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Thursday, June 29, 2006

"Let Facts be submitted to a candid world"

"Specifically, today’s Supreme Court ruling held that the president overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees."
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060629_supreme_court_tribunals/
Doesn’t this mean that the Bush Administration has in fact violated the applicable laws AND the Geneva conventions? Doesn’t THAT then mean that they have committed war crimes or at least SOME crime, like breaking the law is a crime, isn’t it? And isn’t it obvious that the Bush Adminsitration conspired to do so?

Or am I missing something here?

Our Declaration of Independence clearly states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

I mean, how basic can you get?

The Declaration also reads: “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”

Sound familiar? And what was that English king’s name?

Ah yes, George, wasn’t it?

Is that ironic ... or absurd?

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