In Search of True Thinkers
2nd February 2005, 01:32
I wrote this for the school newspaper and turned it in today. Probably won't be printed however, but tell me what you think anyway.
False Democracy
The recent elections in Iraq, unfortunately, mark a new low in the deceptive means used by America in the harmful and debauched pursuit of the neo-colonial hijacking of the third-worlds economic means. These elections, contrary to what the overwhelming majority of the grotesque nationalistic and politically altered news reports speak of, will neither resolve the crisis of the American stooge regime in Baghdad nor legitimize the US occupation in the eyes of the world and among large sections of the American public. The reason being, truth be told, is that as much as President Bush and his associates hail this election as hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the middle east this is one of the most staged democratic processes since the last time Iraq elected Saddam Hussein, and the evidence to prove this is shameful once brought to light.
To begin with one cannot even begin to imagine the possibility of fair elections in a nation that has been engulfed in a brutal war for nearly two years without first acknowledging the need for international election observers at every polling station across Iraq. Only an action such as this could fully ensure an at least somewhat fair election. This was not the case, however, as international election observers stood watch only in the neighboring nation of Jordan and in the highly fortified green zone of Baghdad which is essentially just as useless as being a whole nation away. To be completely fair, however, I must say that perhaps with a pair of very powerful binoculars the election observers in Jordan could make out the shapes in the sky that were the American warplanes and helicopters passing over the heads of Iraqi voters.
Of course the lack of independent election observers at the polls in Iraq, although a tremendous blow to the credibility of this election claimed by Mr. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is quite understandable considering all the violence that was anticipated on the day of the elections. What is completely unforgivable and another testament as to just how fair this election is is the fact that once the voting had concluded the ballots were not brought to a location, such as Jordan or the green zone, where election observers could at least witness the tallying of the ballots to ensure an authentic voting process. This course of action, however, would be something highly undesired by Bush and his cronies and one has to wonder why independent election observers were left completely out of the voting process. Lets not forget that the primary reason for engaging thousands of American lives in a war with Iraq, despite Bushs false claim of weapons of mass destruction and the now widely discredited links of Saddam and Al-Qaeda, is to ensure the American dominance over the fifteen percent of the worlds oil supply that lies in Iraq. This dominance could be greatly aided if American lackeys, most preferably the current puppet regime holding power currently, were prominent in Iraqs new government.
So how is it that the illegitimacy of the Iraqi elections can be true if all of the major news networks were broadcasting nothing but the reports of uncontested success and the images of parading Iraqi citizens? Well, like the elections themselves, the images that Americans are viewing on their TVs is most likely a staged effort as well. As Robert Fisk, a highly acclaimed journalist for the UKs Independent newspaper, reports: The big television networks have been given a list of five polling stations where they will be "allowed" to film. Close inspection of the list shows that four of the five are in Shia Muslim areas - where the polling will probably be high - and one in an upmarket Sunni area where it will be moderate. Every working-class Sunni polling station will be out of bounds to the press. I wonder if the television lads will tell us that today when they show voters "flocking" to the polls. It is truly shameful that we have media conglomerates across the country so loyal to their corporate masters that they would not even hint at the mass show of puppetry that is being carried out by the authoritative powers in the American government. Fortunately, however, not even the American media could disguise the spectacle of Iraqis filing in to the polls through rolls of barbed wire, being frisked three separate times under the eyes of US snipers, while US warplanes and helicopters roared overhead.
In any event it is necessary to call this embarrassingly false showing of a democratic process what it truly is, a major triumph in the American imperialism that is sweeping the globe at an alarmingly disturbing rate. I fear that unless the world and those in America that have not been indoctrinated into Bushs destructive wartime policies take a definitive stance to prohibit our current administrations imperialist tendencies we will find ourselves falling deeper into a hole of having illusionary democracies placed upon the nations of the world. It also must be noted that a struggle against imperialism is not one that will end with removal of leaders advocating such tendencies like Bush, Blair, and the puppet figure that is the Prime Minister of Iraq, former supporter of Saddams brutal Baath party and CIA payee, Iyad Allawi. Rather it is a cause that will show its beginnings of triumph once we realize how destructive all imperialist advocates are to the citizens of the world.
