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"Burma,Indonesia,Timor"
Topic -"Burma,Indonesia,Timor," by jclancy@xxxxxxxxxxx
To all who care for the world's poor and their rights to at
least self-determination in their affairs, their culture their
political and social aims,their share of the existing unpolluted
atmosphere and their freedom from oppression.
The world's controlled media, its owners with their huge
mining/industrial subscribers are hell-bent on maintaining their
alternative two-hundred year repression of such ideas. They call
their system 'democracy' and adopt that obscure word to cover
their rights to judge meanings of concepts like 'human rights'.
In that 200 year span, Haiti was free from torture, occupation,
oppression, and exploitation for only a seven month period and
that was long ago. Cuba has stretched that period of freedom to
36 years. Most of Africa, South and Central Americas, on present
indications, will never be free even for seven weeks.
These 'democracies' have developed a strange hatred for
indigenous people, Mayans, tribal Indians and Aborigines and
particularly black skinned people, who are considered to be less
human than the average Southern Sheriff or a Knight of the
KluKluxKlan.-(for want of a suitable simile)
To simplify their expanding greed and cruelty to others the
'democracies' periodically band themselves together in groups
called the United Nations, or League of Nations. Only the best
people are allowed to say much in their meetings and only an
exact handful can make decisions. So we now have, as an example,
a certain General Savimbi, employed by one or two democracies to
collect all the diamonds and oil from Angola and kill most of
the other black people there. As a reward he is to be installed
as the country's President after the next 'fair' election -
fair, because another nice little group (CIA) knows how to count
the votes to give democracy a boost. Or go to Sierra Leone or
Namibia or Nigeria or most any other place and you will find the
nations' resources disappearing down the gullets of democracies
at the cost of millions of black deaths -offset by democratic
aid in the form of vast supplies of armaments to ensure that
blacks will go on killing blacks till the end of time. Death
squads are US trained here as in the Americas, but are hardly
needed when considering the numbers killed without such things.
Or go to Timor or any other poor area and you will find
democratic 'Generals' employed by little democracies like
Australia and big democracies like the USA, to collect the
undersea oil reserves for the benefit of 'democracy' and the
inadvertent murder of so many nice but poor people. Arab
peoples have always been on the 'hit list' of democracy mainly
because of their great oil reserves under the desert sands,
which are coveted by all democracies.
But the concern in this particular article are for the PEOPLES
of Burma, Indonesia and Timor. - not the US controlled generals,
industrialists, miners and highly paid killers. Professor Noam
Chomsky makes this distinction in his criticisms of western
greed and his own country's complicity in the destruction of
democracy (rights to live, to participate in elections, to be
cared for with education, health and peace.) In E.Timor, US
public opinion finally forced the US Administration to stop
exporting armaments to Indonesia. But England and Australia
have filled the vacancy as chief suppliers instead, probably
with profits going to US multinationals based in both those
countries. The joint recipe seems to be -"To pour in plenty of
human blood and destruction of local cultures everywhere, then
reap the rewards in profits later." The world's media agrees
with this policy and remains with its sick accent on sports,
comics and brutal films for the education of working people and
poor- but never the truth.
In Indonesia, since the destruction of their unions and some
750,000 dissidents in1965, the people have been totally
controlled by Generals, not ordinary Generals who train to
guard their own nation from attack -but who earn their US made
medals by repressing and murdering their own people. Generals
and their relatives in all three of the above countries have
become very rich, but US$20 million is never enough for the
capitalist-imperialist class. The US applauds their
Adminstration's principle of "Foreign Generals are better at
making life safe and wealthy for US Interests than allowing
'democracy' to take place. The US of course has its own
version of "democracy", which is not what decent people believe
in or respect.
For instance, in Burma at the moment the democratically
elected President San Suu Kye has been held in Army arrest for
6 years. As Chomsky mentions , a phone call from the US
President would have achieved her immediate release 6 years
ago. But there is the huge heroin trade which provides secret
resources for the CIA and high quality rubies, diamonds to
consider first.!! There are also the indigenous Karen peoples
who were quite successful for 30 years in keeping the SLORC
Burmese generals at bay. But by careful corrupting promises,
many of the Buddhist section of Karen defected recently to the
government side and this democracy, Suu-Kye supporting
population of 300,000 souls and students have had to escape
over the border to Thailand. But Thailand is just another US
base controlled mainly by US type Generals and US type
'democracy'. Here they are enclosed in jungle and bush with no
outside contact allowed. This treatment no doubt falls into
line with the preferred US torture and brutality response for
irrelevant peoples. General Than Shwe controls Burma no doubt
with 'foreign' advisors. In a recent Amnesty Inter'l report,
the word Karen was not mentioned only "rebels and terrorists",
although admitting wide-spread repression of the people. Others
report the stealing of the peoples land by the Army and its
friends, to be used as Army Bases or private homes, or sold to
preferred foreigners.
And so we come to the orators present in all democracies. The
most important ones of course arise from the depths of the USA -
often in the form of female ghouls who make the nasty,
deadly-to-others, pronouncements from the UN, but also from
London (Hatcher), the White House (Butch and his clones), and
'powerful' religious people like Jessica Helmsley and Mdme
DeFarge Torrichello. Each one probably a beautiful baby and as
talented as Shirley Temple. But why the need to commit mass
murders? There should be an available public list of which USA
politician represents the interests of which particular
conglomerate so that there is immediate awareness of why he or
she waves their arms about and thump the rostrums with such
"America-the-beautiful", forceful, 'sincerity'. When that has
been established for say three years, the next step is a public
disclosure of the amounts spent to elect, re-elect and nurture
their loyalty to the 'correct' cause.
Then in Australia we have the world's greatest foreign minister
who sees, in protocolic language, big improvements everywhere in
the thinking and human rights of 'democratic' generals,
particularly in Timor, Burma, Indonesia, Bougainville, Tibet ,
Cambodia etc. My personal preference, and that of growing
millions of others, is to ignore the obvious greed of the
Western media, politicians and great "orators" and listen to the
words of American Professor Noam Chomsky and his condemnation of
the repressive and murderous history of successive US
Administrations, perpetrated on the Third World for the past 250
years.
LIFT YOUR NEGATIVE BLOCKADES and spurious 'democracy' demands
America, Burma, Indonesia and Australia and see what real
people can do when left in PEACE. Your tortures, murders and
extortions account for too many children and too many good
people.