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Fundamental rights and freedoms – Yin and Yang

The following is an updated version of a comment I wrote on the European Parliament’s Facebook page in response to the question What is the most important value that the EU should defend?


I agree that fundamental rights and freedoms are the most important thing for the EU to protect. However, I think that there is not just one particular fundamental right or freedom that is above another other in importance, it all goes together, like yin and yang.

For example, freedom of expression is worth little if one is without health care and is dying a slow and painful death from cancer or another serious disease.

Freedom of the press is also worth nothing if one cannot read, thus the right to an education is crucial as well.

Health care is not worth a lot in the long term if life is hell on earth (Uzbekistan, North Korea etc.) because of oppression, thus freedom of expression is of vital importance.

Education is worth little without the freedom of expression and the press, because in that scenario the education might be tainted with political or religious dogma to obscure the truth, and even if that was not the case, if one could not freely use one’s education to attain what one feels is a good life, then the education is also not worth much. An author would not be able to write a book, which others would then not be able to ever read etc.

It is all a giant web if yin and yang, I believe that it is all interconnected and interdependent for a free society to thrive, that is what I believe that European values should strive towards, and thus what the EU should be working hard to uphold.

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Quick reminder for any oppressed people!

Given that the Danish politicians, yet again, dare even ponder the notion of censoring the Internet, and then try to dance around it like were they walking over a path of burning coal (And the Danish electorate seem to be too damn afraid of those oh so scary Muslims, and their minarets that they don’t care about another chunk of their freedom of expression going down the toilet!), I thought this might be a good opportunity to remind any oppressed Chinese, Burmese, Iranians etc., that if you are in need of computer software, to help you escape the dictator’s grip on your ability to express yourself, check my Encryption Software section.

I’ll have to remember to update and expand it in the near future, because hell, maybe I or my neighbor might be needing it one of these days!

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Kommentar til Karina Lorentzens (SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”

I tilfælde af at sf.dk’s moderatorer ikke bryder sig om, min meget tilspidsede tone, er her hvad jeg skrev som svar på Karina Lorentzens (Fra Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF) blog-indlæg “Ingen censur af internettet”, hvor hun på fuldstændig fantastisk (For at bruge Villys udtryk) vis, forsøger at bortforklare Internet censur.


Karina skriver:

“Man kan ikke censurere internettet – og det skal man heller ikke. Men man kan godt stille krav til folks adfærd på nettet. Det gør man allerede i dag når det gælder pædofili, som det er strafbart at opsøge og downloade. Det samme kan man gøre med opfordringer til vold og terror.”

Hvis man kan straffes for aktivt at opsøge og surfe efter og downloade børneporno, som er til ubodelig skade for tusindvis af børn verden over – så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror – der koster tusindvis af mennesker, herunder også mange børn, livet verden over, hvert år – altså at nuancere muligheden for, hvornår man forbereder en forbrydelse.

Der er altså ikke tale om censur af hjemmesider. Ej heller er der tale om at teleudbydere skal holde justits med terrorhjemmesider. Det betyder derfor ikke øget overvågning, ej heller filtre og anden teknologi – men at politiet skal kunne gribe ind, når de har en konkret person i kikkerten med de midler, de allerede har.

Men der er tale om at PET og politiet får mulighed for at slå til, hvis en person aktivt og systematisk har været opsøgende i fht. terrorgruppers opfordringer og brugsanvisninger til vold, drab, terror.

Når det gælder fænomenet ”hate-crime” – altså forbrydelser der som motiv har had til f.eks andre etniske grupper, seksuelle minoriteter, anderledes politisk tænkende etc., så er hate-crime en skærpende omstændighed. Det er noget SF har kæmpet for!

Mange af disse terrorhjemmesider har et budskab om død over bestemte nationaliteter, holdninger, minoriteter, trosretninger. Det er altså organiseret ”hate-crime”.

Hvad så med den almindelige net-bruger, der surfer rundt på må og få? Det SF har foreslået at vi undersøger, er at man skal udvise omtanke når man færdes på nettet. Som i alle mulige andre sammenhænge i tilværelsen kan skødesløshed eller grov uagtsomhed blive et problem for den enkelte, når man skal stå til ansvar for domstolene. Men fordi man til en skoleopgave eller i sin forskning frekventerer visse sider – så er det jo ikke dét PET har brug for at slå ned på. De har nok at gøre med de virkeligt farlige personer.

