LIBYA: A DEAFENING SILENCE
09. Jun, 2011
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By Jody McIntyre/The Independent
So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, “it just brings something else to the party.”
The entire media have fallen into line. This is a war to protect civilians. This is a war to force Gaddafi to leave. As if Western governments, with their proud histories of human rights abuses across the world, have any moral right to make judgements on the government of Libya. Etherington’s rhetoric reveals a despicable truth, this war is a game for us, a ‘party’ worth extending.
Even Al Jazeera run the accepted story of ‘rebels’ capturing town after town. But they don’t broadcast pictures from Tripoli, the capital, where, except for the NATO bombing campaign, people are continuing with their normal lives. And they never show images of the crimes of this so-called ‘rebel’ brigade, who violently attacked black Libyans and black African citizens in the east of the country, labelling them as ‘African mercenaries’ hired by Gaddafi, despite the fact that all Libyans are in fact African. None of this is reported, because it wouldn’t fit into the accepted narrative. The lovely rebel leadership, many of whom worked for Gaddafi until a few months ago, are our allies. Muammer Gaddafi, the useful villain, is our sworn enemy.
But why such a silence? Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, which provoked huge outcries across the world, the reaction to Libya has been relatively muted. We have been sold on a false premise, and, as Noam Chomsky would say, have allowed the manufacture of our consent.
Now that the initial smokescreen has been proven a success, the British government, for one, have no need to disguise their aims any more. Not that they ever did. “We’re not going to set a deadline,” says William Hague. Of course not, because imperialism knows no bounds when a war is underway.
It has always struck me that people are most hysterical in their reactions when it comes to a war our country is involved in. If you observe the reality of the situation, then you are accused of not caring about Libyan civilians, or supporting a dictator. Actually, it is our government that is fond of supporting dictatorships, and our government that is bombing Libyan civilians. As Frank Natter wrote on his blog, ‘Straight Talk’, earlier this week, “Everyone of us who is taxed is tacitly consenting and indirectly funding the bombs that are currently being used to kill Afghani and Libyan peoples. To quote Sartre, ‘you are not wonderful, you are murderers’.”
This is nothing to do with protecting civilians, and everything to do with re-establishing a waning military and economic domination in the region. When you consider a list of the few countries in the world that do not have US military bases on their soil, it becomes a lot clearer why our “enemies” are who we are taught they are.
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Jody McIntyre is a journalist and political activist. With a regular blog for The Independent, he has also written for The Guardian, the New Statesman, Electronic Intifada and Disability Now. His first book will be published by Verso in Spring 2011.
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It was very cunning and easily predictable that the White Supremacist Racists would engineer a situation whereby the African Americans would willingly acknowledge their inferior status to the White Man.
The subtlety of this Manipulation is of a very high quality, but once it is explained, it is readily perceived, as the Putrid Conspiracy that it is.
At the same time, the White Supremacist Racists would manipulate the African Americans to willingly accept subservience to their White Rulers who consider themselves to be the intellectually superior, and racially superior to all Non-White People.
Many African Americans know of the commitment and hard work that Muammar Gaddafi displayed and pursued in order to overthrow the Unjust Apartheid System on the African Continent.
We know how the White Supremacist Dutch loved to call the Black South Africans by the Racial Slur of Kaffirs.
However, the African Americans and many other People will be pressured into forgetting all of that, by focusing on the Slanderous Lies against Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Regime.
This Evil Slander is being perpetuated by the International criminal Court, that is not an Institution for seeking Justice, but is a Tool of Modern Colonialism by the White Supremacist Racist Leaders of the West.
We know that the Colonial Powers of England, France, and America have been stalking Libya for years before the pounced on Libya with Ruthless Abandon just as they planned far in advance.
I want to say that I believe that all races are equal, and that in each Race, there are People with different talents, and with different morals.
The Europeans, and the Americans Hate Muammar Gaddafi, because he is totally Non-Racist, and he wants all the Countries of his Continent to benefit from Genuine Respect and Friendship, and from Mutual Co-Operation and Trade.
As far as Anglo-America is concerned, this sets a very bad precedent, because other Continents might follow this Fine Example, and free themselves from Anglo-American Puppetship and Exploitation.
The only Policy that Anglo-American has had since the start of the British Empire is to Divide and Rule, and so they Totally Oppose Genuine Respect and Friendship, and from Mutual Co-Operation between Neighbours, and even between Different Groups in the same Country.
England and America convince People to act like this in their short tem interests, but following Anglo-American Schemes does not benefit a Country, a Region, and a Continent in the Long Term.
This is why England, France, and America have Schemed long and hard against the Libyan Guide.
We know that if a Delegation of Black African Representatives went to America, that neither the African American Leaders, nor the African American President would be interested in listening, because they all know their place.
I think that the Black African Countries should send a Delegation of Peace Envoys to America, because then the White Supremacist will have to Publicly Show their Position, rather than having a free pass that would never be commented on.
America needs to have another Civil Rights Movement in America, because it is quickly Slipping back to its Old Ways of Racial Inequality.
The irony of all of this is that it is happening during the Presence of an African American in the White House.
Many African Americans think that the current President is just a Puppet for the White Ruling Elites, who wish to reintroduce Racial Inequality in America.
There are Loyal and Patriotic Americans who think that this perception of Racial Inequality is being Deliberately Engineered by the White Ruling Elites in America.
The purpose is to use a manufacture situation to improperly justify the Suspending of the American Constitution in order to set up a Military Dictatorship in America.
Anglo-America and their Puppets have done this the Criminal ICTY, and the Criminal ICC, and their Lying Media, and their Lying War Criminal Politicians.
We all know that half of Nigeria is Muslim, and Anglo-America and France want to make the top half of Africa Islamic in order to steal from the bottom half of Africa, and this is why France has taken Control of its Colony of the Ivory Coast.
Anglo-America are the Masters of the Divide and Rule Tactic, and that is what they will use anywhere, even on the African Continent.
Muammar Gaddafi said that Al-Qaeda and the Radical Islamists are the Western backed and financed Coup Plotters, and Anglo-America need a Military Base in Libya to Exploit the African Continent.
We know how cruel NATO and the Radical Islamists will be to the African Continent, if they succeed in their Evil Plans.
We know this by the callous indifference, and even joyful glee at the plight of their Fellow Libyan Muslims, and the Fellow Libyans; and by their refusal so far to Negotiate a Peaceful Settlement among their own Libyan Brothers.
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