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THE SETTING WAS A MODERN CONFERENCE ROOM AND THE ROOM WAS A SEMI-CIRCLE... THE TIME:PAST TWILIGHT; DARK BLUE STARRY SKY OUTSIDE THE PARTLY OPENED CURTAINS...ABOUT A HUNDRED PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THE STAGE WAS SEMI-ROUND..AND GUESS WHO THE SPEAKER WAS. ..JFK
AND HE LOOKED AT ME STANDING IN THE BACK ROW AND SMILED AT ME

THE DREAM WAS SO SHOCKINGLY PLEASANT

then I woke up...!

U.S. bending rules on Colombia terror?
Several lawmakers say multinationals that aid violent groups in return for protection are not being prosecuted.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
July 22, 2007


WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, leftist guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia have kidnapped or killed civilians, trade union leaders, police and soldiers by the hundreds and profited by shipping cocaine and heroin to the United States.

In that time, several American multinational corporations have been accused of essentially underwriting those criminal activities — in violation of U.S. law — by providing cash, vehicles and other financial assistance as insurance against attacks on their employees and facilities in the South American nation.

But only one such company — Chiquita Brands International Inc. — has been charged criminally in the United States. Now, a showdown is looming that pits some members of Congress against the Justice Department and the multinationals — including an American coal-mining company and Coca-Cola bottlers.

The lawmakers say that, in the cases of U.S. corporations in Colombia, the Justice Department has failed to adequately enforce U.S. laws that make it a crime to knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization — and they have opened their own investigation.

Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), who is leading the effort, has questioned whether the Bush administration is putting the interests of U.S. conglomerates ahead of its counter-terrorism agenda.

Even the plea agreement reached with Chiquita in March — in which it acknowledged making the illegal payments — has been criticized as far too lenient by many outside legal experts and some high-ranking Justice Department prosecutors.

"I think they've escaped any kind of appropriate sanctions," Delahunt said in an interview last week.

"We will take a good, hard look at how American multinationals operate around the world, using Colombia as a model," said Delahunt, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight. "It really deserves an exhaustive effort to examine where we need legislation and if there are gaps in our criminal code that allow U.S. corporations to aid or abet violence in other countries that erode our credibility and our moral standing in the world."

The Bush administration has declared that a hallmark of its counter-terrorism policy is to go after the financiers of terrorism just as aggressively as the terrorists themselves — anywhere in the world. But the situation in Colombia underscores the difficulty in prosecuting such goals when it conflicts with American economic interests abroad and trade relations with friendly governments. Making the matter particularly sensitive, the U.S. is in the midst of negotiating a free-trade agreement with Colombia, and sends it billions annually in military and other aid.

"Do our economic interests trump the war on terror? Are we making trade-offs?" Delahunt asked. "If we are, at the very least the public should know about it."

Lance Compa, an international trade specialist at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, acknowledged that there were many competing priorities in Colombia.

"But the general proposition that gross human rights violations should be weighed against trade policy and foreign policy is a mistake," Compa said. "The paramilitaries have infiltrated the highest levels of the [Colombian] government, and the Bush administration is looking the other way.

"It makes it all the more incumbent on U.S. policymakers to put a stop to any corporate dealings with paramilitary death squads."

Dealings outlawed

The right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, initially began as a security force in response to leftist atrocities, but it quickly transformed in the 1990s into a brutal organization with ties to Colombia's military, political and business establishment. The State Department designated the AUC a terrorist organization in 2001, making it a crime to provide the group with financial or other support.

Financial dealings with the paramilitaries have also been outlawed under a federal "drug kingpin" statute, because such groups are believed to supply 90% of the cocaine and 50% of the heroin consumed in the U.S.

For more than four years, lawmakers have been requesting information from the Justice Department about whether it is investigating "credible allegations" against some of the American firms, including some that were named in detailed civil lawsuits and forwarded to prosecutors, according to letters sent to Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales and his predecessor, John Ashcroft.

