The
ink was hardly dry on the new
anti-immigrant ban that Trump signed, out of public view, the
morning of March 6th,
2017, when, a few
hours later in Rome, at 7:30pm local time, AEPC held a quick
flash mob in front of the U.S. Embassy to protest Trump's revised
ban.
USC4P&J gladly participated in the
event.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., opposition
groups launched instant
protests against
the new
travel ban; read about them here.
The
signs that USC4P&J members held up outside the Rome Embassy
read: “Stop bombing Yemen! Stop banning Yemenis! Peace and
friendship!”, “Yemen”, of course, stands as
well for the other five countries listed in Trump's ban but which
could not be mentioned on the sign due to space limitations.
The U.S. in fact, not only unjustly bans citizens
from all six of these countries, but it bombs them unrelentingly,
too: Libya (massively in 2011 and again last year and this year),
Sudan, Somalia, Syria (including an “accidental”
bombing of Syrian troops defending the Aleppo airport from Isis,
which subsequently permitted Isis to recapture the
airport).
Iran has not been bombed yet with U.S.
Hellfire missiles, but it has been hit by U.S. (and U.S.-Israeli)
cyber “bombs” that have destroyed the operational
capacity of plants and research centers. Yemen has been hit by
U.S. Hellfire missiles shot from U.S. Predator drones; in
addition, and more importantly, the U.S. furnishes the bombs and
planes that the Saudi Air Force uses
to massacre huge numbers of Yemeni civilians; the U.S. also
operates the tanker planes that refuel the Saudi jets in flight
and furnishes the satellite data necessary to determine their
targets – in a word, the U.S. does everything except
physically push the “fire” button.
Let's
not only tell Trump to stop banning Muslims from the six
countries targeted, but also to stop bombing them as
well,
whether
directly
or indirectly.
Our
only security is in peace.
U.S.
Citizens for Peace & Justice –
Rome
www.peaceandjustice.it
info@peaceandjustice.it
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