Louis Farrakhan Quotes
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
Farrakhan, Louis. Interview by Tim Russert. Meet the Press, NBC, 12 Apr. 1997.
Putin was the then Russian President. Corruption was rampant.
The Arab Countries are notoriously corrupt and undemocratic. Huge amounts of national resources are looted by the politicians in power and their supporters. Before Israel existed, the Jews and Arabs of Palestine both had a standard of living that was considerably less than that of Egypt. The Palestinians under the Palestine authority after 50 years have a standard of living that is still less than that of Egypt. But the Israeli citizens have a standard of living that is now far greater then the other Palestinians, but many times greater than Egypt. And that goes for the Israeli Arabs living in a free democracy also; they too are far better off than their non democratic co-religionists. See {588744}.
Leary was a strong advocate of the use of illicit drugs and stimulants. Yet he ignored all the side effects and negative health consequences of the processes and while he thought he was assisting people to enlarge their mental horizons, he irresponsibly and criminally damaged many permanently. His government “persecutors” themselves were also all disgraced by the extremes to which they went to prevent the counter-culture characterized by Leary and others. They became paramoid that the drug culture would morph into a protest culture against the administration. The tended to exxagerate the negative consequences of illicit drugs--especially marijuana. These exaggerations caused many people to believe Leary and others who went to the other extreme and underated the negative consequences of illicit drugs. It became a culture war when it should have been a medical problem.
Darwin is describing the town of Santa Fe, which is in Argentina.
Porfirio Diaz - the longtime dictator of Mexico stole the election of 1910 and had his opponent Francisco Madero arrested and imprisoned. Madero got out, crossed the border to San Antonio, and issued this declaration which started the Mexican Revolution. See {613620} for the statement that declared the Revolution.
Leaders of nations for years only trusted as truly patriotic those man—usually nobles of the aristocracy—who owned land. If an invader came and seized their land, they would lose their wealth. However money is fungible, and a banker can easily move his money abroad and join another nation or side in a war. If the country is ruined by war, the manufacturer cannot obtain labor or raw materials, The financier depends on none of these and so hs not the vested interest in the welfare of the nation.
This has been true when U. S. policy was too intimately supportive of fascist dictators running repressive governments. When change finally takes place, there has been much resentment against America for their earlier support. Greece, Egypt, South Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina are all examples where we did pay a price.
When he became president himself, he not only served 10 years but changed the constitution so that he could serve forever and was still President over 20 years later. See {620732} for another similar statement.
He was originally a big supporter of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his early political career. But he, like so many others, had stopped supporting Erdogan when he became authoritarian, paranoid and irrational on a number of occasions and began to jail anyone ho criticized him or associated with those who criticized him.
Louis Farrakhan is an American religious leader, political activist, and anti-Semite who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI). Earlier in his career, he served as the minister of mosques in Boston and Harlem and was appointed National Representative of the Nation of Islam by former NOI leader Elijah Muhammad.
