Arwenn said:I watched this late last night (not a great idea, because I couldn't sleep afterwards)- I knew that it was bad, I just had no idea how bad. Like the others have said above, how can a place like this even exist on earth? No freedom of speech, no freedom of thought, the worst forms of oppression, poverty and cruelty. They actually seem to delight in harassing and executing their own citizens...I do so hope that when those space rocks hit, they aim right for them. Saudis and their extremist Wahhabism is really the birthplace of terrorism. I feel sick to the core that the West is so obsequiously affiliated with them... all because of their oil. Ugh!!! It makes me so mad
Gotta say I wasn't that surprised. I just hadn't known how 'closed' the society was - the degree to which exposure of realities on the ground is banned. Saudi Arabia is pretty much a textbook example of a religion-based pathocracy. It's all there in Ponerology.
What really got me was that quote at the end - the UK govt's response - which basically said, "it's only by working with, and appeasing, this totalitarian state that we can do anything. We regularly tell them they need to get their act together (but we both know it's just for show and they won't do a damn thing about it, because we really don't care)."