Everyday on the news we hear or read that this or that alleged murderer is appearing in court to face murder charges. Why do we never hear of politicians appearing for ordering to kill hundreds, if not thousands of people?
When a person decide to murder or kill someone for whatever reason and this person gets caught, they will have to appear in court to defend themselves. He will need to give reasons for his actions and if he is found guilty, he will receive a jail sentence.
Most of these individuals know the result of his actions beforehand. They either act out of response or act with the knowledge that he will not be caught. The persons with criminal intend to murder will either act knowing they will not get caught or they have no conscience at all, or both.
So if a normal person ends up in court for his actions, then why don’t politicians? When a politician decides to invade a country and indiscriminately kill people with long range missiles and dropping bombs indiscriminately on everyone below, levelling buildings and killing faceless individuals…aren’t they also killers?
When a politician decide to kill instead of using other avenues like negations or discussions or using avenues like the United Nations to resolve matters, what sort of example does that show to everyone? That is ok to shoot then ask questions later? That as long as the killing is in the name of “fighting terrorism”, is it then ok?
We have seen recently examples of where George W Bush orders the attack on Iraqi, killing thousands of women and children while the United Nations were asking for a couple more weeks to search for those elusive weapons of mass destruction. It was not even a question of sending in more troops to search for those weapons, it was flat out war, the world largest and most advanced military in the world taking on a couple of people with guns. That sounds like murder to me!
And then the fourth largest military in the world; Israel, taking on Lebanon, again a few men with a couple of home made fireworks, converted into rockets. This politician Ehud Olmert decided to flatten a cities, drop large; building destroying bombs on civilians, killing hundreds and why, because of two Israeli soldiers being kidnapped inside Lebanon? That sounds like murder to me.
Why aren’t these politicians facing court hearings to explain their killing behaviour? Do they think they will get away with these killings or don’t they have a conscience to realize the amount of grief, destruction and death they are causing? Will the “self defence” and “those terrorists” cards always be played by these dangerous politicians? Will killing thousands of civilians always be justified by saying we have a right to self protection?
These same politicians will say Iran can’t enrich their own Uranium because Iran can’t be trusted with potentially making their own nuclear weapons! In recent history the only nations “entrusted” to have nuclear weapons have mostly been the aggressors. We don’t see Iran confiscating land, building high walls and creating multiple check points. Yet Israel may have nuclear weapons and Iran may not?
When will the world see these dangerous politicians appear in court to defend their murderous actions?
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