Amazing that the major Christian denominations are silent as the Obama Administration bombs the government and the people of Libya into submission. I will no longer say that the USA is doing this because although there IS finally a resolution in the Senate to legitimate the Obama aggression, its proponents are the war monger John Mc Cain, and the swift boat navy guy, Kerry! Besides the Obama administration said today that it is talking to the Congress about its use of military personnel for war in Libya but that it DOES NOT NEED NOR SEEK their approval. All beside the point of this blog. I am amazed at the USA and world Christian community’s silence about this blatant “Resource War” of the Western Imperialist nations of Britain, France and Belgium,–backed by USA and silently assented to by Russia, (shame on Putin for cowardly acquiescence to this Western Imperialism. I guess Russia is now another of the capitalist nations. ) Anyway, the Arab Muslim communities are also silent as the NATO military alliance bombs this Arab Muslim nation into oblivion. The rebels ae not civilians, they are armed and dangerous. They are rebels and in any of the NATO counties such persons seeking to forcefully overthrow their government would be arrested. Obviously the Libyan government would do the same but the rebellion is fostered, promoted, armed, trained and protected by NATO and as is well-known, the combined forces of NATO are fully condoned and supported by Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama. (By the way, what is the tax bill for this undeclared and illegal war?) Not to let any of the others religions off the hook, because the Dalai Lama, the Grand Rabbinic Societies, the Shinto reps, the Confucians, the Hindus, Wicca, and the whole Green movement are also silent. The only voice that has spoken out against the war and pleaded for peace, is the voice of Pope Benedict XVI of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican State.
Tag: Libya
Can Obama Change?
Gaddafi must go. That was the imperative statement of the USA President concerning the Head of State of another sovereign nation. Libya is an independent county. It is not under USA jurisdiction. It is a member of the United Nations. Under international law it enjoys well-defined and specific rights and privileges. These rights and privileges exist whether President Obama likes them or not. And the nation of Libya deserves to have its national rights respected whether or not Obama likes the national leader. I have written extensively on this topic through this blog so I will not repeat myself here. However, President Obama recently stated that peace in the middle east is crucially important. Yes, I know that Libya is not considered the “middle east’. Nonetheless, I must ask the defining question. Is the winner of the Noble Peace Prize a big enough leader? He can call the ruthless illegal war in Libya to a halt. He can accept the numerous pleas for peace from the legal representatives of Libya. He can stop calling them liars and liars and liars while he secretly agrees to continued massive bombing of Libya by NATO. He can be honest with himself and acknowledge, at least to himself, that this brutal Western aggression is nothing less than a “Resource War” to control Libyan oil. We will just have to wait and see. But we should not forget that he started it and he can end it peacefully. Or he can be a Chicago Mafia Chief and take this recklessly to the very bitter end. Hey, maybe the Mafia motto is his motto, “Listen Gaddafi’s sons and grandsons and Gaddafi himself…”Nothing personal, this is strictly business!” Bang!
Is the NYC IMF Affair a Political Murder?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/imf_head_assault
This scene is beginning to look like a political murder attempt. Maybe his French friends want him out. This whole thing is so reminiscent of the political hack job done in the California political campaign against Meg Whitmann. The so-called victim there was also from the “poorest of South American countries..” who served the rich and powerful and then suddenly the maid got ethical and all of that. She went public with the alleged abuse of her (what was it) ten years of illegal alien “servitude” in the Whitmann household. Hey, this guy could buy a thousand high priced call girls. He could have customized sex with anybody he could pay. In France such paid sexual favors are honored. So one must ask why this guy would attempt to rape a “poor illegal immigrant maid in a NYC hotel.” Sure he is rich. Maybe he is also arrogant. Most definitely he is powerful. But is there not someone who dares to question the “setup” aspects of this affair. Where are the investigative reporters who are willing to be politically incorrect and delve very deeply into this poor innocent downtrodden abused woman”… from the poorest of South American countries…” who had absolutely no one idea at all as to the type of people at that hotel and of the power and importance they welded in the world in which she worked. Hey, I am the last to claim that the raped are guilty and the rapists are innocent. But like the California case this is just too convenient a scene. Add to it the French President’s “innocence” now that he is going to have baby. How sweet and family oriented while he is architect of massive bombing of Libya and the destruction of the Arab Muslim government there…a war that he claims is for civil rights and not for oil. Amazing!
NATO Tells the Truth While Denying it is the Truth?!
“NATO has been intensifying air strikes in several areas of Libya against Gaddafi’s troops in a bid to weaken his campaign against a rebel uprising. The sound of two air strikes could be heard in Tripoli early Friday, though it was not immediately clear what they targeted.” – AP report
The double speak of the NATO military Alliance against Libya must be exposed. As I wrote in these blogs before, that if one side always calls the other side “Liar” then there is no hope of reconciliation.
