Sunday, December 11, 2005

A Cabal of Criminality

HR: Based on experience, I can only say: Bravo! I couldn't have said it better! The article in an extensive way very well describes the present situation: for some a shock, to many others the confirmation of good thinking and seeing. And there's some comfort: even the Nazi top criminals didn't think they would end up in Nuremberg...

A Cabal of Criminality


Tyranny is their calling card; the suppression of freedom and democracy at home and abroad the means by which they retain power. To them dissent is unpatriotic, protest is subversive, debate to their decisions treasonous. Dividing a nation is a tool of expediency; using religion and ignorance to build their base, brew hatred and stir anger is part of doing business. In their worldview, the truth is the enemy, slavery is freedom, war is peace, ignorance is strength and reality is what they decide it to be.*


by: Manuel Valenzuela* on Sunday Dec. 11th 2005


The disaster in Iraq has continued to regress with the same velocity and intensity as when it first started, raging onwards in a classical resistance, guerilla-style form of urban warfare that usually befalls occupying invaders of alien lands, yet as 2005 ends and 2006 gets set to begin, in the minds of millions of Americans finally out of the hypnotic, denial-laced clouds of 9/11, the time has finally arrived to show ever-increasing animosity to a war that was lost the moment the first American boots entered Iraq. Nobody, after all, likes a loser, and nobody jumps on the bandwagon of a so-called superpower nation being bled, of both blood and treasure, by a resistance with one-billionth the financial resources and military might – though possessing much more intelligence and patience – of the nation it is slowly and calculatingly hemorrhaging.

Iraq is now, and always has been, a quagmire that has turned into a suffocating and inextricable tar pit for American forces, where the inevitable defeat of George Bush’s policy combines with the greatest strategic disaster in American history, where the total miscalculation of war and mismanagement of peace has resulted in the collapse of Middle East stability, making America and the world less safe, not more, where wet dreams of imperial domination, fused with delusions of grandeur have helped build a monolithic wall of bad karma that will take decades to tear down.

USING ARAB MEN AS BOGEYMEN

Iraq, like Vietnam before it, has served to remind us that, like the war on communism, the war on terror is but a charade, a fear engendering escapade, designed to control populations and empower the elite, unleashing fear onto the citizenry while delivering enormous profit to the military-industrial complex. Using Arab men as bogeymen, hidden in the shadows, without faces, countries and, with the help of Hollywood and the corporate media, with a growing brutal reputation, dark skinned Muslims replaced white Soviet Reds as the new American enemy, the new cash cow granting the government and military industrial complex a new generation of destructive war from which to bleed the American taxpayer dry, providing misallocation of resources to the former and enormous profit to the latter.

What the Iraq/Bush war shows the world is how a Cabal of Criminality, numbering less than a few hundred individuals, can bamboozle a nation into a war whose ramifications on our future we cannot yet fully comprehend. The Bush war, the single-greatest blunder in America’s foreign policy history, was spawned by greed-addicted corporatists and treasonous neoconartists, presstitute lackeys and political hacks, placed in charge of US foreign policy and the propaganda acting as corporate media, easily in control of a nitwit, ignorant puppet, possessing his bully pulpit from which to spew the fabrications and manipulations needed to con America. Delusional, incompetent, dangerous and trapped in bubbles of naked grandeur, expecting fictional flowers and candy to flow from Iraqis expected to greet Americans as liberators, the Cabal of Criminality had no qualms sacrificing thousands of American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens, for greed, power, profit, wealth and ego.

A GROUP OF A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE LED AMERICA INTO WAR

Through lies, deceit, fear-mongering, immorality, chicanery and criminality a group of a few hundred people led America into war, using the new Pearl Harbor, 9/11, with its plethora of highly charged emotions and fragile psyches, to launch a war they thought would be only the first of many, using Iraq as a beachhead to invade Iran and Syria. Suffocating inside the clouds of 9/11, blinded to reality and captured by delusion, America’s normally stable citizenry was mobilized to seek revenge through war, was conditioned to hate through scapegoats, was silenced by fear and intimidation, was brainwashed to blindly follow through incessant propaganda, jingoism and Madison Avenue style marketing.

In short, Americans were used, enslaved to the dictates of power, branded as sheeple, not people, our emotions of hatred, vengeance, fear and justice used against us, making us impotent conduits of crime and murder. Complicit we became in the delusional game played by the Cabal of Criminality, where the death of 3000 people became the key to unlocking the gates of war upon Mesopotamia. The plan had been set in motion, the new Pearl Harbor was allowed to bear fruit, the cataclysmic event needed to enrage the people and grease up the machines of war would not be stopped.

