Fast times at Jeddah High

It is Friday in Saudi Arabia and the afternoon begins to buzz in anticipation of the regular Friday night “chop-chop.”

Every week in the main cities, criminals are dragged out of prisons for their public beheadings and hangings. Outside the gates people crowd around as the traffic moves by. Spectators have even begun petitioning for more executioners. It is almost like the Saudi version of the NFL, and it is a growing sport.

Hillary Clinton calls Saudi Arabia America’s closest ally in the Middle East. It’s a nice place to bomb, but I wouldn’t want to stay there.

Last year they had a record number of executions, all with great fanfare in the country and with few objections. After all, there is oil at stake and over the last 11 years, through two wars and countless skirmishes, our government has shown a strong propensity to burn the oil and let the blood spill.

Even as Hillary brags about reforms in Saudi Arabia, the country has already executed 82 people this year and is on course to behead twice as many prisoners as it did in 2015 reports a leading human rights organization as quoted in the April 1, 2016 Independent.

The British Government has been urged to do more to put pressure on its Gulf allies to halt the bloodshed in light of the gruesome figures which would see the total toll in Saudi Arabia reach a record high of more than 320 public executions by the end of the year if the current rate is maintained.

This would be more than twice as many as the 158 executions carried out by the kingdom government last year, which was a dramatic rise over the 88 people it beheaded in 2014.

If you attend one of these as a foreigner the crowd will push you to the front to give you a view of what happens to you if you commit crimes, drink alcohol or smuggle drugs.

This is all while royal family members are legally free from search by U.S. customs. One custom agent messed up and accidentally searched a Saudi prince’s plane where he found alcohol by the case load. I don’t know what ended up happening to that customs agent, but I’d bet it wasn’t good.

Hillary says that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s idea for a temporary ban on Muslims is outrageous and discriminatory. Yet entrance into the kingdom by a Christian is almost impossible, and a job like my son had is passed out for a temporary period of usually two or three years. Not even birth in Saudi Arabia will grant you Saudi citizenship.

The country is steeped in hypocrisy which the U.S. will tolerate in exchange for unfettered access to the richest oil fields in the world.

The rich Saudis pay their way into U.S. universities. They earn their degrees and take their qualifications back to Saudi Arabia and use them for that country’s benefit.

The U.S. government isn’t doing a thing to protect its own citizens’ interests, but it allows the Saudis to send their top students to Ivy League schools, paid for with Saudi money.

We take in their best and brightest and send them home with their degrees paid with U.S. petro-dollars. For the top one-third of Saudis, money is just an object that is as plentiful as the sand on which the country sits.

Princess Hillary

It seems incredible, but Hillary may develop a closer relationship with Saudi Arabia than the one America has recently enjoyed, even during the seven years of the Obama administration. Once neutral on North American oil and gas development, some months ago Hillary said that if elected president she, like President Barack Obama, would cancel the Keystone XL pipeline that would have created thousands of jobs and could have been a blueprint for energy security during these tumultuous times in the Middle East, which is a reservoir for two-thirds of the world’s light-crude oil and virtually all the cheap oil remaining in the world.

A study earlier this year by the Wall Street Journal found that in the last 14 years the Clinton Foundation has raised almost $2 billion. A reasonable estimate is that the Saudi government and private Saudi Arabian citizens have given the Clintons $700 million to $800 million. Why this money was paid out is unknown; perhaps to keep Hillary quiet on Saudi involvement in 9/11 which remains hidden in 28 redacted pages in the 9/11 Commission report. When asked about the 28 pages, Clinton said, “I’m not commenting.”

But there are some former elected representatives that see a connection between 9/11 and Saudi Arabia.

Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who worked on the 9/11 report, told “60 Minutes” last month the classified information he saw outlines a network of people he believes supported the hijackers while they were in the U.S.

He said the hijackers were “substantially” supported by the Saudi government, as well as charities and wealthy people in that country.

“I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom never had been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education — could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States,” Graham said.

The 28 pages were cut from the report on the 9/11 terror attacks in 2003 by the George W. Bush administration in the interest of national security. Porter Goss, who was Graham’s co-chairman during the inquiry, said the FBI refused to declassify the information at the time.

It doesn’t seem quite so hard to believe there is a conspiracy between Washington and Riyadh. It all appears to be a very serious indictment.

Omitted is Hillary’s hypocrisy. As perhaps our next president, who proclaims that she is fighting for women’s rights around the world and says nothing about the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia where women are not people but property, Hillary turns a blind eye to Saudi abuses.

Yours in good times and bad,

— John Myers

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