BOY DELEVERIO
Mindanao Monitor
The United States of America elected, for the first time, an African-American as President. A Black Man in the White House, he will assume office in January 2009. It is historic, it is epic and it is precedent-setting.
Unfortunately for President-elect Obama and majority of the American people who elevated him to the presidency, it is also a cause for worry as Obama’s election will eventually result in an ominous tragedy.
Reading the mentality of most white Americans, in relation to Obama’s announced programs and policies, his disfavor with America’s involvement in wars around the globe, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, Barack Obama is positioning himself as a “marked man.”
Even before the voting took place, there was a report on the arrest of two suspected would-be assassins out to liquidate Obama. They were identified as belonging to groups of white supremacists who have Nazi leanings. The report was very brief and there seems to be no follow-up. Its tendency or potential to grab screaming headlines appears to have been suppressed. There are those in corridors of power who would not want the matter to develop into a subject of popular controversy or broad perceptions. There is an obvious effort to let the incident die a sudden natural death. It is as if the attempt on the life of Obama has become taboo, not worth discussing about.
That early, even before the elections are held, and in the face of predictions that Obama is certain of poll victory, there was already an attempt to eliminate him.
What more, if we take into account that, under his administration, America will veer from or stay away from wars currently reverberating in some parts of the globe? What if Obama moves to stop the proliferation of pockets of wars and succeeds in doing so? Will he not become the object of elimination by those who can do it and who have had the capability to do it? By those who will be disadvantaged by his international programs and foreign policies?
We have known long before that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a global organization financed by billionaires many of whom are manufacturers of modern and sophisticated armaments of war. Will they just sit down with folded arms while the wars around the globe slowly and ultimately experience a meltdown, because America, upon Obama’s influence and prodding, will discourage pocket wars and stop sending troops abroad? What will the “merchants of war” do?
And so, this early, even before assuming his powerful post as chief executive and commander-in-chief of the world’s greatest power, this writer ventures to prophecy an Obama assassination, just as Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy suffered.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated because he liberated the blacks. John F. Kennedy suffered the same fate because he avoided war with Russia.
This is a dire prediction, a grim prophecy. Take it or leave it.