Just because one is not feeling persecuted...doesn't mean to say that
one isn't.
"The well laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley, and bring us nocht
but grief and pain...for promised joy." Wrote Robert Burns... in 'To a
Mouse...on Turning up her nest with a plow"
see url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse
A classic example of the law of unintended consequences. The
publication of the Zinoviev letter by the British Daily Mail, was
intended to discredit the Labour Leadership duing an election, and to
reduce the Labour vote However, it actually succeeded in discrediting
the Liberal Party instead, and turned the leadership of the Labour Party
into turmoil...a bit like what has happened to the Labour Party today
over bombing the people of Syria...
see url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter
A.J.P. Taylor <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._P._Taylor> argues
that the most important impact was on the psychology of Labourites, who
for years blamed their defeat on foul play, thereby misunderstanding the
political forces at work and postponing needed reforms in the Labour
Party.^[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter#cite_note-2>
Forging and corrupting letters is much easier and quicker today, and can
happen on a massive scale, both in terms of the new technology and the
access to the world wide web, that was ever possible before. Whilst it
is possible to find out, using one's instinct (there are some things
that are incredibly difficult to believe) and with the use of computer
forensics, such forgeries are discoverable. It can, however be too
late, a bit after the event, like the "sexed up" ( I didn't find it, or
anything in it sexy at all, but maybe I am a bit naive on such matters)
report "The Dodgy Dossier", which got the UK involved in the Iraq War, a
document which was old, written by a youngster as his first thesis,
already discredited yet used by Blair & Co to convince the British
People that Iraq was only 4 minutes away from launching weapons of mass
destruction, which were capable of landing on Cyprus...
see url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Dossier
Or of course the US administration's evidence to the United Nations
also, see url:
https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion
Of course it wasn't the intelligence agencies which were responsible for
the two governments using these reports, they had already warned the
politicians that the contents were tentative, or made up. The question
is, in my view, why Blair and Bush wanted to go to war in the first
place, and goes to show just how much control the US government can
exert over Her Majesty's Government at various times. Remember, that
the US and the UK wanted the UN to support a war against Iraq because
Saddam Hussien's Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction, and
because the Iraquis were responsible for 9/11.
It is notable today, that the same war-mongering is going on in Europe
and the UK with regard to terrorism. The Labour Party is in a mess
after it took such a pasting (especially in Scotland, where it lost its
long term heartlands), and the smaller political parties, with the
exception of the Libdems are growing and there is a major campaign being
carried out by the those conservative, establishment forces who are out
to discredit Jeremy Corbyn the Parliamentary Labour Leader and the
present Labour leadership, (not that he takes much discrediting).
The Conservatives won a large majority, at the recent election, some
of which was due to fears being put about that the Scottish First
Minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond might become Deputy Prime Minister
of the UK in the next parliament. Now, the Conservatives, taking
advantage of the internal splits of the Labour Party are using the
foreign and defence secretarys (Ministers of H.M.s government) to phone
up Labour M.P.s individually at home today to persaude them to reject
the Labour Whip and vote with their conscience to save the UK from
terrorism by bombing Syria...I think they are also looking to pinch a
few M.P.s as well. A politicians work is never done. The Conservative
Party also has opposition within its own parliamentary membership, and
there were a number of political demonstrations in the UK yesterday, so
the issue isn't quite so clear cut.
It was only a couple of years ago that the UK parliament refused to be
drawn into bombing Syria, but the latest terrorist mass murders in
France, and the newly found love of Hollande and "old Europe" and all
things French amongst the ruling circles and establishment in England
has led to France hoping that the UK parliament will support them in
bombing Syria to get rid of the Syrian President.
Are you any the wiser after reading this little vignette? I doubt it,
because all that will happen is that even more people will leave the
Middle East and travel to Europe. there are now around 16 countries,
without boots on the ground who are bombing Iraq and Syria and those
who do have their boots on the ground are the "lesser evils" i.e.
terrorists who are better trying to be better than the others and all
vying and competing with one another to get overt and covert support
from the various western democracies involved.
A new version of the Crusades of the 11th Century...nuffink changes that
much in human relations, we just get more efficient at killing, maiming
and torturing one another.
see url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
ATB
Dougie.
P.S. This email might be a forgery and it cannot be gauranteed that it
reaches cryptome in the same state as it left my computer...
