justin_o_guy2 wrote on 06/17/14 at 12:21:49:Even the most staunch anti-welfare Christian believes in helping needy people. If you want to see what the pro welfare people believe, look at the democrats & their general attitude toward charity. They will adopt a dog before theyll give $$ to someone in need. Thats the states job & thats what taxes are for.. The biggest & most regular Givers are the conservatives. The stats are out there. Thats not to say that youll find charity "across the board" in church going population. I wouldnt even go so far as to say youll find honesty & decency in any higher %age in church goers than in atheists. So far, humanity has been harder to figure out than anything else in life. & the inhumanity among humans is astonishing. The evils perpetrated by our government against the Vietnamese & everywhere else we have gone is simply mind boggling.
It may have been DONE under the guise of "spreading democracy" or "Freeing the people from an evil dictator" or, like in Nam, in response to aggression ( which was a documented LIE),, but all those lies were to manufacture consent of a naive & easily led populous who had no idea their military would go & commit such atrocities. That the dumb masses have had many opportunities to wake up & see what the real game is & that so many are still so easily duped & WILL get outraged & WILL not just allow the government to "Take steps", but demand it is
inexcusable.
And right you are, JOG !
Here,. let me give you an example of "international solidarity"...
Albanians escaping Hoxha's dictatorship and fleeing to Italy... 8 March 1991,
20,000 Albanians on a freighter arrive unexpectedly to Brindisi when all the LEOs are ensuring security at the local soccer stadium...
Operation Alba and Operation Pelican, Italy literally FED Albania
but the Italian Army went unarmed because that's what the politicians had decided
"Boat People" fleeing the Horn of Africa, crossing the Sahara c/o human traffickers, and gambling their lives on the most godawful rundown boats to cross the Mediterranean and make it to Sicily...
They don't always make it to the other side...
We also hold the European record for resident Gypsies...
...not to mention Romanians, Bulgarians, Moldavians, Ukrainians...
...Bengalis, Pakistanis, Afghanis and whatnot...
99% of whom are illegal immigrants (
aliens to you)
It ain't easy, when the Pope had more say than your own Prime Minister...
Italy has quite a tradition in Humanitarian Missions... we don't start wars, we try to put an end to the suffering...