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1 - Recent events in Yugoslavia have forced me to write of the bombing and general intervention in Yugoslavia.
Oh
how easy it would be to explain that this conflict based in the Balkans is an
internal civil war; even as a Christian US Presidential contender states we
should leave them to their own battle and identifies this conflict as “not
unlike our own (US) civil war”…
Or
to take another position, that it is a Religious war between Christians and
Moslems going on for 600 years…
Whether
or not religion plays an important role (which it does) in this conflict, the
facts RING LOUD! As a Christian, I must contribute to this ringing!
Yes,
the facts of the Serb’s use of Genocide are being shoved under the carpet. The
fact that the Albanians make up 90% of the population in this disputed region
and are both politically and culturally at opposites of the Serbs; that the
disputed region has been dominated and built by the Albanian Peoples who were
forced to become a part of Yugoslavia.
How
can American’s balk at the mention of sacrifice when others sacrificed them
selves to assist their country during her Revolutionary war?
How
can this world balk at our demonstration of resolve to assist these peoples
after witnessing the same events that preceded Hitler’s World War; one in which
the shooting of UNARMED and DEFENSLESS civilians became so common the world
stood still, neither horrified nor at worry as Jews, Catholics, Gypsies and
every other nation’s peoples opposed to Hitler were murdered by the millions in
Hitler’s Concentration Camps… then cried foul when confronted by their failures
. . .
Oh
how I mourn the spirit of our nation. One in which we claim that men are
created equal . . . that is until we see others face the same circumstances
that cry out for help.
How
many children must be murdered before we assist them? And, why is it that we
see and hear so many say why not Rwanda? Heck, they are killing each other by
the thousands??
And
does this “Christian thing” really and truly demonstrates the use of RELIGION
to some how prove we should NOT assist the Albanian peoples due to the fact
that they are Moslems??
WHERE,
I ask all Christians, dose Jesus speak of allowing Little Ones to suffer
because they are not His followers?? Where does Jesus say that we should allow
the hunting down of defenseless peoples because it is our RIGHT as Christians
to do so because they are Moslems?
The
fact that Moslems are even in this area of Europe can be traced to the most
spectacular (as if war could truly be thus described) battle ever beheld upon
the Christian lands of the Middle Ages, when the Hordes of Muslim Horseman
invaded Europe and were halted along the very lines now claimed as Serbian
Territory?
Where
in Modern History do we find the International Law to take back what was lost
600 years ago? Do we allow Native Americans to Claim America and give it to
them because they were forced off the lands 300 years ago?
The
facts are the Serbs have used EVERY means to suppress and denigrate the
Albanian Peoples long before this “Civil War” as claimed by a prominent
Christian Presidential Candidate. They pushed the Albanians into declaring
their semi autonomous region to be separate from the whole… a region, may I
say, belonging to them in the first place!
The
bombing has little to do with the position of this nation as to whom is right.
It is more to halting a communistic dictator whom not only allowed, but
provoked the successful and systematic slaughter of the Ethnic Albanian Peoples
of a Kosovo and other regions of Yugoslavia.
I
bet if some PROFFESSED group of Christians invaded YOUR home, raped your Wife
and Children, Murdered YOUR father and brothers, all with cold and calculated
resolve, you would not stand still, you would wonder where are the civilized
nations of this world? You would see Christianity as related to the events in a
different light. No?
My
firm belief and relationship with my GOD, MY FATHER calls for me to say ENOUGH!
To
say, let HIS people GO!
That
GOD shall be the one whom Judges the Moslem by His own Means!
That
we, as a Christian based nation should not sit idly by as men and boys are
trucked to their deaths by the mass and their woman then raped and homes
pillaged.
Remember,
Yugoslavia is a communistic ruled country allied with Russia and in a
predominant position of continuing its annexation of surrounding countries
using the time tested results of Ethnic Cleansing.
Though
the Serbs claim Christianity, they have proven over the last ten years that
anything goes in their endeavor to remove all NON-Serbs from what they consider
as their territory.
Rather,
the events occurring in Yugoslavia are based in the very fundamental pursuits
of America, that being that ALL men were created equal and have RIGHTS!
