misterpee
01.08.05, 03:42
Death of a Brazilian or how to massage the facts to fit the crime
William Bowles, I'n'I
July 30, 2005
Day 9 of Open Season on those who are ?darker than blue?
?There is nothing patriotic about our pretending that you can love your
country but despise your government.? ? President Bill Clinton
As more information has come to light on the circumstances surrounding the
assassination of the unfortunate Brazilian, it is abundantly clear that from
the moment he stepped out of his apartment building in Tulse Hill to go to
his job as an electrician, Menazes was a dead man.
In all likelihood, the real scenario is as follows:
The block of flats is under surveillance by a team of police no doubt based
on ?information received?.
Menazes leave the building, walks to the bus stop and catches the bus to
Stockwell tube station, followed by the police surveillance team, where he
enters the station and contrary to the police reports, he doesn?t vault the
turnstyle but uses his ticket to go through the turnstyle.
At this point a plainclothes team take over and follows Menazes into the tube
station. Menazes makes his way to the Northern line platform where a train is
in the station with its doors open.
Menazes runs for the train; the police close in; Menazes stumbles as he
enters the carriage. The police board the train, jump on the unfortunate
Brazilian and administer the coup de grace, seven shots to the head and one
in the shoulder.
No doubt this is followed by a triumphant message to their bosses, ?We got ?
im chief!? Another ?terrorist? bites the dust.
From this point on, it?s downhill for the men in (plainclothes) blue, for on
identification, they realise that their ?Islamic terrorist? is in fact a
Brazilian. Whoops! Big cock-up. What to do?
In the meantime, chief London cop, Blair of the Yard in his haste to claim a
success (no doubt one more notch on his way to collecting his knighthood for ?
services rendered to the state?) has already announced that Menazes is
definitely ?directly connected to the terrorist network?.
The problem now is how to best cover-up the cock-up? From this point on, the
entire enterprise goes completely pear-shaped.
In order to justify the murder of Menazes it is necessary to ?massage? the
facts to fit the crime.
Step 1: Put it about that he was wearing a ?bulky? jacket on a warm summer?s
day whereas in fact, he was wearing a lightweight jeans jacket. Very
suspicious, for underneath the bulky jacket could be hidden a bomb. In
addition they imply that his behaviour was ?suspicious?.
Step 2: Instead of walking quite normally through the station turnstyle, the
police allege that he ran into the station and vaulted the turnstyle. The
police of course, following the scenario laid down by ?Operation Kratos? now
have a ?licence to kill?.
Step 3: At this point the ?hit squad? take over, who follow him down to the
station platform. The events from here on until the point at which he enters
the train and is murdered, are somewhat conjectural but in all likelihood,
once on the platform Menazes is either warned to stop (police version) and is
chased by the hit squad, with guns drawn. Menaizes, understandably, seeing
that he is being chased by three unidentified men with guns, runs for it. Or,
seeing the train in the station, he runs for it before the doors close, onto
the train where he stumbles as he boards followed by the hit squad.
Step 4: Either way, he is chased into the train by the three men who,
according to Whitby, one of the witnesses, ?jump on top of him? and fire
several bullets into him at point blank range (Whitby said five, another
witness said three but in fact, according to the police it was eight). Either
way, Menazes was dead.
No doubt the hit squad?s first act is to communicate to their superiors that
the suspect has been ?neutralised?. At this point, due to his dark skin it is
still assumed that Menazes is an ?Asian?. Had he in fact, been an Asian, no
doubt the story concocted by the authorities would have been somewhat
different and given the hysterical atmosphere created around the events of
July 7 and the preceding day, the ?Asian man?s? unfortunate demise would have
been ?regrettable? but understandable. And anyway, who cares about the odd
Asian biting the dust? The sympathies would have been with the police who
are, in any case ?under severe strain?.
Meanwhile, Blair of the Yard has already ?jumped the gun? so-to-speak and
announced to the world that the victim was ?definitely directly connected to
the terror network?. This was the first of many errors committed by the state
that no doubt forced the invention of the story that was subsequently
released to the press.
So time for some ?reverse engineering?, hence we see the ?bulky coat?, the ?
vaulting of the turnstyle?, his ?suspicious behaviour?, necessitating the use
of lethal force to ?protect the lives of the innocent?.
Finally, the ?shoot-to-kill? policy of Operation Kratos is revealed in order
to take the heat off the cops? cock-up. Blair and co are in theory,
unassailable being able to retreat behind the fa硤e of ?policy?. The
propaganda campaign kicks in big time.
The first of many disinformation pieces appear, namely that he might have
been an ?illegal alien?, thus justifying him running from the police in an
attempt to justify the murder. The Home Office initially issues a rigorous
denial and condemns press speculation on Menazes status in no uncertain
terms, but of course in line with the tactic of putting out as much ?chaff?
as possible, the thought is planted in the minds of the public regardless of
official utterances to the contrary.
Menazes? status goes through a series of revisions over the following week,
with yet another story surfacing that the stamp in his passport is ?forged?.
The Home Office refuses to comment. Overall though, the impression is left in
the public?s mind that there was something ?dodgy? about Menazes. It?s all
grist for the propaganda mill. The mainstream press of course, rush to the
defence of the police?s actions in total lock-step with official policy on
state-sanctioned murder.
The witnesses to the assassination disappear completely. There are no
followup interviews by our intrepid press. A brief press release is issued by
the RMT union that the driver of the train, who understandably fled along
with everyone else when the shots rang out, is chased by the police and has a
gun held to his head before being released (was he by any chance, ?darker
than blue? I wonder?). I phoned up the RMT and was told that the driver was
in fact a member of ASLEF, the other transport workers? union. The only press
report on this that I could find was in the Morning Star. I attempted to talk
to the ASLEF press office but to no avail and as far as I know, ASLEF has not
commented on the event, there is no mention on the ASLEF Website of the
incident. No matter, it?s merely another ?sidebar? in the ?war on terror?.
As the days pass, it finally emerges that the story released by the police on
the events leading up to Menazes? death is somewhat off the mark but by now,
the government?s propaganda defensive is in full swing and the actual facts
disappear under a swathe of justifications issued by the police and the
government, chiefly of course the ?shoot to kill? policy, that it is
necessary to shoot first and perhaps ask questions later, but in any case,
the state has no choice but to institute the policy given the nature of the
threat, suicide bombers, who have to be taken out before setting off their
bombs.
However, I would like to offer the following observations on the government?s
tactics that point I think to some serious flaws in the government?s
calculations that first and foremost hi
