September
11
this year marks the 20th anniversary of the day terrorist attacks were
made on the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington,
DC and elsewhere.
September 11 also
marks the day in 1973 when the U.S. staged a coup d'état in
Chile that overthrew the democratically elected government of President
Salvador Allende and installed the brutal dictatorship of Augusto
Pinochet which committed untold crimes against the Chilean people. This
was the opening shot of sustained state-terror against the peoples of
Argentina and South America through the CIA's Operation Condor,
and the dirty wars carried out by the U.S. in Central America and the
Caribbean.
We mourn the loss of life linked to both
occasions, including the many Canadians who died in the Twin Towers and
related events. We deeply mourn those who died in the war of revenge
launched by the United States after September 11, 2001 as a result of
its military savagery and that of its NATO allies -- including Canada
-- in Afghanistan, and other such wars aimed at regime change in other
countries spuriously claimed to be harbouring terrorists.
U.S.
revenge-seeking and desperation to extend its global hegemony has no
excuse or justification. Along with thousands of fellow Canadians, we
are deeply concerned about the loss of civil liberties. We are also
concerned that the division of society on the basis of race, national
background, religion, political views or other considerations has
become the new normal as a result of 20 years of black ops, torture
sites and the millions of people killed as a result of U.S. wars of
aggression and occupation, invasions, drone assassinations and economic
sanctions, with 9/11 and the subsequent "war on terror" used as a
propaganda ploy.
The Government of Canada and
others who spout nonsense about high ideals do not mourn or even
recognize these losses. In the name of national security, national
interest and a so-called rules-based international order, they flout
the principles of the UN Charter and form war governments in the
service of U.S. crimes.
Furthermore, in
the name of preserving liberal democratic institutions, such
governments justify the increasing use of the police powers that
underlie the constitutions of what are called the western democracies.
Those constitutions permit the imposition of what is called the rule of
law in the service of private, foreign and supranational interests, not
the interests of the people. Such a "rule of law" is in contempt of a
modern conception of law that serves the cause of justice by defending
the people's rights and interests, and punishes those who violate the
people's rights or otherwise cause harm to their well-being. The rule
of law and police powers based on those western constitutions are out
of sync with the needs of the times because their raison
d'état is to keep the people out of power so that
the rulers can act with impunity.
Canadians in the
main have spoken out that they want no part in U.S. aggression and war,
and its self-serving foreign policy based on dominating other countries
at the expense of other working people around the world. Meanwhile,
none of the losses following 9/11 solicits a single word of regret on
the part of the Government of Canada or the cartel parties of the rich
seeking to form the next government in the 44th General Election.
Those who have usurped the powers of government today are both
anti-social and amoral which means they are unfit to rule. It is under
their watch and against the expressed anti-war consciousness of the
majority of Canadians that Canada has been fully integrated into the
U.S. war machine and Homeland Security and its laws, with Canadians
subject to the decision-making of the U.S. warmongers. It must not pass!
Despite what the
U.S. imperialists and their appeasers may say, what followed the events
of September 11, 2001 was the beginning of a new round of state
terrorism, anarchy and violence, as was September 11, 1973 for the
peoples of Chile and elsewhere in South and Central America and the
Caribbean. So too the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is the beginning of yet
another round of the same, as the unfolding events in Afghanistan are
showing.
On this occasion, the Marxist-Leninist
Party of Canada expresses its solidarity with the peoples of the United
States and Chile who are striving to see justice served under today's
conditions. We also express our solidarity with the peoples of all the
countries that have been and continue to be subjected to destruction by
U.S. and NATO forces, including Canada's military. We salute all those
who are fighting for peace, democracy and freedom in today's
conditions. Let us unite in defence of the rights of all and take up
the challenges we face.
All
Out to Make Canada a Zone for Peace and
Get Canada Out of
NATO and NORAD!
This article was published in
Volume 51 Number 9 - September 5, 2021
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2021/Articles/M510091.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
