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Friday, December 15, 2006

Teaching the Natives Liberation through Self-Loathing

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John Ross (Counterpunch’s Mexico “expert”) has launched off on a diatribe against Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” the last scene of which apparently involves the shot of a friar-held Cross appearing over the sea’s horizon. This scene triggered the usual politically correct reflex about the evil white man and what Ross calls “Judaic[sic]-Christian” civilization. Ross did bother to note that “the Maya” had engaged in ritual sacrifice; but this, he said, had to be understood in context as part of a culturally valid cosmological belief system. Ah well, in that case ...........

Ross is your typical bullshit leftist. His articles on Mexico are not ill-informed but are skewed by a fawning indigenism and inverse racism. Whatever “the Indian” does is wise, marvellous and good. Whatever the the Spanish do is corrupt, oppressive and bad. Mestizos (so long as they are sufficiently brownish) are lumped in with the good. Were this merely a matter of naively gushing over the natives, one could roll one's eyes and be done with it. But the nastiness of inverse-racism is not merely that it embodies a form of self-loathing but that it uses the "innocent victim" as a pawn in that self-loathing. In effect, the object of devotion is merely a prop and scripted player in what amounts to a self-involved masochistic socio-psycho drama.

Resort to this black vs white paradigm, cribbed from the muck of an Anglo-American social psychosis, comprises its own form of cultural imperialism. Treating the indigenous "brown" peoples of Ibero-Indian America as Negroes Lite, it embroils them in the sordid cycle of contempt and recrimination (and self-recrimiantion) that characterizes U.S. racial relations. The truly vicious thing, in so far as Mexico is concerned, is that because most "Indians" are both racially and culturally mestizo, using them as pawns in a game of white self-loathing in fact ends up teaching them to loathe themselves. Beyond mere imperialism, this is a form of cultural genocide.

Under Ross’s poisoned pen, there is an even nastier twist. Whereas Abolitionist propaganda was waged in the name of Christianity against the undeniable evil of chattelization, Ross inverts black-white manicheism to insinuate an attack on Christianity.

To see how this is the case, one must first return to and grasp the utter inanity of Ross's excuse making for human sacrifice. It is certainly the case that Aztec and Mayan sacrifices can be understood as a “cosmological” phase in human religious evolution but it is simply insane to protest against the historical necessity of moving beyond that phase into another. What would Ross have had, multi-cultural heart-rippings on “Rainbow Day”? One can hardly imagine Marx or Lenin issuing a call for socialist validation of primitive economic rituals. In fact, I can hardly imagine any halfway reasonable person failing to understand that this belief system, howsoever cosmologically magnificent, had to end. Once that fundamental fact is understood, the question becomes, " How?" From this premise, the arrival of Catholic Christianity can only be seen as a good thing. There really is no room for debate.

Gibson’s cinematic portrayal may allow for a simplistic “converting-the-natives” interpretation. But if it does, it does so only for the simple minded. Those with a more nuanced understanding will understand that Catholicism was the best possible vehicle for the adaptation of Indian cosmologies into the larger Christian civilization and, thus, into the modern world. The Dominican and Franciscans friars who were dispatched at Cortez's request understood this (and the nuances it entailed) perfectly. Anyone who knows anything about the subject matter understands that while the Indian is formally Catholic he remains en su profundo cosmologically Indian. In fact, the genius of what Protestants sneeringly deride as “pagan” Catholicism, is that it provided a universal lingo which allowed for a communion of beliefs that are rife with variety beneath formal rubrics.

Anyone who has actually looked at the Catholicism of the Mexican Indian and even of many mestizos cannot fail to see this. Its synchretic character is everywhere, except perhaps the sealed off closets of ~sinarquistas~ or Tridentine fusspots. Such synchretism is actually a very natural thing. After all, notwithstanding our public and formal affirmations, we each understand and tint the “truth” through our own private and unique experiences of life; and what is true of individuals is true of groups. Today's Indian is not pre-Columbian but post Cortesian and even the racially pure are culturally and intellectually blended. Ross's little psycho-drama in fact seeks to subvert the religion and culture of today's indigenous people.

Ross’s anti-Christian animus is also betrayed by his slipping in of the word “Judaic.” Why this curious construction? The insinuated implication is that there is nothing truly Jewish in this conquest aspect of so-called “Judeo-Christian” civilization. No, no! It only appears to be Jewish-like, hence the "Judaic." Isn't that cute? Since the late 19th century, Jewish academics and social shakers have made a pronounced effort to insinuate the concept of a “Judeo-Christian” civilization into public discourse, getting people to think that Western Civilization is really a "half Jewish" joint enterpise. Of course, this is a false concept, since the word "Christianity" itself includes those surviving Jewish ideas that were transmitted to the larger Greco-Roman world. Nevertheless, now that this deformed graft has taken, Ross ducks out from under its necessary implications and consequences and seeks dissolution of the "partnership" in an adjective, distancing himself and other Jews from the supposed cultural genocide of the Indian by the Spaniard.