Men PET kan have brug for et redskab til at kunne anholde en person, som med sandsynlighed, og når andre indikationer peger i samme retning, kan være ved at tilegne sig viden der skal bruges til terror. Derfor har vi spurgt jusitsministeren om dette allerede er kriminaliseret eller om der kan være behov for at gøre noget på et tidligere tidspunkt.

På pædofili-området har vi allerede i dag en række strafferegler i vores lovgivning – hvor ufuldstændig og uperfekt den end er – som kunne overføres til terrorområdet: At man enten forholder sig klogt, når man færdes på nettet – ligesom i trafikken. Eller hvis man vil tilegne sig terrorviden, risikerer at måtte stå til ansvar for domstolene. For den enkelte skal jo, på fuldstændig vanlig vis, for en dommer og have vurderet sin sag.”

Kilde: Ingen censur af internettet


Jeg skriver i min kommentar:

“så kan man også straffes for aktivt og med forsæt at opsøge opfordringer til vold og terror ”

Karina, jeg vil meget gerne at du forklarer mig hvordan et forbud mod det du her påpeger, ikke ville ramme folk som måske af ren interesse for biologi osv. opsøger det man kunne kalde “bombeopskrifter”, for af vide hvilke stoffer der bruges i bomber eller fyrværkeri, af ren videnskabelig interesse. Nu er det ikke alle som interesserer sig for biologi som vælger det som levebrød, eller har mulighed for det gøre så, og tage en universitetsuddannelse o.l.!

Du siger du ikke vil censurere hjemmesider, nej okay, men du foreslår noget der i såfald har næsten samme effekt, vi gør ikke hjemmesiderne ulovlige, men vi forbyder dælme folk at læse dem!

Der er MILLIARDER af websites på nettet, skulle en lille censurkommitée hos PET, Folketinget eller andre, nogensinde kunne holde styr på dem alle? Enhver fornuftig person, skulle nok kunne indse er det er helt umuligt. De egentlige forbrydere som vil slå andre ihjel ved at smide bomber, skal sgu nok finde en måde at få den nødvendige viden på, hvis ikke ved at finde en hurtig opskrift på nettet, så ved at studere noget biologi, og så er det da, at vi for alvor ikke kan kende forskel på bombemanden og biologinørden.
Vi ved at mange terrorister langt fra er dårligt uddannede, nogle vi har set har haft høje uddannelser i mange ting, det kan japanerne også fortælle os lidt om. da de terrorister som lavede saringas angrebe på Tokyos metro i 1995 havde store universitetsuddannelser i biologi og mange andre videnskaber.

Selv HVIS vi antog at Folketingets Censurudvalg eller hvad pokker vi skal kalde det, kunne holde styr på hvornår en person i Chile lægger noget ud på sin blog som en bombemand kan bruge, så tager det altså ikke mere end 10 minutters snak med en computernørd med samme viden som mig (Og der findes mange med mere viden indenfor feltet end jeg, sikkert også folk med en forskruet moral) for at bombemanden har alle de anonymiseringsteknikker han/hun skal bruge, for at undgå den konstruktion som dit frygts-masturberende forslag ville stille op. Jeg undskylder udtrykket, men det du foreslår giver kun en falsk følelse af sikkerhed. Og en falsk følelse af sikkerhed er meget værere end slet ingen, fordi når man ikke har nogen, så ved man at man ikke sikker, hvis man “TROR” man er sikker, så har man tilbøjelighed til ikke at være kritisk overfor sine egne konstruktioner, og så går man bombemandens ærne.

Lige en sidste ting, hvis det var Iran eller Kina som gjorde noget i den her stil og henviste til tibetanske websites med “farlig information”, så hvinede vi i vesten, med god grund, til vi ikke kunne trække vejret.
Lad nu for pokker være med at give ultra-liberalisterne alt hvad de skal bruge for at erklære SF for “NORDKOREA PARTIET”.

For at opsummere, og jeg undskylder min tone, men det forslag her er godt nok det mest useriøse, uigennemtænkte jeg har hørt siden de Konservatives burkaforbud, MEN VENT det var jo ikke så længe siden!!! Er det kun mig eller kommer de her “intellekts-udhuglede” (Man fristes til at bruge stærkere ord) forslag efterhånden bare på linje, og i stimer fra politikkerne på Christiansborg?

