- By Dmitry Orlov
email forwarded by JKS Weerasekera
What a difference a
single massacre can make!
Just a week ago the EU couldn't
possibly figure out anything to do to stop the influx of “refugees” from all
those countries the US and NATO had bombed into oblivion.
But now,
because “Paris changed everything,” EU's
borders are being locked down and refugees are being turned back.
• Just a week ago it seemed that the EU was going to be swamped by resurgent
nationalism, with incumbent political parties poised to get voted out of power.
• Just a week ago the EU and the US couldn't possibly bring themselves admit
that they are utterly incompetent when it comes to combating their own
creation—ISIS, that is—and need Russian help.
But now, at the après-Paris G-20 summit, everybody is ready
to line up and let Putin take charge of the war against terrorism.
Look—the Americans finally found those convoys of tanker
trucks stretching beyond the horizon that ISIS has been using to smuggle out
stolen Syrian crude oil—
after Putin showed them the satellite photos!
Am I being crass and
insensitive? Not at all—I deplore all the deaths from terrorist attacks in
Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, and in all the other countries whose populations
did absolutely nothing to deserve such treatment.
I only feel half as bad about the French, who stood by quietly as
their military helped destroy Libya (which did nothing to deserve it).
Note that after the Russian jet crashed in
the Sinai there weren't all that many Facebook avatars with the Russian flag
pasted over them, and hardly any candlelight vigils or piles of wreaths and
flowers in various Western capitals.
I even detected a whiff of smug satisfaction that the
Russians got their comeuppance for stepping out of line in Syria. Why
the difference in action?
Simple: you were told to grieve for the French, so
you did.
You were not told to grieve for the Russians, and so you didn't.
Don't
feel bad; you are just following orders.
The reasoning
behind these orders is transparent:
the
French, along with the rest of the EU, are Washington's willing puppets;
therefore, they are innocent,
and when they
get killed, it's a tragedy.
But the Russians are not
Washington's willing puppet, and are
not innocent,
and so when
they get killed by terrorists, it's punishment.
And when
Iraqis, or Syrians, or Nigerians get killed by terrorists,
that's
not a tragedy either, for a different reason: they are too poor to matter.
In order to qualify as a victim of a tragedy, you have to be
each of these three things: 1. a US-puppet, 2. rich and 3. dead.
Also, you
probably believe that the terrorist attacks in Paris were the genuine
article—nobody knew it would happen, and it couldn't have been stopped, because
these terrorists are just too clever for the ubiquitous state surveillance to
detect.
Don't
feel bad about that either; you are just believing what you are told to
believe.
You
probably also believe that jet fuel can melt steel girders and that skyscrapers
collapse into their own footprints (whether they've been hit by airplanes or not).
You can
certainly believe whatever you like, but here are a couple of easy-to-understand tips on telling
what's real from what's fake:
1. If it's
fake, the perpetrators are known immediately (and sometimes beforehand). ( Reminds us of Lee Oswald who got caught
within 70 minutes of John Kennedy’s murder, and in a short few days before any
trial, is killed by a gangster called Jack Ruby, right on on public TV
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If it's real, then the truth is
uncovered as a result of a thorough investigation.
So, for
instance, on 9/11 the guilty party were a bunch of Saudis armed with box
cutters (some of whom are, paradoxically, still alive).
And
in Paris we knew right away that this was done by ISIS—even before we knew who the perpetrators were!
And when
that Malaysian jet got shot down over Ukraine, we knew right away that it was
the Russians' fault (never mind that on that day the Ukrainians deployed an air
defense system, and also scrambled a couple of jets armed with air-to-air
missiles— against an enemy that doesn't have an air force).
Note,
however, how we still don't know what happened with the Russian jet over Sinai. That case is still under
investigation—as it should be.
If it's
real, officials stall for time and urge caution while scrambling to find out
what happened.
When
it's fake, the officials are ready to go with the Big Lie, and then do everything they can to
make it stick, suppressing what shreds of evidence can be independently
gathered.
2. If it's fake, than you should also expect cute little touches: designer
logos for publicity campaigns ready to launch at a moment's notice, be it “Je
suis Charlie” or that cute little Eiffel Tower inscribed in a peace symbol.
There
weren't any props to go with the Russian jet disaster—unless you count that
tasteful Charlie Hebdo cartoon of a jihadi rocket having anal sex with an
airliner.
There might
also be a few traditional titbits designed to feed a media frenzy, such as a fake
passport found lying next to one of the perpetrators—because when terrorists go on suicide missions they
always take their fake passports with them.
The people
who are charged with designing these events lack imagination and usually just
go with whatever worked before.
We should certainly expect there to be more fake massacres of this
sort—whenever the political situation becomes sufficiently fraught to call for
one—because at this point ready-to-go jihadi terrorist cells are something of a
sunk cost and can be deployed very cheaply and effectively.
Of course we
should grieve for the victims, but there is something far more important at
stake than mere human lives, which are, deplorably, becoming cheaper with each
passing year.
We
should grieve for the truth!
Dmitry Orlov is a
Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential
economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United
States," something he has called “permanent crisis” - http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk
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