Greenpeace and Saddam: They both kill people

Gerard Jackson
Melbourne: Australia
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 17 Feb. 2003

The active opposition of Greenpeace to President Bush's military plans to overthrow the genocidal Saddam raises questions about this organisation's moral and democratic credentials. It is not the first time, however, that Greenpeace has sided with a murderous dictator. It also threw its so-called moral weight behind Robert Mugabe.

Last year John Prendergast, an American researcher who heads the Africa program for the Belgian-based International Crisis Group, accused the corrupt racist and Marxist-Leninist Robert Mugabe of using his control of the food supply to intimidate his opponents into voting for him.

Mr. Prendergast claimed that Mugabe had threatened "selective starvation" by telling local district officials that he would the government's monopoly of the food distribution network to terminate food supplies if "if they didn’t deliver the vote." A very serious threat in a country that is on the verge of famine.

The United Nations World Food Program has warned that 6 million Zimbabweans or more of the country's population of 12 million could face severe food shortages and starvation. Despite the seriousness of the situation, Mugabe is still implementing policies that have devastated the country's agricultural sector and ruined the economy. So far his racist policy of confiscating white-owned farms has rendered more than 1.5 million black farm workers and their families destitute while not raising a peep of protest from Western peace activists.

In an effort to alleviate the food situation the Bush administration offered Zimbabwe large amounts of grain. Mugabe, with the full support of Greenpeace, rejected the offer, falsely claiming that the food was dangerous because it had been genetically altered, even though it’s the same corn that Americans have been eating in their corn flakes and chips for years — and with no ill effects.

What Mugabe and his Greenpeace allies deliberately ignored is that Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland had accepted the same US corn without any concerns or detrimental consequences. These countries are obviously more interested in averting famine than in playing politics with their citizens’ lives.

The only danger from American corn is to Mugabe. If large quantities of this corn were allowed into the country it would break Mugabe's food monopoly and undermine his dictatorship, something that Greenpeace apparently wants to protect, just as it is protecting Saddam's dictatorship. Why? Could it be that it's because Mugabe is a Marxist-Leninist? (I still a Greenpeace representative’s letter in the Melbourne Age rationalizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan).

Greenpeace supported Mugabe's lies, with Remi Parmentier, the organization's political officer, making the patently absurd accusation that the US had "subjected millions of Africans and other citizens of developing countries to life-threatening danger." It seems that Greenpeace won’t be satisfied until there are no Africans left.

Remi Parmentier is simply carrying out Greenpeace’s policy of lying in support of its ideology, regardless of how many people it kills. Greenpeace is run by a callous pack of bastards who don’t give a damn about people.

This is the same hypocritical crowd that tried to ban Golden Rice, which was developed to save millions of Third-World kids from death or blindness due to vitamin A deficiency. What a sweet bunch of guys. It was Greenpeace thugs who tried to close down the only major DDT-production facility in the world, located in Cochin, India.

Without this facility God knows how many more Third-World peasants would die from malaria, one million alone last year. But Third-World deaths are something that Greenpeace and its fellow nature-loving fanatics can’t seem to get enough of.

And now these hypocrites are squawking that Bush will kill thousands of Iraqis, as if he is planning a nation-wide massacre of Iraq's population. Since when have Greenpeace cared about people dying? This is the same crowd that defends two murderous dictators, supports policies that kills African peasants and leaves Iraqis to die in Saddam's torture chambers.

Who or what gave it the moral authority to sit in judgement on President Bush?