The Witchfinders are now ready to burn Corbyn by Jonathan Cook / February 28th, 2019 Archived Message
Posted by fredjc on March 3, 2019, 2:50 pm, in reply to "Jeremy Corbyn could do with some Caity Johnstone advise"
I'm not sure if this has been posted but is worth a re-post regardless. I notice that he hasn't published this on his own blog, but on 'Dissident Voice', which is based in California. Well worth a read... Extract:-
Previous Message “McCarthyism” is a word thrown around a lot nowadays, and in the process its true meaning – and horror – has been increasingly obscured. McCarthyism is not just the hounding of someone because their views are unpopular. It is the creation by the powerful of a perfect, self-rationalising system of incrimination – denying the victim a voice, even in their own defence. It presents the accused as an enemy so dangerous, their ideas so corrupting, that they must be silenced from the outset. Their only chance of rehabilitation is prostration before their accusers and utter repentance. McCarthyism, in other words, is the modern political parallel of the witch hunt. In an earlier era, the guilt of women accused of witchcraft was tested through the ducking stool. If a woman drowned, she was innocent; if she survived, she was guilty and burnt at the stake. A foolproof system that created an endless supply of the wicked, justifying the status and salaries of the men charged with hunting down ever more of these diabolical women. And that is the Medieval equivalent of where the British Labour party has arrived, with the suspension of MP Chris Williamson for anti-semitism. Revenge of the Blairites Williamson, it should be noted, is widely seen as a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, a democratic socialist who was propelled unexpectedly into the Labour leadership nearly four years ago by its members. His elevation infuriated most of the party’s MPs, who hanker for the return of the New Labour era under Tony Blair, when the party firmly occupied the political centre. Corbyn’s success has also outraged vocal supporters of Israel both in the Labour party – some 80 MPs are stalwart members of Labour Friends of Israel – and in the UK media. Corbyn is the first British party leader in sight of power to prefer the Palestinians’ right to justice over Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinians. For these reasons, the Blairite MPs have been trying to oust Corbyn any way they can. First through a failed re-run of the leadership contest and then by assisting the corporate media – which is equally opposed to Corbyn – in smearing him variously as a shambles, a misogynist, a sympathiser with terrorists, a Russian asset, and finally as an “enabler” of anti-semitism. https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/02/the-witchfinders-are-now-ready-to-burn-corbyn/ Regards, Fred
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- Jeremy Corbyn could do with some Caity Johnstone advise - Poster123 March 3, 2019, 8:49 am
- Re: Jeremy Corbyn could do with some Caity Johnstone advise - margo March 3, 2019, 10:11 am
- Dump the punch-pulling Grauniad stooge, Milne, replace with Caity Johnstone! nm - Wiccaman March 3, 2019, 1:19 pm
- It's too late, Corbyn's finished, like I told you so - Keith-264 March 3, 2019, 1:52 pm
- Re: Jeremy Corbyn could do with some Caity Johnstone advise - brooks March 3, 2019, 2:06 pm
- JC really does seems not to have a clue ! - Poster123 March 3, 2019, 2:21 pm
- The Witchfinders are now ready to burn Corbyn by Jonathan Cook / February 28th, 2019 - fredjc March 3, 2019, 2:50 pm
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