Life or death?Įither we reject homicidal heroes or we reap individual killers. When we embrace this thinking, we contribute to the spread of the infection of death by homicide. Courageous scientists, doctors and nurses are fighting the former–Thank you for your service! As to the latter it has been said: “He who kills one is a criminal. This legal conclusion is the result of one single truth: The enemy of all humankind is death.Ī) natural. Such crimes still carry the death penalty. US military and civilian commanders, including the President, as commander in chief, are subject to prosecution as war criminals, should they engage in a war of aggression (“the supreme war crimes”) or use criminal weapons such as nuclear weapons in an otherwise legal war. Those principles now are part of the USA’s own laws governing war and war crimes. The US did sign the treaties supporting execution of the Nazi and Tokyo war criminals. In fact, the accused war criminals complained everything they did was legal under Hitler’s “law” and they were “just following orders.” The USA hung them anyway because the law of nations superseded Hitler’s laws. Neither Hitler nor the Japanese governments signed the Treaty that allowed their henchmen to be hanged or jailed for war crimes, crimes against peace or crimes against humanity for crimes they committed in WWII. Refusal to sign the Treaty does not mean the refusing nations are “above the law of nations” or international law. The US along with other “nuclear powers” refused to sign the Treaty. The Treaty prohibits the use, threat of use, development, possession, testing, acquisition, stockpiling and transfer of these weapons and forever stigmatizes these weapons and the nations who maintain their nuclear stockpiles. The recent Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed by 122 nations on July 7, 2017. However, the need for the USA to have thousands of nukes and a $1 Trillion program to “make more and more usable nukes” is also unacceptable. This is not to say NK should have nukes, it should not. Thus, the forest in the eye of Donny Trump and the mote in the eye of NK. The USA has thousands of nukes, NK may have 20 and a limited, if any, capacity to deliver them. Trump has recently threatened North Korea with nuclear annihilation. Mass murder of all humanity is the forest in the eye of Donny Trump and we are called upon to salute him. Mass murder of 59 is the mote in the eye of that lone “Las Vegas” killer and we all condemn him.
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