Meanwhile the UN Committee
Against Torture in its recently
released report has expressed concerns about human rights records in the
United States. The Panel was
specifically addressing issues of police brutality, torture, and excessive use
of force by law enforcement officials.
However, as we will report in the next edition of CA!, the seriously
lopsided figures of abortion among the poor (black) population, not to talk of
the continued use of mercury-preserved vaccines exclusively for those
population who rely on government-health insurance for the vaccines in that
country, etc (see last edition of CA! Vol 17 Q2)
are as despicable as any human rights violation can be.
With such an attitude to her own citizens at
home, is it any wonder that the killing of civilians abroad in places like
Yemen or Afghanistan – either by troops or drones – means very little to the
American government? It is when it comes
to Nigeria (or Israel), that the Americans suddenly remember that even
implacable brutal sworn enemies are humans with inalienable rights!
Other western
democracies are not left out of the hypocritical charades. For instance, with the recent approval of a
new British military base in Bahrain, the UK has seemingly become blind to
human rights issues in that country. And
even within the United Kingdom itself, as the horrible spectacle of insane
Islam –inspired insurgency becomes more real, “human rights” is gradually being
consigned to the back benches. For
instance, the Home Office is currently frantically fast-tracking the new
Counter Terrorism and Security Bill through the Parliament. With the Bill,
British citizens who show sympathy for ISIS could have their national passports
confiscated and have their physical movements and access to internet
restricted. Anything can happen to such
folks thereafter. Various versions of similar bills are being drafted in other
western countries.
Are these measures reasonable?
Absolutely! But if they are reasonable in the US and in Europe, so also must
they be in Nigeria. And in Israel!
If only the western democracies will
understand that the Nigerian victims of Boko Haram insurgency, now in their
thousands, are human beings too! And
rather than keep on encouraging the barely-hidden sponsors of insurgency in
Nigeria with meaningless hypocritical political statements, they should take
concrete noble actions to end the carnages. For instance the master-mind of the
Nyanya bus terminal bombing that killed and maimed scores, Ogwuchi, had been
previously arrested by the security forces.
He was released after strident cries from western-funded NGOs defending
his “human rights.”
But terrorism
(as New World Order masterminds who are exploiting the phenomenon are very well
aware) is a global issue that cannot be restricted to only certain geographical
borders. The genie is already out of the bottle, and there is little hope that
the nations will be able to do what is required to deal with the problem. Sin
and rebellion against God is at the bottom of it all, and as things are, it is
left for each individual to escape for dear life by boarding the only available
Ark of salvation – Jesus Christ! (See Acts 4:12)
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