No comittee appointed by a government that is victimizing the governed can exact credibility or justice – this is to confuse justice with justification – where are the prosecutorial powers? to whom is the committee accountable? a “ruse” by another name…

cb editorial note: …in this ruse I again liken King Hamad to the wife abuser. King Hamad, the al Khalifa regime, have hand picked a committee that might possibly have the courage to tell the al Khalifas they are ill and abusive. Nonetheless the committee will also grant the al Khalifa’s a free pass through their participation in an orchestral charade of blaming the victims. By al Khalifa’s design the committee will reinforce their own phobias and preconceptions of the demons by which they prejudice al Khalifa’s victims. Since this will occur under the guise of “fair and impartial” which grants the committee a “critical voice”, it will appease the international community as it has already received their “blessing”. The committee has no prosecutorial powers and it’s only real accountable seems to be to the al Khalifia’s. The committee has no accountability to an independent judiciary, to the people of Bahrain or to the international community that is to be entertained by the charade. Theirs will be a duplicitous investigation into accusatory sides rendering prejudicial judgement of no means.

Al Khalifa will exploit a “fifty/fifty” blame game with the committee assuming the role of “idiot counselor” that promotes a bogus reconciliation of the select elements that have been purchased by the so called “national dialogue”. This is the systematic equivalent of the “Stepford Wives”, a fiction on social engineering where the wives’ undesirable “elements” have been removed, making it possible for “everyone” to return to a “desired normal”, which in the committee’s case includes a complicit international community that could have effectively checked the brutality of the al Khalifa’s. This is a process of convenience for the leadership in the West that are under pressure to stop the abusive husband. The process will be complete when their polling at home indicates the placation was sufficient so reelection bids and popularity positions can again proceed unchecked by the demand for Human Rights protection and justice for the people of Bahrain.

The notable difference in today’s Bahrain is it’s people have grown through education and sophistication through deployment of technology. The decades old cycle of al Khalifa’s brutal repression, sanctioned by the West, can no longer be hidden and is now put in full view for all the world to see by a well connected and well informed underclass of opposition. Yes indeed, The WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING and the truth of the evils of al Khalifa can no longer hide and be pushed into the closet. This is a frightful and inconvenient truth for the West. The dreams and desires of Bahrain’s people now exceed the bounds of the al Khalifa table of lies and rhetoric of reform. And it seems the West stuck in it usual structural ineptability will entertain al Khalifa’s folly as the Bahraini people rise up to seize the future denied them with resounding echoes of their long repressed cries for justice and freedom.

Finally, as al Khalifa’s systematic disease is allowed to continue unabated by the West, the hour is fast approaching where all must ponder the consequence of a revolution on scale of impact with 1979 Iran. Surely this possibility looms on a near horizon – it will be the catastrophic abandonment of hope preached by the Western powers, specifically President Obama, as the West continues to ally it’s self with the al Khalifa’s .

Relevant News Story Below

International panel to probe uprising in Bahrain
By Reed Stevenson

MANAMA | Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:37pm EDT

(Reuters) – The international committee investigating violent protests in Bahrain this year will be given access to official files and be able to meet witnesses in secret, the panel’s chair said on Thursday.

The five-member panel of human rights and legal experts, unveiled ahead of a national dialogue set to start on Saturday, is part of Bahrain’s efforts to restore its image after its Sunni rulers cracked down on demonstrations led mostly by the Shi’ite majority in February and March.

“We will ask for files, we will go to the prisons,” said panel chairman Cherif Bassiouni, an Egyptian-American law professor and U.N. war crimes expert who was involved in the formation of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) and recently headed a U.N. inquiry into events in Libya.

“This is no different from any criminal investigation,” he told reporters in Manama, blocks away from where protesters had taken to the streets. ...more