WAR CRIMES INDICTMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO BUSH AT THE WHITE HOUSE

[Clara T]

PRESS ADVISORY URGENT January 6, 2006

WAR CRIMES INDICMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO BUSH ET AL AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Citizen's Tribunal's Indicts President On War Crimes And Crimes Against
Humanity

When: 1:30 p.m. January 10, 2006 Where: The White House,
Washington, D.C.

Website: www.bushcommission.org
Contact: Larry Everest or Janet Yip: 212-941-8086 or e-mail
[e-mail]

Indicments will be delivered at the front gate of the White House and a
press conference will follow in Lafayette Park following delivery of the
indictments to the White House. Present to answer questions will be retired
CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors William Blum and Larry Everest and Travis
Morales, World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime. The indictments will
also be delivered to the Department of Justice.

Named in the indictment are:
President of the United States George W. Bush
Vice President Richard Cheney
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez
U.S. Army Major General Geoffrey Miller
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and others

These indictments result from preparatory work and testimony presented in
New York City on October 21 and 22, 2005, at the opening session of the
International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by
the Bush Administration, alleging illegal acts carried out or approved by
the above named individuals in relation to, or in the conduct of, the
following:

1) Wars of Aggression, particular reference to Iraq and Afghanistan; 2)
Torture and Indefinite Detention; 3) Destruction of the Global Environment,
particular reference to systematic policies, contributing to the effects of
global warming; 4) Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights,
particular reference to the genocidal effects of forcing international
agencies to promote "abstinence only" in the midst of a global AIDS
epidemic; and 5) Bush administration's lethal response to Hurricane Katrina.
www.bushcommision.org for audio of session 1, read the chapters and


The concluding sessions of the International Commission of Inquiry will be
at the Riverside Church and the Columbia University Law School in New York
on January 20-22.

The commission was organized by the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience
and is endorsed by: Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers
Guild, After Downing Street.Org and many other prominent individuals and
organizations, including Former Sen. James Abourezk, former British MP Tony
Benn, authors Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and actor
Edward Asner.

The above-named defendants are invited to appear or to send representatives
to speak in their defense before a panel of distinguished jurors. This is
the first opportunity in the United States for a complete public hearing of
the charges and the evidence and testimony supporting them.

Charter, full indictments, standards for judgment, and audio and video
coverage of the first session: http://www.bushcommission.org
First Session (Oct '05) video and audio now available at:
http://www.bushcommission.org

Posted in full with permission

[serryjw]

1. OMG..Does this have any teeth?

What happens when they are convicted?

[Clara T]

7. No

They are doing what they can to draw attention to the war crimes and the perpetrators. There is value in that and if enough people get involved momentum builds.

It's interesting that many people who dismiss this genuine effort seem to wait for institutions, like the MSM, to get on the bandwagon when those very same institutions are complicit in the crime.What is required is more people at the ground level to create the swell. That is the only way this gesture evolves into something more.

[serryjw]

13. Thanks...go read my new post of my MINOR rant!

n/t

[sellitman]

2. Get this to Oberman! n/t

[Kagemusha]

3. Citizen's Tribunal isn't exactly the Hague people!

Geez! This is practically The Onion in terms of legality and gravitas.

[Silverhair]

4. Yawn. No legal standing of any kind at all.

The media will ignore it, W's team will throw it in the trash, the "Citizen's Tribunal" will hold a trial in abstencia, everybody will be found guilty, there will be another press conference that will be ignored.

[Charlie Brown]

5. Where's Tommy Franks, John Abazid and Bremer?

Let all the occupiers and exploiters be charged as criminals.

[Mutley]

6. These aren't real indictments.

It's just a stunt to make a point. I'd love to watch anyway, but they're not real.

[Clara T]

9. Yes I Know

but it is more than a stunt.

These type of meaningful actions are what can create a certain climate for future more binding possibilities.
In fact one could make the case that as citizens it is our obligation to do such actions even if there is no teeth in the 'indictments'.

[Mutley]

11. I didn't mean stunt like that.

Just the best word I could think of at the moment.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. They WON'T accept them. Wanna bet? OR

if they DO accept them, they go directly in the garbage.

[RC]

10. Damn, had my hopes up for a minute.

[melody]

12. It'll add a little more momentum to the Shrub's plunge

People don't look at details with such things -- they'll read the headline, cognize it, and then move onto the more local news. It'll remain in the backs of their minds, along with all the other Bush garbage, and contribute to the downward political spiral. I think it's a better thing than not.

[bonito]

14. Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience

I for one am a signer, and proud of it.

[jazzjunkysue]

15. Me too. And I send $$. They're a good group. Direct, to the point.

[jazzjunkysue]

16. I just hope they're not turned away by the SS. Maybe McGovern

can help. I hope Conyers and Boxer show up to help get them to the door.

[Clara T]

17. It'll be interesting

to see how close they get and if the message gets delivered. Some WH flunkie will probably greet them cordially and say GW respects their wishes blah blah blah it's great to live in a free country blah blah blah and .... or they'll get beaten and peppersprayed by cops in riot gear.

[jazzjunkysue]

19. I don't know exactly which stupid little rule they'll invoke as an excuse

but it will be something like,

"You're not allowed any closer, and I'm just a footsoldier, so I can't deliver it for you. You don't have a permit to meet, so, if you don't dispurse, you'll be arrested...."

It will be the Cindy Sheehan treatment, for sure.

[greiner3]

18. Can I pull the lever on the noose?

:rofl:

[FogerRox]

20. I saw Ed Asner the other day in NYC