Sadly, it will be up to Russia to bring this to an end. President Obama of the USA is complicit in the aggression and racial war against Muslims, Arab Libyans. I hope that Putin, who has already spoken out against this aggressive Resource War, can overcome the reticence of the Russian President and act as the peace broker in this terribly unnecessary war. How can Obama be excused for his lack of leadership here. This is a Western Crusade against a Muslim Nation. How does the President sleep with himself? Maybe he takes a pill to smother his weakened conscience? President Obama can live up to the dream of the Noble Peace Prize by saying to NATO “Stop.” But he doesn’t! Is he a mafia chief? Is he a stooge of the big international oil companies? Is he the patsy for France and Britain? Whatever, he is? and I think a lot of people are wondering out loud about his duplicity, he is not the great moral leader he pretends to be. It is starting to look as though he is merely another two-bit Chicago mafia organizer!
Obama Cannot be Excused from Libyan “Resource War”
NATO is backed by the USA. Every time that they strike against the people of Libya, the USA has given the okay. This is a war of western imperialist colonialist France, England and Belgium against the people of Libya. It is a war of criminal aggression as clearly defined by the Geneva Accords, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations Protocols against member States using their armed forces against member States. Let’s not forget that Libya has the greatest untapped oil reserves in North Africa, and its quality is rated as the “best”. This is a Resource War by the Western nations against Libya. The goal is the Oil. Amazing, that the USA Liberals are okay with this when they were violently opposed to Iraq because they said it was a Resource War! Also, this is a racial war against Arabs and Muslims. It is amazing that whenever the NATO forces are proved to have killed a lot of civilians, they claim that the target was a legitimate Command and Control center. Friends, we all remember that this started because the USA claimed that we needed to protect civilians caught up in the cross fires of a Libyan Civil war. Then the UN passed resolution 1973 which said that NATO (which is a Western European Military Alliance) could “…use all necessary military means to intervene…” Imagine that, a blank check for killing, slaughter and mayhem given to France, England and Belgium. Friends, look up on Google the horrific Colonialist and Imperialist history of these European Aggressors. This war borders on genocide. Why? Because of the arbitrary power given to NATO to define who is civilian and who is not. From the beginning the NATO European Military Alliance has defined the government of Libya as military and all of the rebels as civilians. Therefore, NATO feels justified in brutally attacking the military forces of the central Libyan government as they defend themselves against an armed rebellion. Please note that in the USA the use of armed force in an attempt to overthrow the Washington DC government is considered treason and the penalty is death. As a matter of fact, if an armed rebellion happened in the USA, the military would be authorized to use lethal force against armed USA citizens in order to put down the armed rebellion. Is there really a difference between Libya and USA in this matter? Yet, the self righteous Western NATO military alliance struts its stuff across the world stage as the savior of civilians in Libya saying that its efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance have resulted in 2300 military attacks against the central government of Libya, that’s right!- two thousand three hundred sorties against the government of Libya and in favor of the rebel army which is led by disgruntled former Libyan Security officers, and disaffected former Libyan Army officers. Shame on the USA for supporting such egregious criminal aggression against the innocent people of Libya. It is the civilians who are suffering the worst and NATO says it will help them with more missiles, bombs, and drone assassination planes. This can be ended. All the the USA President Obama has to say is STOP and all of this carnage will end.
Western Hypocrisy Regarding Libya!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513/ap_on_re_eu/eu_international_court_libya
Another stunning act of white European hypocrisy against Libya. This shows the complete lack of moral authority on the part of the Dutch “International” court. It is obviously a shameless and brazen army of Western Imperial Colonialism which is waging a “Resource War for Oil” in Libya but calling it humanitarian aid to civilians. Amazing that in Sierra Leone, nothing happens. In Darfur, nothing happens. But in oil rich Libya, the government defends itself against an armed rebellion, (you must surely know that in the USA, an armed attempt to overthrow the government is called treason and the punishment is death.). When the new attacks to try to murder Gaddafi were launched this week, NATO bragged that they had sent 2300, yes, two THOUSAND and three hundred bombs, missiles and drones against the government forces of Libya as they fight the armed rebellion. But as pointed out previously, peace is possible in Libya if Obama will only say the word, STOP. But he does not and will not because he is committed to this France and Britain led criminal aggression against Libya. Really folks, if the rebels were a real and wide-spread uprising of the people, why is the rebel army so very small, not supported by the true “civilians” who want peace and a return of their security? It is only reasonable to assert that the NATO effort is an illegal war, when a naval blockade, a no fly zone, and over two thousand three hundred sorties against Gaddafi have not produced a shattering of the tribal ruler-ship of the Libyan nation.
