The Forum > Article Comments > Suharto - war criminal > Comments
Suharto - war criminal : Comments
By John Passant, published 29/1/2008Suharto is dead. Look for the tears from his Western supporters - he may have been a dictator, but he was 'our' dictator.
- Pages:
-
- Page 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
-
- All
Posted by Gibo, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:28:46 AM
| |
The Ford Foundation promised corporate America in 1949, the Wealth of Asia. That the Marshall Plan could justify this.
General Suharto spent his life creating an American version of the evil Dutch East Indies Corporation (VoC) - a Corporate State. In 1961 Suharto organised a pathetic attempt at a military invasion of West Papua, while his Freeport friends in Washington tricked U.S. Pres. Kennedy into writing the “New York Agreement” selling the people of West Papua like cattle to Indonesia. As the U.S. Dept. of State said in 1961, "annexation by Indonesia would simply trade white for brown colonialism". After Suharto came to power he gave the colonial minerals to Freeport (1967) & related American corporations; and he put the population of Java to work in factories making the cheap American clothes of the 1970s. By time America moved its cheap factories to Mexico the people of Java had developed a taste for Colonial Profits of West Papua & other colonies, and too many people liked it. General Suharto may have retired, but General Yudhoyono and Suharto's Freeport colonial legacy lives on in Papua, Ambon, the Celebes, and Borneo. Posted by Daeron, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:33:08 AM
| |
Congratulations to OLO for publishing this ‘subversive’ essay. Mr Passant’s excellent synopsis should not be dismissed as a leftist rant. All the points he makes, including the West’s complicity and aid during the bloodbath of 1966, are fully documented – as I found to my horror and shame when I was researching history assignments on Indonesia at university.
Australia has always shown a murky double standard in its dealings with its closest neighbour – at least since 1966. While successive Australian governments have applied fawning Cold War obsequiousness to Indonesia’s corrupt and murderous regimes, we have rudely snubbed it as a society. This is despite the fact that it is an ancient and vibrant culture with much to teach us. That is our loss. Posted by SJF, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 9:59:21 AM
| |
I'm reminded of Lyndon Johnson's description of a Caribbean dictator: "He might be a son-of-a-bitch but at least he's our son-of-a-bitch."
Praise for Soeharto focuses on Indonesia's growing economy and the role the dictator played in modernising Indonesia. So I guess Hitler was okay up until 1939. And really the only thing wrong with Pol Pot was his economic incompetence that wrecked Cambodia. As for Stalin, Russia underwent economic growth in the 1930s while the West went through a slump. Let's hear it for Uncle Joe. Anyway, what sort of good times are had in Indonesia with its dire poverty - even for many of those who have jobs? Well, I've got a good job creation scheme for Indonesia - more prison guards when the Soeharto family is thrown in the slammer. Posted by DavidJS, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:34:30 AM
| |
'Now the dictator is dead. May he rot in hell.'
Alongside the socialists Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Deng. Posted by keith, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 6:58:31 PM
| |
The empire of Suharto isn't dead.
His estimated $150 billion empire has simply been spread amongst kindred and friends. http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/suharto.html Posted by HRS, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 7:28:33 PM
|
Though knowing what I know about Indonesia my comment is "lets get ready for the day when they move south over the horizon".
Indonesia cannot be trusted and this goes back to the spirit worship of the nation.
There are few Christians who worship a God of Love in Indonesia; as with Jesus Christ the Son. And so the Christians get persecuted... even to the death by a nation thats in satans hand.
Australia must never make agreements with Indonesia, pay attention Paul Keating, because if we do we spirituially align ourselves with those in satans hand and those who hunger for the northern part of Australia. God, in the end, Judges such people who make agreements with the devils servants. Its all through the Bible.
Ive just been looking at a copy of a map that was on the walls of Indonesian classrooms for years showing all of the land north of Townsville, QLD as "South Irian". So I say, "Lets get ready". Lets never be slack. Lets be aware of unholy connections. And their consequences.
A citizens home guard defence force, beyond a puny Army Reserve, is a good start.