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February 03, 2005

The Merciless and Their Tender Mercies

Oil-for-Food crooks suddenly and very strangely falling in love with justice?

 

 

 

-Martin Kite-Powell 

 

How many times have the abusers sought fairness for themselves? Throughout history we have seen this exact same thing played out again and again from the dictator who killed millions to the common crack-head who killed a guy when he knocked off a convenience store to fund his habbit.

 

Well, now we get to watch it all unfold again and on the grandest scale. What was supposed to go unnoticed during an Al Gore presidency found itself under a great deal of scrutiny, with members scattering like cockroaches under the spotlight after the US went into Iraq against the wishes of many of the world leaders and uncovered a mess that has now placed those same world leaders under investigation for corruption.

 

As they say, quand tu danses avec le diable…

 

South African Justice Richard Goldstone, who is part of three-member committee headed by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in the Oil-for-Food investigation, mentioned today after Volcker’s report that the member nations potentially under investigation wish to have reassurances that there would be due-process. Suddenly the same scoundrels who were placing profit above the lives of the countless innocent Iraqis murdered by a heartened Saddam Hussein, don’t wish to be on the receiving end of any indiscriminate unpleasantries.

                                                      

Isn’t it funny how many dictators, thuggish Prime Ministers and corrupt UN weltcrats have lined up throughout history for due-process or immunity when it’s their own necks on the chopping block. Saddam and his lawyers, Nazi war criminals, Jacques Chirac, terrorists and their legal teams and ordinary street thugs, all who themselves dolled out abuse and maltreatment of the innocent without judge or jury. And, without exception they who consider themselves above the law yet oddly, believe someone should recognize their basic legal rights.

 

This just proves in another way that all such men are mere cowardly criminals finding power over the innocent almost by accident and terrified they will be found out and rousted from their supplanting perch of ruthless dominance.

 

They will no doubt hire the best lawyers and press agents and try to put the best spin in the news where they live, as they always have, all as we sit in amusement while in this case the leaders of France, Russia, China and others try to beg, borrow or steal their way out of a dishonorable mention in this whole ordeal.

 

And how much better it will be for them in the end than it often has been for their own citizens, be those citizens greatly oppressed or just constantly misinformed and swindled.

 

I’m sure a lot better.

 

 

 

 

 

Related:

Myopic Zeal breaks down what the press is saying a bit

Joe Kujo has some relevant links about the UN misadventures

Michelle Malkin posted a bit on the Oil-for-Food Scandal yesterday before the report came out

 

 

Posted by Martin at February 3, 2005 03:18 PM

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