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Saturday, 16 August 2008
Georgia On My Mind

The world looks on and says such things as ‘poor little Georgia’, ‘nasty great big bully Russia’ and ‘how can they?’ That, however, is to wilfully, and deliberately, misunderstand the current situation in the Caucuses.

There can be no question but that Georgia under its current so-called President, Mikheil Saakashvili, is nothing but a bandit state, hell-bent upon cementing the power of the Georgian mafia, known locally as Mkhedrioni. The Mkhedrioni are deeply involved with the Chechen separatists and seem to be financed by Saudi Wahabis, as are, allegedly, the Chechen Muslim Supremacist fighters, so far as can be determined. The so-called President Saakashvili, so much beloved of the Western powers, gained power in Georgia with the tacit support of the Union of Patriots, the Mkhedrioni’s political wing and is, seemingly, deeply and personally involved with the financing of the Chechen guerrillas.
 
The former President of Georgia, President Shevardnaze conveniently blamed many of his acts of political violence, and such acts were legion, on this mafia-like organisation but failed, in the end, to conclusively prove the Mkhedrioni were responsible for much of what he claimed that they were. The current administration in Tbilisi are no better and are probably, allegedly, responsible for the wholesale political murder of the opposition in Georgia which has taken place over the last three years. Millions of British Pounds and US Dollars have been expended in building oil transportation pipelines and gas-reserve facilities for no apparent improvement in Georgian economic well-being and questions are being raised in Western Europe about the legitimacy of some, or all, of the expenditures. The suspicion is that much of the money expended has been siphoned off by the corrupt Saakashvili government and the Mkhedrioni into private bank accounts in the all usual places.
 
A few cents per barrel are paid every day to the Georgian government for the oil passing through the pipeline from Baku, in Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, in Turkey, but none of those cents – and they amount to trillions and trillions of cents so far – have yet appeared in the Georgian Government accounts! Many of us suspect that the Government in Tbilisi launched the current attack on Russian citizens in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and, let us not forget that Georgia were, and are, the aggressors, in order to hide its own wrong doing, to confuse and deliberately obfuscate the Georgian Government’s involvement in the world-wide Jihadist movement – an involvement not to advance the Islamist cause, but to advance its own criminal theft of wealth.
 
In such ways are we betrayed!
 
On this occasion, I’m afraid, Russia is correct. Action needs to be taken against the criminal and murderous Saakashvili regime in Georgia and it ill-behoves any of us to moan about that.
 
Would someone, anyone, please tell Condoleeza Rice that defending known murderous, criminal and fraudulent Georgian thugs is no way to protect world peace.
 
Sometimes, even your worst enemy will be right. The skill involved in being a diplomat, a skill she most obviously knows nothing about, lies in recognising that particular ‘sometime’. This is the ‘sometime’; Russia – on this occasion – has the right of it. Instead of yelling at the Russians for the supposed breaches of ‘human rights’, whatever they are, we should be yelling our support for their decisive action in eliminating the co-operators with Islam, the supporters of the Chechen Islamist rebels – the criminal thugs who currently occupy the positions of power in Tbilisi who would sell us all down the river for just a few dollars more – those in Tbilisi who know precisely on which side their bread is buttered and who don’t give a damn for us, just so long as they make money!
 
No and so, I side with Russia on this issue. Georgia is a bandit state on Russia’s border and Russia has every right to interfere and to try to control the situation. We should applaud Russia’s action and support it.
 
Well done, Russia, say I. Keep up the good work! Those who support and finance the Jihad against us deserve everything they get! If Russian actions in the criminally controlled state of Georgia manage to cut off just one source of Jihadii funding then this will all have been worth it! That our so-called leaders don’t see things that way is something that we should very much aware of – and scared about!
 
Oh, and the title to this piece – listen to this.
Posted on 6:12 AM by John Joyce
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