With each passing year, with each passing month the Iraq/Bush war has descended more and more into chaos, a battle defined by the resistance, not the US army. Using the most sophisticated weaponry money can buy, with the most modern technologies, possessing incalculable financial resources, American forces find themselves losing to an enemy that fights against occupation and for freedom. The resistance is homegrown, composed of fathers and sons, daughters and mothers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and cousins, all fighting an invading army they see as the catalyst of death, mass murder, burnings, maimings, intolerable suffering and cruel and inhumane collective punishment. The resistance has increased exponentially – and will not diminish until American forces are expelled – with every death, maiming, destroyed home, rape, imprisonment, shooting and act of collective punishment upon the Iraqi people, with every death of a son, father, mother or daughter.

AMERICA IS THE CAUSE AND THE EFFECT OF THE RESISTANCE, the reason Iraqis fight, whether carrying AK-47’s or giving logistical support. Whether planting improvised explosive devices or acting as eyes and ears infiltrating the Green Zone, Iraqis see America as the enemy, yet one more imperial invading army thinking itself blessed by providence to claim the lands of the Fertile Crescent. A guerilla army cannot function without the support of the citizenry, and neither can the success the resistance is having against American forces. With every Iraqi death a dozen more resistance fighters join the battle, with every Iraqi death or American crime the hatred grows and calls for vengeance beckon. Trapped inside a vicious cycle of violence begetting violence, American forces have been their own worst enemy. Each year the resistance grows stronger, more sophisticated, more dangerous, learning, improving, evolving, and becoming ever more destructive. America’s presence and prolonged occupation of Iraq will only exacerbate an already volatile vortex of violence.

ECHOING THE SCREAMS OF THE SUFFERING

Yet to the Cabal of Criminality lurking and slithering in the halls of power the lives of thousands of America’s young mean not a thing. Tens of thousands have returned maimed, burned or scarred not only physically, but mentally as well, changed, altered, innocence lost, wickedness spawned. Tens of thousands will forever linger in the purgatory that their mind has become, lost among the ghosts of the innocents they killed, maimed, raped or tortured, haunted by the visions of death they saw and the realities of war they were forced to endure, and confront. Burning inside their minds Hell has arisen, echoing the screams of the suffering and the drips of the blood they helped spill, hearing the cries of armless children, weeping widows and fatherless daughters. Hell on Earth, after all, lies with the demons of life lurking inside the crevices deep within the mind.

Trained to maim and kill without asking questions, robbed of their ability to think independently, taught to never question authority, always following orders, no matter how immoral or wicked the assignment, these oftentimes young, impressionable, easily conditioned soldiers are forced to confront the most evil endeavor of man, that thing called war, through the prism of human psychology, not of robotic understanding. The human animal becomes unleashed in war, untangled from most precepts of humanity, devoid of those virtues that contain us in peacetime. Raw emotion and animalistic passion are resurrected with the smell of burned flesh, the taste of blood, the adrenaline of self preservation. Quickly the human mind is forced to make of the enemy a creation of subhuman birth, transforming man and women into beast and monster, a perfect way for the human mind to release the remaining morsels of morality and accept crimes against fellow human beings.

THE CABAL OF CRIMINALITY HAS TRANSFORMED AMERICAN CITIZEN SOLDIERS INTO CONDUITS OF HUMAN EVIL, importing into Iraq tyranny, American style, replacing wickedness with wickedness, negative energy with negative energy. Thousands of normal, beautiful and otherwise decent human beings have been forced to commit heinous crimes against Iraqis for nothing but lies, greed and criminality. They have been forced to combat peoples fighting for freedom from occupation, freedom from tyranny, freedom to live in security and happiness. Fighting an entire population, killing over a hundred thousand people, destroying homes, lives and futures, unleashing hatred and animosity where none existed before, American forces have been forced to confront and oftentimes displace their own morality, replacing them with the principles of the Cabal of Criminality whose unscrupulous pathology bulldozes over anything and everything standing in their way, caring not an ounce for humanity, or for the effects their actions will one day have on future generations of Americans.

The ultimate victims of these principles, besides the Iraqi people, are American soldiers who upon returning to the safe shores of the United States find themselves transformed in mind and body, their personalities affected by what they saw, what they inflicted and were witness to. Many will return with the demons of war, of human wickedness embedded, forced to relieve stresses seen and experienced with lives that have been eroded by human violence. Tens of thousands damaged physically, missing arms and legs, some burned and scarred, others brain damaged beyond repair, yet it is those psychologically maimed that will have to struggle through marriages that no longer have meaning, through jobs that make no sense, through the normalcy of life that no longer exists. Divorce, unemployment, homelessness, addictions, abandonment, Hell on Earth, nightmares and lives forever altered are the mementos for many soldiers of the Iraq/Bush war, courtesy of the Cabal of Criminality.

