People ignore crimes for political reasons

     So I'm going go through this back story really quick so I can get straight to the point. ISIS murders one of Jordan's pilots, and Jordan retaliates, executing 2 of their prisoners and starting a bombing campaign against ISIS.
     http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/jordan-hits-islamic-state-with-airstrikes-as-king-visits-family-of-pilot-burned-alive/2015/02/05/22ea3af0-acad-11e4-8876-460b1144cbc1_story.html
     Many people around the world, including many Americans, applauded Jordan without any knowledge of its history, its political systems, its list of crimes that it has committed every since it came into existence, etc, etc, basically they are straight up ignorant people, commenting on things that they have no knowledge about.
     What else is new, right?
     The problem is that this support of Jordan is a truly offensive thing to do, reprehensible, disgusting, against American values, and is actually the same action that Americans get mad at citizens from other countries for doing.
     Wait, what am I saying? You ask? Don't worry, all will be explained. I know my statements seem "revolutionary, extreme, radical," etc, but only because our society and culture as a whole has been extremely radicalized and twisted for decades, leaving once rational, logical, and moderate statements seemingly way out there because it is so different from what we experience day to day. What we consider "normal" is actually extremely radical, leaving normal statements looking like they are radical.
      So to start off, let's go through some of the endorsements that Americans have been giving the government of Jordan, and specifically the dictator of Jordan, Abdullah, recently:

• "For anyone that doesn't know King Abdullah's story, you should definitely read about it. Truly awesome. They don't really make leaders like him anymore" -Scott Carlisle. 
• "King Jordan for our Defense Secretary!!!"-Dave Broadbent. 
• "at LAST!!! ... a real leader has emerged in the world!!!"-Jasper Stupart. 
• " Proud of King Abdullah II , well done Jordanian Air Force , God bless you"-Rabie Annab. 
• " Way to go Jordan....finally a country with backbone"-Lorraine White.  
• "Obama should look at Jordan to see how a REAL leader handles terrorism"-Sara Jean. 
• "NOW, here is a MAN that backs up his word, not a wimp like somebody else we are stuck with"-Gus Brown. 

     Etc, etc, etc, you get the point. These are not by far the only comments made on Facebook about Abdullah, I just picked the first 7 that I could find. The consensus is that Abdullah is a good leader, and that America would be great if we had a leader like him, and that Obama should be more like Abdullah. These people either 1. Have no idea how many innocent people Abdullah has killed, raped, tortured, kidnapped, and oppressed, or 2. They simply don't care because they want to make a jab at Obama. Either way, it is completely sickening that a man that has done all that gets PRAISE from the American people. 
     What crimes has Abdullah committed, you ask? You haven't heard the mainstream media, (MSM), say anything about it, you say? Well of course you haven't. The MSM would never report crimes done by our allies. That would make them look bad, and America NEVER makes friends with bad guys, right? The MSM is the mouthpiece of the state. The state wants Jordan to look good for political reasons, so that's what the MSM spews out. 
     Here are some human rights reports that you would NEVER see on the MSM about Jordan: 

•   http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/jordan "Jordanian law criminalizes speech deemed critical of the king, government officials, and institutions." Oh no freedom of speech for Jordanians.  "prosecutors continued to charge protesters with participating in “unlawful gatherings” under article 165 of the penal code." Oh no freedom of assembly for Jordanians.
• http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/jordan "Amnesty International continues to be concerned about torture and ill-treatment in detention in Jordan, as well as the link between torture, unfair trials, and the death penalty."
• http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/220572.pdf "The most significant human rights problems were citizens' inability to change their government peacefully." "Oh so no freedom to free and fair elections for Jordanians. "Other human rights problems include denial of due process, prolonged detention, (no right to a fair and speedy trial for Jordanians). 

