Death Squads have, just as torture, an unfairly tarnished reputation. And I would like to give little background and also clarify why I think both are excellent methods to win hearts and minds among enemies of economic freedom and financial liberty, alternatively significantly reduce the hostile population.
Although death squads been used by before, during the 1930s, Hitler made extensive use of death squads, starting with the infamous Night of the Long Knives and in the 1950s the Shah of Iran used SAVAK death squads to kill thousands, the term "death squad" rose to notoriety during the 1970s and 1980s in Central and South America after the graduation of many fine men and women from "The School of the Americas*"
The Caravan of Death, an Army squad, roamed Chile in October 1973, following Augusto Pinochet's CIA backed coup.
And with the arrival of the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy experts saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global "doctrine" and it was the Heritage Foundation that translated theory into concrete policy.
During the 80s the Reagan Doctrine was in full effect and John Dimitri Negroponte was from 1981 to 1985 U.S. ambassador to Honduras where Battalion 316 effectively reduced the number of socialists in the country.
On April 19, 2004, Negroponte was nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush to be the United States Ambassador to Iraq where he served to 2005 and he is now the first ever Director of National Intelligence.
So its no surprise to see a similar pattern in Iraq;
"Death squads were a brutal feature of Latin American politics of the time. In Argentina in the 1970s and Guatemala in the 1980s, soldiers wore uniform by day but used unmarked cars by night to kidnap and kill those hostile to the regime or their suspected sympathisers.
In the early 1980s President Reagan’s Administration funded and helped to train Nicaraguan contras based in Honduras with the aim of ousting Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime. The Contras were equipped using money from illegal American arms sales to Iran, a scandal that could have toppled Mr Reagan.
It was in El Salvador that the United States trained small units of local forces specifically to target rebels.
The thrust of the Pentagon proposal in Iraq, according to Newsweek, is to follow that model and direct US special forces teams to advise, support and train Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shia militiamen to target leaders of the Sunni insurgency."
And as we have seen, training shia militia is a great way to bring about peace and stability in Iraq and it is necessary for the US to win allies against Iran as Fredrik Malm points out.
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(*On September 20, 1996, the Pentagon released to the public seven training manuals prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses in Latin America and at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). A selection of excerpts was distributed to the press at that time. Declassified Army and CIA Manuals)
(*Now, "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation")
07 February 2007
Death Squads are Good!
Nyliberal Utopi
2/07/2007
Profit is Good!
The war against profit is heating up and two of the worlds most lucrative businesses are again targeted by bleeding heart tree huggers - the car and child porn industries.
"Austria has uncovered an international child pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, the interior minister said."
"The net had helped to make child pornography a multi-billion dollar business, said Lord Cardon de Lichtbuer because it made it easy to buy illegal images and videos using credit cards and other payment systems."
"The European Commission has proposed to force carmakers to make an 18% cut in CO2 emissions from new cars by 2012, by improving vehicle technology.
The car industry has warned that the commission's plans could lead to job losses and factory closures."
Even though child porn perhaps isn't an ideal way to make a living, it is a very profitable business that employs many people all over the world and targeting it will make many people unemployed and force many entrepreneurs out of business.
Nyliberal Utopi
2/07/2007
Etiketter: free market
06 February 2007
Fame is Good!
Tobias Struck is apparently a islamist socialist in disguise, he viciously attacks me, freedom and democracy in Iraq, globalization, the nightwatchman state as well as free trade.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
Update;
Im happy to see that he has come back to sanity again, he now has a video with Douglas Murray, Author of Neo-Conservatism: Why We Need It, giving a speech on The Clash of Civilizations and i assume that indicates that he is supportive of World War IV after all.
Nyliberal Utopi
2/06/2007
Etiketter: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Junkscience.com is Good!
Kulturrevolution joins the Exxon truth mission.
JunkScience.com is a website maintained by Steven J. Milloy, an adjunct scholar the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Milloy is also a columnist for FoxNews.com.
Everyone knows that science is best left to Fox News columnists ...
Nyliberal Utopi
2/06/2007
Etiketter: cato, eudoxa, exxon, oil funded thinktanks, propaganda
05 February 2007
Greed is Good!
Kurt G Rantzén skriver;
"...Wille beskriver ett fenomen som vi nog alla känner igen, nämligen att liberaler i högre grad än andra tror på rationella argument"
Jag kan inte annat än hålla med, vänstern förstår inte logiken i befrielsen av Irak, att Iran måste bombas, att en fri marknad leder till frihet för befolkningen, att multinationella företag är bättre på att styra än regeringar, att Israel är fredsvänner, att barnarbete är nödvändigt, att växthuseffekten är en myt, att Pinochet var demokrat eller att Kina inte är en diktatur.
Greed is Good!
Nyliberal Utopi
2/05/2007
02 February 2007
Global warming is Good part 2
So Exxon says they are not funding global warming skeptics anymore...
Strange... i dont understand why they did it in the first place, i thought everyone already knew that global warming was a godless socialist hoax from the leftist culture elite and just a cowardly attack on capitalism, so it somehow seems a bit unnecessary.
And that the UN is completely crazy comes as no surprise but the whitehouse is also under attack from the enviromentalist treehuggers and even ESA and NASA blames the climate change on "human activities";
Using satellite data collected by ESA’s ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat and Canada’s Radarsat-1, Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and University of Kansas scientist Pannir Kanagaratnam made a discovery in 2006 that the Greenland Glaciers are melting at a pace twice as fast as previously thought.
This must be a socialist/islamist conspiracy and is nothing less than a terrorist attack on globalisationalism.
I wonder if Al Qaeda have managed to infiltrate NASA as well as the majority of climatological research institutes around the world to give western economy a deadly blow.
Update;
(Im happy to see that there seem to be some Exxon cash left .. . great news for for Johan)
Nyliberal Utopi
2/02/2007
Etiketter: al qaeda, esa, eudoxa, exxon, global warming, nasa, oil funded thinktanks, timbro
01 February 2007
Israel is Good!
That Israel is under attack from vicious antisemites is nothing new but that some of the worst neo-nazis are jewish might come as a surprise to some.
From the attendance of Neturei Karta at the international conference on the Holocaust in Teheran to websites like Jews not Zionists and Jews against Zionism these jewish neonazis are on the march and The American Jewish Committee (A Century of Leadership) has a new report called "'Progressive' Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism." where the focus is on the widespread antisemitism among progressive as well as orthodox jews.
That Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and promotes free speech around the world unlike the Islamists, doesnt seem to convince them of the good nature and humanitarianism of the peaceful zionist state.
Update;
Here are even more jewish neonazi organizations;
Gush-Shalom, ACRI, Jewish Voices for Peace, Brit Tzedek, Tikkun.
Nyliberal Utopi
2/01/2007
Etiketter: amnesty, human rights watch, israel, sionism