03.12.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 3:51 pm by daMan
last night, accused genocidal mastermind Slobodan "Butcher of the Balkans" Milosevic was found dead in his cell, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.
there is speculation that he may have been poisoned, or committed suicide a la Heinrich Himmler in Nuremburg… the initial reaction is that he has "escaped justice". that last part confuses me — escaped justice? how? because he’s now dancing in hell of his own accord, as opposed to being tried, found guilty and then rendered dead?
OR… is it because he didn’t stick around to be murdered by his vengeful accusers? DO NOT misunderstand me — this is not an expression of "sympathy for the devil" — i’m sure Milosevic was every bit the scumbag he was accused of being…. but at that, he was hardly a rare commodity, as the world is still full of tyrants, despots and madmen that are ignored, tolerated or embraced to whatever degree the West deems them valued resources…
but… this bullshit about "justice denied" is really about somebody wanting Milosevic’ blood on their hands, or being able to gloat over the thought of his rotting in jail - being better fed and cared for than the poor of Bosnia, no doubt…
"justice" here is a euphemism for vengeance… if it wasn’t, then all involved would simply be glad that the mother fucker is rotting in hell, where he belongs… or, did his accusers imagine that the fires of hell would be stoked higher for ol’ Slobby, if he were dispatched at the hands of those "seeking justice"…?
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03.07.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 11:22 am by daMan
let’s see:
despite the hype of having brought "democracy" to Iraq, things are in many ways much worse for the average Iraqi citizen than before the ameriKKKan invasion, and the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
It turns out that liberal democracy can’t be forced at the barrel of a
gun any more than socialist revolution. Neither Leninist-style coups
nor preemptive wars can force societies to mature before their time. If
anything, the Iraq debacle shows there are no short cuts to "the end of
history." Francis Fukuyama, author "The End of History and the Last Man"
This is not to defend the Husseini regime, or imply that they were better off with him… but… it’s difficult to pretend that things have gotten better… the infrastructure – clean water, 24/7 electricity — have yet to be restored… and the widespread level of violence is worse than anything experienced during the brutal dictator’s regime…
it appears that, among ameriKKKa’s many miscalculations in this "pre-emptive war on terrorism to find non-existent WMDs and make the mid-East safe for western exploitation" was the role the deposed dictator’s regime played in keeping these various factions off of each others’ throats… having created, in essence, a power vacuum, we offer nothing in its place save empty platitudes, and appear to have no solution to preventing the civil war which looms imminent…
the risk that Iraq posed to the rest of the world is apparently not the only thing we got wrong: it seems we gave absolutely no consideration to the risk our so-called "liberation" posed to the lives of the average "Iraqi on the street"…
which begs the question: we know what we liberated them from… but, what exactly did we liberate them for???
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03.05.06
Posted in View points at 11:50 pm by daMan
"It’s Hard out here for a Pimp" just won Best Original Song at the 78th annual Academy Awards…
…I’m not really sure how I feel about that — but, y’can’t say it wasn’t a surprise…
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