The Charter '97 article was short, but ironic. At the NATO summit in Riga, Latvia George Bush met with Alexander Milinkevich, called by Charter '97 "the leader of the democratic forces of Belarus". Perhaps in Charter '97s eyes 14% of the popular vote makes you a leader, maybe 1% of the vote would have also made Milinkevich a leader by those standards.
Bush's flagship statement for this meeting was "we stand together with the Belarusian nation in its fight for freedom." I am sorry to remind President Bush of three important facts.
Number one, The October Revolution was a "fight for freedom".
Number two, The Patriotic War aka WW2 was a "fight for freedom".
Number three, There is no current fight for freedom going on in Belarus because unlike America, Belarus has a good president that the people are proud of.
If there is any fighting over Belarus right now, it is in the minds of the CIA and the State Department as they fight for ways to bring unrest and turmoil to this peaceful and self sufficient country. It must be a fight to devise ways of tricking 10.34 million people into destroying their collective assesets and adopting methods of life that are neither more economicly equitable for all people, or generally safter and better, such as our own methods in America, or the methods we have forced upon our newest friends, the Iraqis.
Perhaps that is the fighting Bush is referring to. This story actually takes a few more twists and turns when you consider the following ironic facts.
Apparantly, Milinkevitch was presented to Bush by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. Prsident Freiberga's claim to humanitarian greatness is that he at one time considered combining the day of the SS march with the national memorial holiday.
It seems Latvia is the only country in all of Europe to host annual SS vetran processions commerating the day the divisions were formed.
This isn't George Bush's first meeting with President Vike-Freiberga. On Bush's earlier visit his itenerary included a visit to the Freedom Monument, where SS Leigon Gruppenfuher Rudolf Bangerski's remains were CERIMONIOUSLY re-burried in 1995. I would encourage everyone to read Mark Ane's article entitled "BUSH'S BITBURG?" located at www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ames
But back to Bush and Milenkevitch, since everyone at this tea party of gentle souls is so concerned with "democracy", I wonder if Milenkevitch questioned Bush about the fate of the POWs and kidnap victims in Iraq and Cuba? I wonder if Milenkevich asked Bush how he would have handle modern Belaurian partisans if he was to attempt a criminal invasion of Belarus similar to his invasion of Iraq? As Belarus is clearly a nation partisans this should be a logical question for Milenkevich to ask Bush.
I wonder if Milenkevich attempted to discuss with Latvian President Vike-Freiberga the civil rights and legal status of the 500,000 ethnic Russians living as stateless persons in Latvia? I would think this subject would be of interest to Milenkevich as he speaks the same language as the Russians, and does he not consider these Russians to be his breathern on some level?
I am comforted to know these quality friends have gotten together to discuss Belarusian democracy.
Lets go over this cast of characters:
1) George Bush - The man resonsible for the condition of the Iraqi people, and leader of the "free" world.
2) The good Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freberga, Proud protector of the stateless Russian Minority and nazi protector.
3) Alexander Milinkevich, Who recently lost the Belarusian presidential election by a landslide and then assisted by our own CIA attempted to start a revolution in his home country. When this CIA sponsored revolution didn't work, Alexander went on tour through Europe petitioning the EU to impose economic sanctions on his countrymen as a reward for their voting their conscience.
So, we have assembled the dream team of democracy here. Impressive.
There are some things the reader should investigate for themselves, such as where the Bush family got is money in the begining. If you are interested in learning about this I suggest reading "How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler Rise To Power" by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1312542,00.html
I shouldn't inform the reader of the fact that 1,600 Belarusian Nazis were smuggled illegally into the US in the 50's, escaping war crimes prosecution.
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/assata4.htm
I will let you decide whether or not these characters have any influence over the modern republican party, and likely the Belarusian Diaspora in America as well. You can decide that for yourself.
But none of this should bother you, because in Riga, Latvia today, at the NATO summit, George Bush stated " we stand together with the Belarusian Nation for freedom".
Once again, I am embarrassed, mortified, and offended!
You the reader now know what a sickening, horrifying, and darkly ironic spectacle this must have been.
Michael Miller
Indianapolis
2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
BELARUS ILLUMINATES MORE THAN BROKEN DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
When Belarus drafted the U.N. resolution "Situation of Democracy and Human Rights in United States", she illuminated evidence of broken democracy in United States, but perhaps the citizens of America and the world should notice more than a pervasive abhoration of American principles cataloged by Belarus.
