Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US
Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi
By Dr Gideon Polya
19 May, 2016
Countercurrents.org
Five allegedly jihadi Australians have been charged with making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities, an offence carrying punishment of life imprisonment. In contrast, successive Coalition and Labor Australian Governments have yet to face the International Criminal Court for actual involvement in the horrendous and ongoing US War on Muslims that has been associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation, 27 million, or from violence, 5 million, since the US Government's false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000.
The Brisbane Times reported: “Five Victorian men dubbed the "tinnie terrorists" over a bizarre plot to travel by boat from northern
Now in Australian law as in British law there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty and hence more respectable media reports of arrests for a crime will qualify reportage by use of the word “alleged”. Thus, for example, before his conviction, a man who shot 3 people in front of hundreds of horrified citizens in the heart of
Now a fundamental corollary of democracy is respect for the law by citizens, including upholding of the law by law-enforcement agencies. This upholding of the law is particularly crucial in relation to offences relating to violence, homicide, and especially terrorism that could involve numerous deaths. The Australian police and security services have an excellent record in relation to terrorism-related offences - thus, for example, zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin terrorist organization, although 2 Australians were killed by a lone, deranged Muslim gunmen in successive, unrelated incidents in Sydney in 2014 (the Lindt chocolate café siege in Martin Place in which a disaffected Muslim gunman shot the manager before he and a woman barrister were killed in the subsequent incursion by armed police) and in 2015 (the murder outside the Parramatta police headquarters of police civilian employee Curtis Cheng by a disaffected Muslim youth).
Unfortunately Australian respect for domestic law is not matched by respect for international law by successive Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition or Labor (aka Lib-Lab) Governments or Oppositions in relation to invading other countries. The worst state crime of all is invasion of another country but international law as enshrined in the UN Charter permits this only in certain circumstances (and then only after serious negotiations):
(1) if there is UN permission;
(2) if the invading country has been invaded by the country to be invaded;
(3) if the invading country has been invited to invade by the government of the country to be invaded [3].
However a serial invader and serial war criminal
History ignored yields history repeated [9] and look-the-other-way, serial invader and serial war criminal Australia is now into its Eighth Iraq War and its Fourth Syrian War of the last 100 years. Successive Australian Federal Governments and Oppositions are not only guilty of “ making preparations for incursion into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities” but are also guilty of actual and war criminal “incursion into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities” with attendant massive loss of life in the foreign countries involved i.e. these are not “alleged activities” but well-documented “actual” violent and deadly activities as summarized below for a serial war criminal Australia in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Repeated Australian invasion of
The past century of 8 variously bloody Australian invasions of Iraq can be succinctly summarized thus: (1) WW1, Australian Flying Corps (AFC; Royal Australian Air Force or RAAF precursor), 1915; (2) WW2, Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Basra, in Anglo-Iraq War, 1941; (3) Sanctions against Iraq, RAN, 1990-2003, 1.7 million Iraqi deaths from deprivation and 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to war criminal UN sanctions; (4) Australian forces to Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991; (5) Gulf War, RAN, 1990-1991, 0.2 million Iraqis killed; (6) Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2011, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, and 0.8 million under-5 infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demand that an Occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”; (7) Australia's Pine Gap electronic spying facility in Central Australia is key to targeting US drone strikes in Iraq, 2008-; (8) RAAF bombing and Australian Army military trainers, Iraq, 2014- (an average of 12,000 Iraqis violently killed each year) [4, 7, 11, 12, 13].
The Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide was about oil and US geopolitical hegemony. Thus, for example, Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades (2007): “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the
Repeated Australian invasion of
The past century of 4 bloody Australian invasions of Syria can be succinctly summarized thus: (1) WW1, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) help capture Damascus, 1918; (2) WW2, the RAAF and AIF operated in Lebanon and Syria against the French Vichy forces, 1941; (3) Australia's Pine Gap is key to targeting US drone strikes in Syria, 2004- ; (4) RAAF bombing, 2014. Violent deaths in the US Alliance-promoted Syrian Civil War, in which Australia is an illegal and war criminal combatant, now total 0.5 million, avoidable deaths from deprivation may be comparable and there are 12 million internal plus external Syrian refugees [4, 11].
