Kidnapped Sailors

It has been in the headlines for the past four weeks or so . The kidnapping of 'our boys ' and one girl we were continuously reminded by the journalistic side kicks of the government.
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How do members of the armed forces in military uniform , thousands of miles away from the home land they are purportedly sworn to defend , get themselves 'kidnapped'. According to the Iranian military the sailors were in their territorial waters.
Mr Blair 'the Omniscient' was seen early on in the crisis outside his digs in Downing street stating categorically that there was no doubt that the members of the armed forces were in Iraqi territorial waters in which they had every right to be in . He as well as his miserable assistant the Foreign secretary Margaret Becket who appeared somewhat flustered over the whole affair insisted that in addition to the above 'we were there in Iraqi waters under a U .N mandate.' what ever that means .

So the affair unfolded throughout TV screens and propaganda sheets throughout the world as st he public and the cynical manipulators of their opinion got heated .
Many were heard stating over the airwaves of radio phone- ins: Bomb the Iranians !
It's hard to believe but I heard a growing intensity of belligerence toward this crisis, which by now had been dubbed the 'hostage crisis ' in the nation's propaganda press.
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Now were they kidnapped? this implies that they were abducted for some kind of gain . Were the Iranians going to demand money for the hand over of the abducted? like a mafia gang kidnapping a rich child?. Or was it a hostage crisis. The fifteen hostages to be executed within a time limit if some impossible demands were not met?

How ludicrous This became . Now whether the fifteen were in or out of Iranian waters was immaterial . They were close. And for a country that is being threatened by the major military powers of the world ,that country would be a little defensive . Imagine if we saw a Chinese or Russian vessel outside the territorial waters but a little close and in our opinion , having no right to be there. What would our peace loving leaders do . Probably the same as their Iranian counterparts.


So as the debacle intensified , various hollow threats were made by by both sides and hey presto , just several days ago all the 'hostages' were released ostensibly by Mr Ahmadinejad , without condition ' as a gift to the British people ' .


Blair the 'Omniscient ' looked utterly humiliated and defeated by a tin pot tyrant who came out with an air of patronising confidence throughout.
Blair was literally speechless on his TV appearance when the release of the 15 was announced .
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Some back stairs diplomacy could have been used , it's unlikely that what the public was fed through the TV and newspapers was all that took place .

The fifteen were apparently treated 'surprisingly humanely' as if we some how have the assumption that all that are not British or American are barbarians , regardless of history and current affairs indicating the contrary.

So the latest in this 'hostage/kidnapping ' case is that after a debriefing by their military masters ,the service people will be allowed to tell their story to the hysterical press for a gullible public for vulgar sum of money .....couldn't get any more bizarre could it?


Now what conditions did they sign with the Ministry of defence before being giving its blessing? you can reach your own conclusion .


But one thing is clear when military personnel are sent on missions of conquest , occupation and possible espionage or infringement of countries near those they occupy , then after capture they are termed 'hostages' and 'kidnapped ', it proves that we really are living in a very extraordinary world where language is charged with political motives where public disinformation is paramount for our leaders to continue in their mischief and in the process endanger the countless lives
of other people as well as our own service men in the process.

This is something which continues to escalate in the recent years with little or no opposition . So what next ? invade fiji on a pretext that they are planning to destroy the world and when we are busy ' debating ' this , we can forget the most recent outrages . The sooner we get rid of this one party state system and make politicians accountable with some respect toward democracy the better.