NOVANEWS
by Anthony Hall
Mrs. Shami Chakrabarti,
The Leveson Inquiry into Media Ethics
Court 73
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London
WC2 A2LL
Dear Mrs. Chakrabarti;
Lord Justice Brian Henry Leveson has been charged to investigate the collaboration between police and media agencies
I am taking this step to intervene in the work of the Leveson Inquiry on the advice of my friend and colleague, human-rights lawyer Paul Warburton. As I understand it, Mr. Warburton’s contribution to the work of Lord Justice Leveson and his staff flows consistently from the former’s longstanding complaint about a very serious and ongoing instance of disinformation and fraud perpetrated for over a decade by the BBC and many other media venues whose credibility has quite properly been tarnished by revelations concerning the collaboration between police and the communications empire of Rupert Murdoch.
The Leveson Inquiry and the Role of the Police-Media Complex in the Subversion of Peace, Order and Good Governance
As Mr. Warburton and I see it, there is already much on the public record to indicate that the media-police collaboration exposed in the phone-hacking scandal goes far higher in the chain of command than anything that has been publicized so far in the revelations giving rise to the work of the Leveson Inquiry. This media-police collaboration pollutes the mental environment in ways that in many instances reduce electoral processes to cynical exercises in “public relations.” The term, “public relations,” was created decades ago by Edward Bernays to make more acceptable the investment of vast resources into the manipulative enterprise that until the era of Nazi thought control was openly identified in the West as “propaganda.”
In our current system, where the work of police officials and media manipulators sometimes becomes virtually indistinguishable from one another, most of our elected officials have been reduced to the role of actors playing out dramas concocted for them by operatives of both state-owned and corporate-owned info-entertainment cartels. These vehicles for the manufacturing of public opinion are integral agencies of the well-funded lobbies that have occupied and perverted our parliaments, legislatures and congresses.
The influence of these lobbies, but especially those representing the interconnected activities of the financial sector and the war machine, has become so immense that they have robbed our governments of legitimacy. I believe I speak for many when I assert that the corporate sponsors funding so much of the work of our dominant political class have overwhelmed the capacity of average men and women to exercise genuine self-determination through the agencies and individuals that are supposed to represent us. This stripping of legitimacy from our shared instruments of public governance has helped fuel the transformation of the Arab Spring into the worldwide Occupy Movement during the American Fall.
The convergence of police and media activities has interacted with particularly deliterious effects on the public interest and common good at the highest levels of the so-called “national security” apparatus. As first highlighted in the 1970s by revelations concerning the covert hiring by “national security” officials of many thousands of journalists to become agents of censorship, distortion and outright disinformation in Project Mockingbird, the media-police complex tends to operate in society as a force whose directors are essentially above the law.
Their functioning as officials to whom the laws do not apply often extends to licenses to murder and steal with impunity, frequently on behalf of those powerful corporate clients that exist at the core of what US President Dwight D. Eisenhower once labelled the military-industrial complex. This pattern has intensified with the post-9/11 emergence of the privatized terror economy. The viability of the privatized terror economy depends most heavily on the commodification and political manipulation of fear, a specialty integral to the media-police collaborations that the Leveson Inquiry is charged to investigate.
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11 CBC’s Michael Enright interviewed Jonathan Kay who has attempted to treat the quest for 9/11 Truth as a manifestation of mental illness. See Hall’s article “CBC and Pacifica Disgraced by Kay.”
Any informed student of what Canadian professor Peter Dale Scott has referred to as “deep politics” need only scan the contents of so-called news reporting in much of the print and broadcast media to see how landscapes of public perceptions are regularly constructed in ways that do not conform with landscapes of empirically-verifiable reality. This pattern is especially pronounced when the stakes are highest; when questions of war and peace, life and death, are front and centre in the formulation of public policy. Closely connected to justifications for the unbridled militarism of our
times are issues about who will benefit and who will lose from the activities of the Anglo-American war machine, the planet’s most lethal agency of mass destruction as well as the world’s most lucrative source of corporate profits.
The “public relations” branches of this war machine act through agencies like the BBC in Great Britain, the CBC in Canada, as well as the busy mind-manipulation factories disguised as news-reporting agencies epitomized by, but certainly not limited to, the Murdoch propaganda empire. In order to direct the increasingly privatized activities of the Anglo-American war machine, which frequently acts in conformity with the military objectives of the Israeli state, patsies are regularly smeared and criminalized even as those officials are lionized who most aggressively promote the expanded violence of our increasingly militarized and transnational police state. In the process the public’s attention is diverted from grappling with the huge and mounting evidence on the public record of the most obvious cases of international criminality– of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against the peace.
YouTube – Veterans Today –
Documentary: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
Because of the distortions regularly presented as fact by operatives of the media-police complex whole populations, but especially Arab and Muslim peoples these days, are dehumanized and demonized with the aim of averting concerted public outcries when the manufactured enemies are targeted for illegal incarceration, prohibited torture or for collective attacks. Increasingly these murderous attacks are advanced through drones whose robotic nature obscures issues of legal accountability for acts of aggressive warfare, acts which the Nuremberg Tribunal defined as the supreme international crime. Increasingly the drone and missile attacks deliver “pay loads” that are radioactive in nature, generating cancer epidemics and genetic deformities that will be with us in perpetuity.
The purposeful promotion of Islamophobia by so-called think tanks, media spin doctors and their police-state extensions was recently the subject of a major meeting in which I took part on October 11 at the Westminster Parliament. Hosted by MP Simon Danczuk, The Middle East Monitor, and the Cordoba Foundation, the meeting focused on the contents of a report by Prof. David Miller et. al. entitled “Cold War on British Muslims.”
Event Review: The Cold War on British Muslims – The Instigators and Funders
The systemic media cover-up of the vast and many-faceted citizens’ investigation into the existing evidence of what did or did not happen on September 11, 2001 forms the most glaring example of media-police malfeasance aimed at giving specious justifications to the domestic and international incursions of the Anglo-American/NATO/Israeli war machines. While we have learned much about the collaboration between media and government in generating a litany of lies about weapons of mass destruction alleged to have been developed by the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, there is a vast body of evidence on on public record to demonstrate that the lying does not end there, not by a long shot.
Evidence of Systemic Malfeasance by the Media-Police Complex
Even the most rudimentary research on the part of your staff will easily bring to light information demonstrating that the media-police complex supposedly under investigation by Leveson Inquiry is a major party to the cover-up of information concerning the originating acts used to justify the invasions, regime change and illegal occupations that have taken place in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as in other sites of the ongoing 9/11 Wars. Moreover, there is an ample body of evidence brought to light by Professor Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and others to indicate that similar genres of misrepresentation surrounding the 9/11 debacle apply also to the 7/7 debacle in London.
YouTube – Veterans Today –
9/11 and the BBC Conspiracy: A Documentary by MI5 Whistle-Blower David Shayler and Adrian Connock
Earth into Property (2010), which situates the 9/11 wars within the context of the imperial history of Anglo-America, was selected by the UK Independent as “one of the best history books of 2010”
