Sunday, July 28, 2013

Hypocrisy

72 'activists' have now been killed in Egypt - protestors gunned down by State security forces.

And world leaders are queuing up to condemn the heavy handed suppression of democracy, aren't they?

Aren't they?

Oh wait, they aren't. Well what about sanctions then? Uh, no. No-fly zones? You must be joking.

Surely Human Rights campaigners and the President of the United States - a holder of the Nobel Peace Prize - are united in condemnation of the Egyptian Military's actions? Surely there must be outcry at the countries that supply Egypt with weapons? Surely our own parliament is being lobbied by all those who insist that weapons are supplied only to those regimes that don't use the weapons against their own people. Surely the very people who protested against the actions of the Gaddafi and Assad regimes are joined in condemnation of the suppression of an election and the 'will of the people'.

Don't be silly. There can't be an outcry against those countries that supply Egypt with weapons, because the aforementioned Nobel Peace Prize winner still pays the Egyptian military $3 Billion a year, and will continue to deliver its promised F16 fighters. And the 'will of the people' only counts when the protesters are young, english speaking, facebook using, secular liberals. With lots of women in the picture. And it helps if they are college educated, like the journalists who photograph them.

Otherwise, they can be gunned down with impunity.

What the dead needed, you see, was not their right to life, but a good public relations agency. This is why the Libyan rebels hired a US PR agency on day one, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Syrian rebels had done the same.

Western Liberals are only interested in people who are just like them, and the claims that they see all people as the same, with no discrimination, are in fact just plain lies.

If you're 'just like us', or beautiful or young, then we'll like you.

If you're not like us, or ugly (and bearded), or the wrong (political) colour, then we don't want you.

That's the reality of Enlightened Western Morality. It's just a crock of shit.

The world knows we are hypocrites. It's just us that don't.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013