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Beware of Double Standard Democracy

 

Spreading a strange brand of democracy through armed invasions and active collaboration of most favoured fundamentalist dictatorship and theocracies is a shady business we must all beware of. For observers of world affairs like I, it is both painful and shocking that many of the leaders of the North American and European nations of the West, declaring themselves as the champions of democracy, seek to impose a new era of pseudo-dictatorships and hegemonistic regimes on countries of the Asian and African continents.

Can a democracy be called democracy if it first gives birth to and nurtures terrorism, nuclear proliferation and instability, and then through fraudulent pretenses invades the far off territories of other nations with the collaboration of most favoured military rulers heading puppet regimes with the declared mission of establishing "democratic regimes" there.

But their slip shows. Even when several nations are victims of disastrous natural calamities, like the Tsunami strike, they and their embedded media seek to call it the "Asian Tsunami" as if the Asian nations were responsible for the sin of creating the natural disaster. It smacked of a sordid effort to politicise a staggering natural disaster and inject an element of neoherrenvolkism into world affairs.

It is painful to see that major Western media leaders like the CNN and BBC would report all the gore and ghastly array of dead and mutilated bodies of Asian and hold their lenses when it came to visually depicting fires, quakes and acts of terrorism and destruction in the Western countries. The embedded journalism, invented by the Western nations like the United States, and electronic-channel hegemonies being practiced negatively against non-white and non-Western nations of the world should disturb not only the leaders of real Asian democracies but also the real democracy loving people of countries like the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and France. They should hold their hegemonistic political leaders accountable for their misadventure of turning democracy too into a branded product, different for home use and totally different for export only.

A warning to the people of the world. Please beware of the double standards of the democracy venders in world of politics and media. For these venders of fake democracy, humanity causes no concern. If there are heaps of dead bodies and skeletons as the aftermath of the terror strikes on the New York World Trade Towers, they deserve restrained and respectful visual coverage, not to offend the sensitives of decent people who would revolt at the sight of gore and ghastly death in cold reality. But the Asian and African blood and flesh does not attract the same concern and respect from them. And those in our own country, who blindly follow these Western standards of media and meddlemanship, are also guilty of betraying public trust and confidence. It is a pure case of turning democracy too into contraband products like drugs and fake medicine to earn wealth and power, heroin dollars and petro dollars. They support dictators, coups and political crooks in other countries so that their own global trade in democracy should flourish and remain lucrative. All I want to say is: Beware of this double standard democracy, it is as poisonous as the national socialism which once invaded humanity as a scourge under the fake shield of nationalism and socialism.

Sunil Dang
Editor-in-Chief

 

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