Comments on: What is the Point of Fine Words?

By: Strangely

Strangely — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:41:31 +0000

In light of the Wikileaks information, I don't think it's fear on Obama's part. Granted, he shouldn't be doing it, but the whole US industrial and military complex as Eisenhower put it, shouldn't be doing 90% of what they're doing!
So Obama isn't scared of public opinion – he's scared of much greater forces that strive to maintain their own power, the status quo, and to keep us all enslaved.

By: John Kohl

John Kohl — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:48:30 +0000

Obama is trying to protect us from these photos by not showing us, but it makes us even more furious when they get leaked out and we see them then if he would just show them. Just my opinion, but I don't see any need to hide such things. If Obama is too scared to show the public what he's doing, then he probably shouldn't be doing it.

By: Strangely

Strangely — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:46 +0000

Now, as the Yanks draw up the abuse drawbridge as Obama goes to tell the Chinese how to do human rights, the British Torture and Death investigation gets underway.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8362200.stm" alt="Baha Mousa" /> Officer 'abused Iraqi prisoners'

I hope, given what I've said, that Obama's words when he reached China will strike the right sort of resonance with you! See:

Obama presses China over rights

To me, it's just weasel talk to the wind. he said;

"We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don't believe that the principles we stand for are unique to our nation," he said.

"These freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation – we believe are universal rights."

He then went on to say that freedom of information – including open access to the internet – was important. he said;

"That makes our democracy stronger because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear – it forces me to examine what I'm doing."

Obviously, he's forgotten all about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Constitution….? Because he's not examining that aspect of what he's doing.