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yes, I have to say, IF this is an accurate statement, it is the only one I can ever recall that a President or candidate for that office has made that immediately reminds me of Adolph Hitler's SS. Sure, you can argue about the brown shirts, or the people's brigades, or the Hitler youngen.
But, JUST AS STRONG as the United States Military?
"We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded"
He already hit me as a gun grabbing marxist nut (just like Hitlery) and now he carries it one step forward. A big dangerous step. I am sure he will side shuffle away from the ramifications, but a freudian slip anyway.
This is one of the main things that has bothered me about this guy. He didn't GROW UP HERE. He grew up in pissant ant little countries like Kenya and Indonesia. Overseas exposure can be a good thing. Growing up with your relatives being muslim and living in huts, and both countries have a very long history of self violence, can be a very bad thing if it appears you are very class oriented, very racist, and have very much a victim mentality.
For those of you who don't know or don't remember, Indonesia was ruled by a ruthless violent dictator for the time Obama was growing up there.
Indonesia’s ex-dictator Suharto dies
Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.
Kenya, has a long history of tribal violence and colonial rule. It is the land of the infamous Mau Mau uprisings.
Mau Mau Rebellion
During World War II, many young Kenyan men were drafted into the British army and served across the globe. Their eyes were opened by what they saw and when they returned to Kenya after the war, they found that they were given the same menial, low-paying dead-end work. By the early 1950s, this dissatisfaction gave rise to a protest movement called the "Mau Mau rebellion."
The Mau Mau movement was mostly among the Kikuyus and they forced people to take an oath to oppose the British rule. Perhaps 90 percent of the Kikuyu in Central Province on Mount Kenya took the oath, willingly and unwillingly. The remaining 10 percent were the loyalists who worked for the British colonial government. Although Jomo Kenyatta, who later became president, was originally jailed as a Mau Mau leader, they soon realized that he was really a loyalist. Additionally, his son, Peter Kenyatta, with Jomo Kenyatta's blessing, was one of the leaders of the loyalists. Kenyatta was soon separated from the other Mau Mau leaders.
The suppression of Mau Mau was extremely brutal. A larger percentage of the Kikuyu population in Central Province died during the suppression of Mau Mau in the 1950s than Rwandans perished during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Torture was prevalent. Women and children were put into concentration camps with little food and medical care, and as a result a large number of them died. No one should be under the illusion that the British were "better" colonialists than the Germans or Belgians. The technique the British used here was to deny everything with massive cover-ups and much of this history is only now being uncovered.
Kenyan Violence didn't end in the fifties. Here is news from TODAY's Kenya:
The government, Kiraithe said, wants "trouble makers" to understand they cannot act with impunity, attacking, burning and killing, that they cannot hide behind political parties.
The spasm of political violence that has crippled Kenya erupted soon after the December elections, when the opposition Orange Democratic Party accused President Mwai Kibaki of rigging the vote to win re-election in a race against its leader Raila Odinga. It soon took on ethnic overtones.
More than 860 people have been killed and more than 200,000 displaced in the turmoil, the Red Cross said. The Red Cross has put the number at 863. There was no fresh violence reported in Kenya Wednesday.
The United States has said it will consider imposing sanctions against members of the Kenyan government and opposition figures who are instigating the violence.
Now that he is a "heartbeat" away from the most powerful position in the world, I find it very disturbing that he spent so much of his wonderbread years NOT in the country he hopes to rule, but in lands seeped in violence, dictatorship, harsh and brutal government control, and a "subclass" that Obama very much identifies with.
Imagine the 'round' the dinner table conversations his family had........................
I'll take an "American" raised on apple pie, country fairs, downhome cooking, and seeped in the glorys of American history any day of the week.
