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This is a picture that I painted from memory of the wondrous halo rainbow that appearred over the noon prayer circle at the 1988 Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes
held in the Angelina National Forest in Texas in 1988.It had been a difficult gathering for many.The heat was sweltering. The state and national police
were wreaking havoc among the attendees, and one woman, "No Guns" was her name, had been run over by an irate and sick minded individual driving a truck through the crowd as she danced to celebrate non-violence. She lay in critical condition in a nearby hospital.The tradition of the Rainbow Tribe is that we meet to pray for peace on the fourth of July, here
in the states. It is an international gathering , and circles are formed on that day the world over.We had been observing silence according to Rainbow Family Tradition since midnight the previous night.We gathered at eleven AM, also a tradition, and held hands in a circle for silent prayer for one hour. At exactly 12 noon, just as we were to observe breaking of the silence, I felt drops of water. I looked up to see my friend Iris (Iris, by the way is also, and not co-incidentally, I believe, the name of an ancient goddess of the rainbow) crying and with the sun over our circle and the clouds all around, we all looked up to see this most beautiful circular halo rainbow directly over our prayer circle. Peace, Love and Organics, and Goddess Blessings to all.
for your edification and education-I have to ask-why have we allowed fear to erase from our U.S national conscience our memories of these important tenets of conscience and accountability?
Does anyone remember the atrocities of Nazi Germany?Why have we seemingly learned nothing?
To hell with the rule of the dollar.IT IS NOT THE BOTTOM LINE!
I no longer care about it at all, and I have what I need.
read this!
. Nuremberg Principles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the denaturalization of German Jews, see Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Principles were a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by necessity during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi party members following World War II. Under UN General Assembly Resolution 177 (II), paragraph (a), the International Law Commission was directed to "formulate the principles of international law recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the judgment of the Tribunal." In the course of the consideration of this subject, the question arose as to whether or not the Commission should ascertain to what extent the principles contained in the Charter and judgment constituted principles of international law. The conclusion was that since the Nuremberg Principles had been affirmed by the General Assembly, the task entrusted to the Commission was not to express any appreciation of these principles as principles of international law but merely to formulate them. The text below was adopted by the Commission at its second session. The Report of the Commission also contains commentaries on the principles (see Yearbook of the Intemational Law Commission, 1950, Vol. II, pp. 374-378).[1] The guidelines are as follows: Contents [hide] 1 Principle I 2 Principle II 3 Principle III 4 Principle IV 5 Principle V 6 Principle VI 7 Principle VII 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 Footnotes [edit] Principle I Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment. [edit] Principle II The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law. [edit] Principle III The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law. [edit] Principle IV The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him. [edit] Principle V Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law. [edit] Principle VI The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law: (a) Crimes against peace: (i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; (ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i). (b) War Crimes: Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation of slave labor or for any other purpose of the civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the Seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity. (c) Crimes against humanity: Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime. [edit] Principle VII Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international law. [edit] See also Command responsibility International Criminal Court Nuremberg Code Geneva Conventions London Charter of the International Military Tribunal Good Germans [edit] References Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950. on the website of the ICRC Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, 1950. on the website of the UN [edit] Further reading Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 1 Charter of the International Military Tribunal containd in the Avalon Project archive at Yale Law School Judgement : The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity containd in the Avalon Project archive at Yale Law School