Taliban are human too
Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2001
By: Adrian Geoffrey
It is unbelievable how an entire world turns a blind eye to the post-Taliban atrocities being perpetrated by America and its allies under the banner of "War Against Terror".
While, on one hand, it is okay for USA to haul former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosovich before a UN tribunal for war crimes (defending his country, is what he claims), they are leading the massacre of unarmed men in Afghanistan.
In a fair world, they, too, would be chastised for infringing Geneva Convention guidelines on the treatment of Prisoners of War. I don't think these guidelines are solely for the protection of American and British troops. Why then is there no outcry against the heinous slaying of men who have surrendered their cause, are imprisoned and unarmed?
Is the propaganda so good as to fool us all into believing that America dropped bombs on a prison of unarmed, chained and guarded men to stop "a prison riot?"
Really! Remember what many felt should have been the fate of insurgents on the way to prison in Chaguaramas in 1990? Propaganda, then, would have been simple; but in Mazar-e-Sharif on bloody November 26 they have to convince us that there was a battle so fierce that both prisoners and guards alike had to be bombed (all killing 700 to 900 Taliban men) to quell it.
Not convincing enough? So, then, we are to be told, it still took "another day of fighting" to justifiably kill all of these "terrorists".
Where are the "journalists" who felt compelled to toe the line and write glowing praises of Americans (most of them merely regurgitating most of what they were fed through the many means of American re-education).
Where were they when this action was threatened by Donald Rumsfeld (USA's Defence Secretary) who, at the height of the Taliban's negotiations to surrender, said foreign Taliban troops "must either be killed or jailed for life".
And is that so different from any other lunatic saying "let's crash a plane into WTC to protest US foreign policy (or whatever crazy idea they really had).
Where were these "journalists" when rebel forces, while urging Afghans to lay down their arms were vowing vengeance on foreign fugitives. Where were they when Rumsfeld, buoyed by these slayings by the Northern Alliance and the success of US bomb raids, said fleeing Taliban troops "will be hunted down wherever they hide." Geeze! Fleeing, man.
Where were they when over 100 young Taliban recruits (unarmed boys; perhaps forced by the Taliban) were executed while hiding in a Mazar school. Was it, to you, as simple as UN spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker put it: "Punitive action." And how do you see the Great Anthrax Hoax - the feeding frenzy for a population eager for the smell of blood?
Doesn't it tell you something when at the UN conference on Banning Germ Warfare earlier this month, the Federation of American Scientists told 144 nations in Geneva that US Anthrax attacks were developed from a US Government Lab?
Think of this, then: Just a week or so before September 11, Americans were dubbing George Bush as "President with the lowest IQ ever."
Once the foolish attacks on WTC came and he promises to "hunt them down" (which is all he has kept saying in many different words ever since) suddenly, he's the icon of American might and the "Leader of the free world"?
Do you realise that as long as he can keep his people's blood running hot, even if that means frightening them now and again, he remains popular. And his policy of slaughter (or that of those for whom he is fronting) stays acceptable?
Some may consider it farfetched but, think: Why does each new American administration have to bomb some common enemy, if not to show its might? There are many examples since Kennedy, but what was Bush's reason for attacking Baghdad in January? Anyway, I'm no supporter of the Taliban. But, tell me, aren't Taliban human beings too? I know they have been called terrorists, targets and rioting prisoners. But if they are indeed human, why is it just to slaughter them by the hundreds?
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Racial discrimination behind braids issue
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Reply to: Remove braids or suffer low grades
From: Sharon Feldman-Nagel
Dear Editor:
I am a born Trini residing permanently in the US; none-the-less, Trinidad is my home country and I would like to comment on the attached article (!Remove braids or suffer low grades). I do not believe the reason(s) given by Principal Pulmatie Bhemul/the school administration, and by Sat Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha to be honest; I believe they do not wish to have such hairstyles in their Hindu school due to the fact that it is commonly worn by blacks/Negroes.
