Held Against Their Will

Submitted by John Randall Peacher (United States), Jul 14, 2002 at 09:49

Not only should the US Government support and provide assistance to citizens held against their will; but we should examine why we are supporting a dictatorship that is holding MILLIONS of persons against their will. The Kingdom of Saud is guilty of imposing virtual slavery upon the women of Saudi Arabia. Not only American service personnel are victims; and victims they are. Americans, not allowed to have religious observances on holy days, women not allowed to drive or dress as they wish when leaving military bases, not alowed to be in possion of another Holy Book, the Bible.

Out of fear, the US Department of State is unwilling to stand upon the very foundations upon which the US Government is built. It is a situation not unlike those who fought in our Civil War for the continued confinement of slaves in the Southern United States. The US Government is supporting slavery in the Islamic World. To make matters worse, these slave governments are trying to impose, by violence and bribery, continued support and silence of Democratic nations.

If President Abraham Lincoln had waited for support from senators from Virginia, North and South Carolina and the majority of Southern Senators and Representatives, blacks would still be working under their slave masters in the southland. Here we are, over 100 years later, a superpower among the nations of the world, supporting Islamic Nations with 280 million slaves; afraid of offending the dictatorships of Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Lebannon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Quatar, Kwaite, Pakistan, Sudan, and on and on....Hundreds of millions of innocents living in slavery, and we, a superpower afraid of confronting the slave masters head on.

A shameful blotch for the democratic governments of the world.

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