UPDATE: President Obama finally expressed his opposition to the violence perpetrated against the people of Iran today. OK? Happy now?
WASHINGTON DC - June 20, 2009 - While Republicans are furious that President Obama has failed to support the People of Iran, the Democrats are a little "disappointed," that's the word I'm hearing most often. The Iranian people continue to be threatened, beaten. and shot in the streets of Tehran over a corrupt election, without any show of support from the leader of the so-called "free world."
Obama never participated in any student unrest himself, so it's a little hard for him to show empathy over civil protest. Peaceful public protest is the steam valve between civilization and anarchy. That's how revolution and war begins, when people take to the streets and demand change. Obama apparently didn't take this History course at Harvard. If the people are ignored, it quickly turns to violent revolution and bloodshed, then total anarchy.
Obama does not know what it's like to have the police point a gun at him, or be dragged off and beat over the head, or kicked to the ground. He has not stood beside his friends while they were being beaten and killed. As far as we know, none of his friends have disappeared into any prison and never returned. None of his friends have gone missing. Obama is the policeman, pointing his boney finger of responsibility at everyone, while he stands on the backs of others who do the messy work of insuring civil rights.
He did not drive down to Selma, Alabama, or register voters under threat. He did not show up at any garbage worker's strike and watch the leader of the civil rights movement be gunned down. He did not have to travel at night through the South, trying to outrun the Ku Klux Klan. For Obama, it's been smooth sailing all the way from the beautiful island paradise of Oahu.
In 2008, the Hispanic population of Los Angeles, held a city-wide public protest over working conditions and the American businesses that profit from the exploitation of illegal aliens. The protest was peaceful until the Los Angeles Police Department began beating up the protestors.
The Hispanic population of Los Angeles was also a little "disappointed," if that's what the Democrats want to call it. Hispanic high school students walked out of classes at the same time. They were threatened and told they and their families would be deported if they did not return to class. No threat here in the free world. Everybody is free to protest whatever they feel like protesting. Who's first? C'mon step up to the plate, don't be shy.
Who feels like protesting the fact that the banks collapsed, they wiped out everybody's retirement accounts, stole the national treasury, and then tossed everybody out into the street and let the banks take the homes. Then they bailed out the banks. Who feels like protesting?
Obama just tossed the Katrina survivors out of their FEMA trailers. What sort of moral outrage is anybody expecting from this guy?
Immediately after his election, Obama flew to Santa Ana California and informed the very same population that were beat up by the LAPD, that their families would have stand in line like everybody else, to get into the United States. That went over big. People began ripping the Obama stickers off their cars. They were disappointed too from Obama's lack of empathy. He just dropped in by black helicopter escorted by 100 secret service, took a few well chosen questions, and left. And trust me, they were happy to see him leave. Nobody cried.
While Europeans who have the means to immigrate to the United States come here and buy homes and start businesses, the exploited Hispanic population will still have to run across the border in the middle of the night just to feed their families.
Obama was raised by his loving grandmother and sent off to study at Harvard, where he mastered the art of salesmanship. Empowered by his good looks and encouraged by adoring fans, he simply walked into a community center in South Chicago pretending to be one of them, and offered his services, like Superman cleverly disguised as a mild mannered reporter. People threw up their hands and said "An African American man with a Harvard education, he'll save everybody!" They just didn't bother to check his credentials. Nobody knew who he was, he just showed up like a stunt double.
He did not participate in any civil rights movements anywhere in the United States prior to that, or we would have seen his mugshot. He did not invest a thing that would be considered, revolutionary. While others like Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton threw their entire lives into public service and public protest, Obama stood by and allowed by them pave the way for the first African American President. And after his election, he barely gave any public recognition at all to their sacrifice.
As far as Obama is concerned, nothing about his Presidency has any hallmark whatsoever. It's just business as usual. Oysbama's mindset is "If you work within the system long enough, everything will work out fine." Of course, we all know that working within the system leads to a lifetime of frustration, if not dissapointment and death. That is the mind of a bureaucrat. Everything can be resolved by working within the system. So said the Czar.
Obama shows no sympathy whatsoever for exploited people or civil unrest. Obama is a bureaucrat, in the finest tradition of all bureaucrats. He lives in the box and he does what other bureaucrats advise him to do. That's the whole point of his presidency. His election was carefully crafted by even more bureaucrats and set in motion by lobbyists who refused to identify themselves. While others that paved the way for his presidency invested everything, he invested nothing at all.
The United States is a police state, make no mistake about that. That was common knowledge among 60's radicals. Since there are no more 60's radicals, everyone has to start from scratch all over again. There hasn't been a nationwide civil protest here since the 1960's. When 60's radicals protested the Viet Nam war and the lack of human rights, they were also met by violent opposition and force. The Rodney King riots are about as close as we get to civil protest, things just break into total anarchy. All it takes is something to spark a riot, because we are a repressed and angry society now.
Although the United States Constitution allows for public protest, we have become so accustomed to being disbursed by gunfire and dragged off, and beaten by the police, everyone is afraid to show up.
No Iran, you're on your own. Not from this grandma's boy.