[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - technology; theory; miscellaneous; silly stuff

Mon Nov 21 21:19:59 PST 2005

America issues biometric ID to innocent "suspected" Iraqis as part of control operation

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12276&s2=03

Health worries over torture beam the US plans to use to fry protesters

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16000314-23109,00.html

Techniques of resistance, according to the CIA (?!)

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2005/05/cias-advice-to-iraqi-resistance.html

Baghdad siege may be ruse for Big Brother snooping

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1982

The cost of biometrics - thief cuts off driver's finger

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/

RFIDs deployed as border harassment intensifies

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--radiotags0808aug08,0,6113502.story

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166403260

Firms tag workers as workplace repression escalates

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/06/10/4968323

UK ID card resistance mounts

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0%2C6903%2C1520163%2C00.html

Expanding state terror - UK goon wants to expand biometric ID to all of Europe

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8273

"Virtual peep show" as airport pervs use X-ray machine against passengers

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm

RFIDs to be hidden in license plates?!

http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050812-082018-4885r.htm

CCTV used to persecute pirates

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050531191113597

London bombings show fallacy of CCTV

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050726232542697

Plan for CCTV in Beirut

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050819125804407

US libraries want fingerprints

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050520154802475

The noose tightens: science, surveillance and the culture of control

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2005081008171534

Polluted eco-language

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10330828

Becoming-rabbit - fighting and libido

http://www.geocities.com/ja2000ja/new.html

George Orwell online - with online versions of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and numerous political essays

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/

Noam Chomsky - the threat of a good example

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/ChomOdon_Example.html

Ideologies of war and terror:  Zizek and Norman Brown

http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/rk_zizek.htm

Petras on peasant movements in Latin America

http://www.counterpunch.org/petras06042005.html

Semantics of good and evil by Robert Anton Wilson (Hakim Bey)

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050822222856857

The psychology of fundamentalism

http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm

Locating an indigenous anarchism

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050527223710897

Libertarian parenting

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/15/4261525

Feminism beyond good and evil

http://www.all4all.org/2005/06/1910.shtml

Charter of the Sindhi People

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1809

Palestinian refugees still demand right to return

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/22/content_3121431.htm

Report on Swaziland sugar industry protests, and the situation in the country

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00162.html

Report on land occupations in Brazil

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/17

Horizontalism in Argentina

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6748

Kyrgyzstan revolution turns against America

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/635/635p17.htm

Hong Kong fisherfolk plan free trade protest

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GH06Ak02.html

Iran's pro-democracy movement

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/6179

US claims over al-Qaim siege challenged

http://ipsnews.net/new_notan.asp?idnews=28741

Article against racism in Britain

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8901

General sacked for planning coup against neocons, exposing nuke conspiracy?

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7544

Somali peace activist assassinated

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0711-09.htm

WalMart close store to smash union

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0511-03.htm

MinuteMen suck - migration to US is necessary safety-valve

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0511-26.htm

MinuteMen to take on foreign capital

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0424-25.htm

Message from ELF/ALF prisoner Chris McIntosh

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2757

The absurdity of Jeff Luers' sentence

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2756

Iran election analysis by Iranian socialist

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/582/iran.htm

Francis Ona's role analysed

http://www.counterpunch.org/watts07302005.html

Oppression breeds violence - racism and "crime" in AmeriKKKa

http://www.counterpunch.org/chestnut07292005.html

Latest Zapatista declaration

http://www.counterpunch.org/marcos07142005.html

Poison spraying in America

http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson04192005.html

Thinking socialism and the economy through engagement with workers

http://www.nd.edu/~econrep/papers/graham.html

The crisis in Niger - interview with a local activist

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7151

Jeff Luers interview

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/06/22/gree.DTL

South Africa since the fall of Apartheid - how much has changed?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3608149.stm

Protests expected at Hong Kong summit

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1574

Bogus hostage crisis hits Iraq

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x

Manipur: agitation over script reform replaces political unrest

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/3_41.htm

"Moral and cultural policing" and extortion by armed opposition groups in Manipur

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GD05Df03.html

What is al-Qaeda?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GE21Ak04.html

Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz on workers in Iraq

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/622/622p12.htm

Article on sabotage in the workplace

http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/insidercross051105.pdf

Article on class and caste war in Bihar

http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2004-2/kunnath_2004_under.htm

