[Sosfbay-discuss] Jonathan Turley on Olbermann about Rule of Law

[Drew Johnson]

Nay, Its not 'hitting the panic button' to insist that justice is
accomplished.  NOW is the time we must push for the accountability of
these war criminals.  Impeachment, indictment, conviction, imprisonment,
restitution.  Now!

Friday (if not prior) Obama joined the ranks of the impeachable war
criminals by ordering the 'High Crime and Misdemeanors' of drone attacks
(which killed innocent civilians) within the sovereign nation of Pakistan
against the stated will of the Pakistani government.  Its called a 'Crime
against Peace' and an 'Act of Unprovoked and Aggressive War' and its the
highest violation level of crimes under international law. Don't be fooled
He's no progressive.  Just like the other criminals in power He'll have to
be pushed into pursuing justice and not fighting against it.  The good
news is IMO he'll be much, much, much easier to push into doing the right
thing than the previous criminal regime.


Impeach for Peace!

Drew


On Thu, January 29, 2009 00:42, Tian Harter wrote:
> The news said Obama used his first Presidential phone call to call
> Mahmoud Abas. To me that gives the Palestinians an unprecidented level
> of legitimcacy. I'm just not ready to hit the panic button yet.
>
> Brian Good wrote:
>> Turley said Obama's silence is conspicuous. The
>> easiest thing to say is that we must prosecute war
>> crimes, because treaties obligate us, and that's the
>> law. Nobody in the Obama camp is saying the
>> magic words. Bush's underlings have an estoppel
>> defense--they can say they were advised by John
>> Yoo and others that their actions were legal. The
>> President and his immediate subordinates can not
>> use that. If they have committed war crimes and
>> are not prosecuted, we will shred four treaties and
>> four statutes.
>>
> I don't call calling for the closing of Guantanamo silence.
> Give it a bit of time to time to develop. Every President
> is entitled to 100 days of grace period. Relax. Watch. Listen.
>>
>> Bush's actions were unprecedented. He decided
>> that he was beyond the law, and became a
>> government unto himself. If Obama prevents the
>> investigation of war crimes he will be not merely
>> an apologist but an accessory.
>>
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVwfuTj0pA
>>
>
> When Bush was President I made a consistent effort to not break laws
> worth respecting. I'm still doing that. I still miss doing 85 in a 65
> MPH zone every now and then....
>
> Remember the days when you could get a ticket for "Wasting a finite
> resource" for going more than 55 MPH?
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