Well break out the champagne! (Actually
you better not- alcohol is a crime in Saudi Arabia.)
Saudi Arabia held an “election” in
which they actually let women vote!
So pay no attention to all those weekly
beheadings for “sorcery,” “witchcraft,” adultery,
“blasphemy,” drugs, apostasy (deciding you'd really rather not be
a Muslim anymore) and daring to question the absolute power of the
“King” and the fanatical dogmatist religious “authorities”
who are a key bulwark of the rule of the gang of superparasites
called “the royal family. See, Saudi Arabia is making “progress.”
What can one possibly “elect” in a
nation ruled by an absolute hereditary dictator? Well, there were
various local offices, people responsible for picking up the garbage
and such.
Of course, most women didn't even know
about this Great Opportunity to Make Their Voices Heard. And even if
they had, some male in their family who controls their lives would
have had to agree to drive them to the polls. (Women are banned, by
criminal law, from driving. Oh, they also need to be accompanied by a
male chaperon in public, lest they run off and copulate in an
unauthorized fashion.)
But as I said, Western propagandists
were quick to celebrate. The U.S. government propaganda network NPR
was particularly disgusting in this regard, practically releasing
party balloons in celebration of the alleged milestone. (But in fact, a
crudely cynical, meaningless stunt, with the purpose of tossing some
pathetically threadbare camouflage over the true nature of the regime as
extremely oppressive, deeply misogynist, and absolutely autocratic.) As far as reporting on the
vicious repression, such as the coming execution of teenage
protesters (after beheading, the heads to be sewn on and the bodies
crucified, as an object lesson to anyone else with a
complaint).
The truth is, in terms of atrocities,
Saudi Arabia is arguably worst than ISIS. Note the sickening
hypocrisy of “the West” in terms of its attitudes towards one and
the other.
The idea that “the West” has any
values other than greed, materialism, and the most cynical lust for
power is shown to be ludicrous by its longstanding relations with
this barbaric, feudal desert hellhole.
As usual, the “West” is a major
aider and abettor of repression, with training of secret police and
the military, provision of weaponry and the instruments of
repression. Obama just hailed the appointment of Saudi Arabia to the
UN Human Rights commission, (a very sick joke indeed).
Speaking of women in Saudi Arabia, the
women they import from poor countries as virtual domestic slaves are
subject to all kinds of cruelties, including beheading on trumped-up
charges.
You have to go to media outsiders for
the facts. Or to human rights groups like Amnesty International.
Harry Shearer regularly covers Saudi
awfulness on his weekly radio program Le Show. (Archived at
harryshearer.com). Look for the “Le Show” tab at the top.
Abby Martin
devoted one of her new program's episodes to the vicious nature of
Saudi Arabia and the history of U.S. cohabitation in a shared
political bed. [“Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery & History of Revolt // Empire_File005.”]
Check it out. It's worse than you
think.
