Pompeo's lies, hypocrisy, Islamophobia and Sinophobia

Part 1

1. MIKE POMPEO, DONALD Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, has at times depicted the fight against terrorism as a war between radical Muslims, on one side, and the Christian faith on the other.

“This threat to America,” Pompeo told a church group in Wichita in 2014, is from a minority of Muslims “who deeply believe that Islam is the way and the light and the only answer.”

“They abhor Christians,” Pompeo said, “and will continue to press against us until we make sure that we pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know that Jesus Christ is our savior is truly the only solution for our world.”...

At an evangelical church in his district that specializes in addressing “Satanism and paranormal activity” — and standing in front of a Christian flag — Pompeo in 2015 spoke of the “struggle against radical Islam, the kind of struggle this country has not faced since its great wars.” He warned that “evil is all around us,” citing reports of terror plots, and cautioned the congregation not to be deterred by those who might call them “Islamophobes or bigots.”...

Since moving to Capitol Hill, Pompeo has participated in the Monday evening evangelical bible study for members of Congress sponsored by Ralph Drollinger, a clergyman who has courted controversy by lashing out at gays and calling Catholicism the “world’s largest false religion.” Drollinger’s group has been sponsored by Christian right lawmakers including Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and Louie Gohmert.

Drollinger’s Members Bible Study includes a study guide declaring: “NOT EVERY MUSLIM IS A TERRORIST BUT EVERY INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST IN RECENT HISTORY HAS BEEN A MUSLIM.” Drollinger’s guide argues that the Bible teaches that “there is no way America or Israel should tolerate uranium enrichment programs in any theocratic Muslim country.” The guide also claims “that Islam and its Koran are nothing more than a plagiarism of OT truths,” a reference to the Old Testament, “and a non-chronological, sloppy one at that — topped off with a falsified diminution of Jesus Christ.”....

“It follows then that the sudden rise of Pence, Sessions, and Pompeo — all men who are disciples of Jesus Christ — serve to vividly illustrate the truth of 1 Timothy 2:1-4!” Drollinger said. That passage calls for “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks” for “all people” including “kings and all those in authority”.

Drollinger continued: “Suddenly these men who have been discipled by the Church are in prominent positions of authority to change the course of America in ways that are biblical.”

Source: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/23/mike-pompeo-religious-war/

2. Now Sinophobia has replaced Islamophobia in Pompeo’s mind.

Part 2

...Earlier this year, the congressman shocked the Islamic Society of Wichita, a local mosque in his district, by publishing a statement denouncing the group for inviting a speaker he alleged had ties to Hamas. The speaker had spoken four times to the mosque in the past without incident.

But Pompeo, in his statement, released without prior notice to the mosque, charged that the Islamic Society of Wichita’s event was an insult because it coincided with the Christian holiday of Good Friday, and that if the mosque failed to rescind the invitation, they would be “responsible for the damage among religious faiths that is sure to follow.”

Local Facebook groups planned to protest the mosque in response, leading Hussam Madi, the spokesman for the local Islamic Society, to cancel the event.

Pompeo told the Wichita Eagle that he had been tipped off about the event by a call, but declined to reveal the source of the information. In April, the month after the incident, Pompeo appeared on Secure Freedom Radio, a program hosted by anti-Muslim campaigner Frank Gaffney, to boast that he had used Gaffney’s organization as a resource to research the speaker. Gaffney is notorious for spreading fears about Muslims, claiming absurdly that President Obama is “still” a Muslim, that Gov. Chris Christie had committed “treason” for appointing a Muslim judge. He runs a website that claims that Islam is not a religion, but a political ideology bent on destroying Western civilization.....

Source: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/23/mike-pompeo-religious-war/

Part 3

....In 2013, following the Boston Marathon bombings, Pompeo launched an attack on Muslim leaders, claiming that the Muslim American community had refused to denounce the attacks. “Mr. Speaker, it’s been just under two months since the attacks in Boston, and in those intervening weeks, the silence of Muslim leaders has been deafening,” Pompeo said. The silence, he added, made Muslim leaders “potentially complicit” in terror attacks.

As activist Anai Rhoads noted in the Huffington Post, Muslim leaders worked closely with law enforcement to thwart potential attacks, and there were many statements denouncing the Boston bombing by the largest Muslim organizations in the U.S. immediately following the attack...

