By: Stewart Brennan
World United News
At the end of World War II and as a result of the Nuremberg
Trials, the shattered Foundations of Civilization were rebuilt by the adoption
of Human Rights, and laws put in place to end Aggressive War. Both of these
initiatives empowered a new United Nations assembly which embraced the promise
of all nations being treated as equals. These were key points in building a
World free of war and would be enforced through mutual agreement and
International law by a United Nations body.
We owe our thanks in large part to the principals, ideals,
and values expressed by US Chief Justice “Robert H. Jackson” as witnessed in
his opening statement as the US Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in
1945.
Mr Jackson’s statement was believed by the worlds population
at that time to be on behalf of the western establishment as to the way in
which western society was going to stand, from that day forth. Indeed the war
weary populations of the world believed these words to be true because in them
they found hope, truth, and justice.
Even though many of us awake today are aware that the crimes
committed by the Allied forces during World War II went unpunished, we still
believed, at least before the internet came into being, that the monstrous
crimes committed during World War II would never be committed again simply
because we believed there was a moral overseer called the United Nations that
pledged to take the lead in the name of Peace, Justice and the guiding
principals of Human Rights. At least that was the general feeling between 1945
to 2001 by most of the people in the West. I for one, believed that my
government had taken an oath to uphold these foundations while representing the
will and needs of their own people at home.
Today, we find the economic victors of WWII pushing their
greedy interests all over the world through sanctions, war and terrorism, while
at home they push national governments to apply austerity measures on their own
people. The United Nations is now a place to make war on other nations legal,
which is in complete contrast as to what our belief was in this institution and
the establishment that runs the worlds economy.
Looking back in history, I see that nothing has changed in
over 2,000 years. Now instead of a single nation driving for empire by an
economic elite, we have a collective of nations driving for empire by an
economic elite that is intent on growing their empire through hostile takeovers
of victim nations to maintain their economic growth and drive to global
domination…
Nothing has changed with regards to
Information Control, Propaganda and the suppression of Alternative News either.
Control of information is an important tool by the elites to hold their plans
together.
Before the availability of the Internet, the population
within each and every nation was controlled and held captive in a bubble of
propaganda that was fed by mediums of Newsprint, TV and Radio.
Since the days of the Roman Empire, people the World over
have been subject to the established news mediums that have always controlled
the narrative for a handful of extremely wealthy people.
During the Roman Empire, “Criers” would take up their
positions in towns and villages across the land to report the news and views of
the Patrician’s to the people that would gather in the squares to hear them.
There were no alternative news criers. Any differing views were quickly silenced
and their originators put to death for daring to speak out against the
authority of those times. The Patricians greed and lust for power ruled and did
not stand for any challenges to their rule.
Here we are 2,000 years later and nothing has changed. I
don’t see any difference today, as free speech is under attack in every OECD
member nation. Anyone that tries to expose government lies, corporate
corruption, or military crimes are quickly silenced, Imprisoned or put six feet
under, because it gets in the way of the overall plans of those that control
the economics behind the scenes.
Lately there has been an exponential increase in the number
of attacks on free speech, freedom of the press, and human rights by the
establishment on those that speak out. What is also evident is the exponential
rise in O.E.C.D. Terrorism and military aggression, something which the United
Nations was empowered to stop after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials.
The sentencing of Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for
doing what he was supposed to do under International law by reporting war
crimes is a return to darker times. The manhunt for Edward Snowdon and the
grounding and search of Presidential planes also breaks International law. Not
to mention the Arming of terrorists to overthrow leaders of sovereign nations
is also considered a war crime yet Western Governments continue to get away
with these crimes without penalty or the force of International law.
Both Israel and Egypt are guilty of crimes against humanity
for the blockade on the people of Gaza. Israel is guilty of committing war
crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria and continues to make the people in the
West Bank and Gaza suffer by committing the most heinous of crimes. The USA and
Great Britain are Guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by an
aggressive war on Iraq, which was started by their own fabrication. The NATO
countries that took part in the War on Libya committed war crimes and crimes
against humanity from the total destruction of that country including using
depleted uranium and targeting civilian centers and infrastructure. Today
western nations are arming terrorists and supporting the most vile and ruthless
scum ever to emerge from under Saudi Arabian Petro dollars.
