If those who empowered do commit a crime, are the ones empowering them liable?
The political correctness which is requires us to keep eyes shut and ears closed mandates we ignore the facts for if spoken of it will be upsetting or embarrassing to others – I choose not to.
Every civilized country has punishment for an act of being an accessory to a crime. If one robs a bank and another helps him to get away the second individual is guilty; perhaps not to the same degree yet still liable.
Why is it today’s society allows for the concept to escape when the same situation applies to politics? Why is it we choose to punish a driver of a get away car and ignore those that support an organization committing much worse crimes then a bank robbery?
Oppressive regimes such as Third Reich, USSR, North Korea, China, Iran, Cuba, Afghanistan and countless others are often criticized for their treatment of their citizens.
It unimaginable that nobody stopped to think that perhaps it is the very same citizens who chose and/or support the abusive, degrading style of life imposed on them, it is the civilians that allowed the oppressive regime to exist and it is the civilians that maintain it.
When Communist-Socialist revolution happened in Russia in 1917 it was the masses of people that stormed a palace in Saint Petersburg, it was the people that instituted and supported Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs the organization that later on served a role ranging from a scalpel to a chainsaw in formation of a new Soviet Republic. It was the same people that told on their neighbors and facilitated the circumstances when the scalpel or a chain saw was to be used.
It is the Korean people that allowed the “Democratic People’s Republic” of north Korea to born in 1948 and it is the Korean people that marched to war drums against the Untied States army.
People’s republic of China surprisingly followed the same trait when in 1949 Mao advocated peasant revolution that was based on the importance of unified mass (people) movement.
The list goes on, but if there is anything that unites the examples above it is the presence of “People” aspect, - the civilians hopelessly ignored when the regime is being criticized. The regime and people that support it are one and the same; the regime can not exist on its own.
The situation in middle east is very similar, with religious leaders energizing the crowd instead of suddenly appearing political figures;- the religious movement and those in the head of it that serves the same purpose. The final result is strikingly similar in the masses blindly following the leaders to degraded and abusive life style set to please a few.
It is no surprise that you harvest that what you seed and perhaps the civilian casualties in war such as the one between Hezbollah and Israel are justified to a degree – each side pays for the way it chose to live.
Israelis allowed terrorist organization to develop on their borders and did nothing but wait for United Nations to take care of the situation. They knew better and those that choose to participate in pretence on a mass scale sooner or later have to face the music so here it is – the musing raining down on their cities in form of Katusha rockets and bigger Syrian made shrapnel based missiles.
It is Lebanese people that allowed Iran and Syria to provide weapons to fanatical religious leaders,
It is the Lebanese people that allowed the weapons to be stored in their houses.
It is the very same people that refuse to get out of the area when Israel used every known-to-man method of notification to warn them of the danger and it is the same people that in the end pay the ultimate price for their ignorance, complacency or both.
I believe Germans understood the situation, when in December of 1970 German Chancellor Willy Brandt sent an image to the world when he fell to his knees before the monument at the site of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. He was apologizing for the entire German nation and not for a particular group of individuals that caused genocide on a mass scale; as he knew that every German willingly or not was an accomplice to the crime.
In May 1985 German President Richard von Weizsaecker said:
"Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection,"