PART XIII: PEACE ON
THE HORIZON
Terrorism
would play a big role in bringing an end to the Iran War. The first terror
attacks in Britain occurred in December of 1989. By June of 1990, there’d been
15 terrorist attacks in Britain, half of them in London, and nearly 500
civilians had been killed. America was first attacked on March 7, 1990, when
Pakistani terrorists blew up an airliner at the Washington D.C., airport, killing
204 people. By August, there had been terror attacks in Washington, New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Miami, with
nearly 700 people having been killed. The Liberty Party and the American
People’s Party seized on these tragic turn of events and campaigned on ending
the war. In Britain, and anti-War faction was starting to form within the BUF,
though very secretively, since Prime Minister Michael Mosley openly supported
the war and had declared any opposition to be treason.
When
the United States went to the polls for the mid-term 1990 elections, a giant
wave of pent-up frustrations rose up at the polling booths. After the dust
settled, the Republicans were left with only 24% of the seats in the House of
Representatives, and only 23 seats in the Senate. The Liberty Party had 35% of
the seats in the House, and 34 seats in the Senate. The biggest shock of the
election was that the American People’s Party had 41% of the House seats, and
43 seats in the Senate. For the first time in history, the largest party in
both houses of Congress was the socialists. When the new Congress met for the
first time in January of 1991, William Clinton of Arkansas became the first
socialist Speaker of the House.
-Lewis, Samuel. How
Iran Changed the West. New York: 21st Century Publishers. 2006.
CLINTON TO BUSH: START PULL OUT OR LOOSE FUNDS
WASHINGTON, FEB 14- Fulfilling the campaign promises from
November, Speaker of the House William Clinton and his fellow socialists have
declared that they will seek to block vital funding bills unless President Bush
agrees to start the withdrawal of American forces from Iran. “The President
needs to understand something. The American people do not want this war. He
started it, and now he needs to end it. It’s been over 6 years since he
committed our troops to Iran, and it’s time they came home. And until he does
so, I and my fellow legislators will block all funding to projects deemed vital
by the administration.” This announcement came two days after it was reported
that nearly 4,000 American soldiers have been killed since U.S. troops arrived
in Iran in 1985.
The
Liberty Party also campaigned on ending the war, and it appears that they too
support the socialist’s plan to cut Bush’s funding wherever possible. At this
point in time, the White House has not released any sort of statement as to the
president’s reaction to the demands by Clinton and the socialists.
-“Clinton to Bush: Start Pull Out or Loose Funds,” Washington Post, February 14th,
1991.
SOCIALISTS HAVE TEETH: FIRST FUNDING BILL FAILS TO PASS
WASHINGTON, MAR 11- Socialists and the Liberty Party have
killed the first administration-backed funding bill to be brought before
Congress since last year’s elections. The bill would have allocated money for 4
new battleships and an aircraft carrier to be built, and also had a provision
providing funds for naval personnel in Iran. After the vote in the House of
Representatives, Speaker Clinton told reporters that “I love this country, and
I support our men and women that wear the uniform. But this war must end, and I
will not vote to spend one more penny towards the military until President Bush
orders the troops to be recalled. Mr. President, today we are telling you to
bring the troops home!”
-“Socialists Have Teeth: First Funding Bill Fails to Pass,” The New York Times, March 11, 1991.
CLINTON TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, MAR 20- The White House announced today that the
President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and leaders from the Socialist, Liberty,
and Republican Parties would be meeting at the White House on march 27 to
discuss possible withdrawal of troops and a way to break the impasse that
currently exists between the White House and Capitol Hill. Though no official
statement has been released by the speaker’s office, those close to Mr. Clinton
say that he seems to be in a very optimistic mood now that news of the pending
meeting with the president has gone public, and there are many socialist
members of Congress that believe that the war in Iran may soon be over.
-“Clinton to Meet with President,” The Washington Post, March 21, 1991.
When
then-Speaker of the House William Clinton met with President George Bush at the
White House on March 27, 1991, it was the beginning of the end for the Iran
War. Socialists and Liberty Party members were unwavering in their demands to
the President: if you continue the war, you do so without funding. After about
14 hours of negotiations, a deal was struck. The President would announce a
gradual withdrawal of all U.S. troops to take a total of about 1 year, and
Congress would then agree to give funding to the administrations projects.
Although some in Congress wanted an immediate pull out, the president insisted
that the United States could not just cut and run and leave the British in the
lurch without facing serious negative consequences.
