    Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

    Israel Shamir

    The villain kills innocent people in order to frame Roger Rabbit, that
    much I remember of the marvellous Zemeckis 88’ cartoon. The movie spoofs
    Hitchcock private eye films where the hero wades waist-deep in dead
    bodies, all killed to frame him. Chandler and Hammett developed this
    genre being bored by always-safe violin-playing Holmesian detectives:
    their heroes unravel murders while being accused and pursued by police.

    The Russian president Vladimir Putin found himself in the uncomfortable
    position of Roger Rabbit. Soon after the murder of Anna Polikovskaya, an
    investigative journalist, a defected spy died in London – and accused
    Putin on his death bed. The third death, that of obese ex-Prime Minister
    Gaidar, was avoided but not a new accusation. It appears that every
    violent or suspicious death is automatically placed at the doorstep of
    Putin, in the best Chandleresque tradition. Roger Rabbit was framed in
    order to take over the Toon Town ; Putin is framed in order to take over
    Russia ’s policies and resources.

    Only a very young, innocent and sincere person may believe that media
    owners and editors, the Masters of Discourse care about minor Russian
    political figures like Politkovskaya and Litvinenko. They put Putin on
    the hot seat so he’ll surrender Iran to the US bombers and Sakhalin-2 to
    the Western oil companies, sell gas and other national assets at cheap
    price, forget about his independent political course. They show him and
    us the impressive might of the mass media machine, this unique device
    built to zombify millions. They can establish the world agenda and
    present Putin as a killer, Clinton as a sex offender, Chavez as an
    antisemite, Ahmadinejad as a new Hitler, Palestinians as the offenders
    and Israelis as victims. Not even the popes had such power in their best
    days: whatever they say, goes.

    They never fail to mention the KGB career of Putin, though the CIA past
    of Bush and the Mossad past of Tsipi Livni is never referred to in a
    polite society. They remind us of a killed 20 years ago Bulgarian
    defector, but they do not refer to the greatest organised assassin of
    our days, of the Jewish state, unless with admiration moderated by
    political correctness as in Spielberg’s Munich . However, Israel kills,
    kidnaps and jails its political opponents on a daily basis: all
    Palestinian leaders active 20 years ago have since been assassinated by
    the Jews. They use poison as well as guided missiles and bunker-busting
    bombs, and Nes Tsiona centre for chemical and biological warfare
    produces poisons and other tools for 007, like “bionic killer wasp”

    They used their poison in an assassination attempt on Khaled Mashal, the
    Hamas leader; the assassins were apprehended and caught red-handed.
    There is no doubt that they used poison to assassinate Yasser Arafat:
    the Haaretz published a clear hint to that effect; and intelligence-
    related Israelis are convinced of it. And here we come to the most
    interesting part: Arafat’s post mortem revealed the presence of
    Polonium-210, the same poisonous medium that killed the Russian
    defector. However, the Masters of Discourse and their world-opinion-
    producing machine pooh-poohed this discovery and connected it to
    chemotherapy treatment possibly given to the Palestinian leader. Now
    they say this isotope points to Putin, though Polonium-210 is freely
    sold over the internet in the US .

    Everything points to Putin. In today’s Israeli paper, a Russian demand
    for reciprocity in the treatment of arrested criminals (quite an
    ordinary and usual request) is described as “Putin’s blackmail”; a
    Russian desire to own petrol stations in the West, to sell oil at the
    pump and not only at the well, is described as “Putin’s world dominance
    drive”. Putin is not made of iron like the old Bolsheviks, and he is
    liable to submit to pressure, to allow Israel to bomb Iran , to give the
    Western oil companies a free run in his land, like Gorbachev and Yeltsin
    did. Then he will become a darling of the mass media and his alleged
    crimes will be forgotten.

    This was the case with Muammar Qaddafi – he was personally accused of
    every mishap and his country was forced to pay zillions for the Lockerby
    disaster though they had no connection to it, as admitted by
    international observers at the trial. Qaddafi surrendered to the supreme
    will of the Masters of Discourse, and all attacks on him ceased
    immediately. It will happen to Putin, too, if he will just fulfil the
    desire of Israel and expose Iran to bombs.

    Wonderful Indian writer Arundhati Roy wrote that all our leaders are
    awful; but as long as they let the West to steal their assets they are
    safe. Only when they object to it, do they become monsters in the eyes
    of ever so docile public opinion. We should try to stop this trend; we
    can’t fight off the US Cruise missiles, but we may and must sabotage the
    Masters of Discourse’s most powerful weapon, their mass media
    brainwashing machine by never accepting their line.