Gideon Polya,“US mass infanticide. 4 million reasons why Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President”, MWC News, 8 January 2008.
US mass infanticide. 4 million reasons why Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President
The American Republic was ostensibly founded on noble sentiments of the Age of Enlightenment of which the noblest – and indeed America’s greatest moral contribution to the World – is Thomas Jefferson’s statement in the American Declaration of Independence “All Men are created equal and have an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Billions of decent people around the world believe in this and live their lives according to this humane doctrine – but not the evil, racist, bi-partisan Republican-Democratic Establishment that continues to dominate American political affairs and our long-suffering world.
Indeed even back in 1776 the Fathers of the Revolution were slave-owners and one of the REAL reasons for Independence from Great Britain was to enable the Colonists to expand West and conquer and dispossess the Indigenous Indian population hitherto protected because of the British need for Indigenous allies against the French in North America ( I have checked the validity of this assertion with an outstanding, Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on American history of the period).
Back in 1776 the American Establishment leaders were lying to Americans and the World just as They are lying today. The Indian Genocide proceeded to new depths after 1776. The Andrew Jackson Indian Removal legislation of 1830 “legitimized” this genocide by actively “encouraging” Indians to re-locate from East of the Mississippi and was of course eventually followed by Indian Genocide West of the Mississippi. But They didn’t stop there, moving further east in the 19th century to the Pacific (Hawaii, Guam and Samoa), to Asia (the horrendous, bloody conquest of the Philippines) and south to seize Mexican territories, and thence to seize Puerto Rico and Cuba and to establish violent hegemony over Latin America.
The 20th century saw violent consolidation of the American Empire and its ruthless hegemony over Latin America. Except for Liberia, the Philippines and the Pacific, the rest of the World had escaped the ministrations of genocidal American “democratic tyranny” but Africa and Asia suffered under brutal Western European, Russian and Japanese Empires. However World War 1 opened up new vistas for the unquenchable thirst of the Americans for the property of other people - in Europe, as American forces entered France, Belgium, Germany and thence post-war in Northern Russia in an attempt to crush the Russian Revolution.
After George W. Bush’s grandfather and his American corporate associates had helped Hitler to power, the stage was set for even greater expansion. After the genocidal Japanese militarists were forced into war, America joined the conflagration of World War 2, bringing to bear the novel device of air power to mass incinerate defenceless “enemy” women and children in German and Japanese cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki..
The post-war world saw a shattered world picking up the pieces, the colonized African and Asian countries fighting for self-determination and a dominant America attempting to move in economically and politically as the defeated colonial powers moved out - as well as attempting to violently constrain attempts by Latin American countries to secure genuine independence.
The horrors of the merciless, post-war American War on Humanity in Asia, Africa and Latin America have been well described by William Blum in his book “Rogue State” and by many other humanitarian authors. However the bottom line of any social policy is avoidable death (excess death, death that should not have happened) and this has been carefully assessed (together with the detailed histories) in my recent book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).
The 1950-2005 avoidable deaths in all countries partially or completely occupied by the US as a major occupier in the post-war era (but excluding defeated Germany and defeated Japan) total 82 million, these countries having had 2005 populations totaling 358 million. However America’s major allies with much bigger colonial possessions had 1950-2005 subject excess death/2005 population ratios of 727 million/2,248 million (the UK) and 142 million/431 million (France).
America has a population that is over 90% Christian but Christian in an insufferably public, noisy and hypocritical way. Accordingly, Americans ostensibly live by the Ten Commandments (the Mosaic Decalogue) which includes the instruction “thou shalt not kill”, an injunction clearly grossly violated as revealed by the 82 million 1950-2005 US Subject excess deaths. While about 50% of American fervently believe in the Right to Life of the UNBORN they are very happy to mass murder the BORN.
Not expressly formulated by the Decalogue but fundamental to the species Homos sapiens (Man) is the injunction “thou shalt not kill children”. Indeed care for the children of Others is a major behavior hard-wired in Man and in his social primate (monkey and great ape) relatives. This primate behavior of care for the children of Others is termed “Allomothering” and in the case of female carers, “aunt behaviour”. We can readily see this behavior in the delight and solicitude of humans in relation to the infants of other SPECIES.
However not so for the American Establishment. For impoverished Third World countries, the under-5 infant deaths are about 70% of the total excess deaths (see “Layperson’s Guide to counting Iraq deaths” on MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ ). From the 82 million 1950-2005 US Foreign Subject excess deaths we can estimate roughly that the 1950-2005 under-5 infant deaths were about 0.7x 82 million = 57.4 million, of which about 90% were AVOIDABLE i.e 0.9 x 57.4 million = 51.7 million or about 52 million avoidable under-5 infant deaths.
Well, how does Hillary Clinton rate in this horrible scheme of things? She is evidently proud of her husband former President Bill Clinton and of his former UN Spokesperson and Secretary of State Madeleine “the price was worth it” Albright (notorious for this reply when asked on 60 minutes in 1996 about the 0.5 million Iraqi infants who had died under Sanctions (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright ). The evidence for this Pride was the fact she paraded them around Iowa recently in the Iowa Presidential Primaries in which she fortunately came third after Barack Obama and John Edwards.
Let’s do a “body count” for Hillary Clinton who voted for the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War and evidently is proud of her husband’s contribution to human civilization through Iraqi Sanctions. From UN Population Division data (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/ ) it can be calculated that Indigenous under-5 infant deaths totaled 1.2 million (Sanctions War against Iraq, 1990-2003), 0.6 million (Iraq war 2003-2007) and 2.2 million (Afghanistan War, 2001-2007), a grand total of 4 million under-5 infant deaths in these US-violated territories, 90% avoidable (i.e. 3.6 million avoidable infant deaths) and largely due to gross US war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and indeed of what Catholic theologians call the Natural Law (e.g. “thou shalt not kill children”).
Hillary Clinton is evidently unfazed by such matters – and she surely must be at least vaguely aware of these horrendous realities, if only from the question put to her buddy Madeleine “the price is worth it” Albright in 1996 by Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes”: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."
In such horrible disregard for the fundamental PRIMATE injunction “thou shalt not kill children”, Hillary Clinton has crossed the line separating decent humanity AND chimpanzees and other social primates from the Primate Unthinkable. There are roughly 4 million reasons why Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President of the United States of America.