This may be the most important article I ever post, because it reveals perfectly how the Establishment works and how the Red Tories and Blue Tories contrive to give a false impression of democracy. It is information I can only give you because of my experience as an insider.
It is a definitive proof of the validity of the Chomskian propaganda model. It needs a fair bit of detail to do this, but please try and read through it because it really is very, very important. After you have finished, if you agree with me about the significance, please repost, (you are free to copy), retweet, add to news aggregators (Reddit etc) and do anything you can to get other people to pay attention.
The government based its decision to execute by drone two British men in Syria on “Legal Opinion” from the Attorney-General for England and Wales, Jeremy Wright, a politician, MP and Cabinet Minister. But Wright’s legal knowledge comes from an undistinguished first degree from Exeter and a short career as a criminal defence barrister in Birmingham. His knowledge of public international law is virtually nil.
I pause briefly to note that there is no pretence of consulting the Scottish legal system. The only legal opinion is from the Attorney General for England and Wales who is also Honorary Advocate General for Northern Ireland.
So Jeremy Wright’s role is as a cypher. He performs a charade. The government employs in the FCO a dozen of the most distinguished public international lawyers in the world. When the Attorney-General’s office needs an Opinion on public international law, they ask the FCO to provide it for him to sign.
The only known occasion when this did not happen was the Iraq War. Then the FCO Legal Advisers – unanimously – advised the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, that to invade Iraq was illegal. Jack Straw asked the Attorney General to dismiss the FCO chief Legal Adviser, Sir Michael Wood (Goldsmith refused). Blair sent Goldsmith to Washington where the Opinion was written for him to sign by George Bush’s lawyers. [I know this sounds incredible, but it is absolutely true]. Sir Michael Wood’s deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, resigned in protest.
In consequence Blair and Straw decided that, again for the first time ever, the FCO’s chief legal adviser had to be appointed not from within the FCO legal advisers, who had all declared the war on Iraq to be illegal, but from outside. They had to find a distinguished public international lawyer who was prepared to argue that the war on Iraq had been legal. That was a very small field. Blair and Straw thus turned to Benjamin Netanyahu’s favourite lawyer, Daniel Bethlehem.
Daniel Bethlehem had represented Israel before the Mitchell Inquiry into violence against the people of Gaza, arguing that it was all legitimate self-defence. He had also supplied the Government of Israel with a Legal Opinion that the vast Wall they were building in illegally occupied land, surrounding and isolating all the major Palestinian communities and turning them into large prisons, was also legal. Daniel Bethlehem is an extreme Zionist militarist of the most aggressive kind, and close to Mark Regev, Israel’s new Ambassador to the UK.
Daniel Bethlehem had developed, in his work for Israel, an extremist doctrine of the right of States to use pre-emptive self-defence – a doctrine which would not be accepted by the vast majority of public international lawyers. He clinched his appointment by Blair as the FCO chief legal adviser by presenting a memorandum to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in 2004 outlining this doctrine, and thus de facto defending the attack on Iraq and the Bush/Blair doctrine.
A key sentence of Daniel Bethlehem’s memorandum is this
“It must be right that states are able to act in self-defence in circumstances where there is evidence of further imminent attacks by terrorist groups, even if there is no specific evidence of where such an attack will take place or of the precise nature of the attack.”
There is a fundamental flaw in this argument. How can you be certain that an attack in “imminent”, if you are not certain where or what it is? Even if we can wildly imagine a scenario where the government know of an “imminent” attack, but not where or what it is, how could killing someone in Syria stop the attack in the UK? If a team were active, armed and in course of operation in the UK – which is needed for “imminent” – how would killing an individual in Syria prevent them from going through with it? It simply does not add up as a practical scenario.
Interestingly, Daniel Bethlehem does not pretend this is accepted international law, but specifically states that
“The concept of what constitutes an “imminent” armed attack will develop to meet new circumstances and new threats”
Bethlehem is attempting to develop the concept of “imminent” beyond any natural interpretation of the word “imminent”.
