De
volkomen belachelijke situatie waar de VS een interim-president heeft
aangewezen in het soevereine land Venezuela, leidt tot o.a. heftige situaties bij de
Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington. Deze interim-president, Juan Guaidó, is een fascist die voor deze handeling van de VS, gesteund door o.a. Canada
en de EU, niet eens bekend was bij meer dan 95% van de Venezolanen……
Deze Guaidó werd door de terreuradministratie Trump, in samenwerking met diensten als de CIA en NSA, plus de onvoorwaardelijke steun van de reguliere westerse media en politici, gebombardeerd tot
oppositieleider in Venezuela……. In werkelijkheid was Guaidó de voorzitter van een
onbetekenende oppositionele splinterpartij…. Niet voor niets ook dat hij voor zijn ultieme couppoging tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Maduro, slechts een paar honderd mensen op straat kreeg….
Met deze
terreurdaad* van de VS tegen een soeverein land, zijn ook de
ambassades van Venezuela in het buitenland niet veilig. Het
ambassadepersoneel in Washington mag niet meer worden voorzien van
voedsel, daarvoor zorgen politie, geheime dienst en gewelddadige
Venezolanen die in de VS wonen……. Met veel geweld worden mensen
belaagd en zelfs gearresteerd, mensen die het opnemen voor het zittende
ambassade personeel en hen voedsel proberen te geven…… Intussen heeft de VS de elektriciteit en het water voor de ambassade afgesloten; de terreur van de VS kent letterlijk geen grenzen……
Zo werd Gerry Condone (van Veterans for Peace >> VFP) met fiks geweld door meerdere agenten tegen de grond gewerkt, daar hij het ambassadepersoneel een komkommer toegooide…… Voor dit feit werd hij 24 uur vastgehouden in een politiecel……. Hoe is het gvd mogelijk??!!!
Ongelofelijk
dat de VN niet al lang de VS heeft opgeroepen de Venezolaanse
soevereiniteit te respecteren en het ambassade personeel ongemoeid te
laten, zeker nu blijkt dat de bevolking van Venezuela voor het
overgrote deel nog steeds achter haar democratisch gekozen president Maduro staat……
De
schrijver van het volgende artikel, Ray McGovern, ziet voorts een
opvallende gelijkenis tussen het VS van de 21ste en het nazi-Duitse terreurbewind in de 20ste eeuw. Hiervoor citeert hij o.a. Raimond Pretzel, die schreef onder de naam Sebastian Haffner. Opvallend in dit deel van het artikel het feit dat de sociaal democratische top zich bijzonder snel aansloot bij de nazi’s, nog voordat deze partij, de SPD, werd verboden…… Maart 1933 zouden een paar miljoen Duitsers klaar zijn geweest voor de strijd tegen het nazisme, echter hun leiders lieten het afweten en collaboreerden met het nazi-geteisem, anderen ontvluchtten het land….
Beste bezoeker, lees het hieronder opgenomen artikel, een uitstekende analyse en
een aanklacht tegen de omgang van de VS met landen waar het niets te
vertellen zou moeten hebben, plus de zojuist geschetste situatie op
de straten van Washington, waar zoals gezegd neonazi’s, gesteund door de politie en
geheime dienst, terreur uitoefenen tegen goedwillende mensen…….
Het
volgende artikel werd gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House en verscheen eerder op Consortium News:
‘Turnkey
Tyranny’ on the Streets of Washington
We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
And on Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically.
Ray McGovern explains.
By
Ray McGovern
May
11, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – Gerry
Condon, President of Veterans For Peace, was bloodied and “taken to
ground,” on Wednesday night for trying to get food to people inside
the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. The activists inside, some of
whom have lived in the embassy for weeks with permission from the
Venezuelan government, are protecting the premises from protestors
who support the self-declared president Juan Guaido.
With
the acquiescence of Washington police and the Secret Service, the
protestors have been able to block food from entering the embassy.
On Wednesday night electricity was cut to the building. One
activist tossing a loaf of bread to a window was arrested earlier
this week for using a “missile.” Now Condon has been
manhandled and nabbed for throwing a cucumber.
We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
On Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically. Until
now it has been an almost imperceptibly gradual process, like the
proverbial frog in boiling water.
Photo
and video of Condon’s arrest (story continues below):
I am stunned. US @SecretService just slammed the head of the President of Veterans for Peace into the cement because he tried to deliver a cucumber to Embassy Protectors. They let him bleed on the ground and did not provide med. attention. @DrMFlowers had to call an ambulance.