It is true that Belarus has pointed to some problems in the United States, our electoral college system, our torture of POWs and kidnap victims, police brutality, the multigenerational oppression of the poor due to lack of effective social engeneering, capital punishment policies that would be embarrassing to most third world countries, all of this was important for Minsk to author against, because all of these are real and disturbing problems.
But the real evidence proving these problems exist came not from the primary Belarusian resolution itself, but from the vacuous response from the American government.
For example, when Belarus expressed concern over U.S. governmental control and interference with the media and the general atrophy of the freedom of the press, did the Bush administration ask for a public discussion of the matter to take place including the National Writers Union nwu.org ? No-obviously they did not!
When the Belarusians voiced concern over arbitrary , incommunicado and secret arrests and detentions, did the Bush administration proudly ask for the opinion of the ACLU aclu.org to make statements defending US policies? No- obviously not!
When the Belarusians authored their resolution to include concerns over the electoral system in America, specificly the electoral college system. Did the Bush administration proudly ask for help from Gary Parish- author of " The Electoral College: " Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America" www.geocities.com/gparish2000/ ? No- they did not!
When Belarus via their reslolution initiated free and open discussion regarding U.S. capital punishment policies for minors and mentally ill persons, did George Bush desire to proudly tell the world about his own leadership as the govenor of Texas in relation to reasonable capital punishment leadership. I don't think so.
When Belarus voiced concern over the TENS OF THOUSANDS of of POW's and kidnap victims being held and tortured indefinetly, did the Bush administration desire to begin an open and public discussion with the families and loved ones these same kidnap victims? Did George Bush begin an open discussion with the countrymen of these same kidnap and torture victims regarding their wherabouts and conditions?
Of course not!
You see, the Belarusians had the national integrity to author a resolution to address these and more issues, but it was the response, or lack of a correct and reasonable response from Washington that extra-validated Minsk's concerns.
A truly democratic government, of the people and for the people would be motivated from their deepest marrow to root out even the faintest rumor of any of the above accusations, a legitimate leader would martyr his political career if neccessary to bring attention and fair resolution to even one of these troubling issues.
But alas, we the people of America have allowed ethicly hollow Texas oil mafiosi, and war criminals, to gain control of our precious and expensive government.
It is clear and obvious to the reasonable mind that if Minsk's U.N. resolution was not fairly grounded, and provable and realisticly arguable, Washington would have proudly and loudly initiated long and exhausting publicity to decry it.
It was in fact Washington's lack of a proud national response that lends any responsible observer to conclude that George Bush's war criminal decisions, and sophmoric domestic policies, have made the American Democratic Condition not only embarrassing and undefendable, but simply incriminating and oxidizing to Washington and Common America as a whole.
Our founding fathers would be so proud.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2006
It is true that Belarus has pointed to some problems in the United States, our electoral college system, our torture of POWs and kidnap victims, police brutality, the multigenerational oppression of the poor due to lack of effective social engeneering, capital punishment policies that would be embarrassing to most third world countries, all of this was important for Minsk to author against, because all of these are real and disturbing problems.
But the real evidence proving these problems exist came not from the primary Belarusian resolution itself, but from the vacuous response from the American government.
For example, when Belarus expressed concern over U.S. governmental control and interference with the media and the general atrophy of the freedom of the press, did the Bush administration ask for a public discussion of the matter to take place including the National Writers Union nwu.org ? No-obviously they did not!
When the Belarusians voiced concern over arbitrary , incommunicado and secret arrests and detentions, did the Bush administration proudly ask for the opinion of the ACLU aclu.org to make statements defending US policies? No- obviously not!
When the Belarusians authored their resolution to include concerns over the electoral system in America, specificly the electoral college system. Did the Bush administration proudly ask for help from Gary Parish- author of " The Electoral College: " Source of Inequality and Social Injustice in America" www.geocities.com/gparish2000/ ? No- they did not!
When Belarus via their reslolution initiated free and open discussion regarding U.S. capital punishment policies for minors and mentally ill persons, did George Bush desire to proudly tell the world about his own leadership as the govenor of Texas in relation to reasonable capital punishment leadership. I don't think so.