US Democrat insider Robert F. Kennedy (son of Robert Kennedy, and nephew of JFK) has revealed that this present war was driven by long-term US backing for an anti-Russian Saudi-backed Sunni Gas Pipeline (Qatar to Turkey and thence Europe via Sunni Jordan and a Sunni Syria after removal of Assad and the secular Baathists) against a Shia Gas Pipeline (from Iran and successively through Shia Iraq, secular but Alawite-ruled Syria, Lebanon and thence Europe ) [15].
Australian invasion of
The Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide has been associated so far with as many as 5.6 million dead since 2001 from violence (1.4 million) or from war-imposed deprivation ( 4.2 million), and with 2.9 million under-5 year old infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross and war criminal violation by Australia and the US Alliance of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demand that an Occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”) [4, 11, 17].
The endless Afghan War is another “pipeline war” (the formerly US-backed Taliban opposed a US proposed gas pipeline from Central Asia), but the official US excuse for war was the Taliban not handing over Osama bin Laden quickly enough (the Taliban were happy to send him to a third country) and alleged Al Qaeda involvement in the 9-11 atrocity (but no Afghans were involved in 9-11 according to the lying Bush “official version” of 9-11). The US-installed Afghan President Karzai has recently explicitly rejected the
Australia targets war criminal US drone attacks. Australian intelligence targets
One notes that intelligence on Australian citizens - including mandatory government acquisition and retention for 2 years of all computer metadata ( i.e. who Australians contact by e-mail or on the web) – can be shared with the US and thence with nuclear terrorist, international law-violating, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy by genocide Apartheid Israel [23, 24] which, for example, has undertaken a massive international campaign against those anti-racists (including many anti-racist Jews) supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against this serial war criminal, Apartheid rogue state. This campaign has variously resulted in anti-BDS laws or regulations in the
Conclusions
Non-state terrorism and state terrorism are both evil. Both state terrorism and non-state terrorism are utterly abhorrent to decent, pro-peace people. While the evil of non-state terrorism has been largely successfully countered in Western countries by top-down state action involving education, high technology intelligence, intranational and international intelligence sharing, and skilled counter-terrorism forces, countering the vastly more deadly evil of state terrorism requires peaceful, bottom-up action by billions of ordinary people world-wide [3].
The
In the 21st century successive Australian Coalition and Labor Governments have been regularly involved in actual (as opposed to “alleged”) “making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities” and have actually engaged as members of the US Alliance in horrendously deadly and destructive invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Indeed
The annual deaths in the neoliberal greed-driven and oil- and gas-related Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide are dwarfed by deaths from pollutants from carbon fuel burning totalling 7 million people annually (WHO) – over 100 million people have died thus since 9-11, and there have been 3 million US air pollution deaths versus 53 US political terrorism deaths since the US Government's false flag 9-11 atrocity in 2001 [27, 28]. Indeed it is now extremely unlikely that the world will avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise and the worst culprits in this catastrophe in terms of “per capita income weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution” include the rich, neoliberalism-committed, serial invader Anglosphere countries of Australia, Canada, UK and the US [29- 31]. It is estimated that failure to requisitely address man-made climate change this century will wipe out much of the Biosphere and kill all but 0.5 billion people i.e. kill 10 billion people this century [32].
Decent pro-peace people around the world are obliged to (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge and apply as practicable Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all members of the war criminal and climate criminal US Alliance, including Apartheid Israel, and against all complicit politicians, parties, and corporations. Now is the time for zero tolerance for war criminals and climate criminals, and zero tolerance for state terrorists and corporate terrorists as well as for non-state terrorists [3, 33].
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[1]. Kim Stephens, “”Tinnie terrorists” to face
[2]. “Five men charged over alleged boat escape plot to be extradited to
[3]. “Stop state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ .
[4].Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a succinct history of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ;
[5]. Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm ;
[6]. Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ;
[7]. Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ;
[8]. Gideon Polya, “President Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150114.htm ).
[9].Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available for free perusal on the Web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ .
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[14]. Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters, “Greenspan admits
[15]. Robert F. Kennedy, “
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[23]. Philip Dorling, “
[24]. Gideon Polya, “50 Ways Australian Intelligence Spies On
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[26]. Gideon Polya, “Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to
[27]. “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .
[28]. “Carbon terrorism: 3 million US air pollution deaths versus 53 US political terrorism deaths since 9-11 (2001-2015)”, State crime and non-state terrorism: https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/carbon-terrorism .
[29]. “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed .
[30]. "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .
[31]. Gideon Polya
[32]. “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
[33]. "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ .
Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan,