It is an extremely cynical calculation. Western leaders and an assorted array of compassion-activists use it to generate support for their so-called humanitarian activities on a constant basis. It is almost as effective as it is cynical, and forms the basis of what could be termed the humanitarian death industry.
The calculation, it’s mechanism and requirements:
Western leaders hold the convenient view that they know best regarding all systems of governance worldwide. They have abrogated to themselves the right to interfere globally as they see fit. However, they need a fig leaf to cover their activities, to sanctify them and to provide as high a degree of immunity from criticism as possible. Their aggressive stance which constantly circumvents international law needs a basis that denotes an innocent interest and motivation on their part.
What better area of purview than human rights?
To hear western leaders talk you would think they invented certain rights and so had the right to frame them and name, blame and shame as they wished. You could be forgiven for sensing a large helping of racism in this attitude and constant refrain. “We are the pure of heart, the truly civilized, the beacons of hope and the natural guardians of human rights worldwide.”
Where did these attitudes emerge from?
Did they emerge from the following acts and activities and the attitudes which underpinned them for instance?
The virtual erasing of the original inhabitants of what became the USA.
The enslavement of millions to work on North American plantations.
The creation of an apartheit culture where slaves had no human rights whatsoever.
The subjugation of Latin America to the will of business/political elements in the USA.
The colonisation by Britain and others of half the world with all the exploitation that resulted.
Is this the kind of legacy that gives western nations the right to point their “holy” fingers at others as if their past atrocities and inherent racism was some kind of sanctifying resume?
Or is it much more true and accurate to say that their abuse of power and constant accumulation of ever more power due to their avid exploitation of the rest of the world simply put them in a position to preach to others?
This is akin to putting the insane in charge of the asylum, of installing poachers as gamekeepers and, in more realistic and modern terms, putting criminals, fraudsters, racists, liars and psychopaths in charge of governments.
They emit the constant assertion through myriad devices that they are the pure of heart whose hard-pulsing cardiovascular members are aching to help the downtrodden of the world simply does not ring true.
The truth is that these poachers are no gamekeepers, they are in truth and quite clearly of the criminal fraternity, adept at thieving what is not theirs and concocting a story that effectively wipes away their many sins in self-glorification.
To judge others you must set yourself up as eminently holier-than-thou, an untouchable source with complete integrity and therefore the inalienable and untouchable right to discriminate, torture, kill and subjugate whoever you wish to as the ultimate global power and arbiter of all right and wrong.
That such elites cause hundreds of thousands to lose their lives, destroy millions of lives and fragment entire nations is not supposed to faze anyone to any great degree. The atmosphere of self-awarded saintliness should cover all such activities in a haze of righteous action done by those most trusted to act with supreme purity.
Those who look down their predominantly white noses from their ivory towers judging, castigating and ordering the punishment of others are quite clearly made impure by their previous and very recent acts, their hands run with the blood of those they have sacrificed to their ambitions. These are elites who seek wealth, power and ever-increasing influence. These are the criminal elites of the West whose entreaties to save the lives of others and give them human rights are alloyed by the bloody slaughter they have instigated some few years before and a past that acts as anything but a reference.
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