{"article":{"id":40462,"heading":"All Americans are War Criminals","author":"John Kaminski","created":"2003-03-26 03:54:27","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:19","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:49:19","article":"

John Kaminski

All Americans are now war criminals

Mon Mar 24 16:14:43 2003

208.152.73.99

All Americans are now war criminals

By John Kaminski

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The only person at the Oscars Monday night with the human decency to

mention the \"fictions\" that American warmongers have used to create the

bloodbath in Iraq was of course Michael Moore, the documentary filmmaker

who won an award for his searing indictment of American culture,

\"Bowling for Columbine.\"

As expected, Moore was booed by the predominantly Jewish Hollywood

assemblage of cinema celebrities. Emcee Steve Martin later made a joke

about Moore being stuffed in the trunk of his limo by Teamsters, which

evoked derisive applause from the well-dressed audience.

Other than Moore's challenge to the possible humanity of the

assembled luminaries, the only remark about the current carnage in Iraq

came from best actor Oscar winner Adrien Brody, who delivered an

emotional plea for peace and for the safe return of the American troops

after accepting his trophy.

Apart from those, there was virtually no other mention made of the

invasion of Iraq at this annual lovefest of the U.S. movie industry. The

oddly comfortable omission of talk about bombings in Iraq mirrored the

verbal silence about the subject that dominated the Grammy awards for

music several weeks ago, in which presenters and performers were warned

by CBS network officials not to make any statements regarding America's

clumsy push for war, which was then still being debated at the United

Nations.

Evaluating the Grammys and the Oscars together, the combined

performance by the most famous musicians, actors and celebrities of the

English-speaking world — which have been totally devoid of any

utterances of social conscience — is a stunning and nauseating

indictment of the social indifference and moral bankruptcy of the U.S.

entertainment industry, and as well, the consumers of this meaningless

drivel in America and throughout the world.

Where was Bob Dylan? Where was Eminem? Where was any movie star with

social concerns? The American entertainment scene is totally devoid of

conscience and not deserving of any audience that calls itself human.

Among this lopsided, pro-war ignoring of the current suffering and

death of the Iraqi people — and also the needless deaths of American and

British soldiers, many of whom have been killed by their own tactical

ineptitude — must be mentioned the deliberately slanted performance of

the U.S. media talking heads, who trip over their own tongues trying to

insist that American generals are taking great care to avoid killing

Iraqi civilians, and that the reasons for the U.S. invasion are actually

valid and universally accepted.

The rest of the world, however, knows differently. The rest of the

world knows that America suddenly cut off the debate at the United

Nations when it became obvious that not enough other nations could be

bribed to support the unjustifiable U.S. urge to attack Iraq.

The reporting on American television, however, never mentions of

that, and seldom shows any of the horrendous and heart-wrenching

photographs of children with skulls ripped open that appear frequently

on various Internet websites.

Some of the most reliable and unbiased reporting, in fact, appears

to come from Russia, a nation which has joined with France, Germany and

others to investigate the possibility of charging the U.S. with war

crimes for its irresponsible invasion of a country it charged with

crimes it has been unable to prove. See

http:\/\/www.aeronautics.ru\/news\/news002\/news075.htm<\/a>

and http:\/\/www.iraqwar.ru<\/a>

To many people in both America and the rest of the world, the

irrelevance and moral perversion of the U.S. entertainment industry is

well-known and avoided, although to the majority who consume this trash

and emulate the inauthentic trends it disseminates, the cultural dangers

of this malicious influence to human social health remain unnoticed.

What should be clear to everyone by now is this. The absence of

American social conscience in its entertainment industry shows that

America itself is morally bankrupt. According to both the tenets of

basic psychology as well as the rules of honest behavior by ordinary

people, America is is no position to tell anybody anything and have it

be believed.

The actions of George W. Bush and his bloodthirsty gang of petroleum

executives have demonstrated clearly that America simply does not tell

the truth, nor is it going to anytime in the near future.

That the totality of American mainstream media clearly support Bush

and his policy of unjustifiable mass murder anywhere he chooses to

unleash it, and that the American people by and large support these

policies, should make something crystal clear to the entire rest of the

world.

All Americans are now war criminals, willing to support any kind of

lie, no matter how ridiculous or lethal, to maintain their immoral

position of economic dominance over the sincere but oppressed people of

Planet Earth.

