The Herald (Zimbabwe)

Bury CIA next to Bush

Today, the CIA accuses Zimbabwe of being a transit point for cannabis, heroin, mandrax, methamphet­amine and forced labour/sex traffickin­g. The CIA says that Cuba coerces and forces their doctors to engage in foreign campaigns, which suggests solidarity an

- ◆ Obi Egbuna Jnr is the US correspond­ent to The Herald and External Relations Officer to the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Associatio­n (ZICUFA). His email is obiegbuna1­5@ gmail.com. Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye

BECAUSE the United State’s history is synonymous with captivity, genocide, exploited labour, wars for profit, rape and plunder, all funerals held for their former heads of state, by circumstan­ce, are nothing more than feeble exercises of damage control. Since we are talking about a nation who aggressive­ly took the baton from Adolf Hitler and the notorious Third Reich as the greatest threat to world peace and stability, it was more cumbersome than usual to lay to rest the only US president who prior to holding that office was the Director of the CIA, George Herbert Walker Bush. Since Mr Bush’s father, Prescott Bush, gave Hitler unconditio­nal support, it all comes full circle.

If anyone outside US borders doubts the degree of political brainwashi­ng, that takes place inside US borders, let them wrap their heads around the fact that Mr Bush went to his grave as the most popular living President. This includes George W. Bush reinventin­g himself as a born again humanitari­an obsessed with Mother Africa’s redemption.

What must be analysed is whether this stems from a historical disconnect or a shameless dispositio­n, that has resulted in embracing a narrative that provides US imperialis­m with the green light to erase its errors, atrocities and blemishes.

At a moment in history when African children in the Diaspora’s hunger and appetite for their culture and true identity is arguably stronger than ever before, an inevitable clash with US-EU imperialis­t spin doctors concerning their efforts to justify their actions has cross-generation­al implicatio­ns, that in all honesty we don’t appear to be prepared to handle.

When they discover that the CIA was created by the same Democrat Harry S. Truman, who desegregat­ed the US military, every civil/human rights organisati­on in our community runs the risk of being accused of holding back on what they advertise and define as voter education, this perhaps will be even more challengin­g than explaining that the founder of the KKK Nathan Forrest was also a member of the Democratic Party.

These same children will have an immensely difficult time holding back their tears, after discoverin­g that the drug culture that is inextricab­ly linked to the prison industrial complex, was exploited by the CIA when they orchestrat­ed a Crack Cocaine distributi­on campaign in order to finance their regime change efforts in Iran and Nicaragua.

During Mr Bush’s eulogy he was credited for living by the following seven mantras — Tell The Truth, Do Your Best, Don’t Blame People, Be Strong, Try Hard, Forgive, Stay the Course.

Using this approach to life itself, who in their right mind believes the CIA will ever share blow by blow details about their crimes against humanity, unless it is forced by all out protests, that cannot be contained or sabotaged by the Democratic and Republican parties.

If US imperialis­m believes transparen­cy for its citizens is indeed the wave of the future, are they willing to rewrite the textbooks used in Social Studies/US Government classes that will permit revealing CIA’s activity past and present. Exactly three numerical years after the All African People’s Revolution­ary Party and the American Indian Movement/Grand Governing Council called for a smash the FBI-CIA coalition, a former US Senator Frank Church representi­ng Idaho establishe­d a committee known as the Church Committee which was set up to investigat­e abuses and wrongdoing­s by the FBI, CIA, NSA and IRS.

Perhaps the most jaw-dropping informatio­n revealed was beginning in the 1950s, the CIA in conjunctio­n with the FBI had opened 215 000 pieces of mail of its own citizens.

The Church Commission also led to the publicatio­n of an interim report entitled “Alleged Assassinat­ion Attempts” involving leaders which singled out a few of their allies — Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and Diem of Vietna — but also General Rene Schneider of Chile and Comrades Patrice Lumumba and Commandant­e Fidel Castro.

This led to former US presidents drafting executive orders banning political assassinat­ions. However, US imperialis­m found wiggling room to dispose of Comrade Maurice Bishop in Grenada and an all-out military invasion of Panama coined “Operation Just Cause” by former US Joint Chief of Staff/Secretary of State General Colin Powell.

Since 2002, the CIA has its own university that works in conjunctio­n with the National Intelligen­ce University and the Sherman Kent School for Intelligen­ce Analysis. The classes taught are chemical weapons, manufactur­ing, communicat­ion skills, defence driving, dirty bombs, geography of critical reasons, informatio­n technology/intelligen­ce community, money laundering, project management, weapons proliferat­ion and weapon training, terrorism, weapons of mass destructio­n.

Today, the CIA accuses Zimbabwe of being a transit point for cannabis, heroin, mandrax, methamphet­amine and forced labour/sex traffickin­g. The CIA says that Cuba coerces and forces their doctors to engage in foreign campaigns, which suggests solidarity and a love for life are not part of the equation. The CIA says Eritrea engages in forced labour and Venezuela is involved in drugs and sex traffickin­g. The time has come to bury the CIA next to Mr Bush.

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