The lawmakers are particularly concerned about claims that the Drummond Co. coal-mining operations paid paramilitaries from the AUC to kill three trade union leaders who were trying to organize workers at its coal mines in 2001. Drummond has been accused in a civil lawsuit first filed in 2002 of using the AUC as a de facto security force that intimidated employees to keep them from unionizing and demanding higher wages.

Drummond has strenuously denied the claims and is fighting them in a civil trial that began this month.

In a letter to Ashcroft on June 25, 2003, four lawmakers on House foreign affairs oversight committees urged thorough investigations of the Drummond case and allegations against two U.S.-owned Coca-Cola bottling firms in Colombia that are also accused in lawsuits of colluding with the paramilitaries. The bottlers, which are independent of the Atlanta-based beverage giant, have denied any wrongdoing.

Profile: Gonzales, the latest Bush loyalist to step down


www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-27 22:54:23 Print

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Alberto Gonzales will step down as the 80th Attorney General of the United States, the Bush administration confirmed on Monday.

The departure of the highest-ranking Hispanic in the federal government to date has shed some light on his long-time relationship with President George W. Bush.

Gonzales' resume glistens with appointments and nominations made by the 43rd president: Texas gubernatorial counsel, Texas secretary of state, Texas Supreme Court justice, White House counsel, U.S. attorney general -- the post he is now leaving.

The son of migrant workers, the 52-year-old attorney general has admitted he wanted to be a pilot until heavy math and science course loads at the U.S. Air Force Academy made him think about a career in law or government.

Gonzales' foray into the public sector provided a career in both, and he has demonstrated unflinching loyalty to the man who led him there, despite not always brandishing his own conservative credentials.

As a Texas Supreme Court justice, Gonzales earned the ire of his Republican Party when he voted with a 6-3 majority in 2000 to overturn a Bush-backed law that prohibited minors from having abortions without notifying their parents.

Once White House counsel, his priorities were protecting the administration.

When the General Accounting Office wanted information about Enron officials meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, Gonzales was there to say no way.

After his 60-36 confirmation as the U.S. attorney general in 2005, Gonzales continued his role as protector, defending the National Security Agency's wiretapping program and, more recently, taking responsibility in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, some of whom claim they were political casualties.

The grandson of Mexican immigrants, Gonzales was born Aug. 4, 1955, and grew up poor in Houston, Texas, with seven brothers and sisters.

His parents, Pablo and Maria, were migrant workers with elementary school education.

Gonzales's long working and personal relationship with Bush has been a source of controversy regarding his objectiveness and the independence of the U.S. Department of Justice that he heads.

He has been called Bush's "yes man" and some say he has given the president the kind of legal advice he wants.

In recent months, a number of members of both houses of Congress urged Gonzales to resign.

Calls for his ousting intensified after his testimony on April 19, 2007.

On May 17, leading Senate Democrats said they would seek a no-confidence vote against Gonzales.

On July 30, Rep. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, announced that he would introduce a bill that would require the House Judiciary Committee to begin an impeachment investigation against the attorney general.


Editor: Yan Liang

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... ome-center


MAYBE his 'good-bye' has something to do also with this article....remember House of Death Post on 'New World Order' thread?????

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/ ... 202322/456

House of Death On Trial


United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Miami
Sandalio Gonzalez v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

JURY TRIAL: Dec. 4, 2006

Paul Pennyworth wrote:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... enterMAYBE his 'good-bye' has something to do also with this article....remember House of Death Post on 'New World Order' thread?????http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/ ... 2/456House of Death On TrialUnited States District Court, Southern District of Florida, MiamiSandalio Gonzalez v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, U.S. Department of JusticeJURY TRIAL: Dec. 4, 2006


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U.S. Attorney General coughs up money to House of Death whistleblower
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Mon Aug 13th, 2007 at 08:54:12 PM EST
The U.S. government is going to pay, literally, for its shameful efforts to silence Sandalio Gonzalez, the DEA field-office chief who exposed the House of Death cover-up.
The U.S. Attorney General (that would be Alberto Gonzales, the Comandante en Jefe of the Justice Department) has agreed to pay $385,000 of the U.S. taxpayers’ money to settle a discrimination lawsuit that Sandalio Gonzalez filed against the government in federal court in Miami. That lawsuit stemmed, in part, from the ignoble treatment Gonzalez received from his employer after he brought to light the U.S. government’s complicity in the House of Death mass murder in Juarez, Mexico.



