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  Cedric February 27, 2010 at 3:54pm

  Nothing new,why should they accept this complaint? They are above all laws....
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  JASON February 27, 2010 at 3:45pm

  Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands (19 Jan 2010)
  
  Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet,
  Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their
  criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated
  upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for
  the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture.
  This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes
  against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the
  I.C.C.
  The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the
  Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C.
  statutory crimes within the respective territories of many I.C.C.
  member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C.
  has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory
  crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the I.C.C.
  jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes committed in
  I.C.C. member states.
  
  The Complaint requests (1) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor open an investigation of the Accused on his own accord under Rome Statute
  article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor also formally “submit
  to the [I.C.C.] Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an
  investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3).
  For similar reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama
  administration risk the filing of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C.
  if they do not immediately terminate the Accused’s criminal policy and
  practice of “extraordinary rendition,” which the Obama administration
  has continued to implement.
  The Complaint concludes with a request that the I.C.C. Prosecutor
  obtain International Arrest Warrants for the Accused from the I.C.C. in
  accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), 58(1)(b)(i),
  58(1)(b)(ii), and 58(1)(b)(iii).
  In order to demonstrate your support for this Complaint you can contact
  the I.C.C. Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below.
  Francis A. Boyle
  Professor of International Law
  Law Building
  504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
  Champaign, Illinois 61820
  Phone: 217-333-7954
  Fax: 217-244-1478
  The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo
  Office of the Prosecutor
  International Criminal Court
  Post Office Box 19519
  2500 CM, The Hague
  The Netherlands
  Fax No.: 31-70-515-8555
  Email: OTP.InformationDesk@icc-cpi.int
  January 19, 2010
  
