Sibel Edmonds Fights Fascism - John Stanton

[cascadiance]

By request, posting this to GD in addition to the Opinion/editorial forum.

Another editorial that points how so many of the other stories out there on Plamegate, etc. serve to hide the battle we have to exposing Edmonds' secrets, along with those hidden by the AIPAC investigation as well and how close our nations' future is getting to Mussolini's visions.

Sibel's been a bit quiet lately. Hope that's a good sign for her chances with the supremes. Anyone know how much longer the current supreme court session is going? I suspect that Roberts is holding her case from the queue to the absolute *last* minute. Like to think the 4 progressive judges will vote to hear her case.

From the Dissident Voice:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Stanton1118.htm

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Brent Scowcroft Talks Turkey
Sibel Edmonds Fights Fascism
by John Stanton
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 18, 2005

The Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice saga continues as the year 2005 draws to a close. The only breaking news to come from the ongoing drama is the implication, published in Vanity Fair, that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of US Representatives, was the recipient of campaign contributions and assorted bribes from the Turkish-American community. That another US politician is on the take comes as no surprise. But more on that later. Sibel’s story may have quietly died from the suffocating oppression of the US government had it not been for very recent revelations that the US sanctions and operates interrogation/torture facilities in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s and Vice President Dick Cheney’s New Europe (Poland, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.). While the buzz is all around the Plame-Wilson-Libby-Woodward-Rove-Hadley affair, and the lies that got the US into Iraq again, the real news is that military and non-military torture chambers stretching from Mexico to Asia have become standard operating procedure for the US. Further, the response of official Washington to the torture expose was not disgust, but a call to prosecute the whistleblower that leaked the awful news.

Within the remarkable public revelation from the Washington Post and Human Rights Watch, is the imprimatur of Rumsfeld and Cheney -- the two crusty Nixon Administration buddies -- and perhaps the most ruthless and dangerous Americans ever to hold office in the corporate/government world. They and their disciples share the view that “conduct unbecoming” does not exist. No law, no boundary, no moral code, no amount of lives or an outdated parchments like the US Constitution and Bill of Rights will be a barrier as they push forward their foreign and domestic agenda for some of the US population, Turkey and Israel. They hide behind the veil of “the national security of the United States of America” and label Top Secret/Special Compartmentalized Information the data that would implicate them, not save a US soldier in a Humvee, or they slap a State’s Secret order on the likes of Sibel Edmonds mainly to protect balance sheets and business deals.

Me Ne Frego!

There is a name for this kind of government-corporation and the society it creates and it is Fascism, pure and simple. There just isn’t any other way to describe people like Rumsfeld or Cheney. To that we must add the name Brent Scowcroft. US. Wikipedia reports that fascism’s appearance in Italy in the 1920’s (rooted in the term fascio from the 1800’s) marked a new political and economic system that combined corporatism and nationalism in a state designed to bind all classes together under a capitalist system. Dissent was discouraged, political discourse of the time was highly inflammatory, and the society overly militaristic. Under Mussolini’s dictatorship, from roughly 1925-1945, the effectiveness of its parliamentary system was virtually abolished though its forms were publicly preserved. The opposition was ferried to remote islands far from Italy proper where they would be tortured and sometimes killed. Mussolini was an active proponent of preemption. In 1923, he bombed Corfu and later established a puppet regime in Albania (according to the FBI in 2003, the Albanian Mafia is the most feared) .

[merwin]

1. I read the name and thought they meant the founder/former CEO of T-Mobile.

Wrong John Stanton.

[wiggs]

2. Hey! A Sibel post!

I checked the SCOTUS website and even called (got disconnected and gave up).

Apparently, there was a session that ended November 8. The next one appears to start November 28. There is no listing of the ACLU/Sibel request to be heard...that I can find. My guess is that they didn't consider it in the just-ended session.

So I guess we're waiting some more.

In looking at when existing cases were granted a hearing and then seeing when they were heard, it looks like cases are heard about 4-6 months after granting. So if Sibel's case is accepted in December, it would be next spring or summer before they hear it and possibly make a ruling. That would be in time for 2006 elections...a delay would cause it to be after the elections.

Odd that the ACLU site, the SCOTUS site, and Sibel provide no new information about the request to be heard.

I still think the the latest plummeting support and scandals of this administration puts pressure on those who already know about Sibel to find a way to get the information out. Grassley, 9/11 commissioners, et al.

[cascadiance]

3. Part of me wonders if Sibel and her lawyers themselves want it quiet...

At least for now. Perhaps they know that they are in the queue and don't want to jeopardize getting that vote by the court getting pushed back further or going down if they were to raise any new issues with the press, etc.

You and I and others all want to help get her word out, but there doesn't really seem to be anything new there to talk about. Maybe I'll spend this time getting back to writing new lyrics to the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" to be updated to read "Talk to Sibel Edmonds, Fitzgerald" until we can have other stuff we can help her get the word out on.

Whatever the case may be, I don't want to help derail the case any further by drawing attention to her if and when she doesn't want it for strategic reasons. Yet, I don't want her to feel like she's fighting a losing battle and be giving up now too. I'll lead a crowd of people to champion her case if it can help her be heard, as I'm sure many here would.

It has been pretty empty lately for news on her ever since the Libby indictment. Most news out now are just passing references to her case.

I did just signed up with the ACLU today and gave $50 donation to them. Hopefully ever dollar helps with them and cases like these.

http://www.cafepress.com/sibel



Just noticed that Cafepress.com now has black t-shirts! Stay tuned. I'll have a newer t-shirt designed for Sibel that is black background that will look a lot better than the one listed here!