Posted on 09/06/2016 6:19:20 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Full title: UN Commissioner Warns of 'Weaponized' Populism from Wilders, Trump, Farage Turning 'Into Colossal Violence
The United Nations' high commissioner for human rights blasted nationalist populists like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage for using "tactics similar" to ISIS to frighten and reel in followers.
"The proposition of recovering a supposedly perfect past is fiction; its merchants are cheats," Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Monday. "Clever cheats."
Speaking at the Peace, Justice and Security Foundation gala at The Hague, Zeid -- a Jordanian prince married to an American from Texas, global maternal health activist Sarah Butler -- singled out Dutch politician Geert Wilders and "the populists, demagogues and political fantasists" like him.
The commissioner acknowledged he "must be a sort of nightmare" to these populists as he defends the rights of asylum seekers, gays, women and the disabled while being a Muslim "who is, confusingly to racists, also white-skinned; whose mother is European and father, Arab."
He panned Wilders' "lies and half-truths, manipulations and peddling of fear" and recent appearance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. "What Mr. Wilders shares in common with Mr. Trump, Mr. [Viktor] Orban [of Hungary], Mr. [Miloš] Zeman [of the Czech Republic], Mr. [Norbert] Hofer [of Austria], Mr. [Robert] Fico [of Slovakia], Madame Le Pen, Mr. Farage, he also shares with Da’esh," he said, using the pejorative Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war. A past that most certainly, in reality, did not exist anywhere, ever. Europe’s past, as we all know, was for centuries anything but that," Zeid said.
"...Populists use half-truths and oversimplification -- the two scalpels of the arch propagandist, and here the internet and social media are a perfect rail for them, by reducing thought into the smallest packages: sound-bites, tweets. Paint half a picture in the mind of an anxious individual, exposed as they may be to economic hardship and through the media to the horrors of terrorism. Prop this picture up by some half-truth here and there and allow the natural prejudice of people to fill in the rest. Add drama, emphasizing it’s all the fault of a clear-cut group, so the speakers lobbing this verbal artillery, and their followers, can feel somehow blameless."
The commissioner said the formula of these politicians is to "make people, already nervous, feel terrible, and then emphasize it’s all because of a group, lying within, foreign and menacing," then "make your target audience feel good by offering up what is a fantasy to them, but a horrendous injustice to others."
"Inflame and quench, repeat many times over, until anxiety has been hardened into hatred."
Zeid stressed he "certainly" did not "equate the actions of nationalist demagogues with those of Da'esh, which are monstrous, sickening; Da’esh must be brought to justice."
"But in its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and oversimplification, the propaganda of Da’esh uses tactics similar to those of the populists. And both sides of this equation benefit from each other – indeed would not expand in influence without each others' actions," he added.
Maybe after this Trump will finally pull the US out of the UN.
As opposed to weaponized Islam? I have a clue for the Commish - only one of them will literally blow you up.
Pres. Trump’s List of Things to Do:
Tell the U. N. enemies of the USA to get out of our country within 60 days. We are no longer giving a cent to this globalist opposition to our sovereign nation.
As opposed to the weaponized leftist bullshit we’ve had to endure from the UN and their fellow travelers?
F*** him.
America First.
(”tactics similar” to ISIS to frighten and reel in followers.)
When was the last time that Trump burned someone alive? Just saying...
Why is this crap posted here? These are racist Muslim ravings. They have no value.
Sounds like a lot of self - projection to me.
Panic is setting in as the Globalists see a big monkey wrench in their plans for worldwide serfdom.
Immigration controls are a "horrendous injustice". Cry me a river.
Weaponized populism?
Internal election?
Election tampering from the U. N.?
Sounds a lot like weaponized U. N. bias...
RE GLobalists:
The LAST thing they want to see is Americans remembering who we are, where we came from from, and all that we’ve done.
A new “American Consciousness” scares the hell out of them.
Good.
Suddenly, tough talk from the UN. Not much to say about all the evils in the world.
I think Zeid and his fellow travelers should have their heads on a stick.
Is that weaponized enough for you, Zeid?
This from an entity that permits Iran, Venezuela and Other terrorist/socialist animal nations on the human rights commission. They can burn for all I care, the sooner the better.
I owe my allegiance to the United States Constitution and the flag that guarantees my freedom under God.
That'll be a lot harder once the UN controls the Internet
Import ISIS, then accuse you opposition of being like ISIS. Sounds legit.
To all UN POSs: up your noses with rubber hoses.
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