Burma’s Rulers Worse Than Saddam hussein
Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008The military rulers of Burma are a vicious bunch of thugs who hijacked the country in 1962 and have been sucking it dry for the last 46 years.
This contemptible bunch of crooks have grown rich from slavery, heroin production and wholesale theft of their country’s natural resources. They’re guilty of genocide against ethnic minorities, brutal repression of their people and absolute corruption.
Not long ago, we witnessed their goons beating protesting monks off the streets and now we see these incompetent criminals presiding over the aftermath of a gigantic human disaster, when Cyclone Nargis killed 100,000 people.
This is a vile government by any standards. This is a crowd of crooks and killers who should all be in jail or swinging from a tree. This government is worse than Saddam Hussein. Much worse, and that’s saying a lot since Hussein was a complete bastard.
Very well. The world is awake now, and looking with horror at the hundreds of thousands of displaced people, the countless corpses floating in the paddy-fields, the shanties, the brutal military oppression.
Surely it can’t be long before some leader of the free world assembles a coalition of the willing, just as they did in Iraq. It can’t be long before the decent, right-thinking people of Europe and America rise up and say This is intolerable! just as they did in Iraq.
Surely it can’t be long before the governments of the USA and Europe say We must rid Burma of these tyrants! just as they said about Iraq.
Any day now, I’m certain, we’ll see columns of American tanks roll into Burma to save the people from their oppressors. Any day now, American bombers will circle over Rangoon, bringing shock and awe to the tyrants.
I’m certain that America will be able to stand proud in the world once more. Why am I certain of this? Because I know America will send in a huge army to save the people of Burma even though Burma has little oil. They did it in Iraq and they’ll do it in Burma. What does America care about oil when there are oppressed people to save from tyrants?
I just know it. The Yanks won’t let these tyrants oppress the people. After all, America stands for freedom.
Doesn’t it?
Stumble it!
May 9th, 2008
Funny how, “right-thinking people of Europe and America” suddenly becomes “America”.
The coalition of the willing was the US, England, Poland and who?
I’m sorry did you say Ireland? Didn’t think so!
Can you say 20-something UN resolutions? Oops, forgot about that one didn’t you?
So the US actually stood up to a corrupt dictatorship and now we’re the bad guys, eh?
Maybe the next time I see someone getting mugged I should just act like the Irish and bitch and complain about it rather than doing something about it!
Oh, look, someones getting the shit beat out of them, well, I’ll just wait for someone else to call the Gardai and all shall be well in the world.
pfft!
Now of course you expect the US to jump at every horror in the world. How about doing something about these things yourself?
Call Biffo. Call your TD. Write a letter to Mary Harney if you think it’ll do any good.
Hey Europe! If you’re so fucking concerned then you do something about it!
Lead, Follow or get the fuck out of my way.
(Oh boy am I gonna’ take some grief for this but there it is. It needed to be said.)
May 9th, 2008
Well done Brianf - you just demonstrated that all too familiar cultural aspect of the US - reading (or hearing) what you want to read (hear). I guess you missed the irony of the phrase “has little oil” when penning your “get the fuck out of my way”. This is the same cultural element that allows, e.g., a liar to believe what he is saying simply by saying it over and over to himself.
Unfortunately, it will be more likely that the EU will be on the hook for this one - it is more in line with EU principles than the naked “get the fuck out of my way - there’s money in this” principle of the US.
I am not criticising you for your view - it is simply the way it is.
May 9th, 2008
Brian: Full marks to you for completely missing the point. There’s no chance of an invasion of Burma by anyone, no matter how vile the regime there, until rice becomes as valuable as oil.
May 9th, 2008
Didnt Rambo invade Burma a while back?
May 9th, 2008
Invade Burma and you’ve just picked a fight with China. Who as expected are doing fuck-all about the situation there. Of course a few planeloads of “Chinese AId” has been welcomed by the Junta, who are making sure any of its supporters/armed forces affected by the Cyclone are looked after.
May 9th, 2008
We should legalize heroin.
Then they’d be in in a fucking flash.
May 9th, 2008
They’re happy enough to facilitate opium production in Afghanistan, so I’m sure there would be no problem in Burma.
May 9th, 2008
If only the UN had a spine.
May 9th, 2008
I’ve just read that all aid has had to be halted because the junta has seized everything that’s entered the country so far. They are wicked people.
The UN should declare them as criminal impediments to saving the lives of thousands and use its powers to shut the bastards down. They are a junta after all. They are not a legitimate government so why should we treat them as such.
As usual the UN drags its feet.
May 9th, 2008
You made me laugh so hard you cured my hiccups. You can therefore add that to your list of accomplishments - Bock, good for curing hiccups.
May 9th, 2008
Róisín: The UN has no power at all.
