AZJoe
02-13-2018, 08:33 AM
THE PATHETICISM OF U.S.' TOTALITARIAN SANCTIONS (https://www.fff.org/2018/02/12/patheticism-u-s-sanctions-north-korea/)
by the Great Jacob G. Hornberger
Officials of the Sheraton Hotel might be experiencing some sleepless nights as a result of ... five-star Sheraton Hotel permitted Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, to stay there during her official visit to the Olympic Games. ... U.S. officials have Kim Yo Jong on their list of North Koreans specifically targeted for U.S. sanctions. ... they might soon find that U.S. officials can be as vicious as their North Korean counterparts.
Just ask Bert Sacks (https://www.fff.org/2011/01/05/bert-sacks-hero-time/), the American citizen from Washington State who dared to violate U.S. sanctions against the Iraqi people ... to take medicines into Iraq ... U.S. officials went after him with a vengeance that bordered on the pathological. ... U.S. officials pursued him for more than a decade ... (For more on the remarkable story of Sack’s heroic resistance to the U.S. sanctions on the Iraqi people, see here (http://www.iraqikids.org/).). It’s what [totalitarians in Washington] do to anyone who dares to violate their sacred sanctions. ....
Samsung ... has a policy of giving out smartphones to the Olympic athletes ... Not so for the North Korean athletes, who won’t be taking any selfies home with them. ... not because they might be punished by North Korean officials ... but because Samsung was scared to death that they would be violating U.S. [totalitarian] sanctions if they gave free phones to the North Korean athletes. Samsung officials were scared of what the U.S. government, not the Korean government, might do to them.
Is that pathetic or what? ...
A North Korean 229-member cheerleading squad ... has mesmerized the crowds and the press at the Olympics. They came down from North Korea in a huge ferry ... But a big problem arose with the ferry. After it arrived, it was low on fuel and asked the South Koreans to refuel it. South Korean officials were scared to death... [of] how the [totalitarian] U.S. government would react to what would amount to a clear violation of sanctions. According to an article (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/world/asia/north-korea-olympics-sanctions.html) in the New York Times, “As of Wednesday evening, the South had not decided whether to supply the fuel.”
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. ...
the sanctions problem extends to hockey sticks and uniforms. When North Korea’s hockey team showed up at a tournament in New Zealand last year ... The organizers lent them high-tech carbon fiber sticks but required they return them before going home for fear of what [totalitarian] U.S. officials would do to them for violating the sanctions.
Nike is another company afraid of antagonizing the U.S. government. ... it decided to let a Finnish company furnish the uniforms for the Korean hockey team for fear of violating the sanctions. ...
The sanctions require that when a plane flies into North Korea, it has to wait six months before entering U.S. airspace. ...
Vice President Pence... at the Olympics ... spent all his time growling, scowling, and calling for increased enforcement of U.S. [totalitarian] sanctions ... Agitated and angry over North Korea’s Olympics outreach ... Pence was not amused by either the cheerleaders or Kim Yo Jong, who he pointedly refused to acknowledge when she was seated directly behind him during the opening ceremonies. ... The last thing Pence or other U.S. officials want is for Americans to begin personalizing the North Koreans. ... that way, Americans, including American Christians, will consider it to be no big deal to kill all of them, either with sanctions or ... with carpet-bombing ... as the U.S. military did during the Korean War. ...
don’t forget the purpose of the sanctions: To kill the North Korean populace, including those North Korean cheerleaders, through starvation and illness. The idea is that if enough of them are dying, either Kim Jong-un will abdicate in favor of a pro-U.S. dictator or ... a violent revolution and install a pro-U.S. dictator into power. ...
the only thing that is going to happen is that the sanctions will continue to kill more and more North Koreans, especially in combination with North Korea’s socialist system. ...
When Kim Yo Jong extended an invitation to South Korean president Moon Jae-in to visit North Korea, he deflected the invitation, no doubt scared to accept the invitation without first checking with [totalitarian overlords in Washington] U.S. officials to see if it was okay to accept.
