Gnostic Pirates

[SamIam]

An email to God,

Dear Mr. Cheney-

I hope this email finds it's way through a secure server as emails are losing their way lately.

Why on God's green earth do you continue to support paramilitary forces in South America.
Is there anything sacred left? For you and this elite, grotesque, greedy, sodomizing, murdering,bunch of heartless bastards, I break my word.
I vowed to not ask the Great Jenie for any wishes, but it is my deepest wish, that some power--human, divine or animal stomps on your sorry fat gloated guts before you're allowed to finish destroying the land and the indigenous life of those who are already the oppressed.

Through your crooked channels, your criminal world bank which now holds hostage Ecuador for unpaid loans
The american funded paramilitary drughead thugs murder anyone who attempts to oppose the destruction of their land.
When is enough enough?
Damn you!
If I had the power, I'd personally put a bullet in each one of your worthless heads.



imperialism is planning to launch an attack against the Colombian people
and their liberation forces. This is not the first time and it will surely
not be the last. The examples of Yugoslavia and Iraq are still on the
agenda. What is the purpose of all these massacres and oppression?





[EMAIL PROTECTED] We have been writing and warning for yrs of this
impending anyone who doesnot see it coming contact us and will lay the
scenerio for you-hopefully you do have chilfren of US draft IS THERE
ANYBOBY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WHO BELIEVES THAT FARC-EP WILL SUDDENDLY HAVE A
CHANGE OF DIRECTION BECAUSE THE USA HAS FINALLY CAME OF THE CLOSET AND ARE
PARTNER WITH THE ANTI INSURGENCY COLOMBIAN MILITARY,ONLY THE US IS IN
CHARGE. FARC-EP HAS DEVOTED FORTY YEARS{REALLY SINCE 1830}AND 35 000 DIED IN
THE ATTEMPT TO REURN COLOMBIA TI=O THE COLOMBIA PEOPLE 58.OOO US SOLDIERS
DIED IN VIETNAM ,INCOMPARISON VIETNAM WILL LOOK like A WALK IN THE PARK ONCE
THE ESCULATION BEGINS IN COLOMBIA AND SPREADS INTO NEIGBORING
PERU,EUCADOR,BRAZIL, VENEZULA,BOLIVA ALL HAVE GUERRILLA CAMPS RIGHT NOW
INSIDE THESE FIVE COUNTRIES#####

<<<<<<<CULTURE OF FEAR>>>>>>>

There are two facts that should be of considered ,when attempting to make
sense of the insanity that engulfs Colombia today . In the *80' we had the
"Dirty War" waged by the state security forces and their paramilitary
associates to day we have a continuation of the "dirty war" along with the
"War on Drugs". The first thing is that

Colombia's "democra-tatorship," termed this amalgam of democratic forms and
totalitarian terror, has managed to compile the worst human rights record in
the hemisphere , no small achievement when one considers the competition.
The second is that Colombia has had accessories in crime, primary among them
the government of the United States, though Britain, Israel, Germany, and
others have also helped to train and arm the assassins and torturers of the
narco-military-landowner network that maintains "stability" in a country
that is rich in promise, and a nightmare for many of its people.

, The U.S. State Department plans for subsidized sales of military equipment
to Colombia, allegedly "for antinarcotics purposes." The sales were
"justified" by the fact that "Colombia has a democratic form of government
and does not exhibit a consistent pattern of gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights."Now the subsidized sales are
for the latest in modern sophisticated weapons and money totaling more than
the $1.6 billion dollar recently passed in the US house of representatives
and peddling final approval in the US senate

Atrocities in the late 80's , included over 3,000 politically-motivated
killings, 273 in "social cleansing" campaigns. Political killings averaged
eight a day, with seven people murdered in their homes or in the street and
one "disappeared."to-day the killing are somewhere around 800- 1000 per day
,kidnappings, disappeared have also soared. The new method of killing is
unique in that a necklace bomb is worn around the neck of the prisoner ,if
the captive refuses to cooperate their heads are literally blown off their
bodies

In Latin America "the vast majority of those who have disappeared in recent
years are grass-roots organizers, peasant or union leaders, leftist
politicians, human rights workers and other activists," over 1500 were
killed or disappeared when State Department's was offering praise for
Colombia's democracy and its respect for human rights. During the last
electoral campaigns, 19 of 87 mayoral candidates of the sole independent
political party, the UP, were assassinated, along with over 100 of its other
candidates. The Central Organization of Workers, a coalition of trade unions
, lost over 230 members, most of them found dead after brutal torture.to-day
the figure is not calculated due to the constant murders taking place. The
US government not only pays no attention to the human rights abuses, but
also has rewarded Colombia with favored nation status. the "democratic form
of government" emerged without stain, and with no "consistent pattern of
gross violations" of human rights.This the most outrageous denial of total
abuse,but who cares as long as the US administration can manipulate the US
population into believing ,that all of the killing and all of the money and
weapons are used to save "democracy in our own hemisphere,and put the brakes
on the drug cartels "RIGHT"! the situation will only get worse as the US
military, Arms Manufactures,US corporation benefit from this self
serving nightmare.

