John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NEIL MACDONALD IN CBC NEWS
“Today, Canada decides to stand up for human rights in... *spins wheel* Venezuela”
Our government has about as poor a record on human rights as this country has ever experienced.
I don't see them standing up for anything, anywhere.
Saudi Arabia? Good God, we've never really paused in selling armaments to them. And we have the grisliest murder involving the Crown Prince that Canada has pretty much been silent on.
We hear about one run-away teenage, very middle-class girl given refugee status while ignoring the horrors this country has helped induce in Syria. Six hundred thousand killed? Millions of desperate refugees. A beautiful land laid waste. Saudi money paid for a lot of the effort.
Busloads of women and children blasted to hell in Yemen. Where's our voice? We don't seem to have one.
And what of the horrors of Gaza? Week after week after week, soldiers kneel behind a fence to shoot unarmed people demonstrating for their rights. Not a word ever heard from this government. No, we hear a feeble voice speaking against the unfairness of BDS - that's about it.
And Gaza itself - you may easily find photos on the Internet - is one of the most shameful things on earth. It's a ghastly wreck, full of sick people. Where's the voice? Silent.
There is a long list, of course, with Libya, once run well for its people, reduced to a broken hulk full of warring groups. Thanks, America.
But we get this from CBC: "Maduro is a thug of course, but he's one of many. Including those with whom Canada chooses to do business"
The first part of that statement is just totally unwarranted name-calling.
We know nothing of the kind. Maduro was elected, twice. Current polls give him 65% support. Trudeau should enjoy such public support!
The country is a mess for exactly the same reasons Syria and Libya are. Aggressive American imperial policy. We now have even seen documents published of earlier American plans for waging harsh economic warfare against the country
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Response to another reader’s comment:
It isn't really the case that Trudeau is hyper-emotional.
It's a very selective list of things that Trudeau weeps over. Very limited. Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing a little more emotion on the world's true horrors, but we see nothing, ever.
