The U.S. Twice Terrorized ? Who Are The Actual Patriots?

10/11/2003 - On September 11, 2001, the people who knew a terrorist attack was on the way and opted
instead to go into hiding, rather than using the kingly means entrusted them to defend the country, are not
only unpatriotic but also traitors. The same people later terrorized a nation still in the state of shock, using
threats and deceptive propaganda to rape its conscience and will, pointing their accusing finger on the
scapegoat immigrants on homeland security issues, in order to exhibit themselves as the patriots. But yet,
the actual patriots the mainstream media don?t want to talk about, currently at the brink of eternity in Iraq
are? immigrants of the United States. Patriots are also those who defend our pride and flag on all world
competition arenas, which often gives nightmares to conservative groups, because they are? Blacks.

Ndzana Seme

37,000 patriots, 24% of the American troops actually occupying Iraq and being killed daily, are immigrants.
As a comparison, the 2000 Census reported 31.1 million foreign-born individuals, only 10.9% of the U.S.
population. Clearly said, immigrants are a minority in the U.S. homeland, always accused of all sins by the
dominant conservatives and fundamentalists reigning over the mainstream media, a minority that becomes a
strong majority of one immigrant in four soldiers when it comes to defend the security and flag of the U.S.
There is nothing new in that, since immigrant representatives and public servants have always shown a
degree of patriotism higher than that of the other Americans (Read William Greider in ?Who Will Tell the
People?.)

But yet, at this very moment when the worry should be about how far the Bush administration has put the
U.S. security at high risk because of its diplomatic defeats (remember that Saddam Hussein defeated him
the most by uniting the United Nations against the U.S.), its evil policy of ?preemptive attacks?, its lies and
deceptive propaganda to reach its short-sighted goals, its dangerous leaks of CIA undercover operatives
names, etc., one of the main topics of debates is rather the control of illegal immigration in the U.S.

As a response to such debates ? notwithstanding concocted from Washington - Bush tightened down on
Immigration, with stronger screening of student visas and expansion of INS and Customs having resulted
into current unprecedented frustrations immigrants endure at U.S. embassies abroad. Since immigrants
show that they are the best wealth of American patriots, isn?t it shortsighted to fight immigration at the very
moment more wars (on terror?) are on the horizon?

?One fifth or 20% percent of the Armed Forces is African American, according to the (Defense)
department, the majority of whom are in the lower ranks and would have a good chance of being sent to
Iraq,? wrote BET.com correspondent Yvonne Latty on November 2002. Therefore, the number of African
American soldiers, those other great American patriots in the brink of eternity in Iraq, is about 30,000.
Whereas on the other hand, a March/April 2003 Gallup Poll reported that 78% of whites but only 29% of
blacks supported the pre-emptive war President Bush launched against Iraq.

But yet all the sins in the U.S. are loaded over African Americans by conservatives and the Christian
fundamentalists who lobby the Bush administration. "The African American unemployment rate now stands
at 11.2%, up from last month's 10.9%?, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC) exclaimed last week. This represents quite the double of the national unemployment
rate of 6.1%. Why are they so hardly punished? Because they joined the world to oppose the Bush?s
international warmonger policies or because they have been naïve enough to respond to an unpatriotic call
that turns out to weaken the U.S. security?

Cases of American Black celebrities exposed by the mainstream media as drug addicts, murderers, or
rapists are countless. Such cases are the daily pièce de résistance for conservative fundamentalist talk show
anchors. These disseminators of hate against people of color - in order to present the European White
Americans as the only patriots and people of values worth to be Americans - recently made a good capture
with the sexual misconduct case of the Black basketball celebrity Kobe Bryant. All media projectors are
pointed at the Eagle, Colorado court building ? not at the White House where high crimes of lies and
traitorous leak are to be investigated ?, the same way the media projectors were once pointed at Jayson
Blair, an insignificant New York Times reporter accused of plagiarism, when destruction of infrastructure
and massacres of civilians in Iraq had to matter.

The biggest name among these commentators, Rush Limbaugh, cherished by more than 20 million
conservative listeners across the U.S., created a scandal by saying that the media should not sing Black
sportspeople praise, using as example Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb presented as
overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterbacks succeed. The outrageous comments
made it unavoidable this time for media projectors to point at the hate disseminator and to find out that Rush
Limbaugh is? a drug addict. But surprisingly, excuses are found in the mainstream media that now present
the drug addict Limbaugh ? him who advocated jail and pitiless fight against drug users in his broadcasts ?
as an innocent ?painkiller? drug prescription victim, inviting the public to think about the ?new problem? of
?addiction to medication.?

When a White - most of all when that White is paid $300 million contracts to disseminate hate against
people of color ? uses heroin and crack-type drugs, he is just a painkiller drug prescription victim to feel
sorry of. When a Black uses heroin and crack-type drugs, he is an un-American, dangerous individual who
must either go to jail or get shot.

I know that many White conservatives strongly supporting the Bush administration?s drive of America to
international chaos may feel confused when confronted with the facts listed above. Usually they dismiss
easily this type of points as conspiracy theory. When we demonstrated since February 2003 the craziness
of the preemptive war policies, of lies and threats of unpatriotic labels, of putting any nation to fire and the
sword whenever the Washington?s soft money donors want so, of violating international treaties and laws to
pursue selfish interests, one of the only two readers who negatively reacted asked us where we were on
September 11.

This type of questions is the drama that locks the American people into a dramatic, political
uncultivatedness. Through strong political advertising-type propaganda, Washington puts chosen questions
on the lips of peoples; who are not anymore able to think by themselves. Therefore any political debate
would go the Washington way.

The only ones to whom the question ?Where were you on 9/11?? should be asked are Bush and his inner
circle. In many cultures, mostly in historic African beliefs, the leader or king had to take place ahead of the
first battalion in any war offensive. Bush and his inner circle taught us on 9/11 that the ?Commander in
Chief? has to desert the White House when a threat comes and later present himself as the most patriotic
American, with his administration blackmailing, threatening, terrorizing the Congress and the people to
support its evil decisions, and the American people would still believe it.

A democrat candidate in the race for the 2004 presidential election embodies the tragedy of the American
people. Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate who says he had opposed the war in Iraq and his solution is
immediate withdrawal of the American occupying troops. No other democrat candidate accepts the
immediate withdrawal of the American troops, not because this is not the right thing to do - this is the right
thing to do since the entire world thinks so -, but because no one wants to estrange the conservative vote.

A December 2001 poll of world opinion leaders commissioned by the Paris-based International Herald
Tribune showed that 58% of non-US respondents felt that Washington's policies were a "major cause" in
fuelling resentment and anger against the US, in contrast to only 18% of US respondents. Moreover, 90%
of Americans saw US power and wealth as the chief reason why they are disliked, while the
non-Americans overwhelmingly thought the US bears responsibility for the world's rich-poor gap. The gap
may be even wider today after the war in Iraq. Is the world wrong or the conservative-controlled U.S. is
wrong?

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