The US Military Base in Ghana
Right thinking citizens protested and protested but the Puerto Rican government did not listen. Then, one gloomy day in 1999, the soldiers while on their routine testing dropped two 500 - pound bombs at a location that gruesomely blasted one islander into pieces and injured four others.
Suddenly, the people of Puerto Rico realized they were all in danger. They joined the islanders to protest the presence of the United States on their soil. It took five long years of protests before the Americans finally left.
Today, as a result of the bomb testing the island has an alarming cancer rate. There are all manner of strange diseases that afflict the people. And so, while American children stay in school to learn, children born on this island constantly have to endure pain on hospital beds.
I weep for this country! We are about to take a step that will have monumental consequences on the future of our children.
Today, we may not realize it because partisan politics has blinded us. The clergy is quiet. Academics are quiet. Civil society groups are quiet. Celebrities are quiet. Journalists are quiet. Think tanks are quiet.
But, one thing I know for sure is that character, just like pregnancy, can never be hidden. It will not be long before we will see the true colors of the Americans who stood by, arms folded, and watched Liberia, their own colony, burn down to ashes in late 1980 into the 1990s.
The United States has never hidden the fact that it has permanent interests but no permanent friends. And so they are only coming to Ghana for their interests.
They will bring bombs. They will bring weapons we cannot inspect. And they will test them here. It will be part of their training regime.
Ghana is about to become another Vieques.
Sadly. Our leaders NEVER learn!
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