Above The Law
Aug 15th, 2008 at 11:42 am by Susie
Winter Patriot on the dismissal of Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against Dick Cheney:
And in the meantime, what about the rest of us? Because we weren’t personally affected, because our careers weren’t destroyed, we have no “legal standing” in this case, despite the fact that the ruling — if upheld — unleashes a most virulent form of tyranny, and despite the obvious fact that this is the ruling’s primary intention.
You probably won’t hear anyone criticizing this decision in the mainstream media — and you might not read much about it elsewhere on the internet — who knows? John Edwards had an affair, did you hear? Paris Hilton made a video!
So let’s recap, shall we? A Federal court has ruled that some of the highest officials in our government are not accountable for their acts of treason, mass murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity — not because they were following orders (for surely some of them, especially Karl Rove and Dick Cheney [photo], were giving the orders); not because they thought they were doing something righteous or Blessed by God; but simply because they held positions in the United States government — regardless of the fact that these actions violated the most serious federal and international laws, regardless of the fact that they all knew their actions were deeply illegal, and regardless of the fact that they were never legitimately elected to those government positions in the first place — or legitimately re-elected in the second place.
Furthermore, the court decrees, this immunity applies not only to the principals in this case but to all manner of American government officials committing all manner of horrific crimes — including torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Did you get that? Do you finally get it now?
The terrorists have won. The federal courts are now ruling that they are all beyond the law.
one step closer to the Hague, baby. call me crazy, but I still believe it.
“The Court is designed to complement existing national judicial systems: it can exercise its jurisdiction only when national courts are unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute such crimes.”
Problem is, Maya, that in order to end up at the Hague, you pretty much have to lose a shooting war on your own soil.
There are several countries that’s just not likely to happen to. Russia, the PRC, and the US are right up there. In the first place, all of them are just too big. That means that the defender can trade space for time. The Wehrmacht got from the Meuse River to the Channel Coast in just seven days. Seven days after Barbarossa jumped off, they weren’t even halfway to Moscow or Leningrad. And their rate of advance across European Russia was just about as fast.
And there are just no high intensity military threats (i.e., able to effectively project state-wrecking power across your borders) anywhere near.
And now this!!