U.S. Warns Protests Could “Break Apart” Bahrain, Topple Regime?
The latest headlines from Democracy Now is a warning? A threat perhaps? “U.S. Warns Protests Could “Break Apart” Bahrain, Topple Regime”.
Apparently,
According to Democracy Now, the Obama administration is “quietly” warning that Bahrain’s ongoing internal unrest could lead to the overthrow of the ruling Sunni monarchy. - The statement is beyond comprehension when protests are not majority backed although the media likes to show you otherwise. We must also take note that the mainstream agency that media likes to constantly quote is the correspondant for Associated Press the wife of a well known Al Wefaq supporter and the Editor in Chief of Al Wasat Newspaper.
The Obama administration, two years on, still fails to recognise a rally held on the 18th of february 2011.
Followed by thousands in a rally held at Al Fateh on the 21st of February 2011.
Three highways were jammed packed leading to the Al Fateh mosque in Juffair in support of National Unity and of the Monarchy.
Such rallies may not occur visibly today however if the need may arise, you will find a stronghold majority ready to rally on the streets to protect and preserve. The United States would do well to avoid interfering with foreign nations, and focus on it’s own domestic affairs.
According to Stephen Lendman and quite rightly, he writes;
”Far and away, America’s human rights record is the world’s worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional.
Twentieth century ones went global. New millennium ones elevated atrocities and other human rights abuses to an unprecedented level. It keeps rising. America is guilty of virtually every crime imaginable and then some.
America today wages multiple direct and proxy wars. US military bases infest the world. CIA elements operate everywhere. US special forces perform various military related services globally. Wherever they show up, they’re killers, not protectors.
Domestically, America is more battleground than homeland. FBI, CIA, NSA, FEMA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Border Patrol, and other federal agencies work jointly with state and local authorities against the interests of most US residents.
Anyone can be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and imprisoned for any reason or none at all. By presidential diktat, any US citizen at home or abroad can be murdered.
Others can be arrested and detained indefinitely uncharged in military prisons. Innocence is no defense. State terrorism is policy at home and abroad. That’s how police states operate.
Freedom, human rights, and other democratic values are non-starters. Supporting what’s right is hazardous. Challenging Washington’s right to dominate globally risks persecution or death. America is unfit and unsafe to live in.
America’s “tarnished human rights record has left it in no state – whether on a moral, political or legal basis – to act as the world’s human rights justice, to place itself above other countries and release the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year (that) accuse and blame other countries.” At the same time, it absolves itself through silence, duplicity, and/or bald-faced lies. According to the State Department: “The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago.” “Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for human rights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” “The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises.”
At the same time, it claims Americans live in the “land of the free.” Why then were around 1,000 peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the early weeks of their campaign? Police brutality was brutal and unconscionable. It continues to reflect despotism, not democracy. America furthers “international disorder.” It tramples on the rights of global citizens and its own.
It operates the world’s largest domestic gulag. It’s also one of the most repressive. Press freedom is a figure of speech. Dominant media sources produce propaganda and other forms of managed news and information. Truth is a scarce commodity. Constitutional freedoms are denied. Money power runs America.
Resisters face harsh crackdowns. Poverty is at record levels. So is homelessness, hunger, and overall deprivation. Racism is institutionalized. Basic needs go unmet. Praying to the wrong God is called terrorism. Numerous other human rights abuses reveal a nation unfit to live in. America’s human rights record is appalling. Political prisoners fill its gulag. Dissent is criminalized. Police state laws target resisters. Torture is official policy. So is permanent war on the world. Peace, stability and security are four-letter words.
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Regardless of all of the above, the Obama Administration seems to forget another very important Resolution adopted by the General Assembly.
2131 (XX). Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty:
No State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. Consequently, armed intervention and all other forms of interference or attempted threats against the personality of the State or against its political, economic and cultural elements, are in violation of international law.
And yet An American Marines’ blog – old but priceless can enlighten you all a little more.
I can sum up the United States in simpler terms:
America is the popular girl in high school, always involved in every single drama. While the rest of the world admires her for her personal charm, she is also despised because of her nosiness. The United States would do well to avoid interfering with foreign nations, and focus on it’s own domestic affairs.
In the FCO site it states: Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has also urged the Bahraini Government to implement the remaining BICI recommendations. He said: “We are concerned by some of the recent decisions taken by the Bahraini Government, particularly on human rights.” Human Rights? Don’t they have their own that they just deny? I guess he forgot the General Assembly too.
No State may use or encourage the use of economic, political or any other type of measures to coerce another State in order to obtain from it the subordination of the exercise of its sovereign rights or to secure from it advantages of any kind. Also, no State shall organize, assist, foment, Finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in another State.
And yet a member of the Bahrain Freedom Movement that has plotted against the Bahrain Monarchy, speaks quite regularly in the House of Lords. But then again according to Index on Censorship he is a British Citizen .
So he is not stateless….
Democracy Now goes on to state, “Protests have continued in Bahrain for nearly two years despite a U.S. backed-crackdown has seen the use of military forces from neighboring Gulf regimes, the jailing and beating of opposition activists, and the recent ban of all public demonstrations.” First, which “backing” and what they failed to mention is the fact that the ban on rallies is temporary and the reasons:
Manama-Oct31 (BNA)Marches and rallies will only be halted –rather than banned- until the security situation in Bahrain stabilizes. “The decisions aims at preserving national unity, protecting social cohesion and avert all for forms of extremism”
In a briefing to reporters last week, two State Department officials warned that Bahrain could “break apart” if the protests continue, an outcome they say would be beneficial to Iran while detrimental to the “enormous [U.S.] security interests” in Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. – I seriously wonder how Bahrain can break apart as claimed and seriously the American base are not guarding our interests, but American interest.
Democracy Now- “The officials gave the briefing on the condition they not be identified by name”- so a question we could ask Democracy Now is, do those officials hide behind what they say? Or perhaps these officials don’t exist?
“The White House says it is calling on Bahrain to heed the calls of an independent commission that urged political reforms one year ago” , how about we call them to take heed of their own.
At the United Nations, a spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Human Rights criticized Bahrain’s recent moves against the opposition, including revoking the citizenship of 31 political figures (although some hold another citizenship ) as well as sentencing medics who treated wounded protesters to three months behind bars.
News channel aired a video of medics and paramedics, who appeared to join the protesters in hitting injured Indian workers who had been hospitalised. According to Al Arabiya, foreign workers were being assaulted by protesters in order to undermine the national economy. You can watch one here.
Rupert Colville: “The High Commissioner urges the government to reconsider this decision, which stands in clear violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that, ‘Everyone has the right to a nationality’ and, ‘No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality.’
Article 15 stands when you don’t have nationality, however I have already explained, some have dual nationalities and as for the rest, the Bahrain News Agency states, “The affected persons have the right of appeal”, unlike some in the United States a new legislation would strip you of your citizenship and then the US has a history of stripping citizens as does the United Kingdom.
