{"id":39626,"date":"2018-10-24T06:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39626"},"modified":"2018-10-24T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:40:53","slug":"assassination-as-a-criminal-tool-by-the-powerful-against-the-weak-and-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39626","title":{"rendered":"Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Only recently a spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada made headlines as a result of the Saudi Government\u2019s beheading of a Myanmar guest worker. After the public barbaric and gruesome decapitation, the corpse was crucified on a horizontal post with the truncated head slung in a bag adjacent to the victim\u2019s mutilated corpse.<\/p>\n

This is the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century, and these are Donald Trump\u2019s BFFs.<\/p>\n

I suppose that investing $110 billion in lethal weapons, the purchase of Trump apartments, and real estate deals by Saudis flush with cash exonerates Saudi Arabia\u2019s cold blooded murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the thousands of Saudis and Yemeni dead.<\/p>\n

The Saudi penchant for beheadings is intended to put the fear of Allah in Saudi citizens and to quash any criticism of a royal family living high on the khanzir (hog), and a family that is squandering its national wealth on palaces, yachts, jets, expensive vacations abroad, casinos, and a luxurious lifestyle not unlike Harun al-Rashid\u2019s celebrated 9th<\/sup>\u00a0century epoch.<\/p>\n

In 2015 the Saudi Government beheaded 158 people; in 2016, 154 people; and in 2017, 146 people \u2013 for any number of crimes deemed offensive to the tenets of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi doctrine. And in the first four months of 2018, 32 people were beheaded. The infractions include drug charges, political activism, critiquing the royal family, murder, and rape.<\/p>\n

Because of the financial power they yield around the world, the Saudis thought they could get away with an assassination in far-away Istanbul, Turkey.\u00a0 The fifteen-member assassination team, including a saw wielding forensic scientist, have allegedly killed, beheaded, and dismembered an international journalist\u00a0 who\u2019s been a thorn in the Saudi theocratic dictatorship.<\/p>\n

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