Daniel Bethlehem left the FCO in 2011. But he had firmly set the British government doctrine on this issue, while all FCO legal advisers know not to follow it gets you sacked. I can guarantee you that Wright’s Legal Opinion states precisely the same argument that David Bethlehem stated in his 2004 memorandum. Knowing how these things work, I am prepared to wager every penny I own that much of the language is identical.
It was New Labour, the Red Tories, who appointed Daniel Bethlehem, and they appointed him precisely in order to establish this doctrine. It is therefore a stunning illustration of how the system works, that the only response of the official “opposition” to these extrajudicial executions is to demand to see the Legal Opinion, when it comes from the man they themselves appointed. The Red Tories appointed him precisely because they knew what Legal Opinion would be given on this specific subject. They can read it in Hansard.
So it is all a charade.
Jeremy Wright pretends to give a Legal Opinion, actually from FCO legal advisers based on the “Bethlehem Doctrine”. The Labour Party pretends, very unconvincingly, to be an opposition. The Guardian, apparently the leading “opposition” intellectual paper, publishes articles by its staff neo-con propagandists Joshua Rozenberg (married to Melanie Phillips) and Rafael Behr strongly supporting the government’s new powers of extrajudicial execution. In summer 2012 Joshua Rozenberg presented a programme on BBC Radio 4 entitled “Secret courts, drones and international law” which consisted mostly of a fawning interview with … Daniel Bethlehem. The BBC and Sky News give us wall to wall justification of the killings.
So the state, with its neo-con “opposition” and media closely in step with its neo-con government, seamlessly adopts a new power to kill its own subjects based on secret intelligence and secret legal advice, and a very weird definition of “imminent” that even its author admits to be outside current legal understanding.
That is how the state works. I do hope you find that helpful.
This article has been updated to reflect the fact the Daniel Bethlehem is now retired from the FCO.
It’s getting to be boring, this constant reference to international laws created at the end of WW2. I agree with Enochered that it’s highly unlikely that these UK jihadis have been attacked by drones. How come if I went to Syria I would be kidnapped and ransomed in the first week, while much richer UK Muslims get safe passage there? Obviously there is a very high level of UK participation in the UK Muslim presence in Syria. What Cameron does want is for the UK public to think that he is against terrorism in Syria. What a load of bollocks!
The Al Qaida and Is jihad, nevermind the participants who are interchangeable, totally contravenes Islamic Law. The Syrians, Kurdish and Arab Iraqis affected by this jihad are all Sunni Muslims and yet the jihadis have directed their energies against their fellow Muslims as they did previously in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Only in the minds of very impressionable Muslims could the creation of 14 million terrorised Muslims unable to find any form of safety and normality, not be a very serious war crime. Cameron promised them logistical assistance against Assad, but the repeat of the buggering of Gaddafi has not materialised.
Is Cameron going to bomb a Damascus with Russian fighter jets stationed there with Obama’s approval? Is he going to bomb IS when Obama says he needs IS to stay for another 20 years in order to achieve strategic goals in the region? Cameron no more cares about Syria than getting a few green stains on his cricket trousers. Someone will wash and press them. Talking about droning Syria makes him look like he gives a flying fuck about terrified Muslim populations. Did you see my green knee stains?
Jon these operatives knew their vote or their compliance to Tonykins machinations will result in mass slaughter of the Iraqis. Hence they knew that war is go!
Therefore given the above, the neglect in discharge of duty and delinquency their duty of care to their constituents and the Iraqi civilians itself is a charge that none of those voting for the war can shirk.
Whilst Saddam, Qaddafi et al are charged under the Nuremberg principles, the victors go onto taking up positions behind the procedures, and full protection of laws.
You bet I do!
These psychotic operatives to a man of them were fully aware that the intelligence reports were contrived for the sake of starting the war. These operatives had launched the party apparatus and the SIS to attend every damn meeting in every damn damn parish to obfuscate and lie to the public (this is based on contemporaneous observations). Hence the parliamentarians should have had a pretty good idea about the fake intelligence and claims thereof.
