Prosecution

David Swanson is a U.S. author, blogger, and activist. He is the author of “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” and of the introduction to “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush,” by Dennis Kucinich. He co-founded AfterDowningStreet.org and is the Washington Director of Democrats.com

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This is 1 of 6 videos of a workshop I did in Santa Fe, N.M., on October 10, 2009, and the other 5 are at http://youtube.com/user/davidcnswanson along with videos of workshops by Elliott Adams, Ann Wright, Ray McGovern. Speeches in the evening even more worth watching and should be posted soon.

By Charlotte Dennett

If there is one sentence in David Swanson’s remarkable book that bears repeating, it is this: “The first step in closing down an empire is bringing its emperors and oligarchs under the rule of law.”

I say this with the confidence that there are millions of Americans who are alarmed by Washington’s unconstitutional support for endless wars abroad and the accompanying erosion of democracy at home. David Swanson’s book (“Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidenct read more

Dick Cheney may be out of government, but not by much. He lives nextdoor to the CIA at 1126 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, Va. Here’s a map: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/39703

Please join a camp on Cheney’s lawn this Friday, Sunday and Tuesday, October 2, 4, 6th. The Justice Department has failed thus far to indict this man who has confessed on television to authorizing torture and promoting and threatening aggressive war, and whose interview with the FBI on his outing of a CIA read more

Go HERE and click on Season 20, Episode 1, “Memo from the Dark Side.” You can then watch it on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, or iReel. Spread the word. Host a house party. Think about making this happen for real.

By David Swanson

Following a joint blogosphere drafting effort, here’s a revised draft indictment of Bush for torture. As before, this does not attempt to include the vast majority of Bush’s crimes or any of Bush’s worst crimes. Nor does it attempt to indict the vast majority of those probably guilty of conspiracy to torture. This is just Bush and just torture.

United States of America,
Plaintiff
v.
George W. Bush,
Defendant

18 U.S.C. Section 2340A
18 U.S.C. Section 2441

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“Law and Order” this evening ran an episode in which a John Yoo-like torture lawyer is prosecuted for his crimes. The show takes up only the few minutes in between all the commercials, but it nails the basic points well. A local prosecutor finds the nerve and the jurisdiction to act. In reality, this has not happened, of course. But it could, quite easily, for torture, for spying, and for much worse. Even in the realm of fictional prosecutors, no show has yet taken up the Vince read more

By Leslie Harris, After Downing Street

The recent uproar over the blatant hypocrisy of the Arlington (TX) School District’s decision not to show President Obama’s address to school children (which would have cost the district nothing), while at the same time preparing to bus (at taxpayers’ expense) about 500 students to the gargantuan, shiny new Texas Stadium to hear former President George W. Bush speak, was mitigated when the district’s embattled superintendent apologized read more