Anti-Sanctions, Swiss Banking & Naz

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Subject: Re: Anti-Sanctions, Swiss Banking & Nazism

dawn star wrote:
> 
> Re: Sanctions, and Lessons from Swiss banking which sustained Germany's
> Third Reich war economy.
> 
> The issue of Burma sanctions and the world business community has
> history on its side -as well as the millions of dead victims in Europe
> during World War II who were sacrificed with ruthless expedience by a
> fascist regime, and its financial and business partners.
> 
> That gruesome story is just beginning to surfaces with detailed
> descriptions of how money laundering by Switzerland's pristine banking
> operations with gold from Poland, Czechoslavia and later Holland,
> Belguim and the concentration camp victims during World War II, financed
> Hitler's war machine, desperate for Swiss francs to buy raw materials
> when no one wanted Reichsmarks.
> 
> Today, history has returned to haunt the free world which has yet to pay
> its debt for the truth buried in the myth of Swiss "neutrality". In
> similar fashion, and with the same cynical refusal to accept the truth,
> the fascist drug regime in Rangoon awaits the international business
> community to topple the sanctions movement and invest in their
> drug-based economy. As it boasts of rich natural resources- and forced labor, the Slorc drug lords clearly aim to hold the business community hostage as it
> continues its money laundering operations, all too well-known to the
> DEA, the US anti-narcotics agency, badly in need of foreign exchange,
> without bank reserves, and designed to keep its bankrupt economy afloat.
> 
> Yesterday it was Switerland and capitalism that provided Hitler with
> more weapons to destroy, a fact that did not escape the  Speilberg film,
> Schlinder's List, recently broadcast to tens of millions of television
> spectators in the United States.
> 
> Daw Aung San Suu Kyi sees Burma's generals and its violent youth
> organisation the USDA for what they are: Hitler and his Brown Shirts.
> Now it is the free world's business community, lobbying US President
> Bill Clinton against the Free Burma sanctions movement, in the spirit of
> the past, when business as usual was the order of the day for Hitler's
> war machine.
> 
> Money laundering in Burma from drugs is no secret to central bankers.
> The Clinton Administration knows about all this from the DEA, the CIA
> and its intelligence crime fighting institutions. Last week, President
> Clinton decertified Burma refusing anti-narcotics loans, and once again
> bad-listing its generals. That is a clear message to the business
> community NOT to invest in Burma. However, that may not be enough to
> convince supporters of the anti-sanctions lobby that Burma is not a
> place to do business.
> 
> In a report issued Tuesday by the National Association of Manufacturers,
> the business community in the United States is launching a propaganda
> campaign aimed at persuading President Clinton, Congress and the public
> against economic sanctions. Such blatant support for the Burma drug
> junta risks to commit the error of the past that gave Hitler what he
> needed, both in means, encouragement and justification, to continue mass
> murder and screw the free world.
> 
> Until now, the Clinton Administration has given Unocal and other investors in Burma a free hand, calling it their decision whether to do business there or not. 
The Swiss bankers don't have a problem with that. Will President Clinton
now do the same?
> 
> Dawn Star
> Euro-Burmanet (Paris)
> http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/