Posted on 02/11/2011 11:27:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
US President Barack Obama recalled the non-violent methods of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr as he praised the people of Egypt for their peaceful protests and welcomed the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-rule.
"While the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can't help but hear the echoes of history: echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice," Obama said in his speech hours after Hosni Mubarak resigned as President of Egypt.
As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana, while trying to perfect his own, "There's something in the soul that cries out for freedom", those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note, he said.
"Egyptians have inspired us, and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence; for in Egypt it was the moral force of nonviolence -- not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force -- that bent the arc of history toward justice once more," he said.
Obama said Egypt has played a pivotal role in human history for over 6,000 years.
"But over the last few weeks, the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace as the Egyptian people demanded their universal rights. We saw mothers and fathers carrying their children on their shoulders to show them what true freedom might look like.”
"We saw protesters chant "salmiya, salmiya" – we are peaceful -- again and again. We saw a military that would not fire bullets at the people they were sworn to protect. And we saw doctors and nurses rushing into the streets to care for those who were wounded, volunteers checking protesters to ensure that they were unarmed," the US President said.
Jimmy Carter - Iran
Barack Obama - Egypt
Mohandas Gandhi - Socialist Loser
0bedwet would make a good crotch wrap for Ghandi.
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What have they done for the last 2,000 years?
I would be really scared in that country as I would be in this one were it to happen here.
Gandhi was a commie fellow traveler.
We’ll see how the Ghandi analogy works out when the beheadings and stonings start.
And he was adamantly anti-Christianity. Along with the adulterous Martin Luther King, Gandhi was a fraud and a sexual deviant. Neither of them deserve the reverence they often get (sadly, even by some here on FR).
I am with you on that.
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Gandhi
I’m soooooo sick and tired of lefties using Ghandi. For crying out loud, Ghandi opposed occupation by the British Empire — the most civilizing force on the planet in its time — which never gave him any armed opposition.
If this all goes wrong, then Obama will be wearing the fallout, since it’s quite obvious that he could have sent a different signal from the start.
So far, all that has actually happened is that the military have a new front man. This is how Mubarak started his nearly endless term of office.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, whatever ducks do that he does, I'd surely say he was installed as President to wreak as much havoc, destruction on America, American interests as possible, of which he is doing an excellent job of.
I will not survive two more years of what is at the very least is clueless incompetence, dereliction of duty.
Is there nothing we can do to end this American nightmare without waiting two more years!!??
Jallianwala Bagh massacreThe Amritsar massacre, known alternately as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Punjabi: ਜਲ੍ਹਿਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ਼ ਹਤਿਆਕਾਂਡ, Hindi: जलियांवाला बाग़ हत्याकांड جليانوالہ باغ ہتياکانڈ Jallianwala Bāġa Hatyākāṇḍ) for after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on April 13, 1919 (which happened to be 'Baisakhi' one of Punjab's largest religious festivals) fifty British Indian Army soldiers, commanded by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, began shooting at an unarmed gathering of men, women and children without warning. The shooting lasted for ten to fifteen minutes, until ammunition ran out. Dyer ordered soldiers to reload their rifles several times and they were ordered to shoot to kill.[1] Official British Raj sources estimated the fatalities at 379, and with 1,100 wounded.[2] Civil Surgeon Dr Smith indicated that there were 1,526 casualties.[3] However, the casualty number quoted by the Indian National Congress was more than 1,500, with roughly 1,000 killed.[4]
Oh, you meant Gandhi never gave armed resistance!?!
“I’m soooooo sick and tired of lefties using Ghandi. For crying out loud, Ghandi opposed occupation by the British Empire — the most civilizing force on the planet in its time — which never gave him any armed opposition.”
Any one of these cases of “non-violent” triumph on the part of the populace seems to be because those in power weren’t prepared to crush them. The collapse of communism was because Gorbachov saw it had failed; even 10 years earlier, the state would have maintained it’s power through force.
No, I meant what I said. Jallianwala Bagh was a monumental screw-up led by an over-reacting British military officer who claimed he was facing a riot. Ghandi wasn’t even there.
Well, then he had no reason to be mad about it!
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