On
March 28, President Bush made a public address to the nation announcing the
beginning of American withdrawal from the conflict. Britain was outraged, and
threatened to reinstate the embargo on oil to the United States. However, the
Commonwealth Executive Council rejected the plan. The American public was
thrilled by this announcement, and there were spontaneous celebrations in many
cities. The first troops to come home arrived on April 25th, and
were given a hero’s welcome and were greeted by the President, and
interestingly enough by Speaker Clinton. On September 30, 1991, Speaker Clinton
announced his intention to run for the Presidency, and resigned the position of
speaker, which was taken up by Texan Representative Liam Gates.
-Lewis, Samuel. How
Iran Changed the West. New York: 21st Century Publishers. 2006
CLINTON PICKS ROSENBERG FOR VP
NEW YORK, JUNE 22- Having now secured the Socialist
nomination via the primaries, Presidential Candidate William Clinton, formerly
Speaker of the House, announced today in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty
that Liberty Party Senator Jacob Rosenberg of New York would be his running
mate in this year’s election. This
will be the first time in a modern presidential election that the Presidential
and Vice Presidential candidates running on one ticket that are from different
parties. In the announcement, Clinton said, “Americans are not all of the same
party, they are not all from the same creed, from the same faith. And as such,
a government headed by me will consist of people from all parties, and that starts
at the very top.”
Republican
candidate Senator Lionel Wood of Colorado, who will formally accept his party’s
nomination, has yet to respond to this potentially game changing announcement.
There is still speculation as to who Senator Wood will select as his running
mate. Some think he will pick Representative Harrison Mayes of Wisconsin, while
others believe it will be Governor Matthew Bush of Massachusetts. The
Republicans seem to be facing a hard sell in this election, following the
rather rough presidency of George Bush. After nearly seven years of being at
war, Americans are seeking a change.
-“Clinton Picks Rosenberg for VP,” The New York Times, June 23, 1992.
THE KAISER IS DEAD
BERLIN, OCT 7- Imperial authorities have confirmed that
Kaiser Louis Ferdinand I, who became Kaiser of Germany on December 1, 1939, has
passed away from what doctors are calling natural causes. His Royal Majesty
lived nearly 85 years, and has been a guiding force behind the modern German
Empire since it’s recreation 52 years ago. The Kaiser’s 52 year old son
Kronprinz Frederick Wilhelm stated to the national and international press at
the Royal Palace in Berlin that, “My Father was a great man, and has been an
inspiring leader to all Germans since his coronation in 1939. His shoes will be
hard to fill. I thank you for your heartfelt thoughts and wishes for our
family. May God bless our nation.”
Chancellor
Simon Jaeger (M) has announced a state of mourning throughout the country for
the next 60 days. The funeral will be within the next few days, though the
Royal Family has yet to set a date for the funeral. Berlin city officials
expect hundreds of thousands of people to descend on the capital to pay there
respects to the departed leader.
-“The Kaiser is Dead,” Frankfurter
Zeitung, October 8, 1992.
CLINTON WINS!
WASHINGTON, NOV 4- Senator William Clinton of Arkansas has
been elected as the nation’s first socialist president. What is largely being
called an “anti-Republican” election wave, Liberty and Socialist party members
have swept into power in both houses of Congress. President-elect Clinton told
supporters in Little Rock that “tonight, America has chosen a brighter
tomorrow. We shall put the violence of the previous administration behind us,
and look to a new future, full of peace and prosperity for all Americans.”
Last
night’s election results are historic for many reasons. The most obvious is
that this is America’s first president from the American People’s Party, which
was formed by Upton Sinclair in 1949. Secondly, this is the first time in
modern history that the presidential and vice presidential candidates from one
ticket were not members of the same party. Vice President-elect Jacob Rosenberg
has brought a great sense of cooperation and unity between the two left-leaning
parties in the United States. Some pundits in the capital do not believe that
this “political wedding” will last long. For starters, the Liberty Party
confirmed their commitment to restoring some sort of affirmative action law at
this summer’s convention, something that the socialists remain opposed to.
-“Clinton Wins!” The
New York Times, November 5, 1992.
BOMB AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE!
LONDON, APR 14- Early this morning, while Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II was reviewing the Royal Guard at Buckingham Palace, a large bomb
exploded near the reviewing stand. Her Majesty, along with Prince Phillip and
several members of the Royal staff were seriously injured and are being tended
to at various local hospitals around London. Prime Minister Michael Mosley has
declared a state of emergency in the greater London area, and the CSP has been
deployed throughout the city. Although no party has claimed responsibility for
the attack, most government officials believe that the Pakistani Solidarity
Coalition is responsible for this dastardly act of terrorism. The Queen’s son,
Prince William, has been put in protective custody of the CSP to protect the
heir to the throne.
