Thursday, August 04, 2005
Galloway's latest treason
Imagine being a British soldier in Iraq, and tuning in to Al-Jazeera to see poison like this from George Galloway, an elected member of your home parliament:
" ... The foreigners are ...rap(ing) .. these two beautiful Arab daughters (Baghdad and Jerusalem) ... and the Arab world is silent."
"These poor Iraqis ... are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable by the people who occupy it. ... They are the base of this society ...
"(T)hey decided, when the foreign invaders came, to defend their ... families, their religion, their way of life ... And they are winning ... America is losing ... , and even the Americans now admit it ... the Iraqi resistance is ... defending all the Arabs, and ... all the people of the world.
"The biggest terrorists are Bush, and Blair, and Berlusconi, and Aznar ... George Bush worships money.
"Most of the children ... were bombed by the United States . Most of the children who died in Iraq were killed by George Bush
"Most of the schools that were wrecked, buses that were bombed, hospitals that were destroyed, lives that were taken, were taken by George Bush,
"Most of the resistance in Iraq is ... not foreign, ... Most of their resistance are Iraqis"
Rodents like London mayor Livingstone and Galloway, he more so than Livingstone, are carriers of the decay that incubates British-born and based terrorists, and of the malady that forces London subway commuters to question the capacity of their own protectorate to simply tide them to work and play without being slaughtered in and on their own tracks.
Galloway has offered himself as a symbol, and must burn as such. The 9/11 carnage was symbolism via television, as are the threatening video tapes by angry men in black turbans, the turban colour itself symbolising a man at war.
The British commuter of August, 2005, she with her cane, he with his toddler and Harry Potter story book, are only too aware that life-snuffing immolation at the altar of Salafist symbolism may be an instant away.
So when a representative of one's own troops and people stands before them and the enemy cheering on the latter and denigrating the former, let's not pretend this not to be a dangerous symbol, maliciously crafted in a time of war.
Galloway's utterances do not fall within the bounds of reasonable free speech: they are at least equivalent to crying "fire" in a crowded theatre.
His is language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state, and therefore sedition within the commonly understood definition of that term.
His is is betrayal of one's country by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies, and therefore treason within the generally accepted parameters of that term.
Worse, the mere fact of his unimpeded capacity to take such actions undermines street-level confidence that the country he represents is worth fighting for, and confirms to detractors that the enemy's rulers are ill.
So let him burn, publicly and symbolically, before the plague of his breed of carrion begs the burning of the society he infests.
