It is worth noting that in response to the original topic of this thread, i.e. an 'American Genocide', the thread has frayed into three distinct categories.
Firstly into the realm of
CENSORSHIP, Within only a short period of entry and 5 responses the corporate thought police had stepped in to ensure
PatekPhilippe's freedom of expression was omitted, thus rendering his follow-up comment, which most here didn't see, unavailable for our scrutiny. Further to this, my paraphrasing of what he said (now edited in
post # 37) was also expunged. And for the sin of raising criticism against meddling with an adult discussion of a critical issue the 'Moderator' unbelievably relegated the whole thread to CONSPIRACY THEORIES, as if the current raging Wars and all their resultant miseries were mere theoretical conjecture. Clearly the cliques that patrol these boards have their own political agendas and anything which upsets the apple-cart is either omitted or speedily consigned to the realms of 'conspiracy'. It is these manoeuvrings which make
US Message board increasingly irrelevant.
Secondly we can see (or more aptly hear), quite clearly, what I have characterized as
'the barking dogs of nascent Fascism'; those low-lifes, whose unfettered outpourings of racist and intolerant sentiment we've seen here. From the likes of
PatekPhilippe:
"Depleted Uranium is ******* awesome!!!!!
We rain death down upon the enemies of America with precision....next time they'll know better than to **** with us. I hope they all ******* die from radiation and toxic metal poisoning...less to worry about down the road."
, and
Fizz:
"the last group of people to attack us and start a war with us got two ******* nukes dropped on their homeland. as far as i'm concerned half the middle east should be turned into a big glass parking lot. "
Now I lump these 'people' together with another group,
'the apologists for genocide', such as
woodjack and
mdn2000. And they wont like being categorized along-side such a grotesque demographic because typically they'll spend their whole lives concealing their true feelings, in dealing with greys to mask true intent. But there it is.
There were a great many more 'quite ordinary folk' in Nazi Germany who were prepared to make excuses for the crimes of their Dictatorship than there were the ravenous, die-hard Party faithful. In the eyes of the apologist the sins of genocide are 'excusable', 'explainable', and ultimately 'reasonable'. These are the most jubilant cheerers as their troops march out to the transport ships, and most audible in their ostentatious lamenting of the same soldier's inevitable demise. The only difference between these two groups is one of subtlety.
Thirdly of course there are those of us who actually care about other people, (through the agency of empathy), especially those foreign civilians suffering due to the nefarious activities of 'our' corrupt institutions. For us there can be no excuses for genocide or any of the other forms of oppression and exploitation that emerge from the tyranny of Capitalist Imperialism. Surely the only means of remaining ‘Human’ is to fight against evil. And if we do not champion that fight but are paying the taxes which bank-roll the wars then we are complicit in the very genocides that are taking place, as we debate here.
An innocent, Depleted Uranium / White Phosphorus - deformed Iraqi victim of Capitalism's Imperialist plunder cries out in pain and distress.