Living Armstrongism: News From Syria

Thursday, April 14, 2016

News From Syria

Alas, it seems as though the cessation of hostilities is almost gone. It is too be hoped that hostilities will not yet resume but there has been so little good has come to pass in that land since the Assad regime's bloody repression against the protesters in 2011 plunged Syria into catastrophe.

(Reposting does not necessarily mean endorsement.)

The High Negotiation Committee of the Syrian Opposition condemned the recent parliamentary elections held in regime held Syria as a "farce".
https://twitter.com/SyrianHNC_en/status/720323142732787713

Rojava also boycotted the Assad regime's elections.
https://anfenglish.com/news/rojava-cantons-boycott-the-syrian-elections

New Yorker reports on the compilation of evidence of war crimes committed by the Assad regime in seeking to suppress the initially peaceful protest movement that began in 2011.
https://twitter.com/bentaub91/status/719527609135206402

Remembering the death of Ahmad Bawwadi
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/09/When-someone-whispered-to-me-from-his-grave.html

Twitter account focusing on the dire events in the Yarmouk refugee camp that is about 80% controlled by ISIL, the rest by Al Qaeda's arm in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, and surrounded and besieged by the Assad regime since they lost control of it in December 2012. Thousands of civilians are stuck in the middle of that nightmarish situation.
https://twitter.com/shaml_media

Assad loyalists in Tartous start to show frustration after so many of their sons have fought and died to protect the Assad regime with seemingly little to show for their many sacrifices.
http://syrianobserver.com/EN/Features/30845/Tartous_Loyalists_Turn_Back_Regime_Death_Toll_Mounts/

Palmyra Revolution Coordination seeking to spread awareness about those displaced from Palmyra.
https://twitter.com/PalmyraRev1/status/718020731204997120

Palmyra Coordination's statement regarding ISIL's mass grave in Palmyra.
https://twitter.com/PalmyraRev1/status/716567699963379712

Dr. Hasan al-Araj killed in pro-Assad airstrike.
https://twitter.com/SyriaCivilDef/status/720261131856658432
https://twitter.com/arabthomness/status/720305552388145152

Haunting tweet of four 17 year old Afghan child soldiers who fought and died on the side of the Assad regime in Syria.
https://twitter.com/Paradoxy13/status/719970860434636805

Heaven and Hell just 10 km away in Damascus by the will of the Assad regime.
https://twitter.com/TheSyriaCmpgn/status/717897238987452417

Amnesty International's presentation of life under the Assad regime's barrel bombs.
http://360syria.com/intro

Women and children protesting in Darayya.
https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/719604830998806528

Twitter thread that indicates just how difficult it was for the Assad regime to engineer the sectarianization of the conflict. (Some links have been added in the quotation below.)
https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/719545647423094785

The resistance/conspiracy story to Hafez Assad (and later his idiot son) was more important than building an actual army to defend #Syria.

It is true that all dictatorships rely on propaganda, but I can't think of any dictatorship that invested in brainwash as much as Syria.

For example: the majority of pre-2011 Syria still ACTUALLY believed Hafez Assad won the 1973 Israel/Syria war.

As anti Assad protests became popular, Assad scrambled to turn the Syrians against one another.

B4 adopting terrorism story: Assad propaganda claimed all protestors were Israeli agents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S69Hn4a50Y …

When that didn't work: Assad's Shabeeha kidnapped notable Alawite civilians, returned them cut up, blamed Sunnis, then same with Sunnis.

See this from July 2011
"3 Alawites were found mutilated & killed in Homs last night. Gov staged a massive rally asking "troops 2 b involved".. Now tanks jst outside" [July 16, 2011.]

That didn't even get the population to fight each other, so he thought: massacres against Sunnis would def get Sunnis to kill Alawites.

