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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">Francis A. Boyle: We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat. In Gulf War I, I worked with
the late great Congressman Henry B. Gonzales on his bill of impeachment against Bush Sr. We put that one in. I did the first draft the day after the war started.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Back in early January 1991 when Ramsey asked me to go in with him and Gonzales on impeaching Bush Sr in order to prevent his Gulf War, Ramsey told me that there were about 5 other Members of the US House
who would endorse Gonzales’s Bill of Impeachment—Ramsey asked me to do the first draft. When push came to shove, the Dems all chickened out but for Gonzales. The Dems are just a Gang of Hopeless Warmongers—in my political lifetime at least going back to the
Tonkin Gulf Resolution. <u><span style="color:red">These Dem Jackals of Death cannot change their Spots!<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Fab<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">Champaign, IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#003300">(personal comments only)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 2:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Swanson <davidcnswanson@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel@ameritech.net>;
Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; David Johnson
<davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com>; Peace@lists.chambana.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366">The Dems also supported the Bush Jr. War of Aggression against Iraq. They are hopeless Warmongers. Fab.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 15, 2015 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Killeacle <<a href="mailto:fboyle@uiuc.edu">fboyle@uiuc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> John Podesta Leaves Obama to Head Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign for 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dori Smith: Who do you think might be the most effective person to introduce this bill {of impeachment against Bush Jr} and what is in the works in that regard?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Francis A. Boyle: We just need one person to introduce the bill with courage, integrity, principles, and of course a safe seat. In Gulf War I, I worked with the late great Congressman
Henry B. Gonzales on his bill of impeachment against Bush Sr. We put that one in. I did the first draft the day after the war started. So in my opinion there is no excuse for these bills not to have been put in already. In fact, I think I mentioned to you
before, on 11 March 2003 Congressman John Conyers convened a meeting of 40 to 50 of his top advisors, most of whom were lawyers, to debate putting in immediate bills of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, to head off the war. And there
were draft bills sitting on the table that had been prepared by me and Ramsey Clark. And the Congressman invited Ramsey and me to come in and state the case for impeachment. It was a two hour debate, very vigorous debate, obviously all of these lawyers there.
And most of the lawyers there didn’t disagree with us on the merits of impeachment.
<u>It was more as they saw it a question of practical politics, namely, John Podesta was there, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff; said he was appearing on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and they were against putting in immediate bills
of impeachment because it might hurt whoever their presidential candidate was going to be in 2004. Well at that time no one even knew who their presidential candidate was going to be in 2004.
<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I didn’t argue the point, I’m a political independent, my position, and it was not for me to tell Democrats how to elect their candidates. I just continued arguing the merits of
impeachment. But Ramsey is a lifelong Democrat and he argued that he felt that putting in these bills of impeachment might help the Democrats and it certainly wasn’t going to hurt them in 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Well the Democrats did lose in 2004 but as Ramsey and I were walking out after a two hour debate adjourned and I had offered to stay as long as it took to polish up my bills of
impeachment and get them put in right away, because the war started, it was going to start in four days. I turned to Ramsey and I said Ramsey I just don’t understand it, their arguments make no sense, why did they not take me up on my offer to stay and polish
up those bills of impeachment and put them in right away to head off a war. And sadly, Ramsey said, “I think most of the people there want a war.”
<u>That was 11 March 2003.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">It’s very clear that the high officials in the Democratic Party, certainly on the DNC, have been complicit with the Bush Administration in this war against Iraq from the get go.
The Democratic national committee still vigorously opposes putting in any bills of impeachment against Bush and Cheney.
