New York War Crimes Tribunal: Belafonte continues his Bush onslaught
WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS?
by Claudio E. Cabrera - Special to Amsterdam News - Originally posted 1/25/2006
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY THIS PAST WEEKEND FOR A HISTORIC THREE-DAY TRIBUNAL INDICTING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
The event opened Friday at Riverside Church in Harlem, where Harry Belafonte had the stage once again to voice his opinions on the Bush administration. Recent comments from Belafonte include calling Bush a “terrorist” and comparing the Homeland Security Department to the “Nazi Gestapo.”
Belafonte opened the event with a riveting speech concerning the current occupation of Iraq.
“The people of this nation, I think, and I know it, are awake, and are being more awakened every day. They are hearing, and sensing, the danger that sits on the horizon, looking at the international oppressions that we are a part of, looking at how we have violated international humanity and law,” preached Belafonte to the packed auditorium.
He continued: “Each day we claim the lives of tens and thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in other places. Where for you does terrorism end and where does it begin and who are the terrorists?”
BELAFONTE LEFT THE STAGE TO A STANDING OVATION.
[FPF: Belafonte: George W. Bush the world's greatest terrorist - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/crl7o]
This past week, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both refused to support Belafonte’s comments.
“I would not use that type of language, but that is what is great about this country; everyone gets to speak their mind,” said Obama.
At a banquet last week, Hillary Clinton also made sure to keep a considerable distance between herself and Belafonte.
AMONG THE OTHER EXPERTS GIVING TESTIMONY ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S ALLEGED CRIMES THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND WERE BRIG. GEN. JANIS KARPINSKI, FORMER HEAD OF THE ABU GHRAIB PRISON; CRAIG MURRAY, FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO UZBEKISTAN; SCOTT RITTER, FORMER UN WEAPONS INSPECTOR; AND D. MCBRIDE, WHO WAS LEFT TO DROWN IN A NEW ORLEANS PRISON WHEN KATRINA STRUCK.
A week earlier, a delegation from the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration delivered a set of indictments at the White House gates. The International Commission has brought five indictments against the Bush regime: wars of aggression, torture and indefinite detention, destruction of the global environment, attacks on global public health, and Hurricane Katrina.
The first session of the tribunal, in October 2005, heard testimony on each of these indictments, continued with the concluding session on Jan. 20-22.
PRESENTATION OF THE VERDICTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN WASHINGTON, DC ON FEBRUARY 2.
As this session of the tribunal began, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights sharply laid out the aims of the tribunal and the urgency of the times: ''We are putting the Bush administration on trial. We investigate in order to expose. We document in order to indict. We arouse consciousness in order to create mass resistance.
We want this trial to be a step in the building of mass resistance to war, to torture, to the destruction of our earth and its people. It's a serious moment. Our country and our world are tipping—tipping toward permanent war, the end of human rights, and the impoverishment and death of millions. We still have a chance, an opportunity to stop this slide into chaos. But it is up to us. We must not sit with our arms folded. We must be as radical as the reality we are facing.”
Other issues focused on throughout the weekend included the global AIDS epidemic - [FPF-http://tinyurl.com/atqus] -the economy, and Hurricane Katrina.
[andend] - Story Amsterdam News New York - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/93nox
Wikipedia - New Amsterdam etc. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tvyn
THE UNITED STATES WAR MACHINE FOR YEARS HAS BEEN PERPETRATING A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST: ''Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets'': A death sentence here and abroad - by Leuren Moret
THE GOV'T IN HOLLAND OPENLY HAS STATED TO SUPPORT THE NEOCON WAR MACHINE, AND DOES SO AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. - The criminal managers of The Netherlands (the same group as in London & Washington*) have their puppets in the so called 'government' - after a fake 'debate' - send up to 1500 more brainwashed people called 'soldiers' to their radiation death in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/738ub
“Military men are JUST DUMB STUPID ANIMALS to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam” - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/659x4
WHAT THE NEOCONS DO IS NOT A POLICY BUT A PLAGUE. THEY MUST BE STOPPED AND JAILED. BEFORE THEY KILL US ALL.