Iraqi mujahideen seize control of border town

http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102320&list=/home.php&

Indonesia police accused of planting bomb

http://www.laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=48&news_id=8193

The formation of national identity in the Indian northeast

http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=05&filename=8680&filetype=html

Afghanistan: wartime sexual violence

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_ahmad/20050526.html

A Chicano/a reply to the racist SOS/Minutemen gangs

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/128101.php

Speech by class struggle hero Craig Johnson after his release from political imprisonment

http://www.socialist-alliance.org//page.php?page=426

Escape from Halifax:  Sea Shepherd activist evades capture

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050718180124723

CIA links to Sudan genocide

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205Y.shtml

Occupation and oil in Western Sahara

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12506

Cambodian mass grave sold off to corporation

http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/privatizing-mass-grave-in-cambodia.html

Phillipines mining area militarised to protect corporations from dissent

http://www.bulatlat.net/news/5-9/5-9-abra.htm

Analysis of neocon project in the Middle East

http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001436.html

Fake hostage crisis in Iraq

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=11168&hd=0&size=1&l=x

India:  government blamed for tribal unrest

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/20/stories/2005042012130400.htm

Neoliberals praise Gujarat, site of anti-Muslim pogroms

http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=81&page=10]

For Arab press, humiliating photos of Saddam reinforce hostility to the US

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0523/p07s02-woiq.html

Priest crucifies Nun to death in exorcism ritual in Romania

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1119098341918B265

Rare sensible ruling by judge protects denouncement of racist police in America

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/50527002

Effects of torture on US public culture

http://www.counterpunch.com/floyd05252005.html

Did Blair rig his way back into parliament?

http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/82/36/

"War on terror is just propaganda" confirms military source

http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1234660.htm

Interview on trade union organising in the Kaliningrad docks

http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991222033&Language=EN

Video on South African housing struggles

https://video.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/138.shtml

Seed-saving in Iraq

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13970&s2=23

Afghan elections reveal disaster of US colonialism

http://www.countercurrents.org/afgan-whitney301005.htm

Globalisation is an anomaly and its time is running out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1542027,00.html

MALAYSIA: Crackdown on immigrants reversed due to labour shortage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4583061.stm

INDIA:  homeless workers face anxiety

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may292005/district1751492005528.asp

Anti-protest laws will not stop Commonwealth Games protests, say Aboriginal leaders

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15280338%255E11088,00.html

On globalisation, Iraq and Middle East studies - Chomsky

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=7548

James Petras on the causes of the Iraq war

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=34928

Anarchy in China
Farmers angry at corruption and poverty repel riot police, and sightseers arrive to gawk at the tiny village that rose up against authorities.
salon.com
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By Jonathan Watts

There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets. They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and bloody victory against the Communist authorities, who face one of the most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years.

In driving off more than 1,000 riot police at the start of the week, Huankantou village in Zhejiang province is at the crest of a wave of anarchy that has seen millions of impoverished farmers block roads and launch protests against official corruption, environmental destruction and the growing gap between urban wealth and rural poverty. China's media have been forbidden to report on the government's loss of control, but word is spreading quickly to nearby towns and cities. Tens of thousands of sightseers and well-wishers are flocking every day to see the village that beat the police.

But the consequences for Huankantou are far from clear. Having put more than 30 police in the hospital, five critically, the 10,000 residents should be bracing for a backlash. Instead, the mood is euphoric. Children have not been to school since Sunday's clash. There are roadblocks outside the chemical factory that was the origin of the dispute. Late at night the streets are full of gawking tourists, marshaled around the battleground by proud locals who bellow chaotic instructions through loudspeakers.

"Aren't these villagers brave? They are so tough it's unbelievable," said a taxi driver from Yiwu, the nearest city. "Everybody wants to come and see this place. We really admire them.

"We came to take a look because many people have heard of the riot," said a fashionably dressed young woman who had come from Yiwu with friends. "This is really big news."

Although the aftermath is evident in a school car park full of smashed police buses, burned-out cars and streets full of broken bricks and discarded sticks, the origin of the riot is hazy. Initial reports suggested that it started after the death of two elderly women, who were run over when police attempted to clear their protest against a chemical factory in a nearby industrial park. Witnesses confirmed that the local old people's association had kept a 24-hour vigil for two weeks outside the plant. Many said they had heard of the deaths, but no one could name the victims. The local government of Dongyang insists there were no fatalities.

