No tears for warmonger Fox
16. Oct, 2011
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The powerful Israel lobby will no doubt be sad to see their man go.
Fox jumps! (image courtesy Veterans today)
by Stuart Littlewood
Dangerous beliefs and connections to the political underworld made him unemployable as a British minister
Britain’s defence secretary Dr Liam Fox decided to jump rather than be thrown from the battlements.
While we wait – not holding our breath of course – for the Cabinet Secretary’s final report on the peculiar relationship between Fox and his special friend Adam Werrity, it’s worth checking what the Ministerial Code – the ‘Bible’ Fox failed to lived by – actually expected of him.
In his foreword to the Code, issued in May 2010, David Cameron wrote: “Though the British people have been disappointed in their politicians, they still expect the highest standards of conduct. We must not let them down.”
The Code’s first words – its General Principles – make it crystal clear that “Ministers of the Crown are expected to behave in a way that upholds the highest standards of propriety… Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests”.
On overseas visits the Code says ministers should satisfy themselves that they could defend their arrangements in public. Furthermore the relevant Permanent Secretary’s approval must be obtained before a special adviser accompanies a minister overseas.
As Werrity was not officially employed as an adviser and had no security clearance, one is left wondering why senior civil servants didn’t query his frequent presence.
If there’s a breach of the Code and if the Prime Minister, in consultation with the Cabinet Secretary, feels it needs investigation he is supposed to refer the matter to the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests (Sir Philip Mawer). Enforcement, says the Code, is not the job of the Cabinet Secretary.
Yet the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, is conducting the Fox-Werrity inquiry. Why?
An article in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/13/rightwing-tories-rally-liam-fox reveals that the government has refused to set out the terms of reference of the inquiry into Fox and to explain why the issue wasn’t referred to Mawer. It seems Mawer’s website has been shut down, he hasn’t produced an annual report for two years and has conducted only one inquiry since he was appointed in 2008.
The Ministerial Code also spells out the Seven Principles of Public Life, including this one about Integrity… “Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their official duties.”
On the strength of that, ordinary citizens like me expect a person accepting appointment as a Minister of the Crown to be squeaky-clean, a man of honour and an impeccable patriot. How patriotic is Liam Fox though? I ask because he’s the man who said: “In the battle for the values that we stand for…Israel’s enemies are our enemies and this is a battle in which we all stand together…”
He’s the man The Jewish Chronicle hailed as “a champion of Israel within the government”.
He’s a man who continually rattles the sabre against Iran which, of course, is no threat to Britain but is seen by Israel as a bitter enemy… and by Fox apparently
Let us not forget that Iraq was Israel’s enemy too, not ours, and look what happened. Liam Fox, according to the theyworkforyou.com website, “voted very strongly for the Iraq war”. He’s also an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Afghanistan, and he’s been spoiling for a fight with Iran.
“Not just a sacking offence…”
Reports says that Whitehall sources have been concerned about Fox’s “maverick” foreign policy based on the neocon agenda. Former British diplomat Craig Murray, discussing the possibility that Werrity’s strings, and therefore Fox’s, were being pulled by Mossad, says on his blog: “The real issue here is a British defence secretary who had a parallel advice structure designed expressly to serve the interests of another state and linked to that state’s security services. That is not just a sacking offence, it is treasonable.”
For years Fox has been an Israel flag-waver at the heart of British government, a man with dangerous beliefs and demonstrably weak judgment. It is inconceivable that those who appointed him could not see that he was unemployable as a Minister of the British Crown. Unless they were similarly tainted, that is.
The powerful Israel lobby will no doubt be sad to see their man go.
His Parliamentary colleagues talk of Fox “finding his way back” after a decent interval. Can they be SERIOUS? The fox won’t have changed his spots or purged the stench of Zionism. Common sense says he should have his security clearance revoked and never be allowed near the levers of power again.
As for Libya, he told the Conservative Party Conference earlier this month: “Libya offered us a very clear choice: We could stand by and do nothing… or we could act. In the words of the Prime Minister our action in Libya is ‘necessary, legal and right’.
“David Cameron’s statecraft, leadership and resolve prevented what would have been a humanitarian disaster and we should be proud of what we have accomplished. Libya has shown that Britain remains a global player.”
