http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TT29GJhLYPs&feature=related
When looking at bin Laden’s words, it becomes clear that, since America is a democracy, he holds Americans in general accountable for the government’s overseas policies. He holds them accountable because, as a free country that chose the government personally in election, they should therefore work against their government and correct the wrongs/injustices they may ever do. Is holding us accountable right or wrong? Of course, I am in no way talking about killing, but just accountability and guilt.
“As for what you asked regarding the American people, they are not exonerated from responsibility, because they re-elected Clinton despite their knowledge of his crimes in Palestine, Lebanon and the Iraq War during his first term”.
“This is my message to the American people to (((look for a serious government that looks out for their interest and does not attack others))), their lands or their honor”.
“The Western regimes and the government of the United States of America bear the blame for what might happen. (((If their people do not wish to be harmed inside their very own countries, they should seek to elect governments that are truly representative of them and that can protect their interests)))”.
“There is no question that war between the two of us is inevitable. For this reason it is not in the interest of Western governments to expose the interests of their people to all kinds of retaliation for almost nothing. (((It is hoped that people of those countries will initiate a positive move and force their governments not to act on behalf of other states and other sects)))”.
“Our religion forbids us to kill innocents—children, women who are not combatants. Women soldiers who place themselves in the battle trenches receive the same treatment as fighting men”.
Is his view right or wrong that we are responsible for the government’s actions due to our lack of protesting or rallying against the government for its support of anti-religious regimes in the Middle East that try to brutally cleanse out religious people in the name of secularism and democracy, as well as our taxpaying which finance such brutality? And electing and re-electing leaders, thus permitting the authority (particularly the latter, see first quote).
Where are the faults in his views? Just how innocent are we?
P.S Please take time to read this and give your personal answers. Don’t just bash bin laden or bush or the iraq war and ****.
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Why should I waste my time reading the rantings of a filthy, hate-filled lunatic? Shame on you for spreading his propaganda. That’s not having an open mind, it’s having an empty mind.
I don’t agree on what he says but I say that we have to stop being a world police. Being a world police caused Sept 11 as well as having all these different countries hating us. We have serious problems here in this country and have to stop worrying about other countries.
He is wrong. A country’s people are not responsible for their governments actions. Yes they elect the leader but unfortunately that is where their power tends to begin and end. Xx
in a democracy, the people are also responsible in a way.
Then we can hold Bin Laden liable for the government corruption in the country where he is.
We elect the president so to some degree we are responsible.
well who voted the government in office???
Is Bin latex alive???
all i can say is that we train him during the clinton years and he promise him some money and did get it and also try to take him out
no, i don’t think it’s right to blame everyone, as a whole. not everyone was responsible for the government chosen. there are plenty of people that protest and voice their opinions. unfortunately, they are not always heard or respected.
He has no right to attack people who aren’t directly attacking him. The idea that I should be bombed on the street for the actions of my government is ridiculous. If I had my way we would leave the middle east immediately and let them drown in their own filth.
No it’s not right to hold Americans acoutable for what the government does just because were a democracy doesn’t mean the people decide on everything the government does. Look at the people who are big in the government the majority of are older riche rich white and the only thing that differs between them is democrat or republican these are the people who are making these decisions.
He has some truth with attacking American citizens, but still we don’t directly elect our leaders. The popular vote in election doesn’t count for anything. The most we do is elect the senators who end up becoming the president and VP. So we are and are not directly involved with governmental policies overseas.
We are a democracy. So…. I know though, that just because I, one person, vote a certain way that doesn’t mean the rest of the country will vote that way. Most politicians are a slippery bunch of sob’s, telling us what they believe we want to hear. Its our job, as voting citizens to read between the lines of what they are saying to try to determine their agenda. I don’t believe that the politicians really are in tune with most of the American public and therefore do not really have our best interests in mind. It doesn’t matter really, what I say or think, the elected officials are going to do what they want. So believing that, how could I be willing to accept responsibility for our ****** up society?
Yes and no. No because an entire nation should not be held accountable for the actions and/or policies of the few in power. Yes because officials are elected by people, whether or not the official does what he or she promised to do. I lean more toward the no, because more often than not politicians do not consider those who voted them in to office when they vote on issues or instate policies.
Wow, a very thorough question.
We have a culpability, even if we voted against the insanity of more wars and of interventions in the interests of profit for corporations. There are famous Americans in our past who went to jail for refusing to pay taxes to support a war. Those folk can hold their heads up.
Be assured, it is a war. We drop bombs bringing death from above, and making many recruits for terrorists through the ‘collateral damage’ of killing someone’s family. Is it surprising for one whose family has been killed to respond with the greatest violence he can imagine? But he has no government letter of marque, and he has no jet planes, so he improvises as best he can.
bin Laden, on the other hand, is a way over he top radical. He probably did not give a second’s though to presenting his grievances in a peaceful way, nor did he catch on to the historical fact that the wars Mohammed fought were all defensive. He just went to war.
Governments should definitely be secular. The tools of statecraft with their implied threat of violence cannot impose religion or morality on a people with the tools used to take out spleens and livers. One of the most brutally oppressive of all governments in terms of religion is the government of Iran insofar as the Baha’i Faith is concerned. At least 100,000 Baha’is have been slaughtered, more than 20,000 of them children, in Iran since the Islamic Republic was set up. I will make no apology for supporting secular governments, as long as those governments guarantee freedom of religion.
And I suppose I can be held accountable for not struggling all this time against those who would make profit from war and pollution, but there was a time when I did more than attend rallies and make statements. Dye dumped in sewage treatment plants to show where the yellow water was lapping against the shore, or scenting agents made from skunk musk to add to the invisible poisons being released by industrial smokestacks were more my style. When people still read, I helped edit and publish a newspaper that pointed out corporate short-sightedness domestic and abroad.
But bin Laden is going to blame me because I could not keep up a steady barrage against the profiteers who are causing all these woes?
There was a time when I had to halt those activities to take care of a family If he wants to try to behead me for that, he will find me uncooperative.