<<"The idea used to be that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent, innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish leaders......>>
Even the most enlightened today has been terrible once. It is matter of education and that of fusion of culture. The pace of fusion of human society today shocks us and we consider some nations and tribes to be unable to recover from the abyss. I think I need to be more benevolent before general characterisation of humanity. To overcome traumas from slave trade, colonial injustices and than mother of all the cold war, THE TRAGEDIES INFLICTED BY EXTERNAL FACTORS are NOT THE MAKING OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION INHERENT FAULTS made things worst for these poor nations.
God creates all human beings as equal and they have equal propensity to make mistakes or to be extraordinarily intelligent, it is the circumstances that makes one becomes a shade better than other, it is collective spirit of growing and helping together that will save us from ultimate annihilation. Evil grow exponentially when we consider one evil to be lesser than other, that is what opportunism in politics is all about, we as bigger better equipped people should have larger time frames to pass judgment on others in my two cents worth. The selectivity of evil and than making new axis of evil every decade is tone to familiar to all of us, and we know who harps it, with this selection of evil on a decade to change basis does imposes responsibility too. Someone out there is guilty of passing judgments on humanity at large; these judgments were based on shortened times span and instant gratification.
Poorer nations are not inherently evil the circumstance and opportunistic use of them make them go through the cycles that one believes no one else has ever gone through before. Lets not short termism cloud our judgment, lets not treat humans as short trade able commodities, lets look and scratch the surface little deeper, lets learn the lessons of history.
One latest example is death of ‘Communism’ with thousand of nuke weapons targeted at bastion of capitalism the Americas, it was branded as an ‘Evil Empire’ by no less a man than Ronald Reagan, I like him a lot, he did help unwind the biggest threat that mankind ever faced, that of its own extinction but at a certain cost. To save a system it was imperative to have ‘Bays of pigs’ where humanity nearly came at brink of nuclear holocaust, than to bring these commies down, Vietnam and associated body bags are very tragic memories, the peripheral proxy wars in Africa were initiated, the net result one cold night was that the whole structure of communism crumpled under its own weight and losses, some people in Somalia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Pakistan paid very huge price, lets not forget it, and some helped is owed to those little forgotten nations. To help them to survive to stand on their own two feet.
To bring commies down who were deemed as bigger threat than anything else, sick extremist medieval minds like Hekmatyar were trained and invited to White House, that how recuperative ability OF THESE POOR NATIONS WERE SERVED A DEATH BLOW, TO TRUN AROUND AND SAY THIS IS YOUR OWN FAULT IS HIGHLY PROVOCATIVE who were trained and bribed to become the new vermin, they did bring communism down but characters like Aideed, Saddam and Osama are our creation, lets not wash our hands from them, to eradicate them is also our responsibility.
The net present value of the collapse of the Communist Empire and freedom of Europe from the yoke of communism is worth perhaps 5 times the global GDP of 35 trillion dollars and that is a conservative figure. If the cold war had continued and if the word had still been divided in two then we would have seen the global proliferation of American cooperations. The global economy is absolutely controlled by the Americans and there should be no misgivings about it. This is attributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain and this present imperialism of the US is not ocean based, land based or weapon based rather it is cyber based and predicated on research & development, and the intellectual property rights. Until a nation that has equal prowess in intellectual property the tentacles of cyber imperialism whose clear indications are cokes, Pepsis, Mcdonalds & dunkin donuts in the world cannot be reversed. The very reach of the United States of the America reaches the hinterland of the more peripheral nation.So is the responsibility, this is what State department will understand much later..
Lets not forget we are the same people who did this too to Galileo Galilei, it was indeed 1633 but 250 years of colonialism did wipe out of lot from these poor nations, lets help them grow, we cannot grow in vacuum and isolation. No one is a born evil, it is only lack of light, make light and it will pierce through the thickest of clouds. We all learn, we all make mistakes..
Sentence of the Tribunal of the Supreme Inquisition against Galileo Galilei, given the 22nd day of June of the year 1633
"It being the case that thou, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, a Florentine, now aged 70, wast denounced in this Holy Office in 1615:
"That thou heldest as true the false doctrine taught by many, that the Sun was the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the Earth moved, and had also a diurnal motion: That on this same matter thou didst hold a correspondence with certain German mathematicians....
