How many laws has Bush broken?

Question

1) Illegal wiretapping

2) Ignoring Habeas Corpus (he can declare anyone, including a U.S. citizen an enemy combatant)

3) Torture camps

4) Extraordinary rendition to Jordan and other nations for purposes of torture (not sure of the legality of this, to be honest; at best it is unethical)

5) Going to war under false pretenses

6) If only stupidity were a crime...

Any more?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/17/bush.nsa/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus#Suspension_in_the_United_States_during_the_War_on_Terrorism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Mustafa_Osama_Nasr

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd.report/

j H - satisfied?

Alex - good call. I'll add three to the list

7) Coke

8) Weed

9) DUI

And for you people that defend him with "how many did Bill break?" You're dumb. He committed perjury, which is terrible, no doubt. But does perjury justify Bush breaking all these laws?

Answer 1

Here you are the Indictments

Wars of Aggression

The Commission will inquire into the following charges:

Count 1: The Bush administration authorized a war of aggression against Iraq.

Count 2: The Bush administrations authorized conduct of the war that involved the commission of “war crimes.”

Count 3: The Bush administration authorized the occupation of Iraq involving, and continuing to involve, the commission of “war crimes”, “crimes against humanity” and other illegal acts.

full indictment

Torture and Indefinite Detention

The Commission will inquire into the following charges:

Torture:

Count 1: The Bush administration authorized the use of torture and abuse in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and domestic constitutional and statutory law.

Rendition:

Count 2: The Bush administration authorized the transfer (“rendition”) of persons held in U.S. custody to foreign countries where torture is known to be practiced.

Illegal Detention:

Count 3: The Bush administration authorized the indefinite detention of persons seized in foreign combat zones and in other countries far from any combat zone and denied them the protections of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and the protections of the U.S. Constitution.

Count 4: The Bush administration authorized the round-up and detention in the United States of tens of thousands of immigrants on pretextual grounds and held them without charge or trial in violation of international human rights law and domestic constitutional and civil rights law.

Count 5: The Bush administration used military forces to seize and detain indefinitely without charges U.S. citizens, denying them the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts.

Murder:

Count 6: The Bush administration committed murder by authorizing the CIA to kill those that the president designates, either US citizens or non-citizens, anywhere in the world.

full indictment

Destruction of the Global Environment

The Commission will inquire into the following charges:

Count 1: Denial and Distortion of Scientific Consensus and Findings--
The Bush administration has consistently denied the scientific consensus around global warming and its causes. Administration officials have misrepresented, distorted, and suppressed scientific information on the subject, especially as it would impact public opinion.

Count 2: Obstructionism on International Efforts--
The Bush administration has refused to take any measures to curb the emissions of greenhouse gases, guided by narrow corporate interests. It has withdrawn from any international efforts that would impose binding restrictions, however minimal. It has done this with full knowledge of the catastrophic effects of global warming and the disproportionate U.S. share of world greenhouse gas emissions, the leading cause of global warming.

full indictment

Attacks on Global Public Health

The Commission will inquire into the following charges:

Count 1: Imposition of Abstinence-Only HIV Prevention Programs--
The Bush administration is using its political influence, aid, and funding in the sphere of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment to advance policies and programs that worsen the AIDS pandemic. Guided by a Christian fundamentalist ideological agenda, the administration is promoting and forcing deadly abstinence-only HIV prevention and sex education programs instead of proven comprehensive programs that comprise consistent and correct use of condoms.

Count 2: Imposition of “Gag-Rule”--
The Bush administration has re-instated the “gag-rule” policy which restricts foreign organizations that receive US funds from using their own, non-U.S., funds to provide legal abortion services or even provide accurate medical counseling or referrals regarding abortion. This policy has led to the closing of reproductive health clinics dependent on international funding in very poor parts of the world. In many areas, these clinics have also been the only source of HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs, including the supply of much-needed and life-saving condoms.