I believe it to be a racially discriminating motivation behind their decision. To say that such a hairstyle promotes poor hygiene is dottish! "Some of them gave in to the school ruling which said the style, among other things, was unhygienic." especially coming from people who consider themselves to be educators and representatives of education in our country. Any hairstyle could be unhygienic if one does not keep their hair clean. I remember the days of sitting behind a female class mates of Indian decent and counting the hair lice while the critters crawl through their hair, I remember stiffening after getting a whit of the rancid smell when my face get too close to their hair during an embrace of friendship; So to these two so call educators, I say "Doh try dat! Yu grown, speak the truth! At least have the nerve to honestly stand behind your conviction.
And to the young girls, I do believe school is a place of education and not a fashion house; however, there is nothing wrong with wearing your hair to school in braids (We black/mixed girls wore it like that for most of our school age, we did not have much of a choice, really!) once you don't go over board with the designs. Don't give in to these old racist who are set in their ways and refuse to come to reality...this is the twentieth century and the young people of today are more able to take a stance for humanity and what they believe to be their right.
Girls, stand up for what you believe in whether you wear braids for a fashion statement or not; do not let them dictate out of their racist belief about how you should wear your hair.
Fight them with intelligence, dignity and strength that we females are quite capable of.
Good luck girls,
SMFN in Miami
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ANTHRAX?
Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Posted By: Davy De Verteuil
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2001, at 10:32 a.m.
Soon Americans will tell the US Administration (enough)stop threatening us stop the paranoia....
We have surrendered the congress curtail our liberties, sanction indefinite murder on Afghanistan who we know could not have pulled-off 911 attack, turn a blind eye to the many Arabs Afro-Americans detained and abused since the 911, cease endless of Arabs money,in the guise of preventing launder etc etc etc...
The US Admin is terrorising the American people without restraint.
What a funny situation that US, the only super power on this planet is unable to dig out those involved in this "horrible act" but within few hours after the attack on WTC and Pentagon had mentioned the name of Ossama bin Laden as the prime suspect without getting any reliable evidences and that is the chief reason, majority of the world citizens are now expressing their expressions against US bombing.
One more funny event is that American agencies could not trace Levy Chandra who was kidnapped or disappeard from Washington few months earlier but Bush administration at once declared Ossama bin Laden responsible for September 11 dilemma. Independent people rightly consider it as the "pre-planned move".
Posted By: Ayinde
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2001, at 12:24 p.m.
Would the U.S. Admin stage fresh attacks on the their population to rekindle support for a failing, illegal attack on Afghanistan?
Posted By: Davy De Verteuil
Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2001, at 10:40 p.m.
What you do outside you bound to bring it home.
As we all know charity begins at home so too are the value systems we desperately try to conceal in the name of "I am just doing my JOB".
Drugs coming into the US was always a controlled supervised affair after all it was meant for a targeted segment of American society and until it happened to reach into the hands of the children of the rich and famous and the upper middle-class then the US government agencies felt the need to try and put a stop on the smuggling/import.
The Italian Mafia for example would murder any of its delivery-boys who were made out to be pushing dope to no whites in and outside of the US.
Drugs is effectively a destroyer of lives and society than racial segregation is, in fact more so, to-boot.
(Orchestrated/controlled) Anarchy and turmoil have been the foundation pretext for building America...if Hollywood could not do the JOB then the state agencies came into action and when the impact on US interest abroad was not impressive then 'simple' we do it at home.....Examine carefully the US embassy bombings in Africa and the 1983 German disco bombings that killed Black servicemen.
Who were the handlers of US ammunition storage facilities working under stressful dangerous conditions during WWII?
Ask Oliver North where did he took Reagan and Bush drugs and who gave him the diplomatic and federal cover.
What the DEA/CIA has done abroad it will not shy away from doing at home. The most successful in history is Sep 11, 2001. Congress with the exception of one person maybe the only one with insight not to mention courage surrendered instantaneously even on matters yet to be brought before the house.
1)The issue of Anthrax as we see it, it is too controlled to obvious and at the same time overdone by the media.
2)The Administration was far too cautious and circulative "still is" in it's response.
The American Administration of hysteria, sympathy, and mass-murder is all to apparent in it's drive for public approval whenever it needs to achieve any hidden agenda that certainly will not get pass the general public not even congress.
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