Posted on 02/23/2007 12:29:56 PM PST by republicofdavis
By Stephen S. Pearcy
Stephen S. Pearcy is a Sacramento attorney and peace activist.
In addition to holding President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress accountable for the illegal occupation of Iraq, American troops must also be prepared to accept responsibility. Were all presumed to know the law. If we accept that fundamental legal presumption, then those of us who claim that the war is illegal must also acknowledge that the troops are unexcused aiders and abettors.
Lt. Ehren Watadas case is a good example. Watadas position is that he has a duty to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq because those orders effectively command him to pursue an illegal war. Watada correctly understands that obeying those orders could subject him to war-crime charges under a more just administration (which should try George W. Bush first).
Publicly available information about the Iraq invasion has become so plentiful over the last several years that reasonable people contemplating service in the U.S. military should know that people throughout the world regard participation in the occupation as tantamount to aiding and abetting in mass murder, fraud, human-rights violations, and international war crimes. By now, all of the troops should recognize this, and ignorance is no excuse.
The frequency of U.S.-sponsored war crimes in Iraq is such that it has become the norm rather than the exception. U.S. troops have intentionally and recklessly caused the deaths of so many Iraqi civilians, and continue to do so, that we can now properly regard acts in furtherance of the occupation effort generally to be acts substantially likely to facilitate crimes such as those that already have occurred.
From a legal standpoint, obeying Bushs orders is akin to the Nazi soldiers who obeyed Hitlers orders. And we know from the Nuremberg Trials that the just following orders excuse is invalid. Watadas case suggests that we should question all troops willingness to follow their illegal orders.
Suggesting troop-responsibility for the illegal war is unpopular, but it also would have been unpopular during World War II for a German citizen to suggest that Nazi troops be held accountable for obeying their illegal orders. At the end of the day, its really no different.
A large part of the reason why that is, is because those with the power to take such action, are are to spineless to do so.
Game.Set.Match.
Exactly the intent of my original post. Unless it has to do with double agent's or secrets (not during Clinton)...or anything else that was covert...nobody in Washington will do a damn thing. I remember hearing Democrats and Republicans alike joking about the word treason when Ann Coulter's book came out.
They said things like "treason? what are we in the 1800s?", "treason is just a right wing term for you don't like my free speech or actions", and my favorite was "treason? hahahaa.. I guess we should have people dueling at dawn doing 6 paces in front of the white house?"
The average person in this country couldn't define the word treason if they tried.
Good for you. They should have been thrown in jail just for spoiling such a nice neighborhood.
You may have that chance some day. I live in the bay area and I am VERY politically active
Well if 20 posts a day on FR leads to 200 letters per day to each representative, and 2000 letters, phone calls etc. to the Attorney General, perhaps something might get done.
I've always been an adherent of the squeaky wheel theory, and there are few squeakier, greasier people out there than yours truly ;-)
"As for his crack about soldiers obeying Hitler's orders, no Nazi soldier was ever punished for fighting in an unjust war. Some were punished for waging war unjustly. This guy is appallingly ignorant of history."
Well said.
Well when it comes to fighting the good fight...you can count on me in the trenches when it comes to action against scumbags like these.
The great thing about global warming is that the tar is already warm, and the chickens don't need all those feathers anymore.
Speaking of war criminals, a reasonable case could be made that people like Pearcy are advocating genocide when they support positions that they know beyond any doubt would lead to the massacre of the Israeli people and of one or more ethnic groups in Iraq.
Additionally, his wilfull distortions of the law could easily incite attacks on American soldiers and those who support them.
The Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher was tried at Nuremberg and lawfully hanged for the same category of incitement. Follow his path, share his fate.
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5576/989/1600/775479/cindynme.jpg
I guess this photo is really no surprise.
Any attempt by a future Demo regime to enforce the indictments advocated by Pearcy will be met with violence. There, somebody said it.
This country is falling into the hands of devils and we are damned if we tolerate it.
Between them they have two brain cells....one of which is lost and the other is out looking for it.
This idiot wouldn't know what a Nazi soldier was even if one bit him on the ass.
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And while this whole blog is nauseating, what's with the celebration of the scum at the top of the page? I truly cannot understand people like this. I never have seen one good explanation, by a liberal, as to why they are so in line with the muslims who would kill them all.
Interesting. It may give us a clue whose orders this traitorous swine is following.
Loyalists in the Bay Area should initiate an investigation of Pearcy's finances.
It is obvious... a major part of this idiot dribbled down his Momma's leg......
"Go ahead and try it punk. I know off hand about quite a few soldiers and Marines that would beg to differ."
Count me in too. I am only Air Force, but I can pistol-whip him with my TV remote.
- mesoman7
Just remember this when you hear their lies that they are "for the troops but against the mission." This scum who is FOS (Friend of Sheehan) lays that claim to rest.
BUMP!
They really believe in their heart of hearts that the Muslims will see them as allies.
You can see another picture of Stevey Boy in Webster's - it's posted at the entry for "useful idiot."
Do you live in Davis BTW? If so, I have an invitation for you if you're around Memorial Day.
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