I have a confession tIo make.
When a journalist writes this it generally means they will proceed to reveal something they hope will actually show them in a good light or justified in some way. But I have a real confession to make, of something I did that was wron
Somewhere in the UK, among the papers of a dead loved one which nobody has the heart to throw out, in cardboard boxes in dusty attics or deep in the filing cabinets of Jeremy Corbyn, exist still a few copies of thousands of letters bearing my authentic signature.
These letters, on expensive paper with an impressive Foreign and Commonwealth Office crested header, state that the British Government will not deal with the African National Congress because it is a terrorist organisation.
Many of them go on to state that Nelson Mandela is a terrorist who was rightly convicted of terrorism by a South African court after a free and fair trial.
I really did write those thousands of letters, not just sign them. I did not believe a single word of it, and was only “doing my job” as a civil servant, but in a sense that makes it worse.
So I know how many government functionaries currently feel in carrying out the government’s policy of supporting and indeed actively participating in genocide.
When I joined the FCO, in my “fast stream” intake of 22 I was one of only two who was not public school and the only one who was not Oxbridge. I also had the unusual background of being a member of CND, Friends of Palestine and various other activist groups.
I could not be excluded because in the several days and stages of public examinations I had (tied with 2 others) outperformed everybody else of the 80,000 people who had entered the Civil Service administrative exams (it was 1984 with 3.5 million unemployed).
But the security services were not happy, and my “positive vetting” was delayed. This is an extremely exhaustive process (nowadays direct vetting) for those with the highest security clearance. An MOD officer, usually retired military, is assigned to investigate everything about you for months, including interviewing many who know you.
So while I joined the FCO in September 1984, for five months I was not given a job but rather put on full time French language training together with three other misfits (one of whom I think was being given extra investigation because his uncle was Roger Hollis).
In the end my positive vetting was left with a query, and I was pulled in to see the Head of Personnel Department. They said that they had decided to grant my vetting certificate, but that I was going to be placed on the South Africa (Political) desk as a direct test of whether it was possible for me to put my politics aside and function as a civil servant.
So I did. You tell yourself many things to get by, chiefly that the UK is a democracy and ministers are elected by voters to determine policy; whereas you as a civil servant are merely carrying through the wishes of the voters.
Thatcher was Prime Minister and she simply was a straightforward supporter of apartheid. This is much denied but I am an eye witness. Geoffrey Howe was Foreign Minister and it was never easy to determine what he thought about anything. Junior ministers running day to day policy were Lynda Chalker and Malcolm Rifkind, who were both viscerally anti-apartheid.
But the line that Mandela was a terrorist and the ANC a terrorist organisation was dictated by Thatcher and absolutely insisted upon.
It is difficult now to explain the intensity of feeling in the UK and the strength of the anti-apartheid campaign. Scores of letters would arrive every day, many from MPs, and – this bit is hard to believe now – in those days every letter would be answered point by point, not with a generic reply.
I was writing those replies by hand, and then giving them to the secretaries to type up. In 1985 the Department got its first word processor and I was able to draft forty template paragraphs and select from those for the replies. But out those replies went from Craig Murray, stating that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist, thousands of them.
I was very actively involved in the Whitehall battle to change the policy, but that is a different story which I have in part explained before.
But this is an extremely important thought that I want you all to ponder.
In 1985, the Terrorism Act 2000 was still 15 years away. There was no such thing as a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act.
Under today’s legislation, every single one of those people writing in support of the African National Congress or out campaigning for the release of Nelson Mandela would have been liable for arrest under Section 12 1 (a) of the Terrorism Act.
That is the danger of allowing the state to dictate whom you must consider a terrorist and punishing those who disagree with the state.
In 1985 the official position of the British state was that the ANC were terrorists and apartheid South Africa were the good guys.
In 2024 the official position of the British state is that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists and apartheid Israel are the good guys.
The state can be wrong.
It is therefore not an irony that Starmer and Cooper banned Nelson Mandela’s grandson from entering the UK as a “terrorist sympathiser” because of his support for Palestine. In this as so much else, Starmer is a follower of Thatcher
The difference forty years later is that the state is now persecuting British citizens and locking them up for daring to say that the state can be wrong.
