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On LBC (London Broadcasting) radio this morning there was a live poll of Londoners, the results of which were intermittently broadcast. At the end of the first hour the balance was 72% against military action, 28% in favour.
By the end of the show this balance had changed to 52% against, 48% for.
In the meantime there were also a stream of callers claiming to be Libyans who plied their way through a long list of absolutely horrific crimes of the Gaddafi regime including (for a taste of the horror recited):
A young boy was overheard making a phone call. The authorities went to his house, took him away, beheaded him and brought his head back to his mother saying she should give it to his brother to play with.
This kind of thing reminds one of the Kuwaiti Princess who went on world TV in 1991 alleging that Iraqi soldiers in a Kuwaiti hospital were taking premature babies from their incubators and killing them. This story was later proved (and admitted) to be a complete lie.
I called LBC to contribute to their phone-in to say this but they would not let me on air.
if such horrors were routinely occurring (as the callers allege) you can be quite sure we would all have heard about such incidents long before this crucial moment arrived.
Garnering support for military attacks matters. The British public (in London at least), it appears, are against this action and a media blitz of such propaganda is almost certainly on its way into your living rooms.
Don't trust a word these war-mongers say. Someone is trying to make your heart shed virtual blood in order that you will applaud the reality of real Libyans will shedding real blood.
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“Racism or Assimilation”
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Welcome back Kev.
ReplyDeleteThe whole build up to the events in Libya stinks to high heaven. A fake rebellion started to give the colour of law to another blatant case of regime change.
The many Gaddafi stories over the years have already placed a poisoned opinion in the public mind and still they need to invent fake atrocities to justify their agenda. I still remember the false flag murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher by MI6 to start a previous plan to oust the man.
Where did the ‘rebels’ get fighter aircraft and pilots to fly them? Oops… the French were a little too keen when they shot down the wrong plane. That highlights the serious backing involved behind the scenes.
We now see the incessant war porn to distract and titillate the public. I don’t think after 2 illegal wars that they are going to get all excited over a ‘legal’ one. They can try the ‘biggles’ and the ‘dashing airmen’ propaganda line but we all know that murder is murder.
If Libya grew carrots no one would give a damn and a lot of Libyans would still be alive today. I wish a plague on all the houses that have brought this to pass.
Well said. We should let the libyan people deal with their own affairs and dont believe the propoganda peddled on us by the ultra rich as an excuse to invade Libya to take control of the oil.
ReplyDeleteEvery rat will hang by its own tail.
ReplyDeleteHi Kev,
ReplyDeleteDamn right too, you have hit the nail on the head. Most people though seem to be of the opinion "How can we afford this?" which sounds a bit callous to say the least BUT it is 'thinking' in the right direction.
If Libya deserves a 'No-Fly' zone then so does Gaza and Yemen and Bahrain but humanitarism or whatever they call it is not the objective, is it?
I find it strange that Gaddafi and his son, Saif Al Islam threatened Sarkozy with revealing secrets and all of a sudden we have bombs falling and people dying.
I don't believe in coincidences, do you?
Cheers
Jim