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Date Posted: 11:10:14 08/02/06 Wed
In reply to:
We Want Brian Becker's Head on a Platter
's message, "A.N.S.W.E.R." on 11:03:14 08/02/06 Wed
Brian Becker is a Co-Director of Ramsey Clark's International Action Center (IAC) and a member of International A.N.S.W.E.R.'s steering committee. Both are front groups for the Communist Workers World Party (WWP). Through his association with these organizations, Becker has been a prominent figure in the anti-war movement's massive rallies against the war on terror.
Becker is a member of the Secretariat of the WWP of the United States, which is a staunch supporter of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. As Chairman of the "U.S. Troops out of Korea Committee," Becker has accused the United States of conducting a campaign of genocide against North Korea. He is a contributor to the WWP newspaper Workers World.
On November 6, 2001, less than two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Becker called America's military retaliation against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan "one of the great crimes and acts of terrorism." "Let us not forget," he said, "that September 11 was not the beginning of violence, but just one point in a long continuum of violence that is fundamentally a consequence of U.S. policies around the world."
According to Becker, "September 11 was an unanticipated attack on the American 'homeland.' As an empire, the U.S. was required to respond massively, though not necessarily on terrain of its own choosing, to offset the impression it was no longer invincible. Our government rashly hit out at poverty-stricken and weak Afghanistan as the only immediately available target. ... But this was not simply a defensive war to prove a point. It is part of an existing American strategy [of expansion] already in place in the Middle East. Thus, the U.S. is not seeking just to 'defend itself' but is looking for advantages such as new markets and profits."
In Becker's estimation, the American government is using the war on terror as a pretext for an assault on civil liberties. "It's really not about terrorism but about repression," he argued. "So-called anti-terrorism laws will be used against the growing anti-war movement. ... Anti-terrorism has replaced anti-communism [as a unifying ideology] in the U.S. and on a global scale."
In September 2002, Becker condemned the Bush administration for contemplating military action against Iraq. Characterizing the U.S. as a "rogue state," he likened members of the Bush administration to "drunken gunslingers who shoot up the town in a Saturday night frenzy--just because they can." He ridiculed their "sneering, swaggering and threatening foreign policy." He stated that any claims of an Iraqi WMD threat were "all lies--incredible lies." He identified the world's foremost nuclear threat as the United States, "the only country to have used atomic bombs, which it did against the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945." And he asserted that America's motivation for attacking Iraq was its desire to achieve a "re-conquest of a country that had earlier dared to nationalize Western oil installations."
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