Terrorism: “We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche.."

[kpete]

April 28th, 2008
Tom Tomorrow:
“Chickens coming home to roost”
The context behind that endlessly recycled sound bite:

“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens, are coming home to roost.”

“We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.

“We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.

“We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hard working people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they’d never get back home.

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“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.

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“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that.”

more at:
http://thismodernworld.com/4293

[il_lilac]

1. k&r

We are so blind to our own faults. Blinded by patriotism, needing desperately to be right.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Nationalism.

We're blinded by nationalism.

And jingoism.

And FOX.

[Jed Dilligan]

2. It seems like the spin is that this is about Israel and the Arabs

We should hammer this home, that it is about America's spiritual sickness, not foreign policy.

K/R

[nichomachus]

4. Homeland Security

[gordianot]

5. They should never had traded those infected blankets.

Biological warfare is not new.

[moodforaday]

6. Shame on Obama

for disavowing Rev. Wright:

Obama ‘outraged’ by Wright’s ‘appalling’ comments
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=925

[mandyky]

7. this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised

Wow, that brings me to tears and gives me goosebumps at the same time.
It is indeed sad as I watch the country I loved, served, and believed the myths about disappear before my eyes.