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U.S. Pursuit Of Polanski Makes Case For Prosecuting Other Out Of Date Crimes
The international controversy stirred up by the United States government’s sinister attack and subsequent kidnapping of film director Roman Polanski by the justice authorities of Switzerland, a formerly neutral nation, brings to mind all the myriad possible cases to be tried.
We’ve been told by American legal experts of a particular political bent, it is useless to go after, say, Dick Cheney, or former President George Bush for crimes committed against humanity in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.We’ve been told it is unthinkable to prosecute George W. Bush for spying on American citizens, as well as unlawful kidnapping of American citizens and foreign nationals to secret locations around the world for extraordinary rendition for the purpose of torture and mistreatment to keep Americans safe (??)
Even President Barack Obama could very well go on trial for upholding the combative status quo in both Iraq, and Afghanistan. Let’s remember our man of change still has the power to spy on ordinary Americans.
The dogged determination of the flaky California judge and prosecutor with a big assist from the U.S. Marshall, the U.S. Department Of Justice and the U.S. State Department, gives us the idea there’s good reason for GWB, Cheney, Gonzales, et al to be reclusive. They could at any moment become fugitives from the relentless, long arm of the law in America. How ironic that would be. The very laws they claimed for eight years to promote could conceivably come after them for crimes committed a long time ago.
Perhaps we might wait 30 years or so before they are abducted officially detained in order to be brought forward face the justice they deserve.
Imagine holding a trial for say Harry S. Truman for the nuclear attack on Japan, twice! Harry’s been dead a long time trying him in absentia would give new meaning to the term. We could go after President Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon too, for their part in Viet Nam.
Bush, Cheney, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Obama would be in a class superceding the ranks of Augusto Pinochet of Chile; Slobodan Milosevic of Bosnia; Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania.
The prosecution of American presidents and some cabinet members, the former guardians of freedom, would bring shame and disgrace many years after their crimes were committed.
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