Posted by
James Biga on Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:25:20 PM
Todays is one of those days where I have spent time thinking of Human History. Mainly the history of Humanity from WWII until now. I started out thinking of all the advancements we have made technologically. From the advancement of automoniles to Spacecraft to Computers to the Cell Phone. An impressive list of toys for mankind. Add to this the advancements in medicine and medical practicies. Unfortunately, this led me to try and figure out how this has made life on our planet better for everyone. I have come to the conclusion that it hasn't.
No matter how technologically advanced we become, we are still human beings and still have to deal with ourselves. This is where our history becomes wretched and disgusting. For every Jonas Salk there is an Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. For every Albert Einstein, there is an Idi Amin and Josef Stalin. For every good man, thre are evil men practicing their evil trade with unrelenting abandon.
I knew of the Holocaust because I was tought it in school. I learned how the United Nations adopted the motto "Never Again" as a constant reminder of why it was formed and what it was supposed to do. It has become painfully obvious that the United Nations, and the rest of the world, has failed miserably.
Here's a small list of the "major" genocides that have occurred since 1966, the year I was born:
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) - 20,000
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti) - 60,000
Hassan Turabi (Sudan) - 100,000
Michel Micombero (Burundi) - 150,000
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone) - 200,000
Charles Taylor (Liberia) - 220,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan) - 300,000
There are far more than this little list. From Angola, to the Sudan, to East Timor, to Cambodia. The more I read about them, the more disgusted with my fellow human beings I get. There were two incidents that occurred durint the Bill Clinton years that stand out the most. One event in the Sudan and the other the genocide in Rwanda under the control of Jean Kambanda that slaughtered 800,000 human beings. in 1994 800,000 human beings departed the earth in the most violent manner possible, and the "enlightened" West and the "August" United Nations turned their heads.
UN Forces deployed in Rwanda ran from the murderers. An armed military force ran away from people with knves, machetes, and home made maces. Villages were decimated, corpses filled the streets, and the soil was soaked in human blood. This was not war. War between enemies can be understood. Slaughter for the sake of slaughter cannot. In every genocide, there is a body of humanity that displays the basest, most vile instincts that humanity has to offer. To tell the truth, I don't know who is worse, the perpetrator or those who watch and do nothing. I tend to lean towards the people who do nothing.
How many "soldiers" or so called men stood by, during these genocides, with the ability to stop it, but did nothing? How many cowards hid behind the "I have to follow orders" excuse? How many try to tell people that they had no choice? This is what a coward does to try and appease their own disgust with themselves. How many of these "men" would want vengenace against a "man" who stood by and watched as his wife and child were butchered with Machetes after being raped by all wanted to?
These actions are more than affront to humanity. They are far more than "crimes against humanity". These actions were, and are still, an affront to G-d. We are all guilty of standing by and doing nothing. We know that our bureaucrats and politicians are worthless, yet we continue to "trust" them. The United Nations has proven itself to be an abysmal failure at best. United? No. The whole gaggle of bureaucrats are beyond a travesty. Far worse than a tragedy. It is pure evil. We sit on the sidelines playing with our iPads, texting on our cell phones, surfing the net, while watching 1 of our 350 TV channels.
Somewhere on the planet, not that far away, someone is being butchered because they are the wrong color, or speak the wrong language, or don't have the right amount of money, or just happen tohave the nerve to be alive. This is what we have done with the gift of life we were granted. We have set our sites on destroying that gift. If we happen to destroy ourselves, so be it.