- “Bomb at Buckingham Palace!”, The Daily Mail, April 14, 1993.
THE QUEEN IS DEAD
LONDON, APR 16- The Royal Palace announced this morning that
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died from injuries received from a bomb
blast at Buckingham Palace two days ago. This comes a day after Prince Phillip,
the Queen’s husband, passed away. The nation is in shock. However, many are
calling for the government to end the terrorism by ending the war in Iran and
Pakistan. Prime Minister Mosley has stated that “this country will not bow to
terrorism. Our country has been stabbed near the heart, but we will pull through
and survive. And to those who think they can dictate how this country is run by
blowing up buildings and murdering the innocent, they had better think again.”
The CSP has been ordered to begin mass roundups of suspected terrorist and
terrorist sympathizers.
-“The Queen is Dead,” The
Times (London), April 16, 1993.
INSTABILITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, AUG 1- It has been months since the death of Queen
Elizabeth II, and unrest in the United Kingdom has been steadily increasing.
The Mosley government has used the attack as an excuse to round up thousands
upon thousands of Muslims in the United Kingdom. In addition, Mosley has
increased the number of troops to be deployed to the Iran-Pakistan War, which
has taken a turn for the worse in recent months since the United States has
withdrawn from the conflict. Three weeks ago, Tehran was seized by the Iranian
rebels, and unrest in both Iran and Pakistan is at an all time high. There are
rumors that a large anti-war protest against the Mosley government is planned,
but this cannot be confirmed. Despite continued support of the war by the Prime
Minister and the BUF, King William has continued to speak out against the
conflict, calling it a “bloody stain” upon the United Kingdom.
-“Instability in the United Kingdom,” The Frankfurter Zeitung, August 1, 1993.
The
instability that caused the collapse of the British Union of Fascists and their
rule of Great Britain was twofold. First, after the Queen’s death in April of
1993 at the hands of terrorist greatly affected the moral of the British
public, and their willingness to support the war in Iran and Pakistan. Public
protests of the war became more common and more intense, despite attempts by
the CSP to suppress such events. People also began to protest the growing
number of arrests of Muslims that the security police carried out, under the
pretext that they had ties to Pakistani terrorists. This excuse was believed at
first, but by the end of the summer of 1993 it became obvious that the
government was punishing an entire community for the actions of a few.
The
second, and more corrosive crisis that would ultimately be the straw that broke
the camels back was an article released on March 3, 1994 by the London Times
that stated that the War Ministry had
been grossly underreporting the number of war deaths that the country
had experienced. While the official number at the time of the article was
around 3,500 dead, the number that was reported to be the real number was
closer to 7,500. The day after the article shocked the British public, the CSP
arrested the writer and editorial staff of the London Times and closed down the
paper all together, which was loudly celebrated by The Daily Mail. Prime
Minister Mosley went on the television on March 5 and stated that the Times’
article was totally false, and that the war dead count was around 3,500.
Despite these attempts to suppress the information, a major rally was planned
to protest the war on March 10. On that day, nearly 150,000 protestors rallied
outside the War Ministry. The CSP showed up in force, and a riot soon broke
out. In the end, 788 people were arrested, and 230 were killed, along with over
2,000 that were injured. The next day, the King held a primetime news
conference carried on the BNN and the BBC, where he decried the murder of “230
brave patriots”. Furthermore, he announced that he new for certain that the death
count was above 8,000, and he called on Prime Minister Mosley to resign his
post as prime minister. What happened next would stir up the unrest of the
British populace into action. As the King finished his broadcast, the CSP
stormed the palace and arrested the King on live television. The feed then went
to Number 10 Downing Street, where Mosley declared that the man on the
television had been an imposter who had hijacked the television signal.
No
one in the country believed what Mosley said. Unrest exploded into revolt, and
violence ruled the streets of many parts of London. The CSP surrounded the
Prime Minister’s residence to protect him from the mayhem. Director Horace
Williams, head of the security police, declared martial law in London, and
decreed that any protestor could be shot on sight. This did not sit well with
the army. On March 12, 1994, the army declared that the Prime Minister and the
CSP had committed treason by arresting the King, and launched an attack on
several key locations in London. The so called “Royal Revolution” had begun.
