Ghastliness
Sep. 12th, 2012 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerSo as far as I can tell (and this is all unreliable, like all other information on the net), here's what just happened...
Obama is currently ahead in the American presidential race. We come up to tfhe anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre and even that doesn't seem to be helping Mitt Romney. In the meantime, apparently, a pastor in Florida has been promoting a film which alleges that Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, was a child molester and extortionist, and, possibly as a consequence of this film going viral on Youtube, extremists of some sort or another attack the US Embassy in Libya, twice, on two successive days, and the second time they succeed in killing the Ambassador. Romney gets in quickly, before the White House has responded, with a statement criticising Obama for "sympathising with those who waged the attack." Needless to say, Obama's actual statement says nothing of the kind, but that's hardly relevant.
I am not a conspiracy buff. But this stinks to high heaven.
Maybe I'm overreaching when I suggest that the forces behind Bush would not have scrupled to use bin Laden to help cement their puppet's shaky grip on power, or that a few thousand lives would mean nothing to them, or that their chief ally in covering this up would be the refusal of the American people to believe such evil. I could be wrong about that.
But leaking a provocative video to a hate group in Libya, knowing that they would respond violently, doesn't matter how as long as Americans die? Can anyone doubt that the current Republican leadership would do that in a hot second, if they thought it would help them recapture America from the forces of moderation and fairness? They already lie, cheat, defraud the electorate and condone anti-abortion atrocities. It's just one more step.
If I'm wrong, I apologise from the bottom of my heart. If I'm right, I hope to gods someone finds out.
Obama is currently ahead in the American presidential race. We come up to tfhe anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre and even that doesn't seem to be helping Mitt Romney. In the meantime, apparently, a pastor in Florida has been promoting a film which alleges that Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, was a child molester and extortionist, and, possibly as a consequence of this film going viral on Youtube, extremists of some sort or another attack the US Embassy in Libya, twice, on two successive days, and the second time they succeed in killing the Ambassador. Romney gets in quickly, before the White House has responded, with a statement criticising Obama for "sympathising with those who waged the attack." Needless to say, Obama's actual statement says nothing of the kind, but that's hardly relevant.
I am not a conspiracy buff. But this stinks to high heaven.
Maybe I'm overreaching when I suggest that the forces behind Bush would not have scrupled to use bin Laden to help cement their puppet's shaky grip on power, or that a few thousand lives would mean nothing to them, or that their chief ally in covering this up would be the refusal of the American people to believe such evil. I could be wrong about that.
But leaking a provocative video to a hate group in Libya, knowing that they would respond violently, doesn't matter how as long as Americans die? Can anyone doubt that the current Republican leadership would do that in a hot second, if they thought it would help them recapture America from the forces of moderation and fairness? They already lie, cheat, defraud the electorate and condone anti-abortion atrocities. It's just one more step.
If I'm wrong, I apologise from the bottom of my heart. If I'm right, I hope to gods someone finds out.
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Date: 2012-09-12 04:45 pm (UTC)- there was unrest in Egypt (including breaking into the US Embassy) over the same video earlier yesterday (Tuesday) (i.e. before the death of the US-Libyian ambassador)
- the film was financed, directed, and written by an Israeli-American real estate person (with Jewish financial backing, so expect more Muslim-Jewish attacks)
- some Coptic Christain (what the heek is that?) has been promoting the film in Egypt
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/innocence-muslims-film-sparked-deadly-u-embassy-attacks-142118931.html
I think you are overreaching in terms of Republican Party backing of this video leak/reaction. Call me naive, but the actions of a few anti-Islamic people within a political party should not define the party. HOWEVER, the party leader should be very careful on followup media releases as their words CAN represent the thoughts of the party. I think Romney's comments just show how informed he/his party really is on the issue. It's interesting how a number of other people in his party did NOT back in him or have even refuted his comments. Perhaps this is Romney's disgrace that will cost him the election?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/mitt-romney-obama-libya_n_1877406.html
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Date: 2012-09-12 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 07:35 pm (UTC)http://news.yahoo.com/feds-id-california-mans-role-anti-islam-film-164554115.html
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Date: 2012-09-12 11:01 pm (UTC)But the current administration has been playing nice with the post-Ghadaffi regime, and one would think that if the Libyan government was truly on our side they would have done more to protect the embassy. And I'm flabbergasted that the US Marines didn't do their job, either.
And I am heartbroken. I knew Christopher Stevens slightly - he was a former Peace Corps volunteer from the other side of the San Francisco Bay, we had an alumni group in common.
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Date: 2012-09-13 08:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 02:47 am (UTC)As it is, it was a truly epic gaffe and the only public figure I've heard express a positive opinion about Romney's response is that gasbag Rush Limbaugh.
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Date: 2012-09-13 08:14 am (UTC)I don't know. We'll see how public feeling goes. It's entirely possible that I watch too much television.
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Date: 2012-09-13 12:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-14 09:39 pm (UTC)Don't become like Rush, Zander. Avoiding believing in conspiracies until there's actual evidence for them.
We humans have a compulsion to try to make senseless events explainable which accounts for the popularity of conspiracy theories. Sometimes you just have to say 'shit happens'.
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Date: 2012-09-14 10:14 pm (UTC)I'll have to think about that.
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Date: 2012-09-16 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 10:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-13 01:45 pm (UTC)http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/sep/12/romney-says-us-embassy-statement-was-apology-was-i/