Why Republicans and the American Right never like the idea of peace or democracy

Day in and day out you will see conservative bloggers, “journalists” and talking heads continually degrade things that their own constitution was founded around. America was created by nationalists, people who desired self determination from a foreign entity. They also wanted a democracy, where their voices would be heard. Many people in the United States and the world obviously think that these are horrible ideas and wouldn’t you know it, its not those dirty stinking dune coons or those crazy turban wearing Iranians and its definitely not those ungrateful spear chucking porch monkeys. The people who hate democracy, who hate the idea of nationalism, who idea the concept of standing up for your self are, well, conservatives.

In South Africa apartheid existed for far too long. The white settlers labeled all resistance as terrorism and ended up jailing Nelson Mandela for 27 years. Wouldn’t you know it but America and the conservatives within it did not mention a word or put any pressure on the state until 1989, 26 years into Mandela’s prison sentence. President Reagan even vetoed the bill that took more than 17 years to pass. Was this to be expected from a country that had been discriminating against its darker skinned citizens for a century after their freedom from enslavement? To be fair, they were free in the North, discriminated against less in the North. It was the South and West with its conservative roots that still to this day discriminates against and every and all persons who have a tan.

It is the conservative right that wants us to go to war with Iran, a fellow democracy. A democracy with rules similar to our own. A president can only serve two 4 year terms. The president is elected through universal suffrage. None of this matters, to the unwashed masses of Texas - Iran is a regime that needs to be overthrown. The idea of elections being held in 2009 means nothing. Everytime Ahmedinejad’s ratings go down in his country the conservative right in America steps up their rhetoric and just like magic our boy in Iran gains in the polls. You would assume that people would catch on, but just leave it to the republicans to be 50 years behind the times on all matters. But even before these events in Iran, we invaded and removed a democratically elected Prime Minister thus leading the way for the Shah to become a dictator.

Republicans supported Saddam Hussein to fight Iran after they messed up. Donald Rumsfeld even shook hands and had dinner with Saddam. Job well done

Republicans sent money and weapons to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden while also offering to train their troops in an attempt to get back at those dirty Russians (who have never actually been at war with the United States). Job well done.

It is the republicans who support China’s oppression of not only the Tibetan nation but also of the Democracy of Taiwan. Taiwan, one of the beacons of freedom and democracy in Asia is not recognized by the United States because the conservative factions feel that democracy and freedom are not things to be supported.

When people protest the treatment of Tibetan monks, who is it that always called the activists un-american and unpatriotic? Take a wild guess.

The most recent event? The refusal to speak to elected officials in an effort to make peace. I won’t even get into this. What are we supposed to expect from people who refer to Rachel Corrie, a peace activist, as “St. Pancake.”

Lovers of democracy, defenders of the faith, bigots and oppressors till the end

Defending the facts about Rachel Corrie

It seems that ever since her death at the hands of the Israeli government Rachel Corrie has been relentlessly attacked by rightwing and nazionist propagandists.

djkonservo, elyakatz, littlegreenfootballs, israelmatzav and rest are posting videos of two people on public access tv and claiming it to be the gospel. They have video from Israel showing the event. even though you can’t see anything in it (see thats how they get you). They call her a terrorist, call her an idiot for sitting in front of a bulldozer, call the American witnesses liars and “questionable sources”, they say she wasn’t protecting a house from demolition- she was defending a terrorist smuggling tunnel. They say she burned American flags, that she hated jews, that she was a dumb liberal. They even call her St. Pancake.

Were these same people attacking the unknown rebel for standing up to Chinese oppression? It really confuses me how people can speak so ill of the dead when they were simply standing up for a cause AND doing it nonviolently. I bet they will call Gandhi a terrorist for standing against the British, perhaps they also think Martin Luther King Jr was just another nigger.

No investigation of the murder was done by the American government and an Israeli investigation claims that while Corrie was in an empty field she was hit by a blunt object, possibly concrete. They claim that the bulldozer had nothing to do with it. Maybe they could explain how she had her back broken?

Tom Dale, an eyewitness wrote the following just days after her death:

Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie,
maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres
away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went.

