De
‘verijdelde’ aanslagen met pijpbommen gericht tegen vips van de
Democratische Partij in de VS, heeft daar het nieuws minstens 48 uur behoorlijk hysterisch bepaald, terwijl de VS elders de ene echte bom na de andere
afwerpt…..

Caitlin Johnstone heeft volkomen terecht op deze enorme hypocrisie gewezen, waarbij ze de vergelijking maakt met de oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de democraten onder Obama en dan in het bijzonder over het enorme aantal bommen, die onder zijn regering werden afgeworpen op landen waar de armoede groot is……..
Dit daar men net doet of de democraten allen vredesduiven zijn,
terwijl het voor de mensen in arme landen niet uitmaakt door wie ze
worden gebombardeerd, of het nu gaat om een ‘democratische dan wel
republikeinse bom’, hun dood ziet er precies even gruwelijk uit…..

Zo toont
Johnstone een foto waarboven te lezen staat, dat een raket van
100.000 dollar, afgeworpen door een vliegtuig van 20 miljoen dollar,
die per vlieguur 6.000 dollar kost, waar de door deze vliegtuigen afgeschoten raketten Jemenieten vermoorden, die rond moeten zien te  komen van minder dan 1 dollar per
dag……..

De VS is
in feite de hoofdverantwoordelijke voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in buurland Jemen, daar de VS de bombardementen van de
Saoedische terreurcoalitie coördineert en het vliegend oorlogstuig in de lucht aftankt, zodat dit oorlogstuig zo efficiënt mogelijk de sjiieten in Jemen kan bombarderen……
(dit nog naast de VS leveringen van wapens, munitie en vliegend,
varend en rollend oorlogstuig, plus de training van militairen, zaken
waar ook Groot-Brittannië zich schuldig aan maakt…..)

De VS is
verreweg de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde en het is dan ook van
het grootste belang dat het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) een
grootschalig strafrechtelijk onderzoek start naar de enorme oorlogsmisdaden die de VS over de wereld pleegt…… Onder de Obama
administratie was deze terreurentiteit zelfs de volle twee termijnen, van de eerste tot de laatste minuut in illegale oorlogen
verwikkeld…….

Nation
Hypnotized in Horror by Toy Bombs While Killing Civilians With Real
Ones

October
25, 2018 at 3:47 pm

Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Media
headlines have been dominated for the last two days by the news that
pipe bombs are being sent to Democratic Party elites and their
allies, a list
of whom as
of this writing consists of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and
Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, George Soros, Maxine Waters, Eric Holder,
Robert De Niro, and the CNN office (addressed to former CIA Director
John Brennan who actually works for NBC).

As
of this writing nobody has been killed or injured in any way by any
of these many explosive

devices,
and there is as of this writing no publicly available evidence that
they were designed to.

As
of this writing there is no evidence that the devices were intended
to do anything other than

what
they have done: stir up fear and grab headlines.

And
of course it is a good thing that nobody has been hurt by these
devices. Obviously targeting anyone with packages containing
explosive materials is terrible, even if those devices were not
rigged with the intention of detonating and harming anyone, and it is
a good thing that not a single one of them has done so. It is a good
thing that none of America’s political elites were targeted by the
sort of explosive device that America drops on people in other
countries every single day. You
know, the kind that actually explode.

Apparently some Acme comedy bombs mailed to a number of extremely rich people, which thankfully did not hurt anybody at all, are infinitely more newsworthy than the real bombs which maim and destroy children in Yemen on an industrial scale.

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It
is good that Barack Obama was never sent anything resembling
the 26,171
bombs that his administration dropped in
the final year of his presidency, for example. It is good that
neither the
first US president to
serve every minute of his administration under wartime, nor those who
served as part of that administration like Joe Biden or Hillary
Clinton, were targeted with the kinds of weapons which were deployed
against impoverished people in other nations every single day for all
eight years. People would have been killed and badly injured if
anyone had been sent anything like those kinds of explosive devices,
their bodies ripped to shreds like the countless civilians killed in
the airstrikes which resulted from the Obama
administration’s expansion
of Bush’s so-called “war on terror”.

President
Trump, whose administration has been dropping
even more bombs than
its predecessor after expanding
the use of drone strikes and peeling
back regulations
on air
strikes designed
to protect
civilians,
was quick to condemn the headline-grabbing pipe bomb campaign which
did not hurt anyone whatsoever.

“A
major federal investigation is now underway,” said
the president who
continues to assist Saudi Arabia in murdering untold
tens of thousands of
civilians in Yemen. “The full weight of our government is being
deployed to conduct this investigation and bring those responsible
for these despicable acts to justice.”

Right
now the only political debate happening over these bomb scares is who
is responsible for them. I am being told by everyone to the left of
Ted Cruz that I am required to believe that this was with 100 percent
certainty a terrorist plot orchestrated by a Trump supporter due to
the president’s hateful rhetoric against the people who’ve been
targeted, and if I don’t subscribe to that belief it means I’m a
Nazi. Meanwhile Trump supporters are telling me this is a deep state
false flag designed to get Democrats elected in the midterms, because
<sarcasm> Republicans are totally not in bed with the alliance
of plutocrats and government agencies known as the deep
state.</sarcasm>

But
the fact of the matter is that next to nothing is known about this
case; as of this writing there isn’t even a suspect yet. The proper
thing to do when the mass media is telling us with a unified voice to
be afraid of something is to remain agnostic and very, very skeptical
of everything we are being told. There are any number of possible
explanations for this spate of impotent pipe bombs, many of which
don’t involve a partisan explanation at all. Without endorsing any
particular one, there are for example a few sociopathic government
agencies in the US which would love nothing more than to manufacture
support for more intrusive domestic “counter-terrorism” powers.

But
partisan explanations are possible as well; maybe there really is a
Trump supporter out there who either (A) wanted to scare Democratic
elites without hurting them and didn’t realize doing so would only
generate sympathy and unify Democrats right before midterms, or (B)
is really, really consistent in being really, really bad at making
pipe bombs. Who knows. The important thing is to remain agnostic and
skeptical.

Meanwhile,
while we wait for copious amounts of facts and evidence before
forming a solid opinion one way or the other, how about a little
interest in the people who are being targeted with actual bombs that
actually explode by the empire these Democratic elites serve? That,
in my opinion, is one debate we should all always be having.

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