tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post9028248030383178573..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Bush Should Stand Trial for Capital Crimes, War CrimesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-2555476756508086832007-10-27T09:18:00.000-07:002007-10-27T09:18:00.000-07:00THE KANGAROOS HAVE LEFT´Tis fun to shoot at helple...THE KANGAROOS HAVE LEFT<BR/><BR/>´Tis fun to shoot at helpless foes--<BR/>So some of us believe--<BR/>At captive birdies, bucks and does,<BR/>Tension for to relieve.<BR/><BR/>´Tis also sporting to attack<BR/>Unarmed civilians in<BR/>A far-off land (who said "Iraq"?)<BR/>But with the proper spin.<BR/><BR/>To shoot a buddy in the face<BR/>Is manly exercise,<BR/>O woebegotten human race--<BR/>your world so full of lies.<BR/><BR/>´Tis whispered here and there the words<BR/>"War crimes tribunal" but<BR/>The kangaroos have thinned their herds,<BR/>Their courts of justice shut.<BR/><BR/>´Tis nothing left but anarchy<BR/>And wholesale disarray:<BR/>´Tis best to learn chicanery<BR/>Wherefore to rule the dayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-51902186028054563892007-09-22T12:11:00.000-07:002007-09-22T12:11:00.000-07:00Hey Len,If I fail to win the congressional seat, I...Hey Len,<BR/><BR/>If I fail to win the congressional seat, I will join your effort to bring Bush and his cronies to War Crimes Justice. That my friend is not a promise but a gaurantee!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-90555871222502862552007-09-08T13:34:00.000-07:002007-09-08T13:34:00.000-07:00marain...Indeed, the people can hold a new nationa...marain...<BR/><BR/>Indeed, the people can hold a new national convention. Am pressed for time right now. Will post a most detailed response. I had written a couple of articles on the issue of the new national convnetion, but may update them and raise new issues. Look for the new post. It will have "national convention" in the title.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-69187450985670628452007-09-08T11:30:00.000-07:002007-09-08T11:30:00.000-07:00len said ...I am in favor of a new National Conven...len said ...<BR/><BR/><I>I am in favor of a new National Convention --which the founders foresaw, in fact, advocating "regular" such conventions.</I><BR/><BR/>I would like to hear more about this. How would it work? Would the decisions of this convention be legally binding? Could this convention make decisions about things in addition to direct popular election of the president and paper ballots? If it could be legal, and if its decisions could be recognized as legally binding and go beyond election and voting matters, maybe it would be a way to get some things done that are really needed that the current elected officials don't appear to want to touch (e.g., impeachment and prosecution of elected officials).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-3751119008196799802007-09-08T00:02:00.000-07:002007-09-08T00:02:00.000-07:00marain...I am in favor of a new National Conventio...marain...<BR/><BR/>I am in favor of a new National Convention --which the founders foresaw, in fact, advocating "regular" such conventions. Such a convention could mandate either a direct popular election of the President utilizing a "range voting" system AND mandatory paper ballots.<BR/><BR/>At the very least the phrase:<BR/><BR/>MANDATORY, HUMAN-READABLE PAPER BALLOTS<BR/><BR/>Should become a mantra that will put voting machine crookery out of business.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-72609313475822964462007-09-07T16:30:00.000-07:002007-09-07T16:30:00.000-07:00j c grobler said:As far as I am concerned the Amer...j c grobler said:<BR/><BR/><I>As far as I am concerned the American voters had two opportunities to keep this madman out of office. They failed to do so and I feel that they deserve what's coming to them.</I><BR/><BR/>The thing is, the first opportunity "to keep this madman out of office" was foiled by the US Supreme Court's unbelievable decision not to count all the votes in Florida. It was ultimately proven that if all of the Florida votes would have been counted, as the Florida Supreme Court wanted to do, Gore would have won. He should have been our President in 2000. SCOTUS selected the madman in the first place, so if anyone is to blame, it is them!