Via Censorship is Security - Debt is Money - Tyrants Are Servants Is there a better case study in brazen hypocrisy than the ongoing crisis in Crimea? Not just on the part of the loathsome Vladimir Putin, who defends Syria’s sovereignty while happily violating Ukraine’s, but on the part of western governments, too. Where to begin? Speaking at the US embassy in Kyiv on 4 March, Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters how incredibly moving it had been to pay my respects . . . at the site of last month’s deadly shootings. He extended his condolences to people who battled against snipers on rooftops. What they stood for, Kerry continued, will never be stolen by bullets . . . It’s universal, it’s unmistakable, and it’s called freedom. Unmistakable? Universal? Nice try, John. On 14 August 2013, at the Rabaa al-Adawiya square in Cairo, Egyptian security forces attacked a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood members which had begun in July after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Brotherhood. As in Kyiv, snipers on rooftops fired on the crowds below. More than 900 protesters were killed that day, in what Human Rights Watch called the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:11:13 +0000
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