This week some interesting news from the freshly blossoming 'democracy' Afghanistan emerged. Afghanistan quietly passes 'marital rape' law, reports ABC, and the media echoed this information nearly as quiet. Australia is a massive island, and naturally mass media caters more for local interests than providing a global outlook. At the moment 'democratic' elections are held in Afghanistan, which made this bit of medieval legalisation of gender inequality disappear from the hearts and minds of the Australian public.
The meaning of the word 'democracy' has been perverted by the US's imperial wars in this century. US troops terrorized the civilian populations of Iraq and Afghanistan, ostensibly to bring 'freedom' and 'democracy' to the people living there. Bereft of any reason, like lemmings, a number of countries, among them Australia, supported the US terror campaign. About 8 years after the US has started its war against the world, more than a million civilians have been 'freed' of their lifes, several millions have been 'freed' of their homes.
Iraq transformed from a secular totalitarian regime into a US satellite divided along religious lines, Taliban and sharia law have again a stronghold in Afghanistan. The right to vote, so it seems, does not necessary mean an influence to the way people are governed. The German population elected the Nazi party, certainly not with the intention to replace democracy by a totalitarian system.
In hindsight, many people wonder how this systematic destruction of human life could happen. Somebody asked me lately whether you can be born as a Nazi. Although Germany's major event in recent history (the peaceful revolution in East Germany just 20 years ago) indicates the non-existence of 'Nazi genes' or any other prevalence of Germans for genocide, the memory of Germany's 'evil' phase in history and of the 'heroic fighters' against them dominate the stories about this nation.
The winners of the second world war wanted to prevent history from repeating, or at least said so. They failed badly, violence is still used to prevent peace on this planet. Humans learn a lot by imitation, and glorifying violence to achieve selfish goals sets a truly bad example. History shows the impossibility to prevent civilian casualties in warfare, and even in the 'just' war against Nazi Germany the glorious winners used systematic terror against the population to win the war. Using fire to transform city centers into furnaces that cremated civilians alive in their bomb shelters does not harm the enemy's military, it's an act of terror, nothing else.
This simple lesson from history, warfare always kills innocent people, should have at least cautioned nations from engaging in war. I can't see any justification to kill innocent life, and deny any support to those killers. I don't care too much about the bible, but the commandment "Thou shall not kill" makes a lot of sense to me. Not being a Christian, there must be an amendment to the commandment that allows exemptions for overlords which i haven't seen.
The loss of innocent life was taken as an excuse to kill more innocent life, and in hindsight, all that happened was another imperial war propagandised as a 'just war'. The lies that have led to the invasion of Iraq are now known, hardly anyone cares anymore remembering the start of the invasion of Afghanistan.
Without any evidence about the famous infamous 911 attacks, US officials declared Osama Bin Laden (Immanuel Goldstein) as 'mastermind' behind the attacks. Besides a dodgy video confession there's still no evidence for his involvement in the 911 attacks, and the 911 commission reports names Khalid Sheik Mohamed s mastermind. However, this report came out after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the war propagandists used 911 rhetoric in both cases.
Without any evidence linking Osama Bin Laden to 911, the Taliban denied handing over OBL, and the US terrorised the Afghan population for the distrust of their leaders in American supremacy and story telling. The massacre in Dasht-E-Leili, another Min Lai, and using prisons in Bagram, Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay to torture democracy into civilians came next.
After WW2, the use of secret service against its own population, war propaganda, experiments with human and unjustified invasions were identified as hallmarks of fascism. Government out of control, uniting with big business in order to create a living hell for the majority of its population. Of course, it can not happen 'now', we are only allowed to believe historians belonging to the winning side, it just looks a little bit like corporatism to unqualified spectators like me.
It's not a myth that especially American 'intelligence' services have 'special rights'. There's plenty of evidence for systematic torture, and none that this fascist strategy has ended. It's obvious that Bush and Blair lied to their people to win their support for this terror tour, yet their war crimes remain unpunished. Privacy ceased to exist in the western world, and thought crimes have been established.
Once the American empire has ceased, historians will probably will call the beginning of this millenium 'violent rise of US corporatism'. Now, it is kind of politically incorrect to come to this conclusion, as long as the US repeatedly claim to be the best democracy on this planet they cannot lie again...
Hindsight does not help to learn from history. We have to be honest enough to identify lack of control of national leadership as the major source of injustice on this planet. No matter how we call political systems of government (democratic, monarchistic, totalitarian, fundamentalistic), governments are the biggest threat of innocent life on this planet in the 21. century. Without control, governments are nothing but a gang of criminals. If Bush can get away with murdering more than a million civilians, there political system might be called heaven on earth, but it fails to serve justice. The responsibility to run torture camps looks meager in comparison, so why on earth should Obama do anything to stop it?
Obedience in the military prevents (and often contradicts) reasonable thinking. Australia, as the US lap dog, won't bite the hand that steals their tax payers money for outdated military equipment, and drags Australian soldiers into their business wars. Even now, as the Afghan government reinstates the right of marital rape, Australians soldiers protect 'freedom and democracy'.
As long as the American idea of 'democracy' includes torture, invasion of foreign countries, arbitrary legal systems, no responsibility in office and massive surveillance of its own population, to name of few expressions of American freedom, I dont want democracy. Support for US politics means currently supporting torture, killing and enslaving other countries. Any leader aligning with the US might just promote this idea of 'democracy' in their country. But then, marital rape happens relatively unnoticed and unpunished in this country as well, if it's the law, it can't be wrong, right?
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