Sometime after September 11th, six Bosnian men were arrested on request from the US government. The reason given for the arrest, which was originally thrown out by the Bosnian courts for "total lack of evidence", was that the six had been involved in a plot to blow up the US embassy in Sarajevo. Again, this was thrown out by the I'm sure outstanding Serbian courts, until the US threatened to close its embassy and pull out its peace keeping forces from the country. Yes, this being the same Serbia that saw one of the two worst genocides of the 90's, until Clinton bombed the fuck out of it.
Unwilling to defy the Americans (Clinton bombed the fuck out of them) the men were arrested and put on trial, undergoing a thorough investigation into their entire lives. No evidence was produced. The Bosnian supreme court again ruled that they be released. Rumors started circulating that they would be seized anyways, and a riot/protest broke out outside the prison in Sarajevo. Using tear gas the crowd was disperesed and the men were taken into US hands early in the morning.
After this, all charges of an attempt to blow up an embassy were dropped, and they were instead charged with planning to travel to Afghanistan to fight there.
Now, as you can conjure, the men were all Bosnian Muslims, who had come to the country in the 90's to fight in the war. Afterwards they had been granted citizenship, fucked Bosnian women and had carmel children. Some of them worked for a charity called the "Red Crescent" which from what I tell is the equivilent of the Red Cross.
Anyways, they got sent to Guantanamo. And Guantanamo has always been a interesting place to me. For a long time I assumed that the worst going on their was a little water boarding, a little sleep deprivation, maybe a few trained Dobermann's. From the reports of these men and others before them, the waterboarding was actually having a hose shoved in you mouth until the water filled your nose and throat so as you couldn't breathe; the sleep deprivation lasted for 16 days; and detainee's were frequently mauled by vicious Iberian Lynx. Just kidding on the last one.
But Guantanamo also interests me for other reasons. Why didn't Fidel overrun that shit when he had the chance? What a pussy bitch. Someone fill me in. Was he worried Kennedy would bomb the fuck out of him? I doubt he would have.
Anyways, these guys were eventually released by a US judge after 7, count them, 7 fucking years of Guantanamo. And like I said earlier, I've already learned that my once held view of what went on at Guantanamo to be incorrect. Whether it is honestly worse than what goes on in general population of a United States federal prison is debateable, but that is irrelevent. Walking out of that bitch after seven years would definitely leave you with some damage. What it reminds me of, in hindsight, is how Guantanamo is portrayed in the Harold and Kumar movie, sandwiches and all.
Which got me thinking about another reference to that movie which now seems fitting. Who the fuck in the US government is calling the shots to pull these 6 men off the street? Is Rob Cordry actually running the show at Homeland security? Is a movie with an amazing bottomless-party scene really a forsight into what truely went down?
Because it gets to another credit that I earlier gave to the US government after September 11th. A credit that one of these 6 men even said he understood, "had his detention" been a month, two months, not SEVEN FUCKING YEARS. He also says in five of the seven years of his detention, he was not once asked to speak on any terrorist plot that he was supposedly involved with.
But the credit that I gave to the government in wake of what happened, was the credit that any intelligent person knows and has known for years: The United States is an empire and when empires get hit they strike back.
This theory was tested in the least exciting sequel to a pretty epic trilogy.
And now, don't get all whiney because I said the US is an empire. In the history of dominant empires (And I'm talking top dog empires, not the Bailiwick of some shitty desert serfdom) the US takes the cake for being the most decent. And no, don't go bringing up examples to the contrary, because I don't care and I'm just saying that to make a point anyways. USA!
But back to the original question of how this apparent lapse in decency and intelligence occured in the US government, to hijack 7 years of these mens lives. I have a few propsitions:
1. Evidence (How substantial I have no idea) may suggest that one of these men was actually planning on doing something. Maybe 6 got rounded up for the sins of 1.
2. A consistently reliable source falsely accused these men for reasons or motivations unknown. In wake of September 11th, and with nut jobs for government officials, they weren't going to take a chance. I wouldn't downplay the possibility that Bush was centrally focused (For reasons of legacy) on preventing another attack.
3. A source correctly accused the men, and they are all guilty playing the victim now to debase the United States. This seems unlikely, given the complete lack of evidence and the numerous trials these men have now encountered.
4. The US is the leading proponent in the New World Order (Does anyone remember WCW
) and for some incromprehensible, pointless, blunder of a power trip, snatched these men up just for the fuck of it. 5. Rob Cordy is running Homeland Security.
If you have any other reasons you can think of, suggest.
Either way, it doesn't answer the central question of why, for seven years, with no evidence-and haebus corpus moot- did these Serbian charity workers have their lives taken from them. And in regards to point 4, if you really believe in all the conspiracy theory shit then you'd have to figure that this was some action of the one world government. The only question is, why would they make such a boneheaded move. If these people are the top brass, they would realize it would be better suited for whatever plan they are hatching up to wait and spring their trap on the people of the world in one foul swoop. Why a test run of six Serbian's?
Now you're wondering. Why is it called "Interesting Stories", why the plural Dan? Well, the reason is that their is another story that has been in the media a lot lately (Certainly more than the tale I just spun above), about 2 pretty Asian-American women who had been filming a documentary on the border region between China and North Korea. Intentionally or not, they crossed over the border-river, and were arrested by the North Korean's sometime later. Today they were sentenced to 12 years hard labor.
