Just some idle thoughts
This was my mail to someone I know.....
This mail will for the now deal with just the factual aspects. And the purpose will be to clarify why I reacted the way I did.
Why is it that people react to just the current face of things, why don't they stop to think why a certain thing has happened. The background, the issues involved and how many stages it went through before the process finally culminated in one resounding act that people finally see and then judge.
Why is it that the West, without any provocation whatsoever decimated the native American, decimated the Aboriginals, without any provocation came to our land and ruled us for hundreds of years subjecting us to all kinds of cruelties, injustices and other untold acts that suited their whim and fancy?
And why is that the West now attacks who it wants, persecutes who it wants, makes the rules and implements them subjectively, allocating special favors and waivers for its favorites? Why is it that the nuclear issue is used to determine the fate of free states. Why is Israel not asked to declare its nuclear arsenal, but Muslim or communist states cannot even hope to attain the status of nuclear states without persecution?
And East Timor was run by Australian missionaries, it started asking for independence, and then things finally go to the point where Indonesia had to send in troops because there were daily issues like drive by shootings, bombs, etc. But America intervened and what do we have? East Timor is free, an independent state. They committed every atrocity imaginable, but did the world ever hear of them? Were they labeled terrorists, nope, they were called freedom fighters.
The Chechens never got that luxury, they didn’t start off like this, they too started peacefully, but the answer was always a slap in the face. So they got more and more extreme. And now it has come to this. So why doesnt the world accept their claim as freedom fighters? Why this double standard? Double standards lead to anger, to despair, to frustration and then to retaliation.
Many slaves killed their masters? So were they murderers? Many hacked their masters to pieces, raped their women. So were they cruel, inhuman for doing that after having tolerated that and much worse from their masters? So if they reacted is it fair to just see the reaction and not the history behind it?
How bigoted, narrow-minded and cruel can one get? I say that those who see just the current face of things and won't look at the reasons why it go to this stage are the inhuman ones, the ones with no consideration for the other person.
One should look at people as a collective, not as many people, but as one entity. The Russians, the Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese. And it is history, past behavior, examples throughout recorded history that help us in determining the character of a man, in the same way we analyse and gauge the character of a people. The West may have good people, but if one was to generalise, then it is overwhelmingly bigoted, narrow minded, cruel, greedy, self centred and hypocritical.
The West is overwhelmingly guilty of forming opinions without looking at facts, without taking into account the sensitivities of other people. It goes by its own standards and accepts others to just accept them as universal truth. And it has been doing that for centuries. I am sorry, but the image has been engraved in stone and if now it is expected that it can free itself of that image, or feel offended if that image is referred to, then it has to be patient. It will have to prove through its actions that this image is wrong.
So far it is simply cementing that image by becoming more and more opinionated. So before you ask how can it be that what the Chechens did was right, put yourself in their shoes. And all of this that I have said here, I have said to you many times, maybe not all at once, that’s why I said that you know this, and I won't repeat it. To know this, and to still ask that question reeked of unilateralism and arrogance. If, despite knowing this, you can still question their struggle, then you are best left in your world of ignorance.
Yes, terrorism is bad, death is bad, killing is bad, but sometimes people are driven to such behavior by constant oppression and suppression. To say that there can be no excuse for such behavior would be a bit pompous. Its easy for people sitting in their nice safe environments, with access to clean water, fresh food, and no worries about tomorrow to criticise and be snobbish about the poor in Africa scuffling and pushing to be the first to get their daily rations when food aid arrives in a famine hit area. Should be call them uncultured brutes for pushing aside the weak to get to that food. Hmm, maybe we should go hungry for a few days, often more, and watch our children and loved ones go through the same, and then when food arrives, we should see if we can still act civilized.
Enough said.
This mail will for the now deal with just the factual aspects. And the purpose will be to clarify why I reacted the way I did.
Why is it that people react to just the current face of things, why don't they stop to think why a certain thing has happened. The background, the issues involved and how many stages it went through before the process finally culminated in one resounding act that people finally see and then judge.
Why is it that the West, without any provocation whatsoever decimated the native American, decimated the Aboriginals, without any provocation came to our land and ruled us for hundreds of years subjecting us to all kinds of cruelties, injustices and other untold acts that suited their whim and fancy?
And why is that the West now attacks who it wants, persecutes who it wants, makes the rules and implements them subjectively, allocating special favors and waivers for its favorites? Why is it that the nuclear issue is used to determine the fate of free states. Why is Israel not asked to declare its nuclear arsenal, but Muslim or communist states cannot even hope to attain the status of nuclear states without persecution?
And East Timor was run by Australian missionaries, it started asking for independence, and then things finally go to the point where Indonesia had to send in troops because there were daily issues like drive by shootings, bombs, etc. But America intervened and what do we have? East Timor is free, an independent state. They committed every atrocity imaginable, but did the world ever hear of them? Were they labeled terrorists, nope, they were called freedom fighters.
The Chechens never got that luxury, they didn’t start off like this, they too started peacefully, but the answer was always a slap in the face. So they got more and more extreme. And now it has come to this. So why doesnt the world accept their claim as freedom fighters? Why this double standard? Double standards lead to anger, to despair, to frustration and then to retaliation.
Many slaves killed their masters? So were they murderers? Many hacked their masters to pieces, raped their women. So were they cruel, inhuman for doing that after having tolerated that and much worse from their masters? So if they reacted is it fair to just see the reaction and not the history behind it?
How bigoted, narrow-minded and cruel can one get? I say that those who see just the current face of things and won't look at the reasons why it go to this stage are the inhuman ones, the ones with no consideration for the other person.
One should look at people as a collective, not as many people, but as one entity. The Russians, the Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese. And it is history, past behavior, examples throughout recorded history that help us in determining the character of a man, in the same way we analyse and gauge the character of a people. The West may have good people, but if one was to generalise, then it is overwhelmingly bigoted, narrow minded, cruel, greedy, self centred and hypocritical.
The West is overwhelmingly guilty of forming opinions without looking at facts, without taking into account the sensitivities of other people. It goes by its own standards and accepts others to just accept them as universal truth. And it has been doing that for centuries. I am sorry, but the image has been engraved in stone and if now it is expected that it can free itself of that image, or feel offended if that image is referred to, then it has to be patient. It will have to prove through its actions that this image is wrong.
So far it is simply cementing that image by becoming more and more opinionated. So before you ask how can it be that what the Chechens did was right, put yourself in their shoes. And all of this that I have said here, I have said to you many times, maybe not all at once, that’s why I said that you know this, and I won't repeat it. To know this, and to still ask that question reeked of unilateralism and arrogance. If, despite knowing this, you can still question their struggle, then you are best left in your world of ignorance.
Yes, terrorism is bad, death is bad, killing is bad, but sometimes people are driven to such behavior by constant oppression and suppression. To say that there can be no excuse for such behavior would be a bit pompous. Its easy for people sitting in their nice safe environments, with access to clean water, fresh food, and no worries about tomorrow to criticise and be snobbish about the poor in Africa scuffling and pushing to be the first to get their daily rations when food aid arrives in a famine hit area. Should be call them uncultured brutes for pushing aside the weak to get to that food. Hmm, maybe we should go hungry for a few days, often more, and watch our children and loved ones go through the same, and then when food arrives, we should see if we can still act civilized.
Enough said.
posted by lone-ranger at 6:33 PM
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