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) called for an apology, but Pompeo, in a statement, said he was “not backing down.”

The Kansas lawmaker has frequently appeared on Christian right radio, including on a program hosted by the Family Research Council — a group, like Gaffney’s, that has promoted fears about Islam. Pompeo is an opponent of gay marriage, and was among a handful of legislators to demand that the Air Force return the phrase “so help me God” to its military oath.

In first bid for office in 2010, Pompeo’s campaign tweeted a link to a blog that mocked his Democratic opponent, Raj Goyle, with a racial slur and said that Goyle, a local state lawmaker, “could be a muslim a hindu, a buddhist, who knows … One thing’s for sure … goyle is not a Christian!” Pompeo called Goyle to apologize, blaming the tweet on a staffer, but declined to fire the staff member responsible for the communication...

Source: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/23/mike-pompeo-religious-war/

Part 4

The following are excerpts from an article by Yonden Lhatoo, the chief news editor at the South China Morning Post, dated July 25, 2020 under the headline "Trump’s America has become an unstoppable, out-of-control bully".

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.....While openly coercing America's cronies and lobbying other nations to gang up against China, Trump's thuggish top diplomat Mike Pompeo made an unhinged rant of a speech this week that was beyond appalling in its ignorance and Sinophobia.

"The truth is that our policies, and those of other free nations, resurrected China's failing economy, only to see Beijing bite the international hands that fed it," he said. "We must also engage and empower the Chinese people " a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party." Really.

The most eloquent and fitting response to this nonsense came from former diplomat and veteran China hand Robert Daly, who told US News & World Report magazine: "China is not a land of innocent captives and evil master trolls. US-China relations are not a children's story. In China, the United States faces something far more formidable than Secretary Pompeo suggests: China is a vast, complex, wealthy, ambitious, aggrieved nation ...

"In confronting China, we're not dealing with a wholly good people who have been 'imprisoned' or 'enslaved' by a purely malign party. Chinese are often frustrated by a government (that) ignores their wishes, moves too slowly or moves in the wrong direction, but the available evidence is that, as citizens of the PRC, most Chinese people feel proud and enabled, not constrained."

All that's left to say to Pompeo and his master is what Boston lawyer Joseph Welch once famously told anti-Communist witch-hunter Joseph McCarthy during one of his Salem trials-style hearings: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" (End excerpts)

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/worl...ut-of-control-bully/ar-BB17blmF?ocid=msedgdhp

fishing conservative said:

Too much to read..

You're more than welcome to hatTrump but if your goal is to have a conversation great, pick a point we can discuss. If your goal is to spread hateful false propaganda then just expect to be ignored.

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1. My great friend, how can you catch any fish if you don't have any patience at all? It is not uncommon for an unlucky fisherman to catch nothing for several months.

You had better ask the reporter to report everything in one sentence.


2. Anyway, just imagine yourself to be one of the unlucky passengers in that Iranian plane at that moment. Will you curse and swear at the US?

Part 5

1. The following are excerpts from SJ Otto's March 20, 2019 article headlined "Mike Pompeo—a popular Republican and a war criminal".

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....“The United States will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere, and may do the same with those who seek action against Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday.

Pompeo, acting on a threat delivered in September by U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, framed the action as necessary to prevent the international body from infringing on U.S. sovereignty by prosecuting American forces or allies for torture or other war crimes.”

WOW! Does that say a lot about US conduct in a foreign country? Pompeo will not allow anyone to go into a foreign country that the US occupies and check on allegations of torture or other forms of war crimes. He also included Israel. This statement contains an amazing confession that the US sees Afghanistan as a part of the US and not a sovereign nation of its own. The US invaded Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001 and has stayed there ever since. The US has installed a puppet government and has used US military troops to prop it up over all these years....

“U.S. officials have long regarded the Netherlands-based ICC (International Criminal Court) with hostility, arguing that American courts are capable of handling any allegations against U.S. forces and questioning the motives of an international court.”

The US has championed putting people from third-world countries, such as Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on trial for their alleged war crimes. All of these people are from small, poor and backward countries. No leader from any first-world industrialized country has ever been investigated or accused of any war crime. It is ironic that Trump and his people don’t trust the ICC. To claim the US can handle “any allegations against US forces” is laughable. Imagine if Gaddafi had made that argument?! It would make as much sense.

