09-02-2010, 09:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2010, 09:54 AM by Peter Presland.)
There has been quite a lot of in-depth commentary and advocacy for Aafia Siddiqui in the various alternative media over the past couple of years. I've tried to follow it but, as the father of two daughters, each time I started to delve deeper it simply became too painful, so I confess - somehat shame-facedly - that I am not fully up to speed on it; which parallels my inability to watch certain types of documentaries. For example last night I found myself watching - with my wife - a program about a meningitis-damaged infant in New Zealand who had to have both hands and both feet amputated at nine months old. It was intended as a story of hope in that her family were doing everything possible for her - but still I just could not watch it further than the first 10 minutes or so.
What I AM fully up to speed on with the Siddiqui case though is the unspeakable evil of a system that can, and calculatedly does, produce such tragedies with monotonous, mind-numbing regularity. And I truly dispair at the seeming inability of the general population to 'get it'. The 'Complex' we are talking about here can and does regularly get away with far worse than simple murder. It treats human beings like non-human programmable objects - mere items / accessories / machines - whatever, to be used for whatever nefarious purpose is deemed 'necessary' at the time.
Suffice to say that this is yet another case study in the depths of sheer Machiavellian evil that the US Military/Security/Terror complex are capable of when exemplars are required in puruit of their agendas. The phrase 'Common humanity' simply has no meaning for it.
It also seems to me that such behaviour is actually latent in all of us. Bearing in mind the scale of the destructive and manipulative technologies now available - and their accelerating development, I fear that, absent wide and instinctive recognition of our common humanity that hitherto seems to have eluded us, the human race itself has no viable future.
Depressing stuff eh?
But just what the hell is there to be optimistic about when such evil stalks the world in the guise of a white knight come to save us all - and what's more seems to get away with it time and time again?
What I AM fully up to speed on with the Siddiqui case though is the unspeakable evil of a system that can, and calculatedly does, produce such tragedies with monotonous, mind-numbing regularity. And I truly dispair at the seeming inability of the general population to 'get it'. The 'Complex' we are talking about here can and does regularly get away with far worse than simple murder. It treats human beings like non-human programmable objects - mere items / accessories / machines - whatever, to be used for whatever nefarious purpose is deemed 'necessary' at the time.
Suffice to say that this is yet another case study in the depths of sheer Machiavellian evil that the US Military/Security/Terror complex are capable of when exemplars are required in puruit of their agendas. The phrase 'Common humanity' simply has no meaning for it.
It also seems to me that such behaviour is actually latent in all of us. Bearing in mind the scale of the destructive and manipulative technologies now available - and their accelerating development, I fear that, absent wide and instinctive recognition of our common humanity that hitherto seems to have eluded us, the human race itself has no viable future.
Depressing stuff eh?
But just what the hell is there to be optimistic about when such evil stalks the world in the guise of a white knight come to save us all - and what's more seems to get away with it time and time again?
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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