When Belarus voiced concern over the TENS OF THOUSANDS of of POW's and kidnap victims being held and tortured indefinetly, did the Bush administration desire to begin an open and public discussion with the families and loved ones these same kidnap victims? Did George Bush begin an open discussion with the countrymen of these same kidnap and torture victims regarding their wherabouts and conditions?
Of course not!
You see, the Belarusians had the national integrity to author a resolution to address these and more issues, but it was the response, or lack of a correct and reasonable response from Washington that extra-validated Minsk's concerns.
A truly democratic government, of the people and for the people would be motivated from their deepest marrow to root out even the faintest rumor of any of the above accusations, a legitimate leader would martyr his political career if neccessary to bring attention and fair resolution to even one of these troubling issues.
But alas, we the people of America have allowed ethicly hollow Texas oil mafiosi, and war criminals, to gain control of our precious and expensive government.
It is clear and obvious to the reasonable mind that if Minsk's U.N. resolution was not fairly grounded, and provable and realisticly arguable, Washington would have proudly and loudly initiated long and exhausting publicity to decry it.
It was in fact Washington's lack of a proud national response that lends any responsible observer to conclude that George Bush's war criminal decisions, and sophmoric domestic policies, have made the American Democratic Condition not only embarrassing and undefendable, but simply incriminating and oxidizing to Washington and Common America as a whole.
Our founding fathers would be so proud.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2006
AN AMERICAN AGREEMENT WITH THE BELARUSIAN POSITION
AN AGREEMENT WITH THE POSITION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS REGARDING -- The recent draft resolution to the UN: "Inadmissability of human rights violations through the practice of secret detention and unlawful transfers while countering terrorism."
I am very proud to be an ardent supporter of the Lukashenka Administration, and of the Republic of Belarus as a whole under any circumstances, but very much so now that Belarus has drafted a resolution to the U.N. addressing Illegal U.S. detentions, transfers, and tortures of persons suspected of terrorism.
Belarus is very qualified to protest against modern war crimes such as illegal detention, kidnapping, and torture because she sufferred numerous and extreme textbook examples of these same offenses during WW2 at the hands of Nazi Germany.
Belarus sufferred the worst examples of these abuses, and therefore Belarus is clearly qualified to discuss what constitutues an illegal occupation, and what constitutes torture, and what constitutes a war crime. The definitions of these ideas are painfully burned into the general Belarusian psyche and thus, Belarus is PRECISELY THE COUNTRY that should be authoring U.N. resolutions against any activity in the modern world that is even remotely similar to the Nazi crimes causing Belarusian suffering , or even activities of the same Genre.
Any country such as Belarus that endures the violent death of 25% of its citizens because of a a criminal occupation is forever qualified to critique the behavior and policies of the United States when American troops illegally attack and occupy a smaller and weaker country such as Iraq.
I won't rewrite the Belarusian resolution to the U.N., but it contains some very important language and ideas.
For instance the resolution condems torture, illegal detention, and illegal transfer of suspected terrorists, but it also condems the use of CIVILIAN AIRPORTS to enable these practices.
Perhaps Belarus should have explained that the use of the same CIVILIAN AIRPORTS likely makes civilians more of a target for terrorists, but perhaps Belarus should also have explained that there is a moral and legal difference between a partisan fighter and a terrorist.
The use of civilian airports to help enable the U.S. criminal detention, and transfer to torture, of "suspected terrorists" hyper-endangers innocent civilians because perhaps now they can be accidently injured by legitimate partisan interests as well as by planned terrorist attacks.
As Belarus is a country that was liberated from her Nazi occupation in some signifigant part by "partisan forces", I believe that it would be intuitively obvious to most Belarusians, that the practice of using civilian airports to assist in the surpression of partisans or terrorists is dangerous to say the least, for the innocent civilian air traveler.
U.S. Lawmakers should demonstrate levels of personal and professional integrity that are equal to the levels held in the hearts and minds the of common U.S. citizens they represent, and acknowledge the qualifications of Belarus to offer such resolutions and critiques instead of resisting such humane ideas only to Kow Tow to the American War Criminal President George Bush and his cadre of stoolies and henchmen.
