"Will Dockery" <dockery@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Orson Wells as CitizenCain" wrote...
>>"Will Dockery" wrote:
>>> "Neo D'Artagnan" wrote...
>>
>> >> >> > > As for genocide, it's also well known that efforts at
> eradicating
>> > the
>> >> >> > > Buffalo, Bald Eagle and Boll Weevil have failed miserably.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > We're as successful at genocide
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Pretty successful according to the definition of genocide -
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > ''...Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the
>> >> > immediate
>> >> >> > destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass
>> >> >> > killings
>> >> >> > of
>> >> > all
>> >> >> > members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a
> coordinated
>> >> >> > plan
>> >> > of
>> >> >> > different actions aiming at the destruction of essential
> foundations
>> > of
>> >> > the
>> >> >> > life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the
groups
>> >> > themselves.
>> >> >> > The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of
the
>> >> > political
>> >> >> > and social institutions, of culture, language, national
feelings,
>> >> > religion,
>> >> >> > and the economic existence of national groups, and the
>> >> >> > destruction
>> >> >> > of
>> >> > the
>> >> >> > personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives
>> >> >> > of
>> > the
>> >> >> > individuals belonging to such groups.''
>> >> >> > -Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (Wash., D.C.:
> Carnegie
>> >> >> > Endowment for International Peace, 1944), p. 79.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > In the wake of The Holocaust, Lemkin successfully campaigned
for
> the
>> >> >> > universal acceptance of international laws defining and
>> >> >> > forbidding
>> >> > genocide.
>> >> >> > This was achieved in 1948, with the promulgation of the
>> >> >> > Convention
>> >> >> > on
>> >> > the
>> >> >> > Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > The CPPCG was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on
9
>> >> > December
>> >> >> > 1948 and came into effect on 12 January 1951 (Resolution 260
> (III)).
>> > It
>> >> >> > contains an internationally-recognized definition of genocide
> which
>> >> >> > [...] defines genocide:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > ''...any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy,
> in
>> >> > whole or
>> >> >> > in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
>> >> >> > such:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > (a) Killing members of the group;
>> >> >> > (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
>> >> >> > group;
>> >> >> > (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
>> > calculated
>> >> > to
>> >> >> > bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
>> >> >> > (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
>> >> >> > group;
>> >> >> > (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group.
>> >> >> > - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
>> > Genocide,
>> >> >> > Article II
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > ''God's Toybox '' by Will Dockery and Dennis Beck
>> >> >> > http://www.myspace.com/shadowvilleallstars
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Well, if Wikipedia says so, that's it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Perhaps I should edit this entry? Or write my own? It's The
>> >> >> People's
>> >> >> Encyclopedia, after all.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm people.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sort of.
>> >> >
>> >> > Sure, that's what it was created for.
>> >> >
>> >> > Better yet, try Wikinfo, which is the alternative to Wikipedia,
much
>> > more
>> >> > free-form in style, and relatively new, which many articles not
even
>> > begun yet..
>> >>
>> >> Because that just makes it a wonderful and informative site, right?
>> >
>> > Sure, and enjoyable to work on, also.
>>
>> Any site you are involved with is doomed to failure.
>
> We'll see, I suppose...
There's no "suppose" about it, Captain Failure.
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