US State Department's , found Colombia to be praiseworthy based on some of
the information provided for the State Department by NGO's and Colombian
sources ;;;. Political killings rose to 11 a day, the Colombian branch of
the Andean Commission of Jurists reported. 1992, 9,500 people were
assassinated for political reasons along with 830 disappearances and 313
massacres (between 1988 and 1990) of peasants and poor people.from 1990 to
the present political killings reached forty per day the total people
assassinated or murder is appx 35,000
since the 80;s. the primary victims of state terror were peasants. ,
grassroots organizations southern department{states} Paramilitaries,death
squads with the green light from the government began campaigns of total
annihilation and scorched earth, Vietnam-style," Government
troops,paramilitaries,deathsquads acted in the most criminal manner, with
assassinations of men, women, elderly and children. Homes and crops are
burned, obligating the peasants to leave their lands." The government of
Colombia has established a new judicial regime that called for "total war
against the internal enemy." The US backed government would find various
channels for money to flow into the hands of paramilitaries.and special
death squads of course the Colombia government denies any knowledge,which is
purposturious because the paramilitaries and death squads could never
operate unless they had the green light. The government authorized "maximal
criminalization of the political and social
opposition,"Students,Unions,Media,rural youths,peasants are all suspects. in
many paramilitaries killed entire families in small villages as a message ,

The events in Colombia has not swayed the State Department at all , the
Colombian Minister of Defense again articulated the doctrine of "total war"
by state power "in the political, economic, and social arenas." Guerrillas
were the official targets, but as a high military official had observed ,
their organizations were of minor importance: "the real danger," he
explained, is "what the insurgents have called the political and
psychological war," the efforts "to control the popular elements" and "to
manipulate the masses."{this is outlined in detail by Utopiaunarmed in the
essay {" Superpower that is afraid of small countries"}The "subversives"
hope to influence unions, universities, media, and so on, and the government
must counter this "war" with its own "total war in the political, economic,
and social arenas."The "war" has been going for over forty years . The US
knows that the Colombian military is not capable of defeating the rebels. no
matter how much money weapons and training are provided by the US government
The FARC" the main rebel army is unique in that they are self supporting and
unlike the Colombia army do not take instruction from a third. party or
foreign power. As I have previously stated the US will have no choice other
than surrendering the Colombia government over to the FARC.which is not
about happen . USA would lose in every conceivable way if the US backed
government when down in flames.again,as stated before,beprepared for the US
military to become involved in a big way using their same cover story about
protecting the world. The vanguard of the US invasion is already in place
,they are the "military advisor,technicians,maintenance," along with
preparing Panama, and Honduras as r&r spots and logistics operation.
Honduras is know as the largest US military Aircraft carrier operating on
Land in the world

The US government realistically believes that the "internal enemy" of the
state terrorist AKA the "FARC"extends to "labor organizations, popular
movements, indigenous organizations, opposition political parties, peasant
movements, intellectual sectors, religious currents, youth and student
groups, neighborhood organizations," indeed any group that must be secured
against undesirable influences. "Every individual who in one or another
manner supports the goals of the enemy must be considered a traitor and
treated in that manner," In the essay by Utopiaunarmed " Superpower that is
afraid of small countries" may 17 2000, the whole plan is laid out. When you
cut to the chase and you really need a bottom line answer to why is the US
involved, the answer is always the same .In Colombia the US has made the"
War on Drugs" saving the children and democracy from communist-Marxist
guerillas, who now are presented as Nacro Guerillas", the cornerstone for US
involvement- sound like the US cares about these country, Unfortunately the
US could care less about communist,or rebel leaders in Colombia,what the US
does care about and are willing to go any length to protect are the
markets,raw materials,cheap labor. What the US sees as "our raw materials,
cheap labor, markets and American corporation interests and investment- that
the reason and sorry but their are no other reason at all

., Violence in Colombia has been on the rise for the last forty years and
for sure is exacerbated by external factors, such as the US exploiting the
labor market and robbing their raw materials. The former president of the
Colombian Permanent Committee for Human Rights, former Minister of Foreign
Affairs Alfredo Vasquez Carrizosa, said after reviewing the outcomes.from as
far back as the Kennedy administration, Washington has "took great pains to
transform our regular armies into counterinsurgency brigades, accepting the
new strategy of the death squads."The counterinsurgency brigades had one
responsibility -to protect US interests ,especially "our" raw materials at
any cost.

