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July 30, 2002 A New Feature - "Iraq II?" Take
a look at our new Iraq section. Here you will find news and viewpoints
concerning the American buildup in the Gulf and a criticism of the War
hawks' propaganda. Journalists beware "We’ve got to do whatever it takes – if it takes sending SWAT teams into journalists’ homes – to stop these leaks,” admonished James B. Bruce, vice chairman of the CIA's Foreign Denial and Deception Committee. The intelligence community, demanding the return of the Shelby Amendment (the law would make leaking a criminal offense), insists that they own information they gather. Information control represents one important facet on a totalitarian regime. National IDs on the table....again Sheldon Richman explains that a standardized national ID would "enable government agencies to establish and easily link to a central database containing information on virtually all adult Americans." Note the last part of this quote: "all adult Americans." Strange, the "war on terror" is intended to root out America's enemies... Constitutional reminder "...[E]verything we do for national security must be within the bounds of the Constitution." This concept, integral to the foundation of a free nation, was ignored with the creation of the TIPS program. Dick Armey's removal of this piece of legislation reminds us that, sometimes, some in Congress regard liberty as paramount to State power and influence. Domino's spies "Our world
used to be simple - spy vs. spy. Now its citizen vs. citizen." Arthur
J. Magida worries that his next pizza delivery will result in his
own arrest. With the Koran and a keffiyeh laying around, he may find
himself added to some government
lists. The costs of regime change Can you
hear the "war drum[s]
beating?" Hearing and reacting to it, Hubert
G. Locke questions both the US government's right to invade Iraq
and it consistency of principles. For instance, there are plenty of
other "regimes" with
"weapons of mass destruction" who pose an equal threat to
Americans yet who have become important
allies. Schoolbooks and anti-Semitism "The Middle East may be the last place on Earth to find objectivity." School books, writes Dan Carpenter, may be an even harder place to find it. Reports claiming Palestinians indoctrinate children with anti-Semitic teachings are unfounded, thus continuing the trend of negative bias towards Arabs. Unfocused investigation "Feeding volumes of data into computers, inviting the participation of untrained civilians, targeting groups on the basis of ethnicity, religion and political interests..." cannot lead to a constitutional nor a productive solution to any terrorist threat. How about finding Osama bin Laden, for starters? Archives: 7/15/02 7/16/02 7/17/02 7/18/02 7/19/02 7/20/02 7/22/02 7/23/02 7/24/02 7/25/02 7/26/02 7/29/02 Mike Ewens is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis. Apart from his full-time student status, he is actively involved in the campus libertarian/conservative newspaper, College Libertarians and inner city tutoring programs. Economics and mathematics occupy his academic time, while his intellectual curiosity is further satisfied with political theory and foreign affairs. He is currently working as a summer intern with Antiwar.com. Contact him for information about bringing Justin Raimondo and other speakers to your campus. |