* Propoganda - Masopher’s Mind

There is no reason we can’t be civil, is there?

There is a catch phrase that has buried its meme little head into my mind. Leonidas my ancient namesake who undermanned with his 300 volunteers bravely faced down the greatest empire of its time. Chomsky says that propaganda is the “civilized societies” version of death squads and armies. I agree.

Newspapers: This is blasphemy! This is madness!

Masopher: This is PROPOGANDA!

The latest “mindfuck”. Until I think of a cool name like meme I will use mindfuck.

Gillian Gibbons a bleeding heart Liverpudlian arrested by Sudanese authorities for allegedly insulting Islam by allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”. However, it was later revealed that an office assistant, Sara Khawad, had filed the complaint and was the key witness for the prosecution.

Office politics gone bad. Gladly (for me) it now got the more clownish tabloid politicians and British politicians involved as well as the hapless Sudanese politicians and Imams.

Section 125 of the Sudanese Criminal Act, for “insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs”. This carries a maximum sentence of imprisonment, a fine, or 40 lashes.

This is a maximum sentence. Only a real hangman judge bent on civil authority would have imposed that. This law covers everything from teddy-bear naming to writing the Prophets name and all his Sudanese Imams names in faeces and calling it a tasteful representation of the history and nature of this 1500 year old religion. In the British press this was carried as the actual sentence that she would have gotten. British Press and by reference, British people thought the worst of the Sudanese Justice system. Sudanese Judges disregard the implications of their actions outlandish grossly disproportionate sentences are handed out and little white ladies get their heads lopped off for using the name of the prophet inappropriately in front of impressionable little kids.

In December 1 it was reported that in Saudia Arabia a man was beheaded for murder. Around the same period, in war torn Afghanistan, several policemen were beheaded by the Taliban and in England and Sudan a teacher was almost beheaded for naming a teddybear. Actually no. In Sudan a few ignorant yokels with machetes and a intense hatred for British policy wanted a beheading. In England the entire civilized society was led to assume that this was more than remotely possible.

Gibbons was found guilty of “insulting religion”, one of the three counts against her, and was sentenced to 15 days’ imprisonment and deportation. The media hype on this guaranteed that, there was no way that Sudanese Imams and British Press could have left her in peace.

The press have a job, to totally blow everything out of proportion: To sensationalize stimulate and sell. And after British condemnation, the Imams have a job to protect their position as well, to allay their congregation and of course defend Islam from being attacked in the British press again.

Now let us look at the true barbarians just as Perseus looked at the Medusa with his polished shield.

Let us start with a quick history Lesson:

In the 19th Century soon to be EU member Turkey brought Islam to Northern Sudan.

In the 20th Century, Colonial Egypt began demarking the boundaries of Sudan in typical gerrymandering fashion noted with most of Africa and the Middle-East: Splitting up tribes, lumping ancient enemies together in a single country, landlocking potential threats and the like.

In the mid 20th Century Sudan became a military client of Britain and then the Soviet Union and began using the (credit) bought weapons to fight for power and autonomy from each other.

In the late 20th century Sudan played host to a young Saudi Billionaire fresh out of Jihad against the soviet empire and spoiling to take on the last remaining global hegemony. He reportedly set up numerous charities and organizations including Al-Queda.

In the early 21st century the Sudanese government was implicated being allied with militant Muslims in an ongoing civil war and extermination of the men women and children western province known as Darfur. Neighbouring (former French Colony) T’Chad then declared war on Sudan.

In the same year that Sudanese and Chadians went to war, December 2005, Tony Blair then Prime Minister of Britain attempts to hold innocent untried suspects for 90 days.

July 26, 2007 Alan Travis Home affairs editor of The Guardian reports that [P]rime minister [Brown] insisted that MPs will have to agree a new limit of anywhere between 28 and 58 days.

In November 2007, The Times reports that a young bookstore worker, Samina Malik, 23, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of possessing records likely to be used for terrorism by a majority of 10 to one. She was convicted of writing poetry sympathetic to and idealizing Jihad. The investigators found no plans to commit terrorist acts; she had no links to terrorist cells; she was a liberal Muslim, did not wear the hijab, used Hi-5 (the Facebook for the third world <my(nority) space>) worked in a book store.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000 she could spend 10 years in prison for being a Muslim that writes and fantasizes about what Muslim’s thousands of miles are doing in a real war between them and their enemy. No poetry written explicitly names a race class or nation. Like many young people and minorities she is fantasizing about fighting a nameless faceless foe.(that is probably a Jungian reference)

Compare this now to the videogames graphically expressing the murder of Russians, Muslims, Asians, Eastern Europeans, South Americans and Africans.

