An Epiphany on Revolution

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An Epiphany on Revolution

Post by Dr Exile » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:45 pm

Obama has asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down as president of Syria.

“Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people now. He must step aside and allow a democratic transition to proceed immediately. Yesterday the Syrian government murdered hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children, in Homs through shelling and other indiscriminate violence, and Syrian forces continue to prevent hundreds of injured civilians from seeking medical help, I strongly condemn the Syrian government’s unspeakable assault against the people of Homs and I offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones.”

A student of history would scratch his head and ask why the forty fourth President would do such a thing? Did not his hero, the sixteenth president of the US put down a popular rebellion?

Like Lincoln, President Assad justifies his actions on the grounds that “legitimate governments must have the power to suppress rebellious subjects and provinces.” And, like Lincoln, Assad resorts to intimidation and indiscriminate horror.

Lincoln’s orders to Sherman were “for a war of terrorism to be waged systematically against women and children in the South. These included detailed instructions, with illustrations for the soldiers. Houses were to be pillaged and then burned, along with all farm buildings and tools and standing crops. Livestock was to be killed or carried away and food confiscated or destroyed.
Particular emphasis was laid on destructions of family heirlooms – pictures of dead loved ones, Bibles, wedding dresses, and pianos. There were also directions as to how to persuade, or coerce if persuasion failed, black servants into divulging the whereabouts of hidden valuables.” (Professor Clyde Wilson)

Had Lincoln not waged war against women, children, and farm animals he would have lost, and at his war trial he would have been charged with:
Violation of the Constitution and his oath of office by invading and waging war against states that had legally and democratically withdrawn their consent from his government, inaugurating one of the cruelest wars in world history.
Subverting the duly constituted governments of states that had not left the Union, thereby subverting their constitution right to "republican form of government."
Raising troops without the approval of Congress and expending funds without appropriation.
Suspending the writ of habeas corpus and interfering with the press without due process, imprisoning thousands of citizens without charge or trial, and closing courts by military force where no hostilities were occurring.
Corrupting the currency by manipulations and paper swindles unheard of in previous US history.
Fraud and corruption by appointees and contractors with his knowledge and connivance.
Continuing the war by raising ever-larger bodies of troops by conscription and hiring of foreign mercenaries and refusing to negotiate in good faith for an end to hostilities.
Confiscation of millions of dollars of property by his agents in the South, especially cotton, without legal proceedings.
Waging war against women and children and civilian property as the matter of policy (rather than as unavoidably incident to combat). (Again Dr Wilson)


Mr. Obama, if it is morally right for your hero Mr Lincoln to wage war on his own citizens to maintain central authority, why is it not morally right for Mr Assad?
Credo quia absurdum.

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Re: An Epiphany on Revolution

Post by Pigeon » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:45 pm

People often forget it is the same actions, over and over. Correctness is just a politcal view.

I laugh at the US government lecturing on terrorism and human rights.

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Re: An Epiphany on Revolution

Post by IndicusMaximus » Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:34 pm

Warring factions of small penises.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they will see God.

Under the shadow of thy wings, Jehovah.

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