However as ever this is a case of gaming of the system by criminals and getting away with murder literally!
There must be retribution, there must be punishment, to set the ground for the future generation of the psychotics to be aware that they will be brought to the book and they will face justice for their crimes.
As it stands bLiar is getting richer by the day, whilst he is given 24/7 bodyguard protection costing us the tax payers. Concurrently Mrs. Miggins is getting her benefits cut for having an extra cupboard in her house. This the mode of the current transactions, do the crime and get away with it! Hence the same bellicose warmongering as before as we witness! Syria needs more bombing whilst amortised numbers of the refugees are to be taken by 20future!
Hey Craig, you even made the comments thread of famed alternative media journalist Chris Spivey’s latest post on his blog today:
http://chrisspivey.org/the-shoreham-airshow-crash-part-1/#more-29203
Very witty Giyane.
There are however conflicts that do not fit neatly into your Suni oppressed, black and white, binary world and it is not quie accurate. There are people caught up in this conflict on all sides who do not want to be on the side they are on.
Remember when we met in support of Moazzam Begg?
Suni = Sunni
“Craig’s article quoted throughout.”
That’s my blog Mary. Good work.
I was thinking maybe they avoid protest seasons. But maybe they exploit the physiological shock memory from other event’s and invasions by keeping them in the same time of year. meh, sounds a bit far fetched. I wouldn’t put is past PR war planners though. It’s just effective marketing.
Israel is a great example of this planning to carry out it’s agenda. Picking times when the public are focused on other stuff. But of course, this is all REACTIONS to imminent threats and steps that must be taken.
I assume any improvement will be regional and gained through leaving the local countries alone, Respecting sovereignty, the US and it’s vasle states to re-thing their de-facto domination of middle east business and the de-facto use of violence. This isn’t that. This is the cause of much of the devastation they face, and we face.
They know how to reduce the terrorist threat, stop taking part. They are the main players.
Hi John . Yes.
I’ve a feeling Cameron has got to the same phase of ball-squeezedness as Blair in 2003.
High office is a Faustian pact with the enemies of humanity, the zionists, and he is about to do some very high-pitched legal manoevres to do the Zionists’ bidding in Syria.
That is why Craig’s revelations are bang on the ball at this precise moment of time.
It may be that Craig eventually faces detention if he continues to annoy and frustrate the perpetrators of Zionist expansionism. Craig thinks there are Tory rebels. There are no rebels who dare stand against Zion’s expansion plans into Syria, in Parliament.
Talking of Moazzam Begg, Cage continues to rattle the torture case bars. But torture has now become dwarfed by the excessive violence of the former recipients of torture in Al Qaida and IS against the Syrian and Iraqi Muslim populations.
http://5pillarsuk.com/2014/12/10/cage-intelligence-agency-torturers-need-to-be-prosecuted/
Republicofscotland
10 Sep, 2015 – 3:58 pm
“I wonder if the Israeli’s developed and marketed the technique of kettling.”
Yes they did RoS.
Scores of Met officers were trained in Israel on crowd control techniques including kettling.
The purpose of kettling is to humiliate protesters by denying them toilet facilities.
This technique was used on those arrested from the Mavi-Marmara. Many of those arrested soiled their clothes because they were denied those facilities.
The plane they were deported on stunk of shit because no one was allowed to shower or bathe before departure.
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Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has waded into the debate on the Syrian conflict in a Sunday Telegraph article. I emailed him the following letter to the House of Lords (but to date I have not even had an acknowledgement):
‘Dear Lord Carey of Clifton,
I write to you as a fellow Christian; Christians should cherish the truth, and also cherish our fellow humans; it is incumbent on us to use whatever power we have to AVOID wars, especially illegal wars based on lies; Cameron has blamed ISIS and Assad, but most people who have followed the issue regard ISIS/ISIL/IS as a creation of the West. Just like Reagan’s ‘equivalent to the Founding Fathers’, the murderous ‘Contra’ unleashed against the Sandinista government and people, so now ISIS/ISIL/IS has been unleashed to cause untold murder and destruction. Let’s lay the blame where it belongs: at the feet of the West, with their ‘Regime Change’ agenda. The following, I believe, backs up my words:
Regarding your recent Sunday Telegraph article, you state:’“Rather, there must be renewed military and diplomatic efforts to crush the twin menaces of Islamic State and al-Qaeda once and for all.
