A couple of thoughts on “human rights” groups and pirates
* Trust the various human rights groups and intellectuals to support criminals all over. For eons, they have been supporting the causes of criminals who were convicted for death sentence. (I remember a protest march outside my house, for support of a man, who got death sentence for murdering a 14-year-old girl and then raping the corpse). They were against the war against Taliban in Afghanistan and LTTE in Sri Lanka.
Ironically, one might wonder, why human rights never support the victims of terrorism across the world. Not a single candle light march for the victims of the Maoists, and not a single film personality coming out as they normally do, in the case of Roman Polanski. Are they by nature corrupt and tilted? Guess some questions are not to be asked…
India’s attack on Maoists troubles European aid body
(No, not the Maoists who murder and imprison political dissidents after stealing their earnings and forcing them into labor.)
And it’s the human rights groups that always stand up for the terrorists in Palestine launching rockets at Israeli civilians. Human Rights Watch got so bad with their support of Hezbollah and Hamas, that former HRW chairman Robert L. Bernstein wrote an op-ed in the New York Times decrying its reports as anti-Israel.
* The mighty European Union’s anti piracy task force, is no match to the skinny, smelly, attention-seeking Somali pirates. Continue reading
