Frank Georgalis – Writer

Tsunami In Middle East

 

 

Johnny, Get your gun we are going hunting heads, heads of Nations

Political Tsunami in Middle East

International control commission (ICC) formally called the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam (ICSC), was an international force established in 1954 that oversaw the implementations of the Geneva Accords that ended the first Indochina war the force was made up with troops and officers from Canada, Poland and India. That force was to be neutral but some Canadian members facilitated USA with the bombing of North Vietnam. A number of them were caught and a number of them paid with their lives.

With the signing of the Paris Peace Accords which marked the end of the Vietnam War, it also marked the end ICC and was replaced with International Commission of Control and Supervision. (ICCS). In other words it’s not John anymore, it’s Johnny.

 

Hang’em High

Now the ICC has come to the aid of the Libyan protesters and has issued warrens for Qadhafi’s arrest and some of his close followers. According to what I understand, listening to some experts of experience and logic, that warren for his arrest and 50 cents will buy you a half a dollar soda, because the ICC has no jurisdiction in domestic matters. The only damage he can suffer is if some of his most trusted friends and followers get scared and defect to ICC authorities, being promised immunity to testify against their boss. That is American prosecutor’s game. There are many cases where the guilty party was given immunity or lighter sentence for testifying against the others while the less guilty parties suffered the consequences and the prosecutors have the nerve to call it Justice. At this point nobody knows if he is guilty of human rights violations. The members of the media are publishing what they are being told by some of the protestors, that he has committed crimes against humanity, what protesters? The natives or the foreigners, who have come from other countries and are members of Brotherhood of Islam. I live in Thailand for the time being. The town I live in is a resort town filled with tourists including a great number of Iranians and Egyptian. The Iranians are telling the same story as the Egyptians; they are declaring that the Hardliner Muslims have a lot to do with the uprising. Egypt was an important target for the Muslims to take, because the president  Hosni Mubarak was not only a friend of the Jews, but he also despised the Brothers of Islam an kept them out of politics. In fact the last bunch of them who wanted to run against him, he jailed. According to what I have gathered from talking to these Egyptian and Iranian tourists, I report. The foreign protestors were able to convince the native Egyptians to bring the regime down because the president was a friend of the Jews. Most people don’t like the Jews because of Palestine but they don’t wish to break relations with Jews, they simply don’t want war in that region: they want peace. The people I was speaking to were very reluctant speaking with me, even though they like Americans, with exception of George Bush Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld. Most of the ones that I was able to speak to are educated but it took me a lot of good mornings and good nights before they spoke with me. They are scared even here and they travel around the city in teams of six to eight.

One will not go into a room with a woman unless two or three are standing guard outside the door. They are constantly in the lookout for spies. They told me that Journalists who are working in the countries of trouble will not write the truth, because they are in fear for their lives. They told me that what we read is part of the truth. They told me very reluctantly that not all the killings of civilians in Libya, in Syria and other countries are committed by the regimes.

This article was meant to tell my readers something about the ICC and the difficulty it will have to convict Qadhafi. Qadhafi is defending the country he is running. In1970 when Americans did not approve Nixon going into Cambodia after he promised a withdrawing of troops from Vietnam. America set up demonstrations against his involvement in Cambodia. Kent State in Ohio was one of the places of demonstration, the national guardsmen were called in and they fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds of live ammo killing six students: three of them were pedestrians. Was that a peaceful demonstration, Let it be known that students were unarmed. Try to think, now what would have happened if a wave of Al-Qaida and the likes of the Brotherhood of Islam would have marched alongside the students with guns in their hands. Was Nixon convicted of that crime? No, not Nixon nor the Governor. The Newark riots in July of 1967 took 65 lives of black people. Was anybody convicted? No! You see the head of the country has the duty to defend the land he is stepping on. Isn’t what Qadhafi doing now? Al Khalifa regime, in Bahrain, Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of Yemen and a strong partner of USA on the war against Al-Qaida. They are all defending their country. It is a well known fact that thousands of protestors marched from Tunisia into Yemen, to help the Yemen citizens to demonstrate against high food prices.

 

Bahrain Ruler Hamad   Syrian President Al-Assad

 

Qadhafi from Libya                      Ali Abdhulla Salim

 

Hang them all. We’ll run out of rope before we’ll run out of necks

I am not going to stand up here in front of you and say that Al Khalifa, from Bahrain, Bashar Al-Assad from Syria, Ali Abdullah Salem from Yemen are men of fair mind, they are not, but having ICC after them it’s not a fair answer.

Let us be fair minded. Let us do what Kipling suggested:  “If everybody around you loses his head and you keep yours, then you are a man, my son. ”

ICC should learn to keep away from being an American prosecutor, walking around with a rope in his hand ready to hang anybody who steps out of line even stealing a pizza. A man in California got life sentence  for stealing a pizza. The governor put into effect the law, “Three strikes you’re out” The law states that anybody who is found guilty of three offenses goes in for life. America is holding the world’s record in prison population. It has the highest population of prisoners per capita  than any other country. Distant second is Venezuela.