{"id":1841,"date":"2008-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2008\/05\/17\/lord-colbert-does-not-do-his-title-justice\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:26:35","slug":"lord-colbert-does-not-do-his-title-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1841","title":{"rendered":"Lord Colbert does not do his title justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Robin Corbett, who promoted terrorism in Iran and Iraq under the logo of MKO for the past 25 years!!)<\/span><\/p>\n

For centuries the colonizers exploited and dominated the third world. Today, one of the more subtle tools of imperialism is the use of value-laden language that seeks to define the Arab and Muslim world. With labels such as \u2018terrorists\u2019 and \u2018Islamofascism\u2019, they wish to establish an \u2018Orientalist\u2019 perspective of otherness denoting barbarism as set apart from Israel and the West which represents admirable qualities. It is imperative to reject this imperial imposition of characterization and for each state, individually and collectively, to self-rule, foremost through self-definition. <\/span><\/p>\n

The case of Mojahedeen-e Khalg (MEK) showcases the ever present imperial influence of the West in defining the \u2018other\u2019 due to the ownership of language. The hypocrisy is stark given that the U.S. with the help of her ally the British waged a \u2018war on terror\u2019 which has resulted in the death of over a million people to date. Yet, a certain Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, a member of the House of Lords from Gordon Brown’s ruling Labor Party, has coauthored an opinion piece with Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA), both of whom promote the terrorist organization of the MEK. In their opinion, these two argue that engagement with Iran would risk, among other things, a \u201csupport for international terrorism\u201d[i]. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"LordLord Colbert does not do his title justice; to paraphrase Samuel Butler, a degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is under ground. Else how can he explain throwing in his lot with terrorists who are in the employ of Israel?”Israel is said to have had a relationship with the M.E.K at least since the late nineties, and to have supplied a satellite signal for N.C.RI. broadcasts from Paris into Iran\u201d [ii]. Their servitude to the Israelis was after they had committed treason, murder, and terrorism while under the tutelage of Saddam Hossein \u2013 the man that the Americans and the British considered a threat to world peace, and whose demise and the invasion of Iraq has now caused a threat to world peace. <\/span><\/p>\n

While innocent Iraqis were being killed en masse in the \u2018war on terror\u2019, the Commander in Chief gave \u2018special persons status\u2019 to Saddam\u2019s pet terrorists in Camp Ashraf while an associate from the powerful Republican lobbying group of Barbour Griffith & Rogers invited Neil Livingstone, the C.E.O. of Global Options, an international risk-management firm, and Gregory Minjack, who was an executive at Public Strategies, a Washington-based crisis-management company\u201d to remove the group from the FTO designation. The lobby group was not without help. Congressman Filner has been on the Hill promoting the group. But perhaps one of their most ardent admirers is Cuban-born Congresswoman Senator Ros-Lehtinen who is not new to the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

In February 1988, Orlando Bosch had been arrested in Miami and implicated in the 1976 Cubana plot, a terrorist act which had resulted in the downing of flight 455 killing 73 passengers. Joe D. Whitley, associate United States Attorney General at the time, called Bosch \u201ca terrorist, unfettered by laws or human decency, threatening and inflicting violence without regard to the identity of his victims\u201d[iii], had the distinct advantage of having Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) Bosch\u2019s release as one of the cornerstones of her 1989 congressional campaign. This murderer of 73 innocent lives had the more good luck. Ros-Lehtinen\u2019s campaign manager was Jed Bush, the President\u2019s son. In July 1989, a month after meeting his son Jed and Ros-Lehtinen to discuss the Bosch case, President Bush rejected his Justice Department\u2019s recommendation and authorized Bosch\u2019s release who became a resident of the United States two years later.[iv] In granting the MEK terrorists asylum in Iraq, George W. is following a family trend. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bosch\u2019s terrorist partner, Cuban-born, Luis Posada Carriles dedicated his life to the over throw of Fidel Castro and was a CIA recruit who participated in the calamitous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, \u201che was part of Operation Southern Front\u2026and he worked for the Hammer [Oliver North]\u2026From 1967 to 1986, Luis was a compensated agent of the CIA. And George Bush, the vice president, knew what he was doing.\u201d[v] Yet for blowing up a plane and causing 73 people to be killed, he was arrested in 2005 on immigration charges and released in 2007[vi] . It is interesting to note that George H.W. Bush was director of the CIA when the Cubana airliner exploded. What makes the Cuban-born Ros-Lehtinen support the MEK terrorists, does she have a fatal attraction towards assassins and murderers? Or are she and the rest of Congress following the leader of nation that has waged \u2018war on terror\u2019? <\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps they believe that by imposing the colonial language of calling the \u2018other\u2019 \u2018uncivilized\u2019 and state sponsor of terrorists, their mass murder and moral annihilation will go unnoticed. \u201cThe great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.\u201d \u2013 J.F. Kennedy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is an Iranian-American studying at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is a member of World Association of International Studies society, Stanford. Her research focus is U.S. foreign policy towards Iran, Iran\u2019s nuclear program, and the influence of lobby groups. She is a peace activist, essayist, radio commentator and public speaker. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

[i] http:\/\/www.iranfocus.com\/en\/iran-world-press\/ <\/span><\/p>\n

dont-enable-irans-offenses.html <\/span><\/p>\n

[ii] Connie Bruck, \u201cA reporter at large: Exiles; How Iran\u2019s expatriates are gaming the nuclear threat\u201d. The New Yorker, March 6, 2006 <\/span><\/p>\n

[iii] Quoted in Weiner, \u201cCase of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist,\u201d p. A1. <\/span><\/p>\n

[iv] Bardach, \u201cTwilight of the Assassins.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

[v] Bardach, \u201cIbid <\/span><\/p>\n

[vi] \u201cThe Good Terrorist: The United States and Cuba,\u201d The Economist vol. 383, iss. 8526. 28 April 2007. p. 44. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Counter Currents, May 17, 2008 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/ulrich170508.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The case of Mojahedeen-e Khalg (MEK) showcases the ever present imperial influence of the West in defining the \u2018other\u2019 due to the ownership of language. The hypocrisy is stark given that the U.S. with the help of her ally the British waged a \u2018war on terror\u2019 which has resulted in the death of over a million people to date. Yet, a certain Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, a member of the House of Lords from Gordon Brown’s ruling Labor Party, has coauthored an opinion piece with Congressman Bob Filner …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[215,2],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[154],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lord-corbett","tag-camp-ashraf-affairs","tag-mujahedin-khalq-list-fto","module-article","ctype-story","blog-soraya-sepahpour-ulrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}