Audacious Europeans

I never cease to be amazed by the audacity of Europeans when it comes to their social and political intercourse with the Black and Brown people of the world: Africans, African-Americans, Mexicans, Middle-easterners, and the peoples in the near east: India, Pakistan, etc.

The execution of Saddam Hussein takes the whole cake. When was the last time that a Head of State was hung for being cruel? Milosevic, Pik Botha in South Africa? No way. The Europeans in this country not only lied about Hussein as a pretext for invading his country, then they created a law that did not exist before the invasion and accused him of violating it. Then they created a court to try him for violation of this ex post facto law. Then they installed judges who had no respect for his being the Head of State, or even an individual entitled to justice, even dismissing a judge who did just that. Then they hung him only after the puppet court had finished the work that the European-Americans charged it with.

This is not about defending the conduct of Hussein. He was a rat. He slaughtered his own people without just cause, he committed clear acts of genocide against the Kurds. He had some atoning to do. No doubt about it. But he should have been sent to the Hague where genocide trials are conducted under international scrutiny; a place where a fair trial is assured by international treaty. If he was convicted there, he would have been punished according to international law.

Instead, the European-Americans, under the direction of a first-rate, second-rate President had the audacity to make a mockery of any notion of justice and race this Head of State to his doom in the name of democracy. God only knows what they would have done if the court had aquitted Hussein.

If a Brown Head of State cannot receive justice, what chance does ordinary American Black and Brown people anywhere have?

Shame on European-Americans. Shame on America.