Saturday, July 22, 2006
The Fall of a dictator
In June the Supreme Court of the United States, the majority opinion mind you, agreed with what I have believed and been saying for some time now. President Bush has and is violating the Geneva convention, Common Article 3, and the military code of justice. The violations of the law are clear and constitute war crimes by our country's own definition. Bush and his conspirators (which includes Cheney, Rumsfield and Addington for the suppression of the opposition to the violation of our own laws by the joint cheifs of staff.)
In case this is all a sea of mud to you, it really boils down to we have a dictator in control of our country who is violating the law, illegally detaining and torturing folks without them having any recourse to a defense or protest their treatment, and violating the Geneva convention of which the United States is a participating signer with the intent to have the world behave in a more civilized manner.
Bush is a war criminal. He should be prosecuted for his crimes. If we as the people of the United States do not police our own, how can we expect any country on the planet to ever feell any obligation to honor any treaty with us? How can we expect any of them to honor our borders? It would be perfectly plausible for some country to decide to "liberate the Americans" from the dictator in charge.
Cleaning house in the executive branch of our government is an absolute imperitive if we are ever to be proud to be Americans.
Bush has created more terrorists in his time in office than anyone I ever remember reading about in history. It is very easy to create a terrorist, it is impossible to un-create one. Only time without acts like those of Bush will cause the hatred and hostility to stop. The time has come to impeach the current monarchy, and try those responsible for their war crimes.
Laws make the society and when we continue to allow the dictator Bush free reign to ignore those laws, America is truly in it's last days as a free nation. I can see the book title now, although it may not be in English... The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
In case this is all a sea of mud to you, it really boils down to we have a dictator in control of our country who is violating the law, illegally detaining and torturing folks without them having any recourse to a defense or protest their treatment, and violating the Geneva convention of which the United States is a participating signer with the intent to have the world behave in a more civilized manner.
Bush is a war criminal. He should be prosecuted for his crimes. If we as the people of the United States do not police our own, how can we expect any country on the planet to ever feell any obligation to honor any treaty with us? How can we expect any of them to honor our borders? It would be perfectly plausible for some country to decide to "liberate the Americans" from the dictator in charge.
Cleaning house in the executive branch of our government is an absolute imperitive if we are ever to be proud to be Americans.
Bush has created more terrorists in his time in office than anyone I ever remember reading about in history. It is very easy to create a terrorist, it is impossible to un-create one. Only time without acts like those of Bush will cause the hatred and hostility to stop. The time has come to impeach the current monarchy, and try those responsible for their war crimes.
Laws make the society and when we continue to allow the dictator Bush free reign to ignore those laws, America is truly in it's last days as a free nation. I can see the book title now, although it may not be in English... The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