False Democracy
The recent elections in Iraq, unfortunately, mark a new low in the deceptive means used by America in the harmful and debauched pursuit of the neo-colonial hijacking of the third-worlds economic means. These elections, contrary to what the overwhelming majority of the grotesque nationalistic and politically altered news reports speak of, will neither resolve the crisis of the American stooge regime in Baghdad nor legitimize the US occupation in the eyes of the world and among large sections of the American public. The reason being, truth be told, is that as much as President Bush and his associates hail this election as hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the middle east this is one of the most staged democratic processes since the last time Iraq elected Saddam Hussein, and the evidence to prove this is shameful once brought to light.
To begin with one cannot even begin to imagine the possibility of fair elections in a nation that has been engulfed in a brutal war for nearly two years without first acknowledging the need for international election observers at every polling station across Iraq. Only an action such as this could fully ensure an at least somewhat fair election. This was not the case, however, as international election observers stood watch only in the neighboring nation of Jordan and in the highly fortified green zone of Baghdad which is essentially just as useless as being a whole nation away. To be completely fair, however, I must say that perhaps with a pair of very powerful binoculars the election observers in Jordan could make out the shapes in the sky that were the American warplanes and helicopters passing over the heads of Iraqi voters.
Of course the lack of independent election observers at the polls in Iraq, although a tremendous blow to the credibility of this election claimed by Mr. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is quite understandable considering all the violence that was anticipated on the day of the elections. What is completely unforgivable and another testament as to just how fair this election is is the fact that once the voting had concluded the ballots were not brought to a location, such as Jordan or the green zone, where election observers could at least witness the tallying of the ballots to ensure an authentic voting process. This course of action, however, would be something highly undesired by Bush and his cronies and one has to wonder why independent election observers were left completely out of the voting process. Lets not forget that the primary reason for engaging thousands of American lives in a war with Iraq, despite Bushs false claim of weapons of mass destruction and the now widely discredited links of Saddam and Al-Qaeda, is to ensure the American dominance over the fifteen percent of the worlds oil supply that lies in Iraq. This dominance could be greatly aided if American lackeys, most preferably the current puppet regime holding power currently, were prominent in Iraqs new government.
So how is it that the illegitimacy of the Iraqi elections can be true if all of the major news networks were broadcasting nothing but the reports of uncontested success and the images of parading Iraqi citizens? Well, like the elections themselves, the images that Americans are viewing on their TVs is most likely a staged effort as well. As Robert Fisk, a highly acclaimed journalist for the UKs Independent newspaper, reports: The big television networks have been given a list of five polling stations where they will be "allowed" to film. Close inspection of the list shows that four of the five are in Shia Muslim areas - where the polling will probably be high - and one in an upmarket Sunni area where it will be moderate. Every working-class Sunni polling station will be out of bounds to the press. I wonder if the television lads will tell us that today when they show voters "flocking" to the polls. It is truly shameful that we have media conglomerates across the country so loyal to their corporate masters that they would not even hint at the mass show of puppetry that is being carried out by the authoritative powers in the American government. Fortunately, however, not even the American media could disguise the spectacle of Iraqis filing in to the polls through rolls of barbed wire, being frisked three separate times under the eyes of US snipers, while US warplanes and helicopters roared overhead.
In any event it is necessary to call this embarrassingly false showing of a democratic process what it truly is, a major triumph in the American imperialism that is sweeping the globe at an alarmingly disturbing rate. I fear that unless the world and those in America that have not been indoctrinated into Bushs destructive wartime policies take a definitive stance to prohibit our current administrations imperialist tendencies we will find ourselves falling deeper into a hole of having illusionary democracies placed upon the nations of the world. It also must be noted that a struggle against imperialism is not one that will end with removal of leaders advocating such tendencies like Bush, Blair, and the puppet figure that is the Prime Minister of Iraq, former supporter of Saddams brutal Baath party and CIA payee, Iyad Allawi. Rather it is a cause that will show its beginnings of triumph once we realize how destructive all imperialist advocates are to the citizens of the world.