Like many of the other disputes that have racked China in the past year, frustration had been simmering for some time. Locals accused officials of seizing the land for the industrial park -- built in 2002 -- without their consent. Some blamed toxins from the chemical plant for ruined crops, malformed babies and contamination of the local Huashui River.

The village chief reportedly refused to hold a public meeting to hear these grievances. Attempts to petition the central government also proved fruitless. Locals said they had lost faith in the authorities. "The Communists are even worse than the Japanese," said one man.

Memories are still fresh of the fighting on Sunday. "It was about 4 a.m. and I was woken up by an unusual noise," said Wang, a shopkeeper who lives next to the school where the fiercest fighting took place. "When I looked out of the window, I saw lots of riot police running into the village. Many men rushed out of their houses to defend our village."

Accounts of the conflict differ. Residents say 3,000 police stormed the village, several people (including police) were killed, dozens were wounded and 30 police buses were destroyed. But the Dongyang government says about 1,000 police and local officials were attacked by a mob, which led to 36 injuries and no deaths.

The outcome is also unclear. Locals say the village chief has fled. In his place, they have established an organizing committee, though its members are a secret. This suggests a fear of recriminations, but the public mood is one of bravado.

"We don't feel regret about what we have done," said a middle-aged man. "The police have not come back since they withdrew on Monday. They dare not return." Some, however, admitted to anxiety. Among them was an old woman -- also named Wang -- who reluctantly opened her doors to visitors who had come to see her collection of trophies from the battle. "I am scared," she said, as she showed two dented riot police helmets, several empty gas canisters, a policeman's jacket and several truncheons and machetes. "This is getting bigger and bigger."

But there have been no arrests and no communication from the authorities. The current leadership will be keen to avoid a Tiananmen Square-style confrontation, including Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who pleaded with the Tiananmen protesters to leave before the tanks came. At the same time, the authorities are committed to social stability.

According to government statistics, protests increased by 15 percent last year to 58,000, with more than 3 million people taking part. In many provincial capitals, roadblocks occur more than once a week. Last weekend, anti-Japanese demonstrators rallied in three cities, including Beijing.

But in Huankantou, villagers do not seem to realize that although they have won the battle, they may be far from winning the war. Amid a crowd of locals beside a wrecked bus, one middle-aged woman won a cheer of approval by calling for the government to make the first move toward reconciliation. "It's up to them to start talking," she said. "I don't know what we would do if the police came back again, but our demand is to make the factory move out of the village. We will not compromise on that."

Beijing Review
Colorless Revolution 

Kyrgyzstan feels the domino effect of the revolutions that have toppled the governments of former Soviet republics

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By DING ZHITAO

      POST-REVOLUTION RALLY: Kyrgyz citizens focus on a political debate in a square in Bishkek after the collapse of the Akaev government

They failed to agree on a color for their revolution-never quite making a decision on tulip, lemon or pink-but they did successfully overthrow a government in two weeks. 

The disputed parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan triggered widespread protests last month across the mountainous Central Asian country. On March 24, opponents of President Askar Akaev stormed main government buildings in the capital city of Bishkek. Akaev made almost no attempt to resist and fled to Russia. 

For Akaev, the uproar must have been unexpected. The ousted leader had regarded his country, nicknamed "Switzerland of Central Asia," one of the most democratic in the region, which therefore seemed immune to the popular color-coded democratic revolutions that have impacted other republics of the former Soviet Union, like the most recent "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine and the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia. The Akaev government first believed it had made abundant preparations for the elections. More importantly, it claimed to have considered the demands raised by the United States and the Center for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. 

President Unprepared

When the crisis broke out, Akaev proved to be unprepared both psychologically and institutionally. He underestimated the strength of his opponents when protests first mushroomed in the south of the country. In dealing with the initial protests and those that followed, the moderate intellectual president and respected physicist tried handling the situation according to legal procedures to avoid further complications. He even dreamed of overcoming the protests with the help of the West. But he did not expect the situation to devolve so rapidly and spiral out of his control.

