Well now they have done it.
They killed a priest. A high priest. A secular high priest.
They killed a journalist I mean.
“In the video released on Tuesday,” reports
Asia News Channel,
“an individual presumed to be [freelance journalist James] Foley - who
was captured by militants in Syria in November 2012 - is seen on his
knees in a desert landscape reading a statement asking his family to
stop the US intervention in Iraq. A man standing next to him dressed in
black with his face covered and holding a knife then says in a distinct
British accent that the beheading of Foley was in direct response to the
US airstrikes on their fighters.”
My condolences go out to the family of Mr. Foley, who presumably was killed by Obama-created allies
Team Islam, World Police,
also known as the Islamic State in the Levant, or the Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria or—sometimes-- Climate Change, when all else fails to
confuse the masses.
But my condolences have been going out to all of the families, not just
for Foley; especially the families who have lived in fear for so
long—the people who live in Syria and Iraq as Christians, and who are
bearing the brunt of persecution in Obama’s War on War.
If anything in life is certain it is this: When Obama wages war on
anything, including war, we ought to expect a mass casualty event at
this point.
When he waged war on old white men, women took the brunt in the
so-called War on Women. As Obama panders to the black community, it is
the black community that has been left behind in his race to “fix”
poverty. As Obama bemoans the plight of male thugs who loot and plunder,
he slowly strangles the law abiding, decent, common impulse amongst
black males to have jobs, to have families, to have their own slice of
the American Dream.
And thus it goes with the War on War.
Because make no mistake: Obama will allow hundreds of thousands to die
to burnish the thin metal that is his Nobel Peace Prize. He’s a man of
peace, don’t you know? Even as he’s created more war in six years than
the George Bushes did in twelve.
Still, it’s nice to see the media world take notice finally of the
tragedy in Iraq, but my question is: what took you so long? Did it
really need for you to feel the suffering of the Foley family? Do you
really only have sympathies for your own?
Journalism has suffered a kind of racism for years, with unwashed
outsiders not a part of the chosen race, and with some media members
treated by their own like white Hispanics during a lynch mob attack in
central Florida.
Hopefully this will help the media see the light, just as the use of
intelligence resources directed at intimidating journalists helped turn
the spotlight on the White House abuse of its powers on those
unfortunates who aren’t part of the media fraternity; people like the
Byzantine Catholics, who have been beheaded by hundreds if not thousands
in Syria and Iraq.
Freedom of Religion is protected by the same First Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States of America as Freedom of the Press is.
And I have this quaint notion that those freedoms apply to everyone
equally, regardless of the fraternity, country or class they belong to.
A violation of one part is a violation of all parts.
And that of course is why Obama will never get it, but journalists just might someday.
I can always hope.
