Reprinted from The Eastern Door, newspaper of the Kahnawake, Mohawks Territory (http:..www.easterndoor.com/Archivesx/8-16-editorial.htm) and The Pikanii Sun, vol 1 No. 2 newspaper of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The US Government has no business talking/lecturing to anyone about human rights anywhere. Imagine James M. S. Craven (Blackfoot Confederacy) > There is a great deal of sensitivity to one of the most notorious of the > many Holocausts humankind has suffered: the Nazi Holocaust against Jews, > Gypsies and others. Movies like Schindler's List are a constant reminder > of massive suffering that must never be forgotten and historical lessons > that must be learned. Most believe that something like the Holocaust of > the Nazis against Jews or Gypsies or other victims tageted by the Nazis > could never happen here in America or in Canada. > > Imagine that something like what happened to Jews in Germany happened in > America or Canada. Imagine that Jewish children were forced to repeat > Christian prayers and were beaten or even murdered if they spoke or prayed > in Hebrew or Yiddish and spoke or prayed Jewish prayers. Imagine if Jewish > children were forced to eat pork that was not only forbidden for religious > reasons but was also rotten, insect-infested and of the lowest quality so > that many children could be "fed" cheaply and very profitably. > > Imagine if vulnerable and trusting Jewish children were routinely sexually > and physically abused by clergy and when the sexual and physical abuse was > discovered, those who reported it were beaten or murdered while those who > committed the ugly deeds were protected by powerful and rich churches and > sent elsewhere to do more crimes to other Jewish children. Imagine that > Jewish children were used for medical experiments or used to test new > drugs or surgical procedures. Imagine if Jewish children were used as > sexual objects for powerful pedophiles when visiting the isolated > institutions in which the Jewish children were kept away from their > families and communities. > > Imagine if Jewish children were sterilized through coercion or decption. > Imagine if Jewish children were registered and controlled by a BJA (Bureau > of Jewish Affairs) that had a long history of fraud, theft, abuse and > dereliction of trust responsibilities with respect to traditional Jewish > lands and resources. Imagine if throughout the Jewish Ghettos, corrupt and > sell-out Jews were selected or elected through fraudulent elections to > control other Jews in the interests of non-Jews bent on the eventual > elimination--through murder, intermarriage, redefinition, assimilation or > sterilization--of all Jews.Imagine if Jewish children were forced into > special Boarding/Residential Schools designed to beat, torture, intimidate > and brainwash the "Jewishness" out of them. > > Imagine if there were football teams with names like the "Kansas City > Kikes", the "San Francisco Sheenies" or the Jersey City Jew Boys" and at > half-time some caricature of what the bigoted and ignorant consider to be > a "typical Jew" came out to do the "money-grubbing tango". Imagine if Jews > were forbidden to celebrate Jewish holidays or to wear traditional Jewish > yamulkas or prayer shawls. Imagine if all the precedents of Nuremberg and > International Law (Treaties) were routinely broken by non-Jews while Jews > were expected to keep all promises and responsibilities under those laws. > > You say it could not happen to Jews in America or Canada what was done in > Nazi Germany? You say that especially after Nuremberg and the horrors that > were revealed there "Never Again" anywhere? With respect to Jews in > America and Canada, perhaps all of the above and more could happen and > perhaps not. But there is no "perhaps" that all of the above and much more > was done--and is being done--in America and in Canada and elsewhere in the > world to Indigenous Peoples. > > When do Indians and first Nations Peoples get movies like "Schlinder's > List" that expose the past and present of the American and Canadian > Holocausts? When do non-Indians care about the American and Canadian > Holocausts against Indigenous Peoples as much as many non-Jews do --and > should--care about the Nazi Holocaust? When do Indians get the precedents, > legal protections and demands for justice of Nuremberg applied in and to > the very Nations that so piously and hypocritically sat in judgment at > Nuremberg? > > Jim Craven >