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Peace Activists Arrested Attempting Citizens Arrest Of Karl Rove
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by White Noise | July 27, 2008 at 05:45 am
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Just a sad reminder of how america is being laughed at by this executive branch. Behind their pabulum rhetoric of democracy & freedom which they also evicerated like the economy on their mery way; there is but greed for them sick f@*ks laughing all the way to the bank.
This whole executive belongs behind bars for war profiting which is treason... JAIL TO THE CHIEF !
COMPLETE DOSSIER RIGHT HERE ON NOW PUBLIC...
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/citizen-arrest-executive-branch-now
Meanwhile...
Conyers, Pelosi, and all members of Congress who oppose the impeachment of George W. Bush are betraying the oath they all swore when they took office and should be condemned for this betrayal. Thrown the bum in jail with the whole of his executive branch to follow ! Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Libby, Rove, Bremer, Wolfowitz & friends for high treason & war profiting ! ... recall all laws passed after 9/11 as unconstitutional & reinstate the Fair Doctrine for media abuse too ;)
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle
EXECUTIVE RESUME
http://whitenoise.webnode.com/
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Four peace activists were arrested on Friday as they attempted to make a “citizens arrest” of Karl Rove, who was one of President George W. Bush’s top aides before leaving the administration last year.
“It should be Karl Rove in that van. War Criminal!” one of a dozen protestors shouted as the four were put into a police van outside a Des Moines country club where Rove spoke at a private state Republican party fundraiser.
Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, was among those led away.
“To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices,” Gwinn told reporters just before his prearranged arrest, which took place when protestors stepped past a gate.
Such is the life of current and former Bush loyalists responsible for so much damage to our country and the world. Auckland police are warning a students group against their $5000 offer to anyone who can carry out a citizens arrest on Condoleeza Rice and who can forget Donald Rumsfeld’s close call in France last October when he abruptly fled to Germany after learning he could be detained by French officials and forced to stand trial on charges he approved torture.
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at 06:16 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff.
You are full of surprises!
at 07:05 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff. You have to give them credit for doing, what the U.S. Congress should be enforcing and doing.
Per say - if Congress did really, place a warrant for the arrest of Rove or someone else within the Administration - who or which branch of federal authority, would be the one to serve it and do the actual arrest? (aka: FBI, Federal Marshals, secret service or who?)
at 07:09 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:22 on July 27th, 2008
Excellent question !
When the supreme court sanctioned the GOP 2000 coup d'etat and gave the White House to those bums , everything went out the window and the constitution too…the damage these sick f@*ks have done is almost beyond repair… America as we knew it is gone baby gone… and when things are gone change is just everyboby’s guess…
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind" - George Orwell "We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you." – Hunter S. ThompsonEXECUTIVE RESUME
at 08:36 on July 27th, 2008
NOW CONDI IS ON THE ROPES TOO !
The Associated Press Published: July 26, 2008New Zealand students offer new bounty for arrest of Condoleezza Rice for war crimes
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A group of New Zealand students offered a higher reward Saturday for the citizen's arrest of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for war crimes after another group withdrew their own bounty, accusing police of threatening them.
Students at Victoria University in the capital, Wellington, doubled the original reward offer to US$7,400, according to Joel Cosgrove, the student president.
Cosgrove said Rice should be arrested because she is responsible for the deaths of at least 600,000 Iraqis killed since the 2003 invasion by U.S.-led coalition troops.
