Bush the Geneva Convention and The War Crimes Act
RE: Detainee treatment, torture, and trial issues
Imagine allowing to cut off all judicial review of the U.S. in
regards to compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
The inclusion of the immunity clause that retroactively legalized all the
unlawful acts that were approved and performed from 2001 to the present day
Be aware that every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, so that one can receive less,
or different, sentence than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense ;
That such a law violates Art. I, Secs. 9 (Cl. 3) & 10 of the Constitution of the United States
which provide that neither Congress nor any state shall pass an ex post facto law;
NOTE: That provision have been held applicable only to criminal statutes.
FACT: The War Crimes Act is part of the US criminal code.
Ask yourself why they would be find it so necessary to try
to protect themselves from accusations of war crimes.
No authority should ever be given to have the way justify the means.
Out takes from the.....
Third Geneva Convention
Article 3 describes minimal protections......
The passing of sentences must also be pronounced by a regularly constituted court,
affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
Article 3's protections exist even if one is not classified as a prisoner of war.
Article 4 defines prisoners of war
Article 5 specifies that prisoners of war (as defined in article 4) are protected
from the time of their capture until their final repatriation.
It also specifies that when there is any doubt as to whether a combatant belongs to the categories in article 4,
they should be treated as such until their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
Article 17 "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted
on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever.
Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted or
exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."
The Fourth Geneva Convention
Relates to the protection of civilians during times of war "in the hands"
of an enemy and under any occupation by a foreign power.
Article 3 states.....
Must as a minimum adhere to minimal protections described.....
detention, or any other cause shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, with the following prohibitions:
(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
Article 33. No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed.
Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Make you wonder why.....
A clause that acts to protect the CIA who were "just following orders," but also retroactively
try's to immunize the Bush administration officials for ordering violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I think retroactively legalizing war crimes is a pretty big deal.
To preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States
The Bush administration had not fulfilled the United States obligations under the Geneva Conventions
Excerpt: Article. VI. - The U.S. Constitution.... and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be
bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Time has long passed to call for impeachment and
if necessary the conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors
If laws were broken then we must convict all of the offenders.
America and Washington are following in similar paths to Nazi Germany
The people of this country need to wake up and get curious with what is happening.
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