Syrian Prison Executions – Anatomy of a Smear Campaign
Ted Faison, May 20, 2017
“…The public has become accustomed to media and government
stories peddled without evidence, playing on shear emotion…the headlines stick in our minds. It’s not what’s
true, it’s what people believe, and headlines are great indoctrination tools.
Who cares about proof anymore?...
Syria is in the
throes of a CIA-backed insurgency. Islamist extremists of every extraction, not
to mention ISIS, with the common goal of replacing al-Assad with an extreme
form of Sunni Islam. Everyone armed with American weapons supplied directly by
the US or indirectly through Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and others…
Syria has since been
the target of a massive, relentless disinformation campaign…the US
government needed total, uncompromising public support. What better way to get
that support than to depict your enemy as a sadistic, barbaric dictator?...
The smear campaign
against Syria in general – and Bashar al-Assad personally – has been ongoing
for years. We’ve seen nothing but horror stories come out of Syria. Allegations
of chemical weapons, barrel bombing of civilians, terrible crimes against
humanity. We’re seldom presented with evidence, yet the headlines stick in our
minds. It’s not what’s true, it’s what people believe, and headlines are great
indoctrination tools. Who cares about proof anymore?...
The smear machine is
again in high gear, with reports of mass executions in a Syria prison
accompanied by ghastly headlines…The
mass media stories on Syrian prison exterminations conjure up images of people
tortured to death in dark, dingy rooms.
They turn our stomachs.
They cry out for justice.
If only they were true.
If my mother taught me anything, it
was "don’t believe everything you read"…so let’s look at the stories
more carefully to see if they merit our belief... In a court of law, one would immediately demand proof.
Where is the evidence?...
As it turns out, they’re all based on a single report published by
Amnesty International. On the surface, the report is formatted to
look like a scholarly paper, with footnotes, dates, methodologies, procedures.
All very impressive to the layman…
But Amnesty’s purpose wasn’t to present facts but rather
to sway opinion, and at the highest levels: The US Congress, the US courts, the
US presidency, the United Nations, not to mention the western public in general…
…And what to say about recent reports of
a crematorium inside the Saydnaya prison grounds?... With a little
digging, we discover that all the stories are tied (again) to a single source:
a newly declassified satellite image of Saydnaya prison… No other proof. Not
even a single witness, alleged or otherwise…
…The public has become accustomed to media and government
stories peddled without evidence, playing on shear emotion. The
pseudo-journalists of today are heavy on accusations and light on facts,
especially when dealing with perceived foes of the United States.
We’re all still waiting for the evidence about Russia’s
tampering with the US elections, Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National
Convention servers, Russia’s secret ties with Trump. Given what’s at
stake, if evidence existed it would have been presented long ago, and the
massive US smear machine would have had a field day.”
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Edmund "Ted"
Faison is
a software architect living in Southern California. With an electrical
engineering degree from California State University, Fullerton, he has
published several books on computer and software technology. He also…developed
a keen interest in international affairs, with special emphasis on American
foreign policy.
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Read the complete article:
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A statement from the article with which I would disagree:
“Syria is an enemy
of the Saudis, who are America’s best friend. No foreign country has more
control of the US government than Saudi Arabia.” I believe that role is shared with,
if not exceeded by, Israel.
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This may come as a great shock to many people, but multiple evidence
shows Amnesty International is no longer the ethical champion of human rights
that it may once have been.
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