Jason Miller on US crimes against humanity

Here are but a few recent examples of the United States' own flagrant human rights abuses:

1. carrying out quite a number of its own executions in a manner recently discovered to inflict a great deal of suffering on the victim, including executing the mentally retarded and mentally ill. The US also executes a greater per capita number of its citizens than any other nation.

2. routinely torturing and suspending justice for those labelled "enemy combatants"

3. funding the Israeli Apartheid and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians

4. occupying a nation where it has killed over a million Iraqi civilians since the Gulf War invasion (through brutal economic sanctions {500K children alone in nine years} and military actions).

5. funding and providing the munitions for the Israeli devastation of Lebanon

6. supporting numerous ruthless and murderous regimes (as long as they are friendly to US corporations)

7. having cynically embraced Saddam Hussein as an ally (knowing of his crimes against humanity {Rumsfeld handing him a check after the Kurd gassing}) when it furthered US interests and invading Iraq preemptively to topple him when he ceased to be useful.

8. having kept the House of Saud in power for years despite its harsh practice of Sharia Law and repression of all dissent and opposition

9. maintaining the largest prison population in the world (and largest per capita prison population) through a legal system so unjust that 50% of those incarcerated are Black when Blacks comprise 14% of the general population.

10. engaging in numerous outright massacres of civilians (i.e. Haditha, Fallujah) {well this dates back to the early American colonial days now doesn't it??}

rummaging in the mind bin

When i get back in September, i need to post some thoughts on several topics.

I have a notion that those who propose that humans have a right to property, fail to acknowledge (intentionally) that in order to fully exercise such a right, one must deny others the access to that right, using capital assets and economic elitism to sustain control over the resources (security forces) at the expense of freely and openly allowing all to have free unfettered access to exercise that right. I see the concept of private property as a privilege like driving. If you can afford it, you can have it; but it is not a right by any means, and it must be regulated and controlled like use of motor vehicles. Private property advocates are essentially demanding that only their brand of capitalism exist and that all threats to their own views are dangerous and must be abandoned or destroyed. Keep that in mind next time someone suggests that they have a right to own a piece of the earth; look into their souls and you will see the greed and selfishness. As is said, more next month.

The MSM conservative media insist that the US population is stupid. Nothing new here, but the depths to which they put this to the test. The terror arrests help Bush stories seem to represent the notion that Bush needs help? So things really are that bad? The notion that Lamont's victory is representative of the Dems nominating losers to national office. Of course those losers were actually winners whose legal and forthright elections were stolen and subverted by a Supreme Court and electronic voting hacking.

The war on terror will go on forever?? Well it can't, because it presupposes that the US will eventually have to take on its own citizens, and when that happens there won't be a US to fight an openended war on terror, or anyone else for that matter. The ongoing efforts to establish the US as the Christian version of Israel, creating a theocratic state, empower with massive military protections, seeking to absorb much of the planet's resources for its own selfish and abusive use, will only serve to destroy the country from within. Not to mention the apparent failure of Israel's military planning and execution in its efforts to destroy its neighbors.

The man is completely insane...

It isn't shocking that more than 99% of the world's leaders think differently than George; no what is shocking is that he is being put out there by his puppet masters to prove it.

Bush Says Israel Defeated Hezbollah Guerillas <>
(CBS News) President Bush said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel in their month-long Mideast war. "There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon," Mr. Bush said. Mr. Bush also said the war was part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror and "we can only imagine how much more dangerous this conflict would be if Iran had the nuclear weapon it seeks."
Mr. Bush said Iran and Syria were the primary sponsors of Hezbollah guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers, igniting the battle with Israel. More than 900 people were killed in the fighting, and there was massive destruction in southern Lebanon. Mr. Bush said the "responsibility for this suffering lies with Hezbollah."

And now contrast that with Israel's own vision of this 34 day war. Keep in mind the hidden subversive message above: that an oppositional political party is guilty for the slaughter of its own nation's citizens simply because it was the oppositional party. Get it??? Just ask Cheney, when he says Democrats are in league with Al Qaeda.

