Iraqi security personnel were out in force on Friday, cracking down violently on public demonstrations across the country, rallies that suggest the relative calm of recent days may be giving way to more protests.
The Iraqi High Commission on Human Rights has reported that 42 people were killed Friday, and six more Saturday, and over 2,300 injured in the crackdowns, as police fired tear gas into crowds and charged into waves of protesters in Tahrir Square.
Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi made a late-night television address trying to calm the protests planned for Friday, insisting he understands their complaints and will remedy them. The protesters have heard that before, and people in the streets told reporters that anger over corruption remains a major driving force for them, and had them marching on the Green Zone, even as police desperately tried to drive them off.
While the government seems determined to try to maintain control by force, Iraq’s top religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani chided them in his latest sermon on Friday, calling on security personnel to use restraint, and warning that the chaos of these crackdowns only invites more foreign meddling.
The consequence of decades of American policy of sanctions, wars, terrorism nurturing. The economy in shambles, with no prospects for change.
But the protestors are also an interesting demographics. As if not understanding that — while being hungry is no pleasant, being hungry and occupied by foreign troops is worse. For as long as foreign troops are in Iraq, no infrastructure and no economic development is possible. It is hard to understand such demographic profile of immaturity for people still under occupation. It appears that all that is necessary to rile up population is to utter “corruption” and the assumption is that all that is required is to take that money, and all problems solved.
Until foreign occupation is in place — any point in protesting and expecting economic development?
I suspect mercenary agitators, the fbi was adept at this during civil rights, and antiwar demonstrations in the 60s. Mercenary groups have a motive to sew violent unrest, brings contracts. Simple equation, wait for a demonstration the right size, send in the agitators.
Just like in Hong Kong.
Back in the nineties US tried
everything between 1990-1995 to agitate for turmoil in Serbia. It was provoking Serb anger by allowing Croatia to expel and kill countless ethnically Serbian population indigenous to parts of Croatia, which itself was a construct of various ethnic map making by Austro-Hungarian empire, or post WWI Wilsonian Yugoslavia. And then, by Clinton deliberately making Bosnian Moslems throw away Lisbon Agreement, Bosnia descended into hell, with only one ethnic group blamed — no matter what happened. Incredible pressure was applied to break down Serbia, by such insanely biased approached. Yet, government was not toppled. Serbia was the inly constituent republic that had two provinces with autonomous rights — Kosovo and Vojvodina. The objective was — build secessionist movements in both, then create a comprehensive program for professional agitators. But it was also deemed expedient to send message globally that US and NATO can cause secession based on ethnic criteria, at will. It was in 1999 that a twin approach was used — bombing of Serbia, that ended with UN SC Resolution 1244, and a first time ever organized and well trained cadre of professional agitators named RESISTANCE, that finally succeeded in bringing Milosevic down in contested elections.
This background I hope will be useful in illustrating how professional agitation works. After an initial meeting in Hungary led by US specialists in “civil disobedience ” — a series of training courses were held. Every detail of agitators strategy , tool kits, road blocks, pots and pans for noise, masks and incendiary devices in back packs, strategy for engaging riot police, and making it look like police was aggressive . And as it escalates, engage shooters to kill both police and protestors, to enrage public into believing the government deliberately targeted innocent civilians.
RESISTANCE was taken globally with a headquarters in Seychelles, with same original leaders, and trademark clenched black and white fist.
The training was then given to numerous agitators-organizers that then generate their followers by enticing students and other radicalized elements to join. The Orange revolution in Ukraine had agitators provide tents, food, drinks, large screen rock bands performances, the works. Tents are always shipped — to allow for continuous presence.
Even when there are other forces at work in any given turmoil — such as Egypt — RESISTANCE is always present, and usually in our press can be seen the purpose — our Government demands that these “progressive” voices have a seat at the table when the power is divided.
From repeated protests in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Thailand, and score others — including today in HK and Bolivia where a legitimate election is being questioned (we do not like the guy) — same methids.
What made me laugh is a recent article in Reuters about Bolivian protestors. And it goes into a practice of beating on lots and pans — and identifies it as a LOCAL custom in Bolivia! I guess it was native to Belgrade protestors in 2000, or scores of other places using Resistance methodologies!
The identical training clearly was given to Antifa, and its branches popped up in Greece and Italy. This is government sponsored “progressivism” in service of disrupting and neutralizing other, undesirable protests.
Yesterday in local supermarket parking lot I saw a bumper sticker RESISTANCE. It seems that a variety of “progressivism” is generated, as an ecosystem to counter anti-globalist sentiments. Even though such sentiments are not well defined today in public consciousness— or is divided between left-inspired antiwar, and right inspired America First, the globalist bureaucracy, academia, political parties and media — are taking no chances.
The problem ardent globalists have is the inability to penetrate most large countries in the world — those that distinguish global connectivity and trade from globalism as means if establishing imperial controls using primarily finances and naval controls. Our own allies in the East are not buying into it, not to mention powers like China and Russia. We have list Turkey, and are in the process of losing Gulf — unless we tie them down by military pressure in Iran. Even Europeans are in the process of recalibrating.
But in US where large percentage of people are getting information from Facebook or MSM — potential for divisiveness is great. As the parties are struggling to generate interest in their brand of politics — it will not be shocking to expect a deliberate escalation of artificial tensions in order to get the public back into “reasonable” fold. But they are skating on thin ice.
Our advantages in science and technology are disappearing rapidly. By losing industrial base we have doomed ourselves to become a country of masters in business administration, not engineers. Electrical engineering is particularly not valued, slightly higher then electricians. And as scientists are retiring — there are not enough young ones taking their place. Our companies do not value scientific talent, treating them as a nuisance that is “overthinking” — forcing shortcuts, unreliable results, snd usually starting from scratch in every new endeavor.
We have been too clever by half.
More like “the consequences of centuries of” sectarian hatred producing “sanctions, wars and terrorism nurturing”.
Just to mention in passing — do you know just how not worthwhile it is to engage in explaining something at this level of displayed ignorance?
Iraqi sectarian bloodletting and carnage did not start with Bush’s needless invasion of Iraq.
Just the fact.
Freedom-fighters die resisting American-backed regime in Iraq. Nobody has been killed for rioting in Hong Kong.
The Iraqi High Commission on Human Rights sounds too much like the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is a US Deep State bs source.
Once WMDs were discredited as the casus belli, did not the latter morph into saving the Iraqi people from being killed and maimed by their evil leader and the Iraqi government? So, how’s that working out lately?