Toward an American Revolution: Exposing the Constitution and Other Illusions by Jerry Fresia

Author:Jerry Fresia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1987-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

The idea of the "death squad," which is central to the torture network, was suggested in 1962 by U.S. General William Yarborough, head of the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg. He urged security forces to "select civilian and military personnel for clandestine training" that would "execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known Communist proponents." Used in Vietnam in the Phoenix Program which was responsible for the assassination of more than 20,000 Viet Cong (these are CIA figures, other estimates are as high as 100,000), Yarborough's death squad concept often operates out of the U.S. Office(s) of Public Safety, a division of the Agency for International Development. It is interesting to note that the term public safety has been used throughout U.S. history to cover instances of repression. And the term has its roots in the Constitution. The one instance where the Constitution (Article I Section 9) authorizes the state to take people off the street without a writ of habeas corpus or due process "when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."35

John Stockwell, a former CIA agent, has stated that a woman who had been tortured in Brazil for two years testified, before international tribunals, that "the most most horrible thing beyond the pain and degradation was the fact that the people doing the torturing were not raving psychopaths. She said had they been she might have been better able to break mental contact with them. She said "they were normal, everyday, decent people doing these things to her." According to Stockwell, the woman reported that during a torture session conducted by six men in which she was strapped naked to a table, there was an interruption: "The American is called to a telephone in the next room. The rest take a smoke break. And she listens to the conversation as he says, 'Oh hi honey. Yes, I can wrap it up here in another hour or two and pick up the kids and meet you at the ambassador's on the way home.' "36

It has often been said that the CIA is the president's private army. But the role of the CIA and other military forces that are shrouded in mystery such as those associated with the Defense Intelligence Agency appear to be less at the command of the president than at the command of those whom the president serves, namely international corporate elites. It appears, then, that the CIA is a special force, trained as professionals to carry out impersonal and anonymous punishment, for international corporate elites. These elites, because of their hidden power and influence within the Executive branch of government, constitute, at any given time, a secret government. And that secret government is capable of fielding secret teams whose job it is to remove political opposition to the expansion of our private economy by any means necessary.

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