It's quite a tour de force. Ross launches an attack against Catholicism which ignores its great synchretic achievement. Ignoring this achievement and in the name of standing up for the 'liberation' of the Indian, he turns the Indian against his own traditions and identity. Because Ross is himself Jewish, and will never think of himself as christian in any shared or hybrid way, the hyphen in "Judeo-Christian" is actually meaningless to him. The perpetual disassociation of Jewish selfhood from whatever is Gentile, leads him to think that the Indian indulges in the same sort self-alienation from the greater body of humanity. He does not. He is not the pre-Cortesian native he once was, he is the very thing Ross wants to get him to loathe as he himself does.

©WCG, 2006

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

El Tonto


The News: "desató en el estado sureño mexicano, Fox manifestó a sus entrevistadores: “... ando libre... ya digo cualquier tontería... ya no importa... total, ya me voy”

The Note: And to think he was the "the pick of the Times"

©WCG, 2006

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Sado-Satanism


Report: Israel Used Dangerous Experimental Weapon in Gaza Attacks

Meanwhile, the Israeli military is facing accusations its used an experimental weapon during recent attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. The Italian television station RAI reports the weapons have led to abnormally serious physical injuries, including amputated limbs and severe burns. The report was produced by the same journalists that exposed the US used phosphorous as an offensive weapon during attacks on Fallujah. The weapon is believed to be similar to the US-made Dense Inert Metal Explosive, or DIME. In addition to inflicting major shrapnel wounds, the weapon is believed to be highly carcinogenic and harmful to the environment.

UN: Israeli Checkpoints Increase 40% in West Bank

Meanwhile in the West Bank, a UN aid agency is reporting Israeli military checkpoints around Palestinian towns have grown by nearly forty percent over the past year. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says there are now more than five hundred and twenty checkpoints and obstacles around the West Bank, causing severe disruption to Palestinian life. The news comes on the heels of recent developments showing Israel is also expanding its settlements. Last month, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert authorized the construction of nearly 700 new homes in settlements on the West Bank.

The Note: Repugnance rules. The narcosis-media does not report much on DIME and even DemocracyNow, doesn't quite get the sado-satanic picture. DIME weapons produce microscopic shrapnel. Because of that, surgeons will not detect the wound which will go on infecting and destroying organs under the bandages so to speak. Even if doctors do suspect DIME shrapnel it is almost impossible to pick out the pieces because they are so small. It's much like being shredded from within.

What kind of non-human intelligence would invent such a thing? What kind of sub-human villain would use it? Meanwhile, ever bewailing its pathetic victim hood, Israel is slowly turning the West Bank into history's biggest concentration camp. It will do so by dripping, degrees so that people become inured even if they notice. But the end is known.

Neither Israel nor its whore-maiden are long for the historical stage. They will go the way of all corrupt and cruel arrogant powers. They will not be missed.

©WCG, 2006
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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Deploring Your Way to the Bank


The News: Twentieth Century Fox launched a Christian home-video label on Tuesday, becoming the first major studio with a unit devoted to the church-going audience that turned "The Passion of the Christ" into a blockbuster.

The new FoxFaith banner will acquire Christian-themed films produced outside the studio and release them on DVD, with the help of a marketing network tied into 90,000 churches and 14 million households nationwide, said Steve Feldstein, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Feldstein said the biggest impetus for creating FoxFaith was the stunning commercial success of Mel Gibson's 2004 crucifixion tale "The Passion of the Christ." The Aramaic-language film grossed $612 million worldwide, driven in large part by a marketing campaign that targeted evangelical Christians.

Fox, like much of Hollywood, passed up an opportunity to release "Passion" theatrically but ended up with U.S. home-video distribution rights, selling more than 15 million units of the film on DVD.

The Note: Steve Feldstein? Gee... so Weisenthall and the ADL protest the existence of Passion Plays and wail about blood libels while Murdock rakes in the cash peddling them. What a surprise people would think of Jews as avaricious hypocrites.

