UPDATING July 10: The Morality of Murder
The disinformation is rampant. On television, Al Jazeera (Arabic TV that has copied the Western media techniques of influencing public opinion) leads the campaign. Huffington Post offers its services on the Internet. In America, the Washington Post leads. (Again, not by coincidence, all three are greatly admired by Nathaniel Tan, et al.) Compelling evidence of the disinformation have emerged: faked photos, the Press dutifully reporting the disinformation, demonstration at embassies, fund raising for Uyghurs, and plain lying.
Essentially, the disinformation is single-prong, straightforward and highly focus:
It exploits an ethnic minority status, with all its attendant inferences – good, innocent, powerless – in order to show they are victims of oppression, and so veil the fact that 156 people are murdered and 1,080 have their bodies and faces broken. (The same veil could even deflect the accusation that there is a terrorist group among the Uyghurs). This pure, guiltless, ethnic status is helped when focused on a woman, an old woman especially, in the person of Rebiya Kadeer. NPR, the American Liberal Left radio station glorified her with the title “Mother of the Uigher Movement” (rather than Mother of Uigher Racism), and Al Jazeera helps her disseminate a faked photo she shows to the world.
It is small wonder the likes of Huffington Post and the Washington Post speak vociferously of a free Press. Because, it offers the licence to say anything, write anything, promote anything. They grow to become above government, law and especially ethics; they make their own rules. And, under this banner of Press freedom and independence, it is small wonder Al Jazeera copies the technique and its principles: they can make a lie look and taste like strawberry ice cream in a 40 degree day, in the Lop Desert.
The state is now reached in which only the White man decides the truth:
- after the murders, the White press admit to no murder,
- then they say the government is the cause (the London Evening Standard says the Uyghur race kill is another “Tiananmen” rebellion against the government, but led by women),
- now they say the killers were victimised, attacked and killed even.
And they all say this with a straight face; and, never mind if any of the reports is wrong or is a lie since all is about China, not London or Washington, and China is cruel place anyway.
Perhaps, China is right, as Japan once fought for: Throw up the hands and say, forget the White man, forget their democracy, their free Press because, all said and done, this is what you get – dead people, unsafe streets, barely disguised evil, and repeated, astonishing lies. Note that all the while China responds in the only way its people are raised to respond: bite its lips and speak only to its own, never mind the world of Nathaniel Tan or the BBC. “What the world says, doesn’t matter. This is our life, our land, and we alone decide in the best way possible how our forefathers have raised us to run both. Never again will White people tell us what to do and what not to do. They’ll not touch us again.”
