Individual Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity

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In response to a question about the Israel vs Hamas problem:
This morning I wrote the following and decided to submit it because it contains ideas:

I think, from the limited information I have, that Israel’s response is unconscionable. While they have a right to defend themselves, I believe they only have a right to target responsible individuals, especially in a population that is apparently 50% under the age of 14 (Kucinich). If money can be spent perfecting weapons of mass destruction, why not methods of surgical warfare, the use of which is restrained by humanitarian standards? They also have a responsibility to cease any inhumane behavior that might instigate retaliation, such as behavior that prevents access to food and clean water by the Palestinian population. When civilians are slaughtered, the event becomes a pit bull fight, where neither party is righteous. And whoever is financing it is a part and source of such evil. The world needs to address barbaric tactics such as creating and stirring monsters as the US and Israel apparently have in regard to Hamas (Ron Paul).

As far as the responsibility of the world goes, I see it as the same as individuals witnessing a crime on the street. On the one hand I do not believe in a (potentially corruptible and tyrannical) body governing the world in the form of a “world government.” It is important for nations to keep sovereignty for moral freedom, as is true for states, cities, communities, families and individuals. Protection of human rights should always be the guiding light of all and all standing guard over each other. Nations must be free to guard against states violating human rights, states free to guard against nations, individuals free to, in solidarity, band together against gangs, etc. Maintaining such moral resolve and sovereignty would help curtail large immoral bodies rising in the world as powerful and offensive armies. I do believe in Nations (and others) responding in concert to curtail such hideous behavior against human beings (so long as individual participation is voluntary and actions circumscribed by humanitarian standards.) What is in order is cooperative actions among nations intending to reign in the evil cancer of offensive war-making by holding individuals accountable for crimes against Peace and against human rights, including financial support crimes.

The governments of Hamas and Israel are both guilty of harming human beings. Both should be held accountable. Individuals, especially those in command, within Hamas and Israel should be arrested and tried publically in a world court, as was Sadam. If arrest is impossible and instead individuals are eliminated surgically, a post-action trial should be held. If the actions are not found justified, those who are linked to an unlawful act should themselves stand trial. Such actions would reign in the use of false flag (and other such insidious) operations to create an excuse for offensive action. It would also turn cost for these psychopathic power struggles away from innocents and in on the individual perpetrators. It would also address the problem of democracies and other systems putting inhumane criminals into power. No matter how criminals get into office, they would be held accountable for their actions. This would remove the need to "come from the dark side" undermining democratic process through black operations.

I have heard that a major hindrance to Peace is the objective of population control trough depopulation in war (not to mention other means). It is possible that population wars are at hand in this case and the innocent are victims of it. I hope that is not true, although Kissinger’s words often erroneously lend credibility to the idea that this is and should be happening. And shamefully many intellectuals over time have spoken of such ideas as acceptable means to an end. (Just google it. Shockingly true!) If depopulation is an objective here, those engaged in such acts are guilty of genocidal crimes against humanity and should be held accountable by the people of the world.

There are certainly ways of dealing with population issues while respecting human rights (including the inalienable natural right of freedom of choice in regard to reproduction, another depopulation avenue). Some examples include informing people of population issues and encouraging social conscience development. Positive encouragement of compassion creates a much more enjoyable social milieu than authoritarian psychological bullying into submission and violation of inalienable natural human rights. It is also a desirable move in social evolution from barbarianism toward ideal human behavior. The innocent of the world are likely to act with conscience toward such matters. If we are going to favor any human traits, it should be social conscience versus sociopathic tendencies toward greed, callous exploitation, manipulation and murder.

This statement contains ideas of mine (and synthesis of ideas of others) that have not stood the necessary fires of criticism that would hopefully hone them toward refinement. Ideas arrive at a particular stage of the creative problem-solving process where there is freedom for the birth of ideas (no matter how seemingly impractical). In that process criticism is part of a subsequent and necessary phase that is initially withheld. The second phase that includes criticism, should be about refining ideas instead of annihilating them). (See the Creative Problem-solving formula of Ned Herrmann in the book The Creative Brain, by Ned Herrmann, and also at Herrmann International).