I'm going through the obituaries and comments atm: Nearly all by opponents and establishment enemies who either smeared him when alive or indeed who would have had him in prison if it were not for the inconvenience of an impartial jury: the kind that the very same people now want rid off. Its easy to forget the UK establishment media had him variously over the years as a Hitler, Stalin, Polpot, Ghadaffi...etc: the same thing they later did to Corbyn had been practiced on Alex: then when that failed, as with Assange, conspired with enemies within the SNP to use the dirtiest trick in the playbook: an invented sex crime as a weapon. On other matters I'll take one BBC comment as typical: "A witty and brilliant debater, he did not always show the best judgement. As Nato planes bombed Serbia in retaliation for its attacks on Kosovo, he opposed the conflict because it was not authorised by a United Nations Security Council resolution. Salmond described the Nato action as "an act of dubious legality, but, above all, one of unpardonable folly" and was heavily criticised for his comments. " Salmond was absolutely correct both concerning it's criminality under International law and as time has shown the folly indeed was unpardonable. The whole business apart from the destruction itself left a legacy of depleted uranium poisoning affecting the children of the region, further long term destabilization and (as always secretly intentended) Bosnia becoming effectively a NATO run protectorate as part of the Wolfowitz doctrine of unipolar US power & NATO expansion. This of course has lead us to the present Russian Ukraine war and even more death. It also weakened the case for International law ever being a reality leaving it as an occasional convenient pretence. But on this "...he did not always show the best judgement." claims the BBC as though this were self-evident when in fact its an astonishing reversal of the truth. It certainly tells us more about our present deluded political establishment and media than it does about Salmond who took a principled stand against an International cabal of scheming warmongering criminals...in contrast to, say, Boris whose was sent as their wardog poodle to Ukraine to make sure the conflict continued. Some might say it was Salmonds finest moment: it was certainly one of them. I saw him speak a number of times: he was an outstanding orator and was lucky enough to met him a few times on byelection campaigns and the like. In my view Salmonds worst mistake: his real "error of judgement" was resigning after the referendum to take responsibility for what he saw as his failure: I rather think it was us who failed him and I'm not alone in that. |
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