I just saw the news report of the self-righteous congressman Dana Rohrabacher and his hypocritical resolution on the Balochistan issue. Though he is right on the human rights violations by the Pakistani military and the ISI, who is he or anyone else in the American government for that matter to criticize another country on human rights violations?
When America has had so many cases of ethnically cleansing the Native peoples on their own lands. When they have so many prisoners in Guantanamo Bay held without trial and kept in terrible prison conditions, still the two-sided American government thinks it can lecture others on human rights issues?
Then there was an even more hypocritical statement made by Rohrabacher that would outrage anyone with common sense and ethics. I'll even quote it to be precise:
"Like in the United States, where we gave a declaration of independence, we have a right to a country separate from Great Britain. That's what self-determination is."
It does indeed frustrate me how the people of North America to this very day pretend they were "occupied" by the British and simply freed themselves as opposed to invading the North American continent, ethnically cleansing it's native people and then declaring themselves a separate state from Great Britain and France.
Do they actually think the world will forget that they are derived from European invaders? This is part of their school history curriculum according to which the brave "Americans" and "Canadians" were always living in North America until the wicked British and French came and "occupied" them after which they "declared independence."
They do not think they descend from these very same "occupiers" who stole the land of the Native Americans and here they invent the terms of "self-determination."
I would educate Mr Dana Rohrabacher a little on self-determination. Self-determination is when the Natives of North America have all their lands back. Self-determination is when the people of Hawaii have their independence movement granted.
If I were a Pakistani senator, I would pass a bill in the Pakistani senate calling for the recognition of Hawaii as a separate state by Pakistan. If I were the Pakistani government, I would call upon the Pakistani ambassador to the UN to petition for the condemnation of America's illegal occupation in Hawaii by the UN.
I would also petition the Pakistani representative in the UN to condemn the cleansing of Natives in North America by the US Government and press for a second petition calling for the sovereignty of Native Americans. That would be the ultimate provocation.
The Chinese should also consider such moves after the West condemned their occupation of Tibet. Show condemnation for France and Spain in the Basque region, show condemnation to America in Hawaii.
Another quote from Rohrabacher in response to the claim that this was a CIA motivated move:
"Anyone who believes that is totally out of touch with reality," Rohrabacher responded. "I've had no discussions with anyone in the CIA about this whatsoever and my guess is that if I did, they would be doing somersaults trying to prevent me from doing this."
Weather his claim is true or false, he can't hide the fact that this was somehow politically motivated. Otherwise how does it explain that America, the EU show concerns about human rights in Balochistan, Xian, Tibet, but strangely not in Kashmir, East Punjab against the Sikhs or some other region where their allies are occupying and oppressing another people, let alone they themselves in the Basque region, or in Ireland or Hawaii?
CIA or not, this was politically motivated with an agenda behind it. Had the Pakistani government been more sensible it would counter this propaganda by questioning America's occupation in Hawaii or the occupation of the Natives in mainland USA. But I don't expect the Pakistani government, regardless of their positive intentions to come up with such an idea.
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