A US president lies about the military capabilities of another country and deceives the world into invading it (for years, the US and the president's friends supported the same nation in its own illegal wars, and even provided materials so that it could wage chemical warfare against its neighbours, and its own people).
The US president's lies are exposed
The US president's friends' lies are exposed
The US president refuses to step down
The US president rewrites US laws to make himself immune from prosecution
The US military's use of torture against citizens of the invaded nation is exposed
The US president refuses to step down (he has rewritten the US laws to make himself immune from prosecution)
The US president and his administration condone the use of torture in the pursuit of their illegal war
Scientific analysis suggests 1 million citizens of the invaded nation have died as a direct result of the illegal war
The US president refuses to step down (he has rewritten the US laws to make himself immune from prosecution)
The US president argues that "perhaps around 30,000" of the citizens of the nation he invaded, based on lies, have died
A journalist from the invaded nation throws a shoe at the US president, the president who lied, approved the use of torture, and murdered 1 million civilians
The journalist from the invaded nation is taken into custody by the military of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends
The journalist from the invaded nation is allegedly beaten by the military of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends
The journalist's ribs are allegedly broken, as is his hand, and he suffers internal bleeding at the hands of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends
The US president makes a joke about not seeing the size of the shoes
The US president does not comment on the injuries suffered by the man who hurled the shoe, and US journalists do not question the US president about the injuries suffered by their fellow journalist
The US president does not comment on the fact that the man could face 7 to 15 years in prison for throwing a shoe at the man who has murdered 1 million civilians, and US journalists do not question the US president about the fate of the man
US journalists focus on how the man was free to throw a shoe at the US president
US journalists focus on how the man would have been executed under the previous regime (which was supported by former US presidents and the US president's friends)
US journalists do not comment on how the previous regime was supported by former US presidents and the current US president's friends
The invaded nation has no resources other than cabbages
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tiananmen Square, the South China Morning Post and historical rewrites
From the December 11, 2008 edition of the South China Morning Post.
June 3-4, 1989
"Violent confrontations break out between soldiers and residents. PLA troops force protestors off the square."
"Confrontations break out" means tanks rolling into the square, over the bodies of demonstrators, and troops executing unarmed civilians. The residents sought to protect the student protestors and delay the tanks. The PLA then put the country on lockdown and the administration hunted down students and residents and either executed or incarcerated them. Thousands were murdered.
Kudos to the journos at the Post for standing up to their governors in Beijing and telling it like it was.
FOOTNOTE: The Post was also first to break the news that the tanks that would roll into Hong Kong carrying PLA troops shortly after midnight on July 1, 1997 were in fact "armoured personnel carriers." Not tanks at all. A very important distinction if you crushed by one.
June 3-4, 1989
"Violent confrontations break out between soldiers and residents. PLA troops force protestors off the square."
"Confrontations break out" means tanks rolling into the square, over the bodies of demonstrators, and troops executing unarmed civilians. The residents sought to protect the student protestors and delay the tanks. The PLA then put the country on lockdown and the administration hunted down students and residents and either executed or incarcerated them. Thousands were murdered.
Kudos to the journos at the Post for standing up to their governors in Beijing and telling it like it was.
FOOTNOTE: The Post was also first to break the news that the tanks that would roll into Hong Kong carrying PLA troops shortly after midnight on July 1, 1997 were in fact "armoured personnel carriers." Not tanks at all. A very important distinction if you crushed by one.
Chinese dementia patients see hope in Santa - South China Morning Post exclusive
Top headline from the December 6 edition of the South China Morning Post:
A world class paper for "Asia's World City."
DEMENTIA PATIENTS LOOK TO OPERATION SANTA FOR HELP
A world class paper for "Asia's World City."
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