They even loved the murderous U.S. coups and puppet dictators until they were cut loose, if the Globe is to be believed.
But before that....
MORNING UPDATES:
Texas Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
It is the INGUS advertisement that begins the video that is important. Everything's all right, everything's fine, we want you to $leep well tonight.
Michigan Child Dies From Enterovirus D68, Hospital Says
Now the ma$$ media is saying what I said weeks ago?
Who do you trust, baby!?
To stop Ebola, US must be able to diagnose it quickly
Containing Ebola will require powerful new weapons
It's a WAR, folks, with pharmaceuticals playing the role of war profiteer!
"Liberians wary as army joins battle vs. Ebola" by Helene Cooper | New York Times October 12, 2014
MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s armed forces — once responsible for toppling the government, killing civilians, and setting the nation on a course toward a devastating civil war — have suddenly become a linchpin in the fight against the Ebola virus rampaging through the country.
Huddled with US military personnel in the capital, government soldiers discussed their role in the effort to build 18 Ebola treatment units across the nation.
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But rebranding the Armed Forces of Liberia as a force for good is no easy task.
The room where the group was meeting is just a few yards from the beach where in 1980, drunken soldiers executed 13 top Liberian government officials after staging the coup — a chilling start to the military dictatorship under Samuel K. Doe.
Related: CIA Agents Executed 1980 Coup
That's number one.
One of the new treatment centers being built to fight Ebola is just a few miles from a refugee camp where soldiers with machine guns and cutlasses slaughtered 400 men and women and 200 children in 1993 — one of many atrocities committed during the civil war that began after rebels tried to oust Doe.
Replacing such images in the public consciousness with ones of Liberian soldiers working side by side with US troops and making nice with ordinary Liberians is a tough sell, even if the enemy now is a terrifying virus steamrolling through the country, killing more than 2,300 people in six months.
Can't ImAgine why they would not trust AmeriKa, can you?
In the latest sign of the rapid spread of the outbreak, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia said Saturday that it has placed 41 staff members, including 20 military personnel, under medical observation after an international member of its medical team was diagnosed with Ebola this week.
And Obama is sending thousands of troops into the region. So are France, Germany, and Britain.
The patient was the second mission member to test positive for the deadly disease. None of the 41 people who have had contact with the infected staffer has shown any symptoms, but all will be under observation for the three-week incubation period, the mission said.
The patient, whose name and nationality have not been disclosed, has been taken to Germany for treatment.
Many Liberians love the American military but hate their own.
Okay, NYT, if you say so. Empire full steam ahead!
Beatrice K. Yates, 45, said that only last month, Liberian soldiers beat up her son, Titus, and a friend for standing on the porch of her family’s home in Caldwell in violation of a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Ebola curfew.
We have cops that kill people, about 8 a day, in this country.
The faith in the US military is rooted in historical ties between the two countries that began in 1822, when Liberia was founded by freed American slaves.
You know, I wouldn't put too much faith in received history anymore. Sorry.
Still, the relationship has been a complicated one.
Why?
The US government openly supported Doe after the coup, despite the absence of elections for years.
Oh, the Liberians still sore about that, huh?
After the civil war ended in 2003, the Liberian government disbanded the armed forces as part of an effort to demilitarize the country and soothe residents, showing that soldiers who had committed atrocities would no longer represent them.
I can't see that happening here.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took office in 2006, promised a new, kinder and gentler army, made up of soldiers who had been vetted and actually went through basic training — something many soldiers, particularly during the reign of former president Charles G. Taylor, had not done.
And who might Charles Taylor be, you ask?
See: Globe Backs Down on Liberian Dictator Story
You can put him in the where are they now file.
The US military has had trainers in Liberia for years to help reinvent the country’s army.
What did they do, teach them how to torture?
Now, President Obama’s decision to send American troops to build Ebola treatment units has added another layer to these already complex ties.
On Thursday afternoon, four Marine V-22 Ospreys landed at Liberia’s international airport in a thunder of noise. Major General Darryl A. Williams, the commander of US Army Africa, was making plans to buzz Monrovia with the $70 million aircraft, counting on the visual and audio impact to tell Liberians that they are not alone in the Ebola fight.
Need AmeriKan help? Dial “‘1-800-air power.’”
Brigadier General Daniel D. Ziankahn, the Liberian military’s chief of staff, has suspended all other training and exercises so that he can throw his entire army into the war against Ebola. He is dispatching troops to each of the treatment centers under construction, and Liberian soldiers have deployed to the borders to enforce screening measures.
