{"id":27,"date":"2012-07-28T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T15:10:41","slug":"the-nobel-peace-prize-obamas-killing-fields-and-the-massacre-in-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/the-nobel-peace-prize-obamas-killing-fields-and-the-massacre-in-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nobel \u2018Peace\u2019 Prize, Obama\u2019s killing fields, and the massacre in Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on July 26, 2012.<\/a>
\nRepublished in Islamic News Daily on August 1, 2012<\/a>
\nBy Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.\u201d<\/em>\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How bitterly ironic that this nation found itself turning to Barack Obama\u2014the war mongering predator drone missile, \u2018kill list\u2019 U.S. president\u2014for comfort and condolences, in the wake of the horrible killings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.<\/p>\n

Our hearts must go out to all the victims and their families<\/em> of that terrible tragedy in Aurora.<\/p>\n

Likewise, our hearts must also go out to the thousands of victims and their families of the grandparents, parents, sisters, and sons in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya (north Africa), Somalia, Yemen, and the Philippines where Barack Obama\u2019s predator drone missiles have blown to pieces the bodies of so very many once living human beings. Their horrible pain and suffering receives minimal or no media coverage in the United States, despite the fact that this insanity is being committed by Barack Obama, in the name of the people of this nation.<\/p>\n

The numerous innocent non-combatant persons (including infants and young children) who are killed by Obama\u2019s predator drone missiles are called simply, \u2018collateral damage.\u2019 They are not \u2018collateral\u2019<\/em> damage\u2014they are human beings<\/em> being continually terrorized and murdered under the auspices of Barack Obama; and with the death of each and every innocent victim, the potential for blind hatred against everyday ordinary people of the United States (and concomitant actions thereto) increases<\/em> exponentially. This is great for the elite of the U.S.<\/em> multinational corporations<\/em> who make enormous profit from manufacturing missiles, bullets, rifles, tanks, fighter aircraft, and war ships, etc., but this is utterly horrible<\/em> for the struggling everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this nation and world who are invariably the victims of this insanity of internal violence and perpetual war.<\/p>\n

This nation needs and deserves genuine peace both internally and externally,<\/em> but before it can have genuine peace, it must first have a genuine democracy, not this corporate plutocracy masquerading as a so-called \u2018democracy\u2019 currently being led by the double-talking, war mongering, corporate brand Obama. Yet another irony of this is was the undeserved awarding of the Nobel \u2018Peace\u2019 Prize to Barack Obama, despite the fact that on his third day in office <\/em>as U.S. president, he began launching and intensifying deadly predator drone missile strikes against persons in other sovereign nations. Now, over three years later, he has increased these bloody and deadly missile strikes, and now has his own personal \u2018kill list\u2019 which list includes, U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens alike. He has shredded important civil liberty safeguards for U.S. citizens<\/em> contained in the U.S. Constitution, by signing into law the now infamous NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act of 2012). He signed the NDAA into law on New Year\u2019s Eve (December 31, 2011) when most of the nation was unaware and not paying attention.<\/p>\n

The horrible tragedy of the killings at that movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, as reported by the Associated Press headlines, states that Barack Obama said in relevant part, concerning that tragedy, \u201cNow, even as we learn how this happened and who\u2019s responsible, we may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It\u2019s beyond reason.\u201d Indeed, Obama\u2019s own statement could be accurately applied to himself\u2014the predator drone missile, \u2018kill list\u2019 president\u2014who hypocritically talks peace while cold bloodedly waging war.<\/p>\n

The inmates of this euphemistic U.S. insane asylum, including Barack Obama, have taken over the running of this nation. Or, more to the point, in the poignant words of a previous Nobel Peace Prize laureate\u2014the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2014\u201cOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.\u201d Barack Obama is among, and very much a willing and integral part of, these \u201cmisguided men.\u201d Obama is a man of subterfuge, hypocrisy, and war. His \u2018hope and change\u2019 rhetoric was, and continues to be, a cynical ruse against the everyday people of this nation and of this precious planet of Mother Earth.<\/p>\n

This nation\u2019s corporate\/military\/Hollywood-induced<\/em> predilection for violence is increasingly turning on and being used against ordinary everyday people throughout this land. Meanwhile, the violence of corporate-government subterfuge, joblessness, homelessness, domination by the corporate elite, judicial injustice, a burgeoning U.S. prison-gulag system, and perpetual war abound. More than ever, racism is rampant\u2014but not just racism based upon color\u2014but an insidious economic apartheid<\/em> against people of all<\/em> colors in this nation and around the world.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama and his corporate Democrat and<\/em> Republican accomplices should all be awarded a Nobel Prize\u2014a Nobel Subterfuge Prize<\/em> for pimping the pain of everyday ordinary people everywhere. And once this prize has been awarded, Obama and his corporate-political cohorts, along with this entire corrupt political system and its killing fields, should be relegated once and for all to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n

It is up to we the people\u2014everyday ordinary people\u2014to collectively organize, agitate, and educate ourselves and one another in order to creatively build a new and different political system based upon human needs, not corporate\/military elitist greed.<\/p>\n

Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/p>\n

Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em> is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here<\/a> to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on July 26, 2012.<\/a>
Republished in Islamic News Daily on August 1, 2012<\/a>
By Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}