The Faces of Genocide

John McCain talked about the fear of genocide happening in Iraq should the U.S. choose to end its illegal occupation of that country. In an article from Al Jazeera, Genocidal John is quoted as saying:

"[We] cannot consign Iraqis to genocide that would follow reckless, irresponsible and premature withdrawal," McCain said in his speech to the World Affairs Council.

From a website about the history of Balck Mesa, I found out that John McCain played an important role in that genocide and illegal activities because he was the senator who pushed through and signed the 1974 Relocation Act which forcibly removed Indians from their traditional lands. An act of GENOCIDE!

Boyden requested Congress to partition the Joint-Use area into separate Dineh and Hopi areas, so that the Hopi could obtain better access to the land traditionally inhabited by the Dineh. The 1974 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act was pushed through Congress by a group representing the coal-fired power industry, which believed their industry would benefit by having the U.S. government finance the eviction of all the people living in an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. In their rush to promote national energy self-sufficiency, Congress never considered where the people would go or how relocation would affect their lives. Nor did they consider the wishes of the people they planned to relocate. John McCain authored this "relocation" bill.

Genocide

Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines what the crime of genocide is. Each of the five conditions stands alone as an act of genocide.

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

It can be easily alleged that the Black Mesa Relocation bill falls under the conditions a-c of article 2 of the UN Convention. It pays, folks, to read these easily readable laws to understand what they actually are when some genocidal asshole like John McCain tosses the word about for his own personal political gain.

No doubt in my mind that both of the U.S.'s illegal wars against the nation of Iraq are indeed genocidal (read Ramsey Clark's "The Fire this Time: U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf" for an understanding of the first war). Let's go over the conditions one by one:

a) Pretty much goes without saying that yes indeed, the U.S. is killing members of the group. According to one knowledgeable person in international law, it is a crime not to keep track of the amount of "enemy" folks you are killing. Genocidal Colin Powell stated "it is not a number we are concerned with."
b) Physical and mental harm are being enacted against the folks of Iraq through many various forms of torture, U.S. troops kidnapping folks alleged to be "insurgents," etc.
c) The U.S. illegal war has indeed imposed conditions upon life that are designed to destroy the nation. The mass exodus due to the terror enacted upon the people their by the U.S. government, forced conditions of poverty enacted by the U.S. government, the illegal destruction of infrastructure designed by the U.S. to bring about great suffering to the people of Iraq, etc.
d) I'm sure there is more on this one, however, we can definitely see conditions where the U.S. is committing human sacrifice of the lives of Iraqi children. Also it is known with the severe destruction of infrastructure that not only would it create the conditions that would kill children already born, but would severly effect the conditions of pregnant women via the increase of miscarriage and birth deffects (like with depleted uranium).
e) The transferral of children is just beginning. Articles are coming out that folks are selling their children to wealthy non-Iraqi folks looking to illegally adopt kids via taking advantage of the horrific genocidal conditions imposed upon the people of Iraq. Some fucking idiots will look upon these wealthy folks, the Angelina Jolie types, as heroes saving the child from sure death or a life of complete misery. However, you don't see these folks trying to bring an end to the genocidal activities that create these conditions. They benefit directly from these genocidal conditions and are able to purchase children for whatever personal gain they may get from it. This type of shit happens all over the world. Children are also being sold into sex slavery. Again, the conditions are ripe to take advantage of a nation and create capital for groups like the UN's pedophelia ring.

So you see, folks, in all actuality, the U.S. is the perpetrator of the crime of genocide against the Iraqi people, Kurdish people, Palestinian people, direct participants in the Jewish and Gypsy and etc. genocide via support the Nazi's, Indians, the folks of Bikini Atoll, Phillipines, etc.

I don't think there should be worry about genocide happening in Iraq should the U.S. pullout, I think something should be done about the U.S. lead genocide against the Iraqi people and so many others. How about you?