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"Stalag"-KZ-Comic in der Badewanne. Die Dokumentation "Pornografie & Holocaust" greift solche Motive auf, erzählt den Hintergrund der "Stalag"-Pulp-Geschichten und handelt damit von Lust und Begierde im Schatten der Shoah. So rührt der Film damit an gleich mehrere Tabus. Nazi-Exploitation aus Israel - aus diesem Land hatte man mit so einem Dokumentarfilm wohl am wenigsten gerechnet. Ari Libskers Dokumentarfilm folgt den Spuren der Sexualisierung eines Traumas in der israelischen Shoah-Kultur und dringt so ein ins Minenfeld der israelischen Geschichtspolitik.
December 25, 2010 Ten days ago, when I traveled to Sheffield with my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, for a screening of the documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (which I co-directed with Polly Nash), I asked Omar what Guantánamo was like at Christmas, as I knew that he had spent five Christmases imprisoned in Guantánamo, and I thought it might make an interesting article for Christmas this year. In fact, there was little to report. The authorities, it seems, made some effort on this great Christian holy day, but the prisoners, for the most part, were in no mood to accept one day of charity when the rest of the year was so devoid of Christian charity. Instead, I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind readers who may be searching the Internet because they need a break from eating and drinking, or because they want to get away from their families for a while, or because the TV is so relentlessly pointless, or because they don’t celebrate Christmas, about some of the 174 men still held in Guantánamo, for whom concern is particularly appropriate right now, as, between them, the Obama administration and Congress seem to have ensured that the majority of them will be spending many more Christmases at Guantánamo. My first thoughts were for prisoners I have written about recently — in particular, Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, cleared for release in 2007 but still held; Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian, also cleared for release in 2007, who is terrified of being forcibly repatriated; and Fayiz al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti who lost his habeas petition in September, but who appears, by any objective measure, to be an innocent man. I encourage readers to visit this page for information about how to write to the British and American governments about Shaker Aamer, to visit this page for information about the latest attempts by Ahmed Belbacha’s lawyers to prevent his involuntary repatriation, and to visit this page to sign a petition asking Attorney General Eric Holder to return Fayiz al-Kandari to Kuwait (or just sign the petition here). However, in thinking about all the prisoners still held, I was also reminded of one particular prisoner whose story I have not written about for many months, but who is in desperate need of help. That man is Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a 34-year old Yemeni prisoner who won his habeas corpus petition on July 21 this year, but is still held, even though it became apparent during his hearing that the Bush administration had cleared him for release from Guantánamo in 2007, and even though one of his lawyers, David Remes, explained after the ruling, "This is a mentally disturbed man who has said from the beginning that he went to Afghanistan seeking medical care because he was too poor to pay for it. Finally, a court has recognized that he’s been telling the truth, and ordered his release." Latif is certainly mentally ill, and may have schizophrenia. He has also attempted suicide on numerous occasions, and as Amnesty International explained in a report in 2009, he told his lawyers that "when he is awake he sees ghosts in the darkness, hears frightening voices and suffers from nightmares when he is asleep." He also told his lawyers that he had "ingested all sorts of materials including garbage bags, urine cups, prayer beads, a water bottle and a screw," that he had "eaten his own excrement and smeared it on his body" and that he had "used his own excrement to cover the walls of his cell door, the camera on the ceiling of his cell and the air vent in his cell." Despite this, he continues to be held because the Obama administration has appealed against his successful habeas petition, as it has in the cases of four other Yemenis who won their habeas petitions: Mohammed al-Adahi, whose successful petition was reversed by the D.C. Circuit Court in July, Saeed Hatim, who won his petition last December, Uthman Mohammed Uthman, who won his petition in February this year, and Hussein Almerfedi, who won his petition in July this year. Like Latif, these three men are awaiting a ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court (a largely Conservative court dominated by judges who have delivered a number of disturbing rulings supporting Bush-era executive power), and it would be difficult not to conclude that the Obama administration is happy to appeal any successful petition by a Yemeni, because it corresponds with senior officials’ desire not to release any Yemenis from Guantánamo at all. Although the Guantánamo Review Task Force, convened by President Obama last year to review all the Guantánamo cases, concluded that 59 of the 89 Yemenis still held at Guantanamo should be released, only one (Mohammed Hassan Odaini, who won his habeas petition in May) has been freed in the last year because of a moratorium that President Obama issued in January, preventing the release of any prisoners to Yemen, after it was revealed that last year’s failed Christmas Day plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had been recruited in Yemen. Commenting on the injustice of this moratorium in September this year, with specific reference to the case of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch wrote: Latif’s case underscores both the gross human rights violations and strategic risks inherent in such blanket bans. Detaining Latif because of an attempted bombing committed without his knowledge or participation is a form of collective punishment that violates American notions of justice. Holding him on suspicion of a crime he theoretically may commit in the future, particularly with no credible evidence that he committed