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======================================Tough Measures Justified in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
"A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were 'seeking political change.'
"[Ambassador Kozak wrote to a British
newspaper that] America's 'objective
and to some degree methodology are the
same' in Belarus as in Nicaragua,
where the US backed the Contras against the
left-wing Sandinista Government
in a war that claimed at least 30,000
lives." [From article in "The Times"
(UK), 3 September 2001, posted below.]
Victor Olevich, a Philadelphia reader, sent
us the article from 'The
Times'(UK) which is posted below.
Mr. Olevich commented that it is "one of
the bluntest I've seen in recent
months;" and so it seems to me as well.
With this 'Times' article, the cards
are on the table: U.S. Ambassador to
Belarus, Michael Kozak, has now admitted
that the U.S. is pursuing a 'Nicaraguan'
policy in Belarus.
Victor Olevich writes:
" They [i.e., US operatives] have been
putting out anti-Lukashenko propaganda
pieces and interviews with 'opposition'
leaders in many US-controlled Russian
papers during the past week. They're trying
to do all they can to change the
popular outcome of Sept. 4 elections by any
means - including possible
organized US-funded 'protests' in Minsk
following announcement of election
results (just as after presidential
elections in Yugoslavia last year)."
Taken in this context, what is Mr. Kozak's
statement but a threat to
Belorussian citizens: vote the
U.S.-approved way or suffer the fate of
Nicaragua.
Earlier this year, the Belorussian
government seized computers being used by
an unregistered, 'opposition' newspaper. It
seemed the computers had been
donated to the newspaper by the U.S.
Department of State.
Rather than being embarrassed that his boss
had been caught outrageously
violating Belorussian sovereignty, State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher
demanded that Washington's computers be
returned!
Anyway, while the 'Times' article kindly
sent to us by Mr. Olevich openly
confirms that the Belorussian government
has been telling the truth about
Washington's gross attack on Belorussian
sovereignty, the article also
slanders the Belorussian government.
It calls Belorussian President Lukashenko a
"dictatorial communist." But at
the same time, the article admits:
"President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy. "
So if he's supported on a perfectly
sensible basis by most citizens, wherein
lies his dictatorialness? The article cites
only one 'example.' Here it is:
"Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk."
It is reassuring that a story almost surely
invented by Washington is found
credible - by Washington. And that 'special
pistol' is a nicely chilling
little touch. Still, this particular piece
of disinformation could use more work.
First of all, the same article quotes U.S.
Ambassador to Belarus, Michael
Kozak, to the effect that:
"America's 'objective and to some degree
methodology are the same' in Belarus
as in Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing
Sandinista Government in a war that claimed
at least 30,000 lives."
Second of all, note that one of the marked
features of the attack on Nicaragua by the
U.S.-financed-trained-and-led Contras was
the massive dose
of lies and deception emanating from
Washington. This, you may recall,
culminated in "Iran-Contra," an operation
synonymous with disinformation.
During Iran-Contra, the Reagan
Administration lied to: a) Congress; b)
everyone else; c) set up phony humanitarian
groups all over Central America
and d) presented the Contra death squads as
freedom fighters. (If this sounds
eerily familair, it may be because
Washington is now doing all the same
things to Macedonia!)
Which reminds me: the death squads in
Nicaragua (like the current ones in
Macedonia) were U.S. financed, trained and
'advised.'
And since 'The Times' article tells us that
now-Ambassador-to-Belarus Kozak
was:
"Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Inter-American Affairs...working in
Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador,
and...was serving in Nicaragua [when] Mr.
Reagan famously compared the Contras to the
French Resistance fighters." [One
of many of the amazing lies the U.S.
government spread about Nicaragua.]
