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『亜空間通信』315号(2002/07/27)
【米体制根幹・共和党と最有力新聞から噴き出したブッシュ政権スパイ国家化批判】
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転送、転載、引用、訳出、大歓迎！
本日(2002/07/27)の日経夕刊には、期せずして、私が本日、アメリカの友人から受け取ったばかりの2通の電子手紙による最新情報と、見事に呼応する2つの記事が載っていた。
見出しは、「米国土安保省/上院で創設審議難航」と「米軍、10月にもイラク地上攻撃」である。
電子手紙情報の方は、テキサス州選出、つまりはブッシュ大統領の足元の共和党の下院議員、ロン・ポールの議会での7月23日の演説、その2日後、7月25日の『ニューヨーク・タイムズ』の社説である。
ロン・ポールの議会演説の題名は「ひびの入ったわが対外干渉政策」であり、『ニューヨーク・タイムズ』の社説の題名は「スパイ国家？」である。
両者に共通するのは、「スパイ国家」化への危惧である。演説が社説を誘発したような感じがする。
演説の内容の方が痛烈で、911の未然防止に失敗した責任を厳しく問い、このまま放置すれば、時代錯誤のPosse comitatus [1626年以前.＜中世ラテン語「郡の(法的権力を持つ)武装隊」] までが形成され、戦争屋の望み通りに「バクダッドへの行軍」が始まり、アメリカの好戦的な世界の支配を軽蔑するものにとっての、より大きな攻撃目標となると、警告を発している。
なお、この種の英文情報は、私が得てから内容を確かめ、選び、時宜に適ったものを、適宜、bcc方式で無料転送しているので、希望者は、わが電網宝庫設置の有料『亜空間通信』電子手紙申し込み場所を利用して、申し込まれたい。もちろん、有料『亜空間通信』電子手紙の方も一緒に申し込まれれば、それも歓迎する。
当然、希望者の電子手紙宛名は、私が知るところとなるが、外部流出や悪用の心配はないと、本人が保証する。
以下が、上記の2通の本文である。
Our Flawed Foreign Policy of Interventionism
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD <http://www.house.gov/paul>
U.S. House of Representatives, July 23, 2002
Mr. Speaker, everyone agrees the 9-11 tragedy confirmed a problem that exists in our domestic security and dramatized our vulnerability to outside attacks. Most agree that the existing bureaucracy was inept. The CIA, the FBI, the INS, and Customs failed to protect us.
It was not a lack of information that caused this failure; they had plenty. But they filed to analyze, communicate, and use the information to our advantage.
The flawed foreign policy of interventionism that we have followed for decades significantly contributed to the attacks. Warnings had been sounded by the more astute that our meddling in the affairs of others would come to no good. This resulted in our inability to defend our own cities, while spending hundreds of billions of dollars providing more defense for others than for ourselves. In the aftermath, we were even forced to ask other countries to patrol our airways to provide security for us.
A clear understanding of private property and an owner's responsibility to protect it has been seriously undermined. This was especially true for the airline industry. The benefit of gun ownership and second amendment protections were prohibited. The government was given the responsibility for airline safety through FAA rules and regulations, and it failed miserably.
The solution now being proposed is a giant new federal department, and it is the only solution we are being offered, and one which I am certain will lead to tens of billions of dollars of new spending.
What is being done about the lack of emphasis on private property ownership? The security services are federalized. The airlines are bailed out and given guaranteed insurance against all threats. We have made the airline industry a public utility that gets to keep its profits and pass on its losses to the taxpayers, like Amtrak and the post office. Instead of more ownership responsibility, we get more government controls.
Is the first amendment revitalized, and are owners permitted to defend their property, their passengers, and personnel? No, no hint of it, unless you are El Al airlines, which enjoys this right, while no others do.
Has anything been done to limit immigration from countries placed on the terrorist list? Hardly. Have we done anything to slow up immigration of individuals with Saudi passports? No, oil is too important to offend the Saudis.
Yet, we have done plenty to undermine the liberties and privacy of all Americans through legislation such as the PATRIOT Act. A program is being planned to use millions of Americans to spy on their neighbors, an idea appropriate for a totalitarian society. Regardless of any assurances, we all know that the national ID card will soon be instituted.
Who believes for a moment that the military will not be used to enforce civil law in the near future? Posse comitatus will be repealed by executive order or by law, and liberty, the Constitution, and the republic will suffer another major setback.
Unfortunately, foreign policy will not change, and those who suggest that it be strictly designed for American security will be shouted down for their lack of patriotism.
Instead, war fever will build until the warmongers get their wish and we march on Baghdad, making us even a greater target of those who despise us for our bellicose control of the world.
A new department is hardly what we need. That is more of the same, and will surely not solve our problems. It will, however, further undermine our liberties and hasten the day of our national bankruptcy.
A common sense improvement to homeland security would allow the DOD to provide protection, not a huge, new, militarized domestic department. We need to bring our troops home, including our Coast Guard; close down the base in Saudi Arabia; stop expanding our presence in the Muslim portion of the former Soviet Union; and stop taking sides in the long, ongoing war in the Middle East.
If we did these few things, we would provide a lot more security and protect our liberties a lot better than any new department ever will, and it will cost a lot less.
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
Ron Paul Archives <http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html>
A Nation of Spies?
The New York Times EditorialThursday, 25 July, 2002
If, starting next month, your neighbors begin showing unexpected interest in your travel plans, your cable TV repairman asks what magazines you subscribe to and the pizza delivery boy starts trying to draw you out about your views on the Middle East, it could be that everyone is just getting a lot friendlier.
But it is more likely that you are being engaged by some of the early participants in the Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS.
The Bush administration plans to enlist millions of Americans to spy on their fellow Americans, and to feed that information into a centralized database.
This ill-considered domestic spying program should be stopped before it starts.
The Bush administration, which plans to start the program in the late summer or early fall, is in discussions with industry groups whose members might be enlisted to engage in spying.
Early descriptions of how TIPS will work have mentioned mail carriers, utility workers and train conductors as the kinds of employees who might be in a position to pass on useful information.
The Justice Department insists that it does not intend TIPS participants to collect information in people's homes, but it is unclear how that will be prevented.
Even if it is limited to public places, the program is offensive. The idea of citizens spying on citizens, and the government collecting data on everyone who is accused, is a staple of totalitarian regimes.
East Germany's infamous Stasi internal security system kept files on some 6 million citizens - nearly a third of the country.
Fortunately, TIPS is already facing opposition. The American Civil Liberties Union, not surprisingly, has denounced the program. But so, too, has Dick Armey, the House Republican leader.
The Postal Service has already expressed serious reservations about participating. And the initial version of the bill to create a Homeland Security Department, introduced by Armey, includes language that would prevent TIPS from going forward.
The Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism tactics - secret detentions of suspects, denial of the right to trial and now citizen spying - have in common a lack of faith in democratic institutions and a free society.
If TIPS is ever put into effect, the first people who should be turned in as a threat to Americans' way of life are the Justice Department officials who thought up this most un-American of programs.
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