Campaigners, politicians & commentators
Richard Keith Wolff reports:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, philosopher
The Iraq war (2003 to present) has important parallels with America’s experience in the Vietnam War (1959 –1975), as the American experience in the Vietnam War did to the French experience in the former Vietnam War 'French Indochina War' (1950–1954).
The Afghanistan war (2001 to present) has important parallels to America’s experience in the Vietnam War (1959 –1975), and to the Russian previous experience in Afghanistan (1979 – 1989) and to the British defeat in Kabul 1842.
"The first victim of war is truth " Rudyard Kipling
Glossary of modern usages:
WAR ON TERROR: is an advertising slogan for war, it sets the required climate of fear that leaves little room for reason or compassion. The slogan has been used in recent years to promote preemptive war, war crimes, civilian bombing, crimes against humanity, kidnapping, torture including out sourcing torture, the breaking of international law and for removing many civil rights and freedoms.
The main strategic results of the so called ‘War on Terror’ or ‘War on Terrorism’ for the perpetrators are an increase in enemies, an increase in terrorism, less national security, astronomical costs in both human and financial terms.
Key humanitarian sequence of results is an exchange of dictators to slightly more compliant dictators, an increase in human suffering, numerous refugees, numerous people injured, over a million deaths and counting. Long term pollution from toxic military materials. The key benefits: short period of delusions of grandeur for political leaders, long period of greatly increased arms sales and other vested business interests including domination of oil resources.
‘War on Terror’ is a slogan, which does not actually mean anything; it is in itself a contradiction, because war is terror.
"Fear is the parent of cruelty" Bertrand Russell
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION: Kidnapping
ENHANCED INTERROGATION: Torture
"Enhanced interrogation" is believed to be a translation from the German "Verschärfte Vernehmung," a Gestapo technique / war crime. Techniques used are designed to enhance pain and stress.
INTERROGATION METHODOLOGY: Ironically some of the American torture techniques are derived from Chinese Communist techniques used on American soldiers POW during the Korean War to elicit false confessions for propaganda. As would be reasonably expected these re-adapted torture techniques have produced the same results in Guantánamo, Bagram and other torture detention camps.
"Torture leaves a permanent, damaging mark on the person tortured". The Helen Bamber Foundation.
"My great lesson from Auschwitz is - whoever wants to dehumanise any other must first be dehumanised himself. The oppressors are no longer really human whatever uniform they wear." Dr. Hajo Meyer.
WATERBOARDING: A form of torture that produces the effect for the victim of drowning and near death. It was used in Medieval times by the Spanish Inquisition ranging to modern times, the Khmer Rouge, the CIA to intimidate, punish and to force false confessions or false information. It produces lasting psychological and health damage. Torture is needless to say illegal, immoral and valueless if not misleading for intelligence information. However it has been reported to have produced the false information required by President Bush administration to promote the invasion of Iraq.
“Waterboarding is a torture by drowning, a type of torture from the middle ages, and that's where we should send it back, because that's where it belongs”. Clive Stafford Smith OBE, human rights lawyer, Legal Director of the UK branch Reprieve, he received the Gandhi International Peace Award in 2005
EXPERT INTERVIEWER: Torturer; can be suggested by these two words, given pertinent contexts, in Government linguistics.
INTELLIGENCE: Tailoring information around government policy objectives.
SOCPA: Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, a new English law that includes controversial restrictions on the right to demonstrate, with out prior Police permission, within an exclusion zone of up to one kilometre from any point in Parliament Square, to protect Politicians and Government institutions from spontaneous public criticism in the aftermath of the unpopular Iraq War.
GEORGE BUSH’S POODLE: TONY BLAIR. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair acquired this colloquial nickname from the British for subserviently following George Bush’s unwanted invasion of Iraq war policy since 2003. At the same time Tony Blaire has redefined the 'special relationship' with the UK and USA, from one between special friends to one between servant and master.
"Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:9) New Testament
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Jesus Christ (Matthew 22:37-40, Mark 12:28-34)
"For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. " (Chapter 5: verse 32) The Qur’an
"Thou shall not kill" the sixth of the Ten Commandments, (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17)
Moral precept: “Avoid killing or harming any living being;” Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift
"A fool can start a war but it needs a genius to stop a war." L.M. MacConi
"The time for peace is always now" peace campaigner outside Ministry of Defence Whitehall, London
Click on an image to enlarge & see captions, then press arrow to scroll around the Campaigners gallery
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, philosopher
The Iraq war (2003 to present) has important parallels with America’s experience in the Vietnam War (1959 –1975), as the American experience in the Vietnam War did to the French experience in the former Vietnam War 'French Indochina War' (1950–1954).
