Domestic Violations of International Treaties

“Circumcision” is a deprecated euphemism for the atrocity that is more accurately referred to as “Male Genital Mutilation.” It is the wanton amputation of a normal, healthy, functioning body part, which is certainly a second degree felony under Utah Statute 76-5-105, “Mayhem.” Infant Genital Mutilation also certainly falls under 76-5-109, “Child Abuse”. In particular, the following definitions given under 76-5-109(1) can be easily shown to be applicable:

• 76-5-109(1)(f)(i)(B), “involves physical torture”;
• 76-5-109(1)(f)(i)(G), “any conduct toward a child that results in severe emotional harm, [...] or severe impairment of the child's ability to function”; and
• 76-5-109(1)(f)(i)(H), “any injury that creates a permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, limb, or organ”;

Given the true and factual information about the anatomy and physiological function of the male prepuce explained by the D.O.C. Policy Statement, along with the above definitions from the Utah Statutes, Child Abuse 76-5-109(2)(a) makes Infant Male Genital Mutilation a second degree felony. Other Utah laws that may apply include 76-5-107, “Threat of Violence,” 76-5-103, “Aggravated assault,” 76-5-106, “Harassment,”, Solicitation for Conspiracy to commit, Fraud by Deception, and Omission or failure to act. Genital Mutilation is not a “rite.” It is a crime.
Further, because this brutally harmful atrocity has seen such widespread and systematic practice in the United States of America, it truly fits the definition of a “Crime Against Humanity” as defined by the Rome Statute Explanatory Memorandum, which defines the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute recognizes rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, "or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity" as crime against humanity if the action is part of a widespread or systematic practice.

Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, “are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings. They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. Murder; extermination; torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice. Isolated inhumane acts of this nature may constitute grave infringements of human rights, or depending on the circumstances, war crimes, but may fall short of falling into the category of crimes under discussion.”

The United States of America justified the invasion of Iraq, in part, by citing the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime---e.g. the use of poison gas against the Kurdish people. If that war was justifiable, then perhaps it is reasonable to consider Male Genital Mutilation to be a threat to U.S. National Security. It does not require very many steps of reasoning to cross the border between U.S. actions in Iraq and forseeing a large posse entering within this country to do battle against these domestic violations of human rights. Fortunately, this is not a battle likely to be won with the use of destructive weaponry. Violence is the problem, not the solution.
Furthermore, if our own citizens, law enforcement, and courts will not acknowledge Genital Mutilation as an atrocious crime, then certainly our “government”, guilty of selective enforcement of it's own laws, faces a very serious legitimation crisis. We can no longer live in denial of this obvious threat to our health and welfare. We need to look the serpent in the eye, see it for what it is, and help it to become entire and whole again. We must end the cycle of violence by refusing to continue to inflict pain and deprivation upon each new generation, and by protecting infants from those who would continue this atrocity.
You know what they say: “If you want Democracy, then start with your own family.”

Not Comfortable With Interpolation

The complainant has not made any first-hand written statement of any details of actual events. All the prosecution has, so far, is second or third-hand written statements that “contain” “information” gained through a standard interview process.

Unless the complainant or I provide you with specific details of our own perception of what actually occurred behind closed doors, you really have nothing to form your own perceptions of what went on other than a few scanty details.

How can you prove that what you may believe went on in there, based on your own interpolation between those exiguous “data points” is anything like what really happened? You must be careful to not let your own imagination fill in the missing pieces of your own internal mental pictures.

There are “relevant facts” not reported in the “evidential” discovery document. Language is not a perfect representation of the world we experience. We all do our best to accurately profile the world as we see it, and to use language to our best ability and advantage to portray it as we want others to see it. Every time someone relates a story to another person there is enormous potential for information loss and systematic distortion.

This begins with errors of fact, errors of omission, and systematic errors introduced due to language skill level on the part of the first party, who's story is being taken down and written up by a second party who did not actually physically witness the events being obtained from the first party. Thus, the second party has no way of knowing any detail of events not specifically mentioned by the first party, not given in response to directed questions, imagined, or assumed. Questions asked by interviewers interested in finding out that a crime has been committed are exactly the sort of directed question that would obtain only “relevant facts”.

But nobody other than the person answering the question or making their voluntary statement can know for certain what errors of fact, of omission, or of interpolation are present or absent in what they've said or not said. Nobody knows if there is a specific bias, hidden agenda, or simply poor language skills involved. Errors introduced by language and communication are often overlooked; or deliberately created.

When all you know for sure are a few “relevant facts”, that's all you can officially report... And when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or when all you have is a nail, everything looks like a hammer? I'm not feeling comfortable with that, but what do I know, outside of what I've been given to believe? Care to interpolate?

“Scribble, Scribble, Scribble...”

What else is missing from the picture?

I am very concerned about something. Anatomy textbooks published in the United States do not display the prepuce (aka "foreskin"). The one I have mentions it, even though it's not drawn in the illustrations, but only has one brief paragraph about it. In the past, babies have been circumcised as a matter of course, without even asking the parents. The "Joy of Uncircumcising" mentions a survey where 70% (IIRC) of American men surveyed did not even know their own circumcision status. Many Americans have no clue at all what the foreskin really is. They have been taught to repeat dogmatically that it's "dirty" and that removing it prevents horrible diseases.

