Orwell Bienvenue to France – Encore!
By Finian Cunningham
February 29, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "SCF" - France
is in the throes of a «secret war» in Libya – in audacious violation of
international law. But to report on this criminality is an offense!
Welcome to the Orwellian world of double-think that the French state has
entered.
A report in French newspaper Le Monde this
week lifted the lid on France’s clandestine operations in the North
African country. It said that French special forces were conducting
covert missions to set up air strikes against the Islamic State terror
group.
The mission has been authorized by French President Francois Hollande, according to Le Monde. The special forces are being deployed for «discreet action» to prepare strikes on Islamist targets.
Immediately,
France’s Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian came down on the
publication like a ton of bricks, alleging that the newspaper may have
«compromised» national state security.
State-owned news channel, France 24, quoted a spokesman for Le Drian as saying: «When secret operations are taking place, the goal is they are not revealed for the security of the men and the operations».
Or,
to put it more accurately: when criminal, unlawful violations against
other country’s sovereignty and international law are taking place, the
goal is they must not be revealed to the public. Otherwise the authors
of such crimes will be seen for what they are: rogue-state criminals. No
wonder Monsieur Le Drian has been photographed this week looking more
grumpy than usual.
The repercussions could be severe for Le Monde, or
any other news outlet, reporting on the matter. The French government
says it is probing if there has been a «leak of classified information»
over the report. Violation of French «defense secrecy rules» carries a
penalty of up to three years in prison and a fine of €45,000 ($50,000).
So
let’s get this straight. French elite military forces and agents
belonging to the state intelligence service, DGSE, are present in Libya
and are ordering in air strikes against jihadist targets, according to Le Monde. Yet,
to report on this French state-sponsored lawlessness is potentially «a
crime», according to those who are responsible for the bigger crime of
violating a country’s sovereignty.
The
chilling effect on independent journalism is no doubt fully intended.
Government commits crimes, don’t report it, seems to be the watchword.
Le Monde is not the only news outlet disclosing the Western ratcheting up of war – again – in Libya. In the past week, the New York Times reported that
American, British, French and Italian special forces were operating in
Libya. It is understood that these combined covert forces do not have
any legal mandate for conducting their activity. There is no UN mandate
for such operations, and there are no Libyan authorities worth talking
about to give approval. This is simply unmitigated lawlessness writ
large.
Since
the US and other NATO forces bombed the hell out of Libya for seven
months in 2011, resulting in up to 30,000 Libyan deaths and the
overthrow of the government of Muammar Gaddafi, and his murder by
NATO-backed jihadists, the country has been in a state of utter chaos,
riven by feuding militias.
Any
central authority that existed in Libya has been pulverized – by NATO.
The French government in particular under former President Nicolas
Sarkozy bears heavy responsibility for turning the once-prosperous Libya
into this failed abject state.
Since
then, the Americans and their Western allies have been able to bomb
Libya at will. Last November, a US air strike reportedly killed an
Islamic State commander, Abu Nabil, in the east of the country. Last
week, another US air strike hit an alleged IS training camp in Sabathra, west of Tripoli, killing more than 40.
Following
that latest strike, the so-called «unity government» of Libya, based in
exile in Tunis, which the Western powers have been trying to cobble
together, even condemned that action as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
The
NATO powers have destroyed Libyan sovereignty, and yet even a shell of
governing semblance, which the West endorses, has raised objection to
Western military interference.
This
is Orwellian beyond words. Bombed state, failed state, jihadist chaos,
the West then bombs to allegedly defeat terror groups it helped install
in this failed state, and there is no national authority to properly
object, because NATO obliterated such authorities; and then when a news
organization reports on the latest twist in this state-sponsored
criminality it is threatened with «compromising» state security.
There
is no other way to assess this. France, as with its other Western
accomplices led by the US, is descending into full-blown fascism.
Lawlessness is the norm. Bombing countries has become a preordained,
god-given right. And if reported on, then prosecution follows.
And
why should we be surprised? France embraced fascism 75 years ago when
the Vichy state became a willing, zealous collaborator with Nazi Germany
and its genocidal program. Tens of thousands of French citizens were
shunted off in trains to be exterminated in fascist death camps by their
French rulers.
Today,
under the rubric of «combating terrorism» – terrorism that Paris
fomented in Libya and Syria – the French authorities have imposed a
state of emergency on their citizens. French President Hollande and his
shrill prime minister Manuel Valls declare that «France is at war»
against the Islamic State terror group – a network that came to life
through illegal French sponsorship of jihadists to overthrow the
governments of Libya and Syria.
French
state «emergency powers» have permitted thousands of French homes to be
raided without warrants in recent months since the terror attacks in
Paris on November 13. The French rulers give themselves fascistic powers
against citizens over a case of terror blow back – blow back that they
have largely created through their international lawlessness in the
first place.
Now
the state sponsors of terrorism who destroyed Libya are giving
themselves carte blanche to go back into Libya – under the pretext of
«fighting terrorism» – to maraud and bomb that country with special
forces.
Step
back and see it for what it is. We are on a path of wanton lawlessness,
fascism and perdition. The very people in government who should be held
to account and prosecuted for international crimes are committing more
such crimes under their own self-referencing criminality. And when the
public ought to know about this, the rogues in government then throw up
their spurious self-justifying claims of «national security» and
threaten to lock-up «violators».
The
conceited French notions about «free speech» and «human rights» are so
overblown. So, so overblown. Meanwhile, despicable history of actual
participation in fascist crimes are so overlooked and pushed down the
memory hole. Well, we might know why the latter is. Because the same
French ruling establishment is once again embracing the vile darkness of
the past.
Orwell, bienvenue – encore!
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