Pres. Obama should apologize to President Morales

[Peace Patriot]

118. "Fuck Morales"? That's like saying, "Fuck Nelson Mandela!"

Morales IS the 'Nelson Mandela' of South America. He has courageously and brilliantly led a political/social revolution peacefully overturning more than a century of white apartheid, in a country with an Indigenous majority, and has not only helped establish democracy in Bolivia but did so in the face of U.S. (Bush Junta) open collusion with a violent white separatist coup attempt in 2008 (--funded and organized it right out of the U.S. embassy).

Your post could not be more offensive to the brown-skinned peoples of Latin America! And President Obama's failure to condemn the diversion of an OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL JET, and the violation of a number of international laws as well as gross violation of diplomatic protocol, is offensive like your post is. Given, also, that it is extremely likely (a no-brainer, really) that the U.S. was behind this incident, President Obama has an obligation to mend it, but I doubt that he will. He seems quite comfortable in the role of front bully and liar for the U.S. "military-industrial complex."

There are a number of things President Obama should do, including granting Snowden immunity and inviting him home to detail for Obama, and for all of us ,everything that he knows about our out-of-control MIC. That would be the right thing to do in a functioning democracy--instead of hunting him down to punish and silence him, and, not incidentally, insulting and possibly endangering the elected and revered president of a Latin American country! Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld--those monstrous scofflaws and criminals--would approve of hunting, silencing and insulting. And they would cheer on your "Fuck Morales!" too. What an attitude!

Many of us feel real despair that Obama will ever do the right thing with regard to the MIC, the banksters, Bush Junta war crimes, gross violations of constitutional and human rights, and other absolutely vital matters. He seems to be the tool of these outlaw forces, not their master. You can try to hide from this reality--a lot of people do--and I can understand that. We are living through a very difficult time, as a country. But try not to defensively blame or dismiss or insult other countries' leaders who criticize this country and/or who are its intended victims--who are always having to look out for the U.S.-funded rifleman or fascist coup plotters trying to kill them or overthrow their legitimate government. It is not their fault that the U.S. has become a bully imperium.

It may be too much to ask that one man turn it around--President Obama. He probably wouldn't live long if he tried to. It will take all of us--and a great democracy revolution here. But at the least he could set a tone for reform--such as immunizing Snowden and welcoming his revelations--and attacking some of the structural problems of our democracy, such as the corporate-controlled 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines (all over the U.S.). He doesn't even do this. Maybe he can't--maybe the deals he made to become president forbid it. In that case, it's entirely up to us--to the people of this country--to restore democracy here. But it does no good to get your back up, defensively, and defend the indefensible, and revile the victim, just because Barack Obama is president. That is not good citizenship.

Imagine Bolivians and other Latin Americans reading your post. With the internet, it could go far and wide. You don't believe Morales (and others) that the U.S. was behind this? Fine, you don't have to believe it. But, "Fuck Morales"? If that "goes viral," it will merely help confirm most Latin Americans in their view that that is exactly what the U.S. government did to Morales in this instance, and is doing to them in many other instances, and has done to them for more than half a century. Fuck Latin America!

Please take it back.