death of dictators
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
October 23, 2011 8:41am CST
Now it is right out in the open, death to dictators is permited to take place in the public eye. True the two that have just been killed are reported to be terrible people and have ill treated their people for many years. But my question is where does it stop? What happened to trials? Are we now so sure that there is no other side to the public judgements then that given out by the press? Cannot we collectively handle these people in a more humane way? I agree that the world must change but are we sure this is the way to do it. Can you not foresee that soon it may deteriorate into public judgement with smaller and smaller fact to back it up?
The more I see the pictures from Libya the more convinced I am that we are no further advanced as a civilization then we were 500 years ago. My concern is not so much for the victims as it is for the participants. How can we expect better leaders when the level of our behavior as people is so little above uncontrolled wild animals?
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
23 Oct 11
Wild animals are helped always (and I mean ALWAYS) by the so called civilised western countries. Such happened in South America, when the United States, worrried about Castro in Cuba, helped place dictators in my country and other countries. In my country, socialist President Allende was voted by us. But please, do read the now unclassified Cia papers about Unitas Operation. Pinochet was the result of that. And I want also to remind everyone that the same happened with Saddam Hussein.
It is true that Gadaffi was a dictator. It is true that there was a civil war. But it is also true that NATO helped the rebels. And I ask: why should other countries meddle in a country´s internal affairs? Would "the land of the free" want other people to come to implant another idea of freedom?
I am shaken and mad. As I was shaken and mad at other wars where western countries have sent innocent people to die for a cause then dont understand. Vietnam is an example.
I like the people of the US and I have part of my family living in England and in France. I have lived there and I have friends there. But I don´t like the way they decide who has the reason and turn other people into wolves. SHAME!!!
@savypat (20216)
• United States
25 Oct 11
The world's interference would not be allowed here and yet we are so subject to fear that we allow ourselves to send our young people to kill and be killed in far places that have an ecconomic value to our government. I understand that saving Africa and it's many peoples being destroyed by evil, greed and mass murder have no appeal to us, after all of what value are they to the Western way of life. That is not to say that many American people and organizations are not active there with humanitarian aid, but to our government and others in the world this is for all the attention it gets a lost cause. It is a totally sad comment on humanity. There is no equity here only financial benefit or fear can cause the action necessary to save these people.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
25 Oct 11
I am so angry that developped countries will not do their share to end with the world´s famine (2 billion undernourished people, while the planet has food enough for all) yet they send kids (almost children) to fight for riches that will not even reach the hands of their population. The greed of few causes violence, pain and hurt.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
23 Oct 11
we should also take into account where this incidents happened lately instead of treating it as a general thing. It happened where "an eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth" is still very much practiced as a natural part of tradition and culture, and so does the word " blood money " in their law. I fully understand what you are trying to say, cause we come from countries with similar laws and culture, the big question is do this people understand us? the same way we sometimes do not understand them
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
23 Oct 11
You have a very good point here. Cultures are different. I guess my main objection is the Press coverage it has been given in the Western world. Right, wrong, black, white or green this man was for many years a leader of his country, and yet here he is like a piece of meat on world wide TV. I in no way support his means but he and others like him are pulling, kicking and screaming people into the modern world, without them and their like the old tribal systems would prevail until the people starve or die of preventable desease. Maybe we can say, so what? But these are people with long and varied histories, do you think for one moment without their leadership that demands world attention we in our over stressed, techincal cultures would even notice that they disapeared? Yet we save the tigers behind bars in our zoos, at the same time we allow whole tribes of people to fade into the past. There is just something wrong here and certianly no easy answer.
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
25 Oct 11
Hi savypat, You make a very good point and yes this has got to stop. We are behaving like wild animals here. Everyone has a right to a trial and a fair hearing before judgement is passed. I feel that big changes are happening and will continue to happen but we just can't continue to kill such dictators in this way. Blessings.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
24 Oct 11
I tend to agree Pat. The dictators certainly should be stopped caught and tried in court and eventually punished appropriately because that is the civilized and humane way which, in this day and age, we should all live by no matter where we come from or what we’ve endured. To take the law in our hands and deal with the matter so violently is lowering our standards to those of the cruel authoritarians we despise.
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@blink69nix0 (847)
• Philippines
25 Jan 12
This situation taught us human has its time.We human are not allowed to kill anybody. However some people likes killing each other. Time may come and go and the final judgment is soo near.I know one person will overpower,our destiny will uphold.