Unless
we were to go back to Give Me Some Of That Old Time Religion, complete with Inquisition
and Beheading and Burning at the stake, we must move forward.
I
have heard from some of our supporters that the KSA have perpetrated the same
acts of genocide as the Serbs? That they have taken all and any boys 14 to men
65 and shot them in cold blood? Just packed them up and shipped them to fields
and shot them in cold blood??
Where
is the proof, evidence, even the one, lone complaint by the Serbs them selves??
May
our men and woman of the Armed Forces return home sound and with the knowledge
that not all “battles” should be fought simply to identify a countries security
or goals, that some battles must be fought and lives lost in the defense of
simple humanity…
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2- While I
agree that all injustice must be fought and not ignored. Peoples religion
(acutely false religion) Could be the reason there are in there
predicament . God tells Israel over and over if you follow me all these go
things will happen to you and then god gives them a paragraph of good things
Deut. 28:1-14 and then God tells them if you don’t follow me all these bad
things will happen to you and then God gives three pages of bad things Deut.
28:15-68.
And
it should be noted that when these things hit Israel they hit the adults and
children no one was spared. So when you see a false religion being afflicted
you must relies they did bring it on themselves for not following God if they
don’t know who God is that’s our fault as Christens to worn them Ezek 33:6 if
they refuse God there blood be on there on heads. The Muslims have been one of
the most violent and cruel people on this planet and they reject Christ. The
Serbs. Claim Christianity but show no fruits of it .
If
you want to handle this war as a Godly mission you would go in concur both
lands and institute Gods Law as it is spelled out In Exodus and Deuteronomy so
these people would at least have justice weather they would except Christ or
not. The Muslims would fight this to the death and have in the past. Our only
other option is to send them missions to evangelize them historically Muslims
kill Christen missionaries but that is the life of a missionary. In any event
you would have to ask God before jumping into a military operation because if
God is behind what we consider the problem we could acutely wind up fighting
God for God and that is stupid.
Trent
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3- Rocky,
Hope the family are all doing well. Just got back on the net
4 weeks ago. Lost all information, just getting all the addresses back in my
address book.
On the Serbian situation: We have been fed many lies and half-truths about who
the bad guys are. In reality, both sides have a lot to repent for where
atrocities are concerned, as it is in any war. The below site has a lot of
information. Remember the lie Bush put out on Iraq where the babies were
concerned; babies put on floors while Iraqi troops took the incubators. This was
all set up by an advertising agency hired by the Bush administration to gain
public support for the bombing. It did not really happen, as was discovered
after the fact. The same type thing is going on concerning Kosovo.
I
have been in touch with some friends in that area. They are telling a whole
different story than we are getting in the controlled media. Many treaties have
been broken that were made by the Albanians to the Serbs. For years, the Serbs
have been murdered, raped, tortured, etc. It does not justify any of the same
type of reprisals from the Serbs, and it is not happening anywhere near the
degree it is being reported by the controlled press.
All
war is bad. Lies by the press are just as bad or worse. Now, even many
Albanians are trying to get the REAL truth out, but their stories are being
killed before it gets out.
The problem with the United States leading NATO is that Europe has the means to
deal with this problem. The US is being used illegally, and we are placing our
soldiers in harms way for illegal actions against a sovereign nation. Our
Founding Fathers warned us about getting entangled again in European affairs.
We are not listening. As a result, much of Europe is now turned against us
(many that were our allies). The people there know the truth, and do not
understand why America is doing such terrible things. Soon, they will know. The
New World Order is being built with American blood and tears, at the price of
our nations honor and integrity. The media will continue to spin its deceit,
and America will continue to be the cannon fodder. I pray that soon it will all
be over.
And, Yes, we must pray for our military people. They are being given unlawful
orders (by the U.S. Constitution), but they must obey or be
Tried and court martialed. We must pray for their safe return, but we must also
pray for all innocent victims of this and future illegal wars we are
sent into for the purpose of setting up the antichrist One World Government.
In His Precious Name,
Gary
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4- RELIGION IN POLITICS CULTURE WARS Vol. 8, No. 4 (E), MARCH 29,
1999
KOSOVO & AMERICA: WHAT'S GOING ON?
by:
S.R. Shearer
"... nation (ethnos) shall rise
against nation (ethnos), and
kingdom against kingdom ..."
