Osama bin Laden

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1. Why Does bin Laden Have So Many Supporters?

To give you some idea of how few people are asking the right questions and seeking to understand, when I did this search "Why does bin laden have so many supporters" Google told me there were no results. Same if you try Osama bin Laden

Let me repeat that: NO RESULTS

Please think about what that suggests.

2. "Why does bin Laden hate America?"

Encouragingly, more people are asking this question.

But what is disturbing to me is that of the top 10 results, none of them were from what could in any way be called mainstream media. None of them were from US Government sites. One might think the government would be very interested in this question, do a lot of research into it and publish their findings....

Then again, I am not sure I would trust the government's report. In fact, on a scale of 0-10 I would probably trust it about 2.

Nov 2011 Note - I recently wrote this article about how the USA feels threatened by understanding.

I wish the US government would have told me something close to the truth about what is happening between Israel and Palestine when I was young. We were always taught to support Israel, and taught that the Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO, was a very bad thing. But we were never told the other side of the story.

In watching the series of videos called One Day in September, which documents the 1972 Munich Olympics bloodshed I became more convinced that instead of killing people, we need to listen to them and understand them. One of the "terrorists" later said he was proud of what he did because "it helped the Palestinian cause enormously … before Munich, the world had no idea about our struggle, but on that day, the name of Palestine was repeated all around the world."

Sadly, I have to say that there is a lot of truth in what he said. I didn't know about what he calls the Palestinian cause. I didn't know how the Israelis have been treating the Palestinians.

There is another documentary on YouTube worth watching. In fact, I believe it would be time much better spent watching it in schools in the USA than time spent on algebra, for example, something I have never once used once I left school. The documentary is called "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land." It gives examples of how the Western media is biased in its reporting of the Israel-Palestine problem.

Killing Osama bin Laden is no where near the end of the death and destruction. A totally different approach is needed. The USA could be the leader in this new approach, but it seems it will depend on the grass roots Americans and the American voter, because obviously the government and the elected officials cannot be depended upon to lead the world in a new direction.

We must make killing, death, destruction and revenge unpopular. We cannot continue to elect politicians who carry on the same old deadly and costly cycle. It is up to you and I.

S. Hein
May 9, 2011

You can see the lack of empathy Americans have on this page which reported that bin Laden's mother in law died upon hearing the news that Osama had been assassinated.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/9338569/mother-in-law-dies-on-news-of-bin-laden/

I have also learned about John Pilger, Australian Journalist. If you are interested in freedom, democracy etc. he is worth googling.