Follow my friend & colleague @RealAlexRubi for updates as well: twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/s…
(eerst iemand mishandelen en dan zogenaamd begaan met een medisch hulptasje op de rug, Jerry Condone hulp bieden, terwijl hij duidelijk zichtbaar pijnlijk is geboeid door dezelfde collega’s die hem mishandelden….)
Opposition already trying to blind me and hamstring my reporting with spotlights
(voor deze video zie het origineel)
BREAKING: Police violently arrest the president of @VFPNational, Jerry Condone, for trying to get food into the embassy. He is left with lacerations on his face. @UrsulaRozum also arrested. Opposition walks away with stolen food. pic.twitter.com/KhPvSAtC05
Hier een paar video’s van YouTube, waaronder een tweede video die in het origineel is opgenomen”
Of
course, this has happened before. I quoted these
words in this article I
wrote for Consortium
News on
December 27, 2007:
“There
are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I
and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in
Germany, as if from a box at the theater. … Perhaps the only
comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later….”
The
words are those of Sebastian Haffner (pen name for Raimund Pretzel),
who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi
takeover, and wrote a first-hand account.
His children found the manuscript when he died in 1999 and published
it the following year as “Geschichte eines Deutschen” (The Story
of a German).
The
book became an immediate bestseller and has been translated into 20
languages—in English as “Defying Hitler.”
I
recently learned from his daughter Sarah, an artist in Berlin,
that today is
the 100th anniversary of
Haffner’s birth. She had seen an earlier article in which I quoted
her father and e-mailed to ask me to “write some more about the
book and the comparison to Bush’s America. … This is almost
unbelievable.”
More
about Haffner below. Let’s set the stage first by recapping some of
what has been going on here in the U.S. that may have resonance for
readers familiar with the Nazi ascendancy, noting how “odd” it is
that the frontal attack on our Constitutional rights is met with such
“calm, superior indifference.”
After
suppressing for two and a half years the explosive story of the
Bush/Cheney surveillance of Americans in gross violation of the
Fourth Amendment, top New York Times officials decided to
let the rest of us in on the fact that the George W. Bush
administration had been eavesdropping on American citizens without
the court warrants required by the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) of 1978. Not to mention the U.S. Constitution.
The Times had
learned of this well before the election in 2004 and acquiesced to
White House entreaties to suppress the damaging information.
In
late fall 2005 when Times correspondent James Risen’s
book, “State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush
Administration,” revealing the warrantless eavesdropping was being
printed, Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.,
recognized that he could procrastinate no longer.
It
would simply be too embarrassing to have Risen’s book on the
street, with Sulzberger and his associates pretending that this
explosive eavesdropping story did not fit Adolph Ochs’s trademark
criterion: All The News That’s Fit To Print.
(The Times’
own ombudsman, Public Editor Byron Calame, branded the newspaper’s
explanation for the long delay in publishing this story “woefully
inadequate.”)
When
Sulzberger told his friends in the White House that he could no
longer hold off on publishing in the newspaper, he was summoned to
the Oval Office for a counseling session with the president on Dec.
5, 2005. Bush tried in vain to talk him out of putting the story in
the Times.
The
truth would out; part of it, at least.
Unnamed
Program
What
followed struck me as bizarre. The day after the Dec.
16 Times feature article exposing the
Fourth-Amendment-trashing program, the president of the United States
publicly admitted to a demonstrably impeachable offense.
Authorizing
illegal electronic surveillance was a key provision of the second
article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. On July 27,
1974, this and two other articles of impeachment were approved by
bipartisan votes in the House Judiciary Committee.
Bush
took a frontal approach, Far from expressing regret, he bragged about
having authorized the surveillance “more than 30 times since the
September the 11th attacks,” and said he would continue to do so.
The president also said:
“Leaders
in Congress have been briefed more than a dozen times on this
authorization and the activities conducted under it.”
On
Dec. 19, 2005, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-NSA
Director Michael Hayden held a press conference to answer questions
about the as yet unnamed surveillance program.
Gonzales
was asked why the White House decided to flout FISA rather than
attempt to amend it, choosing instead a “backdoor approach.”
He answered:
“We
have had discussions with Congress…as to whether or not FISA could
be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat,
and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”
It
Had to Do With Us
It
was not difficult to
infer that the surveillance program must
have been of such scope and intrusiveness that, even amid highly
stoked fear, it didn’t have a prayer for passage.
It
turns out we didn’t know the half of it.
Bear
in mind that when this illegal surveillance program began, it had
nothing to do with terrorism, an issue that did not really appear on
the new administration’s radar screen until a week before 9/11. …
So this until-recently-unknown pre-9/11 facet of the “Terrorist
Surveillance Program” was not related to Osama bin Laden or to
whomever he and his associates might be speaking. It had to do with
us.
