There's been a lot of talk about President Obama's past lately. It was brought up again about Obama's book where he stated that he saw a picture (I think as a child) of a black man who was so upset with being black that he tried to bleach his skin in an attempt to be white. This supposedly really disturbed President Obama to the point that he never forgot it. Don't mind the fact that no one can find a magazine article on just that from that time frame.
But it got me remembering about this event, the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66. Barry Soetoro (now Barack Obama) arrived in Indonesia in 1967 (sorry, I forget the month). There's an interesting article (http://www.massviolence.org/The-Indonesian-Killings-of-1965-1966) that speaks in great detail about this event. I have to warn you though, the witness reports are quite graphic.
I went through and pulled excerpts out and compared them to what is happening now.
It starts out with a little history to put everything in context. In 1959, President Sukarno set up Guided Democracy. He felt the Parliamentary Democracy that they had wasn't enough. He wanted the President to have more power. This reminds me so much of our President. He has said if he could go around Congress, he would. He has said that he will institute as much as he can get away with via Presidential Orders. He has tried to get around the Supreme Court with threats, and out right lying about them. He obviously (at least to me) wants just one branch of government, his.
Sukarno was an anti-imperialist. Reminds me of Barak Obama (Barack Obama's dad). Sukarno focused intensely on the ideological aspect of Indonesia and where it was headed in that regards, and basically ignored the economy. Sound like any one we know here and now?
There was an uprising to expel the current President, called the 30 September Movement. This revolved around a group of prominent Generals being executed (6 of them) and having their bodies dumped in an unused well. The movement then seized the state broadcasting service so they could put out their own propaganda of what happened. Suharto moved quickly to squelch the 30 September Movement and take control of the media. He shut down Communist and other leftist publications and put out his own propaganda. Again, doesn't this remind you of what has become of our media? Our media is no longer a news reporting organization, but an arm of the office of President, walking in lock step with whatever comes out of that office. What happened to reporters breaking news of cover-ups? How long have they been anti-conservative?
An emphasis was placed on the killing of General Sasution's daughter and the murdered Generals were elevated to hero status. The funeral of the daughter sparked violence against the communist party at the time, PKI. This so sounds like every time President Obama tries to fan the flames of any controversy. I'm immediately reminded of the Treyvon Martin case, where he came out trying to associate himself into the situation by saying if he had a son, he'd look like Treyvon. Really? The 17 year old with gold teeth and tattoos, or the sweet 12 year old they paraded around? An only slightly veiled attempt to make his base of voters hate everything white. What is a white Hispanic, anyway?
This article states that the 30 September Movement and the following propaganda campaign provided the trigger for the mass killings that followed. This sounds to me like what is going on all the time. Can you say Occupy Wall Street? The White House is desperately seeking a trigger for violence in this country.
The next section deals with Decision Makers, Organizers and the actors. The thing I note the most is that it happened in 1965-66, but carried through to 1969. This would have been the time that Barry Soetoro was there with his mother and step father. Attending a Muslim school. Many people had gone into hiding and it took until this later date to find them and arrest them. It is believed that they (Suharto and his military) made proposals to arm and train peasants and workers to help kill the communists. This sort of reminds me of how if you're conservative and blind, they can take away your guns. But if you're a member of the Black Panthers, you can threaten people at the polling booth with batons and get away with it. It also speaks of Fast and Furious, does it not? Let the guns walk across the border to thugs in Mexico, and not enforce the immigration process and maybe they'll come North and kick butt.
The Army also used various religious organizations; the youth wing of Islamic Organizations, religious scholars for Islam. They said it was their religious duty to rid Indonesia of communists. That also sounds familiar.
Whenever they spoke of the killings, they always focused the explanation on political rivalry, ideology or different institutional interests. But that doesn't explain how it was taken to the village level. Some levels suggest that the PKI (communists) overstepped their boundaries on grabbing land. They also attacked religious leaders by calling them devils for holding so much land. One religious leader received a supposed hit list of Islamic Clergy that were to be assassinated. It is supposed that it was a plant from the military in charge of propaganda. This makes me wonder if Barack Obama is really a communist, or just wants to fan any flame he can to get riots so he can take over. Maybe he has no ideology at all, but just wants to destroy what he has always been told is an imperialist country. If he can get a form of Guided Democracy like Indonesia, it won't matter if he gets taken out of office. They will control anyone who gets in, and he's already set for life. We will only be able to choose from who they want us to vote for. I fear that's already happened. Why did Herman Cain, a black man who happens to be conservative as well as a good business man, get driven out of the running?
The military not only encouraged the killing of the communists, they trained people to do it. Some believe there was a level of coercion, as in if they didnt' participate, they would be victims of the same violence. This goes to the comment by the Obama administration person who said make an example out of someone who doesn't walk lock step with the EPA in the oil industry; crucify them.
The next section deals with victims and I'm not going to narrate it. It's a bit too graphic for my blog, which states no adult information. You'll have to go to the link at the beginning of the blog to read it. It did say that it's estimated that 500,000 people were killed Besides this, 600,000-750,000 people were imprisoned and tortured. They put the prisoners in 3 groups. Group A was those directly involved in the 30 September Movement. They were seldom found innocent and many received the death penalty.
Group B was normal PKI that the military FELT were involved (emphasis added). They were imprisoned in remote areas away from family and forced to build roads and infrastructure (another term we've heard lately - shovel ready jobs?).
Group C was imprisoned closer to home so they could receive visits and food from family. These involved the 26 different mass organizations that had some affiliation with the PKI. Most were farmers unions or other workers unions who may not have even shared their political views, just thought the union was for them. These (and I assume any others who were released and didn't die in prison) had sever limitations placed on their freedoms. They faced strict restrictions on employment, compulsory registration and monitoring as well as a loss of voting privileges. Those in jail were on shortened rations and many died of starvation or illnesses
In some cases women were sent to jail with their children. In some cases the children were sent to relatives for the duration of their prison term. I have to wonder where are the records of Obama's mother when she sent him to Hawaii to be taken care of by his grandmother? Sometimes children were forcibly removed from the homes of suspected communists. Stanley Ann Dunham wasn't exactly secretive about her communist connections, now was she? Former political prisoners and the children and grandchildren of suspected members connected to the 30 September Movement were barred from working in some areas, such as teachers, lawyers, journalists,civil servants and the military. Makes one wonder why the Obamas gave up their lawyers licenses, doesn't it? Maybe he couldn't get back into the country because he was a child of someone involved?
So many questions. There are still members alive who were witnesses or lived through this period. I've heard (though can't prove) that every time this comes up, Islam threatens anyone who wants to dig deeper. I do know that I mentioned it twice on the Blaze, to have my comments struck from the record. I had to double space words, with spaces between all the letters so my comments didn't get flagged in order to get it through a 3rd time.
I still want to know: Why would President Obama be haunted by pictures seen as a child of a black man trying to bleach his skin to become white, but mutilated bodies hanging in the streets of Indonesia and people being drug out of their houses doesn't haunt him?
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