THREE FEATURES OF WESTERN WEALTH: COLONIZATION, GENOCIDE AND THEFT.
Ongoing theft can give the global South insight into the acquisition of ill-gotten wealth. Congo has in its soil all the components to produce cell phones and the electronics that guide bombs and spacecraft. Yet, they have no industry that does anything that would benefit the people of their society. European nations made that impossible through colonization and theft. Europeans boast of their divine right to rule, but they forget that the Torah they used to make that claim says: thou shall not steal, and thou shall not kill. Some laws say one should not move landmarks.
Colonization moved landmarks. Colonists killed, perhaps I should say murdered, the people they met and took the land and resources in honor of their European kings. The Catholic Church, the European Christian authority, praised the conquest of the savages. The Church issued many Papal Bulls to acknowledge the righteousness of the colonizers' actions. These are the actions responsible for the legal system that governs the world today. A system that is the epitome of injustice. Colonization, genocide, and theft are the three crimes responsible for European nations being rich and powerful.
The alliteration of past centuries is with us again in the form of the European moving landmarks in the Middle East. Iraq was a European invention in 1932 by the British; the French sliced Lebanon from Syria on November 22, 1943, and it was granted independence on October 24, 1945; at the same time, they were still fighting to subdue Vietnam. The failure of the British mandate on Palestine gave the world the powder keg that is Palestine today. Undue European influence upset the balance where people of different ethnic groups lived together without hatred for each other. In 1895, Theodore Herzl's Diary Volume I, page 88, gives a blueprint of how to remove the people of Palestine, which started before the independence of Israel in 1948 and continues in the destruction of the Gaza Strip today.
There is no hope that Europeans would be reasonable. The Christian explorers brought wealth to Europe. All European kingdoms became addicted; they set up settler colonies, and even minor powers like Denmark and Sweden joined the colonizing fray. Today, some European cities with institutions regulating international laws are Oslo, Helsinki, Geneva, Brussels, and Stockholm. Do you think these international organizations have ever ruled in favor of the Congo against the countries and corporations illegally depriving Congo of its resources?
The modern art of stealing was put in place by the Age of Discovery, Slavery, Genocide, and the Scramble for Africa, which is the law of the land today; nothing has changed since 1492; the Bible has been used to extract wealth for Europe and fool the world to believe it is God's divine will; unfortunately that falsehood became the basis for all the laws that govern modern societies. Read the Bible that the Europeans used to do that damage, and you will see everything is upside down, even the complexion of biblical persons. Europeans have removed Egypt from being the East African country that it is.
Everything in the form of European National policies goes back to colonization and the treatment of the non-European people the Europeans met. Genocide, slavery, and prejudice made the USA into a mighty superpower. The same policies made every European nation wealthy as they transported gold, silver, diamonds, and other mineral resources to Europe from their colonies. Non-Europeans were expendable then, and they are expendable now. In the face of the tragedy in Gaza caused by the European colony, every European nation, including Germany, is in full support of their creation.
The principle is that when someone steals an item, that item must be returned to the owner. That principle is no longer valid; theft done under colonization is not reversible. Ask the descendants of American Natives; the slaves from whom millions of acres of land were stolen in the Mississippi Delta, Seneca Village, New York, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Slucum, Texas, and Florida. Ask the Africans whose land Europeans stole, and Europeans decided the people's destiny at the Berlin Conference in Germany; the Africans had no say. This is the basis for modern property law with a twist: no one can steal the land from me; the laws I enact protect me!
Colonization, theft, and genocide have come to a head in Africa and are on the front pages of every newspaper regarding the land grab and genocide in Palestine. Perhaps this is the last vestige of European colonization, and the United Nations may see the adverse implications and dissuade its European members from making the colonizing mistake again. The Sons of Portugal were instrumental in bringing the Age of Discovery, colonization, Slavery, Theft, and Genocide; she requested the infamous Berlin Conference to divide the African continent (The Scramble For Africa), and as fate would have it, a son of Portugal, Mister Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the organization built for fixing the world's injustice system, can he fix the almost six-century old European problem? Sticky fingers!
David LG Wilson
Creative Consultant at DLo Productions
1 年no one on these platforms speaks truth to surrendered power like you David! Thank you for being the slayer so few have the strength or courage to do.