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The "War Crimes" Twins |
The Kingdom of Belgium, known as the homeland of
eccentric detective Hercule Poirot and “Mini-Europe,” a cheaper,
tackier version of Euro-Disney, has thought of another promotional
scheme to snatch tourist revenue from France: hosting “War Crimes”
tribunals. The “War Criminal of the Month,” as everyone knows, is
the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, for his “indirect
responsibility” in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians by Christian
Lebanese militia. Relatives of the victims of the Sabra and Shatila
massacres have filed a civil claim under Belgium’s “new,
improved!” definition of what constitutes a “war crime” in order
to indict Sharon.
It has not been widely reported that survivors of
the 1974 massacre of Israeli schoolchildren in Maalot, masterminded by
Yasir Arafat, have filed a similar claim against the Palestinian
generalissimo under the new Belgian law. Of course, it is not necessary
to redefine “war crimes” in order to collect enough evidence to
convict Arafat, and using the Belgian courts for this purpose is to
grant legitimacy to the Belgian’s far-reaching, “one size fits
all” definition of what constitutes culpability in “genocide, war
crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
If he were still alive, the Belgian courts could
retroactively indict and convict Abraham Lincoln of genocide, war
crimes, and crimes against humanity.
There is just as much evidence to try Abraham
Lincoln for war crimes, as Ariel Sharon.
Let’s take genocide. On November 29, 1864,
United States troops under the command of John M. Chivington,
slaughtered over 600 Cheyenne Indians, mostly women and children, at
Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Lincoln, as President of the
United States, bears as much “indirect responsibility” for the
Cheyenne genocide as Ariel Sharon for the massacres at Sabra and
Shatila. The Lincoln Administration condoned and encouraged ethnic
cleansing of the Native American population. Abraham Lincoln
personally signed the death warrants of 38 Sioux “militants”
convicted of participating in an “intifada” against German-American
settlers in occupied Lakota territory, called by the white colonialist
occupiers, “Minnesota.”
War crimes? Abraham Lincoln invaded
the sovereignty of the newly-declared Confederate States of America,
oppressing its citizens under a brutal occupation that makes the Israeli
administration of the West Bank look like a “love-in,” confiscating
property, burning down homes, appropriating livestock, and subjecting
the womenfolk to the brutal lusts of a lawless soldiery. Excerpts like
this one from the “Official Records of the War of the Rebellion”
could be offered for evidence:
“The scenes of disorder and pillage on these two
days’ march were disgraceful to civilized war. Houses were entered and
all in them destroyed in the most wanton manner. Ladies were frightened
into delivering their jewels and valuables into the hands of the
soldiers by threats of violence toward their husbands. Negro women were
ravished in the presence of white women and children. These disgusting
scenes were due to the want of discipline in this army, and to the utter
incompetency of regimental officers.”1
1Series
I, Volume XV, p. 373. Letter from General William Dwight, commanding
U.S. 1st Brigade in Louisiana, report dated April 27, 1863.
As
absurd as it may seem, to accuse the “Great Emancipator” of
“genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity,” the purpose of
this demonstration is to show how facts and evidence, taken out of
context, can be twisted around to turn the truth upside down and inside
out. There actually exists a grotesque little revisionist oeuvre
entitled “The South Was Right!” that makes these absurd accusations
against Abraham Lincoln. The only difference is that the
“Neo-Confederates” don’t have as much respect as the BBC and the
Belgian High Court, although their facts and evidence are just as
correct.
Which
is why I urge the “League of the South” and other such groups to
take their case before the BBC, or the court in Belgium, either to
receive the respect they deserve, or to bring the mendacious broadcaster
and the corrupt court down to their level.
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