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<H1 class=title><A href="http://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/">Facts For Working
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<H2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">It's been
repulsive for many of us to listen to or read all the praises world leaders have
for Nelson Mandela. Blair, Obama, Cameron butchers all of them. They have
no shame at all. Thankfully, Felicity Arbuthnot reminds us of what they
are. The ANC, the government that shot unarmed miners, welcomes its global
partners with open arms.</SPAN></SPAN></H2>
<H2><A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/nelson-mandela-obama-clinton-cameron-blair-tributes-of-shameful-hypocrisy/5360539"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Reprinted from Global
Research</SPAN></SPAN></A><BR><BR>Nelson Mandela: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair
– Tributes of Shameful Hypocrisy</H2>
<H2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Felicity
Arbuthnot<BR><BR>Accusing politicians or former politicians of “breathtaking
hypocrisy” is not just over used, it is inadequacy of spectacular proportions.
Sadly, searches in various thesaurus’ fail in meaningful
improvement.</SPAN></SPAN></H2>
<DIV id=yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386339540713_64932>The death of Nelson Mandela,
however, provides tributes resembling duplicity on a mind altering
substance.</DIV>
<DIV id=yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386339540713_64936><BR>President Obama, whose litany
of global assassinations by Drone, from infants to octogenarians – a personal
weekly decree we are told, summary executions without Judge, Jury or trial –
stated of the former South African’s President’s passing:</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px" id=yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386339540713_64940>“We will
not likely see the likes of Nelson Mandela again … His acts of reconciliation
… set an example that all humanity should aspire to, whether in the lives
of nations or our own personal lives.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px" id=yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386339540713_64944>“I
studied his words and his writings … like so many around the globe, I cannot
fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set, (as) long
as I live I will do what I can to learn from him … it falls to us … to
forward the example that he set: to make decisions guided not by hate, but
by love …”</DIV>Mandela, said the Presidential High Executioner, had: “… bent
the arc of the moral universe toward justice.”(i)<BR><BR>Mandela, after nearly
thirty years in jail (1964-1990) forgave his jailors and those who would have
preferred to see him hung. Obama committed to closing Guantanamo, an election
pledge, the prisoners still self starve in desperation as their lives rot away,
without hope.<BR><BR>The decimation of Libya had no congressional approval,
Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan’s dismembered. Drone victims are a
Presidential roll call of shame and horror and the Nobel Peace Laureate’s
trigger finger still hovers over Syria and Iran, for all the talk of otherwise.
When his troops finally limped out of Iraq, he left the biggest Embassy in the
world and a proxy armed force, with no chance of them leaving being on even the
most distant horizon.<BR><BR>Clearly learning, justice and being “guided by
love” is proving bit of an uphill struggle. Ironically, Obama was born in 1964,
the year Mandela was sentenced to jail and his “long walk to freedom.”<BR>Bill
Clinton, who (illegally, with the UK) ordered the near continual bombing of Iraq
throughout his Presidency (1993-2001) and the siege conditions of the embargo,
with an average of six thousand a month dying of “embargo related causes”, paid
tribute to Mandela as: “a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and
reconciliation … a man of uncommon grace and compassion, for whom abandoning
bitterness and embracing adversaries was … a way of life. All of us are living
in a better world because of the life that Madiba lived.” Tell that to America’s
victims.<BR><BR>In the hypocrisy stakes, Prime Minister David Cameron can
compete with the best. He said:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“A great light has gone out in the world. Nelson
Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death – a
true global hero.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">… Meeting him was one of the great honours of my
life.</DIV><BR>On Twitter he reiterated: “A great light has gone out in the
world. Nelson Mandela was a hero of our time.” The flag on Downing Street was to
hang at half mast, to which a follower replied: “Preferably by no-one who was in
the Young Conservatives at a time they wanted him hanged, or those who broke
sanctions, eh?”<BR><BR>Another responded: “The Tories wanted to hang Mandela.You
utter hypocrite.”<BR>The two tweeters clearly knew their history. In 2009, when
Cameron was pitching to become Prime Minister, it came to light that in 1989,
when Mandela was still in prison, David Cameron, then a: “rising star of the
Conservative Research Department … accepted an all expenses paid trip to
apartheid South Africa … funded by a firm that lobbied against the imposition of
