So this thread is actually a "lets complain about CarolC thread". Interesting. I won't be able to play with you fine folks for a while because I'll be out of town after today.

Does she put the same energy into condemning the likes of Mugabe who has been starving his own people for many more years than have been reported by the International Press?

I put the same energy into any situations that I am aware of in which non-action makes me complicit. And the situation in Israel/Palestine makes me actively as well as passively complicit, since it's my tax dollars that pay for the attrocities being committed against the Palestinians.

When my mother was fighting for civil rights for Blacks here in the US back in the 1960s, she encountered people like those of you here on this thread. They called her names like "nigger lover" and accused her of all kinds of bias and other terrible things. Well, call me whatever is the equivalent of "nigger lover" in this situation, and accuse me of bias. I'll wear those badges proudly, while the rest of you make yourselves complicit, both actively as well as passively.

Plus, I don't continually encounter people here in this forum who are trying to justify the actions of Mugabe. I do however, encounter a lot of people who are trying to justify what the Israeli Government is doing to the Palestinians. And that's the only time I ever speak up about it here in this forum. I have never started a conversations on the subject myself. And, it may surprise some of you to know that when I have encountered Jew bashing here in this forum, I have spoken up about that, too.

I'm a human rights activist, and proud of it. And when I die, I'll die with a clean conscience, knowing that I didn't allow myself to be complicit. So go ahead and throw that mud. It won't stick anyway.