1. There are many americans in the frontline against imperialism. Their few but meaningful victories should be recognized.
2. It is not my intention to create an Anti-American perspective, i would rather do the opposite. By demonstrating the hypocrisy of the establishment i would like to waken up the dormant strength of the American Democratic spirit. In better words, i would like to bring to light that the ideas which are embraced by the North American public are in fact opposite to those of their government. Hereby asking for justice to be brought forth by the North American public unto their government, and therefore unto its victims worldwide.
3. I may have given you the wrong impression. I passionately agree with activism and any showing of empathy on the part of the North American people. Holocaust remembrance today is a different type of action than what it might have been 40 years ago. Today, the establishment has wholly made incorporated the Holocaust as a major element of its propaganda system. It is used to justify the conquest of the middle east and silence dissent. Anyone who dares topple the Holocaust from its steeple of horror is considered either an anti-semite or a self hating jew. Even though larger holocausts have taken place in recent history and despite of their relative proximity to North American hands, other genocides are ignored, neglected in the shadow of Hitler's "Final Solution". When the horrible actions comitted by the US Gov. and allies in their quest for domination of the world's markets are ignored by the media and the education system, and those comitted by the official enemy are tirelessly condemned, we become dangerously close to the society depicted in Orwell's 1984. In the novel, crowds gather in front of screens showing the face of rebel leader Goldstein, at whom jeers and condemnations are directed. The anger of the people in the novel serves as a means to manipulate them into forgetting the crimes of their own government agaisnt them and against the people of the world.
I believe now that my mention of Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Irak, Iran, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Congo and hundred of other countries twice and thrice invaded by North Americans should stand not as a complaint or a lamentation but as a favor from me to you. Wake up from the slumber of propaganda or face the realities of violent comfrontation which your government is setting up in the world. When an antagonized international community rebels against US hegemony, no chanting of antisemitism will save your country. Furthermore, it is your responsibility to become aware of the responsabilities of being part of the constituency of a government which is in factual control of a great part of the world. You need to change US policy, because when you face the world, you will be alone, the government will not only not defend you, it will send you and your children to fight its dirty wars.
4. "Americans have the luxury of having the right to criticize and protest their own government and its leaders, and it’s a right that many of us take very seriously"
Amen. I recomend that if you are interested in the conflict between free speech and propaganda, you should check out the Harvard debate created by a paper on Israeli lobby and how it affects foreign policy against public opinion. It has been called anti-semitic by the likes of Prof. Dershowitz, but the truth is that Hebrew dogma is a testament of opposition to the criminal violence enacted by the US Gov. and its proxy Israel.
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Kathleen_Hubka
18 years ago
Please, let this be. The project was, and is, powerful and moving and worthwhile.
Show some tolerance.
Yes, there are many, many others who should be honored for their loss and suffering in events that do not get the attention of the Holocaust. Here is something to consider: many Americans have (even if only a little) some German background/ancestry. It makes us pause a bit, being aware that such a highly-cultured and sophisticated people (Germans) could be involved in this.
No group is innocent of atrosities to other human beings.
We must all be very careful.
This Holocaust ended 60 years ago. Perhaps it will take some more time before the museums, memorials, and school projects will be dedicated to more recent victims.
Please. Let this be.
"Don't argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference."
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kobaincito
18 years ago
"No group is innocent of the atrosities to other human beings"
Some groups are more innocent than others. The SPanish comitted a horrible genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. The Black Legend managed to force the Spanish monarchy into action and Isabella claimed indigenous people under her protection. It did not stop the oppression of whites on natives but it did protect them from the systematized legalized genocide which took place in the US.
There are other examples of comparable invasive actions from the time of old empires. Today this attrocities are carried out overwhelmingly by the US and its allies. So i find it hippocritical to obsess over a German genocide when we know of plenty similar actions taken by the US and its allies. It is true that no particular event was quite so horrible as the Holocaust, but it is my way of thinking that while holocausts are terrible actions, the long range enslavement, mistreatment and humiliation of populations is much worst. A genocide is death, it is murder and it should be punished. But it should be punished when enemies do it as well as when allies do it. Andrew Jackson carried out his own little genocide, but he was not hung. Leopold II carried out a massive (8-10 M dead) in COngo with the aid of US government, which legalized the genocidal Congo Free State for their own profit. Yet as i said, it isnt genocide that should worry North Americans, as the US gov is much too crafty to allow such bad P.R., rather the enslavement and humiliation of whole subyugated populations should be the worry of peace seeking North Americans.
I suggest you look at US actions in Latin America. Every time the US looses a war it kills thousands in Latin America. While i hope the Iraki people destroy the imperialist forces which today oppress them, i am afraid for the health of my continent that upon defeat, the US will turn its torturing gaze unto us.
PEACE
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kaneforgov
18 years ago
Every time the US looses a war it kills thousands in Latin America.
This is an asinine statement based on prejudice that further exposes you as an idiot. Do you think you're the first person to discover historical injustices? Well, thank G-d you're there to set the rest of the world straight. Give me a break.
Your attitude and misinformation are the result of the acceptance of years of anti-American propaganda. You suggest nothing to improve any of the so-called injustices about which you whine. Enough already. Go do something positive or crawl under a bed and hide. Either way you're spouting your nonsense on an American owned discussion board.
Get lost.
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kobaincito
18 years ago
Whine? No, no. You whine. You whine about about the horrors of being beaten in Indochina. All your bombs couldn't help you invade a tiny country defended by an indigenous population. You whine about Irak, it's so hard to be a thief, isn't it? You whine about Latin America being controlled by its population. And then you kill thousands in Chile and NIcaragua. I have a suggestion to fix it all. Yankee stay the *beep* out of my country. All you bring is trash. Trashy food, trashy fashion, trashy films. Stay in the land you have already stolen from MExico and from the NAtives.
Besides, what is your point? is it not true that the US is so cowardly that it bombs poor indigenous people to prove its might. The might of a woman beater i shall say. The might of a bully. The might of trash. I am not a bigot, but i cannot help but feel disgust for all your nation until official apologies and reparations are provided for every nation you have bullied. For all you have killed, for your tampering in our economies, for your idiocy.
And to top it all off you imbeciles have the audacity to build a wall in the middle of Mexica territory and say spiks are not allowed. You do not know what is coming to you. Your nation will be brouht down by the might of the just. Latin Americans will unite and take back was is ours, all the land between the Patagonia and California. We will oust all of you thieves, we will oust you off of your colonies.
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kaneforgov
18 years ago
Your nation will be brought down by the might of the just. Latin Americans will unite and take back was is ours, all the land between the Patagonia and California.
Do you do stand-up comedy too?
Brought down by whom? Countries that can't even control their own crime and drug cartels? I don't think so. You are truly laughable. The more you post the more your idiocy abounds.
Jealously obliviously runs through your comments. (Just can't stay off a United States discussion board can you?) If you want to be an American so badly, apply for a visa and citizenship. Maybe we'll have you, but probably not (your criminal record is a definite obstacle). Otherwise, find a South American DB to post on and spare the rest of the world your bigotry.
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