Unrest and unease

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not dedicated to a fair, equitable, and violence-free New Future, which is why we are exerting our influence to make things better.  Unfortunately, there are times when our efforts to improve your lives and ours sometimes require frustration, pain, or suffering from World Citizens.  Now is one of those times.  We have been working tirelessly to prepare the world to accept the Board of Dictators as the supreme rulers and benefactors, but in order to radically change the status quo we first have to shake up the current political organizations.

Some have called on us to stop the standoff between the US and its allies and Russia, others have given us a hard time for not having resolved the Syria situation or the rise to power of the ISIS movement in Syria and Iraq, and some have even criticized us for not ending the conflict in Gaza yet.  While it pains us to see any World Citizens suffer, any philosopher who isn't lying to himself would have to agree that the benefits to all of the world's people through the GPD outweigh the inconveniences suffered by the unfortunate.  Even Mr. Spock agreed that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

As with any great Cause, the New Future comes with a price.  As members of the Board of Dictators it pains us to see any suffering, but if we intervened in every such situation our computer models suggest that

• Our credibility would decrease, as human suffering is not wholly preventable.  While many of our efforts would be effective, those where we couldn't stop the suffering would reflect badly upon our organization, and serve to alienate potential supporters, making it less likely to succeed every time we intervened.
• Our carefully laid plans would come to naught as governmental organizations that have heretofore ignored us would start trying to make our ascent to power more difficult.
• Instead of welcoming the New Future we would constantly be patching holes in the Old Present.  There simply aren't enough of us yet to eliminate all of the world's suffering.

To be perfectly clear, we do intervene whenever we believe the threat to humanity outweighs the risks we undertake, and we always oppose those organizations that come out in open opposition to the GPD, but we cannot be held responsible for governments that can't seem to play nicely with each other.  In fact, perhaps their squabbles will serve to open doors for the GNU Public Dictatorship and improve all of humanity!