Wednesday, December 15, 2004

 
Low-Ball Bhopal Offer?

Rich Lowry discussed not only Syrian Baathist support for terrorism in Iraq, but also the impending legal proceedings against Ali "Chemical Ali" Hassan. All well and good, I guess, and one can hope for some justice and perhaps a little compensation for his victims.
The sins of the Left are nearly always unpunished, whereas the legal prosecution and in some cases, persecution of capitalist enterprises and enemies of the Left seem to go one without end.
The Dec. 2 23th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster was marked by an orgy of hate and greed and fraud similar to that which immediately followed the apparent accident at the Union Carbide plant in India. A trip to India by chairman Warren Anderson did not prevent the "non-aligned," objectively pro-Soviet government attempting to prosecute him as a criminal. As required by law, the UC subsidiary had an Indian-majority ownership. The socialist governments seemed to prefer industrial infrastructure to be built by their Russian comrades, although it wasn't above accepting billions of dollars and millions of tons of food in aid from America. And there was certainly sufficient *motive* for sabotage at the outpost of the evil, exploiting West. The plant produced chemicals used in the manufacture of crop-devouring pesticides. The casualties of the toxic gas and subsequent leaks from the plant(now under Indian government ownership)are surely orders of magnitudes less than the scores of millions of premature deaths(and those of outright deaths of actual famines) which should be laid at the feet of the criminally negligent socialists who shaped India's post-independence policies.(I hope that Ghandi is tending a spinning wheel in hell for a long, long time)
While I'm heartened by some movement towards freedom and an overall lessening of antipathy to the West on the Indian subcontinent, memories linger not only of India's shameful past-and also of a Muslim(from either Pakistan or India)who, while personnable, cheerfully admitted his socialist upbringing and beliefs, and also recall seeing a prof from India clutching a copy of "Soviet Life" in a U. of Minnesota elevator.
The conditions of farmers and industrial workers were often horrible in the West's industrial revolution and there was hardship and despair during the Great Depression, but Leftists have not paid any just price for their criminal support of, among other monstrosities, the human death and suffering in the industrialization, agricultural colllectivization and uh, nuclearization of the Soviet Union and PRC. If there was justice in this world hundreds of millions of Leftists and their "Green" and "anti-globalist" fellow rioters would be toiling in the toxic wastes left behind in what was East Germany, the USSR and elsewhere. Until something like that happens, Bush should(but, of course, won't)use the bully pulpit to announce that not one more dime(the Indian government accepted jurisdiction in India and the subsequent settlement, but since when can one rely on any promise or aggreement made by Leftist filth?) should be paid out in this case.
One domestic fifth column toxic scumbucket also stated recently that the aged Warren Anderson, like Pinochet, should be prosecuted. That Leftist creep should be taken(with aid of a warrant, of course) from his comfortable existence in the West he so loathes and stuffed(without a flashlight)in a coffin containing the remains of East Germany's Erich Honeker who died in exile. gotta go-maybe more about Pinochet later.....