By
Hamma Mirwaisi and Alison Buckley
Many
do not know that some of the foundational precepts of the United States
Constitution originated with the Median (ancient Kurdish) and Persian Emperor
Cyrus the Great, whose grandmother was the former Princess of Lydia, now western
Turkey. His multi-cultural, bi-religious upbringing exposed him to the most
just, noble and humane features of government, and the worst of the violent,
dictatorial imposition of destructive religious strictures by the state.
Like
the great Israeli hero King David, Cyrus' simple childhood after his rescue
from a near death kidnap attempt, taught him much about the popularly
beneficial dispersion of power. This he shared with his Median General Harpagos,
a military strategist of the caliber of Alexander the Great, but whose political
wisdom has reached much further down the annals of time. Together they
formulated the idea of a national Federal Government consisting of a
confederation of states. It was used by Harpagos in 530 BCE to solve the
problem of how to govern the people of Lycia, in south-western Turkey. Politically
successful western nations such as the US and Australia have since adopted this
re-developed concept with its checks and balances on executive, legislative and
judicial powers.
When
President Thomas Jefferson participated in the writing of the US Constitution,
he referred to Cyrus' and Harpagos' life and policies to arrive at a functional
state system. The result was a Constitution that has made the USA one of the
most enduring world superpowers in any age, compared to other powers, such as
Japan, which has existed for thousands of years.
In
the tenor of Cyrus' law making, the well-recognized Christian origins of the US
Constitution have allowed for the inclusion of other influences on its
formulation, apart from biblical and traditional Christianity. But in
Kurdistan, Cyrus' homeland, Islamist political parties are insisting that the Kurdish
Constitution must be based on the Islamic religion only.
In
a sad irony of denial of ancestral rights, the Kurdish people now know little
about the constitution authored by one of their illustrious forbears. Since not
long after Cyrus' tragic death trying to sort out crucial matters in
Afghanistan (another haunting political irony), two and a half thousand years
of Kurdish history attests to most subsequent generations of Kurds' lives under
dictatorship and the lawless rule of criminals.
Kurds
today live with a dim generational consciousness of their forefather the
prophet Zoroaster's revival of original of monotheism, which provided the
ethical, legal and spiritual framework for Emperor Dayukku's establishment of
the Median Empire around 640BCE. The resulting complex civilization is
evidenced today in the underground caves of central Turkey's Derinkuyu,
structures comparable in expanse, complexity and engineering genius with the
pyramids, while the extremely old mysteries of GÃ ¶bekli Tepe, described as the
most important archeological site in the world, remain under Turkish control.
Apparently
with little regard for the preservation of this civilization's peoples, Kurdish
Regional Government President Massoud Barzani shows that he does not have any
respect for constitutions and laws; he and his family plus his partner Jalal
Talabani, President of Iraq, and his family act as though they are above the
laws in Kurdistan. Unlike millions of other Kurds who are deprived of the true knowledge of their
history, Barzani and Talabani have no excuse for their disrespect for Cyrus the
Great's and General Harpagos' nation building work; their fortunes allow them
access to an education of which they apparently refuse to take advantage.
Barzani's
and Talabani's records of abuse of the Kurdish people with little adherence to
human rights and laws designed to protect citizens from exploitation and
injustice, as well as provide them with opportunities for personal and economic
prosperity, spans fifty years. Under the rule of these men, satisfactory
explanations for the disappearance of individual citizens denied recourse to
due legal processes and the rulings of properly constituted courts are never
offered. Although claiming to be Kurds, these two leaders remain ethically
estranged from Zoroastrianism and the human rights declarations embedded in
Cyrus the Great's laws.
Past
and present US Governments must take significant responsibility for Barzani's
behavior in Kurdistan. President Bush, the first to call on Kurds to revolt
against Saddam Hussein's government during the first Persian Gulf War for the liberation
of Kuwait, was answered by the Kurdish people's revolt. But the US Government
stopped the war and allowed Iraqi forces to butcher Kurds, while millions of
others took refuge in Turkey, Iran and the mountains. Under public pressure the
US Government protected the Kurdish people, but helped the Barzani and Talabani
families to run that part of Kurdistan under Iraqi Arab occupations.
After
the Iraq war in 2003, the US Government further assisted the Barzani and
Talabani families to reinforce their own military forces; each one had more
than one hundred thousand private troops. Now, many generals and politicians
from the US, (1) Israel and the EU are partners with the Barzani and Talabani
families in corrupt schemes to appropriate the Kurdish people's oil resources.
Barzani
and Talabani family members have joined the list of world millionaires and
billionaires in very short time, (2) apparently with very little work effort, a
fact which the US Government well knows. Instead of protecting the Kurdish
people, to whom it owes the foundational generations of the European Aryan
stock that helped build their nation, the US government has overseen the
creation of more Saddam-like dictators, who once again inflicted abuse on the
remaining Kurdish people in their own country.
If
the claim by one American journalist that the current US Vice-President is interlocutor
with Barzani in his oil business (3) is true, it begs the question: Who else is
involved in the stripping of oil wealth from the Kurdistan region of Iraq? And
if the CIA and FBI know who they are, why does the US Government not take any
legal action against its citizens involved in Barzani's and Talabani's corruption?
The
shame for everyone is that the ancient Kurdish laws endorsed peace, but now
there is war throughout Kurdistan. Unless the international powers led by the
US, recognize the massive swindles occurring in most parts of Kurdistan,
leaders like Barzani and Talabani leave no choice for Kurds but to rise up
against them and re-claim those laws, so they can be applied over the land, its
resources, and most importantly to liberate its peoples.
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