18-04-2009, 02:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-04-2009, 07:29 PM by Peter Presland.)
Those memos really are sick, sick SICK. I've been acutely aware of the whole, undeniable gross, mistreatment of prisoners thing for years now. I've met Mossam Begg personally and I still follow Andy Worthington's mammoth Guantanamo files work, but seeing those documents is still shocking - not surprising but truly shocking. I was forcefully reminded of the NAZI's penchant for legalistic documentation of their atrocities. The West really has totally lost the plot when it comes to any shred of a claim to 'the moral high ground'. But, like its protege, Zionist Israel, it appears totally oblivious to its wretchedness.
There was an interview with a young black 'CIA Spokesman' on our Channel 4 TV News last night. The guy was maybe 30-35 years old, handsome, clean cut, a bit like a young Sidney Poitier in appearance. His job was clearly damage limitation and his performance was surreal. As usual with our MSM, he was given an easy ride by Krishnan Guru-Murthy the interviewer but no matter. He was like a smiling automaton. I lost count of the stock phrases: Terrorism worlds biggest threat; Americans safe from terrorism; Americans free from the fear of terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorists, Americans this, Americans that - like clockwork. Substitute 'Terrorist' with 'Witch' and the meaning would have been unchanged. Inevitably and quite unprompted he invoked 9/11 with the words 'we lost over 3,000 innocent lives to terrorists on 9/11 and our job is to make sure it does not happen again. Had I been that interviewer I would have shot back something like "..... but you have lost over 300,000 innocent lives on your roads since then - that's the equivalent of over 100 9/11's !! - with maybe a million dead and over 3 million displaced lives ruined by your military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you not think it high time we found some sense of proportion here?"
But of course such a question is absolutely verboten and more than any interviewers job is worth - and the interviewer knows it too (not to mention that the interviewee was clearly incapable of understanding such a question). So we are fed pap: "Americans have the right" etc etc ad-infinitum and of course, as loyal poodles we in the UK must support and assist in the enforcement of those 'rights'. Frankly I am sick to the stomach of hearing about "Americans" -'My fellow Americans" hand-on-heart, misty-eyed stares into the middle-distance to the strains of the 'By the Dawn's early light' - It's enough to make any sane human being puke. Patriotic nationalism - particularly of the sickly sentimental goodies -v- baddies American variety has one hell of a lot to answer for.
All IM ever so HO of course.
There was an interview with a young black 'CIA Spokesman' on our Channel 4 TV News last night. The guy was maybe 30-35 years old, handsome, clean cut, a bit like a young Sidney Poitier in appearance. His job was clearly damage limitation and his performance was surreal. As usual with our MSM, he was given an easy ride by Krishnan Guru-Murthy the interviewer but no matter. He was like a smiling automaton. I lost count of the stock phrases: Terrorism worlds biggest threat; Americans safe from terrorism; Americans free from the fear of terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorists, Americans this, Americans that - like clockwork. Substitute 'Terrorist' with 'Witch' and the meaning would have been unchanged. Inevitably and quite unprompted he invoked 9/11 with the words 'we lost over 3,000 innocent lives to terrorists on 9/11 and our job is to make sure it does not happen again. Had I been that interviewer I would have shot back something like "..... but you have lost over 300,000 innocent lives on your roads since then - that's the equivalent of over 100 9/11's !! - with maybe a million dead and over 3 million displaced lives ruined by your military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do you not think it high time we found some sense of proportion here?"
But of course such a question is absolutely verboten and more than any interviewers job is worth - and the interviewer knows it too (not to mention that the interviewee was clearly incapable of understanding such a question). So we are fed pap: "Americans have the right" etc etc ad-infinitum and of course, as loyal poodles we in the UK must support and assist in the enforcement of those 'rights'. Frankly I am sick to the stomach of hearing about "Americans" -'My fellow Americans" hand-on-heart, misty-eyed stares into the middle-distance to the strains of the 'By the Dawn's early light' - It's enough to make any sane human being puke. Patriotic nationalism - particularly of the sickly sentimental goodies -v- baddies American variety has one hell of a lot to answer for.
All IM ever so HO of course.
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"
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"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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