As Princess Tony and George W. shift the War Machine into high gear it has become increasingly important to be able to pick out the foes of the world. As the London police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes proves, this task is harder than you might think. As a public service, I've compiled a list of friends and foes. Can you tell which ones support the Axis of Evil and which ones are friends of Bush and Blair's Alliance of Righteous Justice?
Strughold directed medical experiments for the Nazi's, using concentration camp prisoners as guinea pigs.
Leader of the Karminov regime in Uzbekistan. After coming to power in 1989, Karminov banned leading opposition parties and held onto power through a series of rigged elections. In May 2005, government forces in the city of Andijan used lethal force against unarmed protesters, killing more than 500 people. President Bush claimed "Islamic Terrorists" could have possibly been behind the shooting. A Human Rights Watch report stated there was "no evidence that any of the speakers at the protest promoted an Islamist agenda. According to numerous witnesses, their grievances were overwhelmingly about poverty, corruption, and government repression." Amnesty International confirmed this report, stating the protesters were "calling for justice and an end to poverty". Uzbekistan's jails are also home to more than 7000 political prisoners and torture is routine.
British journalist flying to Los Angeles on a freelance assignment for The Guardian. Both her husband and daughter are US citizens.
When Preside Mubarak took over in 1981, he initiated "emergency rule" which has remained in place ever since. This state of emergency rule allows police to arrest "a threat to national security and public order" and hold them without charge for extended periods of time, even if that extends to years. Torture in Egypt is widespread and well-known. In 2003, 21 men were sentenced to three years each in prison for practising homosexuality.
US army sergeant who
has served as an Army mechanic for 10 years. He served in Iraq from March
- September 2003.
Colombia has a long record of human rights abuse. In addition to this, they've continued to wage an especially bloody "War on Drugs" which has left scores of civilians dead. Neil Hicks of Human Rights First reported that every month President Alvaro Uribe releases a statement every month equating the government's human rights critics with terrorists.
You know, hippie types.
Adolf Hitler is perhaps one of the most well-known mass murders in history. Body count estimates range from a few hundred thousand to six million depending on who you ask. Book burnings were commonplace.
To be fair, Marcos was originally elected to office (despite a record of being a murderer, WWII fraudster and Nazi collaborator) in 1965. In 1971 he instated a rule of martial law and overturned a ban on him remaining President. Under his rule, the Philippine national debt ballooned and his administration routinely employed various forms of torture
9-year-old boy from Wisconsin with a GI Joe toy gun
Sources (in Question
Order with General links at the bottom)
The History of the America’s Space Program
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/55/Articles/55_4-11.pdf
US
Support for Repression in Uzbekistan Belies Pro-Democracy Rhetoric
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zunes.php?articleid=6438
US and UK continue
to support brutal Uzbekistan dictator
http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1191
Profile of President
Islam Karimov
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/karimovprof.htm
Islam Karimov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_Karimov
Visa Waiver Program
(VWP)
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html
Welcome to America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html
L.A. Press Club panel
on LAX Journalist Visa controversy
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/07/la_press_club_panel_.html
US Arms Clients Profiles-Egypt
http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/egypt.htm
Egyptian Teen Punished
in Gay Trial
http://www.sodomylaws.org/world/egypt/egnews53.htm
Egypt jails men in
gay sex trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2852927.stm
Egypt: Human Rights
Background
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/egypt-bck-1001.htm
USA: Prisoner of conscience,
Kevin Benderman
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511232005?open&of=ENG-USA
Uribe Fingered as
Drug-Trafficker
http://www.ww4report.com/node/view/uribe.html
COLOMBIA'S KILLER
NETWORKS
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killertoc.htm
Is Colombia a haven
for terrorists?
http://cfrterrorism.org/havens/colombia.html
Plan Colombia
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010319/cooper
Plan Colombia (Noam
Chonsky)
http://www.chomsky.info/books/roguestates08.htm
Plan Colombia Benefits
U.S. Oil Companies
http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia198.htm
U.S. should stop helping
drug-producing Colombia
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/12301476.htm
Rice pledges ongoing Colombia aid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4492173.stm
Colombia and the “War”
on Terror: Rhetoric and Reality
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/04/colomb7932.htm
Police arrest more
than 900
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20040901-9999-1n1protests.html
Arrested for Stickering,
Biking and Other Misadventures
http://www.counterpunch.org/shepard06182005.html
ACLU Defends Six Men
Arrested During Protest at President Bush Rally
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=16824&c=86
Anti-Bush protesters
ejected from Ohio State commencement
http://wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/ohio-j19.shtml
ACLU: Anti-Bush Protesters
Exiled to Distant Zones
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96474,00.html
FTAA student protesters
arrested and jailed
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2003-12-04/news/13531
U.S. Corporations and the Nazis
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn2.html
The Ghost of Adolph
Hitler, Nazi Influence in America
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Stanton_Hitlers-Ghost.htm
Profits über
Alles! American Corporations and Hitler
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/51/pauwels.html
United States worried
more about horses than Jews
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/25732/edition_id/499/format/html/displaystory.html
World War II: The
Good War?
http://www.isreview.org/issues/10/good_war.shtml
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt
Ford
and the Führer
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations/Ford_Fuhrer.html
I.T.T. Works Both
Sides of the War
http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-ch5.html
Ferdinand Marcos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos Killer
File
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/marcos.html
Stringent airport
security questioned
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/275608282074752.shtml
Doll disarmament
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/js20020816.shtml
Tighter airport security
targets toys
http://www.wisinfo.com/journal/spjlocal/275606260847049.shtml
US Arms for Terrorists?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050613/smyth
The Acts of the Democracies
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy/display_acts.php?article=1976_philippines
Dictators Supported
by the U.S. Government
http://www.omnicenter.org/warpeacecollection/dictators.htm
Trading places
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/577/ec1.htm
America’s Hypocritical,
Counterproductive Foreign Aid
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0205e.asp
America’s Pro-Terrorism
Foreign-Aid Program
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0205k.asp
Friendly Dictators
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
OUTSOURCING TORTURE
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050214fa_fact6
The "War on Terror"
Must Not Be an Excuse to Deny Human Rights
http://www.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/index.do
