“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised”.....Leo Tolstoy.
Double standards applied by the international community on how they view Libya's suppression of it own people and have gone to war, justly, in order to stop Mad Mo from massacring his own yet are" monitoring" the situation in Yemen, have urged restraint and are appalled by the excessive force used to to repress and intimidate the citizens of Syria, have turned a blind eye in Bahrain and the threats to the soon to be fingerless Saudi citizens have not even evoked public criticism or concern, continues to astound and worry me. It vexes not only the core of all that is right,decent and just but allows much darker forces to thrive which I suspect can only compound the on going chaos and certainly gives a morally toxic message to future generations. If we do not stand up for the fundamental human rights then all else is meaningless.
As Plato once said - We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I fear it is the International community who are afraid of the light for what I can only perceive to be a misguided moral fabric and like the Emperor, naked for all the world to see.
Double standards applied by the international community on how they view Libya's suppression of it own people and have gone to war, justly, in order to stop Mad Mo from massacring his own yet are" monitoring" the situation in Yemen, have urged restraint and are appalled by the excessive force used to to repress and intimidate the citizens of Syria, have turned a blind eye in Bahrain and the threats to the soon to be fingerless Saudi citizens have not even evoked public criticism or concern, continues to astound and worry me. It vexes not only the core of all that is right,decent and just but allows much darker forces to thrive which I suspect can only compound the on going chaos and certainly gives a morally toxic message to future generations. If we do not stand up for the fundamental human rights then all else is meaningless.
As Plato once said - We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
I fear it is the International community who are afraid of the light for what I can only perceive to be a misguided moral fabric and like the Emperor, naked for all the world to see.
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