12-09-26 Nation, Failed-Nation, Un-Nation, Business, or Pimped Prostitution...

Meditations on nationhood in Barcelona.

a. b. a. El Mundo daily: Artur Mas, the Catalan civilian leader, surrounded by leaders of the Spanish Military Association, the power base of Francos fascist regime, who staunchly and openly oppose the drive for Catalan independence, during the official mas for La Merce' last Sunday. b. The copy on the Spanish poster for Brad Pitts Killing Them Softly, is the US is not a nation, its

a business. Barcelona, September 26 the peaceful dialogue on Catalonian independence continues:

The headline of the conservative El Pais, paper edition, in Barcelona, like all local papers, is Mas propone consultar al pueblo de Catalua la creacin de un Estado Mas proposes consulting the People of Catalonia on creation of a state. The local El Mundo edition carries a similar headline. In contrast, the headline of the Spanish online national edition of El Pais is, La vicepresidenta, ante el desafo de Mas: La respuesta ser firme y serena The Vice President, in opposition to Mass challenge, The response is firm and serious . El Mundo, local paper edition, also carries on its front page a photo of Artur Mas, the civilian leader of Catalonia, and the leader of the Spanish Associacion de Militares in an unfriendly pose, seated side by side in the front row of the official central mass for La Merce last Sunday. The caption of the photo refers to Mas as the leader of the Catalan independence drive and the generals, as the leaders of the Old Tradition. The local paper edition of the left-wing La Vanguardia carries a very large photo of the same occasion on its front page (not to be found in the online national edition). However, the photo provides a different perspective of the same scene in the official La Merce mass. Here, Artur Mas is seen seated surrounded by five representatives of the Associacion de Militares, almost under siege. The caption's headline is Entre militares Among the military - and it explains that Artur Mas and the leadership of the Associacion de Militares were seated that way in accordance with protocol, and that the scene invoked moments of the tyranny.

In short the Catalan People are peacefully but firmly asserting their nationhood, in the face of repeated threats of violent oppression by the Spanish fascist

Military Association, which still holds a formal, central place in the political structure of Spain. In the meanwhile in Brussels, the Catalan papers report that negotiations continue between the Spanish government and the bankers, regarding the bailout package, which Catalonia has already rejected. And in the neighboring Portugal, large demonstrations against Austerity, imposed by the bankers, continue. For leisure, I was reading John le Carr's The Constant Gardner, which focuses on abuse of the People of Africa by multinational pharmaceutical corporations and the complicity of the British Foreign Office. In one scene, a finely bred, Eton/Oxford grad, junior Foreign Office consul is lecturing in Oxford on UK foreign policy vis a vis the Third World nations. During questions and answers at the end of the lecture, the focus is on the morality of such policies. Finally, the lecturer states that a government of a legitimate nation is characterized by establishing some basic guarantees to the People, among them, some minimal level of the rule of law, and also shows genuine concern for the peace and welfare of the People. If such characteristics are missing, he concludes, the People should be regarded as Failed-Nation, or Un-Nation. At the same time, he consents that today the Foreign Office makes no such distinction in dealing with various regimes. On the same subject, the streets of Barcelona are decorated now with posters of the recently released Spanish version of Brad Pitt's movie with the copy, 'America, no es un pais, es un negocio', Jackie Cogan - the US is not a nation, it is a business. For those, not given to high fullutent abstractions of nationhood, economics, and foreign policy, the question can be boiled down to this: Is there a moral distinction between a wealthy patron hiring the services of a prostitute, and the same patron hiring the services of a pimp, to violently coerce a woman into prostitution? The moral dilemma regarding pimped prostitution is equally applicable today to the United States, and the relationship between banks, government, and the People in view of the Foreclosure Crisis, the Bailouts, the unprecedented corruption of the state and US courts, the enormous Gulag that is in place, and the oppression of the People at large and truthers in particular through police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct. LINKS: [1] Mas propone consultar al pueblo de Catalua la creacin de un Estado http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/09/24/actualidad/1348505305_585382.html [2] La vicepresidenta, ante el desafo de Mas: La respuesta ser firme y serena http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2012/09/25/actualidad/1348560419_147632.html ____________
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Get Up, stand up, stand up for your rights!

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Take away justice, then, and what are governments but great bandit bands?
Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei (City of God,4.4) _____________________________
WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS? * "I think it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history," said Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School who has written articles analyzing the role of courts in the financial crisis. "I can't think of one where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Reuters (Jan 22, 2012) http://www.scribd.com/doc/79572282/ * Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue CNN (April 7, 2011) * About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006 That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013 Bloomberg (January 2011) * "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences." Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA? * "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit." Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/ * "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/ * "Innocent people remain in prison" * "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..." LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006) http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 / _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA? * "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California." United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES? * "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations." Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010) http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE CONDITIONS IN THE PRISON IN MONROE COUNTY, TENESSEE? * "What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago." ACLU http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES? * "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others." More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011) http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/ _____________________________ WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..." Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003) http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/ _____________________________ WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? * In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice. Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009) http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/ ____________________________