U.S. Scholar Links Bush Admin Neocons to Imperial Japan

Pulitzer Prize winner Herbert Bix has come out and said that neocons of today, particularly the Bush administration, are very closely related to imperial Japan under the late emperor Hirohito. Bix is an expert on imperial Japan, and has actually said for years that the comparisons between post-9/11 U.S. government are plenty. He has stated that the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq was far worse than Pearl Harbor, and it "will live in infamy." It only makes sense that he would come out with more statements against this criminal government as they attempt to dupe Iran into a war for imperial supremacy in the Middle East.

"The current American rampage in Iraq and elsewhere, not to mention the Bush administration's threats of war against Iran, so clearly replicates Imperial Japan during the period when its leaders willfully disregarded international law and pursued the diplomacy of force," Bix said during a visit to Tokyo.

Japan defied the Nine-Party Treaty guaranteeing China's sovereignty, signed in 1922 in Washington, when imperial troops invaded Manchuria in 1931.

Bix compared Japan's action to current US efforts to scuttle the Treaty of Rome establishing the International Criminal Court, which President George W. Bush argues could unfairly target Americans.

He also said that senior US leaders -- not just rank-and-file soldiers -- should have been held to account for the killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha.

"US war criminality is justice institutionalised, as Japan's once was," Bix said.

"In today's America, torture is not only standard battlefield practice in the so-called war on terror. Torture is celebrated in American popular culture as evidenced by the popularity of '24,' a TV programme in which the hero confronts a ticking bomb scenario... designed to justify torture."

But Bix, a professor at Binghamton University in New York state, said he remained optimistic for change as most Americans were opposed to "the Washington consensus."

Suspicions Were Right; Ed and Elaine Brown Were Tortured

In the first interview with Ed Brown since he and Elaine were kidnapped 2 weeks ago by U.S. Marshals and the government on charges of an imaginary income tax law, long-time supporter and creator of Make The Stand Shaun Kranish was able to get through with the Ohio prison and record a 10 minute interview (mp3 audio included) with Mr. Brown. He confirmed, with a horribly raspy voice, that in fact there was torture involved. He talked about being tasered multiple times and thrown to the ground during the time of the arrest for absolutely no reason, being sent to a detention center where he was enclosed and gassed through the ventilation system for very long periods of time that lasted for days, Elaine being gruesomely tortured to the point that he would not disclose any of the information, and who knows what other things went on that weren't told about. And now he is in an Ohio prison away from anyone that can help him, still freezing cold from the gases so bad that he can't even walk outside, in a tiny cell that can only be described as solitary confinement.

Elaine's son has been barred from talking to his mother, and Ed has not been able to make any phone calls, or send any mail out. The local police in Lebanon housed the couple for some time. They had no business doing that, and it shows that the local cops there have no respect for the rule of law either. They are supposed to be our protection from a criminal government. I am going to really try hard and get personal information on anyone and everyone involved, and that includes the two weaselly judges in New Hampshire that think they can just rule against the law in an unfair trial, then back out of future related trials after getting a little deserved heat thrown at them. McAuliffe's has already been released to the public, although I'm not sure it is still available, but perhaps it needs to be spread anyway. That is what happens when you turn against the people of a nation in favor of big government. They are all domestic enemies working for the most evil government in U.S. history. If our information is out there for their disposal so they can commit warrantless searches, spy on us, and cough up bogus trials, then their info should be as well. This is your government. It is your duty to at least get the information out to your fellow citizens. Either start helping now, or have this kind of thing happen to you when martial law is thrown into your lives. Some people said the movie 'Enemy of the State' was pure nonsense, that it just added unneeded fuel to the 'nut-jobs' out there, and that it could never happen to us. I don't know how anyone can think that now.