Jeg tror og mange andre vælgere i disse dage tænker følgende:
SÅ TAG JER DOG SAMMEN!!!

Hvor ærger jeg mig dog af og til over, at vi i Danmark har et så umoderne demokrati, at vælgerne i de forskellige valgkredse ikke har mulighed for indsamle underskrifter så vi tiltider kunne få nogle recall-valg, synes simpelthen der er så meget useriøsitet i Folketinget, at var det en almindelig arbejdsplads, offentlig eller privat, så var mange blevet fyret for længe siden!


Jeg tilføjede som en hurtig opfølgende kommentar:

Jeg skulle måske også lige understrege, at forslag og snak som det her, er ting som for første gang, efter kun 1½ års medlemsskab af SF, har fremprovokeret de første udmeldelsesovervejelser. Jeg er i forvejen politisk mere på linje med Enhedslisten, men tilslutter mig, af forskellige årsager, partipolitisk til SF, men hvis man bliver ved med så elendige, useriøse, og “intellekts-udhuglende” (Sjovt ord, men tror godt man kan gætte, udfra det, hvilket ord jeg egentlig gerne ville bruge, men pga. kommentarfeltets advarsel ikke bruger) forslag, så vil jeg ihvertfald hurtigt tage konsekvensen!

Jeg har grinet min *** i laser over folk, som sammenlignede SFs nyere kurs med Dansk Folkepartis konstante, fremmedfjenske populisme, og det vil jeg nok blive ved med lidt endnu, men synes godt nok det her fortjener at gå planken ud og direkte ned i en gylletank fyldt til bristepunktet!

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Liers and cowards!

Early this week, or late last week, I forgot the exact time, we found out that the Danish government threatened Iraq with suspending aid to the country, if it didn’t sign a deal to take in some Iraqi refugees whom apparently aren’t qualified for asylum or other forms of stay in Denmark. Now this is bad enough, BUT JUST TODAY!! Now we freaking find out* that during the handling of the Iraqi’s asylum cases, the non-god damn immigration service didn’t actually check on the situation in the provinces near Baghdad, from where 128 of the refugees are from, because it was actually TOO DANGEROUS FOR THEM TO FREAKING CHECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they intend to deport people to those places!!! This is an absolute abomination, this is bullshit, this is outrageous! Never in my wildest dreams did I expect our current government to sink this low, and actually risk/threaten the lives of people who fled a country which WE helped invade, occupy and utterly destroy! The lying, absolute cowardice and just plain-old dishonesty that this shows is just beyond belief!

*) Irakere skal hjem til livsfarlige provinser

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The UN makes a mockery of human rights!

“The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal by Muslims nations Thursday urging passage of laws around the world to protect religion from criticism.”
Source: UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism.

This is bullshit!! This is marlarky!!! This is outrageous!!!!!!
(Borrowing a statement from Joe Biden)

I’m literally having difficulty writing anything because the outrage is so huge! The council that adopted this should now be renamed to the UN Human Repression Council. This is an insult to all people who appreciate the freedom to express themselves.

Because of my lack of words, I’ll leave you with something I have written before, a variation of George Orwell’s famous “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” …

When freedom of speech is under attack, exercising it becomes a revolutionary act.

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Congratulations to homosexuals in Denmark, and every Dane appreciating equality!

Yesterday around 13:15, the Folketing (Danish parliament) with a vote of 62 in favor, and 53 against, granted homosexual couples the right to adopt children on the same basis as heterosexual couples and single people.

Congratulations to every homosexual! :D
I’m ashamed, quite frankly, that we couldn’t have done it sooner. Even though this doesn’t directly affect me (I’m not homosexual), this is a victory for me as well. There’s nothing that upsets or offends me more, than when people’s rights and freedoms are suppressed because of fear, bigotry, prejudice and hatred! This is one more step on the endless (Sadly) road to fixing that. Every person living in Denmark, who believes in equality, should see this as a victory not just for homosexuals, but for society as a whole.

Lady Liberty and Lady Justice demonstrating their dependency on each other.

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What’s with the fascinating of monarchies?

