"From the first day I was detained, I always expected I would be released, that one day, someone would work to free me" - Nael Al Barghouthi, a Palestinian released after 31 years of imprisonment.
Stand By Me: In Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
February 22, 2012
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Stand By Me: In Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
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It's interesting to learn that British PM David Cameron said that Palestinians have been and continue to be forced to live in an open-air prison. He's definitely right about that, but what has he done about this tragic reality though since becoming PM? And when did he say this, before becoming PM, or since? If it was before, then what has he similarly said since becoming PM? I wonder.
Not that it at all justifies what's done to Palestinians, but I also wonder about the wrongfully imprisoned Leonard Peltier in the USA, when he'll finally be released. I haven't heard or read that he has been freed yet, after over 30 years for a crime he didn't commit but has been held accused of for over 30 years; and, if recalling correctly, even the U.S. Congress once said he should be freed, which he most definitely should've been long ago.
Even the sick Israeli govt seems to be more lenient than that of Washington. According to Wikipedia, he was convicted and imprisoned in 1977, so 35 years ago, for an act he didn't commit against some foolish, say, or fascist FBI officers of imperialist, colonialist, and genocidal Washington.
Palestinians and other or all other indigenous peoples are treated like dirt; as if not human and deserving of respected rights. And voters in the "West" seem to be unable to refrain from voting for this; not the majority of citizens, but evidently the majority of voters, who never form a real majority. 30% or so vote for Dem. Party candidates, while roughly as many vote for a Repubs. Clearly, neither group constitutes a majority of the population, but they always "win" anyway in this bizarre world.
We have no real democracy or system of justice. Once in a while there's some justice for some INDIVIDUAL cases, but, overall, there is no real system of real justice and democracy. It's all fantasy, only existing on paper, as GW Bush, Jr, said of the U.S. Constitution in early 2003 when a journalist among those invited to attend a speech by him at the White House asked something like, "But what about the Constitution?", and Bush replied that it's "just a piece of paper". Bush was speaking of war on Iraq, and toilet paper and many towels used for cleaning ... are also only paper. All or nearly all U.S. Presidents treat the Constitution in the same manner, but only he (puppet) honestly told us what they all think of it. Ha. "What a world".