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BBC? Why war propagandists are kidnapped and killed

Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent | 28.06.2007 11:22 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

War propaganda? No, that can't be right. We all know the BBC is strictly impartial! How do we know that? Because that's what they keep saying on the telly! But: the BBC the last decade has given just 2 per cent to broadcasting anti-war dissent! They have shown to be worse than FOX, CNN and the other main stream war propaganda media.

BBC? WHY WAR PROPAGANDISTS ARE KIDNAPPED AND KILLED

War criminal Tony Blair as 'special envoy' to the Middle East is sheer madness!

by Henk Ruyssenaars, also for 10 years correspondent in Africa and the Middle East

Amsterdam - June 28th 2007 - It has been said and written before but today again there is this 'UN expert' who calls for BBC journalist Alan Johnston's release. Johnston was seized at gunpoint on March 12, 2007 in the Gaza strip - where Israel treats and kills Palestinians like animals. Ambeyi Ligabo, the UN special rapporteur for their faked ''freedom of expression'' (Where?) said in a statement that BBC man Johnston was: "Much appreciated for his objective reporting and his sympathetic approach to human suffering."

What the supporters of Johnston apparently do not understand is that he - working for the BBC - is part of the propaganda outfit of the US/UK junta's war machine, and as such a part of the genocidal warmongers. People the world over now definitely see those so called 'correspondents' as a threat to them and their country, and they are damn right in ninety percent of the cases. As a senior correspondent I wrote it before: "I do absolutely not see any reason why people anywhere should keep somebody around who attacks them with 98% of what they are saying. Get rid of them, before they get rid of you, and your country."

DENOUNCING VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT IS ESSENTIAL

I fully agree with all people who like this 'UN expert' say that: "The role of the media in publicly denouncing violence and conflict is essential in promoting human rights worldwide". But that is the point: ALL of those propagandists who falsely sometimes dare to call themselves 'journalist' are guilty of war crimes. Without them it would have been absolutely impossible to brainwash a great part of the people everywhere into supporting war and destruction. The world has gone crazy and they are in the front-line of the blame. Now advocating and selling again one of the worst mass murderers of our time in the Middle East and Arab World, Tony Blair, as 'special envoy' to that area is sheer madness. It's like giving the Nobel Peace prize again to killer #1 Heinrich Kissinger, like in 1973.*

To me as a journalist/correspondent it is totally understandable that the BBC's Johnston has been kidnapped, and I only regret that more 'real' journalists are killed by so called 'mistakes', 'suicided' or by direct or so called 'friendly fire'. The Pentagon has threatened all the time and killed journalists who do not agree with their genocidal Project for 'A New American Century' - PNAC - and its inhuman methods.* Hundreds of millions of dollars are spend to fake and falsify the information falsely named 'news', and those propagandists go gladly along: selling themselves to the highest bidder in the war machine and 'selling out' us, humanity. No wonder ''the Palestinian group claiming to hold Johnston yesterday threatened to kill their hostage "like a lamb" unless Britain and Jordan release Muslim prisoners.''* That's what the US/UK junta's war machine has been doing for ages. Now they start getting cookies of their own dough. And it all tastes bitter.

In July 2006 I wrote about and published the story in Lebanon too, where Israeli war crimes killed thousands of human beings. But the Israelis lost. I wrote this and stand for it: "After having followed the stream of information - based on reality and coming out of Lebanon, comparing it to the broadcasts and information given by the major mainstream media like the BBC and other war advocating networks - I can NOT understand why any sane person would ever collaborate with those despicable jerks and dish-bitches. They sell wars, and are megaphones of those making the wars. They help to destroy you and your country. Day and night. They lie and people die.

I HAVE NEVER LET DOWN A 'REAL' COLLEAGUE, but those vile creatures are no 'journalist colleagues'. They are all liars and Judasses that have sold themselves. They are traitors to all human beings everywhere and dangerous to mankind. Get their names and check via Internet what they say and write. Depending on that information - not what they tell you - let them stay or get very fast rid of them.

BUT DO NOT HARM THEM: THAT WOULD MEAN TO STOOP AS LOW AS THEY ARE.

THEY ARE NOT JOURNALISTS: THEY ARE WARMONGERING PROPAGANDISTS.

For the past 4 decades I've been an independent foreign correspondent, also for 10 years in North-Africa and the Middle East. And, what I daily can see on for instance the BBC, CNN, FOX, German and Dutch TV is purely a falsification of reality. They lie through their teeth, and without exception mouth the Israeli war message, which is 'more through murder'.

Most of the interested people by now know that the BBC two decades ago openly started servicing the greedy goals and power of the people managing England: building their false empire at any cost to us others. They are the war criminals who put one of their 'front men' at the top of the BBC, Michael Grade. - [ http://tinyurl.com/l687f] - Within short honest journalism at the BBC was snuffed as if they were Dr. Kelly's, and the war and killing machine rolls on, fueled by them, the war propagandists.

I've said it before - and I should know - because I've worked for the BBC too, in English and German when they still knew what journalism was, and one could broadcast 'live'. Also during the Gulf War. No need denying it: I still have the BBC paychecks. So, as a senior correspondent I recognize what they do, and it is absolutely hair raising and disgusting to hear and watch. Especially if you - like me - have been in Lebanon too. Israel does not allow others and me in because we refuse to sign the 'agreement' - more of an order - that all reporters in Israel and the by them occupied Palestinian land get: all copy has to be authorized by the censors of the Israeli Department of Defense. Some kind of 'Ministry of Truth' ... a fact which speaks for itself.

