Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Policing with the consent of the policed

 Whether you are policing a town, a province, a nation or the world, the best way to do your job is to have the consent of those you police. This is how things happen some of the time but not all of the time. It's a long story how things got to be this way, but we can gallop through it quickly enough.

 

A peculiarity of the human species is that its offspring are born helpless and must be cared for by the parents. This is how nature dictated that there must be a nuclear family among human beings. In addition to feeding the young, the parents also teach them the skills they must acquire to survive, and they police them to prevent them from getting out of line and cause trouble.

 

This is how the principle of governance was first established among human beings. When they settled down to farm the land and start producing and storing what they will use to survive through the harsh seasons, the families got together and formed the clan that grew to become the tribe that grew to become the city-state that grew to become the nation.

 

With the passage of time and the proliferation of city-states and nations, there arose various cultures that fashioned a variety of ways by which to govern and police large populations made of individuals who were stranger to each other. Still, the more monolithic the nation, the more it adopted the idea that the village elders were the benevolent and wise figures who know best. Therefore, they were asked to pontificate on all matters concerning the nation, and adjudicate all disputes.

 

But where vast stretches of empty lands were populated by people that came from different cultures and formed city-states of strangers, a new system of governance and policing had to be devised. Slowly and painfully, sometimes quietly and sometimes violently, the people were guided toward the development of a system of governance and policing we now recognize as being liberal and democratic. At the core of this system, is the principle that those who govern and police can do so only with the consent of those whom they govern and police.

 

This is how the world was beginning to look in the middle of the nineteenth century when the rapid progress of science, technology and industry threw human Civilization into a tizzy. Wars, pestilence and upheaval ensued to persist for a century and culminate in the Second World War. Whereas the debris was seen throughout the planet, one nation remained almost unscathed. It was the United States of America that was adopted by the world as the wise and benevolent village elder who should police the world and give counsel as to how all nations should be governed.

 

A consequence of that turmoil we might think of as the silver lining in this painful saga, is that human beings everywhere came to realize we're not so different from each other after all. This being the case, why not create an institution we may appropriately call United Nations, where we would gather to resolve our differences by talking rather than fighting?

 

And so was born the United Nations. It turned out to be not the epilogue of the old saga but the prologue of its new sequel. In fact, all that transpired in the previous century, saw its shadow cast well into the new era. Continuity being the order of the day, the Jews who were reviled throughout history by everyone on the planet, continued to behave the way they always did despite the fact that pity had moved the world to give the Jews a homeland where they promised they will mind their business and leave everyone alone. What they did instead was break their promise from day one, and never relented breaking it day after day.

 

What the Jews have been doing during the past seven and a half decades, is long and complex. But you can get a sense of what it is when you go over a recent editorial that shows how the Jews of Israel have been behaving, and how the world that created Israel was compelled to respond. The title of the editorial is: “WHO they hate: The World Health Organization vs. Israel,” published on November 16, 2020 in The New York Daily News. Here is the opening sentence that summarizes the relationship which exists today between the world as represented by WHO, a United Nations agency, and Israel:

 

“Even though COVID has infected more than 50 million humans and claimed more than 1.3 million lives, the 180 countries that make up the UN's World Health Organization wasted four hours last week in Geneva debating how bad Israel is”.

 

This tells you that after seven and a half decades of effort, trying to get Israel and its Jewish supporters in America to behave in a manner compatible with human norms, that entity and these people have consistently shown they remain beyond redemption.

 

The vexing problem is that the Jewish troubles do not begin and end with them. Trouble goes with them everywhere, and affects everything they touch. Right now, the country most affected by their nefarious influence is America. You can see the result of that, when you read the article which came under the title: “US shouldn't humor the tyrants adjudicating human rights at the UN,” written by Zachary Faria and published on November 13, 2020 in The Washington Examiner. Here are the pertinent points in that article:

 

“China, Russia and other human rights abusers are lecturing the United States on human rights. China joined North Korea and criticized systemic racism and racial discrimination in the US. Russia crowed about how the US must guarantee freedom of expression in the media. And then there was Iran, mourning that an American airstrike killed their Qassem Soleimani”.

 

Human Rights used to be so revered, diplomats would only utter the term with respect. But like everything they touch, the Jews turned it into a weapon that diplomats now use to hurt each other.

 

And the policeman of the world that was supposed to serve Human Rights by the persuasive force of Liberal Democracy, has now become just another kid in the global village, playing cops and robbers using toy guns named Human Rights.