ProblemSam: Likewise. The UN can’t shut them down.
Eliza: I presume you refer to a different post. This one isn’t all that funny, or at least I diidn’t think it was.
May 9th, 2008
If the UN was to move into having an international real army at its disposal, would the Irish be on board I wonder or would we prefer to do the usual thing and do feck all while attributing all kinds of ulterior motives to those who would be part of the effort?
May 9th, 2008
Why should ANYONE (from this part of the world) move into Burma? They’ve got powerful allies in Russia and China as it is. Besides the junta ruling Burma is not from Mars or anywhere else except Burma itself.
I’m fatigued already with all the reports of the devastation in Burma - is there an implication in these reports that the Burmese people were in fine fettle before the cyclone struck?
We already know that less than 10% of the aid, coming from this part of the world into countries ruled by corrupt government, actually gets to those who need it most so why contribute to any fund that’s organised for Burma.
May 9th, 2008
If America goes in will they get praise or more condemnation, I think the latter! more of who the fuck do they think they are? big ass yanks with their big ass tanks .Unfortunately american troops have there hands full fighting the village idiots mistakes.Its very sad really I have an american seventeen year old boy who while watching the news said we need to get in there.His only reasoning was for” god damn it this is 2008 we cant have that going on ” Bush ruined it for everyone because most of the american kids think like that, they just dont like bullies but now we look like we will omly stand up when it benefits us and thats just not true.My son reads the limerick blogger and could’nt believe that a stall owner got mugged at the riverfest he was floored when he read they came back and hit or pushed the guy around some more.He could’nt understand how the crowd left it happen.he was pointing out able looking people in the pictures on both this site and LB. I guess my point is americans are not there government just as you are not bertie’s.
May 10th, 2008
oh, just had this same conversation over lunch today at work. :(
There are Americans who are still about fairness and freedom, and we are not happy about our government/situation either.
Shannaboley,
re the crowd not helping…no doubt there’s some psychological explanation for that phenomenon, but it escapes me at the moment…
May 10th, 2008
Vis a vis the not helping the man being assaulted, there was an intem on the Joe Duffy show a few weeks ago where a man reported how he and 13 other men stood outside a pub in Granard, Co. Longford and watched while a man beat a woman up. Many of the listeners were outraged but many sided with their decision not to get involved. One young caller described getting involved to defend a teenager being beaten up by a gang of his peers in Co. Clare and ended up being stabbed and on a life support machine for a period. People are really afraid of getting involved because it is no longer a matter of fist fights. Knives are the norm now. And, of course, as Andrew wrote here, there are always reasons not to get involved. The people who do row in are the exception now.
May 10th, 2008
Very interesting, Róisín, but not what this post is about.
May 10th, 2008
Bock, I was responding to comments made by two other posters. I had earlier asked if, in the case of the UN gathering a proper international army, would Ireland be involved or would we prefer to do the usual thing of doing nothing while attributing all kinds of ulterior motives to those who would put themselves on the line?
May 10th, 2008
That’s a big jump from ‘not being involved’ to ‘doing nothing.’ It’s just that Burma is not on my list of Get Involved Here !
My days of putting myself
are long over. If I’d been told 35 years ago that there would come a day when I would have to salute those who were fanning the sectarian flames in the North I wouldn’t have believed it.
May 10th, 2008
Ok, there are now three US Navy ships the” big ones” off the coast of Thialand.There is also a plane of vehicles somewhere sitting on a tarmac .Those ships come with there own helicopters and jets, hospitals yada yada.Us governement is calling for an immediate intervention by UN or by sunday they will impose a deadline and force aid on the regime. I thought it interesting that when the CNN reporter was giving his update, he mentioned that the US wanted to get the “humanitarian workers led as usual by a team of Irish specialists” his quote, in before sunday but its a holiday so there are no visa issued till after monday.
May 11th, 2008
Róisín: I have to call it somewhere before it gets out of hand.
Andrew: I think you’re missing the point as well.
Shannaboley : If the US invades these guys and deposes them, I’ll believe all their talk about freedom and democracy.
May 11th, 2008
Time magazine and CNN are up for it apparently.
May 12th, 2008
Where is Colin Powell when you need him to make a convincing speech about Weapons of Mass Destruction (now in Burma).
May 12th, 2008
Complete with highly-convincing cartoon pictures of trucks.
May 13th, 2008
Bock “America stands for Freedom”…was dead funny.
We stand for Oil and Oppression, and the Almighty Dollar.
We stood for freedom two hundred years ago. Now we stand for Halliburton.
May 13th, 2008
ok yes, go ahead bomb the bastards. I’m all for it. come on new Taoiseach, show us what you’re made of! make a stand on something that matters.