Luke 21:10
"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Hate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war ..."
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
INTRODUCTION
The war in the south Balkans is by now already far-advanced. Despite the
presence of NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia, it has now spread to Kosovo where it
is threatening to draw into the conflagration Greece, Macedonia, Albania, and
Turkey - and ultimately the entire Islamic and Orthodox worlds. The
American media, dominated as it is by a multicultural elite, refuses to see the
war in its religious dimension - i.e., as a clash of civilizations. But
this is exactly how the war is perceived on the ground by those who are
involved - a war which is pitting "Christian Civilization"
(specifically, the Orthodox world) against "Islamic
Civilization," and the world's global elites [which the Orthodox world
sees as being allied with the Muslims (and that's a whole story in and of
itself - more about that in upcoming articles)].
One would think, of course, that if given the choice, most average Americans
(the great majority of whom consider themselves to be Christian) would support
the Serbs [who - while they are NATO members - are also Christian (Orthodox)]
over and against the Muslims. That, of course, isn't what's happening -
largely because the American elites have done everything they can to obfuscate
the "Christian vs. Muslim" aspect of the conflict and - in connection
with this - to demonize the Serbs (i.e., the Orthodox Christians) by
"playing up" their atrocities (and these atrocities are indeed real
and quite widespread) while at the same time "playing down" the
atrocities the Muslims have been involved in.
THE REAL REASON BEHIND
AMERICA'S KOSOVO INTERVENTION
And why is this so? - the immediate reason is the elite establishment's
strategic "tilt" towards Muslim Turkey [which historically has
infuriated the Greeks (who are Orthodox Christians)]; the United States
has an extremely close military and intelligence relationship with Turkey, a
NATO ally, that lets U.S. pilots fly missions against Iraq from a NATO base at
Incirlik. That military post also serves as an electronic-eavesdropping
station for the U.S. intelligence community in the Middle East - a post that
the CIA considers more vital to U.S. hegemony over the area than even Israel.
And then, of course, there's the matter of oil - and not just Middle Eastern
oil, [where American and British multinationals (Exxon, Shell, Mobil, etc.)
have billions and billions of dollars invested], but also Caspian Sea oil
(where the same multinationals are preparing to spend billions more in
pipelines which they plan to build across Turkey and / or in countries close to
Turkey - and all this to say nothing of the additional billions these same
multinationals are spending in drilling rights and pumping operations in
Azerbaijan, a country contiguous to Turkey which is populated by "Turkik
Muslims." The multinationals could very well see all these billions
go up in smoke if Turkey - which has a growing problem with militantly
anti-American Islamic fundamentalists - were destabilized as a result of being
drawn into the conflict in the Balkans; hence America's "tilt"
towards the Muslims and Turkey - a "tilt" which, again, necessarily
demands that the elite "play down" the rel!
igious aspect of the war while a
t the same time "demonizing" the Serbs (i.e., the Orthodox
Christians). "Big Oil" must be able to show the Muslims of the
Middle East that they can "deliver" American support in this kind of
crisis.
Some Christians, of course, naively believe that "Big Oil" simply
doesn't have this kind of clout - the kind that can dictate U.S. foreign
policy. But they do! Take Exxon and Mobil, for instance.
Exxon is the largest oil company in the world; Mobil is the third
largest. The two are merging. Together they will have enormous
financial and industrial power, which translates, naturally, into political
power. Only two dozen nations in the world have Gross Domestic Products
larger than the combined annual sales of these two giants ($180 billion in 1997).
Greece has a Gross Domestic Product of only half that size, which is why
Greece's concerns in the Balkans don't count for much at the State Department -
and the same applies to all the other Orthodox states in the Balkans. No,
Mobil's and Exxon's interests lie with the Muslim nations of the Middle East
and the Caspian Sea; it's these nations that Mobil and Exxon want to ingratiate
themselves to - and to hell with the Orthodo!
x world. Of course, if the shoe
were on the other foot, it's the Muslims that "Big Oil" would
hang out to dry. In the world of Mobil and Exxon (and, ipso facto, the
American elite's world), money rules!
