The publisher of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" was initially going to sell us the book at a 60% discount. At that price we had to raise a little over $40,000 to purchase 2,200 books to distribute to D.A.'s across the nation. All the proceeds would go to buying the books from the publisher, purchasing the padded mailers and labels, shipping costs, and credit card processing fees. Everything else for this project was provided by volunteers.
Our site, prosecutegeorgebush.com, went "live" Wednesday night, September 17, 2008. By the end of November we had received about $11,000 in donations. We were $29,000 short of our goal when out of nowhere on December 9th the publisher called and offered the books at cost. Suddenly we were just $2,900 away. Feeling hopeful, we went back to the only media that had given us any help; the great Mike Malloy on novaM radio. Thanks to Malloy's listeners, over the next two days, prosecutegeorgebush.com received over 95% of the money we needed, arriving in $3, $5, $6, $10, and $15 donations. In the spirit of truth and justice, Malloy's generous listeners helped us purchase the 2,200 books which arrived on January 15th as 5 pallets of 4,000 pounds of books.
Bob and Jude receiving some of the books
Jude and volunteers standing with boxes of books
In the next two weeks we'll be sending out copies of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" to every prosecuting attorney who had a member of the military from his or her jurisdiction killed in Iraq. A list of all the prosecuting attorneys will be posted on the website. I'll send an email to every donor asking them to go to prosecutegeorgebush.com, find their District Attorney on the list, and write, call, and email to ask them to read the book and move forward to prosecute George W. Bush. I encourage everyone in America who believes that no one is above the law to do the same. We've got to let the district attorneys know why they received the book and what we expect them to do with it. We've purchased the padded mailers, labels, toner, and reams of paper for the cover letter written by Mr. Bugliosi.
Below is the copy of Vince Bugliosi's cover letter that will accompany every book. Feel free to email it or take a copy direct to your District Attorney to make the case for the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder:
I am herein enclosing a copy of my New York Times bestselling book The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder. I hope that you will find the time to read it and that you will agree with its essential conclusion-that George Bush took this nation to war in Iraq on a lie, under false pretenses, and therefore, under the law, he is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4,000 young American soldiers who have died so far fighting his war in Iraq.
If you agree, I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to talk or perhaps meet with you to discuss two main points: whether there is sufficient legally admissible evidence against Bush (in my opinion, there is clear and overwhelming evidence) to warrant a criminal prosecution against him after he has left office, and whether your office would have jurisdiction to prosecute him (see pages 154-156, 168, 305-307, and 309-310 of my book) for the murder of any soldier or soldiers from your county who died fighting Bush's war. If the answer to each of these questions is "yes," and you are willing to proceed with this legal case, I would of course be available to assist you in any way you saw fit in this historic prosecution. That assistance could range, if you chose, from being a consultant all the way up to and including being appointed a special prosecutor.
Indeed, a recent candidate for a state Attorney General announced at a press conference with me that if she won, she would appoint me special prosecutor to seek a murder indictment against George Bush. But she entered the race too late (on September 18, just a month and a half before the election), and because she had an under-financed campaign she was unable to get her message out to the citizens of the state. As a result, she did not do well against a well-entrenched Democratic incumbent who had been in office since 1998. It should be mentioned that a poll showed that by 4-1, people in the state said they would vote for a candidate for Attorney General who would pursue Bush criminally. But the campaign, without adequate funds, was unable to connect the candidate with this sentiment already out there. In a related vein, a New York Times-CBS national poll in 2005 showed that the majority of Americans believed that Bush had "intentionally misled" America into war in Iraq.
I don't have to tell you that in America, no man is so high that he is above the law. If we prosecute those in America who only commit one murder, under what theory don't we prosecute a president who is criminally responsible for over four thousand murders? And let's not forget the over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, children and babies who have died horrible, violent deaths because of Bush's war. Bush is obviously guilty of these murders also, but I was unable to establish jurisdiction here in American to prosecute Bush for the deaths of these Iraqi citizens. However, I was able to establish jurisdiction here in America to prosecute Bush for the deaths of those American soldiers who have died in Iraq fighting Bush's war.
By way of footnote, although I am aware of one constitutional scholar who says that George Bush has immunity from prosecution, the only legal authority he cites for this is a civil case, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731 (1982). But the Fitzgerald case only holds that a president has immunity from civil lawsuits, not criminal prosecution. Indeed, the United States Constitution itself (Article I, Section 3, cl. 7) and The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton in essay number 69 in 1787) make it clear that the president has no immunity from prosecution. If a president had such immunity, there wouldn't have been any need for President Ford to pardon former President Nixon in 1974. Several prominent constitutional scholars have endorsed the conclusion of my book that Bush can be prosecuted for murder in an American courtroom for the deaths of American soldiers in the Iraq war.
One additional point. The cost of this proposed prosecution would be great, most likely far beyond the budget of your office. However, there can be little doubt that if it became known that your office was actually proceeding in the prosecution of Bush, and funds were needed, all the money that was necessary would pour in from people around the country to help finance the prosecution. This, of course, is completely permissible. An example in point (but where the group was a number of Louisiana businessmen) was New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to commit murder in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
To capsulize my feelings on this matter, although I may not succeed, I'm not going to be satisfied until I see George Bush in an American courtroom being prosecuted for first degree murder. George Bush cannot be permitted to get away with murder. I realize my biggest obstacle is the perceptive observation made by Mark Twain: "Why is physical courage so common, but moral courage so very rare?"
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