This will be immediately painful for the short term politicial future of any public figure that chooses to come forth and stand up against Bush era war crimes and dangerous practices, but the long term results will be exponentially beneficial for the future of the United States as a whole.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2006
I am very proud to be an ardent supporter of the Lukashenka Administration, and of the Republic of Belarus as a whole under any circumstances, but very much so now that Belarus has drafted a resolution to the U.N. addressing Illegal U.S. detentions, transfers, and tortures of persons suspected of terrorism.
Belarus is very qualified to protest against modern war crimes such as illegal detention, kidnapping, and torture because she sufferred numerous and extreme textbook examples of these same offenses during WW2 at the hands of Nazi Germany.
Belarus sufferred the worst examples of these abuses, and therefore Belarus is clearly qualified to discuss what constitutues an illegal occupation, and what constitutes torture, and what constitutes a war crime. The definitions of these ideas are painfully burned into the general Belarusian psyche and thus, Belarus is PRECISELY THE COUNTRY that should be authoring U.N. resolutions against any activity in the modern world that is even remotely similar to the Nazi crimes causing Belarusian suffering , or even activities of the same Genre.
Any country such as Belarus that endures the violent death of 25% of its citizens because of a a criminal occupation is forever qualified to critique the behavior and policies of the United States when American troops illegally attack and occupy a smaller and weaker country such as Iraq.
I won't rewrite the Belarusian resolution to the U.N., but it contains some very important language and ideas.
For instance the resolution condems torture, illegal detention, and illegal transfer of suspected terrorists, but it also condems the use of CIVILIAN AIRPORTS to enable these practices.
Perhaps Belarus should have explained that the use of the same CIVILIAN AIRPORTS likely makes civilians more of a target for terrorists, but perhaps Belarus should also have explained that there is a moral and legal difference between a partisan fighter and a terrorist.
The use of civilian airports to help enable the U.S. criminal detention, and transfer to torture, of "suspected terrorists" hyper-endangers innocent civilians because perhaps now they can be accidently injured by legitimate partisan interests as well as by planned terrorist attacks.
As Belarus is a country that was liberated from her Nazi occupation in some signifigant part by "partisan forces", I believe that it would be intuitively obvious to most Belarusians, that the practice of using civilian airports to assist in the surpression of partisans or terrorists is dangerous to say the least, for the innocent civilian air traveler.
U.S. Lawmakers should demonstrate levels of personal and professional integrity that are equal to the levels held in the hearts and minds the of common U.S. citizens they represent, and acknowledge the qualifications of Belarus to offer such resolutions and critiques instead of resisting such humane ideas only to Kow Tow to the American War Criminal President George Bush and his cadre of stoolies and henchmen.
This will be immediately painful for the short term politicial future of any public figure that chooses to come forth and stand up against Bush era war crimes and dangerous practices, but the long term results will be exponentially beneficial for the future of the United States as a whole.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
STUCK ON WHINE: A response to the TOL Blogs article: BELARUS- STUCK IN TIME
This article should have been called STUCK ON WHINE, not STUCK IN TIME.
Intravenous begins by complaining about the upcoming Minsk "Festival of Soviet Cuisine" but doesn't bother to attend the festival before passing a negative judgment on it and attempting to invalidate it.
The author continues to lament the presence of Lenin Statues, Stalinist Baroque architecture, Socialist Sculptures, the KGB, the soviet newspapers, and even complains that the Great October Revolution is still a holiday.
The author then goes on to attack the soviet identity documents and passport and travel regulations that are functionally analogous to American Drivers Licenses and Passports.
I was actually shocked at the nerve of Intravenous to complain about Belarus taking an interest in the clothing and fashion sense of its nation's youth. (Imagine the nerve of a country to want its youth to be properly and tastefully attired! -- LOL ) Now, I personally don't know what fashion choices are going to be promoted by Minsk, but they are most certainly going to be in better taste than what is being displayed by a giant percentage of our own countries young people. But perhaps Intravenous would prefer the youth of Belarus to take fashion lessons from what American young people are wearing, perhaps our young people here in American could also teach the Belarusian youth about MUSIC appreciation, and perhaps civics, and study skills and personal morality could be the next few international "in" services we could export to the youth of Belarus.
Intravenous closes his/her WHINE-A-THON by stating " This crumbling but still standing statue of Lenin's Pioneers in one of Minsk's courtyards made me think of a " Belarus Stuck in Time" . All readers should look at this photo and notice it is was clearly not shot in Minsk, and it was probably shot somewhere in an abandoned EXCLUSION ZONE, and not in Minsk at all.