The ANC example explains why it is essential we do not give way to this pressure.
Let us face facts. Like most resistance units against colonialism, the ANC were indeed forced by the exigencies of asymmetric warfare into actions that were careless of, or even targeted the lives of, colonial settler civilians.
That did not put them on the wrong side of history. Apartheid South Africa was wrong just as Apartheid Israel is wrong. Occupied people have, in international law, the right of armed resistance. Within that context of lawful struggle, individuals remain accountable for individual war crimes.
The Terrorism Act, abused by the Israel lobby to make it illegal to support Israel’s opponents, is fundamentally bad legislation. It literally provides for up to 14 years in jail if you “express an opinion” in favour of a proscribed organisation.
40 years ago it would have been used against the large majority of the population who “expressed an opinion” in favour of the ANC, officially viewed as a terrorist organisation.
The sickening ratcheting up of pressure on Palestine supporters by super Zionist Keir Starmer continued yesterday with a 6am raid on highly distinguished journalist Asa Winstanley. All his electronics and journalistic materials were seized.
Panicked Zionist “elites” who run western states are lashing out in fear at their opponents. As their popular support evaporates in the face of clear evidence of appalling Israeli atrocities, they are resorting to the methods of fascism.
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33 thoughts on “Who Are the Terrorists?”
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Jack
October 18, 2024 at 08:56
It is therefore not an irony that Starmer and Cooper banned Nelson Mandela’s grandson from entering the UK as a “terrorist sympathiser” because of his support for Palestine. In this as so much else, Starmer is a follower of Thatcher.
The Global South must become more active; it annoys me how passive they are. They should initiate instant ban on western politicians/ambassadors etc. that have expressed any support for Israel. Tit for tat.
The western hegemony is unfortunately so easily upheld, because there is no party on the other side that takes the fight.
The whole terrorism label is wholly politicized, defunct.
ANC were terrorists then suddenly they were not. Same with PLO, same with Contras, same with Kahane Chai, same with Mujahedin e-Khalq, same with Afghan Mujahedin etc. – time and time again one sees how the West use the terrorist label when it fits not the law but when it fits their geopolitical interests.
Or take Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army could time and time again attack Russian civilians in Russia proper and no Western politician voices condemnation or labels Ukraine a terrorist state; instead the West are busy raiding the homes of pro-Palestinian journalists in the West, labeling them terrorist supporters for exposing the crimes of the terrorist state of Israel.
UK police raid home, seize devices of EI’s Asa Winstanley
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/uk-police-raid-home-seize-devices-eis-asa-winstanley
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Robert Stewart
October 18, 2024 at 09:38
Thanks Craig, it is really important to understand the biggest lobby advantages were “agreed” years ago. I understand my role preparing regulated reports for an imaginary board; doesn’t have the glitz and glamour of the civil service. The reason I chose that role is the independent fund managers use very old advantages in the capitalist system. These laws and psychological tools of governance and accountancy are drafted in a way that – unconsciously – allows most humans to have a good excuse for not knowing them.
The number one statement I was told by managers, senior managers and even directors: “it doesn’t matter” – very few had the adequate background of corporate law and finance. Basically none having any practical experience of the actual duties of booking trades or speaking to investors or speaking to regulators. My function as a consolidator of global market data, to be interpreted by global market laws and reported to investors on an equal basis; in line with the prospectus and the older capital laws of companies: “didn’t matter” – it didn’t matter because very few understand our banking laws and the banks like it that way.
I stated that the responsibilities we imagine rest with government had passed to the banks; in 2009 they realised the banks had messed up; government had let them get away with it. The slew of laws sat between law and accountancy with neither professional class taking responsibility: still believing it rests with government.