Egyptian Christians Persecuted, Murdered, by Muslims
The video tells the whole story. Sadly the mainline Christian Churches like the Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians are virtually silent on this issue. However, Roman Catholicism and world Orthodoxy are trying their best to bring this crime to international attention. But France and England, former colonial powers in Egypt are not interested. Instead through NATO and with help of USA they are interested in fighting a “Resource War for Oil” against the Libyan people. Watch the video, get informed and write your federal reps and the leaders of the USA churches telling them they need to take this seriously. You can make a difference with your emails, letters. Think of it this way, your email in defense of persecuted Egyptian Christians is your voice against the modern nazi-like persecution of an innocent people. When the Jews were being herded and exterminated in Dauchau, too many people were silent. It has happened again in Sudan, in Liberia, in Sierra Leone, in Ghana, in Ruwanda, in Dafur. But in all of these the world ignored the pleas of those being killed. Please email your leaders and the denominations and ask them to do something about this.
NY Times Reports on Libya’s “Terrorist” Rebels
This very disturbing story indicates the deep trouble the USA has when we go around the world trying to topple foreign governments without having any clear idea as to who will replace the people we topple. The Daily Beast labels this story troubling. The writer of this blog labels it prophetic and alarming. Once again, the USA may be promoting our own demise in the North African region by supporting people who say they are for USA but are merely thugs, and terrorists. Throughout this who Obama Administration cowboy adventure in Libya, it has been the ordinary citizens of Libya who have suffered. And please, bleeding hearts, do not whine that it is all Gaddafi’s fault. The writer of this blog has repeated called attention to the illegal invasive aggression against the Libyan government perpetrated by USA, France and England. Americans need to constantly remember that in this foreign cowboy movies it is not John Wayne who wins. It is the usually extremists whose language we do not speak, who culture we do not understand, whose customs are unintelligible to us and whose religion is antithetic to our own.
Libyan Roman Catholic Cleric asks for Bombing to Stop
It seems like all we hear about the Libyan government is that they are liars. Well, if we want peace then we are going to overcome our prejudice and stop the other side liars. This includes the media which has depicted all Libyan government information as propaganda and all Libyan government tours as being done by “minders” which is to call the tour a farce and the leaders of the tours liars. It is no different in a family rift, because if all persons involved in the family argument call all the others liars, then there is no possibility of ever coming to peace. In a case where the attacker always insists that the person attacked is always lying, then the only conclusion is war between the parties until the one with the biggest weapons wins. It is time for President Obama to take his Nobel Peace Prize seriously and make peace in Libya instead of attempting to subdue that nation, destroy its cities, and kill its leader.
Obama Watched The Destruction of Osama!
In the news we see a photo of the President and the Vice President and the Secretary of State as they watch up close and personnel the killing of our arch-enemy Osama Bin Laden. It must have been a horrific scene. No sorry here for the mastermind of the Twin Towers killing of over three thousand. Nonetheless, America is not a terrorist nation. Surely, our President felt in his bones the violence of this event. And I am confident that it was difficult for him to watch killing as it actually happened especially because he had personally ordered it to be done.
I am not a fan of the President and I believe that he is taking the USA to ruin by following a MAOist or perhaps a corporatist policy. Whatever label you place on his policies, I believe they are the wrong ones. Why? Because they all rely upon the wisdom and the fore-site of the central USA government to make the every day personal decisions that rightly belong to the individual.
Yet, I pray for our President everyday. I do not dislike him. In fact I think that a lot of people misunderstand Rush Limbaugh when he says that he wants the President to fail. Why do I think Rush is misunderstood? Because Rush does not separate the “person” of Obama from the “person” who is President. I am absolutely sure that Rush Limbaugh has no ill will against Barrack Hussein Obama. I mean it! And if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Marc Levin harbor ill will against the person known to us as Barrack Hussein Obama, then double shame on them. But this writer believes in his heart, that although all three named individuals vehemently opposed the policies of the President, they wish him and his family no harm. And I am equally sure that BHO understands this and is okay with it. (Hey, BHO is President. He’s a big boy and he fishes with the big boys so he knows that what I say is true. If he didn’t, he would never have gotten to where he is.)
Okay, What’s the point?
This writer wholeheartedly believes that these days are the most crucial days in the life of our President. He can follow the ways of war and killing. Honestly, in the Osama thing he probably had no real choice! But in what comes NOW he has a very big choice.
President Obama can follow the path opened to him by the Nobel Peace Prize or he can follow the path opened to him by the Central Intelligence agency.
It is this writer’s hope that President Obama will follow the path opened to him by the Nobel Peace Prize. It is the harder course, it is the more treacherous path, it has the most possibility for failure. Nonetheless, I believe that President Obama has the “Right Stuff” and that he can make the tough decision and opt for peace.
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