The RAF, he said, contributed 20% of coalition air strikes. Using high-tech weapon systems “we have prevented civilian causalities and shown that we value human life more than Gaddafi’s brutal regime”. That’s debatable given our casual attitude to innocent lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and Occupied Palestine, and the humanitarian disasters we have helped create there. And it remains to be seen just how “necessary, legal and right” our action has been in Libya. There are deep rumblings about the conduct of the NATO operation, Britain’s role and whether it wasn’t just an ego-trip for the “Three Stooges” Cameron, Hague and Fox. It may be some time before the full truth emerges.
“To represent Britain in war as well as in peace,” Fox told Conference, “is to represent our inherent democratic values, the rule of law and respect for life.” Noble words. But his gangster friends in Israel, whose enemies he wants us to fight, represent none of those fine qualities.
His colleagues are happy to tell the media what a splendid job Fox has been doing at the Ministry of Defence. Nevertheless the MoD remains a mean-spirited shambles, a disgrace that’s not fit to wipe the boots of our troops let alone order them into battle.
And few will forgive Fox for scrapping the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, along with the entire fleet of Harrier jump-jets and the new Nimrod spy planes, leaving us denuded of capability, stripped of important skills and weakened not just for now but for years, possibly decades to come.
I have just heard a Conservative Party mandarin on the BBC saying that Fox will be missed by the party and by the country. The party, 80 per cent of whose MPs are believed to be Friends of Israel, will of course miss him. And Israel will miss him. But this country is glad to see the back of him.
Calls are now being made for wider enquiries into the underworld connections of all ministers. High time too, but seeing who has the executive power in this land such an idea has a snowball’s chance in hell of being taken seriously.
Stuart Littlewood
16 October 2011
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Stuart Littlewood’s book Radio Free Palestine can now be read on the internet by visiting www.radiofreepalestine.org.uk
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“For years Fox has been an Israel flag-waver at the heart of British government, a man with dangerous beliefs and demonstrably weak judgment. It is inconceivable that those who appointed him could not see that he was unemployable as a Minister of the British Crown.”
Israel ‘owns’ ‘em.
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They are NOT CONSERVATIVES, they are LIBERALS in men’s clothes ….. What is a NeoCon? Neocon is a neo-conservative who began as anti-Stalinist Trotskyist before moving to the “Fabian” right in U.S. politics. NeoCons have roots in the Leon Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1950s and 1970s that movement morphed into anti-communist liberalism. Today the NeoCons are embedded in the imperial right and militarism of the U.S. defense and foreign affairs departments.
The original neocons were a small group of mostly Jewish liberal intellectuals who, in the 1960s and 70s, grew disenchanted with what they saw as the American left’s social excesses and reluctance to spend adequately on defense. Many of these neocons worked in the 1970s for Democratic Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, a staunch anti-communist. By the 1980s, most neocons had become Republicans, finding in President Ronald Reagan an avenue for their aggressive approach of confronting the Soviet Union with bold rhetoric and steep hikes in military spending. After the Soviet Union’s fall, the neocons decried what they saw as American complacency. In the 1990s, they warned of the dangers of reducing both America’s defense spending and its role in the world.
Unlike their predecessors, most younger neocons never experienced being left of center. They’ve always been “Reagan” Republicans.
What is the difference between a neoconservative and a conservative?
Liberals first applied the “neo” prefix to their comrades who broke ranks to become more conservative in the 1960s and 70s. The defectors remained more liberal on some domestic policy issues. But foreign policy stands have always defined neoconservatism. Where other conservatives favored détente and containment of the Soviet Union, neocons pushed direct confrontation, which became their raison d’etre during the 1970s and 80s.
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Libya and, whats in the build up fase, Syria, those conflicts are fabricated.
I was initialy fooled, not because the “Arab Spring” but for the sake of the Arab people. The Tunis and Egypt was all about building consensus, to initalt Libya and Syria.
Full Spectrum Dominace, its so obvious and clear, but the silence about it is Earshattering and Total. Even when represetants of USA gov. telsit strait out. Nobody reacts.
Spocky.
The fact is that this has partialy sucseeded and has it own momentum now, and the consensus building is massive.
The MSM is so out of reality that its stunning to behold. Its wirtualy imposible to make the alter anything, nomatter the profs shown.
Ex: Libya, there is no evidences to atrosetys comitted by Gaddafy, non.
The initial “masacres” dint happen at all.
The propaganda so lowsy and clumsy, but still people dont see or want to see.
Why
Because of the political games, the Leftside and the Rightside is in it, both of them and the only real differenc is only sematics. They are bombing anyway.
