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Tom Hayden mouths off on war
Tom Hayden, life-long "You know, I've met Noam Chomsky in Porto Alegre. They were on the lam from the VRWC. He was giving a conference there and I came across with him. I havenÂŽt seen him for 35 year. "Honest, I don't know him, officer!" Even when he's got an excellent photographic memory, he did not recognize me. Maybe for the goatee." Maybe because he has pre-senile dementia. Tom Hayden is now 63 and has been a Times are different now, but not at all. Fer instance, now he's no longer respected. There's still something to fight for, maybe the world is now more unjust than in the sixties. The world today looks like a scene from Terminator 2 -- no wait, it doesn't. The mankind is again in the eve of a war, maybe more cruel and destructive than the one that took Hayden to the streets in the 1960's. Let's ask the Iraqis after they're liberated. Iraq proves that the USA has not learned too much from Vietnam and its will to control world's natural resources remains the same. So there is Tom Hayden. He, as hundred of thousands of anti-globalization Q. How did you become an active militant of the anti-globalization movement? I think his egg was addled long before he joined. Q. What does the Anti-Globalization movement mean? A. Globalization is an arrangement for a new international set of laws and they favor Q. Why a person from the USA should join the Anti-Globalization movement? A. They say that the young people is very upset about the world they are inheriting from the older generation and they feel that it is completely unjust. Sounds like every generation until they get power. They don't want to be part of it. It is a simply moral issue for them. They also know that our Government is trying to create an empire: militarizing and globalizing at the same time. This means wars that the young Americans will have to serve in and perhaps die in for purposes that are questionable and dubious. It means a military budget that is the biggest in the History of the world. It means that the money from the military budget is subtracted on what can be spend in education, in the environment or in the health care. There are a lot of unfinished businesses in the United States. [more snippero] This guy trots out every hoary chestnut in the closet. Anybody think he's stuck or something? Q. Do you think Bush is going to attack Iraq? And if so, what should the anti-globalization movement do? A. Well, the question is hard to answer as every day brings us fresh news. He's kidding, isn't he? The fresh news daily is more evidence of just how evil Saddam is. I agree with those who say that Bush wants war and that is prepared to do everything to have his way. On the other hand, anti-war movement in the USA is bigger this time than it was at the beginning of the Vietnam War. The support for the war comes from the hard line republican pro-Bush partisans. They want to create a protectorate in the Middle East, in Baghdad, from which they would control oil supplies and they will be entitled to overthrow Iran and Syria and destroy Hezbollah and impose a settlement on the Palestinians. Now we've sent 250.000 troops there. If Bush calls the war off, it is like surrender for his point of view. "It's ALL ABOUT OIL!!" Gads. Isn't there a lefty around who has an original idea or two? Q.Is the Free Trade Zone of the Americas part of this building up of an Empire? A.Yes. NAFTA was Canada, the USA and Mexico, has been a disaster. Which accounts for all the riots in the streets. The unemployment in Mexico is much higher than at the beginning of NAFTA. The middle class has collapsed in Mexico. Millions of farmers have been ruined because of the flood of imports from the USA. The middle class has collapsed because of the kleptomaniacs running all the big stuff there, but don't let us get in the way of a good rant. The immigration crisis is getting worse because the US imports cause more immigrants to leave places like Chiapas. Probably 3,000 people have died in the border since NAFTA and they do not count same numbers at the World Trade Center. They also do not count the bodies on the Mexican side of the border, so it is probably worse. Like every good lefty, Tom-mo makes sure he denigrates the people who died at the WTC. It's a calling card for them. ALCA is a NAFTA expanded is like NAFTA and asteroids growing in all Latin America. Okay, I give: what in the world did he just say? Q.With the above in mind, is there something that Russia could obtain from globalization? A. For the Russians the term globalization may have another meaning. As in "Where's mine?" The Russians are not anti-globalization; they want to be part of it and not to be isolated. I understand and agree with that. So globalization's not so bad after all. Make up yer mind. But without going back to the policies of the former Soviet Union I hope that the Russian government and policies will push forward an independent, sovereign, Russian rule in this international order. I would hope that the Russian do not have their natural resources rapped by multinationals and their very rich national heritage replaced by McDonald's. Like the French. I am sure that the Russians will feel on the same way. So in absence the anti-globalization, unless globalization includes respect for the dignity of Russian national culture, Russian sovereignty over their own natural resources. The purpose of Russia is not to become a colony of the United States but this is what US led globalization will intend. "They're evil, evil I tell you! I can barely stand my countrymen! Ummm, what time is my flight back to LA?" More snipping liberally (dare I say) applied. Posted by: Steve White 2003-02-03 |
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