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Sun 4 May, 2008 06:17 pm
By: Paul Andrew Bourne
George W Bush's international relations and trade policies have finally been unveiled to the world. Since 9/11, the United States (US) has instituted a series of draconian measures as retaliatory mechanisms to justify its stance against ?'terrorism', dictatorial governance and weapons of mass destruction. Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein had totally nothing to do with the event of September 11, or for that matter terrorism or even weapons of mass destructions; how is it that the present US political administrators have de-stabilsed that society? The reality is, the US has attacked and trampled upon the human rights of countless Iraqis and by extension the peoples of this world. Even if Hussein was dictatorial or even brutal, the US version of assistance has offered the people of Iraq little in form of assistance to change their old reality. Instead of putting to closure the Iraq issue, the US has now turned its attention on Cuba, and Superclubs and its executives.
The world is experiencing increasingly more and more of the political colonization in new ideologies by the Americans. The US no longer needs international associations such as United Nations (UN) or neither do they need to subscribe to the Geneva Convention; what is happening is the ?'Bushing' of old systems in order to establish the new master of civilization - ?'the US'.
Although this article does not seek to address the international legal implications of the US stance on Superclubs, the United States utterances of revocation of visas of Superclubs' executives and their families indicate the extent to which they will go in the future.
Did not Cuba nationalize all its properties some time ago? As such, what is the revocation about? The United States is creating an illusion that Superclubs' executives confiscated and-or hijack properties belonging to Americans or America. If Cuba, being a sovereign state, having nationalized all properties, decides to sell one such property to Superclub, then what is this revocation issue about? John Issa's organization did not seek the approval of the ?'Bushinization' institution. Hence, Superclubs ownership is illegitimate and unconstitutional according to the Americans. Notwithstanding all that, this article speaks to the return of all visas by all Jamaicans.
Because the Mighty has fallen to its knees, and that a message must be sent to the lesser man not to venture into such an ideal again, the United States is behaving like a spoilt child. The US through its current political ?'Bushinization' will continue to terrorize the rest of the world by either toppling democracies, disregarding sovereignty or by waving the magic wand across the faces of people, the mighty visas.
The US administrators by teasing Superclubs' top executives with visa revocations, believe that the mighty America is the be-all and the end-all in the world. Let us not for one moment believe that the US will not follow this with further measures and more draconian ones, so let us stop the ?'Bushinization' process before a mass destruction be the result.
This present US administration appears untamed and arrogant, and so a message must be sent to them now that we are channeling our energies for mechanization and improved Human Resource development. This ?'Bushinization' is childish, undemocratic and unstoppable if not challenge, so let us send them the ultimate and only message that we are, we are, we are independent and intellectually capable of making informed decisions and we are able to survive beyond the space of America.
America need to understand the violence begets violence, and her continuous thrust for violence is not and cannot be the answer to disagreements, nor should be it a tactic used in any negiotations.