THE CABAL OF CRIMINALITY AND AMERICA*

Through every lie, distortion, deception and crime that led America to war a pillar of American greatness has been lost, slowly eroding the foundations upon which a great nation once stood. A beacon of hope and human rights for billions of human beings for decades, the United States now has a sitting Vice President espousing torture, rendition and the destruction of due process. For years portending to fight the “Evil Empire’s” network of gulags, today America has its own gulag network throughout the vast reaches of Earth, torturing and murdering human beings, keeping hidden its atrocities, its activities, its lies. Proclaiming the Bush war as a means of cleansing Iraq of tyranny, America has nonetheless imported tyranny under the rubric of new blood and methods. Torture, rape, false imprisonment, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, collective punishment, mass murder, assassinations, insecurity, suffering and disappearances have become the hallmark of Iraq during American occupation.

A nation once admired and adored, the light that attracted freedom and democracy, has been extinguished in the minds of billions. The hypocrisy of America’s foreign policy can be seen worldwide, even if it still blinds hundreds of millions within its borders. Destroying Iraq and its culture only to help rebuild it; supporting the devastating apartheid and collective punishment of Palestinians by Israel; maintaining in power corrupt kings and despots in the Middle East, robbing hundreds of millions of the same freedom and democracy proclaimed for Iraq; labeling as a threat and as dictator a democratically elected leader in Venezuela when the last two American presidential elections have been filled with fraud and controversy, whose only crimes has been helping out the people of his nation through oil revenues sought by American corporations; calling as corrupt members of foreign governments and of international organizations when America’s Congress and Bush’s Administration is filled to the rafters with corruption and cronies and the most unscrupulous politicians known to exist, transforming America’s government into the bordello of the elite and the whorehouse of the corporatist few.

America proclaims to stand with the world but in reality trounces treaties and protocols and has become a rogue nation acting solely for its own corporate interests. Where once America’s Presidents were welcome to foreign lands with open arms, flowers and candy, today only hatred and anger await George Bush, with streets filled with protests and loathing, forcing him to travel in a vacuum, surrounded by an army of armed bodyguards, made to confront the animosity on the street of every country and city he visits, having become the laughingstock of the public in the open and of politicians in private.

LIVING DELUSIONS OF EMPIRE AND OF OMNIPOTENCE

The new America, born in sin and arrogance, delusional in Manifest Destiny, bred in overabundant gluttony, consumerist and materialist, fathered by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the Cabal of Criminality, a country flocked by sheeple, ignorant and conditioned, indifferent to a world growing up around it, living delusions of empire and of omnipotence, building hatred against it and its policies throughout the planet, slowly dumbing down its citizens, losing its edge in the sciences and arts, producing a nation of acquiescent automatons brainwashed to never question authority and always faithfully follow the crimes of governance.

The new America would rather spend $500 billion a year on the military industrial complex, and an additional $200-300 billion for the Iraq/Bush war instead of on education, healthcare, Katrina, homelessness, enlightenment, equality and infrastructure, in the process condemning tomorrow’s adults to a nation without wisdom, vision and equality. The new America is producer and consumer, from cradle to grave, where slave wages abound for the working class and tax breaks thrive for the wealthy, creating a growing gap between haves and have nots, between the educated and the rest of us.

The new America is a nation never reared or disciplined, possessing the attention span of ten second sound bites and the naiveté of always placing blind faith in corrupt and incompetent leadership, a land living for the present, not the future, forgetting lessons from the past, its people programmed to seek the fictions, perfections and fantasies of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, millions of its citizens doped up on pharmaceutical drugs, depressed when reality triumphs over fiction, when real life eclipses dumbed down fantasy.

DESTROY THE WORLD’S GREAT CULTURES

America is a country lacking the wisdom of older civilizations that comes with centuries of existence, having become the bully of the world, a rogue nation ignorant of other lands and cultures, possessing a government that acts on animal instinct, not reason, ready at a moments notice to destroy the world’s great cultures, with millions of its inhabitants conditioned from birth to the commands of corporate television, becoming the twenty-first century’s version of the “good Germans” of yesteryear, eager to cheer upon the war crimes being committed in their name, ready to celebrate the destruction of culture and the maiming of spirit, marching in lock step to the tunes of their manipulated hatred and thirst for dark-skinned blood.

America is a land where the corruption endemic in Washington is easily forgotten, where complacency of convenience leads to complicity of criminality, where the pilfering of so-called billions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction funds and misappropriation of billions of dollars in Iraqi aid and oil revenues by Bush and Cheney cronies and fraudsters is ignored, quickly forgotten by a populace suddenly enthralled by the next adaptation of sensationalist and mind numbing corporate media designed to distract and quickly make forget.

The Cabal of Criminality is the epitome of an America decades in the making, of a land no longer able to see the awesome spectacle of the dawn of a new day, of a nation on the decline, steadily guiding itself towards inevitable implosion. The Cabal of Criminality is the epitome of gluttony, of arrogance, greed and the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar, of crony capitalism and debauched democracy, of absolute power corrupting absolutely, a representation of what we have become, or of what we have allowed into our midst. The degenerate landfill that Washington has become, full of feces-saturated flies roaming atop governance, corruption having become their sustenance, robbing the nation blind, bending over to the sodomizing power of the corporate world, is at once both the anomaly of honor and integrity and the putrid sewer rotting the nation whole. This city, once thought the pinnacle of modern civilization, has become the cesspool ecosystem for the species called the Cabal of Criminality.

