If Our Re-elected Prez is WarCriminal, What Are We? King Would Have Asked!

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IF Our Re-elected Prez is WarCriminal, What Are We? King would have asked! by jay janson

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Cornel West, most outspoken anti-imperialist and defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King now says Obama is a war criminal, a black puppet of corporate plutocrats, head of the US killing machine. Will West tell us that King said America, Americans, are responsible for the atrocity wars, being capable of making them unacceptable and inoperable through non-participation and conscientious objection?

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Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton and of Religious Philosophy and Christian Studies at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, the most outspoken anti-imperialist lecturer and writer, the most well known defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King Jr. and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been for years a severe critic of the Obama administration. This week he came to say flat out that the president is a war criminal.

West had criticized President Obama when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, saying that it would be difficult for Obama to be “a war president with a peace prize.”

Turned out that it was not difficult at all for Obama be “a war president with a peace prize.”  

So then in April of 2011, as Obama had a bombing going that would result in the  successful destruction of a small oil wealthy nation with a UN certified higher standard of living for its citizens than nine European countries, Prof. West further retracted his support for Obama, stating in an interview that Obama was “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.”

By November, 2012, with the third world hero, liberator, builder of his country and dangerous promoter of an Africa united against continuing European plundering, now long permanently silenced and Obama seeing now to hired and armed thugs creating the same war of faked civil war against Syria, West said in another interview that he considered Obama a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface.”

Yours truly thought that appropriate. There is somewhere on the Internet a photo David Rockefeller, whose confidents Dulles, Kissinger and Brzezinski have overseen the US undecalred wars from Korea through Syria and Africa, with his arm around the shoulders of a young Senator Obama.

Cornel West: Obama ‘Is a War Criminal’ May 12, 2013, Guardian, UK
In an interview with the Guardian, renowned Prof. Cornel West, a prolific critic of the “military-industrial-complex” and rampant “plutocracy” in the U.S. and around the world, explained his views on the state of America today and his fall from grace, by design, with President Barack Obama: “He’s just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal.”

Cornel West (Photo: David Levene / the Guardian)
Prof. West said he was “someone who actively campaigned for the man, only to be quickly and vastly disappointed,” ???
But the man as candidate had promised to bomb Pakistan and send 30,000 extra Americans to innocent Afghanistan, and he did not disappoint.

West said, “King died fighting not just against poverty but against carpet-bombing in Vietnam; the war crimes under Nixon and Kissinger.” Right! But King said that America, Americans, and he included himself, are responsible for the atrocity wars and covert homicide on three continents because we are capable of making them unacceptable and inoperable through non-participation, non-cooperationg, non-support, non-acquiescence and conscientious objection.
[see King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ and Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com/
(Prof. West is an endorser of the King Condemned US Wars Campaign and is quoted on the Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now educational website, “The drones are war crimes.”)

In his famous sermon on year to the day before being shot in the head, King spoke to America and Americans and did not even mention then president, Lyndon Johnson, let alone blame HIM for the horrific crimes against humanity in Vietnam which he detailed along with US crimes in Asia, Latin America and Africa. By this perception, Cornel West, being his own man, is an infinitely more important person than a usual lackey president like Obama, Obama being the first black chosen by the white establishment notwithstanding.

West: “I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried”
Wrong! Obama is to young to escape to escape indictment in the coming prosecution of the US crimes against humanity in nearly a hundred countries.

West: “he brought in Wall Street-friendly people – Tim Geithner, Larry Summers”

People OF Wall Street, not just friendly to Wall Street. Prof. West knows Summers better than any of us. Seems as if what West said two years ago, was stronger, “Obama was “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.”
West is edging closer and closer to the point that King had dismissed the government as the greatest purveyor, ‘purveyor’ not cause, of  violence in the world and held America, Americans, responsible. King, in anguish, included himself, as responsible for OUR atrocity wars and covert homicide on three continents; because Americans are capable of making them unacceptable and inoperable through non-participation, non-cooperationg, non-support, non-acquiescence and conscientious objection.

