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Posted September 1, 2001
Taking Sides
I find your site informative and I agree with you 100% of the time so far. However, when you refer to a country as "imperialistic," you are taking sides! Have you been paying too much attention to the western media's coverage? In other words, lead by example!
Justin Raimondo replies:
We are indeed taking sides, for the victims of aggression and against the aggressors.
Logical Thinking
[Regarding Sascha Matuszak's column of August 28, "China's Expansionism":]
I read an article from LA Times on August 8, 2001 about how China is nearly unstoppable when it come to competition in the apples/garlic/produce industries. The article stated:
"'America has badly underestimated the resolve of the Chinese,' said Uchida, director of international sales at Tanimura & Antle, one of the nation's leading exporters of fresh vegetables to Asia. 'We took them for granted and now they're flexing their muscle.'"
We can almost regret encouraging the Chinese to go into capitalism.
...We may regret ... our encouraging the Chinese to become democratic. They consist of 1/5 of the population in the world, and democracy is based on majority rule. I can see the day when we go to the Internet message boards and we will be out-shouted by them.
Our top priority should be education for the Chinese people in logical thinking and a sense of fair play. "Capitalism" ... and "democracy" will ... bite us in the end. Until we can ensure the Chinese people are logical and play fair with us, the world can be in a lot of hurt.
Advantage of War
My wife is from Serbia and I, over the thirty years of our marriage, have become something of an adopted Serb.
[I] have been reading [Justin Raimondo's] editorials and have been an almost daily reader of Antiwar.com since the beginning. I first marched against war while in college during the Sixties and have to say my conviction against wars and governments that create war has only grown stronger. I fear the interventionist, imperialist path that the USA is on. War is certainly to someone's advantage but that is certainly not the citizens or the taxpayers.
NRO Murder Mystery
The
National Reconnaissance Office, about which you have a
Washington Post article today, certainly is a very secret agency,
with a great deal of help from The Post. At a gathering to discuss
a book on government secrecy a couple of years ago I asked panelist Bob
Woodward why The Post had reported nothing about the murder of
the security guard at the NRO building there a short time before the building
became operational. At the time everyone was being told that it was the
North American Rockwell building. Woodward professed ignorance and asked
for information. I sent him the full article from which excerpts are taken
below. Still, The Post has written nothing about the NRO murder
mystery/outrage. (It looks for all the world like an inside job. A rather
imposing security fence was already up around the building complex.).
The room was just jammed with journalists and spooks (at this level usually
one and the same), and only one person sought me out for details after
my question. That was James
Bamford, author of now two books on that other powerful and secret
organization, the National Security Agency (NSA). I don't know if he ever
wrote anything about the NRO murder either.
For its part, the Post only writes government press releases like the
Walter Pincus piece you noted, while the little Centre View scoops
it on the real news like ... "The
Tina Ricca Murder," the Centre View, August 11, 1994.
~ Mr. D. Martin