Sauce for the Goose…

This post originally started as a dissection of “famous” words from someone I hold in great esteem. (They resonated deeply with me) I was going to talk about the fact that “everyone is a Tory.” Because they are. The political discourse in this country is abysmal. And once again I am both excited for an election and dreading one. We need change. The U.K. is on life support and we need defribulator and instead we get… nothing. Because we deserve nothing. My dad, another man I hold in great esteem once said “you get the government you deserve” he said it very controversially. Because Sierra Leone was going through a “civil war” the government stood by whilst Liberians chopped peoples hands and feet. And by the way that was after 30 years of economic vandalism. After independence the country went downhill. Fast. And I have been saying this is the end times for a number of years. You get what you accept. Despite being a baby. I could have told you that Paddy Ashdown should have been sacked as Liberal Democrat leader for adultery. He paved the way for Boris Johnson and his revolving doors of women, wine and parties during lockdown. I told you to arrest Tony Blair when he lied about Iraq. I said it then and I continue to say it. We have to, As a matter of urgency, arrest this man. He is a terrorist. He carpet bombed the oldest civilisation in the Middle East. He killed 100,000 people and created a million orphans. Can you imagine a million orphans? It’s just under the population of Birmingham in the U.K. our second capital. He destroyed all those lives. Crippled a nation for generations. When you kill a man you destroy his sons, and damage his grandsons. You leave his daughters to be women instead of girls, and his granddaughters are robbed of tenderness that only a grandfather can provide. Read Father’s matter and Grandfather’s matter. His wife becomes a widow and the man she loved, the man she promised forever to is gone from her life. It’s not tragic it’s savage. People lived under the spectre of war for years. Terrorising them. For what? Where are those WMD? Technically we’re still looking for them. We killed as Saddam Hussein like a dog. I don’t like dictators but what they did to that man should put the fear of the almighty God into you. His trial, I will admit I was too young to remember. But they hung him. Supposedly he was being tried by his own people. So why did the west show pictures of his execution? I have memories of his corpse being displayed on front pages of the newspapers “the dictator is dead” they humiliated him. He was unshaven. Unkempt. They hung him like it was nothing. Internationally sanctioned lynching. I’m not saying he was a good man. But be careful when you watch someone destroy their enemies. People who take vindictive, almost sexual pleasure in humiliating their enemies and destroying them forever are people to watch. They are terrifying. Because all that needs to happen is that you become the enemy and watch how they obliterate you into the ground too. You too can be lynched and people disrespect your corpse. Yes. Violation of a corpse is the last human evil. And the West perpetrated it. I was 15. I had no business seeing it. That is a war crime committed against his family. Can you imagine a loved one dying and someone 6,000 miles away is viewing your beloved’s corpse in a horrific state. Or their final moments being on the internet to replay ad infinitum? The pain is endless. That’s just the Iraq war. Gadaffi, who begged “ don’t shoot” will live with me forever. To bring a man low like that that he has to beg I. The street not to be shot like an animal. Then his death was hailed in the west. Sick. Someone died and you are happy. Because it helps your agenda, it makes it easier to loot these people. God will find you. The truth is. Someone I respect said that the West was facing “the end times” it resonated with me. Because he’s right. We are facing the end times. When someone’s father can be shot in the street. A vigilante killing by his own people where the West fanned the flames of hatred for their own profit. Then when we watch as the NHS is systematically destroyed. People dying in trolley’s or not even getting an ambulance. When we say “how can this happen?” Easy. The same leaders that hailed Gaddafi’s death as progress, the same leaders that carpet bombed the oldest civilisation in the region. Remember operations “shock and awe?” More like “shock and shame” it will stand forever as a terrorist operation in my eyes. Good on the Afghans for giving them hell for going into their country when America had 100% no business there. Let’s not forget that Bin Laden was a CIAa asset. He turned against the west which is his prerogative to do after taking enough of their nonsense in the first gulf war. So they spent the last 15 years of his life hunting him like a fox and shooting him in his own house somehow a “black ops operation” is justified for killing you in your own home. Let’s not forget that it’s unprecedented. When have you ever heard of soldiers from another country coming into your country to kill you? A civilian? They call you an enemy combatant but that’s a matter of opinion. There was no trial. So for all intents and purposes he was a civilian in his own home being shot by foreign nationals and they then disposed of his corpse how THEY wanted to. Not how his family wanted to. Wasn’t his grandkids in that house? Dr Martin Luther King said that “injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere” it is. Everyone casually skipped over the fact that there was no Bin Laden trial. When actually his death was an unprecedented violation of international law. He was murdered and Obama got praised for it? Everyone was happy. But if he was as guilty as you said why didn’t you take him alive? Oh yeah, because that’s kidnapping. Taking someone against their will to your country without charging them with a crime. The “black ops” were not the Afghan police so had no jurisdiction in Afghanistan. Which brings me to…, Guantanamo Bay. The act of the USA torturing people who hadn’t been charged with a crime. Just suspected of being “baddies” the last ones were released this year… without charge. One of them had a baby under age of one when he was arrested. (As well as other kids) and that was 20+ years ago. His son is now a man, robbed of his father’s guidance. That man was tortured, robbed of a family life and the ability to make an honest living, and they released him 20 years later… a foreign government released him without charge 20 years later. His own government did nothing whilst someone took him. Then for 20 years they didn’t bother to charge him. But they did bother to torture him for information he didn’t have. I’m not saying he’s a good person. But if he was a terrorist like you said…. Then the crime was committed in his country not yours and you are basically calling his country a failed state with no judiciary to prosecute him. And his own country played boo boo the fool and agreed, “ yes we are a failed state… please prosecute our terrorists for us” Jackass. This stuff should terrify you. You only have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness if you haven’t upset the west. You do not have the right to be tried in your own country. You do not have the right to a trial. As a black woman I personally find extra reason to be afraid. Child Q wasn’t that long ago. We all just casually live our lives with the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. Peace on condition that we tow the line. Not unconditional peace. The CIA is watching, if you don’t agree with the rhetoric of war crimes justification then you are a problem to be “dealt with” Gadaffi, Saddam, Bin Laden all evil people who were once friends. Once the west turned against them, their already numerous sins were amplified. The good that they did erased. But Tony Blair has been responsible for just as many deaths as them. Same as Bush, in a wholly illegal war. But they will never be hanged or shot. Which is why sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Grace and Courage

Annetta Mother Smith.