Re: A powerful and compelling indictment of the criminal Bush administration


Harry Hope wrote:

> http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=9497
>
> Delivering A Powerful "J'Accuse" -- Right In Bush's Brave New
> "homeland"
>
> by Larry Everest
>
> January 10, 2006
>
>
> As the new year begins, January looms as a crucial month, possibly
> shaping events for the year and far beyond.
>
> In this critical moment, there's an urgent need - and great
> possibility - for delivering a powerful and compelling indictment of
> the Bush administration for war crimes and crimes against humanity
> right here in the U.S.
>
> This is the mission of the International Commission of Inquiry on
> Crimes Against Humanity, whose final session will be held January
> 20-22 in New York City.
>
> The situation, and our responsibility to world humanity, call for
> nothing less.
>
> Just since our opening session in October, new reports of shocking
> crimes - in all areas of our indictments - have poured forth.
>
> In Iraq, it has been revealed that the U.S. used white phosphorous in
> Fallujah and is escalating its air war, while its Iraqi allies build
> torture chambers and organize death-squads.
>
> Bush, Cheney and Rice hypocritically claim we do not torture, while
> making clear - in actions and words - that they do, and fully intend
> to continue spying, detaining, torturing and maintaining secret
> prisons.
>
> The number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo has nearly doubled
> because, according to Reuters (12/30/05), the idea of spending the
> rest of [their lives] at Guantanamo without any due process is simply
> unbearable.
>
> With scientists warning of climate shocks, polar ice melts, and global
> tipping points, the U.S. walked out of one session of the Montreal
> Summit on global warming and continues to sabotage efforts to curb
> global warming, putting millions around the world at greater risk from
> natural disasters, loss of habitat, water shortages, and famine.
>
> On the eve of World AIDS Day, the Bush administration expanded its
> global gag on information vital to fighting this pandemic, and
> codified that two-thirds of all aid funds aimed at preventing HIV
> infections by sexual transmission must be spent on abstinence-only
> programs.
>
> Both these actions have potentially genocidal implications in
> AIDS-ravaged countries dependent on U.S. health funds.
>
> In the face of the massive devastation in New Orleans, Bush continues
> to neglect the vital needs of those most severely impacted.
>
> Homes are not being rebuilt, services and schools that would enable
> the city's displaced residents to return are not being restored.
>
> Tens of thousands, overwhelmingly Black, are still destitute or living
> as refugees, far from their former homes.
>
> Many have called this a form of racial cleansing.
>
> It is not an exaggeration to state that the future of global humanity
> is being held hostage - in many ways and on many fronts - by a
> criminal cabal in the White House which remains bent on forging ahead
> with its cruel, dangerous agenda.
>
> A recent Washington Post headline stated, Covert CIA Program
> Withstands New Furor, Anti-Terror Effort Continues to Grow.
>
> All this places a great responsibility on people of conscience,
> especially here in the US.
>
> As the charter of the Commission of Inquiry states,
>
> When the possibility of far-reaching war crimes and crimes against
> humanity exists, people of conscience have a solemn responsibility to
> inquire into the nature and scope of these acts and to determine if
> they do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against
> humanity.
>
> In this regard, these words spoken by Harold Pinter in his acceptance
> speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, resonate powerfully:
>
> Despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce
> intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of
> our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves
> upon us all.
>
> And there is a particular urgency to the Commission's work now.
>
> Questioning, distrust and anger over actions by the Bush regime have
> grown by leaps and bounds.
>
> But public comprehension of, and outrage over, the full sweep and
> scope of the administration's agenda - remains far too narrow and
> muted; too often things are discussed in terms of dishonesty,
> misconduct, and law-breaking.
>
> All are true, but these charges do not begin to capture the enormity
> of Bush's crimes - both those that have occurred and those in the
> making.
>
> If the current terms of debate are allowed to stand and the Bush
> administration is not called to account for its towering acts against
> humanity, it will emerge strengthened.
>
> If its actions are not fully repudiated, they become legitimized and a
> new normalcy established - only to be shattered by new horrors, with
> people less able to respond.
>
> At this critical moment, the Commission of Inquiry can make a decisive
> difference.
>
> Prominent witnesses rigorously presenting compelling evidence before a
> jury of stature, conscience, and expertise can reveal and galvanize
> truths that change hearts and minds.
>
> Examining Bush actions which rise to the level of crimes against
> humanity - wars of aggression, torture, global warming, HIV/AIDS
> policies and Katrina - can deepen each individual indictment.
>
> And by taking them together, a whole can emerge greater than the sum
> of its parts:
>
> the conscious, systematic malevolence at the core of the Bush agenda,
> and how truly unconscionable this regime is on the scales of history.
>
> This Commission of Inquiry is an instrumentality of world humanity and
> an imperative of conscience.
>
> It can become a vehicle for the millions looking for clarity and
> voice, can change the terms of debate, and can deliver a powerful and
> urgently needed j'accuse ("I accuse") right in Bush's brave new
> homeland.
>
> As its Charter states:
>
> The holding of this tribunal will frame and fuel a discussion that is
> urgently needed in the United States: Is the administration of George
> W. Bush guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity?

Imagine a party getting to power and stacking the executive
with congressian members. This is effectively what the
republician party has done when they do not hold the President
accountable. The President is secure because on the one
side he ignores the courts if he needs and the other he
can makeup his own laws because congress won't stop
him. My understanding of the US system was that
Congress keeps the President honest, the President
as the leader of the public consciousness (I know sick
joke at the moment) keeps the judges in order (i.e.
if your impeached I won't pardon you! walk now and
you high crime of whatever, fraud, bribe taking, etc
goes away). The courts keep the legistlator from
crushing the people when it over reaches.

There is so much nonsense now that even as Congress
smears the courts they don't dare talk impeachment,
not of Bush, or of non-existance activist judges.

>
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Harry

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