West is perhaps wise to move cautiously toward repeating this fundamental teaching of King. King’s condemnation of US Wars and violence for maintenance of unjust predatory overseas investments was not only denounced as treason in mainstream media, but also found no agreement in many or most Baptist churches, his own religious community. Today, for the successful forty-six years of tight media blackout of the Martin Luther King Jr. that condemned US wars to maintain profit margins in overseas predatory investments, few of Prof. West’s audience and readership know King except as a civil rights hero.

Hat’s off to Cornel West for moving in the right direction. Not easy for anyone, let alone a black man, to denounce the only black president that the establishment has seen fit to put in.  

 Mainstream America, long aware of the damage Wall Street is doing to it, is waking up to what Americans, disinformed  by Wall Street media and politicians beholden, are doing to the humanity overseas.

Would that we heard some words of encouragement from another even more outspoken African American Reverend, tough Jeremiah Wright, whose cry “God Damn America for her crimes against humanity!” was once reverberated around the world.

[see Jeremiah Wright Repeats MLKjr Condemning Predatory Capitalism’s War on 3rd World http://www.opednews.com/articles/Jeremiah-Wright-Repeats-ML-by-Jay-Janson-100115-140.html ]
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Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India and the US; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong’s Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents, Kerala, India; Minority Perspective, UK; Dissident Voice, Uruknet; Voice of Detroit; Ethiopian Review; Palestine Chronicle; India Times; Ta Kung Bao; China Daily; South China Morning Post; Come Home America; OpEdNews; HistoryNews Network; Vermont Citizen News have published his articles; 300 of which are available at: click http://www.opednews.com/author/author1723.html ; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989.  Is coordinator of the King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign: (King Condemned US Wars) http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/ and website historian of Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com/ featuring a country by country history of US crimes and laws pertaining. Studied history at CCNY, Columbia U., U. Puerto Rico,  Dolmetscher Institut München, Germany. (Musician grassroots activist dedicated firstly to ending colonial power “genocide in maintenance of unjust predatory investments,” [Martin Luther King Jr.])

I believe  Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman and Gustavo Esteva would glad to vouch for my sincerity and integrity and familiarity with history and current events.

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  • The attention span of a tsetse fly and the mulatto Mr. Obama

    Dear Mr. Jansen,

    Having Ramsey, Noam, Ed, and Gustavo vouching for your “sincerity and integrity and familiarity with history and current events notwithstanding,” I have never felt but only respect for the detailed analysis of those same events made by your posts on this Ibrattleboro site, which is like the hearth of a fire, the more your stoke, the warmer it gets.

    It has always bothered me that the majority of Americans, thanks to the flash and dash of media and entertainment, have the attention span of a tsetse fly. And, like the transmission of the tsetse fly, Americans have long suffered from a sleeping sickness, and like tsetse flies which can be raised in a laboratory, Americans are not likely to be much higher in intelligence and at risk for contamination from the synthetic cultural environments corporate swill (synthetic matrix environments) filters top down to bottom dish.

    There is no question that the mulatto Mr. Obama was bought and sold long before becoming president. One can only imagine what Dr. King would have thought and said of the history and current in these days and times. Poor Jesse, back when, didn’t have the good sense to cave and sell his proverbial soul to “be the man.”

    I do hope, however, your audience reach takes you beyond the borders of our small and humble state, for some messengers carry such terrible news that the king bathes and feeds him well before he silences him forever.

    May your voice ring loud and steady.

    • RE: Attention Span Of Tsetse Flies

      (1) If the Registered Voters of the United States of America
      have attention spans the length and intensity of a “Tsetse Fly”,
      then don’t blame the Media,
      blame the Teachers Union!

      The Teachers, as a group, have been practicing medicine without
      a license and telling parents that their kids have to be on Ritalin,
      all because the Teachers don’t have the patience of a “Tsetse Fly”
      and fail to recognize that it is perfectly normal for a five year
      old to only have an attention span of five minutes.

      Get the kids off of Ritalin, Teach to the attention span of their age,
      and you’ll get better voters!

