The Brief Against Bush

[RebelYell]

THE PRESIDENT & THE LAW

There is a law against misrepresentation. Prominent New Hampshire attorney John Perrault makes his case against the President's policies. Perrault analyzes the legal consequences of deceit - about WMD, Al Qaeda and Iraq.

THE BRIEF AGAINST BUSH
By John Perrault, Attorney

The law does not require a lie to find deceit. If you say something is true when it's not, and you are consciously indifferent to its truth, that's deceit.

A tells B that C has a gun in order to get B to attack C. B believes A, as A is a prominent figure whose word is unimpeachable.Relying on A's statement, B attacks C only to find no gun; and here comes a gang of C's friends to attack B!

Fifty stitches later B learns A was lying, or consciously indifferent to the truth of the statement, or had no solid basis for saying C had a gun. Does B have a case against A?

You bet. A is liable for B's injuries. That's the law of misrepresentation. If A intended for B to act and either knew his statement was false or was consciously indifferent to its truth, and B justifiably relied on the statement to his detriment, that's called fraud.

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Deceivers or incompetents-take your pick. Fellow citizens, if we have not been deceived by George W. Bush & Co., deceit has no meaning and the dictionary should be burned. But it is we who have been burned. If we can't sue the man, we can fire him on November 2nd. The Republic for which we stand demands nothing less.

http://seacoastnh.com/Today/Editor_at_Large/The_Brief_Against_Bush/

[opihimoimoi]

1. Fire the dude ...if for nothing else: Failure to warn us in Aug of 2001

that osama is coming to attack us using airplanes. That is the LEAST he coulda done. Warn America. Instead he did zero, which is Malfeasance....

[RebelYell]

2. Not to mention incompetence

I would be fired for much, much less.

Edit to correct typo

[opihimoimoi]

4. Gross Deriliction of DUTY...UnAmerican, Aiding the enemy,

Fire the dude, 86 him, walking papers time....

[OneBlueSky]

3. John Perrault also happens to be a fine musician . . .

booked him several times when I was running a summer festival up in New Hampshire years ago . . .

http://www.seacoastnh.com/artists/Perrault/