Abt 23 massacres hppnd in 2011-12. Assad Shabbeeha lining up kids, cutting thr heads, letting some live 2 tell story & foster sectarianism

Regime was desperate! opposition were still peaceful, regime borrowed videos from Lebanon & said they were in Syria

Before 2011: Big Brother was watching.
http://www.geekeasy.com/travel/images/images/_DSC9752.jpg

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And on some other matters:

Fatalities rate of under 5 year old children in Yemen increase by 23% during a year of tragic war.
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/YEMEN%20Humanitarian%20Snapshot%20%2812%20April%202016%29_0.pdf

Some far right wing politician from Austria was invited to Israel.
https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/719852595578347525

Saudi Arabia's religious police are no longer allowed to arrest people.
https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/720404966813278211

Photos from Operation Defensive Shield (2002)
https://twitter.com/ANimer/status/716871038466809856

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Fall of Berlin Wall NOT Proof HWA was Right

It is often asserted that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 proved that HWA was right and he really did see the future.

This of course is nonsense. Herbert W. Armstrong said that Christ would return within twenty years in his book Mystery of the Ages. (PCG has since deleted those words so someone in there knows HWA spoke nonsense.) How convenient for them to forget this.

Also Herbert W. Armstrong never said the Soviet Union would collapse. He thought it would survive intact until a few years after Christ's return. It shows how biased some many in the COGs are that they never seem to notice this. This inconvenient truth is just tossed into the memory hole.

It is true that HWA said that some Eastern European states would break away from Moscow's orbit and join the European Empire he said would arise at any moment. But he never talked of the Soviet Union collapsing. He did not teach that. Also he portrayed the rise of the European Empire to be far quicker then what has actually happened. In Mystery of the Ages Christ was supposed to return by 2005 at the most.

So assertions that the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow prove that HWA was right is just complete nonsense spread by people who, for whatever reason, are still in denial that HWA was a false prophet who merely talked out of his own "human reasoning".

Truth about Roderick C. Meredith

What sort of man is he? A man who could say things like this.

"Mr. Armstrong has reminded us again that we are to disfellowship any members who attend GTA's [Garner Ted Armstrong's] campaigns, church services or other meetings. Some of our weaker members apparently do not realize that this man is in direct rebellion against God and His government! We must not allow them, or ourselves, to rationalize about this matter, to try to "help the underdog," or in any other way lend support to one whose gross immorality, whose long standing "play acting" and hypocrisy, and whose direct insubordination to the Government of God has long been and is now a source of confusion and DIVISION among God's people. So, as per Mr. Armstrong's instruction, I charge and exhort every one of you faithful ministers of the living Christ to explain this in no uncertain terms to your members, to warn them about this cause of division and then to disfellowship any who consort with GTA or any of his fellows." (Roderick C. Meredith, Pastor's Report, May 21, 1979, pp. 1-2.)

See here for this statement's context.

David Robinson on Roderick C. Meredith

WCG minister David Robinson had this to say about Roderick C. Meredith in a letter he wrote to him on September 19, 1979.

"During the ten years I have been an employee of the Worldwide Church, you have been poorly spoken of by most of the ministers and employees I have known. I vividly remember the absolute unbounded glee that was openly expressed by a good number of respected men in the church when you were first "shanghaied." [In 1972.] I could begin by naming names, which I am sure would shock you. I was one of the few who stood, where possible, for you. Your tenure as superintendent of ministers, as I believe the office was then called, was looked on as nightmarish. While you held office during the years of growth, most of those whom I know gave you very little credit for that growth. Almost everyone whom I know, whether they be former friends of yours, or continuing foes, recalls insensitive and terrible things you have done. Without exception, at least among my acquaintances, they all credit you with an unbridled lust for power and list you as one who is willing to pay the price of gaining that power, no matter what. I have, through many of the last few years, believed you had principles you would not violate. Many a man of experience in the church assured me of my error. Events have proven me wrong and them right. Mr. Armstrong has himself been widely quoted as saying of you that you were so righteous that you were so "righteous you were unrighteous." " (David Robinson, Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web, Chapter 16, p. 207.)

Of course it is impossible for me to personally verify these assertions but people deserve to know what this knowledgeable man had to say about him.

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