You can add to this another Republican crime. This is another hoodwink from
the party that is leaving a lasting mark on the confidence of the american
people...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/09/AR2008110902155.html


On 11/9/08, Mike Church <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/17_treason.html
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> TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441
>
> § 2441. War crimes
>
> (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.
> (b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are
> that
> the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a
> member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United
> States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
> (c) Definition.— As used in this section the term "war crime" means any
> conduct—
> (1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions
> signed
> at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the
> United States is a party;
> (2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague
> Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18
> October 1907;
> (3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international
> conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such
> convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with
> non-international armed conflict; or
> (4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the
> provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
> Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996
> (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party
> to
> such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.
>
>
> The Republican Party - the Case for Treason
> September 17, 2002
> By Anonymous
>
> I hereby accuse the Republican Party of committing repeated acts of High
> Treason against the United States. I submit the following list of charges,
> and respectfully demand that the Congress investigate them fully, in an
> open
> and public way, and take appropriate action if the investigation concludes
> that the accused are guilty:
>
> Charge 1: That during the presidential campaign of 1968, members of the
> Republican Party, not then in office, did harm the safety and credibility
> of
> the United States, and did bring about the death of thousands of US
> military
> personnel, by making secret contact with and negotiating with an enemy of
> the United States, the government of North Vietnam, in an attempt to induce
> that foreign government to postpone peace negotiations with the rightful
> government of the United States, and thereby prolong the war, for the
> purpose of gaining political advantage from the failure of those talks.
>
> Charge 2: That members of the Republican Party, including but not limited
> to, members of the Richard Nixon Administration, did abuse the power of
> their office and put the safety and credibility of the United States in
> jeopardy, in order to aid the interests of private political donors. To
> wit,
> that members of the Republican Party, as members of the Nixon
> Administration, interfered in the affairs of a sovereign nation, Chile, and
> did actively and illegally promote and participate in a coup d'etat in that
> country--including acts of murder--avowedly for the purpose of protecting
> the United States from the presumed threat of a Socialist government in
> Chile, but actually to protect the financial interests of several large
> corporate donors to the Republican Party who did business in that country.
>
> Charge 3: That members of the Republican Party, including members of the
> administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, harmed the safety
> and credibility of the United States by conducting an arms deal with the
> nation of Iran in direct violation of US law, then obstructed justice and
> lied to the Congress to cover for it, and subsequently abused their power
> of
> office by pardoning themselves to avoid criminal penalty.
>
> Charge 4: That members of the Republican Party, including but not limited
> to
> members of the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush Administrations, put the
> safety and credibility of the United States at risk by spending US treasure
> to provide military equipment and training to the nation of Iraq--a nation
> which the current Administration now claims presents a clear and present
> danger to the United States--despite the knowledge that the government of
> Iraq was a threat to peace, and had committed atrocities against its own
> people and against others, and despite the certainty that this military
> funding would undermine the moral authority of the United States to act in
> self defense against Iraq in the eyes of the rest of the world.
>
> Charge 5. That members of the Republican Party, including but not limited
> to
> members of Congress, harmed the safety and credibility of the United States
> by diverting its treasure and attention to a partisan political pursuit of
> President William Clinton--which pursuit included:
>
> a. the planting of a Republican party spy in the White House;
> b. the misuse of the FBI and the Department of Justice for partisan
> political gain;
> c. the bullying of witnesses known to be innocent;
> d. the denying of counsel to witnesses;
> e. the intentional leaking of erroneous information to the press;
> f. the setting of a "perjury trap" for the President of the United States.
>
> Further, I charge that this self-serving partisan attack divided and
> diverted the attention of the United States at a time that terrorist
> enemies
> were plotting against the nation. Indeed, when in 1998 President Clinton
> attempted to strike at a terrorist base in Sudan, the Republican Party
> openly mocked and attempted to undermine the credibility of the effort,
> doing so purely for the purposes of further partisan political gain.
