When U.S. forces captured some 25,000 documents in Grenada detailing such things as weapons deals with the Soviet Union and North Korea, the administration proclaimed that its case had been proven. But the documents<166> -- in the words of one right-wing study -- "provide no conclusive evidence that Grenada had become a depot of Soviet arms for future use in the region, nor were there any Soviet or Cuban military bases or facilities at the time of the U.S./OECS intervention aside from the controversial airport, which also had clear-cut civilian purposes."<167> Moreover, the documents "do not provide evidence" that the New Jewel Movement "intended to allow Grenada to be used as a military or political base for the Cubans or Soviets to expand their influence in the region."<168>
SOURCE: "PROTECTING AMERICANS ABROAD: PRETEXT FOR INTERVENTION" STEPHEN R. SHALOM: Imperial Alibis (Boston: South End Press, 1993).
The Rand (Paul or Ayn) philosophy, putting private property rights at the same level of human rights, equates the status of things with the status of human beings. If property is considered equal