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George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against Humanity

by Last Night in Little Rock

George W. Bush "wanted posters" are available at CafePress (shirts), here, and here, for crimes against humanity.

And that was before he and his feckless lackies shamelessly scre**d the pooch on Katrina and still can't admit what the rest of the world already knows: George Bush is an insensitive punk who would sell out his own citizens for political gain, unless, of course, they are fat cat contributors to the Republican Party or the precious group of the rich that got tax refunds at the expense of the New Orleans levee project. In other words, less than 1% of the people, and the other 99% can be duped into voting for "homeland security." What a farce. Watching the Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency is like watching a Three Stooges movie. If I wasn't so pissed, I would cry.

In fact, I think they have violated the Geneva Convention, Protocol II (8 June 1977), as to American citizens, which I well know from my own war crimes trial experience where former government officials are charged under the Geneva Convention with war crimes for not protecting the people they were sworn to protect:

Art. 7
1. All the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, whether or not they have taken part in the armed conflict, shall be respected and protected.
2. In all circumstances they shall be treated humanely and shall receive to the fullest extent practicable and with the least possible delay, the medical care and attention required by their condition. The shall be no distinction among them founded on any grounds other than medical ones.

Art. 8
Whenever circumstances permit and particularly after an engagement, all possible measures shall be taken, without delay, to search for and collect the wounded, sick and shipwreck, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead, prevent their being despoiled, and decently dispose of them.

There is also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 25(1) (1948):

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

More about this later. I'm just getting started.

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  • Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#1)
    by nolo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:26 PM EST
    Keep it up, because it needs to be said. But it's "lackeys," not "lackies." Carry on.

    Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#2)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:26 PM EST
    They have a right not to have glass bottles thrown at their heads by the troops. (From an eyewitness account at TPMCafe)

    Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:26 PM EST
    I'm not sure who, but someone abandoned those people, or failed to act, and caused many deaths. I don't know who yet, but someone must be held accountable for this heinously negligent act.

    Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#4)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:26 PM EST
    I see they left out "Dead or Alive". Good.

    What's far worse is that the local authorities (state and city) explicitly told the Red Cross not to bring stocked supplies to the Superdome. See here for the scoop. Who left the poor to suffer in New Orleans? Which state government explicitly refused to allow the guard troops to be federalized? FEMA screwed up, and move absurdly slow. However, the entire problem was exacerbated by the complete meltdown of the state and city authorities.

    Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    JR: FEMA screwed up, and move absurdly slow. However, the entire problem was exacerbated by the complete meltdown of the state and city authorities. James! I'm shocked! You're not actually admitting a mistake on the part of the Feds, now are you? They'll git yoo fer this James... Yoo know they will!

    Re: George Bush Wanted Posters For Crimes Against (none / 0) (#7)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:27 PM EST
    JR, Good point (finally), but were the troops in FLA federalized first last year before they went in? Just asking. I need more info before asking for firings. Anyone know of a timeline for Gov. Blanco's actions around the storm? I hear others saying FEMA turned back Mallwart trucks and diesel fuel. Interestingly, what I see is Bushco supporters implying that Blanco froze for four days. That's pretty incredible. My intuition is that, in actuality, there was an huge amount of rescue going on. Just not at the Superdome, the 9th ward or the convention center. Medal fo Freedom awards to the two Marine (or was it USN?) helicopter crews who violated their routine resupply orders and went off mission to rescue a couple of hundred people with their heavy lift aircraft. One of their officers is now in charge of a dog kennel.