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Orwell"},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/-\/Indonesia?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=5"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Indonesia"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/-\/Indonesia\/-\/Indonesia?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=6\u0026max-results=5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"84"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-8483390967749206072"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-04T18:28:00.000+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-12-04T18:28:51.267+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Diversity and Multiculturalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indonesia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Don't Ever Dream Of Freedom"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EWhile the international community and much of the world's media has been focused on the so-called \"Arab Spring\" and on events transpiring\u0026nbsp;across\u0026nbsp;the Middle East, they seem to have turned a blind eye to South East Asia and in\u0026nbsp;particular on West Papua and\u0026nbsp;the plight of the West Papuan's.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was hope that with \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2011\/11\/18\/papua-crisis-overshadows-obama-s-visit-indonesia.html-0\"\u003EPresident Obama's visit last month\u003C\/a\u003E, that the United States would take a tougher stance on Indonesia's brutal human rights abuses in West Papua but sadly the people of West Papua are coming to the bitter realization that their cries for freedom and self-determination have fallen on deaf ears.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only crime of the West Papuan's has been\u0026nbsp;to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2011\/12\/03\/four-papuans-questioned-over-flag-raising.html\"\u003Epeacefully raise their  national flag\u003C\/a\u003E and declare independence from Indonesia and for that they  have and continue to suffer the wrath of the Indonesian government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was a time when the United States supported the West Papuans and their right to self-determination, but it would seem no more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess than a month ago this is what Hillary Clinton \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.malaysia.msn.com\/regional\/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5515228\"\u003Ehad to say\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\"There needs to be continuing dialogue and political reforms in order to meet the legitimate needs of the Papua people, and we will be raising that again directly and encouraging that kind of approach....[sic]\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.engagemedia.org\/Members\/dewanadatpapua\/videos\/tingginambutmen-en\/embed_view\" width=\"400\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.engagemedia.org\/Members\/dewanadatpapua\/videos\/tingginambutmen-en\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ETake a look at the video above, this is how Indonesia deals with the West Papuans. \u0026nbsp;The comments in the video regarding the pig sty deserve a closer examination and give a glimpse into the mindset of the Indonesian soldiers who see the West Papuans, the majority of which are Christians, as infidels.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EFor the Indonesians, the separatist conflict in West Papua has little to do with state\u0026nbsp;sovereignty and more so to do with religious strife.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;West\u0026nbsp;Papuans\u0026nbsp;deserve\u0026nbsp;more\u0026nbsp;than\u0026nbsp;noncommittal\u0026nbsp;gobbledygook from America. \u0026nbsp;They deserve freedom.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/obama-throwing-papau-under-bus.html\"\u003EObama: \u0026nbsp;Throwing Papua Under the Bus\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8483390967749206072\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/dont-ever-dream-of-freedom.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/8483390967749206072"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/8483390967749206072"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/dont-ever-dream-of-freedom.html","title":"Don't Ever Dream Of Freedom"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-6287201102863852936"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-07T18:50:00.000+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-07T18:50:15.225+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indonesia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Malaysia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Bias"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philippines"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama The Terrorist - The Silent Moderates"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qe-PTiyRtuE\/TcUCNlpSBLI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/xvajKauokRU\/s1600\/ObamaTerrorist.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"258\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qe-PTiyRtuE\/TcUCNlpSBLI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/xvajKauokRU\/s400\/ObamaTerrorist.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EOsama is mujahid - Obama is a terrorist\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EWhile the initial reaction to Osama Bin Laden's death throughout Southeast Asia was surprisingly muted with many expressing disbelief on his demise, the general mood is disturbingly changing. \u0026nbsp; Yesterday afternoon the mosques were packed full from Indonesia and Malaysia to the Philippines with thousands of Al Qaeda supporters and sympathizers taking to the streets afterwards protesting and marching on the respective United States embassies.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe show of sympathy for Al Qaeda's leader was stunning with many shocked at the large number of supporters who came out. \u0026nbsp; To those in America and Europe who still think that Al Qaeda's virulent strain of Islam had but a few supporters, yesterday was an eye-opener. \u0026nbsp; Manila's Golden Mosque which normally attracts only around 500 worshipers for Friday prayers was filled to the brim with over 5000 worshipers yesterday afternoon.\u0026nbsp; In Malaysia,\u0026nbsp; Al Qaeda's sympathizers took to the streets and in Indonesia posters were put up denouncing Obama as a terrorist and Osama as a mujahid.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EIn provocative displays of religious chauvinism Islam's fieriest orators took this unique opportunity to stoke the flames of recrudescent radicalism from a vast new contingent of self-radicalized moderates, by denouncing the West and praising Osama Bin Laden.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It is this new contingent, the \"silent moderates\" who will seek no rapprochement\u0026nbsp; and offer no quarter with the West.\u0026nbsp; Emboldened by the West's appeasement, deference and lack of resolve, they number in the millions and range from bomb-makers to home-makers but each one shares a common goal and that is absolute victory.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EWhile our adversaries overseas are plotting to one day soon deliver the nuclear coup de grâce - our TSA agents are back home are either busy groping preteens in the nation's airports or attending Muslim sensitivity classes. \u0026nbsp; Time is not on our side and neither will be victory if we don't pull our heads out of the sand. