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03/14/2005:

"Torture TV - Televising the Revolution"

by Kurt Nimmo
If there were any doubts the New World Order is galloping along towards the fulfillment of the fascist dystopia warned against for so long, today's tidbits from Iyad Allawi's Iraq should dispel them entirely.

Iyad Allawi's occupational government has launched a new TV show, sort of an Iraqi version of reality television. "Terrorists in the Hands of Justice" runs several times a day in Iraq and features the confessions of beaten up "insurgents" who admit to terrible crimes, for instance serial murder.

"One man said he stalked 10 college girls who were translators for the U.S. Army, then raped and murdered them. Another said he beheaded 10 people after first practicing on animals," reports NBC News.

It is said the show is "wildly popular" but obviously this claim has to be taken with a grain of salt. Most Iraqis are desperately poor and it is fair to say many do not own televisions and even if they did much of the time there is no electricity. It is also fair to say millions of Iraqis, even if they had televisions and consistent electricity, would refuse to believe anything broadcast by Allawi's occupational government.

"The program's goals are to convince people the security forces are defeating insurgents, and lift the police's own morale. Police wanted to televise the confessions to inspire people to give tips, but they've had the unexpected effect of turning public opinion here against Syria," writes Richard Engel for NBC.

Even here in the United States, thousands of miles away from Iraq, with a barrage of corporate media propaganda and a seemingly endless stream of pro-Bush pundits, it is obvious the "security forces" are not "defeating insurgents." In Iraq this reality is even more obvious. Blaming Syria and portraying the resistance as a gaggle of serial murderers and animal torturers will not put an end to the violence against "security forces" and foreign occupation troops.

More than anything, it would seem, "Terrorists in the Hands of Justice" is an idea devised for American consumers, although the show is not run in the United States. But then it doesn't need to be. A sound-bite sized chunk of video broadcast on NBC is more than enough, especially if the video contains content Americans are familiar with-violent young men and confessions given to police by ruthless serial murderers preying on young women.
Full Article:rense.com