The final stage of the market is the lowly investor, the key workers who pay a contribution to take part in society and so to their representative the independent fund manager. The laws on terrorism are actually embedded in this legislation and because it is a G7 market rule set the US interpretation where “dollars are speech” equity splits the opinion of the market. It’s not by chance that Blackrock and State Street started consolidation of our independent voices. The corporate policy of avoiding politics similar to the civil service; framing professional conduct only in areas of entity interest: my colleagues work for the business of buying assets. I have always worked for society’s future; the conduct rules and market rules should prevent all that we see in society. However, it needs impetus from the market; it requires truth.
Before we had fact checkers and all the other professional groups, wise kings had auditors; and because normally the king’s wisdom was debatable, those who dealt with them had accountants. I am on the oldest rules and they are all consistent. If you care about these things please learn, from someone else if you find me offensive; the funding of genocide is illegal. You simply need to find the laws in a body of work no one has read because the board I report to is a part-time duty based on the imaginary idea of what a board working on your behalf would be interested in. I respect the truth, I read the laws and the guidance for twenty years. Our investors care about more than profit.
Best regards,
Rob
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Greg Park
October 18, 2024 at 09:17
In case an impression is formed of the viscerally anti apartheid former foreign Secretary Sir Malcom Rifkind as a thoroughly good egg – one of the “fundamentally decent” British politicians of legend – he went on the BBC last October to say everyone in Gaza should be denied water and electricity. Sir Malcom is a former honorary secretary of Conservative Friends of Israel, so it may safely be assumed that his opinions on any expression of sympathy (or even understanding) for Palestinian and Lebanese resistance are strident.
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Greg Park
October 18, 2024 at 09:19
Sir Malcom’s son, the Times columnist Hugo Rifkind, said Sir Keir Starmer was having a good “war” in Gaza shortly after the now PM went on LBC to likewise express support for collective punishment.
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Squeeth
October 18, 2024 at 10:35
You aren’t the only person who has had to learn the hard way about the inherently fascist nature of the state and its bureaucracies. The surprise isn’t in the conforming to them but in the rejection of conformity once you realise that you can’t keep your conscience and the money, and that you’d rather have clean hands. Well done that bloke.
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Charlton Lewis
October 18, 2024 at 19:09
Well said squeeth
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Peter
October 18, 2024 at 11:00
“The sickening ratcheting up of pressure on Palestine supporters by super Zionist Keir Starmer continued yesterday … Panicked Zionist “elites” who run western states are lashing out in fear at their opponents. As their popular support evaporates in the face of clear evidence of appalling Israeli atrocities, they are resorting to the methods of fascism.”
The rolling back of democracy and the descent into fascism is well advanced in the UK. The total establishment control of a compliant mainstream media is just one example of this and their spinning of a tissue of lies about the war in Ukraine and their disgusting support for genocide in Gaza are just two graphic demonstrations of it. The competition between the two candidates in the Tory leadership contest to be the most anti-immigrant is another.
Starmer is well versed in the methods of authoritarianism having expelled hundreds, if not thousands, from the Labour Party on spurious grounds, Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension then removal of the whip being only the most glaring. Add to that his virtual suspension of free speech in the Labour Party and, worse still, his support for Israel denying food, water, power and medical supplies to the entire Gaza population. “They have that right” he said. We all saw and heard it.
But as we have a compliant media and political class there is no serious public discussion of these issues, much less any debate in Parliament.
Exactly one month ago Craig wrote about the development of a new political party of the left, “The Collective”, putatively/provisionally led by Jeremy Corbyn pending, as I understand it, the selection/election of a new leader.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/a-new-left-wing-party-in-the-uk/
Any serious new party of the left would have to engage with and confront the above issues fully and fearlessly in the knowledge that they could be jailed.
I would suggest that any such new party should have democratic renewal front and centre as one of its main policies (possibly reflected in its party name) and that the proposal and national discussion of a new democratic constitution for the UK should be in the forefront of that.
Such proposals, public discourse and policy could potentially be a world-leading example of democratic modernisation and a counter to the increasing insanity that we are now witnessing.
In the meantime what, if anything, is happening with the five independent UK MPs elected on a ‘support Gaza’ platform?
