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Blair The Camera
Man
By Gilad
Atzmon
7-31-5
- In case you missed them, here are the words of wisdom
Tony Blair uttered yesterday:
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- "Until we get rid of this complete nonsense of trying
to build some equivalence between what we are doing helping Iraqis and
Afghans build their democracy and these people going and deliberately
killing people for the sake of it, we are not going to confront this
ideology in the way that it needs to be confronted." - Tony Blair http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1536268,00.html
- Guardian article.
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- Tony Blair is an advanced political thinker. Following
his articulate analysis, terrorists are killing people for the 'sake of
it'. The soldiers that he made certain the Great Britain sent to far off
lands, on the other hand, kill only because Blair and Britain want to
help Arabs and Afghanis to 'build their democracy'. Come on Tony, do we
look that stupid?
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- Determining what the political message of Blair is all
about leaves us with two options. He either is an intellectually limited
being or alternatively, he deliberately produces the most idiotic
simplistic messages under the assumption that the British public is
stupid enough to accept everything he says. He probably thinks to
himself: if it works for Bush in America it very well may work for me in
Britain.
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- Blair repeatedly speaks about the evil ideology behind
terrorist acts, but he fails to share with us what that ideology is. In
fact, he tells us that those evil beings 'deliberately kill people for
the sake of it'. But then, if this is the case, it isn't ideology but
rather sheer bloodthirstiness. Let me assure you, Blair isn't very
innovative here. Anglo-Americans traditionally have presented their
enemy as being savage, barbarian, and bloodthirsty primitives. They did
it with the Native American Indians, they did it with Germans already
since WWI and now they are doing it with Arab nationalists. This is very
much a general common tactic used by colonialists and supremacist
polemicists. But then one would expect that at the dawn of the 21st
century, a prominent 'liberal democrat' leader would leave this old
rhetorical formula behind. Let's face it; Blair is neither a democrat
nor a liberal. In fact he is a devoted servant of hard capitalism and
brutal colonialism.
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- Blair is determined to be victorious over terror. His
philosophy is simple: if terror is bad all we have to do is to kill the
terrorists Apparently, it is the Israelis who invented this kindergarten
philosophy. At the time it had a catchy name; they called it 'War
Against Terror'. For the Israelis it was a local war with a conflicting
nationalist movement. Thanks to the fully Zionised Blair and Bush, this
local conflict is now expanding rapidly into a global crisis or even a
world war.
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- But then, we may want to review the tactics Blair is
there to offer. How can we really fight a faceless, anonymous enemy? It
is very simple, we merely attach a face to the faceless.
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- In terms of CCTV (closed circuit TV), Britain is a
leading European nation. No country in the continent has more CCTV
cameras per capita. If the data are to be believed, apparently every
British inhabitant just in the course of going about his business, is
captured around 300 times a day by the many cameras around.
Unsurprisingly, the Metropolitan Police was very quick to release the
photos of the alleged 'suicide terrorists'. Three days after the 7/7
attack we saw them entering Luton station carrying massive rucksacks.
Less than 24 hours after the second London attack the Metropolitan
Police released the photos of the four suspected bombers.
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- No doubt, modernity and technology are a great
advantage. But we should not stop there; we must capitalise on our
technological superiority and put it to the use of society at large. We
must place many more cameras. They should be in every home, in every
bedroom, in every restaurant, in every public toilet. We can then, just
minutes after the next attack, be able to see the suspected terrorists
eating, shitting, fucking, picking their noses or even picking other
people's noses. It will look great on TV and it will even look better on
a tabloid newspaper. This must be Blair's prophecy for the Western
world: more cameras, more identity cards, in short, more control.
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- Apparently, we love photographic images. Living in the
scientific and technological society we call our own, we are obsessed
with 'evidence'. We love terror to be pornographic. We can sit for days
watching Boeing airplanes getting chewed by the Twin Towers. We love
explicit images and we want more of them. We want to see the body, the
face, and the eyes of evil. But surely we do miss something. We can't
read the minds. Those alleged suicidal demons remain a mystery. We have
more and more evidence but we have less and less comprehension. In fact,
Blair's empty rhetoric proves how little some of us do understand.
Twenty days after 7/7 London attack we still don't have a clue what
really happened there. Who was behind it and why did it happen? All we
get from Blair is empty rhetoric coupled with pictures of olive skinned
faces.
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- We'd better accept it once and for all; photos or any
other positive evidence won't get us anywhere. Surely, it is not going
to prevent the next attack from happening. Religiously motivated terror
is ideological, a term completely foreign to Blair and his followers.
Millions of sporadic bits of fragmented evidence won't bring us any
closer to an ideological understanding. Ideology and evidence are two
different and distinct categories.
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- To quote Mark Jurgesmeyer: "one person's 'suicide
terrorist' is another person's 'freedom fighter'. For those who fail to
realise, suicidal war is the ultimate form of freedom fighting. The
martyr is never alone. He is always supported by a community." Jacques
Lacan, the legendary French psychoanalyst, taught us that
'unconsciousness is the discourse of the other'. He is probably right.
Suicidal attack is better grasped in terms of a fatal exchange between a
protagonist and more than a few discourses. In other words, the suicide
bomber leaves behind an image of sacrifice. This image is planted
forever within the discourse of his supportive community as well as
within the community of the victims. In a word, suicidal terror is a
form of communication. Clearly, Blair fails miserably in understanding
this form of communication, but as it seems, the majority of British
people are more than willing to listen, and hopefully to
comprehend.
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- According to several UK polls, most Britons do realise
that the recent London attacks are the outcome of Blair's grave policies
in the Middle East. Seemingly, they understand better than their Prime
Minister what the message of terror is all about.
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- Martyrdom is the outcome of a community which has been
humiliated and oppressed. Unfortunately, and it is hard to admit, we are
the oppressors in this story. In fact, martyrdom is a message addressed
to each of us. It is about time we try to confront this message. If we
want to confront suicidal terror, we are obligated to attempt to
understand it. We must learn what really motivates young people to
sacrifice their lives. If we want to challenge it, first we must
recognise and respect it. As long as we have locked ourselves within a
scientific technological discourse we will never be able to get to the
bottom of this emerging problem. Millions of CCTV cameras won't let us
into other people's minds. Three million cameras won't help us to grasp
the extent of the humiliation that leads human beings to take other
people's lives as well as their own. If we want to tackle those who are
determined to kill us, we must look in the mirror first. Blair's
rhetoric is all about stopping us from doing just that.
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- http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/
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