<BR/><BR/>At the second opportunity, Kerry was winning at midnight on election day in 2004, but by 2 a.m., Bush had somehow magically overtaken him, by as much as 7-8 percent in some places. The exit polls and the final results of the 2004 elections were totally out of synch. This is so suspicious that it's surprising that we didn't have international election officials investigating our stolen election in 2004. We have become a banana republic, and no one wants to see it because we're the USA and supposedly fighting for freedom and democracy in the world so how can we possibly have people who are fiddling our elections??? But it happened. Hopefully, people like Brad Freedman over at The Brad Blog will have raised enough awareness of the dangers of electronic voting machines (that can be hacked in order to overturn election results in the blink of an eye with no one ever knowing about it) that electronic voting machines will be banned and future elections cannot be stolen anymore. The Dems should have won by a much greater margine in 2006, BTW, but because of the fiddling of the machines, they just scraped into a majority. <BR/><BR/>Most of the people in the USA oppose the current regime. It hasn't been showing up as dramatically in the elections because of these hackable machines that have been hacked in favor of the GOP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-87602175842961724332007-09-07T03:12:00.000-07:002007-09-07T03:12:00.000-07:00J C Grobler said...As far as I am concerned the A...J C Grobler said...<BR/><BR/><EM>As far as I am concerned the American voters had two opportunities to keep this madman out of office. They failed to do so and I feel that they deserve what's coming to them.</EM><BR/><BR/>You are a hard case but I find it hard to disagree! There is much truth to the adage that a people get the kind of government they deserve. May God help us! Bush surely won't. Majority rule doesn't work when a majority is either blind, stupid, or easily duped. There are many good American people. What scares me is the possibility that there just are not enough of them to outnumber the brainwashed GOP, idiots who can't find Texas on a map of Texas and New Mexico, and gun nuts who think Bush is not a member of the Village People. <BR/><BR/><EM>In regard to the rest of humanity I think it is time that we become pragmatic in our thinking. We need a global justice system, be it a popular one - one legitimized and powered by global public opinion.</EM><BR/><BR/>Justice Jackson certainly had hopes that the principles forged at Nuremberg might be the framework from which a global system of justice might emerge. And, were it not for the GOP's imperial ambitions, that might have happened. Certainly, American regimes have hypocritically skirted Nuremberg since using them to hang Nazi war criminals. The word for that is hypocrisy. An international court may never work unless it has teeth, and given the deadly competition for dwindling oil resources, there is less chance now than ever to create such a court or system. I hope it turns out that I am wrong in that assessment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-6323053028853243592007-09-06T23:52:00.000-07:002007-09-06T23:52:00.000-07:00What restraints are there on these people to respe...What restraints are there on these people to respect the Rule of Law when it comes to international matters? Bush and co is not accountable to those nations who have to bear the brunt of their aggression. The US public only holds them accountable in as far as their policies and international actions do not support their self-interest.<BR/><BR/>As far as I am concerned the American voters had two opportunities to keep this madman out of office. They failed to do so and I feel that they deserve what's coming to them.<BR/><BR/>In regard to the rest of humanity I think it is time that we become pragmatic in our thinking. We need a global justice system, be it a popular one - one legitimized and powered by global public opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-57301505251299509922007-09-06T17:13:00.000-07:002007-09-06T17:13:00.000-07:00"Bush Should Stand Trial for Capital Crimes, War C..."Bush Should Stand Trial for Capital Crimes, War Crimes"<BR/><BR/>No shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-77344936963216932342007-09-06T17:09:00.000-07:002007-09-06T17:09:00.000-07:00libhom - I disagree, not every politician who vote...libhom - I disagree, not every politician who voted for the war or voted to fund it is a war criminal, since they were fed lies and not given the facts. You should read Blumenthal's article on Salon: <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/?source=whitelist" REL="nofollow">Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction</A>.Vierotchkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028919670102869922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-26262151754065355472007-09-06T17:04:00.000-07:002007-09-06T17:04:00.000-07:00E.A. Blayre (anonymous - "Zionists run both partie...E.A. Blayre (anonymous - "Zionists run both parties"), please stop spamming thousands of blogs as you try to flog