Cosa Nostra

by Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream

United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia. These are the countries of the G8. All of them have been colonial powers. All of them are responsible for massive crimes against humanity, from torture to war crimes to genocide. Their history (our history) has been written with the blood of their victims (our victims), slaughtered on the altar of imperialism. All of them have used complacent writers, historians and intellectuals to justify their unspeakable crimes and hide them behind the carpet of ‘civilisation’.

The much elegant and sophisticated Europe is a continent floating on the blood of its victims. Probably the most violent, cruel and irrational place on earth, our continent has been the theatre of any kind of war, violence and insanity for centuries. We mastered the art of killing and destruction so well to export it all over the world.

From the Roman Empire to the Christian Crusades, from the conquest (read: genocide) of the 'new world' to the colonisation of much of the globe: this is Europe at its best. We imposed to the rest of the world our artificial construction, the State, responsible for much bloodshed at home. As a metastasis, the cancer propagated everywhere with the result that now it’s the whole world that’s floating on the blood of innocent people.

Slavery, racism, intolerance, persecutions, World War I and World War II, genocide, oppression, poverty… just a short list of our civilization’s products. All this (and much, much more) for the insatiable greed of our elites.

'They… brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features… They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… They would make fine servants… With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.' (1)

These are the words of the Western civilisation's first messenger to the Americas, Christopher Columbus. A hero much celebrated today. And this is what the G8 represents and stands for.

'The G8 is a completely illegitimate and unaccountable body of global governance; its governments and corporations are historically responsible for most of the problems of developing countries, and remain so today' says Nicola Bullard, of the Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South, the respected international non-government policy research and advocacy organisation. 'Lobbying the G8 contradicts the very clear call made by hundreds of social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the South and the North at this year’s World Social Forum to mobilise protests against the G8 summit.' (2)

That’s why 'Make Poverty History' is just an empty slogan, a slogan used by the power to hide its own agenda and hijacking genuine dissent. In this regard, it’s not different from 'War on Terror', 'Support Our Troops', 'War on Drugs' and many others.

That’s why the G8 has to be regarded as a criminal organization, of the kind of Cosa Nostra.

And that’s why the loud music of these days should not distract us from thinking of what these eight moral dwarfs in Scotland stand for. They must feel our contempt for their homicidal policies and we must hold them accountable for their massive crimes against humanity in Africa, in Afghanistan, in Iraq and anywhere else.

And when they and their servants in the media will hide behind the mask of civilization, let’s reply what Gandhi answered when he was asked what he thought about Western civilization:

'I think it would be a good idea'.

Notes

1) from 'A People's History of the United States' by Howard Zinn
2) from Murky world of Make Poverty History uncovered by Stuart Hodkinson

Comments

[bj]

When was Canada a colonial power?

[Gabriele Zamparini]

Dear bj,

Technically you are right BUT ONLY IF we keep thinking and talking within a colonialist framework. To answer your question, here below I paste a few paragraphs from:

Remarks before the Sub-Committee on Petitions, Information and Assistance of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, president Jose Carlos Morales by Special Assistant Rudolph C. Ryser.

New York City, 24 June 1981

Source:
Center for World Indigenous Studies
http://www.cwis.org/

THE INDIGENOUS NATIONS OF CANADA

The indigenous nations located in what is now Canada have been resident in their territory for thousands of years before the British and French governments established settlements. The successor colonial power, Britain, created and established colonial governments within indigenous territories and commenced to conclude a series of treaties with the indigenous nations. These treaties ceded in excess of one million square miles of territory from the indigenous nations to Britain. More than 2.4 million square miles of indigenous territory was never ceded, but remains to this day the homelands of the indigenous nations.

The country of Canada has since 1867 been attempting to gain its independence from Great Britain. During this time Britain has effectively served as the trustee for the protection and preservation of the indigenous nations and their territory. By virtue of an act of British parliament, Britain conveyed certain of her administrative duties owed to the indigenous nations to the newly created Canadian federal government. As a colonial government created by Britain the Canadian government has administered the British trusteeship for 114 years. During the period of its trust administration the Canadian government has directly and indirectly expropriated indigenous national lands and resources to benefit Canadian and British citizens.

As it takes its final step toward independence Canada now seeks to totally engulf indigenous national territories, claim ownership over indigenous national resources and eliminate the national identity of 1.2 million indigenous peoples. Both British colonialism of indigenous territories and Canadian neo-colonialism have escaped world attention.

Canada has consistently denied the indigenous nations of upper North America a political role in her government and, indeed, she has systematically sought the liquidation of indigenous nations and their identity.

In December of 1980, the indigenous nations formed their own provisional government through which the United Nations Secretary General was petitioned to come their aid. The Secretary General was urgently requested to facilitate tri-lateral negotiations between Britain, Canada and the Indigenous Provisional Government to resolve the political status of the indigenous nations and territories in upper North America. The indigenous nations in upper North America are presently seeking a peaceful method to remove the colonial embrace of Britain and Canada.

[bj]

Thanks for the clarification. However I feel that by stretching the definition in that way make the whole of humanity colonialists. Since we first moved out of Africa 100,000 years ago, humanity has colonised the world; first by taking empty land then by usurping those "indigenous" people from the land.
The Arabic/Islamic African states were colonised 1000 years ago and now, based on life expectancy, have the highest standard of living in Africa. However where is the indigenous population? The Celtic people of Europe now survive on the very western fringe of Europe having been driven close to extinction by Teutonic and Frankish peoples.
My point is that the desire to colonise is something that goes to the core of being human. In no way does this excuse the actions of what the seven most industrialised counties do to our planet (Russia only being there as a favour to Yeltsin from Clinton). However, if it were a different group of countries with the ability to appoint themselves de facto leaders of the world, would they do things any differently? I am pessimistic about humanities ability to control its actions and whilst admire people who have the courage and the will to attempt to change things I feel this will be futile.
Thanks again for clarifying your position; however I am “neutral on a moving train”, because however loud you shout the driver cannot hear you.
I hope I am wrong.

[MC]

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