History will probably remember the Guantanamo Bay prison for longer than the already forgotten Prison S-21, where up to 20,000 people were tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge. “Even though the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian, foreigners were also imprisoned, including Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians, Pakistanis, Britons, Americans, New Zealanders and Australians.” These were captured on the high seas as they were sailing through the South China Sea. “They included four Americans, three French, two Australians, a Briton and a New Zealander. One of the last prisoners to die was American Michael Scott Deeds, who was captured with his friend Chris De Lance while sailing from Singapore to Hawaii.”
And the UN war crimes tribunal according to a CNN correspondent, is on the verge of collapsing because its tribunal officials have been bribed or are corrupt. The trial has already cost the World Body $100 million dollars. But don’t worry, the UN is going to fix the problem by sending “ethics monitors” to attend it and sending any available UN internal affairs investigation results to the Cambodian government.
The bigots who felt that Cambodians and Vietnamese and Lao were different than Americans and that Communism was somehow more natural and authentic for them practiced sedition assiduously until America abandoned the field. The same sick crowd are now in charge and pressing to condemn billions to every strand of totalitarianism that festers in the world. They will champion any cause that is not America’s.
This one incident is a graphic illustration of much of what is wrong with the U.N. and any other multinational construct that admits corrupt un-democratic members.
The nations that have internalized rule of law as part of their core beliefs will tend to play by the rules.
The authoritarian dirtbags who don’t give two shits for individual liberty or rule of law will break the rules and bribe officials every time.
They will twist the proceedings to ensure there is no negative impact for them and manipulate any undertakings to line their nations elite’s pockets at the expense of their own citizens, and any first world nations who have both deep pockets and naiveté.
These international organizations were flawed ideas from the outset, just like socialism.
We should withdraw from the U.N. and abrogate all treaties made through them. We should give them 90 days to remove their personnel and property from U.S. soil.
We need to form a new organization that incorporates Albion’s seedlings and similar nations. Only first world nations willing to carry their own weight economically and militarily, with ingrained respect for individual liberty as defined by English Common Law and who really practice representative government need apply.
I would settle for just the U.S., Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. as the core group, with possible, eventual admission to others who meet the stringent criteria.
A second organization with military and trade agreements might exist between this Albion’s alliance and other nations who might otherwise qualify, but don’t have the economic wherewithal to join yet.
I can’t believe the current U.S. administration and by extension half the U.S. voting population seem to lend such credence to this pack of unscrupulous scum.
Sigh. That’s a relief! The UN is in charge of fixing it. Can’t see why that won’t be a great thing. One tiny little problem, though, I’ve never heard of the “ethics” brand of computer monitors. Where are they built? How technically reliable might they be? Why would the UN pick that line of product when it isn’t internationally known? Is there something I’m missing?
That One World Government may actually work –as soon as one culture eliminates all the others –and its own dissidents.
I hope history will disagree but the western media is certainly not as good at forgetting Guantanamo as it is the dissection, by our police, of thousnads of living innocent people to use their body organs.
http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ips040108.htm
This is comparable to the Khmer Rouge just as the Dragodan Massacre, of 210 unarmed civilians outside Britain’s military HQ in Kosovo is comparable to the My Lai Massacre. Unfortunately today’s media is more compliant, arguably infinitely more compliant, than it was then.
I’ve been to Tuol Sleng twice, and several of the killing fields. It just makes me mad that for all of the history the human race has experienced, we’re still making the same bloody mistakes, and listening to the same old tired ideas and solutions.
Never again? Yeah right.