A quick wikisearch gives me a sample of what is ‘hip’:

America’s Army, SOCOM: US Navy SEALs series, Brothers in Arms series, Delta Force series, Hidden & Dangerous, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, SWAT series, Rainbow Six series, Ghost Recon series, Soldier of Fortune series, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Vietcong series, Deadly Dozen series.

Surely a computer simulation program that rewards a young person for committing acts of war, murder and terrorism against ethnic minorities can also be construed as at least on par with a poem about chopping off an ‘unbelievers’ head.

I am 100% for the freedom of expression, whether it be by the skilled representations of game developers, or well crafted euphemisms of think tanks that advise world leaders to systematically slaughter and terrorize indigenous populations and to quickly lock away potential troublemakers for the regime. Most importantly I am 100% for the freedom of expression for an introverted Muslim girl and a kind hearted Liverpool teacher. I am not for the sensationalism and pandering to the public it makes us stupid and ignorant (HAHA! See how I tied it all together in the end!).

References:

‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems Times Online November 8, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2831648.ece

Saudi authorities behead a man for murder The Associated Press
Published: December 1, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/01/africa/ME-GEN-Saudi-Beheading.php

Short History of Sudan, Dr. Mohamed H. Fadlalla, iUniverse, 30 April 2004

Sudan: The Criminal Act 1991 Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1994), pp. 32-80

Taliban behead 7 Afghan policemen Pakistan Dawn November 24, 2007 http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/24/top18.htm

Terrorism Act 2000 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/20000011.htm

Wikipedia First Person Shooter September 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter

Posted in Propoganda at November 29th, 2007. No Comments / Email This Post Email This Post .

Lord Kitchener wants you!

I was talking to friend of mine who let slip how heavily Scotland yard and the MOD depend on his private company for forensic analysis and military support. Almost every government and large company in the world depends on a private military/paramilitary contractor to get the real jobs done. The soldier boys, low paid lower class, unappreciated cannon fodder are there to make careers, not for themselves but for the commissioned rich boys in charge.This article is from the Guardian. One of the “top tier newspapers”, and one of the most reliable sources of news in Britain. Why? It’s run by rich boys and Jews. And if there are any parties in Britain that follow their own agenda its rich boys and Jews. The first time I read it I swore that it was CIA run, because it always seemed to focus away from the prescribed national agenda. When Maddy and Prince Harry splash headlines, the Guardian is usually chasing the Saudi-BAE bribery scandal. That gives them away. Regular newspaper editors toe the line but butt-hurt business men, worried Jewish banker types or pissed off Americans who lost the contract with the Saudis would use their newspaper to cast doubt on the government. Hard to prove counter conspiracies when conspiracies don’t exist but one thing for sure, they are non-conformists. Brothers…sniff.

The Article:

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the army, has warned that his soldiers are “devalued, angry, and suffering from Iraq fatigue”,

Leaving to go work for private companies is the unspoken end of that sentence. And so begins the rise of the mercenary army culture already expressed by Blackwater, Control Risks, Armor group, Olive Group and others.


Dannatt adds in his own contribution to the report that the “military covenant is clearly out of kilter”.
The covenant: Kill for us and we cheer for you. The people who asked these brave men and women to kill for un-praiseworthy goals are the ones out of kilter.He continues: “We must strive to give individuals and units ample recuperation time between operations, but I do not underestimate how difficult this will be to achieve whilst under-manned.” He describes continuing delays to military inquests as a “disgrace”.

Posted in People, Propoganda at November 19th, 2007. No Comments / Email This Post Email This Post .

Children as terrorists?

MI5 chief: children are being taught to become terrorists
By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 06 November 2007

The Independent. Telling one newspaper from the next is becomming as hard as telling one political party from the next. Trash mags are talking maddy today, as they do everyday but today the upper teir mags are talking child terrorists and foreign spies. My favorite topic!

Children as young as 15 are being groomed for terrorist acts in Britain by al-Qa’ida, the head of MI5 has warned.

