by: Chris Faure for The Saker Blog
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up dictator Bashar Assad in Syria (who has killed millions of his own citizens), and much more. Likewise, the Iranians have killed many Americans and other innocent people throughout the Middle East. Iran states openly, and with great force, “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” Iran is considered “the world’s leading sponsor of terror.”
The world is indeed a very dangerous place if the so-called leader of the free world and the West, without blushing, starts off a statement about the murder of a Saudi journalist by slamming Iran, Hezbollah, Bashar al-Assad and includes that propitious marketing statement … “and much more.” And when did Bashar al-Assad kill millions of his own citizens anyway?
As we read on, we will see that the opening statement to the Statement is an eye-blind, deliberate distraction, powered by oil price paranoia, and paranoia that this Statement would not do what it is intended to do – that is to obscure the absence of any kind of moral yardstick or ethical firmament. By opening with a litany of tired old phrases on Hezbollah, Iran “and much more”, it is hoped that the ‘official reality’ will hide the ‘actual reality’. These are Games that Zionists play. They are also Games that Kindergartners play: “It was not me, it was he! Really teacher, I’m not lying.”
The story itself reads like an international spook-spy crime novel. Alternatively, if you change the names of the countries for New York ‘burbs, it reads like a new Sicilian mob novel. But even the Sicilian mob had a code of honor, something that is completely absent in this Statement.
The journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, contributed to the Washington Post and lived in Virginia. His slaying took place in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2nd, 2018, by a 15 man Saudi hit team where the Turkish State had surreptitiously bugged the Saudi embassy and the listening and recording equipment in the Saudi embassy recorded blow by blow the Saudi hit team carrying out the beating, killing and dismemberment. Perhaps the dismemberment preceded the killing. Since then, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey, has salaciously revealed the details of this brutal slaying, drip by drop to the world, seeking any favor and any edge concession somewhere in the international arena, with his recording of flaming and violent evidence. Eventually, this murder recording reached Mr. Donald Trump, who of course, is best friends with The House of Saud.
Sidebar: With a little research into Who is Jamal Khashoggi?, we find that he is a cousin of Adnan Khashoggi, his uncle, a Saudi super-rich businessman. Those who read Trump’s The Art of the Deal, will remember that Trump and Adnan Khashoggi visited together during the ’80s. For purposes of this article we will not dwell on this here, but leave this to you. Jake Morphonios starts this research on his video from time marker 44:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrsgNZaUuvY
There is ample proof (substantially more than highly likely) that MbS (Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi and better known as Clown Prince) directly orchestrated this murder. The hit squad hailed from MbS’s private office chief, Bader Al Asaker. The CIA stated that MbS was directly involved but subsequently Mr Trump denied that the CIA had stated this. Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Ankara or Istanbul, seemingly Mr Edogan kept little piece of the CIA story back, as a bargaining chip of some sort. “The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is in possession of a phone call recording of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in which he is heard giving an instruction to “silence Jamal Khashoggi as soon as possible,” Hürriyet columnist Abdulkadir Selvi wrote on Nov. 22. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/cia-holds-smoking-gun-phone-call-of-saudi-crown-prince-on-khashoggi-murder-columnist-139079
Let’s continue.
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“On the other hand, Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to leave. They would immediately provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance. Additionally, Saudi Arabia has agreed to spend billions of dollars in leading the fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism.”
One cannot make this up: Post moral rationalization reads like satire. The world is truly a very dangerous place if Wahhabi Saudi is presented as humanitarian and the war in Yemen as an Iranian supported war. The concept that the (out)House of Saud would immediately provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance to Yemen beggars belief. It does make sense however if one considers or accepts the perspective that Mukhtar (appointed headman and tax farmer) Donald Trump swore allegiance to his Saudi Buddies in Riyadh in full vision of the world in a strange testosterone-filled ceremony involving laying communal hands on a lighted sphere and dancing. The Saudis could have made the promise to Mr. Trump that they will surely and quickly become humanitarian in Yemen, so that he could get on with it and write his Statement that is clearly sans honor and devoid of ethics.
Descriptions: (Out)House of Saud attributed to Dr. Joseph P. Farrell – Mukhtar (appointed headman and tax farmer) attributed to Patrick Lang.
