Eerily Familiar News From
"Down Under"By Tony Ryan
17 November, 2005
Countercurrents.orgDavid Hicks
Hundreds of courageous Americans, including Ernest Hemmingway, fought in the Spanish Civil War; for reasons you are well familiar with.
More recently, an Australian named David Hicks went to the defence of similarly beleaguered peoples for identical reasons; specifically Palestinians, and prior to that, certain Baltics. He received additional training in Pakistan/Afghanistan. At that time none of these peoples were enemies of Australia and, in fact, about 80% of the nation rejects the notion that they are enemies today.
As a one time democracy we believe that every people has the right to self-determination and we admire those who assist such people to regain their freedom, purely on principle. We do not consider we need to approve of the choice of politics/government of an independence movement or nation.
David Hicks was captured in Afghanistan after 9/11 and has since been detained without charge; most of this time being in Guantanamo. Most Australians regard his politics as dubious, but concede that his motives were honourable and, under Australian law, completely legal. He cannot be charged in this country. The world believes he has broken no law at all and is being held illegally.
Herein lies the rub. If he is brought to trial in Australia, Australia's version of the Patriot Act will fall horribly apart. It relies on the premise that there are no freedom fighters, for democracy or any other cause; the government is always right. His inevitable and horrifically public release will mean the beginning of the end for the Howard Government; especially considering the rapidly growing opposition to industrial repression here (more on this later).
Although it is automatically presumed that the US government is holding Hicks with half-hearted approval by the Australian Government; in fact it is the Australian Government which is demanding that under absolutely no circumstances is Hicks to be released into Australian custody. If he cannot be executed he must be killed.
We would be very grateful if you would make this information available to Americans; anyway you can. I ask this for humanitarian reasons, however, there are more. It will be tragic but, many Australians will become extremely hostile to Americans if Hicks dies. If this sounds unreasonable (which of course it is) imagine the outcry in America if the position were reversed. There is no doubt that anyone with an Australian accent would have a short life span if he traveled around in many parts of the US.
Quite frankly, we cannot afford a rift between ordinary Americans and Australians right now. We are going to need each other desperately in the coming four or five years.
WW III
Unprecedented rallies and marches took place around Australia yesterday (15 November) and, for the first time since the Vietnam War, I led a march in my own town. Most participants are vaguely aware that we are now on the threshold of war with our own government. Some say so openly. There is a mood that is without precedent in our history; and widespread awareness that democracy has ended and that the egalitarianism which so characterised Australia, has gone forever. Our famous bell-curve middle class is now a half bell, with the fat bit jammed up in the top fifteen percent elite; the classic plutocracy.
After our march on a corrupt and treacherous Federal politician's office, one Peter Slipper, I thanked the police for their cooperation and forbearance (their five car escort with lights flashing was brilliant PR) and they laughed and said "We're all workers, mate".
Although Government assures us we are living in "unprecedented prosperity" with only 5% unemployment, private volunteer polling organisations put the figure variously at 14% and 19%. More than half of the nation's children live below the poverty line, itself below the legitimate level. A recent official study accidentally released the information that 17% of all Australians live in poverty, which exactly matches our real unemployment level.
Another study reported that one in three Australians have cut back on food so they can buy fuel to go to work.
The Howard Government has just introduced an Industrial Relations Act which will, in concert with fuel price-driven inflation, quickly reduce the majority of workers incomes by about 30% over the following year; but with no adequate indexation of wages and no collective bargaining. A union delegate (our unions are very different to those of the US, with several of your union leaders serving on the Trilateral Commission) attempting to come to the aid of an employee being denied his award wages and forced into a Workplace Agreement with his employer (ie Shell, Halliburton, Texaco, KBR, Bechtel, etc) will be fined $33,000. There are prison sentences as well.
New rallies will take place on Saturday and it is likely that tensions will escalate in the coming months.
Delusions of Democracy
Following four decades of research, I have written a series of books which are intended to assist ordinary citizens to comprehend globalisation, and the international elitism movement in general. This includes a description of the cultured belief systems which enable transglobal corporations and governments to manipulate entire nations, driving people to support actions which are in conflict with their own interests.
More significantly, the book constitutes the first known historical revision and redefining of democracy in more than a century; all important in the face of Bush's and Blair's illicit and distorted versions of "freedom and democracy"; which are anything but.
Finally, the book reveals the globalist's Achilles heel; how ordinary people can restore democracy; converting the power of one into people power. We are not into the metaphysical here; but are referring to proven and practical down-to earth electoral-level politics.
The first in the series, Delusions of Democracy, ISBN 1-9210-0517-3 and available from http://www.zeus-publications.com/ or on order from your local book shop, is the first in a series of four.
Read this and I can predict your reaction. Like every other reader, for the first 200 pages you will slap the table repeatedly and say, I knew it! I was about to draw the same conclusion! I always suspected this! The revelation of the real extent of mind control we have been subjected to will produce a permanent anger.
This is an international book, but it uses Australia as a model which stands conveniently and culturally between the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Can I give you a hint? As an American, drag out your dusty copies of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Amendments. List every time the word democracy is mentioned. List every reference to freedom which is not counterbalanced by the state's right to deal with rebellion.
