Another Protest Against U.S. Ally

By Charles Tolleson, February 18, 2011

Protesters in Bahrain were killed for protesting against another tyrannical government that is an ally to the United States. The protesters lay dying as the tanks rolled by. The last words they saw before they died- “Made in the USA.”

If a person in the United States aids and abets or in anyway contributes to a crime committed by another person, that abettor is charged as a conspirator to the crime and if convicted will serve jail time.

The U.S. officials that aid and abet the foreign tyrannies should be tried as conspirators to crimes that violate human rights. Of course there is no court powerful enough to arrest the conspirators so the conspirators continue to enable these foreign tyrants.

You say it is in America’s best interest to deal with foreign tyrants. The people who conspire with criminals do so because it is also in their best interest, not the best interest of society.

Since the U.S. is the most powerful nation on earth its leaders never have to worry about going on trial for crimes against humanity, especially crimes committed against people in other countries. The U.S. hoi polloi will condone the crimes committed by their leaders the same way tribal members always tolerate crimes against other tribes. Lt. William Calley was convicted of war crimes in Vietnam. After serving time the local citizens shopped at a jewelry store Calley managed. If the Japanese had miraculously won the war after the atomic bomb was dropped the Japanese would have tried President Harry Truman, General Curtis Lemay and Colonel Paul Tibbets as war criminals.

The per capita income of Bahrain’s population is $29,000 per year. Most of that income, derived from oil, goes to the Al Khalifa royal family who rules Bahrain. It is quiet impressive that the family can fly in their own private Boeing 747 jet when the country has slightly more than 1.2 million people in population. The Al Khalifa family has ruled Bahrain since 1820.

Tyranny is where one person tries to tell everyone else what to do. Democracy is where everyone tries to tell everyone else what to do. Freedom is where no one tells anyone what to do.

Just because tyrants are replaced with other forms of central control does not mean individuals will have freedom. The Internet and information sharing will lead to more individual freedoms, not to more centralized bureaucracies that operate by force.

To show how far flung the U.S. Military Nation is, the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet has its headquarters in Bahrain. I wonder how much we pay the Al Khalifa “Royal” family of mobsters to headquarter the 5th fleet in Bahrain. I also wonder how many young sailors in the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet know they are enablers to tyrants like the Al Khalifa family that deprives people of their natural rights and individual freedoms. Do these young sailors realize they are conspirators to human rights crimes by conspiring with the U.S. officials that are conspirators to the tyrants of the Middle East that commit crimes against humanity? The U.S. Military Complex will tell you their presences in the Middle East insures the flow of oil. And a rooster believes he can make the sun rise by crowing!

The reason people in the rest of the world hate us is not because of our freedoms, but because of our support for tyrants who do hate freedoms.

"What a thing it is to have a country that can't be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!" William Dean Howells


Charles Tolleson