Carrol Cox:
> Yes. I agree. That's why Fitch's repeated use of the term "crime against
> humanity" to describe 9/11 is so offensive.
You mean Fisk? It doesn't sound like something I'd say. However, there are other possibilities. The War Resisters' League page for their 2001 calendar says, "Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation" and mentioned Bob Fitch on the same page.[1] Cox Newspapers columnist John Young uses it in a sentimental story about a Betty Fitch, who although distant from non-native terrorist attacks in Waco, Texas, obtained German sympathies and shed a tear.[2] Brigadier General B. M. Fitch used the term in his "Charter of the International Military Tribunal For The Far East" (1945?).[3] Then there's this:
Temesghen told the participants of the workshop that Eritrean
exchange students in Ethiopia were detained for three days at
Shegole camp, inside the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa,
without food and drink before they were moved to the Fitch
concentration camp. While narrating his worst experience in
Fitch he said that they were always allowed to use toilet once
in 36 hours. According to the norms of the modern world and
pertinent international conventions, depriving human beings
access to a toilet is a crime against humanity.[4]
The Fitch concentration camp? Maybe I should change my name. Or at least stay well away from Ethiopia.
-- Gordon
[1] http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl/cal01.htm [2] http://www.coxnews.com/newsservice/columnists/j_young/1008-YOUNG-COLUMN-COX.html [3] http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imtfech.htm [4] http://www.eritrea.org/EIB/Eritrea_Profile/vol06/33/EP063310239914.html