- be it resolved that law-abiding Americans, finding that US courts will not bring the force of common law, statutory law, Constitutional law and Nuremberg Principles law down upon perpetrators of illegal wars on poor people in colonially impoverished nations, that we citizens of all walks of life will seek to lead prosecution of these illegal and homicidal wars in the court of public opinion to punish these crimes against humanity and prevent them from further happening until our courts can do so."
Activists who insist on simply protesting is the way to go, can point to Martin Luther King Jr. demanding "Everyone must protest" in the two US war condemning sermons he gave before he was shot dead. However, King had only just begun his fight to bring an end to these wars for predatory investment profits of the capitalism he also denounced as unjust. During that year before he was silenced, after being vilified by corporate owned mass media as a traitor (with intention to reduce his popularity through intimidation), King witnessed a whole panoply of military actions illustrating those crimes against humanity by Americans, in the name of all Americans, as continuing and increasing in number, volume and spread.
Had King lived, he surely would have turned to demanding that US leaders responsible be indicted as war criminals in order to stop this worldwide reach of US crimes against humanity and the crimes of media deception he so detailed in his world shaking sermon Beyond Vietnam.[*]
King, and other activists, coming out of the civil rights movement and turning their attention to Vietnam, were realizing that there was already a body of laws, humane laws, on the books that clearly spoke to US invasions, bombings and and CIA activity as crimes against humanity. These were clear and simple laws, protective laws, unlike the weird, tricky and phony laws that had enforced a segregation so contrary to common law and human nature.
A month after King's assassination, during the trial for conspiracy to violate the Military Service Act of King's favored running mate as candidate for president, pacifist pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, defense lawyers sought to introduce the UN Charter's Nuremberg Principles that describe what constitutes crimes against humanity.
Already the year before, British philosopher and playwright Bertrand Russell and French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, immediately following publication of Russell's book, War Crimes in Vietnam, had put together an International War Crimes Tribunal. The establishment of this investigative body was justified by quoting Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, speaking into the record at Nuremberg, "If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." The tribunal judges unanimously found the US and its allies guilty of genocide in Vietnam.
The fact that this attempt by eminent world citizens to indict had failed to gain much momentum, blacked-out of the news as it was by war investor owned mass media, would not have deterred King from planning an effort on his own.[6]
Loud and ostentatious protest to one's own reelected public servants? Looking good protesting wars run by our own reelected officials and those they appoint? Laudable expression of free speech in a nation in which few make use of this freedom can be appreciated. But, does anyone expect protest to end or prevent the massive killing from happening? What incentive do investors in war have to end what is extremely profitable in their porfolios? What might deter anyone planing to have people killed for money? The answer: only future imprisonment or worse punishment.
As impossible as it sounds now in this present era of Orwellian mass-media psyop deception successfully leading the gullible majority to support, condone, or acquiesce to taking part in continuos mass-murder by one's own countrymen on a previously unimaginable scale, a minority of Americans and citizens abroad, still capable of the kind of discerning independent thinking that can penetrate the worldwide reaching screen of calculated lies, will constitute that segment of the US and world population that will somehow bring Martin Luther King Jr.' and Gandhi's courageous call for moral responsibility and the prosecution of our businesslike war criminals. Convict and imprison them in time to prevent the mega-profitable use of the frightening amount of weapons of mass destruction they are massively investing in.
Internet access mitigates in humanity's favor. Each of us can now assure our media victimized friends that free subscriptions to Global Research and Information Clearing House daily newsletters would be enough to soon make listening to Wolf Blizter, Judy Woodruff and Charlie Rose turn one's stomach. Each friend telling more friends will build the critical mass of the informed necessary to force prosecutions.
Two towns in Vermont, Brattleboro and Marlboro, have shown us the way by passing city ordinances for the arrest of the President and Vice President of their country should they dare to put foot in their town's jurisdiction.
Americans can prosecute their own war criminals or wait until the world prosecutes Americans.
