From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Jan 25 09:26:27 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA04055; Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:26:24 -0500 Message-Id: <9301251426.AA04055@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:23:34 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 19571 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive Subject: Part 11, Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious Message-ID: <1993Jan23.000619.10295@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Keywords: Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 189 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) 16. The United States has violated and condoned violations of human rights, civil liberties and the U.S. Bill of Rights in the United States, in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to achieve its purpose of military domination. ______________________________________________ Among the many violations committed or condoned by the U.S. government are the following: -- illegal surveillance, arrest, interrogation and harassment of Arab-American, Iraqi-American, and U.S. resident Arabs, -- illegal detention, interrogation and treatment of Iraqi prisoners of war, -- aiding and condoning Kuwaiti summary executions, assaults, torture and illegal detention of Palestinians and other residents in Kuwait after the U.S. occupation, -- unwarranted, discriminatory and excessive prosecution and punishment of U.S. military personnel who refused to serve in the Gulf, sought conscientious objector status or protested U.S. policies. Persons were killed, assaulted, tortured, illegally detained and prosecuted, harassed and humiliated as a result of these policies. The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Hague and Geneva Conventions and the Constitution and laws of the United States. 17. The United States, having destroyed Iraq's economic base, demands reparations which will permanently impoverish Iraq and threaten its people with famine and epidemic. ____________________________________________________ Having destroyed lives, property and essential civilian facilities in Iraq which the U.S. concedes will require 50 billion dollars to replace (estimated at 200 billion dollars by Iraq), killed at least 125,000 people by bombing and many thousands more by sickness and hunger, the U.S. now seeks to control Iraq economically even as its people face famine and epidemic. Damages including casualties in Iraq, systematically inflicted by the U.S., exceed all damages, casualties and costs of all other parties to the conflict combined many times over. Reparations under these conditions are an exaction of tribute for the conqueror from a desperately needy country. The United States seeks to force Iraq to pay for damage to Kuwait largely caused by the U.S. and even to pay U.S. costs for its violations of Iraqis sovereignty in occupying northern Iraq to further manipulate the Kurdish population there. Such reparations are a neo-colonial means of expropriating Iraq's oil, natural resources and human labor. The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution and laws of the United States. 18. President Bush systematically manipulated, controlled, directed, misinformed and restricted press and media coverage to achieve propagandistic support for his military and political goals. ________________________________________________ The Bush Administration achieved a running five months media commercial for militarism and individual weapons systems. The American people were seduced into the celebration of a slaughter by controlled propaganda demonizing Iraq, assuring the world no harm would come to Iraqi civilians, deliberately spreading false stories of atrocities including chemical warfare threats, deaths of incubator babies and threats to the entire region by a new Hitler. The press received virtually all its information from or by permission of the Pentagon. Efforts were made to prevent any adverse information or opposition views from being heard. CNN's limited presence in Baghdad was described as Iraqi propaganda. Independent observers, eye witnesses' photos and video tapes with information about the effects of the U.S. bombing were excluded from the media. Television network ownership, advertisers newspaper ownership, elite columnists and commentators intimidated and instructed reporters and selected interviewees. They formed a near single voice of praise for U.S. militarism often exceeding the Pentagon in bellicosity. The American people and their democratic institutions were deprived of information essential to sound judgment and were regimented, despite profound concern, to support a major neo-colonial intervention and war of aggression. The principal purpose of the First Amendment to the United States was to assure the press and the people the right to criticize their government with impunity. This purpose has been effectively destroyed in relation to U.S. military aggression since the press was denied access to assaults on Grenada, Libya, Panama and now, on a much greater scale, against Iraq. This conduct violates the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and is part of a pattern of conduct intended to create support for conduct constituting crimes against peace and war crimes. 19. The United States has by force secured a permanent military presence in the Gulf, the control of its oil resources and geopolitical domination of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region. __________________________________________ The United States has committed the acts described in this complaint to create a permanent U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, to dominate its oil resources until depleted and to maintain geo-political domination over the region. The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations, international law, and the Constitution and laws of the United States. Scope of the Inquiry The Commission of Inquiry will focus on U.S. criminal conduct because of its destruction of Iraq, killing at least 125,000 persons directly by its bombing while proclaiming its own combat losses as less than 120, because it destroyed the economic base of Iraq and because its acts are still inflicting consequential deaths that may reach hundreds of thousands. The Commission of Inquiry will seek and accept evidence of criminal acts by any person, or government, related to the Gulf conflict, because it believes international law must be applied uniformly. It believes that "victors' justice" is not law, but the extension of war by force of the prevailing party. The U.S. Senate, European Community Foreign Ministers, and the western press, even former Nuremberg prosecutors, have overwhelmingly called for war crimes trials for Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership alone. Even Mrs. Barbara Bush has said she would like to see Saddam Hussein hung, albeit without mentioning a trial. Comprehensive efforts to gather and evaluate evidence, objectively judge all the conduct that constitutes crimes against peace and war crimes and to present these facts for judgement to the court of world opinion requires that at least one major effort focus on the United States. The Commission of Inquiry believes its focus on U.S. criminal acts is important, proper and the only way to bring the whole truth, a balanced perspective and impartiality in application of legal process to this great human tragedy. Ramsey Clark May 9, 1991 [You can help Ramsey Clark in his struggle for justice by calling his International Action Center in New York City at (212) 633-6646.] (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies in place of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo