Surfing the web:
www.genocidewatch.org
anyway i was surfing the web & I found a site which belongs to an organization called Genocide Watch in which they present their proposals for increasing the world's chances of intervening when a genocide is in the making & thereby set up an early warning system if the International community could agree to participate in the meantime they are setting up their own independent system which bypasses all governments.
I don't know if it is possible all these countries do not want to intervene in domestic politics & so they see it as setting the wrong precedent. To invade a country because they are a perceived threat is a reasonable thing to do they would say but not for internal disputes .
The cynic in me says it is just not in their interest look buddy they couldn't get the Allies to even bomb the railway tracks to Auschwitz & at Rwanda they argued like good little lawyers & bureaucrats over the definition & whether it could be applied to situation in Rwanda even though it was obvious. Besides former President Clinton at the time was too distracted by the hyped-up sex scandal so a matter like genocide was not as important to him or the Republicans who were daily attacking him & Americans well what can I say CNN would only be interested if there were any American citizens being killed or if the interests some Giant American Corporation was being threaten.
This was made even more obvious by the US Media's coverage of the TZUNAMI DISASTER in the Pacific all the US media reporters kept asking how many Americans were involved while Jerry Falwell said these people were being punished for their evil ways while some extreme Muslim leaders agreed with him except the Muslim leaders argued the Muslims in the areas were not being strict enough in following Islamic Law.
Anyway I see no change in the next generation of politicians in their response to Genocide unless it has a direct bearing on them.
I guess part of the myth which many believe or have been led to believe is that WWII was fought in part to save the Jews or others who were being exterminated by Hitler's Nazi Regime there is no credible evidence to support that these countries involved in the war had any such altruistic motives.
And most countries occupied by the Nazi were all too willing to hand over the Jewish population to the SSfor extermination. The only exception was Denmark which refused to cooperate & then helpe most of the Jews in their country to escape to neutral Sweden. If more countries had refused to cooperate the majority of Jews would have been saved.
All countries around the world stood by completely unconcerned with what was happening to the Jews Gysies & others (including homosexuals Communists & dissidents) . They in fact saw little wrong with most of Hitler's policies until he started taking over Europe & attacking Britain & once the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour the Americans declared war on Germany. If the day that would live in infamy had not occurred who knows when the Americans would have joined in the fight. There were in fact millions of Americans who were NAZIs & of course the KKK was at its greatest boasting a million members . In Canada we had the Fascist Party especially in Quebec & other organizations which supported the Nazi ideology .
On homosexuals & the Holocaust see: ca.dir.yahoo.com/Holocaust__The/Persecution_of_Homosexuals/
Just read about The Voyage Of The Damned the ship S.S. St. Louis a ship filled with German Jews that Hitler allowed to leave Germany & yet no country would take them in. It is one of the most shameful acts in modern history. see the Jewish Virtual Library site for details: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/stlouis.html
and also Holocaust Education in Canada
/www.bnaibrith.ca/league/hh-teachers/educan03.html
and
/www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/legacy/chap-4a.html
And in sweet justice loving Canada we had an anti-semitic Bureaucrat at the head of the Department of of Imigration who when asked how many Jews should we let in & he said " NONE IS TOO MANY" all the Jews who entered Canada from 1933-1958 did so illegaly with the help of the precious few compassionate Canadians who were willing to risk a great deal to save even a few jewish refugees. So Canadians should never act too smug.
To use a Biblical reference WE ALL BARE THE MARK OF CAIN-
/www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/legacy/chap-4a.html
/www.genocidewatch.org/
And NONE IS TOO MANY web site:
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/antiholo/non2many.html
Anyway lets put the ranting to rest for now.
Surfing the web: ART FOR ARTS SAKE
Anyway here are a few qoutes gleaned from THE SPIRIT OF BOHEMIA web site
/www.bohemiabooks.com
"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man". - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake." - E. M. Forster
"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom." - Robert Frost
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." - Orson Welles
take care,
GORD.
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