The Bible still says "Thou shalt not kill." According to the news media Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his remaining soldiers and bodyguards (not females as some trash newspapers tried to falsely report) attempted to escape the city of Sirte in a convoy but were then attacked by French fighters and an American drone airplane. A wounded Muammar Gaddafi and his remaining bodyguards sought shelter in a drainage pipe. A battle ensued which killed Muammar Gaddafi's bodyguards. Muammar Gaddafi was then mercilessly beaten for a long time by the rebels, who finally shot him.
What's wrong with this picture? The United Nations only authorized a no fly zone. This American and French action was a violation of their authorization and a war crime. The beating and killing of a prisoner is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and incidentally also a violation of the teachings of the Koran.
I've complained over and over again about what the United States has been doing for the last ten years and nobody seems to have paid any attention, but it's still my job to complain. Because our country wasn't founded to be like this. George Washington and others didn't envision a warmongering country, but one living in peace with other countries. And if the United States truly is a Christian nation, at least a majority of it's people still profess to being Christians, this certainly is not Christian behavior.
A couple of recent articles I read disturbed me. One was that a United Nations had issued a report that the Afghanistan government was systematically practicing torture on prisoners. Incidentally this is the same kind of torture that came out in Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Prisoners threatened with dogs and so on. So we have an Obama administration that came into power on numerous promises that they were going to change everything and they have changed nothing. It's a war crime to transfer prisoners into the hands of those likely to torture them, but American and NATO troops apparently have been routinely doing that.
Then the other article that bothered me was that President Obama had ordered recently one of his drone strikes that killed a Moslem minister in Yemen. So an assassination. And this man was an American citizen. As I understand the American Constitution we are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a trial of our peers in a court of law. This man wasn't even claimed to be a member of al Qaeda or some similar organization. They just didn't like his preaching. How about our Bill of Rights that supposedly guaranteed our freedom of speech as an inalienable right?
So now our president is apparently claiming the authority to assassinate anyone, even US citizens, who are anti-American or something. No trial is needed. Isn't the proper legal procedure there to ask the government the person is residing in to extradite the person so he can be put on trial? But what disturbs me is that Mr. Obama had a press conference a few days later and none of the reporters bothered to even ask him a question about this assassination (supposedly illegal even under American law). No outcry from our news media. Not hardly even a mention.
So I don't know what's going on, but it's becoming obvious to me that we are losing our freedoms rapidly. I see a police state rising, with rude policemen in many cases, often looking more like soldiers than Andy Griffith or Barney Fife, equipped with Tasers, which I think should be banned as cruel and unusual punishment. I see two political parties that there's not a dimes worth of difference between as George Wallace used to say. A government that favors the rich and is not looking out for the majority of our people. That just recently signed three more free trade agreements, opposed by our labor unions, likely to outsource even more American jobs overseas to add to the 10,000,000+ already sent overseas.
And I see no hope from the Republicans. The leader of the Republican polls recently was Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Herman got Godfather's Pizza back in profit by closing hundreds of restaurants and laying off thousands of workers. His nickname could easily be "Mr. wall Street." He even was on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City, so he's obviously not anti Federal Reserve Board. And of course he's a multi-millionaire even as Obama. His 999 proposal (really 666?) would help the rich and be a disaster for America's poor people. This would result in huge tax cuts for the rich while the poor would see prices of everything, even food, dramatically rise and not likely their incomes with a national sales tax that would need to be 23% or more to take in the money the current system does.
All I can say to the selfish rich currently running the United States is to repent before it's too late. You're on the road to hell. "Go to now, ye rich men. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." James 5:1. See http://www.squidoo.com/tithes-and-offerings
What's wrong with this picture? The United Nations only authorized a no fly zone. This American and French action was a violation of their authorization and a war crime. The beating and killing of a prisoner is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and incidentally also a violation of the teachings of the Koran.
I've complained over and over again about what the United States has been doing for the last ten years and nobody seems to have paid any attention, but it's still my job to complain. Because our country wasn't founded to be like this. George Washington and others didn't envision a warmongering country, but one living in peace with other countries. And if the United States truly is a Christian nation, at least a majority of it's people still profess to being Christians, this certainly is not Christian behavior.
A couple of recent articles I read disturbed me. One was that a United Nations had issued a report that the Afghanistan government was systematically practicing torture on prisoners. Incidentally this is the same kind of torture that came out in Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Prisoners threatened with dogs and so on. So we have an Obama administration that came into power on numerous promises that they were going to change everything and they have changed nothing. It's a war crime to transfer prisoners into the hands of those likely to torture them, but American and NATO troops apparently have been routinely doing that.
Then the other article that bothered me was that President Obama had ordered recently one of his drone strikes that killed a Moslem minister in Yemen. So an assassination. And this man was an American citizen. As I understand the American Constitution we are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a trial of our peers in a court of law. This man wasn't even claimed to be a member of al Qaeda or some similar organization. They just didn't like his preaching. How about our Bill of Rights that supposedly guaranteed our freedom of speech as an inalienable right?
So now our president is apparently claiming the authority to assassinate anyone, even US citizens, who are anti-American or something. No trial is needed. Isn't the proper legal procedure there to ask the government the person is residing in to extradite the person so he can be put on trial? But what disturbs me is that Mr. Obama had a press conference a few days later and none of the reporters bothered to even ask him a question about this assassination (supposedly illegal even under American law). No outcry from our news media. Not hardly even a mention.
So I don't know what's going on, but it's becoming obvious to me that we are losing our freedoms rapidly. I see a police state rising, with rude policemen in many cases, often looking more like soldiers than Andy Griffith or Barney Fife, equipped with Tasers, which I think should be banned as cruel and unusual punishment. I see two political parties that there's not a dimes worth of difference between as George Wallace used to say. A government that favors the rich and is not looking out for the majority of our people. That just recently signed three more free trade agreements, opposed by our labor unions, likely to outsource even more American jobs overseas to add to the 10,000,000+ already sent overseas.
And I see no hope from the Republicans. The leader of the Republican polls recently was Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Herman got Godfather's Pizza back in profit by closing hundreds of restaurants and laying off thousands of workers. His nickname could easily be "Mr. wall Street." He even was on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City, so he's obviously not anti Federal Reserve Board. And of course he's a multi-millionaire even as Obama. His 999 proposal (really 666?) would help the rich and be a disaster for America's poor people. This would result in huge tax cuts for the rich while the poor would see prices of everything, even food, dramatically rise and not likely their incomes with a national sales tax that would need to be 23% or more to take in the money the current system does.
All I can say to the selfish rich currently running the United States is to repent before it's too late. You're on the road to hell. "Go to now, ye rich men. Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." James 5:1. See http://www.squidoo.com/tithes-and-offerings