The Cabal of Criminality Exposed

The Cabal of Criminality has transformed the land of the free and the home of the brave, helping degenerate it from sea to shining sea, creating the mirror image of that which we detest the most, smearing our name with the torture devices and procedures of Abu Ghraib, the dehumanizing conditions at Guantanamo and the clandestine crime committed in all of America’s newfound gulags. They have shown the world America’s true colors of terrorism, from chemical warfare and Agent Orange in Vietnam to the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium in Iraq to the sponsorship and training of thieves, dictators and murderers now roaming the planet.

This is the same Cabal of Criminality, it must be recalled, that supported Saddam Hussein in his massacres against Kurds, Shia and during his chemical warfare campaign against Iran, using mostly American made weapons. This is the same Cabal that once green lighted the rise of autocratic dictators throughout the world, severely damaging the cherished principles of human rights, freedom and democracy they now hypocritically parade at every public relations stunt. This is the same Cabal that supported Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, helping arm and financially assisting his mujahedeen against the Soviets, calling them freedom fighters then but terrorists now.

Knowing perfectly well that the Bush war is only creating thousands more hatred-filled terrorists throughout the Muslim world, the Cabal of Criminality nonetheless continues to destroy, massacre and bomb, hoping enough enemies are created, and enough blowback boomerangs back, to sustain a decades long excuse for perpetual war and thus, perpetual profit, wealth and power. These individuals, a minute minority of the American population, eagerly await the next attack on American soil, willing to sacrifice innocent human beings in furtherance of their sinister, nefarious goals. To them, the American people are pawns, nothing short of collateral damage needed to manipulate the emotions of the masses and maintain, and expand, an immoral war without purpose, based on fictional charades and clever marketing techniques borrowed from past criminal regimes.

The Cabal of Criminality have accelerated the arrival of fascism onto our shores, mutating government with the tentacles of corporatist power, embedding their miscreant hacks, cronies and lackeys throughout once sacrosanct halls of power. They have succeeded in saturating our television monitors with pure propaganda and distraction-filled, dumbed-down programming, deploying their presstitutes in the media to manipulate, control and condition the people.

[HR - The answer below is MONEY! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ncx3]

IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND HOW A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MISCREANTS COULD HIJACK AMERICA’S GOVERNMENT, ITS MEDIA, INSTITUTIONS AND FOREIGN POLICY, ATTAINING IN A FEW YEARS, THANKS TO THE NEW PEARL HARBOR, LONG HELD GOALS TO LAUNCH HUMAN EVIL THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE.

It is difficult to realize that a few hundred human beings could deceive an entire nation of 300 million citizens, using lies, manipulations and the powers of the corporate media to march us straight into a condemned war from where no good outcome can rise. A handful of criminals, thieves and murderers, thugs and gangsters, greed-infested warmongers, have helped condemn America and the world to years of insecurity and instability for what has been done cannot soon be alleviated or forgotten.

THROUGHOUT THE PLANET INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DYING EVERY DAY THANKS TO THE WORKINGS OF THE CABAL OF CRIMINALITY, whether by a suicide bombing or by economic genocide or by market colonialism or by state-sponsored terror. The policies of the Cabal affect all corners of Earth, becoming a contagious virus in some nations and a death sentence in others, whether under the guise of free trade, neoliberalism or of fighting the fictional “war on terror.” To this elite group it does not matter that Sub-Saharan Africans die by the millions every year because of AIDS, or that billions living in the Third World linger in perpetual poverty, destiny calling upon them to be born and die in an Earthly Purgatory of suffering.

THE CABAL OF CRIMINALITY CARES NOTHING FOR 45 MILLION AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTHCARE, nor for the millions of socially engineered children poor, undereducated and malnourished, sentenced to become the next generation of slave labor, or the millions made homeless by the evils of twenty-first century American capitalism. Returning veterans of the Bush war, whether damaged mentally, physically, financially or socio-economically, are quickly dispatched aside and forgotten by the same Cabal that sent them to Iraq to act both as cannon fodder and as operators for the instruments of death in furtherance of corporate aggrandizement, hidden from cameras and the public’s attention, seen more as liabilities to the continuance of war than as the heroes they rightly are, in the end becoming yet one more group of casualties, sent to kill and be killed for nothing but greed, profit, wealth, ego and power.