These initiatives "ushered in what is known in Latin America as the National
Security Doctrine, . . .not defense against an external enemy, but a way to
make the military establishment the masters of the game . . . [with] the
right to combat the internal enemy, as set forth in the Brazilian doctrine,
and the Colombian doctrine: it is the right to fight and to exterminate
social workers, trade unionists, men and women who are not supportive of the
establishment, and who are assumed to be communist extremists."The US made
sure each government that the US was exploiting had enough money and weapons
for their military to defend America raw materials

The "Dirty War" and War on drugs was not only in Colombia --take the Reagan
administration who expanded our quest to secure "our" raw materials and
labor markets The US and the military killing machines they financed and
supplied ; the likes of"contra's,deathsquads.and Paramilitaries,and the
puppet regimes that we kept in office Central America was .devastated,
strewn with hundreds of thousands of corpses tortured and mutilated people
who might otherwise have been insufficiently supportive of the
establishment, perhaps even influenced by "subversives."and committing the
worst sin all the using of raw materials to better their lives.

North Americans should never allow themselves to forget the origins of "the
Brazilian doctrine, the Argentine doctrine, the Uruguayan doctrine, the
Colombian doctrine," and others like them. They were crafted right, then
adapted by students trained and equipped right here. The basic guidelines
are spelled out in U.S. manuals of counterinsurgency and "low intensity
conflict."

These are euphemisms, technical terms for state terror, a fact well known in
Latin America. When Archbishop Oscar Romero wrote to President Carter in
1980 shortly before his assassination, vainly pleading with him to end U.S.
support for the state terrorist, he informed the rector of the Jesuit
University, Father Ellacuria, that he was prompted "by the new concept of
special warfare, which consists in murderously eliminating every endeavor of
the popular organizations under the allegation of Communism or terrorism . .
." So Father Ellacuria reported shortly before he was assassinated by the
same hands a decade later; the events framed the murderous decade with the
symbolism as gruesome as it was appropriate.

The agents of state terror are the beneficiaries of U.S. training designed
to ensure that they have an "understanding of, and orientation toward, U.S.
objectives,. This is a matter of particular importance "in the Latin
American cultural environment," where it is recognized that the military
must be prepared to "remove government leaders from office, whenever, in the
judgment of the{US} military, the conduct of these leaders is injurious to
the welfare of the nation." It is the right of the military and those who
provide them with the proper orientation who are entitled to determine the
welfare of the nation, not the beasts of burden toiling and suffering and
expiring in their own lands.The US government is the ultimate in deciding
who goes and who stays which can change direction depending on the US agenda


When the State Department announced new arms shipments as a reward for
Colombia's "achievements" in human rights and democracy, it surely had
access to the record of atrocities that had been compiled by the leading
international and Colombian human rights organizations. It was fully aware
of the U.S. role in establishing and maintaining the regimes of terror and
oppression. The example is, unfortunately, typical of a pattern that hardly
varies, as can be readily verified.
US. participation increased.steadily in the 80's -90's,and year 2000 6,844
Colombian soldiers were trained under the U.S. international Military
Education and Training Program. Over 2,000 Colombian officers were trained
f, as "violence reached unprecedented levels" currently the US military in
the process of training three balltional of special Colombian forces .

Previous Colombia President Gaviria was a particular favorite of Washington
as is the current President Pastrana, so admired Gaviria the Clinton
administration imposed him as Secretary-General of the Organization of
American States in a power play that aroused much resentment. "He has been
very forward looking in building democratic institutions in a country where
it was sometimes dangerous to do so," the U.S. representative to the OAS
explained -- not inquiring into the reasons for the "dangers," however. The
training program for Colombian officers is the largest in the hemisphere,
and U.S. military aid to Colombia now amounts to about half the total for
the entire hemisphere. It has increased under Clinton, Human Rights Watch
reports, adding that he planned to turn emergency overdrawing facilities
when the Pentagon did not suffice for still further increases.Colombia ranks
third in aid money behind Israel and Egypt,however Colombia is in a league
of their own when it comes to aid to protect against internal opposition,
#1.6 billion pending senate approval and a additional 500,000 million per
year for the next three years.

The official cover story for the participation in crime is the war "against
the guerrillas and narcotrafficking operations." , the State Department
attributed virtually all violence to the guerrillas and narcotraffickers.
Hence the U.S. is "justified" in providing military equipment and training
for the mass murderers and torturers.

