[extropy-chat] (no subject)

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Matus <matus at matus1976.com> wrote:

> > >
> > >
> > That's partially the case, but another major factor is the the West
> in
> > general, and the US in particular, quite often has had a hand in
> putting
> > these genocidal maniacs where they are today, or at least
> supporting
> > them. Saddam is a case in point, but the US is currently cosying up
> to
> a
> > whole load of warlords in Afghanistan, a guy who boils political
> > prisoners alive (Uzbekistan IIRC) and of course our good pal the
> nuclear
> > armed Islamic military dictator Musharraf, to name but a few.
> > 
> > --
> 
> Yet we had nothing to do with putting Kim Jong Il in power, or Idi
> Amin,
> or Mao Ze Dong.  Whether or not the US played a role in propping up
> dictators, and whether it was just or not in that circumstance, is
> irrelevant to the question of why the media just doesn't give a shit
> about the millions of people dying in North Korea or the Sudan.  A
> large
> number of those journalists don't like the US anyway, so would see it
> as
> a good opportunity.  I ask again, has any western journalist ever
> been
> tortured or kidnapped or murdered by North Korea?  Anyone know?

Not to my knowledge. Sounds to me like professional courtesy....

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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