Real terrorists Thursday, December 17th 2009

The truth is out. The true terrorist on the planet is not Osama bin Laden, waging the war of his life to protect Islamic space. It is not Fidel Castro, who has fought to protect his people, the planet, from capitalist consumerism and consumption, who tore down the United Fruit Co., to plant forests. It is not Hugo Chavez who stopped destructive trawling in the Gulf of Paria and gave hundreds of boat engines to the pueblos. It is not nuclear unarmed Iran, struggling against the snarls of Western Europe and the US who own tens of thousands of nuclear warheads.

The true terrorists of the planet are at the global climate talks in Copenhagen. And when Lumumba Di-Aping the head of the G77 plus China, representing the interests of 136 developing nations, realised who were the true historical terrorists of the planet, he walked out. It is these denizens of global terror-the ones who seized the space of the New World peoples, for example, killing millions, destroying their ideologies and practices of sustainability- with their military and industrial camps across the planet, sworn to consumption and consumerism, who have seized the throat of the climate talks.

And the top notch guy of this agenda of terror is Obama. In one week he accepted a Nobel Prize which he agreed he didn’t deserve; threatened a war with Iran after having spread a dirty war to Pakistan; enriched America consumerism with 30,000 troops in Afghanistan; promised less than eight per cent cuts in carbon emissions while the planet wants to promise between 25 per cent and 40 per cent.

The 60,000 activists on the streets of Copenhagen have a historical duty. As Obama and his posse arrive in Copenhagen, these anti-terrorists must Drummit to the Summit. As for our Prime Minister? We know what side he is on.

Wayne Kublalsingh