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    Free Gonorrhea and Syphilis, courtesy the Greatest Country in the World

    By William K. Wolfrum on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 1:07pm | Politics, Media

    Being the greatest country in the world means occasionally having to say your sorry for infecting the people of another country with wicked sexually transmitted diseases just to see what happens.

    From BBC:

    US testing that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 years ago was a “crime against humanity”, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said.

    President Barack Obama has apologised for the medical tests, in which mentally ill patients and prisoners were infected without their consent.

    Mr Obama told Mr Colom the 1940s-era experiments ran contrary to American values, Guatemala said.

    Really, it was just another slip for the U.S. in maintaining its shield of values. Occasionally we as a nation pump people full of gonorrhea and syphilis. It happens. Ask several hundred black men in Tuskegee.

    Please know that it’s cool now. America has its values back. This sort of behavior just isn’t tolerated any longer.

    –WKW

    Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

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    September 20, 2001
    Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People United States Capitol Washington, D.C. 

    “Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber -- a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.....
    These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us, because we stand in their way.....


    We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety.

     We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. 

    By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.....The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war,...... 

     and we know that God is not neutral between them. (Applause.)

    Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice -- assured of the rightness of our cause, and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may He watch over the United States of America.
    Thank you. 

    http://www.historycentral.com/documents/Bushjoint.html

     

    You got that one right G Bush, God is not neutral. 

    (Speaking about the spiritual leaders and those who support them) 

     (Revelation 18:4-8) . . .“Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind. 6 Render to her even as she herself rendered, and do to her twice as much, yes, twice the number of the things she did; in the cup in which she put a mixture put twice as much of the mixture for her. 7 To the extent that she glorified herself and lived in shameless luxury, to that extent give her torment and mourning. For in her heart she keeps saying, ‘I sit a queen, and I am no widow, and I shall never see mourning.’ 8 That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire. . .

     

     

     

     


    by Resistance on Mon, 10/04/2010 - 8:09pm