INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED (Bush & Company)

INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED (Bush & Company)



INTERNATIONAL
ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED

Professor
Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in
Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the
International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S.
citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George
Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the "Accused")
for their criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary
rendition" perpetrated upon about 100 human beings.

This
term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of
persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and
practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in
violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

The
United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the
Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of
I.C.C. statutory crimes within the respective territories of many
I.C.C. member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the
I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C.
statutory crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the
I.C.C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes
committed in I.C.C. member states.

The
Complaint requests (1) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor open an
investigation of the Accused on his own accord under Rome Statute
article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor also formally
"submit to the [I.C.C.] Pre-Trial Chamber a request for
authorization of an investigation" of the Accused under Rome
Statute article 15(3).
For similar reasons, the Highest Level
Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing of a follow-up
Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate the
Accused's criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary
rendition," which the Obama administration has continued to
implement.

The
Complaint concludes with a request that the I.C.C. Prosecutor obtain
International Arrest Warrants for the Accused from the I.C.C. in
accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), 58(1)(b)(i),
58(1)(b)(ii), and 58(1)(b)(iii).

In
order to demonstrate your support for this Complaint you can contact
the I.C.C. Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below.

Francis
A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Law Building
504
East Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone:
217-333-7954
Fax: 217-244-1478

The
Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Office of the
Prosecutor
International Criminal Court
Post Office Box
19519
2500 CM, The Hague
The Netherlands
Fax No.:
31-70-515-8555
Email: OTP.InformationDesk@...

January
19, 2010

Dear
Sir:

Please
accept my personal compliments. I have the honor hereby to file with
you and the International Criminal Court this Complaint against U.S.
citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George
Tenet, Condoleezza Rice , and Alberto Gonzales (hereinafter referred
to as the "Accused") for their criminal policy and practice
of "extraordinary rendition."

This
term is really a euphemism for the enforced disappearances of
persons, their torture, severe deprivation of their liberty, their
violent sexual abuse, and other inhumane acts perpetrated upon these
Victims. The Accused have inflicted this criminal policy and practice
of "extraordinary rendition" upon about one hundred (100)
human beings, almost all of whom are Muslims/Arabs/Asians and People
of Color. I doubt very seriously that the Accused would have
inflicted these criminal practices upon 100 White Judeo-Christian
men.

The
Accused's criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary
rendition" are both "widespread" and "systematic"
within the meaning of Rome Statute article 7(1). Therefore the
Accused have committed numerous "Crimes against Humanity"
in flagrant and repeated and longstanding violation of Rome Statute
articles 5(1)(b), 7(1)(a), 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f), 7(1)(g), 7(1)(h),
7(1)(i), and 7(1)(k). Furthermore, the Accused's Rome Statute Crimes
Against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons constitutes
ongoing criminal activity that continues even as of today.

The
United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute.
Nevertheless, the Accused ordered and were responsible for the
commission of these I.C.C. statutory crimes on, in, and over the
respective territories of several I.C.C. member states, including
many located in Europe. Therefore, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction over
the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes in accordance with Rome
Statute article 12(2)(a), which provides as follows:

Article
12
Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction
…
2.
In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may
exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are
Parties to this Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the
Court in accordance with paragraph 3:

(a)
The State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred
…

So
the fact that United States is not a contracting party to the Rome
Statute is no bar to the I.C.C.'s prosecution of the Accused because
they have ordered and been responsible for the commission of Rome
Statute Crimes against Humanity on, in, and over the respective
territories of several I.C.C. member states.

Consequently,
I hereby respectfully request that the Court exercise its
jurisdiction over the Accused for these Crimes against Humanity in
accordance with Rome Statute article 13(c), which provides as
follows:

Article
13
Exercise of Jurisdiction

The
Court may exercise its jurisdiction with respect to a crime referred
to in article 5 in accordance with the provisions of this Statute
if:
…
(c) The Prosecutor has initiated an investigation in
respect of such a crime in accordance with article 15.
Pursuant to
Rome Statute article 13(c), I hereby respectfully request that you
initiate an investigation proprio motu against the Accused in
accordance with Rome Statute article 15(1): "The Prosecutor may
initiate investigations proprio motu on the basis of information on
crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court." My detailed
Complaint against the Accused constitutes the sufficient
"information" required by article 15(1).

Furthermore,
I respectfully submit that this Complaint by itself constitutes "a
reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation" under Rome
Statute article 15(3). Hence, I also respectfully request that you
formally "submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for
authorization of an investigation" of the Accused under Rome
Statute article 15(3) at this time. Please inform me at your earliest
convenience about the status and disposition of my two requests set
forth immediately above.

Based
upon your extensive human rights work in Argentina, you know full
well from direct personal experience the terrors and the horrors of
enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture.
According to reputable news media sources here in the United States,
about 100 human beings have been subjected to enforced disappearances
and subsequent torture by the Accused. We still have no accounting
for these Victims.