your stupid and badly written book which, contrary to your idiotic and mendacious claims (a sales pitch for a pitifully bad product) that "Possession of this novel may result in unlimited detention." and that it is banned or about to be banned or censored - you've been doing this for years, and it is most tiresome.Vierotchkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05028919670102869922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-86962217302775735312007-09-06T15:29:00.000-07:002007-09-06T15:29:00.000-07:00Bush isn't the only war criminal. Every politicia...Bush isn't the only war criminal. Every politician that voted for the war or voted to fund it is a war criminal.libhomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-66761197496588488112007-09-06T14:28:00.000-07:002007-09-06T14:28:00.000-07:00marain said... I think I do, too. Everything that ...marain said...<BR/><BR/><EM> I think I do, too. Everything that has been happening is just so unbelievable and outrageous - against all the good things about our country and our democracy that I learned about in school.</EM><BR/><BR/>And not even that is safe. The right wing will rewrite and dilute every curriculum in order to advance their dubious causes. I've been lucky to have had some incredibly gifted mentors along the way. Not everyone is so lucky. Education is one of my passions. what the GOP has done in the name of "education" makes my skin crawl.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-20193497732874559402007-09-06T14:15:00.000-07:002007-09-06T14:15:00.000-07:00Len Hart said... But, as you may have gathered, I ...Len Hart said...<BR/> <BR/><I>But, as you may have gathered, I take what Bush has done to our country and the world personally.</I><BR/><BR/>I think I do, too. Everything that has been happening is just so unbelievable and outrageous - against all the good things about our country and our democracy that I learned about in school.<BR/><BR/><I>At some point, the sheer gravitas, the weight of Bush's crimes will come crashing down on the Fourth Reich.</I><BR/><BR/>I sure hope you are right about this, Len. I hope that we can all celebrate this someday.<BR/><BR/><I>In any case --keep the faith!</I><BR/><BR/>I will try. <BR/><BR/>Many thanks for your great work. I love what you write, and feel reassured to know that you intend to carry on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-4426816459219407332007-09-06T14:04:00.000-07:002007-09-06T14:04:00.000-07:00marain said...And I am so grateful that you do thi...marain said...<BR/><BR/><EM>And I am so grateful that you do this. You are my homepage - the first thing I read every day. I am glad that you are making this huge effort every day.</EM><BR/><BR/>I appreciate that more than you know. In any case, I won't give up the fight and I fully intend to outlive the enemies of our Democracy. But, as you may have gathered, I take what Bush has done to our country and the world personally. At some point, the sheer gravitas, the weight of Bush's crimes will come crashing down on the Fourth Reich. In any case --keep the faith! Losing the underpinnings of decency itself is just NOT an option.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-60029765576211880072007-09-06T13:52:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:52:00.000-07:00Len Hart said:I keep reminding people of the facts...Len Hart said:<BR/><I>I keep reminding people of the facts because they are the facts and because I dare to hope that facts still matter in a world of bullshit and spin.</I><BR/><BR/>And I am so grateful that you do this. You are my homepage - the first thing I read every day. I am glad that you are making this huge effort every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-35775421562053058822007-09-06T13:46:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:46:00.000-07:00marain said...While I agree entirely with everythi...marain said...<BR/><BR/><EM>While I agree entirely with everything that you posted in this article, Len, I'm just wondering what has changed that makes trial for high crimes more likely.</EM><BR/><BR/>Probably nothing! It was a capital crime when Bush ordered the invasion and murdered some 30,000 civilians and it is still a capital crime now that the civilian death has topped one million. I have cited the federal statutes, the international laws chapter and verse, as well as various case law for what seems like a decade now. If nothing has changed --politically --in that time then America is fuckin' finished as a nation. I keep reminding people of the facts because they are the facts and because I dare to hope that facts still matter in a world of bullshit and spin.