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Terça-feira, março 10o, 2009
Por John Pilger | A LIBERDADE está sendo perdida em Grâ Bretanha. A terra do Magna Carta é agora a terra de ordens amordaçando do segredo, de experimentações secretas e de aprisionamento. O governo saberá logo sobre cada chamada de telefone, cada email, cada mensagem do texto. As polícias podem intencional disparar à morte em um homem inocente, encontrar-se e esperá-lo começar afastado com ela. As comunidades inteiras temem agora o estado. A secretária extrangeira cobre rotineiramente acima dos allegations da tortura, a justiça que a secretária impede rotineiramente a liberação dos minutos críticos do armário feitos exame quando Iraq foi invadido ilegal. A lista é cursory - há muito mais. Certamente, há tanto mais que a erosão de freedoms liberais é symptomatic de um estado criminal evoluído. O haven para os oligarchs Russian, junto com o corruption dos sistemas do imposto e de operação bancária e de serviços públicos uma vez que-admirados tais como o borne - escritório, é um lado da moeda. O outro é o massacre invisível de guerras coloniais falhadas. Historicamente, o teste padrão é familiar. Como os crimes coloniais em Argélia, Vietnam e Afeganistão fundiram para trás a seus perpetrators, a France, aos E.U. e à União Soviética, assim que os efeitos cancerous do cynicism de Grâ Bretanha em Iraq e em Afeganistão vieram para casa. O exemplo o mais óbvio é os atrocities do bombardeio em Londres julho em 7 2005. No-one no mandarinate britânico da inteligência duvida que estes eram um presente de Tony Blair. No entanto o “terrorismo” descreve somente poucos atos dos indivíduos e grupos, a violência não constante, industrial de poders grandes. Suprimir esta verdade é deixado aos meios credible. Fevereiro em 27, o Washington Ewen correspondente MacAskill do Guardian, em relatar a indicação do presidente Obama que os E.U. saiam finalmente de Iraq como se era fato, escreveu: “Para Iraq, o pedágio da morte é desconhecido, nos dez dos milhares, vítimas da guerra, um uprising nacionalista, infighting sectarian e jihadists atraídos pela presença dos E.U.” Assim, os invasores Anglo-E.U. são meramente uma “presença” não diretamente responsável para o número “desconhecido” de mortes Iraqi. Tal contortion do intellect é impressive. Em janeiro o ano passado, um relatório pelo negócio respeitado da pesquisa da opinião revisou uma avaliação mais adiantada das mortes em Iraq a 1.033 milhões. Isto seguiu um estudo par-revisto em 2006 pela escola mundo-renowned de Johns Hopkins Bloomberg da saúde pública em Baltimore, publicada no Lancet, que encontrou que quase 655.000 Iraqis tinham morrido em conseqüência da invasão. Os E.U. e os oficiais britânicos demitiram imediatamente o relatório como “flawed” - um deception deliberado. 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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