[Peace-discuss] FW: Harold Koh, War Criminal, Not Welcome!

Tue Oct 25 11:50:41 UTC 2016

My thanks to Jay for putting this out.
Fab
Ed Norton Professor of Law
Illinois Nazis Law School

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
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Champaign IL 61820 USA
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Subject: FW: Harold Koh, War Criminal, Not Welcome!

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

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Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton & Legal Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not Welcome!
Protest Koh’s speech at the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign!

When: 11:30 am, Friday, Oct. 28
Where: North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign, IL 61820
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►Email<mailto:chicago at worldcantwait.org?subject=Ride%20to%20Koh%20Protest%20in%20Champaign> us if you want or can offer a ride to Champaign from the Chicago area.

Speakers will include Prof. Francis Boyle, Ed Norton Prof. of Law at University of Illinois College of Law; AWARE Champaign; World Can't Wait Chicago; STEM Boycotts the War Machine; Central Illinois Prairie Greens; and more.

We live in a time of state-sanctioned murder of Black, brown, and poor people within the U.S. and beyond. Since Obama’s election in 2008, extra-judicial killings have often been perpetrated and justified by former liberal critics of past President Bush’s open practices of torture, war, and occupation. Top lawyers have played a crucial role in this process. One of the most prominent has been Harold Koh, currently a professor of international law at Yale Law School and former dean there who served as Hillary Clinton’s top legal advisor while she was Secretary of State (2009 to 2013). In that capacity, Koh has planned, promoted, and justified heinous crimes that have cost thousands of lives and devastated whole regions and countries. Anyone with a conscience should protest his appearance as an honored guest at the University of Illinois Law School on October 28.

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Here are just a few examples of the many crimes for which Harold Koh must be held to account:

Koh helped to conceive, execute, and publicly defend President Obama’s drone assassination program<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__org.salsalabs.com_dia_track.jsp-3Fv-3D2-26c-3D2u8I2-252FL-252B0iIUgXioIWCTHIh5CkST6C-252Fv&d=DQMCaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=8SlR3dwLaAauP3qwPVAQtersioxG3IoCyuqUly3gK8Y&s=OUBGm6jjNWKU6oESN_LEtD74n7NZy774rnhj8It_I0k&e=>. He participated, based on questionable CIA intelligence, in deciding who ought to live and who ought to die, all without charges, trial, an opportunity to defend themselves or to surrender. The victims include thousands of innocent people in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries, and at least two U.S. citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a few weeks later, his 16-year-old son, again without any due process.

He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Obama’s devastating 2011 bombardment of Libya<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__org.salsalabs.com_dia_track.jsp-3Fv-3D2-26c-3DOylOouy3mh4VmaFNLCxGGoh5CkST6C-252Fv&d=DQMCaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=8SlR3dwLaAauP3qwPVAQtersioxG3IoCyuqUly3gK8Y&s=AmXALscBhEa2b2GSPMUqpsz33OR8g5pwrSI4jheDEWg&e=> was not a “hostile action" since there was “limited exposure for US troops," so no Congressional approval was needed. His boss, Hillary Clinton, was an outspoken advocate of the savage NATO bombing. Obama sent Koh to testify after lawyers from the Justice and Defense Departments refused to take the Administration’s line, which was both illegal and immoral. Thousands died in that bombardment, the country’s infrastructure was destroyed, and an open field has been created for reactionary jihadists.

Koh was part of the State Dept. team that claimed “it was not clear” whether the coup d’etat in Honduras (2009) was really a coup, so the sanctions that would be required against the coup regime were not applied. A cable from the US Embassy in Honduras to the State Dept. that was revealed by Wikileaks exposed his lies. Instead of sanctions, the U.S. worked with the coup government to drive the elected president out of the country and establish a regime more to US liking. Read more about the criminals, the alibis, and the real motives in "American Crime Case #75<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__org.salsalabs.com_dia_track.jsp-3Fv-3D2-26c-3Da-252BwxDjgLifjuXCL978kKWIh5CkST6C-252Fv&d=DQMCaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=8SlR3dwLaAauP3qwPVAQtersioxG3IoCyuqUly3gK8Y&s=ZUDGTNan2l8FgXVwjboryjh4ATrqX37oSlgI9xgFuOw&e=>: Obama, Clinton, and the 2009 Military Coup in Honduras."

Koh participated in the shocking failure of the US State Dept to investigate the Israeli commando murder (2010) on the Mavi Marmara<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__org.salsalabs.com_dia_track.jsp-3Fv-3D2-26c-3DfNA-252BTCQMX8SIjhfKsyky-252FavgtvsXM55Y&d=DQMCaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=iioab8BLQ6IJxt-3gLhYzf1aAvTbGVgzPJj9W_0ugn0&m=8SlR3dwLaAauP3qwPVAQtersioxG3IoCyuqUly3gK8Y&s=cA7FHFla6yOWoFksVfVXL6wSO-tE6PNhmoUOjNT1k9E&e=> of passengers attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, including Furkan Dogan, a US citizen. Instead, the US chose to rely on Israel’s investigation of its own murder, not unlike US police investigating their murders.

The list could go on. We urge you to join World Can’t Wait Chicago, AWARE, Neighbors for Peace, Central Illinois Prairie Greens, World Labor Hour, and more (list in formation, contact chicago at worldcantwait.org<mailto:chicago at worldcantwait.org> to add your name) at 11:30 am on October 28, North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign, Il 61820.

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