We want you to know that we are gearing up for actions on many
critical and substantive issues, health care, mass media issues, real
food safety and more, and we will have much more on all these soon.
However, this week there is a special priority. We told you that
another activist group was sending copies of the Vince Bugliosi Book,
"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" to each and every
local county district attorney in the country, nearly 3,000 books in
the mail which were due to arrive at their destinations on or about
Feb. 21, so they should be there by now.
To follow up we are asking all our participants to make it their
mission to confirm with your local prosecutor that they got their
copy of the book, and make sure to tell them that Vince Bugliosi
himself wrote them a cover letter with the book, offering his help in
any way, and highlighting the essentials of the case. There is a link
to the actual text of this cover letter on the page below, where you
can also instantly look up the contact info for your own local D.A.
Local D.A. Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net
Remember, unless we demand and achieve true accountability, there is
absolutely no meaningful constraint on the potential war criminals of
the future. So please read the Bugliosi cover letter yourself, and
the words will come to you so you will know exactly what to say when
you ask your own prosecutor to accept Vince's help in bring the
criminals from the last White House to real justice. And if you have
not requested one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps already, you can
get yours from the same page above.
At the same time, we are also keeping the pressure on the appointment
of real special prosecutor at the federal level. We will not settle
for a so-called "truth" commission that's just an immunity fest for
the worst of international criminals. The following is the text of a
joint letter drafted and released by our activist friends at After
Downing Street, which many major progressive groups have already
signed on to.
*Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials *
We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan
independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial
investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former
President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose
memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of
the Bush Administration.
Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are
the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that
strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the
former president and the former vice president have confessed to
authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and
treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy
or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or
"truth" commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already
in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can
be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation
should begin immediately.
Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/robertjackson
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm
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critical and substantive issues, health care, mass media issues, real
food safety and more, and we will have much more on all these soon.
However, this week there is a special priority. We told you that
another activist group was sending copies of the Vince Bugliosi Book,
"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" to each and every
local county district attorney in the country, nearly 3,000 books in
the mail which were due to arrive at their destinations on or about
Feb. 21, so they should be there by now.
To follow up we are asking all our participants to make it their
mission to confirm with your local prosecutor that they got their
copy of the book, and make sure to tell them that Vince Bugliosi
himself wrote them a cover letter with the book, offering his help in
any way, and highlighting the essentials of the case. There is a link
to the actual text of this cover letter on the page below, where you
can also instantly look up the contact info for your own local D.A.
Local D.A. Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net
Remember, unless we demand and achieve true accountability, there is
absolutely no meaningful constraint on the potential war criminals of
the future. So please read the Bugliosi cover letter yourself, and
the words will come to you so you will know exactly what to say when
you ask your own prosecutor to accept Vince's help in bring the
criminals from the last White House to real justice. And if you have
not requested one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps already, you can
get yours from the same page above.
At the same time, we are also keeping the pressure on the appointment
of real special prosecutor at the federal level. We will not settle
for a so-called "truth" commission that's just an immunity fest for
the worst of international criminals. The following is the text of a
joint letter drafted and released by our activist friends at After
Downing Street, which many major progressive groups have already
signed on to.
*Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials *
We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan
independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial
investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former
President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose
memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of
the Bush Administration.
Our laws, and treaties that under Article VI of our Constitution are
the supreme law of the land, require the prosecution of crimes that
strong evidence suggests these individuals have committed. Both the
former president and the former vice president have confessed to
authorizing a torture procedure that is illegal under our law and
treaty obligations. The former president has confessed to violating
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
We see no need for these prosecutions to be extraordinarily lengthy
or costly, and no need to wait for the recommendations of a panel or
"truth" commission when substantial evidence of the crimes is already
in the public domain. We believe the most effective investigation can
be conducted by a prosecutor, and we believe such an investigation
should begin immediately.
Drafted by The Robert Jackson Steering Committee
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/robertjackson
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm
usalone300b:256347
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