For observers, what happened in Kyrgyzstan is not that surprising. They believe that it was another typical "color" revolution. The revolutions in these republics have a lot in common. They started with elections that were deemed fraudulent and illegal by the opposition. The government in power would then agree to hold new elections, which created the opportunity for the opposition to take control. Presidents were forced to resign or flee. At pivotal moments, power agencies, including the police, army and intelligence, all supported the opposition, causing the unprotected governments to topple. Foreign intervention and influence can also be traced in the revolutions.

"Opposition forces, financed from the outside, are seeking to bring about the collapse of our society," said Akaev as his government began to unravel.

In late 2003, the rose revolution in Georgia forced out President Eduard Shevardnadze and put Mikhail Saakashvili in his place. In late 2004, nearly the same thing happened in Ukraine. Viktor Yushchenko was brought to power through the Orange Revolution, taking Viktor Yanukovich out of the political scene.

Sun Zhuangzhi, a researcher at the Institute of Russia, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was one of the 14 political observers dispatched by the Chinese Foreign Ministry to Bishkek for the latest elections. He witnessed the poll that ended in the collapse of the former government in Kyrgyzstan. The "successful examples" made in Georgia and Ukraine provided a model that could be copied by the opposition in Kyrgyzstan, according to Sun.

Kyrgyzstan has been burdened with sharp ethnic contradictions, severe social inequality and sluggish economy. A majority of its population of 5 million people is living below the poverty line. But in the realm of geo-politics, the country between China and Uzbekistan is of vital strategic importance. Kyrgyzstan is located on the ancient Silk Road and bridges the East and the West. It is also an important transit of international drug trafficking and a recognized hotbed of Islamic extremists. Both the United States and Russia deployed troops to the country in the name of antiterrorism. Their military bases are only 33 km away from each other. Both countries seek influence in Kyrgyzstan.

Big Blow for Moscow

For Moscow, Kyrgyzstan's revolution was like a fire in its backyard. Russia had to postpone its joint military exercise with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Tajikistan, and changed the location of the exercise from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan. According to a security agreement signed in 1992, the countries committed to combating terror, drug trafficking and organized crime together.

The Russian administration cannot help but regard the collapse of the Akaev government as another big loss. Observers agree that the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan is a new manifestation of the loss of Russian influence in former Soviet states, following Georgia and Ukraine, which were all friendly regimes in Russia's traditional sphere of influence. Some put forth the idea that the series of color-coded provocations were meant to encircle Russia. Kyrgyzstan's presidential election due in June is very likely to produce a pro-West government. The political structures of Central Asia then are changing unfavorably for Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin might have already predicted the situation, or might have learned a lesson from the previous revolutions. Moscow has been keeping a low profile during Kyrgyzstan's revolution, unlike the situation in Ukraine where Putin was vocal about supporting Yanukovich and his pro-Russia government. 

Despite being relatively quiet on Kyrgyzstan, President Putin told a press conference in Armenia on March 25 that Russia would try its best to maintain its current relations with Kyrgyzstan, and explained the revolution in the country was the result of weak authority and economic and social deterioration. Russia promised to continue energy supply to Kyrgyzstan. Putin seems to be giving Moscow some wiggle room for working with a new government.

Also on March 25, a U.S. State Department spokesman said that the Bush administration would join the Russian Government to help Kyrgyzstan maintain order. In a gesture to materialize its pledge of continuing to support economic and democratic reform in Kyrgyzstan, Washington also promised an aid package of $31 million this year. Actually, aid from the West is not a new development. The U.S. Government has been giving scholarship to young people from the five Central Asian countries to receive education in the West. Some of those students have working vigorously in the color revolutions. The United States also has donated a large sum of money to build schools in Kyrgyzstan, which was well received in the country and was instrumental in nurturing pro-America sentiment there. Several European countries, including Britain, the Netherlands and Norway, have also joined in U.S. efforts in Kyrgyzstan. Other than financial aid, widespread criticism of Akaev made opposition forces fearless. Just as Akaev once said, "Many foreign forces feed our opposition morally and financially." 

Good News for U.S.

The regime change in Kyrgyzstan can be viewed as particularly auspicious for U.S. President George W. Bush, given his State of the Union appeal in February to achieve democracy in other places around the world. Washington seems satisfied with the situation in Kyrgyzstan. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on March 24 that the upheaval in Kyrgyzstan could become a democratic success story if political change occurs without violence. "It will have been a very good thing," she said.