“Make no mistake: this may mean air strikes and other British military assistance to create secure and safe enclaves.” ‘
Now I’m sure you remember that is how Gaddafi was toppled, brutally murdered and Libya smashed; from having the highest standard of living in Africa, with free health care, education, a free flat for newly-weds, and a policy of helping other countries of Africa break free from the crushing burden of indebtedness to the Western banking ‘system’, it has become a virtually lawless, devastated country, from which desperate people try to flee for safety to Europe, like they do from Syria.
You also refer to the Assad regime as ‘evil’; amazing, isn’t it, that countries like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Turkey, and Egypt somehow escape being smeared with such epithets as ‘evil’?
I’m sure you won’t have any truck with ‘conspiracy theories’, but here we have a former US Defence Intelligence Agency chief, an ex-French Foreign Minister, and an ex-Supreme Allied Commander making clear, unequivocal statements, NOT THEORIES.
This so-called ‘War on IS’ is just another lie to further regime change, just like Iraq and Libya. Lebanon is also being destabilised at present. Notice anything? Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Syria were on the 7 country list which Wesley Clark speaks of below.
If you dismiss this information, you will be guilty of criminal negligence, indeed ‘War Criminal’ level wilful negligence; invading or bombarding sovereign States without just cause is a War Crime, the worst of the three Nuremberg War Crimes: ‘Crimes against peace, as described by the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946, are “the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” (This also goes for encouraging such crimes):
http://www.crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/crimes-against-peace/
‘A crime against peace, in international law, refers to “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing”.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_peace
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo:
http://levantreport.com/2015/08/06/former-dia-chief-michael-flynn-says-rise-of-islamic-state-was-a-willful-decision-and-defends-accuracy-of-2012-memo/
‘Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-french-foreign-minister-the-war-against-syria-was-planned-two-years-before-the-arab-spring/5339112
‘France’s Former Foreign Minister: UK Government Prepared War in Syria Two Years Before 2011 Protests’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-s2AAh06I
(There are a number of other video interviews of Dumas on the net).
4* General (Retired) Wesley Clark, ex-Suprem Allied Commander Europe, was told by serving 3* General on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon, in 2001 (obviously the time-frame has slipped, but the ‘Regime Change’ agenda rolls on):
“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
Iraqi MP: Israel, Western Powers Continue Supplying ISIL with Weapons
Fars News Agency, 9 March 2015
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
‘Iraqi Army Downs 2 UK Planes Carrying Weapons for ISIL’:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931204001534
‘Iraq’s Popular Forces Release Photo of Downed US Chopper Carrying Arms for ISIL’:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931209001345
‘Arrest warrants issued for prosecutors, ex-commander who stopped MÄ°T trucks@:
http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_arrest-warrants-issued-for-prosecutors-ex-commander-who-stopped-mit-trucks_379986.html
‘Iran Claims U.S. Airstrikes are Killing Its Men in Iraq’:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/30/iran-claims-u-s-airstrikes-are-killing-its-men-in-iraq.html
‘Israeli officer killed during meeting with terrorists’ leaders in Golan’:
http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=31952
‘President al-Assad to France 2 TV: France was a spearhead in supporting terrorism… We are ready for any dialogue that meets Syrians’ interests’: http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=37034
‘Iraq Arrests ISIL’s US, Israeli Military Advisors in Mosul’:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931216000838
‘U.S. Airdrops Weapons to ISIS as Iraqi Army Makes Gains’:
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-airdrops-weapons-to-isis-as-iraqi-army-makes-gains/
Iraqi Forces Shoot Down ISIL’s Israeli-Made Spy Drone in Western Iraq
Fars News Agency, 19 July 2015
Syria Shoots Down Turkish Spy Drone over Idlib
Fars News Agency, 17 July 2015
Israeli drone crashes on Lebanon soil: Army
Press TV, 11 July 2015
Iraqi Volunteers Find Israeli Arms in ISIL Position
Fars News Agency, 23 April 2015
Iraqi Army Discovers Huge Depots of Israel-Made Weapons, Ammunition
Fars News Agency, 8 December 2014
Israeli spy cell found in N Iraq
Press TV, 15 March 2011
‘David Cameron extremism speech: The PM’s Churchillian posturing over Syria is misguided’:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/david-cameron-extremism-speech-the-pms-churchillian-posturing-over-syria-is-misguided-10402520.html
Yours sincerely,
Paul Barbara
cc Open
The bogus “imminent” claim was used in an attempt to justify the U.S.’s killing not only of Awlaki himself, but also of his 16-year-old son (because of somebody else that the son allegedly was with).