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo paraphrase Churchill, the West has been offered a choice between war and shame.\u0026nbsp; She has chosen shame and will get war."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6287201102863852936\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/obama-terrorist-silent-moderates.html#comment-form","title":"0 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Moderates"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qe-PTiyRtuE\/TcUCNlpSBLI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/xvajKauokRU\/s72-c\/ObamaTerrorist.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-8548145719030496113"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-05T19:46:00.000+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-05T19:46:49.344+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indonesia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama and Osama - Inspiring Islamic Radicalization"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qfln-F9Eb7Q\/TcJvvZqDKhI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/8Mq1pq5YT5U\/s1600\/OBL-Headshot.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"272\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qfln-F9Eb7Q\/TcJvvZqDKhI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/8Mq1pq5YT5U\/s320\/OBL-Headshot.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EOsama Bin Laden Death Photo - Dear Jihadis, this is what happens when you listen to Al Qaeda\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\"Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are  doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will  only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East.\"\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E~\u0026nbsp; Barack Hussein Obama\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAs if these unwashed reprobates in the Middle East needed an excuse to get inflamed.\u0026nbsp; Might I remind you that they will always find something to get inflamed about.\u0026nbsp; And yes,\u0026nbsp; Mr. Obama they will claim that the photos are doctored because of your indecisiveness and over-concern for Muslim sensitivities in releasing them.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; But just who's sensitivities are you\u0026nbsp; so concerned with?\u0026nbsp; Moderate peace-loving Muslims or the fanatical extremist Muslims? \u0026nbsp; Surely moderate peace-loving Muslims will be relieved to see actual proof that this fanatical tyrant who proselytized a perverted form of Islam is dead and gone.\u0026nbsp; The only people who might be irritated or offended are Al Qaeda's supporters and sympathizers.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn The Art of War, Sun Tzu said\u0026nbsp; -\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMight I remind you Mr. Obama, that we are at war and the majority of Americans could care less about our enemies delicate sensitivities.\u0026nbsp; You though are different.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid you ever wonder why so many Americans think you are foreign born Mr. Obama?\u0026nbsp; It has nothing to do with racism or your lack of transparency in showing your birth certificate, but more so to do with where your loyalties lie.\u0026nbsp; You are an islamophile Mr. Obama who fails to see the United States as an exceptional nation and who relentlessly spouts his anti-american rhetoric overseas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazed and befuddled at your anti-american rhetoric, Lebanese born Fouad Ajami\u0026nbsp; said of you - \"Steeped in an overarching idea of American guilt, Mr. Obama and his lieutenants offered nothing less than a doctrine, and a policy, of American penance. No one told Mr. Obama that the Islamic world, where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one’s own tribe when in the midst, and in the lands, of others.\"\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's sad to say, but it you Mr. Obama who has done more to inspire radicalism in the Islamic world than Osama Bin Laden has.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; It was Osama Bin Laden\u0026nbsp; who\u0026nbsp; professed Islamic superiority to throngs of vulnerable jihadi wannabes around the world and you\u0026nbsp; Mr. Obama have professed American inferiority to the same people.\u0026nbsp; In an upcoming post here we will explain in detail exactly how you have changed the face of Islamic radicalization and how \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2011\/04\/21\/terror-groups-get-smaller-harder-detect.html\"\u003EIslamic extremism is now changing\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/islams-battle-for-white-house.html\"\u003EIt was in early 2008\u003C\/a\u003E, well before your world tour that we warned Americans of what was to come\u0026nbsp; and how Islamic radicalization and extremism would change and they didn't listen, but they will in 2012. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\"To suitably prejudiced Indonesians Obama's pledge to \"rid the American mind-set of militarism\" substantiates the position of the Islamic militants by rekindling the prophecies of Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. That America is a decadent and vile ogre, bloodied with the guilt of imperialism and inescapably tainted by an anti-Islamic history. It is this symbolically violent imagery that Indonesia's fundamentalist orators will use to radicalize a new contingent of militants from the ranks of Islam's moderates. Individuals who are mesmerized by the phantasmagorical image of one of their own now inhabiting the White House and who will see it as a sign of America's impending submission and our nation's acquiescence to the superiority of Islam.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was a bullet that brought down Osama Bin Laden, it will be the vote of the American people that brings down Barack Hussein Obama. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8548145719030496113\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/obama-and-osama-inspiring-islamic.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/8548145719030496113"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/8548145719030496113"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/obama-and-osama-inspiring-islamic.html","title":"Obama and Osama - Inspiring Islamic Radicalization"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-qfln-F9Eb7Q\/TcJvvZqDKhI\/AAAAAAAAAH8\/8Mq1pq5YT5U\/s72-c\/OBL-Headshot.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-6468034423533113536"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-04T18:51:00.000+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-04T18:51:54.011+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barack Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indonesia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Malaysia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pakistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philippines"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Singapore"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Thailand"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on Terrorism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Across Southeast Asia Bin Laden Still Lives"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThroughout Southeast Asia, the alleged killing of Osama Bin Laden coupled with the delay by the United States government in releasing any photographic evidence to the fact is giving birth to a flood of conspiracy theories, with many refusing to believe that Al Qaeda's leader is actually dead.