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A MODEST PROPOSAL : NATO invade Belgium beginning with its own headquarters there! -

by A. Gunder Frank

(made in the tradition of Jonathan Swift who during the Irish Potato Famine modestly proposed that the Irish eat their own children to kill two birds with one stone.)

The following message just appeared on the net:
" Sent: Monday, May 12, Subject: URGENT Support the case against General Franks. Send signatures to support Court case against General Franks in Brussels. No impunity for war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq. " Moreover, the same appeal has already been made and signed by far more than 100, 000 people to prosecute also in Belgium Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for War Crimes committed in Lebanon in 1982.

The precedent for both is the Spanish civil court's indictment of Chilean General Pinochet for human rights crimes committed elsewhere and his arrest for about a year in the UK on that charge following Spain's demand to the UK for extradition. Several other European countries also indicted Pinochet, who was eventually returned to Chile on grounds of excessive physical and mental ill health to stand trial. The British Home Secretary supporting this indictment and extradition for a year was the same Jack Straw who after being promoted to Foreign Secretary recently toured the world war mongering for the attack on Iraq. Following that precedent set by himself, how about indicting Jack and his boss Tony Blair in Belgium and elsewhere as well.

In face of all this imminent danger, NATO MUST INVADE BELGIUM. The US already warned that it was ready to invade Holland if any of its citizens be indicted by any of the UN Courts of Human Rights there.

Indeed NATO invasion of Belgium and of NATO headquarters there is an urgent necessity also for yet another reason. On the same May 12, the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE published an op ed by Lord Robertson, now Head of NATO and during its War Against Yugoslavia, British Secretary of 'Defense." In that op ed, Lord Roberston, now of course based also in Belgium, specifically welcomed and even further promoted what used to be called Mission "Creep", but which he signaled to have taken a huge jump at the last NATO meeting, which converted into de Jure, what it had already done de Facto: Aggressive Expansion into Non-European Areas [which happen to have oil].

An apparently only minor problem, so minor as to have escaped Lord Robertson's attention, is that also first de facto and then also de jure, all this violates THREE separate principles enshrined in the very first Preamble paragraph of the NATO Charter [for word by word quotation see csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ New World Order Section, NATO sub-section]: NATO [1] shall NOT Act '' Out of Area," that is the Western Europe and North America it was established to defend, 2] shall NOT wage Aggressive War as it did out of area in Yugoslavia and as some of its members then did against Afghanistan and Iraq, in which NATO only supplied logistic support, and 3] shall NOT act in any way that would be in violation of the UN Charter, which was violated wholesale in each of these wars - including the 1991 war Against Iraq, which despite the UN Security Council resolution then that was not forthcoming now, violated SEVEN separate Articles of the UN Charter, eg. 2, 27, 41,42,43,52]. So Lord Robertson could also be a candidate for trial in a Belgian court for his waging of war in 1999 and more than that also in violation of several Geneva Conventions, then as British Secretary of ''Defense" and now as Head of NATO, actively supporting the triple violation of its own NATO Charter. Since no appeal regarding Lord Roberston as well has yet appeared on the net, at least here, my MODEST PROPOSAL is to go whole hog and NATO INVADE BELGIUM AND NATO HEADQUARTERS IN BRUSSELS immediately, also in keeping with the Bush [son] Doctrine's waging of not only preventive but pre-emptive war, lest things get even further out of hand. For evidently there has been a major COUP d' ETAT at NATO Headquarters and perhaps also in Washington, which the poor Belgian judicial system cannot realistically be expected to stand up to all alone. Perhaps General Franks could offer his strategic talents also to the service of this WAR AGAINST WAR, which his Commander in Chief never tires of defending, as in 1984 Big Brother did in his assurances that WAR IS PEACE.

A Footnote on Democracy

Not a single NATO member country in 1999 submitted its participation in the NATO War Against Yugoslavia to its national parliament. The Canadian Prime Minister went so far as to declare publically that he could NOT afford to consult his parliament, because there would be some voices and votes against going to[an illegal] war, and that would give aid and comfort to the enemy.

NATO seems to be in serious danger, since it was completely left out of the last two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, for which there was after all exactly as much legitimacy and legality as for the NATO war in 1999, that is NONE.

Now Europe's reputedly most NON democratic country, so much so that it is a supposed barrier to its entry to the EU dedicated to democratic princples, Turkey saw its parliament democratically vote AGAINST and thereby effectively PREVENT a US ground attack of Iraq through Turkey. Wolfowitz of Arabia just went there to tell them that they should now admit they had made a mistake. The Turkish government [against which the parliament had voted!] answered that it would do NO such thing. I guess NATO has to expand its invasion list also to another member country, Turkey. At least that is not out of area!