Army intelligence learned that the CSP were keeping the King in the prison
operated under their main headquarters in central London, and sent nearly 300
soldiers to storm the building, after the RAF made a small raid that damaged
the building. Another 600 men were deployed to take 10 Downing Street, along
with 600 sent to Parliament, 350 deployed to Buckingham Palace, and 300 to the
BUF headquarters. By 4:00 that afternoon, MP Robert Prince, head of the
informal “Reform Wing” of the BUF, declared that he was forming a new
government and would serve as Prime Minister. Prince quickly declared his loyalty
to the King and the Army, and would eventually be recognized by the army
leaders later that night as the “legitimate” prime minister.
At
6:30 on March 12, the CSP headquarters fell to the army after hours of
fighting. The King was found, unconscious, in his cell bellow the headquarters,
and was whisked away to the safety of a military hospital outside the city. The
BBC, which had declared loyalty to the army from the start, happily announced
this news. At 7:30 the following morning, Michael Mosley surrendered to the
army, and normalcy slowly began to return. King William formally confirmed
Robert Prince as the new Prime Minister on March 15, after having regained
consciousness on the 13th and had a few days to recover. On March 20th,
Prince announced that all members of Mosley’s government were to be dismissed
from power, and were forced out of the Party. The CSP was shut down by order of
the military, and the military police took control of the security police’s
many prisons.
It
was then that one of the worst acts of the 2nd Mosley regime was
discovered. Two prisons, described by the army as death labor camps, where
nearly 200,000 Pakistanis had been interned after being arrested by the CSP. It
was later discovered that nearly 140,000 people had already died at these
camps, in addition to nearly 75,000 people that had been murdered immediately
after being arrested by the security forces. The public, and international
community, was appalled, and may called on the government to execute Mosley,
Williams, and other leaders of the old regime. Trials were announced to start
in the fall of 1994, and all the death camps were closed and those imprisoned
there were given compensation and a heap of apologies from the new leadership
in London.
On
April 1, Prime Minister Prince announced a unilateral cease fire in Pakistan
and Iran, and stated that there would be formal peace talks in Cairo over the
summer, following the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Congress and Executive
Committee. On April 3, the army announced that all political prisoners being
held in the former CSP prisons were to be released, as long as they had no
“regular” crimes attached to their files, such as murder, theft, or rape. By
the end of the month, all but 347 political prisoners were free. Prince
announced later that month that he would soon be presenting a series of reform
bills aimed at “cutting back the excesses” of the Michael Mosley era. The first
of these bills, known as the Political Speech and Association Act,
decriminalized public opposition and protest to government leaders and
government policy, and allowed for the formation of new political parties. This
act passed 53-47 in parliament on May 14, 1994. By the end of May, the Labour,
Communist, and Democratic-Republican Parties had all been formed, and were
putting pressure on the Prime Minister to call for a new election, especially
the outspoken leader of the “New Labour Party”, Ms. Margret Roberts, who called
on Prince to have open elections as soon as possible so the people could
express their new found political freedoms. BUF record from May, June, and July
of 1994 show huge drops in membership, as the party card was no longer required
for a number of places of employment.
At
the Commonwealth Congress in June of 1994, Prime Minister Prince backed a bid
by South Africa to give that country the Commonwealth Presidency for the next
two years, a move that shocked many, since the United Kingdom had held the
presidency solidly since the end of the 1960s after the rise of Sir Oswald. On
August 1st, Prime Minister Prince and others from the British
government headed to Cairo to meet with members of the Canadian, South African,
Australian, Indian, Pakistani and Iranian governments to discuss a final peace
in the Middle East. The talks went on for weeks, and there sere several times
that it looks as though the Cairo Talks would fall apart, but fortunately they
did not. On August 19, 1994,the Cairo Treaty was signed, officially ending the
Iran-Pakistan War.
-Samuels, Dr. Frank. The
Fall of the Blackshirts. New British Press, London: 2005.
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
CAIRO, AUG 19- His Majesty’s government has announced that
the Imperial Commonwealth, Iran and Pakistan have signed the Cairo Treaty. The
war in the Middle East is now officially over. After 16 years of conflict and
the loss of 8,400 soldiers, the silent stillness of peace can finally reign
over the British Isles. The treaty, which took over two weeks to draft, has
done the following:
-
Guarantees the independence of the Iranian Islamic
Republic.
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Releases the Dominion of Pakistan from the Imperial
Commonwealth, and recognizes the country as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Guaranteed at least 3 billion pounds of reconstruction
aide to Iran and Pakistan each, to be paid by Imperial Commonwealth.
Prime Minister Prince stated that
“this war has been a leech on the vitality of the British people, and upon the
whole of the Imperial Commonwealth. We should have pulled out of those
countries many years ago. We have harmed the lives of millions, and now we must
look to the future and repair the damage we’ve done.”
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