I am afraid we walk strait into a world wide war, now that North Africa and also in Sub Saharand lands are there wars and a heavy USA presence(aka: the military ind. compleks).
Just wait and see, Alger is next. And the same aproche, undermine and build up a “legitim” resistans and then transfer the Legitim Powers t that “consilium”.
Just look at Syria. They are on track there and are already “legetimising” a new official legal Goverment in Tyrkey.
The Libyan way.
Are we becomed so blind that its not aboutnot able to see, people refuse to see. They are more confortable with their heads thrusted deep into the Sand.
I am not a “religious” man, but the closest notion I gett in the Bible, to describe this days, is that We all are walking strait into The wally of Shaddows.
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The following is just one example of how these People misuse their right to Freedom of Speech to Slander and Murder Innocent People and to destroy Nations, while denying People their Legitimate right to inform the Citizens who Voted for Them.
There is a Responsibility to Protect Justice that every Judge has a Responsibly to Protect the Innocent, and to Protect the Community from the Guilty by not being Bribed to Pervert the Course of Justice.
This comment proves the Corruption of Evil America, the Evil European Union, and the Evil NATO Organization, and this is not Milosevic propaganda, but it is based on facts, just like the American and NATO Murderers have schemed against Libya, and long after Slobodan Milosevic.
I have slightly added to what Wikipedia says in order to provide more points for Consideration, and : Wikipedia Modified says: “Slobodan Milosevic was arrested by Yugoslav federal authorities on Saturday, 31 March 2001, on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement at America’s demand. The investigation into Slobodan Milosevic faltered for lack of evidence, prompting America’s Puppet Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Dindic to send Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague where Slobodan Milosevic arrived at The Hague on 29 June 2011 to stand trial for charges of war crimes instead. Slobodan Milosevic conducted his own defence in the Five Year long trial, which ended without a verdict when he died under suspicious circumstances on 11 March 2006 in his prison cell in The Hague. Slobodan Milosevic who suffered from heart ailments and high blood pressure, died of a heart attack. The Biased and Corrupt Kangaroo Court denies any responsibility for Slobodan Milosevic’s death. If you can believe everything they say, they claim that he refused to take the prescribed medicines that may have been wrongly prescribed poisons which he possibly did take, but the Kangaroo Court denied that he took them, and The Hague claims, possibly falsely, that Slobodan Milosevic medicated himself instead.”
There are People who will say that even though Hitler was not put on Trial, everyone accepts that he was Guilty, and that is because built such a huge Army, Navy, and Air Force to attack other Countries; his Illegal and Immoral Occupation of Czechoslovakia and invasion of Poland, along with many other things; whereas, the Serbs were only defending themselves from American Sponsored and Directed Aggressors.
Had Hitler been put on Trial, then the Dirty and Unjust Tactics would not have been needed, as they were with Slobodan Milosevic, and the Prosecutors against Hitler could prove there case in at one month, but after Five Years, the Corrupt and Bribed Kangaroo Court could not prove their case against Slobodan Milosevic.
This is just like America’s Puppet Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Dindic could not prove corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement at America’s demand, yet America is Guilty of al of these things on top of Pre-mediating Conspiring with The European Union and NATO to commit Physical, Economic, and Cultural Genocide on the Innocent Serbian People.
Milosevic knew, and student of History, knows that America never kept even one agreement that was made in writing with the Indians, and that they have not changed in the slightest, and so Milosevic was in a difficult position.
These Videos shows us the true nature of the Kangaroo Courts that are set up by England and America, and that they are truly places of Show Trials and are places to further their Many Injustices, and Crimes against Humanity.
At the same time, the Illegal, Immoral, and Corrupt International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia are the Nazis method to whitewash Anglo-American Land Theft, and Anglo-American War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
The Title of the Videos on the Internet is: SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT, and I found a five part Documentary on the internet, Unless the CIA changes the internet location, in an attempt to make me look like a liar or a deviant, in order to try to discredit what I wrote.
SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 1/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FusfOqCtqc ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 2/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1g7Uzgw-Q ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 3/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfoNuS_3og. ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 4/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5AmumT_7Os ; SHOCKING: Slobodan Milosevic was INNOCENT Part 5/5, can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHqaIDBpVZc.
The Honourable thing for Most of the American and European Politicians to do is to Confess to their Guilt for the good of their Nations, and for the good of the World; however, Most of Them have Little or No Honour.
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