Signed by, the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars"
[published by David Swanson, 22 April 2012
in War is a Crime.]
Since Truman, presidents of the US National Security State have felt themselves securely above the law in ordering unconstitutional, illegal, undeclared murderous wars in nations anywhere they were advised to.
Obama, though himself a lawyer and therefore precisely aware of the criminal nature of his acts, is no exception. No president before him has been so audacious in preposterously proclaiming the sanctity of the deadly military attacks he has ordered, appearing oblivious to the possibility of future prosecution and punishment.
Corporate controlled media has reenforced the idea that all US wars are above prosecution. Thus everyone participating in this brutal national behavior of taking lives daily, year in year out, feels reassured their participation is not criminal. Kids dutifully pulling the triggers, their parents willingly paying their war supporting taxes, the media personalities knowingly bending the truth to work up public fears and war acceptance, the leaders of organized clergy devilishly calling wars on poor people just, and the financiers behind the wars all try to relax and void their conscience of feelings of guilt.
However there
have been many citizen indictments during these sixty-three years of US
undeclared wars that bode some reason for alarm among those involved in
crimes against humanity. Here below, are noted but a few.
- Quite a number of US soldiers have faced trial for atrocities committed.
- The world has learned that Chief Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor once said he would have been proud to prosecute the US pilots shot down while bombing cities in Vietnam. GOP Vice-presidential candidate Sen. John McCain was one of those pilots shot down.
- Now, Veterans For Peace, once tough young men tricked into serving murder incorporated for Wall St. shaming themselves and their country are indicting participants in these criminal wars of mass homicide.
- Mothers like Cindy Sheehan, painfully suffering from regret for not preventing their sons from entering the military, lead bitter public condemnation of their public officials.
- Cardinal Spellman is identified in history books as a key proponent of the Vietnam war that Rev. Martin Luther King prosecuted in the court of public opinion as an atrocity.
- At Nuremberg, five Nazi media personalities were tried and sentenced. One was hung.
- Financier David Rockefeller's close confidants and high appointed war-running officials, the Dulles brothers are now clearly documented in encyclopedias as master war criminals; his Henry Kissinger, now careful where he travels to avoid arrest, was sued in a District Court as an accomplice to murder; Rockefeller cohort Zbigniew Brzezinski tries to excuse his bragging of being responsible for covert CIA attack in Afghanistan to frighten the Soviets in.
- "Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit Court made the ruling." [ Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest , Global Research , 9/20/2011]
- "Former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Elizabeth, have canceled a planned speaking engagement at Toronto's Metro Convention Centre next month ... "He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high. They specifically referenced what happened in Vancouver." A fierce protest of Cheney's speech in British Columbia last September necessitated the use of Vancouver riot police and kept Cheney locked inside the speaking venue for seven hours while crowds were dispersed."
Who's Afraid of War Crimes Prosecution? Cheney Cancels Canada , Global Research , Canada, 5/19/2012
- "Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the former US president authorized "torture" when he directed the US-led war on terror."
[ Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest Bush, AFP 13, 2011]
"there is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes." said Major General Antonio Taguba, who led the official Army investigation into Abu Ghraib Prison torture, in his report of
September19, 2011
[published by David Swanson, 22 April 2012
in War is a Crime.]
Since Truman, presidents of the US National Security State have felt themselves securely above the law in ordering unconstitutional, illegal, undeclared murderous wars in nations anywhere they were advised to.
Obama, though himself a lawyer and therefore precisely aware of the criminal nature of his acts, is no exception. No president before him has been so audacious in preposterously proclaiming the sanctity of the deadly military attacks he has ordered, appearing oblivious to the possibility of future prosecution and punishment.
Corporate controlled media has reenforced the idea that all US wars are above prosecution. Thus everyone participating in this brutal national behavior of taking lives daily, year in year out, feels reassured their participation is not criminal. Kids dutifully pulling the triggers, their parents willingly paying their war supporting taxes, the media personalities knowingly bending the truth to work up public fears and war acceptance, the leaders of organized clergy devilishly calling wars on poor people just, and the financiers behind the wars all try to relax and void their conscience of feelings of guilt.
- Quite a number of US soldiers have faced trial for atrocities committed.
- The world has learned that Chief Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor once said he would have been proud to prosecute the US pilots shot down while bombing cities in Vietnam. GOP Vice-presidential candidate Sen. John McCain was one of those pilots shot down.
- Now, Veterans For Peace, once tough young men tricked into serving murder incorporated for Wall St. shaming themselves and their country are indicting participants in these criminal wars of mass homicide.
- Mothers like Cindy Sheehan, painfully suffering from regret for not preventing their sons from entering the military, lead bitter public condemnation of their public officials.
- Cardinal Spellman is identified in history books as a key proponent of the Vietnam war that Rev. Martin Luther King prosecuted in the court of public opinion as an atrocity.
- At Nuremberg, five Nazi media personalities were tried and sentenced. One was hung.
- Financier David Rockefeller's close confidants and high appointed war-running officials, the Dulles brothers are now clearly documented in encyclopedias as master war criminals; his Henry Kissinger, now careful where he travels to avoid arrest, was sued in a District Court as an accomplice to murder; Rockefeller cohort Zbigniew Brzezinski tries to excuse his bragging of being responsible for covert CIA attack in Afghanistan to frighten the Soviets in.
- "Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit Court made the ruling." [ Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest , Global Research , 9/20/2011]
- "Former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Elizabeth, have canceled a planned speaking engagement at Toronto's Metro Convention Centre next month ... "He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high. They specifically referenced what happened in Vancouver." A fierce protest of Cheney's speech in British Columbia last September necessitated the use of Vancouver riot police and kept Cheney locked inside the speaking venue for seven hours while crowds were dispersed."
Who's Afraid of War Crimes Prosecution? Cheney Cancels Canada , Global Research , Canada, 5/19/2012
- "Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the former US president authorized "torture" when he directed the US-led war on terror."
[ Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest Bush, AFP 13, 2011]
"there is no longer any doubt as to whether the [Bush] administration has committed war crimes." said Major General Antonio Taguba, who led the official Army investigation into Abu Ghraib Prison torture, in his report of
September19, 2011
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