Of Leadership and Genocide by John Bart Gerald

16.7.14

2014 Gerald and Maas Suppressed News:

Africa / North America:
on June 30th the African Union summit meeting at Equatorial Guinea voted
the "Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the
African Court of Justice and Human Rights." It maintains that while in
power, African leaders and "senior officials" are not subject to
prosecution for genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity. In
principle the Protocol mirrors the judicial realities of Canada and the
U.S.
which assure our heads of state immunity, but less overtly....(continue "Of Leadership and Genocide," by J.B.Gerald).

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In Canada and the U.S. the leaders make themselves invulnerable to charges of genocide, through manipulation of the legal system and perception management of the public. U.S. Reservations at ratifying the Convention on Genocide suggest the U.S. will decide whether charges of genocide can be applied to the U.S.. Under Canadian law the Minister of Justice's approval is required before the head of state (who appoints the Minister of Justice) can be charged. In both countries, the political and judicial institutions necessary to pursue charges of genocide against top officials are so deeply part of a genocidal matrix no charges have successfully been laid through the wars and destruction of the Republic of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, - violating the Convention's prohibition against destruction of a national group. In Canada policies furthering the destruction of aboriginal peoples seem unstoppable by legal means. U.S. policies supporting the massacres of indigenous people in Guatemala among other Central and South American countries, and the support for Israel of both countries shows at least a complicity in genocide.