In
other words, many of these Victims of enforced disappearances and
torture by the Accused could still be alive today. Their very lives
are at stake right now as we communicate. You could very well save
some of their lives by publicly stating that you are opening an
investigation of my Complaint.

As
for those Victims of enforced disappearances by the Accused who have
died, your opening an investigation of my Complaint is the only means
by which we might be able to obtain some explanation and accounting
for their whereabouts and the location of their remains in order to
communicate this critical information to their next-of-kin and
loved-ones. Based upon your extensive experience combating enforced
disappearances of persons and their consequent torture in Argentina,
you know full well how important that objective is.

The
next-of-kin, loved-ones, and friends of "disappeared" human
beings can never benefit from psychological "closure"
unless and until there is an accounting for the fates, if not the
remains, of the Victims. In part that is precisely why the Accused's
enforced disappearances of about 100 human beings constitutes ongoing
criminal activity that continues as of today and will continue until
the fates of all their Victims have been officially determined by you
opening an investigation into my Complaint.

Let
us mutually suppose that during the so-called "dirty war"
in Argentina the International Criminal Court had been in existence.
I submit that as an Argentinean human rights lawyer you would have
moved heaven and earth and done everything in your power to get the
I.C.C. and its Prosecutor to assume jurisdiction over the Argentine
Junta in order to terminate and prosecute their enforced
disappearances and torture of your fellow Argentinean citizens.

I
would have done the same. Unfortunately, the I.C.C. did not exist
during those darkest of days for the Argentine Republic when we could
have so acted. But today as the I.C.C. Prosecutor, you have both the
opportunity and the legal power to do something to rectify this mass
and total human rights annihilation, and to resolve and to terminate
and to prosecute the "widespread" and "systematic"
policy and practice of enforced disappearances and consequent torture
of about 100 human beings by the Accused.

Unfortunately,
the new Obama administration in the United States has made it
perfectly clear by means of public statements by President Obama and
his Attorney General Eric Holder that they are not going to open any
criminal investigation of any of the Accused for these aforementioned
Crimes against Humanity.

Hence
an I.C.C. "case" against the Accused is "admissible"
under Rome Statute article 1(complementarity) and article 17. As of
right now you and the I.C.C. Judges are the only people in the entire
world who can bring some degree of Justice, Closure, and Healing into
this dire, tragic, and deplorable situation for the lives and
well-being of about one hundred "disappeared" and tortured
human beings as well as for their loved-ones and next-of-kin, who are
also Victims of the Accused's Crimes against Humanity. On behalf
of them all, as a fellow human rights lawyer I implore you to open an
investigation into my Complaint and to issue a public statement to
that effect.

Also,
most regretfully, the new Obama administration has publicly stated
that it will continue the Accused's policy and practice of
"extraordinary rendition," which is really their euphemism
for enforced disappearances of human beings and consequent torture by
other States. Hence the Highest Level Officials of the Obama
administration fully intend to commit their own Crimes against
Humanity under the I.C.C. Rome Statute – unless you stop them!

Your
opening an investigation of my Complaint will undoubtedly deter the
Obama administration from engaging in any more "extraordinary
renditions" — enforced disappearances of human beings and
having them tortured by other States. Indeed your opening of an
investigation into my Complaint might encourage the Obama
administration to terminate its criminal "extraordinary
rendition" program immediately and thoroughly by means of
issuing a public statement to that effect.

In
other words, your opening an investigation of my Complaint could very
well save the lives of a large number of additional human beings who
otherwise will be subjected by the Obama administration to the Rome
Statute Crimes against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons
and their consequent torture by other States, inter alia.

The
lives and well-being of countless human beings are now at risk,
hanging in the balance, waiting for you to act promptly, effectively,
and immediately to save them from becoming Victims of Rome Statute
Crimes against Humanity perpetrated by the Highest Level Officials of
the Obama administration as successors-in-law to the Accused by
opening an investigation of my Complaint.

Otherwise,
I shall be forced to file with you and the I.C.C. a follow-up
Complaint against the Highest Level Officials of the Obama
administration. I certainly hope it will not come to that. Please
make it so.

Finally,
for reasons more fully explained in the Conclusion to my Complaint, I
respectfully request that you obtain I.C.C. arrest warrants for the
Accused in accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), article
58(1)(b)(i), article 58(1)(b)(ii), and article 58(1)(b)(iii). The
sooner, the better for all humankind.

I
respectfully request that you schedule a meeting with me at our
earliest mutual convenience in order to discuss this Complaint. I
look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

This
transmission letter is an integral part of my Complaint against the
Accused and is hereby incorporated by reference into the attached
Complaint dated as of today as well.

Please
accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

Francis
A. Boyle
Professor of International Law

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