a crime in the past, is an equally gross betrayal of US constitutional values. US reliance on preventive detention also hands militants a recruitment tool and sets a dangerous precedent for abusive regimes around the world.The "collective punishment" of the Yemenis — or what I call guilt by nationality –remains the most startling example of the ongoing injustice at Guantánamo, especially now that Congress has just passed this year’s defense authorization act, which specifically includes a provision preventing the President from returning any prisoners to Yemen — or to other countries considered problematical, including Afghanistan and Pakistan — under any circumstances. I don’t like to be the bearer of such gloomy tidings at what should be a time of Christian celebration, but in just 17 days time it will be the ninth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo. I’ll be in Washington D.C. on that day, supporting Americans protesting against the continued existence of Guantánamo, and, to be honest, I could really do with some help from anyone who can advise me on how to get the message across to the American people — and to their leaders — that if Christ were to turn up tomorrow, he would be deeply disturbed to find Americans who claimed to be his followers finding ever more elaborate ways to hold men who should not be held — and whose ongoing detention is unjustifiable — nearly nine years after they were first imprisoned in an experimental facility that remains an insult to all of his teachings.  Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon — click on the following for the US and the UK) and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. To receive new articles in your inbox, please subscribe to my RSS feed (and I can also be found on Facebook and Twitter). Also see my definitive Guantánamo prisoner list, updated in July 2010, details about the new documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, currently on tour in the UK, and available on DVD here), my definitive Guantánamo habeas list and the chronological list of all my articles, and, if you appreciate my work, feel free to make a donation.For an overview of all the habeas rulings, including links to all my articles, and to the judges’ unclassified opinions, see: Guantánamo Habeas Results: The Definitive List. For a sequence of articles dealing with the Guantánamo habeas cases since the start of 2010, see: Appeals Court Extends President’s Wartime Powers, Limits Guantánamo Prisoners’ Rights (January 2010), Fear and Paranoia as Guantánamo Marks its Eighth Anniversary (January 2010), Rubbing Salt in Guantánamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detention (January 2010), The Black Hole of Guantánamo (March 2010), Guantánamo Uighurs Back in Legal Limbo (March 2010), Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: The Torture Victim and the Taliban Recruit (April 2010), An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantánamo Loses His Habeas Petition (April 2010), With Regrets, Judge Allows Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo of a Medic (April 2010), Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims (April 2010), Judge Rules Yemeni’s Detention at Guantánamo Based Solely on Torture (April 2010), Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantánamo (April 2010), How Binyam Mohamed’s Torture Was Revealed in a US Court (May 2010), Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Consigning Soldiers to Oblivion (May 2010), Judge Denies Habeas Petition of an Ill and Abused Libyan in Guantánamo (May 2010), Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Russian Caught in Abu Zubaydah’s Web (May 2010), No Escape from Guantánamo: Uighurs Lose Again in US Court (June 2010), Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo? (June 2010), Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: 2 Years, 50 Cases, 36 Victories for the Prisoners (June 2010), Obama Thinks About Releasing Innocent Yemenis from Guantánamo (June 2010), Calling for US Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 2010), Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Yemeni Seized in Iran, Held in Secret CIA Prisons (July 2010), Innocent Student Finally Released from Guantánamo (July 2010), Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part One) (July 2010), Obama and US Courts Repatriate Algerian from Guantánamo Against His Will; May Be Complicit in Torture (July 2010), In Abu Zubaydah’s Case, Court Relies on Propaganda and Lies (July 2010), Guantánamo and Habeas Corpus: Prisoners Win 3 out of 4 Cases, But Lose 5 out of 6 in Court of Appeals (Part Two) (July 2010), Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Mentally Ill Yemeni; 2nd Judge Approves Detention of Minor Taliban Recruit (August 2010), Judge Denies Habeas Petition of Afghan Shopkeeper at Guantánamo (September 2010), Nine Years After 9/11, US Court Concedes that International Laws of War Restrict President’s Wartime Powers (September 2010), Fayiz Al-Kandari, A Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantánamo, Loses His Habeas Petition (September 2010), Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (September 2010), First Guantánamo Habeas Appeal to US Supreme Court (Fayiz al-Kandari, October 2010), Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda and the US, Launches Futile Attempt to Hold America Accountable (October 2010), Judge Denies Guantánamo Prisoner’s Habeas Petition, Ignores Torture in Secret CIA Prisons (October 2010), Court Orders Rethink on Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner’s Successful Habeas Petition (November 2010). |
“Faz: Es wird ja sogar wieder über einen europäischen Währungsfonds diskutiert.Die EU-Mitgliedsstaaten – durch deren eigene Regierungen zugunsten der Banken und der Brüsseler Räte seit EU-Gründung 1992 systematisch verschuldet und entstaatlicht – sollen also einem allmächtigen Finanzrat der neuen kapitalistischen Brüsseler Sowjetunion unterstellt werden. Die Macht über die Völker Europas aber hätten dann, im Gegensatz zu früheren totalitären Modellen des 20.Jahrhundert, nicht etwa Funktionäre von Parteien, sondern der Banken.
Mayer: Der Vorschlag ist vom Frühjahr. Es sollte jetzt nicht mehr debattiert, sondern beschlossen werden. Im Januar nimmt der Druck der Märkte wieder zu, dann muss klar sein, wohin die Reise geht.
