However, as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "Nothing is permanent except change."
With information sharing technology racing forward, cell phone personal instantaneous contact with nearly anywhere in the world and computers providing at a touch documentation on past events, there is going to be a hard awakening for masses of Americans made simple minded about the wars King and Mandela condemned. A hard rain is going to fall when the many millions of survivors of US military's police actions in dozens of poor nations sue for compensation for wrongful death, injury, destruction of property and theft of natural resources.
At Nuremberg US Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson thought to point out that the laws concerning genocide and crimes against peace were not written as applying only to Nazi Germany, but to all nations. As one example of what can be expected in time, in the fall of 1966, General Telford Taylor, who was Counsel for the Prosecution at Nuremberg, stunned a CBS interviewer with his stating that he strongly supported the idea of trying the U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam as war criminals -- and that he would be proud to lead in their prosecution. [Robert Richter, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and political director for CBS News from 1965 to 1968 recently wrote in Bomber Pilot McCain: War Heroism or War Crimes? published by Institute for Public Accuracy, October 15, 2008]
With every charge of 'crimes against humanity' the US and its European allies level at uncooperative leaders of African nations in special courts put together by these industrialized former colonial powers (presently neo-colonial powers), eye brows are raised in incredulity, and more and more wonder when the logical will happen once there be a shift in power toward the majority mankind that has been attacked, robbed and exploited for so long.
When this belated prosecution happens, important personages of Western media will most probably not escape the same scrutiny that brought indictments, trial, sentencing and punishment of five Nazi media personalities.
With information sharing technology racing forward, cell phone personal instantaneous contact with nearly anywhere in the world and computers providing at a touch documentation on past events, there is going to be a hard awakening for masses of Americans made simple minded about the wars King and Mandela condemned. A hard rain is going to fall when the many millions of survivors of US military's police actions in dozens of poor nations sue for compensation for wrongful death, injury, destruction of property and theft of natural resources.
At Nuremberg US Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson thought to point out that the laws concerning genocide and crimes against peace were not written as applying only to Nazi Germany, but to all nations. As one example of what can be expected in time, in the fall of 1966, General Telford Taylor, who was Counsel for the Prosecution at Nuremberg, stunned a CBS interviewer with his stating that he strongly supported the idea of trying the U.S. pilots captured in North Vietnam as war criminals -- and that he would be proud to lead in their prosecution. [Robert Richter, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, and political director for CBS News from 1965 to 1968 recently wrote in Bomber Pilot McCain: War Heroism or War Crimes? published by Institute for Public Accuracy, October 15, 2008]
With every charge of 'crimes against humanity' the US and its European allies level at uncooperative leaders of African nations in special courts put together by these industrialized former colonial powers (presently neo-colonial powers), eye brows are raised in incredulity, and more and more wonder when the logical will happen once there be a shift in power toward the majority mankind that has been attacked, robbed and exploited for so long.
When this belated prosecution happens, important personages of Western media will most probably not escape the same scrutiny that brought indictments, trial, sentencing and punishment of five Nazi media personalities.
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