<u>Podesta made that very clear to us on 11 March 2003. <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Tuesday 11 March 2003, with the Bush Jr.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">administration's war of aggression against Iraq staring the American
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">People, Congress and Republic in their face, Congressman John Conyers of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Michigan, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee (which has
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jurisdiction over Bills of Impeachment), convened an emergency meeting
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of forty or more of his top advisors, most of whom were lawyers. The
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">purpose of the meeting was to discuss and debate immediately putting
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">into the U.S. House of Representatives Bills of Impeachment against
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">President Bush Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Donald Rumsfeld, and then Attorney General John Ashcroft in order to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">head off the impending war. Congressman Conyers kindly requested that
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ramsey Clark and I come to the meeting in order to argue the case for
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">impeachment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This impeachment debate lasted for two hours. It was presided over by
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congressman Conyers, who quite correctly did not tip his hand one way or
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the other on the merits of impeachment. He simply moderated the debate
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">between Clark and I, on the one side, favoring immediately filing Bills
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of Impeachment against Bush Jr. et al. to stop the threatened war, and
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">almost everyone else there who were against impeachment for partisan
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">political reasons. Obviously no point would be served here by
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">attempting to digest a two-hour-long vigorous debate among a group of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">well-trained lawyers on such a controversial matter at this critical
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">moment in American history. But at the time I was struck by the fact
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that this momentous debate was conducted at a private office right down
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the street from the White House on the eve of war.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Suffice it to say that most of the "experts" there opposed impeachment
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">not on the basis of enforcing the Constitution and the Rule of Law,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">whether international or domestic, but on the political grounds that it
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">might hurt the Democratic Party effort to get their presidential
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">candidate elected in the year 2004. As a political independent, I did
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">not argue that point. Rather, I argued the merits of impeaching Bush
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jr., Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft under the United States
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Constitution, U.S. federal laws, U.S. treaties and other international
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">agreements to which the United States is a party, etc. Article VI of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties "shall be the supreme Law
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">of the Land." This so-called Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">also applies to international executive agreements concluded under the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">auspices of the U.S. President such as the 1945 Nuremberg Charter.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congressman Conyers was so kind as to allow me the closing argument in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the debate. Briefly put, the concluding point I chose to make was
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">historical: The Athenians lost their democracy. The Romans lost their
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Republic. And if we Americans did not act now we could lose our
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Republic! The United States of America is not immune to the laws of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">history!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">After two hours of most vigorous debate among those in attendance, the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">meeting adjourned with second revised draft Bills of Impeachment sitting
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Certainly, if the U.S. House of Representatives can impeach President
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Clinton for sex and lying about sex, then a fortiori the House can,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">should, and must impeach President Bush Jr. for war, lying about war,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and threatening more wars. All that is needed is for one Member of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Congress with courage, integrity, principles and a safe seat to file
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">these currently amended draft Bills of Impeachment against Bush Jr.,
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cheney, Rumsfeld, and now Attorney General Albert Gonzales, who bears
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">personal criminal responsibility for the Bush Jr. administration torture
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">scandal. Failing this, the alternative is likely to be an American
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Empire abroad, a U.S. police state at home, and continuing wars of
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">aggression to sustain both-along the lines of George Orwell's classic
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">novel
<i>1984.</i> Despite all of the serious flaws demonstrated by successive <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">United States governments that this author has amply documented
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">elsewhere during the past quarter century as a Professor of Law, the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">truth of the matter is that America is still the oldest Republic in the
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">world today. "We the People of the United States" must fight to keep it
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">that way!
<i><u>Podesta did not!<o:p></o:p></u></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[Francis A. Boyle is a Professor of International Law and a human rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">attorney. He is the author of "Destroying World Order" (2004, Clarity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Press).]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Francis A. B</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">oyle<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">(personal comments only</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Boyle, Francis A
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'David Swanson' <<a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com">davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">
a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>;
Dave Trippel <<a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>>; Arlene Hickory <<a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com">
abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; Lina Thorne <<a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>; Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>>;
Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">
Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Failure to sufficiently punish a foreign government, even for an actual proven offense, has never been a high crime and misdemeanor. The United States is in fact bound by the Hague Convention of 1899, the Kellogg-Briand
Pact, and the United Nations Charter to take any such dispute to arbitration and to settle it by pacific means. But that would require producing some evidence rather than mere allegations. Lawless "punishment" is much easier.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">For sure David. These Dem Warmongers against Russia are all a disgrace! But what else do you expect from The Sons And The Daughters of The Best And the Brightest who gave us the Vietnam War? Plus ca change…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">fab<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Francis A. Boyle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Law Building<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Champaign IL 61820 USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">217-333-7954 (phone)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">217-244-1478 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">(personal comments only</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David Swanson [<a href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com">mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com</a>]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2017 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis A <<a href="mailto:fboyle@illinois.edu">fboyle@illinois.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a>; <a href="mailto:a-fields@uiuc.edu">
a-fields@uiuc.edu</a>; Hoffman, Valerie J <<a href="mailto:vhoffman@illinois.edu">vhoffman@illinois.edu</a>>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <<a href="mailto:jtmiller@illinois.edu">jtmiller@illinois.edu</a>>; Szoke, Ron <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>>;
Dave Trippel <<a href="mailto:davetrippel@ameritech.net">davetrippel@ameritech.net</a>>; Arlene Hickory <<a href="mailto:a23h23@yahoo.com">a23h23@yahoo.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:sherwoodross10@gmail.com">sherwoodross10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:abass10@gmail.com">
abass10@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mickalideh@gmail.com">mickalideh@gmail.com</a>; Lina Thorne <<a href="mailto:lina@worldcantwait.net">lina@worldcantwait.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:chicago@worldcantwait.net">chicago@worldcantwait.net</a>; Mildred O'brien <<a href="mailto:moboct1@aim.com">moboct1@aim.com</a>>; David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>; Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>>;
Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">
Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: CIVIL RESISTANCE!--not "disobedience"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<h2 style="margin-left:.5in">Fantasies About Russia Could Doom Opposition to Trump<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="gmail-submitted">By David Swanson</span><br>
<span class="gmail-submitted"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_node_5399&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=bzAYiTrGy0IaK2lMOWvMrfRaRC5ukmqzrP-n0wiuHtM&e=">http://davidswanson.org/node/5399</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in">To many Democrats for whom killing a million people in Iraq just didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense, and who considered Obama's bombing of eight nations and the creation of the drone murder program to be praiseworthy,
Trump will be impeachable on Day 1.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Indeed Trump should be impeached on Day 1, but the same Democrats who found the one nominee who could lose to Trump will find the one argument for impeachment that can explode in their own faces.