Faz: Wäre der Fonds eine gute Lösung?
Mayer: Ja, dann würde der Fonds, besetzt mit Finanzexperten, unabhängig von der Politik über die Rettung und die Umschuldung von Staaten entscheiden. Die Politik war bisher mit den vielen praktischen Fragen überfordert.”
“Deshalb müsste der gedachte europäische Währungsfonds den Besitzern griechischer Staatsanleihen anbieten können, griechische Anleihen gegen neue des europäischen Hilfsfonds einzutauschen – gegen einen deutlichen Abschlag natürlich. So sollte ein ungeordneter Staatsbankrott vermieden werden. Darüber hinaus allerdings müsste der Europa-Fonds mit dem Tauschgeschäft zugleich Rechte gegenüber Griechenland erhalten…Der Europa-Fonds erhielte im Gegenzug für seine Hilfe beispielsweise das Recht, über jede griechische Staatsausgabe anstelle der griechischen Regierung zu entscheiden.”Wir zitieren aus unserem Artikel vom 9.Mai. (DIE GRIECHENLAND-KRISE (VI): Der Plan der Banken von einer europäischen Soffin)
“Offensichtlich ging es Merkel in den letzten Monaten um nichts als Zeit zu gewinnen. Worum es in diesem Ränkespiel wirklich ging, war ein systemisches Anziehen der Zügel durch einen neuen EU-Vertrag. Dieser neue EU-Vertrag sollte einen von den Banken seit geraumer Zeit geforderten “Europäischen Währungsfonds” (EWF) durchzwingen, an dem Banken dann faktisch eigene Anteile an europäischen Staaten der Räteunion kaufen können, um anschließend deren demokratische Instanzen kaltzustellen und selbst die Kontrolle über ganze Länder an sich zu reissen.”Bereits Anfang März versuchte die EU den allmächtigen Finanzrat / Notfallfonds / EWF schon im Juni 2010 auf dem Brüsseler Gipfel des Regierungsrates durchzudrücken. Doch der von Finanzkommissar Oliver Anfang März angekündigte Beschluss scheiterte. (9.März, EWF soll durch neuen EU-Vertrag durchgezwungen werden)
“Es wäre eine gute Idee, einen Fonds zur bloßen Liquiditätshilfe zu konstruieren und die Hilfen nur gegen Sicherheiten zu gewähren”, (5)so Sinn und machte damit deutlich, worum es bei der Gewährung von “Sicherheiten” ging: den Raub der Goldreserven des verschuldeten Landes. Dies hatte das Schäuble-Papier eindeutig als Maßnahme des Fonds benannt. (3)
“das Recht haben, gegen Defizitsünder streng vorzugehen”so DIW-Präsi Zimmermann und machte Macht zu Recht, was in der EU ohnehin gleichzusetzen ist. Natürlich meldete sich bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt auch Bankfunktionär Thomas Mayer unterstützend zu Wort (5), zwei Tage vor seinem Interview mit der Faz (1).
“Möglicherweise werden wir am Ende akzeptieren müssen, daß der Staat in systemischen Bankenkrisen der Aktionär der letzten Instanz bleibt. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Überlegungen lohnt es m.E., über einen Fonds nachzudenken, aus dem Banken im Notfall rekapitalisiert bzw. für eine geordnete Abwicklung gestützt werden können. Dies hätte mehrere Vorteile: Erstens, wir könnten mitternächtliche Rettungsaktionen mit all ihren Problemen vermeiden. Zweitens, die Zugangsbedingungen wären ex ante festgelegt, so daß Unsicherheit und moral hazard begrenzt würden. Drittens ließe sich eine Lastenteilung zwischen Finanzindustrie und der öffentlichen Hand besser erreichen, wenn und insoweit der Fonds von beiden gespeist würde. Und nicht zuletzt könnte solch ein Fonds, wenn man ihn auf europäischer Ebene errichtete, ein wesentlicher Baustein zur Lösung des „ewigen“ Problems der innereuropäischen Lastenteilung sein – und uns somit dem Ziel einer wahrhaft europäischen Aufsichtsstruktur näherbringen.”Noch einmal: diese Vorgänge sind den Abgeordneten sämtlicher Parteien des Bundestages seit Monaten bekannt. Sie schweigen und tun nichts. Die einzige Ausnahme ist – surrealerweise – die FDP. Wenn SPD-Fraktionsführer Frank-Walter Steinmeier, der vor dem EU-Gipfel zusammen mit ex-Bundesfinanzminister Peer Steinbrück in der “Financial Times” die Aufgabe der Souveränität Deutschlands für das Euro-System gefordert hatte (7), nun die FDP für “mausetot” erklärt (8), so macht das der altbekannte Logist Steinmeier erstens nicht aus hehren Motiven, zweitens aus Verzweiflung um irgendwie sein heiliges europäisches Reich zu retten und drittens im koordinierten Versuch der Unbelehrten wieder eine große Koalition aus CDU, CSU und SPD in Berlin zu zimmern, um die Berliner Republik endgültig auf ihrem Altar zu opfern.
