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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-The Hutton Inquiry: An Avoidance Tactic
By delving into minutiae at the Hutton Inquiry, and searching for a scapegoat to be responsible for Dr David Kelly's death, the British state avoided the real charge: the use of deception in taking Britain to war.... RT
THE HUTTON INQUIRY:
AN AVOIDANCE TACTIC
......Over in London, meanwhile, the recent Hutton inquiry allowed some notional insights into just what Blair and the faceless civil servants of death are capable of when it comes to asserting British corporate interests abroad, notably in support of arms and oil. In true Whitehall style, even this ‘free-ranging’ investigation looked more like the usual ‘gentlemen’s inquiry’. It was a sanitised sham which pored over every syllable and intonation of the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan’s ‘45-minute’ account and looked for a scapegoat within the Ministry of Defence for David Kelly’s suicide. But the inquiry studiously avoided the real charge of deception by the British state and its wilful sanctioning of terror, including the dropping of cluster bombs on a defenceless people.Web of deceitWe should not be misled by simplistic notions of Britain as some supposed poodle in this and other imperial adventures. Readers in any doubt about what I’m saying here should find themselves a copy of Mark Curtis’s brilliant exposé, Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World. They might then better understand what this secretive, authoritarian regime has been up to, not just in its past colonial exploits, but in spreading poverty, misery and death around the globe today. They can be in the guise of an ‘ethical foreign policy’, which arms dictators and supports other repressive regimes. Or it can be in the form of an active lead in asserting neoliberal condition-alities on poor developing countries under the pretext of a caring aid agenda.Drawing on recently declassified documents, Curtis shows that the level of British scheming and brutality on behalf of colonial business in, for example, Malaya, Kenya, Iran, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Indonesia was much more serious than previously realised.Likewise, he brings us up to date with some of the UK’s more recent interventions, such as the supply of Hawk jets and other instruments of death to Indonesia, thus allowing its Kopassus special forces to carry out their repression in East Timor, West Papua and Aceh.Alongside this are the non-interventions, such as Britain’s lead in seeking the removal of vital UN peace-keeping forces in Rwanda, a strategy which on-the-ground NGOs and key military personnel specifically link to the ensuing genocide and deaths of a million people.Single-ideology totalitarian stateAnd if Malaysians are rightly sick and tired of what passes for critical enquiry in their own media, they might like to reflect on the British media. Despite the supposed standard-bearing independence of the press here, barely a single word of criticism was offered in the mainstream or ‘qualities’ over Britain’s complicity in the Rwandan slaughter.In the face of intense public hostility, the media’s view of Blair’s recent Iraq actions may have been more searching, but the rationalisations and veiled apologias are no less apparent. It is a mark of the sustained and entrenched notion of liberal democracy in the West, a set of ideals variously filtered through the mainstream and liberal media, that most people could not possibly countenance the idea of Blair as a war criminal.
Yet, Curtis, among others, comes to this and similar sober conclusions in describing Britain as “a single-ideology totalitarian state”. This was evident in the past orchestration of the coup against Sukarno and connivance in the murder of thousands of innocent Indonesians. More recently, the military ‘liberations’ in Afghanistan and Iraq — or shall we use the simpler and more humane term, murder — only confirm that the blood of empire is now dripping from the hands of yet another political generation. One day, hopefully, they will stand in a fair and impartial dock for their crimes.
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