"That the Sun is the centre of the universe and doth not move from his place is a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and formerly heretical; being expressly contrary to Holy Writ: That the Earth is not the centre of the universe nor immoveable, but that it moves, even with a diurnal motion, is likewise a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and considered in theology ad minus erroneous in faith.....
"Invoking then the Most Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and of His most glorious Mother Mary, ever Virgin, for this Our definite sentence, the which sitting pro tribunali, by the counsel and opinion of the Reverent Masters of theology and doctors of both laws, Our Counsellors, we present in these writings, in the cause and causes currently before Us, between the magnificent Carlo Sinceri, doctor of both laws, procurator fiscal of this Holy Office on the one part, and thou Galileo Galilei, guilty, here present, confessed and judged, on the other part:
"We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare, that thou, the said Galileo, by the things deduced during this trial, and by thee confessed as above, hast rendered thyself vehemently suspected of heresy by this Holy Office, that is, of having believed and held a doctrine which is false, and contrary to the Holy Scriptures, to wit: that the Sun is the centre of the universe, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the Earth moves and is not the centre of the universe: and that an opinion may be held and defended as probable after having been declared and defined as contrary to Holy Scripture; and in consequence thou hast incurred all the censures and penalties of the Sacred Canons, and other Decrees both general and particular, against such offenders imposed and promulgated. From the which We are content that thou shouldst be absolved, if, first of all, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, thou dost before Us abjure, curse, and detest the above-mentioned errors and heresies and any other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church, after the manner that We shall require of thee.
"And to the end that this thy grave error and transgression remain not entirely unpunished, and that thou mayst be more cautious in the future, and an example to others to abstain from and avoid similar offences,
"We order that by a public edict the book of DIALOGUES OF GALILEO GALILEI be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms, reserving to Ourselves the faculty of moderating, changing, or taking from, all other or part of the above-mentioned pains and penalties.
"And thus We say, pronounce, declare, order, condemn, and reserve in this and in any other better way and form which by right We can and ought.
Ita pronunciamus nos Cardinalis infrascripti.
F. Cardinalis de Asculo.
G. Cardinalis Bentivolius
D. Cardinalis de Cremona.
A. Cardinalis S. Honuphri.
B. Cardinalis Gypsius.
F. Cardinalis Verospius.
M. Cardinalis Ginettus.
GALILEO'S ABJURATION.
I, Galileo Galilei, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei of Florence, aged 70 years, tried personally by this court, and kneeling before You, the most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals, Inquisitors-General throughout the Christian Republic against heretical depravity, having before my eyes the Most Holy Gospels, and laying on them my own hands; I swear that I have always believed, I believe now, and with God's help I will in future believe all which the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church doth hold, preach, and teach.
But since I, after having been admonished by this Holy Office entirely to abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the Earth was not the centre of the same and that it moved, and that I was neither to hold, defend, nor teach in any manner whatever, either orally or in writing, the said false doctrine; and after having received a notification that the said doctrine is contrary to Holy Writ, I did write and cause to be printed a book in which I treat of the said already condemned doctrine, and bring forward arguments of much efficacy in its favour, without arriving at any solution: I have been judged vehemently suspected of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the Sun is the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the Earth is not the centre of the same, and that it does move.
Nevertheless, wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. And I swear that for the future I will neither say nor assert in speaking or writing such things as may bring upon me similar suspicion; and if I know any heretic, or one suspected of heresy, I will denounce him to this Holy Office, or to the Inquisitor and Ordinary of the place in which I may be.
I also swear and promise to adopt and observe entirely all the penances which have been or may be by this Holy Office imposed on me. And if I contravene any of these said promises, protests, or oaths, (which God forbid!) I submit myself to all the pains and penalties which by the Sacred Canons and other Decrees general and particular are against such offenders imposed and promulgated. So help me God and the Holy Gospels, which I touch with my own hands.
I Galileo Galilei aforesaid have abjured, sworn, and promised, and hold
myself bound as above; and in token of the truth, with my own hand have
subscribed the present schedule of my abjuration, and have recited it word
by word. In Rome, at the Convent della Minerva, this 22nd day of June,
1633.
I, GALILEO GALILEI, have abjured as above, with my own hand. |
