Genocides

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Bubblehead: It is comforting to know you are still around and looking after Bush/Cheney and Minnick. As far as Minnick goes, I believe he is basically a Republican pretending to be a Democrat. As he won’t vote for Health Care reform or controlling Wall Street or Corporate abuses I doubt I will vote for him. I probably won’t vote. But don’t forget, this is Idaho, I am a Liberal, how I vote isn’t going to matter one iota. If there was a chance of my vote making a difference I would reconsider. Actually, when I made the comment about Rachel Maddow “being allowed to continue,” I was thinking of the corporation that controls the network. Yes, I was also thinking about Wellstone and flying. Perhaps Bush/Cheney didn’t have killing squads going around assassinating Liberals, they apparently had them assassinating others here and there around the world, or at least tried to. I don’t recall saying I thought they might be preparing martial law, but I could have. I wouldn’t have put it past them. As confessed war criminals they might well have done anything (I guess you probably think waterboarding isn’t torture, or they didn’t encourage it or confess to it?). Of course they wouldn’t have done anything bad, they were obviously pure, “pure as the driven snow.” I guess if we didn’t have that Black, Socialist, Anti-Christ in the White House things would be better. Just wait till after the coming elections when the Republicans take over again. I bet it will just be “happy days are here again.” And maybe, if we’re really fortunate, we can have Silly Sarah for President in 2012.

I gather the White House is trying to prevent a vote on the issue of Armenian genocide, apparently for purely political reasons (our relations with Turkey). I don’t exactly understand why Congress is so concerned about a genocide that happened so long ago when there are current genocides and near-genocides going on right now. Having read the fine book, Armenian Golgotha, I am convinced it truly was genocide, and having read it I also understand why Turkey does not want to admit it, but pursuing it now seems less than fruitful to me. I also just watched part of the CNN program on genocides. I thought it was particularly fine but it caused me to wonder how one really defines genocide. That is, how many deaths have to occur before something becomes genocide? Does an entire population have to be destroyed for genocide to be successful? Does driving people out of their homes to relocate elsewhere count as genocide or do they have to actually die? How about a slow, methodical, destruction of a people, like what is happening in Gaza, is that genocide, near-genocide, ethnic cleansing, or just business as usual? It seem to me genocide has to be defined just as importantly by the intent as well as how successful it is in actual numbers of deaths or displacements. Even the Nazis couldn’t kill all the Jews, but they certainly intended to do so, and it appears that contrary to popular belief, even all of the Tasmanians were not killed (although almost all were), even though the intent was clearly present. Does the fact that one Indian tribe may have been completely destroyed whereas others were only partly destroyed mean that the first case was genocide but the second one was not? Are we supposed to live with the fact that genocides occur and the world just looks on helplessly (unless, of course, oil, diamonds, or other important commodities are involved)? If you missed this CNN program you should try to see it. I think Christiane Amanpour is terrific (I guess I shouldn’t say that, after all she is an Iranian, and all Iranians must be bad, what with all those nuclear bombs and stuff).

I don’t mean to be so obsessive compulsive about this, but there is still a mystery about the White House that I would like to have solved. I’m beginning to think I’m the only person who thinks this was strange and that kind of bothers me. Nonetheless, I would like to know why a known male prostitute, Gannon/Guckert, was allowed to come and go at the White House apparently almost at will, not always even signing in and out? I’m not really concerned about the homosexuality (I’m sure there is plenty of it in Washington, D. C.), nor am I concerned about whether he should have had a press pass or not, but, rather, by the obvious breach of security that had to have been involved. Either no one else was in the least bit concerned about this, or some very powerful individual must have arranged it and did not allow any investigation of it. If there has been an investigation specifically about his coming and goings in the White House I have not heard about it.

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