NO! to M’sia’s FTA with police state, USA - Remember, 1.2 million dead in Iraq
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The new US ambassador to Malaysia, James Keith is urging both Malaysia and the United States to conclude a Free Trade Agreement after an earlier deadline in June was missed.
Of course, the US stands to benefit far more in such an “open market”. To draw an analogy, it would be like Manchester United playing against the Malaysian football team. Sure it may be a “level playing field”, but we all know who would win such a game.
The thing about an FTA with the United States is that it’s not just about trade. Keith said that trade and security issues will be a major focus during his tenure.
You see, once we sign an FTA with the United States, we will fall increasingly under the United States’ sphere of influence. And that is scary, considering how the US itself is fast losing its constitutional oversights and turning into a virtual dictatorship.
Even the once-cherished right to freedom of speech has eroded. Look what happened to the university student who asked 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry some awkward - but perfectly legitimate - questions, only to find himself shockingly “tasered” (electrocuted with a taser gun) for his efforts. Even more appalling, a hall full of people did nothing to stop this, while Kerry himself droned and mumbled on. The student was of course armed - with a book, written by America’s top investigative journalist, Greg Palast.
This is deeply shocking and disturbing. Just as we are deeply shocked by our own Batu Burok shooting incident, where police shot at armed civilians.
Moreover, under the United States’ occupation of Iraq, more than 1,000,000 Iraqis have been murdered, according to a survey by ORB. Israel, a strong US ally, continues to impose a siege on the people of Gaza. That’s not all - the US is now targeting Iran, and speculation is mounting that another war is coming.
So do we really want to cooperate with the United States, a country that has 750 military bases around the world, on security issues?
- Ijok: Is there more than Najib vs Anwar at stake?
- Locking ourselves in and throwing the key away
- Oil wars and nuclear nightmares
- The classic divide-and-rule strategy
- Dabbling with the dark side
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and they think they are civilized, my god.
well at least the political system in the us allows and encourages invesigations into wrong doings and practices of the govt…
the media is free to criticise…
the education system fosters critical thinking…
the culture don’t encourage indulgence in self complacency and delusions…
such as the malaysia boleh spirit…
sometime in the real world, there is a need for some form of intervention from a power country….
without the us coming out of its isolation policies last century, the world would have been a different place today…
would the world be a fairer place minus the us –leaving only the saddam hussein and osama behind?
who would have dared to strike at drug countries and warlordism in ethiopia…?
we talk so much about an evil us….where would this country be right now without us investments…?
in the service industry alone, us companies pay more than rm1bil in wages to our workers here….we are not even counting the electronics industry….
before we indulge in criticism of the us, we should ascertain first whether the politics and economics of the world today can simply be cast into black and white terms….
you know the good and the bad guy kind of history…
socrates says he was wise only because he was aware of his ignorance…
in the culture of this country, never have i seen such blatant display of arrogance, the refusal to accept its mistakes, blind reverence for tradition …
thus unless the culture of this country changes, we will always be lagging far far behind in everything….