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Judi Lynn

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Sat May 18, 2013, 12:53 PM May 2013

Guatemala’s Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Assassins

Guatemala’s Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Assassins
by Jay Janson / May 18th, 2013


José Efraín Ríos Montt began the his political and military career as a young officer taking part in the bloody successful CIA-organized coup against the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history that was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Two years earlier he had attended what peace activists call, the ‘US School for Assassins,’ namely, the long infamous School of the Americas. He ended his career a few days ago, convicted of genocide by the Guatemalan court he once controlled as president and dictator.

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Once the US is no longer overwhelmingly powerful, and American elitists no longer enjoy immunity, their crimes against humanity will be prosecuted as was the genocide committed by Ríos Montt, a loutish butcher employed by who and what everyone knows. Everyone! If one of Al Capone’s triggermen was on trial for murder, who was more importantly guilty, the triggerman, who was only one of the Mafia Don’s many triggermen convicted, or Mafia don Al Capone himself?

Eventually, if not sooner, given the fact that there is no time limitation on prosecution of genocide, and the coming inevitable restitution of logic and law in public affairs, one can expect prosecution of Americans, and not just Americans in high office serving that “financial element in the circles of power that has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson” as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt quipped to his friend Colonel House in 1932. (One might also like to recall that at the time FDR, in confidence, noted his secondary importance to that “financial element,” a tightly inclusive group of his of his friends and acquaintances and captains of industry and banking were, as a block, investing in the cheap labor of a financially prostate Nazi Germany and building its Wehrmacht up to number one military force in the world in full knowledge of Hitler’s plan for the Soviet Union and European Jews.)

If one confines oneself to researching the well published documentation of crimes against humanity during the administrations of the presidents that followed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last American president, who, as an aristocrat, had some influence among his wealthy peers, it becomes very clear why eminent historian Prof. Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. can say, without provoking much negative outcry, “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” Prof. Chomsky followed this statement with listing the crimes against humanity of each of these presidents he had stated would be condemned by Nuremberg Law to the gallows, and has since occasionally updated the list to include subsequent new US presidents. A hard rain is going to fall in America one day.

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http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/05/guatemalas-rios-montt-genocide-conviction-omen-for-us-presidents-and-their-assassins/

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Guatemala’s Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Assassins (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2013 OP
Really, this is a conviction against the C.I.A. as well. They may not have been mentioned socialsecurityisAAA May 2013 #1
1. Really, this is a conviction against the C.I.A. as well. They may not have been mentioned
Sat May 18, 2013, 02:56 PM
May 2013

but they were the guilty party.

Something else that comes to mind. I'm pretty sure we tested vaccines on the Guatemalans, sure enough did!

http://wsws.org/en/articles/2010/10/guat-o05.html

The 29-page paper provides details of a secret experiment on Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients by doctors employed by the US Public Health Service (PHS). In all, some 696 individuals were infected with gonorrhea, chancroid and syphilis, without their consent or knowledge. The experiment was part of a study on the evolution of these diseases and on the effects of penicillin in preventing, rather than curing, the disease. That study was never published, although some of its results did appear in other scientific papers.

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