Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 94: “Self Inflicted Wounds”

“Payin' for the gas he wickedly shouted thanks
And continued on his journey all once again
Just about the time a siren fast-approached and
The pot bellied sheriff he whizzed right in

With his self inflicted grammar started shoutin'
Accusations at the long haired greasy looking ape
While a local d.j. from the fifty watt station got
The whole damn thing on tape”
Truckstop-Salvation, Jimmy Buffett

President Obama along with three thousand of his closest friends loaded up several jumbo jets and took off for a ten day so called diplomatic mission to India and several other Southeast Asian countries while they lick their wounds and solidify a serious case of denial over the self described shellacking they endured last week in the mid-term elections. In addition to this colossal waste of time and tax payer money the Administration also continued its seemingly uncontrolled practice of imposing “Self Inflicted Wounds” on both the domestic and foreign relations fronts.

While the President visited his childhood stomping grounds in Jakarta where he had studied the Koran while attending Little Future Islamic Jihadist Grammar School for four years back in the States the Administration shot itself in the foot again. In a move that seems crazier than a run over dog the White House over turned eight years of perfectly reasonable policy by volunteering to subject the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free to an official human rights review by a mess of tyrants, villains and despots at the United Nations.

Following is summary of the insanity surrounding this asinine and absolutely ludicrous Presidential Directive:

• In the same category as supporting the building of a Mosque at ground zero, accusing the Cambridge Police of being a bunch of racist, and conducting Islamic terrorist trials for 9/11 enemy combatants in civilian courts in New York City allowing the boneheaded yahoos at the UN to evaluate and condemn our human rights record is nothing less than absurd
• Another incredible act of appeasement and obviously a major strategic initiative of the President’s “Bend Over, Grab His Ankles, Thank You Sir May I Have Another” Foreign Policy
• Obama and Madam Secretary of State Hillary “Sarge” Clinton sent three top officials from the State Department to Geneva’s U.N. Human Rights Council to be questioned about America’s human rights record by the likes of Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, sure enough credible human rights advocates one and all
• According to the Council’s procedure, all U.N. members are given free reign to comment and make recommendations to the state under scrutiny. But since only three hours are allotted per state, the practice has emerged of allowing only the first sixty or there abouts to actually speak.
• Last week our very own President allowed this most just, free and compassionate of nations to be ridiculed by fifty-six countries that took full advantage of the opportunity to tell the U.S. representatives what for, many standing in line overnight in order to be near the top of the list. Standing at the front of the line just like they had good sense were Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and North Korea.
• Cuba said the U.S. blockade of Cuba was a “crime of genocide,” Iran “condemned and expressed its deep concern over the situation of human rights” in the United States, and North Korea said it was “concerned by systematic widespread violations committed by the United States at home and abroad.”
• Additional recommendations to improve the U.S. human rights record included Cuba’s advice to end “violations against migrants and mentally ill persons” and “ensure the right to food and health.”
• Iran who routinely stone Iranian woman for adultery told the U.S. “effectively to combat violence against women.”
• North Korea which systematically starves its own citizens told the U.S. “to address inequalities in housing, employment and education” and “prohibit brutality by law enforcement officials.”
• Libya accused us of “racism, racial discrimination and intolerance.”
• Russia urged the U.S. to abolish the death penalty. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, demanded Washington to better promote religious tolerance, and Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states.
• To add insult to injury the seemingly anti - U.S.Obama Administration even submitted a 20-page report to the UN listing alleged US human rights violations including Arizona’s Immigration laws and other perfectly legal and constitutional activities that only the head case left wing Marxist/Socialist “Yes We Can” gang in the White House would consider human rights violations

Getting a tongue lashing about fictional human rights violations from countries that routinely murder, torture and illegally imprison millions of their own citizens is the ultimate case of the proverbial pot calling the kettle black. A quick review of a few of the worst offenders, Cuba; Venezuela; Russia; Iran; North Korea, reinforces the absurdity of Mr. Obama’s insistence that we participate in this U.N. farce:

Cuba:

• Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
• Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Arbitrary Arrest or Detention
• Denial of Fair Public Trials
• Limits on Freedom of Speech and Press
• Limits on Freedom of Religion

Venezuela:

• Harassment Campaign Against Human Rights Defenders
• Chavez’s New Censorship Office
• Attacks on Judicial Independence
• Prosecutions of Dissenters
• Abusing Broadcast Powers
• Border Killings and Attack

Russia:

• systematic torture of persons in custody by police
• neglect and cruelty in Russian orphanages
• violations of children's right
• discrimination, racism and murders of members of ethnic minorities
• widespread murders of journalists

Iran:

• harsh penalties for crimes
• punishment of "victimless crimes" such as fornication and homosexuality
• execution of offenders under 18 years of age
• restrictions on freedom of speech and the press including the imprisonment of journalists
• unequal treatment according to religion and gender
• the execution of thousands of political prisoners

Korea

• Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, public execution and arbitrary detention
• the absence of due process and the rule of law
• imposition of the death penalty for political reasons, the existence of a large number of prison camps and the extensive use of forced labor
• All pervasive and severe restrictions on the freedoms of thought, conscience, religion, opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association
• Continued violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women, in particular the trafficking of women for prostitution or forced marriage and ethnically motivated forced abortions

Our”Citizen of the World-in-Chief’s” willingness to diminish and weaken our standing in the world by lending the prestige and credibility of the United States of America to some corrupt U.N. sham is truly troubling. The man is seemingly hell bent on redistributing wealth at home and the power and esteem of our great Nation abroad.

Participating in an U.N. Human Rights evaluation is not just a “Self Inflicted Wound” it’s a self inflicted frontal lobotomy. We’re sure enough no expert on the subject but seriously doubt the President can handle too many more of these mind altering procedures.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama, (7-2) 21 – LSU 24