Just about an hour ago the queen (of Denmark) did her annual televised new year speech. I didn’t watch it, but while eating dinner I witnessed a bit of the pre-show, where a few journalists are talking about what the queen might say and so on. Also, they showed people assembling in front of the castles, and judging from some statistics I’ve heard of from previous years, I know that a slew of people are gonna be watching it from their livingrooms.

Now, people can watch whatever they want at 6:30 PM on the 31st of December, be it a crappy hollywood movie, a porn video, a comedy show, the news, sports, or the queen’s new year speech, I don’t really care what people do, BUT I have a question about the latter!

What is with this quasi-religious fascinating with an, essentially, undemocratic institution, that reeks of feudalism and by it’s very existence downplays the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

Source: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If anybody knows the answer please comment, I’d love to know, because the Danish monarch has never had any direct religious association, like for example the Japanese Emperor has had. In feudal Japan, the Emperor had a position in the Shinto religion, Japan’s native religion, similar to that of the Pope’s position in Catholicism. Some right-wing nutjobs over there, still regard the Emperor as a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. So, I am truly baffled here. If any Swedes or Norwegians out there know the answer to my question, you’re of course also welcome to answer, as your monarchies and political systems are similar to the one we have here in Denmark.

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Abortion, a human right or a human rights violation?

I was watching the third, and final, presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain a little earlier. Among the various topics was abortion, and I just thought I’d put my two cents out there, for people to either use to form their own opinion, or send me hate mail over (By the way, you’ll end up in the spam bin, so don’t bother either way! You’ll just be wasting precious Internet bandwidth, and less importantly, your time).

I have a very “Danish” view on abortion, with a few elements of my own. In Denmark we have what we call “free abortion”, free meaning unrestricted. Until 12 weeks into the pregnancy, it’s the full choice of the woman, if she wants an abortion, no questions asked, she doesn’t even have to cite a reason or rationale for behind decision. After the 12th week, and until the 20th week, she has to get the approval of her her region’s abortion council (In Denmark, a region is an administrative unit). The later in the pregnancy, the stronger the arguments are needed, and they really have to be something extraordinary, not just “I fucked this guy, and I forgot to have an abortion earlier”. Girls who have gotten pregnant before they turned 15 (Which is the age of concent in Denmark), are almost always allowed to have an abortion, until the fetus is concluded to be viable, because the pregnancy was the result of illegal intercourse. In 2005, a 13 year old girl was allowed to have an abortion in the 20th week of the pregnancy, while a 15 year old was denied abortion in the 24th week, because it was presumed that the baby, that late in the pregnancy was viable.

I largely agree with this policy, although some details, such as the point in time, the 12th week, when unrestricted abortion is no longer allowed, I would like to have explained (If you are capable of this, please leave a comment!).

I don’t think human life is somehow “higher” or more special than say a whale or a shark for instance (By the way, people have found beer cans and other crap we dump in the oceans in the stomachs of tiger sharks, they clean up our mess!). And we kill many of those every darn day, some in exceptionally cruel ways, which I think would classify as torture-for-profit, “finning” is a good example, where you catch a shark, cut it’s fins off and throw it back in the ocean to die, solely to get the fins to make a bowl of tasteless soup.

Now, make no mistake, I believe in human rights, and very strongly at that. But I also believe, that the allocation of those human rights are important in the overall picture. I look at it from a timeline perspective. I think relatively unrestricted abortion (Like we have in Denmark), is fine until the point in the timeline of a pregnancy, when the fetus is definitely viable, and able to live independently on it’s own (I am not currently aware of what this point is, scientifically, if you happen to know, please leave a comment, but if you’re a crazy religious nut-job drone, please cut the fucking shit about life beginning at conception!). You often hear about people who were born early, but are completely normal despite that. When a fetus can both in theory, and practice “be born now”, so to speak, I think that’s a fair time to say “OK, now this is a human, who is entitled to human rights, such as the right to life and the right not to be tortured” (This last one I think certain leading people from the Danish Conservative People’s Party disagree with, since the latter wants to extradite detainees to countries that exercise torture. Talk about going over for tea, at the house of George W. Bush!). Before that time, when the fetus wasn’t able to live on it’s own anyway, I think saying to the mother “OK, even though your baby can’t live on it’s own, you are still gonna HAVE to go through with the pregnancy” is a violation of her human rights. To be specific, I think it’s a direct violation of article 4 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which says:

“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”.