The Afghanistan war (2001 to present) has important parallels to America’s experience in the Vietnam War (1959 –1975), and to the Russian previous experience in Afghanistan (1979 – 1989) and to the British defeat in Kabul 1842.
"The first victim of war is truth " Rudyard Kipling
Glossary of modern usages:
WAR ON TERROR: is an advertising slogan for war, it sets the required climate of fear that leaves little room for reason or compassion. The slogan has been used in recent years to promote preemptive war, war crimes, civilian bombing, crimes against humanity, kidnapping, torture including out sourcing torture, the breaking of international law and for removing many civil rights and freedoms.
The main strategic results of the so called ‘War on Terror’ or ‘War on Terrorism’ for the perpetrators are an increase in enemies, an increase in terrorism, less national security, astronomical costs in both human and financial terms.
Key humanitarian sequence of results is an exchange of dictators to slightly more compliant dictators, an increase in human suffering, numerous refugees, numerous people injured, over a million deaths and counting. Long term pollution from toxic military materials. The key benefits: short period of delusions of grandeur for political leaders, long period of greatly increased arms sales and other vested business interests including domination of oil resources.
‘War on Terror’ is a slogan, which does not actually mean anything; it is in itself a contradiction, because war is terror.
"Fear is the parent of cruelty" Bertrand Russell
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION: Kidnapping
ENHANCED INTERROGATION: Torture
"Enhanced interrogation" is believed to be a translation from the German "Verschärfte Vernehmung," a Gestapo technique / war crime. Techniques used are designed to enhance pain and stress.
INTERROGATION METHODOLOGY: Ironically some of the American torture techniques are derived from Chinese Communist techniques used on American soldiers POW during the Korean War to elicit false confessions for propaganda. As would be reasonably expected these re-adapted torture techniques have produced the same results in Guantánamo, Bagram and other torture detention camps.
"Torture leaves a permanent, damaging mark on the person tortured". The Helen Bamber Foundation.
"My great lesson from Auschwitz is - whoever wants to dehumanise any other must first be dehumanised himself. The oppressors are no longer really human whatever uniform they wear." Dr. Hajo Meyer.
WATERBOARDING: A form of torture that produces the effect for the victim of drowning and near death. It was used in Medieval times by the Spanish Inquisition ranging to modern times, the Khmer Rouge, the CIA to intimidate, punish and to force false confessions or false information. It produces lasting psychological and health damage. Torture is needless to say illegal, immoral and valueless if not misleading for intelligence information. However it has been reported to have produced the false information required by President Bush administration to promote the invasion of Iraq.
“Waterboarding is a torture by drowning, a type of torture from the middle ages, and that's where we should send it back, because that's where it belongs”. Clive Stafford Smith OBE, human rights lawyer, Legal Director of the UK branch Reprieve, he received the Gandhi International Peace Award in 2005
EXPERT INTERVIEWER: Torturer; can be suggested by these two words, given pertinent contexts, in Government linguistics.
INTELLIGENCE: Tailoring information around government policy objectives.
SOCPA: Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, a new English law that includes controversial restrictions on the right to demonstrate, with out prior Police permission, within an exclusion zone of up to one kilometre from any point in Parliament Square, to protect Politicians and Government institutions from spontaneous public criticism in the aftermath of the unpopular Iraq War.
GEORGE BUSH’S POODLE: TONY BLAIR. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair acquired this colloquial nickname from the British for subserviently following George Bush’s unwanted invasion of Iraq war policy since 2003. At the same time Tony Blaire has redefined the 'special relationship' with the UK and USA, from one between special friends to one between servant and master.
"Blessed are the peacemakers" Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:9) New Testament
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Jesus Christ (Matthew 22:37-40, Mark 12:28-34)
"For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. " (Chapter 5: verse 32) The Qur’an
"Thou shall not kill" the sixth of the Ten Commandments, (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17)
Moral precept: “Avoid killing or harming any living being;” Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift
"A fool can start a war but it needs a genius to stop a war." L.M. MacConi
"The time for peace is always now" peace campaigner outside Ministry of Defence Whitehall, London
Click on an image to enlarge & see captions, then press arrow to scroll around the Campaigners gallery
_thumb.jpg)
