MODEST PROPOSAL: NATO INVADE BELGIUM AND NATO HEADQUARTERS (fwd)

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               ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK

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Web-page:csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/     e-mail:franka@fiu.edu

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A MODEST PROPOSAL : NATO invade Belgium beginning with its own
headquarters there! -
made in the tradition of Jonathan Swift who during the Irish Potato Famine
modestly proposed  that the Irish eat their own children to kill two birds
with one stone.

The following message just appeared on the net: 

" Sent: Monday, May 12, Subject: URGENT Support the case against General
Franks. Send signatures to support Court case against General Franks in
Brussels. No impunity for war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq. "

Moreover, the same appeal has already been made and signed by far more
than 100, 000 people to prosecute also in Belgium Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon for War Crimes committed in Lebanon in 1982.

The precedent for both is the Spanish civil court's indictment of Chilean
General Pinochet for human rights crimes committed elsewhere and his
arrest for about a year in the UK on that charge following Spain's demand
to the UK for extradition.  Several other European countries also indicted
Pinochet, who was eventually returned to Chile on grounds of excessive
physical and mental ill health to stand trial.  The British Home Secretary
supporting this indictment and extradition for a year was the same Jack
Straw who after being promoted to Foreign Secretary recently toured the
world war mongering for the attack on Iraq.  Following that precedent set
by himself, how about indicting Jack and his boss Tony Blair in Belgium
and elsewhere as well.

In face of all this imminent danger,  NATO MUST INVADE BELGIUM. The US
already warned that it was ready to invade Holland if any of its citizens
be indicted by any of the  UN Courts of Human Rights there. 

Indeed NATO invasion of Belgium and of NATO headquarters there is an
urgent necessity also for yet another reason.  On the same May 12, the
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  published an op ed by Lord Robertson, now
Head of NATO and during its War Against Yugoslavia, British Secretary of
'Defense." In that op ed, Lord Roberston, now of course based also in
Belgium,  specifically welcomed and even further promoted what used to be
called Mission "Creep",  but which he signaled to have taken a huge jump
at the last NATO meeting, which converted into de Jure, what it had
already done de Facto:  Aggressive Expansion into Non-European Areas
[which happen to have oil]. 

An apparently only minor problem, so minor as to have escaped Lord
Robertson's attention, is that also first de facto and then also de jure,
all this violates THREE separate principles enshrined in the very first
Preamble paragraph of the NATO Charter [for word by word quotation see
csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/ New World Order Section, NATO sub-section]: 
NATO [1] shall NOT Act '' Out of Area," that is the Western Europe and
North America it was established to defend, 2] shall NOT wage Aggressive
War as it did out of area in Yugoslavia and as some of its members then
did against Afghanistan and Iraq, in which NATO only supplied logistic
support, and 3] shall NOT act in any way that would be in violation of the
UN Charter, which was violated wholesale in each of these wars - including
the 1991 war Against Iraq, which despite the UN Security Council
resolution then that was not forthcoming now, violated SEVEN separate
Articles of the UN Charter, eg. 2, 27, 41,42,43,52].  So Lord Robertson
could also be a candidate for trial in a Belgian court for his waging of
war in 1999 and more than that also in violation of several Geneva
Conventions, then as British Secretary of ''Defense" and now as Head of
NATO, actively supporting the triple violation of its own NATO Charter.

Since no appeal regarding Lord Roberston as well has yet appeared on the
net, at least here,  my

MODEST PROPOSAL is to  go whole hog and NATO  INVADE BELGIUM AND  NATO
HEADQUARTERS IN BRUSSELS  immediately, also in keeping with the Bush [son]
Doctrine's waging of not only preventive but pre-emptive  war, lest things
get even further out of hand. For evidently there has been a major COUP
d' ETAT at NATO Headquarters and perhaps also in Washington, which the
poor  Belgian  judicial system cannot realistically be expected to stand
up to all alone.  Perhaps General Franks could offer his strategic talents
also to the service of this WAR AGAINST WAR, which his Commander in Chief
never tires of defending, as in 1984 Big Brother did in his assurances
that WAR IS PEACE.

A Footnote on Democracy

Not a single NATO member country in 1999 submitted its participation in
the NATO War Against Yugoslavia to its national parliament. The Canadian
Prime Minister went so far as to declare publically that he could NOT
afford to consult his parliament, because there would be some voices and
votes against going to[an illegal] war, and that would give aid and
comfort to the enemy.

Now Europe's reputedly most NON democratic country, so much so that it is
a supposed barrier to its entry to the EU dedicated to democratic
princples, Turkey saw its parliament democratically vote AGAINST and
thereby effectively PREVENT a US ground attack of Iraq through Turkey.
Wolfowitz of Arabia just went there to tell them that they should now
admit they had made a mistake. The Turkish government [against which the
parliament had voted!] answered that it would do NO such thing.  I guess
NATO has to expand its invasion list also to another member country,
Turkey. At least that is not out of area!