I collected a lot of data over this past week on the state of the jobs market and my intentions were to post an op-ed on that very subject matter. There is a political battle being waged in Washington D.C. over the Presidents jobs bill, and as much as I support the President and his ideas for creating jobs, my thoughts on the concepts of right and wrong fall without a doubt, on what happen in Libya to Muamar Qaddafi.
I know right from wrong and I'm sure most adults know right from wrong as well. Every time i heard a report on the death, killing, demise,take down, termination or any other word that was used in the media circus this week to describe the murder of Qaddafi.
I didn't like Qaddafi, I thought he was another one of these African leaders who was more concerned about his own personal wealth rather then his people. He sat on one of the riches oil reserves for over 40 years and his country still had a large population of common people living under third world conditions.
He was always seen wearing these out laddish military outfits, riding on the back of a tank or a military truck sitting next to a giant gun, as if he personally was going to go out into the battle field and kill the enemy. Then there was his involvement in Pam Am flight 103, and the murder of over 200 innocent people. Lets face it Qaddafi was, for all intent and purposes, was a bad seed.
There is another element to this situation, American involvement in his rise to power, post flight 103.
This countries buddy system with leaders like Qaddafi, supplying money, intelligence and yes weapons is far more complicated then you and I will ever have complete knowledge of in detail, it's classified.
The fact is George Bush Jr. via Senator McCain, visited with the Libyan leader and tweeted that he was a interesting person. I read Mien Kampf and thought Adolph Hitler was a interesting person, he was crazy as hell, but interesting. That doesn't mean I wanted to go eat supper with him.
The fact is this country will get in bed with anyone that serves their purpose, no matter what the disease that person is infected with. It's OK for the United States to buddy up with killers and terrorist when it's politically convenient for them.
This country has several federal laws on the books that will send an American citizen to the federal prison system for life that are considered conspiracy laws. If you get involved, assist, have knowledge of and, or not report this activity to the authorities,any one of these far reaching concepts that has put thousands of U.S. citizens away can and will send you and I to prison for the rest of our lives. Unless!!, your a politician.
Qaddafi was murdered, plain and simple, murdered by a group of people that was hunting him down for crimes he committed against them and their families, but he was murdered. There was no request by this government to "bring him to justice".
Everybody remembers, as a child, when you were cheating your so-called friend out of his or her fair share, when you were engaging in unfair activity for your own personal gains.
One for them and two for you was cheating, it was cheating then and it's still cheating today. Just because you justified it with soft words or payback rational justifying thinking doesn't make it right.
I know right from wrong and I'm sure most adults know right from wrong as well. Every time i heard a report on the death, killing, demise,take down, termination or any other word that was used in the media circus this week to describe the murder of Qaddafi.
I didn't like Qaddafi, I thought he was another one of these African leaders who was more concerned about his own personal wealth rather then his people. He sat on one of the riches oil reserves for over 40 years and his country still had a large population of common people living under third world conditions.
He was always seen wearing these out laddish military outfits, riding on the back of a tank or a military truck sitting next to a giant gun, as if he personally was going to go out into the battle field and kill the enemy. Then there was his involvement in Pam Am flight 103, and the murder of over 200 innocent people. Lets face it Qaddafi was, for all intent and purposes, was a bad seed.
There is another element to this situation, American involvement in his rise to power, post flight 103.
This countries buddy system with leaders like Qaddafi, supplying money, intelligence and yes weapons is far more complicated then you and I will ever have complete knowledge of in detail, it's classified.
The fact is George Bush Jr. via Senator McCain, visited with the Libyan leader and tweeted that he was a interesting person. I read Mien Kampf and thought Adolph Hitler was a interesting person, he was crazy as hell, but interesting. That doesn't mean I wanted to go eat supper with him.
The fact is this country will get in bed with anyone that serves their purpose, no matter what the disease that person is infected with. It's OK for the United States to buddy up with killers and terrorist when it's politically convenient for them.
This country has several federal laws on the books that will send an American citizen to the federal prison system for life that are considered conspiracy laws. If you get involved, assist, have knowledge of and, or not report this activity to the authorities,any one of these far reaching concepts that has put thousands of U.S. citizens away can and will send you and I to prison for the rest of our lives. Unless!!, your a politician.
Qaddafi was murdered, plain and simple, murdered by a group of people that was hunting him down for crimes he committed against them and their families, but he was murdered. There was no request by this government to "bring him to justice".
Everybody remembers, as a child, when you were cheating your so-called friend out of his or her fair share, when you were engaging in unfair activity for your own personal gains.
One for them and two for you was cheating, it was cheating then and it's still cheating today. Just because you justified it with soft words or payback rational justifying thinking doesn't make it right.
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