ANY HUMAN BEING WITH DECENCY CAN NOT ACCEPT WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

If my country was attacked, and so many people killed by those madmen with their mercenaries, I would never ever help those BBC, FOX, CNN and all the other propagandists who defend the necessity of us being killed for one second. On the contrary: I would tell them to leave my country immediately with their murder advocating reporting, and they'd better be glad that nothing worse is happening to them.

THE BBC HAS BROADCASTED JUST TWO PER CENT (2%) ANTI-WAR DISSENT

There is no follower more faithful of the American/Israeli/British war agenda than the BBC, under the PNAC leadership of the BBC's boss and PNAC 'front man' Michael Grady.

A CARDIFF UNIVERSITY STUDY FOUND NO EVIDENCE THAT THE BBC WAS ANYTHING BUT PRO-WAR.

A comprehensive 'Media Tenor' survey of coverage of Iraq by the world's leading broadcasters' found that the BBC had given just 2 per cent to demonstrations or anti-war dissent: less than even the United States junta's broadcasters. A Cardiff University (UK) study found no evidence that the BBC was anything but pro-war. Historically, the BBC has always supported the establishment's wars by declaring the status quo (war) neutral and dissent "biased". Propaganda made respectable dominates the very language and tone of news and current affairs. They shame journalism.

None of those brain dead BBC war propagandists cried out loud for all the death and destruction globally going on. Nobody at the BBC, or the other parroting prompter pimps, talks about who is financing and the many times London based multinationals which are making huge profits on all the misery. No tears were - or are - shed for the millions of dead, bombed, DU radiated, tortured, jailed, and otherwise abused people. And Lebanon? it's all part of their program: profit, not people count. And Blair - as long as he survives the revenge of the people - as 'special envoy' will guarantee that the US/UK junta's war machine can go on.

The information from Lebanon by the BBC and many others is according to the same lying technique the same as was used in France, when the BBC had to report on the massive resistance to the new slave labor laws. Around three million people demonstrated against the new inhuman labor laws, but that apparently was a figure too impressive to be mentioned by most mainstream traitors, and 'underreported' as always. With the further dilapidating BBC being as usual one of the worst examples in falsifying the facts.

SO, ONE OF THE BBC's SO CALLED CORRESPONDENTS, 'HIS MASTER'S VOICE' REPORTING FROM PARIS, DESCRIBED THE - EVEN BY THE FRENCH POLICE ESTIMATED ONE-AND-A-HALF MILLION PEOPLE DEMONSTRATING IN OVER 200 FRENCH CITIES - ONLY AS 'MANY'.

In text it later on was corrected to 'one million' - but the video report which was broadcasted globally and done by Clive Myrie in Paris - falsely showed 90% raw violence, 1 demonstrating but inarticulate young girl, and of course a well dressed French 'captain of industry', advocating Sarkozy's low wage slavery law. - [end quote] - Url.:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/03/337032.html

And that is exactly the same falsifying way they report from the massacres in Lebanon and other battlefields they have fertilized with their media manure: 'Israel needs to do this for its protection' is the main theme of all those lying propagandists. Why would the mightiest nuke state in the area need 'protection'? Again on the contrary: All people living there need protection against them and their inhuman genocidal methods! They are day and night doing to the Palestinians - and have done this for fifty and more years - what they say the Nazis did to them. Where's the difference?

Based on life long experience as a foreign correspondent, from a human point of view, I do absolutely not see any reason why you should keep somebody around who attacks you with 98% of what they are saying. Take a grip, or talk to the undertaker.

GET RID OF THEM, BEFORE THEY GET RID OF YOU, AND YOUR COUNTRY.


HENK RUYSSENAARS


FPF - RELATED:

* DUTCH AIRPORT ILLEGAL WEAPONS TRANSPORT CENTER FOR ISRAEL - THE CREATURES RUNNING THE NETHERLANDS AND ITS MEDIA ARE WAR CRIMINALS - SO ARE ALL THEIR MEDIA PARROTS/COLLABORATORS - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/lcyne

* THE BRITISH DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONTROLS ALL THE MEDIA IN THE UK BY THE INFAMOUS 'D-NOTICE' - How free are the press and broadcasting media in Britain? - Url.:  http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html

* BBC BIAS? NO, THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT. - Url.:   http://www.labour-watch.com/bbcbias.htm

* BBC BROADCASTS 'FAKE' NEWS REPORTS - Url.:  http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/274743.php

* GOOGLE SELECTION ON BBC AND ALAN JOHNSTON - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/27w2la

* THE PENTAGON THREATENED AND KILLED JOURNALISTS - Url.:  http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/marzo/mier16/peatagon-apartado-i.html

* JOURNALISTS ARE KILLERS TOO! - Url.:   http://www.countercurrents.org/henk040803.htm

* ROME TRIBUNAL ON WAR CRIMES AND MEDIA: Held Guilty of Deception - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/68jws

* THE US PNAC WARS & NATO’S SECRET ARMIES LINKED TO TERRORISM? - (NATO, the Pentagon, NSA, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, BND, and all other European and global 'intelligence services' are negatively linked to inhuman terror, coups d’état, 'rendition', the PNAC Gulags and torture - HR) - by Daniele Ganser - Url.:  http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html

* KISSINGER DIDN'T EVEN DARE TO PICK UP THE PEACE PRIZE - Url.:  http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/12/3538.shtml

* UN RIGHTS 'EXPERT' CALLS FOR BBC JOURNALIST`S RELEASE - Url.:  http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=379484&sid=WOR

* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.:  http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html

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