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Europe and the US decide the winner before the vote
Would you expect a European leader who has presided over a continual
increase in real wages for several years, culminating in a 24% rise over
the past 12 months, to be voted out of office? What if he has also cut
VAT, brought down inflation, halved the number of people in poverty in the
past seven years, and avoided social tensions by maintaining the fairest
distribution of incomes of any country in the region? . Of course not, you
would say. In Bill Clinton's famous phrase, "it's the economy,
stupid". Alex
Sh., the common Belarusan democratic movement: YES,
I WOULD EXPECT THIS, BECAUSE I VALUE SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE ‘BREAD
INSTEAD OF FREEDOM’
WHICH
OBVIOUSLY HAVE TAKEN ‘IN’ SOME LIBERALS OF
2.
Jonathan Steele: Unless there are overriding issues of political or
personal insecurity - incipient civil war, ethnic cleansing, mass arrests,
pervasive crime on the streets - most people will vote according to their
pocketbooks. And so it is likely to be in
Al.
Sh.:
I’m sorry, You are completely wrong again. One year ago
3.
Jonathan Steele: Why, then, are western governments, echoed by most
western media, developing a crescendo of one-sided reporting and comment
on one of Europe's smallest countries?
Al.
Sh.:
Why? - Because this small country of
…But
I’m sorry, some ‘reporters’ obviously will more believe not in these human
rights watch reflections but in its own (‘thickness of’) purse. After all,
such kind of disinformation traditionally is well paid by
4.
Jonathan Steele: Condoleezza Rice, the
Al.
Sh.:
The only “cue” the responsible journalist can get from this message – to
apply to event it’s own professional ethics as it is here:
5.
Jonathan Steele: We saw similar conformism little more than a year
ago in
Al.
Sh.:
…Have You ever seen the “similar conformism” in the former republics of
the
6.
Jonathan Steele: In Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko is
certainly no liberal. He manipulates state television; he bans
distribution of critical newspapers from state-owned kiosks (which are the
majority), and often has those that are printed abroad confiscated at the
border; he makes it hard for opposition parties to hold rallies; and he
uses the police in a partisan and frequently brutal way. Students fear
expulsion and government employees the sack if they join protests.
This
was already true in 1996 when I monitored a constitutional referendum on
behalf of the European Institute for the Media and reported that the
electoral climate was neither free nor fair. At that stage Lukashenko had
only been in power for two years. An authoritarian populist and control
freak then, he has remained true to form (not, however, a communist;
Al.
Sh.:
What a shame while writing about, to see the ‘leaves’ and not to try to
understand the roots of Belarusan problem and phenomenon of this human monster
of A.Lukashenka, which simultaneously appears as the main suspect in the
murder and disappearances of the leaders of opposition in Belarus. This
country lost about 30% of population in the World War 2, and now
Mr.Lukashenka, - internationally unrecognized, self declared‘president’
absolutely openly hails Hitler… And the British journalist, as Mr.
Jonathan Steele, practically declares that the
people of Belarus is so uncivilized and different from the neighbours from
Lithuania and Poland, that they can chose such a radical and incompetent
person for the national Presidency at the free elections? What (a West
European?) shame to say a kind of this!
7.
Jonathan Steele: The
change is in the economy. Like other former Soviet republics,
I
haven't been in
Al.
Sh.:
HERE WE ARE: the journalist reports to the Western public about the place
where he even haven’t been! Again, what a (typical West European?) shame
of possibilities to wide public deception… After this, how in the Earth
you could pretend to be correct or honest with your report, Mr. Steele, if
you still pretending to be a responsible
journalist?
8.
Jonathan Steele: but residents I speak to on the phone, as well as
western visitors, report that most people are satisfied with their living
standards. Many have family or other ties to
Al.
Sh.: This
is the same picture as colonial ties (once of
9.
Jonathan Steele: Contrary to claims that Lukashenko's repression
has produced an "information black hole", the choice of news is wider than
in 1996. The EU-funded EuroNews channel is available on cable, which
millions of people have, and access to uncensored websites is easy in
internet clubs and cafes or at home.
