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Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S.
Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law;
carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was
not threatening the United States, resulting
in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of
U.S. Soldiers and Americans.
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Lying to the citizens of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing
false and deceptive rationales for war.
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Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian
facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.
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Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently
changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
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Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions,
kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture
and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements
concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating
within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents
elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights.
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Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the
conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government
personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information;
concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment
concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of
mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy
opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
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Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and
international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land"
under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit
with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and
threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping
powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery,
coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty
violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any
means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or
adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the
international community.
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Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human
rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel,
without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer
to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the
Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
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Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and
without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the
Secretary of Defense.
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Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release
of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full
hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
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Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not
citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as
indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
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Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who
have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United
States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.
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Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial
of the right to public trials.
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Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by
the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated
person has not been charged with a crime.
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Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior
to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the
discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
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Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic
spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal
religious and political activity.
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Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional
right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
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Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations
of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations
without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM
treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature
from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.
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