Speaker after speaker at the rally asked, Who's
bombing? Who's torturing? Who's destroying or supporting destruction
without protecting or rebuilding the very means of living in Iraq, in the
West Bank and Gaza, in the Phillipines, in Haiti? Who has announced its
soldiers cannot be prosecuted for war crimes, that international laws
defaming torture do not apply to its own military? Who are the real
terrorists? Who is it that promotes repression and control of many
countries around the globe by violent means?
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Of course all these rhetorical questions were answered over and over again
at the rally just as they are answered by a public press reluctant to tell
the truth but revealing it nonetheless.
The United States perpetrates violations of human rights around the globe.
Increasingly wary of its own citizens as they rise to protest, the U.S.
administration moves to repress any suspicion of resistance at home.
Speaker after speaker chronicled the historical and present crimes against
native Americans, against legal immigrants living ordinary lives, ordinary
residents from the Middle East, the Philippines, Mexico, and Asia. The
daily crimes committed against African Americans are almost too common to
be thought of as war crimes, yet they were enumerated as part of a pattern
of violent control.
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