Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:13:51 -0500
From: txliberty@hotmail.com ("Terry L Parker")
Subject: [libs4peace] US Foreign Policy Pro Terrorism
To: lptexas@lptexas.org
[US govt tax paid for decades of support of tyranny around the world is not
only morally indefensible, but it is producing a backlash of retaliations
against which Americans can't be protected despite destruction of the best
of their ideals in their homeland. -TLP]
America's Pro-Terrorism Foreign Aid Program:
The U.S. government will give more than $120 million this year to the
government of Uzbekistan, a convenient ally in the war against the Taliban
and al-Qaeda. The nitpickers at Human Rights Watch have complained about
Uzbek government officials seeking to enlighten dissidents with methods such
as "beatings, electric shock, temporary suffocation, hanging by the ankles
or wrists, removal of fingernails, and punctures with sharp objects." Sen.
Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who supports the aid to Uzbekistan, stressed tht
it is "terribly important that we not uncritically align ourselves with
governments which torture citizens."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0205k.asp
Austin/Houston area US Rep Ron Paul said in a Congressional speech:
"The hatred has been suppressed because we are a powerful economic and
military force and wield a lot of influence. But this suppressed hatred is
now becoming more visible and we as Americans for the most part are not even
aware of how this could be. Americans have no animosity toward a eople they
hardly even know. Instead, our policies have been driven by the commercial
interests of a few. And now the innocent suffer"
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2001/cr092501.htm
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