We are the bad guys in the eyes of the world

[Az]

Just came back from a Anime viewing group we regularly attend. Its interesting to see how we are portrayed in foreign movies and such. There was a series they showed called Code Geass. It is a future dystopia style series in which it is made quite clear that America has become an empire and has assaulted much of the world. The series focuses on Japan (naturally) after they are conquored by us and their identity and even their name are stripped away. Renamed Area 11 Japanese citizens are rendered third class citizens and only can find their way into any resemblance of rights by serving in the military hunting down other Area 11 citizens that have rebelled against the occupiers.

[Wiley50]

1. We Are The Bad Guys In MY eyes these days n/t

[BayCityProgressive]

2. as we should be

We use things like the Peace Corps, Red Cross, and churches around the world as a velvet glove to cover our bloody iron fist of death and imperialism. We have NEVER had a foreign policy based on anything but PROFIT. Iraq is just the most blatent in a long list of murder, lies, fascism, and carnage. Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Panama, Grenada, Korea, Vietnam, Phillipines, Cambodia, Laos, South Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia the list goes on and on AND ON. The velvet glove has worn thin and the bloody fist of imerialism is able to be seen in all it's awesome horror in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is laid bare for the WHOLE WORLD to witness.

[Australian]

8. US colonization

Iraq certainly is NOT the most blatent.
That title would probably go to the victims of the US funded genocide of West Papua, or West New Guinea in the UN records.
First West Papua saves US soldiers carrying US wounded from the battle lines to medic stations; in return the United States uring 1962 sold the West Papuan people to Indonesia; then the Indonesian military began using US bombers to bomb the West Papuan towns from 1966 to end of the '70s.

And the reason for this is because Rockefeller in 1936 discovered the world's richest concentations of gold and copper where in West Papua; that's why Rockefeller's Freeport Sulphur company and Bechtel in 1962 had their people in the Whitehouse manipulate Kennedy into writing the "New York Agreement" and forcing the Netherlands and United Nations to sign it, trading West Papua and its government and people to Indonesian administration.

Unlike Darfur, the lawyers actually DO say Indonesia has been conducting genocide against West Papua.

[BayCityProgressive]

9. recently the US wanted to stop the land reform in Zimbabwe

Since they wouldn't dare send troops there at this time, they asked South Africa to enforce a vicious blockade on the country to go along with EU and US sanctions. Thankfully the progressive anti-imperialist leadership of President Mbeki REFUSED. In fact, just to stick a finger in the eye of the US Mbeki courageously gave a loan for tens of millions of dollars to Zimbabwe to defy imperialism. South Africa's consitant anti-imerialist stance under the ANC is an example for the world.

[Australian]

13. Red Herring

Africa is being used as a distraction.
Specifically Darfur is being used as a distraction because in 2003 the Whitehouse found out about the Yale University Law School doing a study titled
"Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:
Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control"
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/westpapuahrights.pdf

- On top of this in May 2003, the Australian media began reporting news smuggled out of West Papua about the TNI and Laskar Jihad decapitating (yes, be-heading) people and burning another ten towns to the ground. With tens of thousand more suvivors hidding in the jungles slowly straving to death, George Bush and Bechtel's friends thought they had better create SOMETHING to capture the US media's attention.

What better than to announce the Whitehouse was calling a civil war in Africa a "genocide", a country where there is EASY video footage to be used to fill the news reports in the United States. Bush solved two problems with one stone, he got the US media to ignore the reports of a US supported military beheading and burning towns, and he hi-jacked & disarmed the word "genocide".

[sakabatou]

3. I wanna see it

[billyoc]

7. Yeah, I gotta check it out:

http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/904.html

[cliss]

4. I agree. And here's the worst part -

This is why they won't figure it out until it's too late.

The worst part about being so hated is the COST involved in having bad PR. You can't imagine how much we have to spend on security overseas. All US Embassies, Consulates, other entities need maximum security, some of the are like armed fortresses (which they are, in fact). The US Embassy in Jordan doesn't even have a physical address it has a P.O. Box (I know because I sent some mail there).

Just think of the risks these poor people have to take, just to go to work in the morning. Always wondering if today will be their last.

The U.S. is paying an enormous,unfathomable price for being the most hated on earth.

[Australian]

5. Area 11 animation

The series is like twenty years old.

[Az]

6. May be a subreference but this is a new series

Produced in 2006.

[Faux pas]

10. Agreed!

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[arcos]

11. Lots of information in Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Geass

[Disturbed]

12. Doesn't everyone know that

God is on our side? It is even on our money: "In God we trust". "One nation under God." "God bless America". Come on folks, God even talks to our Pres.

[Jonathan50]

14. God's justice

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc0210.htm

"Barack Obama began his presidential campaign today with the words, 'All honor and glory to God.'

Matthew 5: 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson

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[Richard Steele]

16. Spoken like a true cowardly thug.