Monday, October 20, 2008

Prosecute Bush for 'Nazi' Atrocities and Crimes Against Humanity

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Bush is anti-American and so, too, those who have provided him material support. They share his guilt and should, likewise, be tried for capital crimes as specified in US federal laws and numerous international laws to which the US is bound by treaty. It is those who have ignored and deliberately broken these laws with 'malice aforethought' who are truly 'anti-American'.

The leadership and often the rank and file GOP have conspired with George W. Bush to perpetrate his anti-American campaign of assaults upon our Constitution and our jurisprudential traditions. The leadership of the GOP has materially supported a deliberate campaign consisting of atrocities, illegal wars of naked aggression, in fact, numerous violations of US laws and treaty obligations. Bush should be prosecuted for many instances of high treason and war crimes for which US Codes specify the penalty of death!

The GOP is defined by its tactics: the 'demonization' of it's opposition. It is said that they 'hate America'. It is my position that unless one opposes the GOP, it is complicit with them, perhaps materially!

Certainly, Bush could not have succeeded in his campaign of 'Nazi' crimes had he not had the support of the GOP, its leadership, its rank and file. His crimes comparable to those of Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot --hardly the criteria against which we measure how much one 'loves' America! These are crimes that until George W. Bush subverted American credibility and made us the most hated nation on earth would have been considered 'Anti-American'.

Thanks to Bush the words 'America' and 'freedom' are rarely used in the same sentence these days. This is tragic. It was, after all, the US which insisted upon the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the end of WWII. Now --the regime of George W. Bush is not merely anti-American, it is compared to the Third Reich.

The list of documentable, provable crimes against George W. Bush is NOT political rhetoric. Every count can be proven in court. This is not a political issue. It's a legal one.

The time has come to organize a world-wide resistance that will bring Bush and his 'material support' to justice in the international courts. I submit that the state sponsored crimes of mass murder with high tech microwave weapons used cowardly upon unarmed civilians is not only ANTI-AMERICAN, it is NAZI. Those who have done this should be tried as were Nazi war criminals, and, when found guilty in a bona fide international court should be put to death for their crime against the peace, humanity, democracy and the rule of law.

Here is a short list of the perpetrators who should be arrested to stand trial for capital crimes as soon as Bush exits the White House:
  • George W. Bush
  • Dick Cheney
  • Donald Rumsfeld
  • General Richard B. Myers
  • Condoleeza Rice
  • Colin Powell
According to Pentagon sources, military vehicles equipped with high-tech laser devices have been used in Afghanistan to explode mines. According to two reliable military information sites – Defense Tech and Defence Industry Daily - at least three such vehicles are being used in Iraq as well and people have reported having seen them.

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For thousands of years, the way in which you have killed someone is you have hit them with a sword, a sphere, an arrow, a bullet, a bomb. It’s kinetic, you’re killing them by hitting them. And now, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, you have a completely new physical principle being applied in killing people, in which they don’t know that they’re being killed because their skin and body is being heated by high power microwaves or they are being hit by a laser that would have an instantaneous effect.

There are other types of weapons made with lasers, such as the device we can see in this sequence. The target is not hit by a projectile, but rather by an impulse of energy that manages to bore through the armor of an armored car.

Excluding acoustic weapons, for the moment, the only sign of the use of energy weapons in a war scenario is a laser device known as Zeus. According to official Pentagon sources, military vehicles equipped with this laser device have been used in Afghanistan to explode mines. According to two reliable military information sites – Defense Tech and Defence Industry Daily - at least three such vehicles are being used in Iraq as well and some people report having seen them.

--William Arkin, U.S. using new experimental "Tactical High Energy Laser" weapons in Iraq
US laws which address only the 'material support' for foreign terrorist organizations err by not addressing the material support that is provided by US citizens to illegitimate administrations that have, in fact, waged both aggressive war and campaigns of 'international terrorism' with 'exotic' and abominable high tech weapons upon a civilian population.

It should be the aim of this movement to arrest them and detain them until they can be tried in a bona fide international court for war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against the peace. It is no wonder, then, that the McCain campaign is desparate. With any luck, Bush himself will be prosecuted, perhaps, by Vince Bugliosi himself. I am confident that many other competent prosecutors may be found for everyone who materially supported this arch-criminal, this mass murderer!
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

-- War crimes, TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441
Additional resources:
Andover law school convenes Bush War Crimes Conference PDF Stephen C. Webster September 13, 2008 [Long overdue -ed.]

Red Cross finds Bush administration guilty of war crimes PDF by Andrew McLemore July 12, 2008

Bush's 'war crimes' & misdemeanors PDF Middle East Online 09/06/2008

11 million dead in Afghanistan and Iraq? PDF By Dr Gideon Polya 08 February, 2008 Countercurrents.org

Holocaust Denial, American Style PDF By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet November 21, 2007 - the British polling firm Opinion Research Business estimated 1,220,580 violent deaths since the US invasion.

War Crimes PDF By J Bruce Campbell 8-16-6

The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal PDF by Andrew Sullivan December 24, 2007 The Times Online

Bush bill pardons himself for his war crimes Video Sep 21, 2007

American Genocide In The Middle East: Three Million and Counting PDF by David Goodner CommonDreams.org August 8, 2007

The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal? Video

Wrecking Iraq: One Million Dead, 2 Million Wounded, 3 Million Displaced Collateral Genocide PDF By MIKE FERNER May 11, 2007

Janis Karpinski helps to go after Rumsfeld in Germany PDF November 14th, 2006

The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation PDF By Chris Floyd 11/09/06

Bush confesses to war crimes PDF Nicolas J S Davies, Online Journal Contributing Writer Sep 11, 2006

Retroactive War Crime Protection Proposed PDF by Pete Yost August 10, 2006

U.S. to drop Geneva rule, officials say PDF Clause bars humiliation, degradation of detainees by Julian E. Barnes June 5, 2006

New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal PDF RAW STORY May 2, 2006

Iran, Bush & Nuremberg PDF Peter Dyer, Consortiumnews.com May 16, 2006

U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes' PDF RAW STORY April 28, 2006

Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from "the very top" PDF By Joanne Laurier 7 March 2006

One Thousand A Month Tortured To Death In Iraq PDF Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 21 2006 - the outgoing UN human rights chief, Dr. John Pace, dropped a bombshell when he told an obscure Maltese newspaper that as many as a thousand detainees a month are being tortured to death in Iraq.

