“The Timoney” makes US direct partner in al Khalifa regime Human Rights Abuse
“The Timoney” makes US a direct partner in al Khalifa regime Human Rights Abuse
07 January, 2012 – Phlipn Pagee – Crooked Bough
Running headlong into disaster, the former police chief of Philadelphia and Miami, John Timoney, has arrived at Bahrain’s Interior Ministry to “advise” the Bahrainis on more effective use of concussion grenades, pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges and how to masquerade Human Rights abuse as policing strategies. While the opposition looked to Washington for a constructive intervention, Secretary Clinton delivered ‘The Timoney’.
“The Timoney’s” militarized crowd control methods made him a fascist legend in his own mind and apparently that of the al Khalifas, who have “choosen” him from Seceratray Clinton’s “short list” of one. He brings with him a record of miserable failure in the pubic relations with disaster, after disaster and a trail of blood and brutality. He is sure to be in good company with the al Khalifas. Perhaps this time he is deployed far enough away from home to kept the ugly shit out of the US press.
Bahrain’s keystone cops will now be aided by a Bahrain’s military unit, recently trained in the US on the latest tips and tricks of ‘crowd control’, during a police training exercise called “Urban Shield 2011”. The Israeli Border Police thugs were there along with the Human Rights Champions from the US Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, who recently brutalized the US Occupy Oakland protesters.
This strategy apparently hatched through collaboration between the State Department and the al Khalifas, has put a direct ‘command and control’ apparatus in Secretary Clinton’s hands. It’s the “riot control” equivalent of flying a drone and “killing terrorists” en-remote. All quite sanitary, augmented with a cadre of Public relation experts to manage Obama’s reelection image and do damage control. If it goes bad, Clinton can blame “the contractors” and stay clear of the real ugly shit, while she spins success as necessary, to boost the US economy and create jobs at home, through weapons and security service sales, to another “vertically integrated US trading partner” called “friends”.
It’s way past time to hold President Obama accountable for killing and brutalizing innocents en-remote control. This “ain’t no video game” Mr. President, your in a serious need of a reality check – layoff the “joy stick” because it isn’t one.