We
know that the Democrats briefed on the “Terrorist Surveillance
Program” include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, (the one with
the longest tenure on the House Intelligence Committee), Rep. Jane
Harman, D-California, and former and current chairmen of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, D-FL, and Jay Rockefeller, D-WV,
respectively.
May
one interpret their lack of public comment on the news that the
snooping began well before 9/11 as a sign they were co-opted and then
sworn to secrecy?
It
is an important question. Were the appropriate leaders in Congress
informed that within days of George W. Bush’s first inauguration
the NSA electronic vacuum cleaner began to suck up information on you
and me, despite the FISA law and the Fourth Amendment?
Are
they all complicit? And are Democratic leaders about to cave in and
grant retroactive immunity to those telecommunications
corporations—AT&T and Verizon—which made millions by winking
at the law and the Constitution?
(Qwest,
to its credit, heeded the advice of its general counsel who said that
what NSA wanted done was clearly illegal.)
What’s
going on here? [December 2007] Have congressional leaders no
sense for what is at stake?
Lately
the adjective “spineless” has come into vogue in describing
congressional Democrats—no offense to invertebrates.
Nazis
and Their Enablers
You
don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep.
In
his journal, Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish
submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like
event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27,
1933.
Haffner
finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything
out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone
would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be
broken into.”
But
it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most
vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?
In
the elections of March 4, 1933, shortly after the Reichstag fire, the
Nazi party garnered only 44 percent of the vote. Only the “cowardly
treachery” of the Social Democrats and other parties to whom 56
percent of the German people had entrusted their votes made it
possible for the Nazis to seize full power. Haffner adds:
“It
is in the final analysis only that betrayal that explains the almost
inexplicable fact that a great nation, which cannot have consisted
entirely of cowards, fell into ignominy without a fight.”
The
Social Democratic leaders betrayed their followers—“for the most
part decent, unimportant individuals.” In May, the party leaders
sang the Nazi anthem; in June the Social Democratic party was
dissolved.
The
middle-class Catholic party Zentrum folded in less than a month, and
in the end supplied the votes necessary for the two-thirds majority
that “legalized” Hitler’s dictatorship.
As
for the right-wing conservatives and German nationalists: “Oh God,”
writes Haffner, “what an infinitely dishonorable and cowardly
spectacle their leaders made in 1933 and continued to make afterward.
… They went along with everything: the terror, the persecution of
Jews. … They were not even bothered when their own party was banned
and their own members arrested.”
In
sum: “There was not a single example of energetic defense, of
courage or principle. There was only panic, flight, and desertion. In
March 1933, millions were ready to fight the Nazis. Overnight they
found themselves without leaders. … At the moment of truth, when
other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans
collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and
suffered a nervous breakdown. … The result is today the nightmare
of the rest of the world.”
This
is what can happen when virtually all are intimidated.
Our
Founding Fathers were not oblivious to this; thus, James Madison
wrote:
“I
believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations. … The means of defense against
foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at
home.”
We
cannot say we weren’t warned.
Ray
McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical
Church of the Saviour in inner city Washington. He was a CIA analyst
for 27 years and presidential briefer and is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
This
article was originally published by “ Consortium
News ”
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* De terreurdaad zich te mengen in de binnenlandpolitiek van een soeverein land, dit nog naast de eerst geheime economische oorlog tegen het Venezolaanse volk….. Een oorlog die intussen is veranderd in een officieel sanctiebeleid, waarmee de situatie voor de Venezolanen er nog beroerder uit is komen te zien….. Gelukkig krijgt het land veel steun, niet alleen van het Rode Kruis en de VN, maar ook van onder andere China, Rusland en Cuba…..
Zie ook:
‘Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd‘
‘Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….‘
‘Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt‘
‘Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties‘
‘Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence‘
‘Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen‘
‘Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence‘
‘Venezuela
– A Risk to Dollar Hegemony – Key Purpose Behind “Regime Change”‘
‘Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda‘
‘Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges‘
‘Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt‘ (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht, anders dan de al hier weergegeven links)
‘Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers‘
‘VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk…….‘
‘VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘
‘The Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order‘ (een artikel van CounterPunch)
‘Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval‘
‘VS legt nog meer sancties op aan de bevolking van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua‘
‘Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS‘
‘Venezuela: onafhankelijke journalisten ontmaskeren leugens over dit land bij presentatie voor de VN‘
‘Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet‘
‘Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’
‘Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië‘
‘Venezuela Aid Live >> Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) terecht tegen benefietconcert‘
‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten‘
‘Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘ (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)
‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘
‘Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela‘
‘BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)
‘Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia‘
‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘
‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘
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