Moore pre-empted by Bush

[Ivo Skoric]

Legalizing Abu Ghraib

The author of the memo giving the president green light to torture 
the evil ones, Jay S. Bybee, the conservative judge elected for life 
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is a 
serious, soft-spoken, reflective man, according to his colleagues. As 
assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel 
he used to be the conscience of the Justice Department. In that 
capacity he wrote that only pain like that accompanying "death, organ 
failure or the permanent impairment of a significant body function" 
qualifies as torture. He is also a kazoo enhusiast: he has a 
collection of kazoos and play them on occasion. Himler, should 
someone have forgotten, was also soft spoken, reflective man, who 
loved to collect canaries. He also sent millions of people to death 
in gas chambers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/politics/24MEMO.html?th

No More Exceptional

With that memo, pictures from Abu Ghraib, and the breaking story of 
US torturing prisoners around the world - Iraq, Afghanistan, 
Guantanamo Bay, it became impossible for the US to claim exception 
for its troops from prosecution under International Criminal Court. 
The US requested the immunity for its troops on the premise that its 
troops are behaving as soldiers from a democratic, civilized country. 
The UN granted the immunity on an annual renewal basis, threatened by 
the US to veto U.N. peacekeeping missions if the resolution giving it 
immunity from the new International Criminal Court was not passed. 
Faced with the behavior of its troops the US will not even try to ask 
the extension of that immunity past the expiration date on June 30.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5496095

Instead, Turning to the Bizzare

In Milosevic's Serbia there was the astrologist (remember, Hitler had 
an astrologist, too) Milja Vujanovic, who explained that the Pentagon 
is a symbol for the pentagram and G7 is the seven-headed dragon from 
St. John's gospel. He was given a prime-time slot on the national TV 
network. The painter Milic od Macve proclaimed himself the Baron 
Lepenski, leader of world vampires. As such, he threatened the US 
that if they do not help Serbia, Serbia would make a deal with Japan 
to build the New Byzantium. He was the first living artist to have a 
solo exhibition in the National Museum in Belgrade. The exhibition 
was opened by the Minister of Culture of Serbia. The opening was 
visited by 350,000 people, 3.5% of the population. G7 is now G8 and 
Milosevic is in The Hague.

On March 23, 2004, in George W Bush's America, the US Senate was used 
for a bizarre ritual in which the Rev Sun Myung Moon, the head of the 
Unification church, was "crowned" and declared himself the messiah in 
the presence of more than a dozen Republican and Democratic members 
of Congress. So much for the separation of the church and state. He 
told his audience: "The five great saints and other leaders in the 
spirit world, including communist leaders such as Marx and Lenin, who 
committed all manner of barbarity, and dictators such as Hitler and 
Stalin, have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and 
been reborn as new persons."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1245929,00.html

And this all even before Michael Moore's docudrama Fahrenheit 9/11 
reached the movie theaters....

ivo