Americans? Kill them before they kill you!

Conc.: scribe at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9ot2o - and an infantile question concerning bombings in Iraq, in which 17 people have been killed: 'Where's the Outrage'?

One of the most stupid articles I've ever read

by Henk Ruyssenaars - FPF

You must be very young, to ask such a stupid question, otherwise you need a shrink. The 'outrage' you're looking for, is just around the corner, even at your Wal-Mart, and is via Internet too, globally for anybody to see and hear.

Apparently, apart from those 'turnips' and their 'editors' which are the victims of the US and other mainstream media and their 'Potemkin' lies. The outrage - and there you are correct - is strangely enough not seen among the leaders of the US empire, nor among the so-called 'Christian' churches or in the neocon's synagogues. Only human beings, people with brains and honour, react.

Since you're not what colleagues would call a 'journalist'*, I really wonder whether you are that blind, deaf or both. What have they done to you? The problem is this: as a foreign correspondent for more than four decades - (incl. for the BBC and CBS) - I worked/lived for 10 years too in the Arab world. Also during Gulf War I, and I probably survived because of manners and being a non-american. I learned about peoples and cultures before I went there.

And I have seen the 'outrage' you ask about: I've seen more - and totally justified - rage at what 'the Americans', 'the Israelis' (we all generalize) and their murderous gangs are doing, than you can imagine. And I've seen the victims too on a couple of continents. Let me pls. explain something: I have never seen - and I've been in Vietnam too, during the war - anything comparable to what the US neocons are doing now to the planet and it's innocent human beings.

And I've never seen so much hate in the eyes of the millions of people that know what the 'americans' are doing.

"KILL THEM, BEFORE THEY KILL YOU"!

I've visited the US since 1960 - (I don't want to now) - but I have never ever thought it would be possible to - within a few years - kill every more or less good idea most people abroad ever had about the US, and most of it's inhabitants. Bush, and the ilk 'running' him, have forced people abroad into thinking: "Kill them, before they kill you"! Based on experience - and I'm against capital punishment, it puts you on the same low level as a murderer - I can only say: the enraged are damn right.

IF YOU SOW TERRORISM YOU'LL HARVEST TERRORISM.

The permanent and global war crimes which the US managing criminals daily commit, using the 'US Dog of War' - wagged by the neocon/Israeli tail - England and all other 'so-called allies are guilty of 'crimes against humanity' and will and must be punished. Or did anybody miss the extensive report by Amnesty International this week? Even corrupted US press sources are forced to publish something: ''Amnesty International Thursday called the U.S. military's anti-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay the "Gulag of our times" and warned that American leaders may face international prosecution for mistreating prisoners''. [http://tinyurl.com/97co4]

"When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity, " said Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan at a London news conference releasing the group's annual report on global human rights, a blistering, 308 page survey. - [end quote - more at - http://tinyurl.com/d8mgt]

The outrage you are looking for you'll find in the nearly 200 countries surrounding the US, where everybody among the people knows, that most of the present terror is originating in and fomented by the United States. Many times using UN and NATO as a 'cover' for their criminal behavior, like in Darfur now, taking the oil from the Chinese. With the help of many NGO's, and other CIA/Soros payd criminals like NED etc. is doing now to Venezuela. [http://tinyurl.com/5ce5p]

People everywhere - in their resistance - like we all should do - are attacking this neocon system and foreboding what will happen to the US/Israeli terrorists when justice will be done. I strongly support the idea about arresting all war criminals of all nationalities, including the Dutch, as soon as is possible, as advocated by Amnesty International too: the 'Pinochet treatment'. - [http://tinyurl.com/864fn]

Of course it's horrible, those 17 people killed. I keep wondering though; because I've never seen nor heard about Muslims blowing up a mosque. Or killing people who help them, like Margaret Hassan. I wonder who's doing it for them...? [http://tinyurl.com/8qp8l]

As far as many can see it, nowadays the US and Israel can only call people for 'friends' when
they are dead. Because the dead cannot protest anymore, without us, the necrologists.

But they are always, as Allende said: Presente!

Henk Ruyssenaars

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FPF Footnotes/links:

The Provocative State - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8qp8l

On the US 60 Minutes TV programme on May 12, the then secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, was asked: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And - and you know, is the price worth it?" - Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it." - Albright Korbel - US Infanticide in Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2qaov

Google - [PDF] May 05 - Shofar - File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML - For the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland and reclaiming the land of Eretz Yisrael, Dayeinu ... Hugh Patinkin, brother of Mark Patinkin; ... http://www.temple-beth-el.org/May05Shofar.pdf

Mark Patinkin can be reached at mpatinkin@projo.com

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s office is suppressing data, showing that the number of major terrorist attacks worldwide exploded from 175 in 2003 to 625 in 2004, the highest number since the Cold War began to wane in 1985. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c8fwd

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary General Kofi
Annan in a BBC interview: txt+video - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

*England's legal advise by the Foreign Office: the Iraq war is
a 'crime of aggression' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/44nhn

*A 55' seconds 'sound bite' concerning the US-Israeli 'Dogs of War'
- 'bringing democracy' everywhere. Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

* How to make a 'Citizen's Arrest' to stop Bush, Wolfowitz, Negroponte,
Kissinger and all of the other war criminals of any nationality, any offender
who violates international law during these times of war - Citizens Arrests:
Url.: http://www.constitution.org/grossack/arrest.htm

* Colin Powell: ''It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the
state of Israel' - Said as 'US Secretary of State' in a speech at the
'Conference on Anti-Semitism of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe' German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin
- April 28th - 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

* Former PM Wim Kok and other Dutch Govt's War criminals in Court:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp

* Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies:
Url. http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3

* It can and must be done !

* Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org -
We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' -
Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

HR

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Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says US Amnesty International Chief

Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment*
Says US Amnesty International Chief

Inter Press Service - by Jim Lobe

If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should investigate and prosecute those senior officials who bear responsibility for them, the head of the U.S. chapter of Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Speaking at the release of Amnesty's annual report, William Schulz charged that Washington has become "a leading purveyor and practitioner" of torture and ill-treatment and that senior officials should face prosecution by other governments for violations of the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture.

Among those officials, Schulz named Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet, and senior officers at U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq.

"If the U.S. government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved in the torture scandal," said Schulz, who added that violations of the torture convention, which has been ratified by the United States and some 138 other countries, can be prosecuted in any jurisdiction.

"If those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them," he added. "The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as (former Chilean dictator) Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998." - [New court case Pinochet - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dyqlr - HR]

Schulz also called on state bar associations to investigate administration lawyers who helped prepare legal opinions that sought to justify or defend the use of abusive interrogation methods for breach of their professional and ethical responsibilities.

He cited, in particular, Vice President Dick Cheney's general counsel, David Addington; Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes; and top officials in the Justice Department's Office of General Counsel, one of whom, Jay Bybee, has since been confirmed as a federal appeals court judge.

"A wall of secrecy is protecting those who masterminded and developed the U.S. torture policy," Schulz said. "Unless those who drew the blueprint for torture, approved it, and ordered it implemented are held accountable, the United States' once-proud reputation as an exemplar of human rights will remain in tatters."

Schulz's appeal for foreign governments to take the initiative coincided with the launch of a bipartisan drive endorsed by some 350 attorneys and legal scholars urging the administration to establish an independent commission to address the allegations of abuse and torture, including an assessment of the responsibility of senior administration officials and military officers.

"By establishing an independent bipartisan commission to fully investigate the issue of abuse of terrorist suspects," said John Whitehead, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Ronald Reagan administration, "Congress and the president have a unique opportunity to send a message to the rest of the world that the United States is committed to respecting the inherent worth and dignity of all human beings, whether they are U.S. citizens or prisoners of war.”

Whitehead said a high-level, independent investigation was necessary because the Pentagon's ongoing or recently completed investigations were too narrowly focused and not designed to produce recommendations to prevent future abuses.

Among the signers of the initiative, which was sponsored by the bipartisan Constitution Project at Georgetown University, were prominent right-wing activists including David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union: two former Republican congressmen; former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering; and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director William Sessions. The National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ) also endorsed the statement, as did more than a dozen military law specialists and retired high-ranking military officers.

Since the abuses first came to light with the publication of photos of prisoners at Abu Ghraib 13 months ago, the Pentagon has carried out dozens of reviews, courts-martial, and disciplinary proceedings. But virtually all of them have dealt only with the responsibility of the soldiers who carried out the abuses or their immediate superiors.

The failure to address the responsibility of officials and officers at the top of the command chain, particularly in light of the disclosure of memos which appeared to authorize at least some of the tactics carried out against detainees, has provoked repeated demands by human rights groups to appoint an independent commission to conduct a thorough examination. Last summer, the 400,000-lawyer American Bar Association joined Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in those demands.

But the Bush administration has rejected them, arguing that the Pentagon's own efforts to investigate and prosecute abuses were adequate. The Republican leadership in Congress has also paralyzed efforts by Democratic and some Republican lawmakers to create a commission.

The refusal to investigate translates into effective "tolerance" for torture and mistreatment, Schulz said, resulting not only in the spread of such practices but also in the destruction of U.S. credibility when it assails other countries, such as Syria or Egypt, for human rights violations.

"It is the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. government itself to use the very torture techniques that it routinely condemns in other countries," he said. "When the U.S. government then calls upon foreign leaders to bring to justice those who commit or authorize human rights violations in their own countries, why should those foreign leaders listen?"

As he spoke, the ACLU released new documents it had obtained from the FBI under court order that disclosed that prisoners held at Guantanamo complained that guards there had repeatedly mistreated the Koran. In one 2002 summary, an FBI interrogator noted a prisoner's allegation that guards had flushed a Koran down a toilet.

The disclosure comes on the heels of controversy over a Newsweek report saying that government investigators had corroborated an almost identical incident. Newsweek ultimately retracted its story because a confidential government source could not be confirmed.

Other documents released Wednesday by the ACLU provided accounts of beatings, planned suicide attempts, hunger strikes to protest mistreatment, and sexual assaults, including an incident in which a female guard fondled a detainee's genitals while he was held down by male guards.

"The United States government continues to turn a blind eye to mounting evidence of widespread abuse of detainees held in its custody," said ACLU director Anthony Romero. "If we are to truly repair America's standing in the world, the Bush administration must hold accountable high-ranking officials who allow the continuing abuse and torture of detainees."

[enditem] - Inter Press Service - Article at Url.: http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=6078

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FPF-footnotes:

* French Judge Renews Pinochet Warrant - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dyqlr

* Pinochet on Deck for Trial in Chile - Prensa Latina - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/74mda


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