"Condoleezza Rice needs to be tried before the international war crimes tribunal," Cosgrove told New Zealand's National Radio.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/26/asia/AS-New-Zealand-Rice-Bounty.php
War Crimes Bounty for Rice in New Zealand: Praise for the Protestors
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty" : Howard Zinnat 09:14 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Wait, the Bush crime family lied to us? I thought we found the nukes and chemical weapons. Didn't we triumphantly ride out of Iraq and Afghanistan on our white horses, being ushered out by rose pedals and cheers? Hasn't the rest of the world embraced our house on the shining hill? What's going on here, I thought the media was telling me the truth about how wonderful things are?
at 17:22 on July 27th, 2008
Pass me the shiny blue pill now , please ...
at 09:21 on July 27th, 2008
See that is the problem with facts, truth, and reality, they all have a liberal bias. We need to base everything off of our conservative values: lies, distortions, and fear.
at 09:40 on July 27th, 2008
So is trying to carry out a citizen's arrest a crime in and of itself, then?
at 12:32 on July 27th, 2008
Oh the potential irony!
at 11:02 on July 27th, 2008
I love the numbers that get thrown around without verification.
600,000 in Iraq. (Kos said it was 60,320,000 million at first. Then someone must have corrected him. Iraq has a population of 30,000,000.)
500,000 in Panama (Half the population at the time. The current population of Panama stands at over 3 million. Good job, Moore. I was unaware that I lost so many relatives in Operation Just Cause. Wait. That was just a lie.)
10,000 in Greensburg, Kansas (When the actual death toll was 12.)
If they really want to push the issue, they need to keep petitioning the ICC. Running around with ropes and clubs, threatening to take public officials by force, smacks of hostage taking, not a citizens arrest. The laws for citizens arrest in the United States dictate that the person placing someone under arrest would have to personally witness a felony taking place at the time they make the arrest. We have accusations of torture in Guantanamo, but the only video we have of the "torture" does not back up claims from prisoners. It actually refutes the claims vividly. Hostage taking is a federal offense punishable with a life sentence at maximum.
A lot of people get roused up reading the internet and then run out thinking they know what they are doing. Then they complain on their blogs when they unknowingly break state laws and get arrested, removed, or restrained for it.
at 12:46 on July 27th, 2008
Here's a few more of them pesky numbers for ya then ;)
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,236,604"http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,123
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$539,735,773,498 See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
at 11:47 on July 27th, 2008
No matter what your opinions are on the war and current administration, we can't have citizens attempting to arrest those leading the U.S. How could we ever get anything done if every single leader could just be arrested by those outside authority who feel they don't care for them. Every single person that has ever held office in the U.S. would have been arrested at some point by someone who didn't like what they were doing. I am under no impression that these protestors thought that law enforcement was just going to allow this to happen. It is your right to protest and express your views, but not to try to detain someone based on the authority you have created in your mind.
at 12:13 on July 27th, 2008
I’d say that "the intent is the message" here… since the officials are not willing to act something has to give… Kucinich’s day went & go, disgusted republicans as well as democrats had a field day explaining how this executive branch has acted. Conyers has months & months of daming evidence upon daming evidence …and still…The Military is Nowhere; the Press is Nowhere; the Congress is Nowhere... its like America has been Taken Over By a Cult ! Where is everybody indeed ? Lately ? KBR / CHENEY / HALLIBURTON POCKET THE MONEY & KILL AMERICANS WITH NEGLIGENCE * "A Senate panel investigating the electrocutions of Americans on bases in Iraq was told last week by former KBR Inc. electricians that the contractor used employees with little electrical expertise to supervise subcontractors in Iraq and hired foreigners who couldn't speak English. The Pentagon has said 13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq since September 2003." GENERAL ACCUSES BUSH ADMIN OF WAR CRIMES * Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, as Seymour M. Hersh reported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ? * ARE WE AMERICANS TRULY SAVAGES ? By Robert Scheer * Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It's a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department's inspector general.
"People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their People"at 12:43 on July 27th, 2008
On a side note, this happened a couple of hours from where I live. On another side note...this same thing happened about two blocks from my apartment a few months ago, only a van quickly pulled up and got Rove out of the restaurant where he was eating. Nobody was arrested.
P.S. Here's the vibe of my city.
at 12:58 on July 27th, 2008
LOVE IT !
We are not dumb, they just talk to us that way ;)
As for the remaining 25%...