Naturally, the State Department doesn't want its real reasons known as to why
the U.S. is intervening in Kosovo - after all, it's pretty hard to justify
sending American soldiers into battle for the sake of Mobil's, Exxon's,
Shell's, BP's, and Standard Oil's "bottom line." Other reasons
have to be given: hence America's sudden "humanitarian concerns" for
the Kosovar Muslims - a concern which, strangely enough, hasn't manifested
itself insofar as Africa (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Congo, Ethiopia,
etc.) is concerned where many more human beings have been killed over the past
few years than have ever been killed in the former Yugoslavia - and this is to
say nothing about what's been occurring in East Timor, certain parts of
Indonesia, the Philippines, etc. [And one shouldn't make the mistake that
just because Africans are "black" and Asians are "yellow"
that "race" has had anything to do with the elites' unconcern with
regard to the humanitarian debacles going on in Af!
rica and Asia; if money were inv
olved there, the elite would be very concerned. But there is no money
involved: hence the lack of concern. To the elites, it's not race that
matters, it's money!
"Race" and "religion" are of no concern to the elites; that
may be what drives the masses, but not the elites, except when "race"
and "religion" can be used to "tame" the masses'
folly. It's precisely because of this indifference towards
"race" and "religion" that the elites seem on occasion to
be embracing the liberal left's concept of "multiculturalism;"
when one harbors no real thoughts for "race" and "religion,"
one can easily adopt a "neutral" attitude towards them which, to
those who are ignorant of the elite's ways, seems to indicate
"tolerance," but which in reality is nothing more than
indifference. And it's exactly here that minorities like the Albanian
Kosovars and the Bosnian Muslims are making a big mistake, thinking that there
is conviction behind America's "tilt" towards them. But there
is none, and should circumstances change, the elite will shrug them off without
even so much as a "fond goodby."
MONEY - THE FUEL THAT DRIVES THE ELITE
Money! - this is what the American elite is all about. Not race! Not
religion! Not "humanitarianism!" These people have no real
concern beyond money; indeed, the very real fact of the matter is, they don't
even have any real sense of "right" and "wrong." As
we have indicated previously, "right" to the elite is simply that
which advances their own selfish pecuniary ends; "wrong" is that
which hinders them; these words possess no other meaning beyond this - and it's
for this reason that, when their "money interests" are in jeopardy
[as they are in the Balkans (at least insofar as preventing Turkey from being
drawn into the fighting)], they have no real compunction about sending in the
military; after all, it's not their sons and daughters who are in danger, but
the sons and daughters of the working-class, and who cares about them?
Certainly not the elite!
Some people, of course, will say that we are being too harsh in our
condemnation of the American elite; that certainly they stand for some
"greater good" beyond their lust for wealth; that some kind of
"greater purpose" lies at the heart of what they're doing. But
they're wrong! As the late Professor C. Wright Mills of Columbia
University writes,
"The pursuit of the moneyed-life is ... (the elite's) commanding value, in
relation to which the influence of other values has declined, so ... (that they
have) easily become morally ruthless in its pursuit ..."
GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY
The sad truth is, when the elite speaks of "good,"
"purpose," "humanity," etc. there is nothing behind their
speaking except a vacuum. Indeed, there is a certain morose void to all
the "purposes" of the elite - a hollowness that resembles the
emptiness of a body without a soul. Their idealism is nothing more than a
subterfuge, a contrivance, a masquerade - an excuse for what really drives
them, which is the actual process of wealth accumulation - though they all too
often possess an uncanny and extraordinary way of hiding this fact behind a
pretense of flattery and charm. Indeed, Peter warned,
"For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure (people)
... through much wantonness ..." (2 Pet. 2:18)
Mills continues:
"Whenever the standards of the moneyed life prevail, the man with money,
no matter how he got it, will eventually be respected. (In America), it
is not only that men want money; it is that their very standards are
pecuniary. In a society (i.e., the American society) in which the
money-maker has ... no serious rival for repute and honor, the word 'practical'
comes to mean 'useful for private gain' and 'common sense', 'the sense to get
ahead financially'."
And it's precisely these people who are behind America's intervention in
Kosovo. God help us all! - for these are the basest of all people; they
are vile, sinister, ungodly and wretched, and so much so that Jesus said of
them -
"... How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
"... how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the
kingdom of God!
