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England and Sedition

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, July 16 2008, 21:59:14 (CEST)
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England and Sedition

As shocking as it is to find a Catholic who doesn’t know that the Eucharist involves real flesh and blood, I suppose it should come as no surprise that not a single Assyrian knows what sedition is and how it’s dealt with by law.

History in all countries is littered with laws against sedition and numerous instances of how this crime is dealt with.

Speaking of King George III’s reaction to news of the revolution in France, Dr Durant, in his, The Age of Napoleon, p. 517, writes...

“He suspended the freedom of the press, and (1794) the Habeas Corpus Act, which had secured the right of every arrested person to early trial or speedy release; political suspects could now be held without trial. (France did the same) After an antiwar demonstration in which a stone was thrown (mine) at the King, the Seditious Meetings Act (1796) forbade meetings of over fifty people except under government license and control. Critics of the British Constitution were liable to seven years exile in Australia’s Botany Bay. Prominent radicals...John Horne Tooke, philologist, John Thelwall, friend of the early Coleridge (poet, mine) and shoemaker (mine) Thomas Hardy, founder of the London Corresponding Society...were tied on charges of treason...”

And this is Great Britain with Magna Charta, a few centuries of parliamentary law under its belt... the inheritor of the Renaissance, the Age of Reason....the Enlightenment...but in a national crisis all bets are off...as they would be in any country facing uncertain times....After its own Revolution the United States passed an Alien and Sedition Act to circumvent civil rights in a rush to punish sedition. In times such as these any criticism of the government, any hint that the government is illegal is met with swift retaliation, often through special laws hurriedly passed to deal with what is perceived as an extraordinary emergency; a threat to government rule and legitimacy.

If sedition was so harshly treated in Great Britain and the United States, what was Iraq supposed to do with Assyrians insisting that Muslims in Iraq were “usurping Arabs” who’d stolen the land from its “rightful owners”; them...agitating for their “rights” over and above what the law gave to every citizen and asking, in essence, that, without war or defeat, Iraq must turn over a rich part of its lands to these Christian minorities? Even to the point of pleading with foreign powers to take up their cause?

From the end of WWI Iraq was beset by Christian Assyrian refugees from Turkey and Persia it had magnanimously opened its borders to and fed and provided shelter for while they waited government help in settling in their new country. After 400 years under increasingly corrupt Turkish rule, with the war barely ended, with a new government, independent for the first time in four centuries, led by a displaced Arab sheikh of Mecca installed by the British who were still meddling in their affairs...with all the disruption and chaos caused by the war and the refugees, with conflicting land claims to be settled among current tenants, let alone the demands of the refugee Assyrians for a separate region for themselves as “promised” to them by a third party, Britain, which had no business giving away someone else’s land...at that chaotic moment the Assyrians chose to agitate and disrupt...to take up arms on behalf of an occupying power and cross borders at will shooting as they went, making statements to the world intended to embarrass the Iraqi government, causing more headaches for the fledgling nation, cobbled together from disparate peoples, hostile creeds; its borders drawn up for it by the British. It’s amazing that the Iraqi government stopped at Semele...

And they never stopped their sedition...all the way to the 70s when, possibly inspired by the American Indian Movement which demanded a return of indigenous lands...Assyrian groups began assailing Saddam’s government for what they claimed were their own indigenous lands....and as America unleashed the FBI to arrest, murder and imprison leaders and ruin the Indian Movement...so too did Saddam move against those preaching and practicing SEDITION. During the ten years of the Iraq/Iran war especially any hint of an Assyrian nationalist cause brought down swift and well deserved punishment...what did we expect? What did we think America or Britain would do in similar circumstances?

Fer chrissakes the FBI and ATF attacked a compound with ninety children in Waco Texas, setting it afire and killing every child in it plus several adults...and all because the founder of the group had an outstanding warrant for traffic TICKETS!

It was prosecution for sedition in Iraq...not persecution for being Christian or “Assyrian”...and anyone doing it, anywhere, is subject to the severest laws of the land...any land....America, Britain or Iraq.

Sadly the Christians of Iraq have been implicated by association with the nationalists, all of them safely out of Iraq, who’ve made no secret of their support for this war. Assyrian American youths even bragged that they were returning to fight for the “liberation” of the Christians in Iraq. You don’t “win” these kinds of wars...the army of the nation may be defeated but once you become the occupying power, resentment at your high handed treatment of the civilian population only breeds more resistance. The Nazis learned at least that lesson in every country they occupied. There was no winning the war in Vietnam and there will be no victory in Iraq. The Christian nations will eventually leave and old scores will then be settled. The Christians of Iraq are marked out for retaliation not because of anything they actually did but because they’re the closest Christians at hand for the mob to revenge itself upon.

Had Christian Assyrians around the world condemned at least the occupation of Iraq and expressed their concern that their brethren would pay the piece eventually, on top of the ravages of war which all Iraqis would experience, there might have been grounds for expecting fair play from the Iraqi people...and no doubt it would have been forthcoming.

But it’s doubtful Assyrian nationalists would have preferred this for the ugly truth is that the list of so-called “martyrs” with which they hope to gain the world’s pity must be enlarged and added to...no matter how. When all the names on that list already, whether legitimate or not, have not sufficed to move anyone to action on their behalf, it is not to be wondered at that such “activists” who depend on such a despicable “strategy” would come up with the idea that more dead Christians might be their best chance. Especially as they have no other plan or means to do anything constructive for themselves and BY themselves.

Examining the quality of mind and soul of the Assyrian nationalists and what passes for strategy among them you have to ask yourself, would they really mind if ten thousand Christians were murdered tomorrow? John McCain recently fired an adviser for saying out loud what they’re all thinking; that another attack like 9/11 would be a great “help” in getting a Republican into the White House. Apparently Assyrian nationalists are in good company.

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