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Satan’s More Affable Brother
October 18, 2024 at 11:11
For me the most chilling revelation in the Ed Snowden biography PERMANENT RECORD was that workers at the NSA spent their lunchtimes watching Fox News. And this was Fox News at its rabid, warmongering worst.
But it makes perfect sense. if you’re paranoid about tariotrs and whistleblowers then you’ll recruit exclusively from the ranks of unquestioning patriots. Snowden himself was an unquestioning patriot who was converted to Establishment-critic by the nature of what he discovered in the course of his job.
The problem is that unquestioning patriots are, by very defintion, not the smartest and most analytical among us. If they’re futher vetted at promotion stage (by the Israel lobby, for instance) then you end up with a leadership that’s fundamentally weak and susceptible to woolly thinking and delusion. One can observe a similiar process throughtout the entire political system/media class — few would argue that the quality of those we see nightly on our TV screens is not at an all-time low.
Napoleon Bonaparte surrounded himself with generals who were brave enough to question him. The western political system, on the other hand, is being rotted from within by mediocrtities who don’t question anything.
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M.J.
October 18, 2024 at 11:15
I don’t judge you (Craig) for being an obedient civil servant in the 1980s. I’m impressed by your having coming top out of 80,000 in a difficult series of tests. The real tragedy is that of such a gifted person not having been better used by the government. Of course you found other things to do.
I have written to my MP, that the recent repression of journalists sends a very bad message, that British politicians cannot be trrusted not to misuse power, and that the laws on freedom of speech and the press need strengthening, whether by amending legislation or by being tested in court.
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amanfromMars
October 18, 2024 at 13:48
I have written to my MP, that the recent repression of journalists sends a very bad message, that British politicians cannot be trrusted not to misuse power, and that the laws on freedom of speech and the press need strengthening, whether by amending legislation or by being tested in court. ……… M.J. shared October 18, 2024 at 11:15
Methinks a letter to Santa Claus, c/o the North Pole, asking for a particular Xmas present would have been your time better spent, M.J.
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M.J.
October 18, 2024 at 14:04
If every reader of my message wrote a similar one to their MP (of whatever party), then I think it might have an impact. But if every reader thought ‘a letter to Santa Claus would be time better spent’ then indeed we would expect that the impact would be less.
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Bayard
October 18, 2024 at 19:36
“If every reader of my message wrote a similar one to their MP (of whatever party), then I think it might have an impact.”
I very much doubt it. What sanctions do constituents have against an MP who routinely ignores them? Only one, which is to replace them with someone else who will ignore them at the next election, up to five years away. However, the sanctions that the party has against MPs who ignore its wishes are real and immediate. Of which do you think the MP is going to take more notice?
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Lysias
October 18, 2024 at 20:27
Here in the U.S., we have a First Amendment, a constitutional text that apparently guarantees freedom of speech, which has not not prevented various episodes in our history where that freedom was ignored. It seems incredible that a Eugene Debs could be locked up in a federal prison for a long term for delivering a very mild speech critical of this country’s participation in the First World War, when the justification for war was so threadbare. (Thank God Harding had the decency to commute Debs’s sentence.)
Paper guarantees of rights are only good so far. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have recently spoken critically of the First Amendment.
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MR MARK CUTTS
October 18, 2024 at 13:11
Any State that has to do what it is doing currently and in the future is not a good State at all. It is a fearful State.
I’m sure that the very same Liberals in the US and the UK would use Stalin/Hitler and even Putin as an example of what a paranoid State will do under pressure.
Yet as guardians of The Rule Based Order they are engaging in breaking the rules they allege to abide by. They are under the boot of the US – as are the European Elites and to myself seem to be in a similar position as they were after the end of WW2.
The Germans to be fair had a reason – they were beaten but the victors have no such excuses and for all the talk of ‘Sovereignty’, they now have none. They all may as well fly the US Flag and make their national Anthems The Stars and Stripes.
Pathetic bunch.
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amanfromMars
October 18, 2024 at 13:39
And lest one forget, there is always the UKGBNI fascist state employment of media and propaganda against Sinn Fein to remember, which authorities insisted on constantly equating and reminding punters were really a provisional arm of a terrorist organisation, the IRA.