The case went to a jury trial late last year, resulting in a verdict in favor of Gonzalez. The government initially indicated it planned to file an appeal in the case, but in a recent settlement reached with Gonzalez’ attorneys, lawyers with the Department of Justice agreed to drop the appeal and to cough up the money.
The U.S. government’s willingness to abort its appeal and pay through the nose — which is a concession that it did, in fact, discriminate against Gonzalez — is yet more evidence that Gonzalez’ claims about the House of Death cover-up are on the mark.

Gonzalez, a former special agent in charge of DEA’s El Paso, Texas, field division, in February 2004 wrote a scathing letter to his counterpart at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in El Paso. A copy of that letter also found its way to U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in San Antonio — whom President Bush describes as a “dear friend.”

In that letter, Gonzalez expressed his outrage at the role ICE and a U.S. prosecutor in El Paso had played in enabling a government informant to participate in multiple murders at the House of Death.

Gonzalez claimed in pleadings in his legal case in Miami that DEA had retaliated against him for a variety of reasons, including:

His participation in activities exposing DEA’s discrimination against Hispanics within its ranks;
For the letter sent to ICE and Sutton exposing the government’s complicity in torturing and butchering a dozen people at the House of Death in Juarez;
For an earlier act of whistleblowing on his part in which he demanded that DEA investigate a missing 10 kilos of cocaine related to an investigation in Miami in the late 1990s.
In the wake of the latter incident, Gonzalez was transferred in 2001 from his post as associate special agent in charge of DEA’s Miami field office to a less-prestigious post in the much smaller DEA outpost in El Paso. After that, until he retired in 2005, DEA refused all his requests for transfers or promotions.
Gonzalez argued that he was transferred from Miami to El Paso in retaliation for exposing the missing coke in Miami and that the retaliation only intensified after he blew the whistle on the House of Death cover-up in El Paso. The government’s treatment of him eventually led Gonzalez to retire from DEA on Jan. 8, 2005.

Gonzalez claims further that the cover-up of the House of Death murders goes to the highest levels of the departments of Justice and Homeland Security and that DEA Administrator Karen Tandy initiated the retaliation against him at the behest of President Bush’s buddy, U.S. Attorney Sutton.

But don’t expect Congress or the mainstream media to pay attention to Gonzalez’ legal victory — or the fact that it provides more than a little validation of his claim of a cover-up in the House of Death mass murder.

Congress and the pro drug-war pack media already have too much on their plates as they prepare to push on the American people the Bush Administration’s soon-to-be officially announced “Plan Mexico” — which is expected to provide hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayers’ dollars to a narco-corrupted Mexico government to “fight” drug trafficking.

You have to wonder how many more Houses of Death that will help to spawn along the border.

U.S. Attorney General coughs up money to House of Death whistleblower

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I dreamed I replaced ignorance, stupidity and hate
I dreamed the perfect union and a perfect law, undenied
And most of all I dreamed I forgot the day John Kennedy died

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And most of all I dreamed I forgot the day John Kennedy died

Oh, the day John Kennedy died
Oh, the day John Kennedy died

I remember where I was that day, I was upstate in a bar
The team from the university was playing football on TV
Then the screen went dead and the announcer said,
"There's been a tragedy
There's are unconfirmed reports the president's been shot
and he may be dead or dying."

Talking stopped, someone shouted, "What!?"
I ran out to the street
People were gathered everywhere saying,
did you hear what they said on TV
And then a guy in a Porsche with his radio hit his horn
and told us the news
He said, "The president's dead, he was shot twice in the head
in Dallas, and they don't know by whom."

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