<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Trump in Asia talking peace and commerce with Xi and Putin is the War Party’s worst nightmare. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The War Party - "the spooks [including the Pentagon], Wall Street Democrats and institutional servants of capital that gathered in Hillary Clinton’s overstuffed campaign tent, last year, to plot the next moves of a beleaguered U.S. empire,” as Glen Ford describes them - are dangerous and capable of enormities, if not in Asia, then with their button men in the Mideast, MBS & Bibi. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The anti-war US public can be stampeded into more war in MENA, even without Obama’s duplicity. God between us and all harm, in the Irish phrase. —CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">""The CIA has demanded Trump is not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he is not elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he is not elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with China’s Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire.” —John Pilger, 2016</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Trump today just started his war maneuvers with 3 aircraft carrier strike forces and his Armada off Korea on Armistice Day for World War I. Do you think these Trumpster idiots figured that one out? Do you think the Idiots of the Illiniwaks Law School Faculty can think anything out?<br class=""> <br class="">Fab<br class="">Ed Norton Professor of Law<br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">From: Boyle, Francis A <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 9:37 AM<br class="">To: Jay <<a href="mailto:futureup2us@gmail.com" class="">futureup2us@gmail.com</a>><br class="">Cc: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria@gmail.com>; Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net; peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; C G Estabrook <cgestabrook@gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com><br class="">Subject: Statement for Chicago Peace Rally against USA Threatened War against DPRK<br class=""> <br class="">At Jay’s request, I prepared the following Statement to be read at the anti-war rally today in Chicago:<br class="">Ok. Here is a Statement below dealing with the legal aspects of the situation. Thanks for doing this protest. Fab.<br class=""> <br class="">1.The US government threats of “preventive warfare” against DPRK are illegal and criminal. The Nuremberg Tribunal in their Judgment of 1946, which the US helped organize, condemned “preventive war” when the Lawyers for the Nazis made the argument on their behalf. This is an illegal and criminal threat in violation of international law. According to the World Court in its Advisory Opinion (1996) on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the legality vel non of a threat stands or falls on the same legal grounds as if the threat were carried out.<br class="">2.The repeated US government threats to “destroy” or “annihilate” DPRK are an international crime under the 1948 Genocide Convention to which the United States is a party. These genocidal threats are also illegal and criminal under the rationale of the 1996 World Court Advisory Opinion mentioned above.<br class="">3.The United States has an absolute obligation under UN Charter article 2(3) and article 33 to open “negotiation” with DPRK in good faith in order to produce a peace resolution of this dispute. Instead, the US government has repeatedly rejected these obligations under the UN Charter.<br class="">4.The proposal by Russia and China for a “dual-freeze” is an excellent basis to produce good faith and direct negotiations between USA and DPRK as required by the UN Charter.<br class="">5.The United States is deliberately provoking DPRK, ratcheting up these provocations in the hope that they will provoke the DPRK to commit an act of aggression against the United States that the USA can then use as a pretext for war. Pursuant to the terms of their mutual self-defense treaty, China has stated that if the US attacks first it will defend DPRK, but that if DPRK strikes first, China will remain out of any war. So the United States is trying to provoke DPRK into striking first.<br class="">6.It is an extremely dangerous situation. It is really up to the United States to take the first step down the Ladder of Escalation that it has constructed here. Instead it appears that the Trump administration is going to escalate up the Ladder of Escalation in the hope and expectation that DPRK will capitulate. This is what International Political Scientists call a Game of Chicken-- with cosmic consequences. Who will blink first? Anything can go wrong. Thank you so much for being here today to prevent World War III.<br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Professor of Law<br class="">University of Illinois College of Law<br class="">Native Chicagoan<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">From: Boyle, Francis A <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 9:07 AM<br class="">To: Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com><br class="">Cc: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria@gmail.com>; Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net;peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; C G Estabrook <cgestabrook@gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com><br class="">Subject: RE: NYT Joke of the Day: VOA & Fox vs. RT<br class=""> <br class="">By the way, Jay is going to be out there in the Cold today in Chicago protesting against Trump’s threatened war against DPRK. Way to go Jay!<br class="">Fab<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">From: Boyle, Francis A <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 9:02 AM<br class="">To: Karen Aram <karenaram@hotmail.com><br class="">Cc: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria@gmail.com>; Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net;peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; C G Estabrook <cgestabrook@gmail.com><br class="">Subject: RE: NYT Joke of the Day: VOA & Fox vs. RT<br class=""> <br class="">Of course Karen! That’s why this post of mine is the Joke of the Day. Along with the Illiiwaks Law School, Dean and Faculty. Yuck it all up everyone. We need a little humor these days to keep our sanity.<br class="">Fab<br class="">Ed Norton Professor of Law<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">From: Karen Aram [mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com] <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 8:51 AM<br class="">To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu><br class="">Cc: David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller@illinois.edu>; sherwoodross10@gmail.com; peace-discuss@anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl@newsfromneptune.com>; a-fields@uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman@illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria@gmail.com>; Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net;peace-discuss-request@lists.chambana.net; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke@illinois.edu>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23@yahoo.com>; abass10@gmail.com; mickalideh@gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina@worldcantwait.net>; chicago@worldcantwait.net; Jay <futureup2us@gmail.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451@comcast.net>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1@aim.com>; C G Estabrook <cgestabrook@gmail.com><br class="">Subject: Re: NYT Joke of the Day: VOA & Fox vs. RT<br class=""> <br class="">VOA, an independent information source, they have got to be kidding. It’s been known for over 30 years, even by US supported Burmese rebels hiding in the jungles of Thailand, that VOA was not credible. That it is, and always has been, a “propaganda” arm of the USG. <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">On Nov 11, 2017, at 06:12, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle@illinois.edu> wrote:<br class=""> <br class="">Under Illiniwaks Law Dean Iceman KillerKoh Amar, the Ililniwaks Law School and Faculty have become The Death Star on Campus: “Help me, Obi Won Kenobe, you’re the only one I can trust!”<br class="">Fab<br class="">Ed Norton Professor of Law<br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">From: Boyle, Francis A <br class="">Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 8:04 AM<br class="">To: sectns.aals@lists.aals.org<br class="">Subject: NYT Joke of the Day: VOA & Fox vs. RT<br class=""> <br class="">“Amanda Bennett, the director of Voice of America, said in a statement: “The Voice of America is an independent news source required by law to be accurate, objective and comprehensive…”” Sounds like the propaganda slogan for Fox “news.” Someone just told me that Greta Van Susteren now works for VOA. Back when Greta was polluting the airwaves for Fox, she tried to set me up as an apologist for Hamas Suicide Bombings. Smelling a RAT, I declined. So she set up some other lawyer as an apologist for Hamas Suicide Bombings. And she is allegedly a Lawyer, Member of the Bar, and Officer of the Court? LOL! Greta will fit right in there at VOA after Fox. What’s the difference?<br class="">Fab<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">Francis A. Boyle<br class="">Law Building<br class="">504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.<br class="">Champaign IL 61820 USA<br class="">217-333-7954 (phone)<br class="">217-244-1478 (fax)<br class="">(personal comments only)<br class=""> <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></body></html>