As many of us (including our staff at Your World News) are filled with grief today upon learning of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut that took the lives of a great many innocent human-beings (most of which were children), please remind yourselves of the children and innocent people whose lives have been and continue to be claimed throughout places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Libya. Children from those places are no different. They are no less of human beings than that of children in the US. They laugh, they cry, they play—they have/had dreams of growing older. If we have found the time to rightfully express our sorrow for those innocent humans whose lives were viciously cut short today (December 14, 2012) in Newtown, Connecticut and wish for these types of things to never ever again happen in the US—-we need to reach deep in to our hearts and souls and begin to speak out against the senseless crimes of imperialist murder committed upon innocent children and adults throughout other regions of the world— including those places where our tax dollars are financing the destruction of human lives, without our say. Innocent children have had their lives ripped away from them by way of drones, air strikes, night raids, etc—-with the approval of the Bush administration, the Obama administration and virtually every other administration prior…
Obama also said, “And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.” If we are to take this man at his word then his statement should be extended everywhere the United States’ theater of war presently exists. This should mean that he will put an immediate end to all drone attacks, air strikes, night raids, and war in general—-if he is a man of his words. If not, he should be seen as a man who values the lives of children differently based on where they were born and live. I personally do not believe that Obama was even remotely thinking about tragedies that he and his administration have caused, by way of war and brutal sanctions. This is a significant reason this author has never voted for him. He supported these same values as a US senator when he told his followers that he would expand the war in Afghanistan if elected. And by election year 2012, Obama had groomed himself in to a magnificently seasoned war monger.
Those of you who continue to categorically support President Obama, his policies, and US foreign policy, in general—-I ask you to take a long look at yourselves inward. Put yourselves in the same ‘shoes’ as those who are continually terrorized by way of US drone attacks and war. Ask yourselves if you would be begging the citizens from the country that is bombing your community, to demand their government immediately halt its bloody actions. And ask yourself if you see yourself as a human being full of love and peace for men, women and children, no matter where they reside. If you can do this simple exercise then you will see children in other parts of the world the same way you rightfully see children in places like Newtown Connecticut. You will also see children, men and women who lose their lives, by way of things like police brutality, within the US, in the same manner as those children in Newtown, Connecticut. If you are incapable of doing these things; your humanity is much further away from you than you are aware. And if this is the case, you are, undoubtedly, a part of the problem…
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During the summer of 2012 the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement put out a report that highlighted that (at least) every 36 hours a black person in the US is extra-judiciously murdered by police, security guards or self-appointed law enforcement. Despite this human rights issue, no corporate media outlet picked up the story and there was no statement from Barack Obama and his administration. And there was no national mourning when a 7-year old black girl from Detroit was murdered, while she slept on her family’s couch, by the police. Her name was Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley Jones. The corporate media, along with most of the US’s elected officials, based on their inaction, could not give a damn. No matter how many black children are killed because of gun related violence “mainstream” America remains callously silent with indifference—especially when they are murdered by state sponsored police…
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