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“After my heavily negotiated trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the United States. This is a record amount of money. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, tremendous economic development, and much additional wealth for the United States. Of the $450 billion, $110 billion will be spent on the purchase of military equipment from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and many other great U.S. defense contractors. If we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries – and very happy to acquire all of this newfound business. It would be a wonderful gift to them directly from the United States! “
So, now we get to the crux of the matter of the Statement. The world is surely a very dangerous place if it is so clear that it is money that talks and the Saudis can kill whomever the Saudis want to kill, but we all know the show must go on. In this instance, the show is the signed defense contracts and the oil price. So, to be forgiven and exonerated of brutal murder, the new legal standard set by Mr. Trump is that one only needs to keep the oil flowing and promise to buy US weaponry and perhaps promise to be nice, in Yemen.
But if your name is Julian Assange, or Edward Snowden, or Jack who lives down the road, and you don’t have oil, and you don’t sign defense contracts and you cannot promise to change your essential nature and to be nice in Yemen, the rules change of course. But for the Saudis, we are now outside of any pretense of the Rule of Law.
In one fell swoop, it is clear that we are in a post-honor and post-ethics world, and we even see an evil note surface if a base commandment, Though Shalt Not Kill, can easily be superseded by oil and military contracts. The Middle East Eye reports that the man built from cards, Pompeo, handed Riyadh a plan to shield MbS from Khashoggi fallout
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“The crime against Jamal Khashoggi was a terrible one and one that our country does not condone. Indeed, we have taken strong action against those already known to have participated in the murder. After great independent research, we now know many details of this horrible crime. We have already sanctioned 17 Saudis known to have been involved in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi, and the disposal of his body. “
What? How dangerous is the world now if murder is sanctioned by sanctions, not by a court of law, but by a President of the United States who has now turned over all pretense at investigation, due process, all semblance of an independent judiciary, and all pretense of the rule of law. Great Independent Research? Was this also around a lighted sphere with much dancing? For the record, Mr. Trump has now ignored all of his specialist agencies in favor of Great Independent Research, not documented and probably fact-free.
The world is getting more dangerous by the minute as this story unfolds.
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime. King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of Mr. Khashoggi. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t!”
The World is a very dangerous place if it does not matter if the Clown prince had prior knowledge of this brutal murder being planned and executed. No way José, that is not important. Oil is important, and weapons contracts are important. But, wait a minute, why all these weapons? Was Saudi not intending to wrap the Yemenis in their loving arms and become humanitarian? I was already expecting flowers in the rifle barrels.
“The world is a very dangerous place!”
“That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “
We have to stop right here. This is an inept and unacceptable effort to remove this beating, murder, and dismemberment from the sphere of affairs of the State, and State to State interaction. But wait a minute, did this murder not take place in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul? How much more ‘affairs of the State’ can one get? It is gauche attempt at separating affairs of state, and it fails to convince.
Can anyone imagine the fall-out if this was not Saudi Arabia, but Russia? Can you imagine the fall-out?
“They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran. The United States intends to remain a steadfast partner of Saudi Arabia to ensure the interests of our country, Israel and all other partners in the region. It is our paramount goal to fully eliminate the threat of terrorism throughout the world! I understand there are members of Congress who, for political or other reasons, would like to go in a different direction – and they are free to do so. I will consider whatever ideas are presented to me, but only if they are consistent with the absolute security and safety of America. After the United States, Saudi Arabia is the largest oil producing nation in the world. They have worked closely with us and have been very responsive to my requests to keeping oil prices at reasonable levels – so important for the world.”
And this statement could not be complete without mentioning Israel, could it? Following is the complete exoneration and pardon for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia because they bow to the dictat of the lighted sphere and the demands of a capricious US President for low oil prices who rewrites common criminal law on the turn. Are we now officially in LaLaLand?
“As President of the United States I intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm. Very simply it is called America First!”
Let us rewrite that last sentence with our brand-new knowledge from Mr.Trump’s Statement: Very simply it is called America First and we will say what is right and what is wrong and do whatever we please about it.
Losing all decorum, Tulsi Gabbard made a quick tweet: Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not “America First.” — Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) November 21, 2018
‘A pile of lies, BS and nonsense’ says Thomas Juneau of the University of Ottawa.
So, what do we have? Mr. Trump with this one statement sold off every principle of decency down the oil river. He usurped the task of an independent judiciary, sidelined his 17 or so spy organizations in favor of ‘independent research’ which he does not even present because it does not matter who is guilty or not. This is of course in order to keep the oil wheels of empire humming, but there is no moral guideline here if America First can be supported by any little dismemberment and murder anywhere. This makes a mockery of America First. He sold out every honest person everywhere and may have put a final nail in the US constitution. He ignored all ethical considerations and trampled over what is right, what is lawful and the simple but clear Christian commandment: “Thou Shalt not Kill.” Every decent human value is now dependent on the oil price and military contracts. Mr. Trump continued after this Statement to congratulate the (out)House of Saud for pumping oil to lower the oil price.