- since Kozak was therefore of necessity
intimately involved with the
organization and direction of the death
squads in Nicaraguan and El Salvador
- isn't it 'credible' that a) the U.S.
invented the fable about Belorussian
government death squads, which it then
found credible and b) the U.S. is
planning to unleash the same sort of
violence which marked the "objective and
to some degree methodology" of Kozak's
previous work, where he and his
associates employed death squads and lies
against Nicaragua.
**********************
Fight Fire With Water
**********************
Mr. Lukashenko has been described as
'dictatorial' for taking mild measures
against the U.S.-funded Fifth Column.
According to 'The Times' there are now 300
U.S.-funded 'Non-governmental'
Organizations in Belarus.
300!
That's one U.S. Government Organization for
every 30,000 inhabitants of
Belarus, man, woman and child.
Can you imagine how Washington would react
were the Belorussian Ambassador,
coincidentally a former death squad
organizer, to set up 9,500 'independent'
NGOs and announce that their task was to
overthrow the U.S. government?
The accusation of 'dictatorial' behavior is
a ploy. It is intended to
intimidate the Belorussian authorities with
bad publicty, so they won't take
measures adequate to defend their country
from U.S. takeover.
Ambassador Kozak's remarks are a
declaration of covert war. It is entirely
appropriate that Belarus demand Mr. Kozak
be recalled and then immediately,
without awaiting Washington's response,
escort him and his entire staff to
the border. Throwing out the whole lot will
disrupt Washington's plans.
In addition, why shouldn't Belarus arrest
those receiving U.S. money?
Washington does not give people money out
of the kindness of its heart. It
pays for services rendered. In exchange for
money, some Belorussian
'democrats' have signed on to be
Washington's new Contras, employing 'a
methodology' similar to the methods
Washington used against Nicaragua. As
'The Times' notes, Washington's war against
Nicaragua killed 30,000 human
beings. Must the nightmare be repeated,
time and again?
- Jared Israel
-----------------------------------
The Times (UK) 3 September 2001 US adopts
'Contras policy' in communist
Belarus
FROM ALICE LAGNADO IN MOSCOW
THE US Embassy in Belarus has admitted that
it is pursuing a policy similar
to that in 1980s Nicaragua, in which
anti-government Contra rebels were
funded and supported.
President Lukashenko, a dictatorial
Communist, is heading for victory in
presidential elections on Sunday.
In an unusual admission, Michael Kozak, the
US Ambassador to Belarus, said in
a letter to a British newspaper that
America's "objective and to some degree
methodology are the same" in Belarus as in
Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing Sandinista
Government in a war that claimed at
least 30,000 lives. Mr Kozak was not
available for comment.
Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk.
The ambassador's disclosure has coincided
with moves by the Bush
Administration to gain increased political
influence in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans and with reports in several
European newspapers, which said that
former US servicemen believed to be working
for the CIA were escorted with
Albanian guerrillas from a village in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia earlier this year.
Earlier in his career, Mr Kozak served as
Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under
Presidents Reagan and Bush,
working in Panama, Nicaragua and El
Salvador, and was Ambassador to Cuba.
While Mr Kozak was serving in Nicaragua, Mr
Reagan famously compared the
Contras to the French Resistance fighters.
President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were "seeking political change".
(C) 'The Times' 2001, Posted for Fair Use
Only
********************
Further Reading:
********************
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
3) The U.S. directed a coup d'etat against
Yugoslavia using the same methods
now in operation in Belarus. See: 'U.S.
Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm (By
Jared Israel, Michel Chossudovsky,
Nico Varkovisser Peter Maher and Karen Talbot)
For a post mortem admission of the extent
of U.S. control of the Yugoslav
coup, see George Szamuely's report on the
National Endowment for Democracy
and its funding of the 'student group,'
Otpor, 'Eviscerating Democracy' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/neda2.htm
4) Mark Almond has a very good letter in
the 'Guardian' about Belarus called
'For Nicaragua, Read Belarus.' It can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/alm.htm
5) For the text of State Dep't spokesman
Richard Boucher's remarkable attack
on Belarus (for seizing Washington's Fifth
Column computers) see "Speechless
in Belarus" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ind.htm
***
======================================Speechless in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
Frankly, the article posted below left me
speechless.
