The Asinine Argument: They Hate us for
Our Freedom
By Joe Clifford
June 07, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" -
Former President Bush insulted our intelligence when he told us
we were attacked by terrorists because of our freedom, and most major media,
being official parrots for the government, merely repeated the Presidents line.
Never would they dare ask or question his asinine reasoning, but many folks
bought into the utter nonsense and it it’s still repeated today, but rarely
challenged by mainstream media.
Mainstream media refused to focus on the
content of the note written by the Boston Marathon bomber while in hiding,
shortly before being captured. It said “you stop killing our people and we will
stop killing yours”; pretty simple. This week a US drone in Afghanistan took out
34 people attending a funeral; surely the relatives of those dead now “hate” us,
but not because of our freedom, and surely the relatives of all the dead in 8
wedding parties that we took out, also hate us, but not for our freedom. It was
General McChrystal who said, for every innocent we kill,
we create 10 enemies. So by slaughtering wedding parties and funerals we are
exponentially creating new enemies every day. One has to wonder if that is by
design. The irrational and insane, but perhaps intended decisions of US foreign
policy, can be seen and illustrated in the microcosmic example of our
relationship with Egypt, which by the way, is not one of the 14 nations we have
bombed since 9/11. That said, meet one of our best friends, Egyptian dictator
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew a democratically elected leader named Morsi.
Below is a partial list of his brutality.
* July 8, 2013: Egyptian security forces
shoot 53 Morsi supporters in front of the building of the Republican Guard in
Cairo.
* August 14, 2013: The army and police storm
two camps of protestors and kill more than 1,000 people, among them many women
and children. Humans Rights Watch identifies the “massacre” as the “worst
incident of illegal mass killing in the modern history of Egypt.”
* January 25, 2014: On the third anniversary
of the Egyptian Revolution, military and security forces kill more than 100
opponents of the regime during demonstrations.
* March 24, 2014: On a single day of
hearings in the largest mass trial in Egyptian history, 529 people are sentenced
to death.
* April 28, 2014: In another mass trial, 683
more people are sentenced to death in less than 15 minutes.
* May 15, 2015: Morsi himself and more than
100 other co-defendants are sentenced to death.
* May 16, 2015: Six of those convicted are
hanged. Amnesty International strongly condemns the trial and points out that
the confessions of the accused were extracted under torture.
That is just a small part of al-Sisi’s reign
of terror. Anyone opposing his regime in Egypt who is not killed can expect to
be arrested and tortured. According to Amnesty International, in the last two
years 41,000 people have disappeared into the country’s prisons. Protests and
strikes are prohibited by law. Independent media is suppressed, and parties and
organizations that criticize the regime are forbidden, but he is our guy. How do
you think that sits with the Egyptian in the street?
This dictator is our man, and is supported
by the US government who gives him billions worth of military weapons so he can
insure and maintain his ruthless oppression of the Egyptian people. People don’t
hate us because we are free, they hate us for many legitimate reasons, like the
casual manner in which we kill innocents and the willingness to support and arm
countless ruthless dictators who kill innocents daily.
Joe Clifford lives in Rhode Island.