There are a lot of Republicans and conservative Kansans who really aren’t bothered by human rights abuses in foreign affairs. They couldn’t care less about the people who are harmed in such countries as Afghanistan. But some of us find it disturbing that such a man, with such an abysmal record on US human rights wants to come back to Kansas to resume some kind of a career representing the worst that Kansas has to offer. Pompeo’s statements show an outright disrespect for any kind of sovereignty for the people of Afghanistan.

... Pompeo has been a blatant, all out imperialist..... (End excerpts)

Source: https://tiahrtfolly.blogspot.com/2019/03/mike-pompeoa-popular-republican-and-war.html

2. It is laughable that the US “will not allow American citizens to be prosecuted by foreign bureaucrats" but it could pass legislations or laws anytime to convict foreign citizens, even top officials, in absentia for alleged crimes committed in their own countries.

Furthermore, the US regime could go to great lengths to stalk foreign citizens and order its allies to arrest and extradite them to the US while objecting to American citizens being tried in foreign courts.

3. Here I coin the term "pomparroo" for an individual, an organisation or a country that makes a mockery of the rule of law with its double standards and dual role of criminal and judge in a "pomparroo court".

fishing conservative said:

Wrong

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Your two "wrongs" do not make a "right".

fishing conservative said:

Wrong ,imperialism is controlling a foreign country by force taking their resources for your own to use in trade.
You read some messed up crap

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WOW! Does that say a lot about US conduct in a foreign country? Pompeo will not allow anyone to go into a foreign country that the US occupies and check on allegations of torture or other forms of war crimes. He also included Israel. This statement contains an amazing confession that the US sees Afghanistan as a part of the US and not a sovereign nation of its own. The US invaded Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001 and has stayed there ever since. The US has installed a puppet government and has used US military troops to prop it up over all these years...

Please go to the link below to make your comment:

fishing conservative said:

Nothing wrong with invading Afghanistan better would have been to invade PAKISTAN and Saudi Arabia, we however are not being imperialist in Afghanistan.

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It is analogous to saying nothing wrong to go into a woman's house to beat up her children and sleep on her husband's bed.

fishing conservative said:

WOW! Does that say a lot about US conduct in a foreign country? Pompeo will not allow anyone to go into a foreign country that the US occupies and check on allegations of torture or other forms of war crimes. He also included Israel. This statement contains an amazing confession that the US sees Afghanistan as a part of the US and not a sovereign nation of its own. The US invaded Afghanistan shortly after September 11, 2001 and has stayed there ever since. The US has installed a puppet government and has used US military troops to prop it up over all these years...

Please go to the link below to make your comment:

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My great friend, please go to the blog in the link to post your comment, not dumping your rubbish in this forum.

fishing conservative said:

Maybe you missed the fact that they attacked us first... but go ahead hate America for doing the right thing bad people do that a lot. Especially stupid "educated" types.

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1. John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump's (former) national security adviser, threatened on September 10 (2018) that Washington would impose sanctions against judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they proceed with an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan by Americans.

"We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States," Bolton said. "We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and, we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans."....

Source: https://www.rferl.org/a/explainer-w...r-international-criminal-court-/29484529.html

It is outrageous and laughable for the Trump regime to prosecute the judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Just imagine you have been judging many cases and hanging many criminals in your life career, but one day you are being sent to the gallows in the US by the US regime for judging some US war criminals in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

fishing conservative said:

That blog is rubbish, and you're the one dumping here.. seems to me you want to be able to dump here with impunity or questioning. Typical leftist..

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Why don't you tell the blogger that his blog is rubbish?

fishing conservative said:

Why? You're the one posting it here..

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To me, the blogger is more sensible than you.

fishing conservative said:

Why imagine something that isn't happening?


That's because you hate America.

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My great friend, that's because you hate China too.

fishing conservative said:

I don't hate China at all, their cultural revolution was very sad however and I do hate communism.

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So you are proud of the Trump regime for his "Great American Heist"? So you love the guy for his corruption?

My great friend, please wake up your ideas.

fishing conservative said:

Also, I am neither great, nor your friend.

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So you are what you are, Little Rascal.

fishing conservative said:

I don't believe anything from esquire..
Give me information from a reputable source that we can talk about.

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“I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.”

fishing conservative said:

Ignored

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Yes, ignorance is bliss.