Scare tactics. With underaged drinking, YOB/asbos/drug culture, the break down of family values and increased infiltration by the overly violent overly sexual American culture, Chilren as young as 6 are being turned into vicious killers and antisocial persons. Show one example of this and I can show you 1000 examples of my claim.

The timing of the speech by Jonathan Evans, 24 hours before the Government unveils its latest programme of anti-terror legislation, was seen by Labour MPs as part of a softening-up process for the extension of the detention of terrorist suspects without charge beyond the current limit of 28 days.

Shoulder to shoulder with American destruction of freedom and Habeus Corpus.

Mr Evans, the director general of the security service, used a Society of Editors conference to give a rare insight into the threat identified by MI5. He said the total number of people who pose a direct threat to national security has risen in the past year, and could be as high as 4,000.

While it is true, if you count rogue agencies, american spies, politicians and business men and it should be four times that amount.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, said last year that there were about 1,600|al-Qa’ida supporters in the UK who were actively engaged in terrorist activities and were known to the intelligence services but that figure had risen to about 2,000, said Mr Evans.

The figure almost doubled last week when they were flown in and given red carpet welcome by G B and QE II. 

“We suspect that there are as many again that we don’t yet know of,” he said.

Nice round guestimated figures to hide the lack of facts and bring about a little quaking in the collective boots.

He highlighted the way that al-Qa’ida was targeting vulnerable young people as recruits, with teenagers as young as 15 and 16 years old having been implicated in terrorist plots.

Damn news people repeat the same thing 3 times in one article. Its a shame that Mr Evans hasnt said anything else worth printing.

“As I speak, terrorists are methodically and intentionally targeting young people and children in this country,” he said. “They are radicalising, indoctrinating and grooming young, vulnerable people to carry out acts of terrorism.”

deja vu? no look up, its the same sentence reworded.

Terror plots were being directed from the tribal areas of Pakistan where al-Qa’ida’s “core leadership” is based, “often using young British citizens to mount the actual attack”.

Very nicely put word association, terror tribal pakistan (currently experiencing political unrest) al-Qa’ida —>young British citizens! thats the 4th time by the way, in one article.

“This campaign is dynamic and since my predecessor spoke last year, we have seen it evolve further,” said Mr Evans. “We are rightly concerned to protect children from exploitation in other areas. We need to do the same in relation to violent extremism.”

exploitation? like wars? like fear mongering? like consumerism? ok, ill shut up and pay my tax. protect me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The extension of the “al-Qa’ida brand” to new parts of the Middle East and other regions posed a further worrying threat, he added. There were signs that al-Qa’ida in Iraq was seeking to promote attacks outside that country while terrorist training and planning against the UK was being carried out in Somalia.

And who is doing this ‘branding’? (the goveorment and MI-5 perhaps?) people and countries with justifiable problems are branded al-Qa’ida in typical cognitive laziness.

Mr Evans said it was a matter of “some disappointment” that MI5 was still having to deal with “unreconstructed attempts” at spying by countries such as China and Russia, which still had the same number of undeclared intelligence officers in the UK as during the Cold War. “They are resources I would far rather devote to countering the threat from international terrorism – a threat to the whole international community, not just the UK.”

MI-5 and MI-6 have been hiring as well, french agencies, Shin Bet, CIA. Not to mention all the corporate spies and analysts.Spies and saboteurs are big business, stop complaining just get a bigger budget. Or does the govornment need to do more outsourcing?
Watch your job Mr Evans, some corporate cocksure will be playing spy games and advising the Gov if you dont buck up.

An anti-terror Bill will be included in the legislative programme to be unveiled with the Queen’s Speech today. A QC and leading voice on civil liberties on the Labour benches, Bob Marshall-Andrews said he suspected the timing of the speech was linked to the legislation. He will oppose an extension of detention beyond 28 days unless he heard hard evidence that it was necessary. “I have still heard nothing to change my mind,” he said.

Yes I think this was stated earlier in this column, and perhaps again in this same column.

Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister, has said the Government would prefer to extend detention without charge to 56 days.

The shadow Home Secretary David Davis hinted that the Opposition would not support an extension of the detention powers.

You dont dissapoint, Mr. Colin Brown. So to sum it all up, child terrorists, spies and the opposition wont support detaining innocent people for two months.
I could have said as much with far less words. But you get paid to say the same thing 4 times, if I do it they call it stuttering.

Posted in Propoganda at November 6th, 2007. No Comments / Email This Post Email This Post .

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