We live in an absurd world where our leadership exalts freedom as a
standard of life and wages fights to defend this freedom of a
standard of life. But freedom is not our standard of life, freedom
is a concept which celebrates what is good in humanity, such as
freedom from hate, freedom from poverty, freedom from war, freedom
from indifference.
When the Saskatoon police and Saskatchewan Justice put in jail
Peter Klassen for four years while knowing all along he didn't
commit any atrocious crime he was charged for, I think that this has
happened because people in the Saskatoon police and people in
Saskatchewan Justice prize their standard of life above the
individual right for Peter Klassen to make a difference for the
common good. And again, as yesterday I explained the economic BIG
BUBBLE being caused by our corporatist leadership, I think that this
is happening because this corporatist leadership prize their
standard of life above the right of all other people to make a
difference for the common good. And again, as today we commemorate
the anniversary of the holocaust, I think that this human atrocity
occurred because the German Nazis prized their standard of life
above the right for other people to make a difference for the common
good.
As long as we are indifferent to the disadvantaged predicament of
other people we have no justice. Our absurd world today is not much
different from Nazism or Fascism times as we wage wars against
terrorism while we kill innocent people, as we preach the Free
Market while we make the poor poorer, as we run our countries with
governments representing private contractual deals rather than
social contracts for the benefit of the common good.
In Italy, for example, we have President George Bush's friend
Silvio
Berlusconi who is taking over the Italian judiciary to protect
himself from charges of corruption, and in this same country we have
parliamentarian Alessandra Mussolini who publicly hails her
grandfather fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the 20th century's
"greatest statesman" while her government is still refusing to
return the obelisk Benito Mussolini stole from Ethiopia in his 1937
imperial war.
Dictatorship has not ended with the 2nd world war, it
is here with us in the form of the Free Market as long as we remain
indifferent to the self evident rights of individuals and other
people.
References:
Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a
part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then
blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest
in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made
patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm
Pertinent articles in Ensign
Holocaust/Shoah, site managed by David M. Dickerson, http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html
Holocaust Memorial Day, http://www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/
Peter Klassen: the man who served four years for crimes he didn't
commit. Indeed, they were crimes that never happened! Injustice
Busters http://injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Peter.htm
Ethiopia wants Italy to return its stolen obelisk Benito
Mussolini had it carted off to Rome in 1937, MATTHEW ROSENBERG,
Associated Press, January 26, 2002 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/1227575
Mussolini to challenge party boss, CNN, January 25, 2002 http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/25/italy.mussolini/index.html |