Getting Harder To Feed Africa
Deborah Venable
04/15/09
With
the recent spate of attacks on ships bound for the African coast’s pirate
infested waters, one can only surmise that Africans had rather starve than
stand up for themselves. The two
American ships that were attacked were carrying massive food aid to various
ports in and around the pirate stronghold of Somalia. Since half of the population of Somalia depends on this food aid
to feed its starving population, not to mention other locations along Africa’s
west coast, I’d say Africa – not the rest of the world has a vested interested
in deterring and destroying the pirate industry. That’s right – I said, “pirate
industry” because that’s what it is!
If all these self-professed pirates and all the other mostly Muslim “leaders” in this pitiful section of the world were willing to combine productive efforts to deliver their homelands from the scourge of poverty and hunger, they wouldn’t need the billions of dollars (and goods) the rest of the industrialized world delivers, (or attempts to deliver) to their wasted populations on a regular basis.
America
has already fought her war against pirates and won. In A History Lesson, an article I wrote a little over a year ago,
I reminded readers of this point.
Tribute – that ill-named confiscation payment demanded by Muslims of
non-Muslims - had been paid on a regular basis to ensure free passage of the
shipping lanes in the same areas now targeted by modern day pirates. Soon after America secured her independence,
our fledgling country refused to continue this capitulation to terror. While other nations, even in Europe,
continued to be held up, America took to arms and refused the pirates’
demands.
Here
is a quote from the ambassador from Tripoli, Sidi Haje Abdrahaman, (back in
1786), when asked by what right Tripoli could claim tribute from nations that
had done no injury to his country:
"It was written in their Quran that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet (Muhammad) were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful (Muslims) to plunder and enslave; and that every Muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise."
The
source for this quote is from a recent
article
by Judge Roy Moore, writing for WorldNet Daily.
That
is the official Muslim take on the pirate industry – then and now. Believe it.
The
point is we didn’t need the world’s help then and we certainly don’t need it
now. So, why does our president say
that we must join with the rest of the world community to address the current
pirate assault? Why do more and more of
our judges, including Supreme Court Justices, say we must look to foreign law
and undermine our own sovereignty in deciding how America progresses in the
future?
Furthermore,
why would ANY American citizen, much less our president, feel the need to
disparage America on foreign soil – EVER?
Confiscated
funds from American producers, via the ungodly tax code, have been used to feed
the world’s hungry for many, many decades now.
This doesn’t even count the untold billions freely given by private
American donations for the same purpose.
We have continued to prop up failing economies all over the world –
especially in Africa – and the thanks we get consist of people demanding more
and the pirate industry given a pass to continue its terror on the high
seas! Now Obama wants the world’s
cooperation and places little or no expectation on the homeland of his own
father to shoulder responsibility for the deplorable shape of Africa. Perhaps the predominant religion in those
worst of the worst regions has a lot to do with it.
Mr.
Veritas found this little piece of video that takes a hard look at Obama in particular
and Africa in general. The speaker has
every right to his opinion and might give pause to some who haven’t given much
thought to the “race card” being played to elect Obama.
“Bowing”
to the Muslim community may seem like a good idea to some. Casting America as some sort of weakened
member of the world community may seem like a good idea to some. Placing America on a “level playing field”
with the rest of the world may sound like a good idea to some.
But
know this – if these things are employed with ever more vigor, more and more of
Africa will starve!
Perhaps
it just makes better sense to overrule the
liberal/socialist/communist/progressive/ agenda, buttressed by the undeniable
Muslim agenda against American traditionalists and continue to fight for
American sovereignty and free enterprise productive rights so that we can, at
least, continue to feed Africa. It surely
doesn’t look like they will ever do what it takes to feed themselves!