Prosecute Bush Administration for War Crimes
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MASSACHUSETTS LAW SCHOOL DEAN CONVENES �CONVENTION� TO STRATEGIZE BEST WAYS TO PROSECUTE BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR CRIMES
For most of his adult life, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, has managed to remain anonymous to all outside of his field of specialty. With his announcement, this morning, that he is preparing to convene a �convention� to strategize the best ways to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes, this is no longer the case.
Velvel�s Convention announcement comes as the House Judiciary Committee ponders Articles of Impeachment against the corrupt, unpopular administration. In other potential synergies, the timing of the conference, September 13-14, is being projected by Beltway insiders to coincide with a rumored attack by US and Israeli Air Forces against Iran. Such an attack, should it come to pass, besides being illegal and outside the scope of the President�s authority, would further deplete our already over-extended military resources.
Truth be told, I prefer Dean Velvel�s approach to the idea of impeachment. Given the frustratingly slow pace of Congress, and the fact that very little of importance ever gets done, particularly in an election year, it�s a good bet that Dean Velvel�s group will be ready to bring charges against the President and other key members of his administration long before impeachment ever even comes to a vote in the House.
Then there is the matter of punishment. All impeachment would do is remove the administration from office. Congress does not have the stomach to punish, perhaps it is the â��he who is not corrupt among youâ�� â�" and they are ALL corrupt, argument that fuels this attitude. Unlike the House of Representatives, Dean Velvel has pledged to â��pursue the guilty (Bush, Cheney and their enablers) as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earthâ��. But even better, Dean Velvel promises to â��insist on appropriate punishments for the administration, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war criminals in the 1940â��s.â��
Of his proposed prey, Dean Velvel writes, �the man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency. He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy�s friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth.�
Sounds like Dean Velvel is a pretty good judge of character. If only the people who voted George Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 were as good a judge of character.
-LIB
www.recoveringliberal.com
For most of his adult life, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, has managed to remain anonymous to all outside of his field of specialty. With his announcement, this morning, that he is preparing to convene a �convention� to strategize the best ways to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes, this is no longer the case.
Velvel�s Convention announcement comes as the House Judiciary Committee ponders Articles of Impeachment against the corrupt, unpopular administration. In other potential synergies, the timing of the conference, September 13-14, is being projected by Beltway insiders to coincide with a rumored attack by US and Israeli Air Forces against Iran. Such an attack, should it come to pass, besides being illegal and outside the scope of the President�s authority, would further deplete our already over-extended military resources.
Truth be told, I prefer Dean Velvel�s approach to the idea of impeachment. Given the frustratingly slow pace of Congress, and the fact that very little of importance ever gets done, particularly in an election year, it�s a good bet that Dean Velvel�s group will be ready to bring charges against the President and other key members of his administration long before impeachment ever even comes to a vote in the House.
Then there is the matter of punishment. All impeachment would do is remove the administration from office. Congress does not have the stomach to punish, perhaps it is the â��he who is not corrupt among youâ�� â�" and they are ALL corrupt, argument that fuels this attitude. Unlike the House of Representatives, Dean Velvel has pledged to â��pursue the guilty (Bush, Cheney and their enablers) as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earthâ��. But even better, Dean Velvel promises to â��insist on appropriate punishments for the administration, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war criminals in the 1940â��s.â��
Of his proposed prey, Dean Velvel writes, �the man ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and persona for the presidency. He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy�s friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth.�
Sounds like Dean Velvel is a pretty good judge of character. If only the people who voted George Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 were as good a judge of character.
-LIB
www.recoveringliberal.com
I know for example that New Hampshire has.
thanks for sharing.