Warming fear will hurt Africa
By: BOB KOWELL - Commentary: | ∞
Seldom, if ever, has a former or present ambassador of the United States come to our area, the Temecula Valley. Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming Republican event at Pat & Oscar's in Temecula.
The event is meant to shed light on genocide in Africa as well as other places in the world.
Prosper was U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues under President George W. Bush and served as a war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He successfully prosecuted Jean-Paul Akayesu for his involvement in the Rwandan massacre of the early 1990s.
This was the first case of genocide since the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was enacted. Prosper also won additional life-sentence convictions for other crimes against humanity and was able to convince the court to recognize rape committed in time of conflict as an act of genocide and a crime against humanity.
A person like Prosper is uncommon. He, like others in history, has risen to the occasion. They help those who have no means of protecting themselves from those who would slaughter them. In places like Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Uganda, it takes everything for a human being just to survive through the day.
That is why the Murrieta/Temecula Republican Assembly (www.MT-RA.com) is hosting an event that focuses on the disaster that is happening in Africa.
It was the Republicans whose founding purpose of freeing the slaves caused the Civil War and it's the Republicans, America's first civil rights party, who still carry the banner of freedom both here in America and around the world.
It was the Democratic Party that promoted slavery in 1860 and still promotes slavery to this day by its inaction, over-regulation, multiculturalism and taxation. A historical case in point about the differences in what the parties believe is that 82 percent of Republicans in the Senate voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, while only 64 percent of Democrats did.
The Democratic left is so misguided that its latest fear-baiting about "global warming" (still unproven that man causes a dramatic effect on climate) will only result in disregarding the poor in places such as Africa. Limiting carbon dioxide emissions at this time can only cause sprouting economies to fail, which will take the people that need help the most with them.
Some of the left are so arrogant that they don't want the poor of the world to progress into the modern age. They think that the poor are better living in poverty. These elitists of "progressive" thinking also support tyrannical governments such as the Palestinian Authority and even other more hideous governments over free nations like Israel.
When the ambassador comes, we also will be screening parts of the "Invisible Children" documentary about the plight of young children being forced into a rebel army in Uganda.
The event will take place at 6 p.m. April 6. RSVP with Adele at (951) 506-1999.
-- Bob Kowell of Murrieta is president of the Murrieta/Temecula Republican Assembly.
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Randy wrote on Mar 22, 2007 6:59 AM:Republicans have turned a blind eye to the genocide in Dafur, Sudan during all 6 years of the Bush administration!
Temecula Dad wrote on Mar 22, 2007 7:27 AM:Mr. Kowell is quite correct about the political parties. The GOP was founded and created as an abolitionist party that still stands today for individual rights, religious and economic freedom. The Democrat party was the party of slavery. In the 1800s, the Democrats promoted racial division through their economic and pro-slavery policies. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Democrats still promote racial division only now it is through keeping certain minorities shackled to government welfare programs as well as quota programs that prefer one race over another for hiring and college admissions. Environmental policies created by liberals have also had a devastating effect upon native Africans and millions of others living throughout the third world. The banning of DDT by ill-informed environmental zealots has resulted in the deaths of millions of people throughout Africa, Asia and South America. DDT is a proven deterrant against malaria, yet the liberals have blood on their hands over their knee-jerk environmental policies. It seems that liberals and Democrats do need poor minorities for one thing; to re-inforce their sense of superiority and elitism. These rich white bleeding heart liberals make themselves feel good by throwing a few scraps of charity to these people and then patting them on the head for the photo op. Just keep them dependent on liberal charity...this is the 21st century plantation created by the Democrats and the liberals.
Mary wrote on May 26, 2008 2:01 PM:The comments here about liberals are preposterous. Liberals have not promoted racial division, have suppported efforts for a better world especially when it comes to ending poverty. Environmental policies promoted by liberals are cohesive to a better world for everyone, a social movement that stands for human rights, celebrates individuals, religious freedom, economic freedom, and morality beyond what the current GOP today could even imagine. The thought that the GOP still stands for the betterment of all people in America is unbelievable. Actions speak louder than the false words printed in this article. The example of how the GOP opperates is what has sent our nation backwards for the past 8 years. Get real GOP. Take a closer look at the corruption in your ranks and let the people who will bring unity back to our nation and the world get to work here once again. Murrieta isn't completely lost in Red. Thank God, I have been taught that you don't have to be on the right to have moral values!!!
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