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What Can Be Done about StratCom?

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For those of us in Nebraska who are opposed to what’s going on at StratCom, our top priority must be to get the word out to the national and international community about the menace it’s now become. Everything that we here in the state do needs to be pointed toward ‘making news’ that can be sent around the globe on the news wires and internet. The hard fact of the matter is that we’re unlikely to ever win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the majority of our Nebraska neighbors. There are just too many barriers to overcome: economic, cultural — and even political. As a creature of the federal branch of government, StratCom is effectively outside the jurisdiction of our local and state governmental bodies. So ultimately, the goal of activists here in the state should be to make StratCom the focus of national — and even international —protests. The rest of the countries of the world can be counted on to put their own, rather than America’s, interests first, making them a much more responsive audience to our message.

Getting that message out, though, is going to take time and resources. A great deal of effort and substantial human and financial commitment will be needed from members of Nebraskans for Peace and others committed to pursuing this peacemaking work. At some point, it may be feasible to establish a permanent presence near StratCom — buy some land, display permanent signs, live across the road from Kinney Gate at Offutt Air Force Base — as we seek to gain the attention of the national and international media. This very thing was done effectively by Fr. Roy Bourgeois in Fort Benning, Georgia, for the School of the Americas (S.O.A.) protest.

The first major effort to do this kind of international outreach on StratCom is being planned by Bruce Gagnon and his organization, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. On April 11-13, 2008, they will hold their Annual Conference and Protest in Omaha, with Nebraskans for Peace serving as the local sponsor. As the promotional flyer in part states, “Since 9/11, StratCom’s mission has expanded to become command central in the U.S.’s ‘War on Terror’ and for the U.S. plans to dominate space militarily… This ‘New StratCom’ is responsible for overseeing any Global ‘First Strikes,’ the National Security Agency, and Ballistic Missile Defense… StratCom today is the most dangerous place on the face of the earth. It is secretive. Its mission is destabilizing. It operates outside the law. And its transformation has occurred so quickly, most of the world is completely unaware of its mission and dangers.” Our job as peacemakers here in Nebraska is to make the world aware of the threat StratCom now represents, so that together we can start backing away from the brink.