      Get the Soda Vending Machines OUT of schools! Most soda cans are
      made with Aluminum. Do your research on Material Safety Data Hazard
      Sheets for Aluminum, it causes dimentia and depression.

      (2) Mega Wealthy Groups Like Democrats and Republicans should
      hire research facilities to learn How To Communicate with
      Tsetse Flies, Ants and Bees. Watch a line of Ants coming
      and going from their Ant hill. See them in line, one following
      the other. Their total DNA structure avoids individual wants
      and needs and is committed to the group and to staying in line.
      How many Registered Voters have Ant DNA?

    • RE: Attention Span Of Tsetse Flies

      (1) If the Registered Voters of the United States of America
      have attention spans the length and intensity of a “Tsetse Fly”,
      then don’t blame the Media,
      blame the Teachers Union!

      The Teachers, as a group, have been practicing medicine without
      a license and telling parents that their kids have to be on Ritalin,
      all because the Teachers don’t have the patience of a “Tsetse Fly”
      and fail to recognize that it is perfectly normal for a five year
      old to only have an attention span of five minutes.

      Get the kids off of Ritalin, Teach to the attention span of their age,
      and you’ll get better voters!

      Get the Soda Vending Machines OUT of schools! Most soda cans are
      made with Aluminum. Do your research on Material Safety Data Hazard
      Sheets for Aluminum, it causes dimentia and depression.

      (2) Mega Wealthy Groups Like Democrats and Republicans should
      hire research facilities to learn How To Communicate with
      Tsetse Flies, Ants and Bees. Watch a line of Ants coming
      and going from their Ant hill. See them in line, one following
      the other. Their total DNA structure avoids individual wants
      and needs and is committed to the group and to staying in line.
      How many Registered Voters have Ant DNA?

  • 'Dirty Wars': A Look Into America's Secret Killing Machine

    http://www.thenation.com/video/174116/dirty-wars-look-americas-secret-killing-machine

    • "mulatto Mr. Obama was bought

      “mulatto Mr. Obama was bought and sold long before becoming president.”
      It’s bad enough that the level of “citizen” journalism has descended to the quality of Janson and Chris Ericson’s posts. Now we get this response “mulatto Mr. Obama was bought and sold long before becoming president.” Personally I doubt that Dr. King would have been impressed by this level of discourse.

      It’s starting to look like it won’t be too long before Janson’s list of credentials actually starts taking up more room than his rantings which will really be quite a feat.

      • The Devil's In The Details

        To Rosa:
        How Dr. King would really feel about the thread posted here can only be conjecture from you.

        Both Jay Janson’s credentials and his detailed analysis of American wrongdoing ring far truer to me than mere speculation on your part. From what I’ve read, Dr. Janson’s views are indeed closer to Dr. King’s than is generally known about King’s view of America, here and abroad.

        The only superficial comparison that can be made between Dr. Janson and Cris Ericson is that both submit lengthy articles. Nothing more.

        As for Obama: He is not “black.” His mother was white and his father African. As a mix blood human he is genetically mixed-race. Mulatto is one of the defined and accepted terms to describe his racial background. Moreover, as a two-party incumbency president, he works within one of the single most politically corrupt countries in the world.

        Much of what Dr. Janson describes (in detail) stems from this pseudo-political corporate-inspired and controlled governance.

        ~Vidda

      • "Mulatto"

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

        “The term is not commonly used any more but is generally considered archaic because of its association with slavery, colonial and racial oppression; accepted modern terms include ‘mixed’ and ‘biracial'”

        Thank you Rosa Bonheur for an intelligent response to a distasteful comment. The individual responsible for this gratuitous ugliness habitually makes venomous comments on this site. No doubt he is terribly unhappy.

        • It'll take them a week to pry the smile off of my face....

          lol ! You do like to get carried away sometimes…

          “distasteful, gratuitous, ugliness, venomous comments…”

          In any case, the man is a mixed-race person by any term. I’m not sure Obama’s mother cares to be so frequently left out of the equation.

