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May 29, 2008 at 18:12:33
How to Make a Citizen's Arrest of a War Criminal by David Swanson Page 1 of 3 page(s) |
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2. Pick your war criminal. Here are their names, where to find them, and some of the charges against them. Note: War Criminals travel frequently. Watch http://convictbushcheney.org for notice of when they'll be appearing publicly near you. Below are their home locations. CALIFORNIA John Yoo: Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California, (but a lawyer with the Pennsylvania bar from which he should be debarred and would be if enough people demanded it) counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, wrote this memo promoting presidential power to launch aggressive war, and claimed the power to decree that the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming, and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war, and to announce a new definition of torture limiting it to acts causing intense pain or suffering equivalent to pain associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in loss of significant body functions will likely result.
Jay Bybee: federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, headquartered in San Francisco, California, counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, including by helping Yoo draft the memo linked above.
William Haynes: Chief Corporate Counsel at the Chevron Corporate Office in San Ramon, California, counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, including by drafting memos for Yoo.
Colin Powell: strategic limited partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, appears as a speaker in a series of motivational events called Get Motivated, board member of Revolution Health and of the Council on Foreign Relations, took part in White House meetings personally overseeing and approving torture by authorizing the use of specific torture techniques including waterboarding on specific people, lied to the United Nations about the grounds for war in a failed attempt to legalize a war of aggression, and was in fact a leading liar in making the false case for an illegal war of aggression.
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Henry Kissinger: lives in Kent, Connecticut, and works at Kissinger Associates, 350 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y., had a resume envied by other war criminals long before he advised George W. Bush to commit war crimes. Here's a partial list of his crimes.
Nicholas E. Calio: Citigroup's Executive Vice-President for Global Government Affairs served as a member of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) which planned the marketing of an illegal war of aggression on the basis of lies.
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Karen Hughes: lives in Austin, Texas, served as a member of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) which planned the marketing of an illegal war of aggression on the basis of lies.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
David Addington: chief of staff to Dick Cheney in Washington, D.C., counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, including by helping Yoo draft the memo linked above, and drafted signing statements for Bush declaring the right to violate laws redundantly banning war crimes including torture and the construction of permanent bases in Iraq and efforts to control Iraq's oil.
Condoleezza Rice: serving as Secretary of State in Washington, D.C., and can be found frequenting shoe stores, served as a member of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) which planned the marketing of an illegal war of aggression on the basis of lies, took part in White House meetings personally overseeing and approving torture by authorizing the use of specific torture techniques including waterboarding on specific people, lied about mushroom clouds, and was in fact a leading liar in making the false case for an illegal war of aggression.
Donald Rumsfeld: lives in Washington, D.C., and at former slave-beating plantation "Mount Misery" on Maryland's Eastern Shore near St. Michael's and a home belonging to Dick Cheney, as well as at an estate outside Taos, New Mexico, took part in White House meetings personally overseeing and approving torture by authorizing the use of specific torture techniques including waterboarding on specific people, and was in fact a leading liar in making the false case for an illegal war of aggression, and pushed for wars of aggression for years as a participant in the Project for a New American Century.
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I haven't read all the connections but politically this is
good in my opinion. When people start acting rather than calling on intrasigent representatives to act then the Conyers' and Pelosi's and perhaps even the Obama's can either join with you or not but they can't ignore you. Toture and aggressive invasions are without a shaddow of a doubt war crimes. On 19 March 2003 when the invasion of Iraq was underway and shock and awe started, Australian Opposition leader Simon Crean was presenting legal advice to the Australian media that the opposition had obtained that stated that the war was against international law. I have copies of that advice from the authors. I can make it available if it is of interest. by Brett Paatsch (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 1308 comments) on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 12:24:54 AM
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Reply: link please
to the Australian information by ibrahim turner (26 articles, 32 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 184 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 9:30:47 AM
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Reply: I don't have them as links I have them as 2 pdf
files containing the legal opinions. If you send me an email address that I can use to mail you (contact me via this site), then I will use that email address you send me to mail you back and attach the two pdf files to it. David Swanson has a site afterdowningstreet set up already, I thought he might give the legal documents a home but I am not sure he even reads the comments under his articles on this site. by Brett Paatsch (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 23 diaries, 1308 comments) on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 3:19:16 AM
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