Let there be no doubt about this. Even those courageous American

souls who protest for peace are willing to admit their complicity in

this matter, for it is this segment of the American population that

realizes it has been inattention to the improper and destructive

behavior of its own government that has led to this current danger that

the entire world must now confront, or be raped and vandalized by a

gunslinging Texan with his shaky, dry-drunk finger on the nuclear

trigger.

Worst of all, George W. Bush is a man who does not know how to tell

the truth. In fact, he is utterly incapable of it. Everything that comes

out of his mouth does so with one single purpose in mind — to justify

his dishonest and rapacious policies that are meant to enrich his

corrupt associates at the expense of everyone else in the entire world.

He is incapable of telling the truth, people. Realize this.

He is incapable of expressing actualized human emotions, especially

compassion and understanding for the plight of working stiffs like you

and me, because he's never had to work a day in his entire life. The son

of a rich man, he's gotten a free pass from every scrape he's every

encountered — notably military desertion and drug selling. But enough

about him. He's just a moronic tyrant who needs to be arrested and

jailed for life without parole along with the thousands of sycophantic

quislings who support his anti-human agenda.

What's more important is the welfare of the troops, both American

and Iraqi, and the safety of the millions of innocent people who are now

in harm's way for no legitimate reason, for no valid psychological or

geopolitical reason. Hundreds of lives already have been needlessly

squandered for the American oil companies.

British New Age guru David Icke showed his courage the other day

when he came right out with it. \"F*** the troops!\" he said.

\"They have decided to give their minds away to brainless dictators

and that is their choice and they must take the consequences. They don't

have to go and kill people, they can refuse to if they want. How about

the troops \"supporting the civilians\" they are going to kill?

\"Either the war is right or it is wrong. The fact that it is wrong

should not be put aside just because Bush and Blair have done the

bidding of their masters and sent 'the troops' into a war that has been

long planned and was always going to happen no matter what.

\"The troops' have a choice. What about the people of Baghdad?\" Icke

asked.

In the same vein, anti-Zionist activist Carol Valentine recently

expressed the same sentiment in an even more forceful way. She said she

would put a sign in the back window of her car that read: \"US Military =

Human Filth.\"

As she wrote in an e-mail widely circulated on the Internet: \"Break

through this \"support our troops\" mind-control rubbish. Treat the public

to the truth. To support murderers in their acts of murder is

unthinkable.\"

\" ... real people are dying, a real civilization is being

destroyed.\"

I am in fundamental agreement with both of these courageous souls

and others who say the same thing, but I want to put it unmistakable,

unambiguous terms.

Whether the United States recognizes it or not, when an

international court of inquiry is convened at the end of this unjust and

illegal invasion of Iraq, American troops will be eligible for war

crimes prosecution in the same way that Nazis and Japanese soldiers were

tried, convicted and imprisoned for their actions during World War II.

In fact, what we are doing to Iraq is at least the equal of what

Japan and Germany did to us, and perhaps worse. There exists no reason

that is not a lie that has been told by George W. Bush to invade Iraq

and murder its people.

The petropsychos in Washington have lied about the 2000 election,

lied about 9\/11 (and completely thwarted any investigation), lied about

the anthrax attacks, lied about the invasion of Afghanistan, and now are

lying about the invasion of Iraq. In all of these cruel charades, they

have been backed to the hilt by a totally prostituted American media

propaganda corps, who are themselves eligible for war crimes charges by

their dishonest complicity in this corporate conspiracy against the poor

people of the world.

German and Japanese soldiers who were tried following World War II

were not allowed to use the excuse that they were just following orders.

Soldiers are human beings who are expected to exercise their consciences

when they are ordered to commit illegal and immoral crimes against

humanity.

To claim they were just following orders is not a valid excuse,

never has been.

There is an oil filter advertisement familiar to American TV

viewers, in which an auto mechanic wisely advises a worried car owner to

take precautionary measures and change his filter. \"Either pay me now,

or pay me later,\" the mechanic says.

In regard to the American war machine now surging across the globe

leaving a bloody trail of violence, it is vital this message now be

heard and understood by people in every country in the world.

Each day we fail to stop this bloodthirsty American menace, the

price we will pay will keep getting higher.



John Kaminski is the author of \"America's Autopsy Report,\" a

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