The Doctrine of Blatancy works something like this: First identify our (USA’s corporations) area of benefit (where can we maximize our power and wealth?) Next look for locals who will collaborate with us to help achieve our ends. Of course there are always scraps from the table to be thrown to them. And most dogs are satisfied with that.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
at 13:23 on July 27th, 2008
Hi Drew, any chance you have a close up of the wanted poster or where it located on the web. About your side note regarding the van, those vans bite when they stop you to asks questions, sly and quick they are. oh Homeland and taking photos of federal building (immigration) does have its drawbacks. Talk about control freaks.
at 15:18 on July 27th, 2008
Hey,
I don't have a closeup, but I took it for this story:
at 13:01 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff. I for one signed the petition to impeach him.
He has ruined America
at 15:31 on July 27th, 2008
Impeachment is sooo Clinton ;)
Throw da bum in jail !
at 15:31 on July 27th, 2008
That's a painting of a pipe!
at 17:15 on July 27th, 2008
Fair enough
Free oulala french course...
" Monica a fait une pipe à Bill !"
Humor is the politeness of despair said the optimist ;)
VIVE LA FAYETTE !
at 15:48 on July 27th, 2008
What gives these jerks the right to arrest anyone. They are the ones who belong in jail.
at 15:55 on July 27th, 2008
easy joellerose, don't shoot anybody.
at 18:35 on July 27th, 2008
HERE COMES DA JUDGE !
“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.” - Umberto Eco
at 17:42 on July 27th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:32 on July 28th, 2008
Bush Will Issue a Mass Pardon Before leaving office George W. Bush will issue a mass pardon, the largest collection of presidential pardons in American history. Bush will pardon himself, Vice President Cheney, and a long list of officials involved in torture, eavesdropping, destruction of evidence, the CIA leak case and a range of potential crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20368.htm
at 14:33 on July 28th, 2008
White Noise, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 20:16 on July 28th, 2008
INTERACTIVE GUIDE
http://www.slate.com/id/2195533/?wpisrc=newsletter MEANWHILE....Who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted?
at 04:32 on July 29th, 2008
House Judiciary Committee Holds Historic Hearings on the Case for Impeachment
BRUCE FEIN : If President George W. Bush had knocked to enter the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the presiding officer, President George Washington, would have denied him admission, and thereby hangs an alarming tale. The executive branch has vandalized the Constitution every bit as much as the barbarians sacked Rome in 410 A.D.
The executive branch has destroyed the Constitution’s time-honored checks and balances, taken the nation perilously close to executive despotism. The executive branch rejects the basic philosophical tenets of the United States of America. It does not accept that America was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that sovereignty in a republican form of government lies with the people, not with the executive; that there are no vassals or serfs in the Constitution’s landscape; that every man and woman is a king or queen, but no one wears a crown; and that the rule of law is the nation’s civic religion. And the founding fathers fashioned impeachment as a remedy for attacks against the Constitution order.
VINCENT BUGLIOSI : With all the highly incriminating evidence that I set forth in my book, much of it documentary, you shouldn’t have any difficulty making a criminal referral to the Department of Justice to commence a criminal investigation of the Bush administration to determine whether first-degree murder charges should be brought against certain members of this administration. And I hereby strongly urge you to do so. Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged over what the Bush administration has done. How dare they do what they did? How dare they?
REP. ROBERT WEXLER : Never before in the history of this nation has an administration so successfully diminished the constitutional powers of the legislative branch. It is unacceptable, and it must not stand. This is not how our founders so carefully and delicately designed our democracy.
In a deliberate effort to reduce the power of this Congress and obstruct our ability to provide oversight over the executive branch, President Bush has ordered Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, Josh Bolten and other administration officials to simply ignore Congress by refusing to testify. This failure of administration witnesses to even appear is unprecedented in the history of our nation. The Bush White House has distorted the concept of executive privilege beyond recognition in order to hide White House wrongdoings.
Meanwhile back at the ranch...