Throughout the Olympics, the American right-wing has never ceased reminding us of the brutality of the North Korean regime. Well, duh. It is a communist regime. But I can’t help but wonder whether the North Korean people are more afraid of their government than Samsung, Nike, and other big businesses are scared of the U.S. government. ...
by the Great Jacob G. Hornberger
Officials of the Sheraton Hotel might be experiencing some sleepless nights as a result of ... five-star Sheraton Hotel permitted Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, to stay there during her official visit to the Olympic Games. ... U.S. officials have Kim Yo Jong on their list of North Koreans specifically targeted for U.S. sanctions. ... they might soon find that U.S. officials can be as vicious as their North Korean counterparts.
Just ask Bert Sacks (https://www.fff.org/2011/01/05/bert-sacks-hero-time/), the American citizen from Washington State who dared to violate U.S. sanctions against the Iraqi people ... to take medicines into Iraq ... U.S. officials went after him with a vengeance that bordered on the pathological. ... U.S. officials pursued him for more than a decade ... (For more on the remarkable story of Sack’s heroic resistance to the U.S. sanctions on the Iraqi people, see here (http://www.iraqikids.org/).). It’s what [totalitarians in Washington] do to anyone who dares to violate their sacred sanctions. ....
Samsung ... has a policy of giving out smartphones to the Olympic athletes ... Not so for the North Korean athletes, who won’t be taking any selfies home with them. ... not because they might be punished by North Korean officials ... but because Samsung was scared to death that they would be violating U.S. [totalitarian] sanctions if they gave free phones to the North Korean athletes. Samsung officials were scared of what the U.S. government, not the Korean government, might do to them.
Is that pathetic or what? ...
A North Korean 229-member cheerleading squad ... has mesmerized the crowds and the press at the Olympics. They came down from North Korea in a huge ferry ... But a big problem arose with the ferry. After it arrived, it was low on fuel and asked the South Koreans to refuel it. South Korean officials were scared to death... [of] how the [totalitarian] U.S. government would react to what would amount to a clear violation of sanctions. According to an article (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/world/asia/north-korea-olympics-sanctions.html) in the New York Times, “As of Wednesday evening, the South had not decided whether to supply the fuel.”
Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. ...
the sanctions problem extends to hockey sticks and uniforms. When North Korea’s hockey team showed up at a tournament in New Zealand last year ... The organizers lent them high-tech carbon fiber sticks but required they return them before going home for fear of what [totalitarian] U.S. officials would do to them for violating the sanctions.
Nike is another company afraid of antagonizing the U.S. government. ... it decided to let a Finnish company furnish the uniforms for the Korean hockey team for fear of violating the sanctions. ...
The sanctions require that when a plane flies into North Korea, it has to wait six months before entering U.S. airspace. ...
Vice President Pence... at the Olympics ... spent all his time growling, scowling, and calling for increased enforcement of U.S. [totalitarian] sanctions ... Agitated and angry over North Korea’s Olympics outreach ... Pence was not amused by either the cheerleaders or Kim Yo Jong, who he pointedly refused to acknowledge when she was seated directly behind him during the opening ceremonies. ... The last thing Pence or other U.S. officials want is for Americans to begin personalizing the North Koreans. ... that way, Americans, including American Christians, will consider it to be no big deal to kill all of them, either with sanctions or ... with carpet-bombing ... as the U.S. military did during the Korean War. ...
don’t forget the purpose of the sanctions: To kill the North Korean populace, including those North Korean cheerleaders, through starvation and illness. The idea is that if enough of them are dying, either Kim Jong-un will abdicate in favor of a pro-U.S. dictator or ... a violent revolution and install a pro-U.S. dictator into power. ...
the only thing that is going to happen is that the sanctions will continue to kill more and more North Koreans, especially in combination with North Korea’s socialist system. ...
When Kim Yo Jong extended an invitation to South Korean president Moon Jae-in to visit North Korea, he deflected the invitation, no doubt scared to accept the invitation without first checking with [totalitarian overlords in Washington] U.S. officials to see if it was okay to accept.
Throughout the Olympics, the American right-wing has never ceased reminding us of the brutality of the North Korean regime. Well, duh. It is a communist regime. But I can’t help but wonder whether the North Korean people are more afraid of their government than Samsung, Nike, and other big businesses are scared of the U.S. government. ...