So, Intravenous doesn't like Belarusian food, hates Minsk architecture, has no respect for the holidays, and enjoys making fun of the passport rules and employment laws. My big question for Intravenous is "What are you doing in Belarus at all?" You hate everything, you imply the country is terrible, why are you there?
Don't worry Intravenous, maybe your "EMPLOYERS" will "POST" you to
a destination more to your liking on your next "TOUR".
Intravenous begins by complaining about the upcoming Minsk "Festival of Soviet Cuisine" but doesn't bother to attend the festival before passing a negative judgment on it and attempting to invalidate it.
The author continues to lament the presence of Lenin Statues, Stalinist Baroque architecture, Socialist Sculptures, the KGB, the soviet newspapers, and even complains that the Great October Revolution is still a holiday.
The author then goes on to attack the soviet identity documents and passport and travel regulations that are functionally analogous to American Drivers Licenses and Passports.
I was actually shocked at the nerve of Intravenous to complain about Belarus taking an interest in the clothing and fashion sense of its nation's youth. (Imagine the nerve of a country to want its youth to be properly and tastefully attired! -- LOL ) Now, I personally don't know what fashion choices are going to be promoted by Minsk, but they are most certainly going to be in better taste than what is being displayed by a giant percentage of our own countries young people. But perhaps Intravenous would prefer the youth of Belarus to take fashion lessons from what American young people are wearing, perhaps our young people here in American could also teach the Belarusian youth about MUSIC appreciation, and perhaps civics, and study skills and personal morality could be the next few international "in" services we could export to the youth of Belarus.
Intravenous closes his/her WHINE-A-THON by stating " This crumbling but still standing statue of Lenin's Pioneers in one of Minsk's courtyards made me think of a " Belarus Stuck in Time" . All readers should look at this photo and notice it is was clearly not shot in Minsk, and it was probably shot somewhere in an abandoned EXCLUSION ZONE, and not in Minsk at all.
So, Intravenous doesn't like Belarusian food, hates Minsk architecture, has no respect for the holidays, and enjoys making fun of the passport rules and employment laws. My big question for Intravenous is "What are you doing in Belarus at all?" You hate everything, you imply the country is terrible, why are you there?
Don't worry Intravenous, maybe your "EMPLOYERS" will "POST" you to
a destination more to your liking on your next "TOUR".
Monday, November 13, 2006
MICHAEL MILLER'S RESPONSE TO GERMAN LAWMAKER MARILUISE BECK
This article references the BHTimes headline Belarus retaliates for travel ban
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry is completely correct to deny entry to
anyone they choose.
The civilized world should consider International Travel Bans on LEGALLY ELECTED Belarusian officials to be nothing more than a post-election provocation against both Belarusians and their chosen leaders.
Minsk INCREASES ITS LEGITIMACY by authorizing and demanding symmetric travel restrictions be placed on US and EU officials in response to Belarusian leaders being penalized for their popularity and success in the recent election.
German lawmaker Mariluise Beck interestingly stated "This almost brings us back to STALINIST TIMES".
This is quite an interesting complaint coming from a German lawmaker.
Perhaps Beck has forgotten all of histories events that took place
During "STALINIST TIMES". Perhaps Beck wishes the former Soviet Union were to have had a weaker and less intelligent leader than Joseph Stalin during "STALINIST TIMES".
I believe it is within Beck's prerogative to assail the character of
Joseph Stalin if she wishes, but perhaps it would be better if she measured his value against another national leaders of the same ERA.
Beck also states "this is again a clear sign that Lukashenka's system seals itself off from any kind of critical dialogue."
Allow me to remind Beck that it was the EU and the US that instituted the policy of TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AND VISA BANS -- and their motivation for these bans and restrictions against the current Belarusian leadership was that Alexander Lukashenka fairly WON a presidential election defeating the western puppet candidate Alexander Milinkevich.
Beck should carefully consider historical facts before assaulting the rightful Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus. Beck and her western cohorts should also consider the fact that in spite of 60 years of brainwashing and misinformation, the American people and the people of the world are becoming more and more geopolitically savy every day and we are not so easily mislead and propagandized as we were in "STALINIST TIMES".
