Rebuilding the Berlin Wall

Mainstream media condemns Muslim intolerance, yet Western repression also leaves a great deal to be desired. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was spot on when he asked,

Why is the European Union trying to recreate the USSR?

EUSSR (1)Russian media regularly exposes Western censorship, its lack of free debate and heavy court sentencing for political dissidents. In a recent edition of Komsomol Pravda journalist Zahar Prilepin reflects, “The EU in the worst sense of the word is very much the new USSR.”

There simply isn’t genuine public debate in the West. Western mainstream media output is as phony and as orchestrated as it once was in Soviet Occupied Hungary, Poland or Romania.

In the West, as in the Islamic State, there is an insidious and politically selective intolerance of opinion. Debate is not keenly contested with facts or figures but responded to with slur, innuendo, character assassination, boycott and blackmail. Dissenters are dismissed as trolls. If this strategy fails then censorship, fines or imprisonment completes the gagging process. Islamic terrorists behead their tell-all dissidents; so does the West, but here it is less messy.

When Soviet dissidents sought sanctuary in Moscow’s Western embassies, Western media was quick to make a meal of it. What a different song they sing when the jackboot is on the Western foot. The Australian Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks has been holed up in a small room in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy since June 2012.

whistleblowersWhatever one’s views on Assange he has obviously been framed and the obscene pursuit brings disgrace to the West and its much vaunted claims to open government. Assange is a journalist of international reputation. His only real offence is his bringing to light illegalities practised by government.

American whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who prefers being stateless to voiceless, seeks sanctuary in Russia. Bradley Manning, not so quick to make good his escape, endures a 35-year gaol sentence for disclosing information that exposed his government to international scrutiny.

In U.S Occupied Germany, Udo Ulfkotte, former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is on the run and in hiding after exposing government corruption. In Germany, an 87-year old widow is gaoled for expressing an opinion at odds with her regime’s narrative. German Gerhard Ittner has received a five-year prison sentence for organising an anti-government protest. In neighbouring France, Brigitte Bardot has received yet another swingeing fine for protesting against animal cruelty. The internationally acclaimed movie star is one of many such dissidents.

In the United Kingdom, the capital of which has been overwhelmed by non-Europeans, Britain’s most distinguished investigative journalists, John Pilger, is exiled to alternative media. The track record of American Paul Craig Roberts is such that parks and plazas should be named in his honour. He too is an outcast. BBC news anchor-man Jeremy Bowen was obliged to take a sabbatical after criticising Israel on air.

I grew up detesting a system that built the Berlin Wall. That stinking regime erected frontier barriers stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. When, 26-years ago these ghastly anti-human barriers were torn down I was mocked; why?

I had prophesied that the West was merely changing places with the USSR. Perhaps those who taunted might reflect that €100 million of EU taxpayers’ money is currently being spent on the West’s Wall of Shame. This 2,000 kilometer formidable barrier along Ukraine’s frontier is guarded, mined, fenced and electrified.

This obscene barrier is not being erected to keep the Russians out, but to prevent desperate Ukrainians fleeing to Russia. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the moated frontier is being ‘constructed after the Berlin model’. I rest my case, but many Western dissidents can’t put their luggage down for a moment.1-C9yZQc3-KT6mT1WwaqH0zg

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