- Funny you should think of this Mary - echoes something here in OZ.. Archived Message
- An Iraqi journalist throwing shoes at Bush - Mary July 29, 2019, 4:52 pm
Posted by David Macilwain
on July 30, 2019, 8:42 am, in reply to "An Iraqi journalist throwing shoes at Bush"
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Back in May in the run up to the re-election of our reactionary government, a brave young woman tried to break an egg on the head of the PM Scott Morrison while he was visiting my region to buy votes. Last week Amber Holt was sentenced to 200 hours community service for "common assault", and was apologetic for her inconsiderate and impulsive action. As our war-mongering evangelical refugee bashing PM will soon go to Washington, and the US is building a new base her e in OZ as well as conducting huge war games, I wrote to the local paper complaining that Holt should not have apologised and had taken a brave and admirable stand. (I just wish she'd knocked the dumb bastard out) While I didn't say it in the letter, I likened her action to the famous shoe thrower. Sadly, as an indication of the times, Holt received practically no support, only death threats. The letter was one that would NEVER have been printed in the main dailies here, where nothing critical of the US or supportive of Iran is published: Dear Editor, If we are lucky enough to survive the war with Iran and her allies that our leaders seem intent on provoking, Amber Holt’s remarkably brave attempt to smear some egg on the face of Mr Morrison during his vote-buying visit to our region will be seen in its true light. Yesterday the man in the White House who will be sharing dinner and prejudices with our PM in September declared that “If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and WIN it, I could win that war in a week, but it would kill 10 million people.” Trump might be loose with his language, but his “B team” shares his apocalyptic vision, and similar desire to “obliterate Iran”. This is clear from the string of “provocations” in the Persian Gulf, including the pirating of an Iranian oil tanker destined for Syria. Contrary to statements from Western leaders and media, there is no prohibition on selling oil TO Syria, and the UK’s detention of the Iranian tanker is illegal. That Syria only needs to buy oil because its own oil is being stolen from the US-occupied east of the country and sold into Western markets through Iraq and Turkey adds an extra dimension to this criminal deception. The consequence of the current economic war on Iran, which will be worsened by a proposed coalition to “protect commercial shipping” – including oil tankers destined for Australia – will be a war, not just with Iran but with Russia and China, in which there will be no winners, but which Iran will not lose. I am sad to see that Amber Holt is now made to regret her unpremeditated and solo “crime of passion”, because we so desperately need her clear vision of peace and justice to cut through the spin and lies that have already enabled Western war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, and now threaten us all with “obliteration”. |
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