©WCG, 2006
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Sadist & Cowards


Item: Mentally Ill Prisoner Tortured to Death in Michigan

Attorneys in Michigan are preparing to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections over the death of prisoner who suffered from a bipolar disorder. According to the Detroit Free Press, Timothy Joe Sounders died after spending most of his last four days with his arms and legs strapped to a steel bed in four-point restraints in a hot isolation cell. He was naked and soaked in his urine. He was 21 years old. Authorities haven't released an autopsy yet but one expert witness called it "death by torture." The Michigan Department of Corrections initially told his family that he had died in his sleep. Sounders is at least the third mentally ill prisoner to die under similar circumstances in Michigan in recent years. Also expected to be sued in the case is Correctional Medical Services, the private company that handles health services in Michigan’s prisons.

Item: Senate Moves to OK Detention of U.S. Citizens

The Bush administration has slipped in a major change to the Senate bill on interrogations that would allow U.S. citizens to be detained as enemy combatants. Initially the bill defined an enemy combatant as anyone who engaged in hostilities against the United States or its allies but the definition has been expanded to include anyone who has materially supported hostilities against the United States or its allies. The Washington Post reports that human rights experts expressed concern that the language in the new provision would be a precedent-setting congressional endorsement for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens. Meanwhile on Monday, a group of activists from Code Pink stood up in protest over the bill during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The activists stood with their backs toward the Senators while wearing t-shirts that spelled out the phrase “No Torture.” The activists called on the Senators to remove a section of the bill that strips detainees of the right to habeas corpus.


©WCG,2006
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

U.S. Looses its Allure


The News: Le Monde had a story about a Keith Reinhard and his Business for Diplomatic Action ... a group of U.S. companies desperately trying to gussy up the Ah'murkan image so that they don’t revolt the global consumer even more. Turns out adolescents around the world aren’t buying American, don’t give a shit about the US and would rather visit Canada.

The Note: To bad consumers are so fickle. I’d love to see U.S. business digging for turnips like Scarlett O’Hara.

©WCG, 2006
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The Subtleties of Non-Revisionism


The News: “The Justice Department alleged that Rinkel had used attack dogs to march emaciated inmates to slave-labor sites. More than 130,000 women from dozens of countries -- Jews, Gypsies and others -- were brought to Ravensbruck during its six years of existence. More than two-thirds of them died of malnourishment, in medical experiments and in a gas chamber, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.” (S.F. Chronicle.)


The Note: Oh? Well, that’s a change from “..130,000 Jews were gassed or died of other causes ....” “A” Gas Chamber? Yeah sure... the remodeled basement passing as such.

©WCG, 2006
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Saturday, September 16, 2006

The Price of Peace

The News: "We've warned people they may see soldiers shooting in their villages. I tell them this is the price of peace and freedom," said US commander Lieutenant Colonel Steven Gilbert. (Guardian)

The Note: Uh-huh.... Shooting is Peace, izzat it?

©WCG, 2006
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Afghan Surprise


The News: The Guardian reports that Afghanistan has gone to hell in a handbasket. "Nobody saw this coming. It's pretty dire," admitted one official in Kabul.

The Note: What unbelievable, fucking morons. It really makes one wonder. The imbeciles had the experience of the Russians who had the experience of the British who had the experience of the Greeks. They even had the experience of Vietnam, but these security-cleared, hard-thinking thugocrats decided the analogy didn’t apply because, after all, Vietnam was a tropical jungle and Afghanistan wasn’t. So? The campaign was one against rocks?

©WCG, 2006
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

They all just hate us


The News:
Visiting Russian Chavez called the United States "a mindless, blind and stupid giant that does not understand the world, does not understand human rights, does not understand anything in humanism, culture and consciousness."

Ivan Safranchuk, head of the Moscow bureau of the Center for Defense Information, a U.S. think tank, said such outbursts by Chavez fitted well with growing anti-American sentiments among Kremlin officials. "Venezuela will serve Russia well by slamming the United States in the United Nations Security Council, using words Moscow will like but would not want to utter itself," Safranchuk said.

The Note: Ivan would do better to ask why Moscow feels that way.

©WCG, 2006
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A Forthright Reply


The Note: Mexican Newspaper founder replies to Israel's Demand for an apology.

"Mr. Amabassador of Israel in Mexico, David Dadonn. With regard to the open letter signed by a group of Mexicans in which we aksed for the suspension of agression by Israel against Lebanon, You have publically denounced us as terrorist and have demanded that we retract.

"It happens, Mr. Ambassador, that during the Holocaust there was a crime of commission by the Nazis as well as a crime of ommission by all those others who guarded their silence in face of that atrocity.

"For my part, I shall not incur into the crime of omission. I will not guard my silence in face of what I consider to be sistematic slaughter perpetrated by the State of Israel. The Jewish people have a right to live. So too do the Lebanese and Palestinians."