We’d been monitoring and occasionally obstructing the 2 bulldozers for about
2 hours when 1 of them turned toward a house we knew to be threatened with
demolition. Rachel knelt down in its way. She was 10-20 metres in front of
the bulldozer, clearly visible, the only object for many metres, directly in
it’s view. They were in Radio contact with a tank that had a profile view
of the situation. There is no way she could not have been seen by them in
their elevated cabin. They knew where she was, there is no doubt.

The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it
went. She knelt there, she did not move. The bulldozer reached her and she
began to stand up, climbing onto the mound of earth. She appeared to be
looking into the cockpit. The bulldozer continued to push Rachel, so she
slipped down the mound of earth, turning as she went. Her faced showed she
was panicking and it was clear she was in danger of being overwhelmed. All
the activists were screaming at the bulldozer to stop and gesturing to the
crew about Rachel’s presence. We were in clear view as Rachel had been,
they continued. They pushed Rachel, first beneath the scoop, then beneath
the blade, then continued till her body was beneath the cockpit. They
waited over her for a few seconds, before reversing. They reversed with the
blade pressed down, so it scraped over her body a second time. Every second
I believed they would stop but they never did.

I ran for an ambulance, she was gasping and her face was covered in blood
from a gash cutting her face from lip to cheek. She was showing signs of
brain hemorrhaging. She died in the ambulance a few minutes later of
massive internal injuries. She was a brilliant, bright and amazing person,
immensely brave and committed. She is gone and I cannot believe it.

Picture taken between 3:00-4:00PM, 16 March 2003, Rafah, Occupied Gaza. Rachel Corrie (L) and Nick (R) oppose the potential destruction of this home (to the west of the Doctor’s home where Rachel was killed). In the instance pictured, the bulldozer did not stop and Rachel was pinned between the scooped earth and the fence behind her. On this occasion, the driver stopped before seriously�injuring her. Photo by Joseph Smith (ISM Handout).

Look at the pictures and tell me that she wasn’t killed by the bulldozer. Tell her parents that she was being an idiotic liberal.

Sadly Rachel was not the only foreigner to die at the hands of the Israeli government,

James Henry Dominic Miller (18 December 1968 - 2 May 2003) was a Welsh cameraman, producer, and director, and recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards. He often worked with Saira Shah with whom he founded and operated an independent production company called Frostbite Productions in 2001. He was killed by a single shot fired by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on 2 May 2003 while filming a documentary in Rafah.

The Israeli government decided not to indict the soldier who shot him. The documentary which Miller was making on the day of his death depicts Miller and his colleagues leaving the home of a Palestinian family in the Rafah refugee camp after dark, carrying a white flag. They had walked about 20 metres from the veranda when the first shot rang out. For 13 seconds, there was silence broken only by Shah’s cry: “We are British journalists.” Then came the second shot, which killed Miller. He was shot in the front of his neck. The bullet was Israeli issue, fired, according to a forensic expert, from less than 200 metres away. Immediately after the shooting, the IDF said that Miller had been shot in the back during crossfire. It later retracted the assertion that he had been shot in the back. According to witnesses there was no crossfire and none can be heard on the APTN tape.

Brian Avery was shot in the face by Israeli soldiers even though he was wearing a reflective vest with the word DOCTOR written in English and Arabic on it. He is severely disfigured due to the bullet shattering his jaw and cheek. The Israeli courts decided not to investigate since by IDF claims, the shooting never happened. He is seeking unknown damages from the Israeli government.

Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. Hurndall was a photographer and was escorting children away from an area where fighting had broken out. He was shot and fell into a 9 month coma until he finally passed away. The courts did find the soldier guilty of manslaughter and obstruction of justice by an Israeli military court in April 2005 and sentenced to eight years in prison. The British goverment found that Hurndall was intentionally killed

But in the eyes of these hateful bloggers and journalists these deaths were merely “survial of the fittest” (since when does the christian right believe in evolution?). These men and womens deaths were just, they were idiots and deserved what they got.

“Thats what you get for sitting in front of a bulldozer”

“Thats what you get for filming a documentary”

“Thats what you get for walking children to safety”