Comments on: Obama could end Congo’s human catastrophe

By: david johnson

david johnson — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:43:17 +0000

Some may be conscious as well as knowledgeable about this situation but, their interest comes into question. I tend to lean more toward the thinking of brother Renaldo based on my personal research.____

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:15:09 +0000

This is about Africa, you unspeakable idiot. It's about ending the war and plunder in Africa.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:14:08 +0000

I'm reporting on Glencore International in Congo next week for KPFA.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:13:27 +0000

I don't have any power to censor anyone on the SF Bay View and I'm sure the editors are not either. If they didn't censor the hideous comments below, I'm sure they're not censoring you.

By: The 57%

The 57% — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:53:50 +0000

Fuck those niggers they have done nothing to further the advancenment of human society. Seriously name one thing africa has contributed to the world besides slaves. Just admit it by reading your atricles I can tell Niggers are only fit for doing the rest of societys unskilled labor. In todays society a nigger can get a job just about any due to Affirmative Action due to quotas that companys have to hire an certain number on niggers to comply with the law and you still have twice the unemployment of white americans. Im drumk but look at history everything you try at you fail at including this newspaper. GO Back To Africa and stop bitching.

By: The 58%

The 58% — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:48:23 +0000

WHITE FUCKING POWER. NIGGERS SHOULD BE PICKING MY COTTON ON MY FARM. HANG ALL OF THOSE FUCKING BABOONS FROM TREES!

By: Jean Pierre Papin

Jean Pierre Papin — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:47:40 +0000

Ann, are you censoring me? My 2 comments had no profanity, i was just stating a dissenting view from your usual vitriol. See, you hide behind forums like these to lay blame on others for the things you're guilty of. According to you, the Kagame administration engages in censorship of the media.
Well, if that's true, how about what you just did to my comments a couple of days ago? CENSORING.
I guess you and Kagame have something in common!!

By: Aaron Aarons

Aaron Aarons — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:45:06 +0000

There should be circulating on the Web a list or lists of the names, addresses, and other identifying and incriminating information on the major individual and corporate capitalists, including their bankers and political enablers, involved in ripping off the Congo's resources. It is important, however, that such information be susceptible to validation and verification by those who might choose to act on it.

By: Jean Pierre Papin

Jean Pierre Papin — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:25:44 +0000

Ann Garrison,
Truth will always prevail no matter how long it takes. It may take a generation or 50 or 100 yrs but the truth will always come out victorious. Baby, you are on the opposing side of facts and you’re sadly mistaken if you think that your lies will prevail over facts in the long run. It amuses me to see you trying to portray yourself as a social justice seeker/promoter/activist, but you’re nothing more than a propagandist like those from “FIX NEWS”‘s Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly not to mention such haters as Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. ALUTA CONTINUA!!

By: Jean Pierre Papin

Jean Pierre Papin — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:53:47 +0000

@ Nelly,
Nobody is alking about the hutu genocide in Congo because it never happened. Genocide means targeting and killing people because of who they are. As far as facts are concerned, the RDF did dismantle the refugee camps not because they occupants were Hutus but because the defeated ex-Far murderes were hiding in those camps getting ready to come back to Rwanda and finish their heinous and barbaric acts they had started 2 years prior. Besides, in rhe process of dismantling those camps, the RDF managed to repatriate close to 2 million refugees back Rwanda which begs the following question: how in this world could the RDF plan to exterminate Hutu refugees because of who they were and yet repatriate them back in Rwanda? If exterminating Hutus was the the RDF’s motivation to enter Kivu, then the Rwandan soldiers wouldn’t have bothered to bring them back, they would instead have killed them all in the jungles of the Congo. I know you people and the likes of Ann Garrison hide behind forum like this to spread faslsehoods and innuendoes, but facts are facts no matter what. ALUTA CONTINUA!!

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:24:04 +0000

Plus I posted Stam's account, which I said I don't totally agree with, but that's another dissident account of "the tribal affair."

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:22:41 +0000

Renaldo, I'd like to ask you to search the Bay View for Rwanda, because since January 2009, we've been covering that, the Rwanda "tribal affair," which we know to include far more international actors than much of the world realizes. This interview with Victoire Ingabire is on the long side, http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandas-victoire-ingabi… but you can also find much shorter reports on Rwanda, the genocide, and its aftermath, here on the Bay View.

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:38:33 +0000

Do we see the patterns of genocide? It's self evident their intensions were never noble,the objective was to conquer,pillage, rule and enslave. As an astute student of history my blood boils to temperatures that'll melt steel and twist the axis of the this planet. How could they be so bold and continue to perpectuate this sick social disease today.They've not evolved the barbarism still permeates the souls of the lost maniac.

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:09:31 +0000

Yes amon FB – I was referring to the million or so people killed in the tribal affair.I heard the Dutch propgated the case scenario but these tribal wars hav eben going on for centuries.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:38:27 +0000

Constitutionally, the President has absolute executive authority over the US Armed Forces and anyone who disobeys his command is subject to court martial. That doesn't mean he isn't always considering all pressures from all sides and asking himself what he really wants to do and what is possible.

He passed up a lot of his greatest possibilities when he walked into office with the greatest mandate any of us are likely to have seen in our lifetimes. The first thing he did was mercilessly drone bomb Pakistan. Actually that was after supporting another Rwandan invasion of Congo on his election day. These things and more militarization and war, plus the bailout, cost him the overwhelming mandate, which was not just national but global. Had he acted differently, he might have lost the support of AIPAC, clean coal, nuclear power, Goldman Sachs.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:31:17 +0000

We've been talking about it for three years here in the Bay View, so you could try searching for "Rwanda" and "Congo." But, are you on Facebook? I grabbed an image from Professor Allan Stam's lecture and posted it to my FB page a year or so ago. This is the best sound bite sized summary of the alternative narrative that I know of: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101502036…

I don't agree with all of Allan Stam's conclusions but here's the video of his lecture: http://lockerz.com/d/6717490

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:45:06 +0000

Many view the presidency as a supreme commander,it's not. this is a very complex counrtry ,the president can't end teh econopmic interest in the Congo by US companies.If he does he may becaome a target of assasination. The Americant in dustrialist rule this country.During WWII they were selling oil to Hitler as he bombed Europe, teh president couldn't stopthem form making a profit . The Duponts hatched a plan to kill FDR, these people rule the world with impunity. Unfortunately Africa is still a colony with window dressing Black head of state.

By: @RenaldoRickett

@RenaldoRickett — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:38:33 +0000

Ann tellme the other side-i must have missed it – enlighten me.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:41:55 +0000

Renaldo, did you hear me saying that Obama should "wave a magic wand"? I thought I'd made it clear that "Obama" in that headline means the institutional force invested in Obama, but, at the same time, Obama the president and former senator who is, after all, conscious and very knowledgeable about Congo.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:37:50 +0000

Are you kidding, Renaldo? Hotel Rwanda was about the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was a very onesided, fairy tale version of what happened in 1994, without the context of the four year Rwandan Civil War.