THE NAMES OF THOSE COMPRISING THE CABAL OF CRIMINALITY ARE WELL KNOWN, AS ARE MOST OF THEIR FACES.*

They are traitors to humanity and America, thieves and murderers empowered by the corruption of the system and the silent passivity of the masses. They are war criminals, espousing torture, the use of chemical weapons, collective punishment, assassinations, carpet bombing, the use of depleted uranium (clandestine nuclear war), false imprisonment and the use of gulags. They have murdered over 100,000 Iraqis, over 2,000 American soldiers, all the while ruining the lives of countless more.

Tyranny is their calling card; the suppression of freedom and democracy at home and abroad the means by which they retain power. To them dissent is unpatriotic, protest is subversive, debate to their decisions treasonous. Dividing a nation is a tool of expediency; using religion and ignorance to build their base, brew hatred and stir anger is part of doing business. In their worldview, the truth is the enemy, slavery is freedom, war is peace, ignorance is strength and reality is what they decide it to be.

THESE MAYBERRY MACHIAVELLI’S ARE AMATEUR DICTATORS

Driven by greed, these armchair chicken hawks, lacking the wisdom that comes with experience, march other people’s children into immoral war, becoming warmongers trapped inside their own bubble, living in delusion, not able to see reality. These Mayberry Machiavelli’s are amateur dictators living the wet dreams of long since dead princes and kings, trying to resurrect fiefdoms, kingdoms and empires, sustaining their bubble-filled egos with the addiction to temporary power. Desperately wanting to leave a legacy they have bumbled, stumbled and made their ingrained imbecility known through their litany of failures, becoming a laughingstock to those who know and to those who will read the future words of historians.

Yet even in the face of constant failure the Cabal of Criminality persists, for their kind tramples on anything to retain power. They are liars, connivers, fraudsters and embezzlers, the worst of the human condition, laying waste, through their policies and control mechanisms, to millions of human energies around the planet. For they are a dangerous and vicious animal, capable of anything when cornered and trapped, sleazy and unscrupulous, caring not an ounce for the consequences to their actions. They have much destruction and carnage yet to unleash, for in their actions can be seen the madness of fools, the inherent callousness of psychopathic tendencies. If left powerful and strong there is no predicting what their next move might be.

STOP THEIR MADNESS

Quite simply, they belong in a tribunal, tried for crimes against humanity and against the planet, rotting away inside the dark cells at The Hague or in Abu Ghraib, imprisoned for the world entire to see, finally made to stop their madness, given a taste of their own medicine, forced to contemplate the deviousness of their actions and the results of their existence.

They are the Cabal of Criminality, a mere asterisk to history if dealt with right. They stand guilty of war crimes, international crimes, crimes against humanity and the planet. They are guilty of treason, becoming traitors to America, its citizens and what we stand for, our principles, our values and our futures. These vultures, however, will in most likelihood never see the inside of a cell, much less a tribunal, continuing to pillage and destroy the beauty of mankind, for years to come condemning us ever closer to the inevitable annihilation of our civilization.

For they are the Cabal of Criminality, not knowing, not caring and not understanding that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, that for every Iraqi resistance fighter killed a dozen more take his place, that negative energy always boomerangs back, that karma is a powerful bitch and that, in the end, the truth always rises from the ashes of lies to shed light on a new, glorious day.

[andend] - source Information Clearing House - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11203.htm

Google search Manuel Valenzuela - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cglee

RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:

* This is your life! - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime against humanity ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* 'Spreading democracy' - Countries & US Death Squads - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/drnca - A 55' second sound bite concerning the US 'bringing democracy' everywhere - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

* 'Crying Wolf' - Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ttx8

* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.:  http://www.genevaconventions.org

* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69

* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' -  http://tinyurl.com/8ncal


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Inexperience, I believe,

Will give little credence to my song.

'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse

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The US torture debate - White coats smeared with blood...

First globally published 20 August 2004

"I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Hygeia, and Panacea, and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment, the Oath of Hippocrates"*

ABOVE ALL, DO NO HARM...?

by Henk Ruyssenaars

Update - FPF - We know 'president' George Bush is not an avid reader, but maybe some Newspeak-briefer this morning can read to him a short of the article* on the abuse of prisoners, covered up by american doctors, from his own newspaper 'The Daily Texan': In a scathing analysis of the behavior of military doctors, nurses and medics, University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles calls for a reform of military medicine and an official investigation into the role played by physicians and other medical staff in the torture scandal.

Professor Miles "cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides, hid evidence of beatings and revived a prisoner so he could be further tortured. The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," Miles said in this week's edition of Lancet. [*below]

The Nazis, Vietnam,Latin America: all the same ?

On the seventh floor of the 'journalists hotel' Caravelle in Saigon, during the Vietnam war, there was a small bar where one also could meet foreign doctors which came to Vietnam to study warwounds. Having some kind of peace in their own countries - like Swedes, Germans, Australian and Dutch doctors I met there, they could practise their skills on the battlefield.

