I came upon this article on the Radical Congruency blog. Although most of the criticism in the article is directed towards the UN and other governments I think that the criticism can just as easily be directed towards individuals. As is also mentioned on the Radical Congruency blog August 25 has been named the Day of Conscience. It is intended to be a day where the international community raises awareness and demands accountability from their governments. I encourage you to look over the link and see what you can do. Please consider writing your local representative or other appropriate government officials an email to encourage them to take a stronger stand on this issue. If you and I do nothing but criticize the governments for allowing this atrocity to occur then we are part of the problem.
Here is an exert from the article:
Europeans cannot criticize the United States for waging war in Iraq if they are unwilling to exhibit the moral fiber to stop genocide by acting collectively and with decisiveness. President Bush was wrong to go into Iraq unilaterally when Iraq posed no danger to the United States, but we were right to demand accountability from Saddam. We are also right to demand accountability in Sudan. Every day that goes by without meaningful sanctions and even military intervention in Sudan by African, European and if necessary U.N. forces is a day where hundreds of innocent civilians die and thousands are displaced from their land. Every day that goes by without action to stop the Sudan genocide is a day that the anti-Iraq war position so widely held in the rest of the world appears to be based less on principle and more on politics. And every day that goes by is a day in which George Bush's contempt for the international community, which I have denounced every day for two years, becomes more difficult to criticize.
Posted by rose at August 20, 2004 08:59 AM | TrackBackCan GENOCIDE be STOP with WAR? VIOLENCE is IRRATIONAL. Think of HIROSHIMA.
Orlando City of Lights January 7 year 2005.
Dear Sirs.
Listening to some of Church leaders of the nation, Christian churches; makes me think that they do not understand “The Written Word” in the Bible or they are liars. It also makes me wonder if they even understand their own language, referring now to the American language written in the Webster’s New World Dictionary. This goes also to those that are Republicans and Democrats and call themselves “Christians;” for they also have a goat attitude about obeying the DOCTRINE of CHRIST; and economic interest in believing the lies of the President.
TYRANT: absolute ruler; one who seized sovereignty illegally; that describes George W Bush regarding the take over of Iraq. Therefore Democracy has a new definition, regarding what he is trying to do now in that sovereign nation; perhaps something similar to the following description.
DEMOCRACY: government forced militarily by a dictatorial American TYRANT.
FREEDOM: the state or quality of being free; from the control of some other person or some ARBITRARY POWER.
ARBITRARY: base on one’s preference, notion, or whim; capricious, absolute; despotic, synonymous with dictatorial. Freedom has a new terminology according to the whims of the American TYRANT; something as the following.
NEW FREEDOM according to George W Bush: one pretended in the midst of people killing one another.
Today I heard the LORD and read:
“And there went out another horse that was read; and power was given to him that sat thereto take PEACE from the EARTH, and that they should kill one another; and there was given unto him a great sword.” Revelation 6:4. More over: “Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously; for I will work a work in your days, which you will not believe, though it will be told you. For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.” Habakkuk 1:5-7. “He that saith, I know HIM, and keeps not HIS commandments, is a Liar, and the Truth is not in him.” John 2:3.
If you can understand “The Written Word;” you would understand your call and HIS Commandment for True PEACE is LOVE and MERCY for your enemies. Repent! Says Ivor Manuel; praying for you and Peace for the World, prophet of the LORD.