tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post115882469891416799..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: Bush Administration Torture RoundupShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-1158866927881869602006-09-21T15:28:00.000-04:002006-09-21T15:28:00.000-04:00Hello Shaun and all,All three Faiths of Abraham sp...Hello Shaun and all,<BR/><BR/><B>All three Faiths of Abraham spawn violence and hypocrisy</B><BR/><BR/>Christians and Jews are able to smugly lecture and chastise Muslims about violence, because followers of Islam are poorer and more oppressed and are forced to defend themselves in cruder fashion. On the other hand, the rich and powerful nations of the west can train and equip militaries and intelligence services to do their bidding. Likewise, well-funded and smooth-talking politicians expertly equivocate about acceptable collateral damage to the homes, and lives of poor people in other lands. With so many dollars spent, why don’t Muslims and others simply shut up and accept being exploited, oppressed, and massacred for such nobly expressed western ideals?<BR/><BR/>Those in representative democracies tout their governments as extensions of the citizenry. Accordingly, so are the militaries, intelligence services, corporations and other proxies used to expand and maintain the Judeo-Christian Empire. By extension, the citizens of western nations are much more responsible for the actions of criminals, killers, and torturers paid for and authorized by democratic institutions than people who live in less democratic nations who have much less control over the actions of their leaders.<BR/><BR/>It is undeniable that the Bush administration, its cohorts, and supporters are mostly Christian. Without the blind support of so many Judeo-Christians, the Bush administration would not now be embroiled in the current struggle to retroactively legalize torture, illegal domestic spying, and other crimes. By US law, hiring a proxy to murder or assault someone is still prosecuted as murder and assault. It is undeniable that the militaries and intelligence services of the west that kill and torture at the behest of democratic representatives are hired proxies of Judeo-Christian citizens.<BR/><BR/>Regardless of attempts to shift blame, history clearly records the widespread crimes of Christianity. Whether we're talking about the abominations of the Inquisition, Crusades, the greed and genocide of colonizers, slavery in the Americas, or the Bush administration's recent deeds and results, Christianity has always spawned great evil.<BR/><BR/>So, the next time any Christian, Jew, or Muslim, whether president, prime minister, religious leader or follower decides to chastise others for their failings, stop to consider that the logs in your own eyes have blinded you to the <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/sevenstarhand/twospirits.html" REL="nofollow">full truth</A> about all three faiths of Abraham. Religion has utterly failed to solve humanity's problems because it is a strong delusion that spawns error and evil instead. The sheep's clothing of duplicitous ideals is an obvious deception used to hide the truth. Nonetheless, the veil is readily pierced by discerning the fruits of their deeds.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://exposing-religious-deception.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Here is Wisdom...</A>Seven Star Handhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707393570093417590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-1158849694930293212006-09-21T10:41:00.000-04:002006-09-21T10:41:00.000-04:00Boy does the forest ever get lost for those damned...Boy does the forest ever get lost for those damned trees.<BR/><BR/>Your are absolutely right, CWhite. We have the laws, treaties and conventions to deal with these issues. We just have a president (Bush) and puppet master (Rove) who are drunk on power.Shaun Mullenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-1158849097624233892006-09-21T10:31:00.000-04:002006-09-21T10:31:00.000-04:00Maybe there is a grand Rovian plan.One thing that ...Maybe there is a grand Rovian plan.<BR/><BR/>One thing that is continually ignored in these discussions on the "opposing" torture proposals is:<BR/><BR/>1) BOTH plans suspend Habeus Corpus. Without that, almost anything can be done "within the law," if not within the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>2) We don't need a law to control torture. The Geneva Convention has worked just fine for over 50 years without "clarification." As part of this controversy, a number of military leaders have said they carry a card with them wherever they go. The card states Article III and comforts them that they know the limits.CWhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14029625361406641614noreply@blogger.com