I think you could argue, that saying to a woman that she HAS to go through with a pregnancy, which is a lot of effort on her part, and in many ways “work” as well, whether it being her family saying that or the state, classifies as a form of slavery. I also think that denying a woman abortion, when the fetus is not viable, and not able to live independently on it’s own, is a violation of article 25 of the UDHR which states:

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

(Emphasis by underlining is mine.)

Because it takes away the right of the individual, to have an adequate standard for well-being of him- or herself, and a pregnancy could dramatically impact that well-being.

After the point in a pregnancy, where a fetus is viable, and able to live on it’s own, then I think the allocation shifts, and says “OK, this is a human, which is deserving of full human rights”, which would be the right to life, which is specified in article 3 of the UDHR and the right not to be tortured specified by article 5 of the UDHR.

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In China, doing the right thing seems to bite you in the ass …

“A Chinese teacher has been detained for posting images on the internet of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a rights group has said.”

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7532813.stm

The Chinese dictatorship is up to it’s old tricks again. During the earthquake in May, a bunch of schools collapsed (And I bitch Danish school buildings were getting bad! :P ) resulting in the deaths of many children. A teacher gets upset that the government have not maintained these buildings, publishes pictures of it, and is sent to a labour camp for “re-education”, take a wild guess at what that means …

Why the hell was this asshole government allowed to host the Olympic Games in the first place!! Makes absolutely no sense.

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Response to Karmus’ comment on my “FARC… A big farce!” post

The comment made to my post FARC… A big farce!, can be seen in full here: http://www.troelsjust.dk/?p=231#comments.

” … Indeed they have killed a lot of civilians by accident in their actions against the paramilitary and governmental repression they have been met with, …”

Do you really see people dying in captivity as an “accident” ?

“Let me say this straight: the whole regime of Colombia is corrupt and based upon cocaine production from both sides – even FARC! The national economy and one’s social rights in the country are a disaster, and due to what I have heard, the constantly liberal and conservative governments since the beginning of elections have been preventing socialistic parties from taking active part of the national parliament (= unfree elections for socialist parties!). Furthermore the paramilitary groups in direct coorporation with the government are responsible for murders of central persons of the trade-union and directly terrorizing the movement and its struggle for better social policies and worker’s rights (read more about such kind of murders on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Violencia).”

I completely agree, and during the documentary I saw, that was mentioned over and over again. This is definitely not democracy. In fact, I generally don’t like bipartisan systems of government, where you only have two major parties that can govern, such as in the United States, the United Kingdom etc. etc. I won’t say they undemocratic, but they’re worlds from what I would call “a true democracy”.

“What a lie! Legal attempts have been tried – a party called Unión Patriótica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n_Patri%C3%B3tica_(Colombia)) once contested a few decades ago, but 5000 of their members were killed during that time, and so FARC gave up peaceful behavior and reentered the armed conflict. Sounds like a very wimpish way of leading a democracy by killing members of the opposition, if you ask me!”

If you consider murder and kidnapping of innocent people and holding them for ransom, drug trafficking and other crap to be legitimate “armed conflict”, then so be it, but it’s simply terrorism if you ask me. And yes, I wholeheartedly agree, killing members of the opposition is not only a tremendous human rights violation, it’s dictatorish behavior. It’s something Russia and China does all the time, and definitely represents corruption and pisses on the concept of democracy.

“The analysis you posted above is too simple and primitive within its conclusion, sorry to say it, and it offends me a lot, since you clearly don’t have knowledge of the historical background from the current situation in Colombia.”

While I agree with you that the government in Colombia is corrupt and borders being undemocratic, I don’t think FARC is any better at all. They remind me of the Tamil Tigers, who claim to have a just cause for fighting (and killing thousands of innocent people along the way) for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka, yet they have done nothing but kill innocent people and keep the country at civil war for decades. And no, I am not ignoring atrocities comitted by the Sri Lankan government, search around on my blog, and you’ll see me lambast them as terrorists, and somebody replying essentially saying I was being a Sinhalese shill, being “ignorant” and being a “smart parot” etc. etc.

