[PEN-L:7640] FW: Imagine...

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

Reprinted from The Eastern Door, newspaper of the Kahnawake, Mohawks
Territory (http:..www.easterndoor.com/Archivesx/8-16-editorial.htm) and The
Pikanii Sun, vol 1 No. 2 newspaper of the Blackfoot Confederacy.

The US Government has no business talking/lecturing to anyone about human
rights anywhere.

                                                        Imagine
                                                   James M. S. Craven
                                                (Blackfoot Confederacy)


> 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
>