But why?
After all, as President Slobodan Milosevich
noted in the speech they didn't
let him make a few days ago, the U.S. has
employed missiles to punish uppity
nations so often that the repetition of
such attacks is 'expected before it occurs.'
If missiles are appropriate when one defies
the Great White (Mini)Father, why
should it surprise me that State Department
Spokesman Richard Boucher says
the U.S. is aiding the "prospect for free
and fair presidential elections" by
giving money and equipment to pro-U.S.
groups in Belarus?
Why should I consider it odd that Boucher
describes such groups, created and
funded by the U.S. (there are now 300
U.S.-funded NGOs in Belarus!) as "independent?"
Perhaps the problem is I am 57, hence was
(mis)educated in numerous
out-of-date definitions, such as:
in�de�pend�ent
in�de�pend�ent (�n�d�-p�n�dent) adjective
Abbr. ind.
1. Not governed by a foreign power;
self-governing.
2. Free from the influence, guidance, or
control of another or others;
self-reliant: an independent mind.
Whereas in Uncle Sam's Excellent New Order,
'independent' means "governed by
a foreign power" not to mention "getting
all the funds and computer equipment
from Sam you Can."
That being the case, when the State
Department gives computers to an
'opposition' group in Belarus, thus
heightening said group's independence,
and the Belorussian authorities seize such
equipment, thus abusing
Washington's God-given right to rule the
world - plus proving they are agents
of a communist dictatorship - why shouldn't
Mr. Boucher demand his computers
be returned?
Will I never learn?
- Jared Israel, still speechless after all
these years.
AP Online
August 3, 2001
U.S. Denounces [!] Belarus Authorities
WASHINGTON
The State Department on Friday denounced
Belarus authorities for seizing
U.S.-supplied equipment designed to assist
the country's democratic opposition ahead
of Sept. 9 presidential elections.
Spokesman Richard Boucher demanded the
immediate return of the equipment.
On July 12, Boucher said, militia officers
in the town of Krichev seized
equipment owned by the U.S. government and
leased to the independent newspaper Volny Grad.
Militia officers also seized computer
equipment leased by the U.S. Embassy
Democracy Commission to a pro-democracy
center, Boucher said.
He noted that the Belarusian government had
confirmed that the equipment was
seized under terms of Decree No. 8, imposed
by the regime to limit foreign
assistance to the democratic opposition.
''This decree has ben denounced by the
international community,'' Boucher
said, ''as have many other actions taken by
the regime that impede the
prospect for free and fair presidential
elections.''
He said all U.S. assistance falls under a
1996 bilateral assistance
agreement. He added that the seizures
contradict the Belarusian government's
assurances that U.S. assistance is exempt
from Decree 8.
Only by creating conditions for free and
fair elections can Belarus win the
respect of the international community,
improve relations with the United
States and end its self-imposed isolation,
Boucher said.
(c) AP 2001, Reprinted For Fair Use Only
Further Reading:
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
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======================================Tough Measures Justified in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
"A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were 'seeking political change.'
"[Ambassador Kozak wrote to a British
newspaper that] America's 'objective
and to some degree methodology are the
same' in Belarus as in Nicaragua,
where the US backed the Contras against the
left-wing Sandinista Government
in a war that claimed at least 30,000
lives." [From article in "The Times"
(UK), 3 September 2001, posted below.]
Victor Olevich, a Philadelphia reader, sent
us the article from 'The
Times'(UK) which is posted below.
Mr. Olevich commented that it is "one of
the bluntest I've seen in recent
months;" and so it seems to me as well.
With this 'Times' article, the cards
are on the table: U.S. Ambassador to
Belarus, Michael Kozak, has now admitted
that the U.S. is pursuing a 'Nicaraguan'
policy in Belarus.