After all the anti-communist and anti-socialist propaganda hype "they" spoon fed us... with all that noise about how the evil "communist regime" would disappear people and then edit them out of photos... now we find out that "they" have cut the most sensitive part of our penises "out of the picture" here in the USA. Add that to things like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and see what it makes in your mind right before you double-think it away and go grab a can of nationalism to wash away your working-class nutrition with while you fill your minds with the wonderous shadow plays dancing on the big screen in your dank swanky "living" rooms. Oh, I shouldn't have said that... Now you're wavering on the brink of ignoring all that amazing programming and reading factual articles on-line. So much for the Nielson ratings of your favorite sip-con.

How many people find that kind of thing to be something that improves your sense of loyalty to the United States? Or to the Capitalist fueldoll hierarchies that have usurped true democracy here and claim to be "The United States"? Oh, don't mention it... Go single file and don't reveal your numbers. I've probably already been flagged as "mentally ill" and can survive without employment if necessary, right? Allegedly, there is obviously a very serious Legitimation Crisis occurring... according to one source... But hell, why bother with all this "Castro green-glo nonsense", as long as I can get anything I need down at the Company Store. (Iron masks are on sail necks weak.)

Where it's really at is there are organized factions that exist within the Unitied States who want to be the "ruling class". They want to control the media. They want to whack our pee-pees and teach us to play "simon says", "follow the leader", "musical chairs" and "duck, duck, goose". They want us to be subservient, obedient and content. They sell alcohol, tobacco, bread and circuses. They teach a form of "hierarchy" that puts power and control into the hands of a few. They teach "division of labor" ("separation of concerns", "need to know"), and that there are "owners of the means of production of goods and services". They teach "monotheism" and that we "must accept hierarchy". Oh, well, yes master. Of course, sir. Anything you say sir. Yes, of course that is the way things are. It has ever been so. Yes, sir. Why not?

Nobles Oblige, fat guy with big brain at tippy top of poo-bah hierarchy! Remember the golden rule, and that people are more likely to live peacefully when you treat them nicely and "allow them a certain amount of autonomy". Wow. Maybe if you hand out more silk hankies we'll be Ok with it?

Here's what we want, plain and simple. Stop circumcising our sons. It doesn't really do what "they" thought it did anyways. It's evil, mean, and likely to create a lot more civil unrest than you'll care to eat for a dollar two thirty eighty four nine eleven. Make it illegal, now, and start arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning the perverts that mutilate little babies genitals.

I think we should educate the prison population about the link between circumcision and violent behavior, to give them a sense of why their lives have gotten so banged up. Then, throw the circumcisers in with them and let them all "feel it" together.

Rewarding Selfish Defense

Would yous rather have to cope with post traumatic stress brought on by participation in warfare allegedly fought over some intangible ideal, or instead do useful and constructive work with pre-stressed concrete?

The military doesn't "own" a soldier any more than parents "own" their children. I suppose that since you have to be an adult to join the military, you are assumed to be capable of entering into the contract with that organization that outlines what is expected of you with regards to "doing as you are told", and what to do if an order you are given is in conflict with your moral beliefs... or in conflict with the social contract we make within ordinary civil society.

They claim it's a "defense" organization. It's no longer called the "War Department", but instead is called the "Department of Defense"... Well, the first rule of defense is to make friends, not enemies. I've heard it told that "human beings, when placed in a situation where they must live together in close proximity, have an instinctual tendency to become friends." So, we normally don't start fights. It's not convenient, it's too dangerous, and the ability to win a fight or pull a gun on somebody is not the most valuable skill... Nor is the ability to irk somebody else into starting a fight to make it look like "defensive action."

The best way to make friends and keep the peace in any community is to look for the causes of contention, and try to treat the causes, not the signs and symptoms. Being nice to other people nets us a lot more than attempting to dominate them ever could. It's a lot less likely to produce casualties or create resentments. It sets a much safer and more rewarding example for future generations to follow.

A major source of contention is fossil fuel resources. We need to reduce the demand for petrol, and thus weaken the impetus behind going to war to get more oil. So, thereby, our best defense option involves getting to work installing the new smart grid and electrical rail system—both an inter-city system for freight and passengers, and an intra-city streetcar system in every large urban area. The intracity streetcar systems should double as freight lines.

If building a new street had always included installing a light rail line there as a matter of course, we'd already have it licked. With the present situation, in order to accomplish this mission, a large number of new workers will need to be recruited. There must be factories making rail, rolling stock, rebar, wind generation turbines... And, there will need to be lots of construction crews working at the same time, like two or three between each major city and ten to a hundred inside each city.

That's WWII serious about getting it done right, and productive, instead of waiting for "it to rain", as in "the roof only leaks when it's raining." The other neat thing about this plot to undermine the American Dream I'm outlining here is that in order to have that many "soldiers" at work, many of us will have to be excused from our regular jobs to trench out our streets and rail 'em back up. But, instead of going "over there" and potentially dieing from poison gas, we'll bee right here at home, preventing ourselves and our families from having to continue breathing poison gases. Think of the Civil War, where father and son fought side by side against brother and cousin... What if instead we all work side by side?

Want the shining route to heaven? I think "heaven" means "heave", "lift", aka "work". So let's quest for the roly rails! Crusade for the new road shining. Wouldn't this new kind of societal behavior be more re-war-ding than the oiled kine? I say we stop spinning our wheels, blame-bling on and on about the silly prices and money, and instead focus on what's real. So, what'll you have? Money to burn, smoke and mirrors? Or hard cold steel rails that will last for a century? Want to help us whitewash this fence, Tom?