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Information

Project for the New American Century

U.S. State Terrorism

Strategies for transition to a First People's Century

How G. W. Bush and his gang of state terrorists lied to the world to justify the invasion of Iraq

The forged intelligence dossier on Iraq

The US invasion of Iraq

The US war on Iraq (Le Monde Diplomatique)

War is a racket

World Crisis Web

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

U.S. Financial Aid to Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact

Background Readings

Campaigns (to impeach Bush, etc)

Capitalism in crisis

Centre for Research on Globalisation

World Social Forum

Center for Corporate Policy

---------------------------Criminal records:
Ronald Reagan

US imperial army war crimes

A guide to memos on torture
---------------------------------
Andre Gunder Frank website
---------------------------------

Warren Wagar
Eduard Prugovecki: A life in science and humanism
--
Margaret Prugovecki
W. Warren Wagar (1932-2004)
--
Goodbye compañero Andre Gunder Frank
Texts:
Samir Amin - Miguel A. Bernal - Theotonio Dos Santos - Barry K. Gills - Róbinson Rojas
- Jeff Sommers - Arno Tausch
Printed here with A.G.F. authorization. R.R.

A MODEST PROPOSAL : NATO invade Belgium beginning with its own headquarters there! -

by A. Gunder Frank

(made in the tradition of Jonathan Swift who during the Irish Potato Famine modestly proposed that the Irish eat their own children to kill two birds with one stone.)

The following message just appeared on the net:
" Sent: Monday, May 12, Subject: URGENT Support the case against General Franks. Send signatures to support Court case against General Franks in Brussels. No impunity for war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq. " Moreover, the same appeal has already been made and signed by far more than 100, 000 people to prosecute also in Belgium Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for War Crimes committed in Lebanon in 1982.

The precedent for both is the Spanish civil court's indictment of Chilean General Pinochet for human rights crimes committed elsewhere and his arrest for about a year in the UK on that charge following Spain's demand to the UK for extradition. Several other European countries also indicted Pinochet, who was eventually returned to Chile on grounds of excessive physical and mental ill health to stand trial. The British Home Secretary supporting this indictment and extradition for a year was the same Jack Straw who after being promoted to Foreign Secretary recently toured the world war mongering for the attack on Iraq. Following that precedent set by himself, how about indicting Jack and his boss Tony Blair in Belgium and elsewhere as well.

In face of all this imminent danger, NATO MUST INVADE BELGIUM. The US already warned that it was ready to invade Holland if any of its citizens be indicted by any of the UN Courts of Human Rights there.

Indeed NATO invasion of Belgium and of NATO headquarters there is an urgent necessity also for yet another reason. On the same May 12, the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE published an op ed by Lord Robertson, now Head of NATO and during its War Against Yugoslavia, British Secretary of 'Defense." In that op ed, Lord Roberston, now of course based also in Belgium, specifically welcomed and even further promoted what used to be called Mission "Creep", but which he signaled to have taken a huge jump at the last NATO meeting, which converted into de Jure, what it had already done de Facto: Aggressive Expansion into Non-European Areas [which happen to have oil].

An apparently only minor problem, so minor as to have escaped Lord Robertson's attention, is that also first de facto and then also de jure, all this violates THREE separate principles enshrined in the very first Preamble paragraph of the NATO Charter [for word by word quotation see csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ New World Order Section, NATO sub-section]: NATO [1] shall NOT Act '' Out of Area," that is the Western Europe and North America it was established to defend, 2] shall NOT wage Aggressive War as it did out of area in Yugoslavia and as some of its members then did against Afghanistan and Iraq, in which NATO only supplied logistic support, and 3] shall NOT act in any way that would be in violation of the UN Charter, which was violated wholesale in each of these wars - including the 1991 war Against Iraq, which despite the UN Security Council resolution then that was not forthcoming now, violated SEVEN separate Articles of the UN Charter, eg. 2, 27, 41,42,43,52]. So Lord Robertson could also be a candidate for trial in a Belgian court for his waging of war in 1999 and more than that also in violation of several Geneva Conventions, then as British Secretary of ''Defense" and now as Head of NATO, actively supporting the triple violation of its own NATO Charter. Since no appeal regarding Lord Roberston as well has yet appeared on the net, at least here, my MODEST PROPOSAL is to go whole hog and NATO INVADE BELGIUM AND NATO HEADQUARTERS IN BRUSSELS immediately, also in keeping with the Bush [son] Doctrine's waging of not only preventive but pre-emptive war, lest things get even further out of hand. For evidently there has been a major COUP d' ETAT at NATO Headquarters and perhaps also in Washington, which the poor Belgian judicial system cannot realistically be expected to stand up to all alone. Perhaps General Franks could offer his strategic talents also to the service of this WAR AGAINST WAR, which his Commander in Chief never tires of defending, as in 1984 Big Brother did in his assurances that WAR IS PEACE.

A Footnote on Democracy

Not a single NATO member country in 1999 submitted its participation in the NATO War Against Yugoslavia to its national parliament. The Canadian Prime Minister went so far as to declare publically that he could NOT afford to consult his parliament, because there would be some voices and votes against going to[an illegal] war, and that would give aid and comfort to the enemy.

NATO seems to be in serious danger, since it was completely left out of the last two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, for which there was after all exactly as much legitimacy and legality as for the NATO war in 1999, that is NONE.

Now Europe's reputedly most NON democratic country, so much so that it is a supposed barrier to its entry to the EU dedicated to democratic princples, Turkey saw its parliament democratically vote AGAINST and thereby effectively PREVENT a US ground attack of Iraq through Turkey. Wolfowitz of Arabia just went there to tell them that they should now admit they had made a mistake. The Turkish government [against which the parliament had voted!] answered that it would do NO such thing. I guess NATO has to expand its invasion list also to another member country, Turkey. At least that is not out of area!