/s/ (without the usual protestations). [ here ]

The Note: -- WooooooHoooooo Hoooooo . Alguien sabe como mandarlos a la chingada.

©WCG,2006
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Yes - We have No Delusions


The News: A State Department group will urge the Bush administration to begin preparing for an intervention in the event of the death of President Fidel Castro. The group, the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, was created by President Bush three years ago. Their recommendations include creating an $80 million dollar fund to promote US initiatives in Cuba. An annex to the report lists several proposals on how the Bush administration could undermine Castro’s government. Cuban parliamentarian Ricardo Alarcon likened the report to a declaration of war. ( The Independent.)

The Note: Needless to say, the initiatives will be a total success and earn us admiring plaudits from the rest of the world.

©WCG, 2006
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Despicable Depravity


The News: The New York Times reports that US forces plan to bulldoze several blocks in the middle of the city of Ramadi and convert them into a new “Green Zone” similar to the US command area in Baghdad. Lt. Col. Stephen Neary said some of the razed land will be turned into a park. He added: "Aesthetically it will be an improvement." The military is engaged in a large scale operation in Ramadi that has already led to the flight of thousands of residents. According to the Times, one poster displayed in the local US base reads: “Be polite, be professional and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” Another poster refers to the name of the military unit and says: "Kilo Company: Killed more people than cancer."

The Note: Despicable.

©WCG, 2006
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Results as planned or not


The News: Webster Tarpley, author of 911 Synthetic Terror; Made in USA, said the Sept 11 attacks were an example of "state-sponsored, false-flag terrorism" designed by rogue CIA elements "to start the war of civilisations." Tarpley said Washington was "gripped by war psychosis" and had used terror as a pretext to turn the United States into a police state. (Reuters / Al Jazeera) [Link

The Note: Well -- the result is indisputable at any rate.

©WCG, 2006
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

How Much of Lethal is OK?


The American Heart Association has published new dietary guidelines in which it is recommended that ingestion of trans-fats "not exceed 1%" of daily caloric intake.

Gee.... if it's that bad, why intake it at all?

©WCG, 2006
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Friday, June 9, 2006

Preventive Pacification


The News: For many months, the Israelis have been pounding away at open areas such as fields and orchards in an effort to prevent Palestinian militants using them to fire their home-made missile into crudely made missiles into nearby Israeli territory. (BBC)

The Note:Prevent” ...? I.e. they are doing it pre-emptively, routinely destroying orchards and fields so that no one will think of using them. Of course that also means that no one can farm them. It also means that crops are destroyed. We know that this is preemptive because “for many months” there have been virtually no missile attacks on Israel from Gaza.

They are also bombing beaches. Clearly this is an attempt to intimidate the civilian populace.

©WCG, 2006
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The News: For many months, the Israelis have been pounding away at open areas such as fields and orchards in an effort to prevent Palestinian militants using them to fire their home-made missile into crudely made missiles into nearby Israeli territory. (BBC)

The Note:Prevent” ...? I.e. they are doing it pre-emptively, routinely destroying orchards and fields so that no one will think of using them. Of course that also means that no one can farm them. It also means that crops are destroyed. We know that this is preemptive because “for many months” there have been virtually no missile attacks on Israel from Gaza.

They are also bombing beaches. Clearly this is an attempt to intimidate the civilian populace.

©WCG, 2006
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Thursday, June 1, 2006

Making Clear Points


Item: "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.


Item: We will bring you back to the pre-industrial age", James Baker to the Iraq's Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz on January 9, 1999 in Geneva)

©WCG, 2006
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Monday, May 22, 2006

Consubstancialismos


The Noticia: "Algunos evangelistas se incomodarán", comenta Gael. "Pero es una buena introspección sobre la fe y también muestra que la fe puede salvar a una persona, pero cegar a otra. La religión me interesa: después de todo soy mexicano, y muchas de mis películas examinan la naturaleza de la institución religiosa. "Mi personaje en La mala educación deja de creer en Dios por lo que le ocurrió; luego hice de sacerdote en El crimen del padre Amaro, y ahora esto, pero la fe siempre ocupará un lugar en cualquier historia que sea honesta, aunque sea subliminal." (Jornada)

La Nota: “Después de todo soy mexicano” Pues asi tambien lo dijo mi primo Hector -- “ser mexicano y católico es consubstancial”. Lo habra leído Gael?

