Posted by Wymark on 8/20/2009, 10:53 am, in reply to "Re: Obama Sucks!!!!"
82.23.179.222
Typical that this anti-Obama board stresses that his middle name is 'Hussein'. You're supposed to instinctively understand what that connotes: Hussein = Arab = Muslim = UnAmerican = Terrorist.
Indicative of the racist nature of the opposition to Obama among some right wingers in the U.S..
For what it's worth, I also happen to think Obama is a terrorist. But not because his name is 'Hussein'.
Here's how 'terrorism' is defined in the Terrorism Act 2000:
'1. Terrorism: interpretation
(1) In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where —
(a) the action falls within subsection (2),
(b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation'.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/carlile-terrorism-definition?view=Binary - page 8.
So threatening the use of force to 'influence' a government's behaviour/policy is regarded as terrorist behaviour by the Terrorism Act 2000. And here's what Obama said about his intentions towards the Iranian government in May 2009:
'I've been very clear that I don't take any options off the table with respect to Iran. I don't take options off the table when it comes to US security, period'.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212390277&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Everyone knows what 'all options on the table' means - it means the U.S. reserves the right to use the military option Iran, ostensibly to hinder it's nuclear program, and may well do so. It's an implicit threat from Obama that, if the Iranian government doesn't change it's nuclear policy to one that's more of the U.S. government's liking, the country they rule over may well be attacked. In other words it's a 'threat . . . designed to influence the government'. Or terrorism, as defined by the Terrorism Act 2000.
But as always, in the eyes of the bourgeois political class and corporate media in this country and the U.S., terrorism is only terrorism when it's Them doing it to Us, and never vice versa. So you won't be hearing him described as such any time soon.
Message Thread:
« Back to thread