Post 9/11 have sanctions become ... Sanctioned Terrorism?
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=22894
Sanctioned Terrorism
September 06, 2015
http://thesaker.is/sanctioned-terrorism/
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Who is a terrorist? Undoubtedly, what comes to
mind is Daesh (ISIL), al-Qaeda, MKO, Boko Haram,
etc. What is terrorism? The events of 9/11 and
the gruesome beheadings carried out by Daesh
shape our visual perception of terrorism. What is
left unmentioned and unrecognized in our
collective psyche is the kind of terrorism that
has been deliberately obfuscated: sanctioned
terrorism or terrorism with a license – sanctions.
The fact that scholars have identified over 100
definitions of the term terrorism demonstrates
that there is no universally accepted definition
of the term. There is general consensus that
terrorism is ‘viewed as a method of violence in
which civilians are targeted with the objective
of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by
creating fear, demoralization, and political
friction in the population under attack.’ [1].
In 1937, the League of Nations Convention defined
terrorism as: “All criminal acts directed against
a State and intended or calculated to create a
state of terror in the minds of particular
persons or a group of persons or the general public.”
Article 1.2 of The Arab Convention on the
Suppression of Terrorism signed in Cairo in 1998
describes terrorism as: “Any act or threat of
violence, whatever its motives or purposes, that
occurs for the advancement of an individual or
collective criminal agenda, causing terror among
people, causing fear by harming them, or placing
their lives, liberty or security in danger, or
aiming to cause damage to the environment or to
public or private installations or property or to
occupy or to seize them, or aiming to jeopardize a national resource”.
In the aftermath of the September 11, the UNSC
adopted Resolution 1373 licensing the United
States to wage war against terrorism without
first defining terrorism. However, Section 1.B of
18 U.S. Code § 2331 on international terrorism
includes the following: (i) to intimidate or
coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence
the policy of a government by intimidation or
coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a
government by mass destruction, assassination, or
kidnapping. In spite of these clear definitions,
sanctions–sanctioned terrorism is dubbed as
‘diplomacy’, ‘an alternate to war’ etc.
The reality of sanctioned terrorism is denied
even by the UN from whence the most important
definition terrorism was delivered in a seminal
speech by Kofi Annan, the former
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Annan
conveyed the findings of a high level UN panel “A
More Secure World: Our Shared
Responsibility”(2004)[2] as having defined
terrorism to be: “[A]ny action intended to kill
or seriously harm civilians or non-combatants,
with the purpose of intimidating a population or
compelling action by a government or international organization”.
Shamelessly, even after sanctioned terrorism took
the life of one million Iraqis, the UNSC licensed
terrorism against Iran – sanctions, without any
remorse for the lost lives of 1 million Iraqi
victims of sanctioned terrorism and untold
numbers or other victims across the globe.
The terror inflicted by way of sanctions could
not have been made more clear than what Kofi
Annan reported of the 2004 UN panel’s findings
stating that opin prevention was a vital part of
any strategy to protect people against
terrorism’; adding that ‘in today’s world, any
threat to one is truly a threat to all. ‘ And
that ‘any event or process that leads to deaths
on a large scale or the lessening of life
chances, and which undermines states as the basic
unit of the international system, should be
viewed as a threat to international peace and
security. Such threats included “economic and social threats”[3].
Security’ in terms of international relations is
understood to be human security. There are six
sectors to security: physical, military,
economic, ecological, societal and political. Any
change from ‘secure’ to ‘insecure’ or a general
deterioration in any one or more of these
sectors, increases the potential for violence
(Buzan 2009). In spite of it all, the UNSC licensed terrorism.
The overall failure to identify and deliberately
obfuscate this act of terrorism has enabled this
premeditated act of terrorism to continue with
impunity. The success of this deception is owed
to controlling the narrative with complicity from
the media. This has been so effective that even
the victims of sanctioned terrorism fail to grasp
that they are being subjected to terrorism. As
Walter Laquer famously wrote in his 1977 piece
“Terrorism”: “The success of a terrorist
operation depends almost entirely on the amount
of publicity it receives.” Sanctioned terrorism has received no publicity.
Our present day understanding of terrorism was
initially introduced by Hollywood that often
borrows its story ideas from the U.S. foreign
policy agenda and has at times reinforced these
policies. Hollywood rarely touched the topic of
terrorism in the late 1960s and 1970s when the
phenomenon was not high on the U.S. foreign
policy agenda, in news headlines or in the
American public consciousness. In the 1980s, in
the footsteps of the Reagan administration, the
commercial film industry brought terrorist
villains to the big screen, making terrorism a
blockbuster film product in the 1990s, painting
Arabs (and now Moslems) as terrorists.[4] Thus
the movie industry defined and projected
terrorism to the world at large in a manner
consistent with US foreign policy. The news media
continues to play an even bigger role.
News media has consistently framed terrorism by
presenting sudden, shocking scenes of carnage and
blood in order to shock the viewer and drive home
the narrative of what terrorism should entail –by
implication, ruling out all other terrorist acts.
So while the imagery creates fear and loathing,
and a total rejection of terrorism as identified
by the media, a parallel loathing of unidentified
terrorism – of sanctioned terrorism has been
deliberately precluded. This is propaganda at its finest.
It goes without saying that the aim of propaganda
is to change peoples’ opinion and attempt to
influence their future actions and decisions.
What is common about propaganda is that it seldom
shows the situation from different points of view
and seldom gives the full picture. Images of
sanctioned terrorism are sorely missing from the
picture as the culprits make every effort to
present sanctions as diplomacy, a tool of
statecraft, and have even convinced the general
public that it is a better alternative to war. In
fact, sanctioned terrorism is the cowardly
alternate to war for the victim is deprived of an
unidentifiable enemy to fight. Sanctions, like
other terrorists, don’t wear military uniforms.
It is incumbent upon every individual opposed to
terrorism to take ownership of the falsely
presented narrative about sanctions and refer to
sanctions as sanctioned terrorism at all times.
Terrorism, like pollution, does not recognize
boundaries. Russia has learnt this the hard way.
By Hillary Clinton’s own admission, the
terrorists America is fighting today were created
by the US. We cannot send our uniformed men and
women to fight unidentified terrorism, sanctions.
We must be the champions of this war on terror.
Whether we want to speak for yesterday’s victims,
or defend today’s victims of sanctioned
terrorism, or whether we want to prevent future
victims, we must fight sanctioned terrorism today.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is an independent
researcher and writer with a focus on US foreign policy.
References
Alex P. Schmid, Albert J. Jongman, et al.,
Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors,
Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and
Literature, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988, pp. 5-6. ?
www.un.org/secureworld ?
Kofi Annan, “Special Report: Courage to fulfill
our responsibilities”, The Economist Intelligence Unit, December 4, 2004. ?
Helena Vanhala – “Hollywood portrayal of modern
international terrorism in blockbuster
action-adventure films: From the Iran hostage
crisis to September 11, 2001”. Dissertations and
theses. University of Oregon; 2005.
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