The days of the common western man being easily tricked, being
politically robbed, being taken for a fool, and generally BEINGHAD, are quickly coming to a close.
Michael Miller
Indianapolis
2006
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry is completely correct to deny entry to
anyone they choose.
The civilized world should consider International Travel Bans on LEGALLY ELECTED Belarusian officials to be nothing more than a post-election provocation against both Belarusians and their chosen leaders.
Minsk INCREASES ITS LEGITIMACY by authorizing and demanding symmetric travel restrictions be placed on US and EU officials in response to Belarusian leaders being penalized for their popularity and success in the recent election.
German lawmaker Mariluise Beck interestingly stated "This almost brings us back to STALINIST TIMES".
This is quite an interesting complaint coming from a German lawmaker.
Perhaps Beck has forgotten all of histories events that took place
During "STALINIST TIMES". Perhaps Beck wishes the former Soviet Union were to have had a weaker and less intelligent leader than Joseph Stalin during "STALINIST TIMES".
I believe it is within Beck's prerogative to assail the character of
Joseph Stalin if she wishes, but perhaps it would be better if she measured his value against another national leaders of the same ERA.
Beck also states "this is again a clear sign that Lukashenka's system seals itself off from any kind of critical dialogue."
Allow me to remind Beck that it was the EU and the US that instituted the policy of TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AND VISA BANS -- and their motivation for these bans and restrictions against the current Belarusian leadership was that Alexander Lukashenka fairly WON a presidential election defeating the western puppet candidate Alexander Milinkevich.
Beck should carefully consider historical facts before assaulting the rightful Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus. Beck and her western cohorts should also consider the fact that in spite of 60 years of brainwashing and misinformation, the American people and the people of the world are becoming more and more geopolitically savy every day and we are not so easily mislead and propagandized as we were in "STALINIST TIMES".
The days of the common western man being easily tricked, being
politically robbed, being taken for a fool, and generally BEINGHAD, are quickly coming to a close.
Michael Miller
Indianapolis
2006
MICHAEL MILLER RESPONDS TO TAMMY LYNCH ISCIP, BOSTON UNIVERSITY-
Lukashenka continues crackdown as EU rejects sanctions.
This article by Tammy Lynch should have been called the SAME TIRED PROPAGANDA
(with footnotes).
I was impressed by the amount of academic camouflage this particular
article has. Apparently Lynch is faculty at ISCIP, Boston College. ISCIP stands for Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy. I encourage the reader to click on the ISCIP link and examine this web page and decide for themselves what branch of the US government supports and grooms and ultimately controls this "institute" at BU.
If you have now examined this link, I am sure we are in agreement
regarding Lynch's "academic" motivation to write this article.
Lynch attempts to invalidate the European Union's decision to not suspend Belarus from The Generalized System of Preference (gsp) by reminding the reader that Alexander Milinkevich recently won the Sakharov prize for freedom of thought, and 50,000 euros. Good job Sasha, you're buying tonight!
Lynch unskillfully accuses Belarus of weapons trading, and human trafficking by telling the reader that in addition to those concerns the EU has voted to freeze the assets of Belarusian Leaders. Never mind that "freezing the assets" of Belarusian Leaders was an American idea, and you need to just forget about the fact that no "assets" have ever been found, kind of like they never existed at all. Sort of seems like America demanded to have Lukashenka's "assets" frozen knowing there were no assets to be frozen, but never mind that, it was a nice attempt at slander.
However, Lynch fails to remind the reader that Belarus is a leader in thwarting organized crime and human traffic, and that in addition to adhering to international norms in weapons sales, Belarus has not actually USED weapons on any other countries, unlike our own recent and dubious history of violently and criminally attacking IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN. (however I agree with the attack of Afghanistan-mm).
Lynch also fails to remind the reader that the U.S. is a giant exporter of war weapons, as well as civilian weapons. Lynch also fails to discuss any American culpability in the global human traffic problem, but lets not dwell on details here.
Lynch promotes trade sanctions against Belarus, but forgets to recommend trade sanctions against the US for our criminal actions in IRAQ and our criminal kidnapping and torture of persons from in Afghanistan and other countries as well. Interesting.
Lynch also attempts to lampoon and invalidate Polish, and Latvian, and Lithuanian opinions that oppose the same sanctions.