          The paragraph you used was preceded by this one: “Mulatto is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of any “mixed” ancestry. See Forbes, 1993 and mixed ancestry.[1] Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.”

          By the way, you could never imagine my true level of happiness, the result of a long, youthful charming life. It’ll take them a week to pry the smile off of my face….

          • Ugliness personified

            What does President Obama’s race have to do with the original post? It is a negative,biased and ugly term which- as Steven pointed out- is almost never used anymore due to it’s equally ugly affiliation with slavery. I almost never agree with your positions, Vidda, but your use of this word surprised me. And not in a good way. It seems like a descent to a level of ugliness that was really uncalled for.

          • Overheated, vitriolic, near-hysterical adjective accusations...

            My full quote is: “There is no question that the mulatto Mr. Obama was bought and sold long before becoming president.” Naturally, the bought and sold part probably didn’t go over well with either of you, but slavery by any name is still a form of enslavement.

            If I, in fact, had more interest in and agreed with you and SKB on other issues, I might reconsider my use of the term; however, I’ll just chalk you both up to overreacting (again?). Considering that I haven’t fared very well with either of you in the past, your posts were inevitable.

            For anyone else concerned about my use of the word mulatto I would like you to know that none of the intentions behind the overheated, vitriolic, near-hysterical adjective accusations assigned to me by Kris and SKB were part of my thinking. Both of them, of course, are entitled to their opinions.

            I voted for BHO twice, and unless Hilary ran (who I have preferred all along), would, if allowed, vote for him again over many candidates, even with a roster of misgivings…

          • There was nothing in my

            There was nothing in my response to your use of the word mulatto that was “over heated, vitriolic or near-hysterical”. Nor did I consider it an accusation – it was an observation that I was surprised that you would use a term like ‘mulatto’ with no apparent thought to the history of such a word. If anyone is overreacting in this thread it is you,Vidda. Although I don’t often agree with your positions on subjects you post about I have always believed that your posts were thoughtful and well written. Hence my surprise that you would dredge up a word with an ugly past since Obama’s race has nothing to do with the original post. But, as you say this is my opinion and I’m entitled to it.
            You have frequently asked me to reconsider my positions on various subjects posted on ibrattleboro and sometimes I have.And even if I haven’t I have always considered your reasons for asking. I ask the same of you – to reconsider the implications of casually tossing out words like mulatto that come with such painful baggage. We all say things without giving it a lot of thought to how our words may be perceived -even you, I imagine.

          • Stated: “Obama is a war criminal, a black puppet of corporate...

            As Janson stated about Cornel West in the very first paragraph (West) …”says Obama is a war criminal, a black puppet of corporate plutocrats, head of the US killing machine.”

            Puppet, slave? Tethered by puppet strings or in chains?
            Yes, Kris I am a thoughtful (thinking) writer.

            Obama’s presidency has been, still is and will remain historically significantly about “race.”

            Kris, thank you for expressing your personal views on me and “the word” but my comments stand as they are.

          • Great comment

            Great, this is no different than if you and Janson, 2 men, went about casting nasty slurs upon feminists by regurgitating the writings of Camille Paglia. Nice work.

          • "God is man's greatest idea”

            As a lifelong feminist, nonbeliever myself (except that I do not respect religion) and as someone who has often been described as “a writer in a category of (his) own…” I thank you for recalling Madame Paglia to me.

            Now this is my kind of woman!!