Mr. Trump gave, with this one statement, the word ‘deplorable’ its proper meaning (and using her word, does not imply any support for Killary Clinton whatsoever). Even the Leaning Tower of Piza is now more morally upright.
We find ourselves in a post-constitutional, post-truth, post-ethics, post-basic-rule-of-law and post-honor world. If we do not have values, we are in the milieu of evil. There are no good actors or heroes or Captains of freedom and democracy or decency in this story.
Mr. Trump’s world is indeed a very dangerous world, and the empire is on the brink of collapse because of internal divisions and under the leadership of a minion with no ethics. With this Statement we see that the minion is equally compromised by his relationship with Israel, as with Saudi Arabia. An empire with no values run by dictat is indeed incredibly dangerous. I trust that the rest of the world will know clearly now that values based interaction with Mr. Trump is meaningless as it is clearly demonstrated that he will justify killing anyone or dispensing with anything for dreams of a ’50’s style US spiced up with a bit of space warfare and a wall. His quagmire has deepened, the level of respect for him has lessened once again, and he will be laughed out of the UN again and again. His own swamp is now visible and laid bare. The tragedy is that he is right. From his lofty heights, it is only business.
For making that so crystal clear, we thank Mr Trump. For those that still don’t get it, this illustration serves to explain.
Chris Faure comments on life, geo-politics and economics. (Marry me! I can cook!).
As shown in this article, one leading American think tank believes that there is an upside to Saudi Arabia’s killing of Jamal Khashoggi:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-atlantic-council-and-leveraging.html
Washington’s fixation with Saudi Arabia and MBS is pathological.
In the same vein
Bolton won’t listen to Khashoggi Murder tapes saying ‘I don’t speak Arabic’.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1067641494255927297
Yes, apparently screaming in Arabic while Being dismembered is widely different to screaming in english while being dismembered.
*screams in Arabic*
Very short, and yet, regarding the depth of this apparently simple remark, appreciation is due. Thanks.
is there any hope left fou our planet?
no I don’t think so
in the near future we will get what we sowed
karma is a bitch
Trump is worse than Bush Obomber and Billy together
it must end one day
“These are Games that Zionists play. They are also Games that Kindergartners play: “It was not me, it was he! Really teacher, I’m not lying.”
But trumpettes still try to convince people that trump is doing all this against his will. At this point I simply view their claims as either part of an elaborate sales pitch (psywar intended to soften resistance to trump and his likud nascism) or very deluded kool-aid drinkers.
@vt
The prettification of El Trumpo springs first and foremost from the urge felt by Pindos to ’prove’ the alleged significance and worth of their God-awful Presidential Elections. It’s reinforced further still by the fact that El Trumpo’s designated enemy countries are gifted with very able leaderships that do matter in world politics. Our dear El Trumpo has the friends/admirers he very much deserves: Satanyahoo, the Outhouse of Saud, and PoorOldShenko. Not even the Euro-trash and Erdogan would have him.
N
“Not even the Euro-trash and Erdogan would have him.”
Oh, I suspect may would drop to all fours and quite possible micron did so when he visited trump in dc. ;-D
your “(out)house of saud” made me laugh, im going to steal it and use it:)
”The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up dictator Bashar Assad in Syria (who has killed millions of his own citizens), and much more. Likewise, the Iranians have killed many Americans and other innocent people throughout the Middle East. Iran states openly, and with great force, ’Death to America!’ and ’Death to Israel!’. Iran is considered “the world’s leading sponsor of terror.”
Verdict: An impressive amount of Tourette tics and crazy, impertinent horseshit crammed into four consecutive sentences, LOL.
@Nussiminen
It’s because of statements like Trump’s, and the type of mindset that harbors this type of thinking which makes people in Iran and around the world say things like “death to America” or “death to Israel.” These clowns can’t even see the unjustifiable position they are currently in.
@Ahmed
Exactly. The most appropriate people for a comparison would be a bunch of yelling, smelly drunkards on a park bench duly ’encouraging’ each other as the bottle goes around. As long as there is poison — substance or, ahem, ’ideological’ in abundance — the sky is the limit!
Trump is a nut case. So? He ‘got’ elected. Right? Here is the ultimate question: ‘what would Hillary have done?’
My take, as a non-expert on almost everything, is there would be no substantive difference. Admittedly, I have not voted since 1976 … because at about that time it occurred to me that the Tweedle twins of American politics were two faces of the same imperial system that started out killing anyone who opposed it … going all the way to its roots as Europe divested itself of the deplorables we refer to as colonists.
rg
“Here is the ultimate question: ‘what would Hillary have done?’”
