Dear President Ahtisaari,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on a number of occasions over the years, including when I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and I recall your genuine concern for democracy and human rights in a region where they are sadly neglected.
Like a great many people in Scotland I was shocked that CMI is employing Jim Murphy. Of course, in a democracy there are always losers as well as winners in elections, and both are genuine and valid participants in public life. It is not the fact that CMI employs a politician who has been so recently, comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected by his national electorate that will do any damage to CMI. In a sense I think it does you credit.
What shocks many people here is that Mr Murphy is by any standards a dedicated warmonger. He was a major and important proponent of the invasion of Iraq, and is the strongest of supporters of the massive increase of Britain’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Mr Murphy is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, which as you know is a body which exists to promote United States neo-conservative foreign policy in its most aggressive sense, and openly and actively supports and condones extraordinary rendition and the use of torture by the CIA. It has supported every single military action by the USA since its formation, and defends United States exceptionalism in international law, including US non-membership of the International Criminal Court.
Mr Murphy’s belief set is therefore fundamentally at odds with the stated aims of CMI. Indeed, his employment by you can only lead to the suspicion that CMI’s stated objectives are not its real objectives, and that like Mr Murphy and the Henry Jackson Society your overriding goal in the regions where you operate is to promote the interests of the United States.
As you are funded by charitable donations and by governments, I think some explanation of your employment of Mr Murphy is in order, particularly when you have employed him as a conflict resolution expert in the Caucasus and Central Asia when he has no relevant experience of conflict resolution at all, virtually none of the Caucasus, and absolutely none of Central Asia.
I was the Head of the UK Delegation that negotiated the Sierra Leone Peace Treaty, and certainly under no circumstances would I let Jim Murphy anywhere near that kind of negotiation.
With All Best Wishes,
Amb (rtd.) Craig Murray
“might not one day fall under close examination and their authors and propagators be considered to be aiding and abetting or, alternatively, justifying and even glorifying acts of terrorism?”
It might even inspire some to provide arms to the righteous and efficacious rebels, but that would inspire the death penalty for officials of state who support or facilitate such courageous and ingenious acts.
Let us not engage in such flights of false flag foolishmess.
Habba & Co, your not-so-veiled threats are a wonder to behold.
You feckers are all going to be brought to justice.
Mark my word.
Imagine some fictitious country (Iceland?) wherein a new Nuremberg Trials for war crimes of State is formed in the interest of justice.
Now imagine the discovery of the Philosophers Stone. Which one happens first?
Resident Dissident
“Sorry Habba but that is a step too far – the old democratic weapons of exposure and ridicule are the best.”
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Well, the legislation is in place; to use it would not be undemocratic, surely? And as in any true democracy (which Britain is), it would be for the courts to decide whether the law had been broken.
The late 8th President of Italy said a few things which give cause to reflect, but with so much death is now the time for accusation and hurtful suggestion? Each man has to live with his own conscience. Each man has to judge himself. Judging oneself makes one sweat….but we would rather avoid it.
Ben – smoker, toker, red-eyed whatever
That’s some heavy shit you’re smoking there. You’ve got to lay off it for a while are you’ll end up a schizoid like a good friend of mine did.
What yer smokin’ seems pretty weak as tea from your pot of sobriety. Why is it the inferior still trend to upbraiding the ganja bund for their excesses? Could it be jealousy? Envy? Or is it the phear associated with imbibing those scary trichomes? I suspect their anxiety derives from those secret thoughts they suppress. You know; those thoughts of inferiority and unworthiness. You are familiar with those feelings, amirite?
That avatar is a pretty scary bull-dyke. Maybe a post-script of a lesser weevil. Apropos, though.
Dershowitz speaks of fascism in universities. Another hypocrite. He is the Ziofascist who played the largest part in depriving Norman Finkelstein of his tenure by campaigning against him.
Dershowitz: ‘The Fog of Fascism Is Descending Quickly Over Many American Universities’
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/zachary-leshin/dershowitz-fog-fascism-descending-quickly-over-many-american-universities
His miserable face in the photo says much about him.
” might not one day fall under close examination and their authors and propagators be considered to be aiding and abetting”
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To the Reich Minister of Propaganda, aka Habb.
Listen to this guy he constantly proclaims Britain is a democracy, which it is, but his above mumblings sound as though he wishes it wasn’t.
If I didn’t know better this lickspittle would like to see free speech curtailed.
Habbs, would this be a secret or an open trial?
Ben
No full-time pothead ever achieved anything. You talk constant gibberish. There’s no kind way of putting this but you have fried your brain. If you have not developed a severe mental illness then you should count yourself lucky.
Fwl
Open, of course.
And I don’t know where Republicofscotland gets his strange ideas from. There are laws to deal with aiding and abetting and inciting, justifying and glorifying acts of terror: I merely wonder whether some of the constant claims of false flaggery and so on on this blog might not be seen, whether objectively or subjectively, as aiding the terrorists and their goals.
Republicofscotland
“Listen to this guy he constantly proclaims Britain is a democracy, which it is,..”
