Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Hypocrisy: Syria Burns While Mass Murdering Dictator Roams Freely in USA


With the United States having already conducted a military intervention against Libya on the basis of “responsibility to protect,” and with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly contemplating a repeat intervention in Syria, the last place one would expect to find a wanted criminal, guilty of mass-murdering 2,800 innocent civilians, would be the United States.

However, that is exactly where Thaksin Shinawatra is right now, last spotted in California, near Los Angeles where 2,000 Thais gathered to protest an event he planned to speak at, attended by members of his personality cult, the “red shirts.” Shamefully, 2,000 Thais had to do what the US State Department should have done – turned back a despotic mass-murdering tyrant.

Unlike Syria, in Thailand under the Thaksin regime, roving bands of foreign terrorists were not gunning down police and military, raiding cities, towns, and villages, and ravaging the country’s infrastructure. The people he had executed in the streets in 2003 were not even protesters, peaceful or otherwise. They were regular people going about their daily lives, unarmed, unprepared, many unaware of what hit them .... http://www.thedailysheeple.com