You can buy human rights! Money is not everything, but everything needs money.

I have just watched the BORDER TOWN starring Jennifer Lopez. You have to watch it if you dare to claim that you care about human rights! This movie talks about the downsides of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and, best of all; it is based on true story. An American journalist (J-Lo) was assigned to digging up story about hundreds of murder and rape cases in Juarez, Mexico. Police officers in Mexico estimated 350 women were raped and killed, but the real estimation is close to 5000 women. She found out that the rapists are protected by highest rank public officials, including the chief of police department in Mexico. Since NAFTA, many corporations establish factories in Mexico because cost of production in cheaper there. This drives many workers from the whole Mexico to come to Juarez (as the central of factories in Mexico). One of Indian families has to move to Juarez to work because they cannot pay tax for their land. The Mexican government threatens that only if they work in Juarez and earns some money, they can reclaim their land. Many girls were raped and murdered in Juarez because of centralization of workers in Juarez. Worst the governments, both American and Mexican, do NOT want to do anything about it because bad press hinders for free trade expansion. So the Mexican government does not pursue these murderers and rapists. In addition, the underlying reason for not doing anything is because the rich people (noble families in Mexico) are involved in the murders and rapes. THEY FUCKING DO IT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE GOVERNMENT OR POLICE WILL NOT PURSUE THEM!

To start this piece of writing, I need to say that money is not everything but everything needs money... Because only with money you can buy human rights, including its protection!! This world is so FUCKED UP because human rights protection depends so heavily only economic power, vested interests. RICH PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS GET AWAY WITH CRIMES because PROSECUTING IS BACKLASH TO GOVERNMENT. I was once involved in a TENSE discussion with my friend from Georgetown University concerning economy and development policy. I said the economy policy by incumbent world government is wrong because it seeks for instant solution and popular votes. Presidential or legislative candidates talk about human rights not because they necessarily care about it, but because it sells for their political campaign. Economics should be priority, FUCK YOUR MINISCULE WORK ON HUMAN RIGHTS IF YOU DONT HAVE MONEY! Look at China, they don’t preserve the environment before 1995 not because they don’t care but because they don’t have the money to do so. China is currently spending almost 20% of their national budget for human rights (including environmental protection). In fact, China is developing the most technologically advanced waste disposal system. The same thing happens in Mexico. The Mexican government does not have money and they need to benefit from free trade for this reason. Human rights violations are bad press. They cannot afford bad press for murders and rapes CAUSED by FREE TRADE! This vested interest SHUT THEIR FUCKING MOUTH UP!!

For those who are fighting against unjust and human rights violation, BE STRATEGIC and TACTICAL! Your miniscule work is not only worthless, but it also brings a backlash to the goal of human rights protection. In BORDER TOWN movie, J-Lo’s effort (which i consider quite big/significant) brings a backlash to the protection of human rights because it is not big enough to pressure the MEXICAN or AMERICAN government to deal with the crimes. The concept is similar to “if you dont have sufficient evidence, dont press charges because you will alert the perpetrator to run away or destroy the evidence or worst the case will be denied by the judge in a court and thanks to nebis in idem you cant press charges for the same allegation.” In politics, we understand that if you have information about the weakness of your political opponent, dont use it hastily, make sure you gather enough and use it in a timely fashion. Dan Brown says punch them in face, body, and hand at the same time, so they have to deal with all problems at the same time. If you have information about your political opponent sexual affair and educational policy, dont use them separately. Keep them. Better if you can get information about their corrupt leadership or their unwise economic policy. Use all of them at the same time, print it in the newspaper!!!

Those small damn workers of human rights are jeopardizing the fight against human rights violations because they punch slowly and softly. They use these “weapons” one by one... similar to the analogy of lawsuit or political maneuver. They are alerting the culprits to change certain policy to the grey area of the law, so it s difficult to file a lawsuit against them... I am especially outraged when people say my argument is inhumane because i dont appreciate the works of people with sincerity. I really do... But your damn miniscule and infinitely small works jeopardize the FIGHT as a whole! The next question is how to make it big? MONEY AND POWER. Imagine if the Indians family in the movie BORDER TOWN has money and power. They can push the Mexican government not to agree to the terms of Free Trade Agreement with U.S. Imagine if J-Lo has money and power, she can threatens the senator not to propose or vote for the bill otherwise J-Lo will not support (donate money) for his next political campaign. In addition, she can print all the reports about the cruelty in Mexico with her own publication company. SHE CANNOT BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT HAVE MONEY AND POWER!!!

In conclusion, HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS NEEDS MONEY. MONEY BUYS EVERYTHING. WITH MONEY COMES POWER. WITH BOTH MONEY AND POWER YOU CAN PROTECT THE WEAKEST SEGMENT OF SOCIETY! You can prevent the murders and rapes of many Mexicans. BUT BEWARE OF YOUR INFINITELY SMALL AND MINISCULE WORKS. EVEN IT YOU HAVE A GOLDEN HEART TO HELP THESE PEOPLE, BUT THE RESULT IS THAT YOU ARE HELPING KILLING THEM. YOUR INTENTION DOES NOT FUCKING COUNT, SO BE REALISTIC DAMN IT! DO IT BIG OR DONT DO IT AT ALL!