    Wow, that's a good chunk of the Bill of Rights that Jordanians flat out don't have, and that's only the first 3 sources I could find! Does this sound like the type of leader that you want to rule the U.S.? Does this sound like the type of country that you want to live in? Does this sounds like the leader that our president should take pointers from?
    FUCK NO!!!
    "King" Abdullah was not elected in free and fair elections by his people to rule the country, he simply got the throne through the chance of being the son of the previous king, "King" Hussein. Do you know what that makes him? A dictator? When his people call for free and fair elections, so that they can choose their own leaders, you know, the right that all Americans have, do you know what he does? Kidnaps them, tortures them, jails them, kills them. Oh what a good leader, right?!
      Okay, so he might be a bad leader, you say, but he is still striking against ISIS, a terrorist group, so we can praise him for this one deed, right? Okay, you can, because a bad man can do the right thing for the wrong reason, after all. But, in order to not have a double standard, that means you have to praise every bad guy who did something good. So, are you going to praise HAMAS for crushing an Al-Qaida uprising in 2009?
     http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3762017,00.html
     Remember, no double standards! If "King" Abdullah can be praised despite his tyranny for attacking ISIS, then HAMAS can be praised despite their crimes for attacking al-Qaida? C'mon, where's your praise for HAMAS, Americans? Huh? Are you going to praise Iran for helping the side that is fighting ISIS? Huh? Remember, no double standards!
     SEE HOW FUCKING STUPID YOU LOOK!!!! 

     The people above literally had no idea about the man they were praising. They are so fucking God damn ignorant that they are praising a tyrant, that, if he ruled them, they would hate and despise and take up arms against in a second. Oh, but if they see a chance for a political pandering, then let's throw logic out the window, they say, all hail dictator, oh, I mean, KING Abdullah!
     I did respond to several of the comments in the above bullets on Facebook, basically summarizing what I've written here in this post. Most of my comments got deleted, even though I used no curse words and did not insult anyone at all. It's pretty sad that the internet has come down to: Oh, he responded so well that I can't think how to counter him, so I'm going to flag his comment for abuse, even though he did no abuse, just so I don't look like a freaking idiot unable to respond. The few people who did not delete my comments and who did respond either insulted me without countering any of my points, they just called me stupid and told me to shut up, and deemed that a sufficient response. Or, they said some bullshit like "Your comment is so dumb I'm not even going to validate it with a response. But oh, if I ever did respond, you'd be sorry! You can't match wit with me!"
     No seriously, this was actually one of the comments:

     "Normally, I don't respond or try to match wits with defenseless people like you, because I'm twice your age and have been around lots longer than you and have seen more than you in my lifetime. You're young, idealistic, and think you know everything so I will just leave it at this. Don't you ever attempt to match wits with me because you'll lose. Have a good day and don't reply again because I won't look at it. Your comment is irrational and uninformed."

     Doesn't that sound like someone who knows they're wrong but is too much of a stubborn bitch to admit it?? 

    In conclusion, this support by Americans have real life consequences for the Jordanian people, and the Palestinians living in Jordan. Our political and military support for Jordan is a lifeline for the Jordanian regime. In short, we are financing the Jordanians' suffering. It's on our fucking heads. Praise isn't just harmless words. No, our support for Jordan is financing millions of peoples' oppression and denial of basic human rights that we take for granted.  The millions of dollars we give them allows them to have the police cars that they use to kidnap people in the dead of night. The millions of dollars we give them allows them to torture a woman for simply saying that she wants to vote for her leader.

       If you're going to comment on something, FUCKING KNOW WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT. Ignorance kills people. Ignorance causes acute, mind numbing suffering.  

   

Jordanian Dictator Doesn’t Get the Memo: Jordanians Want Democracy, not Appeasement

          First of all, before we go into the story at all, let’s get one thing straight. “King” Abdullah of Jordan is a dictator. The Western media calls him a king, to somehow make him look better than and not as cruel as the word “dictator” sounds. They do this because Abdullah is an ally of the U.S., (a.k.a does whatever the U.S. tells him to do in exchange for political, economic and military support), and as per U.S. policy, our allies never do anything wrong, ever.

          Let’s not kid ourselves here. Abdullah has absolute power over Jordan. He can dissolve anyone in the government at any time for any reason. He is not elected; he inherited his title. He is not held accountable for anything he does; neither the parliament nor the constitution can check or balance his powers at all. He received $1.02 billion dollars from the U.S. in military aid in 2009, $843 million in 2010, and an estimated $682 million in 2011, (calculations are not completely done yet for 2011). 

