November 13, 2005
According to Jordan's King Abdullah II,
"The crime that happened won't push us to become a police state, but
there will be a balance between freedom and security in a way that will
comfort our people and guests."
Guests, surely, since they often bring revenue, but not subjects of the monarchy.
In Jordan, according to Amnesty International,
"a range of political suspects who are frequently arbitrarily arrested"
are subjected to "prolonged incommunicado detention" without "access to
families and lawyers." Such is the "balance between freedom and
security" in the monarchy, there are restrictions "on freedom of
expression and the existence of laws and articles of the Penal Code
which permit the sentencing of prisoners of conscience and possible
prisoners of conscience, for instance the charge of lese majeste, which
has been used to arrest political opponents, and the Press and
Publications Law, which has in the past frequently been used to harass
and even imprison journalists." In other words, if I attempted to write
this blog in Amman, I might be arrested, held incommunicado, and
tortured. As for the latter:
Continuing reports
of the use of torture or ill-treatment both of political and of common
law suspects. Such torture is facilitated by pre-trial incommunicado
detention and a lack of the safeguards which should ensure the thorough
and prompt investigation of allegations of torture and compensation for
those who have suffered such treatment at the hands of the security
forces.
It is illegal to demonstrate in Jordan.
"During the two months following the 11 September attacks, the
Jordanian authorities arrested and held in incommunicado detention a
number of people who had been involved in demonstrations, including
demonstrations opposing the bombing of Afghanistan," complains Amnesty
International. "Dozens of others, most of them suspected of links with
Islamist groups, were also arrested and held in incommunicado
detention. The pre-trial incommunicado detention of political detainees
in Jordan is not a new concern... Two weeks after attacks on the US, the
Jordanian authorities introduced changes to the Penal Code expanding
the definition of 'terrorism', introducing numerous loosely-defined
offences, restricting freedom of expression and the press, and
expanding the scope of offences punishable by the death penalty and
life imprisonment. The new Law entitled Law Amending the Penal Code
(Provisional Law No. 54, 2001) which was hastily promulgated through a
provisional royal decree in the absence of Parliament, became effective
on 2 October 2001, immediately after approval by King 'Abdallah bin
Hussein of Jordan."
Such "royal decrees" are necessary due
to the fact so many Jordanians are opposed to "free trade" in the guise
of the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement and U.S.-created qualifying
industrial zones. As many Jordanians understand, such "free trade"
(more accurately described as global piracy) is in the process of
destroying their traditional "mom and pop" industries. After sucking
Jordan dry, the globalists will move on the next host, as all parasites
eventually do. If Jordanians protest against these blood-sucking
policies, they take the risk of "incommunicado detention" and "torture
or ill-treatment." According to Jordan's royalty, this is a "balance
between freedom and security" (freedom for globalist neolibs, the
security forces coming down hard on anybody who complains about being
taken to the cleaners).
"If Iraqis want a king, [Prince]
Hassan of Jordan could be their man," wrote the neocon Michael Rubin in
2002 (Hassan is the brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan and a
blood relative of the Iraqi Hashemite family) and David Wurmser "wrote
Tyranny's Ally [in 1999], an AEI-published book devoted largely to the
idea of restoring the Hashemite dynasty in Iraq. Today Rubin is a key
Department of Defense official overseeing U.S. policy toward Iraq, and
Wurmser is a high-ranking official working for Undersecretary of State
for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, himself a
leading neoconservative ideologue," writes Robert Dreyfuss for the American Prospect.
In
fact, the neocons want to eventually install Hashemite-like princelings
all across a war ravaged and splintered Middle East. "The idea that all
the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units,
occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking," writes Israel Shahak
in a translation of Oded Yinon's A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen
Eighties (Yinon was an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs
office). "For example, Ze'ev Schiff, the military correspondent of
Ha'aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic)
writes about the 'best' that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq:
'The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the
separation of the Kurdish part' (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this
aspect of the plan is very old."
Indeed, it is a very old
Zionist plan, one that does not take reality into consideration - the
Middle East is a potpourri of intermixed ethnic, tribal, and religious
groups and to "break down" nations "into small units" will require a
lot of ethnic cleansing, that is to say a blood bath will be the
result. In fact, the situation in Iraq - violence between Sunnis and
Shi'ites and Kurds - is working its way toward a blood bath and
ultimately civil war, as planned. If you can imagine this situation
across the whole of the Arab and Muslim Middle East, you have an idea
of what the neocons and Zionists have in mind.
Finally, it
should be noted that the effete Hashemite monarchy in Jordan is not in
favor of the Zionist plan to balkanize the neighborhood. "Crown Prince
Hassan mentioned Mr. Yinon's article in a recent interview and provided
an English translation to this reporter," writes David Ignatius
of the War Street Journal. "Prince Hassan contends that the article
illustrates the desire of Israel's leadership for 'Balkanization' of
the Arab world.
'This is what is so worrying really, is . . . this Balkan idea,' the
crown prince said. He called Mr. Yinon's article 'a recipe for ethnic
and sectarian breakup'... the Arab reaction to the article may indicate
more about Arab fears than the article itself does about Israeli
intentions."
In
fact, Israeli ethnic cleansing began in 1948 with the adoption of Plan
Dalet, including Operation Nachshon, Operation Har'el, Operation
Yiftach, Operation Misparayim, Operation Yevussi, Operation Chametz,
Operation Makkabi, Operation Barak, Operation Ben-Ami, and Operation
Qilshon (Pitchfork).
For the Israeli Zionists, ethnic
cleansing is second nature, so long as it is carried out under the
cover of war. And the American neocons have promised to deliver World
War Four, as they call it (the Cold War was World War Three to their
way of thinking). If Syria and Iran can be attacked, they will begin to
realize their demented efforts.