From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Jan 26 09:32:33 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA12293; Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:32:32 -0500 Message-Id: <9301261432.AA12293@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:29:13 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 19685 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive Subject: Part 7, LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell] Message-ID: <1993Jan25.222628.24173@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Keywords: LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell] Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 135 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) JOHN STOCKKWELL: Gutting our Social Security: We can't afford to take care of the sick, the old, the poor, the handicapped, the farmers, or to really help students get through school or to build up our school system so that it's truly competitive. In this period of time, the United States' standard of living has dropped to tenth and twentieth in the world. Twenty-five percent of the people in this country are functionally illiterate. We're ranked sixth in the percentage of children in school. We're tenth in the quality of education. We're seventeenth in life expectancy. We're twentieth in infant mortality. The poor island communist country of Cuba has a better infant mortality rate than our own nation's capital. I submit to you that the United States only looks rich to ourselves because we compare ourselves with refugees from Central America. If you go to Europe -- and I challenge you to do so .... Before, I was saying: "Go to Nicaragua and see for yourself." Now I say to people: "Go to Germany and see for yourself. This is not a communist country. It is not a socialist country. It is one of the two most successful capitalist countries in the world today. They have guaranteed sick leave. They have guaranteed maternity leave. They have one month's vacation guaranteed each year. They have guaranteed medical care and hospitalization. They have higher salaries. They have better social services, and They spend a lot more money on building up the infrastructure of their society. These are all things that President George Bush has been stubbornly, consistently vetoing -- bill after bill after bill -- depriving us of these things -- telling us that we are communists if we want these kinds of services from our society. Meanwhile, the destruction of the environment continues, full-speed ahead. FIFTY YEARS of nuclear pollution! Just to give you one example -- and you've all read into this, I'm sure: In Pantex, Texas, near Amarillo, I've ridden bicycles up there, protesting. One year, on a recumbent bicycle that was built, by the way, right down the road in Freedom, California, near here, that was loaned to me for that purpose .... Protesting in Pantex, they had this problem with liquid wastes. They didn't want to go to the Congress and ask for billions of dollars to figure out how to store it or get rid of it because that would draw attention to the problem. So, brilliant, cheap solution: they took bulldozers and scooped what we call tanks in the prairie up there and poured the liquid into it, so that it could evaporate up -- so that it could blow into neighboring fields, so that it could drip down into the Oglala aquifer. Meanwhile, we're responsible, too. We all have to have automobiles. Very few of us are willing to walk or ride bicycles. A great gluttony of consumption in this country, as we all have to buy more and more and more. And partially feeding that is the felling of the rain forests throughout the World, cutting off the World's supply of oxygen. We're not just chopping down forests at the rate of an area the size of the state of Maine each year. We're burning them. So that puts carbon up into the air, which again is blocking out the sun and changing substantially the environment. You all know that we still have sixty thousand thermonuclear weapons boobytrapping this planet, just as we did in the mid-eighties, when we worried about it. Now, how many of you have marched, protested, or done anything about the nuclear arms race in the last six months? That's good! Most people have just forgotten. I wrote a book about it, and people have been racing on, and people have been supporting it. I won't name them, but some very prominent people have been encouraging it for three years. And they said: "Well, it's not really an issue now." And I said: "Huh?" It hasn't gone away. They've just SUCCESSFULLY DISTRACTED the World from this problem. We've had six submarines sink into the bottom of the ocean. We've had seven nuclear weapons dropped by accident! The IPS [Institute for Policy Studies] published, about a year ago, that there were fifty-two, I believe it was, parts of nuclear weapons and reactors now scattered across the bottom of the ocean, leaking this terrible, polluting, radioactive material into the bottom of the oceans right now. No way on the face of the Earth to recover it! And it will be poisoning and polluting the bottoms of the oceans fifty thousand years from now, presuming we haven't managed to do in the whole planet in that period of time. Meanwhile -- great victory over war and conflict. The Cold War was over. And we all celebrated. And we were all happy. Actually, not quite all of us because I studied this thing out, and I said: "Ehh." And some prominent peaceniks beat me on the head and shoulders and said: "C'mon, give peace a chance." But my assessment of it was that there was one cynicism. And [that is], because we had solved nothing, the seeds of continuing conflict and instability [remained]. But the point is, in terms of my analysis of the Persian Gulf War, my prediction of it is that communism had capitulated and the Soviet Union's economy was broken. And the U.S. Military Complex was desperate for new rationales. How could we justify continuing to spend a huge segment of our budget on a continuing military buildup if the enemy was gone, and communism no longer existed? So we had the United States War Complex facing severe cuts. They were put in a position of having nothing to lose. They had resisted the invasion of Nicaragua because the spigots were wide open, and the money was flowing and they knew that if the body bags began to come back, people would get angry and they would shut off the spigots. And they would lose this great access to the flow of OUR money: this welfare program we have for the Military- Industrial Complex and the so-called "defense" corporations. Once the Cold War was over and we began to cut the budget, they had nothing to lose. And they had tons of new equipment to test. And they needed to inspire the nation and recapture our imagination and our love for war. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo