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UN ambassador Samantha Power's motorcade in Cameroon strikes and kills 7-year-old boy
American Thinker ^ | 04/19/2016 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/19/2016 9:19:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It’s not a good look for the convoy of a crusader against genocide to mow down a little African boy as her motorcade roars through a rural area at high speed (often exceeding 60 miles per hour on two-lane country roads), accompanied by a helicopter overhead, journalists in tow, eager for a photo op with refugees.  But that was the situation facing Samantha Power yesterday in Cameroon.  The Associated Press reports:

U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power’s trip to Cameroon’s front lines in the war against Boko Haram started horrifically today as an armored jeep in her motorcade struck and killed a young boy who darted into the road.

The incident occurred near the small city of Mokolo, in northern Cameroon, where Power, her aides and accompanying journalists were headed to meet refugees and others displaced by the years of brutal attacks across West Africa.

All those meetings included small children.

Power, a journalist, achieved fame, academic standing, fortune, and high office by self-righteously denouncing the callousness of Western powers in the face of genocide.  But since becoming Barack Obama’s U.N. ambassador, she has remained in office as his administration stood by as hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in Syria, not resigning in protest.  Those perks of office – like armored motorcades though impoverished areas afflicted by genocidal forces – must be hard to give up.

Power’s motorcade did not even stop:

The vehicle that hit the boy initially stopped, but was ordered by American security forces to continue traveling through the unsecured area. An ambulance in the U.S. caravan immediately attended to him.


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To: forgotten man
That is the way that the Irish drive

Yeah no sht! I was there, and those narrow, stone wall lined roads, and then a car barreling towards you down the middle of the road and swerving away at the last second.

My joke to the wife was, "Red Leader, this is Gold Leader. We're starting our attack run." (Then I had to remind her it was from Star Wars)
21 posted on 04/19/2016 9:37:15 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: SeekAndFind

22 posted on 04/19/2016 9:37:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Secret Agent Man

Why did the motorcade have to speed so fast?


23 posted on 04/19/2016 9:37:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Seven years old. Never had a chance at life.

May the Almighty receive him into Paradise with open arms where he will cry no more.


24 posted on 04/19/2016 9:44:07 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reads like something straight out of A Tale of Two Cities.

25 posted on 04/19/2016 9:45:58 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: SeekAndFind

What is she doing in Camaroon? The UN is in NYC.

Well, I guess Camaroon does have oil.


26 posted on 04/19/2016 9:48:47 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: SeekAndFind

One 7 year old boy?

She’s looked the other way while hundreds of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered in Syria and Iraq. No big deal to her.


27 posted on 04/19/2016 9:49:09 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: SeekAndFind
she now has the necessary work experience,,,
Samantha Powers for President !!!
28 posted on 04/19/2016 9:50:17 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Vic S

And Obama will offer the parents a million dollars for a life.

Of course, we can’t sue Saudi Arabia for over 3,000 because that would be unAmerican.


29 posted on 04/19/2016 9:50:30 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Timpanagos1
"There is nothing more dangerous on the road than a politicians motorcade."

Except if you're between Charles Schumer and a camera

30 posted on 04/19/2016 9:52:36 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: dfwgator

Its a vip security motorcade. In rural areas they generally go much faster than urban areas. For security reasons.

I can ask the same type of question. Why did the kid dart out in front of the truck?


31 posted on 04/19/2016 9:59:12 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I used to commute through a neighborhood where kids would make a game of running out in front of cars.


32 posted on 04/19/2016 10:02:36 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It is possible given the conditions that they were going too fast.

It’s also possible that the kid wasn’t paying attention.

However, I’m fairly convinced this would be handled entirely different by the media with a republican.


33 posted on 04/19/2016 10:03:32 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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RE: I used to commute through a neighborhood where kids would make a game of running out in front of cars.

Must be an inner city neighborhood....


34 posted on 04/19/2016 10:03:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

RIP little one.


35 posted on 04/19/2016 10:06:30 AM PDT by tioga
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To: DoughtyOne

Fair enough...

But I remember a few years ago US military hit a woman in Iraq, on video...for similar reasons they could not slow down for any reason. The outcry from the left was swift. In particular a guy named Cenk Unger was raging mad. I suspect he will react differently to this incident.


36 posted on 04/19/2016 10:07:56 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: xzins

No question it would be spun differently if it were a republican administration. It would be different if the ambassador was a man as well.


37 posted on 04/19/2016 10:09:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TexasCajun

Seed of Chucky!

38 posted on 04/19/2016 10:11:26 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I hadn’t thought of the male/female thing, but you are absolutely correct.


39 posted on 04/19/2016 10:12:20 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just when you think it can’t get worse it does.


40 posted on 04/19/2016 10:15:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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