Why Americans aren’t Happy with their Presidents
Despite
strenuous attempts of the White House representatives to create a
positive image of their master both in the country and abroad, millions
of people from all over the world are getting disenchanted with this
“man-made idol.” Despite the fact that in 2009 (thanks to the efforts of
US financiers and politicians) Barack Obama was awarded Nobel Peace
Prize, the number of disillusioned continues to grow, because in many
countries this award was perceived as outright mockery at the
aspirations of ordinary people for peace (those very ordinary people die
by thousands as a result of the policy pursued by the White House and
its master and suffer from chaos incited by Washington in Iraq, Syria,
Libya, Afghanistan and many other states). Actually, almost all
manipulations undertaken for Obama to get hold of the prize are vividly
described in The Peace Secretary,
a book written by Geir Lundestad, former secretary of the Norwegian
Nobel Committee that came out of print on September 17 of this year.
But
more and more people in the US recognize and give sober evaluation of
anti-humane activities of American presidents. The demand voiced in
October by a group of students of the Missouri University, one of the
biggest in the US, to have the statue of the third president of the
United States Thomas Jefferson removed from the campus grounds, is
symptomatic. Having freed themselves from “chains” of the state
propaganda promoting a positive image of this founding father–one of the
authors of the United States Declaration of Independence, students
justly accused him of “hypocrisy”, “racism”, the “policy of oppression” and consider him a “symbol of violence”.
To support their accusations, protestors referred to numerous facts,
pointing out that while calling for independence, Jefferson remained a
slave owner and raped his slave-women, the name of one of them being
Sally Hemings. Having engaged in active collection of signatures to file
a petition demanding to dismantle Thomas Jefferson statue, students
stated that although removing
of statue alone “will not eliminate the racial problems we face in
America today, but it will help cure the emotional and psychological
strain of history.”
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/23/why-americans-aren-t-happy-with-their-presidents/
more and more people in the US recognize and give sober evaluation of
anti-humane activities of American presidents. The demand voiced in
October by a group of students of the Missouri University, one of the
biggest in the US, to have the statue of the third president of the
United States Thomas Jefferson removed from the campus grounds, is
symptomatic. Having freed themselves from “chains” of the state
propaganda promoting a positive image of this founding father–one of the
authors of the United States Declaration of Independence, students
justly accused him of “hypocrisy”, “racism”, the “policy of oppression” and consider him a “symbol of violence”.
To support their accusations, protestors referred to numerous facts,
pointing out that while calling for independence, Jefferson remained a
slave owner and raped his slave-women, the name of one of them being
Sally Hemings. Having engaged in active collection of signatures to file
a petition demanding to dismantle Thomas Jefferson statue, students
stated that although removing
of statue alone “will not eliminate the racial problems we face in
America today, but it will help cure the emotional and psychological
strain of history.”
First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/23/why-americans-aren-t-happy-with-their-presidents/
