teenyboone wrote:You have some nerve! My response was in response to an earlier post that was made against Rev. Wright and his argument on aids being developed in a lab and used against Blacks, Africans, gays and any other persons, thought of as expendable. I wasn't responding to anything Barack Obama disassociated himself from. Don't know what the dust-up about his pastor is anyway. Candidate McCain, has the endorsement of a reverend who hates Catholics, the Pope and anyone else that gets in the way of his pro-Zionism push, to have the 3rd world war started!
I have no idea what the hell you're spouting! You need to read before you accuse!
Perhaps so, but I also have a right to post what I wish.
You are right about posting. You forget, don't you, that you ASKED me, what I was responding to and I just told you! AlsoReverend Wright, also said:
"You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on
you," Reverend Wright said in his appearance at the National Press Club.
Pronouncing himself "offended" by such "ridiculous propositions" as "when
[Wright] equates the United States' wartime efforts with terrorism--there
are no excuses," Obama said the next day.
What is truly ridiculous is that, six and a half years after 9/11, many
Americans still think the attacks were motivated by crazy freedom-haters out
to forcibly convert them to Islam. The rise of radical Islam resulted from
what Chalmers Johnson termed "Blowback"-- CIA jargon for the unintended
consequences, in this case of arming and funding Islamist fighters against
the Soviet Union. But Wright was right. "America's chickens are coming home
to roost," the Reverend said after 9/11.
It wasn't an original thought. Ward Churchill said the same thing. So have
countless analysts in other countries. Only in the U.S. is it prohibited to
say something so obvious--particular ly in a public forum.
Osama bin Laden and the 19 hijackers didn't think flying planes into
buildings would make Americans join the local mosque. They were motivated by
a desire to bring America's wars home to its people, to ensure that it would
suffer the consequences for having "supported state terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans," as Wright said. Like Wright, bin
Laden has referenced these issues.
The Al Qaeda founder has also talked about the atomic bombs dropped on
Japan, one of the greatest war crimes in history.
"Bin Laden has said several times that he is seeking to acquire and use
nuclear weapons not only because it is God's will, but because he wants to
do to American foreign policy what the United States did to Japanese
imperial surrender policy," the Washington Post noted in 2005.
One of Wright's most bizarre statements concerns his "suggestion that the
United States might have invented H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS," in
the words of The New York Times. There is no evidence to support this
accusation. Yet paranoia can reveal truth.
"Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to
Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing
anything," Wright told the NAACP last week. (In Tuskegee from 1932 to 1972,
illiterate sharecroppers with syphilis were left untreated so that white
doctors could observe the progress of the disease.) "In fact, one of the
responses to what Saddam Hussein had in terms of biological warfare was a
non-question, because all we had to do was check the sales records. We sold
him those biological weapons that he was using against his own people. So
any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people,
and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe
we are capable."
It shouldn't come as any surprise, given what the U.S. government has done
and continues to do to African-Americans- -a recent study shows, for example,
that blacks are 12 times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for
the same drug offenses as whites--that many of them consider it "capable of
doing anything." What is surprising is that African-Americans- -or anyone
else--still believes the government.
The Wright controversy offered us an opportunity to talk about the need to
create a government that tells the truth, that doesn't torture or kidnap or
wage unjustifiable wars--a government worthy of its people and its trust.
What we got instead, courtesy of Mr. Change We Can Believe In, was the usual
pablum. "They offend me," Obama said of Wright's comments. "They rightly
offend all Americans."
Let us all hold hands and be offended. Whatever it takes to stop us from
thinking.
SATISFIED?