The list of crimes committed by Western Countries goes on
and on with more frequency everyday, millions have died and tens of millions
more have been displaced by their crimes…
I am reminded of the words in Robert H. Jackson’s opening
speech during the Nuremberg trials after WWII...and through all the years
leading up to 911 and the Internet I actually believed my Country stood up to
enforce the International laws handed down as a result of the Nuremberg trials.
What’s even worse is that in some twisted way our government leaders actually
believe they are upholding International law, but I don’t see how…do you?
Opening Statement by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for
crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The
wrong’s which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so
malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being
ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great
nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance
and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one
of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.
This Tribunal, while it is novel and experimental, is not the product of
abstract speculations nor is it created to vindicate legalistic theories. This
inquest represents the practical effort of four of the most mighty of nations,
with the support of 17 more, to utilize international law to meet the greatest
menace of our times, aggressive war. The common sense of mankind demands that
law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It
must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate
and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world
untouched. It is a cause of that magnitude that the United Nations will lay
before Your Honors.
In the prisoners' dock sit twenty-odd broken men. Reproached by the humiliation
of those they have led almost as bitterly as by the desolation of those they
have attacked, their personal capacity for evil is forever past. It is hard now
to perceive in these men as captives the power by which as Nazi leaders they once
dominated much of the world and terrified most of it. Merely as individuals
their fate is of little consequence to the world.
What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister
influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to
dust. We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism
and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. They are symbols of
fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war- making which have
embroiled Europe generation after generation, crushing its manhood, destroying
its homes, and impoverishing its life. They have so identified themselves with
the philosophies they conceived and with the forces they directed that any
tenderness to them is a victory and an encouragement to all the evils which are
attached to their names. Civilization can afford no compromise with the social
forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively
With the men in whom those forces now precariously survive.
What these men stand for we will patiently and temperately disclose. We will
give you undeniable proofs of incredible events. The catalog of crimes will
omit nothing that could be conceived by a pathological pride, cruelty, and lust
for power. These men created in Germany, under the "Fuehrerprinzip",
a National Socialist despotism equalled only by the dynasties of the ancient
East. They took from the German people all those dignities and freedoms that we
hold natural and inalienable rights in every human being. The people were
compensated by inflaming and gratifying hatreds towards those who were marked
as "scapegoats". Against their opponents, including Jews, Catholics,
and free labor, the Nazis directed such a campaign of arrogance, brutality, and
annihilation as the world has not witnessed since the pre-Christian ages. They
excited the German ambition to be a "master race", which of course
implies serfdom for others. They led their people on a mad gamble for domination.
They diverted social energies and resources to the creation of what they
thought to be an invincible war machine They overran their neighbors. To
sustain the "master race" in its war-making, they enslaved millions
of human beings and brought them into Germany, where these hapless creatures
now wander as "displaced persons". At length bestiality and bad faith
reached such excess that they aroused the sleeping strength of imperiled
Civilization. Its united efforts have ground the German war machine to fragments.
But the struggle has left Europe a liberated yet prostrate land where a
demoralized society struggles to survive. These are the fruits of the sinister
forces that sit with these defendants in the prisoners' dock.
In justice to the nations and the men associated in this prosecution, I must
remind you of certain difficulties which may leave their mark on this case.
Never before in legal history has an effort been made to bring within the scope
of a single litigation the developments of a decade, covering a whole
continent, and involving a score of nations, countless individuals, and
innumerable events. Despite the magnitude of the task, the world has demanded
immediate action. This demand has had to be met, though perhaps at the cost of
finished craftsmanship. In my country, established courts, following familiar
procedures, applying well-thumbed precedents, and dealing with the legal
consequences of local and limited events seldom commence a trial within a year
of the event in litigation. Yet less than 8 months ago today the courtroom in
which you sit was an enemy fortress in the hands of German SS troops. Less than
8 months ago nearly all our witnesses and documents were in enemy hands. The
law had not been codified, no procedures had been established, no tribunal was
in existence, no usable courthouse stood here, none of the hundreds of tons of
official German documents had been examined, no prosecuting staff had been
assembled, nearly all of the present defendants were at large, and the four
prosecuting powers had not yet joined in common cause to try them. I should be
the last to deny that the case may well suffer from incomplete researches and
quite likely will not be the example of professional work which any of the
prosecuting nations would normally wish to sponsor. It is, however, a
completely adequate case to the judgment we shall ask you to render and its
full development we shall be obliged to leave to historians.
