Patently Transparent, Patently Pathetic
It's not surprising, but it is instructive in the sense that like sociopathic individuals, societies that practise sociopathic governance know no shame, but rather bully their way through personally unpleasant scenarios when their egregious behaviour is brought before an audience sitting in moral judgement. It's hardly a secret in the world community that Iran, its lawmakers, and its clergy represent the very epitome of a theistic, dictatorial, human-rights-abusing state.Iran is not the only state thus distinguished, there are others, past and present. Somehow the world has managed to surmount the effects of their evil presence in our global political structure, and to move on. We may be successful in the long run, in doing the same with Iran.
What's truly troubling is the double effect of a political structure mis-ruling the lives of millions of people in a tinder-box geography, along with the fairly new threat of nuclear-power acquisition attained not for peaceful means but for military potential in this paricular state's ambitions to spread its religious beliefs, its style of mind-numbing, societal-stricturing discipline.
This regime has encountered no great problems in acquiring the backing of like-minded regimes of far lesser consequence, nor of lick-spittle support elsewhere as a result of their trumpcard of oil resources of which the world's emerging economies are desperate to secure sufficient amounts to ensure ongoing opportunities for economic advancement.
All the while Iran subjugates its people, denying Iranian women equality of opportunities and freedoms under its religion-inspired laws, harassing minorities, executing minors accused of various offences from undermining state policy to practising homosexual lifestyles. Arbitrary detention, torture, disallowance of free expression and freedom of the press, lack of judicial independence nicely round out the reality of Iran today.
Canada has been a driving force within the United Nations to try to effect changes by public censure of this country's disgusting behaviour. There are enough reasons to censure Iran without even bringing up the frightening prospect of its acquisition of nuclear power and its determination to produce its own store of nuclear arms. Add this to the fact that this is a regime which has clearly and unequivocally stated its belief and intention that another geographically co-located state is illegal in their opinion and they plan on extinguishing it from the map of the Middle East.
An international belligerent, a threat to the states continguous to its borders whose members share another version of Islam - inimical to the worship of Allah in the considered opinion of Iran's ayatollahs - a distinct threat to world peace through the psychopathic state's determination to establish another caliphate and restore honour to the long-vanquished reality of Islamic domination, this country's current regime does great dishonour to its distinguished past, while potentially imperilling world stability.
Now this human-rights pariah, this poseur of religious righteousness and state autonomy has launched a vendetta of the wrongfully accused. Attempting to turn the tables with the help of its vassal states' acquiescence it brought forward a nuisance resolution in the UN claiming Canada was committing "horrible human rights abuses" against her aboriginal communities and minorities, a resolution that died the death it deserved.
Now, the Iranian regime which accuses Canada of supporting the "Zionist regime" and its "boss", the United States, has upped the ante in its estimation, by accusing the Canadian Embassy in Tehran of spying for the United States, engaging in espionage harmful to Iran. This is the new kind of hardball political/diplomatic gamesmanship being practised by fundamental Islamists in their attempts to best the West through their own kind of games.
Odd, is it not, that Iran has received its most recent human development ranking from the United Nations placing it 96th in the world, just ahead of the economically devastated Palestinian territories whose own flagrant human-rights abuses through the ongoing encouragment of suicide bombers fairly well reflects a mindset similar to Iran's.
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, November 30, 2006
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