No, it is not the “ultimate question”, but worth asking.
About the same as trump, but in a way that garnered less opposition. Something like obama did, but with the fascism a bit more overt. The trump quislings are more crude, which makes it more difficult for zionazia to sell him or the zionazism he pushes.
Second is the level of competency. With respect to pushing through zpc/nwo policy, the obama regime was more skilled. A clinton regime would have followed suit, though not as well, but still better than the buggers and mouth breathers that make the neocon trump regime.
In short, a trump regime was preferable to a clinton regime because it eas more likely to fail to accomplish what the zpc/nwo wanted.
Are we supposed to believe it is better to stand with the memory of Khashoggi?
Has anyone actually looked into who Khashoggi was and what he was involved with?
No, of course not. As stated, there are no good actors or heroes in this story and that includes Kashoggi. He certainly was no paragon of virtue. There is a link in the text to look further into him.
KNJ
“Are we supposed to believe it is better to stand with the memory of Khashoggi?”
That obscene flatulence from trump was not about Khashoggi, it was about trump promoting his zionazi-gay masters’ aggression plans against Iran, Hizbulla, Syria, Lebanon, Russia and China. He was using the “Khashoggi issue” as a vector to direct the usual zionazi-gay propaganda lines.
The repulsive war criminal and traitor is a sales pitch boy for the worst israeli extremists (likud, and those even more nazi) and the war criminal/treasonous scum facilitating these things outside israel.
Again, has anyone considered that taking America OUT of Imperial identity and practice might be DJT’s purpose?
That the accelerated unravelling of The Empire may be something he in fact might be appreciated for and that it is not his incompetency, buffoonery, rudeness and so forth so much that is accomplishing this effective disengagement from Empire, as it is his guile, and survivability under atack that might make y’all wither in a week?
He has a problem, you see, and so do we:
PROBLEM:
If the gang that created, or minimally aided and abetted the Empire since 9/11/2001 from its principal logistical base (its brawn, not brains…..i.e. “Murica”….) is not taken down more or less crushingly, any one of you, including the author, who might earn our accolades for saying all the things we agree with here (as opposed to many of the things Trump says that make one wince…) would not accomplish 1% of what would be of more decisive import for ALL decent leaders every where in this world than all that warm and fuzzy stuff we like so much………namely if DJT were to succeed in the intention or desire indicated by his tweet of this morning, cued up for you to ponder, right HERE:
https://youtu.be/F32a23TzOUo?t=36
The World IS a very dangerous place and it is also exceedingly dangerous for The Donald.
And he may be exceedingly dangerous, as well.
At least in terms of taking out that gang in the holding cell pictured in the tweet….. I certainly hope so!
That’s priority Numero Uno….IMHO….not hearing him saying all the things we’d like to hear him say….followed then by impeachment, or assassination or bare survival…allowing that gang to soon reassert itself.
You could do better at putting them out of business? It has taken two nerve wracking years, but so what. He is more or less decisively, moving toward giving the whole world much respite and himself the freedom to maybe drop some of the guile and deception and kabuki theater.
And he’s got a sense of humor, presenting Kim Il Sung with a commerorative copy of Elton John’s hit CD…..Rocket man. Because “We like each other.”
By all means, keep your powder dry, watch him carefully. Prepare yourself. But don’t go into flight forward just because the tension is killing you and you can’t appreciate that it is panicking that crowd in the tweet…..infinitely MORE than it is bugging you.
It’s not about you.
It’s not about you
No it’s about the iranians that he routinely denigrates and quite litterarly said he wants to starve.
Its about yemenis he has being murdering torturing starving for the past 4 years
Its about the syrians that he bombed and gazed and tortured and about saving the white helmets and the scum of the earth that made the life of syrians a living hell
Its about the 70 year old suffering of palestinians that he wants to annihilate.
Its about the suffering and starving of Venezuelans and attempting to assasinated their elected president.
This is amazing. I am speechless do you think that cleaning up your gov of lobbyist and foreign agents is worth the death of millions, the suffering and annihilation of entire innocent nations?!?
Do you even listen to yourselves?! How arrogant can you get?
Well said, O.
The trump regime is likud in american politics. Selling trump is selling netanyahoo. Selling the most zionazi controlled presidential regime in american history. Worse that bush, jr. the trump regime is bush, jr. on steroids, captagon and bath salts all in one.
