Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Truth about 'Civilized Transitions': NATO's Civilizing Bloobath in Libya

This is what it comes down to: A TV 'news' presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he's just another expendable piece of the Empire's junk. 'Yeah, why you don't just get rid of him, make him go away'. It's absolutely outrageous that we accept this kind of rubbish and it's echoed right across the MSM (see below).

By what right does the media pass judgement in this way? Worse still, we accept it as legitimate news making, where 'received opinion' is folded faultlessly into the mix. It's assumed that we have every right to pronounce on the fate of others, made especially easy when the self-same 'news' presenter has helped in demonizing Gaddafi and turning him into the other.

Perhaps if she'd also asked, 'What about giving NATO an exit strategy?", I would have more sympathy but it would in no way alter the fundamental assumption that the presenter is fully immersed in the idea that we can behave as we please, commit even worse crimes in the name of preventing crimes! The arrogance of Empire knows no limit.

Elsewhere some British military buffoon calls to demolish what's left of Libya and blow Gaddafi away by bending the 'rules' even more than they've already have been. So here we have a military man acting and behaving as if he were an elected politician and the BBC has no problem with this: