Time to Oust all Dictators (2)

[Continuation, part 2. Blog on changing/deleting dictators]

I am only one person, I don't have the right to judge others; however, based on conduct and actions, I can judge whether individuals (and organizations), are socially acceptable or not -- civilized in this Century of Light (Author: Universal House of Justice), who pinpoint "the ruin that the human race has brought upon itself." In my opinion, even if I keep it to myself, how do I judge right from wrong? How do I judge another human being?

But in this case President Assad has been judged by the world's civil communities. The world in the past has demonized Hitler and to an extent the German people, Emporor Hirohito and the Japanese (hence the hubbub right now about visiting a sacred shrine), and many others in the last 75 years, like Saddam Hussein and his army. So in a civil society how do we get rid of dictators? Easy. 

1. Gather a military coalition as was done in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2. Issue a sanctioned U.N.fatwa, and 3. Depose, capture and imprison, or kill an inhuman being. Would that everything were so black and white. But remember how many lies (sometimes), arm-twisting, deal-making, and vote-getting all those actions finally took? Besides obtaining some modicum of public support? Time is still passing on such atrocities, during which innocent men, women and child citizens were and are murdered. "Collateral damage." 

No, there's a time for pleading and a time for action, immediately, so rebuilding a truly democratic Syrian nation can begin. In part one I showed how Assad's crimes were proven. Universally condemned. Yet now we dally and delay trying to get rid of Syria's chemical weapons. I say that's not nearly enough. This is NOT the same as issuing a fatwa against an innocent-til-proven-guilty evil person. The Syrian government's crimes against humanity led by President Assad is proven. Torturing, maiming, killing or displacing millions (UNHCR reports over 1 million children and 1 million other refugees). Assad is not like the long suffering, incognito author Joseph Anton who received a fatwa sentence of death. 

But why do we need multiples and multiples of murders to act against such inhuman "leaders," these mostly male megalomanical demigods? Weren't invasions and genocide in the '40s enough? Or in Rwanda? It's obvious that just like some demigods in the U.S. congress now, or these dictators, they refuse to cede real power to the people, or put the people's interests above their own like Nelson Mandela emblemized. '65 years later the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide  is still deeply flawed. Still extant, it calls for nations to voluntarily agree to its principles instead of being mandatory for all. Unfortunately, even the self-righteous don't want to cede any authority or sovereignty to someone or to a justly constituted organization who can put an end to these infinite cruelties.

Not until the Commonwealth of Nations cedes some of their soverignty to the International Criminal Court and to the Peacekeepers, will dictators and their miseries end.

By Rodney Richards copyright 2013
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