Today, there are only 2,000 enlisted men and women in the Liberian armed forces. They must have a high school degree, and officers must have a university degree. Ziankahn, 43, got a master’s in military arts and science at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Two months ago, with no warning, the Liberian government sent the army and the police to impose a 21-day Ebola quarantine on West Point, a crowded slum where tens of thousands of people live, many in two-room shanties.
Clashes broke out as angry residents tried to get out. Shots were fired into the crowd, killing a 15-year-old boy.
“All those soldiers . . . were shooting,” Nancy Jellehs, 76, a still-angry West Point resident, said recently.
Related: Sierra Leone Slum Locked Down Over Ebola
Ziankahn was doing a two-month course at Harvard University when the quarantine and shooting took place. He hurried home and launched inquiries into the behavior of the enlisted soldiers and the officers who gave orders, promising to punish those found responsible.
“Even if there had not been a shooting, we would still be investigating, because I saw the videos and there were other violations,” he said.
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He won't be back:
"JFK the 1st US airport to screen travelers for Ebola" by Marc Santora | New York Times October 12, 2014
NEW YORK — As Ebola continues to ravage West Africa and fears grow that the virus will spread around the globe, enhanced screenings at US airports began Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The yo-yo of ma$$ media fear-mongering, sigh. Think I'll just stay here and blog. No more watching football, no more socializing, I'll kill you if you try to get near me, now stop polluting my space.
Be afraid, don't be afraid, if you fail to have faith in this government you are a terrorist (cough, sniffle).
Travelers coming from three hard-hit African countries are being singled out, having their temperatures taken and questioned about their possible exposure to Ebola.
Kennedy was the first of five US airports to step up screening protocols, and the new measures were the latest indication of the risk the disease presents.
Beginning next week, Washington Dulles, Newark, Chicago O’Hare, and Atlanta international airports will employ the same stepped-up screenings as those put in place at Kennedy. About 150 people enter the United States every day from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and nearly all of them come through those five airports.
Airports in Canada and Europe plan to take similar measures in coming days.
But even as nations try to reassure anxious citizens they are doing all they can to prevent an outbreak within their borders, public health officials cautioned that the only way to truly eliminate the threat posed by the virus would be to defeat it in West Africa.
It's another NYT piece, and it is pretty obvious they have been pushing war propaganda so long even the scribes are self-internalizing the hammer looking for a nail, any nail. Wow.
“As Ebola continues its slow-motion incursion into developed countries, right now the US and Spain, there is an understandable level of fear growing among people about this terrible virus, even though the chances of seeing anything like the calamity in western Africa is profoundly remote,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and a special adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York.
Oh, so now I'm alarmist and.... oh, okay. Apology accepted.
While the screenings might catch a few cases, he said, the focus needed to remain on battling the disease at its source and reacting quickly and effectively to new cases when they appear.
Man, is this ever stinking of an ulterior agenda! This from a ma$$ media operation that is only concerned with $yptoms when it comes to corporation poisoning!
The difficulty and complexity of monitoring people without symptoms but thought to have been at risk of exposure to Ebola was demonstrated on Friday night when the New Jersey Health Department ordered a crew from NBC News that recently returned from Liberia into quarantine.
Call in the NSA, and does that ever hit home. Remember, Mukpo the cameraman got sick.
The crew included the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, who lives in Princeton, N.J. Snyderman had been covering the outbreak alongside Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who was infected with the virus. Mukpo is being treated in isolation at a hospital in Omaha.
An important person.
New Jersey health officials said that upon returning from Liberia, the crew members agreed to isolate themselves from the community and monitor themselves for 21 days, the longest documented period of time it has taken for someone infected with Ebola to develop symptoms.
“The NBC crew was ordered to be quarantined after failing to adhere to an agreement they made with health officials,” the department said in a statement. “The order will be enforced by the Princeton Health Department in collaboration with the Princeton Police Department. The NBC crew remains symptom-free, so there is no reason for concern of exposure to the community.”
A spokesman for NBC News declined to comment on the quarantine, but said the crew was complying with the department’s orders.
I would say I feel sorry for them, but their role in engendering fear and pushing the agenda preclude that. Taste own medicine, right?
The decision to screen travelers entering the United States was announced on Wednesday, the day the first person with a case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States died.
Thomas Duncan traveled to Dallas from Liberia, and like all airline passengers leaving the West African countries at the center of the epidemic, he was screened for symptoms before being allowed to board his flight.
Duncan did not yet have a fever or any other symptoms associated with Ebola when he left Liberia. He did not fall ill until several days after he arrived in Dallas.
Related: Duncan's Last Days
Good thing the Times cleaned that up.
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Also see: BU Biolab Cooking Up Ebola
The current strain was created over there from what I've seen. Even the Liberian equivalent of the New York Times said so.