And I remember we discussed ethics and a book I read which had a big impact on me as a young reader. It was published in Germany soon after the Nuremberg medical trial already in 1947 and was called "Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit"*

Known in English as "Doctors of Infamy: The Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes," this book was a report by the two official observers of the doctors' trial appointed by the Federal Chamber of Physicians of Germany, Dr. Alexander Mitscherlich and Dr. Frederick Mielke.

Despite the presence of thousands of physicians in Germany, many senior distinguished clinicians and researchers, the only two people the profession could find to serve as "official" observers were a young untenured lecturer in psychiatry, Mitscherlich, and medical student, Mielke.

Mitscherlich and Mielke's report was a remarkable documentation of the atrocities perpetrated by medicine as documented by the doctors' trial.

The original German language report entitled "Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung" was published in Germany in 1947.

In 1949, 10,000 copies of the book were printed by the Federal Chamberof Physicians of Germany. However, it would appear that none of these volumes were ever distributed.

There were no book reviews. There were no letters. Mitscherlich recalled that "it was as if the book had never been written."

The fact that the story on the collaborating 'doctors' even appears in Bush's Texan newspaper and online for everybody to read maybe is a sign of recovery of the United States' media mental health ?

There is by the way an interesting study by a Dutch researcher called - Alette Smeulers -from the 'Dept of Criminal Law and Criminology' at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, who has published about 'What transforms ordinary people into gross human rights violators ?'*.

How ever could they forget about Nuremberg ?

One wonders how those followers of "The Angel of Death", Dr. Josef Mengele, ever could forget about Nuremberg ?

On May 24, 1943 Mengele became medical officer of the so-called Gipsy Camp, a part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (see Auschwitz concentration camp). In August 1944 Mengele became Chief Medical Officer of the main infirmary camp at Birkenau.

It was during his 21-month stay at Auschwitz that Dr. Mengele achieved infamy, gaining the nickname "Angel of Death." When rail-cars filled with prisoners arrived in Auschwitz II Birkenau, along with other doctors Mengele would frequently be waiting on the platform to select which of them would be retained for work and experimentation and which would be sent immediately to the gas chambers. Despite international efforts to track him down, he was never apprehended and lived for 35 years hiding under various aliases. Since 1960 he lived in Brazil, until his death in 1979, when he suffered a [maybe 'practical'] stroke while swimming in the ocean and drowned.

And today even Bush and his zionist cabal shoud be able to know that we are back to now again talking about it; now about American doctors implicated in abuse of Iraqi prisoners, as shown in many articles today.

The NewScientist?.com news service: "The medical community is calling for an investigation into the role of US medical staff in the prisoner abuse that took place in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, according to two new journal articles and appeals from physicians' groups.

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the US-run prison sparked controversy in spring 2004 when photographs surfaced showing US soldiers grinning as they posed beside naked and injured prisoners.

NOW, A DAMNING PICTURE IS EMERGING, ABOUT WHAT ROLE MEDICAL STAFF PLAYED IN THE ABUSE.

The US military medical system "failed to protect detainees' human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings," writes Steven Miles, a physician at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, US, in The Lancet.

Miles, along with the journal's editors, is calling for a full investigation of the role of medical staff after he scoured news reports and available government documents on the abuse.

Whistle blowing

Miles describes one interrogation in which medical staff left after reviving a prisoner who collapsed after a beating, allowing the abuse to continue. In another case, a medic inserted a catheter into the corpse of a detainee who died from torture to create evidence the prisoner was alive at the hospital.

And in another incident in November 2003, a surgeon listed "natural causes" as the cause of death of a man who actually died when interrogators put his head in a sleeping bag and sat on his chest. Six months later, the Pentagon ruled the death a homicide by asphyxia.

But crucially, doctors are concerned about what military medical staff did not do in an environment of physical abuse. "Where was their protest, where was their whistle blowing?" asks physician Michael Grodin, director of the law, medicine, and ethics program at Boston University, US.

He says doctors, despite their oath of care, have a long history of subverting their duties to patients in favour of other interests in "closed systems where there's no transparency", such as prisons.

THE MOST EGREGIOUS OFFENDERS, HE SAYS, WERE NAZI DOCTORS WHO MURDERED PEOPLE IN DEATH CAMPS.

"THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE, WANT DOCTORS TO BEHAVE LIKE DOCTORS," HE TOLD NEW SCIENTIST.

Survive and evolve

Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, US, discusses the dual loyalties military doctors face in a 29 July article in the New England Journal of Medicine (vol 351, p 415).

Lifton, who has written a book on the Nazi doctors, says they were able to commit murder and go about their normal lives by essentially forming a second self in a type of dissociation he calls "doubling."

He says this trait has ironically helped humans survive and evolve, but that it can lead to adapting to violent norms in certain "atrocity-producing" situations.

He writes that Abu Ghraib is one such situation, in which "doctors and other medical personnel were part of a command structure that permitted, encouraged, and sometimes orchestrated torture to a degree that it became the norm - with which they were expected to comply."

