FOR THE PEOPLE

Ideally, governments are supposed to represent their respective constituencies. They should be organized to identify with, understand, be sensitive to, and hopefully responsive to the needs of the people. Even in some totalitarian regimes, there is an element of leadership that provides some tacit, if not substantive supportive treatment of its citizenry. However horrible and unconscionable the treatment meted to the poor suffering souls in several of the African nations, there appears to be a new low in unmitigated indifference toward fellow human beings. Such is the case in Myanmar (aka Burma).

An estimated 2.5 million people remain in dire straits. As a result of a cyclone that recently ravaged the Irrawaddy Delta, they have been uprooted from their homes, are threatened by disease, hunger, and a promise of an early death, or if they survive, a future filled with grief and ongoing suffering.

Nations from around the world have offered assistance, only to be repelled by the Myanmar ruling junta with their xenophobic mentality. So many have thus far perished as a direct result of the lack of aid and intervention by the "Ruling Generals," and the other cretins who hold their people hostage. Apathy, corruption, and incompetence appear to be the mainstay of these ruling despots.

Other than issuing meaningless condemnations, the U.N. appears to be both administratively as well as militarily impotent to ameliorate the abject horrors facing the citizens of Myanmar. The United States and other nations have been most responsive in providing food, potable water, medical and other services, only to be rebuffed by the ruling junta idiots. I only wish they would somehow find themselves, as with several other dictators, in the living hell that they have perpetrated on their subjects!

              - The Clutterman

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