The Oldest Democracy in the World Turns Into a Dictatorship…

 

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It is an open secret that the USA, or
the US-led policy, to be more precise, has been earning the reputation
of the “world gendarme” even though this term appeared first in the
Russian Empire, during the reign of Nicholas I. There is every reason to
believe that one of the oldest democracies in the world is playing up
to those who play havoc.

Western democracies borrowed a lot from
dictatorships. Having become the superpower after the two world wars,
the United States was especially distinctive at this point. The country
combined the political concepts of its former metropolis and the
brainwashing experience practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Europe
and Asia.

The UK, like magnet, has always been
attracting genuine and artificial victims of various regimes. The UK
gave shelter to world-famous writers, such as Voltaire and Herzen,
political and religious dissidents, thieves and fraudsters like Russia’s
oligarch in disgrace Boris Berezovsky and even terrorists like Akhmed
Zakayev.

As for the things borrowed from
dictators, one may receive an impression about it from the videos that
show how US kids honor their presidents.

Those who saw the archived
footage of congratulations and little girls holding bouquets of flowers
and sitting on Stalin’s and Hitler’s lap can understand where something
is coming from.

In accordance with the political anatomy
of the United States, something comes from the White House and the
State Department. Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped
from house arrest at the end of April.

Having reached Beijing, he
received shelter at the US Embassy. Prior to Hillary Clinton’s visit to
China, Chinese officials publicly asked Washington not to interfere in
the matter.

A bit later, Guangcheng asked the
Chinese administration to arrange his study trip to the USA. After the
Chinese government promised Guangcheng to send him abroad to study, the
political activist started worrying about his relatives that were going
to stay in China. Judging by the recent news reports, the man is to
study at the law department of the New York University.

In the beginning of May, the US State
Department urged the Turkmen administration to release two prisoners –
Annagurban Amanklychev and Sapardury Khajiyev.

The two men – journalists
and human rights activists – found themselves in prison after they took
part in the preparation of the documentary that criticized
then-President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.

The Turkmen
authorities do not rush to follow the recommendation. They realize that
everyone knows the addresses of US embassies without the Yellow Pages.

Just try to imagine: Pravda.Ru starts to
insult the government of the USA, China, Turkmenistan, etc. The
publication would have to go on trial for that.

However, we have one
single country that protects those who rock political situation in their
own states. The USA gets away with it well. Is there an international
tribunal that could consider such lawsuits?

It is clear that human rights activists
approve of such manners. However, they are obviously not going to like
it if their political adversaries are granted shelter. We have paradox
in this case.

Human rights activists can not be referred to as advocates
of human rights, just because they advocate only their own rights,
rather than absolute right.

 

Igor Bukker – May 22,2012 – Pravda.ru

 

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