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El Dee
October 18, 2024 at 13:52
I remember my own vetting, only a couple of weeks shorter and for very similar reasons. Of course I was much lowlier in the service. Despite the Civil Service Code telling us to act on behalf of the ‘government of the day’ and ‘regardless of our own opinions’ they are very sure to bring on people whose opinions closely match their own as possible. Name another job where it would be desired (never mind legal) to look into someone’s political affiliation.
One thing I do disagree with is ‘legitimate targets’ of any armed organisation. Unarmed civilians are OUT. Military targets, those who form their own armed groups (that could possibly include some settlers due to the violence they inflict on others) and military personnel along with TOP political targets ie the leaders of a group’s political party (as aside from the military) I appreciate that there’s sometimes little difference between those last two but still. If civilians die in war it should be absolute minimal ‘collateral damage’ The example of a single cleaner on a military base Versus a single soldier in a tower block shows the IDF complete lack of care (at best) for Palestinian lives and the desire to ‘ethnically cleanse’ at worst.
Sadly I’m very aware as I write this that someone will try, deliberately, to misread this as support for ‘terrorism’ It’s not, it’s support for the Geneva Convention, for Humanitarian Law and for a sense of morality to prevail..
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Alyson
October 18, 2024 at 14:30
I shared the link here, a couple of pages back, to Asa Winstanley’s comprehensive, fully detailed and totally evidenced timeline for the events of October 7th last year. It does not surprise me that the powers that be would want access to all his sources. The horror cannot be overstated, and the facts completely overturn the official narrative. It would seem no one here was interested but someone somewhere wants the truth well hidden from ordinary people. The subhuman monsters who left charcoal statues of the party goers, and blew every vehicle to bits, including the majority of the intended hostages, plus their own ground troops, are beyond any rules of war.
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rick
October 18, 2024 at 15:26
The increase in police raids is an indicative expression of the Police State’s intent to persecute and intimidate the Pro-Palestine Movement in the UK and exile it to the margins (defeated and fearful) of public consciousness and history. In response the resistance must arise, congregate and force the issue of state control and repression onto the public agenda directly by mass protest and disobedience. Every protester must identify and openly display his solidarity with pro-Palestinian resistance en masse. Time is urgent an imperialist war threatens in the Middle East do any of us believe that the UK will not be directly involved on the bidding of Israel and the US in this war of the West against the Resistance and Iran?
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Wilshire
October 18, 2024 at 15:44
It’s never totally pointless to revisit old cliches. A famous one related to the topic of this article is: “One Man’s Terrorist, Another Man’s Freedom Fighter” This cliche has been rehashed ad nauseam in countless undergraduate essays for the last few decades. For example.
https://www.e-ir.info/2018/11/29/is-one-mans-terrorist-another-mans-freedom-fighter/
Likewise, underlining the changing assessments of various activists movements according to later geopolitical outcomes is like pushing very hard on a wide open door. And obviously in our modern Western culture, the most common example is that of the ANC in South Africa. Here also a routine curriculum for university students. See for instance:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/educators/militant/lesson2.html
The real question, seldom addressed, is that of individual responsibility, especially in cases such as Craig Murray confesses. Is obeying orders a valid excuse? When one is fully aware that authorities are acting against justice and human rights? Can you later be forgiven for your former complicity?
I guess many of us have to try and answer this question. Better late than never…
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Bayard
October 18, 2024 at 19:40
That’s such a meaningless distinction in that the two concepts are not mutually exclusive: you can use terror to achieve your aims and not be fighting for freedom, you can use terror to achieve your aims in the course of fighting for freedom and you can fight for freedom without using terror.
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M.J.
October 18, 2024 at 15:49
I added a PS to my message when I later came across a first-hand account of starvation from a young journalist in Gaza. You read that right. Be warned that it is not easy to listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ltJz_L6zBA
If the UK government doesn’t want to be a facillitator of crimes against humanity, it had better stop leaning on journalists who report such things.
