Permanent Fund aids genocide


Published on Thursday, July 2, 2009 8:42 PM AKDT

To the editor:

I never thought I would be complicity in genocide. Accepting the Permanent Fund Dividend has made me an unwilling participant in crimes against humanity. While the people of Darfur are being eradicated, the Permanent Fund remains invested in companies doing business in the Sudan. The governor and state legislators did not act in this session to require the Permanent Fund to divest. Our state politicians refuse to make the current genocide in Darfur a priority and are knowingly contributing to this horrific act against humanity by their inaction.  

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda killed an estimated 900,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus by the hands of the Hutu extremists. Despite fewer people being killed daily in Darfur, the genocide is ongoing. Humanitarian groups are ineffective as the Sudanese government allows them into the country one month only to remove them the next, crippling efforts to provide long-term, sustainable aid.

If we are not going to stand up as humanitarian, then I refuse to be complicity in accepting blood money. I want my PFD to go for buying weapons and educating the people of Darfur to protect themselves from being ethnically cleansed. I would like to challenge each Alaskan to do the same. Genocide continues to destroy humanity through political, religious ideology and ethnic cleansing.

Alaskans should challenge our politicians and each other to take a stand for humanity. Stop genocide today.

Alfred L. Sellers            

Anchorage

 

Copyright © 2009 Frontiersman

Comments

6 comment(s)

    fred wrote on Jul 8, 2009 8:29 AM:

    " dont cash it give it to charity "

    Dawn wrote on Jul 6, 2009 7:12 PM:

    " Well, the abonination is not on his head anymore. It won't be charged to his sins. But the problem is a whole lot bigger than what is being done in Sudan. The USA has a national religion. And our taxes fund it's temples, priesthood, and practices. Judges defer to it in lieu of established laws and due process. Psychology was still theory when our AMA accepted it. The rest is history. It has almost erradicated our Native cultures. And almost erradicated all religions in our schools. Freud predicted Psychology would destroy all the worlds monotheism, We'll see won't we? "

    jp wrote on Jul 6, 2009 2:36 PM:

    " Al Qaeda has taken over the white house, what are you worried about?
    the terrorists won! "

    lol wrote on Jul 4, 2009 8:16 AM:

    " And how about big tobacco? And big oil as well? Or maybe we should double military spending and send more troops around the world. But how about sending them to places where they need to be like Korea or Somalia? Oh haven't you heard? Al Quaeda has taken over Somalia in violent fighting for the last two months. If you want your money to go to Darfur then by all means send it but I suggest you pay attention to the entire world picture. "

    Ryan H. wrote on Jul 3, 2009 10:26 AM:

    " Please. You don't seem to mind being invested in big American Military-Industry-Security firms that are murdering civilins by the thousands in our wars of aggression around the globe. What about all the companies in the PFD portolio that are wreaking the environment and collapsing the financial system and outsourcing american jobs?

    I agree with Power Wagon, when you think about how far we all are as Americans across the line in everything this country has done for the past 30 years, the Sudan buisness boycott seems like a poor place to make a stand. "

    Power Wagon wrote on Jul 2, 2009 8:59 PM:

    " ...seems a stretch to me... "

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