[Deathpenalty] FW: [LAW-POW] [various] Petition Opposing Nomination of Alberto G onzales - Please sign

Fri Nov 12 17:18:54 CST 2004

Francis A. Boyle
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Van Bergen [mailto:jvb000 at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 4:51 PM
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Subject: [LAW-POW] [various] Petition Opposing Nomination of Alberto
Gonzales - Please sign

   http://www.PetitionOnline.com/abc9876/petition.html
<http://www.petitiononline.com/abc9876/petition.html> 

To:  U.S. Congress 

White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales has been nominated by the White House
to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Please read the article below
about Gonzales and his violations of international and domestic law. As
Chicago international law professor Francis Boyle argues: "As a presumptive
war criminal, Gonzales is not fit to be Attorney General of the United
States of America." 

Please sign this petition asking Congress NOT to confirm Gonzales'
nomination. If Ashcroft was bad, Gonzales will be worse. 

Jennifer Van Bergen 

Author of "The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America" (Common
Courage Press, 2004) 

Attorney General Pinochet 

by Prof Francis A. Boyle 

November 11, 2004 

As White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales originated, authorized, 

approved, and aided and abetted grave breaches of the Third and Fourth 

Geneva Conventions of 1949, which are serious war crimes. In other 

words, Gonzales is a prima facie war criminal. He must be prosecuted 

under the Geneva Conventions and the US War Crimes Act. 

For example, article 129 of the Third Geneva Convention on Prisoners of 

War provides in relevant part with respect to presumptive U.S. war 

criminals such as Gonzales: "Each High Contracting Party shall be under 

the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to 

have ordered to be committed, such graves breaches, and shall bring such 

persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts." 

To the same effect is article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention 

protecting Civilians in wartime. This obligation to prosecute Gonzales 

applies to every High Contracting Party to the Geneva Conventions, which 

means every state in the world. And there is no statute of limitations 

for the commission of such serious war crimes. 

The same conclusions can be reached by the application of U.S. 

Department of the Army Field Manual 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare, 

which, by its own terms, also applies to civilian government officials 

involved in ordering or participating in the commission of war crimes. 

In any event, the U.S. Senate must reject his nomination. As a 

presumptive war criminal, Gonzales is not fit to be Attorney General of 

the United States of America. Should Gonzales travel around the world in 

that capacity, human rights lawyers such as myself will attempt to get 

him prosecuted wherever he might go along the lines of what happened 

to General Pinochet in London. Like pirates, war criminals are hostes 

humani generis--the enemies of all humankind. 

[Francis A. Boyle is a Professor of International Law and the author of 

"Destroying World Order" (Clarity Press: 2004)] 

Sincerely, 

The  <http://www.PetitionOnline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?abc9876> Undersigned

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