I’ll try and leave this thread with a dream I had. It’s not nice.
Wandering about in total darkness on a featureless flat landscape, people coming in to view now and again. And every so often individuals would just get fragged by tiny flying devices. Eviscerated in sight or just out of sight. I rememberer hearing vague rumors Noam Chonsky was wondering about somewhere in the dark, but recall thinking I didn’t know if he had been fragged yet so maybe not worth trying to find him. The problem, obviously, that nobody new what the criteria was for being fragged was. Remember I was surprised i’d lasted but did not know why, assumed it was only a matter of time.
It must be quite like this for people now, how do you surrender to a drone, or a bomb for that matter? War/killing/aggression is the ultimate brutality… And might,war,killing, aggression “is right” is the ‘civilised’ bollox they are really acting out. Let nobody say this isn’t the obvious truth.
I wish I could have written something nicer, had a nicer dream to share.
As I have said repeatedly on this forum, the way to reform the bogus “democracy” of the Western states is to adopt, to a greater or lesser extent, the feature that the ancient Greeks thought was essential to true democracy, selection as leaders and representatives of average citizens chosen by lot.
Just before I retire I would like to share ex-soldier Ben Griffin’s talk to Oxford University in 2013. We will not fight for Queen and Country.
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/ex-british-soldier-ben-griffin-on-why-we-will-not-fight-for-queen-and-country
“Never again will accept the vile religion of Patriotism.
I refuse to pull on that rancid uniform.
I refuse to fight for Queen and Country.”
I have met Ben, an honest man. Such soldiers are soldiers to be proud of, who have spoken out against the nonsense of governments getting decent people to do their dirty work for them.
Nobody should fight for monarch and country. It is the old Horace lie. Let us start afresh. Let us charge the war-criminals Bush, Blair, Cameron, Netanyahu with their crimes and try to establish peace on earth.
@Jon, there you go again, charging at your illogical straw-men built on bogus assumptions; where did I imply, nevermind state, that all who supported the attack on Iraq are all guilty to the same degree ?!
I was responding to your comments that Blair & his “small clique” knew exactly the criminality of what they doing, (ie so they are not good & should be punished), but that others who went along with it, did so unknowingly, and therefore are “otherwise good”, ie not punishable. I merely pointed out two simple obvious truths, a) endorsing/supporting a war against a sovereign State that was not attacking us, is exactly being an accessory to, & participating in, the Supreme Crime in International Law; Article 51 of the UN Charter is not an obscure or ambitious clause, but is crystal clear in its meaning, yet for political expediency these people were prepared to ignore this, and instead support that most serious of all crimes, so how can this be overlooked in order that these people can possibly be considered in any meaningful sense “good” ? It’s like saying that some mass murderers are “otherwise good”, so let’s not judge to harshly what they actually did that one particular day ! b) Blair & his clique would never have been able to commit this Crime against Humanity if these “otherwise good” people were in fact “good” enough to warrant being called “good”; a “good” person’s morality or principles do not change with the weather, or with political expediency.
Oh dear, Craig, you’ve mentioned the elephant in the dining room.
