Crimes Against Humanity

Slowly the stories are trickling out. Murder, mayhem, torture, and any other atrocity one can imagine. All perpetrated against people around the world by those who still think they are purveyors of peace and democracy. Worst of all, the perpetrators continue to be defended by the US army, the civilian command, the press, and most American public.

Of course those who perpetrated these atrocities are directly responsible and should be held accountable and brought to justice without further delay. But don't hold your breath for that. There is no outcry, there is no outpouring of support for the aggrieved, there is no media frenzy, there is no call for special congressional hearings. The politicians are still celebrating the Healthcare bill approval by the congress.

Headline: How Americans are Propagandized About Afghanistan.

The story recounts the horrors of US military personnel killing people in cold blood, then covering their tracks with extensive procedures of extracting bullets from the victims' heads (no less). Then, after killing them, tying the women up to make them look like they were bound and gagged by the men for honor killing. What does it take to do all this? How much time does it take to extract bullets from skull? Who is actually doing the extraction? Is it a doctor/medic that is helping? Where are the platoon leaders, the people at the base, and others involved in the carnage?

All of these heinous acts take planning, time, and approvals from senior officers. How many people does it take to cover up these crimes?

The article cites major news media groups colluding with the army and corroborating the story as authentic at the time all of these atrocities took place. New York Times is part of that collusion!CNN is one of the most trusted names in the news business. They supposedly verified the facts, had their people on the ground and reporting the story, and the quotes from the officers in charge are all real. Is this really happening in America today? This is not a movie, this is real life.

After the truth is revealed neither of the original news sources have, to date, admitted complicity, responsibility, or even acknowledgement of false reporting. Do any of these organizations ever make a mistake?

Headline: WikiLeaks Video shows 12 dead in US Army Apache Assault on unarmed Reuters Cameramen.

"The WikiLeaks video of helicopter gunners shooting civilians and savoring their kills as if playing a video game, although horrific, is understandable." Understandable for who? Understandable from whose point of view?

Now the headlines are: WikiLeaks vidoe shows 12 dead in Iraq army assault
Another one says: WikiLeaks Misrepresents Apache Assault on Medhi [sic] Army Militia
The army senior officers defended these actions at the time. The problem is that even today they continue to defend these criminal and rogue elements. How wide spread is this problem? What about thousands upon thousands of murders in Iraq where people were finding headless bodies all around the city of Baghdad? Who really committed those atrocities? At least at the time they were blamed on militias? But is that really true. Who were those dead people?

The Nation (thenamtion.com), both in print and on their website most recently reported that their reporters in Pakistan saw operatives from US special operation forces involved in suicide bombings via cars and trucks. Since that reporting and some exposure of that news on news boards, the rate of suicide bombings have gone down to almost zero. Is that a coincidence?
Curiously enough, New York Times did not bother to print anything about either the murders in Afghanistan, (which they originally reported as honor killings and Al-Qaida fighters being neutralized) or the Video of innocent Iraqis being gunned down in broad daylight as if somebody is playing video game. CNN reported the story but did not bring all the horrific details to the fore citing concern for family members of the dead Iraqis. Really? Is the video not available in its entirety in million and one places, either directly or via a youtube embed?

These atrocities clearly amount to crimes against humanity. Will these criminals be exposed and brought to justice?

Headline: Sleuths unravel 16th-century Italian murder mystery

Will There Ever Be Justice Anymore

The headline from Reuters talks about Italians opening a case after 447 years to find out the real motives and who was involved in killing a baroness. Amazing. Justice must be served. N matter how late it happens to be. Does not matter if the real culprits are punished. Does not matter how severe the crime was. The logic is that justice must be served.

Is that how long we will have to wait until the crimes committed by our current officials in State Department, CIA and FBI with extra judicial killings around the world can be brought to fore and some modicum of justice served?

How about those committed by IDF and Mossad, latest being the killing of Hamas official while traveling through Dubai? When will we know about them? Or the torture and murder committed by the foot soldiers at the behest of the US war machine and covered up by the officers in Afghanistan. In this case there are so many false reports entered as true and bonafied that the truth may never come out.

How about the ones committed at the US base in Guantanamo Bay. People have died under the watchful eyes of the warden. People have been tortured with video tapes rolling. Will archives ever be made public so the guilty party can acknowledge their crimes? Maybe punished for war crimes. Or maybe we will send some operative to trash those tapes as "unreadable" like they did with the records of George Bush in the National Guard. How convenient was that. It was a good old boy from Texas who probably did not know how to operate the machine to read the records. But he sure knew to trash them before they get in the "wrong" hands.

Four Hundred and forty seven years is a long time. Maybe we can take some comfort with the Medgar Evers case which was solved after more than 50 years. Justice was finally served.

Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim 'beyond doubt'

Headine: Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim 'beyond doubt'

How stupid do you have to be to believe a claim like this?

Can you claim stupidity and get away with murder?

Those are the questions the Chilcot inquiry WILL NOT be asking Tony. Those are the questions that are most important. And those are the questions the public is asking but not getting the answer to.

Consider this:
You are a world class leader. (according to some) You have access to information that an ordinary citizen can not even imagine. You have your people that are specialists in their field of work. You have people whose only job is to not only keep you updated but also give you the entire picture. You have access to other world leaders that you can consult with.

You have been entrusted with the integrity of your country, most of whose people are civilized and educated people. You have access to exact information as to what is going on at the street level in your country and around the world. You know that you have just seen the largest street protest organized in the history of the country, both in number of protesters and the intensity of the protests.

You have one of the country you call your friend who is part of your military alliance opposing you with all its might. You have people at highest places from a friendly country opposing your views. You have people from all around the world opposing your view. You have people that have always agreed with you in the past but diagreeing with you now.

Most importantly you have lives of thousands of people in the balance, you have sovreighnty of a country in the balance, and you have your own experts telling the whole world you are wrong.
Despite all of these things you go ahead with one of the most stupid decisions of your political career? Is it just stupidity or an agenda.

Tony is stupid or still towing an agenda. The Chilcot inquiry is not only a judgement on Tony but it is also a verdict on George and Dick.

Today Tony is claiming stupidity and ignorance to prove himself right. He would do anything and everything including claiming to be stupid in the eyes of the world to prove he has no blood on his hands. Could anybody else have gotten away with such claims? Not surprisingly, when it comes to leaders of other countries even the indirect involvement gets you killed by a drone attack let alone taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and then claim stupidity and ignorance and get away with it. Is Tony a simpleton who would do anything that other people would tell him to do? At what point stupidity turns into murder and crimes against humanity?