Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response

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CLG: Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response --By Professor Francis A. Boyle

Speech, Lincoln Auditorium, Northwestern University College of Law, Chicago
November 20, 2007

Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild, Northwestern University Student Law School Chapter and Chicago Chapter of the NLG

Since the impeachable installation of George Bush Jr. as President by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the people of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, or the United States Constitution. Instead, the world has watched a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international and domestic legal orders by a group of men and women who are thoroughly Machiavellian and Straussian in their perception of international relations and in their conduct of both foreign affairs and American domestic policy.

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Today, the American people must reaffirm our commitment to the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles by holding our government officials fully accountable under international law and U.S. domestic law for the commission of such grievous international and domestic crimes. We must not permit any aspect of our foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged "war criminals" according to the U.S. government's own official definition of that term as set forth in U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956), the U.S. War Crimes Act, and the Geneva Conventions. The American people must insist upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction, and long-term incarceration of all U.S. government officials guilty of such heinous international and domestic crimes.

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We American lawyers must be inspired by the stunning example set by those heroic Pakistani lawyers now leading the struggle against the brutal Bush-supported Musharraf military dictatorship. We American lawyers must now lead the fight against the Bush Jr. dictatorship!

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[ladjf]

1. I general, we Americans are too dumb to extricate ourselves

from the terrible mess that we have allowed to happen.

[windoe]

2. We make fun of lawyers,

but now is the time for honest lawyers to band together and put pressure on the judicial branch. Good article, thank you for sharing this.