>
> Charge 6: That members of the Republican Party, including but not limited
> to, members of the Administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and
> George W. Bush, harmed the safety and credibility of the United States by
> causing papers and documents related to their activities conducted in the
> name of the public to be removed from public view and access, for the
> avowed
> purpose of protecting the nation, but actually for the purpose of hiding
> from the public activities which, if revealed, would be politically
> damaging
> to themselves. The various acts of this nature by members of the Republican
> Party are in violation of both the letter and the spirit of the laws which
> require and demand transparency in our government, and without which
> freedom
> and democracy cannot survive.
>
> Charge 7: That members of the Republican Party, acting as agents of The
> Halliburton Company, harmed the safety and credibility of the United States
> by covertly conducting business with the nation of Iraq, in direct
> violation
> of US law, and in doing so provided Iraq with the means to purchase the
> weapons of mass destruction with which it now threatens the United States
> and its citizens around the world.
>
> Charge 8: That members of the Republican Party, including but not limited
> to
> members of the George W. Bush Administration, did harm the safety,
> credibility, and financial well-being of the United States, by
> misrepresenting or obscuring the actions of their Administration and other
> government agencies before, during, and after the terrorist attacks of
> 9/11/2001, for the purpose of protecting themselves from political damage.
> Specifically, that:
>
> a. members of the Republican party, as members of the Bush Administration,
> damaged the reputation of the Presidency of the United States by
> propagating
> a false story that the White House was a terrorist target on 9/11/2001;
>
> b. members of the Republican Party, including but not limited to members of
> the George W. Bush Administration, have failed to give the public a full
> and
> open accounting of the security and intelligence failures that allowed the
> terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 to succeed in killing thousands of
> Americans;
>
>
> c. members of the Republican Party, including but not limited to members of
> the George W. Bush Administration, have so far held no individual or agency
> responsible for those gross failures, despite voluminous evidence that
> individuals and agencies responsible should have recognized that the
> attacks
> were coming;
>
> d. members of the Republican Party, including but not limited to members of
> the George W. Bush Administration, have attempted to thwart a thorough
> investigation into those gross failures, going as far as instigating an FBI
> probe to find who in the government "leaked" details of the failures to the
> press, without which leaks the public would have little knowledge of the
> failures;
>
> e. members of the Republican Party, including but not limited to members of
> the George W. Bush Administration, have harmed the safety and credibility
> of
> the United States by using the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 as a pretext
> to further their pre-existing political agenda, ignoring or misrepresenting
> the nature, causes, and sources of the attacks in order to lend support to
> their partisan arguments in favor of:
>
> 1. drilling for oil in ANWR;
> 2. continuing to fund a National Missile Defense Program;
> 3. invading the nation of Iraq;
>
> f. members of the Republican Party, including but not limited to members of
> the George W. Bush Administration, have harmed the safety, credibility, and
> financial well-being of the United States by agitating publicly and
> vociferously for a military attack on Iraq, using the terrorist attacks of
> 9/11/2001 as a pretext, despite the fact that they have presented no
> credible evidence to the American public or the world that a connection
> exists between those attacks and Iraq, and despite the fact that launching
> such an attack without proper evidence and without the support of a
> significant number of allied countries puts the United States and its
> citizens at tremendous risk, both by exacerbating the already inflamed
> anti-Americanism now found throughout the world, and by ignoring the
> potentially devastating economic effects of a flight from the US of foreign
> capital at a time when the country's manufacturing is spread throughout the
> globe, and when its current trade deficit is $2.5 trillion, i.e., 25% of
> the
> GDP.
>
>
> These charges, ample evidence of which can be found in the public record,
> demonstrate a pattern of treasonous behavior, by which the Republican Party
> has repeatedly put the safety, credibility and well-being of the United
> States and its citizens at risk for the purpose of partisan political gain.
>
> The Congress of the United States owes a duty to the American people to
> aggressively investigate these charges, using all its legal authority and
> all available sources of information. And should it find the accused
> guilty,
> it owes a duty to the American people to mete out such justice as is
> required by law.
>
> mc
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