#us hypocrisy

[bavovniatko]

[shinyasahalo]

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Let me put it absolutely clear. Helping Israel by hitting Iran missiles and drones in the air area of third countries (of the THIRD COUNTRIES) isn't an escalation. But hitting russian missiles and (Iranian, btw) drones in the Ukraine air area to save Ukrainian lives is suddenly an escalation. Don't tell me you really care for Ukraine and stand with Ukraine and etc, US politics. Because you don't.

[workersolidarity]

Oh the hypocrisy of the West knows no bounds!

[elmacheteillustrated]

Capitol Attack

[shinyasahalo]

[elmacheteillustrated]

Cambia, Nada Cambia

[imspardagus]

The beam out of thine own eye

Am I alone in thinking it’s a bit rich for the hoodlum-enabling Vance and Rubio to be criticising the UK and its police for their treatment of Henry Nowak?

I do not mean to suggest that what appears to have happened – that Henry was dying of stab wounds when the police, refusing to listen to his pleas for help, pinned him to the ground and  handcuffed him, believing that he had made racial comments against his assailant, a Sikh – was in any sense acceptable. It is more that, when the murder capital of the world, where police and state officials regularly gun down or suffocate innocent citizens, chooses to comment critically, expansively and, let’s face it, in a racist way on a rare incident in one of the safest countries in the world, you want to say something like “physician, heal thyself”.

But of course, “they would say that wouldn’t they”. Their whole playbook is built around distraction and finger-pointing. Their concept of fake news is “anything we disagree with”. Their concept of truth is “anything we choose to say”. They, and the billionaires who have bought them, come across as lying, cheating, self-regarding creeps of the worst order.

It is hardly worth pointing out, because they are not listening to anything but the crud-clogged grinding of their tiny brains, that the alleged behaviour of the Hampshire police has brought down upon them both widespread criticism and revulsion but also independent investigation and that the man who actually committed the only crime – murder – has been tried, convicted and jailed. That is how a civilised country deals with these incidents. It does not glory in thuggish behaviour. It does not excuse overreach. It prosecutes and, by doing so, upholds the rule of law and the standards of decent behaviour.

In the UK, it is true, we do have the despicable elements of the reform party and the convicted thug Yaxley-Lennon trying to use Henry’s death to whip up hate and division, about the only thing they are good at. A funny breed of “patriot” who lose no opportunity to slag off our country, both here and abroad. But most people know that these incidents, appalling as they are, are mercifully rare. Not as rare as they should be, but still rare.

A civilised nation is not measured by the standard of perfection but by how it deals with its imperfections and failings. For they will always  exist in any society made up of people. There are bound to be occasions when two or more strands of thought, each worthy in its own context, clash and when decisions have to be made ad hoc. And some of those decisions may come out wrong. But in a civilised country those who got it wrong know and accept that they must account for doing so and that lessons must be learned.

The UK may have discovered that it has a mote in its eye but before the US presumes to offer its opinion on that affliction, it had better deal with the beam in its own.