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December 06, 2004
Freedom Is Slavery
According to the Boston Globe:
The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.
Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned. . . .
One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.
"You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, intelligence officer for the First Regimental Combat Team, the Marine regiment that took the western half of Fallujah during the US assault and expects to be based downtown for some time.
Yeah, well, I'm sure there was "stability" under Nazism and Communism, too, but that doesn't make them good systems to emulate . . . especially for a government that is supposedly spreading "freedom" and "democracy."
(Thanks to Antiwar.com for the link.)
Posted by Mike Tennant at December 6, 2004 02:24 PM
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Holy mother of God.
"You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon ....
... Yes, and let's see who wrote the rulebook:
Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times.
... Starting off, apparently, with apartheid South Africa and its passbooks for the colored (now with high tech biometrics added to make it even creepier).
"... One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons."
... And this proposal comes straight from Leon Trotsky and his plan to implement industrial conscription under the regimentation of the Red Army. When he published the idea in 1919, he even managed to horrify his fellow Bolsheviks--no small feat, that.
Thank God our boys are over there to stop the enemies of freedom and democracy in Iraq.
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