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You’re making welcome progress, RoS.
So you disagree with Mary when she says that Britain is a fascist country?
Ben Weed-Smoker-Toker
“That avatar is a pretty scary bull-dyke..”
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In vino veritas, so to speak.
A “bull-dyke”, eh?
Do you have any nice names for male homosexuals, black people, Jews and handicapped people?
Psychologists have explained that people who think is impossible or unthinkable that their own governments could do anything as bad as this to them are like children who do not want to acknowledge that their parents would ever deceive them.(I am not saying this attack falls into that category but I also couldn’t say it definitely doesnt). We have to observe what happens next and who benefits from it.
Also if I had lost a relative in an attack like this, I would be bloody angry at the attention the media is giving to the lovely displays of lights on Sydney Opera house,London eye etc. It would be of no comfort to me. It is indulgence on the part of those who are not suffering.
Why do terrorists always carry their passports with them?
Why do terrorists always use the same gematria in the operations?
This is another crock of shit Intelligence services and military psyop so idiots will blame muslims.
If you want to know more >http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1847&sid=5ec201a38b6d142672b7e4853c71667d
” You feckers are all going to be brought to justice. ”
Ooh scary…
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5b/40/39/5b40397b140fcb97d0f145675e898ae1.jpg
“And I don’t know where Republicofscotland gets his strange ideas from. There are laws to deal with aiding and abetting and inciting, justifying and glorifying acts of terror:”
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Who’s justifying terror in here?
Now that you mention it, justifying terror, Operation Gladio springs to mind.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Secret for over 40 years, Gladio is a NATO-backed network of armed soldiers inside the nations of Europe which bypasses the control of nation governments.
Ostensibly intended for use only in case of a Soviet invasion, Gladio has in fact carried out a string of false flag terror attacks. In 1990, the European parliament called for national political investigations, but most national governments have chosen not to investigate it.
Maybe the Minister of Propaganda would like that investigated?
8:32, in which Habbakuk’s first-line passive-aggressive defense mechanism breaks down again under the strain of her obsessive streak getting no reinforcement, so she fantasizes about prosecuting everybody who won’t fall in line with authority-sucking statist dupes of her ilk. Nothing sadder than a powerless little pussy having an authoritarian hissy fit. Unless it’s one that’s home alone Saturday night with her internet friends who don’t like him.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio/B
Mary, 3:00pm : “Silly me. Of course it must have belonged to the eighth ‘extremist’.”
Huh? Why put ‘extremist’ in quotes – don’t you consider these murderers to be extremists? It would be very nice to have an explanation for the point, if you’d be so kind.
Open, well at least that is something. It does surprise me sometimes how quickly some people come to wolf in sheep’s clothing type conclusions regarding their own country because such an accusation is one of treason. Its not just that such accusations are serious but that there should be almost some psychological factor preventing such self harm. At least it seems so to me and I accept my view is deluded for we are all one. Oddly I do not find it as difficult to find reason to suspect false flags in other countries. That may just be part of my arrogant makeup. Anyway, you should be fair to KOWN as he only said that his mind wasn’t closed, and he wasn’t talking about the affairs of this island. Talk of legal remedies for saying a mind is open are going too far. We are not at war or are we? And I hope we are not living in one of Robert Ludlum’s novels…..difficult to remember it but life is good.
Seriously now, I ask those people (sadly, MOST people of this world, it seems) who believe in the official narrative of this alleged event to think again: WHAT WOULD BE THE MOTIVE FOR SUCH A MASSACRE OF RANDOM / YOUNG / INNOCENT PARISIAN MUSIC FANS – ON THE PART OF “ISIL”? What on Earth would make you believe such a thing – unless you are severely retarded – and unable to think for yourself?
Oh. I seem to have struck a chord of familiarity. It is a sensitive nerve, isn’t it? It’s a form of nativist inflammation that mimics sincere emotions normal people enjoy.
Now if we could just unravel the discordant political views which seem at odds with the deviant behavior it seemingly recoils in horror from.
I have names only for the likes of Ye, despondent keyboard-warrior of the lost cause……
They are Legion in numbers but this is not a good thing as you might suspect.
Anon1: “It was suggested earlier that Mary might be on the ISIS payroll.”
Mary was posting here long before your unwelcome presence, and long before ISIS was ever conceived, you idiot.
You don’t seem to get irony Glenn.
There are plenty of ‘extremists’ around. There’s one in Marsham Street and I saw plenty going into No 10 today for yet another COBRA meeting. There’s another in a big white house in Washington. Everywhere you look.
More to be seen in Antalya tomorrow and Monday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_G-20_Antalya_summit
“Why do terrorists always carry their passports with them?”
They don’t, they carry false passports which is why this find doesn’t mean a thing.
You can buy a Syrian passport on any street corner in Damascus.
Oh thanks for correcting Anon Glenn. He is one of my cross eyed bears, ie a cross I have to bear. The old ones are the best. 🙂
Ben @ 8;42
Brilliant.
Lots of people at the site of the attacks would have been carrying passports