The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 34 Issue: 14 - Wednesday, July 14, 2004

"A Moment of Silence"
by Jack Kinsella

When someone offers an apology, it is usually implicitly understood that
it means the person offering it also repents of the behavior or action for
which the apology is being offered.

At least, that's the way I understand an apology. This is why most
apologies include the words, "I'm sorry" in there somewhere.

With this in mind, I went back to the UN's website to read
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's 'apology' for standing idly by during
Rwanda's genocidal civil war.

It was a nice speech, filled with promises 'to never forget' and using
words like 'appalling' and phrases like 'bitter regret and abiding sorrow'
but went on to exonerate himself saying that he, personally, did his
'best' but only wishes he had done more.

"I myself, as head of the UN's peacekeeping department at the time,
pressed dozens of countries for troops.  I believed at that time that I
was doing my best.  But I realized after the genocide that there was more
that I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support."
Poor guy!

After exonerating himself personally, he excoriated the rest of the world
for doing nothing. In the course of his 'apology', he acknowledged openly
what President Bush addressed during the run-up to the Iraq War -- the
UN's relevancy -- or rather, its lack thereof.

"The genocide in Rwanda raised questions that affect all humankind --
fundamental questions about the authority of the Security Council, the
effectiveness of United Nations peacekeeping, the reach of international
justice, the roots of violence, and the responsibility of the
international community to protect people threatened by genocide and other
grave violations of human rights," he said.

So, how to make amends for the UN's inaction while eight hundred thousand
men, women and children were butchered in a genocidal civil war?  Hey --
what about a moment of silence?

"The General Assembly has designated 7 April as the International Day of
Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. . . Such a minute of silence has the
potential to unite the world, however fleetingly, around the idea of
global solidarity . . .  here today, I would like to urge all people,
everywhere, no matter what their station in life, whether in crowded
cities or remote rural areas, to set aside whatever they might be doing at
noon on that day, and pause to remember the victims. Let us be united in a
way we were not 10 years ago," Annan told the assembled world.

Once having exonerated himself, placed the blame on faceless 'nations' and
then promised to gather the world together to have a Coke and sing
'Kumbaya',  Annan went on to suggest that a moment of silence would
somehow wipe the UN's slate clean;

"And let us, by what we do in one single minute, send a message -- a
message of remorse for the past, resolve to prevent such a tragedy from
ever happening again -- and let's make it resound for years to come."

Assessment:

Apparently, since the Sudanese didn't have enough wristwatches to time it,
it didn't work. So instead of preventing 'such a tragedy from ever
happening again', the UN is standing by (again) while the Sudan's Islamic
government systematically slaughters and enslaves (yes, enslaves!)
Christians and other non-Muslims in the south who refuse to submit to
Islam.

Here's how a Western eyewitness describes life for a Sudanese slave under
an Islamic master:

"Women and children abducted in slave raids are roped by the neck or
strapped to animals and then marched north. Along the way, many women and
girls are repeatedly gang-raped. Children who will not be silent are shot
on the spot.

In the north, slaves are either kept by individual militia soldiers or
sold in markets. Boys work as livestock herders, forced to sleep with the
animals they care for."

Writes one former slave, quoted in a story from Front Page Magazine,
"Families were broken up, with children sometimes murdered in front of
their mothers as a warning and because they were too much trouble. We
cried out to the West, to the countries who said they believed in human
rights, but they were indifferent to our agony."

The slave trade in the Sudan is every bit as brutal as was the US slave
trade prior to the Civil War.  A number of private Christian charities,
frustrated at the UN's continued willingness to look the other way, --
great swelling words about Rwanda notwithstanding -- have even begun
buying back slaves from their masters.

Christian Solidarity International, based in Zurich, has, since 1995,
bought and emancipated 5,942 Sudanese children, at a cost of about $50 per
child.

For their efforts, UNICEF spokeswoman Marie Heuzer described the slave
redemption program as "intolerable" after Christian Solidarity raised the
topic by appealing to Secretary General Kofi Annan to condemn slavery in
Sudan and to create a special program to trace and free enslaved women and
children.

Annan didn't create the special program to help Sudan's slaves. (But there
ARE rumors that he is considering a moment of silence after they are all
dead.)

The Bible foretold the existence of a global government in the last days,
and the United Nations thinks that it is it, but it isn't.  The UN governs
nothing, meddles in everything, and everywhere it interferes, it leaves
chaos in its wake.  That is NOT the global government described by the
prophets.

But the UN, by its existence, proves the perceived need for a global
governing authority, and the UN's many global institutions are now
indispensable to international relations, particularly those governing
trade.

The Bible says the role of global government in the last days will be
assumed by the revived Roman Empire.

The UN is useless, but its infrastructure is critical.  It is no
coincidence that the EU is uniquely positioned to pick up the pieces in
the event of a UN collapse.  And it is no coincidence that the calls for
the United States to pull out of the UN grow louder each year.

We ARE living in the last days. The evidence is everywhere. Everything
continues to follow the Divine blueprint -- as outlined thousands of years
in advance -- for one generation, somewhere in time. The time grows short,
and the fields are white with the harvest.

We are that special, chosen generation -- of that there can be no doubt.
There are people reading these words who will never, ever die, but will
instead be instantly translated from this world to the next.  And each of
us knows at least one person who won't hear the call.

Kofi Annan has proved how effective a 'moment of silence' is -- it lulls
people to sleep. The Omega Letter's mission is to give you as many tools
as possible to help you wake them up before it is too late.

"Therefore said He unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the
labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He
would send forth labourers into his harvest." (Luke 10:2)

He is coming soon, and He has set watchmen on the wall to announce His
impending arrival. The enemy's job is to knock as many of them off that
wall as he can.

Please pray for us and for our efforts, as we pray for each of you as you
raise the alarm from your own place on the wall.  Thank you all, in Jesus'
Name, for your faithfulness.

Until He comes.