re: peace rally sydney.. pilger pilate Pilger's obscenities...

re: peace rally sydney.. pilger pilate Pilger's obscenities expose the counterfeit peace movement
Gerard Jackson
Melbourne: Australia
Tuesday Feb. 18 2003

Yesterday in Sydney the febrile John Pilger, the darling of the Australian media, addressed a cheering crowd and brazenly lied to it, falsely claiming "that five years ago Iraq was disarmed and is probably today the most disarmed country in the world." If that is so, perhaps Pilger would care to explain the fact that the Blix report makes clear that there are lists of unaccounted for rocket engines and biological and chemical weapons.

This is the same Pilger who declared that "the Washington regime of George W. Bush is now totalitarian" and that America is now the new "Third Reich". Yep, America now has a network of death camps, its railways are choking as trains packed with Bush opponents are driven to their final destination. The American people live in abject fear of the "midnight knock" as the Bush Gestapo relentlessly terrorise the population into total submission. Blah, blah, blah.

I really think it is impossible to exaggerate Pilger's lunacies and his complete contempt for the truth. He told the anti-American lie that Bush was deliberately withholding vital medicines from the Iraqi people. This is a lie. He uttered a similar lie in Cambodia, blaming the West for the delays and confusion in getting food to starving Cambodia. What he did not report is that his Hanoi mates had levied very heavy tolls on the relief agencies' barges that were carrying food, including powdered milk for children, and essential medicines. It was a vicious extortion racket that Pilger refused to expose.

He was at it again when he claimed that"at least 200 children are dying every day...as a direct result of sanctions." No it is not. Not only is this another of his outrageous lies, it deliberately ignores the children that Saddam is murdering. Excess child deaths are entirely due to Saddam's vicious policies.

So why does Pilger not condemn Saddam? For the same reason he defended Slobodan Milosevic in the +New Statesman in November 1999. Of course, Pilger was big enough to write of Milosevic's regime : "No one can doubt its cruelty and atrocities, but comparisons with the Third Reich are ridiculous."

Now read the above again. Milosevic's extermination campaign and his tactics are in no way reminiscent of Hitler's regime but the forthcoming attempt to remove the genocidal Saddam makes Bush a Hitler and his administration the equal of "Third Reich"!

Pilger's obscenities tell us exactly where the counterfeit peace movement is coming from — a hatred of America. It has been suggest that inviting Pilger was mere a case of bad judgement. Although it was certainly bad taste the invitation was a calculated expression of support for his views by the organisers of the counterfeit peace movement. This in itself tells us where they are coming from.

When the likes of Senator Bob Brown and secretary of the NSW Labor Council John Robertson stood shoulder to shoulder with Pilger they revealed to informed opinion their real motives. And what a sickening revelation it turned out to be.