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In your article "Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election?"
you call for "every possible scenario to be discussed"
that can stop the theft of the 2008 election by Bush.
This is indeed an urgent call, as the Bushes have stolen
not only the 2000 and 2004 elections, as are well known,
but also the 1980 election, as detailed in my book
October Surprise (Tudor, 1989) subsequently confirmed
by a book of the same title three years later by Gary Sick,
and others (Robert Parry, Trick or Treason: The October
Surprise Mystery; and Ari ben Menasche, Profits of War).
There is an answer to stopping the obvious plans for
'a new 9/11' or some other pretext to 'suspending'
the 2008 election and/or declaring martial law under
the new Directive 51:
There must be a credible and immediate Call for
the Court Martial of the President for itemized and
detailed abuses of his role as commander in chief
and his complicit chain of command for lying the nation
into an immoral, illegal and unilateral war; violating
the Geneva Conventions and international law by
condoning kidnapping and torture; illegally and
warrantlessly spying on American citizens, etc.
Though the vice president is not in the staturoty
chain of command, this is superceded by the president's
repeat claims, and actions on his claims, that his is
a 'unitary' presidency and that 'when I speak, it's
the vice president speaking' and visa versa.
Because every brazen and extreme claim of
executive power and authority by this administration
has been made based on and grounded in the
president's alleged absolute military 'commander
in chief powers' 'because we're at war', only a
military Call for Court Martial of the President and his complicit Chain of Command confronts these
claims on the same legal and moral level that they
are made. It is also the only action -- envision as
many active duty, high-ranking officers as have
the courage to go public holding a joint press
conference at the National Press Club making the Call --
that can shock the enabler Congress into moving
forward on Impeachment, even if to 'avoid' a real
Court Martial.
World renowned legal scholar Francis Boyle has
looked into court martialing a president and his
complicit chain of command and says that it is not
only legally viable, it requires but a single active duty
officer to initiate Court Martial charge(s). Obviously,
we would want as many active duty officers, of
as high a rank as possible, to do so publicly together.
Standing with the active duty officers at the press
conference should, of course, also be as many
high-ranking retired military officers as possible.
Gen. William Odom comes to mind as one of the
first high ranking retired officers to approach.
The officers willing to do this could, if they wish,
exchange not moving forward with filing Court Martial
charges -- which should be already written up and
and passed out to the press at the Press Club --
for a commitment from Congress to move forward
with what Pelosi should have allowed to proceed
a long time ago -- Impeachment.
All delegates to the recent July 4 Emergency Convention
which merged the anti-Iraq War and 9/11 Truth movements
in an explicit call to do so in that place and at that time
by Cindy Sheehan, voted unanimously, in response to
my motion and arguments, to include a Call for Court
Martial of the president and his complicit chain of command
in the formal Call to Action from the convention; and on
July 8th in Los Angeles, courageous Marine Ready Reserve
Johnny Wave seconded the call for the Court Martial of
the President and his complicit chain of command from
the dias of one of the largest Protestant churches in L.A.
in a special event MC'd by Ed Asner.
This can be done, and it can work, but the call must
go out to inside, active duty officers to come forward
and make the Call for Court Martial to save their nation now.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bob Bowman has taken up this
Call for Court Martial, as well as for and in parallel with
the Call for Impeachment, in his 120-city Patriots speaking
tour, but he cannot do it alone and needs help to make this
the reality it needs to become for all of our sakes.