Victor Olevich writes:
" They [i.e., US operatives] have been
putting out anti-Lukashenko propaganda
pieces and interviews with 'opposition'
leaders in many US-controlled Russian
papers during the past week. They're trying
to do all they can to change the
popular outcome of Sept. 4 elections by any
means - including possible
organized US-funded 'protests' in Minsk
following announcement of election
results (just as after presidential
elections in Yugoslavia last year)."
Taken in this context, what is Mr. Kozak's
statement but a threat to
Belorussian citizens: vote the
U.S.-approved way or suffer the fate of
Nicaragua.
Earlier this year, the Belorussian
government seized computers being used by
an unregistered, 'opposition' newspaper. It
seemed the computers had been
donated to the newspaper by the U.S.
Department of State.
Rather than being embarrassed that his boss
had been caught outrageously
violating Belorussian sovereignty, State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher
demanded that Washington's computers be
returned!
Anyway, while the 'Times' article kindly
sent to us by Mr. Olevich openly
confirms that the Belorussian government
has been telling the truth about
Washington's gross attack on Belorussian
sovereignty, the article also
slanders the Belorussian government.
It calls Belorussian President Lukashenko a
"dictatorial communist." But at
the same time, the article admits:
"President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy. "
So if he's supported on a perfectly
sensible basis by most citizens, wherein
lies his dictatorialness? The article cites
only one 'example.' Here it is:
"Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk."
It is reassuring that a story almost surely
invented by Washington is found
credible - by Washington. And that 'special
pistol' is a nicely chilling
little touch. Still, this particular piece
of disinformation could use more work.
First of all, the same article quotes U.S.
Ambassador to Belarus, Michael
Kozak, to the effect that:
"America's 'objective and to some degree
methodology are the same' in Belarus
as in Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing
Sandinista Government in a war that claimed
at least 30,000 lives."
Second of all, note that one of the marked
features of the attack on Nicaragua by the
U.S.-financed-trained-and-led Contras was
the massive dose
of lies and deception emanating from
Washington. This, you may recall,
culminated in "Iran-Contra," an operation
synonymous with disinformation.
During Iran-Contra, the Reagan
Administration lied to: a) Congress; b)
everyone else; c) set up phony humanitarian
groups all over Central America
and d) presented the Contra death squads as
freedom fighters. (If this sounds
eerily familair, it may be because
Washington is now doing all the same
things to Macedonia!)
Which reminds me: the death squads in
Nicaragua (like the current ones in
Macedonia) were U.S. financed, trained and
'advised.'
And since 'The Times' article tells us that
now-Ambassador-to-Belarus Kozak
was:
"Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Inter-American Affairs...working in
Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador,
and...was serving in Nicaragua [when] Mr.
Reagan famously compared the Contras to the
French Resistance fighters." [One
of many of the amazing lies the U.S.
government spread about Nicaragua.]
- since Kozak was therefore of necessity
intimately involved with the
organization and direction of the death
squads in Nicaraguan and El Salvador
- isn't it 'credible' that a) the U.S.
invented the fable about Belorussian
government death squads, which it then
found credible and b) the U.S. is
planning to unleash the same sort of
violence which marked the "objective and
to some degree methodology" of Kozak's
previous work, where he and his
associates employed death squads and lies
against Nicaragua.
**********************
Fight Fire With Water
**********************
Mr. Lukashenko has been described as
'dictatorial' for taking mild measures
against the U.S.-funded Fifth Column.
According to 'The Times' there are now 300
U.S.-funded 'Non-governmental'
Organizations in Belarus.
300!
That's one U.S. Government Organization for
every 30,000 inhabitants of
Belarus, man, woman and child.
Can you imagine how Washington would react
were the Belorussian Ambassador,
coincidentally a former death squad
organizer, to set up 9,500 'independent'
NGOs and announce that their task was to
overthrow the U.S. government?