Al.
Sh.:
Have You “forgotten” that these news are heavily suppressed by the
mainstream info of the state media which misinforms society and “paints”
the world in any subjective way of dictatorship. The media- and the huge
Police-Generator of Fear in
10.
Jonathan Steele: Despite this, there is a huge campaign by foreign
governments to intervene in the Belarussian poll, even more
controversially than in
Al.
Sh.:
CURRENTLY
11.
Jonathan Steele:
Al.
Sh.:
They have NO choice as to support
democracy in a size of its own talent to democracy. But in
comparison to the Russian “hand”, the westerners are far beside of
12.
Jonathan Steele:
Al.
Sh.:
Could you suppose, that Poland in its charismatic understanding of Human
Rights can be more advanced than some West European “sleep-districts” of
civilization with its immoral, (homosexual) dreams?; that the East
European countries can be the modern cultural, or at least (for sure)
political Tigers of whole Europe and that this part of a continent we
could, - so far so good, - name The New Europe… Yes, or no – the purse
‘calls’ and determines someone's mind?
13.
Jonathan Steele: Some of this foreign money will be used to fund
street protests promised by opposition activists if Lukashenko is declared
the winner. They have already dubbed it the "denim revolution", giving
supporters little bits of the cloth as symbols to copy the successful
demonstrations in
Al.
Sh.:
Again you have completely forgotten about all the color revolutions in
14.
Jonathan Steele: But why
is the
Al.
Sh.:
Yet another time:
15.
Jonathan Steele: Is it
because
Al.
Sh.:
Is it the civilized way of national economy to follow yet another one
tragic “Chilean Economics Phenomenon” (on the ground of the foreign,
Russian totalitarian logistics and money) at the geographic centre of
16.
Jonathan Steele: Is ideological deviance forbidden? (The IMF, while
admitting Lukashenko's economic success, calls it "ultimately
unsustainable", being based on cheap Russian energy imports and wage
increases that outstrip productivity growth.)
Al.
Sh.:
Is it only the “ideological deviance” – via ‘Guardian’ to spread
disinformation about the human rights violations in
17.
Jonathan Steele: Is the problem Lukashenko's independence, his
friendliness to
Al.
Sh.:
What from the ‘left’ West looks like the “independence”, could be
considerably different in another way of looking. How about understanding
that the local “achievements”
in here became possible only after the current practical Belarusian
economics’ enslavement to
18.
Jonathan Steele: The
revolt against Lukashenko within
Al.
Sh.:
After such amount of disinformation it sounds at least as the next portion
of irony.
19.
Jonathan Steele: They
want the west's moral support and its freedom, as well as its money.
Al.
Sh.:
Those, you say: “west's moral support and its freedom” - are not
particularly ‘west’s’. The support we seek lies in the Common Sense’s,
this is the universal human kind support. Potentially
20.
Jonathan Steele: But
they are not the majority. A poll in January by Gallup/Baltic Surveys, and
reported in the emigre Belarusian Review, found only 17% in favour of
Milinkevich and nearly 55% supporting Lukashenko.
Al.
Sh.:
Can you imagine that all the British media started to “pray” only one
someone’s personality? No? Even the Prince’s of
21.
Jonathan Steele:
Western funders claim their motives are innocent, with help
offered merely to develop "democracy" and "European values". In that case
they should insist that the groups and the media they aid in
Al.
Sh.:
Congratulations! Here we have the first signs of future British propaganda
J).
Because on the contrary Mr. Lukashenka is demonizing himself more than any
one can do it from the outside. Listen again to his presidency message if
you will: “Hitler did not only bad. Hitler had united
22.
Jonathan Steele: But when western media, despite
their vaunted objectivity and years of democratic experience, also report
on
Al.
Sh.:
This is simply a fraud of one, who knows nothing about the real life in
Thanks.
the e-mail of Mr.
Steele:
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