However, for other Central Asian leaders, the revolution in Kyrgyzstan rang an alarm. Regional governments are concerned that the domino effect of the color revolutions that tipped over Georgia, Ukraine and now Kyrgyzstan, could strike them next. 

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will both hold elections soon. In Belarus, appeals for the president to resign have been heard. On March 25, only the second day following the topple of the government in Bishkek, opposition in Belarus tried launching a "snow revolution" in Minsk and demanded that their president Alexander Lukashenko step down. Though the situation was taken under control, Lukashenko's political rivals are optimistic about the future. They said that what happened was simply a rehearsal, and the decisive phase of the Belarus revolution would take place in one year. 

As a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the political earthquake in Kyrgyzstan certainly exerts profound influence on the regional body. 

The second day after the collapse of the Akaev government, SCO Secretary General Zhang Deguang said in Beijing that peace, security and political stability was of great importance to the region. He admitted the SCO had been watching closely the development of the domestic situation in Kyrgyzstan, which had made a major contribution to the founding and development of the SCO.

China Makes Contact

On March 28 and 29, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing exchanged opinions on the Kyrgyzstan situation with his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in telephone conversations. All foreign ministers agreed to further strengthen the construction of the SCO.

Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV news reported on March 24 that geographical politics in the Central Asia was confronting the possibility of major changes. If pro-America politicians win the election in June, it might be doubtful that Kyrgyzstan would remain in the SCO. Whether the SCO Regional Antiterrorism Structure shall remain in Bishkek is also suspicious. These possibilities pose great challenges to the future of the SCO. 

China shares a border of more than 1,000 km with Kyrgyzstan, where land trading ports have been established with Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Kyrgyzstan has been viewed as an important buffer in the Central Asian region, where terrorism, separatism and religious extremism have been rampant. Observers warn that the East Turkistan terrorist forces may make the most of Kyrgyzstan's political disorder. Among the four terrorist organizations deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in Kyrgyzstan in November 2003, three had links with the East Turkistan Islamic Movement that seeks to split Xinjiang from China.

Rampant Looting

Besides, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway might also be impacted by the chaos in Kyrgyzstan. The 600-km-long railway is expected to shorten the distance from Xinjiang to the Middle East and the Gulf area, and extend to Europe. A new Silk Road of the 21st century is planned to link Beijing and Paris, but it might be postponed in the short term. China's energy strategy of going west might also be affected by the latest situation in Central Asia. 

Wan Wancai, a Xinhua News Agency correspondent in Kyrgyzstan, said the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan itself posed little danger to China, though loss of business was inevitable in any country in turmoil. 

Many shops in Bishkek have been ransacked during violence and vandalism, resulting in economic losses of at least $8 million for dozens of Chinese businesses. The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Kyrgyzstan launched the emergency response system to ensure the security of the 10,000 Chinese nationals in the Central Asia country, arranging for special planes and cars to evacuate those who wanted to return to China. 

A bigger concern than these losses, Wan said, was the possibility of U.S. deployment of long-distance espionage planes to Kyrgyzstan, which could pose a negative influence to China's security. Phoenix TV predicted that China's strategic space in the Central Asia would feel the pinch if the United States was able to establish a bridgehead in the heart of the region. 

SILLY STUFF AND STATIST BULLSHIT

"Inmates claimed they were raising a white flag, but there's no winners or losers - we'll (law enforcement) always be the winners," Jones said.

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS01/50426003

WHAT AN ARROGANT NAZI PRICK!

All the more reason to overthrow these fuckwads!

About an uprising against violent police in Northern Ireland.

He said despite all the "concessions that have been given to republicans on the issue of policing" they were "still not satisfied". 

"When police officers move in to deal with an issue of law and order they are turned upon in this vicious way,"

So police now think that they have impunity to repress and brutalise, because of some supposed "concessions"?!  And of course, what police call justified by their own, becomes "turned upon" and "vicious" when anyone else does it.  What a bunch of hypocritical control-freak maniacs!

"It's not against the law for them to gather in protest, but it is against the law to impede either vehicular or pedestrian traffic or to become a nuisance," Police Chief Ed Wagner said. 

http://www.thewmurchannel.com/education/4473224/detail.html

Nice technicality, pig!  Like, you can ban them from being in any place they might protest, because it might "impede" some other kind of use of that space, and still claim not to be banning them from protesting!  Such is the kafkaesque world of pigspeak!