This is what selling trump is selling:
Israel and the Jihadi Connection
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-and-the-jihadi-connection/5661425
“Earlier this year, with little publicity, the official position of Israel on terrorism was explained by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon
“I would like to see ISIS rule all of Syria (by inference, the whole region – RG); ISIS and its offshoots do not pose a threat to the Israeli State. Iran remains the main enemy!”
Ya’alon was being disingenuous, but the thinking behind his words is actually clear enough from the words themselves. Put simply, Israel’s relentless emphasis on the supposed threat from Iran is simply a diversionary tactic intended to conceal the continuing realisation of the ‘Greater Israel’ Project.
The short answer is that the real ‘game’ in the region is being played out by and an on behalf of Israeli interests. An indirect but nonetheless highly revealing clue has just been provided by the recently developing relationship between Israel and Chad. Chad, located south of Libya in the Sahara, faces a mountain of difficulties which Israel can help it deal with. These range from extreme water scarcity to Chad finding itself on the front line in Africa’s fight against Islamist terrorism, be it in the form ISIS, al-Qaeda or Boko Haram. This supplies the reason for Chadian President Idriss Déby recent visit to Israel, which has taken place 46 years after Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi pressured Chad into breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel in 1972, a step which Chad took even before the big wave of African countries severing diplomatic ties with Israel took place, which happened after the 1973 Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War.
However another – obviously unacknowledged – reason is almost certainly Chad’s worry that it might find itself facing the same sort of Islamist terrorism in Chad that Syria has recently experienced. After all if Israeli officials can publicly admit to Israel’s de facto support for Islamist terrorism in Syria why should it be any different in Chad?
So the bottom line is that Chad – and no doubt plenty of other countries in the region – find themselves needing Israel’s help to protect themselves from the Frankenstein’s monster of worldwide Islamist terrorism which Israeli and US policies have conjured up. It amounts to the classic protection racket, with countries like Chad looking to Israel to ‘protect’ them from the very Islamist threat Israeli and US policies are themselves creating.
Given that this is so, and given the extent to which the spread of Islamist terrorist groups across the Middle East and North Africa actually serves Israeli and US interests, there is simply no point looking to Israel and the US for a ‘solution’ to the problem caused by them. Certainly no such solution is going to be found in Palermo, site of the latest Libya peace talks. No such solution is going to be found whilst the ‘protection racket’ serves Israel’s regional interests so well. Indeed Déby’s visit to Jerusalem, as does the rush of other African countries restoring relations with Israel, shows the spectacular success of the ’protection racket’. ”
Predictably, israel’s quisling trump regime hails the “good news”.
US envoy hails warming of Israel-Chad relations
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-envoy-hails-warming-of-israel-chad-relations/
“US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy hails the visit to Israel earlier this week of Chad’s leader.
In a series of tweets, Jason Greenblatt calls the meeting — and the expected resumption of Israeli-Chadian ties after four decades — a “milestone on the road to peace.”
Russian MoD: Daesh Plans to Use Chemical Weapons Against US-Backed Kurdish Units
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201811281070214881-daesh-deir-ez-zor-mortars-toxic-agents/
“According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, militants of the Daesh terrorist groups were planning an attack on the Kurdish troops Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in order to provoke an airstrike by the US-led coalition against the Syrian Arab Army in the region.”
Apparently netanyahoo’s boy toy trump needs another “bomb Syria” fix.
“Russia a Dangerous Place” to Intervene in – British Ex-PM David Lloyd George
A hundred years ago British and French warships entered the Black sea, occupied Russian
ports and landed tens of thousands of troops on Russian soil in what became an unashamed
intervention into the country’s internal affairs. It failed dismally and poisoned East-West
relations for years to come.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201811301070269522-russia-uk-may-intervene/
Washington DC is CrazyTown, USA.
Anything and everything that comes from the American regime and political establishment in general is at least a little unhinged.
And in the case of the Trump Regime in general, they are certifiable psychopaths.
They should have all been confined to a secure mental facility long ago and left to babble to themselves in a corner, as they model the latest fashion wear in straitjackets.
Donald Trump once proclaimed that he was a “mentally stable genius,” when he should have said “mentally unstable sociopath with delusions of grandeur.”
As the Soviets noted, bourgeois ideology amounts to mental illness. Western society in general and its ruling kakistocracy in particular prove the point superbly. But times they are a’changing. If, in the past, the West’s social cohesion made sure that everybody could agree mindless violence should be meted out against Third World peoples only, Anders Behring Breivik finally proved to all and sundry that there do exist quite a few Whiteys now who are not the slightest interested in promoting any ’humanitarian interventions’ against dark-skinned peoples abroad, but who prefer to practise ’European values’ on their own kith and kin; irrespective of the complexion and social status of their victims.