Gross Injustice:
The Law of Lies
The United States of America presents itself as the freest political entity
on earth. Some of earth's inhabitants were fortunate enough to be born within
the geopolitical borders of the United States and its territories. The rest of its residents
have yanked their roots from another soil, where their bloodlines evolved.
Ultimately,
however, all Americans are
immigrants. The indigenous peoples of the United States were almost entirely liquidated in the largest
genocide this world has yet to witness. Let us not forget this.
The
First Gross Injustice
When
George Bush was selected as president, only five of the votes cast for him were
counted. Regardless of the overwhelming number of facts proving that the 2000
election was fixed, American citizens stood transfixed by the election. They
allowed the first gross injustice perpetrated on them by the Project for the
New American Century to go unchecked. As governor of Texas, George Bush oversaw the execution of fifty
death row inmates. Under the presidency of George W. Bush, a total of
approximately 15,000 world citizens, predominantly Muslim, have been
slaughtered.
The
Second Gross Injustice
The
second gross injustice began on September 11, 2001. The commander in chief of the armed forces
(who skipped out on Vietnam and is still AWOL) sat in an elementary school
in Florida reading a book about a girl and her goat to
school children, while the attacks took place. His response to the events was
twofold. One—ground all commercial passenger flights, except one Saudi jet
which was allowed to fly around the country extracting Bin Laden family
members. Two—bar all investigations into the causal relationships for the
September 11th terrorist attacks.
In
the meantime, the United States would depose the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. It would not agree to allow the construction
of a Turkmenistan-to-Pakistan pipeline, that Unocal, Haliburton, the Carlyle
Group, and Enron all had their hands on. Along with this, the United States
would reestablish Mujahadeen warlords as the preeminent power, would put in a
sideliner to Unocal consultant Hamid Karzei as interim leader, and put in
Zalmay Khalilzad—also a Unocal advisor and member of the Project for the New
American Century—as special envoy to Karzei. More than 4000 civilians died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. military incursion. Afghanistan is once again the world’s leading opium
producer/exporter. Unocal won the contract for the pipeline. Osama Bin Laden
was never apprehended. No proof was ever established that Osama Bin Laden was
responsible for the attacks on 911.
The
Third Gross Injustice
The
third gross injustice was the implementation of the Homeland Security Act, the
Patriot Act, the secret Domestic Security Enhancement Act (which has not yet
been ratified, as the opportunity is not ripe), the Model State Emergency
Health Powers Act (coming soon at a state assembly near you), the suspension of
habeas corpus in many suspected-terrorist tribunals, and attempts to revoke the
Posse Comitatus Act by the Department of Homeland Security. These acts, devised
to protect the homeland from terrorists, have thoroughly insulted and upset the
U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When the “national mood ring” reaches
code red we must all be on high alert. We will have no civil rights to resort
to.
The
Fourth Gross Injustice
The
fourth gross injustice in the war on terrorism is Operation Iraqi Liquidation—a successful attempt to
illegally invade and occupy a sovereign country against the will of the world
and in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the U.N. Charter, The
Geneva Conventions, the Articles of The Hague Regulations, and The Nuremberg
Convention on Genocide. The massive U.S. armed forces swept through Iraq with virtually no resistance in their
"Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg. The United States had ensured, through economic sanctions,
weapons inspections, a decade of aerial strikes against Iraqi defense systems,
and U.S. intelligence, that their opponent would be easily defeated. The United States quickly secured Iraq's oil fields, but did little to prevent two
phases of looting, and allowed the destruction of vast cultural and historical
treasures.
More
than 4500 civilians have been slaughtered in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Many more will be wounded or killed by
unexploded ordinance mostly from the use of cluster bombs in areas with dense
civilian populations—considered a crime against humanity by many human rights
organizations. One and a half million Iraqis died as a direct result of the
economic sanctions the United States enforced on Iraq between Gulf Wars One and Two (causing the
resignations of two UN Assistant Secretary Generals). Many more Iraqis will die
in the months to come, for lack of potable water, food, and medicine. The Iraqi
people have been shattered by Saddam Hussein and the United States. Saddam Hussein is still at large. No weapons
of mass destruction were located. Over 4500 Iraqi civilians had their souls
liberated from their bodies, and the rest of the population was left in the
hands of the U.S. military occupation, in the dark, without electricity, water or food.
The
Grossest of Injustices
The
grossest of injustices can be found in the Project for the New American
Century's "Rebuilding America's Defenses." In this document,
published just two months before the presidential selection, all of the plans
for American hegemony are spelled out. The plan tells us of the "staging
of multiple theater wars"; the complete control of cyberspace; military
control of outer space and the creation of a military space force; the use of
non-conventional weapons and the amassing of a new nuclear arsenal. What this
all amounts to is the continued destruction and
degradation of the earth’s environment and its natural and cultural diversity.
Perhaps
fortunately, the Bush Administration is mostly comprised of psychopathic
ideologues that have lost touch with the human soul and the sanctity of life;
perhaps they can only get so far before the world will save the American
peoples, in an attempt to save themselves.
While
it is a formidable task to challenge the most powerful regime in history and
curtail the genocide and environmental nightmares that are happening, we can be
assured that the majority of the peoples of this planet want only to live
peacefully and comfortably in the company of family and friends, close to the
land on which they rely.
The
key to change requires the utilization of the mainstream media, the very same
tool the Bush Administration 'owns' through corporate political ties.
Unfortunately, Michael Powell is pushing for deregulating ownership of radio
stations, in addition to the deregulation of TV and telephone-communications
ownership that has already been enacted.
In
light of all of these gross injustices, we must reflect upon the conditions
under which the American Revolution occurred, and ask ourselves what the
necessary actions are, as responsible citizens of the United States and the
World, to take control of the media and the government, so that a true
democracy can be established—in the name of securing a global community.
Adam Roufberg
adam@thefourreasons.org
www.thefourreasons.org