Re: An letter to Against the Current

[Borba100@xxxxxxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/17/01 2:32:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<<
> From: "Xxxx Xxxxxx"
> In the latest issue of "Against the Current", the same magazine that
> defended the imperialist interventions in East Timor

 This criticism would have more sting if more leftists regarded "defend[ing]
 the imperialist interventions in East Timor" as some kind of sin.  As it is,
 raising this irrelevant issue in this manner merely paints you as yet
 another sectarian.
  >>

It does my heart good that at last some Leftists are opposing imperialism
sufficiently strongly that they get attacked as sectarians. Hallelujah! All
praise Xxxx and other "sectarians" for they have brave hearts and have not
been seduced by fellowships and grants and positions in NGOs and whatever
into backing whatever phony "Civil society" and "democratic" lie the Imperial
beasts use to justify taking over and destroying target countries.

Every time someone attacks Imperial policy - e.g., in Zimbabwe, or
Philippines, Timor or Yugoslavia - we are told: if you are right how come all
the local lefties are backing (whoever is the choice of the Imperialists.)

Could it be because the local leftists are Uncle Toms or Imperial imports?
(Did I say that?  How crude of me.  Imperialists would never stoop to such
dastardly tactics as: trying to make sure they control the "Left" side of the
struggle...)

I say BLESS these "sectarians" who oppose intervention instead of licking the
current Imperial excuse for intervening.

In Yugoslavia the Imperial West intervened to save the Albanians - first off,
a lie, and second, they proceeded to turn Kosovo into a radioactive nightmare
run by drug gangsters and whose second industry is forced prostitution, plus
it has the biggest US military base in the world. Long live independence!

Note that all those who were telling us how the Serbs were monsters and blah
blah blah are now strangely silent.

In Philippines they intervene (behind the thin veneer of a local leader) to
oppose corruption, since as we know our little brown brothers cannot be
trusted to make their own decisions.

In Rwanda they intervene on the side of their local client, the Tutsis,
against the Hutus (the former slaves of the Tutsis) while setting up a
regional form of Fascism. And all the good lefties jump and say HUTUS ARE
GENOCIDAL.  Though all their info comes from: the Imperialists.  But the bad
sectarians are over there serving as lawyers for the Hutu leaders against the
U.S.-created War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda - i.e., to crush Hutu leaders who
I have been told by said lawyers are some of the most wonderful progressives
on earth.  Political sharp, erudite, etc., in other words: the backward West
vs. learned heathens.

East Timor is in some ways the most vicious.  Because here the Imperial
world, with Holbrooke in the forefront, guaranteed the slaughter of the
independence movement, over 200,000 dead.  AND THEN many years after this
movement was slaughtered, it's best leaders long dead, its spirit broken to
the point where it looked for a foreign sponsor - then the Imperialists went
back and bought out (at cheap prices)  a few leaders of the remnants of that
movement - it was done by Albright and Clinton, directly - and then provoked
strife - then told wildly fictional atrocity stories - note that virtually NO
bodies were ever found - and then intervened, justifying it with the pretense
that this was being done to protect the movement - which they had destroyed!

And who was the intervention organized out of the UN by?

Richard Holbrooke, same guy who organized the original slaughter.  What
economy of effort: Richard gets Recycled.

 (Concerning Richard Holbrooke's hypocrisy,
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/holbrooke.htm.  On evidence that we have not
been told the truth about East Timor - i.e.,, what actually happened - see
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/ointment.htm)

What kind of leftists fall for this White Man's Burden stuff?  The only
difference between these current interventions and the intervention against
Mau Mau  - or for that matter, the earlier interventions to make sure
missionaries could save the heathens' souls - is that, not surprisingly,
today's Imperialists clothe their modern interventions in suitably modern
lies.

Jared