As the trial date for the Woolwich murder suspects is confirmed for November 18, greater light is being shed on the broader reasons for the attack. The consequence of arming and aiding extremists is being seen on London’s streets, said MP George Galloway.
“Tell them to bring our troops back so you can all live in
peace. Leave our land and you will all live in peace,” one
suspect, Michael Adebolajo, was filmed shouting shortly after the
meat-cleaver assault.
His potent statement is recorded evidence of what drives
terrorists to act, highlighting a powerful link between the UK’s
foreign policy and potential domestic terrorists, the efforts
against which the UK is pouring money into. George Galloway, MP
for the UK’s Respect Party spoke to RT about the ‘insanity’ of
continuing to interfere overseas.
RT:The UK intelligence agencies will be getting 100
million pounds per year from 2015. Chancellor George Osborne says
this is because they are on the front line, and need a boost to
their resources. Security is surely a priority. So they deserve
this money don’t they?
GG: Well, they probably need every penny of it and more
because Britain is at a very real and present danger from
terrorism. Both from within and from without. But only a fool or
a knave would seek to separate British foreign policy from that
danger of terrorism. Only a fool could imagine that if you go
around the world invading and occupying other people’s counties
then you’re not going to generate a real danger to yourself.
But we’ve gone one step further – in Syria (as before in
Libya) – we’re actually giving guns and money to the very
terrorist extremists who are attacking us on the streets of our
own capital city. It must be a policy which virtually qualifies
as insanity, and an insane policy at home is not going to keep
people safe.
RT:So you're saying British foreign policy is
responsible for that attack that we saw in Woolwich. Is it
surprising that there haven’t been more attacks like that
though?
GG: That’s right, but the intelligence services have
probably thwarted several. But you don’t have to take my word for
it – you have the video of the murderers in Woolwich themselves,
telling us why they were doing it.
We had the martyrdom videos of the maniacs who blew themselves up
and hundreds of others on 7/7 2005 in London on the underground
and on a London bus, and they too told us why they were doing it
– I see no reason to doubt them.
RT:Yet David Cameron will say what happens in
Afghanistan is so vital to our national security – to people like
you walking the streets in London and the UK...
But it’s having the opposite effect – it’s making us more
imperiled. Our situation is more dangerous: the more we attack
and invade other people, the more we arm and finance extreme
fury, fanatics, who beheaded a Christian bishop just yesterday
and videoed it in front of women and children watching
it, and put it up on the internet whilst chanting the name of
God... They’re paid for by us – by the same David Cameron who
tells us we need 100 million pounds to go to the security
services to protect us from the very people he’s employing as
agents in the struggle in Syria.
RT:How is all of this now impacting upon societal
divisions in the UK? How worried are you about the anti-Muslim
sentiment?
I’m worried about it but we shouldn’t overestimate it. There have
been isolated attacks which have largely been pathetically
insubstantial upon mosques and Muslim institutions of various
kinds. There have been fatalities in individual attacks on
Muslims. But the vast majority of British people are not like
that. This is not a country where fascism has any attraction.
After all, together with Russia we defeated fascism in the living
memory of some people who are still alive today. So people in
jack boots and giving Hitler salutes and wearing swastikas like
the people who are doing these things, are never going to find
much traction in Britain.
Most British people according to the opinion polls blame the
government – only 11 percent of the British people in the last
opinion poll, support David Cameron’s policy of arming and
financing these fanatics in Syria. Even in the Iraq war, before
we knew it was built upon a tower of lies, the majority of
British people were against it.
The problem is in the building behind me, where the boys in the
bubble follow the leader, whatever he has to say. Although even
inside that bubble, the beheading of a Christian bishop may prove
a turning point just like the eating of a heart on video – on
YouTube – by the same kind of people a month or two ago,
decisively began a swing in public opinion away from these
fanatics.
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