BREAKING - New Abu Ghraib Photos Released PDF Daily Kos February 14, 2006

Last month, President George W. Bush murdered four children PDF

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TORTURE MEMO SCANDAL PDF- This article ontains serveral memos in .PDF format

Amnesty International Calls for Prosecutions of U.S. Officials PDF Joshua Rubenstein interviewed by Scott Harris Between The Lines June 09, 2005

Amnesty Chief: US Kills Prisoners in Secret Jails PDF

New memo indicates Gen. Sanchez signed off on Abu Ghraib abuses, perjured himself before Congress PDF

Suit Alleges Rumsfeld Approved Torture - Two U.S. human rights groups sued Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday, saying he first authorized and then failed to stop torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan

US disclosures signal wider detainee abuse By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | December 26, 2004

IRAQI POW ABUSE - A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq [PDF download].

Navy probes new Iraq prisoner photos / Navy says tactics seen in photos OK PDF By Seth Hettena, AP December 3, 2004 [Will it be ok when it happens to US soldiers? -ed.]

Soldier says Abu Ghraib interrogators told him to stage mock electrocution Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Thursday October 21, 2004

Iraq abuse 'ordered from the top' - Brig Gen Janis Karpinski told the BBC she was being made a "convenient scapegoat" for abuse ordered by others.

TEXT OF THE PENTAGON "TORTURE MEMO" Posted Jun 9, 2004 02:38 PM PST [You know the one Rummy refuses to give to Congress! -ed.]

'US president not bound by laws banning torture' PDF Washington, June 7

Bush uses "war on terror" as a pretext to commit war crimes, then White House lawyer tortures the truth. By Frederick Sweet

Bush’s legal propagandist defends the indefensible: torture in Afghanistan and Iraq By Richard Hoffman and Mike Head 20 May 2004

US press accounts confirm: Rumsfeld, Bush approved Iraq torture policy By Alex Lefebvre 18 May 2004

'Bush, Rumsfeld signed memo for Iraq abuse' Monday, 17 May , 2004

Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings By Michael Isikoff Monday 17 May 2004

Call on the German Federal Prosecutor to Investigate Rumsfeld and Other U.S. Officials for War Crimes at Abu Ghraib

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4 comments:

kenny said...

Len,
Thanks again for pushing the prosecution of Bush and the other criminals. It is what this country needs.
I just don't see Obama pursuing this.

A question about Bugliosi.
In his book on the JFK assassination, he tries to perpetuate the myth of Oswald as the 'lone nut' killer. You have written much on JFK and I don't think you concur with his view.

Is it possible for Bugliosi to be so wrong on this and yet so right on the prosecution of Bush? Is it possible he is another in the long line of 'controlled opposition'?

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kenny's sideshow said...

I just don't see Obama pursuing this.

Obama may not have much to say about it! I envision a world-wide organization whose raison d'etre is the tracking down of Bush, arresting him, and hauling his sorry ass before the bar of international justice. Unfortunately, the relevant international laws do not prescribe the death penalty. The 'death penalty' is prescribed under US Codes! See: US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441; also: Helen of the Hague

My personal preference would be to try, convict and execute on US soil. A scaffold or a brick wall will do. After all --Bush's body count is conservatively estimated at some 1.5 million. Each is one count of premeditated murder.

Failing that, I will support any international group which will support the 'arrest' of George W. Bush (indeed, ANY of the gang) WHEREVER they may be.

In fact, as Bush was planning his invasion of Iraq, I contacted the ICC at the Hague myself. Although, I am quite sure that the entire world was monitoring the situation closely.

Re: Bugliosi. Bugliosi is absolutely WRONG if he thinks Oswald killed JFK. But he is absolutely CORRECT to believe that GWB is guilty of murder.

I also doubt, however, that even Bugliosi has grasped the full significance or the international implications of Bush's many crimes. Bugliosi, after all and however competent he may be, is a former prosecutor in LA. Bugliosi is --frankly --no Justice Jackson.

I would prefer a Shakespearean end to this. In other words, a satisfying if somewhat dramatic resolution --no unresolved issues, no loose ends, no culpret getting away on technicalities.

I want the point made that NO one --not even the 'President' of the what is said to be the most powerful nation on earth --may violate with impunity the international prohibitions against heinous war crimes, torture, mass murder and genocide!!

The future of this planet and whether or not life will continue to be worth living on it depends absolutely upon our establishing that principle in the face of psychopathic killers like the Bush family.

kenny said...

Thanks for your 'nothing held back' take on the trial and execution of Bush. I think there a few million more who would agree.

As an aside,
The update feed for your latest essays to my blog is not working.
Have you pissed off the google?

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kenny's sideshow said...

Have you pissed off the google?

Apparently! My FEED is now officially 'non-existent'.

And I have YET to hear from their 'help' staff.

I am fuckin' PISSED!

If it comes to it, I will REPOST every article on a new server and broadcast the new address.

I might add that there is absolutely NO REASON for my perfectly valid 'feed' URL to 'go bad' like a bushel of apples left to rot.

This is absurd and I am sorely pissed!