Posted on 07/11/2004 8:09:14 PM PDT by Trueblackman
”All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
To: The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United State of America 1600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W Washington D.C. 20050
From: Kevin Lewis Martin Advisory Member to the National Center for Public Policy Research Project 21
Greeting Mr. President,
I hope this letter finds you and your family in the best of health and sprits first and foremost, but to the main point of my letter Mr. President.
Sir, first I would like to thank you for bring the many nations of Africa to the table of the world community from the very first day you and your officials took office back in 2001, unlike the previous administration that simply used Africa as photo-op or prop to garner wide voter support in the African-America Community, your administration has sought to include the nations of Africa in the War on Terror, the fight against child slave labor and modern day slavery in the Horn of Africa, but I am writing because I remain deeply troubled and concerned about the ethnic genocide that is taking in Darfur Sudan at present.
Thanks to you, Mr. President, to the Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator, to Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) for taking a keen interest in this tragic situation that’s happening in Durfur Sudan.
On July 5th 2004 Senator Brownback and Representative Wolf held a joint press conference to give the world a firsthand account of what they saw in Durfur, as well as violent accounts from the victims of the government supported “Janjaweed” Militants that have been attacking Black Muslims and their Villages since February 2003.
Mr. President, we have the chance to lead the world in a loud voice and say “never again” to ignoring ethnic cleansing in Africa as former President Clinton, a Democrat Majority in Congress and the United Nations did in Rwanda over a decade ago.
Given the “any lie will due to win” mindset of the Democrat Party and the likeminded press that supports them, they would like nothing more than for you to ignore the plight of black Muslims in Durfur, so that they may to exploit it for political gain at a later date. Durfur will remains on the shelves of liberal media organizations, the Kerry Campaign and Democrat National Committee until just before, during and after the Democrat Party Convention to rile more African Americans against your administration, such Democrats have nothing else in the way of offering African Americans.
Mr. President simply put they will use Durfur as an issue to portray your administration and Republicans in general as racists, who are only interested in gain in nations that contain mineral wealth such as Iraq. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelsoi has already appeared with the Congressional Black (Democrat) Congress in a Pre-July 4th Recess Photo-Op demanding that your administration do something in Durfur, but other than that her purely partisan photo-op and usage of black lawmakers, Ms. Pelsoi choose to remained in the United States and did not accompany Senator Brownback or Representative Wolf to Sudan.
Mr. President, your administration and Republican-Led Congress must remain committed to maintaining pressure on the government of Sudan until they rein in and disarm the Janjaweed Militants that they have allowed to operate freely within Sudan’s Durfur Region. The United States must take the leadership role, when it comes to pressuring the United Nations to final take a stand on the issue of ethnic cleansing and genocide, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to stop the very thing ethnic cleansing and genocide it was created to stop in the wake of World War 2. Rwanda will forever remain the darkest hour for the United Nations, former President Bill Clinton and the Democrat Majority that controlled Congress in 1994. The United States can’t allow the world to simply sit by and debate the terms of ethnic cleansing and genocide 10 after Rwanda.
When I took my leave of the Democrat Party in the summer of 1994 following the outright lies and suppression of evidence surrounding the dual charges of ethnic cleansing and genocide that left over 937,000 Rwandans dead and another 1 million orphans, I found a home in the Republican Party and since taking office, I have watched with great pride as your administration has deployed peacekeepers to troubled areas like Liberia and included nations like Kenya and Djibouti as our African Allies in the War on Terror.
The United States can’t afford to ignore the plight of black Muslims in Darfur Sudan since terrorist have made it terrorist have made it their policy to exploit anger at the United States. America can’t afford for Sub-Sahara Africa to become another front in the War on Terror with embittered survivors of the Durfur Genocide as our newest enemies. We must force the United Nations to empower a substantial African Union Peacekeeping Force to take charge of security in the Durfur Region, so that refugees may return home from overcrowded camps in Chad.
Mr. President, you were once quoted as saying the following, “I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this country's gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom." Mr. President, our party freed the slaves, supported civil rights in its most critical hours and supported those seeking freedom in the world during the once powerful reign of communism, we have a chance to save a group of people in their darkest hours, let us not be like our counterparts did a decade ago and simply ignore it.
Thank You
Kevin L. Martin
Excellent BUMP for later!
Thanks
good letter
Good letter and I agree with you. I know the administration can do more (and hope they will) but it's amazing to me that no other country (that I know of) is stepping up.
This is an excellent letter Kevin. I've been reading on the subject [of the Sudan] and listening to President Bush's speeches and things Colin Powell has said.
I want to be sure that I understand clearly what you said. As far as I can see President Bush and some in his administration are the only ones that I know of who have said or done anything [also a private organization]. I have not heard the NAACP say one word, or Jesse Jackson, or any of the Democrats about anything in the Sudan.
Are you saying that the President should continue on with what he is doing, or ramp up the pressure in an election year on the Democrats, or that he should make the U.N. do something about this? [When does the U.N. ever do anything that we want?]
I just wasn't completely sure what you wanted President Bush to do.
I agree that this is a big scandal, in that so many civil rights leaders and organizations won't speak up on this.
I have a co worker who believes she should get reparations for distant ancestors being slaves. I ask her, what are you doing to stop slavery that exists in the world? And I specifically mentioned Sudan. She never has an answer to that. Instead of pushing for reparations, civil rights leaders ought to be pushing to end slavery in this world.
Kevin, I left out in my last post genocide, which is much worse than just slavery which is bad enough. They are both terrible things to have happen to anyone. I wish there were more people concerned and doing something to help those who are suffering.
Thank you so much for your concern for the oppressed...Also, for updates on the persecution of Christians, including in the Sudan, go to persecution.com, the website of The Voice of the Martyrs.
The fact that this is now getting attention when it is a Arab muslim versus a Black muslim (talking about color here, and not the Black Muslims), and not when thousands of men have died, tens of thousands of women and children enslaved simply because they were CHRISTIANS turns my stomach. I'm not holding my breath for ANY of the alleged black "leaders" to get off their round rumps and do anything about this, other than to huff and puff and say what a bad guy W. is. Screw 'em all.
Bump - will write my letter in the morning.
Wonderful letter Kevin!
Are you saying that the President should continue on with what he is doing, or ramp up the pressure in an election year on the Democrats, or that he should make the U.N. do something about this? [When does the U.N. ever do anything that we want?]
The President should lead as all presidents are suppose to. I say put pressure on them all by forcing their hand and showing the world what the UN fails to acknowledge.
Thanks for the post.
A beautiful and eloquent letter.
I'm eager to see how the Democrats try to spin Bush's involvement in Africa. It will come up, and it will be an issue - especially when contrasted with Clinton's facetious treatment of the area during his 8 years in office. Bush has done more for Africa by way of his AIDS initiative and exerting pressure on Sudan and the UN to reform and act - hopefully his efforts will bear substantive fruits in the near future.
Something needs to be done to end this blood bath. Its almost as if the left takes pleasure in seeing Christians killed. Who will defend the friendless Christians of Sudan?
Who will strike the chains from the Christian slaves that labor in starvation camps in Africa. Conditions were better for the common people when Africa was ruled by the great European Empires and that is a sad comment.
Thank you for sending and posting this instructive letter. I intend follow up with a message now, too. (Great job on the tube, too.)
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