Westernocracy of addled minds
(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 10-06-2014 MON)
It was once the playbook of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but
when it got too hot to handle, the US hid the same behind various
fronts and international foundations handing out funds to domestic
non-government organizations (NGOs), institutions, and parties for
falsely claimed "democracy" education and "good governance"
initiatives, but with the old CIA aim of using these paid elements as
5th Columns in societies where they are imbedded.
Back in 1953, the CIA's job was exemplified in the coup against
elected President Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran. Many assassinations,
coups, and wars in aid of the US' various regime change programs had
been carried out since then. Most recently, it was in Ukraine,
particularly at the Maidan in February 2014. Now they are trying it
in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.
But Hong Kong and its mother country, China, are no European versions
of the "banana republics" of Latin America or of captive Eastern Bloc
states such as Ukraine, nor is any region or province of China one of
those struggling, impoverished countries that have seen the worst of
chaos and disastrous "failed state" scenarios of recent years, namely,
the "Arab Spring," where excited youths and smatterings of the middle
class, tickled by Twitter and Facebook bandwagons, create upheavals
praised by the New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine, et al., but
which end in heaps of broken dead bodies in endless civil wars,
countless suicide and IED bombings, or militia warfare.
Hong Kong is a premier world city that has prospered with its handover
to China, a milestone for Asia freeing itself from 19th Century
Western imperialism that I personally witnessed in 1997. The People's
Republic of China is not only the country that has lifted 500 million
of its people out of poverty within 30 years of its triumphant
revolution in 1949; it is also soon to bring its nation's economy to
become the largest in the history of mankind.
The US playbook for destabilization and "people power" programs may
work in impoverished and desperately stagnating countries, such as the
Philippines, but certainly not in Hong Kong and China.
Those British-accented parrots in Hong Kong, from British-Chinese
civil servants such as Martin Lee and Anson Chan pining for the days
of British Rule, as well as the infantile British-accented Occupy
Central student leaders, are not crusading for democracy but for
Westernocracy--the rule of the Western powers over Hong Kong again.
It was not surprising that rarefied Yellow tabloid, the Philippine
Daily Inquirer, hailed the Occupy Central agitators--for it was (and
still is) the newspaper that has moved for the restoration of total US
control of the Philippines ever since the US-engineered ouster and
kidnap to Hawaii of President Ferdinand Marcos aboard US Air Force
jets.
The PDI, to wit, headlined on its October 2, 2014 issue, "Filipinos
join HK protest" with a half-page shot of two supposed Filipinas and a
placard that says "Because I Love HK." It then quotes a certain Mang
Ben as claiming, "We brought along our kids because this is a teaching
opportunity for them to learn that, 'You know, your freedom, you have
to fight for it..."
Yeah. And that's why Mang Ben and 250,000 OFWs are in Hong Kong as
maids and peons.
But the irresponsible part of PDI's front page story goes beyond that;
it is its endangerment of Filipinos' jobs and security from possible
backlash in these tense times in Hong Kong.
Review Philippine reports the past few years on foreigners joining
Philippine protests: "BI: Foreigners joining protests to be deported"
(philstar.com, Oct. 29, 2008); "Canadian citizen who joined SONA rally
to be deported" (rappler.com, Sept. 14, 2013); "Foreigners warned
against marching vs pork" (inquirer.net, Sept. 17, 2013); and many
more.
Besides, these Yellow dumbos (and their US-funded Akbayan cohorts)
obviously know nothing about the Hong Kong Basic Law provision
pertaining to the autonomous region's elections and the background to
the players behind Occupy Central.
Tony Cartalucci on GlobalResearch writes, "Behind the so-called
'Occupy Central' protests ... is a deep and insidious network of foreign
financial, political, and media support. Prominent among them is the
US State Department and its National Endowment for Democracy (NED), as
well as NED's subsidiary, the National Democratic Institute (NDI)."
Mark Simon and Jimmy Lai, the men behind the anti-China Apple Daily
and Occupy Central back-stoppers, were caught with emails discussing
links with the CIA and "financial support for pan-democrats and the
planned Occupy Central pro-democracy protests, and Simon's role in the
transfer of money" (Ng Kang-chung, South China Morning Post, Aug. 11,
2014).
Yet the most disgusting image of Occupy Central is The Guardian's
photo on the founders of the movement: Rev. Chu Yiu-ming, academic
Benny Tai, and Chan Kin-man, in front of a huge Christian cross.
What's this, the Crusades in Asia, again, like the white man's
invasion of Japan, China, and Korea?
Obviously, there is a more fundamental fight underneath all these: The
attempt to stoke not just Westernocracy but the Clash of Civilizations
in this part of the world. So patsies and suckers beware! Your
addled brains may just flatline for good.
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