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe conspiracy theories are varied - some saying this is simply a ploy by Barack Hussein Obama to help his popularity and others saying that this is a lie meant to draw Osama Bin Laden out\u0026nbsp; -\u0026nbsp; there is however one common denominator that all these conspiracy theories have, and that is that all this is nothing more than a ginned-up story from the United States and that Osama Bid Laden still lives.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\"Where is the proof?\" is the common response here in Southeast Asia whenever Osama Bin Laden's demise is mentioned. \u0026nbsp; \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EAt this point the damage is done, the photographic evidence\u0026nbsp; and\/or proof of Osama Bin Laden's death should have been released immediately without this charade of conflicting stories and\u0026nbsp; an agonizing delay that has and continues to give birth to a plethora of conspiracy theories overseas - many of them that fuel anti-american sentiment overseas particularly the theory that the photos need to be altered or brushed up before they are released to the public.\u0026nbsp; This is something that could have been avoided.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EFor a president who should have learned a thing or two about transparency in the past few months this reflects poorly.\u0026nbsp; Obama's indecisiveness and over-concern of Muslim sensitivities displays a weakness in character that invites aggression and fuels radicalization rather than suppressing it.\u0026nbsp; What could have been a win is now becoming a loss.\u0026nbsp; It is not Osama Bin Laden's death that is going to fuel anti-american sentiment\u0026nbsp; overseas but rather the secretive circumstances surrounding it. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ESo what if a photo is gory, as long as the photo is recognizable of Osama Bin Laden,\u0026nbsp; the message it sends to any young jihadi wannabe is that \"this is what happens to your face when you listen to Al Qaeda\". \u0026nbsp; The message it sends it is a powerful message that serves as a deterrent in the same way that the gory before and after photos of meth addicts acts a deterrent to those thinking about trying methamphetamines.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EThe brutal death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of American commandos could have been both a\u0026nbsp; propaganda win and a strategic win in the war on terrorism if it was played out correctly instead it will serve as perhaps one of the biggest mistakes made in the war on terrorism. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6468034423533113536\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/across-southeast-asia-bin-laden-still.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/6468034423533113536"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/6468034423533113536"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/across-southeast-asia-bin-laden-still.html","title":"Across Southeast Asia Bin Laden Still Lives"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524934.post-7070940546956183725"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-27T15:37:00.001+08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-28T20:10:39.551+08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Expat Life"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Indonesia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Thailand"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Useful Idiots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"No Hippies Allowed"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ctable align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JsRP1Jj7PUY\/TbeoNEncGBI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/AaqlYyAi7zg\/s1600\/nohippies.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JsRP1Jj7PUY\/TbeoNEncGBI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/AaqlYyAi7zg\/s400\/nohippies.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003EImmigration Department - Phuket, Thailand\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EDespite efforts at their eradication, hippies, leftists and liberals continue to be a problem overseas and here at \"An American Expat in Southeast Asia\" we are doing our utmost to fight the problem, but we need your help.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EDonald Trump is right, we have a problem overseas and this problem originates in Washington DC. \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EWe have a problem when our nation's ambassadors and diplomats castigate our fellow Americans\u0026nbsp; back home for simply exercising their constitutional rights and then having the audacity to say overseas \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2011\/04\/20\/understanding-indonesians-a-priority-us-envoy.html\"\u003E\"I wish he were not American\"\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; You can help.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ELike Barack Obama, I've lived in Southeast Asia, albeit a long longer  than Obama did. But unlike Barack Obama I've never been subscriber to  cultural or moral equivalency nor have I felt compelled to deride my own  country in a a pathetic effort to establish that equivalency.\u0026nbsp; I know  that deriding my own country overseas only emboldens those who deny  freedom and liberty to others.\u0026nbsp; As an advocate of American  exceptionalism, I've always felt myself compelled to spread the message  of what is good about America rather than what is bad, but as always we are fighting an uphill battle.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EHow can you help?\u0026nbsp; You can help by making a donation, however big or small and support this blog and\u0026nbsp; the work we do.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003EHelp us to fight Obama and spread the message of what is good about America.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERelated Posts:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/americas-leftists-persona-non-grata.html\"\u003EAmerica's Leftists \"Persona Non Grata\"\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/osama-bin-ladens-useful-idiots.html\"\u003EOsama Bid Laden's \"Useful Idiots\"\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7070940546956183725\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/no-hippies-allowed.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/7070940546956183725"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/5524934\/posts\/default\/7070940546956183725"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/laotze.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/no-hippies-allowed.html","title":"No Hippies Allowed"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Lao"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/06746323559308496625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/pants.heddley.com\/photos\/thumb.php?uid=1040673021.343112\u0026big=1"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JsRP1Jj7PUY\/TbeoNEncGBI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/AaqlYyAi7zg\/s72-c\/nohippies.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});