WHERE DOES SENSE OF CRUELTY COME FROM? WHY ARE THERE CRUEL PEOPLE? READ THESE:
TRUMP PRAISES GOP REP WHO ASSAULTED REPORTER President Donald Trump praised Republican lawmaker Greg Gianforte, who last year assaulted a Guardian reporter. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my kind of guy,” Trump said at a rally in Montana, as supporters cheered him on.
Huffington Post, October 19, 2017
According to an account in the pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Şafak, and a later report citing Turkish officials by the New York Times, the audio recording proves that Khashoggi was seized as soon as he entered the office of the Saudi consul, Mohammad al-Otaibi, on 2 October.
The dissident journalist was beaten and had his fingers cut off, according to the news account. Otaibi asked for the torture to be done outside his office, saying: “You will put me in trouble.”
“If you want to live when you come back to Arabia, shut up,” the consul was told by a Saudi hit team who had flown to Istanbul hours before Khashoggi’s planned visit to the consulate, where he had expected to pick up legal papers he needed to get married.
Khashoggi was beheaded and his body was cut up. A Saudi forensics specialist Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy can be heard putting on headphones to listen to music and telling others to do the same while the body was dismembered, according to the reports.
Investigators believe that after the killing, Khashoggi’s body was taken to the consul general’s house, where it was disposed of.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/17/jamal-khashoggi-pompeo-to-meet-erdogan-as-gory-reports-of-killing-emerge
In the eighties when we were campaigning against the martial law, we dreaded being near government agencies knowing that there were spies inside who could report on what we were doing there. However, due to the need to survive we also had to look for jobs and I found one in the Budget Commission, now the DBM ThereI used to work as senior management specialist where some co-employees of ours we had found to be spying on every one -- especially those who have ties to the underground. One employee's former partner then had just been released from Bicutan and so she was targeted for minute-by-minute espionage.
We did our jobs well, not minding what they were doing. As far as we were concerned, our work was legitimate, assessing proposals of government agencies for budgetary allocations for organization, salaries, and operations, among others.
What kind of cruelty did Marcos employ? The partner of that employee was tied to the bed by handcuffs; some detainees were made to sit on ice; others were placed in solo incarceration. I don't have much info on the more horrible methods save from what I have come across in the papers.
So CRUELTY is not something indigenous to Marcos. But for the I O to exercise a neurotic cruelty over media people shows a dangerous leader who could do worse in the future. I think the United States had better watch out for future worse scenarios with him at the helm.
Meanwhile, what happened to Kashoggi is a product of an aristocratic society where the underlings had fallen head over heels in working for the MBS. In that closed society, where women are at their worst situation, the breeding of a cruel leader is no longer surprising. Unlike in Britain, where the monarchy enjoys the people's adulation, and women are liberated socially, in Kashoggi's country, the prince has turned out to be a spoiled brat. And with the blind obedience of his people, he could order anything, to be as cruel as can be to his enemies.
Britain has a long history of enlightenment philosophically, unlike in Kashoggi's country. I think that really, a good grounding in philosophy among the people is the best defense against the propagation of cruel leaders. Why because, armed with a strong philosphical bent, then the people can counter intellectually and actively any overturning of their human rights.
As Plato says:
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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