Friday/Saturday, February 3-4, 2005
By Jeff Archer / Malcolm Lagauche
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.htmlThe Project for the New American Century, commonly called the PNAC, appears to be just another initialed group to many. Few U.S. citizens are aware of the organization and its goals.
To make my point, a few nights ago, I spoke to the Atheist Coalition of San Diego about my upcoming book, The Mother of all Battles. There were about 70 people in the audience, most of whom are above-average in political knowledge compared to the general public. When I asked who had heard of the PNAC, only about 20 people raised their hands. This shows that even many people who are politically aware lack knowledge of the group.
In 1997, the PNAC published its agenda. It is no secret. The group has a website (www.newamericancentury.org) on which it states the 21st century is America’s time to take over the world militarily. It designates areas of the world by numbers and how and why to get them conquered.
Sounds like a bunch of nutcases. Well, the signers of the statement of principles are, but, unfortunately, many are well-entrenched in today’s U.S. administration: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William Bennett, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Zalmay Khalizad, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz are just some of the signers. Even Jeb Bush, the person who rigged the Florida election results in the 2000 election, is on board.
The document is scary. Anybody who read it in 1997 would have thought that these were a few crazies (the actual name given to most of these people by the Republican Party itself in the 1990s) who were pipe-dreaming. Unfortunately, their agenda has been met almost to the letter. The only laughable matter of the document is the predictions of how easy it would be to take over Iraq.
What does the PNAC have to do with a retired attorney living in Reno, Nevada? Plenty. At an age when most retirees would be fishing or attending social events or traveling, Douglas A. Wallace is taking on the PNAC with a vengeance.
Wallace applied his law practice for most of his career in the Northwestern area of the U.S. In 1979, he moved to Reno and for the most part, he retired from law practice. He said, "I had a reason to come to the state of Nevada and I spent some time there and discovered that the sun shone most every day. I said, ‘I’m coming here.’"
Wallace is an ex-Mormon with a social conscience. While still involved with the church, he was instrumental in having the racist policy of not allowing blacks in the Mormon priesthood changed. The bigoted attitude of the Mormons, as well as other factors, led him to leave the organization.
Always a keen observer of politics, he first came across the PNAC in 2000.
Wallace explained, "I happened to read an article about the PNAC and what it stood for. I read the names and didn’t recognize any. I thought it sounded like wacky Mormons. Then I forgot about it."
The contested 2000 election and the interference by the Supreme Court piqued Wallace’s interest. He said, "Then we get 9-11. Then the war in Afghanistan. Then, all of a sudden, we have this thing going with Iraq and I couldn’t see the connection the administration was touting at all.
"Then, the weapons of mass destruction didn’t appear. I started getting into this thing more. It was really PNAC as a backdrop behind the Iraq war. Then, I recognized the names because most were a part of the Bush administration.
"They’re not secret about it. That’s the cleverness. They put it out to the public to read, but the public hasn’t bothered to read it. They think that gets them out of the category of conspiracy by putting it out to the public. However, the conspiracy is the implementation."
The next step was not easy. Wallace had to upgrade his membership in attorney groups because he was retired and had not kept active in certain regulations for practicing attorneys. On top of that, he had to begin a fundraising campaign, that, frankly, is not exactly making his bank account as large as those of organizations such as MoveOn, despite his actions being far more honorable.
On January 14, 2005, Wallace filed a class-action suit in U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It was served on January 17, 2006. According to the document: "This class action lawsuit seeks an injunction against the Defendants from further implementation of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) without a constitutional 2/3 vote of Congress and full education of the American public. The lawsuit alleges the plan was the basis for deception behind the Iraq war."
Wallace explained the reasons for the lawsuit: "We have a situation in the country that is so dire, it needs to be corrected. I’m not asking for any legal fees for myself. It’s a private treaty not authorized by Congress, and by doing so, they’ve stepped outside their job descriptions. They’ve lied to the American public and the Congress about the war in Iraq by entering into a private treaty. If the public agrees to it, and they get a two-thirds vote of Congress, then I have nothing further to say.
"However, a finding by the court that they have acted outside their job description in violation of the constitution would make them personally liable to anyone who has been damaged by engaging in the war in Iraq. Everybody. Iraqi citizens, the legitimate Iraqi government, U.S. military personnel; everybody."
According to Wallace, "They can’t ignore the suit. They have 30 days to respond."
Unlike various other political organizations working under the guise of raising funds for the anti-war effort that eventually go to the coffers of either the Democratic Party or Democratic politicians, every cent that Wallace receives will go to the lawsuit against Bush and Cheney that is aimed at stopping the PNAC in its tracks.
Check out Wallace’s website (www.wallacevbushlawsuit.com ) to read much more about the background of the lawsuit. If you want to donate, there is a button on the site you can click on to help the cause.
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