Israel's Verdict: We Lost the War
by Donald Macintyre
<> Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, was obliged to admit "shortcomings" in the 34-day-old conflict in Lebanon yesterday as he launched what may prove a protracted fight for his own political survival. Mr Olmert's admission in a stormy Knesset session came in the face of devastating poll figures showing a majority of the Israeli public believes none or only a very small part of the goals of the war had been achieved. The Prime Minister, who was repeatedly heckled by opposition MPs during his address, insisted the international commitments in Friday night's UN resolution would "change fundamentally" the balance of forces on the country's northern border. <>Promising that the government "will have to examine ourselves at all levels,"

Mr Olmert fought to pre-empt a probable campaign by the political right by declaring that Hizbollah had been dealt a "harsh blow". He added that the guerrilla group was no longer "a state within a state" or a "terrorist organisation that is allowed to act inside a state as an arm of the axis of evil", referring to Syria and Iran.
While refraining from a direct personal attack on Mr Olmert, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right- wing Likud opposition, lost little time in declaring "there were many failures, failures in identifying the threat, failures in preparing to meet the threat, failures in the management of the war, failures in the management of the home front."

Now let's consider two other points. First, that Bush and Olmert suggest that this was really about Syria and Iran; that the US has strategic intent to pre-emptively attack Iran and was supporting the Israeli strike against Lebanon to instigate a Syrian/Iranian response. Assume that Bush/Cheney also refers to Iraq as a victory, and considering Israel's effort a victory, foreshadows decades of war in the Middle East, killing thousands of US citizens and hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens, these crazy mofos would call that a victory too. But that isn't the critical point. What underlies all of this is that Israel had been planning this attack for more than a year, with the direct support and approval of Bushco, and that this year long planning and preparation are viewed by Israel as a complete defeat.

Last month the San Francisco Chronicle reported that "Israel's military response by air, land and sea to what it considered a provocation last week by Hizbollah militants was unfolding according to a plan finalised more than a year ago". The report said that a senior Israeli army officer had been briefing diplomats, journalists and think-tanks for more than a year about the plan and it quoted Gerald Steinberg, professor of political science at [Israel's] Bar-Ilan University, who said: "Of all of Israel's wars since 1948, this was the one for which Israel was most prepared." Last week the New Statesman magazine reported that Britain had also been informed in advance of the military preparations and that the Prime Minister had chosen not to try to stop them "because he did not want to".

This latest report is the first to tie the Israeli operation to a broader framework that includes a possible US strike against Iran.

Unidentified officials said a strike could "ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive attack". Shabtai Shavit, a national security adviser to the Knesset, said: "We do what we think is best for us, and if it happens to meet America's requirements, that's just part of a relationship between two friends. Hizbollah is armed to the teeth and trained in the most advanced technology of guerrilla warfare. It was just a matter of time."

An anonymous Middle East expert claimed that while the State Department supported the plan because it believed it would help the Lebanese government assert control over the south, the White House was focussed on stripping Hizbollah of its missiles.

Noli me vocare; non lo so

Sixty one years ago the US decided it was necessary to drop a second atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki. Four days earlier it had done the nasty to Hiroshima, and assumed (with no basis in fact) that it needed to use the second bomb to insure its victory. In truth, it dropped the second bomb because it was there to be dropped; they really had no alternative plan for what to do with it. We fight war to fight war, not to win them. War machines are self-perpetuating beasts, living solely to continue to do what they do, increasing the entropy into which they expand their ever on-going destructive nature. The US will never leave Iraq nor Afghanistan; we are already there, like the Nagasaki bomb.

It was reported that the US lost 26,000 AK-47's in Iraq, weapons that had been brought into the country ostensibly to arm the Iraqi "insecurity" forces. You don't lose 26,000 automatic assault rifles; you don't forget where they went or who picked them up. No, our military allowed them to be taken to prolong its own bathing and showering in massive wealth generating actions, designed to continue to fight a war that can never be allowed to end. The fear expressed by Bushco about the defeat of Lieberman is that the political voice of those opposed to continual war might gain sufficient notice by those raising their voices (Bushco fears that people will hear themselves and thus feel empowered) that this huge transfer of inordinate wealth maybe suddenly stopped.

