right now! Live video link to Bush War Crimes Conference' (Sunday)

[G_j]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3991962&mesg_id=3991962

Bush War Crimes Conference' convenes (Massachusetts School of Law at Andover)


video link: http://cdn1.ustream.tv//swf/4/viewer.26.swf?embed=286873&loc=/&cid=286873

or: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/warcrimesconference


'Bush War Crimes Conference' convenes

Saturday morning, the dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a two day planning session with a single focus: To arrest, put to trial and carry out sentence on criminals in the Bush Administration.

The conference, arranged by Lawrence Vevel, cofounder of the Andover school, will focus on which of Bush's officials and members of Congress could be charged with war crimes. The plan also calls for "necessary organizational structures" to be established, with the purpose of pursuing the guilty "to the ends of the Earth."

"For Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Yoo to spend years in jail or go to the gallows for their crimes would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders," Velvel said in a media advisory.

In a published document entitled "The Long Term View" (PDF link), Vevel argues, at the very least, "there is no question" George W. Bush is guilty of conspiracy to commit torture, a war crime.

"He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth," said Vevel.

The conference will focus on:

# What international and domestic crimes were committed, which facts show crimes under which laws, and what punishments are possible.

# Which high level Executive officials -- and Federal judges and legislators as well, if any -- are chargeable with crimes.

# Which international tribunals, foreign tribunals and domestic tribunals (if any) can be used and how to begin cases and/or obtain prosecutions before them.

# The possibility of establishing a Chief Prosecutor’s Office such as the one at Nuremburg.

# An examination of cases already brought and their outcomes.

# Creating an umbrella Coordinating Committee with representatives from the increasing number of organizations involved in war crimes cases.

# Creating a Center to keep track of and organize compilations of relevant briefs, articles, books, opinions, and facts, etc., on war crimes and prosecutions of war criminals.


And, addressing the conference will be:

# Famed former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, author of the best-selling "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" (Vanguard).

# Phillippe Sands, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals at University College, London. He is the author of "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values" (Penguin/Palgrave Macmillan), among other works.

# Jordan Paust, Professor of Law at the University of Houston and author of "Beyond The Law."

# Ann Wright, a former U.S. Army colonel and U.S. Foreign Service official who holds a State Department Award for Heroism and who taught the Geneva Conventions and the Law of Land Warfare at the Special Warfare Center at Ft. Bragg, N.C. She is the coauthor of "Dissent: Voices of Conscience."

# Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center For Constitutional Rights, which was recently involved with war crimes complaints filed in Germany and France against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others.

# Benjamin Davis, Associate Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law and former American Legal Counsel for the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration.

# David Lindorff, journalist and co-author with Barbara Olshansky of "The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office"(St. Martin’s Press).

# Colleen Costello of Human Rights USA.

# Christopher Pyle, a professor at Mt. Holyoke and author of several book on international matters.

# Lawrence Velvel, a leader in the field of law school education reform, who has written numerous internet articles on issues relevant to the conference.

[G_j]

1. Hey DU! sure you're not interesting in watching this??

:shrug:

[warren pease]

4. Wellll... I wuz gonna but itz almos time fur footzbal...

..an then I hav ta go protess the piece vigel priks downtown, so therz know time fur all this wining an bidtching about howe are war prezuhdint shud hang like a ripe pineaplle jest fur murdurin a cupple million towl hedz.


I better add this right now: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

I've been getting some weird responses lately from the ironically challenged.


Thanks for the reminder. I missed Bugliosi's segment yesterday, unfortunately. Do you know if these sessions are going to be available online?

This is the kind of direct action I support without reservation. I'm so sick of signing petitions -- which is essentially begging for what's already ours and which these chickenshits and accomplices had no business ever taking "off the table" in the first place.

Might as well just acknowledge our so-called representatives are, in fact, as useless as they seem, will never do anything at all to extract payment for the Bushies eight-year, non-stop crime wave and simply move on to strategies that aren't routed through the Capitol.

Pursuing the treasonous, torturing war criminal bastards "to the ends of the earth" is pretty much the most positive course of action I've heard in a long, long time. Not to mention an ideal job description. Where do I sign up?


wp

[G_j]

6. it's all available at the second link, as far as I can tell

you may have to register, and I had to open the videos in the pop up window to view them.

[bananas]

2. k&r nt

[idahoman]

3. War Crimes

Not sure, but I think this may be a frivolous lawsuit....

[warren pease]

5. Only if the Constitution really is "just a goddam piece of paper," as our little czar calls it. n/t