Posted on 07/22/2009 6:16:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Somewhere in the dark unknown blotch that is North Korea, there is a young man bent beneath a heavy burden. He is dozens of pounds underweight, fed on corn and salt, hunched over at the waist. His teeth are turning black, and several have already fallen out. He suffers from diarrhea and fever.
Every so often, he watches as the camp guards shoot disobedient prisoners in the head. Sometimes, he watches as camp doctors lead young pregnant women into a room where they perform forced abortions. The young man will die before he hits 50; he'll be lucky to make it to 40. He will die in chains, as his fathers and grandfathers did before him; according to a Korean Bar Association report released this week, hundreds of thousands have suffered the same fate.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls his government "unruly."
Somewhere in Iran, there is a young girl. She has been placed in a dirty cell on charges of treason to the government. She is frightened and alone; her family does not know where she is. She knows that the next morning, she will be executed.
But she does not fear her execution as much as she fears the night to come. She is a virgin; she knows that under Iranian law, she cannot be executed until she is deflowered. And she knows that the Iranian Basji militia are determined that she be killed, which means that this night, she will be forcibly married. Then she will be raped, in order to make her eligible for the death penalty. Dozens of young girls have suffered the same fate, according to a Jerusalem Post report released this week.
President Barack Obama says that the American strategy with regard to the Iranian government remains negotiations.
Somewhere in China, there is a political dissident, a woman who stood up to the communist regime. She sits in silence, waiting for her death. Her stomach grumbles, and a guard laughs outside. She puts her hand over her heart and feels it beating through her fingers. After her execution, her heart will be removed from her body and sold by the government on the open market. It's a common occurrence, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.
Secretary of State Clinton says the United States ought to ignore these issues. "(O)ur pressing on these issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis."
Somewhere in Cuba, there is a man planning to flee the country in an old floating Chevy. He will brave the waves and the sharks. He'll attempt to avoid the Cuban authorities; if he is caught, he will be jailed and likely tortured. If he is not -- if he makes it to America -- his family will be barred from leaving Cuba. That's the way they handle emigration in Cuba, according to human rights organizations.
Obama says "The US seeks a new beginning with Cuba," and recently apologized to the Cuban regime, stating "I know there is a longer journey that must be traveled to overcome decades of mistrust …."
In Honduras, millions tremble as exiled would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya threatens to overturn the constitutional structure once and for all. After the elected government of Honduras threw Zelaya out in order to prevent him from forcing through a false referendum that would place him in power indefinitely, the United States backed Zelaya. Obama called Zelaya's removal a coup; Clinton has implied that U.S. aid to Honduras is contingent on Zelaya's reinstatement.
Encouraged by U.S. interference, rapist, murderer and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has pursued Zelaya's coup strategy -- he's now calling for a referendum to seek his own illegal re-election. Obama's reaction? Silence -- the same deafening silence he exhibited while enduring Ortega's anti-American diatribe at this year's Summit of the Americas.
Oppression is on the march around the globe. So far, President Obama's administration has tacitly energized radically anti-American and tyrannical regimes to do their worst. We are watching the rollback of thirty years of American influence across the world -- and millions around the world are worse off for it.
Can we send the Obamaloon to that camp to “emphasize”?
Can we make him stay there?
Make no mistake about it, people. This is the sick dream that lies at the heart of the ambitions of the Left. Give them the power they crave, and this is where they go, every time. History is my witness.
It is monstrous beyond belief. But you'd better believe it. And you'd better be prepared to kill every last one of them.
I fear for my children's future.
Aw, c’mon. Any culture, country or government is the same as any other. Some are just misunderstood...
What’s the point? These atrocities have been going on for decades. I’m no fan of Obama, but I’m not laying this on his doorstep.
Are we no better than the RATS? Do we have to use emotional drivel to make a case instead of rational arguments? This article reads like the copy from a World Wildlife Fund commercial. All thats missing is a picture of a polar bear stranded on a melting iceberg.
Brilliantly conceived, and written in an elegiac “fable” style, which is somewhat “traditional”, but leaves it mark, nonetheless. This is what happens when we elect
“leaders” who don’t lead, but who literally “follow”, all too willing to become the useful idiots for the rest of the world’s rogues, knaves, and fools, not to mention tyrants.
We are, as usual, at something of a crossroads.
I have never seen ANYTHING to compare to the folly of our current Administration.
They MUST be challenged, cornered, and provoked, not into changing, but into giving up their ‘power’, and LEAVING.
Ooooo, aren’t you sensitive, and HIP, too !!
Europeans, just wait. Hopefully, next election we’ll be soon launching this loon so far up that he’ll land in a country more attuned to his intellect.. Somalia, North Korea.......
Man, these people are going like lambs to the slaughter.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
- “The Gulag Archipelago” , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Here's a question - will 0bama crow about this among his "achievements" in the first 6 months of his administration as he attempts to convince us tonight that we "need" his DeathCare plan???
Enquiring minds want to know.
The Messiah, with his falling popularity will come desperate soon for a new “crisis”. When that happens, He will do what He must do to remain in power, and doing so, not wish any criticism from other leaders who have done the same thing. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Carter was too much of a coward to pull the trigger. Obama may be too much of a coward not to.
“Oppression is on the march around the globe. So far, President Obama’s administration has tacitly energized radically anti-American and tyrannical regimes to do their worst. We are watching the rollback of thirty years of American influence across the world — and millions around the world are worse off for it.”
There you are folks. After only a few short months. Obama will destroy this country and hurt those of many others if he is not removed from office.
Obama runs a campaign that criticizes America for intefering with Iraqi internal affairs.
But when Honduras ousts a leader who clearly violated the Honduran constitution, Obama takes a heavy hand towards Honduras.
I’m going to lay this one on Obama’s doorstep.
“Just wait ‘till he exposes our silent partners in the Global War on Terror. That damage will be irreversible”
Exactly
Is it ironic that many have been attracted to the left by promises of hedonistic freedom. Of course the history of left and right tolaltiarian states shows whats happens to them.
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