Monday, September 26 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
310 Washington St.
Boston, Massachusetts
starting at 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m.)
ADMISSION: $50 per ticket. Each ticket grants access to the event AND includes an autographed copy of Mr. Rumsfeld’s latest book ‘Known and Unknown”
BUT IF YOU CAN’T GET IN, THERE WILL BE A PROTEST OUTSIDE.
To get inside, register here: http://www.wrko.com/an-evening-with-donald-rumsfeld
Contact your local law enforcement official and bring him/her along to arrest Rumsfeld. He no longer has immunity, as ruled recently by Chicago Circuit Court Judge. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a common law legal system. Go into a Massachusetts Court and/or Magistrate and request the issuance of an arrest warrant against Rumsfeld. Contact MA Attorney General Martha Coakley . Contact Suffolk County District Attorney, Daniel Conley (617) 619-4000.
The precedent:
The principle of universal jurisdiction (war crimes tribunals in Nuremberg, in Timor, Ruwanda, Yugoslavia, why not here ?)
The Charges:
- Murder conspiracy for disseminating deliberately misleading information (lies) knowing full well that the death of our troops would occur. As Sec. of Defense from Jan. 20, 2001 to Dec. 18, 2006, he maliciously ordered service men and women of Massachusetts to their deaths in Iraq.
- He conspired to deceive the US Government and its citizens when he lied about WMD and (nonexistent) ties between Saddam and al-Qaeda.
- Rumsfeld was one of the primary architects of the Iraq war. As far back as 9/15/01, he suggested (in a meeting at Camp David) an attack on Iraq because he was deeply worried about the availability of “good targets in Afghanistan.” The war in Iraq is a war of aggression. It violates the United Nations Charter which only permits one country to invade another in self-defense or with the blessing of the Security Council.
- He also participated in the highest levels of decision-making that allowed the extrajudicial execution of several people. Willful killing is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, which constitutes a war crime. The special-access program (SAP) was set up a clandestine team of Special Forces operatives to defy international law and snatch, or assassinate, anyone considered a “high-value” Al Qaeda operative, anywhere in the world. Rumsfeld expanded SAP into Iraq in August 2003.
- He sanctioned the use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, which are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and thus constitute war crimes. Rumsfeld approved interrogation techniques that included the use of dogs, removal of clothing, hooding, stress positions, isolation for up to 30 days, 20-hour interrogations, and deprivation of light and auditory stimuli, the use of physical coercion and sexual humiliation to extract information from prisoners. Rumsfeld also authorized waterboarding, where the interrogator induces the sensation of imminent death by drowning. Waterboarding is widely considered a form of torture