Building on fear and hatred
by Robert Thompson
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), who wrote
under the pen-name of George Orwell, gave us a foretaste in his famous
work "1984" of the neo-con aims for the U.S.A.
Senator John McCain and Mr Rudolph Giuliani made speeches at the
Republican Convention in New York which could easily have been written
for them by this brilliant author.
They have both fully understood the
possibilities of misleading the public by their deliberate misuse of
words, and they have learned to persuade their audience to believe in
such concepts (to such as me, pure oxymorons) as "war is
peace", "hatred is love" and "democracy means
tyranny".
Outside the U.S.A., we are astonished
and shocked that vicious persons and groups in your country can be
believed when they claim inspiration from Christianity and/or from
Judaism. However, we have fully realised that one thing
which must frighten these hypocrites is the desire of genuine Christians
and Jews to study and fully to understand their faith including detailed
and scholarly exegesis of the Bible. The institution by
these dishonest obscurantists of a particular translation of the Bible
into the English language as the absolute literal truth is obvious
nonsense to any educated Christian or Jew.
Furthermore, when Senator McCain praised Mr
Bush's efforts towards his long-announced "war on terror" he
failed signally to tell the world that the Bush administration has
not yet done anything whatsoever to fight the roots of
terrorism. This seems so obvious from where we
stand. As for Mr Giuliani, his likening of Mr Bush to Sir
Winston Churchill and Mr Ronald Reagan seems an odd mixture.
Sir Winston did at least call for opposition to the one man on whom Mr
Bush so closely models his actions, i.e. Mr Adolf Hitler,
which thus makes this a most strange comparison. On the
other hand, we can see that Mr Reagan may, in his later days, have
been almost as "intellectually challenged" as Mr George W.
Bush.
This "Connecticut Dude" also tries
to make the world believe that he is a "regular guy" from
Texas, rather than the son of a hyper-wealthy New England family, whose
fortunes owe much to the support given by his forbears to Adolf Hitler,
then considered by them to be the rising star of German
politics. He also continues to give massive moral support to
such terrorists as Mr Oussama bin Laden, with the help of his greatly
favoured Bible-bender, Mr John Ashcroft. They have both
continually and publicly confirmed Mr bin Laden's views of the
"West" and the attitude which every Muslim should have toward
it.
If the electorate believes in these men, who
are thereby enabled to increase the tyranny which they so clearly seek
to impose both on the U.S.A. and on the rest of the world, we shall all
suffer tragic consequences. All men and women of goodwill
around the world of all faiths (or none) should therefore hope and pray
for your country's future, which is also bound to affect us all.
When Senator McCain says that by making war
(carefully avoiding any form of action against terrorist organisations) his
candidate is acting to protect your country, what he means is that he is
encouraging more and more people around the world to fear and then hate
the U.S.A., thereby increasing the dangers to you and to us from these
newly recruited terrorists. Fear and the resulting hatred
are bad counsellors when it comes to voting, and the insistence of the
Bush re'gime on building their support on them is a serious problem for
the whole world.
Robert Thompson - Robert.Thompson@wanadoo.fr is a retired French Avocat (Attorney) living in a small village in Northern France
