Top Organized Crime Syndicate of 2008
By James West
Monday, January 12, 2009
This year's winner for top spot among major international crime syndicates goes to the United States Government, and especially George Bush.
His administration has been replete with murder, fraud, conspiracy, collusion with other criminal organizations and foremost, treason. He knowingly had information falsified to justify military aggression against Iraq, and thereby obtained the approval of congress to conduct what amounts to an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state.
He authorized domestic surveillance directives contrary to the United States Constitution, and has imprisoned many Americans without due access to justice.
Due to an overwhelming abdication of fiduciary responsibility, he has caused the collapse of the global economy, undermined the confidence of the global investment community, and engendered the mass defrauding of millions of Americans by the United States Treasury and the United States Federal Reserve.
He has encumbered future generations with an amount of debt so onerous, it will take hundreds of years to repay.
He continues to act in the interests of the United States manufacturers of arms and ordinance over and above those of American citizens and those of the countries upon which such arms and ordinance are discharged.
He has authorized the detention and torture of combatants against his illegal incursions into other countries without recourse to legal remedy. In fact, even the Unites States Federal Bureau of Investigation
History will regard any absence of the ensuing administration's determination to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law the administration of George W. Bush and his accomplices as a clear signal that the corruption that grew and eventually permeated every segment of business and politics during his reign will continue into the next administration.
It is only through the indictment and trial of this administration that the American public can hope to distance itself from its criminal nature and advance on the path of restoring the constitutional rights of all Americans, and begin to repair the damage done to all financial institutions.
Far from concerning ourselves with the pursuit of justice for justice's sake, prosecution of criminal government acts is the sole path to the redemption of American integrity in the eyes of the rest of the world.
The FBI itself has prepared documentation suggesting that Mssrs. Bush and Dick Cheney should both be indicted and charged with various war crimes, related primarily to the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, illegally classified as "illegal combatants" in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention.
Yesterday, Obama said that he is "evaluating" whether or not to investigate potential crimes of the Bush administration, but that he was inclined to "look forward as opposed to looking backwards."
"We're still evaluating how we're going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth," said Obama. "And obviously we're going to look at past practices. And I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. And part of my job is to make sure that for example at the CIA, you've got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep Americans safe. I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering up."
Calls for Obama to initiate criminal proceedings are growing, however it increasingly seems that this is an issue that Obama is determined to step over, as it obviously has implications for the smooth operation of his government going forward.
However, Obama did conclude that he would leave the final decision as to whether or not to pursue criminal indictments to incoming Attorney General Eric Holder.
In June of this year, at a meeting of the American Constitution Society, Holder had this to say:
"Our government authorized the use of torture, approved of secret electronic surveillance against American citizens, secretly detained American citizens without due process of law, denied the writ of habeas corpus to hundreds of accused enemy combatants and authorized the use of procedures that violate both international law and the United States Constitution. We owe the American people a reckoning."
At least we will be able to see whether or not the Obama administration is representative of real change, or just another version of the same ole, same ole.
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