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George Bush's involvement with Panama goes back to operations conducted in
Central America and the Caribbean by Senator Prescott Bush's Jupiter Island
Harrimanite cabal. For the Bush clan, the cathexis of Panama is very deep,
since it is bound up with the exploits of Theodore Roosevelt, the founder
of twentieth-century U.S. imperialism, which the Bush family is determined
to defend to the farthest corners of the planet. For it was Theodore
Roosevelt who had used the U.S.S. "Nashville" and other U.S. naval forces
to prevent the Colombian military from repressing the U.S.-fomented revolt
of Panamanian soldiers in November 1903, thus setting the stage for the
creation of an independent Panama and for the signing of the
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which created a Panama Canal Zone under U.S.
control. Roosevelt's "cowboy diplomacy" had been excoriated in the U.S.
press of those days as "piracy."
Theodore Roosevelt had in December 1904 expounded his so-called "Roosevelt
Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, in reality a complete repudiation and
perversion of the anticolonial essence of John Quincy Adams's original
warning to the British and other imperialists. The self-righteous Teddy
Roosevelt had stated, "Chronic wrongdoing ... may in America, as elsewhere,
ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the
Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe
Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant
cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international
police power." / Note #1 / Note #8
The old imperialist idea of Theodore Roosevelt was quickly revived by the
Bush administration during 1989. Through a series of actions by Attorney
General Richard Thornburgh, the U.S. Supreme Court, and CIA Director
William Webster, the Bush regime arrogated to itself a sweeping carte
blanche for extraterritorial interference in the internal affairs of
sovereign states, all in open defiance of the norms of international law.
These illegal innovations can be summarized under the heading of the
"Thornburgh Doctrine." The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrogated to
itself the "right" to search premises outside of U.S. territory and to
arrest and kidnap foreign citizens outside of U.S. jurisdiction, all
without the concurrence of the judicial process of the other countries
whose territory was thus subject to violation. U.S. armed forces were
endowed with the "right" to take police measures against civilians. The CIA
demanded that an Executive Order prohibiting the participation of U.S.
government officials and military personnel in the assassination of foreign
political leaders, which had been issued by President Ford in October 1976,
be rescinded. There is every indication that this presidential ban on
assassinations of foreign officials and politicians, which had been
promulgated in response to the Church and Pike Committees' investigations
of CIA abuses, has indeed been abrogated. To round out this lawless
package, an opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court issued on February 28, 1990
permitted U.S. officials abroad to arrest (or kidnap) and search foreign
citizens without regard to the laws or policy of the foreign nation subject
to this interference. Through these actions, the Bush regime effectively
staked its claim to universal extraterritorial jurisdiction, the classic
posture of an empire seeking to assert universal police power. The Bush
regime aspired to the status of a world power "legibus solutus," a
superpower exempted from all legal restrictions. / Note #1 / Note #9
The hostility of the U.S. government against General Noriega was occasioned
first of all by Noriega's refusal to be subservient to the U.S. policy of
waging war against the Sandinista regime. This was explained by Noriega in
an interview with CBS journalist Mike Wallace on February 4, 1988, in which
General Noriega described the U.S. campaign against him as a "political
conspiracy of the Department of Justice." General Noriega described a visit
to Panama on December 17, 1985 by Admiral John Poindexter, then the chief
of the U.S. National Security Council, who demanded that General Noriega
join in acts of war against Nicara gua, and then threatened Panama with
economic warfare and political destabilization when Noriega refused to go
along with Poindexter's plans: "Noriega: Poindexter said he came in the
name of President Reagan. He said that Panama and Mexico were acting
against U.S. policy in Central America because we were saying that the
Nicaragua conflict must be settled peacefully. And that wasn't good enough
for the plans of the Reagan administration. The single thing that will
protect us from being economically and politically attacked by the United
States is that we allow the Contras to be trained in Panama for the fight
against Nicaragua.
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