Farrakhan blamed Obama’s advisers — whom he called “wicked demons” — for what he sees as a flawed American foreign policy that he said serves the interests of the powerful international corporations, not working-class Americans.
“Now, Moammar Gadhafi and his sons lie dead,” Farrakhan said. “Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons lie dead. Well, what about your sons?
“They’re dying in Iraq on the basis of a lie. They’re dying in Afghanistan on the basis of a lie. And now (U.S. military) drones are in Pakistan, drones in Somalia, drones in Yemen. When will it stop? America, do you think that you can get away with this?”
Farrakhan said the American media, which he said is controlled by banks, willingly tarnished Gadhafi’s image. During a commercial break, he said the media “is bought and paid for.”
“You don’t have a democracy when you don’t have a free press,” he told the reporters and photographers in the studio during the break. “You’re all slaves, and you love it. So you deserve what you get — the erosion of your democracy. You’ll soon be the laughingstock of the world.”
Farrakhan also said that America and its allies are “in for a shock” if they think that new governments in Libya, Egypt and other North African and Middle Eastern countries will automatically be pro-U.S.
Instead, he said, the U.S. could find itself with a revolution of its own. He pointed to the Occupy Wall Street movement as evidence of growing unrest in the U.S.