Various codes - from the Hippocratic Oath*, to the 1975 World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo, to the Geneva Convention - prohibit doctors from colluding in any way in torture.

"But I don't think under current practice physicians feel they have any such obligation," says Leonard Rubenstein, executive director of the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights in Boston, US.

As well as calling for a full investigation of policies that led to detainee abuses, the group has drawn up a list of guidelines for medical professionals in organisations - including the military or prison service - that call for doctors to report any abuse they see and to refuse to participate in interrogations, torture, or the misuse of patients' confidential medical records", wrote The Lancet (vol 364, p 725 and 637) [andend]

But, what really also is a bitter and cinical part of it: most of the people in the US on Gov't level,who have been pushing hard for the Iraq war, are part of 'the jewish cabal' in Washington. and at the Pentagon.

Most American/Israeli warmongers, surrounding Bush and Kerry*, are jewish people, who should know about the 'Mengeles' and abuse by 'doctors' in concentration and prison camps...

People apparently never learn...

Henk Ruyssenaars

All footnotes c.q. 'links' below.

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/yvanq
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/2ghoh
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl

The Dutch author worked for 4 decades for international media as foreign correspondent,of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. - Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

This is your life! - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime against humanity ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp
Help the troops come home: we need them to fight our 'governments'. - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

Kerry and his cabal: http://tinyurl.com/2f2ry

"Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib." [The Daily Texan -Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4lfrl ]

*Lancet/New Scientist - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/442ht

What transforms ordinary people into gross human rights violators ?' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3lwt3 [ also in PDF ]

Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit: http://tinyurl.com/6vvkw

Oath of Hippocrates - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6zkzq

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The US torture debate - White coats smeared with blood...

First globally published 20 August 2004

"I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Hygeia, and Panacea, and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment, the Oath of Hippocrates"*

ABOVE ALL, DO NO HARM...?

by Henk Ruyssenaars

Update - FPF - We know 'president' George Bush is not an avid reader, but maybe some Newspeak-briefer this morning can read to him a short of the article* on the abuse of prisoners, covered up by american doctors, from his own newspaper 'The Daily Texan': In a scathing analysis of the behavior of military doctors, nurses and medics, University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles calls for a reform of military medicine and an official investigation into the role played by physicians and other medical staff in the torture scandal.

Professor Miles "cites evidence that doctors or medics falsified death certificates to cover up homicides, hid evidence of beatings and revived a prisoner so he could be further tortured. The medical system collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," Miles said in this week's edition of Lancet. [*below]

The Nazis, Vietnam,Latin America: all the same ?

On the seventh floor of the 'journalists hotel' Caravelle in Saigon, during the Vietnam war, there was a small bar where one also could meet foreign doctors which came to Vietnam to study warwounds. Having some kind of peace in their own countries - like Swedes, Germans, Australian and Dutch doctors I met there, they could practise their skills on the battlefield.

And I remember we discussed ethics and a book I read which had a big impact on me as a young reader. It was published in Germany soon after the Nuremberg medical trial already in 1947 and was called "Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit"*

Known in English as "Doctors of Infamy: The Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes," this book was a report by the two official observers of the doctors' trial appointed by the Federal Chamber of Physicians of Germany, Dr. Alexander Mitscherlich and Dr. Frederick Mielke.

Despite the presence of thousands of physicians in Germany, many senior distinguished clinicians and researchers, the only two people the profession could find to serve as "official" observers were a young untenured lecturer in psychiatry, Mitscherlich, and medical student, Mielke.

Mitscherlich and Mielke's report was a remarkable documentation of the atrocities perpetrated by medicine as documented by the doctors' trial.

The original German language report entitled "Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung" was published in Germany in 1947.

In 1949, 10,000 copies of the book were printed by the Federal Chamberof Physicians of Germany. However, it would appear that none of these volumes were ever distributed.

There were no book reviews. There were no letters. Mitscherlich recalled that "it was as if the book had never been written."

The fact that the story on the collaborating 'doctors' even appears in Bush's Texan newspaper and online for everybody to read maybe is a sign of recovery of the United States' media mental health ?

There is by the way an interesting study by a Dutch researcher called - Alette Smeulers -from the 'Dept of Criminal Law and Criminology' at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, who has published about 'What transforms ordinary people into gross human rights violators ?'*.

How ever could they forget about Nuremberg ?

One wonders how those followers of "The Angel of Death", Dr. Josef Mengele, ever could forget about Nuremberg ?

On May 24, 1943 Mengele became medical officer of the so-called Gipsy Camp, a part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (see Auschwitz concentration camp). In August 1944 Mengele became Chief Medical Officer of the main infirmary camp at Birkenau.

