Mobilize and Unify Peace and Anti-War Groups into a Peace Coalition
George Bernard Shaw once said poverty is the greatest crime. I disagree. The greatest crime is the endless warring by America's corpocracy that bankrupts all national revenues but those reserved for the corpocracy, leaving crumbs for society's legitimate needs and that destroys and kills in far-away lands. A nation always at war by any name and by any means cannot possibly be a hospitable nation for all of her people. If there is one single-issue movement desperately worth trying to mobilize again, therefore, it is this issue. That is why a few years ago I proposed 24 initiatives to "wage war on war" figuratively speaking.46 They basically remain stuck on paper.
There are scores of allegedly peace and antiwar groups in America. They failed me once in my overture to them to create a Peace Coalition.47 The same resources I mentioned that would be needed to launch an umbrella movement are the same needed to launch a campaign to tackle the single but overriding issue of war and peace.
Prosecute U.S. International War Criminals
While America's entire corpocracy, not just its industrial/military/political triumvirate, is responsible for the conditions of the status quo, the war business is the underlying cause of it all. The war business is also the one that if not stopped will eventually lead to doomsday. A pressing question, of course, is how can the corpocracy's international war criminals be prosecuted before they do more surrogate murdering or die of old age and escape accountability altogether as it is said will likely be the case with nonagenarian Henry Kissinger.48
There is no shortage of proposals to prosecute US international war criminals but there appears to be a total shortage of prosecutions. In 2008, for example, more than 120 public officials, lawyers, academics, and authorities on the U.S. Constitution and international law attended a two day Conference on War Crimes that resulted in 20 recommendations "ranging from asking the next U.S. Attorney General to prosecute Bush, to having any of some 2,700 county district attorney's launch proceedings against him for murder, to having Bush prosecuted for war crimes in other countries.49 I learned of the conference report six years later in 2014. I see nothing on the Internet to indicate that there have been any substantive actions emanating from the conference report. When years later there is still nothing more than paper to show for the deliberations of 120 distinguished citizens what does that say about the likelihood of U.S. war criminals ever being brought to trial, let alone convicted and sentenced?
Rather than be defeatist about it, though, I want to float two ideas. One is that truly genuine peace and anti war organizations (i.e. the ones that do not exist simply for the sake of existence) ought to collaborate to corral out of those 2700 county district attorneys the more courageous and less cowed ones and cajole them into finding and representing some war inflicted cases (e.g., PTS cases, suicide cases) that would give them standing in court and then file a barrage of lawsuits to convince judges to place the charged internal war criminals in court.
The second involves the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Its members represented Vietnam War draft resisters, antiwar activists, and the Chicago 7 after the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.50 A cursory review of recent NLG involvements shows none mounting legal challenges against the corpocracy's war machine. The NLG thus needs to be emboldened to file law suits against the U.S. international war criminals. But who will do the emboldening? Perhaps some of those county district attorneys?
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