The accusation of 'dictatorial' behavior is
a ploy. It is intended to
intimidate the Belorussian authorities with
bad publicty, so they won't take
measures adequate to defend their country
from U.S. takeover.
Ambassador Kozak's remarks are a
declaration of covert war. It is entirely
appropriate that Belarus demand Mr. Kozak
be recalled and then immediately,
without awaiting Washington's response,
escort him and his entire staff to
the border. Throwing out the whole lot will
disrupt Washington's plans.
In addition, why shouldn't Belarus arrest
those receiving U.S. money?
Washington does not give people money out
of the kindness of its heart. It
pays for services rendered. In exchange for
money, some Belorussian
'democrats' have signed on to be
Washington's new Contras, employing 'a
methodology' similar to the methods
Washington used against Nicaragua. As
'The Times' notes, Washington's war against
Nicaragua killed 30,000 human
beings. Must the nightmare be repeated,
time and again?
- Jared Israel
-----------------------------------
The Times (UK) 3 September 2001 US adopts
'Contras policy' in communist
Belarus
FROM ALICE LAGNADO IN MOSCOW
THE US Embassy in Belarus has admitted that
it is pursuing a policy similar
to that in 1980s Nicaragua, in which
anti-government Contra rebels were
funded and supported.
President Lukashenko, a dictatorial
Communist, is heading for victory in
presidential elections on Sunday.
In an unusual admission, Michael Kozak, the
US Ambassador to Belarus, said in
a letter to a British newspaper that
America's "objective and to some degree
methodology are the same" in Belarus as in
Nicaragua, where the US backed the
Contras against the left-wing Sandinista
Government in a war that claimed at
least 30,000 lives. Mr Kozak was not
available for comment.
Washington said recently that allegations
of state-sanctioned death squads
operating in Belarus, Europe's last bastion
of communism, were "credible".
Two former state prosecutors, who have been
granted political asylum in
America, have said that victims were
murdered with a special pistol and
buried in a cemetery in Minsk.
The ambassador's disclosure has coincided
with moves by the Bush
Administration to gain increased political
influence in Eastern Europe and
the Balkans and with reports in several
European newspapers, which said that
former US servicemen believed to be working
for the CIA were escorted with
Albanian guerrillas from a village in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia earlier this year.
Earlier in his career, Mr Kozak served as
Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Inter-American Affairs under
Presidents Reagan and Bush,
working in Panama, Nicaragua and El
Salvador, and was Ambassador to Cuba.
While Mr Kozak was serving in Nicaragua, Mr
Reagan famously compared the
Contras to the French Resistance fighters.
President Lukashenko is popular and most
Belorussians fear that a new,
pro-Western leader would bring the poverty
experienced by many Russians and
Ukrainians after the transition to a market
economy.
A spokesman for the US Embassy in Minsk
told The Times that the embassy
helped to fund 300 non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), including non-state
media, but did not fund political parties,
since that is banned by law. He
admitted that some of the NGOs were linked
to those who were "seeking political change".
(C) 'The Times' 2001, Posted for Fair Use
Only
********************
Further Reading:
********************
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
3) The U.S. directed a coup d'etat against
Yugoslavia using the same methods
now in operation in Belarus. See: 'U.S.
Arrogance and Yugoslav Elections' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/engl.htm (By
Jared Israel, Michel Chossudovsky,
Nico Varkovisser Peter Maher and Karen Talbot)
For a post mortem admission of the extent
of U.S. control of the Yugoslav
coup, see George Szamuely's report on the
National Endowment for Democracy
and its funding of the 'student group,'
Otpor, 'Eviscerating Democracy' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/szamuely/neda2.htm
4) Mark Almond has a very good letter in
the 'Guardian' about Belarus called
'For Nicaragua, Read Belarus.' It can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/alm.htm
5) For the text of State Dep't spokesman
Richard Boucher's remarkable attack
on Belarus (for seizing Washington's Fifth
Column computers) see "Speechless
in Belarus" by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/ind.htm
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======================================Speechless in Belarus
by Jared Israel [3 September 2001]
======================================
Frankly, the article posted below left me
speechless.