Following the bombings in Japan, my father was charged with identifying and destroying the remaining Japanese ordinance and munitions. He discovered that well after the surrender, citizens were still involved in the production of these things, solely because that was all they knew to do to make their lives meaningful enough to continue to move forward. The US has achieved that same military mindset. We have activated the core elements of that systemic complex, producing weapons, that must be used, in order to produce more that must be used, and so forth, purely and simply because the very nature of the consciousness of the country is so configured. Eventually we must be stopped, be destroyed before we destroy the earth.

the politics of sanctioned murder

Many, if not most, US citizens believe in the right of private property. They will tell you that they have a such a right to own some piece of matter, and that with that right, they are free to use that matter in anyway they see fit (supposedly as long as they don't use it to interfere with the rights of others etc. and so forth and so on). What they completely fail to understand is that in order to have such a right in the first place, one also must hold the view that coercion, fear, intimidation, threat, and mortal violence must be part and parcel of the package. It is the ultimate travesty of property rights, that to protect them, one must advocate violence as well.
Sure, you can get all sorts of folks who will say that this isn't true, that there are "peaceful" ways to resolve such conflicts that may arise. By "peaceful" of course, they mean economic; and by economic they mean the fear, threat, intimidation, and violence that can be perpetrated through the use of capital to insist that their own authority be acknowledged and granted. Because, quite simply, even the most virulent libertarian will pay taxes to sponsor a blue uniformed gang of thugs to provide the violent coercive power to protect their property. This has been the human way for tens of thousands of years. Perpetuating the control of territory and resources through violence, or at the threat thereof. And out wonderful liberal arts education reinforces this underlying meme through the use of the same coercive abuses, training subsequent generations to adhere to this heinous philosophical position.
We seem incapable of even talking about cultures that have moved beyond the violence, simply through rejecting private property. It is interesting how closely violence and property are tied when viewed from perspective of those who live free from the encumberments of concern for material possessions. We as a nation refuse to allow our children to be taught about these cultures, and we refuse to allow our children to be free from the coercive threat of punishment and violence. Our school rules are modeled on the society's penal codes sections of which contain phrases like: crimes against property, crimes against oneself, etc.
Well consider this one little example. Your neighbor chooses to use store bought pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers on their property. According to those who advocate private property rights, this is all well and good. What they fail to acknowledge, and what they must also insure that they must never be held responsible or accountable for, is the toxicity and hazardous pollution they are dumping into the neighborhood. They are, through the protections and sanctions provided by the capital to which they are invested, free to threaten and kill their neighbors, to hundreds of species, and to destroy the planet for decades to come. This is war, it is murder, it is sanctioned violence at its core. And ultimately, there is no recourse whatsoever to stop them from doing so (the deepest pockets will always prevail and use their bluecoated gangs of thugs to protect themselves and their money). We can talk big about using violence to protect our property, but we will never accept violence to stop those that are killing our future. Such is the politics of capitalism and private property.

kill, consume, fornicate.. KEF...

Isn't that what it is all about?? Five thousand years of negotiating linguistic compromises to make the most efficient use of killing eating and fucking to survive and endure, and where has all that effort gotten the human species. We are still killing eating and fucking one another. It is all about the kill in the end. No matter how sophisticated and enlightened a utopian community becomes, they seem to always and invariably accept that some killing is justified. Once anyone does that, believes that he/she/they have the moral and ethical authorization to kill in the name of something, all else is reduced to might makes right. It just so happens that today the smallest among us can, with an appropriate tool (small handgun), kill the largest and biggest of us. That may be the only difference in 5000 years of "civilization" actually.

I give two ends of this spectrum. The best who ever killed-ate-fucked were the Mongol hordes, streaming across Asia and Europe slaughtering, eating, raping, pillaging, extracting, and utilizing every possible resource imagineable. No one stopped them, no one could, no amount of negotiations or massed armies could hold against their onslaught. They stopped because they had other business to take care of; interesting that. The only community who seems to have attained a certain grace through which they have chosen not to authorize the killing of other human beings (though they have one of the very best justifying excuses ever in the history of man), are the Tibetan Buddhists. It took them realizing it doesn't matter at all once they excuse themselves from the illusion of the game. Life is not about killing eating and fucking--it is about being, just being. If you eat food that is not killed, you change how you think about killing at its core. If you eat that which has been given you, you do not feel that you are free to take from others. If you accept that your own life is merely a chance vessel for a tiny portion of a larger and more eternal journey of the spirit then you don't need to fuck to prove that the illusion of the body isn't more than that. mmmmm