Instead Lynch supports the opinion of Alexander Milinkivitch who has repeatedly asked the European Union to penalize Belarus for its domestic and foreign policies. Now we all agree that Milinkivitch would never ask the EU to penalize Washington for its policies at home or abroad, after all, how could he bite the hand that fed him?
But Lynch fails to remind the reader that Milinkivitch didn't campaign with a platform of "When I lose I will petition for sanctions against
Belarus".
This fact is conveniently forgotten.
Lynch goes on to say that Russia is behind Polish, Latvian, and
Lithuanian support of their neighbor Belarus in this matter. Lynch proposes that Energy Politics are behind Russian influence of these countries. I guess when all else fails, we can always blame Russia, why not? I am really sorry to point out the painfully obvious, that ENERGY politics might be a large motivator in US foreign policy, because that would be just a bit too obvious a jab. But what the hell.
Lynch closes by telling the reader about Milinkivitch's harsh penalty of 15 days for attempting to STAGE A REVOLUTION when he lost the election to Lukashenka. She conveniently doesn't suggest the number of days being served in torturous conditions by persons kidnapped by the US government in Iraq or Afghanistan or elsewhere, that fact would certainly be not relevant to Lynch.
Lynch has attempted to re-arrange some very loosely connected facts for the purposes of assaulting the Lukashenka Administration in Minsk.
But did I mention the footnotes at the bottom of the article? It gave this horseshit piece of propaganda a real intellectual feel.
Congratulations Tammy Lynch, The Genuine Academics and Intellectuals at
BU must be very proud of you.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
This article by Tammy Lynch should have been called the SAME TIRED PROPAGANDA
(with footnotes).
I was impressed by the amount of academic camouflage this particular
article has. Apparently Lynch is faculty at ISCIP, Boston College. ISCIP stands for Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy. I encourage the reader to click on the ISCIP link and examine this web page and decide for themselves what branch of the US government supports and grooms and ultimately controls this "institute" at BU.
If you have now examined this link, I am sure we are in agreement
regarding Lynch's "academic" motivation to write this article.
Lynch attempts to invalidate the European Union's decision to not suspend Belarus from The Generalized System of Preference (gsp) by reminding the reader that Alexander Milinkevich recently won the Sakharov prize for freedom of thought, and 50,000 euros. Good job Sasha, you're buying tonight!
Lynch unskillfully accuses Belarus of weapons trading, and human trafficking by telling the reader that in addition to those concerns the EU has voted to freeze the assets of Belarusian Leaders. Never mind that "freezing the assets" of Belarusian Leaders was an American idea, and you need to just forget about the fact that no "assets" have ever been found, kind of like they never existed at all. Sort of seems like America demanded to have Lukashenka's "assets" frozen knowing there were no assets to be frozen, but never mind that, it was a nice attempt at slander.
However, Lynch fails to remind the reader that Belarus is a leader in thwarting organized crime and human traffic, and that in addition to adhering to international norms in weapons sales, Belarus has not actually USED weapons on any other countries, unlike our own recent and dubious history of violently and criminally attacking IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN. (however I agree with the attack of Afghanistan-mm).
Lynch also fails to remind the reader that the U.S. is a giant exporter of war weapons, as well as civilian weapons. Lynch also fails to discuss any American culpability in the global human traffic problem, but lets not dwell on details here.
Lynch promotes trade sanctions against Belarus, but forgets to recommend trade sanctions against the US for our criminal actions in IRAQ and our criminal kidnapping and torture of persons from in Afghanistan and other countries as well. Interesting.
Lynch also attempts to lampoon and invalidate Polish, and Latvian, and Lithuanian opinions that oppose the same sanctions.
Instead Lynch supports the opinion of Alexander Milinkivitch who has repeatedly asked the European Union to penalize Belarus for its domestic and foreign policies. Now we all agree that Milinkivitch would never ask the EU to penalize Washington for its policies at home or abroad, after all, how could he bite the hand that fed him?
But Lynch fails to remind the reader that Milinkivitch didn't campaign with a platform of "When I lose I will petition for sanctions against
Belarus".
This fact is conveniently forgotten.
