Curious the different guises of murder

Curious the different guises Murder can don. The United States has declared war on quake survivors in Pakistan.

“Wait,” you say. “That can’t be right. The US wouldn’t do that.”

Well, consider the following news article. In it, the US is demanding that political and religious organizations it disaproves of be prevented from helping the desperate quake victims of Pakistan. At present, thousands of Pakistan people face brutal cold and killing exposure unless they get help. They need all the help they can possibly get. So to prevent this help from arriving just to satisfy some peculiar ideological spasm is tantamount to murder.

But the US is prepared to let them die to prevent the spread of religious and political ideas that are not Evangelical Christian and Washington approved.

That is declaring war on innocent people.

U.S. seeks to limit militants' aid to quake victims Relief work seen as foothold for terror recruiting in Pakistan
James Rupert, Newsday
Thursday, December 29, 2005

“Muzaffarabad, Pakistan -- The Bush administration is pressing Pakistan to bar militant Islamic groups that the United States views as terrorists from doing relief work in the country's earthquake-shattered Kashmir region. President Pervez Musharraf has said the groups play an essential humanitarian role and will be monitored, but not shut down.
U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Pakistani journalists this month that Pakistan should prevent such groups from doing relief work, on grounds that it gives them a chance to promote militant ideas. The White House repeated the message during Vice President Dick Cheney's Dec. 20 visit with Musharraf, Pakistani news reports said.
But if Pakistan shuts down the relief groups cited by Washington, it will risk a popular backlash in the quake zone, said Kashmir residents and experts here….”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/29/MNGF6GECJH1.DTL

Washington appears determined to stop the dissimination of ideas and religious beliefs that run counter to the fundamentalist Christianity that now has a stranglehold on this country. The fact that it is willing to sacrifice innocent Pakastani people to uphold American religious dogma is particularly vile.