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Keine Freiheit hier
Dienstag, den 10. März 2009
Durch John Pilger | FREIHEIT wird in Großbritannien verloren. Das Land von Magna Carta ist jetzt das Land der würgenden Aufträge des Geheimnisses, der geheimen Versuche und der Gefangenschaft. Die Regierung kennt bald in jedem Telefonanruf, jedes email, jede Textanzeige aus. Polizei kann zum Tod einen unschuldigen Mann absichtlich schießen, liegen und erwarten, mit ihm weg zu erhalten. Vollständige Gemeinschaften fürchten jetzt den Zustand. Der Außenminister bedeckt routinemäßig herauf Behauptungen der Folterung, die Gerechtigkeit, die Sekretärin routinemäßig die Freigabe der kritischen Schrankminuten gedauert verhindert, als der Irak illegal eingedrungen wurde. Die Liste ist flüchtig - es gibt viel mehr. In der Tat gibt es soviel mehr, daß die Abnutzung der liberalen freedoms von einem entwickelten kriminellen Zustand symptomatisch ist. Der Hafen für russische oligarchs, zusammen mit Korruption der Steuer und der Banksysteme und der sobald-bewunderten allgemeinen Services wie der Post, ist eine Seite der Münze. Das andere ist das unsichtbare Massaker der verlassenen Kolonialkriege. Historisch ist das Muster vertraut. Als die Kolonialverbrechen in Algerien, brannten Vietnam und Afghanistan zurück zu ihren Tätern, Frankreich, den US und der Sowjetunion durch, also sind die cancerous Effekte von Zynismus Großbritanniens im Irak und in Afghanistan nach Hause gekommen. Das offensichtlichste Beispiel ist die Bombardierunggrausamkeiten in London am 7. Juli 2005. Niemand im britischen Intelligenz mandarinate zweifelt, daß diese ein Geschenk von Tony Blair waren. Und doch „Terrorismus“ beschreibt nur die wenigen Taten der Einzelpersonen und die Gruppen, nicht die konstante, industrielle Gewalttätigkeit von den großen Energien. Das Unterdrücken dieser Wahrheit wird die glaubwürdigen Mittel überlassen. Am 27. Februar schrieb das Washington entsprechendes Ewen MacAskill des Wächters, wenn es Präsident Obamas über Aussage berichtete, daß die US schließlich den Irak verließen, als ob es Tatsache war: „Für den Irak, ist- die Todesabgabe unbekannt, in den 10 von Tausenden, Opfer des Krieges, ein nationalistischer Aufstieg, sectarian Nahkampf und die jihadists, die angezogen werden durch die US Anwesenheit.“ So sind die Eindringlinge Anglo-US bloß eine „Anwesenheit“ nicht direkt verantwortlich für die „unbekannte“ Zahl irakischen Todesfällen. Solche Verrenkung des Intellekts ist eindrucksvoll. Im Januar letztes Jahr, verbesserte ein Report durch das respektierte Meinung Forschung Geschäft eine frühere Einschätzung von Todesfällen im Irak bis 1.033 Million. Dieses folgte einer Gleich-wiederholten Studie 2006 von der Welt-berühmten Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schule des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens in Baltimore, veröffentlicht im Lancet, der fand, daß fast 655.000 Iraker resultierend aus der Invasion gestorben waren. US and British officials immediately dismissed the report as “flawed” - a deliberate deception. Foreign Office papers obtained under the Freedom of Information Act disclose a memo written by the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Roy Anderson in which he praised the Lancet report, describing it as “robust and employs methods that are regarded as close to ‘best practice’ given (the conditions) in Iraq.” An adviser to the Prime Minister commented: “The survey methodology used here cannot be rubbished. It is a tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones.” Yet, speaking a few days later, the Foreign Office Minister Lord Triesman said: “The way in which data are extrapolated from samples to a general outcome is a matter of deep concern.” The episode exemplifies the scale and deception of this state crime. Les Roberts, co-author of the Lancet study, has since argued that Britain and the US might have caused in Iraq “an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide.” This is not news. Neither is it a critical reference in the freedoms campaign organised by the Observer columnist Henry Porter. At a conference in London on February 28, Blair’s former attorney general Lord Goldsmith, who notoriously changed his mind and advised the government the invasion was legal when it wasn’t, was a speaker for freedom. So was Timothy Garton Ash, a “liberal interventionist.” On April 17 2003, shortly after the slaughter had begun in Iraq, a euphoric Garton Ash wrote in the Guardian: “America has never been the Great Satan. It has sometimes been the Great Gatsby: ‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things’.” One of Britain’s jobs “is to keep reminding Tom and Daisy that they now have promises to keep.” Less frivolously, he lauded Blair for his “strong Gladstonian instincts for humanitarian intervention” and repeated the government’s propaganda about Saddam Hussein. In 2006, he wrote: “Now we face the next big test of the West: after Iraq, Iran.” This also adheres precisely to the propaganda. David Miliband has declared Iran a “threat” in preparation for the next war. Like so many of new Labour’s Tonier-than-thou squad, Porter celebrated Blair as an almost mystical politician who “presents himself as a harmoniser for all the opposing interests in British life, a conciliator of class differences and tribal antipathies, synthesiser of opposing beliefs.” Porter dismissed as “demonic nonsense” all analysis of the September 11 2001 attacks that suggested there were specific causes - the consequences of violent actions taken by the powerful in the Middle East. Such thinking, he wrote, “exactly matches the views of Osama bin Laden … With America’s haters, that’s all there is - hatred.” This, of course, was Blair’s view. Freedoms are being lost in Britain because of the rapid growth of the “national security state.” This form of militarism was imported from the US by new Labour. Totalitarian in essence, it relies on fear-mongering to entrench the executive with venal legal mechanisms that progressively diminish democracy and justice. “Security” is all and it relies on propaganda promoting rapacious colonial wars, even as honest mistakes. Take away this propaganda and the wars are exposed for what they are and the fear evaporates. Take away the obeisance of many in Britain’s liberal elite to US power and you demote a profound colonial mentality that covers for epic criminals such as Blair. Prosecute these criminals and change the system that breeds them and you have freedom. This article appeared in the New Statesman. Have Your Say: No freedom here Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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