Message to the UN: Stop Us Before We Kill Again!

Well, blow me! The UN has actually found that the US concentration camp in Guantanamo constitutes a gross violation of international law. Ya think? Moreover, Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for the torture theme park to be shut down as soon as possible. So far, there appears to be little evidence that the US government is going to comply. Gee.

I'm still waiting on a UN resolution declaring the unprovoked invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq a "Crime Against Peace," designated the highest of war crimes by the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. It would logically follow that sanctions should be imposed against the United States unless it immediately withdraws from Iraq.

But wait, what's happening instead is that the US is planning to attack another sovereign nation -- Iran, claiming that it is in violation of UN rules, having the audacity to develop an nuclear program, something that God, or somebody, has deemed to be the sole preserve of itself and Israel and, irritatingly, the other permanent members of the Security Council plus Pakistan and India. Of course that only one nation has actually ever USED nuclear weapons -- on civilians, twice -- and that this nation is the Land of the Brave the Home of the Free doesn't disqualify us from saying who can and cannot have enriched uranium isn't a matter suitable for discussion. Instead, the US media, in what would have been an absolute wet dream for Joseph Goebbels, is now busy cranking out horror stories about how Iran poses a dire threat to US! Training suicide bombers and funding international terrorism. Can you believe they're seriously trying to pull the SAME EXACT SHIT ON US AGAIN?

I'm not saying Iran doesn't have a weapons program, what I'm saying is, that exactly like Saddam's fictional WMD's it's all just an EXCUSE to exercise military and political domination, and that the notion of Iran being an actual threat to the people of the United States should, at this point, be so utterly transparent that it ought to be driving anyone with a smattering of decency and/or self-respect NUTS. But are people taking to the streets in outrage? Throwing rotten fruit or Molotov cocktails at Fox and CNN headquarters for promoting these rancid lies intended to justify more murder and mayhem? No, we're listening to this horseshit again, clicking our tongues at what a REAL threat Iran is (as opposed to Iraq, which, hey, we had bad intelligence on.) THIS time it's true, right? Are we all BRAIN DEAD?!!! The answer, sadly, is yes.

The people of the United States seem to be equally divided between those unwilling and those unable to require its executive to follow the rule of international, constitutional, criminal, or even local hunting law. Our legislature is a cesspool of bribery, corruption and unprincipled careerism. Our courts have been packed with political yes-men and -women, all beholden to the interests of big business, big brother, and the subjugation of women. Our so-called election process is a charade combining big money advertising blitzes, rigged voting machines, and minority-voter intimidation. Clearly, what is required is some other force to stop us before we kill again.

I mean... when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait (having cleared it with the US State Department), it was almost unanimously deemed sufficient justification (aided by serious gangland-style leaning on key UN members) of not only sanctions, but a massive "UN" (read US) invasion to "liberate" Kuwait and return it to its original independent state of divine royal despotism. In retribution, the liberation effort in Kuwait went on to kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens, devastate its infrastructure, destroy it's military capability and impose sanctions that led to the death of half a million civilians. (In purely numerical terms, that would be equal to the loss of life of one World Trade Tower attack every week for three years. Just try to get your head around that one, America.) That's what you get, the world told Saddam Hussein, for an unprovoked attack on a sovereign state.

Now, having far more egregiously violated the UN Charter by its unprovoked invasion of Iraq which has resulted in the deaths of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent* Iraqis, (not to mention an international gulag of torture camps, faith-based "abstinence" policies that are killing hundreds of thousands of AIDS victims in the third world, and the irreversible ruination of the world's climate, which has already caused tens of thousands of weather-related deaths and is most certainly going to cause millions more in coming decades) why shouldn't the US face similar retribution? Can a rogue state be allowed to flagrantly flout UN resolutions? Regime change is an urgent necessity. Clearly the American people need help to achieve this end.

Yes, the truth is shocking, but inescapable. What international justice and the rule of law requires is a UN invasion of the United States, starting, presumably, with a suitable "shock and awe" air and missile attack on government and communication centers with unfortunate but necessary collateral damage, moving on to a ground invasion (hopefully Canada and Mexico can be persuaded to offer cooperation as staging areas) leading to a swift toppling of the hated Bush Regime (deployment of US troops all around the world should make resistance light, and photo ops of people throwing flowers should be easy in New Orleans and the West Village, if nowhere else), and its replacement (after the necessary period of occupation, during which a nation unaccustomed to real democracy learns how to handle it), with a truly democratic, non-religiously based government dedicated to free and fair elections, equality under the law and living in peace with other countries.

Now the last thing I'd ever want to be accused of is being an "America Hater." And, honestly, I really don't WANT to be an America hater. But if we can't stop the criminals who run our government ourselves... isn't hate the least of what we deserve?

* The vast majority of this number are civilians, but all Iraqis, whatever they may have done to each other, are innocent of crimes against the US.