The Shock Doctrine Page #5

Corruption was rife, organized crime boomed.

Moscow became the new wild west.

The majority of russians oposed the "Chicago boys" radical vision for their country.

In march 1993, parliament made a crucial decision.

It voted to repeal the special powers that were given to Yeltsin.

Yeltsin declared the state of emergency.

The Constitutional Court ruled that it was illegal.

Semptember 21, Yeltsin took, what is known as the "Pinochet option"

and disolved parliament.

The west threw his whip? behind Yeltsin.

We feel that Boris Yeltsin is

the best hope for democracy in Russia

Two days later, parliament voted to impeach Yeltsin

by 636 votes to 2.

Thousandos of supporters of the parliament gathered around the White House

and marched on the television station.

It looked like the supporters of parliament were winning.

Yeltsin flew back to Moskow from his holiday home.

That night 100 demonstrators were killed

as the Yeltsin authorities fought back.

On the 4th of october, he ordered troops to stop the White House

shelling the very building he had defended 2 years earlier.

Warren Christopher, the US Secretary of State said:

"The US does not usually support the suspension of parliaments

but these are extraordinary times."

Yeltsin now had absolute power.

With the advise of the "Chicago boys"

he ruled through a form of ? capitalism.

Even more, state industries were sold off

creating a new class of billionaire businessman

with huge political influence. The olgarchs.

By 1998, 80% of russian farms were bankrupt

and 70.000 state factories were closed.

In 8 years the number of people living in povertry increased by 72 million.

Meanwhile Moskow would go on

tho have more billionaires than any other city in the world.

Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Today is my

honor to announce that I'am submitting the name of Donald Rumsfeld

to be the new Secretary of Defense.

I look forward to serving our country again.

Rumsfeld had been Secretary of Defense before, under Gerald Ford.

Then the enemy we were supposed to fear was the Soviet Union.

I'm not saying with certainty that the russians are coming

I'm saying, the terms are here.

I'm not saying the russians are 10ft tall

I'm saying they used to be 5,3 and they now are 5,9 and a half and they're growing.

Now there was a new enemy closer to home.

On september the 10th 2001,

Rumsfeld made a speech laying out his plans

to privatize much of the US military.

Milton Friedman would have been proud.

He said:
"The topic today is an adversary that poses a thread,

a serious thread to the security for the USA.

This adversary is one of the worlds last bastions of central planning

it governs by dictating 5 year plans.

Perhaps this adversary sounds like the former Soviet Union,

But that enemy is gone. This adversary is closer to home.

It's the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Today, we declare war on bureaucracy."

The next day, American Airlines flight 77

crashed into the Pentagon, killing 184 people.

Think about that feeling after those attaks.

Who are these people? Where they come from?

Why do they hate us?

There was a total loss of collective narrative.

We were not living in the world that we thought we were living in.

And we kept hearing from our political leaders

that everything we thought we understood before the attacks, no longer applied.

There was a new phrase: "pre-911 thinking".

And what happened in that moment, is that suddenly new stories magically appeared.

We were in a "clash of civilizations", that's the world we suddenly lived in.

That there was an "axis of evil", that we were fighting a war against terror.

This abstract unwinable war

had huge economic consecuences.

Before 2001, Homeland Security barely registered as an industry.

Today it is bigger than Holywood an the music industry combined.

Between september 11 2001 and 2006

the department of Homeland Security handed out 130 billion dollars

to private contractors.

This is the disaster capitalism complex.

A new economy built on fear.

This would be a monumental struggle

of good versus evil

The best defense against terror

is a global offensive against terror

wherever it might be found.

The first phase of this war, was the bombing of Afghanistan.

The taliban government was quikcly overthrown.

The aftermath of the war was more complicated.

Our fight against terrorism began in Afghanistan

but it will not end there.

We're looking at detainees that we can use for collecting intelligence.

Guantanamo was the first time that the techniques of the KUBARK manual

were explicitly and publicly being used by american forces.

Officially sanctioned by the White House

y transmitido abiertamente por

la televisin en todo el mundo.

Isolation, both physical and psychological,

must be maintained from the moment of apprehension.

The capacity of resistance is diminished by disorientation

Prisoners should maintain silence at all times.

They should never be allowed to speak to each other.

3 of the prisoners were Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed

and Shafiq Rasul, from Tipton, in England.

They spent more than 2 years in Guantanamo

before being released without charge.

Mentally yeah. You couldn't speak to nobody, you couldn't do nothing, you couldn't stand up.

Sitting there, you being your thought:

"What's going on? Where the hell I'm I?

Are we gonna be stayin here for the rest of our lives? Are we going back home?

Will we se our family again?"

Of the 779 prisoners that had been held in the Guantanamo bay

only 3 have ever been convicted of any offense.

Now, the only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people

It was a message to the hole world, and the message was clear:

This is wat happens to you if you get in our way.

The war on terror is not about one man

and it is not about one country.

There was many justifications given for the invasion of Irak.

But if US had really wanted to attack a country

where the leaders of al-Qaeda were thought to be hidding

that had nuclear weapons and was selling nuclear technology to other countries

then, Pakistan would have been the obvious choice.

It had close connections to the Taliban, and was being ruled by a military dictator.

Instead, George Bush chose to target Irak.

A country with the third largest oil reserves in the world.

Now about the Defense Department war plan

It is not like the other Gulf war

it's more along the line to the Panam invasion in 1989

CBS news is been told it would start on what's called "A-day".

A as in "airstrikes", airstrikes so devastating

they would leave Saddam's soldiers unabled or unwilling to play.

The idea is to rain down the thunder so hard as to create, quote: "Shock and awe"

If the Pentagon sticks to its card war pan, one day on march

Airforce and Navy will launch between 3 and 400 cruise missiles

at targets in Irak.

More than were launched in the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War.

The size of this has been ever seen before.

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