ANSWER and the House of Saud

[UncleSepp]

Something occurred to me last night. I haven't heard much from ANSWER about Saudi Arabia. It occurs to me that if a president who behaves like a king is bad, then an actual king would be worse. Of hereditary monarchies, it would seem that Saudi Arabia would be among the worst examples of a born leadership controlling all the wealth and resources while restricting the freedom of its people and engaging in imperialist practices. Searching doesn't turn up any scathing critiques of the House of Saud, except for a few small mentions of people held in Saudi prisons at US behest. Have I missed the criticism of this fundamentally unjust country in the confusion, or is it simply absent?

[On the Road]

1. Hey, The ANSWER Net is Only So Wide

Between Iraq, racism, Palestine, Columbia, Haiti, Leonard Peliter, the War on Drugs, labor issues, Mumia, North Korea, the World Bank, and nuclear disarmament, there just isn't much room for the Saudis. They're pikers on the ANSWER scale.

I did see, however, articles on Niger and Nepal in one of the newpapers, which were quite interesting.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

2. Michael Lerner

made a similar point -- basically why do ANSWER spend so long critisizing Israel on human rights issues whilst ignoring Saudi Arabia and other countries whose record is atrocious -- and ANSWER banned him from speaking at their events.

[UncleSepp]

3. I was wondering what got him banned, thanks (n/t)

[hootinholler]

4. WTF?? ANSWER banned a speaker?

:rofl:

It just gets 'more surrealer' every min. Did we just cross some major zodiac thing or something?

-Hoot