©WCG, 2006
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Bette's Chickens Come Home


The News: Speaking of the U.S. denial of visas to certain foreigners, James Edwards, an adjunct fellow with the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization in Washington said, "We've always allowed ourselves the right to keep people out." Edwards explained, "Our government's job is to protect Americans, including from ideological extremists who promote ideas intended to harm the US. Free speech is an internal family discussion." (Truthout.org)

The Note: Incredible. It is unbelievable anyone would think this way. But as I said years ago, when that poor slob got run out of Bette's Diner by a bunch of enraged Bezerkeley feminists for reading Playboy this would be the result of mind sets that wanted to outlaw “assaultive speech” and “verbal rape”.

©WCG, 2006

Monday, May 8, 2006


The News: Regarding a diplomatic letter from Iran, Ms Rice said: "There's nothing in here that would suggest that we're on any different course than we were before we got the letter." (BBC)

The Note: They key to decrypting shitspeak is the word “we”. Once it is understood that the word “we” means Ah'murka and does not include Iran, the meaning becomes clear: there is nothing in the letter to suggest that the United States has altered course in seeking war and/or destruction of Iran. Condi also said of the letter : “This is not it” --- “It” meaning total capitulation to U.S. demands Of course the drooling retards in the press will never figure this out.

©WCG, 2006
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Saturday, May 6, 2006


The News: About 400 “disoriented” dolphins washed up dead in Zanzibar. This follows a story two weeks ago about a dead whale washed up in Barcelona. (AlJazeera)

The Note: It is clear that ThugStaat Murka and its submarine sonar is behind this. He who destroys creation for his own safety deserves his own eradication.

©WCG 2006
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Like Poison Like Chocolate


The News: reported on how the Mossad killed a terrorist by poisoning his chocolates. The poison left no trace; it looked as if the victim had leukemia.

The Note: Didn’t Arafat have a “rare” leukemia? Now, if the US did similar things, I’m pretty sure we would have heard about it by now. I think Israel is the only one who has developed this degree of poison sophistication. In all events what it shows is that Israel is another Thug State -- an extremely malevolent, duplicitous, conspiratorial and utterly self-serving tribe that leaves no stone unturned in its effort to control things. Their operatives are everywhere, poisoning discourse, policy, academia, the press, people’s minds and bodies. Years ago I laughed at Anna Valero’s aunt with her Protocols palaver......

©WCG, 2006

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Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Respecting Jewish Sensibilities


The News: A free speech controversy erupted at Boston's Brandeis University over the removal of an exhibition featuring the paintings by Palestinian youths. The exhibit’s 17 paintings depicted the young artists’ perspectives on life under Israeli military occupation. But just four days into a two-week run, the exhibit was removed by Brandeis officials after several complaints from students. A university spokesperson said the school would consider re-mounting the paintings if they were to appear alongside paintings showing an Israeli perspective. The exhibition was curated by an Israeli Jewish student who said she wanted to showcase a Palestinian perspective on campus. The student, Lior Halperin, said: ''This was an opportunity to bring to Brandeis the Palestinian voice that is not spoken or heard through an Israeli or an American Jew, but directly delivered from Palestinians. Obviously that was just too much for Brandeis." (DemocracyNow.org)

The Note: Another example of : "You don’t get to be heard unless we get to shout you down."

©WCG, 2006
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Tuesday, May 2, 2006

A True Son of the Chiapas Soil


The News: “Meanwhile in Mexico, the Zapatista leader Marcos spent May Day marching with thousands of others to show solidarity to the undocumented immigrants protesting in the United States. "(We call on) those who mobilized against the war in Iraq, to the inheritors of Emma Goldman, John Reed, Julius Rosenberg, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, the Indian people of North America who are tied to us with ties of pain and rebellion and all of the Chicano community, for supporting this workers' fight,” Marcos said." (DemocracyNow.org)

The Note: What a fucking UNAMoron. As if the Chiapencan Indians have the remotest idea or any real interest in knowing who the hell Emma Goldman was.... And Julius Rosenberg???? PULEEZE. This is what happens when the privileged make revolution from below.

©WCG,2006

Saturday, March 4, 2006

Imperial Reach


The News: The Sheraton in Mexico City refused to give berth to a Cuban delegation. In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Sheraton in Mexico City was a subsidiary of a US-owned hotel group and therefore subject to US laws and regulations. Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez insisted that US law could not be applied in a third country.

The Note: If all U.S. citizens anywhere are always subject to U.S. laws and requirements they are effectively U.S. agents/agencies abroad. If a U.S. law prohibits contact with a Cuban in Paris, it can also require a U.S. citizen to report the attempted contact. Most Americans are probably blissfully unaware of whatever reporting duties they may be suspected of being engaged in by resentful natives.

The second interesting thing about the report is that the US was aware of the meeting and Treasury was alerted. Now unless the business men cleared this beforehand with the Treasury Department that would mean the US is spying pretty intensively.

©WCG, 2006