“Nothing Wrong with Killing for What You Believe In”: British Tory MP Johnny Mercer Turns Full Jihadi

In an apparent bid to appeal to young Britons to join the Armed Forces, a British Tory Johnny Mercer (MP for Plymouth Moor View) appeared to endorse the Islamic State when he tweeted: “The application of violence to defeat the enemies of the nation has become worryingly unpopular. Nothing wrong with fighting (yes killing) for values/what you believe in. The oppressed/bullied/tormented/voiceless deserve it. Join the fight; best thing you’ll ever do.”

It doesn’t seem to have entered Mercer’s head that this is the very thinking of Britain’s “enemies” (read: opportunity for more war); if we are to believe the propaganda concerning the allege motives of our alleged enemies, that is. So, Mercer is giving terrorists the rhetorical green-light to murder British civilians; after all, they supposedly “believe in” it. Mercer simply dismisses criticism of his remarks as “bor[ing]” and lefty “mistranslation” (he must mean misinterpretation).

The reality is that the group that later went on to be branded “al-Qaeda” by the US was directly created by the US and Britain in the late-1970s (Operation Cyclone). The Islamic State was probably created by the US and Britain directly; but we have to stick with what we can prove. And we can prove that Britain’s allies enabled ISIS by using it as a proxy for their regional aims: Saudi Arabia ponied up the dough to spread its Wahhabi doctrine and Turkey bought its oil, hoping that ISIS would attack its shared enemy, the Kurds. Even Trump’s adviser Carl Icahn has financial ties. It is also easy to prove that ISIS emerged from and because of the torture of Iraq by the US and Britain, beginning 2003. The US-British attack on Iraq unleashed such violence on the country as a whole that ISIS’s crimes look miniscule by comparison.

The propaganda posits that “al-Qaeda” and ISIS hate our way of life (whatever that’s supposed to mean), but even secret government intelligence analyses state that their terrorism is a result of our foreign policy; when the deep state is not directly or indirectly involved in that terrorism, one might add.

It is also an insight into the mind of psychopathic ruling elites, that the growing popularity of proposed peaceful resolutions to conflict—particularly those contemplated so soon after the remembrance of the end of the so-called Great War—is considered “worrying.” Mercer says that there’s nothing wrong with killing for beliefs. He should know. Mercer and his Tory gangsters have wiped out 120,000 people in Britain alone in the last decade as a result of their belief in financial austerity. That’s a figure that makes the professed “enemies of the nation” look pathetically weak. It also reinforces the truism that the real enemies of the state are the people in power; if ordinary people count as “the state”: which they clearly don’t.

The kind of people desperate enough to join the British Armed Forces—usually the poor and poorly educated (just like their Muslim counterparts who join jihadi groups)—are all-too-familiar with the ways in which the Tories kill for their neoliberal beliefs. Being on the bottom of the social ladder, they live the very misery inflicted on them by the people at the top. The job of the media is to convince them that their real political representative, the quasi-socialist Jeremy Corbyn, is their mortal enemy.

Mercer also says: “The oppressed/bullied/tormented/voiceless deserve it,” i.e., for people to kill to defend them. Here, Mercer is advocating “humanitarian intervention,” presumably of the kind that wrecked Libya to save the people (read: Benghazi-based terrorists Britain backed by Britain) from a bogus ethnic cleansing.

“The oppressed/bullied/tormented/voiceless deserve it.” So, does that mean that Mercer is inciting the poor to start killing Tories?

T.J. Coles is a postdoctoral researcher at Plymouth University’s Cognition Institute and the author of several books, including Britain’s Secret Wars (2016, Clairview)

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