"Access was denied to the M4 as a result of these actions. It is a very clear and obvious distraction to motorists driving underneath." (fascist moron prosecutor)

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4530781

"As a result of" means the PIGS decided to close the motorway to stop people seeing the protesters' message.  What next?  Arrested for obstructing the downward descent of a truncheon with one's head?

Times pro-capitalist moron denounces anarchist "time warp" - despite endorsing capitalist economics and bourgeois philanthropy older than even Marx or Stirner!

Obsessed with "sending out a message" of course. and all tearful over the poor beleaguered nimbies who say nothing about the pigs.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-1682239,00.html

http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=108138

"Neither you nor us have a choice," Sarkozy told police and fire department representatives in Toulouse. "We have to succeed. We will not give a centimeter."

(Sarkozy speaking in an attitude of typically fascist intransigence.  Statists can see nothing but total war, because they seek nothing but control).

"The violence left 25 inmates and 25 prison staff members wounded. One guard was repeatedly cut. Another guard shot and killed an inmate, which authorities said helped quell the riot."

YES, THEY REALLY ARE ADVOCATING MURDER AS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20050904-9999-1n4prison.html

Silly article on Korea air strike

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200507/kt2005072516434754050.htm

Performatives disguised as descriptives

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200507/20/200507202149155809900090109011.html

The barometer of a democracy is how effectively it smashes the right to protest, says this bigot

http://www.koilaf.org/index_init.php?url=labor_view.php?num=2969

SILLY STATEMENT.

Police Chief Says Anti-Occupation Protestors Can Fly 

14 May 2005 By Carlotta Gall, The New York Times

"Police fired in the air to disperse the crowd, and as a result one man was killed and one injured," the local police chief, Amir Shah Nayebzada, said in a telephone interview.

(thanks to GI Special for spotting this)

Silly article praises violent pigs, evil snitches and sellouts who denounce "vandalism"

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/NEWS01/506060378

"The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said at a news conference in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace after meeting with his internal security council. "The last word must be from the law."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/international/europe/06cnd-paris.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5040&en=6d035692f695ecb9&ex=1131944400&partner=MOREOVERNEWS

"The law must have the last word," the president, Jacques Chirac, said yesterday after a security meeting with senior ministers, making his first public address on the riots 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1636153,00.html?gusrc=rss

Typical Schmittian nonsense from a statist who more-or-less admits the underlying premise of statism - that the state exists, simply in order to perpetuate its own existence, and that all that matters to statists is maintaining their own dominance at all costs.

And of course, at whatever point the unrest stopped, the state could have claimed credit via whatever its latest repressive initiative was, even though each failed initiative showed the state's real impotence in the face of revolt.

"Violence is not a solution," Sarkozy, accused of stoking passions by calling troublemakers "scum", told reporters after the Villepin meeting.

"It's a sign that the laws of the republic apply to everyone and that we will not give in to violence," said mayor Gerard Gaudron, a member of the governing UMP party.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=190354

Interesting hypocrisy coming from representatives of organised violence!  This is the same Sarkozy who thinks he can terrorise the poor into submission with police violence, who now poses as a pacifist!

And this from a republic founded in the fires of revolution, in the storming of the Bastille and on the barricades of Paris.  now reduced to equivalence with the monarchy, and with any state, in its brute arrogance as a state determined to win at all costs.

"I speak with real words," Sarkozy told Wednesday's Le Parisien newspaper. "When you fire real bullets at police, you're not a 'youth,' you're a thug."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/257461EE-4259-42A7-AB98-B712ACE87615.htm

and someone needs to read some Roland Barthes.

"Zones without law cannot exist in the republic," Chirac said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/04/france.riots/

So much for policing by consent. which goes out the window the moment consent is withdrawn.  Contrast the discourse of the rebels, who make the "Republic" conditional on its respect for them, rather than their own existence conditional on its diktats.

"After an hour, some young people go outside and stand in front of the police: everyone expects a confrontation. How does the police strategy make ay sense, except in terms of "marking their territory", "restoring order" in the most primitive and macho way possible."

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327207.html

This is the truth behind all that goes above - the disavowed tyrannical violence underpinning statist arrogance.

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