The War Criminals in Congress

We know the president has committed war crimes. He has confessed publicly. There is a paper trail and massive amounts of visual evidence.

According to Helen Thomas, the war criminals are worried. Their solution is to tap the reliably degenerate, unconstitutional and undemocratic congress on the collective shoulder and ask them for a "get out of jail free" card.

What isn’t widely known is that failure to prevent war crimes, when you have knowledge of them and the power to do so, is also a war crime. The German Minister of Information was tried and convicted in The Hague of just such a war crime. He was sentenced to death by hanging. Members of the House who voted to ratify cruel and inhuman behavior are should be impeached, at the very least and may well have to answer for their sins at a later time.

Yesterday, the Senate is labored over an unconstitutional, illegal and immoral bill to immunize our criminal president, his minions and possibly congress against their own sadism and folly. It rapes the bill of rights and endangers us all. It is a transparent attempt to protect the posteriors of both the authors and those that ratify the criminal and the unthinkable. A horrifed nation watched as they passed this self serving, murderous legislation.

Never mind that the constitution plainly states that no laws may be made ex post facto of a crime. Never mind that the Geneva Conventions are US law and may not be modified except by a constitutional amendment.

Of all the unconscionable, immoral and hateful things this administration has dreamed up and congress has rubber-stamped, to me this bill is most offensive of all. It makes a mockery of the constitution and the laws derived from it. .
Any hope of interpreting our society as civilized and humane is being flushed down the toilet along with the moral compass of 500 undeserving representatives of the “people”.

Torture is inflicting pain and injury on human beings that are completely in your power. They have no ability to defend themselves. Aside from the moral, psychological and criminal aspects of torture, it’s a rotten way to obtain information. It cannot be used in a court of law. Information obtained in this way is notoriously inaccurate.

No democratic society allows its government to torture. As soon as the state acquires this much power over the bodies and minds of its citizens or guests, it has lost all claims to being a servant of the people. It becomes the master and the oppressor.

Targeted torture always bleeds into the society that authorizes it. It leads to increased crime and creates a problematic class of people who enjoy and excel in their chosen field.

There are no circumstances that justify torture nor is an effective tool in intelligence gathering. It is a pathological act rife with psychosexual undertones. Like the war itself, it inspires radicalism and destroys America’s standing in the world community.

Though it is one of many war crimes committed by the Bush administration and sanctified by congress; the war itself, seizing the resources of an occupied country, failing to protect civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure, indiscriminate incarceration and withholding civil rights, the use of illegal weapons, etc. , it is the most morally bankrupt and repulsive of all.

Thank heaven that prosecution for war crimes knows no borders or statute of limitations. They may be prosecuted anytime, anywhere by anybody.
This pitiful effort by the men and women in congress who voted to protect themselves from their own corruption and rotten consciences or for political expediency must not stand and will not stand.

The job of this congress is to investigate this president, not to indulge his criminal tendencies and sloppy decision-making. It is the job of the House to draw articles of impeachment, not to ratify he and his cabinet’s revolting criminality. If ever there were a evidence that congressional incumbents from both parties need to be ousted, this is the smoking gun.

Carol DW