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From: [e-mail] (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 11,  Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious
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                        (continuation)
     16.  The United States has violated and condoned  violations
          of human rights, civil liberties and the U.S. Bill of
          Rights in the United States, in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
          elsewhere to achieve its purpose of military domination.

          ______________________________________________


     Among the many violations committed or condoned by the U.S.
government are the following:

          --   illegal surveillance, arrest, interrogation and
               harassment of Arab-American, Iraqi-American, and
               U.S. resident Arabs,


          --   illegal detention, interrogation and treatment of
               Iraqi prisoners of war,


          --   aiding and condoning Kuwaiti summary executions,
               assaults, torture and illegal detention of
               Palestinians and other residents in Kuwait after
               the U.S. occupation,


          --   unwarranted, discriminatory and excessive
               prosecution and punishment of U.S. military
               personnel who refused to serve in the Gulf, sought
               conscientious objector status or protested U.S.
               policies.

     Persons were killed, assaulted, tortured, illegally detained
and prosecuted, harassed and humiliated as a result of these
policies.

     The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Hague and Geneva
Conventions and the Constitution and laws of the United States.


     17.  The United States, having destroyed Iraq's economic base,
          demands reparations which will permanently  impoverish
          Iraq and threaten its people with famine and epidemic.
          ____________________________________________________


     Having destroyed lives, property and essential civilian
facilities in Iraq which the U.S. concedes will require 50 billion
dollars to replace (estimated at 200 billion dollars by Iraq),
killed at least 125,000 people by bombing and many thousands more
by sickness and hunger, the U.S. now seeks to control Iraq
economically even as its people face famine and epidemic. Damages
including casualties in Iraq, systematically inflicted by the U.S.,
exceed all damages, casualties and costs of all other parties to
the conflict combined many times over.  Reparations under these
conditions are an exaction of tribute for the conqueror from a
desperately needy country.  The United States seeks to force Iraq
to pay for damage to Kuwait largely caused by the U.S. and even to
pay U.S. costs for its violations of Iraqis sovereignty in
occupying northern Iraq to further manipulate the Kurdish
population there.  Such reparations are a neo-colonial means of
expropriating Iraq's oil, natural resources and human labor.

     The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations and the
Constitution and laws of the United States.




     18.  President Bush systematically manipulated, controlled,
          directed, misinformed and restricted press and media
          coverage to achieve propagandistic support for his
          military and political goals.

          ________________________________________________


     The Bush Administration achieved a running five months media
commercial for militarism and individual weapons systems.  The
American people were seduced into the celebration of a slaughter by
controlled propaganda demonizing Iraq, assuring the world no harm
would come to Iraqi civilians, deliberately spreading false stories
of atrocities including chemical warfare threats, deaths of
incubator babies and threats to the entire region by a new Hitler.

     The press received virtually all its information from or by
permission of the Pentagon.  Efforts were made to prevent any
adverse information or opposition views from being heard.  CNN's
limited presence in Baghdad was described as Iraqi propaganda.
Independent observers, eye witnesses' photos and video tapes with
information about the effects of the U.S. bombing were excluded
from the media.  Television network ownership, advertisers
newspaper ownership, elite columnists and commentators intimidated
and instructed reporters and selected interviewees. They formed a
near single voice of praise for U.S. militarism often exceeding the
Pentagon in bellicosity.

     The American people and their democratic institutions were
deprived of information essential to sound judgment and were
regimented, despite profound concern, to support a major
neo-colonial intervention and war of aggression.  The principal
purpose of the First Amendment to the United States was to assure
the press and the people the right to criticize their government
with impunity.  This purpose has been effectively destroyed in
relation to U.S. military aggression since the press was denied
access to assaults on Grenada, Libya, Panama and now, on a much
greater scale, against Iraq.

     This conduct violates the First Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States and is part of a pattern of conduct intended
to create support for conduct constituting crimes against peace and
war crimes.




     19.  The United States has by force secured a permanent
          military presence in the Gulf, the control of its oil
          resources and geopolitical domination of the Arabian
          Peninsula and Gulf region.

          __________________________________________


     The United States has committed the acts described in this
complaint to create a permanent U.S. military presence in the
Persian Gulf, to dominate its oil resources until depleted and to
maintain geo-political domination over the region.

     The conduct violates the Charter of the United Nations,
international law, and the Constitution and laws of the United
States.

                      Scope of the Inquiry

     The Commission of Inquiry will focus on U.S. criminal conduct
because of its destruction of Iraq, killing at least 125,000
persons directly by its bombing while proclaiming its own combat
losses as less than 120, because it destroyed the economic base of
Iraq and because its acts are still inflicting consequential deaths
that may reach hundreds of thousands.  The Commission of Inquiry
will seek and accept evidence of criminal acts by any person, or
government, related to the Gulf conflict, because it believes
international law must be applied uniformly.  It believes that
"victors' justice" is not law, but the extension of war by force of
the prevailing party.  The U.S. Senate, European Community Foreign
Ministers, and the western press, even former Nuremberg
prosecutors, have overwhelmingly called for war crimes trials for
Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership alone. Even Mrs. Barbara
Bush has said she would like to see Saddam Hussein hung, albeit
without mentioning a trial. Comprehensive efforts to gather and
evaluate evidence, objectively judge all the conduct that
constitutes crimes against peace and war crimes and to present
these facts for judgement to the court of world opinion requires
that at least one major effort focus on the United States. The
Commission of Inquiry believes its focus on U.S. criminal acts is
important, proper and the only way to bring the whole truth, a
balanced perspective and impartiality in application of legal
process to this great human tragedy.


                                        Ramsey Clark

                                        May 9, 1991

     [You can help Ramsey Clark in his struggle for justice by
      calling his International Action Center in New York City
      at [phone].]
                         (to be continued)
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        The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth,
        for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies in place of the
        bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People,
        then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism.

        So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to
        computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
        both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting
        their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it
        did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as
        society itself.

             John DiNardo