And the winner is ... the Gulf Counter-revolution Club (GCC), also known as Gulf Cooperation Council.
Their collective celebration party is this weekend's Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix - complete with buckets of Moet and Ferraris oozing by. See it as a coterie of Sunni sheikhs telling the "international community" - we won; it's our way or the (boiling hot) desert highway.
How could they not gloat? The unruly waves of that noxious Arab Spring never had a chance of disturbing the placid waters of the Gulf. The arrival of the Fast White Man Formula 1 circus - a spectacular public relations operation - proves that the GCC is as "normal" as an Arab prince swinging through Monte Carlo with a blonde babe in a Ferrari 458.
Who cares that Bahrain activists sent a letter to Formula 1 emperor Bernie Ecclestone denouncing the state of siege in the placid al-Khalifa dynasty realm, the killing and torture of pro-democracy protesters, the thousands still in jail and the lack of the most basic human rights? This does not concern The Fast White Man. Read More
Posted by
Master
on Friday, April 20, 2012
Labels:
PETITIONS+PROTESTS,
SOCIETY'S COLLAPSE
0 comments:
Post a Comment