The arms industry
I wonder if the western world really knew what the impact of the arms industry had on the lives of many disadvantaged people in African countries. The impact of the western countries subsidies to arms manufacturing companies in the form of tax breaks, business incentives, cheap land, and cheap labour and turning away when they export arms to countries that are embargoed.
Where are we when some innocent African family has to be on the receiving end of the very bullets that are manufactured in our backyard, by working middle class western families, that would never think that the very thing that helps to buy the food for their tables, will be murdering a family like their own just a few weeks after they ship it away? What would we think, if the arms that we make, the guns, the bullets, end up in the hands of criminals, parading as army generals, soldiers and even mercernaries?
But yet it is supposed to all be bona fide work, done by supposedly honest, hard working western businessmen who donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Shriners? Isn't that the biggest hypocrisy? The war criminals in today's society are not the black men of Africa, nor the Serbs, the real war ciminals in this modern age, are western businesmen, the blue eyes, three piece suit businessmen, the Fortune 500 crowd, the outstanding businessmen who help to fund the Republican and Democratic Parties in the USA, and the Conservative and Liberal Parties in Canada. These are the real war criminals. The only difference is they don't pull the trigger, but they are sure too willing to sell the triggers to those countries where these horrible war atrocities occur.
The Hague Tribunal should be chasing after these countries, it is not only China that sells these arms, it is western countries like the USA, Canada, West Germany, even the very country where the Hague Tribunal is, they also export arms, the Netherlands, the UK. The money from the taxes imposed on these arms dealers in the end helps to fund the Hague Tribunal through public funds. Indirectly we as western democracies that enjoy a higher standard of living enjoy part of these benefits through taxes imposed on arms dealers.
So in a way, no one, anywhere is complicit in all of this.
Where are we when some innocent African family has to be on the receiving end of the very bullets that are manufactured in our backyard, by working middle class western families, that would never think that the very thing that helps to buy the food for their tables, will be murdering a family like their own just a few weeks after they ship it away? What would we think, if the arms that we make, the guns, the bullets, end up in the hands of criminals, parading as army generals, soldiers and even mercernaries?
But yet it is supposed to all be bona fide work, done by supposedly honest, hard working western businessmen who donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Shriners? Isn't that the biggest hypocrisy? The war criminals in today's society are not the black men of Africa, nor the Serbs, the real war ciminals in this modern age, are western businesmen, the blue eyes, three piece suit businessmen, the Fortune 500 crowd, the outstanding businessmen who help to fund the Republican and Democratic Parties in the USA, and the Conservative and Liberal Parties in Canada. These are the real war criminals. The only difference is they don't pull the trigger, but they are sure too willing to sell the triggers to those countries where these horrible war atrocities occur.
The Hague Tribunal should be chasing after these countries, it is not only China that sells these arms, it is western countries like the USA, Canada, West Germany, even the very country where the Hague Tribunal is, they also export arms, the Netherlands, the UK. The money from the taxes imposed on these arms dealers in the end helps to fund the Hague Tribunal through public funds. Indirectly we as western democracies that enjoy a higher standard of living enjoy part of these benefits through taxes imposed on arms dealers.
So in a way, no one, anywhere is complicit in all of this.
posted by joshie mitsima at
4:58 p.m.
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