The response from US politician's has been viceral. Al Gore and Bill Richardson have already offered their services to mediate. Hillary Clinton is enraged.
But my question is, what the fuck were these fools doing crossing into North Korea. You know what happens if a Korean tries to cross into the US illegaly? Well, it isn't twelve years labor, but they do get their asses tossed out. And that's only the letter of the law that isn't enforced in the slightest.
But Dan, they were filming a documentary, they wanted to show the plight of the border people. We have a responsibility to show their plight, so a handful of artsie fartsies can watch and not give a shit. So Euna Lee and Laura Ling can say they accomplished something. I feel and relate to their urge to want to do something powerful, but this was another boneheaded move, of the same proportion of the US government stealing away the lives of five-six assumed honorable, pious monotheists (Rhyme time baby).
And regardless of the point that they were trying to expose the plight of the North Korean's, because to what end? Their own government is doing the same thing. Make a documentary about that you selfish fucks. Just because your Korean you get arrested for your cause, despite prior repeated warnings from the North Korean government of what would happen if tyou crossed the river. When the six men were held for seven years and you didn't speak up? Even Condaleeza Rice spoke up for them. You didn't say shit. And now you're only good for shoveling gravel 16 hours a day for twelve years. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
And no one even knows about the first story. No one knows so no one really cares. The great marriage of money and Democracy, no media outlet is going to give this the time they're giving two pretty Korean girls. Why would they? People care about pretty girls, not beared Serbian Muslims. Frankly, I don't think the Serbian's give a fuck about you either, except to hate you for voting in the people who robbed them of their freedom in a gross over-reaction to the death of 3,000 people. How fucking unfortunate of a world we live in.
Besides, a "great" US general was the one who created this mess, against the protest of a great American president. MacArthur (Who my Grandpa actually worked for personally in Tokyo after the war) created the North Korean state by making the same mistakes Euna Lee and Laura Ling made: Crossing too many a river.
So yes, a very strategically sound American general created the North Korean state partially out of a genuine and intelligent fear of communism, and partially for his own great pride (He wanted war with China a few years after WW2. This was a man afterall with the comb-over as perfected as his amphibious assault; who had photographers kneel before him to take pictures as to appear taller. My Grandpa was a stern dude who I'm sure clashed with MacArthur's love of himself, and I wonder if his height of 6'6 didn't increase the bitterness between them.)
But really, why the fuck are American's concerned with North Korea. I mean I understand what's at stake now that we've created this mess with our sometimes well-meant, capitalism driven colonial ways, but I don't think the government should protest this. If the North Korean's really did warn the girls repeatedly of what the consequences were, then let's respect the sovierngty of their little Bailiwick hermit state with their serf's and their honorable mad-man Bailif ruler. It's time we start worrying about the men the government we vote in, not that dumpy chronic masturbator-dictator (When I drop it when I drop I just can't stop it) an ocean away, whose serfdom we and the Chinese created by not cornering the NKA after Inchon, while being careful not to drag in China.
But it gets to the heart of something that's been happening in the West since sometime after WW2. It had been there looong before that, but it's increased since then. And with no genuine wolrd threat to arm ourselves against anymore (And don't give me the Islamo-Facists laugh laugh) we've gone a bit batshit trigger happy. Atleast, that's what we've allowed our government to do in the name of our safety, so we can continue living our lives through our favorite characters on TV (Mine's Lamar Odom when he's playing like he did last night).
Something that my brother has said before, something that I agree with at times, is that he understands why Al-Qaeda does what they do. Of course my brother (Who goes back to Iraq in two months) is saying it for laughs, and also because no one in their right minds wants women in veils, but their hatred for us is a valid one. If the Ancient Hebrew's saw us (Or Israel for that matter), they'd be flying planes into our buildings too. The problem is that people interpret the ancient texts of a banished, hated, chased, villified people (The Ancient Hebrews) and think that some of their less humanistic acts were righteous. Fools don't understand why Moses could kill when he had to but also gave "Thou shall not kill" as his first commandment. People don't understand how his sucsessor Joshua could be even more brutal. But as you've learned, if you've come this far with me dear reader, people dont care to understand a lot of things. Like how detractors take away from what Moses or Abraham did by pointing to his mistakes, and not understanding the position that he and his people were in. People don't understand that it was a good thing (Historically) that Moses preached what was shown to him, and how the positive foundations that the world is run on today sprung from the ideas of his word and his peoples book.
Now, listen the fuck up because I'm gonna end soon. America is not the threatened, harrased, enslaved, solitary nation that Israel was when Moses was marching his thousands of hungry through the desert to the land that God gave them (To be fairly reconquered later by the Caananites, due to Israel's own wickedness) We do not need to be killing in the name of our God, because if their's one thing, maybe even the first thing God doesn't want us to do, it's kill. Killing is the taking away of the freedom that God gave to us to live our lives on this Earth. It's worse than taking seven or twelve years from someone's history and torturing them or making them work.
AMERICA. EUROPE. WHITE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. Recapture your culture. The culture of the Hebrews. Stop meddling in the affairs of others, where your greed, the greed that can also stimulate amazing progress at home, only creates problems for your country.
Salaam Alaikum
