Why we need legal protection for Third World lobbying: media psy-war and the vicious circle

September 1 2008

The media is continuing its psy-war against MIM and doing so in a fashion that shows why change is not possible in the united $tates in the current political structure. With enough post-modernists, spinners and liars motivated by partisan politics or money, the media and major parties can turn anyone into a goat.

If it were just a matter of Amerikans' preferences on hunting regulations or steroid use in sports, we might just pass on the question. It's the fact that the united $tates is running the planet, to the extent of denying many occupied countries and movements diplomatic recognition, that creates a problem combined with how Amerikans conduct their politics.

To name just two countries on the "axis of evil" created by Bush, the united $tates does not have diplomatic relations with northern Korea and Iran; although, that may be changing. Even if diplomatic relations start, diplomats from northern Korea and Iran will face daunting odds. So the question arises how countries that got on the "axis of evil" are to redress their situation within the united $tates.

We have learned that many in the media and major parties are willing to admit certain points MIM has made. For example, Cafferty at CNN and John McCain have alluded to the 9% approval rating of Congress. Cafferty has gone so far as to explain what would happen in other countries if such a political impasse arose. In addition, Patrick Buchanan has painted an ugly picture of an aging population not able to meet its political challenges. So yes, there is no proletariat that is going to rise up and wrest even moderate reforms from the system.

Hence, there is an agreement that when something needs to change, there is no domestic proletariat to bring it. It's very much a question of what to do with an aging population that generally does not want to put any time into studying international questions.

Of course, the media's answer is incremental change. The hope is that somehow a racist media and party structure can put in an incrementally less racist government and mend relations with the rest of the planet instead of sticking out like a sore thumb and extending U.$. resources too much.

The argument for people like MIM to join the Democratic or Republican parties is much undercut by the psy-war the media is in the habit of conducting. Once a Democrat or Republican is in power, the possibilities of spin and post-modernism do not disappear just because one is in office. The handful of minorities taken in that way are mainstreamed and made less reflective of the Third World majority.

What does decline once in the government is one's independence. In the U.S. Government, even the very best possible president depends on legal advice from career officers. There are career bureaucracies in place, and the political leaders heading them got there by answering to the informal networks of racist power and formal reward structures that do not reward boldness in going over the heads of the Amerikan people to relate in a positive way to the Third World.

Even supposing that the president were a man of exceptional courage, there is still no practical way to stand down pornographers, not to mention the mafia. Hence, there are political limits placed on the president. Then in addition, his colleagues are 9 to 5ers. If something bold needs to be done, where is the lawyer going to be that won't be afraid after he goes home from work? The U.S. Government is not set up for the bold. It is a huge mass overwhelmed by the parochial, bureaucratic and small-time interests. Even if the president wanted to fire scads of people, he would not have the courageous replacements available to take over.

The bottom line on why mainstreaming does not work is that the underlying motivations of say the legal profession do not stem from proletarian places. The question arises, why should anyone in the government stick out a neck to back down the mafia. It's easier to make a ton of money in corporate law. So there is a process of weeding out that produces the government we get.

In some situations, the system assigns someone to do a job, the military lawyers for alleged Al Qaeda prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay for instance. This is an instance where a formal procedure protects to some small extent the defense lawyers; although, they will still face questions of stigmatization later in their careers. At the same time, the legal system is interested in shutting down elaborate charity connections and woe to anyone with the courage to back all that down. That is an example where the formal channels for doing something are up in the air and a huge unmanageable mess arises. We can imagine the political uproar when the FBI fails to follow up a "terrorism tip" for example. Scientists of organization can look at it as a huge mass of "terrorism tips" or a huge mass of informal network problems created by an obtuse government.

In the case of lobbyists, they make great money to do their job and hire the best lawyers to do it. Yet the international problems the united $tates are dealing with in Iran, Korea, Palestine etc. involve either the poor in movements trying to do justice or the legally restricted, stigmatized and prohibited rich.

This situation was created by the informal structure set up by the U.S. Government to begin with. Not only is there no proletariat within the united $tates, but also the equivalent of a proletarian lobbyist is unlikely to arise. It's not just a question of ideological agreement but one of courage and money.

The current system is set up to promote a certain kind of warped Third World individual--the lackey. Far from improving relations with the Amerikan population, these lackeys twist Amerikan-to-Third World relations. Ranging from Korea to El Salvador, the lackeys cover up for U.$. massacres and if put in place in the U.$. government itself, the lackey stands for spreading the same wartime disinformation and methods of torture used in his or her home country by the U.$. imperialists. The typical lackey biography is someone from a wealthy background, an apolitical family that is apolitical because of a U.$. or other political massacre in the distant or notso distant family background, someone raised to be ignorant of the background of horror. Those most enthusiastic about whitewashing their own family's and country's history become successful U.$. lackeys. They are not authentic Third World individuals but instead people twisted by U.$. power. Whatever residual memories the lackey has ease into the background with bribery and intimidation. "Total Recall" is not just a sci-fi movie for Third World people.

