With leaders like Bush talking about World War III, and stopping Iran getting ‘the knowledge’ to produce nuclear weapons, and Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown saying that he would side with the Americans in military action against Iran, and President Sarkozy of France being known as the French American, none of us can have the luxury of ignoring our own consciences.
I contend, that every leader, by default, has compromised his conscience in order to be in power. Driven and manipulated by a cabal without conscience, every leader is kowtowing to the ideology of this cabal, in every country, and of course, controlling all the money and resources enables this control. Of course, local conditions dictate the personal interests of each and every leader, but what is the underlying theme of each and every leader, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia and China? Does Putin have a conscience and work for the benefit of the people?
The standard of living in Russia since the fall of the Berlin wall has plummeted and then recovered hugely under Putin because of the enormous oil and gas reserves, has given him massive economic power. No wonder he is popular. It’s the old ‘bread and circuses’ syndrome.
And in this day and age, massively enhanced on the ‘circus’ part of that, with the hitech gadgets and TV trivia and sports programmes. I profess that I do not know intimately the situation in China, but having come out of Chairman Mao’s regime of communism, and embracing, apparently, the capitalist expansionist philosophy, like Russia and other countries such as India, the conscienceless leaders, embrace whatever works for them, either to remain in power, or, to build up their populations in order to prevent take over by other hungry for power, leaders.
Do people who hanker after power have something wrong with them? Do they not have fulfilled lives? What is the driving force behind their quest to rule over the rest of us? It is never been more apparent that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’, than in American politics today.
It’s a dog eat dog world in the heady heights of power. They got there by that philosophy, marginalizing or neutralising their opponents. They are driven by fear of loss of power. They profess conservative, progressive, socialist or democratic philosophies to further their aims.
Their conscience ‘speaks’ in other ways that they are not aware of, they have no introspection, they have no doubts, just like Tony Blair, they believe they are ‘right’ in what they do, in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
‘Thou shalt not kill’, does not figure in their musings.