Count 3: Distortion of Science--
The Bush administration and its political operatives have distorted sound science and attempted to suppress medical research studies in HIV prevention when it conflicts with the ideology of the Christian Right.

Count 4: Restriction of Generics--
The Bush administration has used its political and economic power to coerce other countries into agreements that severely restrict the manufacture and supply of generic drugs, the only affordable option for most HIV positive people in the Third World.

full indictment

Hurricane Katrina

Count 1: Knowing failure of the Bush administration to adequately maintain and upgrade the levees directly contributed to the foreseeable loss of life and suffering of many people when Hurricane Katrina struck.

Count 2: Despite foreknowledge of Hurricane Katrina striking land as a greater than category 3 storm and the devastation that this would cause, the Bush administration failed to implement an emergency evacuation plan for people who were in the path of the storm and unable to evacuate the area on their own.

Count 3: The Bush administration neither launched an immediate rescue operation nor provided the emergency shelter, food and water needed to save peoples’ lives and prevent needless suffering.

Count 4: Federal authorities blocked the provision of emergency services, including rescue and provision of food and water on the part other levels of government and private sources despite the obvious need for this kind of relief.

Count 5: Federal authorities enforced repressive conditions and eventually carried out an evacuation that separated families, including separating small children from their parents, and left many people not knowing where their loved ones were located and even if they had survived the storms.

full indictment

Answer 2

The indictments and impeachments listed by "periac" and "notme" above, look pretty scary. That is why the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 provide immunity for President Bush and his cohorts for any crimes they may have committed against alleged terrorists.

So, it doesn't matter how many laws he has broken or that he has done away with the US Constitution, habeas corpus, the bill of rights, and the geneva convention, he can't be prosecuted.

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Answer 3

Parts of the Patriot Act make it illegal for journalists to criticize bush's regime.On top of that he's set up a system where the definition of the word terror ist is so vague that anyone can be called one simply for saying they don't like the way he runs things,then it's off to guantanamo bay where you can be held INDEFINITELY,WITHOUT CHARGE,being tortured the whole time(LEGALLY, since G-mo isn't technically american soil and our laws don't apply there).Plus,With freedom of speech and freedom of the press gone bushie has been trying to extend the power of the presidency to being higher than the other two branches claiming that is what the founding fathers intended,nice try bush-bush but if the founding fathers wanted to have all their civil liberties stripped away and serve a tyrannical,despotic ,leader with absolute power they would never have rebelled against the king of england and started the u.s.. If you read the constitution there is a part called the declaration of independence that explains why they rebelled and formed our system of government,i think every american should read, i believe it says something like: when in the course of human events ,it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the seperate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them,a decent respect to the opinions of mankindrequires that they shoulddeclare the causeswhich impel them to the seperation.We hold these truths to be self-evident,that all men are created equal,endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men ,deriving their just powers from the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED .That whenever ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT becomes destructive of these ends,it is the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT,and to institute new government which shall seem most likely to give them happiness.it goes on to list what their b'itch with the king of england was and some of these things are like revolutionary-age pre-cursors to what bush is doing now.But his policies almost mirror the actions of hitler just before he assumed complete power over germany. Look this **** up, the only weapon we have against the enemy is our knowledge.

Answer 4

one million: The FISA Act, Bush has admitted to wiretapping individuals without warrant. 2: consumer-friendly Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the U. S. ideally suited courtroom ruled that Bush became in violation of this. this could be a war crime. 3: Invading a Sovereign u . s ., Bush invaded Iraq in violation of UN determination 1440. It became later amended to make the invasion felony. 4: Being AWOL from the militia for the time of a time of war. it extremely is seen treason via militia regulation.

Answer 5

I hear the total was at 30 in June, so it has to be higher now.

Answer 6

Less than Bill and Hillary.

Answer 7

Zero

Answer 8

"It's too bad stupidity isn't painful" - Anton LaVey.

Can you say worst president ever?

Answer 9

He did coke, weed, got a DUI too

Answer 10

Just where are your links supporting your claim?