US empire, after domination of Muslim lands’ oil, resources: Iozbaker
Below is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: These agencies were supposed to uphold law and order. However, right now they are being the instigators of violence, of lawbreaking and crimes within the US. What do you make of that?
Iozbaker: Breaking the law to enforce it sounds a lot like ..., destroying the village in order to save it, the US war in Vietnam, and I think that the criminal behavior of the FBI, as exposed here, is contributing to the waking up that is going on across the country.
People in the US are more and more realizing that the US government, whether Republican or Democratic administrations, violates not only our civil liberties, but the laws of the country as well and I think the worst violations include the entrapment of many Arab and Muslim men in phony terrorism plots, for example plots created by the FBI, then their agents lie and manipulate and instead of terrorists, they are after people who they prospect might commit crimes in order to try to get convictions before any crimes actually occurred and in our case, you know, my wife and I and 20 other anti-war activists, we continued to be under the investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI, for our anti-war activities.
They refused to drop our case even though the only thing we have ever done is, organizing protests against their unjust wars.
Press TV: Right! Mr. Iozbaker, many of these policies, so to speak, are justified by government agencies as well as the White House in a nutshell, by saying ends justify the means.
Do you agree with that?
Iozbaker: I think that the ends ..., when they say ends they claim they have stopped numerous terrorism attacks but there is such little evidence ..., more and more people are seeing through those.
The real ends are the ability of the US government to maintain their various wars in the Muslim countries where they are attempting, the US empire is attempting, to maintain control of the strategic and natural resources, that is oil and you know, now they are going after Syria and Iran, so they have to find more and more examples of domestic threats in order to justify the repression that they bring down on people here.
No, the ends do not justify the means because the ends are actually the war making.