribution. I'm just appalled that the Sunday New York Times would run a favorable reference to a Nazi philosopher without any commentary at all. But this goes on all the time if you follow the Neocons closely as I have since the University of Chicago tried to train me to become a Neocon starting back in 1968. That's how long I've been fighting these people.
Fab
Ed Norton Professor of Law
Carl Schmitt College of Law: “Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”

Francis A. Boyle
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Subject: RE: Trump Threats to Slash UN Funds, Move US Embassy to Jerusalem ‘Unprecedented’

“This is our Niemoeller moment<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3Dni8hwOmQdiY&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=ei1LEd2Ir4Js7PBYenSxfrn18P1aNwq23gld-phHkSA&e=>.”
For sure Jay! Which is precisely why we all just  stood up here  to have Urbana re-affirm itself as a Sanctuary City for the Undocumented—as of now the only one South of Chicago. And precisely why we all  stood up against this Nazi UI Law Faculty and Clinton’s  Killer Koh on behalf of  Muslims/Arabs/Asians Men, Women and Children of Color around the world. This is Our Nuremberg Moment too.
fab
Carl Schmitt College of Law:
“Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”

Francis A. Boyle
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504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Subject: Re: Trump Threats to Slash UN Funds, Move US Embassy to Jerusalem ‘Unprecedented’

Look at Trump’s tweets about welcoming an arms race because “we’ll out last them all!” I think Karen’s hypothesis is certainly worth consideration.

Please watch and share this video of Trump’s<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DjO-5F2MQIyZGc-26feature-3Dshare&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=kVlGLwBAh4_EgmfLfCiZdw4tVMFQzb29cf0MlTVKmfs&e=> own statements on “Mexicans,” war, etc. and read and sign The Call to Action<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__refusefascism.org&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=K33wWIp0Df9idcXOI2Zp8dtEdMujoQmWsjogMrM-fT0&e=> to stop him and Pence.
Have you heard about the transition team’s witch hunt <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.revcom.us_a_471_trumps-2Dfascist-2Dwitch-2Dhunt-2Dnow-2Dturns-2Dto-2Dstate-2Ddept-2Den.html&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=6puFAPJxlMsnttnMBSH5xcCcq9jXwgs2FsrVECQVS-8&e=> against women and gender equality programs at the State Dept.? They are already gearing up there, as well as at the EPA.

This is our Niemoeller moment<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3Dni8hwOmQdiY&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=ei1LEd2Ir4Js7PBYenSxfrn18P1aNwq23gld-phHkSA&e=>, let’s take his lessons to heart. Mobilize everyone, now, to say NO! to fascist USA wherever you are!

Jay

On Dec 29, 2016, at 09:53, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Though I agree, that rapprochement with Russia by the Trump administration is positive, I fear it’s a mere tactic, or strategy to drive a wedge between Russia and China, with US focus now on China. War by proxy, or, at the very least, serious containment continuing to take place. The neocons controlling our government, whether they be Pentagon, CIA, State Dept., or corporate advisors, as represented by the CFR, recognized that taking on both Russia and China at the same time wasn’t a viable strategy.

On Dec 29, 2016, at 06:48, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu<mailto:fboyle at illinois.edu>> wrote:

In fairness, Trump's proposed rapprochement with Russia is a positive development that I have commented upon before to RT and the Russian Media. Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
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Subject: Trump Threats to Slash UN Funds, Move US Embassy to Jerusalem ‘Unprecedented’

"We will have to see what happens next. It’s pretty well unprecedented," University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle said. "One would hope more cautious voices that he has appointed will rein him in."

Boyle pointed out that Trump’s comments, made after the administration of outgoing president Barack Obama refused to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement-building in eth West Bank, were part of a more widespread series of revolutionary initiatives he was proposing around the globe. "Trump is proposing revolutionary changes in longstanding major US policies on the Middle East, China and nuclear weapons before he has even taken office as president, including the disruption of the ‘one China’ policy," Boyle said. Trump’s comments on the United Nations, China and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem appeared to have made without awareness of the crises it may unleash by carrying out such actions, Boyle cautioned. "These actions demonstrate [Trump’s] lack of knowledge of the dynamics of the Sino-American relationship and of the balance of US relationships and assurances across the Middle East. We will have to see what the reactions and responses are going to be," he said. The United States has never recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and Trump comment could set off outrage against both Israel and the United States across the Arab world, Boyle explained.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201612291049088672-trump-un-funds-threats/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sputniknews.com_analysis_201612291049088672-2Dtrump-2Dun-2Dfunds-2Dthreats_&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=cDY1KFHWu_AIV_IepB5kOJ9SNqPazh27cLacDOew6kI&e=>
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201612291049088672-trump-un-funds-threats/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sputniknews.com_analysis_201612291049088672-2Dtrump-2Dun-2Dfunds-2Dthreats_&d=DQMF-g&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=PI2TNPK5ROqQ8AJM_fOstWpOz3sHCplI-qKUi6D0Uu4&s=cDY1KFHWu_AIV_IepB5kOJ9SNqPazh27cLacDOew6kI&e=>

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