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-80922715981667034592007-09-06T13:40:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:40:00.000-07:00While I agree entirely with everything that you po...While I agree entirely with everything that you posted in this article, Len, I'm just wondering what has changed that makes trial for high crimes more likely. I mean, I feel like I've been seeing this picture since 2002. The UN inspectors were not allowed to finish their job of looking for WMD. If war had not been desired, the inspectors would have been allowed to finish their work. The current regime would have chosen diplomacy until the last possible minute. They could have waited and they didn't. <BR/><BR/>How is this latest revelation any better or different than what we knew after the Downing Street Memo was made public? That document was quite incriminating, IMO.<BR/><BR/>I'm not really expecting you to answer these questions - I'm not attacking you. I'm just feeling frustrated that this so obviously (since a long time) corrupt administration has not yet been impeached. I feel helpless and powerless. Who will impeach? How will this happen? Is there anything I can do to speed up the process???? I want to believe that, finally, there is enough evidence to throw the bums out, but IMO there is already plenty of evidence, so there must be something else that needs to happen before we can be rid of them all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-25152777650521094642007-09-06T12:35:00.000-07:002007-09-06T12:35:00.000-07:00Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in ...<EM>Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov't commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC's 'money-men'.</EM><BR/><BR/>Yep! You ARE correct. The question is: will we let them get away with it?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-27422473560578526622007-09-06T12:33:00.000-07:002007-09-06T12:33:00.000-07:00Simon Wiesenthal managed to bring quite a few Nazi...Simon Wiesenthal managed to bring quite a few Nazis to justice. <BR/><BR/>A similar effort should be organized to track down Bush war criminals. I might just set up a foundation for that purpose.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-74147951912078892792007-09-06T12:32:00.000-07:002007-09-06T12:32:00.000-07:00Too many people making money on this occupation to...<EM>Too many people making money on this occupation to ever let it go.</EM><BR/><BR/>Indeed! Check out some of the archives for this blog. That "conflict of interest" is intentional. This nation's business has BECOME war. But losing a war has terrible consequences. A war crime trial for Bush, Cheney and, even members of the "Energy Task Force" who conspired with Dick Cheney and George Bush to attack and invade Iraq for the oil may find themselves, as losers often do, without the protection of US federal marshalls. They might find themselves in the dock charged with a hangin' offense! I will be working to see that justice gets done!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-58085757829269459202007-09-06T12:26:00.000-07:002007-09-06T12:26:00.000-07:00Zionists run both parties, so Bush is going nowher...Zionists run both parties, so Bush is going nowhere. Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars. Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov't commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC's 'money-men'. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran.. Then we'll invade Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon (again) then ....<BR/>Final link (before Google Books bends to gov't demands and censors the title):<BR/><A HREF="http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0" REL="nofollow">America Deceived (book)</A><BR/><BR/>As an aside, did you see Ron Paul call out Israel on 200+ nukes during the debate last night? It is HIGHLY recommended viewing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-12930896178473984162007-09-06T09:54:00.000-07:002007-09-06T09:54:00.000-07:00An obvious conflict of interest will arise eventua...An obvious conflict of interest will arise eventually with the people connected to the corporate run Whitehouse wars and the so-called christian do-good'ers. Too many people making money on this occupation to ever let it go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-58246896477206633062007-09-06T09:45:00.000-07:002007-09-06T09:45:00.000-07:00Yes, George Bush should be tried as a war criminal...Yes, George Bush should be tried as a war criminal. But will he? Daddy Bush, will protect Bush and so it may never happen. Still if the economy slips badly enough, our people might finally demand it.Diane Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04709680778603784433noreply@blogger.com