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