Charlatanism of Real Politic !! شارلاتانیسم سیاسی کاران حرفه ای: نان را به نرخ روز خوردن

 

 

 

 

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It is beyond satire that tyrants and despots who repress free speech themselves are now marching in Paris in defence of it. The unity march in Paris looks more ...like an imperial march headed by hypocrites and murderers, from Bibi Netanyahu, whose name is synonymous with Palestinian ethnic cleansing responsible for thousands more civilian deaths than the Kouachi brothers, to Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO, possibly the organisation with the most extensive history of political violence in the world.

Most of those 50+ world leaders are people who are to a large degree responsible for the immense violence and injustice that form the soil in which more violent extremism grows. There were hundreds of thousands of good people demonstrating in Paris today, people who believe in an open, free society, who oppose the murder of people for writing or drawing, who oppose the murder of people because they are Jews. However, at the front of the demonstration, the ones most quoted were leaders who have waged wars that have killed tens maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent people, who have enacted laws which discriminate against minorities in their countries, who have tried to ride the anti-immigrant wave, who have eagerly waged economic war on the poorest people in their countries, who create alliances with the very regimes who sustain and support assassins and who have been more responsible than anyone else in the world in curtailing our freedoms.
 
Here a shortened track record of them regarding the freedom of expression:

- Prime Minister Rajoy of Spain, whose government just passed the Ley Mordaza, a gag law placing historic restrictions on the right to protest in Spain.

- Foreign Minister Lavrov of Russia, which last year jailed a journalist for "insulting a government servant" .
- Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as Al Jazeera staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days.

- King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour.
- Prime Minister Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world.

- Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 17 journalists in Gaza last year (second highest after Syria).
- Foreign Minister Lamamra of Algeria, which has detained journalist Abdessami Abdelhai for 15 months without charges.
- The Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates, which in 2013 held a journalist incommunicado for a month on suspicion of MB links.

- Prime Minister Jomaa of Tunisia, which recently jailed blogger Yassine Ayan for 3 years for "defaming the army".
- The Prime Ministers of Georgia and Bulgaria, both of whom have a record of attacking & beating journalists.
- The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted Washington Post reporters.

- Prime Minister Samaras of Greece, where riot police beat & injured two journalists at a protest in June last year
- Secretary-General of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journalists in '99.

- President Keita of Mali, where journalists are expelled for covering human rights abuses.

- The Foreign Minister of Bahrain, 2nd biggest jailer of journos in the world per capita (they also torture them).

- Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, which jailed a man for 15 ys for writing the Jasmine poem.
- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who had several journalists jailed for insulting him in 2013.

- Prime Minister Cerar of Slovenia, which sentenced a blogger to six months in prison for "defamation" in 2013.
- Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland, where "blasphemy" is considered a criminal offense.

- Prime Minister Kopacz of Poland, which raided a magazine to seize recordings embarrassing for the ruling party.
- Prime Minister Cameron of the UK, where authorities destroyed documents obtained by The Guardian and threatened prosecution.

- Prime Minister Orbán of Hungary, the autocrat of who Amnesty says has "put an end to the free press in Hungary".