         

          Guess what he does with all that military aid we give him every year? If you follow my blog at all, you will know the answer to this question, and you will know that this answer fucking infuriates me more than anything else related to U.S. policy. He uses that money to pay and arm his police thugs, who violently beat up peaceful protesters, kidnap political opposition members, (often torturing them), rape women, and assassinate anyone who he deems is a “security threat,” (a.k.a. anyone who disagrees with him). 

          He uses that money to buy weapons and military vehicles from many developed countries, to completely dissuade anyone from taking up arms against the dictatorship. The military oppresses the Jordanian people, taking away their most basic human rights, leaving them at the mercy of the government. They can’t vote for their leader; Abdullah has that title for life, and then when he dies, the title just goes to his heir. They have no say in how they are governed. Sure, they “vote” for the parliament, but the parliament is completely subservient to Abdullah. They have no power, save what he feels like giving to them at a moment where it is convenient for him.

          Now that we have that established, let’s go to the main part of this post. There have been recent protests in Amman demanding political reform and that the dictator has less power.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/05/world/jordan-protest/index.html

 

           Abdullah is trying to appease them, dissolving parliament and calling for new elections. But the protesters are not satisfied with that, because that does absolutely nothing. Abdullah doesn’t want to face the fact that Jordanians want him OUT, and to bring in fair and free elections to elect their own leaders. Some of them want a liberal democracy based on Western governments, others want a constitutional monarchy, and still some others want a Sharia-based government. Whatever type of government they choose in free and fair elections will be a democracy because that is the type of government the people rightly and legitimately chose. It doesn’t have to be a liberal, Western-styled democracy to be a democracy.  

          The Western media has been largely mute on the Jordanian protests since the start of the Arab Spring. That is because reporting on the protests would make our U.S. ally look bad, so they ignore it, as the Western media is not allowed to make our “allies” look bad. They also point to the fact that there have not been as many protests in Jordan as say, Egypt or Yemen. Their conclusion is that most Jordanians are content with the government since they are not coming out in large numbers.

          But that’s not the case. The reason why there have not been as many protests is because the Jordanian security forces have a stranglehold on anyone who opposes them. They kidnap and torture protest organizers before they even get onto the streets. They snuff out any opposition before it can get anything going. They buy off people who would oppose them. They brutally crack down on the small amount of protests that have popped up, to scare other people to not oppose the government. The government has been quite effective in keeping a tight lid on dissatisfaction, because they know that if they let things grow too much, they’re going to end up like Tunisia or Egypt, or maybe even Libya or Syria, if the opposition decides to take up arms against them.

          Other bigoted, xenophobic Americans are saying that these protests are only a radical Islamic ploy to overthrow the Jordanian government and start an extremist jihadi government in its place. That statement is delegitimizing the rightful and logical complaints that the Jordanian people have with their government. It’s saying that if you are a Jordanian and you oppose the government, you are not standing for freedom or democracy. You are not demanding your basic human rights. Your claims are not legitimate. Instead, you are a radical Islamic terrorist who just wants to kill Americans.

          These Americans do not believe that Muslims are human enough to deserve human rights; therefore, they do not deserve to choose their own leader and government, so they’re perfectly fine with giving millions of dollars to Abdullah so he can rule Jordan with an iron fist. Then they act all surprised when Jordanians show hostility to them: “What? Why do you hate us so much? All we did was finance a dictator that has been oppressing and torturing you guys for decades, so what? No big deal, stop protesting for democracy and freedom, and start doing everything we say!”

          We, as principled Americans, should not just stand by and let this happen. We must support our Jordanian brothers and sisters who just want the same basic human rights that we enjoy every day. We must help make their voices heard, as they have many powerful governments and medias working against them. We must counter the bigoted statements that our fellow countrymen say about them. We must demand an end to U.S. military aid to Jordan, because that “aid” is being used in actions that are in direct violations of our principles, morals and beliefs.

          The Jordanian government is not our “ally.” They do not care about us. All they care about is getting as much as our money as they can so they can further cement their despotic rule over their own people. They are opposed to democracy and freedom, which makes them our enemies. We have no right to tell the Jordanian people what they can or cannot do. All we can do is support them in their endeavors that agree with our principles, morals and beliefs. And what they’re working towards is the exact same thing that our founding fathers worked towards: democracy, freedom, liberty and justice for all.