"Reality-based" my ass. There was a diary on the rec list that says that says "Bush, Blair, Found Guilty of War Crimes". It then proceeds to quote the Iranian regime propaganda organ Press TV about some "war crimes tribunal".
That "war crimes tribunal" turned out to be a meaningless meeting of notorious truthers and antisemites. There was no actual tribunal and no trial.
And Press TV is a propaganda piece of trash that claims that Jews harvest organs.
How does this shit make the rec list??
I mean seriously, people, what is going on here?
First let's deal with the Press TV issue. That was banned here as a source by Meteor Blades. Why? Because it is a notorious propaganda outlet for the worst bigots in the Iranian regime. They have multiple stories about how Jewish people are harvesting organs. Not to mention the little issue that they are the official mouthpiece of a state sponsor of terrorism, and executioner of gays and others. What's next - we're going to source stories from Mein Kampf? Actually, this is worse, because as far as I'm aware there is nothing in Mein Kampf about the justice of stoning people to death.
And what of this supposed "war crimes tribunal"? It was a meeting with no legal standing, put on by 9/11 truthers known as the Perdana Foundation.
Perdana has had this to say:
Judge Webre then went where, perhaps, this Tribunal should go next: He spoke about the allegations that 9/11/01 was a false flag operation and that expert witnesses should be brought to testify before the Tribunal about the truth of the Bush Administration’s explanation of what happened on that (sic)
The supposed "tribunal" was presided over by Francis Boyle, another notorious antisemite who, among other things, had this to say about our President:
"Obama was bought and paid for by Zionists. That's why Rahm Emanuel was his chief-of-staff"
"Mrs. Clinton sold her soul to the Zionists in New York to get elected as senator from New York."
and this to say more generally
Israel has never been anything but a Bantustan for Jews setup in the Middle East by the White racist and genocidal Western colonial imperial powers in order to serve as their racist attack dog and genocidal enforcer against the Arab and Muslim world. From the very moment of Western imperialism’s genocidal conception of Israel in 1947-1948, Israel has historically always functioned as Jewistan...Israel might as well change its name today to Jewistan, own up to its racist birthright, and make it official the rest of the world to acknowledge
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Jewistan"? It's like I stepped into a parody of the most insane leftist that ever existed. And yet this is the person leading the supposed tribunal that the diarist says "convicted" Bush and Blair.
and lastly Boyle had this to say about our country in general:
"[the Federal Government of the United States] is hostis humani generis: The enemy of all humankind! For the good of all humanity, this Tribunal must condemn and repudiate the Federal Government of the United States of America and its grotesque vision of a New World Order that is constructed upon warfare, bloodshed, violence, criminality, genocide, racism, colonialism, apartheid, massive violations of fundamental human rights, and the denial of the international legal right of self-determination to the Indigenous Peoples and Peoples of Color living in North America and elsewhere around the world."
Meanwhile the "tribunal" was convened by ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is the highest profile truther in the world and had this to say about Jews:
Speaking at the Organization of the Islamic Conference on October 16, 2003, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia told the assembly of leaders of 57 nations that Jews "rule the world by proxy” and "get others to fight and die for them.” He called for a "final victory” by the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, who, he said "cannot be defeated by a few million Jews."
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This war crimes tribunal is nothing but a sham and a hoax, put on by people we should not be associating with as the reality-based. That a diarist would quote Press TV on it is even more unbelievable, and that said diary would then be promoted to the rec list blows my mind.
And then that the same story is promoted to the front page? Did I walk into an alternate dimension?
To quote an oft-used phrase around these parts: I am speechless.
3:30 PM PT: To clarify because some people requested: There are two separate shameful diaries promoting this 'tribunal'. One was on the rec list and the other one is still on the front page.
Also we now have information that one of the other judges on this 'tribunal' has accused the US government of covering up their secret time travel technology to bring President Obama to the present from the future. Seriously: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/...