Saint George’s Day

Saint George and one third of the world’s refugees have one thing in common _ they are all Palestinians _
according to Wiki_ Saint George was born to a Christian noble family in Lod, Syria Palaestina during the late third century_somewhere around 275 AD and he died in Nicomedia _  His father was a Roman army official from Cappadocia and his mother was from Palestine _   They were both Christians from the noble families of Anici_  so Georgius (Roman) was raised in the Christian faith _  George lost his father around the age of 14 and only a few years later his mother died_ but she had taken her teenage son back to Palestine beforehand _
After the death of his parents George went to the imperial city of Nicomedia and presented himself to Emperor Diocletian to start a career as a soldier _  Apparently Diocletian welcomed him ‘with open arms’ because he had known his father_ Gerontius_ who was one of his finest soldiers _  By his late 20s George had been promoted to the rank of tribune and was stationed as an imperial guard of the Emperor at Nicomedia _

George in Christendom
In AD 302 Diocletian issued an order that every Christian soldier should be arrested and all the other soldiers in his army should offer a sacrifice to Roman gods _   George renounced the Emperor’s edict and in front of his fellow soldiers claimed himself to be a Christian _
Diocletian attempted to convert George by offering gifts of land_ money and slaves_ and asked in return that his favourite tribune simply make a sacrifice to the Roman gods_ like the rest of his army _  Finally recognizing the futility of his efforts to persuade the young soldier Diocletian had him executed _
Before the execution George gave his wealth to the poor _  After various torture sessions_  including laceration on a wheel of swords_ from which he was resuscitated three times_ George was lastly beheaded outside Nicomedia’s city wall _ on April 23 303 AD _   His body was returned to Lydda in Palestine for burial_ where Christians came to honour him as a martyr _

George in Islam
Saint George is also known and venerated by Muslims and Christians throughout the Middle East_ from Egypt to Asia Minor _  His stature in these regions derives from his legend becoming something of a composite of various famous warriors_ mixing elements from Biblical, Quranic and folkloric sources _  He has also been partially identified with Al-Khidr _  Khidr is a revered figure in Islam_ whom the Qur’an describes as ‘a righteous servant of God’  _  He is said to have killed a dragon near the sea in Beirut and from the beginning of the 20th century Muslim women visit his shrine in that area to pray to him _

Saint George the ‘political emblem’
It is truly ironic that with such a life-history_ the flag of St George should have latterly developed a reputation and recognition as a symbol of Right-wing_ anti-Islamic groups _   However_ such sad ‘facts of life’ should never be seen as a testament of Saint George_ but only of the blatant ignorance and the lowest kind of stupidity which such groups proudly proclaim as ‘rightfully’ belonging to them _

The Final Demise of US Honor

On 17th November 2008_ in his first major interview after being elected_ Barack Obama told the world he was going to stop the use of torture against ‘War on Terror’ suspects AND close the infamous detention centre the world has come to call ‘Gitmo’ _  It was an interview that confirmed to everyone_ US citizen and non-US citizen alike_ that we could finally hope for a ‘change’ from the ravages and destruction wrought globally by the might and ignorance of Neo-Conservative Americans _

in April 2012 _ the new US Presidential election is already becoming a major feature of US and International news _ the conniving and mud-slinging we have already been forced to witness during these weeks of Republican primaries  has already left most observers with bitter memories of what right-wing America is still capable of _  The Republican contestants are_ to a man_ nothing more than a sad but truthful representation that any kind of progress or development by Conservative America is almost impossible_ both now and for the foreseeable future _

But ‘Change’ has indeed occurred since Obama came to power!!
Gone are ALL the promises to remove America from the horror of it’s recent Neo-Conservative past _
Instead of stopping drone attacks on civilian targets _
the Obama administration has increased them _
Instead of putting Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders on trial _
this US presidency has run a policy of assassination against them _
Instead of closing Guantanamo _
the four years incumbent president has decided that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and four others will now be tried in military court after 5 years of incarceration _ during which Mohammed alone was subjected to waterboarding torture 183 times!
Instead of Obama keeping his promises _ by putting these men through a transparent judicial process where ALL MEN ARE EQUAL before the law _ these five will face the death penalty behind the secretive and heavily biased processes of a US military court ONLY so that US ‘Democrats’ can score a mass of political points in the run up to the next presidential election _

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed _ subjected to waterboarding torture 183 times

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale stated today that in the end the Obama administration had no choice but try these suspects from within the confines of Guantanamo Bay _
“But why now?” he asks_ “Does it have anything to do with an (upcoming) presidential election?
And given what’s already been said, what are the chances of a fair trial?”

Clive Stafford Smith_ Director of Reprieve once said _ “The phrase ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’ is one of the Orwellian apspects of Guantanamo _  For most of the world_ Guantanamo epitomizes the suppression of freedom…“
The already infamous reputation that Guantanamo has earned for itself will grow larger and meaner with this latest use of its facilities for American justice _  Nor will ‘Gitmo’ ever be closed all the time that it has any intrinsic value to US politicians_ US Military procurement and US media hyperbole_ ALL of whom will profit from these biased and undemocratic trials _

Now political observers from around the world can say amongst ourselves what must be finally and officially accepted_ in the sense that ALL the world can bear witness to the last decade of ‘War on Terror’_ in the aftermath of tens of thousands of innocents dead_ tens of thousands incarcerated or missing_ hundreds of thousands removed from their normal lives and existence_  What little honour remained to the United States of America and its ‘democracy’ on the international stage_ is finally and irreversibly DEAD!

the true meaning of silence

awake or asleep the true revolutionary lives every moment in a state of revolution_ our existence has no other purpose _
the overthrow of oppression AND the demise of the oppressor is our reason for breathing _ the blood which courses through our hearts is enriched by the strength of our belief in ultimate victory _ it feeds our sinews and muscles and the marrow of our bones_ it guides the dedication of our minds and stirs our spirits to greater action and further sacrifice _
only a fool thinks silence from this blog means inactivity
when nothing appears to be happening at Left of Left
then everything to the Right of this position
would be wise to sleep with BOTH eyes open

butchers!

