The Siege of Sydney, and a Memory of Robin Cook
By Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
Can we now see through the nonsense that has been going on for a long time? Many folks say they are “sad” about what happened at Martin Place, Sydney on December 15, 2014. Is sadness the right response? Doesn’t anyone feel anger and disgust that we, educated adults, have again been asked to play the fool?
I feel sure the entire event was planned. The bad guy, whom I will call “Honey Man Honey,” as his name (Man Haron Monis) is hard to remember, must have been a victim just like the two others who died.
He must have been mind-controlled to carry out his various silly actions in advance of the day, and also on the day itself. (Ask me for a list of nearly identical cases. I’ve been collecting them since 2005. The psy-war experts have got it down pat.)
Hang on! Am I bold enough to accuse the authorities of engaging in deceit and violence? That is what authorities have done throughout history. Ours haven’t thrown away the mold, have they? I realize they say they have, but why take their word for it? Look at the facts.
In March, 2003, Australia opted to go to war in Iraq. There was no reason for it. I repeat there was no reason. Even the Americans did not say Iraq was tied to 9-11. They said they needed to hit Afghanistan because one man (bin Laden) was hiding there. Pretty unusual, but in any case, Afghanistan is not Iraq! The trumped-up excuse for hitting Iraq was that “Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.”
Thousands of Aussies had turned out the preceding Sunday, March 13, 2003, to say NO to war. I was one of them. Never had there been a crowd like that in Adelaide. We covered North Terrace like so many ants. Canberra “replied” by doing what it often does: it voted in obedience to a World Government, that outrageous hidden entity, instead of doing what its public mandated it to do. Predictably our state reps stayed on the sidelines, playing helpless.
Let’s listen to Robin Cook, who was at that time the Speaker of the British House of Commons. (He had also served as UK Foreign Minister.) He resigned immediately and got a standing ovation from fellow MPs. His protesting words were:
“Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create? … It has been a favourite theme of commentators that this House no longer occupies the central role in British politics. Nothing could better demonstrate that they are wrong than for this House to stop the commitment of troops in a war that has neither international agreement nor domestic support.”
Two years after resigning, Robin Cook said that Al-Qaeda was just a made-up name. He then found himself dead as a doornail, at age 59, while on a walk outdoors.
The Sydney gunman, Honey Man Honey, was not an Iraqi. But I am trying here to call attention to the astounding disconnect between the myths we live with, uncomplainingly, and the plain, simple facts. We participated in a war that has killed over a million people. Where is the mountain of floral tributes for those unlucky souls? Does anyone have a scrap of remorse?
The purpose of the Sydney Siege, as it is called (was it really a “siege”?) must have been to keep the non-Muslim part of Australia steamed up against a reportedly worrying group within our midst, the Islamic extremists. What a pathetic drama, the hoisting of a flag in a coffee shop in the CBD! I am embarrassed that the public could have bought this claptrap.
In America, “The Patriot Act (which the extremely unpatriotic Congresspersons DID NOT READ) was passed a few weeks after the “attacks of 9-11.” It showed the electorate of that country that Terrorism would now be made to justify any unconstitutional laws that one could think of, because such laws “protect our freedoms.”
Recently, the Commonwealth Parliament has been passing equally unpatriotic legislation. (See Dalia Mae Lachlan’s Teetering Toward Tyranny.”) Ought we to blame the politicians? I think not. If we sit it out and let all this bad stuff happen, the blame is clearly on us. If we can’t see the trickery inherent in the word “terrorist” we better not expect anyone to save us from ourselves.
-- Mary W Maxwell has lived half of her 67 years in the United States and half in Oz. She still has premonitions of good things. See her articles at Gumshoenews.com, such as “Ode to Joy Times Ten,” and “Who Should Be Tried for Treason?”
