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Genocide, What Genocide?

Stephen James Sakamoto | 21.10.2006 23:08 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles

Genocide, what does it mean exactly and does it matter that inncoent people are radiated in a catastrophic rate? According to the cyber dictionary www.m-w.com it is defined as the following: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

I'd say the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of genocide and to minimise the reasons to justify killing civilians is not acceptable on any level of humanity. I was present at a commemoration of this horrific event at the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, MB and seeing the photos absolutely disgusted me. I have heard others say that the Japanese Imperial Army refused to surrender is a DAMN lie, because it is widely known that the more extreme factions within the Army were furious with the officials for authorising an immediate surrender which President Truman had ignored. The testing of radiation poisoning was to be continued as planned, ruthlessly and brutally murdering civilians{this act raises some anger in
me}. I know that other Oriental People cheered when this happened justifying this mass murder as a casualty of war... Xenophobia at it's worst expression. I have NO loyalties to any country here or abroad... but to hear casual and even snide remarks about the JAPS deserving to die brutally is a huge BONE OF CONTENTION that they can choke for all I care. Xenophobia for the Oriental Communities is something that has to end... but sadly not in my lifetime, justifying the tragic horrors and atrocities{while ignoring others} is something that continues to this day angers me. I have met Taiwanese People and they are afraid of Mainland China of attacking but
they fail to recognise the irony of what happened to TIBET. It is sadly apparent that a person's ethnic identity is reason enough to hate them completely... a girl met me online and spoke to me in Edmonton from Calgary and she even took a bus up to meet me. She took one look at me and totally hated me, unfortunately it occurs so often I cringe at the thought of meeting any Oriental Women. They decide in an instant whether or not they like you and then they have little trouble hating you... it is something that hurts me so much.

When it is a 50% death rate of the 350,000 people estimated to have been in Hiroshima at the time... about 73,884 were killed and 74,909 injured in Nagasaki, with the affected survivors suffering the same long-term catastrophic results of radiation and mental trauma as at Hiroshima. That is genocide folks and to see pictures of deformities and radiation poisoning literally rotting the skin, flesh and vital organs off the unfortunate ones who survived. I seethe with rage when those who callously dismiss radiation poisoning as nothing and go right along hating those who have done wrong in the past and in the present. I say nothing 'cause they can continue to hate you as they have done in the past... their parents and significant others calmly advocate GENOCIDAL tendencies.

I did not cheer when the North or South Towers were hit as they had done in China and the rest of the Orient who despise the Americans. I thought who did they deliberately eliminate/assassinate in those towers... I then thought of the experiments of death and scapegoat someone else for an act of domestic terrorism. I do not applaud anyone's death here or abroad it does my soul damage to hate others, it hinders my spiritual growth to promote xenophobic hatred{as my own mother, brother do}. I shudder at the very thought of violence against anyone who cannot defend or protect themselves against the overthrow of a once peaceful society. Shame on those who promote xenophobia, shame on those who justify DU weapons, shame on those who cheered when people were murdered in Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Lhasa, Saigon, Hanoi, Phnom
Penh, the Twin Towers anywhere genocide is looked upon as a casualty of war. When you can feel, see and understand the effects of DEATH will you understand Kevin Annett's mission...

If you cannot stand up and understand that this vile experiment is perpetrated against us all not just an ethnic or racial issue. I hope people will stop their Xenophobic behaviours, attitudes and nihilistic shit now. I think of my niece and her grandmother teaching her xenophobic, prejudicial and very racist crap she had tried with me. I cringe at the thought of allowing her to be associated with me in any way. I am in a sullen state when it comes to GENOCIDE taking place anywhere in the world... whether it was done in the past or presently happening with the onset of NEW WORLD ORDER.

Kevin is doing great work and his safety has been jeopardised by the BASTARDS in the RCMP who have perpetrated physical assaults. Joe Hawkins is another man who has stepped up and decided to act honourably... I urge those who support Kevin help out Joe too as he has faced some trying times himself. I also urge those who support Kevin and Joe to go out of their way to help, support, raise funds and actively promote Lester Howse spreading the word of Cassis Omissis{Daughters of the Great Spirit/First Law Of the Land}. Lester is taking a huge responsibility that can wear him down sometimes and he feels very human in these trying times.

These fine men are my mentors and heroes of this modern age sacrificing everything they ever had and standing up to face Genocide, Murder and the NEW WORLD ORDER marching until its full fruition.

I urge everyone to listen, learn and teach themselves to understand what these fine men stand for... they stand up and take a shit kicking for their efforts. Genocide must NEVER BE TOLERATED, WRITTEN OFF as a casualty of war or dimissed as nothing, [pictures of Vietnamese Boat People, a small child in Hiroshima has radiation sores all over her tiny body, screaming people running from the Twin Towers, stories from Residential School Survivors and on and on from Baghdad, Tehran, Beirut and other faraway places] genocide can no longer be an Ethnic Issue... stop this practise and stop Xenophobia as it hurts everyone especially children.





Stephen James Sakamoto

Stephen James Sakamoto
- e-mail: sjsakamoto@yahoo.ca

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