Cynhadledd Cyfiawnder Robert H. Jackson: Cynllunio ar gyfer Erlyn Troseddwyr Rhyfel Americanaidd Lefel Uchel

Massachusetts Ysgol y Gyfraith

Medi 13-14, 2008

Andover, Massachusetts

 

 

Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution. What the world has watched instead is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international and domestic legal orders by a group of men and women who are thoroughly Machiavellian and Straussian in their perception of international relations and in their conduct of both foreign policy and domestic affairs. Even more seriously, in many instances specific components of the Bush administration’s foreign policies constitute ongoing criminal activity under well-recognized principles of both international law and U.S. domestic law, and in particular the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles, as well as the Pentagon’s own U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 on Cyfraith Rhyfela Tir (1956), pob un o sy'n berthnasol i'r Arlywydd Bush ei hun fel Prif Gomander Lluoedd Arfog yr Unol Daleithiau o dan Erthygl II, Adran 2 o Gyfansoddiad yr Unol Daleithiau.

 

Depending upon the substantive issues involved, those international crimes typically include but are not limited to the Nuremberg offenses of crimes against peace: For example, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and perhaps their longstanding threatened wars of aggression against Iran and now Pakistan.  Their criminal responsibility also concerns Nuremberg crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as grave breaches of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and of the 1907 Hague Regulations on land warfare:  For example, torture at Guantanamo, Bhagram, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere; enforced disappearances, assassinations, murders, kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, “shock and awe,” depleted uranium, white phosphorous, cluster bombs, Fallujah, and the Gitmo kangaroo courts.

 

Ymhellach, mae gwahanol aelodau o weinyddiaeth Bush wedi cyflawni nifer o droseddau incoate sy'n gysylltiedig â'r troseddau sylweddol hyn sydd o dan Siarter, Dyfarniad ac Egwyddorion Nuremberg yn ogystal â pharagraff 500 o US Army Field Manual 27-10 yn droseddau rhyngwladol yn eu rhinwedd eu hunain: cynllunio a pharatoi - y maent yn ei wneud heddiw yn erbyn Iran a Phacistan - deisyfiad, anogaeth, cynllwynio, cydymffurfiad, ymgais, cynorthwyo ac annog.

 

Yn olaf, yn ôl egwyddorion sylfaenol cyfraith droseddol ryngwladol a nodir ym mharagraff 501 o Llawlyfr Maes Byddin yr UD 27-10, mae pob swyddog sifil lefel uchel a swyddog milwrol yn llywodraeth yr UD a oedd naill ai'n gwybod neu a ddylai fod wedi gwybod bod milwyr neu sifiliaid o dan eu rheolaeth. (fel y CIA neu gontractwyr preifat), wedi cyflawni neu ar fin cyflawni troseddau rhyngwladol ac wedi methu â chymryd y mesurau angenrheidiol i'w hatal, neu i'w cosbi, neu'r ddau, yn yr un modd yn bersonol gyfrifol am gyflawni troseddau rhyngwladol.

 

Ar frig cadwyn awdurdod troseddol America mae'r Arlywydd Bush a'r Is-lywydd Cheney; cyn Ysgrifennydd Amddiffyn yr Unol Daleithiau Rumsfeld; Dirprwy Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz; Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Rice; cyn Gyfarwyddwr Cudd-wybodaeth Cenedlaethol Negroponte; Cynghorydd Diogelwch Cenedlaethol Hadley; ei Ddirprwy Elliot Abrams; cyn Dwrnai Cyffredinol yr Unol Daleithiau Ashcroft a Gonzales, yn droseddol gyfrifol am yr ymgyrch artaith a lansiwyd gan weinyddiaeth Bush Jr.; a Chyd-benaethiaid Staff y Pentagon ynghyd â'r Prif Benaethiaid Rhanbarthol priodol, yn enwedig ar gyfer Ardal Reoli Ganolog yr UD (CENTCOM).

 

These U.S. government officials and their immediate subordinates are responsible for the commission of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes as specified by the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles as well as by U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10.  Today in international legal terms, the Bush Jr. administration itself should now be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under international criminal law and U.S. domestic law because of its formulation and undertaking of serial wars of aggression, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles that are legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany.

 

Wrth gwrs eironi ofnadwy sefyllfa heddiw yw bod llywodraeth UDA chwe degawd yn ôl yn Nuremberg wedi cymryd rhan yn erlyn, cosbi a dienyddio swyddogion llywodraeth Natsïaidd am gyflawni rhai o'r un mathau o droseddau rhyngwladol erchyll ag y mae aelodau gweinyddiaeth Bush yn eu hachosi ar hyn o bryd. ar bobl ledled y byd. I fod yn sicr, yr wyf yn bersonol yn gwrthwynebu gosod y gosb eithaf ar unrhyw fod dynol am unrhyw reswm ni waeth pa mor gwrthun yw eu troseddau, boed yn Bush Jr., Tony Blair, neu Saddam Hussein.

 

As a consequence, American citizens possess the basic right under international law and United States domestic law, including the U.S. Constitution, to engage in acts of civil resistance designed to prevent, impede, thwart, or terminate ongoing criminal activities perpetrated by Bush administration officials in their conduct of foreign affairs policies and military operations purported to relate to defense and counter-terrorism.  Today’s civil resisters are the sheriffs!  The Bush administration officials are the outlaws!

 

We American citizens must reaffirm our commitment to the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles by holding our government officials fully accountable under international law and U.S. domestic law for the commission of such grievous international and domestic crimes.  We must not permit any aspect of our foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged “war criminals” according to the U.S. government’s own official definitions of that term as set forth in the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles, U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10, the U.S. War Crimes Act, the Four Geneva Conventions and the Hague Regulations.  The American people must insist upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction, and long-term incarceration of all U.S. government officials guilty of such heinous international and domestic crimes.  If not so restrained, the Bush administration could very well precipitate a Third World War. 

 

In this regard, during the course of an October 17, 2007 press conference, President Bush Jr. terrorized the entire world with the threat of World War III if he could not work his illegal will upon Iran.  It is my opinion that the Bush administration is fully prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons against Muslim and Arab states and peoples in order to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  After the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001 the United States of America has vilified and demonized Muslims and Arabs almost to the same extent that America inflicted upon the Japanese and Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.  As the Nazis had previously demonstrated with respect to the Jews, a government must first dehumanize and scapegoat a race of people before its citizens will tolerate if not approve their elimination: witness Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  In post -9/11 America we are directly confronted with the prospect of a nuclear war of extermination conducted by our White Racist Judeo-Christian Power Elite against Peoples of Color in the Muslim and Arab worlds in order to steal their oil and gas.  The Crusades all over again.  But this time nuclear Armageddon stares all of humankind right in the face! 

 

We American lawyers must be inspired by the stunning example set by those heroic Pakistani lawyers who led the successful struggle against the brutal Bush-supported Musharraf military dictatorship in Pakistan.  We American lawyers must now lead the fight against the Bush dictatorship and empire! This is ein Munud Nuremberg!

 

Diolch yn fawr.

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