9-10 March 2012
the fucking butchers are out in force_ all over Gaza

the zionist pseudo-nation is a bloodstain on the history of humankind
one day insha’Allah that is all it will be _

Zionist israel is the Criminal #2

the issue of Administrative Detention is not over
for zionist israel it is just beginning!

الله اكبر

The Guardians Of Al Aqsa

the Dome Of The Rock and Al Aqsa Mosques
are both Islamic Reality
by contrast _ the Temple Mount is a Zionist hallucination

‘GHOSTING’ SUCKS!

‘ghosting’ is one of the biggest fears for prisoners anywhere _
when a person is imprisoned it’s like moving into a new neighbourhood where you must build a new ‘survival identity’ for yourself_ to cope with your new surroundings AND keep a grasp of the life you had before you were incarcerated _
this ‘survival identity’ is largely dependent upon two things
a) your possessions
b) your contacts with family and friends outside
‘Ghosting’ destroys both of these in one sudden and soul-destroying move_ by transferring a person to another prison with only a few minutes warning_  with ONLY the clothes on their back!  It’s a standardised punishment for non-conforming prisoners_ meted out internally by Prison Authorities_ without recourse to trial or judicial review _  It’s designed quite specifically to weaken a person’s ‘sense of self’ which in turn damages their morale and their identity_ and hence their resistance and survival under the authoritarian regime _ ‘GHOSTING’ SUCKS!

today George Rishwami reported on IMEMC that 120 Palestinian prisoners have been ‘ghosted’ out of Negev prison_ probably as an israeli reprisal to world pressure on the hunger striker Khader Adnan who has almost sacrificed his own life for the struggle against Adminstrative Detention _ definition and analysis at Addameer

However_  it is clearly apparent that this matter has a much longer history_ according to a statement issued by prisoners in the Negev tented prison in January 2012 _ the threat of ‘ghosting’ has been hanging over their heads for some considerable time _

NEGEV DESERT PRISON ESCALATION
by Mission Free Palestinian Political Prisoners on Monday, 2 January 2012 at 12:28

Press release issued by the prisoners of the Negev Desert

“O masses of our Palestinian people_ O people of the world_ we live in a state of uprising_ continuing to struggle for our fundamental rights and against the continuing abuses on our right to a dignified life within the walls of prisons _
We are your sons and daughters_ the Palestinian prisoners in the Negev desert prison_ living in a state of fear and anticipation of the impact of looming threats by some guards_ especially after the arrival of the new prison governor named Ilan to the prison after being carefully in the torture of our brothers_ the prisoners in other prisons _

O breath_ and liberals and human rights activists and media people_ O our steadfast students in our universities and our schools_ all the sons and daughters of our people_ we ask you to take note of the prison administration here which has now embarked on the implementation of a series of continuing crimes and threats against our rights and other issues important to us _ 
Firstly with the confiscation of our clothes_ without regard to the environments of extreme cold in the Negev desert south of occupied Palestine _ 
Secondly the brutal inspection and humiliation of our families_ especially our mothers and our wives _
Thirdly the sudden transfer of whole sections of the prisoners under the pretext of the existence of spaces in other prisons_ creating possible closure of each section of the tents_ so that our own communal organization and individual is taken from us_ simultaneously preventing us from our right to communicate with our mothers and our fathers and our wives and our children
and in a further step in this cycle of abuse_ we now have a clear impression that they can implement their crimes silently_ with the installation of jammers_ promoted by the prison administration which is led by the new governor _

Against this onslaught we wish to emphasize the following_
1_  we promise to God and promise you that we will not come out of our cells by walking on our feet and we will resist it with our bodies and our hearts bare_ even if it means we become martyrs _

2_ we will not recognize the prison authority and will not give up our communication with our people and our families at all costs

3_ call all our people for the gift of a mass demonstration worthy of the heritage of our people and their interest in the historical whole of Palestine

4_ call on all leaders and factions of our people to do everything possible to prevent the massacre israel is expected to commit against us

5_ call our Egyptian brothers_ to actively pressurize the Israelis to implement all the details of the recent prisoner exchange agreement_ with regard to the protection of the lives of prisoners and the improvement of their living conditions _

Rise up and help us to prevent a real massacre by the Prison Service Administration in the future _  support us and we in our turn promise to die standing_ defending our dignity and honour of the families and our children”

Prisoners circumstances becoming much worse _
More than one thousand Palestinian prisoners in the Negev Prison have been on edge following threats by the prison administration to move all prisoners to other prisons in Occupied Palestine _  The prison administration brought in a thousand troops of the special forces to suppress any protest by the prisoners who have refused to cooperate with this mass movement _  The prison administration also aims to empty the jail of mobile phones through which the prisoners maintain contact with their relatives _

Prisoners appealed to international institutions and human rights groups to intervene and protect them and asked both the Hamas and Fatah movements to support our cause by organizing supportive public rallies _

Relatives of the prisoners stated that the prison management obliged them_ upon completion of their last visit_ to sign papers which acknowledge the prevention of further visits until May _   Relatives reported that conditions in the administration stronghold are tense since the decision of the prisons management to convey political prisoners to other prisons and detention camps _

Video of ex-political prisoners describing various methods and effects of Administrative Detention

Mission Free Palestinian Political Prisoners Blog