Before I discuss particulars of evidence, some general considerations which may
affect the credit of this trial in the eyes of the world should be candidly
faced. There is a dramatic disparity between the circumstances of the accusers
and of the accused that might discredit our work if we should falter, in even
minor matters, in being fair and temperate.
Unfortunately the nature of these crimes is such that both prosecution and
judgment must be by victor nations over vanquished foes. The worldwide scope of
the aggressions carried out by these men has left but few real neutrals. Either
the victors must judge the vanquished or we must leave the defeated to judge
themselves. After the first World War, we learned the futility of the latter
course. The former high station of these defendants, the notoriety of their
acts, and the adaptability of their conduct to provoke retaliation make it hard
to distinguish between the demand for a just and measured retribution, and the
unthinking cry for vengeance which arises from the anguish of war. It is our
task, so far as humanly possible, to draw the line between the two. We must
never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the
record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a
poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such
detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this Trial will commend
itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspirations to do justice.
At the very outset, let us dispose of the contention that to put these men to
trial is to do them an injustice entitling them to some special consideration
These defendants may be hard pressed but they are not ill used. Let us see what
alternative they would have to being tried.
More than a majority of these prisoners surrendered to or were tracked down by
the forces of the United States. Could they expect us to make American custody
a shelter for our enemies against the just wrath of our Allies? Did we spend
American lives to capture them only to save them from punishment? Under the
principles of the Moscow Declaration, those suspected war criminals who are not
to be tried internationally must be turned over to individual governments for
trial at the scene of their outrages. Many less responsible and less culpable
American-held prisoners have been and will continue to be turned over to other
United Nations for local trial. If these defendants should succeed, for any
reason, in escaping the condemnation of this Tribunal, or if they obstruct or
abort the trial, those who are American-held prisoners will be delivered to our
continental Allies. For these defendants, however, we have set up an
International Tribunal and have undertaken the burden of participating in a
complicated effort to give them fair and dispassionate hearings. That is the
best- known protection to any man with a defense worthy of being heard.”
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NOT JUST WORDS
These were not just mere words
Robert H Jackson spoke, but Ideals that led to the basis and foundation of a
future world built by moral guiding principals, respect and International Law.
We were all sold on the idea that a United Nations would bring together the
people of the World as equals and embrace a set of values and principals in an
international framework of mutual respect…ideals that most people still believe
in today.
However, it is abundantly clear that
the Governments of today within the collective of the OECD nations or as a
collective of Western Nations have completely ignored their oath to uphold
International Law. Instead they have made the clear choice to repeat history on
a larger scale by using aggressive war and the use of terrorists to achieve the
gains and interests of those weaving webs behind the economic and power lust scenes.
In the days of the Roman Empire at
least, those that owned all the land, money and power also held office as senators
so they were in the open. In today’s Western Empire, the owners stay in the
shadows while buying the politicians to represent them. Elections have always
been an illusion when it comes to democratic representation and economics. All
you need to do is follow the money to find the truth and the criminals.
The founding, Principals and Ideals for a Moral and Just
Society referred to by Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials have been
destroyed by elitist arrogance, greed, and lust for power. The assimilation of
nations into their economic control and collective is not new…however it has
become news in the last 12 years since the free flow of information on the
internet which challenges the elitist controlled mainstream and state
propaganda news corporations.
It is my belief that the establishment who own all the land
that we pay taxes on, and who own the majority of corporations and wealth,
including and direction of most countries through puppet dictatorships, never
intended to abide by the laws set down at Nuremberg even though they pretend
that they stand on these guiding principals.
Our Western Governments are out of
control and well on their way to destroying the planet. Only an awakened
citizenry can change the course or direction the world is heading in so that
means we need to connect in defiance of our governments wishes and become the
alternative news, and town criers of today…but we must also mobilize in our
masses and hold these tyrants accountable for the crimes they have committed
because there are no nations coming to your rescue this time. We simply will not survive the elitist’s
end game if we do not stand up…the Foundations of civilization that we believe in, are broken and the fall of Western society is at hand...I’m tired of the Western Governments double
standards, aren’t you?
~ Stewart Brennan ~
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