Guilty Consciences?

Guilty Consciences?

White, stupid and with an unwarranted sense of racial superiority and entitlement

by Stanley Collymore

Try to imagine that you’re forced to live in a community where your local authority is not one that is democratically elected with you having the power through the ballot box or even by consultation to change this body and which is in effect an unelected and unaccountable, to you and the rest of your community that is, quango. And while you’re getting your head around this one imagine also that this aforesaid quango can do whatever it likes in respect of your daily lives, including levying exorbitant sums of money to arbitrarily carry out its prejudicial, self-obsessed and intransigent programmes that you are not consulted about; doesn’t have any cognisance of or would it respect your viewpoint even if you were allowed to express it; is dismissive of you because it knows you can’t hold it to account as you have no right of veto or even the power of recall over its members; and whose activities exclusively benefit not you or other members of your community who are paying for all of this, but rather the coterie of self-serving, innately incompetent, nepotistic quango members and their privileged corps of other family members, like-minded friends and associates and, most crucially and ironically, others living well beyond the borders of your community, and even in foreign countries, whose domestic and external interests are not only at variance to but are also inimical to those of your own community who they couldn’t care less about, but to whom this quango that you can’t get rid of happily pays obeisance to.

Unimaginable or a perverse fantasy perhaps? Sorry, but it’s neither; for this is very much a reality in the UK and the quango I’m referring to is none other than the BBC, or to accord to it its official name (a misnomer if ever there was one): The British Broadcasting Corporation, since the only accurate parts of that title relate solely to the fact that it’s an entity that broadcasts and does so from Britain. For the BBC is neither a corporation in the true meaning of that word nor is it British in the accepted sense of that terminology: an entity that accurately and systematically espouses, upholds and defends those values that are quintessentially British and universally understood and accepted as such.

For starters the much hyped myth about the BBC being an impartial broadcasting entity is precisely that. And to reinforce this reality let me say that the BBC has always been the mouthpiece of the rich and privileged, its Downing Street and Whitehall political mandarins who selectively appoint its board members and chief executives, and who unsurprisingly are not only beholden to but are also deeply and corruptly embedded in the financial pockets of big business plutocrats, many of them closely linked with the oil and armaments industries, have well-known and long-established connections with foreign countries like the United States, Israel and western client states in the Middle East, powerful zionist entities like AIPAC and its many other US and Canadian hybrids, as well as their counterparts in the UK, EU and white settler states like Australia and New Zealand; and to add insult to injury these very powerful interests through government legislation get the ordinary man and woman on the street to fund their virulent propaganda, which by and large is very antipathetic to the general interests of these human cash machines that bankroll the BBC.

How democratic! How public-spirited of the BBC’s external and internal puppeteers bearing in mind that regardless of whether one watches the BBC or not, so long as he or she lives in the UK and purchases a television set that individual must pay an annual television licence fee; a policy that is strictly enforced with prosecution and swingeing punishments should one either on principle or through ignorance or inability to pay that licence fee flouts what is essentially the law of the land. This despite a groundswell of opinion within the UK that although most Brits would prefer to have the BBC as a public sector broadcasting company the operative word in their thinking is public. None the less the BBC continues to pursue its zionist agenda in tandem with private sector organisations like Sky, ITV, CNN, Fox News and the other rightwing press, as well as electronic so-called western mainstream media. How can this be; and why is the BBC allowed to get away with it? As far as I’m concerned what the independent commercial media do in a democratic society, as long as they don’t break the law, is none of my concern; I believe in freedom of speech and at least they have the guts to go out and canvass advertising and put their money where their mouths are. The BBC however is different; its money comes exclusively from the licence fee payer who it treats with utter contempt; and were the BBC to follow the line of Sky and the rest of them I personally, and I’m sure many other licence fee payers must feel as I do, couldn’t care less what the rabid, nepotistic and zionist cohorts who run it do. But as long as the BBC carries on as it does while getting money for old rope I think my point of view and those of many more like me are quite valid.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. In a brilliant article entitled: BBC’s Pro-Israeli Bias, he hits the nail directly on the head in relation to the BBC and how it goes about its propagandistic work, masquerading at the same time as this long-established beacon of probity, integrity and impartiality