No one dislikes the west, or Americans, just the actions of oil companies, who own politicians, and have been bombing and invading as a business tool.
Supporting America has become supporting global theft.
What terrorist?
The other people on this planet think they have as much right as anyone, and were taugt this by America.
As my Islamic friends who came here said, We valued the thought in your Constitution, of a Governement of laws, not men, where none were above the law, and freedom was the posession of the people. Why did you not keep it?
The only people on earth that are not for peace, education, everyone eating and living somewhere, are in Washington.
America was a beacon to other countries, many would like to live here, more would like where they live to have the best of our ways.
I have a friend I met his first day here, I was his first American, and welcomed him. Two years latter we are coming back from lunch, he is telling me how frightened he was, Abu Greb, Gitmo, and how he was willing to face his fears to get a better life for his family, for education and economic oppertunity.
He is Islamic, barely speaks English, and in two years has never been stopped by the Police, which was a weekly event back home, has never been threatend, found everyone to be friendly, and helpful.
He has started a business, no gangs, cops, city workers, or the army have come to demand protection money. It is not like the old country.
He said, No one cares! I replied, as long as you are enjoying it, not hurting anyone else, no one cares.
That Freedom is what we are talking about.
You cannot make the world safe for freedom by taking it away at home and abroad. Homeland Security is the oposite of Freedom.
"He who will trade essential Liberty for short term security, will wind up with niether."
Ben Franklin
I have heard some very uninformed comments about the rest of the world. Of all people it is said Americans know the least Geography, World History, and World Law.
The invasion of Iraq, occupation, killing the people, is a War Crime. It is what Hitler did in Poland all over again. He too leveled cities that resistd, he too detained and tortured people without charge or trial. He too said people of some faiths were all enemies.
He was backed by coal companies, and oil.
He set up puppet governments in lands occupied by his army, and made the invasion legal after the fact.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The State Department does not like me mentioning the Constitution, in the New Reality.
The job of Homeland Security is looking for enemies in the Homeland, they are a hidden agenda, a Secret Police. The enemy of the people is the people.
"We have met the enemy, and they is us." Pogo
Do not talk of Freedom you no longer have.
Open the window, listen to the world, you might learn to save your own freedom.
From the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries Islam was the light of Freedom, learning, science, of the world.
Everything we have from the Greeks and Romans, destroyed by Christians, was preserved by Islam, and given back.
Most of our science and mathematics traces back to Islam. They were the educators of Europe, from the first great universities in Andulusia.
We have more in common with Islam than with the Greeks and Romans. A large part of our language has Arabic roots.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, was taken directly from Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah.
Khaldun is the founder of Sociology and the Science of History, and Economics.
Islam has a history to be proud of, it's knowledge was given to us as a gift.
The United States is 200, and a has been of history, the factories are in China, all paper money becomes worthless, Khaldun, it has huge debts, and an army five years in the field seeking to gain control of someone elses wealth.
Caluglia warred on Numidia, who supplied most of the food and oil to Rome, for he could not pay for it. When Claudius took over, he had to continue the war, for it was too dangerous to bring the army, unpaid, back to Rome, they fought for seven years, won, looted and enslaved, then starved, and Rome fell from within.
An educated population is the best defense.
12 Oct 2005, 11:41 am
