There is more than just "mild sympathy" to this whole issue.
I do not want to sympathize with victims. I want these things to simply not happen.
I don't buy too much into the depiction of mass media to be any accurate description of what is really happening and why.
All I know is that governments often troll in favour of a specific legislation. It is not only lobbyists who do so, but
politicans as well.
In the case of Mumbai, a huge town, maybe one or two dozen attackers (the reports that some escaped seem to be
somewhat credible) held a town in chaos for days is really hard to believe. If the police ducks under cover instead
of firing at two LONE attackers who do not have any armour and WHO ARE STANDING FREE, then I really wonder what
the heck is going on. They should have realized that people with guns shooting at other people are posing a threat
and should be stopped, but they decided to take cover (?!)
You can be sure that there are enough people who want ethically and morally correct governments.
But it is not as if the Pakistan have a great government at the given time. They are governed by family clans, people who
have huge amount of money outside the country. How is that any "patriotic"?
They are quick to offer 0 protection to their citizens, yet later claim that they are powerless against all those
terrorists - but the Pakistan government has no problem to engage in arms deal with Brazil or Russia after the
IMF gave them money not long ago ...
I would call their current governments of many countries corrupt.
At the same time the USA has had a president whose actions caused around 640.000 dead people in Iraq alone, whereas the estimate from Saddam's regime is in the range of 240.000 dead people (swiss researchers presented this number. The Bush government claimed that they killed no more than 34.000 people, but their method is really really a bad way to accurately measure how many died. In fact, I would go as far and claim that they made up these low numbers).
Yet this president was never charged for war crimes or corruption for real, but he was more than happy to push actions against the war crimes committed by Milosevic of Serbia (who later died in custody during his trial, which I find not acceptable. Even if he was guilty of war crimes, people should not die. Pinochet for example was released and died as a free man .... he could even stand up and walk around when he arrived at home again. What a fucking joke this is...).
If things have to be ethically correct, they need to be correct for EVERY government.
The level of corruption is way too high and too many lies are told or people being brainwashed.
How can the USA apply death penalty against people who are innocent? This is murder.
How can China's dictator party kill people when they allegedly spy for other countries?
The biggest problems are:
- social unfairness
- corruption
- lying politicans
Terrorists are a problem too but they come AFTER all these above problems. Yet the whole
security industry is happy that terrorists are a big priority. They made a lot of profit, and still do,
from invisible almighty muslim terrorists here, to aggressive pirates blackmailing ship owners there.
Seriously, there is not much one can do to bring the corrupt politicans away. New ones will quickly
fill that empty spot ...