But why?
After all, as President Slobodan Milosevich
noted in the speech they didn't
let him make a few days ago, the U.S. has
employed missiles to punish uppity
nations so often that the repetition of
such attacks is 'expected before it occurs.'
If missiles are appropriate when one defies
the Great White (Mini)Father, why
should it surprise me that State Department
Spokesman Richard Boucher says
the U.S. is aiding the "prospect for free
and fair presidential elections" by
giving money and equipment to pro-U.S.
groups in Belarus?
Why should I consider it odd that Boucher
describes such groups, created and
funded by the U.S. (there are now 300
U.S.-funded NGOs in Belarus!) as "independent?"
Perhaps the problem is I am 57, hence was
(mis)educated in numerous
out-of-date definitions, such as:
in�de�pend�ent
in�de�pend�ent (�n�d�-p�n�dent) adjective
Abbr. ind.
1. Not governed by a foreign power;
self-governing.
2. Free from the influence, guidance, or
control of another or others;
self-reliant: an independent mind.
Whereas in Uncle Sam's Excellent New Order,
'independent' means "governed by
a foreign power" not to mention "getting
all the funds and computer equipment
from Sam you Can."
That being the case, when the State
Department gives computers to an
'opposition' group in Belarus, thus
heightening said group's independence,
and the Belorussian authorities seize such
equipment, thus abusing
Washington's God-given right to rule the
world - plus proving they are agents
of a communist dictatorship - why shouldn't
Mr. Boucher demand his computers
be returned?
Will I never learn?
- Jared Israel, still speechless after all
these years.
AP Online
August 3, 2001
U.S. Denounces [!] Belarus Authorities
WASHINGTON
The State Department on Friday denounced
Belarus authorities for seizing
U.S.-supplied equipment designed to assist
the country's democratic opposition ahead
of Sept. 9 presidential elections.
Spokesman Richard Boucher demanded the
immediate return of the equipment.
On July 12, Boucher said, militia officers
in the town of Krichev seized
equipment owned by the U.S. government and
leased to the independent newspaper Volny Grad.
Militia officers also seized computer
equipment leased by the U.S. Embassy
Democracy Commission to a pro-democracy
center, Boucher said.
He noted that the Belarusian government had
confirmed that the equipment was
seized under terms of Decree No. 8, imposed
by the regime to limit foreign
assistance to the democratic opposition.
''This decree has ben denounced by the
international community,'' Boucher
said, ''as have many other actions taken by
the regime that impede the
prospect for free and fair presidential
elections.''
He said all U.S. assistance falls under a
1996 bilateral assistance
agreement. He added that the seizures
contradict the Belarusian government's
assurances that U.S. assistance is exempt
from Decree 8.
Only by creating conditions for free and
fair elections can Belarus win the
respect of the international community,
improve relations with the United
States and end its self-imposed isolation,
Boucher said.
(c) AP 2001, Reprinted For Fair Use Only
Further Reading:
1) Why is Lukashenko NATO's Enemy #1 in the
former Soviet Union? Because he
is resisting Washington's Imperial strategy
as discussed in:
* 'Why is NATO Decimating the Balkans and
Trying to Force Milosevic to
Surrender?' by Jared Israel and Nico
Varkevisser at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/whyisn.htm
2) A few months ago, FBI agents arrested a
Russian Pavel Borodin, a Russian
diplomat, who had been invited to George
W.'s inauguration. Many people felt
the real target was Lukashenko's attempt to
reunite Belarus, Russia and other
former Soviet Republics.
* 'Borodin Falsely Arrested - Washington's
Excuse a Lie' by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bor.htm
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