Here is what people should urge Jeremy Corbyn to promise to do:
* derecognise Israel as a legitimate sovereign entity; sever official diplomatic relations with that regime permanently: an ethnic-supremacist regime does NOT have the right to exist, and it certainly does not have the right to operate inside Britain
* ban the preparation or issuing of propaganda in support of Israel: put Israel on the same list as ISIS
* withdraw Britain from NATO
* end all military and intelligence cooperation with the United States; shut down all US military and sigint bases in Britain
* expel from Britain the main CIA and other US figures known to have suborned or otherwise owned British civil servants, BBC and political figures: have a night of the long knives: clear a Zil lane to Heathrow and put a couple of hundred of the fuckers on a 757 out of the country, with a few hours notice only
* arrest all British figures known or suspected to have worked for US or Israeli intelligence services, on charges of corruption, breach of the Official Secrets Act, espionage and treason
* arrest all those suspected of war crimes – including any lawyers involved – and hand them over to the International Criminal Court for trial within hours of their arrest: to include not just Tony Blair but also Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, John Prescott, etc.
* if the lawyers in the Temple are considered to be too dirty, too fucking compromised, call in lawyers from outside, from the Hague or wherever, to be directly responsible to a Labour government: haven’t we had enough of fucking lawyers in Britain acting as though they’re in the Washington beltway, and parroting ridiculous doctrines such as the applicability of client confidentiality when the client is the government and the issue is war? Literally have the Labour government choose which British lawyers, if any, it wishes to work on the war crimes cases. Do not allow any British lawyers to represent or advise Israel, just as they are not allowed to represent or advise ISIS.
If Jeremy Corbyn promises to do even one of those things, it will be a massive breakthrough.
@Fred, When & by whom was Syria declared a “designated war zone” ? The only thing I can find is that is that the conflict is officially classed as a civil war;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9401899/Syrian-conflict-declared-a-civil-war-by-the-Red-Cross.html
The Resolution for military action against Assad, that was defeated in Parliament, included the clarification that even if the Resolution had passed, it “does not sanction any action in Syria with wider objectives”, so it’s actually confirming that there is no authorisation for any other British action in Syria regardless of if the Resolution is passed or not.
And let left wing people in the SNP support these points too. It’s not just England and Wales and Northern Ireland that have been subjected to these outrages. It’s Scotland as well.
These issues transcend the question of Scottish independence. I would be happy to support a Scottish party that made these points part of its platform, altered to have a Scottish flavour where necessary, regardless of its position on independence.
Are any British newspapers saying how absurdly in-your-face hypocritical it is to condemn Russian military support for a Syrian government that is pitted mainly against Al Qaeda and ISIS?
They are in overdrive around the net to rubbish the Muslims and counter any sympathy for the refugees that could have been ignited by the sad and sorry images of the dead little boy. Just checkout the comments section here TV reporter trip Syrian refugee in Hungary – Are we human?
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd1_1441743374#0P0f5OJ6iHlumaKT.99
Petra Lazlo kicks the running refugee children
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Thanks for recollecting this incident. Also if you remember the huge cube slung under the crane parked in front of the church in Bethlehem that broadcast blood curdling screams and crying of women and children in pain for days on end, as per the orders of the fat bastard zombie aka sharon?
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Jon is implying; those voting for the Iraq war were innocent functionaries whose intentions were good and true! Hence the application of laws and rules to protect them, until they have been found guilty! In other words the opportunist carpet baggers who were in the knowledge of the fake Iraqi refugees paraded on the TV will go on trial as and when hell freezes over.
Much of the assistance to displaced people fleeing warzones should be conceived under the heading of reparations. To pay for the cost of it, a) tax the rich in Europe until the pips squeak and b) slash the military budget.
@Fedup – Got a link to material about that cube? Sounds interesting.
Even more colourful comments here, search engines don’t find these comments for some reason;
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a7_1441742121
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Not any persecution of the Muslims over there and over here, not at all, not at all!
