COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE
INDEPENDENT
“Distortions over Isis
involvement in Orlando play into the hands of the jihadists”
Maybe, but I think far, far more important is the fact that
distortions play into the hands of the American establishment which now works
night and day now to control events throughout the world, establishing what is
so charmingly termed “full-spectrum dominance.”
Fear - often groundless fear – is the chief tool for this
effort, and it works extremely effectively as men such as Hitler and Stalin
knew full well in the past in making it a weapon of choice.
America’s efforts domestically include the NSA and 16 other
security agencies plus intelligence-connected corporate allies like Facebook
and Google and Microsoft plus a totally compliant, often groveling, press
literally to spy on every detail of everyone’s life.
Its international efforts include about a dozen wars and
conflicts, some using proxies and some using its own troops, plus a junta-like
extra-judicial killing program plus the fomenting of coups in half a dozen
places plus extreme, unwarranted aggression against Russia and China.
Its military/security efforts include everything from facial
and behavioral recognition programs to a gigantic secret effort to upgrade its
thermos-nuclear arsenal.
Its diplomatic and foreign relations efforts include efforts
ranging from pressuring Ban Ki-Moon to remove Saudi Arabia from the UN’s list
of child killers – where it very much belongs owing to its many atrocities in
Yemen, including the use of cluster bombs on civilians – to the insane economic
pressure being applied to Russia through Europe at Europe’s expense and to the
continued complete toleration of one of the world’s most repressive states, its
colony in the Middle East.
It needs public support for all this and more, and it keeps feeding
logs to the fire to make people sweat.
Obama’s “home-grown extremist” and the crazed rhetoric of
Clinton and Trump serve only to raise the intensity of the fire.
Please, this is just ignorant nonsense serving the purpose
of scaring people into supporting more resources for the military and the
security services.
The facts in this case are simple, and they have nothing to
do with terror.
The man was a psychotic. His ex-wife says he was a
manic-depressive who was very abusive to her and who had an intense dislike of
gays.
Anything else you say is beside the point, if not
deliberately blurring what should be the focus.
Whether he was Muslim or Zoroastrian makes not one whit of
difference.
Add to his mental instability the fact that this man was
freely able to buy powerful weapons and to work for a security firm handling
weapons, and the blame for this horror is significantly on the shoulders of
obtuse officials who made it all possible.
A proved psychotic person should never be able to buy guns,
full stop.
While we have had many examples of events in the Age of
Terror Superstition where newspapers and government officials make fools of
themselves, this one is the topper.
His religion or ethnic background is just about as relevant
as that of some paranoid schizophrenic who stabs a person on the street
claiming he is Brutus and had to kill Caesar.
Every instance of this kind of twisted thinking is dangerous
to our society.
Please think. The number of actual terror events is so small
that they represent about the same risk you have in breaking your back in getting
out of the bath tub.
And mass murder in the United States is not only not
unusual, it is a regular part of the fabric of life in this extremely violent
and aggressive society.
Meanwhile, American police shoot 1,100 Americans each year
in the streets, and don't think all the foolish hype about terror makes them
even more trigger happy?
Meanwhile, America fights vicious and illegal wars, killing
thousands monthly.
Meanwhile, American drones assassinate innocent people
regularly.
Meanwhile, Israel holds 5 to 6 million people against their
will, abuses them terribly, and gets off as free as a bird, being treated as a
victim rather than the perpetrator it certainly is, and for the most part the
press says nothing and our governments say nothing.
Our world is full of genuine horrors, and we don't need to
focus on fantasies about "terrorists. The word “terrorist” has become a
kind of witch’s charm used without any thinking, the situation in Israel being
the origin for this language. There people who make any effort for their own
freedom or rights are immediately labelled “terrorists” and our press simply
accepts the usage.
Now, I am certainly not saying there are no genuine
terrorists in the world. After all, we had the IRA and ETA and others for years
(and I might add Irgun and the Stern Gang), but the astute observer will have
noticed we never treated those situations as we now treat so-called
“international terror.”
There is good reason for that. Today’s so-called terror is
mostly the natural reaction of many peoples to America’s huge, global program
of aggression and control. And part of today’s so-called terror is the
deliberate manipulation of people such as the members of ISIS by the United
States and others to achieve their own dark purposes.
A violent, unstable person with guns is a formula for
disaster, and that is just what we have in the Orlando events. It was not
terror of any description, but it already being exploited as terror to make
people fear.
