The Pig in Politics

(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he’s “gravely concerned” about U.S.-born journalist Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court after a closed-door trial last week.

One of the ways the nations speak to one another is through the imprisonment of foreign nationals under trumped up or irrational claims—each nation expresses outrage, yet each is guilt of what they abhor.

This piggish behavior was recently mentioned in the Torah/Teaching portion always following Passover. The Torah point out that only one animal in the world possesses the outer sign of a kosher mammal, cloven hoofs, but not the inner sign of multiple stomachs—the pig. This trait is characteristic of the hypocrite—denouncing an action they themselves commit.

The administering of justice through courts of law is one the Seven Commandments given to Noah after the flood; these Seven Commandments are applicable to every person and each nation before the Creator of Heaven and Earth.