Why is it, that the US sends Arms to the army and not to the Colombia
National police, who is responsible for the drugs.The largest shipment of
arms ever authorized under the emergency provisions of the Foreign
Assistance Act.was send by President Bush,which will soon be eclipse by the
Clinton aid package looming . The helicopters and jet planes are useless for
the drug war, as was pointed out at once, but not for other purposes. AS
soon as the Colombian military received the weapons the bombing of villages
and other atrocities began. It is also impossible to imagine that Washington
is not aware that the security forces it is maintaining are closely linked
to the narcotrafficking operations, and that exactly as their leaders
frankly say, the target is the "internal enemy" that might support or be
influenced by "subversives" in some way.Now maybe you will understand why
the War on Drugs is a farce and will never be anything other than a pretense
for US involvement


To impose silence on the internal enemy is necessary in the
"democra-tatorships" that U.S. policy has sought to impose on its domains
ever since it "assumed, out of self-interest, responsibility for the welfare
of the world capitalist system," in the words of diplomatic Gerald Haines,
senior historian of the CIA, discussing the U.S. takeover of Brazil in
1945---and indeed before, with important echoes at home as well. It is
particularly important to impose silence in the region with the highest
inequality in the world, thanks in no small measure to policies of the
superpower that largely controls it.

It is necessary to impose silence and spread fear in countries like
Colombia, where the top three percent of the landed elite own over 70% of
arable land while 57% of the poorest farmers subsist on under 3% -- a
country where 40% of the population live in "absolute poverty," unable to
satisfy basic subsistence needs according to an official government report
in 1986, and 18% live in "absolute misery," unable to meet nutritional
needs. The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare estimates that four and a
half million children under 14 are hungry, half the country's children.

Recall that we are speaking of a country of enormous resources and
potential. It has "one of the healthiest and most flourishing economies in
Latin America," Latin Americanist John Martz writes in Current History,
lauding this triumph of capitalism in a society with "democratic structures"
which, "notwithstanding inevitable flaws, are among the most solid on the
continent," a model of "well-established political stability" -- conclusions
that are not inaccurate, if not quite in the sense he seeks to convey

The effects of U.S. arms and military training are not confined to Colombia.
The record of horrors is all too full. In the Jesuit journal America, Rev.
Daniel Santiago, a priest working in El Salvador, reported in 1990 the story
of a peasant woman who returned home one day to find her mother, sister, and
three children sitting around a table, the decapitated head of each person
placed on the table in front of the body, the hands arranged on top "as if
each body was stroking its own head." The assassins, from the Salvadoran
National Guard, had found it hard to keep the head of an 18-month-old baby
in place, so they nailed the hands to it. A large plastic bowl filled with
blood stood in the center of the table.

Two years earlier, the Salvadoran human rights group that continued to
function despite the assassination of its founders and directors reported
that 13 bodies had been found in the preceding two weeks, most showing signs
of torture, including two women who had been hanged from a tree by their
hair, their breasts cut off and their faces painted red. The discoveries
were familiar, but the timing is significant, just as Washington was
successfully completing the cynical exercise of exempting its murderous
clients from the terms of the Central America peace accords that called for
"justice, freedom and democracy," "respect for human rights," and guarantees
for "the endless inviolability of all forms of life and liberty." The record
is endless, and endlessly shocking.

Such macabre scenes, which rarely reached the mainstream in the United
States, are designed for intimidation. Father Santiago writes that "People
are not just killed by death squads in El Salvador -- they are decapitated
and then their heads are placed on pikes and used to dot the landscape. Men
are not just disemboweled by Salvadoran Treasury Police; their severed
genitalia are stuffed in their mouths. Salvadoran women are not just raped
by the national guard; their wombs are cut from their bodies and used to
cover their faces. It is not enough to kill children; they are dragged over
barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones while parents are forced
to watch." "The aesthetics of terror in El Salvador is religious." The
intention is to ensure that the individual is totally subordinated to the
interests of the Fatherland, which is why death squads are sometimes called
the "Army of National Salvation" by the governing ARENA party.

Latin Americans live in "culture of fear," , peace and order were guaranteed
by ferocious repression, and its contemporary counterpart follows the same
course: "Just as the Indian was branded a savage beast to justify his
exploitation, so those who have sought social guerrillas, or terrorists, or
drug dealers, or whatever the current term of art may be." The fundamental
reason, however, is always the same: the savage beast may fall under the
influence of "subversives" who challenge the regime of injustice, oppression
and terror that must continue to serve the interests of the United States
for their domestic privilege.

Throughout these grim years, nothing has been more inspiring than the
courage and dedication of insurgency who have sought to expose and overcome
the domination and fear in their suffering in Colombia. They have left
martyrs, whose voices have been silenced by the powerful -- yet another
crime.

The fate of Colombians and many others hinges on our willingness and ability
to recognize and meet them This an account accurate of how the US conducts
foreign affairs in Latin America. You can see why the US hates Cuba. Cuba is
the only country offering hope that you can overcome US Dominica but their a
Hugh price to pay, If you think the US foreign policy agenda.is something to
be proud of -well what can I say- but you cannot offer the excuse that you
did;t know or the US has a right to fight for democracy and preserve the
world for our children free from dug,communist,Marxist, Narco guerillas,and
what ever the next pretense that come up."


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