Properly Labeling War-Criminals

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following status update here, posted by Voluntaryist, Larken Rose, and originally shared it to my own wall, along with commentary…

George W. Bush, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton

George W. Bush, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton

Larken Rose: Suppose it was discovered that a man had raped and murdered the woman living in the apartment next to his. Then a friend of the victim, when he heard what had happened, made a bunch of Molotov cocktails and grabbed an assault rifle, and charged into the apartment building, carelessly firing bullets through walls and throwing firebombs around. The result was that the murderer was killed, but half the building burned down, and between the fire and the bullets, five innocent people died, including two small children.

Would you praise the man, and say he was a brave hero, who “made the tough decisions” and got results? Or would you call him an irresponsible idiot, guilty of at least manslaughter, criminal endangerment and negligent homicide, if not outright murder? What if he did similar things, over and over again, targeting other “bad guys,” while consistently killing multiple innocents in the process? What if sometimes he didn’t even get the “bad guy,” while innocents were dying from his actions? What if sometimes he was targeting people when he didn’t actually have proof that they had done anything wrong? Would you view him as a savior and hero, or as a dangerous psycho? Would you hope that he was stopped before he got any more innocents killed?

What if he was the “President of the United States,” and was knowingly getting innocents killed via drone strikes he personally ordered, on a regular basis, based on unproven claims that “bad guys” were hiding in certain buildings?

If you speak of Obama with reverence and respect, you’re a duped idiot. The man is a mass murderer, just as Bush was, and Clinton, and the other Bush, and so on. If family members of his innocent victims wanted to kill the bastard, I wouldn’t blame them in the slightest. If they succeeded, that would be fine by me (even though he would just be replaced with a new sociopathic megalomaniac). I realize this is blasphemy to devout state-worshipers, who revere and adore the most despicable people on earth, but evil doesn’t become good just because you use different words to describe it. As Confucius said, people should “call things by their rightful names,” and the accurate description of the violent criminal living in the White House is not “leader of the free world.” It is “parasite, thief, murderer, tyrant, monster.”

My Commentary: Keep voting for sociopathic scum to ‘rule’ over humanity! It works so well! 😉

Necessity is the Argument of Tyrants and the Creed of Slaves

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Independent Institute,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; is it the creed of slaves." - William Pitt the Younger

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; is it the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt the Younger

My Commentary: This quote always pops into my head whenever I hear a Statheist claim that the perpetual-by-design “War on Drugs” and/or “War on Terror” are “necessary.”

Switzerland Freezes Any Swiss Assets Tied to Mubarak to Avoid Risk of Misappropriation

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

2011-02-11 - Switzerland Freezes Any Swiss Assets Tied to Mubarak to Avoid Risk of Misappropriation

Switzerland Freezes Any Swiss Assets Tied to Mubarak:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_switzerland_mubarak

(update: archived copy of above link located here: http://web.archive.org/web/20110215163906/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_switzerland_mubarak)

(Yahoo News)  The Swiss government on Friday froze any assets belonging to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or his family in Switzerland.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said the order took effect immediately but gave no details on what bank accounts or other assets Mubarak or his family might have in Switzerland.

He spoke as pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo were jubilantly celebrating the announcement that Mubarak has resigned after nearly three decades of authoritarian rule and handed power over to the military.

“(The government) wants to avoid any risk of misappropriation of state-owned Egyptian assets,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It also forbid the sale of any assets, especially real estate holdings.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: According to Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry, “(The government) wants to avoid any risk of misappropriation of state-owned Egyptian assets.”

It’s too bad that the criminal Mubarak has already swindled and amassed a fortune far greater than the contents of just Switzerland’s banks! Just last week, his family quietly slinked off to the UK with an undisclosed amount of Egypt’s riches!

Mubarak’s Family Flees to London with Almost 100 Suitcases:
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/news/2011/jan/mubarak-family-flee-london-president-could-follow.html

Ill-Begotten Mubarak Family Fortune Could Reach $70 Billion

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Gamal and Hosni Mubarak are reported to have built up huge fortunes, including properties in London (photo by Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images)

Gamal and Hosni Mubarak are reported to have built up huge fortunes, including properties in London (photo by Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images)

Mubarak Family Fortune Could Reach $70bn, Say Experts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/04/hosni-mubarak-family-fortune

President Hosni Mubarak‘s family fortune could be as much as $70bn (£43.5bn) according to analysis by Middle East experts, with much of his wealth in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast.

After 30 years as president and many more as a senior military official, Mubarak has had access to investment deals that have generated hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Most of those gains have been taken offshore and deposited in secret bank accounts or invested in upmarket homes and hotels.

According to a report last year in the Arabic newspaper Al Khabar, Mubarak has properties in Manhattan and exclusive Beverly Hills addresses on Rodeo Drive.

His sons, Gamal and Alaa, are also billionaires. A protest outside Gamal’s ostentatious home at 28 Wilton Place in Belgravia, central London, highlighted the family’s appetite for western trophy assets.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary:  Crime pays when working as a dictator for America! Meanwhile, Egyptians languish under their US-sponsored tyrant:

40 Percent Of Egyptians Live On 2 Dollars A Day Or Less And The Global Elite Like It That Way:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/40-percent-of-egyptians-live-on-2-dollars-a-day-or-less-and-the-global-elite-like-it-that-way