Advocate abroad while excusing, ignoring and condoning at home

Seriously, I could not help but cringe when I read the latest remarks by the opinionated columnist Nick Kristof. And then there were many that praised him when instead his comments should have come with criticism because he touched every country except his own.

Now I don't condone any wrong doings anywhere in the world, but isn't it only logical and reasonable as well as responsible that if Americans, and Kristof as an American, truly want to uphold the spirit of Mandela, how about Americans start taking a closer look first and foremost at their own back yard. Why no mention to standing on the right side of history at home? 

Americans, read and open your eyes to America's Political Prisoners where “challenging the US imperial order, or merely being disruptive to the dictates of private property, can lead to human disappearance.”

According to an article by Danny Pforte; “They are locked away because their existence is dangerous to the American imperial order.”

According to an article by JB Gerald; "Political prisoners are those currently in American prisons because of their race, religion, political convictions, or care for others. Removed from community because they seek justice for their people, some are branded with inappropriately long sentences and are often in solitary confinement to destroy their beliefs."

Some are falsely charged or unjustly convicted. Others are guilty of their innocence and of caring for others. Their imprisonment reveals points where the people’s conscience and necessity are greater than society’s injustice can sustain. Political prisoners (the status is not officially recognized under North American law) provide a country with its first defense against extremes of injustice, war crimes, crimes against humanity, economic crimes, and genocide. Often these men and women are simply the most articulate and innocent of those society assigns to pay for its faults.

And let's not forget Guantanamo and the degrading treatment and torture of prisoners where many have been held for years without even the universal human right to defend themselves.

As for Israel, let Kristof ask his elected government why US taxpayers have contributed more to the Israeli defense budget than Israeli taxpayers. If Americans want to truly care at all for the Palestinian cause let them ask why American taxpayers give Israel over $3 billion per year (over $8 million per day), more than to any other nation, despite the fact that Israel is smaller than New Jersey and is in the top 30 richest countries in the world. But the answer to that is, despite their democratically elected government, do they actually have a say?

According to Kristof he wants the President to stand in the right side of history? Is that the right side, to call for peace in one hand in some nations, yet arm another?  Is it the right side of history to constantly export and impose what the majority abroad don't want? Is it the right side of history to listen to what you want to hear, but not to what people affected are actually saying?

What has ever been right about America's so called "commemorative" history? What has ever been right when the American people are forced into wars that only benefit corporations? What has ever been right about mass murdering people in their own country? From Vietnam to Sudan, Iraq to Yemen, Nicaragua to Libya, what has ever been an example to follow? 

You only need to look at the trillions of dollars destruction, their foreign interfering policies, their constant bullying brutality abroad, their drone strikes which they term "collateral damage" when innocent women and children are according to them "accidentally" murdered in their own homes even when trying to attempt to start a new life at their own wedding.

Americans need to ask themselves, which nation or people apart from America and some of their western allies have ever droned or even attempted to interfere in the United States that are on the United States daily drone watch that are innocent that you call a "threat list"? Since when have weddings and babies been a threat to the security of the United States of America?

I will use this quote as much as I wish, until I get the message across and some in particular may not like it and some constantly eat away at themselves silently whispering on the ground, condemning my voice that those who cannot think for themselves believe - but then we are in the era where I hold no more expectations as the ones who speak the truth are referred to as a lie and the ones that lie are referred to as the truth- but they will never silence me and mark my words they will always try.

So watch and listen and in the words of Clinton here "I think it’s important to recognize that back when the streets of Arab cities were quiet, the National Democratic Institute was already on the ground, building relationships, supporting the voices that would turn a long Arab winter into a new Arab Spring."

Ask yourselves what the National Democratic Institute was doing already on the ground, building relationships when in reality there was no Arab winter but in reality a once Arabian spring. It may not be a spring that American's or the West understand or love, but it was a spring that they had no rights to churn and turn into chaos. 

One cannot deny that there are political prisoners all over the world. There isn't one country that I have researched that doesn't have at least a dozen. However, there is a difference between the United States and the non western world world and that is that they don't interfere. 

And then there is another fact that many columnists and journalists fail to address and that is who are these so called termed "political prisoners" that America has so much vested interest in? What is the role America has played in the world today and would there have been any political prisoners in the first place had institutions and corporations as well as rich individuals not encouraged as well as financed them in the first place?

In the name of the United States constant exportation of a facade they term democracy.

Is it worth it? Is it worth body bags sent home for wars in the name of greed and control? Is it worth losing a brother or a sister in the name of a democratic facade they wish to export abroad yet doesn't exist at home. 

Why doesn't Kristof ask why the very people he calls to advocate for political prisoners abroad, and in particular his very own government, who outwardly plea for peace and world stability while inwardly, they are the inventors, builders and developers of weapons of mass destruction that they market so heavily and sell to the world to advocate for their own. Did anyone ever stop to think that they are the ones that first make weapons in order to use and sell them and then condemn the use of it? 

If Americans want to truly uphold the spirit of Mandela then start advocating the condemnation of weapons factories and start questioning your own "political prisoners" held in the United States without even a charge, based on assumption and allegations and mass propaganda.

If Americans and if the people want to uphold any legitimacy abroad, then ask your government and their corporation controlled paid lobbies to stop their war waging attempts to wreak havoc and chaos in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the rest of the world.

Why is it that columnists always need to uphold the spirit of someone and claim a need to really honour anyone in order to advocate for everyone else but their own and only do so when they need to criticize others yet forget to look closer to home? Why should they fail to speak up and only do so hypocritically when advantageous to rise to the ranks by condemning abroad what they excuse, ignore and condone at home.