Orwellian Media
Won't Report
UK-US State Terrorism
By Gideon Polya
22 July, 2005
Countercurrents.org
Whether
a person in an OCCUPIED COUNTRY dies VIOLENTLY or dies NON-VIOLENTLY
(through deprivation or avoidable, treatable disease) the end result
is the same and the CULPABILITY the same. Further, the Ruler is responsible
for the Ruled and the UN-mandated Geneva Conventions specify such obligations
for occupying powers.
Some mainstream media have reported the latest Iraq Body Count findings
of about 25,000 post-invasion VIOLENT Iraqi civilian deaths - but still
will not report the post-invasion AVOIDABLE MORTALITY (EXCESS MORTALITY)
in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories that now totals 1.9 MILLION
(from the latest UN Population Division data, see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=1)
(see also: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/
and http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html).
In general, the Orwellian mainstream media will simply NOT report the
horrendous consequences of UK-US state terrorism in the Occupied Iraqi
and Afghan Territories. In relation to "terrorism" there is
a huge gulf between mainstream media reportage and actual reality -
a huge media lie encapsulated in the dishonest and semantically absurd
phrase "War on Terror".
In George Orwell's "1984", Big Brother perverted reality by
"re-writing history", perverted the English language through
"Newspeak" and perverted mathematics - the language of the
universe - by the proposition "2 plus 2 does not equal 4".
"1984" has well and truly arrived with the dishonestly named
"War on Terror" and Orwellian mainstream media lies and "slies"
(spin-based untruths) about the horrendous human consequences of war
by the US-led Coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Decent people need
to regain the very meaning of words by asking questions such as: What
is terror? Who are being terrorized? and Who are the terrorists? We
must have zero tolerance for mathematical abuse in this Orwellian War
on Truth and attempt to actually QUANTIFY global terror and terrorism,
MEASURE the human consequences of terrorism and RANK the state and non-state
terrorists in terms of the carnage they cause.
These questions
are addressed in recent articles "Quantifying deaths by terrorism
in the world" in Al-Jazeerah (see: http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%
20Opinion%20Editorials/July/17%20o/Quantifying%
20Deaths%20By%20Terrorism%20in%20the%
20World%20By%20Gideon%20Polya.htm), "UK and US world's
worst terrorist states" (see: http://www.mwcnews.net/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=724&Itemid=26) and "Global
terror and UK-US state terrorism" (see: http://www.newscentralasia.com/modules.php?
name=News&file=article&sid=1341).
What is terror?
"Terror" is defined in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as "intense
fear" and "terrorists" "terrorize" by "coercive
intimidation" i.e. by inducing "intense fear".
How can we quantify
terror? The "degree of terror" is related to the "perception
of avoidable death" for ourselves or our loved ones i.e. to the
"perceived probability of avoidable death". ACTUAL TERROR
- as opposed to "terror" manufactured by lying Anglo-American
mainstream media spin, lies and "slies" (spin-based untruths)
- is reflected in the "probability of avoidable death" in
any year for the victims. However it must be recognized that the relationship
between "terror" and "probability of avoidable death"
varies for different people and is not "linear". Thus the
hero of "1984" was finally broken by threatened facial exposure
to a rat whereas the iconic Australian bushranger Ned Kelly coolly went
to the noose with the famous quip "Such is life". Further,
one supposes that one's "terror" at being in a swimming pool
with one man-eating shark would be similar to that with a dozen. Nevertheless
there is clearly a connection between "perceived risk" and
feelings of concern, anxiety, fear and terror. People can resign themselves
to inevitable death (as we all do and as dramatized by the sailors on
the Titanic) but "fear" is related to "risk" of
potentially avoidable untimely demise.
The empirically-estimated
"PROBABILITY OF DEATH EACH YEAR" is:
1 in 3.3 million
(0.00003%) (for Western civilians at the hands of jihadist terrorists);
1 in 3 million (US
citizen being killed by a shark);
1 in 4 million (US
citizen being electrocuted);
1 in 6 million (US
citizen being struck by lightning);
1 in 500,000 (0.0002%)
(US citizen at the hands of jihadists in the 21st century)
1 in 10,000) (0.01%)
(from car accident in the US);
1 in 1,250 (0.08%)
(under-5 year old infant in Australia FROM ALL CAUSES);
1 in 1,000 (0.1%)
(from cigarette smoking-related causes in the US);
1 in 38 (2.6%) (under-5
year old infants in UK-US-occupied Iraq);
1 in 17 (5.8%) (for
under-5 year old infants in occupied Afghanistan).
TERROR indeed for
tens of millions of Iraqi and Afghan parents - but clearly TERRORISM,
MASS MURDER, MASS INFANTICIDE and HORRENDOUS WAR CRIMES by the US-led
Coalition in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories.
Who are being terrorized?
Clearly the parents of Iraqi and Afghan infants are being terrorized.
The probability of getting heads when you toss a coin is 1 in 2. The
probability of death for each try in Russian roulette with a 6 shooter
is 1 in 6. Would you cross the road without lights if the probability
of death was 1/2, 1/6, 1/17 or 1/38? Wouldn't you be in immense fear
for your loved ones if they had mortality odds such as this?
Who are the worst
terrorists? PASSIVE GENOCIDE by the US in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan
Territories (through non-provision of life-sustaining requisites demanded
by the Geneva Conventions) kills 0.4 MILLION under-5 year old infants
EACH YEAR, this corresponding to 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND) avoidable under-5
infant deaths EACH DAY. The post-invasion avoidable mortality in the
Iraqi and Afghan Territories now totals 1.9 million.(see the latest
UNICEF report: http://www.unicef.org/
, Global Avoidable Mortality: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/
and http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html).
In contrast, in the last 20 years the jihadists have murdered 5,000
Western victims (noting that the total Western population is about 760
million).
In harshly objective,
"terror"-related terms of imposed "annual probability
of death" for civilians, the US-led Coalition has outdone the jihadists
and Arab insurgents by a factor of about 4/0.00003 = 133,000. However
we can apply other measures to US state terrorism. Thus the " death
ratio" of "total enemy deaths"/ "Allied military
deaths" in World War 2 was 0.6 - however in the Occupied Iraqi
and Afghan Territories the post-invasion ratio of "total enemy
deaths" /"US military deaths" has been about 1,900,000/2,000
= 950 and the ratio of "enemy infant deaths"/"US military
deaths" has been 1,500,000/2,000 = 750.
Let there be no
equivocation - murdering and terrorizing innocent people is evil and
vile. In reponse to the awful London bombings, the normally rather subdued
Australian Leader of the Opposition, Mr Kim Beazley, vigorously stated
of the perpetrators: "These terrorists are subhuman filth and must
be captured and eliminated" (The Australian, 8 July 2005; see letters,
The Age, Melbourne 11 July 2005). How then should we describe the Coalition
perpetrators of mass infanticide in Iraq and Afghanistan? How should
we describe the Orwellian mainstream media who are complicit in horrendous
Anglo-American state terrorism?
Peace is the only
way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people must
inform everyone. We must escape from the media-constructed Orwellian
travesty, regain the English language and apply the numerical language
of the cosmos - 2 plus 2 still equals 4.
Dr Gideon Polya
29 Dwyer Street, Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria, 3085, Australia
e-mail: [email protected]
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Day & night telephone: +61 3 9459 3649
Credentials: Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing
a book on global mortality - numerous articles on this matter can be
found by a simple Google search for "Gideon Polya" and on
his website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpolya/links.html