The U.$. culture is too decadent to put anyone solid in power. All it can do is put someone in power with enough money to buy the loyalties of enough decadent people.

What the media and major parties should focus on is changing the structure of political recruitment. In some countries, it is illegal or uncustomary to report romantic affairs of political leaders, and thus that source of blackmail and pornographic spin is removed. That element of decadence undercutting serious government is not present. However, those countries with such "draconian" ideas are most ridiculed by the U.$. media. Indeed, U.$. pornographic standards may be making some slight headway globally.

In the united $tates, eliminating pornography from the political process is impossible. It has to be taken as a given. The evangelical movement assures pornography by consistently voting for preachers-in-chief instead of commanders-in-chief responsible for foreign policy. From the liberal side, we have the post-modernist, spinning side of pornography. The conservative female thinks pornography is important and the liberal female is too decadent for any change of any kind to be based on.

After running the pornographic entertainment gauntlet, the potential candidate pool will be weeded out, but a hefty weeding job done on a pool that is pre-disposed against disadvantaged causes is only going to accentuate the weaknesses of the candidate pool, from the vantage point of serious international concerns, especially serious proletarian concerns.

The die-hard individualists of the system believe it is a question of heroism not stupidity to go through the gauntlet of the major party electoral system. They boost the biographical stories of McCains, Bidens and Kennedys. The more intelligent of the die-hards can imagine that racism and sexism have reduced the leadership pool for imperialism, not a lack of heroism in Third World and female people.

Instead of dealing with the imbalance, of course the media and major parties protect their own power, within the terms that it already exists. The very same people complaining loudest that Sarah Palin is a beauty queen not to be taken seriously on foreign policy are nonetheless at the forefront of white nationalist reaction against MIM despite MIM's involvement in international questions since the early 1980s. These liberal white nationalists prefer the influence of interests backing Palin to the interests backing MIM. What they should do instead is work to change the rules of the game.

There is not the critical mass of lawyers with knowledge and guts to change the U.S. Government. The United $tates obtains the leaders it deserves.

We are accused of lacking pragmatism; yet, MIM would start even smaller than our critics. We recognize the character of the officials in the sprawling federal government and instead recommend starting out small by aiming for a few good lobbyists. We take media pornography as a given, but instead of investing all energy into the media and major parties, we would suggest doing something about the imbalance in lobbying created by the career dynamics of the law profession. Lobbyists are creative, and that is what we need, creative, informed lawyers, but with guts, and that is what we do not have, not even one firm for proletarian and independent Third World interests.

Yes, we are advocating the power of private enterprise to redress the Third World lobbying imbalance. Like any infant industry, the Third World lobbying profession needs initial and very strong government protection.

The gargantuan task of shutting down Islamic charities should have clued in the government that there is a fundamental misconception in law enforcement, a misconception good for justifying jobs in law enforcement but not in correcting the underlying problem. Rather than cracking down on all energy outlets for the oppressed nation cause, the united $tates should recognize that it has a particular and special problem stemming from its global police role.

Pragmatic structural reform would be to replace those charities with uncompromising outlets protected from the predations of the major parties and media. In international politics, such protection comes from having diplomatic status.

If Amerikan patriots will forbid that the united $tates take a military power status second to anyone, the question should be different with regard to political and intellectual matters. Either the united $tates should give up its global police role or it should create a more level playing field for lobbyists. In the short run, it is easier to level the playing field, because the international proletariat is not quite ready to shut down the global cop.

In addition to shutting down Islamic charities working on international issues, Amerikans treat Chinese money in campaigns as a scandal. So in a parallel situation, Obama says it's wrong to be the "Senator from the Punjab." This is despite the fact that some Amerikan voters are actually from the Punjab, and sometimes the same liberals like Obama will proclaim their pride in being a "diverse country."

The die-hard defenders of the system furthest to the "left" refer to Asians --approximately one half the world's population--as having the "engineering perspective," even when Asians have superior political and social scientific knowledge. This results in shunting people into pigeonholes that Amerikans have created. This needs to be recognized and dealt with not covered up and forgotten. It is where the Amerikan people are at, where they are comfortable. "Freedom is the recognition of necessity" and so this necessity needs recognition lest results more backward than necessary result.

The oppressed nations have greater legal, language and money problems compared with the oppressor nations and yet somehow they must mount an authentic challenge to the structure of their oppression. This is how we would change the law:

There should be no limit on money raised for the Third World lobbying profession.

Since the use of Third World lobbying profession money will be declared legal and beneficial, the sources of money for the Third World lobbying profession's money should be protected legally, whether it be mafia, Al Qaeda, Hamas etc.

Any protection afforded to any U.$. reporter or U.$. media outlet should be afforded to Third World lobbyists. Whatever intelligence collection technique is legal for reporters should be legal for Third World lobbyists.

