Some Hate Us and Some Fear Us
by James Glaser
November 5, 2009

I have this theory. I have written it before, but I going to give it to you again. I believe if you kill someone's mother or father, sister or brother, their child, or even their best friend, that person will hate you till the day they die. America has been killing those people by the tens of thousands ever since WW II. I'm not talking about killing soldiers in battle, I'm saying we have been killing innocent civilians for the last 60 some years. We even have a name for them. We call them "collateral damage"- innocent people who get in the way of our bombs and bullets. Nobody knows how much money we have paid out to the loved ones of the people we kill. In some countries we get by with just a few dollars per person, and in others we have to pay more. We don't always pay, just if we have to.

So, with all that killing, we have made a lot of enemies.

That tells you about the people who hate us. Of course, it isn't just the people we kill that brings on this hate, but the people we maim hate us too, and the people whose homes and businesses we destroy don't feel good about us either, but there is another group of people around the globe that also doesn't like us, in fact, they fear us.

That group would be the people who know about how our CIA can run around the world taking people in the middle of the night. They take them away from their loved ones without a word and ship them off to countries where we can pay to have them tortured.

Italian Judge Convicts 23 CIA Officers for Kidnapping
Italian Officials Complicit in 2003 'Rendition' of Cleric
by Jason Ditz, November 04, 2009

It seems that this is a bigger story outside of the United States than it is here at home, but then that is true about a lot of stories concerning what Washington does in our name.

The incident, dubbed the "imam rapito affair" by the Italian press, involves the abduction of Milan's imam, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian cleric who was in Italy on an asylum passport. The CIA agents kidnapped Nasr off the streets of Milan and shipped him to Egypt.

Once in Egypt, Nasr spent the next several years in and out of prison, where he was tortured repeatedly. An Egyptian judge finally ordered his release in 2007. His only charge during the whole time was membership in a banned organization, though even this was eventually dropped.

Did you notice? They took this guy, kept him in prison for several years, tortured him "repeatedly," and then they let him go. Is that sick? For sure it is cruel.

This kidnapping of a Muslim priest is not the first nor will it be the last. Our America and our CIA have secret prisons all over the world where we can hide the people we snatch away from their loved ones without a trace. They just disappear, and most are never heard of again.

It is kind of like those old movies about the Nazis in World War II. The Gestapo would take people away in the middle of the night. Well, to the rest of the world our CIA is the Gestapo, and in some places the CIA is feared just as much.

You and I don't hear about these things very often, because our media is controlled, but it gets big play almost every where else, and people think about us, the Evil Empire. Maybe at one time that Evil Empire was the Soviet Union, but today there is only one super power, and that is us. Much of the world fears and hates this new evil empire.

America is the super power that people fear and hate, and if you think hard about what we do, it is pretty easy to see why.

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