Arrest Warrant for Bush and Cheney
Copy of the Army’s own Field Artillery Magazine, where illegal use of WP is described.
No longer available from the original military link, but preserved here just over 1 MB and in PDF Format
On June 16th during operation “Shock and Awe on the Oregon Coast”,, members of SQUADRON13-DEPLOYED recorded this arrest warrant for Bush and Cheney at City Hall in Newport Oregon.
As former members of the armed services of the United States of America, we swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Upon discharge from service we did not renounce that oath, which remains our sacred duty.
It has long been apparent to us that our Constitution is under attack and has been deliberately and relentlessly undermined by domestic enemies — indeed, by our highest government officials who took and have violated that same oath.
Many Constitutional crimes have been committed by the Bush administration, including warrantless electronic surveillance of American citizens in violation of the 4th Amendment, failure to provide due process rights in violation of the 5th and 6th Amendments, infliction of cruel and unusual punishments in violation of the 8th Amendment, usurpation of powers granted exclusively to Congress in violation of Article I, Section 1, and violation of Article VI, Paragraph 2, which states that all international treaties to which the United States is a signatory are “the Supreme law of the Land.”
The wars prosecuted by the Bush administration in our name with our national resources are violations of all treaties defining the international laws of war since 1928, including the United Nations and Nuremberg charters, which uniformly prohibit wars of aggression. As violations of these international covenants and pledges, they also constitute high crimes against the United States Constitution.
Furthermore, the illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and other war crimes including torture and use of internationally prohibited weapons such as depleted uranium, violate the Geneva Conventions of 1949, thereby further violating the Supreme Law of our Land.
Our oath therefore compels us to issue a citizens’ warrant for the immediate arrest of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, President and Vice-President of the United States.
We call upon President Bush and Vice-President Cheney to surrender themselves to federal law enforcement authorities or to any private group of Americans that is prepared to make these citizens arrests.
The right of citizens arrest is deeply grounded in English common law and is constitutionally protected under the 9th Amendment, derived from the natural right of self-defense and defense of others. A citizens arrest is valid when arresting citizens have a reasonable belief that the suspect has committed a felony.
We believe that felonies of great magnitude have been committed, and the evidentiary bases of these are conclusively established in the public record.
We charge these officials with conspiracy to commit genocide against the citizens of another sovereign state, with conspiracy to commit mass murder of American citizens by waging a fraudulently justified war, and other high crimes described on our website, www.VeteransAgainstTorture.com.
Our charges include war crimes and crimes against humanity for which we will seek extradition for trial in the international criminal court at the Hague, Netherlands, following trial in the United States for treason and other high crimes against our constitutional government.
We veterans took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Upon discharge from service, we did not renounce that oath. Our political leaders take that same oath upon assuming office.
It has become painfully clear that our Constitution is under attack and has been gravely violated by domestic enemies – indeed, by that very government we served to preserve and protect.
We support and defend Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution, which declares our international treaties “the Supreme Law of the Land.” The Bush wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, waged in our name and paid from our national treasury, are violations of all treaties establishing the international laws of war since 1928, which uniformly prohibit wars of aggression. Additional war crimes have been committed through use of prohibited weapons and torture. These define our country as a violent outlaw state, a state unworthy of any citizen’s uniformed service. Only Congress can stop these atrocities by refusing to fund the wars. We demand that our Senators and Representatives stop this funding.
We denounce decreased funding for veteran care. As John Kerry said in his 1971 presentation to Senator Fulbright’s Foreign Relations Committee on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, “Where is the leadership?… Where are they, now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war.”
Reduction of VA funding and closure of VA facilities is desertion of our troops. We are being deserted by our leaders hiding behind the budget crises they themselves created at the expense of those they sent to face the terrible risks and horrors of war.
