[Imc-cleveland] Arabian Sights == Juan Santos...The Center Cannot Hold / Yet we are to remain silent / Quotes...American HolocaustS

Wed Apr 18 15:33:25 UTC 2007

Arabian Sights....

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"Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." 
Cree Prophecy
p247... one of the preconditions for the Spanish and Anglo-American genocides against the native peoples of the Americas was a public definition of the natives as inherently and permanently-that is, as racially-inferior beings. To the conquering Spanish, the Indians more specifically were defined as natural slaves, as subhuman beasts of burden, because that fit the use to which the Spanish wished to put them, and because such a definition was explicable by appeal to ancient Christian and European truths-through Aquinas and on back to Aristotle. Since the colonizing British, and subsequently the Americans, had little use for Indian servitude, but only wanted Indian land, they appealed to other Christian and European sources of wisdom to justify their genocide: the Indians were Satan's helpers, they were lascivious and murderous wild men of the forest, they were bears, they were wolves, they were vermin. Allegedly having shown themselves to be beyond conversion to Christian or to civil life-and with little British or American need for them as slaves-in this case, straightforward mass killing of the Indians was deemed the only thing to do.
p253... During the brief duration of the [Gulf] war itself, American pilots referred to the killing of unarmed, retreating enemy soldiers as a "turkey shoot," and compared the Iraqi people- otherwise known as "ragheads"-to "cockroaches" running for cover when allied planes appeared overhead. Graffiti on bombs slung under the wings of American aircraft labeled them as "Mrs. Saddam's sex toy" and "a suppository for Saddam," while the American field commander subsequently admitted in a television interview that he wished he had been able to complete his job: "We could have completely closed the door and made it a battle of annihilation," he said; it was "literally about to become the battle of Cannae, a battle of annihilation" before-to his disappointment-the general was called off.
David stannard 
Excerpts from American Holocaust-- Oxford University Press, 1992

"The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians, while in the process 'ethnically cleansing' them and then finally deporting the pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to Bantustans, which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's manifest destiny to rule the world." 
Francis A. Boyle 

"Sharing our finite planet with the dominant "culture" is like being locked in a room with a psychopath. There's no way out, and although the psychopath may choose other targets first, eventually it will be our turn. Eventually we'll have to fight. There's no way around it. And the sooner we fight back-the sooner we kill this psychopath-the more life will remain."
-Derrick Jensen

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 The Center Cannot Hold: The Bush Regime in Crisis
Juan Santos

...Deeply hated by people everywhere, on the verge of losing power in the House and Senate, divided over torture, spying, military tribunals, secret prisons, immigration, and plans for war against Iran; mired in loss in Iraq; rocked by scandal and widespread corruption; exposed as mass killers of the innocent in Lebanon and as racists in New Orleans, the Republican regime is finding that its center cannot hold.... 

Let no one think the mainstream press or the Republicans suddenly "got religion," or anything else akin to morality.

The Bush regime is failing miserably - in Iraq and elsewhere - at fulfilling the geo-strategic mandate laid out by the "Democrat's Kissinger", Brzezinski whose strategic thinking finds striking parallels in the Project for a New American Century cabal that runs the White House. 

"The most immediate task," Brzezinski wrote, "is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role." 

The Bush failure in Iraq sets the stage for just such a scenario to unfold, and the regime's move on Iran threatens to crystallize an opposing war bloc - precisely the bloc Brzezinski most openly worried about in The Grand Chessboard, one that might expel the US from Eurasia or severely limit its imperial designs there: 

"Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an "antihegemonic" coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower."...

If there were a mass radical movement in the US, the Bush regime would be toast. 

The only force poised to fully capitalize on the Republican crisis is the Democratic Party. It's a crime. Silent during all the long years of torture and "secret" prisons, silent on the coming war against Iran, silent on Iraq - except to say that they know how such things should be done - silent as they played along with developments toward fascism, the Democrats will now pose as upholders of the "real" "American" values.

And it will be a lie.

They will impeach and try Bush if they can and if they have to by resorting to nothing but lies: "America" really doesn't torture they will say - while evading the history of the Phillipines, Viet Nam, the Indian Wars, and the death squads and torture regimes the Empire has backed from the Shah of Iran to Guatemala, to their ex-puppet Saddam Hussein himself...

http://the-fourth-world.blogspot.com/2006/09/center-cannot-hold-bush-regime-in_22.html

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      Yet we are to remain silent?
       Nicolas Preciado  -- May 16,2006 

      The sudden catastrophic extinction of Indigenous (Ameri-Indians) is mere hyperbole.  Our existence terrifies the soul of the oppressor, therefore bearing testimony to our resilient  race.

      Our struggles have been separated by foreign nations: They occupy our ancestral domains yet shamelessly with forked tongues denounce us as foreigners.

      Such Audacity!

      Such Arrogance!

      The ancients were introduced to an alcoholism which till this day plagues our brethren. 

      Was it not your ancestors that initiated such strategy to neutralize the valor and dignity of nations across two continents?

      Non-Indigenous-Absurdity! You savages need not dwell on the past, become civilized, speak a language in place of a archaic "dialect" and  learn culture (European culture)

      Such a simple plea.  We must allow our ancestors suffering to pass in vain? Discontinue collective memory like some cheap clothing brand in urban "America" and negate from past mistakes? How shall we survive the repugnant  attacks throughout our western hemisphere against the dignity, and livelihood of our brethren?

      Remain Silent.

      Yes, this is what is actually wanted. 

      Silence.

      Allow  the silhouette of machine guns drown out the moans of starving, children which lack decent educations.

      I could be living in Bolivia, celebrating the election of my kindred, yet disorientated by the global communities mafia like position in regards to decency and the lower classes.

      I could be in Brazil, witnessing the destruction of the Rain forest, and clinching on to my customs as people that lost contact with a creator desecrate what is not of their understanding: The Land.

      I could be in Guatemala, a son or grandson of one of many genocides, yet bewildered by the lack of opportunity in my sector.

      I could be in Mexico, starving for an ideal economic and educational opportunity, and wondering why I am who I am. Why is it a stigmata to be Indigenous, and why after so many battles and wars, we are perceived as a minority when in reality we are a majority?

      I could be in the States or Canada  confronted with a bitter reality that we are now an extreme minority, overlooked and in 'third world' conditions.

      Non-Indigenous- You need not live for any "ancestors" you are an individual, and as an individual as any human being, you owe nothing to nobody. You only have yourself. So since you only have yourself, there were, and are not any crimes committed against your people, as your people don't exist, just as mine don't we are all human individuals.

      The contradicting tone of such illogical stance only indicates that a fault occurred
      This fault is a collective entity of all the repressive, degrading, destructive and irrational actions taken by the oppressors which tormented two continents for self-gratification in the form of material wealth.

      Yet we are to remain silent?

      http://www.aztlanrising.com/mos/view/Literature/Poetry/Yet_we_are_to_remain_silent/ 

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