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frankywiggles
October 18, 2024 at 17:04
The UK government is continuing to grant export licences for vital components for the F-35 fighter jets that have killed scores of thousands of innocents in Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-british-officials-warned-criminal-liability-over-f-35-exports-israel
For over a year the RAF has been servicing Israeli fighter jets, ferrying huge transporter planes to Israel and flying surveillance operations over Gaza.
Indeed the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz very early on identified RAF Akotiri in Cyprus as the international logistical hub for the Genocide.
Keir Starmer said Israel has the legal right to deny Gazans food and water, and that every other depraved act by the IDF is merely Israel defending itself. He has increased the number of military flights to Israel.
David Lammy said Israel has the legal right to bomb refugee camps because Palestinians raped babies on October 7th.
Take your pick.
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Brendan
October 18, 2024 at 16:48
As the writer Brendan Behan said, the man with a big bomb is a statesman while the man with a small bomb is a terrorist.
What could be more statesmanlike than Netanyahu using loads of American bunker-buster bombs to demolish apartment blocks in Beirut and kill hundreds of civilians, just to kill the ‘terrorist’ Hassan Nasrallah? He even gave the go ahead just after giving a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York.
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Brian Red
October 18, 2024 at 17:17
“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.”
Zionazis are probably dancing with joy at the thought that Palestinian resistance leader Yahya Sinwar, injured and sitting in a bombed out building as a Zionazi drone flies in to film him, only threw a stick at the said drone because he was a “terrorist”.
Quite probably most white British readers of the British MSM think “Hell, yeah, what a subhuman. And he has the gall to throw a stick!”
It’s interesting that British TV programmes were apparently interrupted recently for a news bulletin announcing the death of some young pop star or other whose name I don’t remember. (I think his surname may have been Payne.)
Were they testing for another interruption? Nuclear war or other use of WMD maybe? Or an infrastructure whack. Or could be the death of the monarch.
It just smells as though the b*stards are up to something.
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Bob (original)
October 18, 2024 at 16:58
Is it simply an inevitability as you get older,
that you realise that you have never actually lived in a democracy,
that your own country’s historic wealth was built on terrible crimes committed around the world,
and that nothing really changes…?
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Brian Red
October 18, 2024 at 18:03
@Bob – Did you ever hear phrases such as “peasant wagon” for a bus? Just wondering.
The rulers in Britain are very well aware that they are the rulers. They know it from when they are young children.
Any ruling class sh*t of say 12 years old will know what a “peasant wagon” is.
They consider the lower orders to be subhumans. Barbarians, heathens, degenerates. But the word “subhuman” best captures the attitude. Or livestock.
If you follow their culture carefully, you will see that the apparent paying of respect to anyone in the lower orders is almost always linked to that person’s skivvying for them. It’s never linked to a notion of shared humanity, or respect for a person for playing a role in their family, enjoying their life peacefully, caring for others, being creative, or anything like that. Because those are HUMAN behaviours.
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Brian Red
October 18, 2024 at 17:05
“The difference forty years later is that the state is now persecuting British citizens and locking them up for daring to say that the state can be wrong.”
The British police are also doing things like seizing computer equipment and phones without even charging people with anything.
A lot changed during Covid, including the police stopping protests that were lawful, and harassing people doing other lawful things too, such as going for a walk or sitting down on a bench.
In the past few days there has been wide and supportive media coverage of the police seizing cars from men who are supposed to have catcalled at women joggers. I don’t in any way defend such harassment of women. But this is a case of punishment without trial. And blatantly so. And no “journalist” dares to notice. No charges, no trial, no calls to a lawyer or right to present a defence – just the police thieving stuff from people, saying they’ve broken the law. While e.g. local council officials spew out whole paragraphs of robotspeak to celebrate the police actions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13954489/Police-seize-cars-men-catcalling-women-joggers-fact-undercover-female-officers-disguise.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y1m393j0o
Harassment is unlawful. But people are being punished for it without even being charged with doing it.
