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| Steering Committee To Seek Prosecution of Bush For War Crimes |
| 2008-10-15 |
| Massachusetts law school Dean Lawrence Velvel will chair a Steering Committee to pursue the prosecution for war crimes of President Bush and culpable high-ranking aides after they leave office Jan. 20th. The Steering Committee was organized following a conference of leading legal authorities and scholars from the U.S. and abroad convened by Velvel on Sept. 13-14 in Andover, Mass., titled "The More..Justice Robert Jackson Conference On Planning For The Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals." "If Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and others are not prosecuted," Velvel said, "the future could be threatened by additional examples of Executive lawlessness by leaders who need fear no personal consequences for their actions, including more illegal wars such as Iraq." Besides Velvel, members of the Steering Committee include: Ben Davis, a law Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where he teaches Public International Law and International Business Transactions. He is the author of numerous articles on international and related domestic law. Marjorie Cohn, a law Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, Calif., and President of the National Lawyers Guild. Chris Pyle, a Professor at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches Constitutional law, Civil Liberties, Rights of Privacy, American Politics and American Political Thought, and is the author of many books and articles. Elaine Scarry, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, and winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Peter Weiss, vice president of the Center For Constitutional Rights, of New York City, which was recently involved with war crimes complaints filed in Germany and Japan against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others. David Swanson, author, activist and founder of AfterDowningStreet.org/CensureBush.org coalition, of Charlottesville, Va. Kristina Borjesson, an award-winning print and broadcast journalist for more than twenty years and editor of two recent books on the media. Colleen Costello, Staff Attorney of Human Rights, USA, of Washington, D.C., and coordinator of its efforts involving torture by the American government. Valeria Gheorghiu, attorney for Workers' Rights Law Center. Andy Worthington of Redress, a British historian and journalist and author of books dealing with human rights violations. Initial actions considered by the Steering Committee, Velvel said, are as follows: # Seeking prosecutions of high level officials, including George Bush, for the crimes they committed. # Seeking disbarment of lawyers who were complicitous in facilitating torture. # Seeking termination from faculty positions of high officials who were complicitous in torture. # Issuing a recent statement saying any attempt by Bush to pardon himself and aides for war crimes prior to leaving office will result in efforts to obtain impeachment even after they leave office. # Convening a major conference on the state secret and executive privilege doctrines, which have been pushed to record levels during the Bush administration. # Designation of an Information Repository Coordinator to gather in one place all available information involving the Bush Administration's war crimes. # Possible impeachment of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee for co-authoring the infamous "torture memo." By Sherwood Ross |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 Thanks Dean Velvel for the names of your people. They can go on the list of people to be executed as traitors when the next civil war starts. Enjoy kicking at the end of your rope as a domestic enemy when the day comes. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-10-15 23:42 |
| #8 Having spent my youth in Assachoosetts, I can reliably inform you that "Velvel" is Ass-speak for Poopoo. |
| Posted by: Thrusong Sproing3473 2008-10-15 23:13 |
| #7 He's still in the race. It isn't really a shutout like the Big O's camp keeps saying. You've just heard it SO much from the MSM that you are experiencing the Jedi Mind Trick effect that they have paid hundreds of millions of $$ to implement. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-15 22:53 |
| #6 This election in Nov is a full court press of the Left for the control of the US, and the quantum change from a republic to a socialist state. They have been working at this for a long time. I remember them in the 60s at the Univ of Calif Berkeley. Now they will if they can, as in the words of Chairman Mao, seize the time, seize the hour. It is up to the American electorate, like it or not (and the many thousands of fraudulant voters) to decide if they will drink the Koolaid of the Left. This is a defining time in the history of this republic. Like the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW2 and other events of our peril as a nation. Never underestimate these guys. To them politics is war. The ends justify the means. They are the True Believers. McCain better get his head out of you know where and join the fight for the soul of the country. Because that is what this election is. Not only will the party in power make the laws, but their patronage will extend everywhere. The courts will be restocked with sympathizers of the socialist state. The military will be purged of patriots and be loaded with sycophants. The schools will become indoctrination centers. That is the future with the Left. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-10-15 20:52 |
| #5 Is it something in the water? Other than Ted Kennedy's passenger? |
| Posted by: GK 2008-10-15 20:51 |
| #4 Massachusetts. Is it something in the water? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-15 20:33 |
| #3 I'm not a violent guy, nor am I an ardent Bush supporter. Never have been really. However, I consider the actions of this group unamerican, and probably would support violence against them if they tried to carry this out. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-10-15 19:56 |
| #2 bwahahaha. Lefty Pr0n at it's most juvenile. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-10-15 19:55 |
| #1 Sure. Go ahead. Give it a whirl. And watch your little dream go up in smoke in a nano-second. No one who matters is going to touch this. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-10-15 19:53 |