by dbeach » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:00 am
.."the controls are in the hands of fools" lyrics by Pink floyd<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/War/London.htm">www.newdemocracyworld.org/War/London.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The London Bombings and the Class War<br><br>by Dave Stratman<br><br>July 11, 2005<br><br>"The terror bombings in London differ from the atrocities committed against the people of Iraq only in scale. In Iraq well over 100,000 people have been butchered by the US/UK killing machine. In London as many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. In both cases the killed and injured are the victims of actions designed to terrorize, demobilize, and control innocent people.<br><br><br>We do not yet know who is responsible for the atrocities in London. Responsibility has been claimed by a shadowy "Secret Organization of al-Qaeda," and perhaps that organization is indeed responsible. Far more likely, however, is that security elements of the British or US governments are the real perpetrators. Why do we suggest this? Three reasons: 1) Security in London was at unprecedented heights for the G-8 summit at Gleneagle; such a sophisticated, coordinated attack on three different underground lines and one bus would have been extremely difficult to carry out without active cooperation from the security services. 2) The that the 9/11 attack on the US was planned by the US government suggests the likelihood that this attack has a similar genesis–that is, that it originated from deep within ruling circles of "the Allies." 3) In solving any crime, one must first ask, "Cui bono?"–"Who benefits?" The beneficiaries of this attack are Tony Blair and George Bush–or so they hope. 9/11 was George Bush’s "Pearl Harbor" that turned him overnight from clown to "war-time leader," rallied the country behind him, and allowed him to launch two long-planned wars of aggression. Tony Blair, whose political support is at rock-bottom because of his support for the war in Iraq, desperately needs rehabilitation. He is using the time-honored method of political leaders: posing as stalwart protector of a people under attack. <br><br><br>The terror attacks on the people of London, the 9/11 attacks on Americans, and the Iraq war itself are not matters principally of foreign but of domestic policy–a fact which has been neglected by most anti-war commentators, who tend to view these things only in terms of American (or British) imperialism. While the main victims of the war on Iraq are the Iraqi people, the main purpose driving the war and its attendant terror is the class war by the American elite against American working people. The war in Iraq is being waged as a means of controlling ordinary Americans (and British), providing the opportunity for transforming American society into a military and police state through such measures as the Patriot Act, airport searches, the suspension of habeas corpus at Guantanamo and in the case of Jose Padilla and more than 1,000 persons detained in the US after 9/11 without charges or due process, and for the unprecedented attack on pensions and retirement and other aspects of working people's livelihoods. The ruling class could never get away with these things in the absence of a war, which had to be created under false pretenses for the purpose. "<br> <p></p><i></i>