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Lysias
October 18, 2024 at 19:49
Imprisoned former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been excluded from the list of eligible candidates for the office of Chancellor of the University of Oxford just released by the university. So graduates of that university cannot vote for him in the election for the office the university is about to hold, in order to replace the current chancellor, Chris Patten, who is about to leave the office. When Middle East Eye questioned the university about the reason for this decision, they gave no answer.
This decision is particularly unfortunate because the circumstances of his incarceration have become ominous. The lights have been turned off in his cell, so that he now lives in the dark. Up to now, his food in the prison has been cooked by his own cook, but that cook has now been sent away.
Middle East Eye quotes a peer in the House of Lords who says that the university was subjected to severe legal and political pressure to exclude Khan’s candidacy. What makes this relevant to this thread is that a lot of the pressure almost certainly came from officials in the UK government.
The publicity that would have resulted from his being elected Chancellor, or even from his running for the post, might have prevented his judicial murder, which now looks all too likely.
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Lysias
October 18, 2024 at 19:56
Khan would have been a powerful and influential opponent of the genocide now taking place in Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon.
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Johnny Oh45
October 18, 2024 at 18:07
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Whose footsteps do they follow
Beneath the grave below the rubble
At whose command must they obey
Imprisoned in the Camp of Death
The noose of Famine, World’s blockade
A hyssop stick won’t find its way
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Hearts of stone don’t turn your back
Or cross by on the other side
The ruined schools and hospitals
Assassinated long since died
Like journalists.
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
The Moloch’s on the loose there
The halter’s off its neck
Unfettered on the godless track
Its maw is ruby red.
In its bellows defiant pride
Demands all Helpers turn aside
Calling down the rain of bombs
White phosphorus, uranium, for drones
And cluster strikes to come
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
What turns their water into wine
Their towns to dust and tears to blood
Their love to hate which swells the Flood
Of crimes they perpetrate. In your name Lord ?
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Can they hide ? Hypnotism, Mesmerize
Illusion’s shadows flame and dance both far and wide
To gild the masses and disguise, the Horror
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
For the Dispenser of broadcaster’s gold
To tell them don’t believe your eyes
To block your ears to hear their cries
Christ is tortured – Crucified
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
While the beast of Zion prowls among the tented folk
The infidels of every faith erect their altars
To embrace its Human sacrifice. To slake its thirst for blood
And for its sake to fashion golden idols
For their-selves to celebrate
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
What neighbours such as these
Could you commend to live in peace and amity.
From the Euphrates river to the sea
No limits or no lines ( except in blood) could you depend
Until this beast is shackled and defanged
Its commands for tribute, blood and Land
Will not be sated
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
To whom will it be offered as a bride
Or receive the hand of friendship in this life ?
Slaves and sacrifice is what it craves
Appeasing Zion’s hopes is just delay
The piles of bones you see will only grow
And yours among the last that it will show
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Alone. Inferno. Raging in its pride
Its lust will burn the world and all inside
Dowse its flames in Solidarity
Resist its pain in Unity
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
Repent with all your heart- you have delayed
To rouse and raise yourself- you can be saved
To join the battle albeit late
Join issue with the mighty ones of fate
To stand your ground and not to yield
In times like this the Poet brings his shield
The Genocide before our Eyes
Jabalia and Beit Hanoun in Gaza
In the Land of Palestine.
13/10/2024
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Wilshire
October 18, 2024 at 19:36
The children’s cries are drowned by bombs,
Their homes, their dreams reduced to dust,
No shelter from the storm of war,
Where every breath betrays their trust,
And hope lies buried deep beneath.
The mothers’ tears could fill the sea,
As fathers dig the graves of sons,
Their hands once built a life in peace,
Now grasping shards of what was once—
A city turned to ash and bone.
The world looks on, indifferent, cold,
Its silence loud as death descends,
In Gaza’s streets where shadows fall,
On lives too fragile to defend,
And every promise left unkept.
10/18/2024
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Johnny Oh45
October 18, 2024 at 20:02
That’s a good poem
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Republicofscotland
October 18, 2024 at 20:11
I think we all know who the terrorists are – and who are not – however if we point out which is which – we could find ourselves locked up for doing so.
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