Although a case of a Jewish boy getting beat up because of a drug deal gone wrong as per admission of his father, is reported as an antisemitic attack in Manchester, and given wall to wall coverage with reports of the the whole of Manchester’s Jewish community in shock and suffering from anxiety from such an antisemitic attacks.
His father has this to say;
It was when some of the Palestinians on the run from the vigilante zionist supremacists thugs in uniform had ran into the church of Nativity I believe, hence the thugs could not blow up the place and kill the bally lot of those holed up there.
Hence the Cube draped in a black cloth and hanging from a crane; playing the macabre symphony of pain a very high volumes incessantly and for the length of the siege of the church.
Fedup: “Therefore given the above, the neglect in discharge of duty and delinquency their duty of care to their constituents and the Iraqi civilians itself is a charge that none of those voting for the war can shirk.”
Agreed, Fedup. And Jon is way too generous. MPs that voted for war, never mind the various media stooges that agitated for the same, had a particular duty to know they were entirely correct in doing so. “We were misled! We got it wrong! We trusted the ‘intelligence’!” – not to mention “I was just following orders!” – that is not a legitimate defence.
_We_ knew Iraq was no threat. We knew that for sure, yet we were called dupes, cowards, liars, Saddam-lovers, terrorist lovers, Britain-haters, traitors, the lot. The brave Yanks who opposed the war over in the US got it even worse.
So how come we knew – and I mean knew – when all these well informed MPs with access to the top information got it entirely wrong? Could it be simply because we bothered spending a few minutes looking at the facts, listening to experts in the field, and we followed reason and logic, concluding there was no case for war? On the pro-war side, was it simply politically inconvenient for these cowardly bastards to challenge their superiors in their own rush to war?
No – any MP that voted for war deserves to be shot for treachery, dragging their country into a WAR, dammit, for nothing but profit and political expediency. Failing that, jail for life. As it is, they will continue to draw tax-payer money to pad the rest of their comfortable lives. Not even an apology required nor offered.
The political class in this country is utterly rotten, and as individuals nearly all are beneath contempt.
Got a link to material about that cube? Sounds interesting.
http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/8676
Reparations take time to percolate but they do go around as things come around.
Native Americans were refugees in their own country, sequestered into non-traditional early gulags on what was considered valueless land. On those reservations where oil suddenly made the land valuable, you can imagine how generously they were compensated.
A century later we find the best kind of compensation. Innovation, good business sense and legal acumen gave us the INDIAN CASINO.
Truly revenge is best served cold, especially for white-meat.
Ben ^
Yeah but surely the fact that the native American Indians could only get their “revenge” by becoming part of vulture casino capitalism is a sad irony really?
Ben…also..
Rightly or wrong ive surmised herein over the yewrs that you live in one of the more progressive US states wrt cannabis etc..
How quaint then,i thought,you refer to hemp…
Look ..i was expecting more detailed reportage..y’know..specifics of strain n science…e.g.Kushi,Haze,Blueberry,Bubblegummm etc etc..
=))
A former US Defence Intelligence Agency chief, an ex-French Foreign Minister, and an ex-Supreme Allied Commander making clear, unequivocal statements, NOT ‘CONSPIRACY THEORIES’, about the origins of IS and the murder and mayhem that are tearing Syria and Iraq apart, and creating the huge loss of life and refugee crisis, which predictably Cameron blames on Assad; it’s just Iraq and Libya again, a war under false pretences to bring about ‘Regime Change’:
Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn Says Rise of Islamic State was “a willful decision” and Defends Accuracy of 2012 Memo:
http://levantreport.com/2015/08/06/former-dia-chief-michael-flynn-says-rise-of-islamic-state-was-a-willful-decision-and-defends-accuracy-of-2012-memo/
‘Former French Foreign Minister: The War against Syria was Planned Two years before “The Arab Spring”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-french-foreign-minister-the-war-against-syria-was-planned-two-years-before-the-arab-spring/5339112
4* General (Retired) Wesley Clark, ex-Suprem Allied Commander Europe, was told by serving 3* General on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon, in 2001 (obviously the time-frame has slipped, but the ‘Regime Change’ agenda rolls on):
“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166