[PEN-L:6733] Imagine...

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bear Chief,

Perhaps  for the next edition of the Pikanii Sun?

                      Imagine...
          by James M.S. Craven

There is a great deal of sensitivity to one of the most notorious of the
many Holocausts humankind has suffered: the Nazi Holocaust against Jews,
Gypsies and others. Movies like Schindler's List are a constant reminder of
massive suffering that must never be forgotten and historical lessons that
must be learned. Most believe that something like the Holocaust of the Nazis
against Jews or Gypsies or other victims tageted by the Nazis could never
happen here in America or in Canada.

Imagine that something like what happened to Jews in Germany happened in
America or Canada. Imagine that Jewish children were forced to repeat
Christian prayers and were beaten or even murdered if they spoke or prayed
in Hebrew or Yiddish and spoke or prayed Jewish prayers. Imagine if Jewish
children were forced to eat pork that was not only forbidden for religious
reasons but was also rotten, insect-infested and of the lowest quality so
that many children could be "fed" cheaply and very profitably.

Imagine if vulnerable and trusting Jewish children were routinely sexually
and physically abused by clergy and when the sexual and physical abuse was
discovered, those who reported it were beaten or murdered while those who
committed the ugly deeds were protected by powerful and rich churches and
sent elsewhere to do more crimes to other Jewish children. Imagine that
Jewish children were used for medical experiments or used to test new drugs
or surgical procedures. Imagine if Jewish children were used as sexual
objects for powerful pedophiles when visiting the isolated institutions in
which the Jewish children were kept away from their families and
communities.

Imagine if Jewish children were sterilized through coercion or decption.
Imagine if Jewish children were registered and controlled by a BJA (Bureau
of Jewish Affairs) that had a long history of fraud, theft, abuse and
dereliction of trust responsibilities with respect to traditional Jewish
lands and resources. Imagine if throughout the Jewish Ghettos, corrupt and
sell-out Jews were selected or elected through fraudulent elections to
control other Jews in the interests of non-Jews bent on the eventual
elimination--through murder, intermarriage, redefinition, assimilation or
sterilization--of all Jews.Imagine if Jewish children were forced into
special Boarding/Residential Schools designed to beat, torture, intimidate
and brainwash the "Jewishness" out of them.

Imagine if there were football teams with names like the "Kansas City
Kikes", the "San Francisco Sheenies" or the Jersey City Jew Boys" and at
half-time some caricature of what the bigoted and ignorant consider to be a
"typical Jew" came out to do the "money-grubbing tango". Imagine if Jews
were forbidden to celebrate Jewish holidays or to wear traditional Jewish
yamulkas or prayer shawls. Imagine if all the precedents of Nuremberg and
International Law (Treaties) were routinely broken by non-Jews while Jews
were expected to keep all promises and responsibilities under those laws.

You say it could not happen to Jews in America or Canada what was done in
Nazi Germany? You say that especially after Nuremberg and the horrors that
were revealed there "Never Again" anywhere? With respect to Jews in America
and Canada, perhaps all of the above and more could happen and perhaps not.
But there is no "perhaps" that all of the above and much more was done--and
is being done--in America and in Canada and elsewhere in the world to
Indigenous Peoples.

When do Indians and first Nations Peoples get movies like "Schlinder's List"
that expose the past and present of the American and Canadian Holocausts?
When do non-Indians care about the American and Canadian Holocausts against
Indigenous Peoples as much as many non-Jews do --and should--care about the
Nazi Holocaust? When do Indians get the precedents, legal protections and
demands for justice of Nuremberg applied in and to the very Nations that so
piously and hypocritically sat in judgment at Nuremberg?

Jim Craven