”An American tragedy – the demise of The USA as a constitutional and democratic country”

Atle is sorry to say, but it is a looong time since The USA was a beacon of liberty etc in the world.  As many Americans are clever at sweetmouthing, many believe that the beacon of this and that still is in America.

If you shut your ears to all this sweetmouthing you will see that The USA is one of the most oppressing and belligerent regimes in modern time. How many wars and massacres have they instigated and taken part in during the decades after World War 2?

Atle does not close his eyes to the atrocities in Communist Sovjet Union, China, Vietnam, North Korea just to mention a few of the regimes of that kind. Neither does he forget apartheid in South Africa, atrocities in white Rhodesia and Zimbabwe under the rule of Mugabe, the corrupt and partly criminal leaders of the Maghreb countries in North Africa. Once again only to mention a few.

Now there will be hearings in the Congress in the Homeland Security committee among other things about the radicalization of the American-Muslim society. The Republican Peter King is the leader of this committee; he is infamous for sayings like these: ”There are too many mosques in this country.”

LET US NOT FORGET THAT ADOLF HITLER AND THE NAZIS IN GERMANY CAME TO POWER BY DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS. AND THERE WERE TOO MANY JEWS AND SYNAGOGUES IN THAT COUNTRY.

LET US NOT FORGET THAT JAPANESE SOLDIERS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WARS WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR WATERBOARDING PRISONERS.

LET US NOT FORGET THAT GEORGE BUSH SANCTIONED WATERBOARDING OF PRISONERS NOT TOO LONG AGO, AND HE IS STILL ENJOYING FULL FREEDOM AND IS NOT AS YET CHARGED FOR THESE ATROCITIES.

Atle feels sorry for The United States and the people of this country. It is time for the friends of The United States to say: Sorry, pal, but I think you are behaving in ways that are not too OK.

Norwegians can look up http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4056840.ece

or ”Bradley Manning being mistreated, says Hillary Clinton spokesman” in http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/11/bradley-manning-clinton-crowley-comments

 

In the Guardian you can among other things read about President Obama: ”As news of the remarks rippled through Washington, President Obama was forced to address the subject of Manning's treatment for the first time. Asked about the controversy at a White House press conference, Obama revealed he had asked the Pentagon "whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are."”

NOW THE WORLD KNOWS THAT WATERBOARDING AND TORTURE IN PRISON ARE MEETING BASIC AMERICAN STANDARDS. AT LEAST SO FAR.

Atle feels sorry for the predicament of the American people The United States and the ”enemies” of this country.