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:23-25)
No! - humanitarian matters have nothing to do with the elite's (and, ipso
facto, the State Department's) "concern" for the "Albanian
Kosovars." It's money that's driving the American intervention in
Kosovo - the lust for "black gold" (oil) which the Muslims have and
the Serbs don't.
EXPOSING THE ELITES LIES: THE MATTER
OF KURDISTAN AND ABDULLAH OCALAN
Nonetheless, the State Department continues on with its subterfuge - i.e., that
the American intervention in Kosovo relates to its "humanitarian
concerns" for the "Albanian Kosovars" and not to the American
elite's concern for Middle Eastern and Caspian Sea oil; but interventions in
the civil wars of a sovereign state are usually considered off limits by the
so-called "international community," and though the United States is
acting in concert with the NATO countries, the United Nations has not
authorized the strikes - if only because the Russians would have vetoed such an
intervention. Indeed, Ruth Wedgewood, a Yale Law School professor who's
now on leave at the Naval War College, has remarked that insofar as the Kosovo
intervention is concerned, the Russians are probably right - that the Kosovo
intervention is "... without easy precedent."
Still, the Administration - whipped up to a furor by the commercial interests
of "Big Oil" - plods on, preferring to believe that, as Robert
Turner, the associate director of the Center for National Security Law at the
University of Virginia, says - the principle of national sovereignty can be
"trumped" by pressing humanitarian demands. But if that were
the case, why hasn't the United States intervened in Turkey itself where the
Turks have been involved in an appallingly bloody war against the Kurds.
The Kurds, who number around twenty million people (more people than in either
Syria or Iraq, and more people in fact than the great majority of nations at
the end of the twentieth century), inhabit the great mass of territory in
eastern Turkey where they constitute, like the Albanians in Kosovo, the
overwhelming majority of the population. But here - unlike the situation in
Kosovo where the U.S. sides with the rebels - the U.S. sides decisively with
the central government (i.e.!
, the Turks), and so much so tha
t it has for years supplied the Turks with the arms and intelligence necessary
for the Turks to destroy the Kurds. And just how deeply is the U.S.
involved? - very deeply as the recent case of Abdullah Ocalan demonstrates.
Ocalan is the leader of the Kurdish rebellion in eastern Turkey; he is
considered a folk hero and a "freedom fighter" by the great mass of
Kurds living in the area. He leads the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has
waged an intense and persistent campaign against Turkey for the past 15 years,
seeking - like the Albanians in Kosovo - autonomy for the Kurdish people.
About 37,000 people have died in this fight - mostly Kurds. But the U.S.
government considers Ocalan a terrorist. Since October 1998, largely as
the result of U.S. diplomatic pressure, Ocalan had been on the run - from
Syria to Italy to Russia to Greece. Each time Ocalan thought he had found
refuge, the CIA was able to persuade the host country to refuse him sanctuary,
forcing him to take flight again in an increasingly desperate search for
asylum. He finally landed in the Greek Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on
February 2.
It was a poor choice of hideouts. More than 100 U.S. intelligence
officers and law enforcement agents, along with Kenyan security officials, were
in Nairobi investigating the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy, which took
213 lives in August. Members of that team quickly discovered Ocalan had
arrived in Nairobi. They immediately placed the Greek Embassy under
surveillance and monitored Ocalan's cell phone conversations, while he placed
calls to political contacts, seeking sanctuary. The surveillance
information gave Turkish commandos the chance to capture Ocalan with the help
of Kenyan security officers acting at the behest of the CIA. The
commandos captured Ocalan after he had agreed to be driven to the Nairobi
airport by a Kenyan security officer working with the CIA.
The thing to be remarked upon in all this is the utter hypocrisy of the U.S.
government's stand with regard to the situation in Kurdistan as compared to its
stand with regard to the Albanians in Kosovo. There is no real difference
between the two situations - except oil! Oil (and, ipso facto, money) is
the difference. It seems that America's humanitarianism is linked to
money; those who have it are the recipients of America's
"humanitarian" concern; those who don't have it are ignored, or - as
in the case of Ocalan and the Kurds - are hunted down and butchered
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