Comments on: U.S. Nuremberg Trials Prosecutor Would Have Proudly Prosecuted McCain as a War Criminal http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/us-nuremberg-trials-prosecutor-would-have-proudly-prosecuted-mccain-as-a-war-criminal/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hans Bennett http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/us-nuremberg-trials-prosecutor-would-have-proudly-prosecuted-mccain-as-a-war-criminal/#comment-30076 Hans Bennett Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:22:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4101#comment-30076 Jay, I also really enjoyed your article. US culture's refusal to acknowledge to the true crime that the Vietnam invasion was is much like our refusal to acknowledge the country's original sin of black chattel slavery and the genocide of the Indians. Until these crimes, and the many others I don't mention for the sake of space, are acknowledged for what they are, the same murderous crap will continue, like we have today with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. I think Noam Chomsky says it well: "If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, every post-WWII president would be hung." Jay, I also really enjoyed your article. US culture’s refusal to acknowledge to the true crime that the Vietnam invasion was is much like our refusal to acknowledge the country’s original sin of black chattel slavery and the genocide of the Indians. Until these crimes, and the many others I don’t mention for the sake of space, are acknowledged for what they are, the same murderous crap will continue, like we have today with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think Noam Chomsky says it well: “If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, every post-WWII president would be hung.”

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Beautiful writing and I’ll click your name to read more—your structure does justice to your morality

]]> By: Jay Janson http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/us-nuremberg-trials-prosecutor-would-have-proudly-prosecuted-mccain-as-a-war-criminal/#comment-30058 Jay Janson Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:26:44 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4101#comment-30058 Ah David. would that conscience could have allowed a musician to continue to focus on his art and let the frantic thieves that abound go on with their desperate self-aggrandizement, as he did as a student practicing his scales. Unfortunately, or otherwise, one eventually sees that capitalist enslavement of society, whether vicious or benign, whether through trick or treat, whether by outright lies or deceptive arrangements of the facts and diseducation, periodically occasions the more violent insanity of mass homicide, even genocide, that surpasses its norm of quiet economic terrorism. Closing one's eyes to stealing, one can concentrate on a dedication and one's contribution. It's not possible to stop up one's ears and not hear the screams and wailing of the grieving and still appreciate the music in performance. The right to disregard one's family and citizen obligations is not inherent in the practice of ANY profession. As musicians say, "Shit happens!", and avoiding it is not always possible in good conscience. In any case, David, the paragraph identifying the author as a musician was added by a Dissident Voice editor below this republished article about a chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials opinion that McCain and other bomber-pilots should have been prosecuted for war crimes. Ah David. would that conscience could have allowed a musician to continue to focus on his art and let the frantic thieves that abound go on with their desperate self-aggrandizement, as he did as a student practicing his scales.

Unfortunately, or otherwise, one eventually sees that capitalist enslavement of society, whether vicious or benign, whether through trick or treat, whether by outright lies or deceptive arrangements of the facts and diseducation, periodically occasions the more violent insanity of mass homicide, even genocide, that surpasses its norm of quiet economic terrorism.

Closing one’s eyes to stealing, one can concentrate on a dedication and one’s contribution. It’s not possible to stop up one’s ears and not hear the screams and wailing of the grieving and still appreciate the music in performance.

The right to disregard one’s family and citizen obligations is not inherent in the practice of ANY profession. As musicians say, “Shit happens!”, and avoiding it is not always possible in good conscience.

In any case, David, the paragraph identifying the author as a musician was added by a Dissident Voice editor below this republished article about a chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials opinion that McCain and other bomber-pilots should have been prosecuted for war crimes.

]]> By: David http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/us-nuremberg-trials-prosecutor-would-have-proudly-prosecuted-mccain-as-a-war-criminal/#comment-30035 David Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4101#comment-30035 Maestro Janson: I think that no good will come of mixing high art and the ugliest part of human nature. Let me suggest that you stick with the gift that you have and avoid the shit of humanity. Good luck. Maestro Janson:

I think that no good will come of mixing high art and the ugliest part of human nature. Let me suggest that you stick with the gift that you have and avoid the shit of humanity.

Good luck.

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