If I told you that the G Spot was sexier than genocide you’d likely reply: “well, duh, of course!”
If I told you that a Google search revealed more links to ‘G Spot’(29 million) than ‘Genocide’(19 million) I think you might be surprised.
If I told you that there were far, far, fewer Google links to ‘George W Bush and genocide’(1.9 million) than either, I suspect that no one would be surprised at all.
The U.S. Government has not just stepped away from this issue it has positively leapt away since the departure of Colin Powell. Yet our very own 21st Century Genocide continues, week after week, unrelenting in Darfur.
President Bush is happy to refer to deaths to AIDS and poverty in Africa as “a kind of genocide”, but won’t act on an actual one in the same continent.
I received this email comment from an aid-worker over there yesterday:
“It feels as if another chapter for this bit of the world is underway – as Darfur is hotting-up again, donor money is cooling down, we assume this is a political move on the part of the U.S. Government as the place isn’t getting more stable.”
One former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle, came home from a tour of duty in Sudan nearly one year ago and told the truth about the genocide in Sudan. He lost his job, his livelihood and his military future because his conscience would not let him be silent about what he had seen. He can never return to Sudan, nor can anyone who uses the G word with reference to the Government of Sudan and their complicity in this. Aid organizations fear to speak the word lest they get kicked out and tiptoe around the issue. Advocacy groups dare to utter it, but know they can never send their witnesses back to Sudan. Condoleezza Rice has visited Sudan this year, Under Secretary Robert Zoellick has been twice, yet they do not use the G word. It IS a dirty word after all. Even in the era of AIDS, sex is safer than genocide.
Last week in The New York Times Nicholas Kristof urged “ordinary readers to push for moves to end this genocide” reminding us that Senator Paul Simon said that if only 100 people had written to their Congressional district about the Rwandan genocide we might have stopped it.
Last weekend former Cpt. Steidle, speaking about this genocide at Harvard asked for only ONE member of the audience to write to their Congressman, imploring that one person CAN make a difference.
Last summer one mother took a stand on Iraq in Crawford Texas and got the whole world to notice.
I had been thinking I must stop banging on about the genocide in Darfur, and get on with ‘real’ work. Hearing former Cpt. Steidle, and reflecting on what one marine, one mother, one voice, one more letter, one vote can do, I decided to keep on blogging, at least until this genocide is over and there are as many Google links to the greatest crime against humanity as there are to female sexual pleasure (and believe me I am all for that!)
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GENOCIDE in international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Although the term genocide was first coined in 1944, the crime itself has been committed often in history.
GRÄFENBERG SPOT or G-spot, named after Ernst Gräfenberg, is a small area in the genital area of women behind the pubic bone and surrounding the urethra.