First of all, if you get offended by my statements, you shouldn’t be reading my blog, because I honestly couldn’t care less about whom I might offend, be it Iranian fascists, Chinese dictators, Japanese nationalists, American imperialists (George W. Bush), Jewish/Christian/Muslim/Hindu fundamentalists, or just your average Joe reading a random blog on the Internet. You know what, your attitude towards the United States that I responded to earlier offends me as well. In my original blog post I simply say “Happy Independence Day!” to the American people, among whom I have a few friends that I talk to regularly, and yet you accuse me of praising the US government (Which so far is the Bush administration). I cannot stand George W. Bush, this guy, along with his administration, should be put on trial for war crimes. If you want to demonize an entire nation for something their government does, go ahead, I just don’t see it as being any different from demonizing all Germans for the things Hitler and his regime did, or demonizing all Japanese for what Imperial Japan did during World War 2, or their current government’s refusal to apologize for it, and compensate victims (Look up “comfort women” on Wikipedia if you want to know more).

“If you want to read some more objective, left-wing oriented articles (Danish) about the case (you say that you identify yourself as a socialist),”

1. Any of various political philosophies that support social and economic equality, collective decision-making and public control of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists.

2. The socialist political philosophies as a group, including Marxism, libertarian socialism, democratic socialism, and social democracy.

3. (Leninism) The intermediate phase of social development between capitalism and full communism. This is a strategy whereby the State has control of all key resource-producing industries and manages most aspects of the market, in contrast to laissez faire capitalism.

4. (Classical Marxism) The international communist society where classes and the state no longer exist.

Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialism

As I state on the “My Political Position” page of my blog, I’m a social democrat, which qualifies as socialism if we’re talking about true social democracy (The ideology), according to Wiktionary, and not this neo-liberal bullshit many people who call themselves social democrats, are doing these days. The Labour Party of the United Kingdom is probably one of the best examples of this crap.

“(when the USA invaded the Ecuadorian territory recently to assassinate the leader of FARC, Paul Reyes, which forced Ecuador and Venezuela to rearm and put their military forces at the borders to Colombia protesting against the insulting behavior – if you ignored this TERRORIST ATTACK on the Ecuadorian side of the borders by the COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT itself and the UNITED STATES, you showed yourself as truly ignorant by writing this blog post! Sorry for the hard words, but FARC is more than just ‘pointless terrorism’. It’s the only serious socialist alternative to the current form of government. Of course I lament their use of i.e. child soldiers, but sometimes it can be the only way of succeeding in a greater struggle.)”

If FARC is more than “pointless terrorism”, then why are they deliberately killing and kidnapping innocent people? They’re no flipping different from the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Both claim to have righteous intentions, yet they murder innocent people.
I didn’t follow that whole debacle with Ecuador and Venezuela that you mention, and I refuse to be called “truly ignorant” for not following everything you do as much as you do. You’re the ignorant one if you ignore killing of the innocent on ANY SIDE of ANY CONFLICT. Because you seem to be glorifying FARC for their fight against the Colombian government, and only lightly skip over their killing of civilians and use of child soldiers, yet you beat a dead horse about corruption and misdeeds by the Colombian government (Which, just so we’re clear, I agree with you completely on) and how evil the United States is. Sure, I admit that I didn’t mention the Colombian government’s killing of opposition members or corruption, but my post was not about that, it was about why I see FARC as hypocrites when they refer to them as “People’s Army” or socialists. If I blogged about Japan’s outrageous atrocities during World War II, and their current government’s continual refusal to apologize for it, I’m sure somebody would reply and say how “truly ignorant” I was and how China and Korea exaggerate the things Japan did and blah blah blah. And oh by the way, I view China the same way as I view FARC. Let’s take the name of China’s military as an example. It’s official name is “People’s Liberation Army”, well, don’t you think it ought to be called People’s Oppression Army after the outrageous oppression of pro-democracy movements and human rights advocates, especially in Tibet?

One last thing about FARC, because we clearly have different opinions of them, WHY THE FUCK do they kidnap a politician (Íngrid Betancourt) who was actively trying to fight corruption!!! That’s just retarded! I could understand (But DEFINITELY NOT agree) if they kidnapped the leader of the liberal party, but kidnapping a person who essentially agrees with them on something, is simply stupid, let alone be unjust! That’s like an African-American kidnapping Martin Luther King!!!

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