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_impeaching-2Dtrump-5Fus-5F5869b806e4b0eb586489f3a4&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=8AyIQkTmkKSkSOiOywadnW4-eHrMOlp2heW9WLS-RFw&e=">
Here's</a> a "progressive" Democrat:<o:p></o:p></p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<p style="margin-left:.5in">"In his dalliance with Vladimir Putin, Trump’s actions are skirting treason. ... By undermining further investigation or sanctions against the Russian manipulation of the 2016 election, Trump as president would be giving aid and
comfort to Russian interference with American democracy."<o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">There's a bit of a nod there -- in the word "investigations" -- to the lack of any evidence that Russia manipulated any U.S. election, yet that manipulation is stated as fact, and a failure to support further sanctions as punishment
for it becomes "aid and comfort." What level of punishment exactly constitutes the absence of aid and comfort? And how does that level of punishment compare with the level likely to produce war or nuclear holocaust? Who knows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Failure to sufficiently punish a foreign government, even for an actual proven offense, has never been a high crime and misdemeanor. The United States is in fact bound by the Hague Convention of 1899, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and
the United Nations Charter to take any such dispute to arbitration and to settle it by pacific means. But that would require producing some evidence rather than mere allegations. Lawless "punishment" is much easier.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">But further evidence can emerge to counter the claim. The lack of evidence for the claim can weigh ever more heavily on public opinion. And the dangers of creating further hostility with Russia can enter the consciousness of additional
people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Meanwhile, we have a man planning to be president later this month whose business dealings clearly violate the U.S. Constitution in terms of not only foreign but also
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.salon.com_2016_12_21_conflicts-2Don-2Dtop-2Dof-2Dconflicts-2Danother-2Demoluments-2Dclause-2Dthat-2Dshould-2Dbar-2Ddonald-2Dtrump-2Dfrom-2Doffice_&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=zV9dXOD2Oi__i9uDGuZ-YQu0rXZ258hs-SyDzgCaV_M&s=D3ale4wkPa2_yQXQRG7YIXCptzQTDZPzM9fHF1bxdec&e=">
domestic</a> corruption. That's a perfectly overwhelming case for impeachment and removal from office that doesn't require opposing a single incident of mass murder or offending a single Pentagon contractor.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Beyond that, Trump is becoming president after election day intimidation, the partisan-based removal of voters from the rolls, and opposition to attempting to count paper ballots where they existed. He's arriving with the stated
policies of unconstitutionally discriminating against Muslims, murdering families, stealing oil, torturing, and proliferating nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">In other words, Donald Trump will be from Day 1 an impeachable president, and Democrats will have already spent months building their campaign around the one thing that won't work. Imagine what will happen after all their hearings
and press conferences, when their supporters find out that they aren't even accusing Vladimir Putin of hacking into election machines, that in fact they are accusing unknown individuals of hacking into Democrats' emails, and that they are then vaguely speculating
that those individuals could have been sources for WikiLeaks, thereby informing the U.S. public of what was quite obvious and ought to have been widely reported for the good of the U.S. government, namely that the DNC rigged its primary.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">By the time the Democrats beat themselves to the floor with this charade, more facts will likely have come out regarding WikiLeaks' actual source(s), and more hostility will likely have been stirred up with Russia. The war hawks
have already got Trump talking up nuclear escalation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in">Luckily there is an ace in the hole. There is something else that Democrats will be eager to hold Trump accountable for. And give Trump a month and he'll produce it. I'm referring, of course, to that greatest fear of Our Beloved
Founding Fathers, the ultimate high crime and misdemeanor: the presidential sex scandal.<o:p></o:p></p>
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