By the same token, they are also unfit to hold
important positions of influence where their inability to
tell right from wrong due to their own loss of objectivity
and rational thinking, can lead to another's suffering.
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Scoop: Is Democracy Inimical To Empire Building?
Tags: empire, zionism, democracy, warcrimes on 2008-07-18 -All Annotations (0) -About
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- SOTT: In the above passages, the author clearly recognizes the pathological aspects. However, due to the lack of knowledge of ponerology, he cannot imagine those pathological elements as a separate subspecies. Instead, he tries desperately to mend his worldview by attributing those to traumatic experiences.posted by kropotkin on 2008-07-18
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- SOTT: Again, the failure of these debates is due to the fact that the pathological elements in the society are seen as normal and their actions are judged on the basis of morality. Instead, they should be viewed as a separate subspecies and studied and dealt with on the basis of psychological science, i.e. ponerology.posted by kropotkin on 2008-07-18
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- SOTT: Although the author recognizes that these cases are pathological, he wrongly attributed them to the traumatic memories of holocaust. Rather, as pointed out by Lobaczewski in his book Political Ponerology, they are the results of either inherited genetic mutations, as in the case of psychopathy, or subtle brain damages acquired in the course of life.posted by kropotkin on 2008-07-18
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Thus we see that ZB's
observation for imperial mobilization has necessitated both
a new Pearl Harbor, and the curtailment of civil liberties
in order to counter the democratic instincts of the American
public against imperial mobilization -
There is indeed a lot of thought behind his
deceptively laconic statement “Democracy is inimical to
imperial mobilization”, for what it really states is
that public protest can be destructive to the oilygarchy
interests -
The power
of an angry peoples willing to lay down their lives for
their rights and justice worries all tyrants and empires. -
But if they perceive an enemy (real or
imagined) is out to get them, they will rise in self
defense, as any self respecting nation would. -
We can write and lament all we
want, but so long as the American peoples continue to
finance and arm Israel with their tax dollars and permit
this genocide and hypocrisy to continue, there will be more
and more books written in the future about the
“banality of evil”! -
Their most impressive and successful
myth, that will one day perhaps rival those in ancient
civilizations, is that "it is the poor Israel that is under
siege by the evil and barbaric Palestinians illegally living
on land given to the Jews by God Almighty Himself and it is
so written in their ancient scriptures". -
Those who advocate support of Israel at the
expense of enslaving Palestinians and killing them in small
numbers at a time on a daily basis and wounding many more so
that they would eventually die off as cripples but not raise
the alarm in the rest of the world because numbers seem to
define when mass killing is called a genocide and when it
isn't, or removing them forcibly from their homeland
euphemistically calling it a "population transfer", are
guilty of the same crimes of genocide they accuse their own
oppressors of. -
While the Holocaust suffering of the Jews
lasted for six long apocalyptic years, the suffering and
persecution of many Palestinians has gone on for more than
three decades and is no less cataclysmic for the victims -
Hence those
who criticize this prolific author and Holocaust survivor
for his hypocrisy, must realize that he is not a rational
person. For a rational mind, it would indeed be hypocrisy. -
These words
are not from a rational mind -
Thus one sees the Zionist rulers of
Israel delay making any reasonable peace because they know
that time is in their favor, that making any kind of just
peace in the future will have to take into account the facts
on the ground that they are busy seeding! They also learn
from the post apartheid South Africa that once the wealth
and power is accumulated in the hands of the minority ruling
class, its just and equitable redistribution later, when
justice purportedly prevails and peace has been established
between the warring factions, is next to
impossible -
The
successive governments purposely force one crisis after
another to make pretexts for building more settlements and
partitioning the area into disjointed Bantustans. Their hope
is that the Palestinians will finally give up and just leave
out of desperation. -
The Israeli
governments regardless of their stripes (Likud or Labor),
usually dominated by Zionist ideologues, continue to oppress
the remaining Palestinians now living in less than 22% of
their original pre-1948 land, k -
He would learn that Israel is a
fraudulent creation born of a fraudulent motto a land for
a people, for a people without land, for a land without
people (how do they keep that going?) -
over there on Mars, they call it hypocrisy and
thuggery. But here on Earth it is called Anti-Semitism and
“war on terrorism”. -
Then how do they still end up being led by known killers and
war criminals? -
Then how
comes Israel can persist in its illegal occupation and
systematic genocide of their own Semitic brethren and
cousins, the Palestinians, and the same war criminals get
re-elected time and again?
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