It was during his 21-month stay at Auschwitz that Dr. Mengele achieved infamy, gaining the nickname "Angel of Death." When rail-cars filled with prisoners arrived in Auschwitz II Birkenau, along with other doctors Mengele would frequently be waiting on the platform to select which of them would be retained for work and experimentation and which would be sent immediately to the gas chambers. Despite international efforts to track him down, he was never apprehended and lived for 35 years hiding under various aliases. Since 1960 he lived in Brazil, until his death in 1979, when he suffered a [maybe 'practical'] stroke while swimming in the ocean and drowned.

And today even Bush and his zionist cabal shoud be able to know that we are back to now again talking about it; now about American doctors implicated in abuse of Iraqi prisoners, as shown in many articles today.

The NewScientist?.com news service: "The medical community is calling for an investigation into the role of US medical staff in the prisoner abuse that took place in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, according to two new journal articles and appeals from physicians' groups.

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the US-run prison sparked controversy in spring 2004 when photographs surfaced showing US soldiers grinning as they posed beside naked and injured prisoners.

NOW, A DAMNING PICTURE IS EMERGING, ABOUT WHAT ROLE MEDICAL STAFF PLAYED IN THE ABUSE.

The US military medical system "failed to protect detainees' human rights, sometimes collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards, and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings," writes Steven Miles, a physician at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, US, in The Lancet.

Miles, along with the journal's editors, is calling for a full investigation of the role of medical staff after he scoured news reports and available government documents on the abuse.

Whistle blowing

Miles describes one interrogation in which medical staff left after reviving a prisoner who collapsed after a beating, allowing the abuse to continue. In another case, a medic inserted a catheter into the corpse of a detainee who died from torture to create evidence the prisoner was alive at the hospital.

And in another incident in November 2003, a surgeon listed "natural causes" as the cause of death of a man who actually died when interrogators put his head in a sleeping bag and sat on his chest. Six months later, the Pentagon ruled the death a homicide by asphyxia.

But crucially, doctors are concerned about what military medical staff did not do in an environment of physical abuse. "Where was their protest, where was their whistle blowing?" asks physician Michael Grodin, director of the law, medicine, and ethics program at Boston University, US.

He says doctors, despite their oath of care, have a long history of subverting their duties to patients in favour of other interests in "closed systems where there's no transparency", such as prisons.

THE MOST EGREGIOUS OFFENDERS, HE SAYS, WERE NAZI DOCTORS WHO MURDERED PEOPLE IN DEATH CAMPS.

"THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE, WANT DOCTORS TO BEHAVE LIKE DOCTORS," HE TOLD NEW SCIENTIST.

Survive and evolve

Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, US, discusses the dual loyalties military doctors face in a 29 July article in the New England Journal of Medicine (vol 351, p 415).

Lifton, who has written a book on the Nazi doctors, says they were able to commit murder and go about their normal lives by essentially forming a second self in a type of dissociation he calls "doubling."

He says this trait has ironically helped humans survive and evolve, but that it can lead to adapting to violent norms in certain "atrocity-producing" situations.

He writes that Abu Ghraib is one such situation, in which "doctors and other medical personnel were part of a command structure that permitted, encouraged, and sometimes orchestrated torture to a degree that it became the norm - with which they were expected to comply."

Various codes - from the Hippocratic Oath*, to the 1975 World Medical Association Declaration of Tokyo, to the Geneva Convention - prohibit doctors from colluding in any way in torture.

"But I don't think under current practice physicians feel they have any such obligation," says Leonard Rubenstein, executive director of the advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights in Boston, US.

As well as calling for a full investigation of policies that led to detainee abuses, the group has drawn up a list of guidelines for medical professionals in organisations - including the military or prison service - that call for doctors to report any abuse they see and to refuse to participate in interrogations, torture, or the misuse of patients' confidential medical records", wrote The Lancet (vol 364, p 725 and 637) [andend]

But, what really also is a bitter and cinical part of it: most of the people in the US on Gov't level,who have been pushing hard for the Iraq war, are part of 'the jewish cabal' in Washington. and at the Pentagon.

Most American/Israeli warmongers, surrounding Bush and Kerry*, are jewish people, who should know about the 'Mengeles' and abuse by 'doctors' in concentration and prison camps...

People apparently never learn...

Henk Ruyssenaars

All footnotes c.q. 'links' below.

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/yvanq
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/2ghoh
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl

The Dutch author worked for 4 decades for international media as foreign correspondent,of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. - Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

This is your life! - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime against humanity ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp
Help the troops come home: we need them to fight our 'governments'. - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

Kerry and his cabal: http://tinyurl.com/2f2ry

"Army officials stated that a physician and a psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at Abu Ghraib." [The Daily Texan -Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4lfrl ]

*Lancet/New Scientist - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/442ht

What transforms ordinary people into gross human rights violators ?' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3lwt3 [ also in PDF ]

Medizin ohne Menschlichkeit: http://tinyurl.com/6vvkw

Oath of Hippocrates - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6zkzq

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