Jimmy Carter

Foxnews: Carter Shrugs Off Calls From U.S. Officials, Lawmakers to Drop Meeting With Hamas: "Former President Jimmy Carter said he feels 'quite at ease' about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel."

Hamas is essential for the future peace process??!! That is complete BS, Hamas is committed to the destruction of the state of Israel. The only way the peace process can proceed is for the elimination of the military wing of Hamas. I will admit that Hamas does have a political wing which does a lot of good especially in the form of social programs, however, this political wing still spends large amounts of money and time indoctrinating future homicide bombers. Hamas is also well known for summary executions and let's not forget the constant barrage of Quassam rockets aimed at Israeli civilians. The Israelis do respond to the attacks but remember, if Hamas didn't start it, Israel wouldn't have to finish it. Uh-oh, I think that I have just admitted to being part of the Zionist conspiracy to rule the world.

Anyway......Carter isn't only in love with Hamas members who sacrifice their children for Allah or PURPOSELY target innocent civilians but he also has a soft spot for the murderous Chinese government.

"Carter, interviewed Saturday for ABC News' "This Week," airing Sunday, also said he would OPPOSE a U.S. Olympic boycott and HOPES ALL COUNTRIES WILL JOIN (both emphases mine) in the Beijing games."

I do agree with the many that claim that a boycott of the the opening ceremonies will be nothing more that symbolism. The world should not attend at all. How the IOC decided to "reward" China with the Olympics is still as perplexing to me as quantum physics. However, the world is allowing the Chinese government to commit murder, allowing genocide in Darfur, and stood by during the genocide in Rwanda. Why start doing anything now?

At least Carter admits there are crimes against humanity occurring in the Sudan. Of course, he refuses to use the word "genocide" to describe the killings in Darfur. Maybe we'll need 1 million to be slaughter before we can use the word genocide. Apparently 200,000 killed is not enough for Carter.

China, The Olympics and Gun Control

The Chinese government has been selected as the site for the 2008 Olympics. However, unrest in China and Tibet, which is controlled by China, is embarrassing the Chinese government. China News Agency: Death Toll From Riots Rises to at Least 19: "Numbers for injuries and death tolls have been varied and hard to confirm because China keeps a tight control over information. Tibetan exile groups say 99 people were killed — 80 in Lhasa and 19 in Gansu — while Beijing maintains that 16 died and more than 300 were injured in Lhasa." I think there may be some bias here, an altering of the actual numbers for political gain. Sort of like the "Jenin massacre."

Many are calling for the Olympics to be pulled from China to punish the Chinese government for murdering its citizens and I agree (with how oppressive the communist Chinese government is, I don't know how they were even in the running for hosting the Olympics in the first place). The Chinese populace has been relieved of their basic human rights of free speech and personal protection by their oppressive communist government. And its beginning to look as if the Chinese government is exploiting the vulnerability of their people.

In the US, the second amendment was partially written to prevent government oppression; you cannot oppress an armed populace. Even the Japanese thought twice about invading the US mainland in WW II when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese Navy said, "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." However, just like most gun control advocates, the Chinese government claims that its total gun ban is to prevent crime. However, I think that its really to control its population (and the Tibetan population).

China established gun control in 1935; from 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents were exterminated.

With a terribly oppressive government and a population unable to defend itself, I fear that history may be repeating itself.