Google search Belafonte & Gestapo - http://tinyurl.com/dlhtb
Related:
* Israel declares war: Iran the next nuclear Holocaust - Url.: http://antwerpen.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/3468.php
* In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the US administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7cta8
* Defend the people of Iran from a nuclear attack! - Url.: http://chimesofreedom.blogspot.com/
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l
* The neocon's infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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by Claudio E. Cabrera - Special to Amsterdam News - Originally posted 1/25/2006
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY THIS PAST WEEKEND FOR A HISTORIC THREE-DAY TRIBUNAL INDICTING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
The event opened Friday at Riverside Church in Harlem, where Harry Belafonte had the stage once again to voice his opinions on the Bush administration. Recent comments from Belafonte include calling Bush a “terrorist” and comparing the Homeland Security Department to the “Nazi Gestapo.”
Belafonte opened the event with a riveting speech concerning the current occupation of Iraq.
“The people of this nation, I think, and I know it, are awake, and are being more awakened every day. They are hearing, and sensing, the danger that sits on the horizon, looking at the international oppressions that we are a part of, looking at how we have violated international humanity and law,” preached Belafonte to the packed auditorium.
He continued: “Each day we claim the lives of tens and thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in other places. Where for you does terrorism end and where does it begin and who are the terrorists?”
BELAFONTE LEFT THE STAGE TO A STANDING OVATION.
[FPF: Belafonte: George W. Bush the world's greatest terrorist - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/crl7o]
This past week, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both refused to support Belafonte’s comments.
“I would not use that type of language, but that is what is great about this country; everyone gets to speak their mind,” said Obama.
At a banquet last week, Hillary Clinton also made sure to keep a considerable distance between herself and Belafonte.
AMONG THE OTHER EXPERTS GIVING TESTIMONY ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S ALLEGED CRIMES THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND WERE BRIG. GEN. JANIS KARPINSKI, FORMER HEAD OF THE ABU GHRAIB PRISON; CRAIG MURRAY, FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO UZBEKISTAN; SCOTT RITTER, FORMER UN WEAPONS INSPECTOR; AND D. MCBRIDE, WHO WAS LEFT TO DROWN IN A NEW ORLEANS PRISON WHEN KATRINA STRUCK.
A week earlier, a delegation from the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration delivered a set of indictments at the White House gates. The International Commission has brought five indictments against the Bush regime: wars of aggression, torture and indefinite detention, destruction of the global environment, attacks on global public health, and Hurricane Katrina.
The first session of the tribunal, in October 2005, heard testimony on each of these indictments, continued with the concluding session on Jan. 20-22.
PRESENTATION OF THE VERDICTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN WASHINGTON, DC ON FEBRUARY 2.
As this session of the tribunal began, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights sharply laid out the aims of the tribunal and the urgency of the times: ''We are putting the Bush administration on trial. We investigate in order to expose. We document in order to indict. We arouse consciousness in order to create mass resistance.
We want this trial to be a step in the building of mass resistance to war, to torture, to the destruction of our earth and its people. It's a serious moment. Our country and our world are tipping—tipping toward permanent war, the end of human rights, and the impoverishment and death of millions. We still have a chance, an opportunity to stop this slide into chaos. But it is up to us. We must not sit with our arms folded. We must be as radical as the reality we are facing.”
Other issues focused on throughout the weekend included the global AIDS epidemic - [FPF-http://tinyurl.com/atqus] -the economy, and Hurricane Katrina.
[andend] - Story Amsterdam News New York - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/93nox
Wikipedia - New Amsterdam etc. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tvyn
THE UNITED STATES WAR MACHINE FOR YEARS HAS BEEN PERPETRATING A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST: ''Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets'': A death sentence here and abroad - by Leuren Moret
THE GOV'T IN HOLLAND OPENLY HAS STATED TO SUPPORT THE NEOCON WAR MACHINE, AND DOES SO AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. - The criminal managers of The Netherlands (the same group as in London & Washington*) have their puppets in the so called 'government' - after a fake 'debate' - send up to 1500 more brainwashed people called 'soldiers' to their radiation death in Afghanistan and Iraq. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/738ub
“Military men are JUST DUMB STUPID ANIMALS to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam” - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/659x4
WHAT THE NEOCONS DO IS NOT A POLICY BUT A PLAGUE. THEY MUST BE STOPPED AND JAILED. BEFORE THEY KILL US ALL.
Google search Belafonte & Gestapo - http://tinyurl.com/dlhtb
Related:
* Israel declares war: Iran the next nuclear Holocaust - Url.: http://antwerpen.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/3468.php
* In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the US administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7cta8
* Defend the people of Iran from a nuclear attack! - Url.: http://chimesofreedom.blogspot.com/
* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l
* The neocon's infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
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Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
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