Raymond Kelly And Bashir Assad

New York City Police Commissioner (the Field Marshal of Pharaoh Michael Bloomberg Billionaire’s self-described “army”) and Syrian tyrant-sadist Bashir Assad have some things in common. Both issue deceptive “reasonable” verbiage designed to deflect criticism and anger and feign innocence of the crimes of the thugs under their respective commands. They cynically issue unctuous pronouncements mindbendingly at odds with reality.

Assad keeps promising “reforms” and calls for “dialogue,” and just staged an absurd “election” in the middle of murderous attacks on Homs and other towns.

Kelly claims to be concerned about the “safety” and “health” of the protesters he attacks.

Another example; after his goons arrested and manhandled and blocked reporters from the scene of the police offensive on the Occupy site in Liberty nee Zuccotti Park, prompting a letter of concern to the NYPD from the local establishment media, including the NY Times, Kelly made a show of “reminding” his officers in a directive to respect the rights of reporters. Soon after that, more reporters were arrested. Likewise, after civil liberties lawyers made an issue of his cops' illegal searches and arrests of people on the street with small quantities of marijuana in their pockets,

Kelly issued yet another phony directive to “remind” cops of the alleged “policy” on marijuana arrests .

In New York State, it's only supposed to be a “crime” if it's in plain view. The sneaky game the cops play to “criminalize” blacks and Hispanics on the streets, and to generate fingerprint and photo IDs of this population, is to command them to empty their pockets, which legally the victims can refuse, but they don't know that, however they DO know that defying the “authority” of the cop is asking for a beating and arrest. So they comply, and presto! Their personal stash is now in “plain view.” Did Kelly's “directive” make the slightest difference? No. Nor was it intended to. It was for show only.

Of course, New York City is a civil liberties and human rights wasteland. Half a million black and Hispanic men are illegally stopped and frisked yearly. 400,000 marijuana arrests a year are made- in a city of 8 million. This is a direct result of Pharaoh Michael Bloomberg Billionaire's policies.

Yes yes, there are important differences. Kelly's goons only murder a handful of people a year- Assad has killed 5000 since March. And the NYPD's torture methods are far milder than Assad's. (Pepper spray in the eyes, beatings, pain inflicted with batons and pressure points, Taserings, handcuffing in stress positions, and so forth, are the standard NYPD methods. Not drilling holes in knees with drills, etc.) That's obvious. What is interesting is the parallel in their political/propaganda method.

Of course, rulers in general are deceptive bastards who cynically shine people on with bullshit. The brutally thuggish dictator/Governor of Puerto Rico is another good example, as detailed in an article in The Nation.

Blaming “outside agitators/foreign powers” is another scapegoating technique rulers use to discredit protests and uprisings against their oppression. This also deflects blame from the real cause of unrest: their own evil rule. We see that in Russia today with Putin claiming that protests against his electoral fraud is created by Western subversion, by Assad blaming foreign enemies, Israel, the U.S., whoever, for resistance to his rule, and in Libya by the late, unlamented Qaddafi (well, some leftie jackasses lament him, and so do Africans who he sprinkled money on, but he's mostly unlamented) who claimed foreign jihadists spiked the sodas of youth with hallucinogens that made them rebel.

Lyndon Johnson was convinced the anti-Vietnam War movement must have been created and directed by Moscow- who could have a moral objection to an immoral war?-and insisted the CIA prove it. (In yet another “intelligence failure,” they couldn't. If only George Bush Sr. or William Casey had been running the Agency then!)

People who are immoral literally cannot comprehend the moral outrage of their opponents, so they invent fanciful political conspiracy explanations which they at least half believe. The job of the secret police (so-called “security services,” “intelligence agencies” and “law enforcement”) is to “prove” these establishment conspiracy theories.

Ironically, you see who purveys actual crackpot conspiracy theories.