Your The War Against Terror WTF? moment for today
Hamid Karzai has been accused of trying to win votes in Afghanistan’s presidential election by backing a law the UN says legalises rape within marriage and bans wives from stepping outside their homes without their husbands’ permission.
Iraq:
Urgent action is needed to halt the execution of 128 prisoners on death row in Iraq. Many of those awaiting execution were convicted for the ‘crime’ of homosexuality, according to IRAQI-LGBT, a UK based organisation of Iraqis supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iraq.
As Nick Barlow says: ‘could someone remind me why all those people had to die to bring this about?’ Anybody? Tony?
Posted on March 31st, 2009 at 4:11pm under Afghanistan, Iraq, T.W.A.T.
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I’m so proud of this country’s fine work spreading democracy. Wait, no, I meant “ashamed, depressed and embittered.”
Jesus wept. I supported the invasion of Afghanistan, and at the time was at least prepared to believe the invasion of Iraq might achieve some good. This is very depressing stuff.
Well, that’s all proceeding according to schedule then. I reckon we can probably pencil the next “liberation” in for sometime around 2015-2020.
Looking deeper, we see that democracy is being presented as the only and last acceptable form of political organization everywhere. A panacea. This is because democracy serves Totalitarian forms of government and allows for political and economic elites to capture the State and society. This is why the promotion of democracy everywhere is found everywhere, with no single criticism of it found anywhere. We are heading towards totalitarian one world government. If some dissent about democracy was heard we would think otherwise.
Democracy in its modern form comes from The French Revolution, they had their State Terror!, Equality, Fraternity and Liberty, and todays democracies have those as well, except the killing is largely based abroad in places like Afghanistan, because they ‘need democracy’.