http://jbroughton.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jbroughton.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rone 2003-03-25 02:55 am (UTC)

Call me Crazy.

Call me crazy, after reading that second link, and looking at issues in the Middle East right now. Since when did the US become god of every other country? Demanding that things go the US way or we haul ass and kill the motherfuckers? A couple of quotes from that last article had me spooked.

"The United States demands that the Zimbabwe government immediately cease its campaign of violent repression," Boucher said."
Who the fuck cares what other countries do? If the United states really gave a royal fuck about other countrys, what are they doing to help 3rd world countries? what are they doing to stop the sick and diseased and hungry in our own United States?? Instead Bush decides that he is god of every other country that is not part of the US and demands that they follow his rules and his beliefs or pay the ultimate penalty...
"President George Bush has frozen the assets of Mugabe and 76 other government officials, charging they have undermined democracy"

Call me crazy, but what gives the ruling power of one country to freeze the assets of another country when they believe that they are doing something immoral and against that ruling powers belief? When is it going to become Russia telling us we better destroy all of our nuclear weapons right now or they will freeze our assets? Or one of our trading countries tells us that we better destroy our weapons or stop our Police Brutality or they will no longer trade oil/whatever with our country?

Im not a political person, I don't understand politics and I don't try to. But when I see what is going on around the US and having the Pres use his powers to destroy other countries and control them, when he can't even control our homeless or unemployment problem, it just makes me sick.

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