Ethnic Cleansing: Bush Style
12/21/04
The African National Congress, South Africa's ruling political party, has charged the United States government of treating Africans as "guinea pigs" by sending unsafe AIDS drugs to Africa. The ANC's accusations came just days after the Associated Press revealed the Bush administration had hid evidence that the AIDS drug nevirapine was a dangerous drug in order to allow it to be used to treat unsuspecting patients in Africa.
The Associated Press report came out just two weeks after the BBC broadcast a powerful documentary exposing how New York City health officials are using African-American and Latino children to test experimental AIDS drugs.
Reverend Jesse Jackson has called for a congressional investigation into the matter and for the Bush administration to immediately halt the distribution of the drug in Africa. He compared the drug's distribution in Africa to the American government's 40-year syphilis experiment using poor African-Americans in Tuskegee, Ala., after World War II.
(Don't hold your breath waiting for Congress to act.)
Meanwhile, back in the US of A, further illustrating that racism is becoming the popular new trend (once again) in the US, a brand new poll shows that nearly half of the country now believe that the US government should strip Muslim Americans of some of their civil liberties.
Nearly a quarter of the country agreed that Muslim and Arab Americans should be required to register their location with the government and that the FBI and police should infiltrate Muslim groups and mosques. This new poll was conducted by Cornell University and found that the respondents who considered themselves to be highly religious, those who paid close attention to television news and Republicans were the most likely to favor restricting the rights of Muslim Americans.
It seems we're just a step away from Muslim body branding and concentration camps.
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not that i'm all that surprised, but it really turns my stomach to see the fine cornerstones laid for freedom, justice and liberty eroded by the ignorance of the masses...
and that the FBI and police should continue to infiltrate Muslim groups and mosques...
The sentence makes it seem like they are not already. You can bet they are.
Why aren't prominent Arab Americans such as Marlo Thomas, Jamie Farr, Paula Abdul, Casey Kasem, and former GOP governor John Sununu protesting this? Do they think just because they are not Muslims that the forces of fascism will not get to them eventually? Remember what Reinhold Niebuhr said about the Nazis.
This is reminiscent of the repugnant saying, "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." Just substitute Arab or Muslim. As an American Indian, I have always felt that the Iraq war looks just like the Indian wars. Bush and his cowboys are trying to take the Iraqis' land and resources. It disgusts me. This NOT want my ancestors lost their lives and land for!!!!!!
It's also reminiscent of the lynchings of African Americans. These Republicans have no moral values and have no moral authority over any of us. We need to start fighting back vigorously.
All Americans who are not speaking up against this genocide should be ashamed.
Hey Delton, why did you change the title of this Article? I read it initially when it was titled Ethnic Cleansing: American Style, and, while probably more inflammatory, I actually think the original title is also more appropriate. America has been practicing ethnic cleansing both in and out of the country for decades, no... centuries. The entire inception of this country required the mass genocide of the Native Americans, and was built on 400 years of slavery. And that was just the beginning - examples can be cited ad nauseam. While Bush certainly has a talent for it, he is only doing what governments have always done. Bush is a symptom, but in this case he is neither the cause of the problem nor is he the worst offender. I think this weakens your article and what I believe is your point.