Lynch goes on to say that Russia is behind Polish, Latvian, and
Lithuanian support of their neighbor Belarus in this matter. Lynch proposes that Energy Politics are behind Russian influence of these countries. I guess when all else fails, we can always blame Russia, why not? I am really sorry to point out the painfully obvious, that ENERGY politics might be a large motivator in US foreign policy, because that would be just a bit too obvious a jab. But what the hell.
Lynch closes by telling the reader about Milinkivitch's harsh penalty of 15 days for attempting to STAGE A REVOLUTION when he lost the election to Lukashenka. She conveniently doesn't suggest the number of days being served in torturous conditions by persons kidnapped by the US government in Iraq or Afghanistan or elsewhere, that fact would certainly be not relevant to Lynch.
Lynch has attempted to re-arrange some very loosely connected facts for the purposes of assaulting the Lukashenka Administration in Minsk.
But did I mention the footnotes at the bottom of the article? It gave this horseshit piece of propaganda a real intellectual feel.
Congratulations Tammy Lynch, The Genuine Academics and Intellectuals at
BU must be very proud of you.
MICHAEL MILLER
INDIANAPOLIS
The first Blog
Hello, my name is Michael Miller and I live in Indianapolis. I don't know that I am particularly happy about living in Indianapolis. In fact, Like anywhere else in the world, Indy has its good and bad points. I came to Belarus on vacation in June of 2002. I came on a wife trip, that is to say, I came at the invitation of a marriage company. I was looking for a Belarusian Wife. I met many nice women, each one prettier and smarter than the last, and I would have been lucky to have married any of them, but things just didn't work out that way. When I cam to Belarus, I barely knew the name of the President, much less had any political opinions about him or Belarus. I tried very hard to stay out of any political discussions because I didn't really want to end up arguing with anyone or saying the wrong thing. And I didn't have anything to say. But I did observe my surroundings, I did look into the eyes of the people, I did discuss things with them, and I got a general idea of the "gestault" of the place. I formed most of my Belarusian opinions through independent reading and research, and also from my other travels to Moscow, Togliatti, Ryzan, Sochi, Warsaw and Bucharest. I speak horrible and non-functional russian, but someday I hope to only speak bad russian that sometimes can be understood by some people. Actually, I have been thinking about going to college in Belarus for a long time, and I would like to someday attend the Belarusian State University and study Economics and International Politics. That's right. No BS at all. And I have been thinking about this for so long, that I found I have a lot to say about how that little country has been treated by our country and the media. So this, and because I got involved with the BEING HAD Blog is why I have started this Blog. I hope that people will be interested in what I have to say and I am very interested in your opinions about this subject matter too. My main motivation in writing this blog is to somehow help the people of Belarus retain their physical assets and their way of life and not have thier socio-economic inertia squandered and destroyed by western forces motivated only by greed and prejudice and general intellectual piccaninyism. For a long time the people of America were taught to hate and fear all things Soviet, and all things Eastern European, we were taught with fervor to deal with soviet economic issues in an emotional fashion. That is how our minds were controlled during and to some extent after the cold war. We were not taught that Soviet styled socialism might have some merrits for the general population, rather we were taught it was pure evil, tantamount to slavery, or a living hell of some sort. This manner of thinking is very hard for the common man in America to overcome. And unless you have some experience traveling to Eastern Europe and seeing how people live, and meeting them and talking to them, you will proably never overcome the bonds of soci-academic slavery that have been placed on you by the U.S. government during the cold war. I think I have broken those chains in my own mind, I have been able to free my mind to think about issues from a multiple of different perspectives, and so I am able to construct ideas and arguments that the average person might understand, but that they proably don't have the time to build and publish on their own. I know I am not breaking any ground with this blog, I am not introducing any new ideas in principle, but hopefully the mission of my blog will be fullfilled in that perhaps some of the propaganda and lies about Belarus and the Lukashenka administration will be somehow neutralized and the people of Belarus will have a little more breathing space with which to build a great country and live safely and cleanly and with happiness and security. I am also building a web page do post and discuss the work of Jerzy Kosinski, specificily The Painted Bird. You can access that web page here http://thepaintedbirdpostulate.com/ . I apologize my html coding skills suck so badly on this site, please just copy this address and insert it to the address bar. I am earnestly and hystericly trying to learn code as you read this. More hystericly than earnestly.
So for now let's see how this goes.
Live from Indy
Mike Miller.
So for now let's see how this goes.
Live from Indy
Mike Miller.
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