Footnotes
[*]
click here
[1]
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson -- and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. [Woodrow Wilson]. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States -- only on a far bigger and broader basis." [ Franklin Delano Roosevelt letter to Col. House,1933
[2]
http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/
National Petition Launched Encouraging Pastor to Condemn U.S. Wars As King Did
click here
Activists who insist on simply protesting is the way to go, can point to Martin Luther King Jr. demanding "Everyone must protest" in the two US war condemning sermons he gave before he was shot dead. However, King had only just begun his fight to bring an end to these wars for predatory investment profits of the capitalism he also denounced as unjust. During that year before he was silenced, after being vilified by corporate owned mass media as a traitor (with intention to reduce his popularity through intimidation), King witnessed a whole panoply of military actions illustrating those crimes against humanity by Americans, in the name of all Americans, as continuing and increasing in number, volume and spread.
Had King lived, he surely would have turned to demanding that US leaders responsible be indicted as war criminals in order to stop this worldwide reach of US crimes against humanity and the crimes of media deception he so detailed in his world shaking sermon Beyond Vietnam.[*]
King, and other activists, coming out of the civil rights movement and turning their attention to Vietnam, were realizing that there was already a body of laws, humane laws, on the books that clearly spoke to US invasions, bombings and and CIA activity as crimes against humanity. These were clear and simple laws, protective laws, unlike the weird, tricky and phony laws that had enforced a segregation so contrary to common law and human nature.
Already the year before, British philosopher and playwright Bertrand Russell and French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, immediately following publication of Russell's book, War Crimes in Vietnam, had put together an International War Crimes Tribunal. The establishment of this investigative body was justified by quoting Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, speaking into the record at Nuremberg, "If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." The tribunal judges unanimously found the US and its allies guilty of genocide in Vietnam.
The fact that this attempt by eminent world citizens to indict had failed to gain much momentum, blacked-out of the news as it was by war investor owned mass media, would not have deterred King from planning an effort on his own.[6]
Loud and ostentatious protest to one's own reelected public servants? Looking good protesting wars run by our own reelected officials and those they appoint? Laudable expression of free speech in a nation in which few make use of this freedom can be appreciated. But, does anyone expect protest to end or prevent the massive killing from happening? What incentive do investors in war have to end what is extremely profitable in their porfolios? What might deter anyone planing to have people killed for money? The answer: only future imprisonment or worse punishment.
As impossible as it sounds now in this present era of Orwellian mass-media psyop deception successfully leading the gullible majority to support, condone, or acquiesce to taking part in continuos mass-murder by one's own countrymen on a previously unimaginable scale, a minority of Americans and citizens abroad, still capable of the kind of discerning independent thinking that can penetrate the worldwide reaching screen of calculated lies, will constitute that segment of the US and world population that will somehow bring Martin Luther King Jr.' and Gandhi's courageous call for moral responsibility and the prosecution of our businesslike war criminals. Convict and imprison them in time to prevent the mega-profitable use of the frightening amount of weapons of mass destruction they are massively investing in.
Internet access mitigates in humanity's favor. Each of us can now assure our media victimized friends that free subscriptions to Global Research and Information Clearing House daily newsletters would be enough to soon make listening to Wolf Blizter, Judy Woodruff and Charlie Rose turn one's stomach. Each friend telling more friends will build the critical mass of the informed necessary to force prosecutions.
Two towns in Vermont, Brattleboro and Marlboro, have shown us the way by passing city ordinances for the arrest of the President and Vice President of their country should they dare to put foot in their town's jurisdiction.
Americans can prosecute their own war criminals or wait until the world prosecutes Americans.
Footnotes
[*]
click here
[1]
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson -- and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. [Woodrow Wilson]. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States -- only on a far bigger and broader basis." [ Franklin Delano Roosevelt letter to Col. House,1933
[2]
http://kingcondemneduswars.blogspot.com/
National Petition Launched Encouraging Pastor to Condemn U.S. Wars As King Did
click here
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