Normally, "one shouldn't speak
ill of the dead".
With Margaret Thatcher, the "ill" they speak is the truth.
By Finian Cunningham
“Reports this week say that Thatcher died with Alzheimer’s, the brain-degenerating disease in which the patient loses their faculty for memory. Western leaders, it seems, would also like to erase public memory of Thatcher’s criminal legacy.”
Hours after the death of
former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the history books are being
re-written and the beatification of the Iron Lady is well underway. . .
Such fulsome praise may
be expected coming from so many war criminals. But it is instructive of how
history is written by the victors and criminals in high office. Obama, Cameron,
Hollande and Merkel should all be arraigned and prosecuted for war crimes in Iran, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya, Syria,
Pakistan, Somalia and Mali, among other places. Kissinger
has long evaded justice for over four decades for his role in the US genocide in Southeast Asia during the
so-called Vietnam War in which over three million people were obliterated in Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia.
The British state is to give Thatcher, who died this week aged 87, a full military-honours funeral. The praise, eulogies, wreaths and ceremonies are all self-indictments of association with one of the most ruthless and criminal political figures in modern times.
So, here is a people’s history of Thatcher’s legacy. . .
The British state is to give Thatcher, who died this week aged 87, a full military-honours funeral. The praise, eulogies, wreaths and ceremonies are all self-indictments of association with one of the most ruthless and criminal political figures in modern times.
So, here is a people’s history of Thatcher’s legacy. . .
By George Galloway MP
…Every controversial divisive deadly thing that Thatcher did will be placed in soft focus, bathed in a rose-coloured light, and provide a first draft of history that will be, simply, wrong.
As is now well-known, I
refused to do that today on the demise of a wicked woman who tore apart what
remained good about my country, and set an agenda which has been followed, more
or less, by all of her successors. I certainly wasn’t prepared to leave the
obituaries to those who profited from her rule or those who have aped her ever
since.
So here is my own memory
of Thatcher and what she did in her time on this earth…
I hated Margaret Thatcher
for what seems like all my life. I hated her more than I hated anyone – until
the mass murderer Tony Blair came along.
It would have been utter
hypocrisy for me to have remained silent about her crimes today whilst the political
class – including New Labour – poured honeyed words, lies actually, over her
blood-spattered record.
I could not do it. I
believe I spoke for millions. The wicked witch is dead. Tramp the dirt down.
George Galloway MP
House of Commons
London
Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero. John Pilger argues that, without the complicity of the US and Britain, it may never have happened.
“…The Cambodian lawyer
defending Ta Mok, the Khmer Rouge military leader… has said: "All the
foreigners involved have to be called to court, and there will be no exceptions
. . . Madeleine Albright, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter,
Ronald Reagan and George Bush . . . we are going to invite them to tell the
world why they supported the Khmer Rouge."
It is an important
principle, of which those in Washington and Whitehall currently
sustaining bloodstained tyrannies elsewhere might take note.
By Ben Arnold
The outspoken
filmmaker explained in no uncertain terms his feelings on the subject of the
former prime minister, who died yesterday following a stroke.
“Margaret Thatcher was
the most divisive and destructive Prime Minister of modern times,” he said.
“Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed – this is her legacy. She was a fighter and her enemy was the British working class.
“Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. It is because of policies begun by her that we are in this mess today.
“Other prime ministers have followed her path, notably Tony Blair. She was the organ grinder, he was the monkey.
“Remember she called Mandela a terrorist and took tea with the torturer and murderer Pinochet.
“Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed – this is her legacy. She was a fighter and her enemy was the British working class.
“Her victories were aided by the politically corrupt leaders of the Labour Party and of many Trades Unions. It is because of policies begun by her that we are in this mess today.
“Other prime ministers have followed her path, notably Tony Blair. She was the organ grinder, he was the monkey.
“Remember she called Mandela a terrorist and took tea with the torturer and murderer Pinochet.
How should we honor her? Let’s privatize her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. It’s what she would have wanted.”
Long an opponent of Thatcher, Loach's views come as little surprise, and follow the announcement that Baroness Thatcher's ceremonial funeral, to take place at St Paul's Cathedral, is expected to cost up to £8 million, the biggest funeral of its kind since the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.
Guess Who Is Not
Coming to Margaret Thatcher's Funeral
By Lindsey German
. . .Blair's demand that we all show respect for the dead is somewhat hard to take from the man incriminated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians. . .
By Lindsey German
. . .Blair's demand that we all show respect for the dead is somewhat hard to take from the man incriminated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians. . .
Check
out this song from Pete Wylie
(Why
lie?, indeed!)
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