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TRANSLATION OF THE ARTICLE BY HAMID MIR
The views expressed are described by journalist Hamid Mir and does not reflect my personal views.
In Feb 2009 I got a chance to closely observe the dispicable face of democracy in the form of liberal fascism. There had been the savage and ruthless bombing of the occupied Palestinian Territory of Gaza by Israel and I was trying to enter into Gaza through the Egyptian border region of Raffa. I had an explicit written letter of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the Egyptian Ministry of Information to this effect but the secret police of Egypt on the Rafa border had an objection on my visit to Gaza through Rafa crossing.
I tried to persuade them but they told me to get the new letter from the Ministries. I traveled 500 km from Rafa to Cairo and came back with the new permission letter that they had asked for. One of the officers of the Egyptian Secret Police told me that
they did not want me to come back and here I was in front of him after traveling 1000km in a single day. I tried my best to convince him but to no avail, the embassy of Pakistan was also helpless in this matter. Then a French journalist saw that I was being troubled by these secret police. He then made a call from his mobile and I was allowed to cross into Gaza. When we entered into Gaza the French journalist smiled and told me that he had settled the score by helping me in Egypt because in had helped him in Afghanistan. I then asked him who did he called on the phone and He told me that he called the French girl friend of a relative of the President Husni Mubarrak and she happened to be in Cairo at the time.
I will never be able to forget the level of insult and humiliation the Palestinian women had to face at the hands of Egyptian Secret Police. They felt more like Israeli police than the Egyptian police. In Gaza after US and Israel the county that was cursed upon the most was Egypt. The Gazans called the Egyptian president as a Pharaoh incarnate and now in 2011 the people of Egypt have come to streets against this Pharaoh incarnate.
The winds of change have reached Egypt from Tunisia. In this situation US has scrambled to defend its hypocritical support for democracy and impartiality.
The fact of the matter is that Hosni Mubarrak has been supporting the US and Israel and now US is trying to replace him with there blue eyed EL-Baradi. This wave of change from the North Africa to Middle East worries US and Israel more than anyone else. Egypt Jordan and Tunisia had supported Israel for a very long time and the people now have rebelled against these Liberal Fascist Dictatorships. If we look at the recent past these Liberal Fascist Regimes had always been supported by the US but in the past ten to fifteen years the religious fanatics had tried to oust these regimes using suicide attacks. Both of these groups are in minority and both of them believe in the use of force.
One fires bullets and bombs in the name of democracy while the other does suicide bombings in the name of religion. The great majority of people are stuck between the two opposing factions and are now out on the streets. On the surface Pakistan has a democracy and free press to some extent but the western analyst are predicting similar change in Pakistan because US sponsored policies in the past ten or so years had brought nothing but pain and misery to the people.
The people of Pakistan are also stuck between these Liberal Fascist and religious fanatics but now there patience seems seen running out.
The rulers of Pakistan must understand that US will not always be able to support them by looking at the way people are treating the photos of Zain Al Abidin of Tunisia and Hosni Mubbarak of Egypt today. Instead of helping an Ally in trouble the United States indeed creates more trouble for them.
A Lahore Embassy staffer shot dead two people while one of the consulate vehicle crushed another to death. When Punjab police arrested this killer the US declared him a diplomat and tried to cover up using Geneva Convention and demanded his immediate release. The liberal Fascist friends of the Americans are hell bent on declaring the innocent victims are robbers where as the matter has to be
decided by the courts. Some officers of the Punjab police are in touch with the US authorities and are trying there best to dilute the case as much as possible
through poor investigation so that the killer could take the benefit. But the real question is that Why this embassy staffer was roaming about with fake car registration plates and a illegal loaded gun?
The US government considers this culprit to be innocent citing International Law but would this government tell us under which International laws it bombs Pakistan using predator drones?How did a Pakistani citizen Dr Afia Siddiqui was arrested in Afghanistan and was then carried to the US In defiance of the international law?.
The truth of the matter is that this request for the release of this murderer of Pakistanis is enough for turning Pakistan in Egypt. This is called liberal Fascism. Please think for a moment the
US denounces the murder of the slain governor salmar tasir while when its own embassy car crushes a person to death the US says they have immunity under International law.
This is the crux of the matter and if any one tries to high light this he is tried to be silenced through declaring him an ally of the liberal fascists. Its is about time that people of Pakistan should get united and rally against this US black mail while at the same time also opposing and getting rid off the liberal fascist and religious fanatic forces. The fate of this killer is to be decide by the courts if this does not happen then Pakistan will also become Tunisia and Egypt.
Only one Housni Mubarrak fled Tunisia while in Pakistan many Housni Mubarraks will flee the country.