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MOT POUR MOT
RECHERCHÉES:
CRAPULES ÉTATIQUES
Le FBI dévoilait la semaine dernière
sa plus récente liste des 10 criminels les plus recherchés
aux États-Unis, qui inclut les plus dangereux meurtriers, terroristes
et voleurs du pays. Le directeur national du Parti
libertarien a toutefois été surpris de voir que personne
sur cette liste ne travaille pour le gouvernement fédéral.
Pourtant, selon Steve Dasbach, « des meurtres aux enlèvements,
en passant par les agressions sexuelles, plusieurs employés du gouvernement
ont commis ce qu'on considérerait comme des crimes haineux si les
coupables étaient des citoyens ordinaires. »
Tous ceux qui figurent sur la liste du FBI ont commis des crimes violents
qui méritent d'être punis. Mais la justice demande aussi que
l'on traite également tous les criminels – même si ce sont
des politiciens, des directeurs d'agence fédérale ou des
bureaucrates. C'est pourquoi Steve Dasbach a offert sa propre version de
la liste du FBI, celle des 10 crapules étatiques les plus recherchées: |
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THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY'S
TEN MOST WANTED U.S. GOVERNMENT
CRIMINALS
1. U.S. Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Crime: Accessory to sexual assault. «
Last year, U.S. Customs employees under Kelly's command ordered
2 797 international airline passengers to strip off their
clothes at gunpoint, intimately groped them, and conducted humiliating
body cavity searches, » said Dasbach. «
Ordinary Americans who behave this way are called sex criminals,
but Customs inspectors who behave like perverts are given promotions.
»
2. Justice Department Asset Forfeiture Division
Chief Jerry McDowell. Crime: Grand larceny.
« Last year, the Justice Department confiscated 42
454 cars, boats, houses, and other belongings – valued at over $604
million – from Americans who were never convicted of any crime, »
said Dasbach. « That's theft on a mind-boggling scale,
and makes Jerry McDowell one of the criminal masterminds of the century.
»
3. Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos. Crime:
Murder. « In 1997, Banuelos
and three fellow Marines on an anti-drug patrol in Redford, Texas, gunned
down 18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez as he was herding goats near the Mexican
border, » noted Dasbach. « Why is
cold-blooded murder not considered murder when committed by someone wearing
a Marine Corps insignia? »
4. President Bill Clinton. Crime: International
terrorism. « Osama bin
Laden made the FBI's list for killing 224 people in embassy bombings –
yet Clinton has killed literally thousands of innocent civilians during
his undeclared and unconstitutional war in Yugoslavia, »
said Dasbach. « That kind of mass murder of innocents
should not go unpunished by a civilized nation. »
5. Former NHTSA director Joan Claybrook. Crime:
Accessory to murder. « As
head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the 1970s,
Claybrook forced automakers to install air bags, many of which have malfunctioned
and exploded, killing 115 people, » said Dasbach. «
If Death-by-Regulation isn't a crime, it should be – and Claybrook
should be the first person prosecuted. »
6. Social Security Commissioner Kenneth S.
Apfel. Crime: Investment fraud. «
If an ordinary American did what Apfel and his Social Security co-conspirators
do – run a retirement program where the only assets are billions of dollars
of IOUs – they would be in jail faster than you can yell “AARP!”
» said Dasbach. « Why is the government's
Ponzi Scheme, where new investors are paid with money from old investors,
not shut down like any other criminal pyramid scheme would be? »
7. Attorney General Janet Reno. Crime: Conspiracy
to commit murder. « Not
even the Mafia would do what Janet Reno ordered done on April 19, 1993:
Assault a religious compound with tanks, military helicopters, and poison
gas, » said Dasbach. « Yet that's
what happened in Waco, Texas – killing 69 men, women, and children. Son
of Sam is in jail for committing serial murder: Why isn't Janet Reno?
»
8. FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. Crime: Murder.
« In 1992, Horiuchi used a high-powered rifle to assassinate
Vicki Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as she stood in her kitchen holding
her 11-month-old infant daughter, » said Dasbach. «
You may not like the political views of her husband, white separatist
Randy Weaver, but that shouldn't have given government employees the right
to declare open season on his family. »
9. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey. Crime: Kidnapping,
false imprisonment. « Under
McCaffrey's direction, 695 200 people were arrested in 1997
for marijuana offenses, 87% of whom were accused of mere possession,
» noted Dasbach. « For this victimless
crime, these people were arrested at gunpoint, dumped into jail cells,
and deprived of their liberty – while millions of violent criminals were
allowed to run free. That's the real crime. »
10. U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum (R-FL). Crime:
Illegal telephone tapping. « Last
year, McCollum inserted a roving wiretap provision into the Intelligence
Authorization Act of 1998 – giving federal agents the power to eavesdrop
on anyone's phone calls without a court order, » said
Dasbach. « Unauthorized eavesdropping is a crime: Let's
prosecute Rep. McCollum for it. » |
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