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Subject: Stop This Horrible Slaughter — now!
Marin Independent Journal Friday, May 21,1999
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Stop This Horrible Slaughter — now!
By Frank Scott
"Women and children were killed and scalped,
babies killed at their mothers' breasts, and all
the corpses were most horribly mutilated… The
women's corpses were profaned in a way that
makes you sick in the telling, and throughout,
Colonel Chivington was inciting his troops to
commit their diabolical outrages."
This is not testimony from Kosovo; it is from a
report on the slaughter of American Indians by
the First Cavalry of Colorado. We would do well
to learn our own history of mass murder before
labeling other people as genocidal, especially
while we are in the process of destroying
another nation of innocent people.
In a deadly blend of immorality, arrogance and
breathtaking stupidity, the U.S. has inflicted
mayhem on Yugoslavians who have done nothing to
hurt any Americans. A murderous air campaign is
being rationalized as a “humanitarian” response
to the ethnic cleansing which has actually
increased in intensity and violence because of
this assault.
A little understood crisis in the Balkans, much
of it provoked by western powers, finds many
politicians using the weapon of nationalism to
gain power, with Milosevic of Serbia being the
main proponent. But it was the Serbians who
first suffered ethnic cleansing at the hands of
Croatia, which was aided by the US. The Serbians
then began their dreadful treatment of the
Kosovar Albanians. Now, we are to believe that
the suffering which was experienced before March
24 is somehow corrected by the horrible
slaughter that has taken place since.
Americans have been confused by an endless flow
of slanted, one-sided reporting, and the
ridiculous use of words like genocide, holocaust
and extermination. Media mind managers simply
repeat what they are told by the U.S. military
and its NATO spear carriers. Brain-dead
commentators and pundits offer analysis designed
to reduce our minds to mush. The public has
suffered a propaganda barrage that may be the
closest thing to genocide - the attempted
extermination of an entire people’s ability to
think.
Bloody human limbs scattered among fruits and
vegetables from a bombed market in Serbia is
reported - for Americans - as “collateral
damage”. Stories of bombed stores, public
transit, refugee convoys, embassies and other
targets not even remotely military, are first
called enemy lies, then excused as mistakes
which must be expected in war. But there has
been no declaration of war, and this is not war;
it is a slaughter.
Slobodan Milosevic is a political opportunist of
the type who might be quite successful in
America. Likening him to Hitler is an abuse of
language and logic. Serbia has not invaded other
countries or even threatened to do so, and it
has no plan to exterminate any populations. It s
policy of ethnic cleansing is wicked, and some
of its attacks on Kosovar Albanians are
terrible. But calling this a holocaust or
genocide is a travesty that degrades those who
have suffered real genocide, like the Jews of
Europe, or the native people and African slaves
of the Americas.
The ethically challenged president and his
cronies bear major responsibility for this
carnage, but it is sustained by morally bankrupt
bipartisan support. It demands the opposition of
all Americans who are still able to think for
themselves, and who haven’t been reduced to
being obedient zombies, obeying party bosses and
toeing a party line. Too many have already died,
and too many are still being killed. It is time
for the silent majority of citizens to speak up,
and demand that their representatives, whether
liberal or conservative, end this murderous
campaign. Now!
Frank Scott, who lives in San Rafael, is a
freelance political columnist and is president
of the Marin Democratic Club
frank scott
http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~frank/columns
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