Sit back, relax and drown<\/p>\n
The White Man (and increasingly Woman)
\nHe(she) came. He(she) killed. He(she) looted. He (she) colonized.
\nSir\/M’am, did you have entry visa to our shores?
\nWhat entry visa! Entry visa my arse!!!
\nLike Jehovah’s Witness, the man in red coat, blue coat, 3 piece suits, 2 piece suits, said (with laughter):
\n“Let me in or I’d blow your head off.
\nFor me and my lot were to save you from yourself!”
\nFast forward to modernity.<\/p>\n
Enter INGOs:
\n“human rights! human rights!
\nbut bite not your ‘donors’ hands’, all you destitute lot.”
\n“Civil Society, Civil Society!
\nLet us show you the way to Civil Society.”
\nLet Telenor and Statoil bring Development to your land.
\nGE and GMOs are good for your spirituality.
\nDrink CokaCola.
\nIt’s cleaner and safer than your water!
\nThank you, Madam Albright!
\nC is for Coke and D is for Democracy, ex-Madam Secretary happily screams.
\nWhy didn’t we realize the essence of your American Dream!?<\/p>\n
Now back to the Basics, that History of the World.
\nEurope came to others’ shores.
\nNo visa.
\nNo food.
\nBut, plenty of gun powder to sell, alcohol to distribute and exploitative greed to loot.
\nThe White Man left, having discharged His burden.
\nHaving plundered other peoples’ homes.
\nHaving left communities of ‘natives’ the world over messier & deadlier,
\nand more pathological than they were ever before.
\nHeard of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Burma, Palestine, – you got the drift.
\nAh, ‘Civilization’ has been served up.
\nCarnage, corpses, debris – in sight.<\/p>\n
Do’t be distressed.
\nThat’s just a small price for ‘Progress’.
\nIt’s the native’s gain, damn it!
\nSo, don’t you dare complain about your stupid country’s pain!<\/p>\n
Heard of Africa and Caribbean, with their finely built “potential servants\/slaves”?
\nHeard of the Silk-roaded China with her glittering riches?
\nThe Spice Islands and Nippon’s shoguns?
\nSiam and Pegu?
\nAnd the Crown Jewel of Indian sub-continent where the Raj grew opium for export to Hong Kong as “the emerging market”?<\/p>\n
Now, refugees, what refugees?
\nLet these greedy petty, half-clad creatures drown.
\nLest they pollute our cultures, rot our social fabric and take our jobs!
\nNo!
\nOh No! These pests will NOT make our “(genocidal) Australia” their home, thunders Tony Oxford-educated Abbot, All Mighty Fascist Lord of Down-Under.<\/p>\n
Send them to post-genocidal Cambodia.
\nHell, yes, we’ll let them drown, Yippies!
\nThat’s our NAVY!<\/p>\n
Not here.
\nNot in a million years!
\nNot there.
\nGo anywhere but here.<\/p>\n
Only on our dead bodies!
\nS-O-R-R-Y.
\nNo humane country for refugees!<\/p>\n
No British rescue missions for drowning Afro-refugees.
\nReally, it’s in their Karma, in their DNAs to suffer.
\nGive them Burmese “Buddhism” or cheap opium from Afghanistan.
\nHave they no wit to know Foreign Policies ain’t about human welfare?
\nGovernments ain’t no churches.\u00a0 We ain’t your Messiah.
\nChurches ain’t exactly life-saving institutions either.
\nAsk the Holy See and Father Popes who wouldn’t make you happier.
\nHuman Rights are western luxuries
\npreserved like pickles for the beheaded western journos and aid workers!<\/p>\n
Gentlemen, let ‘s just be frank.
\nThis is the core of our Western Values.
\nEurope and We the White Men (and Women) are, all about resources, cheap labor, seaports, and land routes.
\nWe are after your trees, your estates, your market, your “walking dictionaries”, ah, native ladies, etc.<\/p>\n
So, don’t you dare scream foul.
\nWe Europe – and the West – want it all.
\nWe are destroyers of life one moment – heard of Drones?? Precision Bombing? Air Strikes?? – while playing Keeper of Life, Livelihoods, and Liberalism.
\nAh, us and our “colonialist nostalgia”!
\nThe West and Its Terminal Schizophrenia.<\/p>\n
Here is good news for you:
\nSit back, relax and drown!<\/p>\n
UK Axes Support for Mediterranean Migrant Rescue Operation<\/em><\/a> __________________________<\/p>\n Dr. Maung Zarni<\/em>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malay<\/em>a, <\/em>is a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment,<\/em> founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No British rescue missions for drowning Afro-refugees.
\nRefugees and human rights organisations react with anger as minister says saving people encourages others to risk voyage. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nReally, it’s in their Karma, in their DNAs to suffer.
\nGive them Burmese “Buddhism” or cheap opium from Afghanistan.
\nHave they no wit to know Foreign Policies ain’t about human welfare?
\nGovernments ain’t no churches. We ain’t your Messiah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}