When it comes to Genocide, it is being witnessed by all of us ordinary people across Earth. We know that in Gaza, in Palestine, whether we are looking at it or not, a Genocide it is being made to happen.
Even as I write it is being committed. I feel impotent. I cannot help in any immediate way.
Genocide is being broadcast as it happens. This genocide is being televised by citizen journalism.
Mobile phones and cameras and drones are recording and broadcasting the gory detail that shows what war really is - perhaps for the first time ever - to a mass global civilian population who every day are now seeing the immediate impacts of industrialised hi-tech total warfare waged against civilians. It is a horror of horrors.
Every war waged upon a civilian population has done the same, and we've never really seen it, we've only tales of survival, hagiography of the victors, governments call for more budget for 'defence'. So now we know. No going back from that. This cannot be un-seen.
Deliberate, being made to happen.
It is being made to happen, men and women are making decisions to ensure the slaughter and destruction and collective punishment does not stop, and it should not ever be happening. It MUST stop.
Men and women are deciding to commit war crimes. Ordinary people are being needlessly harmed beyond all tolerance.
The opinions of anyone of us are beside the point. The justifications being made by those who justify such atrocity are beside the point.
The legal, moral and humane intelligent empathy side of this matter is united.
It Must Stop.
Supporting those engaged in the dominant violent position is complicity, by degree. It just is. This is not a judgemental statement, it is a statement of fact. By degree means the further away from a position of power to influence matters, the less one's complicity is.
Now, there's little complicity of the average liberal democracy or theocracy or authoritarian tax payer compared to others in their respective states who hold high officer and wield political and civil power to support the violators of War and Humanitarian Law in this matter. And in all matters of a similar nature.
Us ordinary folk - you and I and our neighbours, the people's of urban dwellings all about us, are the ones who always pay the full cost of war.
We are, as individuals, impotent in the face of military violence and corrupt national and international diplomacy. The ruling class want us to internalise enough of the nation state to protect them from us, with them hiding behind the state.
They are happy when we accuse each other of complicity, even more so when we argue their opinions, and vote according to the public defined opinions, rather than the evidence.
Our individual complicity is minor. Throwing it at each other as an accusation is a futile cause, it does not serve us ordinary people.
Establishing a humane political and civil power base
Where we do have a reliable resource of political power is in each other, as a community of ordinary folk, understanding we are all accidents of birth, understanding our need and desire, born of healthy common sense, that we would be best served if we were to look out for one another, in mutual aid, and turn that to political association.
We have yet to establish this power, and when we do, we will do what we can to undo the warring states syndrome culture.
Turn away from the ruling class, turn to each other, and then take the kinds of action that a healthy population can take, and see where we lead into.
Corneilius
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