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The name of peace?
The whole world is saying we have to have a free press, and that no matter how controversial or hateful some of the speech is or may be interpreted in some communities, that we judge a free press by how we treat the journalists or the stories that we don’t like or that we’re offended by. But on the other hand, this is sort of a circus of hypocrisy when it comes to all of those world leaders who were marching at the front of it.
I mean, every single one of those heads of state or representatives of governments there have waged their own wars against journalists. You know, David Cameron ordered The Guardian to smash with a hammer the hard drives that stored the files of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Blasphemy is considered a crime in Ireland. You had multiple African and Arab leaders whose own countries right now have scores of journalists in prison. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Israel has targeted for killing numerous journalists who have reported on the Palestinian side, have kidnapped, abducted, jailed journalists.You have General Sisi, the dictator of Egypt, who apparently is showing his solidarity for press freedom by continuing to preside over the imprisonment of multiple Al Jazeera journalists whose only crime was doing actual journalism and scores of other Egyptian journalists that never get mentioned in the news media.
The U.S. sold them the weapons or the material they needed to build them, and now they're upset that they have them--if they still do. It just serves to expose the hypocrisy of the U.S. government again, which says it wants to curb the spread of deadly weapons and bring about peace in the world, while at the same time it's selling nearly half the world's weapons and waging war in the name of peace.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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