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戦前の日本では治安維持法だった。
思想的には「愛国」である。「愛国主義は破落戸の奥の手」(Patoriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)である。
「愛国」の口実、戦前の「悪魔」、共産主義が、今は、テロリストに変わっただけのことである。
そもそも、日本でなぜいま「共謀罪」立法が浮上してきたのか？
米国の911自作自演の謀略に続く侵略戦争とファシズムを“後方支援”していく「高度国防国家」へと、日本の“國体”を根本的に変造するために他ならない。
「共謀罪」は、政府が市民に対して「陰謀（conspiracy）」を疑って「先制攻撃」で潰すための道具立てに他ならない。
こうしたっ立法を持ち出してくるだけでも、政府自身が国民だましの「陰謀」を企てていることの、隠しようがない証といえる。
911自作自演の謀略で、米国が「愛国者法」への端緒を開いたことの連鎖反応的な結果として、米国に盲従する日本にも「愛国者法」のようなファシズム法制が強引に押し付けられるのは時間の問題だ。
これを「押し付けファシズム」と言わずして何と言おうか？
結局、自民公明ファシスト政権が進めている現行憲法殺しの「共謀」犯罪こそが、アメリカン・ファシズムによる「押し付け」を既成事実化しようとしている売国行為に他ならない。
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http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005b/061705/061705p.htm
Issue Date: June 17, 2005
Antiwar protesters face federal conspiracy charges
By CLAIRE SCHAEFFER-DUFFY
The U.S. federal government is prosecuting four Catholic peace activists from Ithaca, N.Y., after a state court jury refused to convict them last year for their antiwar protest at a local U.S. military recruiting station. The federal charges made against the activists include “conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States,” a crime punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
“The federal government is clearly trying to make an example of these people and to intimidate future nonviolent protestors by charging these folks with conspiracy,” said Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, and an advising attorney for the activists.
On March 17, 2003, in protest of the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq, Danny Burns, Peter DeMott, and sisters Clare and Teresa Grady poured small bottles of their own blood on the walls, floor and an American Flag in the foyer of a military recruiting center in Lansing, N.Y.
Charged with criminal mischief, the activists, who have been dubbed the St. Patrick’s Four, spent four days in jail and in April 2004 were tried at the Tompkins County Courthouse. During their weeklong trial, the defendants, all of whom have children, said they carried out their protest as Catholics and parents who wanted to warn members of the military and potential recruits about the illegality and immorality of the war in Iraq.
“As parents, we know the love of our children and hold deeply the belief that we are all God’s children. It is never OK to kill another of God’s children and it is especially grievous to send one’s children, our children to another land to kill other children,” said Clare Grady, a mother of two.
The jury voted 9 to 3 in favor of acquittal, leading some to conclude the case of the St. Patrick’s Four was closed. But in February, a federal grand jury charged the four activists, all of whom were arrested during a previous demonstration at the Lansing recruiting station, with two counts of criminal trespass, destruction of government property and conspiring to induce “by force, intimidation and threat, officers of the United States to leave the place where their duties as officers of the United States are required to be performed.”
Last month, Thomas J. McAvoy, senior U.S. district judge for northern New York, rejected the defendants’ motion for dismissal and set a trial for Sept. 19 in Binghamton, N.Y. In his May 8 decision, McAvoy also ruled the defendants would not be allowed to cite international law as a justification for their actions at the recruiting station.
“This court offers no opinion on the war in Iraq as it is entirely irrelevant to this matter. Assuming an illegal war, it does not provide a justification for violating the criminal laws of the United States,” he wrote.
It is not clear who requested federal prosecution for the St. Patrick’s Four. McAvoy denied the defendants request for “a copy of all communications” between state and federal prosecutors. The office of Ithaca District Attorney George M. Dentes, who closed the case at the state level, said it could not comment on a trial that was not in their jurisdiction.
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Claire Schaeffer-Duffy is a freelance writer living in Worcester, Mass.
National Catholic Reporter, June 17, 2005
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