Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al; International Arrest Warrants Requested

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Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

International Arrest Warrants Requested

January 20, 2010 "Information Clearing House" - -Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C. statutory crimes within the respective territories of many I.C.C. member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the I.C.C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes committed in I.C.C. member states.

The Complaint requests (1) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor open an investigation of the Accused on his own accord under Rome Statute article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor also formally “submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3).

For similar reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate the Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition,” which the Obama administration has continued to implement.


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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24447.htm

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1. So the last line indicates Obama could be in trouble, also?

What crock.

[laststeamtrain]

2. Your first post? I'm proud & humbled. Welcome to DU. n/t.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Goodbye and good riddance!

[Tutankhamun]

4. How will this be enforced? Who wll slap on the cuffs, prosecute in court, jail them, etc?

[steveorg]

6. That's not the point

Sure this won't go far, but hopefully it will go far enough. Before they get to any of those steps, they'll have to issue an indictment. In my fantasy world, an indictment would bring out enough info to cause a court with enforceable jurisdiction to take action.

[Tutankhamun]

7. Makes sense.

[bemildred]

5. Awesome.

Thank you Mr Boyle. Loyalty to the country and loyalty to these criminal weasels are completely different things.
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