1 Doc Rusty,

Thanks for the post! I appreciate the support and the implication that I actually do something work-like while at work.

BRD

2 Well, at this point, it doesn't look like anything much will happen as long as it competes for headlines with rogue state nuclear programs and Iraq. The question is how to pick and push an angle that might actually result in some coverage, and hence, a basis for political pressure.

3 This has been going on for years.
This can't be blamed on Ted Kennedy or the French
Bush has 2 years left maybe this will be the one thing that he can look back on for his legacy.
At least give the people of Darfur  $10,000,000 so they can buy 10,000 AKs

4 Maybe Blackwater will send some of their contractors over there.

5 JR,

Possibly the best idea you've ever had.  I'm serious.

6 The Genocide in WEST PAPUA will continue this Christmas, and this December 1st when the US funded Indonesian military will again murder people for raising their national Morning Star flag, and arrest others more fortunate for 7 to 20 year sentences for raising their flag.

When will America end its colonial mining of West Papua and stop the Indonesian racial cleansing of the Papuan people?

7 Met him?!? Getting drunk with someone isn't exactly meeting them -- unless you're Irish or something.

I almost remember most of that night at Jawapalooza II ...

8 Rusty: The commie wasn't giving an idea. It was sarcasism for sure. He doesn't have ideas. Only party guidelines.

9 Andrew Johnson:  Tell us more. That is unless your name is Greg.

10 A civil war will continue so long as any fraction thinks it can seize power with violence, Iraq and Darfur have this problem.

But a genocide is easy to stop, just send journalist and expose it, an offending State is unlikely to continue its criminal actions while the world documents the crime.

Unfortunately genocide often has international supporters wanting the profits of genocide, or agree the victims are "primitives" or "sub-human" who should be eliminated for the benefit of others.

All Americans SHOULD be keenly aware of their largest mine, a combine gold & copper mine in West Papua designed & built by Bechtel and operated by Freeport McMoRan. The gold & copper was discovered in 1936 by Mobil & Chevron, their geologist called it "Ertsberg" (Mountain of Ore), but it was not until 1959 when the Dutch colony discovered there was gold flowing into the Arafura Sea and began searching for the mountain source, that Rockefeller's Freeport Sulphur suddenly decided it was time to mine West Papua.

Inside the White House, McGeorge Bundy & Robert Komer told Kennedy that the US could only save itself from communism by forcing the Netherlands to sign the New York Agreement selling West Papua to Indonesian control in 1962. After General Suharto came to power by killing a half million Javanese potential opponents in 1966, Freeport Sulphur in 1967 got its first 30 year license from Indonesia to mine the Pacific nation of West Papua.

In 2004 the Yale University Law School published its report:
(http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/westpapuahrights.pdf)

Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:
Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control"

In 2005 the US Congressmen wrote Section 1115 asking questions about West Papua & Indonesia's claim of sovereignty. In late 2005 Bechtel & Freeport & Exxon used their lobby the "US Indonesia Society" to petition the US Senate to remove the entire Section 1115.

Genocide is about denial, the US Congress was not even allowed to ask questions about West Papua. 40 years of genocide (according to Yale Law School) and colonial mining courtesy of the Indonesian military. GW Bush has allowed Indonesia to keep Jihadist training camps OPEN, he also lifted Clinton's bans on the TNI, and even commenced U.S. funding & Aid to the Indonesian military which still works with Laskar Jihad and other al Qaeda networks. Why ? Gold & money ?