Politics Hanged Jury
posted by June 18 at 12:30 PM
onThe Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is preparing to convene a conference to try President Bush as a war criminal:
“This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,” says MSL’s dean Lawrence Velvel in a statement announcing the conference. “It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.”
The dean, who I imagine as looking exactly like Keith Olbermann, goes on:
“We must insist on appropriate punishments,” Velvel said, “including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940s.” Sending administration officials to the gallows, he added, “would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders.”
Um, wow. Maybe we should wait until after the election to talk about this, guys.
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Iiii dunno.... is that treasonous? Threats of hanging the President?
Nope; treason in the US is only for two crimes:
"Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court."
Bush, for all his crimes, hasn't committed treason (as far as we know) like Reagan did in selling arms to enemies of the USA.
Let's not forget the Fascist corporate collaborators from halliburton, blackwater, etc. I think we may want to also publicly shame the investors for those companies too.
I'd love it if some morally bankrupt fat cat couldn't get a seat at a fancy restaurant or buy groceries because everybody knows he's funding the exploitation of poor people the world over.
You see what information privacy does, it allows you to hide the fact that you're a selfish asshole. I really think that everyones investments should be public record, but that's just me.
Maybe if we DID execute,after a fair trail, a corupt leader future leaders would not break the law so readily....
Wait until after the election? They should've started discussing this five years ago (whether he can be tried for war crimes, not the hanging part - calling for the execution of a sitting president in thinly-veiled terms and in the absence of a legal conviction is pretty crass, no matter who or why).
Although I'm still convinced that Cheney intends to have him killed, seize power and call off the election, this is worth discussing now. What I'm tired of hearing is your dickhead boss's shit about Obama being assassinated.
Unfortunately, I believe there are two seperate sets of laws, unwritten, that won't allow for an ex-president to be tried, no matter what his crimes. One set is for schlubs and one set for celebuticians. Celebuticians don't do serious time. Schlubs never stop doing time.
Trying them for War Crimes in International courts of law would be easier, and only requires a legal petition from affected citizens.
@5: Well, yeah. But now we're less than six months from an election and the time for impeachment has passed. The time for prosecution is in the future. Our only attention directed Bushwards right now should be ensuring that he doesn't attack Iran.
Well then Donald Rumsfeld is certainly eligible since he was instrumental in setting up Saddam in power in Iraq in the first place. Right?
I strongly recommend a National Guillotine.
Use it often and repeatedly. We oughtta wear the fucking thing out on the Bushbots.
Well, this kind of talk might take some heat off of gay marriage, for the Red State lulus.
I can see the forwarded emails now:
that's why he doesn't wear the lapel pin! It signals that he's in on the exeuction plot! And on days he doesn't put his hand on his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance? That means the town he's in will be one of the first palces where they're going to start rounding up the white slaves when he takes power!
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