            Camille from the ubiquitous wikipedia:
            Camille Anna Paglia (/ˈpɑːliə/; born April 2, 1947) is an American teacher and social critic. Paglia, a self-described dissident feminist,[1] has been a professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA since 1984. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), a best-selling work of literary criticism, among other books and essays. She also wrote an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and Break, Blow, Burn on poetry. She writes articles on art, popular culture, feminism, and politics. Paglia has celebrated Madonna and taken radical libertarian positions on controversial social issues such as abortion, homosexuality, and drug use. She is a critic of American feminism, and is also strongly critical of the influence of French writers such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. Paglia, who has been characterized variously as a “contrarian academic” and a feminist “bête noire”, a “witty controversialist”,[and a maverick, is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture, including feminism and liberalism. Margaret Wente has called Paglia “a writer in a category of her own… a feminist who hates affirmative action; an atheist who respects religion” and “a Democrat who thinks her party doesn’t get it”. Martha Duffy writes that Paglia “advocates a core curriculum based mostly on the classics” and rails against “chic French theorists Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan”, and “has a strong libertarian streak — on subjects like pornography — that go straight to her ’60s coming-of-age”. Elaine Showalter has called Paglia a “radical libertarian”, noting her socially liberal stands on abortion, sodomy, prostitution, drug use, and suicide. Paglia has denounced feminist academics and women’s studies, celebrated popular culture and Madonna, and become a media celebrity, writing op-eds and gossip columns, appearing on television and telling her story to journalists.

          • Camille, p.s...

            Wiki, continued:
            Paglia has said that she is willing to have her entire career judged on the basis of her composition of what she considers to be “probably the most important sentence that she has ever written”: “God is man’s greatest idea.”

            BTW, Dr. Janson is quite capable of speaking for himself, however, since you are responding to comments I have written under his post, kindly direct your comments to me.

          • Looks like you missed my

            Looks like you missed my point. I guess you’re not all that familiar with Paglia beyond Wikis. Hmmmm odd for a feminist, most would know who and what she is. And if Janson references West, I can direct my comments in his direction if I wish to do so without your approval.

          • I wrote "thank you for 'recalling' her to me"

            I wrote “thank you for ‘recalling’ her to me.” Camille has a long history since the Sixties and is certainly known by me and many others before Wiki came along. Wiki is a ready source to quote from, however.

            If do wish to address concerns to Dr. Janson, perhaps you could do it without having to go through me to attack him and offer him your cogent thoughts for his perusal and edification?

          • A word to Rosa,

            [To all ibrattleboro participants other than Rosa Bonheur: please treat this comment as private, and do not read it.]

            Rosa, I see that you have only been on ibrattleboro for 12 weeks, so you may still be figuring out who the players are, and what their practices are. Sometimes I think it is important to respond to some of the comments that this individual makes simply because silence might imply that abusive attacks are a normal part of acceptable discourse. I generally avoid getting drawn into protracted quarrels though because (to use a cliche) ” “When you fight with a pig you both get dirty – but the pig likes it”

            (What I am about to say my not sound polite.) This Vidda seems to be so out of sync with reality that he is like a guy who shits in his pants, and then argues that everyone else is off base for saying that he stinks.

          • The uncivilized nature you have just revealed of yourself

            This site is not a private communication device for your personal use.
            The disingenuous attempt to hide behind a phony viewer’s discretion warning doesn’t fool anyone, except you, as thinking your protective nature is anything but insincere.

            But for you to exercise your vulgarity in a pretense of tutoring a woman(or anyone) on “figuring out who the players are” is beyond repair. And, to imply that your response is “a normal part of acceptable discourse” says a lot more about you than it does about me.

            It’s ironic that the characterizations that Dr. Janson and I have had to endure in several of these comments are in reality the uncivilized nature you have just revealed of yourself.

          • Kris' Comment

            I do not see how Kris’ comment could be taken as anything other than a dispassionate observation about the inappropriateness of using an ugly and gratuitous pejorative.

          • he considered Obama a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface"

            Whatever Kris said, see didn’t need to employ your brand of vulgarity to express herself.

            Quotes from Dr. Janson’s article:
            >West said in another interview that he considered Obama a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface.”
            >By this perception, Cornel West, being his own man, is an infinitely more important person than a usual lackey president like Obama, Obama being the first black chosen by the white establishment notwithstanding.
            >Seems as if what West said two years ago, was stronger, “Obama was “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.
            >Hat’s off to Cornel West for moving in the right direction. Not easy for anyone, let alone a black man, to denounce the only black president that the establishment has seen fit to put in.

            What I wrote was not far removed from the topic. I stand behind my comments as stated.

  • MFIC

    THE MILITARY-FINANCIAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS NOW A CRIMINAL WORLD GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE.

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