Demonizing Citizenry, Foreigners
Language
of Violence
Foreign
Relations
USA v. Iraq
The United States and Britain in 1963 had aided Iraq’s former leader,
Saddam Hussein (and its Baath party), in seizing power in Iraq and in 1980 during
the Iraq-Iran war enabled Hussein “with military and intelligence
assistance” (as U.S./UK today enable the Saudi Kingdom’s war on the people of Yemen).
But in the 2000s, Washington had begun demonizing their former ally “as a ‘tyrant’”
and a creator of “weapons of mass destruction,” as the U.S. government
buttressed by mass media prepared for invasion of Iraq “under the false pretext.”
In 2003, the U.S. Army and U.S.-dominated NATO entered Iraq, oversaw
the assassination of its head of state, and cemented its “control over the
resource-rich region.”
USA v Libya
Before 2011, Libya’s head of state was “a prosperous oil-producer” and “a
loyal ally of London, Paris and Washington.” The president of France, Nicolas
Sarkozy, had “reportedly received multi-million-dollar donations from the Libyan
leader.” Then Muammar Gaddafi comes under Western demonization their language as
of “strongman” “Butcher of Baghdad” “killer of his own people”; Gaddafi the “dictator,”
the “Evil” one. The West then launches “a large-scale anti-Gaddafi campaign”— and
Britain and France become the first joiners in another devastating “the US-led
military operation in the region;” and the ultimate assassination of Gaddafi (his
country now in utter shambles) is met with almost psychotic glee by then-U.S.
secretary of state.
USA v Syria
The pattern of Western or U.S.-led demonization was brought to Syria in
the same period as the attack on Libya. The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad
became, in the language of the West, a “tyrant,” a killer of his own people, a “dictator”—
none of which was true (Assad “was democratically re-elected in July 2014”)
followed by U.S. aggression against the sovereignty, the people and leadership
of Syria.
Weaponized language demonizing heads of state, “creating images of ‘evil’
foreign leaders,” then using a manufactured reality, a false reality, is a “trick”
that is used repeatedly by “Western governments.”
Language
of Violence
Domestic
Relations
USA v USA
“Enemy of the people”
Enemy of the State, Public Enemy, Enemy of the People are terms that extend
to Roman times designating “enemies” as those “opposing the ruling subgroup” and suggesting that as such they are “acting
against the larger group.”
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Enemy of America,” “Enemy of
the American people”
U.S. President Donald Trump in informal communication or “social media” has reportedly
designated certain major corporate media organizations as “fake news” sources
or “enemy of the people” and certain journalists as “fake newsers” and “the
enemy of the people.”
Despite U.S. and international criticism of the president’s language of
violence, he again in early August reportedly “tweeted” that “‘FAKE NEWS
media... is the enemy of the American People.’”
Language of aggression breeds language of aggression! Aggression breeds aggression!
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aryland June 28, 2018: at the newspaper
office of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, a man reportedly disgruntled
about the resolution of an incident he considered harassment enters the
newsroom and guns down a feature writer, an assistant editor, a community
correspondent, an editorial page editor, a high school/sports beat
reporter, and a sales assistant.
Response to Maryland June 29,
2018: the U.S. President reportedly responds to the Maryland incident by calling
it “horrific” and a shock to “the conscience of our nation…” He later closes the case by saying that “Journalists … should be free from the fear of being violently
attacked while doing their jobs.”
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Queried outside the federal court
in Los Angeles—where he had been “released on $50,000 bond” and ordered “to
appear in a federal court in Boston on September 24” to face a “charge of
making a threatening communication in interstate commerce”— the man is reported
to have said, “there’s no free press in America.”
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iolence, delusion, psychosis in
many forms.
Language itself can be used as a
tool of violence, of active aggression, a tactic of intimidation and fear. A PhD
is not required to arrive at that conclusion.
One may attempt to
compartmentalize the mind or see violence only in the language of the other
fellow. But because it is corrosively contagious, as a virus, the propensity
for weaponizing language (adapting language as if a tool of war) cannot be contained
nor ultimately denied.
Demonizing is weaponized
language—whether hurled against presidents of Iraq, Syria, Libya, the United States or against employees of the newspapers. Anywhere, anytime we use language as a hammer, a battering ram, a threat,
or a brandishing iron—whether at home or abroad—we are committing an act of aggression.
Sources
Sputnik (Opinion) “West Pursues Geopolitical Goals ‘Demonizing’ Global
Leaders … By demonizing leaders of Iraq, Libya, Syria and Russia, the West was
realizing its own geopolitical plans, political analysts conclude. Ekaterina
Blinova — While pursuing own economic and geopolitical goals the West often
uses its favorite ‘demonizing’ strategy against its rivals” February 21, 2015 https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201502211018584222/
Wikipedia
Enemy of the People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people
Baltimore Sun “Five dead in ‘targeted attack’ at Capital
Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, police say; Laurel man charged with murder” Kevin
Rector and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs June 28, 2018 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html
Baltimore Sun “Trump, who calls journalists ‘enemy of the
people,’ offers support after Capital Gazette shootings” Yvonne Wenger and Jill
Colvin Contact Reporter June 29, 2018 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-md-trump-capital-gazette-20180629-story.html#
Boston Globe “Calif. man charged with making threatening
calls to Globe” Milton Valencia and John R. Ellement Globe Staff August 30,
2018 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/30/california-man-arrested-charges-threatening-shoot-boston-globe-employees/EejiWXLNscUR8AxDB3y7RL/story.html
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