sanctions on the apartheid regime.”<BR><BR>Asked if Cameron: “wrote a memo or
had to report back to the office about his trip, Alistair Cooke (his then boss
at Conservative Central Office) said it was ‘simply a jolly’, adding: ‘It
was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job … ‘
“<BR><BR><IMG class=alignleft alt=""
src="http://socialistworker.co.uk/imageFiles/Image/2013/2360/hang-nelson-mandela.jpg"
width=300 height=398><BR><BR>Former Cabinet Minister Peter Hain commented of the
trip:<BR><BR>“This just exposes his hypocrisy because he has tried to
present himself as a progressive Conservative, but just on the eve of the
apartheid downfall, and Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, when negotiations
were taking place about a transfer of power, here he was being wined and dined
on a sanctions-busting visit.<BR><BR>“This is the real Conservative Party … his
colleagues who used to wear ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’ badges at university are now
sitting on the benches around him. Their leader at the time Margaret Thatcher
described Mandela as a terrorist.” (ii)<BR><BR>In the book of condolences opened
at South Africa House, five minutes walk from his Downing Street residence,
Cameron, who has voted for, or enjoined all the onslaughts or threatened ones
referred to above, wrote:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“ … your generosity, compassion and profound
sense of forgiveness have given us all lessons to learn and live by.</DIV>He
ended his message with: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called
the children of God.” Hopefully your lower jaw is still attached to your face,
dear reader. If so, hang on to it, worse is to come.<BR><BR>The farcically
titled Middle East Peace Envoy, former Prime Minister Tony Blair (think “dodgy
dossiers” “forty five minutes” to destruction, illegal invasion, Iraq’s ruins
and ongoing carnage, heartbreak, after over a decade) stated:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Through his leadership, he guided the world
into a new era of politics in which black and white, developing and developed,
north and south … stood for the first time together on equal terms.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Through his dignity, grace and the quality of
his forgiveness, he made racism everywhere not just immoral but stupid;
something not only to be disagreed with, but to be despised. In its place he put
the inalienable right of all humankind to be free and to be equal.</DIV><BR>“I
worked with him closely … “ (iii) said the man whose desire for “humankind to be
free and equal” (tell that to the Iraqis) now includes demolishing Syria and
possibly Iran.<BR>As ever, it seems with Blair, the memories of others are a
little different:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Nelson Mandela felt so betrayed by Blair’s
decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq that he launched a fiery tirade
against him in a phone call to a cabinet minister, it emerged.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Peter Hain who (knew) the ex-South African
President well, said Mandela was ‘breathing fire’ down the line in protest at
the 2003 military action.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“The trenchant criticisms were made in a formal
call to the Minister’s office, not in a private capacity, and Blair was informed
of what had been said, Hain added.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">‘I had never heard Nelson Mandela so angry and
frustrated.” (iv)</DIV><BR>On the BBC’s flagship morning news programme “Today”
former Prime Minister “Iraq is a better place, I’d do it again” Blair, said of
Nelson Mandela:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“ … he came to represent something quite
inspirational for the future of the world and for peace and reconciliation in
the 21st century.”</DIV><BR>Comment is left to former BBC employee, Elizabeth
Morley, with peerless knowledge of Middle East politics, who takes no
prisoners:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Dear Today Complaints,</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“How could you? Your almost ten minute long
interview with the war criminal Tony Blair was the antithesis to all the
tributes to the great man. I cannot even bring myself to put the two names in
the same sentence. How could you?</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“Blair has the blood of millions of Iraqis on
his hands. Blair has declared himself willing to do the same to Iranians. How
many countries did Mandela bomb? Blair condones apartheid in Israel. Blair turns
a blind eye to white supremacists massacring Palestinians. And you insult us by
making us listen to him while our hearts and minds are focussed on
Mandela.</DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">How could you?” (Reproduced with
permission.)</DIV>As the avalanche of hypocrisy cascades across the globe from
shameless Western politicians, Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflected in two lines
the thoughts in the hearts of the true mourners:<BR>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">“We are relieved that his suffering is over, but
our relief is drowned by our grief. May he rest in peace and rise in
glory.”</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>