There should be no financial or political limit on Third World lobbyists' buying media ads anywhere in the world. The law should require the media as a condition of accepting ads from any federal agency to accept ads from the Third World lobbying profession including advocacy for what is now called "terrorism," as long as it does not threaten specific individuals. This is not a First Amendment violation, because media that do not accept federal government ads will not have to accept Third World lobbyist ads at the same price as other lobbyist ads. It will only be a term of doing business with the government. Steep and mandatory awards to Third World lobbyists should be established for violating this law.

The greatest private figure protections should be afforded to Third World lobbyists in part to stave off the usual U.$. media obsession with pornography and other entertainment questions. A larger portion of the authentic Third World won't put up with Amerikan- style sexual office politics. The rest of the world does not found its parties on the questions of abortion and gun control, and so to have an authentic Third World lobby, Amerikan lifestyle politics has to be put aside.

Legal defense against political repression should be strengthened for Third World lobbyists, by creating the burden of proof on Amerikans to show that their legal complaints either civil or criminal are not inspired by concerns for the Democratic or Republican parties.

Belonging to the Third World lobbying profession will constitute "improbable cause" for the purposes of intelligence and counter-terrorism warrants.

There should be a physical compound of residence established available as an option for Third World lobbyists, including for physical protection.

The counterveiling factor in diplomatic status is that a country can always expel a particularly obnoxious diplomat. We need an analogous system of counterveiling powers to place a check on Third World lobbying that Amerikans will trust.

The U.$. political system is set up on an access basis. The counterveiling power we need to separate lackeys from authentic Third World lobbyists is that lackeys will have conventional access or means of running for office. The law needs to triage in such a way as to make mainstream concerns possible within the Republican and Democratic parties, while domestically unpopular and authentic Third World expressions receive protection elsewhere. The way to accomplish this is by giving less access but increased legal protection to authentic Third World lobbyists. Democrats, Republicans and their campaign contributors should be excluded from the authentic Third World lobbyist category. Authentic Third World lobbyists should foreswear certain means of political access.

What MIM has proposed is not an equal or parallel structure. Rather it is more like a "separate but equalizing (not equal)" structure the equivalent of Jim Crow. Jim Crow for authentic Third World lobbyists would be superior to what we have now which is a gargantuan crackdown on Islamic charities and FBI snooping on law-abiding citizens for decades at a time, etc. all done on an informal and arbitrary basis. The MIM proposal is saying that Amerikans need to learn when to lay off, and the standard is not the same for Sarah Palin and a Punjabi dalit. We ask the Amerikans to recognize that even a fully vetted and law-abiding Islamic radical is not going to be selected as easily as Sarah Palin by either party, no matter who has more knowledge of military and foreign policy matters. The solution is not to ask Third World people to become more ideologically like Euro-Amerikans and thereby even out the candidate pool for the major parties. By recognizing this lack of equality and parallelism and undertaking structural reform, we can create a better system than we have now.

If the Third World lobbying profession were set up correctly and protected resolutely, there would be a formal designated outlet for energies that now goes to terrorism, Islamic charities and bribing elected officials. What MIM advocates is consonant with the most radical of people in the world, because none other than Mao said it would be a question of "long legal struggle" in the united $tates. Mao went so far as to uphold the example of Martin Luther King though King was far to Mao's right on social and economic questions. Mao's politico-military theories said that it would be a while before revolution came to the united $tates and similar countries.

In our opinion, the real Third World lobbyists should give up on working in the major parties and even DC. The authentic Third World lobbyists should also give up on raising money for charities serving non-U.$. people unless those charities belong to the lackey category unprotected by Third World lobbyist status. The authentic Third World lobbyists should do legally protected intellectual, intelligence and global public opinion work, including raising money for tuition inside the united $tates. The difficult part for Amerikans to get used to will be accepting that since the use of money is good, the origin of the money should not matter or warrant FBI attention. This is a way to reduce FBI political policing needs while redirecting authentic Third World politics into protected channels.

The legal economy in the united $tates benefits from the illegal economy, legal banks benefitting from accounts with drug dealers for instance. In synopsis, the Pentagon currently takes Amerikan money from all sources that show up as taxes and spends that money on global media outlets. That means that bank profits stemming from drug-related accounts show up as taxes for the Pentagon. The Third World lobbyist needs to be able to do the same thing to level the playing field with the self-interests of the Pentagon--with no questions asked about sources of money. It's about time that intelligent people recognized that the game is stacked toward military as opposed to diplomatic solutions and that constituencies need to be created and legally protected to right the situation.

Amerika is too racist for Third World lobbying of the major parties not to backfire. We ask that the Amerikans themselves recognize this and create another outlet for the staunch Third World lobbying profession that needs to arise to fill a vacuum.

The problem in Amerika is not a lack of heroic individuals. Instead, the media and major parties should prepare to accommodate independent players on the political field. Only by doing so does Amerika show that it understands the structural problem in its relations with the Third World.