how bout weaponized illegal immigration?
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.
how bout weaponized illegal immigration?
The United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights is a Muslim. How’s that for irony?
Sunlit fields? Peaceful isolation? A “perfect past”? This Al Hussein really is a piece of work.
Hey, idiot (Hussein), I deal in more reality every day, than you do in a year, or I would not have a chance, in my work, of being even marginally successful. There is no “perfect past”. In this area, just a blip in time ago, one was lucky to not end up perforated by arrows (or a bit later, bullets) and scalped.
At the moment, my main concern is averting disaster for this country. Then maybe we can work on gradual improvement and more opportunity for all its law-abiding citizens.
Hysterical rant from an Arab.
Right - like we need his advice on how to run our country.
He needs to STFU and mind his own business.
If the twits at the UN doesn’t like Trump then I am fully on board the Trump train.
Trump and Farage’s beheading of people who disagree with them has been hushed up by the MSM, obviously. Surely somewhere there are videos of Labour and Democrat and gope heads being hacked off.
Citizens warned of weaponized governmental tyranny.
We will decide who lives in your countries, peasants, for we are the illuminati, and we have our own country behind these high, locked gates.
Dear Zaid, How did you get your job? Populists don’t cut off heads, submerge people in acid, burn them in cages or force children to kill their parents. Since you can’t understand the difference in spite of your outrageous salary, go sit in the corner with the dunce cap on.
‘Weaponized populism’. Now there’s a turn of phrase you don’t hear every day. Trump, Brexit, Wilders — they scare the pee out of the UN.
Why, just last week Trump and his followers cut some people in half with chain saws.
Islam is a war plan. Go to Hell, Al Hussein.
Translation: the plebes are...
——Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein ——
your name is added to the list
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."
Phony strawman argument.
It ain't about race. It's about culture.
Dear until commissioner: return to your home country so your citizens can “take care of” you.
So they thought they were simply going to replace Caucasians world wide and no one was going to get killed over it?
HA! Great plan.
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