  Dear Sir:
  Please accept my personal compliments. I have the honor hereby to file
  with you and the International Criminal Court this Complaint against
  U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George
  Tenet, Condoleezza Rice , and Alberto Gonzales (hereinafter referred to
  as the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of
  “extraordinary rendition.” This term is really a euphemism for the
  enforced disappearances of persons, their torture, severe deprivation
  of their liberty, their violent sexual abuse, and other inhumane acts
  perpetrated upon these Victims. The Accused have inflicted this
  criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” upon about
  one hundred (100) human beings, almost all of whom are
  Muslims/Arabs/Asians and People of Color. I doubt very seriously that
  the Accused would have inflicted these criminal practices upon 100
  White Judeo-Christian men.
  The Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition”
  are both “widespread” and “systematic” within the meaning of Rome
  Statute article 7(1). Therefore the Accused have committed numerous
  “Crimes against Humanity” in flagrant and repeated and longstanding
  violation of Rome Statute articles 5(1)(b), 7(1)(a), 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f),
  7(1)(g), 7(1)(h), 7(1)(i), and 7(1)(k). Furthermore, the Accused’s Rome
  Statute Crimes Against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons
  constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues even as of today.
  The United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute.
  Nevertheless, the Accused ordered and were responsible for the
  commission of these I.C.C. statutory crimes on, in, and over the
  respective territories of several I.C.C. member states, including many
  located in Europe. Therefore, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction over the
  Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes in accordance with Rome
  Statute article 12(2)(a), which provides as follows:
  Article 12
  Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction
  …
  2. In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may
  exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are
  Parties to this Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the Court
  in accordance with paragraph 3:
  (a) The State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred …
  So the fact that United States is not a contracting party to the Rome
  Statute is no bar to the I.C.C.’s prosecution of the Accused because
  they have ordered and been responsible for the commission of Rome
  Statute Crimes against Humanity on, in, and over the respective
  territories of several I.C.C. member states.
  Consequently, I hereby respectfully request that the Court exercise its
  jurisdiction over the Accused for these Crimes against Humanity in
  accordance with Rome Statute article 13(c), which provides as follows:
  Article 13
  Exercise of Jurisdiction
  The Court may exercise its jurisdiction with respect to a crime
  referred to in article 5 in accordance with the provisions of this
  Statute if:
  …
  (c) The Prosecutor has initiated an investigation in respect of such a crime in accordance with article 15.
  Pursuant to Rome Statute article 13(c), I hereby respectfully request
  that you initiate an investigation proprio motu against the Accused in
  accordance with Rome Statute article 15(1): “The Prosecutor may
  initiate investigations proprio motu on the basis of information on
  crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.” My detailed Complaint
  against the Accused constitutes the sufficient “information” required
  by article 15(1).
  Furthermore, I respectfully submit that this Complaint by itself
  constitutes “a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation” under
  Rome Statute article 15(3). Hence, I also respectfully request that you
  formally “submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization
  of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3) at
  this time. Please inform me at your earliest convenience about the
  status and disposition of my two requests set forth immediately above.
  Based upon your extensive human rights work in Argentina, you know full
  well from direct personal experience the terrors and the horrors of
  enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture.
  According to reputable news media sources here in the United States,
  about 100 human beings have been subjected to enforced disappearances
  and subsequent torture by the Accused. We still have no accounting for
  these Victims. In other words, many of these Victims of enforced
  disappearances and torture by the Accused could still be alive today.
  Their very lives are at stake right now as we communicate. You could
  very well save some of their lives by publicly stating that you are
  opening an investigation of my Complaint.
  As for those Victims of enforced disappearances by the Accused who have died, your opening an investigation of my Complaint is the only means
  by which we might be able to obtain some explanation and accounting for
  their whereabouts and the location of their remains in order to
  communicate this critical information to their next-of-kin and
  loved-ones. Based upon your extensive experience combating enforced
  disappearances of persons and their consequent torture in Argentina,
  you know full well how important that objective is. The next-of-kin,
  loved-ones, and friends of “disappeared” human beings can never benefit
  from psychological “closure” unless and until there is an accounting
  for the fates, if not the remains, of the Victims. In part that is
  precisely why the Accused’s enforced disappearances of about 100 human
  beings constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues as of today
  and will continue until the fates of all their Victims have been
  officially determined by you opening an investigation into my Complaint.
  Let us mutually suppose that during the so-called “dirty war” in
  Argentina the International Criminal Court had been in existence. I
  submit that as an Argentinean human rights lawyer you would have moved
  heaven and earth and done everything in your power to get the I.C.C.
  and its Prosecutor to assume jurisdiction over the Argentine Junta in
  order to terminate and prosecute their enforced disappearances and
  torture of your fellow Argentinean citizens. I would have done the
  same. Unfortunately, the I.C.C. did not exist during those darkest of
  days for the Argentine Republic when we could have so acted. But today
  as the I.C.C. Prosecutor, you have both the opportunity and the legal
  power to do something to rectify this mass and total human rights
  annihilation, and to resolve and to terminate and to prosecute the
  “widespread” and “systematic” policy and practice of enforced
  disappearances and consequent torture of about 100 human beings by the
  Accused.
  Unfortunately, the new Obama administration in the United States has
  made it perfectly clear by means of public statements by President
  Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder that they are not going to
  open any criminal investigation of any of the Accused for these
  aforementioned Crimes against Humanity. Hence an I.C.C. “case” against
  the Accused is “admissible” under Rome Statute article
  1(complementarity) and article 17. As of right now you and the I.C.C.
  Judges are the only people in the entire world who can bring some
  degree of Justice, Closure, and Healing into this dire, tragic, and
  deplorable situation for the lives and well-being of about one hundred
  “disappeared” and tortured human beings as well as for their loved-ones
  and next-of-kin, who are also Victims of the Accused’s Crimes against
  Humanity. On behalf of them all, as a fellow human rights lawyer I
  implore you to open an investigation into my Complaint and to issue a
  public statement to that effect.
  Also, most regretfully, the new Obama administration has publicly
  stated that it will continue the Accused’s policy and practice of
  “extraordinary rendition,” which is really their euphemism for enforced
  disappearances of human beings and consequent torture by other States.
  Hence the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration fully
  intend to commit their own Crimes against Humanity under the I.C.C.
  Rome Statute – unless you stop them! Your opening an investigation of
  my Complaint will undoubtedly deter the Obama administration from
  engaging in any more “extraordinary renditions” — enforced
  disappearances of human beings and having them tortured by other
  States. Indeed your opening of an investigation into my Complaint might
  encourage the Obama administration to terminate its criminal
  “extraordinary rendition” program immediately and thoroughly by means
  of issuing a public statement to that effect. In other words, your
  opening an investigation of my Complaint could very well save the lives
  of a large number of additional human beings who otherwise will be
  subjected by the Obama administration to the Rome Statute Crimes
  against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons and their
  consequent torture by other States, inter alia.
  The lives and well-being of countless human beings are now at risk,
  hanging in the balance, waiting for you to act promptly, effectively,
  and immediately to save them from becoming Victims of Rome Statute
  Crimes against Humanity perpetrated by the Highest Level Officials of
  the Obama administration as successors-in-law to the Accused by opening
  an investigation of my Complaint. Otherwise, I shall be forced to file
  with you and the I.C.C. a follow-up Complaint against the Highest Level
  Officials of the Obama administration. I certainly hope it will not
  come to that. Please make it so.
  Finally, for reasons more fully explained in the Conclusion to my
  Complaint, I respectfully request that you obtain I.C.C. arrest
  warrants for the Accused in accordance with Rome Statute articles
  58(1)(a), article 58(1)(b)(i), article 58(1)(b)(ii), and article
  58(1)(b)(iii). The sooner, the better for all humankind.
  I respectfully request that you schedule a meeting with me at our
  earliest mutual convenience in order to discuss this Complaint. I look
  forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
  This transmission letter is an integral part of my Complaint against
  the Accused and is hereby incorporated by reference into the attached
  Complaint dated as of today as well.
  Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
  Francis A. Boyle
  Professor of International Law
  
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